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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents for November, 1864. 
Agriculture— Dignity of. . 
.319 
Architecture— Western Rural Illustrated. .312 
Asses and Their Progeny Illustrated.. 3W 
Bees— Apiary in November 305 
Biscuit— Directions for Making Light 320 
Boys' and Gills' Department-The Family Umbrella 
—The Toad and the Wounded Soldier— About Sig- 
natures—Hint about Spelling— Capital Experiment 
—Problems and Puzzles 11 Illustrations. .321—322 
Bread— More Good Directions 32 ^ 
Buckwheat Straw 315 
Cattle— Hornless, How Made 314 
Cletiira— Alder-leaved, or Sweet Pepper Bush. II Ins. .317 
Cooking Hints— Plum Pudding— Sponge Griddle Cake 
—Recipes Wanted— Substitute for Wicking 32 
Crab Apple as a Lawn Tree 
Dwellings— Primitive 
Fair, New York State 
Fair, Pennsylvania Slate, .. . 
Farm Work in November 
.318 
.Illustrated. .312 
307 
307 
305 
Flax and Flax Machines Illustrated. .313 
Flow-er Garden and Lawn in November 306 
Fruit Garden in November ~ 30f > 
Garden— Kitchen in November.. 506 
Gate— New and Convenient Illustrated. . 312 
Geraniums— Hint on Keeping 318 
Grape Culture — Notes on 315 
Grapery — Cold, in November 306 
Green and Hot-Houses in November 306 
Heeling-in— Methods and Advantages 317 
Household Notes for November 319 
Implement— Fruit Growers' Hoe Illustrated. .318 
Ladies— An Invitation to 319 
Meat— Novel Way to Freshen 319 
Market Report and Commercial Notes 306 
Melodeon— Harmonium— Cabinet Organ 320 
Names of Plants— Foreign, etc 317 
Neat's Foot Oil— How Prepared 316 
Notes and Suggestions for November — Illustrated. .305 
Nurseries at Rochester 307 
Orchard and Nursery in November 306 
Osage Orange— How to Propagate 312 
Parsley— How to Keep in Winter 318 
Pears, Sheldon — A General Favorite ...Illustrated. .319 
Salt and other Minerals in Food 319 
Sanitary Fund, Further Contributions Acknowledged. 307 
School Houses— New Plan 2 Illustrations. .313 
Thatching— Practical Hints 314 
Tim Bunker on the Sanitary Commission, etc 314 
Trees— Weeping Willows 2 Illustrations. .318 
Tritoma Uvaria — Garden Ornament Illustrated. . 317 
Vegetable Slicer — Convenient Illustrated. . 320 
Walks made ol Coal or Gas Tar 318 
Wicking— Substitute for 320 
INDEX TO 
Agricultural Companies, 
Ashes for Grass, 308 
Apple-butter Stirrer, 7//.309 
Baby Tender 311 
Bean for Name 310 
Bees Italian 310 . 
Blackberry Crop 309, Lady Exhibitors at fairs. 309 
Books, Ag'l Scarce :. 311 Lice on Cattle 308 
Bran Mash 3081 Linseed— Flaxseed 310 
Cabbages don't Head 308jLottery Schemes 311 
Cabbages, Wintering.... 308 Mails to Utah, etc 311 
Cancers, Incurable 310l Matches 310 
Castor Oil Beans 310|Moss for Bulbs, etc 309 
Callle, Sale of. 311 Muskegon Co. Mich 308 
Ceratochloa 310 ] Orchards, injured, grain. 308 
Cheeses, kept in winter. -310|Peaches, early 310 
Chicory.- 310 Peanut culture 310 
Cider, making good 309|Pear, Onondaga 310 
Cow milking herself ///..308jPears, manyon a stem. .309 
Ducks. Do they pay ?.. 308 Pears, very large 310 
Editor Drafted oil! Peat for Fuel 309 
Fanning a "Profession". 309|Pickles. sweet 310 
Farming on 10 acres 309 Plants, named 310 
Flowers, double Slo! Plants, winter protection. 309 
Foundations of Hi story.. 31 II Plow in fall to kill grubs. .309 
Fruit prizes, Greeley 310 P. O. Money Orders 311 
Fruit Societv. E. Pa 31l|Poetry and Essays 311 
Garget, bloody 3081 Potatoes, Sweet 310 
Gas Lime for Manure — 309 Poultry-house Fountain. ,308 
Grape notes and queries..309|Soldier's Packages 311 
Grapes; Thorns 310:Squashes, Did'nt know.. 310 
Grape vines, removing. .310 Stammering, treatment. .311 
Grass for a Lawn 30SlStocks, Grape, Thorn 310 
Hen, eccentric 308 i Strawberry planting 310 
Honeysuckles 309 Thorn Seeds 309 
Horses, Blinders on 30S| Tomato sauce (green). . .310 
llumhug, N. Y 311 Tripe, How prepared 310 
Humbug, Photographic. 31l| Veterinary 311 
.Humbug, Whiskers 311' Willow, White 309 
A ISAEER'S »OZES.-(14 for 12.) 
