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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents for March, 1864. 
Agricultural Society — New- York State 72 
Asparagus — Field Culture 75 
Barn— Pennsylvania Double-Decked. .5 Illustrations .73 
Barometer ami Thermometer in Jan Illustrated. .72 
Bees — Apiary in March. ... 67 
Bird Boxes and Houses 3 Illustrations.. 70 
Birds— Sap-Sucker Injurious Illustrated.. 77 
Boxes for Mailing Plants Wanted 68 
Boys' and Girls' Columns— He Knew How, and Did his 
Best— The Shingle-Boat— Puzzles and Problems— 
"Home, Sweet Home "—Curious Debt and Credit 
Account— A Noble Business Man—" 011a Podrida " 
Amusement 5 Illustrations. .87, 88 
Carriage. Family— Wanted 79 
Cattle— Pleuro-Pneumonia in Massachusetts 76 
Cattle— Yoking by the Head 3 Illustrations ..80 
Cheese — Making in Winter 86 
Cider— Power Mills, Borden's Concentrated 78 
Clover Sown on Winter Grain 73 
College — Kansas Agricultural 79 
Cooking Hints, etc.— Wholesome Bread — Pickled Oy- 
sters—Sweet-Apple Pudding -Cheap Rice Pudding 
—Pudding Hint— Sweet-Apple Pie— Griddle Cakes- 
Soft Ginger Cake — Scalded Cream 86 — 87 
Cotton-Growing by Northerners 74 
Cotton— Peruvian 79 
Dress for Spring — Notes on 85 
Emigration Societies Wanted ...75 
Exhibition Tables at Agriculturist Office 67 
Farm Work, etc., for March „ 65 
Flower Garden and Lawn in March , 66 
Flowers — New, Offered this Spring 83 
Frozen Limbs— How to Treat 86 
Fruit Crop at the West S3 
Fruit Garden in March 66 
Fruit Growers' Meetings — Notes from 67 
Garden— Kitchen in March 66 
Garden — Plan for Vegetable Illustrated. .83 
Gopher — Notes *on Illustrated .77 
Grafting — Plain Directions 8 Illustrations . .81 
Grape Culture — Notes and Queries 82 
Grapes — Growing from Cuttings 2 Illustrations . .84 
Grass Land — Seeding with Spring Grain 73 
Green and Hot-Houses in March 66 
Hot-Bed for the Family Garden Illustrated . . 82 
Human Body — Power of 86 
Laborers— How to get from Europe 72 
Manuring Fruit Trees— Valuable Experience 83 
Market Review— Price Current '. 89 
Mattresses — Corn Husk 81 
Moths— How to Repel 66 
Notes and Suggestions for the Month Illustrated. ..63 
Old Ways — Sticking to ; Striking illustration 78 
Orchard and Nursery In March 69 
Photographic Union — Villainous Scheme 85 
Plants — Internal Structure of 5 Illustrations . .84 
Plowing— Spring 74 
Plow-Makers' Convention 79 
Potatoes— Starting Early 75 
Poultry— Value of 78 
Prairie-Breaking— Opinion of an Old Pioneer 74 
Quince Trees -Management «f 82 
Raspberries — Black Cap 85 
Sanitr ry Commission — A Noble Work 72 
Sheep- -Treatment of Yeaning Ewes 80 
Tim thinker's Trip to Washington 85 
Tobacco — Improved Method ot Hanging. .Illustrated. .76 
Vegetable, New— Tuberous Chervil 83 
Wheat, Spring— Sowing 75 
Wool-Growers Convention in Ohio 79 
Yards, Front— Clearing Up 85 
INDEX TO " BASKET," OR SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Adv't— Variety Store 68 
Ag'l Society, Conn 71 
Ag'l Society, Maine 71 
Ag'l Society, N. J 71 
Ag'l Society, Ohio 71 
Ag'l Society, Penn 71 
Ag'l Society, U. S 71 
Ag'l Soc, York, (N. B.) .71 
Aimer. Agr. in German.. 
Animal;; at Central Park. .71 
Apples— Best Sorts 71 
Apples for Western N.Y..69 
Beans Wanted 70 
Beef Tickle 71 
Bees — Carrying 68 
Boards— Costly 70 
Book— Farmers' Manual. .69 
Book, Grape— Fuller's... 68 
Bonk— S. School 69 
Bread— Good 71 
Cheese Factory 71 
College— Maine Ag'l 71 
College— Mass. Ag'l 71 
Corn and Pork 70 
Cows-Caked Bag 69 
Cows— Soiling Frontable..69 
Draining Peat Lands. 70 
Fences Undesirable 70 
Flax-Cotton 70 
Flax— Yield per Acre 70 
Flowers— "Star Ipomea" 69 
Filtering Materials 71 
Fruit Notes— Iowa 71 
Fruit Wanted 
Fruit Tree Wash 69 
Gapes in Chickens 71 
Gaidens — Liming 71 
Grass Seed with Grain. ..70 
Gypsum — Sowing 70 
Hobson's Choice 68 
Horses — Bots in 
70 
Horses— High Priced. 
Humbug Doctors 68 
Humbugs — A Request 69 
Humbug, New C9 
Humbugs — Sundry 68 
Investment — Good 68 
Knitting Machine 68 
Lemonade— Portable. ...71 
.6S Lilies — Japan 71 
Lottery Humbug 69 
Lucerne at the North 69 
Manure Cisterns 70 
Manure — Dead Animals . . 70 
Manure — Saving Liquid. . 70 
Milk Stool— New 68 
Mule Raising 70 
Onion Book 68 
Orchard — Crop for 71 
Pastures, Manuring 70 
Pea Weevil 68 
Pears for Bees 71 
Pears in Western N. Y. ..71 
Pigs and Gunpowder. ...70 
Pleuro-Pneumonia 70 
Plows— Steel 70 
Pork— Packing 70 
Portrait Wanted 68 
Poultry— Best ..70 
Prairie Breaking 70 
Reaper Trade 70 
" Sambuct Wine" 69 
Sanitary Com.— Hogs 68 
Seeds by Mail ... 69 
Seeds— Vitality 71 
Sorghum Seed, Sprouting.70 
Sorghum Syrup, N.J 70 
Subsoiling— Use of. 69 
Timothy on Medium Soil. 70 
Timothy Seed per Acre... 69 
Tobacco Book 68 
Tobacco Fertilize; 
Horses— Scratches 69 j Washing Machines 71 
Horses— Dead in Army. . . 70) Wheat, Mulching 70 
Special to Artvei-tisers.— We call the 
special attention of Advertisers to the terms and conditions 
on page 89. The first edition of this number is over 90,000 
copies, and tho first edition of the April No. will perhaps 
reach 100,000; so we must go to press Boon after March 10th. 
Half or more of the space for April is already engaged. 
A Special Request— To Our Readers. 
The attention of the reader is respectfully asked 
to the following statements : Twenty-two volumes 
of this Journal have heen published at the uniform 
rate of SI per volume, though its size and value 
have been more than doubled, and the cost of the 
work and the engravings is tenfold greater than 
formerly, -while printing paper has more than 
doubled in price within two years, and other ex- 
penses have increased in nearly the same ratio. 
Paper has usually fallen after, the first of January, 
but this year it goes up, and'we have greatly feared 
having to vary from the favorite old price. But 
we have bought a supply for 100,000 subscribers 
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