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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[November, 
Contents for November, 1877. 
Among tlie Farmers, No. 22.—Green Manures—South¬ 
ern Cow Peas—A Horse Farm—Doct. Agnew’s Sys¬ 
tem —A Hay Barn.422 
Barn, Plan for a Dairy. .2 Illustrations ..425 
Bee Notes for November.417 
Blundering from European Practice. 430 
Boat-House, How to Build.2 Illustrations. .424 
Boys and Girls’ Columns.—Puzzle Picture—Doctor’s 
Correspondence, Ornamental Spruce Work; Polish¬ 
ing Powder—Aunt Sue’s Puzzle Bos—Metric System 
of Weights and Measures—The Little Runaways—' 
Aunt Sue’s Chats—About Dragon Flies.. .5 111.. 433-436 
Cattle—Grade Cow . Illustrated. .409 
Cattle—The Hereford*. Illustrated. .421 
Cruel Custom.417 
Dairy and Ice-house.3 Illustrations.. 425,'420 
Eggs, A Case for Carrying or Keeping.2 Illustrations. .424 
Eggs, Production and disposal.421 
Farm Work for November. 410 
Feeding Large or Small Animals.427 
Flower Garden and Lawn in November. 412 
Fruit Garden in November.411 
Greenhouse and Window Plants in November.. . ..412 
Harvests of the World.410 
Hay Presses and Pressing Hay.5 Illustrations. .428 
Herbaceous Perennial Phloxes.431 
Hints and Helps for Farmers—Fastening for Swing¬ 
ing Doors—Iron Pig Trough—Improved Wagon 
jack.4 Illustrations. .424 
House Costing $400 or $&I0.4 Illustrations.. 420 
Household Department—Home Topics—Preparation 
of Coffee—CafS au Lait—Browning Coffee—Coffee 
and Health—Kitchen Dresses—A Simple Ash Sifter 
—Window Transparency—Scroll or Bracket Saws— 
Green Corn and Pickles ...3 Illustrations. 431^33 
Ice House in a Barn. 2 Illustrations. .425 
Kitchen and Market Garden in November.411 
Leaks in the Barn. 427 
Manure for Fruit Trees. 431 
Market Reports.412 
Notes from the Pines—Mr. Sargent’s Grounds—A 
Mosaic Bed — Young Conifers — Mr. Parkman’s 
Phloxes—Forest Hill Cemetery. 430 
Ogden Farm Papers, No. 93.—The Results of Ten 
Year’s Management.418 
Orchard and Nursery in November.411 
Poultry—The Bronze Turkey. 427 
Poultry—The Langshan Fowl.427 
Science Applied to Farming, No. 35.—Potash—The 
German Potash Salts.417, 418 
Seedling Peaches. 431 
Sheep, CroSs-bred.427 
Sheep, the Oxford-Downs. Illustrated ..421 
Shrubs, The Bladder Senna. Illustrated. .429 
Skimmed Milk, The Trade in.426 
Small Evergreens for Small Places.429 
Stack Yard, How to Arrange .2 Illustrations .427,428 
Stove for a Poultry House.2 Illustrations ..424 
Sweet Potatoes, House for Storing.2 Illustrations. .425 
Talks on Farm Crops, No. 9.—Rape—Mangel Wurzels 
-Corn-fodder—Apples... . .423 
Tim Bunker on the Canning Factory.419 
Trees, A Remarkable Collection.416 
Trees, Weeping Hemlock. Illustrated. .429 
White Birch on Poor Land.423 
Why it Pays to Read.. 417 
index to “basket,” ok shorter articles. 