Few subscribers for IS 65, received this month (Novem- 
•ber), can have the paper or November and December of 
this year also, by enclosing 10 cents extra— that is, $1.10 
for fourteen months. Terms advanced after Dec. 1st. 
1 BASKET," OR SHORTER ARTICLES. 
, 308 Humbugs, Sundry 311 
Hungarian Grass 303 
Insect on Strawberries. .310 
Insects, Barn Weevils.. .309 
Insects, Canker Worm .309 
Insects to be Named, H/.309 
IV. B.— Terms Advaaiced. 
For all subscriptions received on and after Dec. 1st, the 
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copies for $12 00 ; twenty or more copies for $1 00 each. 
This small advance, though long struggled against, has 
become absolutely necessary, bjL reason of the continued 
high price of labor, printing paper, and other materials, 
if, as we must do, we maintain the full size of the paper, 
and keep up its progressive character. As this notice 
will not become generally disseminated before the first of 
December, all subscriptions received previous to that 
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Further Continuation of 
The Fire Dollar Premium. 
Any person sending twenty subscribers, will be present- 
ed with One Dozen of the Great "Agriculturist 
Strawberry'' Plants, if desired, to be forwarded free next 
Spring, unless specially preferred now. In addition to 
the dozen to the getter up of the Club, the subscribers 
can each have their own plants, if the application and 
the extra 5 cents each be sent along with the subscrip- 
tion, as noted under "Plants Free to Subscribers." 
Flax 
and Hop Culture,— $200 Offered 
for Practical Information. 
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upon the culture of Flax and Hops, and we know of no 
books that give just the instruction needed. In order to 
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FLAX CULTURE. 
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The essays should not exceed 20 pages of foolscap 
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HOP CULTURE. 
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The essays should not exceed 15 pages of foolscap 
each, and should be written on one side of the paper only. 
The maximum number of pages is given above. Those 
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amount of information, clearly expressed, in the smallest 
space, including all necessary items from preparing 
the ground to marketing the crop , in short, such informa- 
tion as is desirable for novices in the business. The 
pamphlets on tobacco and onion culture, published at this 
office, will indicate what is wanted. The essays wiU be 
illustrated by engravings as fully as can be desired, if 
drawings or sufficiently clear explanations be furnished. 
The Essays must be received at the Office of the Ameri- 
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the name and Post Office address of the writer to accom- 
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by practical men. Good information from experienced 
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style, which, if necessary, can be amended by the editors. 
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Committee of practical men that can be obtained. 
What ISoolcs ?— Answers by letter cab not 
be given to the many who inquire what books we recom- 
mend on this and that subject. In the list on page 326, 
the number of stars indicate our opinion of comparative 
value. The American Farmers' Cyclopedia contains a 
great variety of topics. American Weeds and Useful 
Plants is a valuable work for those who will study it— as 
every one should. Barry's Fruit Garden is excellent. 
Bridgeman's works are good. Fuller's Grape Cullurist 
is the best work on the subject, and so is Herbert's Hints 
to Horsekeepers. Langstroth's and Quinby's Bee books 
differ a good deal in the kind of information given, but 
both are good, and both should be owned and read by all 
who keep bees— and more persons should keep them. 
The National Almanac is a valuable work for reference 
and statistical figures. Dadd's large Illustrated work on 
the Horse, with colored plates, is a fine volume. Thaer's 
Agriculture is well worth studying. Youatt & Martin 
on the Horse is a standard book. Many other starred 
books, equally good, may well adorn every table or libra- 
ry, and be read and studied also, if obtainable. See p. 311. 
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