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Contents for November, 1869. 
Australian Glory Pea.420 
Bee Items.406 
Birds—The Wild Pigeon. Illustrated . .416 
Boston Market Celery. Illustrated. AID 
Boys’ and Girls’Colnmns—The Doctor’s Talks—About 
Making a Fire—Gophers—Learn to Observe—Cu¬ 
rious Japanese Bos—A Short Cut for Home—In-door 
Games—New Puzzles—Answers to Problems and 
Puzzles.9 Illustrations . .423-424 
Bulls in Harness.8 Illustrations . .412 
Calendar for November. 
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Penn., Ohio. 
Indiana, and 
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Cattle in the Hoad .411 
Cool Cottage Attics. Illustrated. .413 
Coupling for Double Harrows.2 Illustrations. .412 
Curculio.420 
Earth Closets in Country Houses. 2 Illustrations. .414 
Farm Work for November...398 
Flowers—American Bleeding Heart. Illustrated. .417 
Flowers—Climbing Hemp-weed. Illustrated. .417 
Flower Garden and Lawn in November.399 
Flowers—Japan Anemone. Illustrated.. 418 
Fruit Garden in November.399 
Grape Items. Illustrated.. 418 
Grape Vine Tendrils—A Sport. Illustrated. .419 
Green-house and Window Plants in November.399 
Hawk Nuisance 
2 Illustrations . .413 
Household Department—Whittling for Boys—Handy 
Kitchen Implement — Cruet Stopper Fast — Sour 
j Cream, Sour Milk, and Butter-milk—Cream of Tartar 
| —The Table—Order and Ornament—Baby Clothes— 
I Howto Cook Dried Beef—Various Ways of Prepar¬ 
ing Cabbage—nints on Cooking, etc.. .2 Ulus.. .421-422 
Ice-houses—Cheap.415 
Is the Largest the Best ?. 415 
Kitchen Garden in November.399 
Lilies—Brown’s Lily and Others. Illustrated. .419 
Market Reports.402 
Notes from "‘The Pines,” No. 6—Loss of Thyme— 
Raising Sage—Cow Cabbage — Melons —Summer 
Greens.418 
Orchard and Nursery in November.399 
Potato—A Singular Freak. Illustrated. .419 
Premiums.400 
Propagating by Ro#t Cuttings. Illustrated. .418 
Protecting Trees in Winter.2 Illustrations. .419 
Pruning Chisel. Illustrated. .408 
Storing Roots for Winter.2 Illustrations. .414 
Swine—Sows Eating their Pigs. 409 
Swine—Their Qualities and Our Needs.2 Ulus.. .409 
Tieing Rafters. Illustrated. .413 
Timber for the Prairies.408 
Tim Bunker on Cape Cod Cranberries.407 
Towing Salt Hay. Illustrated. .397 
Two-horse Cultivator Wanted.415 
Walks and Talks on the Farm, No. 71—Plows—Steel 
Teeth for Harrows—Hand Potato Digger— 1 Thrash- 
\ ing Machines—Plowing Under Clover—Ditching— 
I Grass on Road-sides—Weeds.410-411 
i INDEX TO “BASKET” OR SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Abronias.406 
Ag’l Chemical Analysis..403 
Am. Pomological Soc_405 
Apple Butter..404 
Australia, What they say .405 
Bresee’s Potatoes.406 
Bulls in the Street . 406 
Cabbages, Sauerkrout.. .105 
California State Fair.400 
Cauliflower Seed.404 
Cheering Reports.403 
Chickens, Precocious... .400 
Dealers in Implements.. .404 
Death of R. L. Allen.404 
Downing’s Fruits.405 
Dwarflng’s Fruits.405 
Facts for Advertisers_402 
Farmers’ Club.406 
Fattening Poultry.403 
Fertilizing Sand-barrens.406 
Fowl, Best Stock.406 
Grape Trellises.. /.404 
Grimes’s Golden Apple. .405 
Hedge Questions.406 
Hens with Soft Eggs.404 
Horse-radish.404 
Houses Wanted.406 
Huckleberry Culture.406 
Humbug Explanations. .402 
Hydrophobia in Cattle.. .400 
Kansas at Pomol. Soc.,..400 
Kentucky Strawberry... .405 
Letters, Private, etc.402 
Mass. Hort. Society.405 
“Mexican” Strawberry. .405 
Names.404 
N. J. State Fair.405 
No Advice to Sell.401 
Obituary.405 
Our Young Folks.401 
Penn. Ilort. Soc.405 
Petroleum on Wheels... .402 
Plaining-mill Shavings. .400 
Planting Walnuts.406 
Points of Light Brahmas.408 
Potatoes by Mail.404 
Poultry Show.405 
Pratt’s Astral Oil.406 
Premium Bull.403 
Queen’sCo. Ag’l. Soc_100 
Resources of South in 
Fields.404 
Salt for Fowls.404 
Scuppernong Grape.404 
Setting Trees.400 
Southemcr’slmpressions403 
Special Premium.403 
Sundry Humbugs.403 
The Christian Union... .404 
Weather and Crop.403 
Weehawken Grapes.401 
White Grub in Pa.404 
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AMERIC A N A6-RICIILTERIST. 
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER, 1S69. 
While the farmer is garnering the last of the 
products of the soil, and is making preparation for 
a season of comparative rest from severe labor and 
pressing cares, all nature is preparing for its long 
winter’s nap. The protection of the dead plants 
and forest leaves keeps life in many a delicate root. 
