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AMERICAN ACRICULTURIST. 
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Contents for June, 1867. 
AMERICAN AGRICCLTURIS T. 
Abortion in Cows.213 
Agi'ictlltilfal Colleges, Labor in.,,.....21'7 
Apiary for June.204 
Astilbe, Variegated. Illustrated,. 219 
Barn Plans...2 lllustratlenis,. 214 
Basket Making.4 Elustrations. .215 
Bedding Plants. .221 
Black Snake... Elustrated. .215 
Bones for Manure.213 
Boys and Girls’ Columns—The Doctor’s Talks—Do 
Cats Love Music—Respect the Aged—^Baby Ned—A 
Pattern Building—Puzzles and Problems—The First 
Lesson—Spanish Puzzle.T Elustrations. .22a-225 
Breeding.216 
Cats, Horticultural Value of.219 
Chicken Snake. Elustrated .. 211 
Cold Grapery in June.204 
Decrease of Population in Agricultural Districts.2T7 
Dutchman’s Pipe. Elustrated. .tm 
Encourage the Boys.217 
Farming, Good and Bad.217 
Farm Work in June.202 
Fashion Gossip..224 
Firewood on the Prairies.217 
Flower Garden and Lawn in June.204 
Flower Garden Experience.221 
Folding Fleeces. Elustrated.. 215 
Fremontia Califomica. Elustrated. .218 
Fruit Critic Criticised.221 
Fruit Garden in June.203 
Garden Irrigation.220 
Garden Toad. lUustrated.. 211 
Grape Trellis. 220 
Qroo% ami Hot-Houses in June.204 
Hay, When to Sell.216 
Horticultural Society Wanted.220 
Household Department—Stumps, Quilts and Counter¬ 
panes—Miss Collins’ Prize Essay.. .6 Illustrations. .22Z 
Housekeeper’s Diary, Prize Essay.223 
Indian Corn in Drills.214 
Kitchen Garden in June.203 
Markets. 206 
Milk Snake. Illustrated. .211 
Mountain Sheep.. Elustrated. .218 
Orchard and Nursery in June.203 
Our Feathered Friends. Elustrated. .201 
Picking Berries.220 
Plow Clevis.2 Illustrations..214 
Premiums.205 
Propagation by Layers.222 
Red Paint in the Garden.222 
Ruts in Roads. 
.217 
.222 
Seeds of Wild Plants.222 
Tobacco and other Crops.216 
Transplanting Seedlings.221 
Tree Frogs. Elustrated '.211 
Walks and Talks on the Farm—No. 42—Price of Labor 
—Ditching—Draining—Grass—Horse Doctorine- 212-213 
Zinc Labels. 
INDEX TO “basket,” OK SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Abortion in Cows.207 
Address of J. S. Gould.. .209 
American Pomology.207 
American Short - Horn 
Herd Book.204 
Agricultural Farmers Col¬ 
umns.206 
Benedict’s Time Tables.217 
Blackberries.^7 
Black Birds and Robins.208 
Gift Enterprises.206 
Hair for Manure.. 208 
Harris, Brothers.^206 
Househoid Recipes.209 
Keeping Eggs.208 
New England Agricultu¬ 
ral Society’s Fair... .207 
Oil Cake.208 
Paris Exposition.207 
-Plant Lice. 208 
Bommer on Manure.207 Plows, etc.—Trial of '' epo 
Catalogues. 
Cider Vinegar. 
Electricity—Lightning 
Dep’t of Agriculture.. 
Draining for Profit.... 
Fine Engravings. 
209 
..208 
..208 
...207 
.. .208 
,206 
Fish Guano.208 
Forty-one Park Row.206 
Fruit Pre8erving_Solution207 
Fuller’s Small Fruit Cui- 
tnrist. 207 
Poultry Book. 208 
Queens Co. Ho‘rt’1 Show.209 
Record of Horticulture.. .208 
R. I. Horticultural Soci’y209 
Sheep Fair.209 
Storm Signals in Harvest208 
Sundry Humbugs.207 
Tight Boxes, etc.207 
Trial of Plows.1209- 
Washing Compounds... .207 
Weighing on the Farm . .207 
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NEW-YORK, JUNE, 1867. 
