AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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Contents for January, 1873. 
Apple, the Peaked Sweeting 3 Illustrations.. 21 
Buys ami Girls' Columns — Our Guessing School — Doc- 
tor's Talk about Candles— Aunt Site's Puzzle-Box — 
Old Nurse's Visit— A Boy who Turned Out Well. 
5 Illustrations. 27, 28 
Butter, Poor 19 
Cattle, Dutch or Holsteiu 11 
Chaff, Value of 13 
Compost Heaps 23 
Conservatory in Tasmania 23 
Convention. Shorthorn .10 
Convention, Swine-Breeders' 9 
Cooking Food for Stock 4 Illustrations . .16 
Coral-Berry Illustrated . .24 
Collage, Design for a Gothic 3 Illustrations.. 13 
Coxcomb, New Japanese Illustrated. 21 
Education of Farmers, Better 19 
Exhibiting Vegetables Illustrated.. 24 
Farmers Hiring Help in Cities 19 
Fire-Bngine and Hose-Carriage Combined 1U..YI 
Flower Garden and Lawn in January 4 
Fruit Garden in January 3 
Greenhouse and Window Plants in January 4 
Harrow, a Chain Illustrated. . 12 
Hints about Work . 2 
Household Department — Wall Decorations — Where to 
Set the Bread to Rise— Mollis— Home Topics— Which 
Paper?— "Splendid Cake"— "Brown Betty." 
3 Illustrations.. 25, 26 
Hoven, Remedy for Illustrated. .13 
Jerseys, Scale of Points for 18 
Keening Vegetables and Fruits in Cellars 23 
Kitchen Garden in January 3 
Lambs, Care of.. 19 
Manure, Care of in Winter 19 
Manure. Earth-Closet IS 
Market Reports 4 
New Roses at Lyons 23 
Nulls from the Pines— Grape-Vines — Cuttings of 
Grapes. Currants, etc.— Gardeners' Secrets— Orna- 
mental Shrubs— Catalogues for 1873— English Horti- 
cultural Journals 22 
Obituary Notices— Rev. J. Knox, Horace Greeley 10 
Ogden Farm Papers, No. 35 — Cows— Mr. Mackic's 
Dairy— Winter Feeding— Treatment of Young Stock 
—Lane's SiiL-ar Beet— Fallowing '. n 
Orchard anil Nursery in January 3 
Pigs, Grade or Cross-bred 10 
Pigs, Ring for Illustrated. .19 
Rosebuds in Winter Illustrated . .22 
Roughening the Shoes Illustrated. . 1 
Shepherd of the Landes Illustrated. 20 
Splice for Timber Illustrated. . 18 
Tree Seeds 21 
Turkey-Breeding, Facts in 13 
Walks' and Talks on the Farm, No. 109 14,15 
Wiitc-i-Whccle ■') Illustrations . Yt 
Wheelbarrow, New Illustrated . .23 
Windmills, Use of 2 Illustrations. .15 
index to "basket," on snonTErt articles. 
Apples for III 9;Homcsteading 6 
Beans 6 Homesteads in North-west- 
Beans ami Sunflowers 
Bean-Soap 
Bee-Keepers' Magazine. 
Blunt's Strainer 
Bone-Flour and Plaster. 
Batter, Purifying 1 
Butler. White 7 
era Iowa 7 
Ilorse Distemper ... '.''. ' '. 1 
House Plan ' 5 
How to Make a Good Cow. 8 
Jersey Bulls— Correction.. 7 
Knuckler 5 
Lard, Sweet 9 
Carrot Seed 6;Leal;y Cistern and Wet Cel- 
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Cattle, Molasses for 9| lar 
Cellar, a Wet 7 Lime and Manure, Mi.xin 
Cement Pipes 7 Lime. Spent ... . 
9 Manure, Beef Scraps for. 
9 Manure Heap, Covered 
9 Market-Garden, Rentiii" 
6 Markct-Gardcnin: 
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Chestnuts, California. 
Chestnuts in Iowa 
» tider, Boiling 
Cistern Filter 
Clover-Seed, Sowing "Mo, State. Ilort. Society 
Co-operation 9 Mules, Breeding. 
