1878. AUGUST, Eighth Month. Astronomical Calculations. Days. d. m. Days. d. m. Days. d. m. Days. d. m. Days. d. 's Declination. 123456 m. > First Quarter, 5th day, 8h. 35m., morning, E. Last Quarter, 20th day, 11h. 23m., evening, E. 228 16 Fr. 5 229 17 Sa. 5 8 6 59 13 51 1 25 9 6 58 13 49 1 27 418 11 419 2 230 18 S. 5 10 6 57 13 47 1 29 231 19 M. 5 11 6 55 13 44 1 32 232 20 Tu. 5 12 6 54 13 42 134 233 21 W. 5 13 6 52 13 39 1 37 234 22 Th. 5 14 6 51 13 37 1 39 235 23 Fr. 5 15 6 49 13 34 142 236 24 Sa. 5 16 6 47 13 31 1 45 237 25 S. 5 17 6 46 13 29 1 47 238 26 M. 5 18 6 44 13 26 1 50 239 27 Tu. 5 19 6 43 13 24 1 52 240 28 W. 5 21 6 41 13 20 156 241 29 Th. 5 22 6 39 13 17 1 59 242 30 Fr. 5 23 6 38 13 15 2 1 420 23 3 h'd 8 58 3 34 227 82 91 br. 1 51 9 39 h'rt 1 1 O bel. M. The cricket chirrups forth its shrill refrain; Aspects, Holidays, Events, Weather, &c. 1 Th. Lammas Day. Very high tides. 2 Fr. O. in 8.1st. in Per. 3 Sa. 1st. President issues a proclamation dec. 4 F 7th Sunday after Trinity. 5 Mo. Length of night 9h. 43m. 6 Tu. Transfiguration. Sunny and very fine. Colorado a State of the Union, 1876. 7W. 8 Th. 9 Fr. 6 HJ. 14 W. 15th. Napoleon born, 1769. runs low. Low tides. Fight of Gen. Gibbon with Nez Perces Indians; our loss 60 kill'd & woul., '77. 10 Sa. St. Lawrence. Cloudy. 11 F 8th Sun. aft. Tr. 6 C. 12 Mo. Cecl. vis. in U.S. Hi.tides. 13 Tu. in Aph. gr. elong. E. Very 1977. Gold 1053-8, 18 F warm 9th Sunday after Trinity. &C. and muggy, 19th, Michael C. Kerr, Speaker U. S. H. of Representatives, died, 1876. with 19 Mo. 20 Tu. 21 W. Very low tides. 22 Th. 6 C. runs high. 23 Fr. frequent and heavy 24 Sa. St. Bartholomew. showers. 25 F 10th Sunday after Crinity. 26 Mo. 6. 27 Tu. 6 HC. 28 W. St. Augustine. 29 Th. Behead. of St. John Baptist. 6. 30 Fr. 29th. Cin Per. Island, 1778. 31 Sa. Very high tides. Fine. 29th. Brigham Young d., aged 76, 1877. 30th. Rph. Semmes, com. Conf. stmr "Alabama," died, 1877. 6 C. S29th. Bat. on Rhode Farmer's Calendar. Ir is a good plan to top-dress the mowing-lots after the first crop comes off. It pays well to put on the manure where it will do the most good, as well as any six per cent. stock on the street. Use a lot of muck and loam and the fine stuff scraped from the yard. You can keep land in grass a long time in this way, and you need fear no waste. Nature top-dresses, and keeps the roots of most plants near the surface. of compost shades the ground, A good covering and shade is a sort of fertilizer. Turn up a board that has lain a long time on the ground, and you find the soil mellower and richer than when it was put there. A mulch of any kind is good for the soil. Scrape up the waste stuff along the road, and add all you can to the lots. Now is the time to dig ditches, to clear up along the walls, to kill weeds and stop them from going to seed. If the land is moist, sow grass-seed and lay down smoothly. The grass will take, and get a fine growth by the time the frost comes hard enough to kill it. It is hot, to be sure, but corn likes the hot sun. We need the heat to ripen the fruits, too. Cut the up green corn and the millet for cows and young stock- a little every day. 1878. SEPTEMBER, Ninth Month. Astronomical Calculations. Days. d. m. Days. d. m. Days. d. m. Days. d. m. Days. d. m. 's Declination. 1984 200 8N.10 7 5 57 13 3 40 19 1 21 25 0 59 > First Quarter, 3d day, 3h. 41m., evening, E. Last Quarter, 19th day, 1h. 46m., evening, W. 1S. 5 256 34 13 Fast. 9 2 7 0 4 24 245 2 M. 5 26 6 33 13 14 12 372 39 3 Place. Sets. እ. m. D Souths. h. m. 518 11 13 n'k 17 1 8 62 kn. morn. 7 43 14h'd 7 2 1 33 7 27 2 15 519 2 24 n'k 758 3 0 3 arm 621 33 arm 9 25 4 39 SEPTEMBER hath 30 days. 1878. O happy day, returned once more, Aspects, Holidays, Events, 1 F 11th Sunday after Trinity. 5 Th. DOG DAYS END. 6 Fr. Low tides. 7 Sa.. 646. 10 Tu. 11 W. 13 Fr. O inf. High tides. 12 Th.h C. 6 H ?. in Apogee. dreary called Sept. 14th, eleven days being {dropped. 14 Sa. New Style introduced into England, 1752. MISS H. M. KIMBALL. Farmer's Calendar. THE lowlands are now dry, and it is a good plan to make a few drains, and to put them where they will do the most and good. We have time now on charmingly our hands, and it is best to spend fine, it in fixing up the old farm. but There are all sorts of odd jobs that stare us in the face. The old stone wall ought to be relaid, and there's many a stone in the mowing-lot that ought to be dug out. It will pay good interest on the cost to get them out of the way. Isn't there a roof that will soon begin to leak, if it is not fixed? The brush by the roadside and along the fences can be cut without much work, and it pays to clean it out. No I need to be idle when there is so much to do. A neat home strikes the eye and gives it the look of thrift and comfort. There is no place on earth where a man can be more happy than on a farm, and all it needs is the will to do it, and that he must answer for. It is time to get ready to set out bulbs about the house, in the garden, and in pots for winter. The snowdrop, the crocus, the scilla, the tulip, the lily of the valley, the anemone, and some others, are good for out of doors, while the hyacinth is the gem of the window. Top corn, and get in the crops. C. days are 19 Th. 9 in Perih. runs high. near. 275 2 W. 5 276 3 Th. 5 277 4 Fr. 6 278 5 Sa. 6 > First Quarter, 3d day, 2h. 17m., morning, W. 274 1 Tu. 5 575 41 11 443 32|10|5|22| 34 thi. 44 kn. 7 5 5 kn. 11 10 6 32 64 kn. morn. 7 22 7 7 legs 0 17 8 9 279 6 S. 6 8 legs 1 22 8 52 2 25 9 33 292 19 Sa. 6 175 12 10 55 4 21 15 23 4 51 h'rt 11 38 6 9 6 211 21 sets 0 19 01 sec. 5 50 1 21 |