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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[October, 
Contents for October, 1871. 
An Eg" Farm....5 Illustrations.. 372,373 
Bee Notes.3(19 
Be Just to the Gardeners.333 
Benefits of Full Plowin". 375 
Birds—Owls, “ Reprisals ”. Illustrated. .380 
Bones—A Great Waste.379 
Boys and Girls’ Columns—Churns and Bottles, by 
Carleton — Aunt Sue’s Puzzle Box —Answers to 
Puzzles in August—New Rebuses—Summer and 
Winter.4 Illustrations.. 387, 3S3 
Calves for Milkers. 379 
Corn Fodder—How to Use.378 
Dumpin"-Wa"on.3 Illustrations.. 370 
Egg-Plants.. ° . 381 
Farm Work for October.302 
Fences. 379 
Flower Garden and Lawn in October.364 
Ffaxinella.382 
Fruit Garden in October. 303 
Greenhouse Plants, Fine Specimens. 3 lUus. 384 
Greenhouse and Window Plants iu October.364 
Hardy Bulbs—Tulips.3 Illustrations. 381 
Household Department—Little Matters and Greater 
Ones—Letter from a Housekeeper—Dough Turning 
Sour—Biscuits—Green-grape Pie, Stew, and Jelly- 
Grape Jelly and Catsup—Squash-Pie—Home Topics 
— Cover for Sewing Machine — Night-gowns— 
Homes for the Homeless—The Agriculturist and the 
Children.0 Illustrations. .385,3S6 
Kitchen Garden in October. 363 
Largo Collections of Fruit.383 
Letter from Kansas.378 
Liquid Manure Apparatus.3 Illustrations. .377 
Manuring Meadows iu Autumn.373 
Market Reports.364 
Notes from the Pines—The Weather—Lima Beans— 
Asparagus Bean—Trophy Tomato—My Big Pear-tree 
—Grapes—Vino Insects—Bugs and Bugologists.382 
Ogden Farm Papers, No. 21—Farm Experience—Crops 
Becured—Amount of Stock—Soiling—The Heifer 
“ Thrift ”.370, 371 
Orchard and Nursery in Otober.363 
Pears in Orchard Culture.383 
Pile-Driver, Easily Made.2 Illustrations. .376 
Plum Curculio. 383 
Reclaimin "S warnps.377 
Riding on Horseback, No. 6.370 
Salting the Sheep. Illustrated. .301, 309 
Successful Hedging.3S2 
Walks and Talks on the Farm, No. 94—Wheat Cul¬ 
ture—Seeding to Clover—Looking Ahead—Thor¬ 
ough-bred Stock and Fancy Prices.374, 375 
What is Science in Farming ?.378 
INDEX TO “BASKET,” OK SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Abutilon. 365;Missouri Farm.309 
Advice from a Doctor_369 Muck for Wheat... _367 
An Acre, $185.369 Murder. 360 
Apples do not Bear.366;N. Eastern Beekeeper .. .3G5 
Bee-Notes for October. ..369^. E. Fair.365 
Bulb Catalogues.365 Osage Orange.300 
Cattle Eating Earth.364 Packing Butter.305 
Compost of Stuck.367;Painted Pails.307 
Cutting Cions.366|Pcahen’s Eggs.306 
Draining a Basin.367|Poultry Disease.309 
Fastening Shells.306 Preserving Hams.365 
Fine Corn.307|Price of Stock.366 
Flax.367 Prenunciation-Eumelan.366 
Fodder Crops.36o'Seaweed as Manure.367 
Fowls for Town-dwellers 304 Seed Wheat.365 
Golden Rod.365' Sewage 
Grater Mistake.366 c 
Green Slugs.366 
Hard Times for Farmers.367 
Holding back Milk..... .367 
Hogs and Horn-Dust ...309 
Humbugs, Sundry.365 
Interfering.367 
Ironweed.367 
June Grass.365 
Keeping Eggs;.365 
Lea ves.3071 Where our 
Lice on Poultry.306| Come from 
_„ .367 
366 Sorrel and Mustard.367 
Sour Keep.369 
Sowing Clever.367 
Steaming Food.369 
Sterile Fan-tails.369 
Sundry Humbugs.365 
Value of Manures.367 
Value of Sea-weed.366 
Wagon, Low-bodied.369 
Weak kneed Colt.367 
Thoughts 
.365 
Lloyd’s Maps.366|Wild Carrot...305 
Luceru Hay.367i Woolly Taste in Mutton.367 
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PHASES OF THE MOON. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
NEW YORK, OCTOBER, 1871. 
On our own form, we have always found October 
and November the two busiest months of the year. 
We have often had cause to regret doing work the 
early part of October that might have been post¬ 
poned. We have dug out stones during fine weather 
in October, and been compelled afterwards to dig 
potatoes amid snow, sleet, rain, and frost the latter 
part of November. Let our readers be wiser. 
Push the work now. Hire extra help, if need be, 
to secure all the crops as soon as they are ready. 
The former that gets behind with his work now will 
certainly be a loser. Every thing will turn against 
him. The weather will grow colder, and the days 
shorter. Hired help will become scarcer, and will 
ask higher wages and do less work. We have paid 
men $1.75 per day to dig potatoes the last of Novem¬ 
ber, who were willing to work for $1.25 in October. 
