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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
[June, 
Contents for June, 1873. 
Calendar for June. 
American Pomological Society.210 
Barn-Pail. Home-made. Illustrated ..216 
Bee Notes for June.210 
Board Buildings.2 Illustrations ..217 
Boys and Girls’ Columns—Hunting tire Hare—Aunt 
Sue’s Puzzle-Bos—Some Curious Sea Animals— 
Bridge of Safety.3 Illustrations.. 22", 228 
Buffalo, A Close Time for the.21S 
Carbolic Acid for Pleuro-pueumonia.216 
Cattle, Portraits of. Illustrated.. 201, 211 
Cedar-bird. Illustrated.. 213 
Cheap Transportation. 209 
Chimneys, Sweeping. Illustrated ..219 
Farm-Gate, Improved.. Illustrated. .217 
Feed-Box, Portable. Illustrated .. 217 
Flower-Garden and Lawn in June.204 
Flowers—Twin-Flower.. Illustrated. .224 
Flowers—Wake-Robins. Illustrated. .224 
Fruit Garden for June.203 
Greenhouse and Window Plants in June.204 
Hsrse Disease, Another.219 
Household Department—How we Bake our Bread- 
Home Topics—What to Do with Bleeding Wounds. 
4 Illustrations.. 225, 226 
Kitchen Garden for June.203 
Land Measurer. Illustrated. .219 
Dams, Building.3 Illustrations. .215 
Market Reports.204 
Notes from the Pines—Harris’s Bark-Louse—New 
Leader—Dwarf June Berry—Japan Globe-Flower— 
Difference in Exposure—Grape-Vines—Judas Trees 
—Cabbage Butterfly.222 
Ogden Farm Papers, No. 40—Yield of Jersey Cows— 
Mr. Robeson’s Herd—Mr. Beach’s Trial—Prices of 
Jerseys—Treatment of Calves—How Long to Milk— 
The Labor Question....211, 212 
Orchard and Nursery for June.203 
Packing and Marketing Produce.221 
Pigs, Raising in the Eastern States.218 
Plants, Native Orchis. Illustrated ..221 
Plants, Virginian Snakeroot. Illustrated ..221 
Poultry-House, A Farm. Illustrated. .216 
Rain-Gauge, How to Make a . Illustrated.. 217 
Sardine Fishery. Illustrated.. 213 
Steers, Training. Illustrated. .219 
Vegetable Plants and Planting.222 
Walks and Talks on the Farm, No. 114—Manure— 
Freight—Fattening Pigs—Sheep.214, 215 
Wells, Horizontal.3 Illustrations. .218 
Wire-Tightener, A Simple. .. Illustrated ..222 
Work, Hints about.202 
Yuccas, Fertilization of..2 Illustrations. .223 
INDEX TO “BASKET,” 
Advice to Immigrants.. .207 
Ag’l College Funds.!... .206 
Am. Pom. Society.205 
Apple-trees Suffering_209 
Bad Taste in Water.209 
Bones for Poultry.206 
Book Wanted.206 
Botts.209 
Breaking Colts.205 
Bruised Shoulder.205 
Buckwheat Bran_ _209 
Burning Bones.207 
Burning Corn..207 
Butter in Hot Weather.. 206 
Cure for Iloven.207 
Cement Pipe.207 
Cheese Factory in Iowa. .209 
Chicken Troubles.209 
Chronic Founder.209 
Churning Milk.209 
Civil Engineer.207 
Condition Powders.205 
Corn on Muck Land.207 
Cruelty to Animals.206 
Diseases of Poultry.208 
Disposing of Patents... .209 
Do Mules Breed ?.. ’ .209 
D’ble Carolina Jessamine209 
Drawing Manure.207 
Egg-eating Fowls.207 
Encouragement.209 
Everlasting Posts. .209 
Farming in Arkansas_208 
Fertilizer for Corn.207 
Flax-seed for Mares.206 
Flexible Double-tree_209 
Flow of Water.207 
Fodder Corn.207 
Galvanized Iron Pipe... .206 
Garget.209 
Grass for Woodland.206 
Green Manure for Garden 208 
Green Manuring.209 
nay or Corn.206 
Herd Law in Kansas.207 
Hollow Horn.208 
Horse Powers.207 
HungarianGrass orMillet208 
Inflamed Udder. .209 
Insecls from Georgia_208 
Interfering Horses.208 
Jersey Herd-book.296 
Kansas. 2.0 
Late Corn.207 
Lime. ; 20S 
OK SIIOKTER ARTICLES. 
