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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[September, 
Contents for September, 1870. 
Barn—Plan for a Parmer’s Barn.3 Illustrations.. 336 
Bee Notes. 329 
Birds—The Summer or Wood Duck. lUustraie'd.. 340 
Boys and Girls" Columns.—Different. Ways^if Eating 
—The Doctor’s Talks—Something about Insects— 
An Old City—Rebuses. 5 Illustrations .. 347-348 
Broad-wheeled Wheelbarrow. Illustrated. .337 
Cross-breeds and Grades. Illustrated. .333 
Cure for Hard-milking-Cows.. .2 Illustrations. .337 
Pairs for 1870.-.324 
Farm Work for September.322 
Flower Garden and Lawn in September.323 
Flowers—The Elegant Humea. Illustrated.. 341 
Flowers—The White-spotted Calla..!. .. .Illustrated. .344 
Foundations for Corn Houses, etc. Illustrated. .336 
Fruit Garden in September.323 
Fruit Ladders.. .3 Illustrations. 342 
Gardens or Greenhouses upon the Roof.. .. 3 lllus ..343 
Greenhouse and Window Plants in September.3,23 
Harvesting Corn in Tennessee and Elsewhere.333 
Horse Papers for Farmers—No. 8.330 
Household Department.—A Draped Center-table, or 
Stand—Nursing the Sick—The Bake-kettle, or Skil¬ 
let'—Something about Pickles—A Farmer’s Holiday 
—Domestic Wines—About the Egg-Plant—Melon 
Mangoes—Tomato Pie.2 Illustrations. .345-346 
In Our Garden.342 
Insects—The 12-spott.ed Squash-beetle.2 Illustrations.. 343 
Kitchen Garden in September.323 
Labor-saving in Churning. Illustrated. .336 
Lawn Mowers at Home and Abroad.339 
Management of Pigs in Ohio.337 
Manures in Pastures.333 
Market Reports. 324 
Native Mice. Illustrated. .333 
Ogden Farm Papers.—No. 9—Soiling and Pasturing— 
The Corn Crop—Deep Plowing—Imported Sow— 
Record of Milking—Wooden Water Pipes—Farming 
at the East and West..331-332 
Orchard and Nursery in September.323 
Peach Culture. 330 
Shallots. 344 
Shrubs—The Bladder Sennas. Illustrated.. .341 
Spinach—The Culture of..341 
Stallions for Common Labor.337 
Steaming Fodder for Cattle.339 
Swivel Clevis for Wbiffletrees. Illustrated.. 337 
“ The Society of Friends.”. Illustrated. .321 
Thirty Cows on Twenty Acres.338 
Tim Bunker on Old Corn.339 
Tying Materials—Bear-grass. Illustrated ..344 
Walks and Talks on the Farm—No. 81—Wheat Cul¬ 
ture—Clover Missing—Manuring—Corn for Feeding 
Pigs—Diseases of Swine—Diehl Wheat—Thrashing 
—Apples—Cross of Esses Sow and Chester White 
Boar—Barley—Timothy—Corn Crop. 334-335 
INDEX TO “BASKET” OR SMALLER ARTICLES. 
Mammoth Cluster Rasp’y329 
.Money, How to Send.. .'.326 
Naturalist’s Guide. 328 
Newspaper Enterprise.. .326 
Oiled Paper.329 
Peach-trees in Baskets..329 
Pear-trees in Hot Weath’r329 
Pineapple Fibre.329 
Plants Named..327 
Please Notice.326 
Poisoned Dogs. 329 
Pruning Hedges.327 
Purification of Cisterns..329 
Raw Tomatoes .327 
Record of Humbugs.325 
Root Pruning.329 
Salway Peach.328 
Soaking Grain for Pigs. .329 
Sparrows.329 
Sumach. 327 
Sundry Humbugs.327 
Syrup.329 
Three Months Free.326 
Tin Roof.327 
Trans. N. Y. State Soc.. .327 
Upland Cranberry.327 
Vines on Lightning-rod.329 
Wheat & Corn in Virg’a.826 
Wild Animals in Md.... 329 
Wild Wistaria.329 
Agriculturist Strawberry. 328 
Aiders and Caraway.. . .327' 
Aldine Press.327 
Attending the Fairs . .326 
Bark-Louse.327 
Bee-Notes.329 
Bl’ck-bug on Cherry-t.rees329 
Black Currants.328 
Curing Sweet Corn.327 
Castor Pomace.329 
Catgut,.329 
Coleuses and Begonias...329 
Crimson Clover.327 
Cutting & Cur’g Tobacco326 
Drying Fruit..329 
Dwarf Peaches.328 
Early Apples. 329 
Eastern and Western Ag’l 
Papers.326 
Eucalyptus.327 
Fish PolkIs and Muck.. .329 
Flora of Colorado.328 
Grape Exhi bition.326 
Grass for Fla.327 
Green Cora..327 
Harper’s Magazine.. .^..,327 
Humbug Med. Univerr-;..327 
Humming-bird Moth_329 
Kentucky Strawberry.... 329 
Lamp Screw Loose.327 
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Calendar for September. 
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A M ERIC AN AGRICULTFRIS T. 
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER, 1870. 
