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Contents for September, 1867. 
Agricultural Improvemeut..325-^6 
fled-Ready aud Williug to Work-Terrieij ts ^ 
—New Puzzles—Answers to Problems and Puzzl 
-True Courage-Charley’s Question-A Lively Time 
t T> T nnkino* Througli Grandpa s Spocta- 
in Prospect-Looking auroi g ^ ^ 333,334 
cles-Quenes.... ,..iUmtrated..m-m 
Buffalo-American ..I»afec?. .830 
Clover— The Rabbit-ioox. 
Cold Grapery in September.//s 
Corn Cribs.. . . —q 
Corn—Raising by Old and New Methods.^ 
Corn—Raising on Prairie Sod. 
Crops—Editorial Correspondence on. 
D'raining-Secret of Success. lUus(rated..SW 
Drilling Wheat. ' 
Edgings and Edging Plants. 
Farm—A Western Grazing. 
Farm Work in September. 
Farming in Indiana— .V1 V 
Farming in the Grain Regions of Penn, and N. d. 
Flower Garden and Lawn in September. 
Forests—Increase of, in France. 
Fruit Garden in September.. .. 
Garden and Farm, 
ag^kieultxjrist. 
[September, 
Culture—Notes on.329 
.329 
Grapes and Grape 
Horticulture in Indiana. 
Household Department—Dashes at Housekeeping with 
a Free Pencil—Leaves from the Diary of a Young 
Housekeeper-Leaves from My Journal—Prize Es- 
—. n Illustrations ■■SSlS&'i 
Kitchen Garden in September.. .•_. 
Linie—How it is Burned...4 Illustrations. .322 
Market Reports. 
Meadow Mice.... lUustrated. .ai9 
Orchard and Nursery in September.311 
Peas—Trial of Early....^28 
-Variegated,.330 
AMERICAN AERICELTIIRIS T. 
NEW-TORK, SEPTEMBER, 1867. 
rUD'EX TO “basket 
Almshouse'at Palmer-316 
Am. Institute Exhibition.314 
Am. Pomological Soc — 814 
“An Opinion as is an 
Opinion”.314 
Barn Cellars...316 
Books, three New Grape.314 
Bread Kneader .315 
Central Park Report..315 
Cheese Factory in Eng’d.316 
Chess, Crucial Test.316 
Clubs, Begin this Month.315 
Corn, Nutritive Value of. 316 
Cotswolds in England... .315 
Pelargoniums- 
Petunias Then and Now.327 
Poultry Exhibitions. lUustrated. .ZVt 
Premiums—What We Offer.312 
Specialties in Farming—Hops.325 
Steam for Farm Work. 321 
Strawberries—Seedling.328 
Tomato—Keyes’ Early Prolific..830 
Tree Planting by the Roadside.327 
iprees—Why Transplanted, Die.329 
Walks arid Talks on the Farm—No. 45—Wheat Cul¬ 
ture—Manures—Draining—Degeneration of Vari¬ 
eties—Corn Husker—Fungi —Lime —Corn Fod¬ 
der.«1 
Wide Pronged Hoe—Hexamer’s. lUmtrated, 
Wiilow Stakes for Fences.2 Illustrations.. 322 
\yolf—American Gray. lUustrated. 
