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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents for January, 1863. 
Agricultural Bureau— Its Work 8 
Animals— Shelter, not Imprison 10 
Animals— Treatment of Wounds 10 
Asparagus Bed — Good Way to Make 13 
Bees— Apiary in January 3 
Bean Poles— Branched 13 
Book. New— For Sunday School Teachers and Others. 25 
Boots and Shoes— Warm Feet 21 
Children of Smart Parents— Why Dull ? 21 
Children on the Floor 21 
Corn Culture in Egypt, III 15 
Corn Marker— An Iowa 15 
Dakota Potato or Ground Nut 15 
Doll worth $150 23 
Economy— German 23 
Editor with his Young Readers ;— Boys and Girls 1 Col- 
umns—A "Happy New-Year"— Sayings of Children 
— " Its Cold " — A Brave Boy and a Narrow Escape — 
Boys and Girls Skating — How to Save Shoe Leather 
— Improvement on Sleighs— The Statesman and the 
Horse— Learned it too Late— Editor's Notes— A Boy 
that will Never be a Man — Puzzles — To Sunday 
School Teachers and Others— The Two Caterpillars 
— Grammar out West — Barnum nearly Humbugged 
.7 Illustrations. .23-6 
Exhibition Tables— List of Contributions 28-9 
Farm Woik for January l 
Flax Culture — Improved Brake. Illustrated.. 12 
Flower Baskets— Hanging Illustrated., 20 
Flower Garden and Lawn in January 3 
Flower Gardens— Mixed 20 
Flowers— New Convolvulus Illustrated. .20 
Flowers— Pansy Culture 19 
Garden— Kitchen and Fruit in January 3 
Gizzards— Teeth— Stomachs 22 
Gourds and Squashes at Agriculturist Exhibition..///. .10 
Green and Hot-Houses in J anuary 3 
Handkerchiefs— Designs for Ornamenting Illustrated.. 21 
Hillside Lands— Management of 19 
Home— Fitting up of a 19 
Hominy— How to Prepare 22 
Horses — Raising and Training Colts 11 
Household— Sundry Hints for — Suggestion, Good- 
Cheap Brown Bread— Mince Pies without Brandy 
— Potato Custard— Crumpets — Opening Cemented 
Fruit Bottles— Apple Butter — Brandy in Cooking — 
Cleaning Pigs' Feet 23 
Humbug Doctors 22 
Implements— Evans' Rotary Digger 13 
Inventions— Agricultural in 1601 12 
January— Suggestions on the Work of the Month..///.. 1 
Lawsuit— End of Illustrated.. 9 
Loudon— Horticultural Hints from 18 
Manure— Profit of Sheltering 14 
Map of Eastern Virginia 28 
Market Review, Weather, Notes, etc 27 
Meadows — Inoculating 13 
.Milking Machine — Colvin's •. . .11 
Orchard and Nursery in January 2 
Pork— Direction for Mess 3 
Potatoes— Sweet, in Ireland 15 
Poultry — Feeding Turkeys in Winter II 
Premiums offered for 1863 26 
Quack Doctors — Questions for II 
Rhubarb— Large from Seed 21 
Schools— Shall Agriculture be Taught ? 14 
Seed— Changing Locality. 15 
Seed Distribution for 1S63— Remarks . 8 
Seeds — List for Free Distribution 4 
Seeds— Notes on those Distributed 5 
Sheep— Cure for Foot Rot .10 
Teams— Turning to Right or Left 13 
Tree-Planting Societies 18 
Trees— A Farmer on Nature 18 
Trees— Compliment from John Bull 19 
Trees— Curious 18 
Trees— Pears— Select List of 25 Varieties 17 
Trees— Scalding Peach Trees 17 
Trees— Varieties of Horse Chestnut 17 
Wheat— Cooking Ungronnd 23 
Worms— Habits of the Earth Worm Illustrated .17 
INDEX TO "BASKET," OH SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Advertisers, To 51 Maps, No more Premium. 5 
Agriculturist Wanted 5 Milkweed — California. . . 7 
Agr. College Perm 8iNails called "Penny". ..8 
Apples — Hardy In Minn. . .6iPaper — Materials for 7 
Barley— Weight of Bushel 6 Parasitic Plants. 7 
Beans — Case-Knife, Lima. 7 1 Pears — Vicars Improving.. fi 
Bean — Prolific.. fij Peppermint — Cultivation. . 7 
Beef Tea— Solidified 7 Pomological Congress of 
Beet— Large. 7! Nations fi 
Hook on Skeletonizing. . . .SlPostmnsters, Honest 5 
Books, Buy Now 5 Potatoes — Chili 7 
Butler— Keeping 7,Potatoes — Sweet at the 
Carrots— Steamed forCows7l North 6 
Coffee, Sweet Potatoes for." Poultry -Age of 6 
Cotton — Specimens of Nor- (Poultry — Amount of Grain6 
them 61 Poultry— Changing Color.. 6 
