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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents for January, 1864. 
Agriculture— Necessity of Developing 13 
Air and Ocean— Interesting Items 13 
Barometrical Record for November Illustrated.. 8 
Beef— Dry Salting 23 
Bees— Apiary in January 3 
Bees— Experience in Artificial Swarming 11 
Boys and Girls' Columns— A Happy New-Year— The 
Mushrooms and Umbrella— The Deceptive Knot— 
An Amusing Toy— About Gold-Leaf— Puzzles and 
Problems— The Christmas Pie— A Generous Boy— 
The Beggar Boy and the Flowers— Pleasant Work- 
Obtaining New Fruits— Game of Proverbs— The New 
Premium .... "Illustrations . .23-23 
Boys— Implements for. Wanted -.-11 
Bread— Cheaper lo Buy than Make. 22 
Bread— Why so much Poor? 22 
Cabbage, Brussels Sprouts, etc 3 Illustrations . .13 
Cuttle— Herd Records— Breeders' Associations 17 
Cheese-Making— Manufactories and Associations 15 
Chloroform— Administering to Animals 17 
Corn Cribs— How to Ventilate. 3 
Cranberry Meadows -Sand not Beneficial 19 
Cross-Fertilization ... 19 
Dress Elevator — Mme Demorest's Illustrated... 21 
Dress— Notes on Styles the Present Winter 21 
Farm Work, etc., for January 1 
Fruil— Do Varieties Degenerate? 19 
Fruit Growers' Meetings— Notes from.... 3 
Fruit— Neglected Native, The Papaw Illustrated.. 20 
Fruit-Trees— Open Heads Desirable 19 
Fuel— Preparing and Using 17 
Garden— Flower, Fruit and Kitchen, |in January 2 
Grafting Seedling Stocks. ". .3 Illustrations. .20 
Grape Culture— Queries and Notes IS 
Grape Rot— Cause of 18 
Grape- Vines— Reasons for Training IS 
Grapes— Are They Deteriorating?. 19 
Grapes— Best Sorts for Wine 19 
Ham and Eggs— How to Get the Eggs 22 
Highway Borders— Improving 12 
Homestead — Get and Keep 21 
Horses— Value of Thoroughbreds Illustrated .16 
Ice-Houses— Filling 8 
Insects— Curculio Repelled by Water 18 
Iowa — Notes on Crops, etc 11 
Lamps for Coal-Oil— Improvement in Illustrated.. 21 
Lime— Curious and Useful Notes 14 
Lung Protector— Improvement on -21 
Manure — Treatment of Night Soil 10 
Market Review — Notes on 8-26 
Measurement of Grain-Bins 11 
Muck and Leaf Mould 10 
New- York State— Assessed Value 10 
Notes and Suggestions for January Illustrated.. 1 
Orchard and Nursery in January 2 
Painting Houses — Best Time for 17 
Pies— Cheap Crust for Pumpkin 23 
Plant, Wonderful — Welwitschia mirabilis 21 
Plaster— Its Action as a Fertilizer 10 
Potting Plants— Soils for 19 
Poultry — Experience with Leghorn Fowls 9 
Prairie— Notes on Breaking 11 
Premiums for 1864 25 
Pudding— Farmers' 23 
Sausage Meat— How to Make and Keep 23 
Seed — Portulacca Illustrated. .19 
Seeds— Reasons of Failure 19 
Sheep Farming in South America 14 
Sheep — Notes on Chinese 17 
Snow-Plow — A Convenient Implement 14 
Soda Better than Saleratus 22 
Stews— How to Prepare 23 
Straw Shelters, Stables, Ropes, etc. . .5 Illustrations. . 9 
Tea— New-Jersey, Analysis of Leaves 13 
Tools for the Workshop 3 
Water in Barn and Stock Yards S 
Wheat in Pennsylvania— The Boughton 11 
Wheat— Sowing the Fife in Autumn— Experiments. .. 11 
Wheat — Spring Sown in January 3 
Willow, White— More Notes on Illustrated.. 12 
Wolf— The Prairie Illustrated. . 9 
Wool— State of the Market... 8 
INDEX TO "BASKET," Oil SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Advertisers, Notice to 4 
Advertising Pages 4 
Advertising Profitable... ..6 
Apples, Crab 7 
Apples on Crab Stock ...5 
Apples, Seedling 7 
Apple, The Utter.. 4 
Barrels, Cleansing 5 
Bees, Foul Brood 6 
Books on Propagation G 
Books on Slock. 7 
Borer, Peach. 6 
Botanical Journals 5 
Butter, Large Yield 5 
Canadian Seed Postage.. . .4 
Cattle, Choking 7 
Chemistry, Youmans' 4 
Cisterns above Ground 4 
Cow, Tonic for 7 
Cream, Scalded 6 
Dairying Unhealthy 5 
Drain Tile Ends 6 
Drain Tiles, Best ....5 
Farm at Edgewood 6 
Fencing Sheepfolds 7 
Fertilizer, Patent 7 
Fowls, Chittagong 6 
Fruit Lists...?... 7 
Fruits for Central 111 7 
Gardening Books 7 
Grape, Adhondac 4 
Grape Queries 7 
Grape Trellis, Movable... .6 
Grapes, Creveling 7 
Grapes, Hartford P;olific..6 
Hedges. Hawthorn 7 
Hens, B'Hies for. 7 
Horse, Bad Habit 5 
Horses, Cantering 7 
Horses, Cribbing 7 
Humbugs, Medical 6 
Humbug Mining Go's.. ....7 
Humbug Sewing Machine. .6 
Humbug, Willis & Co 6 
Humbug 'Newspapers 4 
Index, Cost of 6 
Lentils, Growing 4 
Manure, New Patent 7 
Money, Investing ....4 
Money by Express 32 
Milk, Richness of 5 
Milkweed Fibre 5 
Muck, Preparation of 5 
Onion Culture 6 
Onion, Large 4 
Paint for Houses 5 
Paints, Cheap 5 
Patents, Investing in 6 
Pears, Best Sorts 5 
Plants, Frozen 6 
Plow, Ditching 5 
Pruning Maple 6 
Plums, Nebraska 5 
Pumpkin, Large 4 
Pumpkins for Cows 7 
