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AMERICAN .AGRICULTURIST. 
[May, 
Contents for May, 1872, 
Abyssinian Wart-Hog 1 . Illustrated.. 173 
Apple, Mathews. . Illustrated. .182 
Bee Notes for May.1G9 
Beets ami Ruta-Bagas, Tranplanting.__ Illustrated. .1 84 
Boys ami Girls’ Columns—Boys and Girls’ Pictures— 
More Prizes Offered—Addresses Wanted—Boys and 
Girls’ Bird-House—Aunt Sue’s Puzzle-Box—The 
Whistle-makers.4 Illustrations. .1S7,1S8 
Calves, Disease in. 179 
Cattle-Barn, Western.. Illustrated.. 176 
Cattle, Dutch or Holstein. Illustrated.. 101,1G9 
Cattle, Polled. Illustrated.. 173 
Corn, Implements for Cultivating.. ...3 Illustrations. 178 
Cotswolds, Shearing. Illustrated.. ISO 
Crossing and Hybridizing.1S1 
Evergreens for Protecting Fruit Trees.132 
Farm Work in May.1G2 
Flower Garden and Lawn in May.1G1 
Fodder-Corn, Planting_*.178 
Food for Pigs, Cooking. ... .179 
Fruit Garden in May. 1G3 
Fuchsia Culture. Illustrated.. 184 
Garden-Seeds, Raising—Carrots.182 
Garden Workmen, Expert.184 
Grape-Vine, Variegated.. . Illustrated. .1S1 
Greenhouse and Window Plants in May.101 
Harrows, About . Illustrated.. 172 
Horseradish, Growing. 183 
Household Department—Support for Quilting-Frame— 
Hints for the Household—Odds and Ends—Home 
Topics—Economy in Furniture—Oilcloth—Moving 
Marbles and Mirrors.4 Illustrations. .185, 1S6 
Ivies, Plain and Variegated. Illustrated. .181 
Jerseys in Nova Scotia,.172 
Kitchen Garden in May. 1G3 
Lawns and Grass-Plots.1S3 
Manure from different Animals, Value of.. .108 
Manure, How to Manage.2 Illustrations. .177 
Market Reports.104 
Mathew Apple. Illustrated. .182 
Moles and Mole-Traps. Illustrated.. 1G9 
Notes from the Pines—Coniferous Evergreens— 
Golden Yew—Broad-leaved Evergreens—Bulbs— 
Covered Things — Herbaceous Perennials—Trial 
Things—Colacasia Esculenta.,. .182 
Ogden Farm Papers, No. 28—“Gilt-edged” Butter- 
Butter Utensils—Artificial Coloring. 3/W...170, 171 
Orchard and Nursery in May.103 
Peanuts, Culture... .179 
Plowing, Ridge and Furrow.178 
Post-Holes, Digging.2 Illustrations.. 176 
Sawdust, IIow to Use. .178 
Sheep, How to Dress a. Illustrated. .172 
Sheep-Rack for the Field. Illustrated.. 170 
Soot as a Manure, Value of.,.179 
Strawberries, How Many to the Acre.1S3 
Stumps, How to Pull Small. Illustrated. .170 
Walks and Talks on the Farm, No. 101—Chemical 
Manures—Weeds—Manure—Raising Cattle—Lambs 
Merino Sheep—Keeping Mangel-Wurzels.174, 173 
Wart-Hog, Abyssinian.. Illustrated. .173 
Watches, How they make, at Marion.109 
Windmills for Farm Work. . Illustrated. .177 
Wool-Box, a Good...•_2 Illustrations. .179 
INDEX TO “BASKET,” OB SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Artesian Wells.107 Leached Ashes and Hen- 
Ashes, Wood.107 Manure.100 
Beans, Culture of.105!Lime and Salt Mixture.. .107 
Bricks, Efflorescence on. IfiO | Li me for Corn in the Hill.106 
Broom-Corn.. .105 Manure, How much to 
Buckwheat Fallow..... ..100 
Buffalo Bull-Calf.100 
Bull, Wants to Purchase.100 
the Acre.7100 
Manures, Price of Chemi¬ 
cal..107 
Castor Pomace..lot Meaclow, To Improve a..160 
Cattle, Brittany.107 Meal, lotton-seed.160 
Cattle,Devon.100 Mulching with Wheat- 
Cattle, Grabs in.1001 Chaff..'. ..167 
Cattle, Twin.107 Paint, Averiil Co.103 
Charcoal-Dust.165 Plaster on a Meadow_100 
Cloyer, Alsike.lOOlPlastcr. Sowing. .100 