Newspaper Horticulture.441 
N. Y. State Fair. 416 
New Zealand Flax.442 
Oats...415 
Orange Marmalade.442 
Paralysis in Pigs .443 
Parasite on Owls. 442 
Pigs, The Best.415 
Preparing Brine.442 
Produce of Cow. 415 
Pollen, Keeping... .442 
Popular Science Monthly441 
Postage Stamps, Sending 414 
Poultry-house, Clean_414 
Pure Ground Bone.413 
Reports of Societies.443 
Ringbone..414 
Scroll Sawyer.442 
Sewing Machines.443 
Sheep in Colorado.443 
Sick Hog .414 
South. Cal. Horticnlturist441 
Southern Emigration . ..415 
Sportsman’s Gazetteer.. .414 
_ Squashes, large.442 
..415|Sundry Humbugs,...414 
414|The Microscope.414 
Adamant Plow.442 
Ag’l. Engine Trial.414 
Alpine Flowers.414 
Army and Navy Journal.416 
Autumn Hort. Show.410 
Borrowing to Buy a Farm414 
Brahmas for Eggs.443 
Buckwheat Bran.443 
Butter Factory.414 
Catalogues Received.442 
Chestnuts. Keeping .442 
Colorado Mountaineer.. .414 
Concrete Houses.414 
Cool Setting of Milk.414 
Cost of Wheat.443 
Egg-Eating Hens.443 
Fairs of 1877.416 
Fall Plowing.415 
Fodder Culler.443 
Food Steamer.415 
Game Laws of Pa.414 
Georgia Hort. Society_441 
Grape, Lady Washington442 
Grasses and Soils.442 
Grasses Named .441 
Hamstrung Horse.. 
Improved Plows... 
Incubators, Use of.414(Wile Making.'.415 
Kansas Hedge.416 Tomato Worm..441 
Ladies Shoes.415Warts, Removing .443 
Land for Sale.415 W. C. Flagg’s Illness... 413 
Large Shipments.413 Western Cattle Men. . .443 
“ Maize Cobs ”.441 Wheat for Name.415 
Nails in Stomach.416 Wheat Growing States..442 
New Hay in Barn.443 White Specks in Butter..415 
Calendar for November. 
MOON. 
BOSTON. 
N. YORK. 
WASIl’N. 
cua’ston 
CHICAGO. 
New M’n 
1st Quart 
Full M’n 
8<1 Quart. 
12 
II. M. 
3 55 mo. 
7 0 ev. 
5 35 ev. 
5 22 ev. 
3 43 mo. 
6 48 ev. 
5 23 ev. 
5 10 ev. 
FI. M. 
3 31 mo 
6 36 ev. 
5 !g ev- 
ir: M. 
3 19 mo. 
6 24 ev. 
4 59 ev. 
4 4G ev. 
2 49 mo. 
5 54 cv. 
4 29 ev. 
4 10 ev. 
AMERICAN AGllICULTURIST. 
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER, 1877. 
We are rapidly approaching better times. Al¬ 
ready business is improving, and there is a promise 
of an era of prosperity. Although “the melan¬ 
choly days ” of autumn are come, everything con¬ 
spires to encourage us. We have had a fine season 
for fall sowing, and our grain has gone into the 
ground in the best condition. Th’e fall work is 
generally ahead, and every farmer is busy. Circum¬ 
stances generally, have greatly tended to make 
farmers contented with their position. They have 
been taught that the farm is a secure haven in 
times of business storm and disturbance. That the 
profits of farming, if not large, are safe and certain. 
In Nevada, where farms and gold and silver mines 
lie contiguous to each other; it is the farmer who 
makes the greater profit, for it is proved by the 
statistics of the State, that the capital invested in 
farms yields a better and more regular return, than 
does that employed in the mining the precious 
metals. For one paying gold mine, there are fifty 
that either do not pay, or that totally ruin the 
owners. On the contrary, there is not one farm 
that does not pay a fair return, and many that pay 
richly for good management. The time is past, for 
another long period, when there will he so much 
talk about “the boys leaving the farm.” They can 
not find a better place, and hundreds of young men 
are now leaving the cities to go upon farms. Com¬ 
fort and happiness will, as in the past, dwell with 
the frugal and industrious, and in the history of 
the world the most notable instances of private and 
public virtue, have been found amongst those 
whose lives have been simple, unpretentious, and 
laborious. The first battle of the Republic was 
fought by farmers, and its great sustaining power 
will always consist of the farmers first, who are the 
most numerous class of citizens, and after them the 
intelligent artisans, mechanics, and other industri¬ 
ous workers. There are other classes who are 
equally useful, but being in a great minority, thus 
exert a less influence. But the farmer who feeds 
the world, and those who house and clothe it, must 
always exert a preponderating influence in pro¬ 
portion to the intelligence they possess, and the 
skill with which they perform their several labors. 
