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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents for October, 1863. 
Animals, Diseased— Useful Society 298 
Apple Butter 311 
Apples Early— What to Plant 306 
Apples— Hints on Keeping 307 
Asparagus Beit— How lo Make 307 
Babies— Rocking Injurious 310 
Bee-hives. Straw— Cheap and Goud..2 Illustrations . .301 
Bees— Apiary in October 291 
Bitters -Worse than a Humbug 309 
Boys and Girls* Columns — A Ghost Story — Intelli- 
gence of Fishes — Not Quite a Meteor — Puzzles and 
Problems — Children Opening the Gate — True Po- 
liteness — Boys and Girls' Garden, No. 1 — Premiums 
Secured by Boys and Girls— Indian Fun, a Snake 
Story — Modest Request — Capital Story — Curious 
Letter— Taking it Coolly— Origin of the Name Can- 
ada — Curious Sign — Crooked Company. .5 III. . 311, 313 
Clay Soil no Curse 303 
Corn, Drying— Good Method 31] 
Com— Pickled 311 
Corn — Securing the Harvest .... Illustrated. .304 
Corn— Shocking-Horse Illustrated .300 
Coughing — Remedy for 309 
Crinoline in I he Garden 307 
Crosses and Hybrids :. . ..308 
Currants and How to Propagate Them 306 
Currants— Heal lli fulness of 306 
Draining — Benefits of Illustrated. .289 
Exhibitions— Agricultural, Slate and County in 1863. 294 
Exhibition Tables at Agriculturist Office 296 
Farm Work for October 289 
Flower Garden and Lawn in October 201 
Fruit Dottles— Sealing 310 
Fruit— Directions 'for Marketing 304 
Fruit Garden in October 291 
Fruit-Growers' Meetings— New-York 291 
Fruit in the Country— Hint to City Visitors 307 
Garden— Kitchen, in October 290 
Gift Enterprises and other Humbugs 302 
Gladiolus — Improved French Hybrids ... Illustrated . .308 
Grain How to Send to Market.' 298 
Grapes— Opinions on Quality 307 
Green and Hot Houses in October 291 
Horse-shoe— The Bar 29$ 
Horses— Glanders 298 
Horses— Remedy for Scratches 29S 
Horses — Suggestions on Management .... 297 
Labels— Leaden for Fruit-Trees Illustrated. . 305 
Lung Protector — Chamois Skin Illustrated. .309 
Market Review, Weather Notes, etc 314 
Measurement — Useful Rules 303 
Melon— While Japanese 2 Illustrations ..305 
Onions — Small — Pickle for Soldiers 310 
Orchard and Nursery in October 290 
Pedigree in Plants 303 
Pickles— '• Higdum" 311 
Piggery— Plan of 3 J I lustrations ..297 
Pork— Curing without Brine 310 
Premiums— Descriptive List for 1S64 313 
Pud. ling— Birds'-Nest Sago 311 
Pumpkin Exhibition at Agriculturist Office 292-296 
Roses as Bedding Plants 303 
Sap Boiler— Miles' Improved Illustrated.. 301 
Sheep— Sale of South-Down at Thorndale 299 
Soda and Mineral Waters— Portable Fountain Illus. .309 
Sore Throat Remedy 309 
Sorrel— Cure for 301 
Straw — Spreading or Composting •. 299 
Strawberries and other Small Fruits at the West 305 
Suggestions and Notes for the Mouth. .. Illustrated. .289 
Swine— Care of 297 
Thread, Cheap— One Cent a Spool 310 
Tim Bunker on Starting a Sugar-Mill 302 
Trees, Fruit — Manuring Injurious 306 
Trees, Fruit— Renovation of 306 
Trees — How to Raise Seedling Stocks 305 
Walks— Water-proof 310 
Water— Hard and Soft 310 
Weeds— Talks About.— No. V.— The'Bittersweet and 
the Nightshade 2 Illustrations.. 300 
Wheat on Clover Sod 300 
Zinc Vessels Poisonous 310 
INDEX TO "BASKET." OR SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Agriculturist at 58cents..292 Paint— Cheap . 