Compost, Clark’s...100 Plow.What is a Jointer..108 
Concrete Buildings.107 Plowing New Ground. ..100 
Cows, Saltpeter for.167;Potatoes after Corn.167 
Cribbing, Cure for.HVTPmnp, a Tasteless.106 
Drain-Tile or Stouc 1GS Quinces, Manure for.10G 
Earth-Closets.,... . 107 Roofing Material. 100 
Farm, Six-Acre..,... .,107 Roller, Seclion.103 
Fashions, where they [Saw, Lightning.103 
Come from_ , .1GG Seeding to Grass after 
Fits or Megrims.1G7j Corn.107 
Fowls Bating Feathers. .107 Sheep, Cotswold. 107 
Fruit-Trees. Washing with Stock,Purchasing Impr’d.105 
Lye.....107 Stock.Which ?. .107 
Grain, Harrowing WinterlOO Sundry Humbugs.100 
Grass, 11 Quack ”.107 Swamp Muck,How toUse.106 
Grub in the Head.10V Tobacco Stems.100 
Horse-Hoe, Shares.107; Washing, to Prevent Hill- 
IIorscradish.1081 Sides...107 
Horses, Percheron...... ,108 Wei Land.To Seal Down. 107 
Humbugs, Sundry.106 Winter in the North-West 109 
icc-Honse, Imperfect.,., 100 Wire, Cost of Fence.100 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
NEW YORK, MAY, 1872. 
The busy season is upon us. On our own farm 
we find more work to do in May and October than 
any other two months in the year. May is empha¬ 
tically the “seedtime,” October the “harvest.” 
As we sow so shall we reap. Much of our success 
for the year will depend on our labor this month ; 
and the amount, character, efficiency, and the eco¬ 
nomy of our labor this month will depend very 
much on the care, forethought, and wisdom with 
which we have laid our plans and prepared for 
their prompt execution. This is a lesson which 
every farmer of experience has had abundant op¬ 
portunities to learn. He is the wise man who 
takes the lesson to heart. We can not now fully 
atone for past negligence or mistakes, but this fact 
should not discourage us. We should forget the 
things that are behind, and press forward. The 
man who never makes a mistake is to be pitied. 
The growing man, the man who is learning, the 
man who is destined to do something in the world, 
is the man who makes mistakes and profits by them. 
He tumbles down, but gets up and pushes on¬ 
ward. It is better to stumble than to stand still. 
Hints :ai»oait Work. 
Take Care of your Health. —Few people reaV.so 
what health is worth until they lose it. It is easier 
to prevent disease than to cure it. The character 
of our farming is undergoing great changes. We 
arc using more machinery, keeping better stock, 
raising choicer varieties of fruit, grains, potatoes, 
roots, and grasses; are buying more or making 
better manure. Now, all this requires brains. We 
are aware that there is a great deal of nonsense 
written on this subject. Blit it is undoubtedly a 
fact that a man can not long use his brain as an in¬ 
telligent, enterprising American farmer is now 
compelled to do, and work and worry at the same 
time, without abundance of nutritious food. If he 
undertakes to do it on fat pork, potatoes, bread, 
and cake, his health will certainly give way. The 
American fanner of to-day needs and must have 
more fresh meat. Better patronize the butcher 
titan the doctor; bet ter sell fewer eggs and buy less 
medicine. Wc have heard a fanner say: “ Food 
that, is good enough for my men is good enough for 
■me.” He may have been right. But'the farmer 
who thinks and works too, needs better food and 
cooking than he who merely works with his hands. 
