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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[November, 
Contents for November, 1872. 
Amaranth, Willow-leaved... 421 
Artichokes, Jerusalem...419 
Boys and Girls’ Columns—Our Guessing School— 
What I know about Skates—Are You ready for Win¬ 
ter?—Aunt Sue’s Puzzle-Box—Making Shadows 
Illustrated. AM, 428 
Bulls, Two Jersey. Illustrated. .411 
Bulls, Why Thorough-bred are Vicious.418 
Cold-Frames, Thawing and Freezing of.423 
Farm-Level. Illustrated.. 41S 
Farm Work in November.402 
Fish-Scrap or Guano.419 
Flower Garden and Lawn in November.401 
Flowers Lyon’s Turtle-Head. Illustrated .. 421 
Flowers’ Prince’s Feather. Illustrated. .421 
Flowers, Sage, White Scarlet.421 
Forests, Our.*.419 
Fruit Garden in November..403 
Grapes at the Pines.••• ■;■•••.,.422 
Greenhouse and Window Plants m November........404 
Household Department — White Wire-Ware—Home 
Topics—A Little Rost—Good Books for Mothers— 
Underclothing for Cold Weather—Squirrel Stews— 
Chicken-Stuffing—'Thanksgiving-Day, How Shall we 
Keep—Chopped Pickle—Smoky Paper-Hangings, 
to Clean—Straw Matting, to Wash-Roots. 
4 Illustrations. .425, 420 
Kitchen Garden in November....... ..........403 
Manger for Stalls or Stables, Movable. Illustrated. .416 
Marlfet Reports.404 
Milk and Butter, Turnip Flavor in.415 
Milk, Two Cents a Quart. 
.411 
Notes from the Pines—Melons — Strawberries —Cen- 
taurea Clementii—Brackets—Arundo Donax—Sow¬ 
ing Seeds—Sowing-Board—Making Drills—Choyote 
—Stapes.. ............422 
Ogden Farm Papers, No. 34—Buying Hay—Fattening 
Shoats—-Abortion in Cows—Grass—Visitors—Writ¬ 
ing Letters.411, 412 
Orchard and Nursery for November...403 
Pastures, Old or New. f*? 
Pear, Muskingum.2 Illustrations. .424 
Pigs, Chinese. Illustrated. .413 
Pigs on Hotel Refuse, Keeping.413 
Pipes and Tiles, Cement...3 Illustrations. .417 
Plum, Beach or Sand. Illustrated. .424 
Potato-Rot...4 Illustrations.. 422 
Roots, Preserving..423 
Seeds, Hardness of Tropical.423 
Sheep, East Indian and Gibraltar. Illustrated. .413 
Sheep, Winter-Feeding for. 2 Illustrations. .416 
Sleds, Lock for. Illustrated. AW 
Turkey, The Thanksgiving. Illustrated. .419 
Walks and Talks on the Farm, No. 107—Drilling 
Com—Thorough Tillage—Summer Fallow—Weeds 
—Wheat Midge—Wheat—Mustard—Meat-414, 415 
What is a Chromo. .410 
Who We Are and what We Do.410 
INDEX TO ‘‘BASKET,” OR SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Agricultural Labor..... .437 Jersey Cattle Club v ._. vv 407 
Agricult’l Paper Wanted.437 
Apiculturist and Floral 
Guide.409 
Apple, or Quince ?.437 
Apple Seed...409 
Blackb’ries as Substitute406 
Blackberries, White.400 
Blunt’s Mushr’m-Strainer405 
Bonedust for Meadow... .407 
Bridgeman’s Gardener’s 
Assistant.-.407 
Bronchitis.407 
Butter, Regarding.407 
Cattle Disease in England409 
Cattle, Value of Choice..409 
Cherry, Mahaleb...408 
Cider, Keeping Sweet.. .409 
Comfrey._.407 
Concrete Builder, Practi¬ 
cal .406 
Cow Leaking Milk.406 
Cow, To Dry a.... .407 
Cracked Hoof.407 
Crops, Rotation of.407 
Date Seeds...409 
“ Death in the Pot ”.409 
Death of J. C. Thompson406 
Directory, A Novel.405 
Discovery, An Old..405 
jjouble Fruits.406 
Ducks, Aylesbury.405 
Engines, Road and Farm 406 
English Persistence.406 
Farmer, a Despondent. ..407 
Farmers’ Clubs..407 
Farming on Ten Acres. .437 
Fence, Another Patent.. .437 
Fly-Antidote, Agreeable.406 
Fodder-Cutters.437 
German Almanac.405 
Grapes, Fall or Spring 
Planting of. .409 
Grass for Wet Meadows..406 
Green Zinnia.409 
Guano—Is it Injurious ?.409 
Hand-Glasses.. .409 
Hickory and Chestnuts. .409 
Hogs in Eng. and U. S...407 
Horse Education.. 407 
Horse and Cattle Powder.409 
Horse-power ? What is a.409 
Horses, Clydesdale......437 
Horse’sFoot.Disease of a.407 
Horses, Slobbering in.. .409 
Hort.Soc.,NewburghBay.437 
H<jw to Preserve Sheep.. 409 
Ice-plant, Varcigated_ 
Irrigating, Power for.... 