OK SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Implements,Catalogue of..315 
Insects’ Eg^. 316 
Land, Price of in Penn. .316 
Land to be Possessed.... 316 
Mass. Ag’l College.316 
Peach Grates.315 
Pickled Grapes.816 
P. O. Money Orders.314 
Practical Entomologist. .314 
Raspberry, Brinckle’s,.. .316 
Registered Letters.314 
Rye for Early Feeding.. .315 
Salmon in Australia.316 
__ ^ Salmon in Connecticut. .816 
Crops and the Weather. .SlSlSalt and Plaster.315 
Death of W. N. White.. .SlSKending by Express... .. ..316 
Elms and Evergreens_316 Sheep Raising at theWestBlfi 
English Market Reports..316 Small Fruit Culturist-315 
Farms, Value in Indiana.316 State Bank Bills.815 
Fruit Notes, Ohio..315 Strawberry, Chas. Doivn- 
Gardening for Profit.314| ing.314 
Holciis Tartaricum.316 Tree Swindle.316 
Horticultural Pencil.315:What Will Secure the 
How to Remit.3141 AqricuUurist ? .314 
Humbugs, Sundry.SlSWillow Trees and Wells.316 
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Every year we are led to regard with thankful¬ 
ness the beneficent provision which ordered the 
territory now occupied hy this great nation to be 
subject to so varied climatic and meteorological 
influences, yet so closely connected, and the inter¬ 
communication between its parts so intimate.^ I his 
year the seaboard has been wet, and the inland 
States have been rather dry. If gram has been 
damaged for flour in one State, the well secured 
harvests of othei-s easily supply the need. If we, 
of the East, lose our potato crop, as it seems prob¬ 
able that we shall, we can look to the West for a 
supply, and to the South for a substitute. The hay 
of New England may have been gathered in too 
poor a condition for market, and so while her 
flu-mers will lose their wonted profits, the railroads 
may now, thanks to improyements in hay-presses, 
brino- the liay a thousand miles, and not make 
the price too high for onr city markets. Eastern 
farmers who haye been in the habit of selling 
hay may now learn an important lesson if they 
will, namely: that hay kept on the farm and fe 
out or made manure of, is worth a good deal 
to them than if sold at any ordinary prices._ The 
hay being unfit for sale must be used; part of it will 
he fed, the rest made into manure. Another lesson: 
_the poor hay, either that which has been wetted 
in curing, or that which has stood until it is hard, 
grown too tough, and wiry to be profitably nsexl 
must be either chaffed short and steamed, or wet 
down with a little meal or oil-cake, bran or other 
similar feed, and left to stand until incipient fer¬ 
mentation commences. The yalue of the grain 
thus used need not be much—the labor will not he 
grudged when the results are seen. 
September is a happy month; It brings the golden 
fruits of the orchard, and the golden corn ripens 
under the Autumnal suns. There is, too, a harvest 
of greenbacks—no gold now-a-days which Sep¬ 
tember usually yields to those who have early 
crops to sell. During this month the prices of 
grain in Europe become settled, ordinarily. They 
may he such as to excite speculation, or the prices 
here may quietly settle down to what we may con¬ 
sider about remunerative values. 
Save time to attend the Fairs; and be sure to 
take or send something to help the show. Have 
it in the best possible order, and don’t expect 
so confidently to get the prize as to he made un¬ 
comfortable if you lose it. It is no shame to he 
beaten, hut it would be shameful for a poor article 
to take a prize over a better one. Therefore re¬ 
joice that something more excellent than yonr’s 
could be raised and that the raiser brought it. A 
good part of your reward should be in having con¬ 
tributed to make a fine show. A man seldom gains 
credit to himself by declaring openly that things he 
has, at home, are much better than those exhibited. 
Such statements, if made, should he said privately 
and generally in self condemnation for not having 
brought the articles. The unsuccessful competitor 
seldcTm gains more than an unenviable notoriety hy 
openly impugning the motives of judges. 
Every one is happy to receive prizes, and the 
hope that lie may, is a great inducement to present 
articles in competition. The honor and credit 
should count for much, the money for very little, 
and really the unselfish motive of contributing to 
make a fine show, should be the chief inducement 
to exert ones-self for the fair. An exhibitor going 
to the fair with these feelings will not leave his 
wagon loads of fruit, vegetables, and dairy products 
outside, while he searches through the exhibition 
tables to find out if he will be morally ceitain of 
the prizes, before he decides to exhibit. There is 
nothing criminal in this, but it is certainly not 
honorable and commendable. 
Hints Al>ont Worlx. 