Don't Take down the Stoves. —Keep a fire in the 
living, room niglit and morning. If you have a 
good old-fashioned hearth, so much the better. 
Keep a good fire on it. Nothing is more pleasant 
or healthy. But do not think because you have a 
fire you must shut the doors. In most localities, 
until the laud is better drained, people will suffer 
more or less from malaria. Hard work before 
breakfast should be avoided as much as possible. 
Let the Children Sleep. —Our bright, active, intelli¬ 
gent American boys and girls need a good deal of 
sleep. Make them go to bod early, and then if they 
can sleep until breakfast-time let them. 
Do not Work the Boys too Hard. —Ever since boys 
were, men have been inclined to abuse them. Aud 
the better the hoy and the worse the man, the 
more likely is the boy to be “put upon.” The 
poorest tools are given to him and the most dis¬ 
agreeable work. Did you ever know an average 
man who selected the hardest cows to milk and 
gave the boy the easiest? Did you ever know a 
man who would go for water and let the boy sit 
down and rest in the field while he was gone? 
Live-Stock. —The animals on the farm need extra 
care and attention this month, and yet, owing to 
the pressure of other work, they are very apt to be 
neglected. Recollect that a farmer’s success de¬ 
pends very much on the judgment with which he 
manages his live-stock. Almost any fanner can 
raise corn and potatoes, but not one farmer in ten 
lias the qualities necessary to manage horses, cows, 
sheep, and pigs to the best advantage. It requires 
good judgment, a kind disposition, promptness, 
systematic regularity, a keen eye to detect the first 
symptoms of lameness, indigestion, want of appe¬ 
tite, sluggishness, want of vigor, etc. 'When one 
animal is taken sick, it should be taken for granted 
that, as a general rule, there is some defect or 
neglect in the food or management, not only of this 
one, hut of all tlic others. At any rate, the matter 
should be investigated. 
Indigestion.- —In nine eases out of ten, especially 
with horses, sickness in animals is caused by indi¬ 
gestion. Want of grooming, dirty, ill-ventilated 
stables, starving one week and over-feeding the 
next, not feeding at the regular time when on the 
road and then giving too.much grain when the 
horses are exhausted by fasting and labor, giving 
too much food at noon and too little time to eat it 
in, feeding immature grain and musty hay—these 
are among the causes of indigestion. 
Sheep. —Do not turn out to grass too soon ; and 
as long as the grass is succulent give a little hay. 
Milch Cows. —At this season grass is often too 
succulent. There is not nutriment enougli in it in 
proportion to bulk. And it will generally pay to 
give the cows in the yard some hay to eat during 
the night, and a little “cut feed”—say one peck of 
hay and two quarts of fine middlings—the first 
thing in the morning. A good cow at this season 
gives a generous flow of milk, and it is unwise not 
to supply her all the food she can digest. 
Horses. —When horses have been fed grain all 
winter, and have not worked regularly, it not un- 
frequcntly happens that they have little appetite as 
warm weather approaches, and when put to hard 
work on the farm lose flesh rapidly. They need a 
change of food. If it is possible, give them a few 
carrots, or, in tlic absence of these, a bran-mash, 
sufficient to relax the bowels. If oats have been 
fed in the winter, give a little corn in the ear by 
way of change, varied with “ cut feed,” consisting 
of chaffed hay and corn-meal or fine bran, or, bet¬ 
ter still, oatmeal. As a rule, nothing is so good as 
oa ts—and this year oats are nearly as cheap as corn. 
Barley is also cheap, and by way of a change there 
is nothing better for farm horses than boiled barley. 
Boil it until it bursts open, and add a little salt 
and mix it with chaffed hay. There is nothing that 
will fatten a horse so soon as boiled barley. 
Threc-horse Teams should be used wherever pos- 
