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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[October, 
Contents for October 1876. 
Among the Farmers—No. 9...37-t 
Bee Notes for October. Illustrated.. 370 
Boys and Girls’ Columns—The Doctor’s Correspond¬ 
ence—Aunt Sue’s Puzzle Box—History, A Remark¬ 
able—The Fox, Goat and Carrots—The Spring Un¬ 
der the Willow—Doctor’s Talks about Iron and 
Steel.11 Illustrations.. 385-3S8 
Brahmas, The Good Points in Light.379 
Cattle, Preparation for Soiling.377 
Cattle, “Round-Up,” in Colorado. Illustrated. .361 
Centennial, The—One More Month.355 
Cool Cellar with a Well. Illustrated. .379 
Corn Crib, A Self-Feeding. Illustrated. .379 
Corn, Unloading.. — Illustrated.. 377 
Dairy at ihe Centennial.5 Illustrations.. 308 
Farming without Stable Manure or Stock.379 
Feed Trough and Halter. Illustrated.. 37S 
Fertilizers, Effects of Artificial. .378 
Flower Garden and Lawn for October. 3(54 
Fruit Garden for October.363 
Goat, Angora.2 Illustrations.. 373 
Greenhouse and Window Plants for October.363 
Hitching a Crib Biter. Illustrated.. 378 
Hogs, A Method of Hanging.2 Illustrations. .Hid 
Household Department—Home Topics—Kindergarten 
Gifts and Occupations—Mangles, Old and New—Po¬ 
tatoes in Kentucky Style.6 Illustrations.. 383-385 
House Plan.2 Illustrations.. 372 
How Flowers are Fertilized.14 Illustrations.. 382 
Hydrangea, The New. Illustrated. 381 
Kitchen Garden for October.363 
Koelreuteria paniculata.3S3 
Leaves as Litter, Value of. 379 
Lilies from Seed.3S3 
Manure, How to Save and Keep. 375 
Manure, Pits for Keeping.7 Illustrations. .375 
Market Report for October.364 
Ogden Farm Papers, No. 80.369 
Orchard and Nursery for October.363 
“Our Special Foreign Correspondent”.378 
Paste, Manufacture and Use of Flour.376 
Pen for Single Pig.4 Illustrations. .377 
Potatoes, Bin for Storing.3 Illustrations.. 376 
Premiums, Something About.369 
Science Applied to Farming.371 
11 Science Applied to Farming ” Correspondence.395 
Seed Sowing, Use of the Feet in.3S1 
Weed, A New. Illustrated. 380 
Weeds, Fall. 379 
Wool-Growing in Texas.378 
Work, Hints About.362 
INDEX TO “ BASKET,” 
Bacon, Breakfast.391 
Balsams, Fine.366 
Banana and Sweet Pota¬ 
to, Composition of... .394 
Barley, Why not grow 
more?.394 
Barometer, Signal Ser¬ 
vice. 366 
Berkshire Record, Ameri¬ 
can.394 
Braces, Rice’s Spring... .365 
Broom Corn, How to 
Pack and Market.367 
Broom Makers, Wages of395 
Bulletins of the Bussey 
Institute. 365 
Bushels, Weight of vari¬ 
ous.394 
Bu t ter-maki n g.394 
Calves in a Hog Pasture..395 
Chickens, successful 
rearing of.367 
Coco or Nut-grass.366 
Corn Husks .394 
Cotton, English Con¬ 
sumption of American. 394 
Cranberry Weed.366 
Dairying, American. ...366 
Death of II. S. Randall..365 
Diseases of the Horse, 
Book on.395 
East Tennessee.394 
Eggs, IIow Many can a 
Hen Lay.393 
Fairs, Additional.395 
Fair, St. Louis.393 
Fairs, Side-shows at.394 
Farm Machinery in Cal. .395 
Farm, Renting a .367 
Foul in the Feet.393 
Fruit and Potatoes, Feed- | 
ing Decayed.360 
Fruit Raising in Cal.395 
Georgia State Hort. Soc.,365 
Grain, Prices of, at Dif¬ 
ferent Months.... 305 
Grape, A very Early New367 
Grape Leaves.Variegated394 
Olt SHORTER ARTICI.ES. 
