Agriculture is the most healthy , the most useful, and the most noble employment of man .— Washington. 
VOL. VII!. 
NEW YORK, JULY, 1849. 
NO. VII. 
Messrs. Allen, Editors. 
C. M. Saxton, Publisher, 
121 Fulton Street. 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
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Upon an examination at this office of the May 
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WORK FOR JULY-NORTH AND WEST. 
General Remarks. —A portion of the work omit 
ted to be done in June, or impracticable to be per¬ 
formed from the state of the climate, or the back¬ 
wardness of the season, as recommended in our last 
number, may be accomplished early this month, 
such as sowing millet and Indian corn for soiling 
cows , sowing buckwheat , weeding and hoeing field 
crops , cutting grass and curing hay , cutting and 
threshing wheat , fyc., fyc. 
Cutting Bushes and Destroying Weeds. —All use¬ 
less bushes and briars, growing about your pastures 
and fields may be cut this month, or grubbed up by 
the roots and burnt, as well as all filthy and perni¬ 
cious weeds. 
Compost Heaps. —This month and the next two is 
the proper time for collecting materials for manure. 
Marsh and swamp mud, peat, the scrapings of 
roads, lanes, ditches, and fence sides, mold and 
leaves from the woods, marsh grass, the sweepings 
of your dwelling, refuse vegetables, the slops and 
suds of your kitchen, wash room, or chamber, mix- 