The buds of the forest trees are encased in many a 
fold of downy wrappers. Insects lay their eggs, 
which are to he hatched by the spring sun, and 
then die; or they enclose themselves in mummy 
cases, and, hidden away in nooks and corners under 
Ihc leaves or the soil, they wait for the touch of 
spring. Squirrels lay away their stores of nuts and 
grain, and other animals lay on stores of fat, upon 
which to draw for warmth and sustenance during 
the cold weather. It is natural for any kind of 
stock to go into winter quarters fat. If we take 
the hint, we shall learn that, as a rule, animals are 
most easily fattened in the autumn, and that if we 
would winter our stock easily, we must get them 
in prime order at the season of the year. 
We rejoice in abundant harvests, and in good 
prices for most kinds of farm produce. Full gar¬ 
ners and sleek cattle should suggest our obligations 
to the All-giver, and prompt us to share His bounty 
with those less favored. Thanksgiving Day is a 
sort of Harvest Home festival, in its commemora¬ 
tion of the harvest. Let us Ijeartily enjoy it, with 
all its happy memories and pleasant associations. 
Mints AlMmt Worlfi. 
Buildings. —Every tiling ought to be put in order 
for cold weather. Earth may be banked up agaiust 
the foundations of cellars'. Stables may be boarded 
up on the inside, and the space filled with straw or 
leaves. Tighten the weather-boarding where it is 
loose. Set glass where panes are broken, and look 
to leaks around chimneys, holes in the roof, etc. 
Beeves should he withdrawn from the pastures, and 
put in their regular winter quarters. They will 
bear pushing now to the utmost. 
Cows. —Feed succulent, milk-producing food, and 
be sure that the milkers do not dry off the cows to 
save themselves the trouble of milking. Keep the 
stables very clean, and feed liberally if there are 
fears of their slinking their calves, and until snow 
covers the ground give them some pasturage. After 
this give them a clod of earth occasionally to mum¬ 
ble. Add a handful of hone meal to their daily 
feed, of which rye bran, or wheat bran should form 
a part; feed pumpkins without seeds while they last. 
Young Cattle— Keep them in open yards with 
plenty to cat, and with deep, warm sheds, in Which 
they will be secure from the effects of storms. 
Sheep.— Wc provide for April lambs this month, 
and both rams and ewes should be in good condi¬ 
tion. Feed roots cut up, oil-meal, or grain-meal of 
some kind, and give the rams oats, in addition. 
Those who feed sheep usually calculate to have the 
grain which they consume add simply its own value 
to the sheep, while all the profit they look for and 
the pay for care and labor is in the manure which 
they make; to this end the yards and sheds are 
constructed, an abundant supply of litter is pro¬ 
vided, and everything tends to make the manure 
pile grow. In a less degree, the same is true of 
other fattening stock, the manure from which is al¬ 
ways the richest. 
Horses .—If possible, have the stable so arranged 
as to be more easily kept clean thaii neglected. 
Young horses ought to be stabled, and as carefully 
groomed as older ones. The horses future is in a 
great measure decided by liis first winter, Noth¬ 
ing will compensate for neglect. Old horses, 
especially those which have been liardworked, may 
have the range of a piece of woodland or brush 
pasture until snow comes, and will do well, if the 
grass and bushes have not been gnawed down too 
close by sheep and other horses. Horses do well, 
at least early in thb season, on corn stalks, and will 
often eat them cleaner than cows. If cut too short, 
they will give the horses sore mouths. 
Swine. —Fatten upon boiled potatoes and meal, 
or boiled corn, or in some way cook all the feed of 
fattening swine. Breeding sows that have got 
their full growth need not he fed much grain. 
Grain of all kinds should not he left in the sheaf 
or stook, hut corn should be husked and wheat 
thrashed and stored in rat-proof granaries as soon 
as possible. Market at fair prices rather than hold. 
Corn .—It is time now to have all the corn husked 
and stored in airy cribs. Stack the stalks near the 
barns, or better, store in tbe barn or under cover, 
if there is room, as they retain flavor longer. 
Cabbages, if not marketable at remunerative 
prices, make excellent milk-producing fodder. Put 
them in the barn cellar or in trenches for winter 
use. All decayed leaves must be stripped off and 
given to the hogs, or the milk will taste. 
Roots. —Before storing, expose them in small 
heaps for several days, to “ sweat ” off tlieir super¬ 
abundant moisture. Top them without cutting 
the flesh, and store them clean as possible. 
Potatoes in pits in the open ground must have 
free, ventilation at first, which should be reduced 
as the weather grows colder, and just before tbe 
ground freezes up solid, the heaps must have their 
last coat of earth, and not before. 
Fall Plowing .-—Do as much plowing as possible, 
particularly of land likely to lie long wet in the 
spring. If plowed it will be fit to work earlier. 
Manure. —Be sure to lay in plenty of muck, 
swamp grass, leaves, and other litter, to work into 
the manure during the winter. Spread or turn the 
heaps, to prevent heating, or keep hogs upon the 
manure: Manure in cellars ferments nearly as read¬ 
ily in winter as in summer; hence it is necessary 
either to tread it, so that air shall have little access, 
or to work it over frequently, (both of which opera¬ 
tions are imperfectly done by hogs), or to mix it 
with large quantities of soil or of inert vegetable 
matter. The last alternative is probably most de¬ 
sirable, the more so as it does not interfere with 
the improvement of the mass by the other proc¬ 
esses. Leaves from the forest, gathered and stored 
dry, dry muck, swamp hay, straw, etc.,—one or all 
are easily procurable on most farms, even as late as 
this, and the value of the manure made may bo 
increased in proportion to the enlarged bulk. 
Draining may be pushed on so long as the ground, 