Grater for Apples and Ci¬ 
der Press..365 
Hardin Method of Setting 
Milk. 394 
Horses, Chicken Lice on.367 
Humbugs Sundry .366 
Mare, Breeding a Young.395 
Meadow, Breaking up a.366 
Milk Fever .367 
Milk Mirror.394 
Mother, Artificial .366 
Muck from Long Island..394 
Oats, Winter.393 
Pear, Vergajieu.366 
Pig, Color of a Berkshire.395 
Pigs, Record of Grade 
Essex.366 
Pork, Cost of Making_367 
Potato Bug, Uselul.394 
Poultry House, How to 
Whitewash a.366 
Questions, a String of. .394 
"Reader ”.367 
Red Water in Cattle .. .394 
Rifle Shooting Counting.366 
Ringbone. Cure for.395 
Roaches, Remedy for_393 
School for Young Ladies, 
Home. 365 
Scrap. Value of Porgie.. .395 
Seed, Sowing Steeped.. .394 
Silk in Kansas.365 
Soap, Whale Oil.366 
Stump Pullers,.Screw....366 
Thrush in the Feet .. . 366 
Thrush, Muriatic Acid for367 
Timothy and Clover with 
Hungarian Grass.367 
Toads and ’Tater Bugs .394 
Tumor on the Jaw of an 
Ox.367 
Valentine & Co.394 
Veal, White.393 
Wagon Brake, Marlcrud .366 
Watermelons in Virginia394 
Weeds Named .394 
Wheat, Fertilizers for...395 
Wheat, Potash Salts for.366 
Cheese Making.-— “ u. M. S..” Colfax, W. 
T. xn the American Agriculturist of September, 1875, is 
an article on Cheese Making, giving the exact propor. 
tions of rennet to be used, and the method of preparing it. 
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NEW YORK, OCTOBER, 1876. 
This month and the next are really two of the 
busiest months of the year. We are too apt to for¬ 
get this, and to let the pleasant October days lure 
tas to rest or pleasure seeking. Then come corn- 
liusking and potato digging in the sleet and slush 
of the first wintry storms. We have never been 
caught so but once, and never will be so caugbt 
again. While anything remains to be done, there 
should be no “ let up ” ; that which may be done, 
may be left, but that which must be done should be 
done now. There is com yet to be cut up ; pota¬ 
toes to be dug; apples to be gathered ; corn to 
husk ; roots to harvest; stalks to be drawn in and 
stack ; buildings to fix up, and stock to be looked 
after. The man who will leave any of this work, 
and go to digging out stone, making fences, wast¬ 
ing time at public sales or other gatherings, or lying 
around doing nothing, deserves to work in the 
snow with cold hands and feet, and have no pity. 
Let everything that must be done be noted down, 
and finished in order, and the rest be done when the 
most convenient time comes. But it is by no means 
lost time to attend the County or State Fair. This 
ought to he made a special business. And when 
there, remember it will pay better to study the 
machines, implements, products, and stock care¬ 
fully, and attentively, than to run with the crowd 
to the horse races or the trotting ring. The annual 
fair should be made a business matter; every farm¬ 
er, his wife, and children should have something to 
exhibit there, and should compare and judge for 
themselves all other exhibits. If no prize is gained, 
there should he no disappointment, vexation, or 
jealousy, but a determination to improve upon the 
effort next year, and if possible then to succeed. 
Hints nl>osi t. Work. 
Winter Grain, may yet he sown ; on good warm 
soils wTieat may succeed sown as late as the end of 
the mouth, and rye may be sown as late as early in 
November. Double the usual quantity of seed 
should be sown, to ensure a good growth. We have 
had an excellent and neavy growth of rye to cut in 
April for soiling, from a field sown in November 
with 5 bushels to the acre. 
