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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[August, 
Contents for August, 1873. 
Abortion in Cows... 207 
American Pomological Society.303 
“At Rest”. Illustrated. .281 
Bee Notes. . Illustrated. .283 
Blackberry and Raspberry Rust.303 
Boys and Girls’ Columns—Attention, the Whole— 
Skeleton Leaves—Menagerie Prizes—Wood-chuck 
Trap—Aunt Sue’s Puzzle-Box—Rebuses—No Thor¬ 
oughfare—A Rope Ferry.5 Illustrations.. 307, 308 
Broom-rapes. Illustrated.. 301 
Button-hole Bouquets.2 Illustrations ..304 
Cancer-roots. Illustrated.. 301 
Cattle Supply. 299 
• Churn, Bullard’s Oscillating. - Illustrated.. 296 
Clod-crusher. Illustrated.. 296 
Cockspur Thorn.. illustrated. .301 
Dairy, How to Heat One. illustrations. .297 
Diseases of Sheep. 299 
Eggs, Directions for Packing.291 
Eggs, Preservation of.. 293 
Farm Work in August.282 
Fighting the Fire. Illustrated. .300 
Flower-Garden and Lawn in August.283 
Fruit Garden in August.283 
Globe-Flowers..2 Illustrations.. 304 
Greenhouse and Window Plants in August.284 
Harvesting Beans.2 Illustrations. .296 
Hedgerows, Preparing for.4 Illustrations. .295 
House’old Department — Table Decoration — Home 
Topics—Good Yeast and Sweet Bread—Graham 
Gems—Sour Milk as Food—Bonny-clabber or Lop- 
pered Milk—Cottage Cheese—Parents’ Unions — 
Sponge Cake—Poor-Man’s Cake—Aprons for Wash¬ 
erwomen— Wheaten Grits — Canning Green Corn 
and Pens. Illustrated. .305, 306 
Kitchen Garden in August.283 
Living Crow-Trap. Illustrated ..293 
Market Reports.2S4 
Notes from the Pines—The Drouth—Grafting Succu¬ 
lents—Vegetable Garden—What can we Sow in 
August?—Patience with Seeds—Seed Boxes.302 
Ogden Farm Papers, No. 42—Mr. Robeson’s Herd- 
Deep Cans —Jet-Bey Calves —Marvelous Butter- 
Poor Farmers. 292 
Orchard and Nursery in August.283 
Packing and Marketing Produce.296 
Packing Wool. Illustrated.. 296 
Patrons of Husbandry.289 
Plan for a Fair Ground. Illustrated ..298 
Poultry, Directions for Packing.291 
Retinispora pisifera aurea. 302 
Rhododendron Show. 303 
Seedling Strawberries. 303 
Spanish Mackerel. Illustrated.. 293 
Summer Propagation. 301 
Walks and Talks on the Farm, No. 116—The Wheat 
Crop—Taking the Risks—Good and Poor Farming 
—Kill the Weeds—Canada Thistles—“Writing a 
Piece ” on Weeds...294 295 
Western Farming.290 
Wool and the New York Exposition and Salesroom. .290 
INDEX TO “BASKET,” On SHORTER ARTICLES. 
An Excursion.285 
Apple Corel- and Slicer .. 285 
Artificial Manure. 287 
Bits of Talk.286 
Bony Questions.287 
Cactus in Rooms... ... 285 
Capons and Caponizing. .286 
Carrots for Cows. 2S7 
Chicken Catarrh.287 
Chickens in Barns.288 
Chimney Decays.288 
Corn for Soiling.28S 
Cough in Pigs.287 
Deep Milk Cans.2S7 
Double-fnrrow Plows_28' 
Double Lily.286 
Early Lambs.287 
Eating After-birth.285 
Eggs from Sick Fowls,. .287 
Fairs, Fairs.285 
Farmers’ Declaration... .288 
Fences and Dogs.287 
Gapes and Lice,.288 
Going West.288 
Grapes in Missouri.288 
Grass for Name.288 
Grass for Orchards.285 
Gypsum Mills.285 
Horse Record.285 
Limed Eggs.287 
Mink.287 
Mules. 287 
N. Y. State Dairymens’ 
Association.288 
Oats or Corn.287 
Oyster Shells. 285 
Paying Fowls. .287 
Planting Timber.287 
Plants by Mail.2S5 
Plaster and Bone ■ for 
Wheat.2S7 
Preserving Eggs.286 
Reducing Bones.285 
Remedy for Hoven.2S7 
Right Side.287 
Rose Cuttings.285 
Size of a Ton of Hay... .288 
Spring or Fall Colts.2S7 
Sundry Humbugs..285 
Thrashing Machines_285 
Ungrateful Hens.287 
Variation in Peach.285 
Varieties of Wheat.285 
Wild Onion.287 
Windmills. 286 
Wolf in the Tail.287 
Writing for Agriculturist. 
Yellowstone Region."33 
ffVr-tilizeir for ’Wheat. —“ T. G.,” Kit- 
trels, N. C. There is no better manure for wheat than 
barn-yard manure plentifully applied, but the crop is in 
danger of being laid unless lime or salt is used in connec¬ 
tion with it. Where barn-yard manure is not at hand 
some special active manure should be applied with the 
seed. The better the condition of the crop in the fall the 
better it will resist the changes of weather in the winter. 
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NEW YORK, ’AUGUST, 1873. 