Loss of Wool.207 
Luminous Minerals_.208 
Machine-cut. Clover.208 
Making Butter by Power 209 
Managing Manure.207 
Mange.208 
Mangels.206 
Manure for Beans.208 
Manure for Corn.207 
Manure—What to Do ?. .207 
Manuring Salt. Meadows..206 
Mile and Kilometer.208 
Milking Machine .209 
Mole-plow for Irrigation.207 
Moss on Apple-trees.208 
Mulching Fruit-trees_206 
Navy Beans .205 
N. E. Poultry Club.206 
Orange Co. Pails. 207 
Pea-straw Injurious ?_207 
Plowing in Clover.209 
Potash on Sandy Soils.. .207 
Potatoes without Hoeing.206 
Pulling Stumps.209 
Pump for Well.206 
Pure Brahmas.209 
Red Pepper for Stretches.206 
Rheumatism in Horses..206 
Root Culture.208 
Roots, Value of.206 
Salt forStock.208 
Screw Slump-puller.206 
Seasonable Suggestions..208 
Sheep for the Plains.208 
Small Butter Packages.. .208 
Spaying Sows.208 
Spotted Essex Pigs.207 
Steaming Fodder.209 
Steam i n g Food.207 
Striped Bugs.208 
Subsoiling and Deep 
Plowing. .205 
Sugar from Sorglntm_209 
Sundry Humbugs.206 
Swinging-door for Pen. .208 
Three Questions.207 
Ton of Manure.207 
Trial Trip.206 
Trusses .206 
Turnips every Year.206 
Using Bones.206 
Veterinary Books.209 
Wasting of Frog.209 
Wild Garlic.209 
Windmills.208 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
NEW YORK, JUNE, 1873. 
To a good, thrifty farmer, whose land is drained, 
clean, and rich, June is one of the pleasantest 
months in the year. To the farmer who is behind¬ 
hand witli his work, who is planting corn when he 
ought to be cultivating it, and who is hoeing when 
he should be haying, the warm, growing weather 
of June gives little ground for hope or encourage¬ 
ment. “Astern chase is a long chase.” If the 
season once gets ahead of you, it is almost impos¬ 
sible to catch up with your work. Every farmer 
knows this from experience, but it is a lesson some 
of us are slow to learn. 
In chaffing hay with a railway horse-power, set 
at a given elevation, the lighter you feed the faster 
will the horses be obliged to travel, and the more 
hay will you cut. If the knives are dull, or you 
feed a little too fast, you slow the motion, and you 
will not accomplish half the work that you would 
if the knives were sharp and you fed lighter. Push 
the hay into the machine a little faster, and you 
lessen your power still more, and the slightest im¬ 
pediment, even a single corn-stalk, will stop it 
altogether. And so it is with farm work. If you 
get behindhand, the least' impediment will check 
your progress. The “ season ” is the railway horse¬ 
power. Tbe less you tax it the more it will do for 
you. Men, ignorant of the principle of a railway 
horse-power, when they find the motion slowing 
yell at the horses—“Get up there, get up ”—not 
knowing that the horses are in no wise to blame, 
hut that the fault is in their feeding too hard. 