Horses, Feed for 294iTobacco, Native 296 
Apples. Crab 293 
Bees. Overswarming 294 
Big Things 296 
Blackberry, Cut-leaved. .293 
Black Knot 294 
Book, Farm 293 
Broom Corn, Dwarf 295 
California Fair 295 
Caterpillars 295 
Cereus, Night-blooming. .296 
Cheese, Keeping 294 
Clover, Plastering 294 
Cotton-Growing 296 
Currycomb Substitute... 294 
Eggs, Keeping 29.t 
Egg- Plants, Cooking 294 
Egg-Plants, Large 293 
Fair, New-Jersey. 
Fair, N. Y. State. 
Flax Investigations .... .296lSeeds by Mail 
Flax-Seed, White 296JSeeds Received 
Flowers, Splendid 295 Shawls, Cleansing 
Frost and Cotton 292lSheep, China 
Fruit-Bottles, Cleansing .293) Smut, Preventing 
Fruits, Small 293 Soldier's Widow 
Garget in Cows 294 1 Sorghum Hints 
Generation Spontaneous.296| Spinach, Cover 
Glass Shades 295 Strawberries from Seed 
Grape Show 2921 Strawberries Mixing 
Grapes, Training 295jStrawberry Plants sent.. 
Grapes. Unripe 293 Strawberries, Productive 
Grape-Vines, Pruning. . .293 Subsoiling ..'. 
Grass for Sheep 394 1 Sugar Evaporators 
Grass, Orchard 294 Sulphuric Acid 
Grass, Quack 293 Sumach for Dyeing 
Ileal, Work on 293 Tea, New-Jersey 
Honey, Northern 294lTobacco for Ants 
Pear, Beurre Clairgeau. 
Pear Trees in Michigan 
Pears, Profitable 
Plant, Variegated 
Plants Named 
Pork, Packing , 
Portrait Monthly 
Potatoes, Deep Plowing 
Potatoes, Large Yield.. 
Poultry, Greasing 
Poultry, Stuffing 
Poultry, Vermin 
Prairie Breaking 
Pumpkin Show 
Questions, Practical 
Raspberries, Planting... 
Rats, Expelling 
295]Ready Reckoner 
292 Seed, Ailanthus, etc 
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Humbug . 294 
Husbandry, Laws 293 
Husking Aids 293 
Insects Named 295 
Ivy, English 294 
Lilies, Japan 293 
Milk, Drying Up 295 
Names Pronounced 294 
Tnmalo, Good 296 
Tomatoes, Ripening 293 
Udder, Caked 293 
Veronica and the Rural 
New-Yorker 295 
Wine-Plant Humbug ..-294 
Wine-Souring 294 
Wines, California 293 
A GEEAT 
66 Baker's Dozen." 
Fourteen for Twelve. 
We want a large number of new readers to see, and get 
acquainted with the Agriculturist before January, for 
those who do so, will generally bring along other new 
readers to begin with the next volume. For this reason, 
and as a special bounty, we make the following offer: 
Every new name arriving on and after October 
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the remaining numbers published this year — all for 
a single year's subscription — if the name is distinctly 
stated to be a new one, as noted below.*) — Thus : 
New Subscribers for 1864, received during October, 
will get the paper for November and December, of 
this year, free. — (14 months for tlie price of 12.) 
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Our readers will doubtless be greatly pleased to learn 
of the return of Mr. Mason C. Weld, to resume his labors 
in the Agriculturist Office. A year ago he was tempora- 
rily called away, on short notice, to an important place 
In the country's service, and, as Lieut. Colonel of the 
renowned 25th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, he has 
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in the reopening of the Mississippi by the capture of Port 
Hudson. His regiment having served out their time and 
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journal. — Our good Agricultural Ship has never before 
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constant and earnest editorial labors of Prof. Tbuiber 
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Our thanks are due to an appreciating circle of readers, 
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