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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[August, 
Contents for August, 1871, 
Bee Notes for August.288 
Boat—How to Build One. 6 Illustrations.. 297 
Boys and Girls’ Columns—Insects as Musicians— 
Parmer or Doctor, Which?—Aunt Sue’s Puzzle Box 
—Tempting Good Nature—Boys and Girls’ Letters. 
4 Illustrations— 307-30S 
Brooms for Stable and Barnyard.3 Illustrations.. 298 
Cabbage Maggot and Caterpillar. . 303 
Cattle—Brittany Cow. Illustrated.. 293, 299 
Don’t Sell the Best Calves.298 
Drainage in Scotland.299 
Egyptian Beet.302 
Farm Work for August.282 
Fish—The Alewife. Illustrated. .293 
Flower Garden and Lawn in August.284 
Fraxinella. Illustrated.. 304 
Fruit Garden in August. . 283 
Fruit Ladder. Illustrated. .296 
Fumigation for Plants and Poultry. Illustrated. .296 
Greenhouse and Window Plauts in August.284 
Greenhouse—How to Build a Cheap One. .. .5 Ulus. .301 
Harrowing for Different Effects.298 
Horse’s Shoe—How to Replace.4 Illustrations. .296 
Household Department—Improved Spinning Wheel- 
Home Topics—Practical Studies—Mistaken Econo¬ 
my—Children’s Shoulder-straps—Froebel’s Gifts— 
Canning, Pickling, and Using Fruit—Eating Green 
Corn—Questions about Canning—Heading off Mos¬ 
quitoes. Illustrated.. 305, 306 
Husking Pin. Illustrated.. 299 
Kitchen Garden in August. 283 
Market Reports..284 
Notes from the Pines—Grapes—Varieties—Mildew— 
Insects—Training—Tendrils—Evergreens—Pruning 
—Peas—Spinea callosa—Hardy Cactuses.302, 303 
Odometer or Measuring Wheel. Illustrated. 297 
Ogden Farm Papers, No. 20—Setting Milk—Farm 
Stock—Dallas — Fancy Prices for Thorough-bred 
Animals.290, 291 
Orchard and Nursery in August.283 
Pasturing Meadows.289 
Pig Question again.299 
Poultry—An Egg Farm.2 Illustrations. .291, 292 
Rustic Bridges. Illustrated.. 301 
Salt-Marsh Mud as a Fertilizer.296 
Tim Bunker on Paying Crops.2S9 
Tuberose—A New One.303 
Walks and Talks on the Farm, No. 92—Apple Or¬ 
chard— Red-root—Sheep and Swine — Rotation— 
Weeds—Shorthorns—Footrot in Sheep.294, 295 
Watering the Herd. Illustrated.. 300 
Will it Pay to Cook Corn for Hogs?...298 
Wool-bearing Animals.. Illustrated.. 281, 289 
Yellow Asphodel. Illustrated.. 303, 304 
INAEX TO “BASKET,” OR SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Alfalfa.287, 
Breaking Steers.285 
Buckwheat, Thrashing.. .287 
Building a Greenhouse.. 285 
Butter Making.2S7 
Care of Harness.288 
Carrots and Onions.287 
Corn. 285 
Corn-Husking Machine..287 
Cows Holding up Milk.. .285 
Criticisms.285 
Crops in Va.2S4 
Curing Corn Fodder.288 
Currant Worms.287 
Cutting Cions.286 
Docking Lambs.287 
Farmers’ Clubs.285 
Farm Gates.287 
Feeding Fodder Corn... .287 
Fleas.286 
Foul in tile Foot.287 
Four Lambs.286 
Garget and Bitter Cream.288 
Glycerine. 2 s’? 
Grass, to Get.2S7 
Green-fly on Quince_ 287 
Green Land Marl.2S7, 
Hard-milking Cow.286, 
Harvesting Peanuts.287 
Hide-bound Calf.285 
Horse not Leading.285 
Humbugs, Sundry.2S5 
Lactometer.287 
Lime on Stubble.287 
Lime vs. Ashes.287 
Milk Weed.287 
N. Y. Agr’J Ed. Excursiou285 
Odd Fellows. 285 
Orchard, Neglected.286 
Oxford, Pa., Fair.287 
Plantation Cows.... _28$ 
Plaster. 287 
Pollen.287 
Poppy Culture.285 
Putty aud Paint.2S8 
Raising Pigs .by Hand.. .287 
Sandy Uplands in Ind....28S 
Scab in Sheep.2S6 
Scolymus.2S6 
Seeds, Keeping. 287 
Skim-Milk and Meal.286 
S. C. Phosphate.288 
Special Notice..2S5 
Sundry Humbugs.285 
Strawberry Questions... .286 
Thomas’ Harrow.287 
Tomato Wine.286 
Wash from Roads.285 
Wheat and Chess.285 
Worn-out Stock.284 
€ows their Malik. — C. E. 
Rogers. Orleans Co., Vt., wants a remedy for cows leak¬ 
ing milk. Milk such cows three times a day. Ou page 
203, vol. 28, American Agriculturist, the following preven¬ 
tive was given, viz., apply collodion (gun cotton dis¬ 
solved in ether) to the end of the teat, covering the orifice. 
This will form a thin skin over the cud of the teat which 
must be picked off before milkiug. It will also tend, by 
its contraction, to press the teat together, and close the 
aperture whence Mie milk escapes. If there are cracks 
or sore spots on the teats, wash them clean with water 
before applying the collodion ; it is a very healing appli¬ 
cation, though siightdy painful at first, 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
NEW YORK, AUGUST, 1871. 