There is a greater variety of labors to employ 
farmers in September than perhaps in any other 
month. We have manuring, plowing, solving and 
harvesting, thrashing, feeding, marketing, a,ll upon 
ns at once, yet the labors are seldom pressing and 
of an anxious kind, except perhaps a little anxietj 
in regard to early frosts. 
Animals., in general, need little care, except good 
pasturage or feeding. Fattening lullocks that are to 
he finished o.ff for the autumn trade need a gradual 
increase of meal as the weather grows cooler. 
Sheq), also, that are to he sold, should be separated 
from others and ifed a little grain. Examine any 
that it may be necessary to have in moist pastures 
to check the very first appearance of foot rot. 
Shelter all during storms, and give access to water 
and salt. Swine, to he fattened this fall, will do much 
better if fed a little ground old corn now while at 
grass, or being kept on thin swill, as is usual. 
Orchard fruit collect frequently, not only for 
feeding swine and cows, but in order to destroy the 
insects which sting the frait at the time of laying 
their eggs, and to prevent the development of the 
larvse which causes it to become gnarly and to 
drop, prematurely ripe, or even green. Much good 
cider for vinegar may he made from windfalls. 
Boot e?’qps.—All kinds of root crops having be¬ 
come well established and full of leaf, keep on 
growing until freezing weather, and often swell 
with prodigious rapidity, as the season becomes 
moister and cooler. Keep the weeds down and the 
ground open and loose, and pull for cow feed wher¬ 
ever they stand too thick. 
^ans.—Pull before the ripened pods dry, and lay 
them up to ripen in small heaps, or, better, between 
two stakes driven perpendicularly ahont 5 or 6 
inches apart. The plants being laid alternately 
heads and roots, and at the same time crosswise. 
Grass and Glover Seeding may he done now upon 
land which is in order to be laid down, to very good 
advantage, provided we have rains. If the grass 
and clover can get a start this fall, so as to make an 
approximation to a sward, they will stand the winter 
well, and if the land is rich, he fit to mow next 
year. If not rich, the clover may he fed off in June, 
but not close, and cut for seed in the fall. Timothy 
sowed now and getting a good start of all other 
accidental grass on a good land, often yields a fine 
crop for seed two years in succession. If yon need 
the grain or straw, sow it, hut if yon want grass, 
sow that. 
yt/lieat .—Too much stress can not he given to hav¬ 
ing wheat land well prepared —drained rich, and 
mellow, alsofree from weeds, if possible. Sow dur¬ 
ing this month; the earlier the better. Drill rath¬ 
er than sow broadcast, and put the seed deep lath¬ 
er than shallow on all light soils. 
—It is generally best to sow rye in the early 
part of October, as it often gets too much growth 
before the ground freezes if sown earlier. 
Yermin in Granaries .—See article on coni-honses 
p. 323. Arrange to have security from mice and 
rats. Rats will generally clear out mice and may 
themselves he gotten rid of by the phosphorous 
paste which is a safe poison if the poultry are shut 
up and kept so for several weeks. Tlie rats vomit 
up the poison, and the chickens eat it and die. The 
poison kills a few, but stampedes the vermin. Mice 
are not so affected; a few die, the rest remain. Use 
traps and cats; give the cat a sand box and punish 
her severely if she docs not use it. A good mous- 
er and well trained, is almost invaluable. 
ihila^oes.—At the East the season has been such 
as to rot potatoes in some places very much. After 
the vines die or are thoroughly blighted, the tnhera 
will make but little growth. They are fit for swine, 
but not for market. Yet many are perfectly good. 
It is sometimes best to dig and feed to pigs or cattle 
before they rot. If left in the ground the sound 
ones will remain good, while most of the diseased 
ones will become so bad that they may he detected 
at a glance. This, it is claimed, is a great saving 
of labor in picking over potatoes that rot in the 
bin; besides, the sound ones ars not contaminated, 
and so more sound ones will finally be saved. 
Draining and Irrigation.—'ThoaQ subjects are 
hinted at everv month; their importance demands 
it. See what has been said in previous numbers 
and act upon the hints. 