Hints for Work. 
Fall Plowing. —Don’t let the plow rust in the fur¬ 
rows. So long a6 there is any plowing to be done. 
let it be done at once, and as soon as finished, 
clean off the plow, grease, or lime-wash, the moid- 
board and 6hare, and put it away in the tool shed. 
Gather up all the tools, clean them, coat the wood 
work with crude petroleum, or some common lead 
and oil paint, and store them in ; their proper 
places. Tools will last twice as long if thus kept. 
Prepare for Winter. —Whatever preparation is need¬ 
ed for winter, should be be begun now, or before 
snow falls. A little foresight saves much trouble. 
Stacks should be well protected, and the cover¬ 
ings repaired, if necessary, (see article on page 427). 
Store a sufficient supply of fodder and litter in the 
barn, and over the stables and sheds for present use. 
Thrashing.—A two-horse tread-power and thrash¬ 
ing machine mill he found very useful. These ma¬ 
chines are made very portable, and are easy to he 
moved from place to place. As one set can do the 
work of several farms, money may be earned by 
thrashing for the neighbors after the work at home 
has been done. With these machines thrashing is 
done quietly and easily, without any of the “hurly- 
burley ” of a hired set, and without waste of grain 
or straw, or overworking the horses. 
Corn-Husking.— With the use of machines, and 
the need for economy in every form of labor, all 
the so-called “poetry of farm work” has disap¬ 
peared. The old-fashioned corn-huskings in the 
barn will soon no more be held, and, along with the 
old-fashioned festive “harvest homes,” will be 
sood only remembered in 6tory. These homely 
frolics must give way to more sedate and less costly 
labor, and now the sooner the corn-husking is out 
of the way, the better. The fields should be cleared 
at once, and when everything is under cover, there 
will be time for more comfortable frolicking indoors. 
Take care of the Fodder. —When corn is husked, 
the fodder should always be carefully set up, if it 
is not yet thoroughly cured. We some time ago 
referred in these hints to the manner of setting up 
shocks, and the number of hills in each. A couple 
of considerate Western correspondents kindly wish¬ 
ed to inform us in regard to the number of hills 
put into a shock, stating the number to he from 144 
to 256. We were well aware of this, but were 
speaking of the manner of putting up shocks to» 
stay put up, and to save the fodder in the best way, 
and not merely to be heaped together for harvest¬ 
ing the corn. Moderate-sized shocks will cure bet- 
ler than very large ones, and 25 or 49 hills make a 
shock large enough to bind. House or stack the 
6talks as soon as dry enough to be 6afe from mil¬ 
dew. While drying in the field, four or more 
corn shocks may be put into one fodder shock. 
Hoots that have been gathered, should be made se¬ 
cure in the pits before the cold weather comes on. 
Look out that there is ample ventilation from the- 
bottom to the top of the heaps. Three-cornered 
spouts, with a number of holes bored in each, to 
admit air, may be put every 8 or 10 feet apart in a 
long pit, or one for each small pit. These will 
carry off the heated air which arises in all newly 
made pits of any sort of roots, which would cause 
rotting were its escape not thus provided for. 
Hoots that have not been harvested, may be suffered 
to grow so long as the weather is mild. Late tur¬ 
nips will make considerable growth now, during 
the cool weather. As soon as one or two 6harp 
frosts have occurred, these late crops may be taken 
up; but this is not likely to happen, unless in far- 
northern localities, until the end of the month. 
Frozen Leaves are injurious to cattle,and should not 
be given to them, hut carted to the compost heaps. 
Horses should be provided with blankets for use 
when exposed to storms. These may be procured 
very cheaply, and their cost will he saved more; 
than once or twice during the winter. We do not 
approve of using blankets in the stable, however- 
cold the weather may be. This practice makes the 
horse more sensitive to cold when brought out. 
Blankets are for use only to protect against unu¬ 
sual exposure, and when the horse is warm. 
Winter rations for a work horse, may now be given 1 
6afely. Our practice is to mix half a bushel of cut 
hay or fodder, with 3 pounds of feed of oats, corn, 
and bran ground together, for one feed for each- 
