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accomplished, and in the amount of labor 
done. 
MILLET. 
This is a fine crop for winter fodder. 
Some farmers think it as valuable as the best 
English hay. See articles on millet in the 
May issue, and this number. 
CORN FOR FODDER. 
We desire to keep this article before the 
eyes of our readers. This may be sown at 
any time up to the fifteenth or end of June. 
We would not sow later on account of the 
difficulty of curing the crop. We have seen 
some complaint made upon this point, in our 
agricultural journals. The corn stalks mold¬ 
ed, and made poor fodder. It was cut up too 
late in the season, when there was not suffi¬ 
cient heat in the sun to dry the stalks. The 
last week in August, or the first of Septem¬ 
ber, is a very good time to cure it well. 
Of course there will not be so much in 
weight, but it will be better cured and much 
more valuable. 
, HAYING. 
Some pieces of grass badly lodged may 
need to be cut the last of this month. But 
with this exception this business will go over 
to another month. 
MULCHING 
should be attended too early. The young 
trees set out this Spring, are now nicely 
started, and the soil is thoroughly warmed. 
The danger now is, that the hot sun and 
drying winds of Summer, will either stop 
their growth, or kill them outright. Give 
them a good mulch of old hay, shavings, saw¬ 
dust, or fine brush. Any thing that will re¬ 
tain moisture, and shield their roots from 
the hot sun, will answer. Many a fine tree 
is lost, for want of this protection. The 
Raspberry plants will also be greatly benefit- 
ted by this treatment. This shrub loves a 
deep moist soil, and a mulch facilitates both 
the formation of young plants, and the per¬ 
fecting of the fruit. The berries ripen in 
succession for several weeks, and it often 
happens, that the later berries are very small 
for want of sufficient moisture. Try mulch¬ 
ing about the bearing canes, and mark the 
result. The finer kind of Raspberries, as the 
Fastolff, the Franconia, and the Antwerps, 
make new plants very slowly in comparison 
with the more hardy varieties. Mulching 
will help this difficulty, and give the culti¬ 
vator a much larger crop of young plants to 
dispose of next Spring. At one dollar a 
dozen they pay much better than most farm 
crops. The berries also are a good crop at 
twenty-five cents a quart. The market in 
all our cities and villages is not half supplied 
with this delicious fruit. 
STRAWING THE STRAWBERRY 
must also be attended to early this month, if 
it has not been done before. A heavy rain 
will often spoil a whole picking of these ber¬ 
ries, if the strawing has been neglected. 
Each rain drop as it falls scatters the dirt, 
and it lodges upon the berries and adheres. 
They are not marketable. To prevent this, 
lay between the rows any clean hay or straw 
to cover the dirt. Tan, also answers a very 
good purpose. Fresh cut salt hay is also a 
good article. 
WATERING STRAWBERRIES 
while blossoming and fruiting, will make 
the crop much more abundant. This would 
pay the large cultivator, if he had a one horse 
sprinkler to apply it with. The amateur, 
who wishes to take the prizes at the Horti¬ 
cultural exhibitions, will not neglect it. A 
weak solution of liquid manure is still better. 
YOUNG TREES IN FRUIT. 
Do not leave a single fruit to mature, upon 
any young tree set this Spring. It needs 
all its energies to establish itself in its new 
position. It should be left to make wood 
for two or three years after planting. The 
increased bearing of the tree after that will 
fully compensate the owner for his self de¬ 
nial. Some trees become hopelessly stunted, 
by excessive bearing, soon after they are set 
out. “Wood first, and fruit afterwards,” 
is a good motto. Some of our finest varie¬ 
ties, as the Urbanist, and the Dix show their 
good sense by putting off bearing until late. 
CATERPILLARS, 
and other insects must be looked after this 
month. Clear out every nest, and wash 
trunk and branch of your trees, in strong 
soap suds. A wash of soda or of potash is 
good, if you know how to make and apply 
it. But so many young trees are killed with 
these washes in the hands of the inexperi¬ 
enced, that we do not recommend them in 
ordinary cases. These are a part of the 
geoponics of June, to be attended to now or 
never.— Ed. 
PASTURAGE EOR DRY WEATHER. 