Jerseyllerd-book.Vol. 11.409 
Kerosene Oil and Lamps.409 
Leaves, Gather.405 
Lemon and Orange-trees.409 
LightBrahmas and Heavy 
Eggs.407 
Lime, How to Use.407 
Live-for-Ever. .405 
Many Matters. .405 
Milk, Concerning.437 
Mulberry-tree,Wants a.. .406 
Mushroom Culture.405 
N. J. State Fair.405 
N. Y. state Fair.437 
North Pacific Railroad.. .405 
Now for Congress.406 
Nuts from Rusty Bolts, 
To Remove...409 
Orchard Grass and Clover407 
Ozone and Plants.406 
Pictures, Value of Large 
and Small.437 
Pink Katydid.409 
Plants Named.406 
Plowing'Twice forWheat.409 
Potato-bug Destroyer.-., .407 
Potato Disease.406 
Potatoes, Diseased_..405 
Poultry Houses...407 
Puff-ball, Giant_......409 
Records of the Weather..405 
Rose, a Fine White..... .406 
Salt as a Fertilizer.437 
Shares Harrow,Teeth for.437 
Sheep, Catarrh in.437 
Sheep-Ticks Car. Acid for 409 
Soiling,To Prepare for...407 
Stamps. No more.405 
Starch Factories.437 
SteamFarming and Crops409 
Steel Engravings and 
Lithographs.405 
Stock-Breeders’Conven, .405 
Strawberries, Upright.. .409 
String of Questions. ...406 
Stumps, Blasting..... .. 437 
Summer Fallows.407 
Sundry Humbugs....... .405 
The Flower-Garden.409 
Turnip-fly,Destroy’g the. 406 
University of Miss.487 
Vienna Exposition.406 
Walnuts, Persian.. .406 
What is the Matter?.437 
Wheat, Improved Sorts..437 
Wheat or Oat-Chaff.437 
White Browallia...409 
Willow-poles for Ra.fters.407 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER, 1872. 
Winter is rapidly approaching. What we do 
must be done quickly. The days are getting 
shorter and shorter, and the weather colder and 
more uncertain. November on the form seems to 
au outsider a dreary month. A city visitor won¬ 
ders what pleasure we can find in such a life. He 
is glad to get back to the gas-lit streets and the 
warm and cosy rooms of his city home. Sitting 
in his comfortable chair, by a bright open fire, in a 
well-furnished library, reading the evening paper 
or talking with his friends, he may well be excused 
for congratulating himself that lie is not a farmer. 
From his stand-point, farm-life seems dull, and «| 
dreary, and dirty! He forgets that the faithful 
performance of duty gives happiness. The farmer 
has plenty of work to do. And he finds pleasure 
in doing it Digging potatoes and putting them in 
the cellar is dirty work. A farmer, with his panta¬ 
loons stuck in his boot-s, walking through a muddy 
barn-yard, or milking in the rain, is not an attrac¬ 
tive picture. Carrying swill to the pigs is not -an 
ennobling occupation. It is no use to deny it. 
But we have known politicians to do dirtier work 
with less benefit to themselves and the country. 
Farmers should guard against plodding. Let us 
work when we work. Let us put spirit and force 
and energy and thought into all that we do. Let 
us study to economize labor—to apply it to the 
best advantage. Let us discipline ourselves. 