In August, as soon as the farmer 1ms secured his 
crops, he ought to he able to take a vacation. Y/e 
have a liard-workiug neighbor who was compelled 
to serve on a jury for ten days. He came back to 
his farm and his work as fresh as a horse that lias 
had a month’s run at grass. Previously he was 
somewhat despondent. He visited his city friends, 
and found that, like himself, they were not free 
from care and anxiety. He took courage. Life 
assumed a more cheerful aspect. He felt healthier, 
stronger, and richer. He was more satisfied with 
his lot in life. He mowed the grass in the front 
yard, and took more interest in his wife’s flower¬ 
beds. The corn and potatoes were treated to 
deeper and more thorough cultivation and an ex¬ 
tra hoeing. Weeds were mown in the pastures, 
on the road side, and the fence corners. The suck¬ 
ers were stripped from the apple-trees. The cows 
were treated to a little extra food at milking time. 
Plenty of kindling was provided for the kitchen 
fire. The harness was oiled, the horses better 
groomed, carriages were washed, the holts tight¬ 
ened, and the tires reset. On Sunday he was at 
church ten minutes before service commenced, 
and proposed to his children to stay to Sabbath- 
school. While others had a wilted look, and when 
addressed said it was “ dreadful hot,” he shook 
hands heartily and said it was “charming weather.” 
That ten days’ rest made him ten years younger, 
lie renewed his youth. He put new life and spirit 
into all the labors of the farm. He did double the 
work, and did it twice as well, and had plenty of 
time to read the Agriculturist through, and is 
talking about subscribing for Hearth and Home. • 
The truth is, lie was a new man. He had worked 
and worried himself sick. lie needed rest. Needed 
intercourse with his fellowtnen. Needed to get 
his thoughts out of the ruts they had been so long 
running in. There was nothing the matter with 
his machinery. It was a little rusty. It needed 
cleaning and oiling and tightening the bolts. Little 
things fretted him. The failure of his wheat crop 
worried him until lie could not sleep nights. The 
thought of paying his interest on his mortgage 
threw him into a cold sweat. The low price of 
wool took away his appetite. He went to bed tired, 
and got up unrefreshed. He thought the bottom 
had fallen out of farming. He had made up his 
mind to sow nothing but Mediterranean wheat in 
future. Now he has concluded to give his fallow 
an extra plowing, to spread a little manure on it, 
and sow Diehl. He will not leave a weed in his 
corn field. He will ditch his low land and get out 
some swamp muck. He will thatch his hay-stacks. 
He will paint his implements and put up his 
machines, ne will pickle his seed wheat to pre¬ 
vent smut. He will dip his sheep and lambs and 
tag them. In short, he will do, and promptly, 
whatever his judgment tells him ought to he done. 
Mints »t>ont ’Work. 
Modern Farming, demands energetic work. We 
can not plod along in the old beaten track. We 
must have our wits about us; all our faculties 
must be bright and active. 
We must Work Hard; but our work need not he 
for any great leugth of time of the back-breaking, 
muscle-straining order. This kind of work should 
be left to those who can not do anything better. 
A Farmer should Study Himself. He should know- 
his own strength. He can not do hut a certain 
amount of work. He should be very careful not 
to waste his power. 
The Corning Farmer, will require more sleep and 
better food than some of the old-school philoso¬ 
phers recommended. He will eat more meat, and 
use more coffee and less tobacco and whiskey. 
Energy is what a farmer needs. He must put 
more force, spirit, and pluck into his work. He 
must be wide-awake, and wake up those who work 
for him. 
Look Ahead. —Let the work of to-day be well and 
promptly done; but, at the same time, lay plans 
for to-morrow. Harvest the crops now on the 
ground, but make such preparations as will insure 
better crops next year. 
Whiter Wheal needs better culture than we have 
been giving it. We must make the land richer, 
cleaner, and mellower. The better the variety the 
better land and better culture will it require. 
White wheat, as a rule, requires better land than 
red wheat. Red Mediterranean is probably one of 
the hardiest varieties of winter wheat we have, and 
on poor and medium soils, with nothing more than 
ordinary cultivation, usually proves more profit¬ 
able than white wheat. 
Wheat after a Spring Crop , in nine cases out of 
ten, requires manure. The best artificial manure 
for wheat is probably Peruvian guano, say 200 lbs. 
per acre, sown broadcast, and harrowed in. Nitrate 
of soda, where it can be bought for 4e. or 4%c. 
per pound, is well worth trying, especially in con¬ 
nection with phospliatic guano or superphosphate. 
Sow 100 lbs. of nitrate per acre when the wheat is 
sown, and 100 lbs. in the spring. 
Weeds. —On many farms weeds spring up in 
wheat, barley, and oat stubbles by the million, and 
soon go to seed. It is a good plan to go over the 
field with a mowing machine. If the weeds are so 
far advanced that the seeds will mature after the 
plants are cut, rake them up with a wire rake and 
burn them. 
All Stubble Land not seeded down should be har¬ 
rowed immediately after harvest for the purpose of 
starting the weeds. Afterwards kill them with a 
plow or cultivator. 
Cultivating Corn in August is one of our own 
practices which we do not indiscriminately recom¬ 
mend. We do it to kill weeds. We do not know 
that it benefits the coni; we are sure it is a benefit 
to the land. It is a disgrace to have a dirty corn- 
stubble. No fanner can hope to have clean land 
unless lie has clean corn. 
Full the Weeds out of potatoes. Let no weeds 
go to seed anywhere. 
Read Over “ Hints ” for Last Month. The season 
is so late that much July work will have to be done 
in August. 
Hay will be very Scarce next winter. In many 