Top-Dressing the knolls or poorer parts of the 
newly sown wheat fields, will be found useful. A 
thin coating of straw even, has been found of great 
service, and has helped the crop wonderfully in 
some cases. For this purpose any coarse manure 
or straw may he used. Marsh hay or buckwheat 
straw will be serviceable, as, except when manure 
is used, the shelter and protection is what benefits 
the crop. Where the wheat has come up thin and 
poor on worn lands, 150 lbs. of the best guano, or 
100 lbs. of nitrate of soda, per acre, will be bene¬ 
ficial. It should be used early to do the most good. 
Water Furrows from low spots should be made 
at once, to carry off the water which will gather by 
and by. W'ken these spots arc flooded and the soil 
is wet, it will be too late to do this work, as the 
trampling of the ground will do more mischief than 
the water. This should be done at once. 
Corn Husking .—The present season corn may he 
husked earlier than usual, and there need be 
none left in the field by the end of the month. As 
there are many things to be done during fine 
weather, it will generally he best to let out this job 
by the bushel. In this case keep an eye on the 
buskers, that the work may he done cleanly and no 
small ears left on the stalks. Large ears measure up 
more quickly than small ones, and are as easily husk¬ 
ed, hence small ears are sometimes not husked. 
Have two baskets in the field, one for small ears, 
soft corn, and nubbins, and the other for large 
sound ears, which should be cribbed by themselves. 
The rest should be boiled for the pigs, or ground 
with some oats and bran for feed for cows, but 
never cribbed with good corn. 
Seed Corn should be selected now for next sea¬ 
son. Large, sound ears, filled to the tips, are pre¬ 
ferable to smaller ones, although two may have 
grown upon one stalk. We would rather have one 
good ear upon each stalk, than two small ones upon 
half the crop, and one small one upon the rest. One 
large good ear upon a stalk, will yield over 200 
bushels of ears per acre, and that ought to satisfy 
any man. The selected ears should not be husked, 
but the husks turned back and braided together, 
so as to make a bunch of 20 or 30 ears. These 
should be hung up in a dry safe place. 
Corn Fodder .—Especial attention has recently been 
given to corn-fodder in the American Agriculturist. 
What has been said, and the contrivances that 
have been described should be studied. There will 
be a scarcity of fodder in many places in the East, 
aud economy should be used in saving and feeding 
the stalks. They should he put under cover if pos¬ 
sible, as they are rarely stacked so as to keep them 
dry. Mouldy stalks are often the cause of sickness 
amongst cattle, which is charged to “horn ail,” or 
some other imaginary or obscure disease. Throw 
out all smutty stalks and burn them. They are not 
wholesome food, and the scattered smut will be 
very apt to infest the crops another year. 
Potatoes .—We gather potatoes into a temporary 
pit, and cover the heap with a quantity of the stalks 
before we leave the field at night. We think this 
safest and best. -They are not touched by a light 
frost that might occur, nor scalded by the noon 
sun. As soon as they are dry, gather into heaps 
of 40 or 50 bushels, and cover, when they will be 
safe until heavy frosts come, when they should be 
pitted, or stored in a dry cellar. It is best to dig 
only in dry weather. Potatoes are high now, on 
account of the ravages of the potato beetle and 
the dry weather, in some sections. But on the 
whole the crop is large, and prices may not keep 
up when the supply becomes diffused and equal¬ 
ized. This may be worth considering by those who 
can dig their crop early. 
The Potato Fungus .—It is now known that the 
spores of the fungus which causes the potato dis¬ 
ease, remain in the stalks or tubers during the win¬ 
ter. Where there is any disease, then it would be 
safe to burn the stalks, and pick out every diseased 
tuber to be boiled and fed to pigs or chickens. If 
this is done generally, the potato disease will prob¬ 
ably never become very serious in this country. We 
have seen many diseased potatoes this season. 
Live Stock .—With the new outlet for beef and 
mutton to the European markets, it is not probable 
that feeding good beeves will be unprofitable for 
6ome time to come. But none but the best stock 
