THE WISCONSIN FARMER,



  VOL. XV.                   MADISON, SEPTEMBER 1, 1863.                
          No. 9

           Sugaeutons for September.       before frost, and secure in well-bound
stooks.
   If there is to be an agricultural fair in It makes excellent feed for
horses and horned
 your county it is your duty to attend it, and cattle and will save so much
hay.
 not merely with your wives and children, as  WINTER WHEAT.-NOW is a good
time to put
 interested, selfish spectators, qnjoying the it in.  Be sure the seed is
clean, and do it
 fruits of the labor and enterprise of others, thoroughly. Drilling is best.
Sow grass seed
 but as eahibitore. If you have anything worth same time.
 showing, prove yourmeritby placing it along-  SPRING WHEAT-Plow for, this
fall, and
 side of ether things of like character; and if plow a little deeper than
ueual.
 you have produced nothing worth showing,    BucKwIEAT.-Harvest as early
as ripe.-
 then take the best of what you have, and man- Straw will answer for bedding
stock and for
 fully and repentantly bear the shame of being manure.
 a laggard in your profession. But almost any  ROOT CROPS may still be cultivated
with
 of our readers, even the slowest and laziest, profit.
 will have some thing-a calf, a pig, a chick-  SORCHUM MANUFACTURE.-Get ready
for it,
 en, a trace of corn, a turnip, a potato, an ap- and begin last of month.
 ple, a pound of butter, a pair of stockings, or  WEEDS-Wherever found, cut
them down,
 a skein of yarn-that might be added to the gather before seeds will shell
out and burn in
 display of articles, and so increase the inter- heaps. It's too late to
make them into manure.
 est of the exhibition.                        STOCK.-If intended for fattening,
com-
   We repeat it; go to the Fair, but don't g/o esp- mence feeding early and
regularly; and if
ty handed!                                  not, still it will pay to feed
well, for it is al-
                FARM WORK.                  ways poor economy to let stock
run down in
  Don't forget our injunction of last month flesh just before winter. If
grass should be
as to the care of grain aud bay crops. Many very short and dry, a little
help from the corn
a put-off-till-to-morrow farmer after spending field, oat stack, or corn
and bran bin should be
           a pteof-tll-o-mrror frme, aterspedlnafforded themn.
much labor in putting in, cultivating and har-
vesting his crops, loses the advantage of what    THE ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
he has done for want of a very little labor  Not much to be done this month
but to care-
necessary to make them secure. The shock, fully gather and sell or put up
autumn fruits,
the stack, the granary-these are yours, but to wash and scrub the trees with
strong suds,
rain, fire and vermin stand ever ready to de- and to dig out the apple and
peach borers.
stroy them.  Take care of both grain and   GRAPEs.-Allow such as are intended
to be
sttaw.                                      put up for winter to remain on
the vines until
  CoRN.-Seleot the best ears on the best the approach of frost.
stalks for seed; gather when ripe; trace and  BLACKBERRIES AND RASPBRXRIU-Cut
out
hang up in a dry place.  Cut up, for fodder, the old canes, leaving but three
or four of the



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