The sun pours down a flood of golden heat Aspects, Holidays, Events, 1 G 5th Sun. aft. Tr. 6 d. 2 Mo. 6 h C. Warm ANON. Farmer's Calendar. THE old maxim ought to read, A stitch in time will save a thousand and nine, when it is to be 3 Tu. O in Apo. Very low tides. applied to the weeds. Haying 4 W. SINDEPENDENCE declared, 1776. and or no haying, the weeds must be sultry. kept down. The best time to cut grass has been fixed, in the judgment of the best farmers, as the time of flowering. I think it ought to be a little mite earlier in 8. 6 Fr. beheaded, 1535, O. S. 8 G 6th Sun. aft. Tr. 9 Mo. 6. runs high. 10 Tu. 12th. Alexander Hamilton 11 W. died, 1804. 69 C. C in Perigee. Irather than a bit later. If it is cut early it will send up a good second growth, and a lot of rowen is a good thing to have on hand. Showers, For cows in milk in the spring, and for young stock, there is with nothing better. And for all kinds of stock, save hard working oxen and horses, early cut hay is by far the best. If cut too soon, it may lack heart; if cut too late, it will surely be hard and woody. I like to begin on the early grasses, like orchard grass, June grass, and clover, some time before the first of this month, and to finish up as soon after it as I can. That gives time to bring up the hoeing, and to take things thunder and lightning. 19 Th. 20th. 6 sup. 20 Fr. St. Margaret. Low tides. 21 Sa. 22d. 62. runs low. 22 G 8th Sunday after Trinity. 23 Mo. 22d. St. Mary Magdalene. 24 Tu. 6 H & 25th. High tides. 25 W. St. James. 26 Th. St. Anne. DOG DAYS BEGIN. Settled weather. a little cool in this hot month. If I want a stick of timber for any use, or rails for fencing, I cut them in midsummer. They always last the longest, all the soft sorts of wood, at least. CCut and bark basswood now, and it will dry quick and hard, and last like iron. 1877. Q's Declination. AUGUST, Eighth Month. Astronomical Calculations. m. Days. d. m. Days. Id. 123426 Days. d. m. Days. d. 17N.54 7 16 17 13 14 31 19 12 m. Days. d. m. 16 34 12 14 49 18 12 56 24 10 55 30 Last Quarter, 2d day, 5h. 36m., morning, E. 8 49 D's D ! D Rises. Souths. h. m. h. m. h. Place. 213 1 W. 4 53 7 19 14 26 0 50 622 32 44 n'k 214 2 Th. 4 54 7 18 14 240 52| 215 3 Fr. 4 557 17 14 220 54 216 4 Sa. 4 567 15 14 19 0 57 217 5 S.4 57 7 14 14 170 59 6 23 86 59 13 51 1 25 4 7 9 6 58 13 49 1 27 4 8 230 18 Sa. 5 10 6 56 13 46 1 30 231 19 S. 5 11 6 55 13 441 32 232 20 M. 5 12 6 53 13 41 1 35 233 21 Tu. 5 136 52 13 391 37 234 22 W. 5 14 6 50 13 36 1 40 235 23 Th. 5 16 6 48 13 32 1 44 236 24 Fr. 5 17 6 47 13 30 1 46 237 25 Sa. 5 18 6 45 13 27 1 49 238 26 S.5 19 6 44 13 25 1 51 239 27 M. 5 20 6 42 13 22 1 54 240 28 Tu. 5 21 6 40 13 19 1 57 241 29 W. 5 226 39 13 171 59 242 30 Th.5 23 6 37 13142 2| 3 13 11 120 21 23 n'k 9 20 4 25 1 W. Lammas Day. Showers. 2 Th. H. ¿TC. 3 Fr. Length of night 9h. 39m. 4 Sa. Hot and muggy. 5 G 10th Sunday after Trinity, 6 Mo. Transfiguration. runs high. 7 Tu. 10th. 6 & C. 6 & C. 8 W. O eclip., invisible in U. S. 9 Th. C. in Perigee. 10 Fr. St. Lawrence. Very high tides. 