June is a month of severe labor, constant care, 
and unremitting diligence. Throughout the North¬ 
ern and Middle States the advance of the season is 
astonishing. It hursts upon ns every year with as 
surprising a fervor as if we had not experienced the 
same thing ever since we can recollect. The last 
of May finds the Corn, and similar crops, Sorghum 
and Broom corn, puny and shivering in their narrow 
blades, pale, and living apparently on tlie hope of 
sunshine coming by and by. June comes, solsticial 
Avarmth infuses new life into the plants, they un¬ 
furl their broad green banners to the warm, moist 
airs, and atmosphere, and soil and sunshine favor 
their making amends for the delays of MaJ^ Over 
a considerable portion of the Northern States, in 
fact, so far as our exchanges and correspondents 
inform us, the season has been over the ivliole coun¬ 
try, as with us, unusually backward. A less breadth 
of Spring grains, especially of oats, has been soAvn, 
but on the whole the grain crops promise remark¬ 
ably well. The planting of potatoes and sowing of 
roots have been also much delay^ed. April ivork was 
croAvded into May, and it is no more than to he ex¬ 
pected that Ma}' work Avill hinder and complicate 
the proper labors for this month. If we remember 
distinctly, Ave have before alluded to the great neces¬ 
sity, in successful farming, of working Avith a defi¬ 
nite plan for each month and each day, but we ven¬ 
ture to throw out the hint again. A plan makes all 
the difference betwceen success and failure—be¬ 
tween a thrifty, fore-handed Avell-to-do man, and the 
shiftless, thriftless, worked-to-death plodder, Avho 
toils on his Aveary days and years, almost literally 
“ taking no thought for the morroAV.” 
Do not over Avork yourselves, your Avives, your 
sons, or your cattle. Many a farmer has spurred up 
his growing son to do man’s AVork at 15, and seen 
the ho3^ broken doAvn at 20, an old man at 30, and 
very likelj^, having learned no wisdom by experi¬ 
ence, at 40 putting his own hoj’s through the same 
time-honored course. Feed work-cattle of all sorts 
in a good degree in proportion to the amount of 
Avork required of them, and they will seldom be 
ailing if there is steady, hard Avork to do, and they 
are not strained by extra loads or overwork. 
Hint:** A1>ont Worlc. 
Clearing up.—-It is to be taken for granted that 
howcA^er late the season, the manure has been 
hauled out and, except small quantities of rich 
compost for especial purposes, or the recent accu¬ 
mulations of fertilizing materials, the barn yards and 
manure sheds are quite cleaned, out. Barns at the 
East at least have been Avoefnlly empty for two or 
three months,and ought long ago to have been swept 
and cleaned of hay-seed and litter of all kinds; 
Old hay and straw compactly packed at one side, 
yet conveniently come-at-able, and the aa'Ii ole estab¬ 
lishment put in order for the coming crops. If this 
has not been done, do it the first rainy daj^ 
Cattle stalls, cow byres and calf pens are empty noAV, 
for the most part, and it is a good time, and good 
Avet Aveather work, to lift the floors, renewing them, 
cleaning and drying the beams and sills, painting 
those parts Avhere wood becomes moistened by 
manure, Avhen quite dry, with hot coal tar, sanding 
thoroughly before relaying the floors. Make gut¬ 
ters at the same time to carry off the liquids. These 
should be one part cement and three of good shaiqi, 
clean sand. The more time cement gutters, floors 
or walls liave to harden before frost, the better. 
Pastures. —Look to the Avatcr supply in pastures. 
Nothing dries up the fountains of milk like a lack 
of Avatcr. See also that the gi-ass is not fed off too 
close, for any rain may be the last for some Aveeks, 
and then permanent damage Avould be sustained by 
over-stocked land. 
Mowing land. —Early in the month it is usually 
Avcll to go through the meadows and pastures, and 
pull or cut up Avith a spud the rankest of the Aveeds, 
or those most damaging to the grass and hay. 
Clover, if cut earlj' Avhen just coming into blossom, 
and given a light dressing of iilaster or of any fine 
compost, Avill, if the stools are strong, make a vigor¬ 
ous second groAvth, and ripen a paying crop of seed. 
