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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Index for December. 
Animals, rationing 337 
Apples, Important List. .332 
Ask your Wife 348 
Baby Tender 8*. .347 
Barns, How about? 330 
Bees, Apiary 330 
Boys' and Gills' Depar't — 
Thoughts for Dee.— A 
Lively Plant — Problems 
and Puzzles— Read Pre- 
mium Lisl — First and 
Last Steps— Now for the 
Wood Pile— Fortunes of 
War— Little Tilings- 
Learn to Give 5*. ,349-350 
Blue Grass. Seeding 337 
Cattle of Brittany..'! 340 
Cattle, Sheltering S36 
Candy for Children 349 
Cooking Hints — Oysters : 
Mush ; Muffins 343-340 
Com Crib, a good *..33o 
Corn, Saving Seed 34*2 
Farmers' Clubs 33S 
Farm Work in Dec . .329 
Flower Garden, etc. 33n 
Fodder, Cooking 337 
Fruit Garden 330 
FruitTrees,Sirengthen'd3l4 
Garden Kitchen 329 
Grapery, Cold 330 
Green arid Hot Houses. .330 
Grape Mania 341 
Grape Vines, l T nfruilftil*.345 
Grapes in Kentucky . .341 j 
Hogs, Slaughtering .2*.. 338 
Homestead. Attractive . .348 
Honey Locust Hedges.. .343 
Horse, Jokes by 340 
Hoises, Shoeing 340 
Household in Dec 348 
Humbugs 339 
Insects, Fighting 346 
Insects on House Plants. 346 
Javelle Water 348 
Kale, Ornamental... 2*.. 343 
Leaves, Fall of 344 
Manure, Care of 336 
Manure, Economy in 336 
Manure Cellars 336 
Market Reports 331 
Meadow Saffron *..343 
Notes and Sggestions.*..329 
Oil Cake or Meal 340 
Orchard and Nursery. ...329 
Oysters, Cooking 348 
Pea-nut or Ground Pea.. 341 
Pear, Lawrence *..34o 
Potatoes, Size to plant .336 
Poultry and Poultry 
Houses . ... 3*.. 335-337 
Premiums for 1865 330 
Pruning, Hints on.. .3*. .345 
Root Grafting 5*. 344 
Rose, The Green. ..*... 346 
■Sheep, Grub in Head. . . .339 
Smoke House *..339 
Slocks, Doucin, etc 345 
Tending the Baby... .6*. .314 
Tools, Wagons, etc 340 
Turnip, Strap-leaf. 340 
Weather Vane *..339 
Wheeler & Wilson's 351 
Wine Grapes, Wine 344 
Winter Journey 2*. .342 
Witch Hazel *. 346 
INDEX TO BASKET, OK SHOI'TER ARTICLES. 
Advertisers' — Notice 331 iMuck, Treatment 333 
Apples for West 532 Mullein, Origin 333 
Apples, Wormv 312 iNotice to Subscribers . . .334 
Beehive. Protection 333 [Orchards, Manuring 332 
Bees in Cellar. 334 Orchards, Replanting. .,332 
Book, Farm 4 Acres 331 Osage Orange Outings. .332 
Book, Greeley's 334 Osage Orange Seed 332 
Books, Tucker's Registei 334 Peanuts in Illinois . .333 
Broom Corn Seed, Dw'f.333 Pear Trees, Manuring. .332 
Cabbage Seed 333 iPears, Knotty 332 
•Chicory Failure 333 |Pears, Sheldon 322 
Cistern, Barn 333 j Pears, Winter 332 
Cistern- Brick 333 I Petroleum Humbugs 331 
•College, Agl., Mich 334 
Compost Defined 333 
Con vote Wall 333 
Corn Stubble Compost.. 333 
Drying Kilns Wanted.. .333 
Evergi eons from Seed.. 332 
Evergreen Screen 332 
Plowing for Corn '333 
P. O. "As Usual" 334 
Pom. Soc. Proceedings. .332 
Poplar, Seedling 333 
Portraits. Military 331 
Potato, Prairie Seedling.333 
Potatoes, Sweet Kp'g... 333 
Flowers, Brompt'n St'cks334 Poultry, Nests *....334 
Fruit, etc.. in Del 333 |Roses from Seed 332 
Fruit-Picker *.. 331 .Soldiers, Papers for 331 
Fruit Stock Seeds 332 Splice for Timber ...*.. 334 
Game, Laughable 331 Is. S. Singing Book 334 
Gingerbread 333 |S. S. Question Book.... 333 
Grafting Wax 334 'Strawberries Killed 334 
Grape Trellis, Osier 333 iStrawbei ties, Protec'ng.332 
Grapes, Iona 332 Strawberries, Query.... 332 
Grapes in Hen Houses.. 332 [Subscribers 100,000 334 
Grapes, Propagating 332 
Grapes, Yeddo 332 
Hedges, Hawthorn 332 
Hedges, Nalive Thorn.. 332 
Hot Bed Sash *— 334 
Humbugs, Sundry 334 
Index'lo Bind 331 
Items in Index 331 
Kerosene for Lice 333 
Terms, New ,..334 
Thorns from Seed 332 
Time Up ? 334 
Tobacco Culture 331 
Tree for River Bank. .. .332 
Vine, Long 332 
Vinegar, Cider 333 
Wheeler & Wilson's. .. .331 
Worms in Well 333 
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