We have liad an unusually hurrying time on the 
farm the past month. The hay crop was late, aud 
the wheat crop early. We have also had heavy 
and frequent rains, which, though much needed, 
aud of great value to pastures, corn, potatoes, 
oats, and roots, have not only retarded the hay¬ 
making operations, hut caused a great growth of 
weeds in the corn and potato fields, and rendered 
necessary an extra amount of hoeing and cultivat¬ 
ing. Seldom has work been more pressing, and he 
is a fortunate farmer who has been able to secure 
his hay and grain in good condition, and at the 
same time keep ids growing crops clean. 
To those who have been able to do this, August 
is a month of comparative leisure. Or, rather, it is 
a month of freedom from pressing work. We have 
time to breathe. We *au stop to think. But the 
battle is not over. A farmer’s work is never done. 
Next year the same things must be done again, 
and now is the time to prepare for them. If we 
have had good crops, this should encourage us to 
renewed exertions; if we have had poor ones, it 
should spur us up to more vigorous efforts to re¬ 
move the cause. As a rule, we know what the 
cause is. And many of us know also how to re¬ 
move it. What we need is promptness, energy, and 
forethought. The weak point in the management 
of not a few farmers, is the neglect of little things. 
Tools, implements, and machines are out of order. 
Gates sag, the hinges are off, the lower board is 
broken, and the fastening is gone. Fences are out 
of repair. Boards and shingles are loose upon the 
barn. The apple-trees are full of suckers. The 
fence corners are a mass of weeds, rubbish, stones, 
and brush. Every year the owner of such a farm lias 
made up his mind to improve, but lie does not know 
when and where to commence. We can tell him : 
There can not, be a better time than the month of 
August, 1871, and the first tiling to do is to reform 
himself. Agriculture is, or ought to be, a grand 
educator. It should teach promptness, order, sys¬ 
tem, energy, self-reliance, patience, a sense of re¬ 
sponsibility, faith in Providence, and a joyous hope¬ 
fulness. As a rule, a farmer lias no oue to blame 
but himself. He may complain of the weather, but 
it is no worse for him than for others, no worse 
this year than it was in years past, or will be in 
years to come. He may complain of “ want of 
time,” but he will soon learn that he has all the time 
there is. No one robs him of it. It is a good thing 
for a man to feel his responsibility. We all want 
to blame some one other than ourselves. 
It is no use quarreling with circumstances, or the 
“ constitution of things.” We must meet our 
difficulties like men; and patience, perseverance, 
and intelligent industry will enable us to triumphs 
over them. 
Mints about Work. 
Thatching Hay Stacks. —We are no advocates of 
the English system of stacking and thatching hay. 
It is far better and cheaper to put it in a barn. But 
where this can not be done, the stacks should be 
thatched witli more or less care, according to cir¬ 
cumstances and the value of the hay. With a care¬ 
fully made roof much may be done to enable it to 
shed the rain by raking the lray downward on the 
roof, so as to make it lie smooth and straight. It 
is better to do this during or immediately after a 
rain. It is better, however, to regularly thatch 
the stack, directions for which were given in the 
Agriculturist for October, 1870, page 374. Long 
grass, very useful for thatching hay stacks, may fre¬ 
quently be cut on low land. It should be put on 
while green, and laid straight, and carefully raked. 
If straw is used, the great point is to have it thor¬ 
oughly wet, so that it can be made to lie straight 
on the roof of the stack. If thatching is considered 
too much trouble, at any rate do not neglect to tie 
some poles together with hay-bands, and place 
them astraddle the roof to prevent the wind from 
tearing up the hay. 
Thrashing Grain. —A farmer had better hire an 
extra man than to work at any steady job connected 
with thrashing. He can save more by seeing that 
every tiling is done properly, than by doing, as is 
frequently the case, the hardest part of the labor 
himself. A thrashing machine is a “ regular horse 
killer.” The thrashers are inclined to save their own 
horses at the expense of those of the farmer. The 
outside horse has to walk much faster than the in¬ 
side oue, and should have a correspondingly longer 
part of the evener. Bore a hole in the evener of 
the inside horse, for the clevis, from two to three 
inches nearer tire center than that of the outside 
horse. See that the track is firm, even, and free 
from stones. If possible, let it be on level land, as 
a free horse is inclined to pull harder when going 
up hill. When stopping for lunch, let the horses 
have some water, and if a pint of meal is stirred up 
in a pail of water for eacli horse, it will enable them 
to do extra work without feeling it. The granary, 
of course, will be put in order before the thrashers 
arrive. If there is a cellar underneath the 
grauary or the thrashing floor, it is better to 
be on the safe side and put an extra prop 
or two underneath to support the floor. Fod¬ 
der will be scarce the coming winter, apd all the 
straw and chaff should be carefully saved. It is a 
common mistake to make the straw stack too wide, 
and not high enough. This gives too flat a roof, 
and much of the straw is damaged by the rain. Bet¬ 
ter make the bottom of the stack too small than 
too large. The great poiut iu stacking straw is to 
keep the middle full aud tread it down solid. For 
the first ten or twelve feet the better plan is to put 
a horse or an ox on the stack, aud drive him about 
to tread down the straw. With a horse that, is 
used to it, there is no trouble in getting him off the 
stack, especially if a part of one side is made a lit¬ 
tle slanting, and a few forkfuls of straw are placed 
at the bottom for him to alight on. When the mid¬ 
dle is kept full and well trodden, the outsides will 
settle more than the middle, and thus make a bet¬ 
ter roof. The hole where the man stands to take 
the straw from the carrier, should, after the stack 
is completed, be carefully filled with a few bun¬ 
dles of straw, so placed and held in by thatch-pegs 
that they will keep out water. 
Weeds in Corn and Potatoes must be destroyed. 
Better knock down a few hills of corn in cultivat¬ 
ing, than suffer the land to be covered with weeds. 
