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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[September, 
Contents for September, 1873. 
American Pomological Society. 
An Example for our Agricultural Colleges. 
Bee Notes—Advice to Beginners. 
Bowline Knot.0 11 
Boys and Girls’ Columns—Sen-Shells- 
Something about Insects—Aunt Sue's P 
Mysterious Noises—Rural Strategy. 
Breaking Colts. Ulus 
■ Cowrics- 
Cattle—A Roman Cattle-Driver. 1 
Corn-Meal and Curculio. 
Distributing Manure by Irrigation_ 3 111 
Fairs— State, County, and other. 
Farmers’ Movement, The. 
Farm Work in September. 
Flower-Garden and Lawn in September... 
Flowers—Amsonia. t 
Flowers—Golden-Spurred Columbine... 
Flowers—Poinsettia, a New Double.j 
Fruit Garden in September. 
Household Department—Fried Potatoes—What 
a Young Woman do for a Living ?—New Dress Re¬ 
form Movement—Economizing Space — Closets— 
Trundle-Beds—lloop-Skirts—Who is to Blame ?— 
Work for the Girl who Expects to Marry—Washing 
Milk Dishes. 3 Illustrations. .345, 
330 
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Insecticide.343 
Inventors, Interesting to.329 
Kitchen Garden in September. v ..323 
Market Reports. 
Mill for Grinding Plaster. 
Moreton Farm. 
Mules, The Poitou. 
New Lands at the West. 
Nates from tire Pines—Loss of a Shrub—Perennial 
Phloxes—Early Sweet-Corn—Variegated Foliage— 
Trees with Variegated Foliage—Variegated Box- 
Elder ..342, 343 
Ogden Farm Papers, No. 43—Mr. Robeson’s Dairy— 
The Deep-Can System—Mr. Douglas’s Plan—Sum¬ 
mary—Abortion.331,332 
Orange Judd Company... .325 
Orchard and Nursery in September.323 
Packing and Marketing Produce.331 
Paris-Green for Insects .343 
Proportion of Cream to Milk. 339 
Rye for Pasturage and Hay. 331 
Smut in Wheat.330 
Support for a Corn-Crib. Illustrated. .335 
Support for Plants. Illustrated. .343 
Value of Extra Food.338 
Walks and Talks on the Farm, No. 117—Tillage and 
Manure—Diehl and other Wheat—High Farming— 
An Agricultural Platform—Talks with a Visitor on 
Crops.334, 335 
Want of Care. 338 
Water-Bars. Illustrated. .330 
INDEX TO “BASKET,” OK SHOKTEK ARTICLES. 
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About Tails.329 
Ag’l Laborers’ Union_327 
Apple Blight.3261 
Big Head.327 
Bran and Meal for Pigs..328 
Buckwheat for Cows.328 
Burning Lime.327 
Bushberg Vineyards.326 
Caponizing.329 
Colorado Beetle.328 
Compost for Corn.327 
Commencing Farming.. .328 
Corn and Feed Mill.327 
Death of A. C. Collins.. .320 
Decalcomanie.326 
Dbl. White Pelargonium.329 
Duck Interest.327 
Early Rose South.329 
English Walnut.326 
Engines inCheeseFacto’s327 
Feeding Meal.327 
Founder Cure.327 
Frauds in Guano.329 
Gas and Salt Wells.329 
Guano, Applying.328 
Harvester and Binder... .329 
Harvest Home.327 
Harvesting Beans.329 
Hay Unloader.329 
Hen Manure.3.27 
Hog-Cheose for Pigs.328 
Indigestion in Horse_327 
iron and Lend P.pc.327 
Lactometer Tubes.329 
Lampas—Remedy.328 
Large Sassafras.326 
“Le Cultivateur”.326 
Life Ins. at West.326 
Lime and Wheat.327 
Lime for Turnip-flea.328 
Liquid Manure.327 
Managing Manure.327 
Manure and Earth___ .327 
Manure Tanks.32S 
Manure vs.AmmoniaSalts32S 
Milk Falling oft'.329 
Ogden Farm Catalogue..320 
Paint for Old Buildings..328 
Pasturing or Plowing 
Clover.!_328 
Patrons of Husbandry.. .329 
Plan for Irrigating.328 
Plant Sale.326 
Plowing Orchards.328 
Poultry.327 
Power of Ag’l Press... .326 
Purifying Milk.327 
Rifle Practice.325 
Roots for Hogs.328 
Scale of Points—Horses.328 
Science Gossip.320 
Scours in Pigs.329 
Sewage Pipes. 328 
Shah Horticulturaliy.326 
Southern Cow-Peas.355 
Sows do not Breed.320 
Steaming Food.327 
Steam on Small Farms. ..329 
Stinging Stable-fly.323 
Sundry Humbugs.325 
Texas, or Where?.327 
Thick or Thin Sowing...327 
Timber Tree Law.329 
Undigested Food.32S 
Vick’s Floral Guide _326 
Weeds on Rich Soil.327 
Weight of Clover Hay.. .329 
Weight of Corn-Husks ..329 
Wheat on Clover Sod.. ..329 
White Hair.329 
White Lupin and Lucern.328 
White or Yellow Corn.. .328 
Winter-Feeding Steers...327 
Woman will Talk.329 
Word from Bermuda.328 
Worms in Horse. 327 
Calendar for September. 