11 Sa. 9th. Izaak Walton 13 Mo. born, 1593, O. S. 14 Tu. 15th. Napoleon born, 15 W. 1769. J. T. TROWBRIDGE. Farmer's Calendar. OATS and all the small grains ought to be cut and got in while the straw is still a little green. The straw will be worth a great deal more, and the grain will be bright and heavy. It will not be so apt to shell out and go to waste as where it is left to get dead ripe. As soon as the grain is got in, go over the stubble with a harrow. That will soon start all the seeds of weeds, and Rather then when the time comes to plough up, there will be a nice Assumption of V. Mary. in 8. 1777. 12 Gilth Sunday after Crinity. crop of green growth to turn in. dull, with some rain. There is some time between Grows haying and harvesting to clear up about the farm. Cut the bushes along the walls in the mowing lots, and get the weeds once more out of corn and the potatoes. It is a bad plan to have too many division walls and fences. It costs a great deal less to plough or to mow, or to rake over an acre in a large lot than it does in a small one. Cattle are slow coming about, and if we should stop and think of the 16 Th. 24 Fr. St. Bartholomew. loss of time which a small lot costs, we should at once set to Trinity. and clear off half the old walls h. and fences on the farm. Besides, Fine there is the loss of land, and the C. nuisance of walls, where the insects and the squirrels hide, and weather. the bushes grow. Down with greatest elongation E. the walls. 29 W. Behead. of St. John Baptist. 30 Th.29th. John Locke born, 31 Fr. 1632, O. S. New Moon, 7th day, Sh. 16m., morning, E. > First Quarter, 14th day, 6h. 24m., morning, E. 5 arm 10 58 h. Rises. 023 5 6 15 245 2S.5 26 6 32 13 6 2 10 124 6 246 3 M. 5 276 30 13 1 Sa. Low tides. died, 1658, O.S. Continues 2 G 14th Sunday after Trinity. END. warm in Perigee. 8 Sa. Nativity of Virgin Mary. and 10 Mo. 11 Tu. in Maine. 1777. 12 W. 9th. &C. 8 13 Th. 9 in 8. 14 Fr. 6 15 Sa. C. runs low. & C. fine. ANON. Farmer's Calendar. GRASS seed may be sown now. Fall sowing is, on the whole, risk of an open winter in the one better than spring. We run the case, and of a drought in the other; but in a series of years the loss from fall seeding will be less than that from spring. In the choice of seed it is best to sow all early kinds, or else all late kinds together, and not to mix them. Then they are fit to cut at the same time; but if orchard grass and timothy, or red ho. top, are sown together, the first Some signs will blossom three or four weeks of rain, before the later ones, and when followed the timothy is ready to be cut, the orchard grass will be dead 16 G 16th Sunday after Trinity. ripe and gone to seed, perfectly 20. 16th. Very low ti. worthless for hay, while if the by piece is cut when the orchard cool grass is ready, the timothy will not be half grown. Farmers lose a great deal by not thinking of this point. It is best to have some fields of early grass and some of late, and then the haying 22 Sa. O ent.. AUTUMN BEGINS. 17th Sunday after Trinity, Days and nights 23 G 24 Mo. 25 Tu. 26 W. 27 Th. nearly equal. &C. doesn't all come on at the same with areas time. Go through the cornfield of frost and select the earliest and finest O inf. High tides. ears of corn for seed. Do it in low and exposed every year at this time, and in a 28 Fr. 30th. Whitefield died at Newburyport, 1770. places. few years it will make a differ29 Sa. St. Michael. runs high. ence of many bushels to the acre. Give the windfall apples 30 G 18th Sun. aft. Tr. to the pigs. Thin out winter ap130th. Low tides. ples, and not let them overbear. St. Jerome. |