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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents foi February, 1864. 
Animals— Important Fact in Breeding 42 
Animals— Producing Either Sex at Will 35 
Apples for Illinois 50 
Apples— Grafting Winter on Early Stocks 49 
Barrels-Tainted 54 
Bath for Children 54 
Beef— Expensive Fattening ..42 
Beef Pickle— Another 54 
Bees — Apiary in January 34 
Bow Pin for Ox-yokes— Improved Illustrated.. 44 
Boys and Girls' Columns.— A Talk about the Snow- 
As Good as a Puzzle — Problems and Puzzles — A 
Careless Printer— Happy Little Chicks— Who Wants 
to be Rich ? — Singular Tradition— Rosa Bonheur and 
. her Pictures— Lord Melville and his Pet Ram— A 
Little Farming Talk— Kissing a Sunbeam— Sheri- 
dan's Wit 6 Illustrations.. 55, 56 
Buckwheat Pancakes— Improved 5t 
Calves— Hints on Raising 42 
Catalogues— Nursery and Seed 50 
Cattle— Pleuro Pneumonia in 47 
Cattle— Where are the Best ? 47 
Coffee— How to Make Good 53 
Cooking Hints, etc.— Liebig's Soup— Soup from Mince 
Pie Meat— To Finish a Baked Potato— Baked Squash 
Scalded Cream— Snow-ball Cake— Sponge Cake- 
Home-made Candy — To Remove Rust Stains 55 
Cows— Profit of Keeping Poor 44 
Customs, Various— Forks versus Knives 54 
Editors— Notice to Agricultural 35 
Eggs — Four Cents Apiece 47 
Farm Help— Emigrants for 35 
Farm— Productive in Iowa 43 
Farm Work, etc. for February 33 
Flax Culture -Profit of 42 
Flower Garden and Lawn in February 34 
Flowers— £. Pretty Twiner, Ipomea Illustrated. .52 
Frame— Rusic for Carte de Visites Illustrated.. 53 
Fruit Garden in February 34 
Fruit Growers' Meetings—Notes from 35 
Garden — Kitchen in February 34 
Grapes in Northumberland Co., Pa 50 
Grapes— Wine in Mo.— Norton's Virginia 50 
Grasshopper— A Mammoth 47 
Green ami Hot- Houses in February n 34 
Handkerchief— Pattern for Marking ...53 
Help— Look out for Early 47 
Hogs — Notes on Various Kinds 3 Illustrations . .41 
Horse-Breaking — Is Rarey's Plan a Failure ? 43 
Horse Stables — Improvement in 3 Illustrations. .44 
Horticultural Society, 111. State— Meeting 50 
Live Slock Trade, 1863 40 
Malady— Distressing 54 
Manure of Different Classes of Animals 46 
Manure from House — How to Save 46 
Manure — Uses of Sea- Weed 45 
Manures— Fermentation of 46 
Maple Sugar Making. Illustrated. A3 
Markets— Review of Breadstuff's 40 
Meat, Smoked — How to Cure 54 
Notes and Suggestions— Pisciculture Illustrated..ZZ 
Onions— A Talk about 4 Illustrated..^ 
Onions— Note on Cultivation 45 
Orchard and Nursery in February 34 
Paints and Varnishes— Notes on 54 
Plants— Easy Propagation from Cuttings 49 
Plants— Internal Structure of 4 Illustrations . .48 
Potatoes More Profitable than Tobacco 44 
Prices Current N. Y. Markets 40 
Quince Stocks— Raising for Pear Trees 49 
Sheep— Shelter needed for Illustrated. .4S 
Skins— How to Dress with Fur on 43 
Trees— Forest from Seed— Evergreens 51 
Trees — Native Broad-Leaved Evergreens „ 51 
Wagon Wheels— Best Form for 47 
Water Gaps— Ho w to Make ; . . . 5 Illustrations . . 45 
INDEX TO " BASKET," OR SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Acre, Productive 33 
Agriculturist Mail burned36 
Agriculturist — South 36 
Apples for Ohio 37 
Bags, Gunny 39 
Barley, Good 38 
Bee Sting— Remedy 37 
Bees in Houses 38 
Book on Green-Houses., .37 
Books— What to Buv ....36 
Broom Corn, Dwarf 3S 
Canada Seed Postage. . ..36 
Cattle Breeders' Conv'n 
Cheese Convention — . . .36 
Cider, Keeping Sweet 38 
Cockroaches 39 
Coffee Imitations 39 
College Lands, Ag'l 33 
College, Penn Ag'l 38 
Colonizing the South.. . .38 
Compost, Book on 37 
Conservatory, Healing — 39 
Corn, Protecting 39 
Cotton in Missouri 
Currant Borer. 
Maps, War 37 
Milk, Shrinking 38 
Millet, Hungarian 38 
Orchard, Renovating 37 
Osage Orange- Seed 37 
Plant for Shade 37 
Plants Named 37 
Plaster near Salt Water.. 38 
Poultry, Brahma Pootra.. 37 
Poultry, Dominique 39 
Purchasing Agency 39 
Quails and Chinch Bug. ..39 
Rats— Riddance of. 37 
Roofs, Leaky 39 
Saffron, Cultivation 39 
School, Good 38 
Seed Distribution 36 
Sheep Ticks, Remedy 3S 
Strawberry, Agricuft. . . .38 
Strawberry, Wizard 39 
Stump Machines 38 
Temperature Alarm 39 
Thistles, Canada 37 
38iTim Bunker's Health 36 
19 jTranspI anting Boxes .... 38 
Disasters, R. R. etc 37 Tree Protector, New 37 
Farmers' Club,Skaneatel's37 
Flowers, Alyssum etc 39 
Flowers for Children — 37 
Grape Queries 36-38 
Grass, Rye. 38 
Hedge, Hardy 37 
Hedges, Hawthorn 39 
Hog— Largest 36 
Horses, Bad Habit 38 
Horses, Worms in 36 
Humbugs— Sundry S6 
Implement, New. 39 
Lamps without Chlmneys.37 
Land Leases South 36 
Laurestinus 39 
Lentils 39 
Letters Unanswered 36 
Lime and Sorrel 37 
Lime, Hydraulic 39 
Lucerne 39 
Tree, Purple Fringe. 
Trees from Nurseries.... 38 
Trees, Heeling in 37 
Trees, Ice on 38 
Trees, Maple Seed 38 
Trees, Sprouting 38 
Trees, Whitewashing 39 
Tuberoses 37 
Turkeys, Feeding 36 
Turnips, Large 39 
Vineland Lands 38 
Wagon Queries 38 
Walnuts, Shucking 39 
Western N. Y. Trouble . .30 
Willow— White 36 
Wine, Black Currant 37 
Wine Plant Humbug... -37 
Wine, Sambuci 37 
Woolgrowers in N. T 38 
Wringers, 500 Presented, 39 
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