And they would have done one third more work. 
A farmer should sit down and make out a list of 
the work he has to do before winter sets in. He 
should place the items under two heads, thus (we 
give a few items as an example): 
Work that must be done. 
1st. To finish cutting up 
corn. 
2d. To dig potatoes, 
commencing on the ripest. 
3d. Apples to pick and 
barrel 
4th. Pumpkins to draw in. 
5tU. Roots to harvest. 
6th. Corn to husk, and 
stalks to draw in 
7th. Stock to attend to, 
daily—almost hourly. 
Work that ought to be done. 
1st. Ditches to be cleaned 
out and deepened. 
2d. Fall plowing. 
3d. Stones to be got out 
and put in heaps, so that 
they can he drawn away in 
winter. 
4th. Com to draw in, to be 
husked in the barn. 
6th. Gate to hang, posts 
to straighten np, fences to 
fix, boards to nail, etc., etc. 
Under the head of work that ought to be done, a 
former, if he will jot them down as they occur to 
him, can readily find a score or two of items. 
The work that must be done should of course have 
the precedence, but if the weather is unsuitable, or 
the crops are not quite ready, select some job from 
the other column. Such a list will be found 
great help, and we would urge every reader of the 
American Agriculturist to make one out at ouce. 
Stints* about Work. 
Eye will do well sown the first or second week 
of this month, and on rich, warm land a good crop 
mav be obtained when sown as late as the first of 
November. The earlier it is sown, the more the- 
plants tiller, and the less seed is required, say 
bushels the first of October, aud 3 bushels per acre- 
towards the last of the month. Rye does not ger¬ 
minate as soon as wheat, and on wet, heavy, cold 
land is liable to rot in the ground. Where there is 
a good demand for the straw, rye is a profitable 
crop, and deserves more manure and better treat¬ 
ment than it usually receives. It delights in a 
warm, sandy loam, and frequently does well on low, 
mucky land where wheat would lodge. But it must 
be drained. It is throwing time, and labor, and 
seed away to sow any grain crop on wet land. 
Winter Wheat sometimes does well sown as late 
as the beginning of October ; and we once saw a 
good crop in Western New York that was sown iu 
November. But, a6 a rule, north cf 41°, wheat 
should be in by the last of September. When this 
can not be done, better sow rye, or if the land 
is too heavy for this crop, better plow it this fall 
and 6ow it to oats or barley in the spring. A good 
crop of oats or barley is for more profitable than a 
poor crop of wheat. 
After Wheat is sown, if there is reason to suppose 
6 ome portions of the field, such as sandy knolls,, 
too poor to produce a good crop, it is a good plan 
to spread some well-rotted manure on^lie surface. 
It often has a wonderful effect, not only on the 
wheat, but also on the clover and grass afterwards. 
If manure can not be had, 200 lbs. of Peruvian 
guano per acre will be good, or 150 lbs. nitrate of 
soda sown this fall, and 150 lbs. in the spring. 
Furrows to let off water, if not already done, should 
he made at once. Many an acre of wheat is lost 
from neglecting this simple operation. 
Cutting up Corn should not be delayed an instant 
longer than necessary. A frost, while the corn is 
standing, injures the fodder, though it does not 
hurt it after it is cut up. And not only this: 
over-ripe or frosted corn is more difficult to bind 
properly. The contrivance for binding figured in 
the last Agriculturist will be useful in such a case. 
Husking Corn will in time be done by machinery. 
We have already several machines that “ promise- 
well.” But this year a hundred million bushels or 
more will have to be husked by hand. We have 
from time to time figured several little contrivances 
for facilitating the labor and relieving the fingers. 
Where a former and his hoys do the husking, it is a 
good plan, at any rate for (he first day or two, to- 
husk for only a few hours at a time, and then go to 
some other job. In our own case, we find it cheaper 
to let out the work by the bushel—taking care to 
see that the corn is husked clean, that the stalks 
are properly tied, and the bundles made into com¬ 
pact, good-sized stooks, with two bands on top. 
Corn-Stalks .—Hay will be scarce aud high the 
coming winter, and we ought to take extra care in 
curing and preserving corn-stalks. Half the corn¬ 
stalks, even in sections where farmers preteud to- 
think a great deal of them, are rendered compara¬ 
tively worthless for want of a little attention in 
curing aud stacking. Farmers know how this work 
should be done, but do not sufficiently realize its 
importance. In this case, as iu 60 many others, 
they need exhortation rather than precept. The 
point is to cure the stalks as rapidly as possible, 
and to draw them in as soon as the sap is so much 
reduced that they will not ferment injuriously in 
the stack or barn. In this case, as with hay, flic 
water or sap that is in the stalks is not half so 
likely to cause mold as a little water on the outside 
of the stalks from dew or rain. 
Potatoes .—Commence to dig as soon as the tops 
are dead or dying. Better be a little too early than 
too late. Give yourself plenty of time, and dig 
during fine days and when the ground is dry. if 
we might hazard an opinion, we should say that, 
taking everything into consideration, it wifi be 
full as profitable to sell the crop this fall, as soon as 
dug, as to be at the labor and expense of storing. 
The crop of 1868 brought double the price in tile- 
spring as iu the fall; the crop of 1869 brought 
more in the fall than in the spring; the crop of 
1870 again brought a very high price in the spring:, 