The distressing heat and dryness of the summer 
have been in a measure relieved by the rains of Au¬ 
gust. Serious losses in important crops are felt by 
many farmers, and these should, by all means in 
their power, try to make good the deficiency, es¬ 
pecially of fodder. Hay will be high. Corn-stalks 
are the best substitute we can get, aud if these are 
well secured, we may he able to sell hay, which it 
will be quite worth while to do if we can get a suf¬ 
ficiently high price, and have enough left to winter 
the stock. Farmers should contract early, if they 
can make favorable terms for feed. Bran, linseed 
and cotton-seed meal may be bought better now 
than later. European farmers have suffered from 
the drouth more than we have; and prices there are 
advancing, both on that account, and on account of 
the Franco-Prussian war, which, at the time we 
write, is so deeply interesting the whole civilized 
world. We shall probably soon feel the effect of 
such heavy drafts upon the productive labor 
of both countries engaged. The crop of wheat 
is excellent, and far more than is needed in this 
country; while the amount of corn, notwithstand¬ 
ing the drouth, will be immense, so far as we can 
now form a judgment. It is therefore to be hoped 
that our farmers will realize good prices for those 
things which they may have in abundance. 
September is the seventh month by name, though 
the ninth of the Calendar. It is the seventh month 
of plowing and sowing; the seventh of growth and 
of tillage. It is the month of golden corn and 
pumpkins, of golden apples and fair pears. ’Tis 
the month of Farmer’s Festivals, of Cattle and Im¬ 
plement Shows, where there is so much to see and 
learn that the mind wearies at the thought, as will 
also back and limbs before the days of sight-see¬ 
ing are over. Fairs are to be very numerous aud 
very fine this year. We have never known more 
interest manifested in them, and the list we pre¬ 
pare is longer and more complete than usual. Every 
farmer should try to go with his family, and to give 
his hired men a chance besides. 
Hints about Work. 
Full Barm .—The constant destruction of grain 
and grass by a few hundred mice is enormous. As 
soon as the weather begins to cool they will come 
in from the fields and make groat havoc. Several 
traps, well baited, and well watched, will thin their 
numbers, as also those of rats and other vermin; 
hut the farmer should especially guard his premises 
from fire—which the ashes of a pipe, the end of a 
match, and many another bit of carelessness will 
easily kindle. Smokers must do their puffing, away 
from barns and woodsheds. There is no more ter¬ 
rible tiling than afire in the country, and the in¬ 
surance of house, barn, and stock against it should 
never be neglected. Country insurance rates arc 
moderate, and few farmers can afford not to be 
well insured. This subject naturally suggests 
The Water Supply .—During such a drouth as we 
have had, the wells and springs have stood a severe 
test. Pumping water for cattle is hard work, but 
there arc pumps which save a vast amount of labor, 
and to which a hose may he attached, and water 
thrown over garden and lawn, and over house and 
barn in ease of fire. Barns may he supplied by 
Cisterns .—If these can be placed underground, 
and at a higher point than the cattle floor, it is a 
great convenience; and it will pay to carry water 
several rods from the- eaves to find an elevated spot. 
Braining should be in the plan of fall work, for 
some thoroughly done eve.ry year will not be much 
felt as a heavy expense. Living springs are often 
tapped by drains, and thus a supply of water is se¬ 
cured at the outlet, which may he turned to good 
account. If not useful as a supply of water for the 
stock yard, it may serve a good purpose in 
Irrigation .—When ground lies lower than an 
abundant source of water, there is no excuse for 
not irrigating. Irrigated ground must be well 
worked and drained so as not to remain water- 
soaked. When irrigation is well done, it is the 
most economical way possible of manuring grass. 
Manure .—Everything that will rot and that is not 
full of weed seed should be thrown into the hog¬ 
pen, or made into compost with lime or yard ma¬ 
nure. We prefer to subject all such material to be 
worked over by the hogs. 
Corn .—See article on p. 338 on harvesting. Corn- 
Fodder must be cut before the huts become too 
hard. After drying a few days, bind in small bun¬ 
dles and stack up to cure. Seed-Corn should be se¬ 
lected now, by going through the best part of the 
field, picking out the best medium-sized, well- 
tipped-out, small-cobbed, early-maturiug ears, 
where two grow on a stalk, and tying a string a- 
round them near the tip. They will be found in 
the husking and thrown aside unhusked. Do not 
select simply big ears. If the kind is good, the 
medium-sized ones perpetuate it better. 
Grass .—Manure at this season if it lias not already 
been done. Leave the aftermath ; neither cut it nor 
feed it off unless it is heavy. Sow grass and clover 
on thin spots, and harrow in lightly with some 
good compost, rolling the surface afterward. 
Pastures may be laid down, sowing mixed grass 
seed with rye; this will afford both fall a»d 
spring feed, and gradually give place to the grass as 
summer comes on. 
Potatoes .—If the ground is needed for winter grain, 
dig early ; otherwise, dig for market, if a good price 
is offered, or leave in the ground until cool weather. 
It is slow work to dig potatoes, and a novice will 
seldom allow time enough. 
Boots. —Weeds should he kept out of root crops 
to the last. Hoeing- does almost as much good now 
as earlier in the season ; but must be donNo as not 
to hurt the wide-spreading leaves. 
Cabbages are greatly benefited by hoeing; and if 
it can be done, it will surely pay to take any kind 
of liquid manure to the field in barrel's or hogs¬ 
heads, furnished with spigots, so that pails or 
watering-pots may be filled and each plant given a 
good soaking once or twice a week. A good way 
is to make a hole with a dibble near the plant 
and pour the liquid into that. 
Buckwheat must be cut before frost. It is not 
worth while to risk much after some of the grains 
are.ripe; the immaiureones will ripen out after 
cutting, and if it stands too long, it will shell out 