There is much iu a farmer’s life to call out all the 
best, highest, and noblest faculties of our nature. 
It has been truly said that no one can succeed as a 
breeder unless he is a gentleman. And it is no less 
true that to attain the highest success a farmer 
must be a man. The field that demands the most 
attention is himself. He should aim to root out 
every bad habit, and to develop every manly 
quality. He must be prompt, regular, systematic, 
thoughtful, energetic, industrious, orderly, kind, 
not easily provoked, temperate in all things, econo¬ 
mical, hopeful, and patient. 
We are very sure that there is no occupation 
more useful and honorable than agriculture, and 
none in which there are more frequent opportuni¬ 
ties for the cultivation of every noble faculty. 
Mints about Work. 
It is a good plan to write down a list of every¬ 
thing that has to be done before winter sets in 
on the form, in the garden, in the orchard, in the 
wood lot, in the bams, sheds, horse and cow sta¬ 
bles, corn-house, piggery, hen-house, cellars, etc., 
etc. Consult with the members of your family 
and the hired help on the subject. Encourage 
them to give an opinion as to the best way of doing 
the work and how long it will take. Go as much 
as possible into details—especially in regard to the 
implements, tools, etc., that will be needed. 
What to do first is an important question, and 
should have careful consideration. You must take 
the uncertainty of the weather into account, and 
aim to plan so that whether it is wet or dry, cold 
or warm, there shall be no loss of time and no loss 
of or injury to crops. It shows bail planning to 
liusk corn in the barn during warm, dry weather, 
and afterwards to dig potatoes in a snow-storm. 
The Most Important Work for the month is the 
care and management of animals. In our anxiety 
to push forward the labor of gathering and secur¬ 
ing the crops we too often neglect to give that daily 
attention to our live-stock, on which so much of 
the loss or profit of farming depends. 
Horses .—Avoid as far as possible exposing horses 
to storms. When on a journey aim to feed at the 
regular hour. If nothing more can be doue, take 
along some corn-meal and put a quart in a pail of 
water, and stir it up while the horse is drinking. 
It will greatly refresh and strengthen him. Many 
horses suffer from dyspepsia, and one great cause 
of it is irregularity in feeding and giving too much 
grain when the horse is fatigued. When a horse 
has been exposed to a storm, and comes home in 
an exhausted condition, give him a warm bran- 
mash. Put two or three quarts of bran in a pail, 
and pour on two or three quarts of boiling water 
and stir it up. Then add cold water sufficient to 
cool it to the temperature of new milk, and give it 
to the horse. Blanket the horse and rub his head, 
ears, and legs dry, and afterwards rub him dry all 
over. Many an attack of colic would be avoided 
by these means. We think many farmers err in not 
feeding their horses more grain. It would he better 
to work harder, or at least more constantly, and 
feed higher. Of one thing we are very sure : not 
one former in ten grooms his horses sufficiently. 
It is a shame to a man to leave a horse at night, after 
a hard day’s work, until lie has been rubbed clean, 
dry-bedded, and all his wants attended to. 
Cows .—During storms cows are far better in a 
dry stable or shed than in the field. A little extra 
feed in the shape of corn-fodder, hay, bran, or corn- 
meal will prove very profitable. It is a good plan 
to flesh up a cow at this season. You will get it 
back again in milk next spring and summer. 
Young Cattle should he liberally fed and pro¬ 
vided with comfortable quarters. It pays to give 
a growing animal all the food it can eat and digest. 
Sheep .—There is nothing so essential to the health 
of sheep as dryland, shelter from storms, and fresh 
air. Low, wet land, dirty yards, and close, damp 
quarters are fatal to their health and vigor. In dry 
weather, no matter how cold it may be, sheep are 
better in the field, but during storms they should 
be brought into the yards, and kept dry. If they 
do not go under cover of their own accord, they 
should be driven in and shut up until the storm is 
over. Animals do not always know what is best 
for them. “ Nature ” is all very well, but reason, 
observation, and experience are far better. But we 
repeat that the shed or barn must be dry, clean, 
and well ventilated. At this season of the year 
grass is often too succulent and deficient in nutri¬ 
ment, and it is very desirable to give sheep access 
to good hay, and half a pint of grain caeh per day, 
or a pint of bran, can often be fed to great profit. 
Long-wool and Smith-Down Sheep , which grow 