At the risk of complaints of repetition, we 
cannot let this paper go to press without 
saying, sow corn for fodder ! and if not 
corn, then sow millet. Evidence accumu¬ 
lating an hundred-fold every summer testi¬ 
fies to the great advantages of sowing, drill¬ 
ing, or planting from half an acre to ten 
acres or more of corn, to be cut up during 
the latter part of summer, when the pastures 
are dried up. Besides a regular large plot 
put in smaller ones here and there around 
the farm, in this corner, among those pota¬ 
toes, on the summer fallow, &e., and then 
during the warm days of August and Sep¬ 
tember, cut up and fed daily to each pastured 
animal a few handfuls of the green succulent 
stalks. This will keep them all—whether 
workers, milkers, or growers—in good heart, 
and will pay ten-fold- the cost. Try it, all. 
Sow or plant a little now, some more next 
week, and a little the week after. 
Curing Rattle Snake Bites. —The fol¬ 
lowing is almost too good to be true. We 
give it for what it is worth. The Wisconsin 
Farmer says : Take the yolk of a good egg, 
and put it in a tea cup ; stir in as much salt 
as will make it thick enough not to run ^ff. 
Spread it as a plaster, a'nd apply it to the 
wound, and we will insure your life for a 
sixpence. 
A man ceases to be a ‘ good fellow ’ the 
moment he refuses to do precisely what 
other people wish him to do. 
When his physician advised him “ take a 
walk upon an empty stomach,” Smith asked 
“ Upon whose 1” 
CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS. 
june 1856. 
[We propose to give from month to month, besides our 
leading article, “Work forthe Month,” acalendar of some 
of the more important operations in the field, garden, &c. 
These are adapted to the latitudes of 41 ® to 42 a . A little 
allowance must be made for each degree of latitude—later 
noith, earlier south. An early season, or a late one like 
the present advances or retards operations, so that we shall 
need to revise and adapt these tables to each year. The 
letters f.m. 1. refer to first, middle, and last of the month. 
Doubling the letters thus : if., mm., or 11., gives emphasis 
to the particular period indicated.] 
Some of the following were in last month’s 
Calendar, but when not attended to or not 
completed, may be performed this month, 
ff., to m. 
the field. 
Barley—sow ff., if not already done. 
Beets drill in ff., to m. Sow Mangold 
Wurtzel for catte, as they produce abund¬ 
antly, and are excellent for milch cows, and 
other stock. 
Buckwheat—sow m., 11.; odd patches 
which were too wet to work before, may now 
be sown with Buckwheat, which is a profit¬ 
able crop requiring but little manure. 
Cabbage—for winter use may be planted 
out f. m. 1. Plow or spade deep and manure 
well. 
Carrots—sow ff. Some varieties, espec¬ 
ially the Early Horn, may be sown m. 1. 
Carrots, besides being a good vegetable for 
the table, are very valuable for stock, espec¬ 
ially for horses, and on good soil produce 
an abundant crop. Bone-dust is an excel¬ 
lent manure. 
Celery as a Field Crop—plant out ff. 
Earth up slightly 11. Trench the rows be¬ 
fore planting and manure heavily. 
Clover—plow in ff. 1., or when in blossom, 
Corn—plow among early planted mm. 1. 
Sow and drill plentifully for soiling, f. m. 1. 
Fences—keep in good repair f. m. 1., clean 
out the hedge rows on either side of the fence 
to prevent their impoverishing the soil and 
shading the crops. 
Hoeing—should be industriously attended 
to ff. mm. 11. No month in the year requires 
the hoe to be kept in motion more than the 
present. Give the young plants space and 
sunlight in place of weeds. 
Flogs—do not neglect their yards and pens, 
but throw in muck, turf, weeds, leaves and 
scrapings 'front the woods and roads, &c., 
ff. mm. 11., all these will make excellent 
manure. 
Manures—attend to f. m. 1., do not allow 
the droppings to lie exposed over the cow 
yard till they are as thin as a “ pan cake,” 
but scrape them up each morning and throw 
them in heaps under cover, mixing with 
muck. 
Meadows—keep 2 cattle and especially 
sheep from them, f. m. 1. 
Millet—sow f. m. See another page. 
Onions—hoe and thin'out f. m. 1. 
Pasturing—f. m. 1., do not allow cattle to 
have too great range, but change often, al¬ 
ternating with sheep. 
Potatoes—may still be planted ff. to m. 
but much better earlier. Plow among and 
hoe f. 1. 
Pumpkins—plant ff. to m., among corn for 