Com and Clover on Peat. . G," Non-Sitters "Sitting 
Corn-Husking Machine... 8 North Atlantic Ex Co 8 
Corn-Stalks and Corn for Old and New . '5 
Hogs 7 On the Wrong Side!!!!!"" 7 
Cotton-Seed, Using 7 Osage Orange g 
Dairymen's Assoc, Ohio.. 5 Pasture for Bermuda 7 
Dairy. Prospects for a.... 8, Peach-boring Beetle " 8 
Ditching Machine 7 Pisciculture". .. . a 
Dogs 9, Potato, Title.. 9 
Draining, Need for SjPoultry Soc. West'ii Pa " 9 
Drains, What are the Profit— a Question for 8 
Cheapest! 6,Quincc- Trees . 7 
Drive-Wells 6, 9.Becvcs & Simoneon ' tj 
Ducks. How to Raise 6 Remington & Sons 5 
Egs'-Plants in England 9. Right Doctrine ' '" 8 
Emasculation 8 Rooks County, Kansas 9 
Errors 6RuleofThree '""s 
Fanciers' Ass. and Bulletin 6 Rural Sun, The ' 6 
Farmers' Club in Cal 9 Salt for Poultry 8 
Farm Mills S Scratches "'6 
Feed, Cutting 7 Seed-Corn ' 5 
Fence, Another 7 Sheep-Netting, Cost of. 7 
Fence-Posts, Preparing. . . Spavin g 
Fistula 8|Stock, Value of.'.! 9 
Flock, a Wisconsin 6|6tump- Pulling 6 
Force-Pumps, Best (iKundry Humbugs. 5 
Fowls'Feathers Falling off 9(8undry Questions 5 
Sweet-Potatoes, M'nure for 7 
Tar-Fever 6 
The Outlook ! 5 
Thrashing-Machine for 
Cider-Mill 7 
Tobacco Crops 8 
Underground Treasures. . . 9 
Veterinary Surgeons 6 
Vick's Catalogue 5 
5i Vinegar-Making 8 
7jWashingWool 8 
Fowls, What Breed of. 
Fresco for Walls and Ceil- 
ings 8 
Fruit-Growers' Assoc, Pa. 6 
Gang-Plows 9 
Gas-Lime 7 
German Agriculturist 5 
" Give us Gravel, or we 
Die" S 
Grass Bmiquets 
Grease for Cog- Wheels. . . 
Grottoes 7 Where shall he go 9 
Herd Law, No 9 Where shall we Stop ?. . . . 8 
Hogs and Sheep for a Moun-| Windmills 7 
tain Farm 9 Wire-Worms 7 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1873. 
Thankful for the Past ; hopeful for the Future. 
This is our feeling iu commencing the first number 
of the new volume of the American Agriculturist 
for the year 1873. 
There is at the present time a wide-spread dis- 
satisfaction among farmers in regard to the condi- 
tion and prospects of our agriculture. High 
wages, exorbitant freights, and low prices for our 
products have a depressing effect. Many farmers 
think we shall never see good times again. They 
are proposing all sorts of remedies — some good and 
some bad. What we propose to do, and to recom- 
mend the farmer readers of the American Agricul- 
turist to do, is to stick to the farm. The darkest 
hour of the night is often just before daybreak. 
Agriculture will be as profitable in the future as iu 
the past — and, we believe, more so. Let us keep 
at work. Let those of us who are poor cut dowu 
expenses as much as possible, buying nothing we 
can get along without. Let us take good care of 
the stock this winter, and get everything ready for 
a vigorous push at. farm work in the spring. Now, 
at the commencement of a New Year, let us make 
up our minds to be better men and better fanners. 
Wc all ought to know our weak points. There is 
occasionally a farmer who is so excessively sys- 
tematic and orderly that he does little else than 
"putter." He has no disposition to undertake a 
big job and put it through. Others like nothing 
but steady work. They would rather build a fence 
round a twenty-acre lot than stop to pick up a few 
rails that have blown off. A good farmer must 
have both dispositions. He must push forward the 
large jobs and attend to the little oues at the same 
time. He must be systematic and orderly. In 
short, he must think as well as work. 