PHASES OF THE MOON. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER, 1873. 
September is usually one of the pleasantest 
months in the year. It is also, on our own farm, 
a, nionta of comparative leisure. There is plenty of 
work to be done, but nothing that will suffer from 
a day’s delay. Wheat, barley, peas, and oats are 
all harvested and not unfrequently thrashed. We 
are beginning to receive the reward of our labor, 
and at the same time are preparing for another 
harvest. If our crops do not turn out well we can 
hope for better results next year. But let ns see 
to it that we have just grounds for hope. The 
farmer who uses the proper means may reasonably 
hope for good crops. “ The fool desireth and hath 
not.” lie hopes for clean land without making 
any effort to kill the weeds; and expects large 
crops from poor, ill-prepared fields. 
We would again and again urge all farmers who 
read the American Agriculturist to make an earnest 
effort to adopt an improved 6ystem of agriculture. 
There is pleasure and profit in good crops. It is 
6 low work improving land, but if we stick to it the 
end is sure. Each year should find us better men 
and better farmers. 
Hints about Work. 
Sowing Winter Wheat. —Comparatively little cau 
now he done in preparing land properly for wheat. 
The work should have been done earlier. As a 
rule, it would he better not to sow wheat at all 
than to sow on land that is too wet, too poor, and 
too foul to produce a fair crop. 
We Spend Labor Enough in many cases in pre¬ 
paring our iaud for wheat, hut rarely give time 
enough. To plow twice in two or three weeks, 
and harrow and roll until the land is as mellow as 
r, garden is not the way to secure a good wheat 
crop. The same amount of labor expended over a 
longer period would produce far belter results. 
In England, Great Crops of Wheat are raised by 
turning over a clover sod and drilling in the wheat 
as fast as tlie^iand is plowed. We could do the 
same thing here provided our land was in as high 
condition and the season was wet enough to in¬ 
sure the germination of the seed and the growth 
of the young plants. 
I Its Sow a JLonth Earlier than they do in England, 
and it often happens that the laud is so dry and 
hard at this season that we should find it difficult 
to turn over a clover sod. In exceptional seasons 
we have known a good crop of wheat grown on a 
clover sod not plowed until the middle of Septem¬ 
ber, and sown at once on the furrow and harrowed 
in. But the plan will not do here as a rule. 
Wheat after Spring Crops is now far more com¬ 
mon than formerly. We adopt this system on our 
own farm, and therefore can not condemn it; and 
yet we are satisfied that many farmers would do 
well to abandon the practice. 
The Great Aim of the Wheat-Grower must he to get 
a vigorous, healthy plant in the autumn. Ho must 
endeavor to secure this by having rich, moist, and 
mellow land rather than by early sowiug. 
If we Soto too Early we run great risk of having 
the crop injured by the Hessian 11 y. 
On our own Farm we aim to sow from the 5th to 
the 15th of September. If tho land is in prime 
order we would prefer to sow not earlier than 
the 15tli. 
Two Bushels per Acre is our rule, and we do not 
find it too much, though many good farmers thiuk 
1)4 bushel is enough. 
Drilling is better than sowing broadcast. It de¬ 
posits the seed more evenly, and deposits it in the 
moist earth. 
The Depth of Sowing is regulated bythe character 
of the soil. It would be well not to cover the seed 
more than an inch deep; but if this does not reach 
the moist earth the drill must be set to sow deeper. 
It is very important to put the seed where it will 
germinate in a few days. 
Where Smut is Common the seed should he washed 
in some preparation to kill the spores of smut be¬ 
fore sowin .oistening the grain with fermented 
cliamber-lye and drying it with lime is an old 
remedy, and if properly done is effectual. See ar¬ 
ticle on page 330. 
Jfanuring for Wheat is less common than it should 
he. A little rich, well-rotted manure spread on the 
surface before or after the seed is sown often ha3 a 
wonderful effect. 
Salt on rich land frequently proves a good fer¬ 
tilizer for wheat. Sow from two to five bushels 
per acre broadcast before putting in the wheat. 
The Best Artificial Manures are those of an ammo- 
niacal character, such as Peruvian guauo and blood 
manure. Nitrate of soda is a favorite manure in 
England mixed with superphosphate—say 150 lbs. 
of each per acre. If we could buy the nitrate for 
four cents per pound and get §3 per bushel for the 
wheat we could afford to use this manure. 
Drawing Out Manure for Grass-Land may bo done 
at any time this month when the men and teams 
are available. Spre.ad it at once and evenly. 
Fall Work is sure to crowd us. It always does. 
Prepare for it. 
Everything that can he done this month had hot¬ 
ter be done now than later. 
Potatoes that are Ilipe should he dug early, so as 
to be out of the way of pressing work next month. 
If Prices are Satisfactory sell at once. This is 
always a safe rule for everything, but it is empha¬ 
tically 60 for potatoes and other bulky articles. 
Ditching on Low Land can now he done to advan¬ 
tage. Commence at tlie outlet and make the water 
follow you up into the land until your ditch is from, 
three to four feet deep. In this way you will lose 
no fall. 
PHre- Wood should he provided for winter, if not 
already attended to. 
Trim the Sides of Ditches , and cut down all weeds 
in fence-corners, etc. 
Fall Plowing is good. Fall fallowing is better. 
Make the Weeds Grow and then kill them next 
spring. To do this plow and iiaryow as much as 
possible. 