To grumble at the season is equally unreason¬ 
able. A man who keeps his machine well oiled 
and the knives sharp, and who feeds steadily, will 
cut three times as much hay as the man who wastes 
one-third of his power by dull knives and unneces¬ 
sary friction and another third by slowing the mo¬ 
tion. And so it is in farming. On drained land a 
soaking rain makes easier plowing; on the wet 
land it stops plowing altogether, and by the time 
the sun has evaporated the water the land is hard 
to plow, and turns up cloddy. The season is not 
at fault. No season ever suits wet land. The 
remedy is either to drain or not plow at all. Wo 
need not carry out our illustration. We all know 
how discouraging a thing it is to work poor,weedy, 
undrained land. No farmer on sueli land can be 
blamed for being behindhand witli his work. He 
is to blame only if lie is content witli such a system 
of farming, and makes no efforts to drain, enrich, 
and clean his land. 
.El in Is about Work. 
The Season is Late, and much land is yet to be 
planted. 
What shall tee do with it ?—No farmer likes to 
change his plans, but it is sometimes, though not 
often, wise to do so. 
Land Intended for Corn, but which you have not 
been able to plant, may be summer-fallowed ; or it 
may be planted witli beans, or sown with turnips 
or buckwheat; or if nonebf these plans suit it may 
still be planted with corn. 
Early Corn is best for late planting. 
Soak the Seed for 24 or 36 hours, changiug the 
water every eight or ten hours. 
If the Soil is Moist and Mellow , soaked seed will be 
up in two days, and the plants, now that the 
weather is warm, will grow rapidly from the start. 
One of the Essentials of good coni culture is thus 
secured—a vigorous and healthy young plant. 
If the Ground can not be (jot in Good Condition , 
better give up the idea of planting corn. It is a 
crop that requires too much labor to make its cul¬ 
ture profitable except under favorable conditions. 
With Potatoes there is even a still greater neces¬ 
sity for planting at the proper time, and for having 
tiie land in good order. It is a crop that requires 
much labor per acre , and it is specially important 
to get a large crop per acre. It will cost as much 
to plant, cultivate, and dig an acre of potatoes 
that yields 75 bushels per acre as one that yields 
150 bushels. 
One of the Pest Crops of Potatoes we ever raised 
was not planted until the first week in Juue—but 
the land was rich and in good order. 
Peans have been a very profitable crop with far¬ 
mers who make a business of growing them, and 
who take pains to have all the conditions favorable. 
They may be sown any time this month—the earlier 
the better, provided the land is in good order. We 
plant in rows 2 ft. 5 in. apart, and drop three to 
five beans in a hill one foot apart in the rows. 
Cover from one to two inches deep, according to 
the size of the beans—the larger the deeper. 
Turnips require rich soil and the best of culture. 
The reason so many fail to grow satisfactory crops 
of roots is because the land is not properly pre¬ 
pared. The soil can not be made too mellow. 
Mangel- Wurzel should have been sown last month, 
hut if the land is in good order, and not too dry, 
the seed may he soaked for two or three days, nud 
when this is done it is not too late to sow this crop. 
Puta-Pagas or Swede Turnips may be sown any 
time this month. If possible, drill them in imme¬ 
diately after the last plowing. Use plenty of seed, 
say two pounds per acre. Thin out as soon as the 
plants are in the rough leaf. 
The Pest Pcmedg for the “Fly ” or Beetle is good, 
moist, mellow soil, and a dressing of 200 lbs. of 
superphosphate of lime per acre. The latter has a 
wonderful effect in pushing the young plants. 
Dusting the Hants with Slaked Lime, plaster, and 
ashes in the morning, while the dew is on, will 
check the ravages of the beetle and otherwise 
benefit the crop. 
Air-Slaked Lime is good for this purpose, hut, 
contrary to common opinion, it is no better than 
fresh water-slaked lime—and, in fact, if there is any 
difference, the latter is the more caustic. Three 
bushels of lime, two bushels of plaster, and ten 
bushels of wood-ashes would be about the proper 
quantity per acre—but more will do no barm. The 
ashes must be dry, so that they will adhere to ihe 
leaves. If you have not ashes, put on lime and 
plaster alone. 
Killing Weeds is the great labor of the month. 
And let it he understood that unless the season is 