Eveiy farmer might raise his own clover seed in 
most parts of the countiy. 
Haying Avill begin in faAmred spots—Avarm, moist, 
sunny meadows—and there are many meadoAVS 
Avhich it is Avorth while to cut earl}', in order to get 
this mucli out of the Avay before the main crop of 
grass is suffering for cutting. Such are especially 
those meadows which j'ou can rely upon for a good 
after-math. Cut close on thick sod?, but not on 
thin or open ones. Cut with the machine Avhen the 
dcAv is all off the grass, and if a tedder is used, keep 
it ill motion through the grass all the time, after it 
has lain about an hour; the more the grass is tossed 
and aired the quicker it Avill diy. Rake it up while 
the suu is still A'ery hot, having all in winrows he- 
lore four o’clock, and leaA’ing it in cocks big enough 
to retain the heat well into the night. A good part Avill 
need but A'ery little sunning the next day, and ought 
usually to be simply opened and shaken up after 
the dew is off and the ground hot. Where mowing 
machines and haj' tedders can not be used, cut 
while the dew is on, turn once, rake up while Avarm, 
gi\'e the cocks a daily airing and sunning, but do 
the curing of the hay in the cocks, leaving them 
Avell made to shed rain and to hold the heat of the 
haj'. Never let any dcAV fall on the loose hay. 
Corn. —Early maturing kinds Avill do veiy Avell 
planted the first Aveek in June ; soak in Avarm 
water until it nearly sprouts, then stir it about Avith 
a little prcA'iousl}' Avarmed pine tar until CA'ery ker- 
nal is coated, then sprinkle Avith plaster or lime. 
Hoeing. —The use of hoeing is not only to kill the 
weeds, and a clean field is often an unproductive 
one, hut the thorough working and stirring of the 
soil is equal to a dressing of manure on land in poor 
heart. The use of mere Aveeders and surface work¬ 
ers effects but little except the destruction of the 
Aveeds. It is most useful to cultiA’ate deepl}', and tlic 
one horse plow discreetly used between the rows,not 
to hill up too much, but to melloAV and work the 
soil before the roots get into it, is preferable to any 
of the cultivators. These implements are most 
useful after the roots begin to fill the soil more. 
First the harrow, then the ploAV, last the cultivator. 
This doctrine applies equally to corn and potatoes. 
Frequent and thorough stirring b}' horse power so 
as not to hurt the roots, will insure good crops 
on any good soil. 
Root Crops. —Carrots, and pareuips, and beets, 
may be soAved as late as eaiij' in June Avith fair suc¬ 
cess. Rutabagas are preferably soAvn about the 
20th in good deep soil, Avell manured and dressed 
Avith hone dust or superphosphate of lime. 
TFMe Field Beans maj' be planted any time during 
the month. It is best to put them in drills. Bine- 
pod or White MarroAvfat are good A'arieties, the lat¬ 
ter much the largest, the former yielding the surest. 
Oreen Forage Crops. —ludian corn, sown in drills 
about two feet apart, is probably the most reliable 
crop for famishing green fodder during the summer. 
The cost of the seed is an item Avhich, of itself, may 
deter farmers from using it extensively, especially 
Avhen Sorglium Avill do nearly as well both for green 
and dry use. Millet and Hungarian grass if cut be¬ 
fore the seed ripens, afford good fodder also, aud 
Avill do well on soil somewhat exposed to drought. 
Peas and oats together may be sowed even iu Juno 
for cutting and curing as hay or feeding green. # 
This crop requires a good Avell melloAved soil, but 
is not especially exhausting. The seed required is 
about two bushels of each kind to the acre. 
Cabbages. — Soav for late crop in seed beds, near 
the land on Avhich they are to be grown, such 
A'arieties as Flat Dutch, Drumhead, Late Bergen, 
etc. There is ordinarily a good market for cab¬ 
bages iu all our larger cities, and tliey are fully 
equal to maugels for cattle, and as sure a crop. A 
crop of cabbages is one of the best for killing Aveeds. 
New land, Avith a plenty of good manure, is to be 
preferred. Mr. Henderson saj's that lime in any 
form, (bones or otherwise), will prevent club-foot. 
