SEPTEMBER, Ninth Month.
Astronomical Calculations.

m. Days. Id. m. Days. Id. m. Days. d. 8N 1 7 5 48 13 3 31 19 1

Full Moon, 1st day, 11h. 13m., evening. Last Quarter, 9th day, 5h. 20m., evening. New Moon, 16th day, 8h. 35m., morning. First Quarter, 23d day, 10h. 38m., morning.

The storm in the forest is rending and sweeping,
While tree after tree bows its stately green head;
The flowerets beneath them are bending and weeping,
And leaves torn and trembling all 'round them are spread.

7 Mo.

8 Tu.

9 W.

Aspects, Holidays, Events,
Weather, &c.

Planet Juno discovered, 1804. State

election in Vermont.

Farmer's Calendar.

GRASS seed should go in early

High tides. Hot weather this month. Some farmers sow it
New Style adopted, 1752. The

3d became the 14th.

6.

Dog Days end.
13th S. af. Tr.

Eng., 1620.

in August, and if their land is still moist it is just as well then. Spare

.The American

flag first un- no pains in laying down land carefurled in Ja-fully. A roller makes a smooth, continues. clean surface, but you can make

pan, 1856.

Sebastopol taken, 1855. Battle of Lake
George, 1755.

10 Th. Low tides.

1504.

1781.

1813.

State election in Maine. Duke of Wel

11 Fr. 6 H (.

12 Sa.

13 D.

14th Sun. af. Tr.

14 Mo.

15 Tu.

in Perigee.

16 W.

in 8.

lington died, aged 83, 1852.

A storm

C. High tides. 18 Fr. Violent gale in New England, 1863.

two

Fix a

6th. Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, a drag in two or three hours that will do equally well. Take three or four planks, say six or H. {Battle of Eutaw Springs, eight feet long, and ten or twelve Battle on Lake Erie, inches wide, and bolt on 65 C. r. h. cross-pieces, made bevelling, say Columbus returned finally to Spain, ten inches at one end, in the form of a sleigh or sled runner. 69 chain at each end, and hitch the team to the chain, or, what is better, rig on an old pair of shafts. One horse is sufficient. The driver may ride standing on the drag, the flat part of which will be about two feet. This drag leaves the land in fine order. If there is a 20 D. 15th Sun. af. Tr. & h .stone thrusting its hard head out 21 Mo. St. Matthew. Walter Scott died, of the ground, the drag crowds it aged 62, 1832. down. 22 Tu. O ent.. Autumn beg. grinds them up fine as powder. If there are lumps, it 23 W. Capture of Andre 1780. Great gale in It does its work as well as a fifty runs low. Low tides. or a hundred dollar roller. You gr. elong. W. will find it answer the purpose Look admirably, for I speak of what I for early know. Begin to feed up fattening in Apo. animals now. The utmost regu[mas Day. larity and cleanliness is needed. Michael- Select the ripest and finest ears of corn for seed. Grub up bushes in frosts. the pastures, and the mulleins and thistles wherever they grow.

19 Sa.

is near at hand.

England,

16th Su. af. Tr.
Battle of Marathon,

out

gr. hel. lat. N. 30 W.Whitefield died, aged

55, 1770.

Days of
Month.

's Declination.

1868.

OCTOBER, Tenth Month.

Astronomical Calculations.

m. Days. Id. m. Days. Id. m. Days. d.

Days. Id.

123456

m. Days. Id.
16 25 12 23

m.

Full Moon, 1st day, 3h. 14m., evening.
Last Quarter, 9th day, 1h. 30m., morning.
New Moon, 15th day, 6h. 17m., evening.
First Quarter, 23d day, 4h. 58m., morning.
Full Moon, 31st day, 6h. 21m., morning.

OCTOBER hath 31 days.

1868.

D. M.

The spirit that made the oak his care
Has touched his harp with a breath of air,
To whispering leaves, that danced to hear
The notes of their guardian angel near.

Aspects, Holidays, Events,
Weather, &c.

1780.

in U.S.,1807.

Farmer's Calendar

1 Th. 6. 80. First steamer HARVESTING must be hurried 6. H. ti. M. Andre hung, up. Dig those potatoes on a dry Battle of Queenstown, Brock Quite don't want them to rot. day, and store them dry, if you killed, 1812. A cool, 17th Sun. af. Trin. fine dry cellar, or a well-ventilated pit,

2 Fr.

3 Sa.

4 D.

5 Mo.

6 Tu.

Art. of Con. adopt. by the 13 Col., 1777.
Shock of an earthquake in
England, 1863.

{pirate Florida in Brazil, 1864.

8Th. 8. Cr. h. 9 Fr.HC.

The

Old Dr. Parr d., aged 152 yrs, 1635. 4th is the best place for them, for winter apples must be carefully 7W.U. S. gunboat Wachuset captures rebel picked by hand, and handled like Vermont Leg. eggs, if you would have them meets. keep. Don't swing that ladder some days. round so roughly. It will do the Low ti. trees no good. It pays to cultivate a little gentleness of treatment. The corn must go into the barn now. Some varieties were ready,

O. 66 C.

11 D. 18th Sun, af. Tr.

10 Sa.

12 Mo.

13 Tu. 14 W.

in 8. in Perigee. perhaps, in September. Did you 10th. The horse Dexter trots a mile on cut the top stalks? I guess it's 15 Th.Great fire in Quebec, Can.; 2000 houses best to cut up at the roots and stook. It is less work, on the

18 D.

19 Mo.

20 Tu.

the Fashion course in 2m. 181-4 s., '65.

destroyed, 1866.

Springfield, 1853.

with

16 Fr. High ti. bracing weather. whole, and I think the crop is 17 Sa. C. gr. hel. lat. S. a little better ripened up in the 19th S.af.T. St.Luke, Evan. stook. Two men, with a, .ook18th. Lord Palmerston died, aged 81, 1835. Signs of ing-pole twelve feet lon First national exhibition of horses at two legs at one end, and a crossru. low. Battle of Ball's Bluff, stick to run through the pole, making four corners for four good Harvard College illuminated for Bur-bundles, can walk along pretty stationary. a storm, fast with five rows, dragging the 24 Sa. Low tides. Daniel Webster died, pole along on the middle row, and 20th Su. af. Tr. in Ap. them. It's a good plan, and saves leaving a row of stooks behind 24th. Telegraphiccom. betw. San Fran

Va., 1861.

goyne's surrender, 1777.

aged 70, 1852.

cisco, Cal., and Boston, Mass., 1861. a deal of work. If you are calcu25th. Cochituate water introduced into lating to fatten any animals this Boston, and great celebration, 1848.

C. St.Sim.&St.Jude. fall, now's the time. Don't your 6. with rain or snow. buildings want painting?

29 Th.
30 Fr. $31st. The horse Captain McGowan is
31 Sa.

The

paint hardens and lasts better, a cruelly made to trot 20 miles in 58 m. good deal, than in hot weather. High tides. 25. Boverie Park, Fall ploughing may be begun.

near Boston, 1865.