Hints nix. hi Work, 
Keep a Diary, or let some member of the family 
keep it for you. Write dowu every night the work 
that has been done dming the day, the state of the 
weather, and any facts iu regard to the stock, etc., 
that ought to bo recorded. It is very little trouble 
and is exceedingly useful— and the longer it is kept 
the more interesting it becomes. 
Keep Accounts. — It is astonishing how many far- 
mers there are who keep no regular account of 
their receipts and expenses. If you have hitherto 
neglected this matter, neglect it no longer. 
Make an Inventory of everything you have on the 
farm, its condition, and value. 
Thy Old Debts, and make as few new ones as pos- 
sible. Collect what is owing you. Keep all your 
pecuniary matters straight, and know exactly what 
you owe and what property you have. 
Look to your Insurance, and see that your policy 
covers all your property. It sometimes happens 
that grain is insured in one barn and not in another, 
and so with implements, harness, carnages, ma- 
chines, wool, etc. Look into the matter. 
Make Vie House Comfortable. — See that the win- 
dows are tight and the doors fit close, and that the 
cold air does not rush in between the floor r.nd the 
base-board. If you do not know how to remedy 
these matters, ask a carpenter. Make all the rooms 
comfortable, and occupy them. It is a foolish 
thing to spend a good deal of money in building a 
fine house and then live only in the kitchen. 
Wood. — See that the wood-house is liberally fur- 
nished with wood, and that the wood-boxes in 
the house are never empty, and kindling is handy. 
Coal. — Do not put this in a scattered heap on the 
cellar-floor, but provide a large box or bin, with * 
door on one side that slides up and down, but 
which does not reach the bottom within eight or 
ten inches. From this hole the coal can be easily 
shoveled into the scuttle. The iliding door should 
be large enough for a person to pass into the bin 
when the coal is so nearly exhausted that it can not 
be reached from the hole. 
Ashes. — If you do not wish to burn up, provide 
in some convenient place a brick or Btone ash-pit, 
or an old potash-kettle may be used temporarily. 
Wood-ashes are much more dangerous lhan coal- 
ashes. When apparently quite cold, there may be 
a few charred pieces of wood on fire that only need 
air and contact with wood to burn up the premises. 
Icy Walks around the house and out-buildings 
should be sprinkled with coal-ashes. Sprinkle a 
little salt on tire slippery door-6teps, etc. 
Clear the Paths of Snow. — Men inclined to procras- 
tinate wait until the storm is over, for fear that if 
they sweep off the snow it will blow in again ! 
They like to walk about in the snow. By and by, 
some days or weeks after the storm is over, they 
will spend hours in doing what a little promptness 
would have enabled them to do in minutes. Clear 
off the snow at once, while it is still falling if need 
be. It will save labor in the end, and you can get 
about with ease and comfort. 
In the Barns, keep everything in its place. Sweep 
out frequently. Sort over old iron, and sell all 
pieces of broken castings, worn-out plow-points, 
etc. Horseshoes, old bolts, or any pieces of 
wrought-iron that may sometimes be useful, 
should be sorted and placed where you can find 
them when wanted. 
Brand all the Tools, and mend and mark the bags. 
Provide a place for them, and keep them there. 
Much of the Profit and Pleasure of farming depends 
on attention to these little matters. But we must 
6top here. This is merely preparatory. It is get- 
ting ready for work ; but wc may and should have 
regular, steady work at the same time. The trouble 
with many is that, when actively engaged with reg- 
ular work they fail to keep things in order. 
Write Down all you want to Do, and you will not 
say that there is a lack of profitable work for the 
winter. We do not say that it is advisable to hire 
much help in winter. That depends on «ircntn- 
stances. You and such men and boys as you have 
should be kept fullyand usefully employed. 
The "January Thaw," if we have one, should be 
improved in getting ready for another long spell of 
frost. Winter came on so suddenly, that many things 
had to bo left undone that we had intended to do 