Rail-Road, New 4 
Raisins from Grapes 4 
Roofs, Leaky 5 
Roses, Pruning 5 
Sewing Machines, Cheap. .7 
Seed Items 4 
Sheep for Fine Wool 5 
Sheep for Mutton 5 
Sheep, Hoof-Rot 6 
Sheep, Hoove in 7 
Soils for Fruits 4 
Squashes, Large Yield 5 
S. S. Medal 4 
S. S. Question-Books 4 
Stones, Burying 5 
Strawberry Information. 5-32 
Strawberry, Russell's 6 
Sugar in Soghum Bagasse. o 
Thistles, Canada 5 
Tobacco Growing 7 
Tomato, Fejee 
Trees for Prairies 5 
Trees, Girdled 6 
Trees, Grafting. 6 
Trees, Scale Remedy. ...5 
Trees, Tarred Paper for.. 5 
Trees, Warts on 6 
Wagon Question 4 
Water Gap 6 
Wheat, Sprouted 6 
Wool Growers' Conv'n..,.6 
B3P We respectfully solicit the kind aid of every 
reader of this Journal, in introducing it among his 
friends and neighbors. The price of paper keeps 
up to nearly double former rates, which greatly 
increases the cost of publication. It will be a hard 
year for us, if we adhere to the old terms, as we 
desire to do ; but a full list of subscribers will help 
through the expenses. Every name will aid in this 
direction, while every copy introduced into a neigh- 
borhood will tend to the awakening of thought, 
and promote improvement, not only on the part of 
those who read it,but will indirectly benefit all others 
whom they influence by their words or example. 
Good pay, in the form of premiums, is offered 
on page 35, to those who devote time to making 
up and forwarding large clubs. But, aside from 
these inducements, we invite each reader to for- 
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to each one who does this, aud will return the 
favor by the making the paper as good as we can. 
The Strawberry-Plant Distribution— Ex- 
planations to New Subscribers. 
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Many thousands of new subscribers are now arriving, 
and sundry questions are asked by them, concerning the 
plants to be distributed. We therefore explain in this first 
number of the Volume: Last Summer a remarkable new 
strawberry plant was first brought to notice, by the aged 
Seth Boyden, the noted inventor of Patent Leather, Mal- 
leable Iron, etc. It attracted great attention, from its 
wonderful size, its apparent productiveness, its good fla- 
vor, and beautiful scarlet color extending to the center. 
Within half an hour of its first being seen, the Publisher 
of the Agriculturist conceived the plan of securing all 
the plants, (but few in number,) and multiplying them 
for general free distribution among Ins subscribers for 
1864. A high price was at once paid for the plants, and 
much labor and expense have been, and are being devoted 
to their care and culture. Leading, experienced cultiva- 
tors, who came in afterwards, were so impressed with 
the appearance and promise of the new plants, that they 
offered large sums for the monopoly and sale of them 
but the orignial design of the Publisher has been ad- 
hered to, though he could sell out the plants to-day for 
enough to buy a good farm. 
If the plants prove as good as they promise, our readers 
will get the first benefit, and the public will soon be sup- 
plied through them. If they should not prove to be all 
that is confidently anticipated, no one will be the loser, 
except the publisher, as the cost to each recipient, is 
only Jive cents (in addition to their subscription at single 
or club rates) which barely covers the postage and oil- 
cloth when they are to be sent by mail. Having dis- 
tributed over 50,000 other strawberry plants, to all parts 
of the country, through the mail, and with very rare fail- 
ures, we doubt not that these will go safely in the same way. 
Over an acre of ground is now planted with them, and 
it would have been thoroughly covered with runners but 
for the unprecedented drouth last Autumn. As it is, we 
shall at least.have several tens of thousands of plants to 
distribute the coming Summer, and we expect to supply 
every applicant on our books this year, in time to get the 
plants well started before the season closes. The distri- 
bution will be in the order the names of applicants stand 
upon our subscription books for Volume XXIII, begin- 
ning with those entered last July, and continuing on until 
all are supplied. Those applying in the future will be 
supplied as certainly as those in the past, but must wait 
their turn. If through a bad season or otherwise, we 
cannot get plants enough this year for the last applicants 
coming in they will be supplied in order, the next 
Spring. All applicants now on our books, and many 
thousands more, will certainly receive the plants this 
year, Providential casualties only excepted. 
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