1861. 



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proof of practice, >here seems to be some great 

 difficulty. The head to think and the ha< d to 

 Jo are rarely found together. To illustrate: 

 The chemistry of bread making is incontestably 

 (?) well understood in scientific circles, but can 

 we say that chemistry has taught us to make 



'yeast p 



on every hand, " we've got the 'article' to raise 

 bread with — powerful for good and impotent for 

 evil as three weeks' use and a chemical warrant 

 testify." But good bread is scarce still, and per- 

 haps is growing scarcer. About fermentation — 

 an old crow knows that sprouted corn is sweet- 

 est, and its young get uncommDnly fat upon it — 

 give us fermentation so far, then, bread-mak- 

 ers, as to make sugar of a portion of the starch. 

 But we men don't know how to make bread with 

 all our science, and it is a dangerous thing to 

 attempt capsizing the old-fashioned bread-bowl, 

 where a quarter of the flour, or a baking of 

 bread is rotting in a "sponge" prepartory to 

 getting a good "rise," until we are sure of a 

 better t-uhsiitute. Do, Mr. Chemist, try to bake 

 a barrel of flour into bread by the light of soi- 

 ance. If you would go that far in the business 

 yourself, or with some tractable cook to assist 

 you, there is hope that jou might give us some 

 reasonably accurate rules for making bread. 

 There is a wide space in this common, every day 

 matter, as in many others, between the thinker 

 ani the worker — space, but not a vacuum — for it is 

 filled with charlatans and their nostrums. — Rome- 

 s',ead. 



Agricultural Journals of the United States- 



The New Jersey Farmer, now in its fifth volume, 

 is published in Trenton, by Tj. Naar, editor and 

 proprietor, at §1 a year; thirty-two pages oc- 

 tavo ; agriculture and horticulture. 



The Gardner's Monthly, octavo, forty-eight 

 pages, a popular journal, chiefly devoted to hor- 

 ticulture, is now in its second volume. We hope 

 for it a long life cf usefulness. Edited by Thos. 

 M'^ehan, Philadelphia; $1 a year. 



Farmer and Gardner, Philadelphia; octavo, 

 thirfy-two pages, agricultural and horticultural ; 

 $1 a year. A. M. Spangler, editor and proprie- 

 tor — is in its second volume. 



The Germantown (Penn.) Telegraph is an old 

 established miscellaneous paper, with an agricul- 

 tural department — a weekly quarto, $2 a year. 

 P. R. Freas, editor and proprietor. 



National Agricdturist, Pittsburg, Pennsylva- 

 nia, in its third volume, is an eight page quarto, 

 published monthly at $1 a year, by J. T. F. 

 Wright, editor and proprietor ; devoted princi- 

 pally to agricCilture, but in part to general mis- 

 cellany 



The Oho Farmer, Cleveland. Weekly, $2 a 

 year ; a handsome quarto, filled with miscel- 

 laneous and agricultural matter, suited to an 

 enlightened farmer's family ; now in its ninth 

 year. Thomas Brown, editor and proprietor. 



The House and Garden is published monthly at 

 Cleveland, at 50 cents a year, by Thomas Brown, 

 editor and proprietor; sixteen pages; devoted 

 to Pgricultural and household affairs. 



The Wool Grower is a monthly quarto devoted 

 to the interest of wool-growers, stock matters, 

 and miscellany. It purports to be published at 

 Cleveland, 0., at 50 cents a year, without editor 

 or publisher being named. 



Ohio Cultivator, Columbu", semi-monthly, is 

 in its sixteenth volume, at $1 a year; is a large 

 octavo, 16 pages, devoted to agriculture, horticul- 

 ture and stock. Ool. S. D. Harris, editor and 

 proprietor. 



Ohio Valley Farmer, Cincinnati, a monthly 

 quarto, 16 pages, now volume six $1 a year ; 

 agricultural and horticultural. Published by B. 

 F. Sandford. 



The Cincinnatus, Cincinnati, Ohio, a monthly 

 octavo, 48 pages; neatly got up pamphlet, pub- 

 lished in covers, at $2 a year, edited by A. G. 

 Carey, propiietor, is now in its fifth volume. It 

 U agricuUnral and horticultural, and prints the 

 proceedings of the Cincinnati Horticultural So- 

 ciety, 



Indiana Farmer, J. N. Ray editor and proprie- 

 tor, Indianapolis, semi-monthly, 16 pages quarto, 

 $1 a year, is now in its ninth volume, and 

 though called the Tndima Farmer, is filled with 

 such matter as is equally well adapted to farm- 

 ing in the adjoining States. 



Michigan Farmer, Detroit, an old established 

 weekly quarto, eight pages, %2 a year, R. F. 

 Johnson, editor and publisher, is mainly devoted 

 to agriculture and kindred subjects. 



Wisconsin Farmer, Madison, D. J. Powers & 

 Co., publishers, 32 pages octavo, §1 a year; ag~ 

 ricultural and horticultural; adapted to the wants 

 of the Northwest. 



Prairie Farmer, Chicago, Illinois ; Emery & 

 Co., publishers ; a well printed quarto of sixteen 

 pages, weekly, at $2 a year; making agricul- 

 ture its lead.ng feature, with horticulture and 

 family miscellany This paper dates back over 

 twenty years It was established by John S. 

 Wright, and has always been conducted with 

 such ability as to make it particularly valuable 

 to all Western farmer. 



Farmer's Advocate, Chicago, J. Bonham editor 

 and proprietor; a weekly quaito, 16 pages, $1.50 

 a year — an oS'shoot of the Prairie Farmer, of 

 some three years' standing. 



/Wiraoii J^^rTTier, Springfield ; Bailhache & Ba" 

 ker, publishers ; M. L. Duulap, editor ; monthly 

 octavo, 32 pages, $1 a year, in its sixh volume, 

 is mainly agricultural, and especially devoted to 

 the interest of the Illinois farmer. 



Iowa Farmer. There was, perhaps is, an Iowa 

 Farmer, edited by Wm. Duane Wilson. 



Nebraska Farmer, Brownsville, volume one, 

 monthly octavo, IC pages, agricultural and horti- 

 cultral; $1 a year, R. N. Farnas, publisher. 



Valley Farmer, Norman J. Coleman, editor 

 and publisher, St. Louis ; A. Gunter, publisher, 

 Louisville t H. P. Byam, traveling editor ; oc- 

 tavo, 32 pages, $1 a year ; a monthly agricultu- 

 ral journal, designed fo benefit the planter, farm- 

 er, gardner, fruit grower and stock raiser. It is 

 a covered pamphlet, handsomely printed, and in 

 matter well worthy of the patronage of those it 

 is intended to benefit. 



The Minnesota Farmer end Gardner, published 

 at St. Paul, monthly, in octavo foriii, 32 pages. 



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