Cotton— Tree -Seed 6 Poultry— Meat for Hens ..6 
Crocus— Double 7 IPoultry— Oyster Shells for.G 
Currants— Good 61 Poultry Profitable 6 
Euonymus — Propagating. .7;Piemiums— Last call 5 
Flowers from Vermont 61 Quinces — Ignoramus' 6 
Frag run t Fancy 7 'Salt Preserves Timber 6 
Fruit Grower's Magazine. .61 Sawdust in Stables 7 
Fruit Growers' Meeting. ..5JSheep — Small Pox in ....6 
Fruit Talk— Ancient 6 (Silk in Ohio.... 6 
Garden Roller— Ho wMade. 7 J Sorgho— Egyptian fi 
Garden— To enjoy 7 [Sorghum Seed 7 
Ginger Root TjSwamp Land— Flowing. . .7 
Grafting Apricots on Plumsfi[ Sweet Potato Coffee 7 
Grape Vines. Prune now. fi;' 1 Topping" Produce 7 
Grapes — GraftingDelawara6 Trees — Brush for Bcraptrtg.6 
Hedges, Town 5t Trees, Propagating 7 
Jute— -A met ic an T Trees vs. Flowers 7 
" Live for Ever" 7 Turkey— Thanksgiving Sa- 
Manure— Cesspool Slops. .61 Cnficed fi 
Manure— No use for 7JWebb, Jonas— Death of.. .5 
Paper Has Gone Up. 
Yes, it has! Last Spring such paper as we use was 
urged upon us at $9.75 per ream (of large double sheets,) 
and with any length of credit we might desire. Our 
most recent purchase was at $23.88 per ream, for the same 
or similar paper — cash down ! Paper has gone up ! 
Many Journals Have Gone TJp. 
A large number of the newspapers of the country have 
put up their subscription rates. This has been made 
necessary by the increased cost of paper, the taxes upon 
advertisements, and by the advance in things generally. 
Some Have Gone Down. 
A considerable number of papers in different parts of 
the country have been obliged to stop or to continue at 
a loss. The list of suspensions counts by hundreds al- 
ready, and includes several Agricultural Journals. 
We Go Neither Down Nor Up. 
The Agriculturist is too strong to go down, and it will 
not go up in price. The standard rates for many years 
past, willbe continued for 1S63, viz : $1 a year ; clubs 
of six for $5 ; clubs of ten or more, only 80 cents each. 
One Reason Why. 
Our aim has been, and is, to supply a first class journal, 
reliable and useful in its character, at a price within the 
reach of the masses of the people. To advance the price 
would partially defeat one great object of its publication. 
Another Reason. 
Before paper rose very high, we were fortunate 
enough to lay in a fair supply ahead. Though our ex- 
penses are greatly increased, yet with the above advan- 
tage secured, and by hard work, and close economy in all 
that will not affect the intrinsic value of the paper, we 
expect to go squarely through the year— or at least with- 
out any severe loss. 
More Reasons. 
But the strongest, and most numerous reasons, just 
now, are the multitudes of subscriptions coming in— both 
new and old. Twenty five per cent more names have 
been received, since September, than during the same 
period last year. Such generous patronage will do some- 
thing toward meeting the increased expense of paper. 
And Now 
Our readers know just where and how we stand. The 
Agriculturist will go on with unabated vigor, and undi- 
minished in value, and yet at no extra charge, notwith- 
standing the greatly increased cost of publication. 
Will it not be a pleasure, then, to all our readers to re- 
ciprocate and each aid in raising the subscription list to 
the highest possible point? The paper would doubtless 
be interesting and instructive to some friend or neighbor, 
if brought to his notice. A word from you will add his 
name to our list and the result be satisfactory, we trust, 
to all concerned. What say you friend ? 
American Agriculturist in German. 
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the same Articles and Illustrations. The German Edition 
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THREE to FOUR HUNDRED, or more, illustrative 
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Over TWELVE HUNDRED plain, practical, in- 
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