Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man. — W AsmNGTOit. 
VOL. IX. 
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER, 1850. 
NO. XI. 
A. B. Allen & R. L. Allen, Editors. 
C. M. Saxton & E. Blaxcjtaed. Publishers. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
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CONTENTS OF NOVEMBER NUMBER. 
Espaliers ; Cemetery of the Evergreens; Special Manures ) 
Depraved Appetite J 
Jefferson-County Dairy Farming, Solon Robinson 
Remarks on Breeding 
Farm of Mr. Buckalew 
Agricultural Geology, No. 5 
Set Out Your Fruit Trees ; Economy and Preservation of ? 
Farmyard Manure i 
A New Wheat for the South, P. Davidson ; Garden and ) 
Fire Engines ; Errors in Composting Farm Manures J 
Agriculture in New Hampshire, No. 2, P 
The Cut Worm, D. J. Fluker ; Protection of Oyster Beds ; \ 
Water Oxen ; Storm Glass ; Fall Plowing J 
Sundry Queries, A Young Farmer ; Culture of Grapes. 
To Renovate Pear Trees, I. ; Certain Cure for Footail in ) 
Sheep, Huch Eaton ; Village Lectures, No. 1 { 
Electro Magnetism, as a Motive Power; Improved Hay 
Rakes, L. Durand ; To Prevent Fermeutation in Ci- 
der, Wine, or Beer 
Sketches of Canada, Solon Robinson ; To Prevent Oxen \ 
from Hauling or Crowding J 
The Hog ; Force Pumps 
Construction of Lime Kiln — Burning Lime 
Important Discovery — Lard Rendered Fluid by Mixing ) 
with Rosin; Alderney Butter — Choice Grapes ; > 
White Blackberries ^ . ) 
Storing Turnip and Other Roots for Winter ; Why is the ) 
Garden more Fertile than the Field ; Feeding Stock > 
on Pea Fields > 
Prepare Your Wheat for Winter ; To Prepare Aspara- ) 
gus Beds ; Employment of Poorhouse Children ; i 
California Mode of Constructing Dams ; The Impor- 1 
tance of Leaves to Plants S 
Review of the October Number of the Agriculturist, Re- \ 
viewer \ 
Extension of the Sugar Region of Louisiana ; Portable I 
Steam Engine for Farm Purposes $ 
The Hen Fever ; French Contract for English Cavalry ( 
Horses ; Arrack \ 
The Garden Roller ; New-York Agricultural Warehouse ; \ 
Awards at the Late State Fair and Show S 
Saratoga-County Agricultural Fair, A. Sherman ; To I 
Measure Hay in Stacks I 
Ladies' Department. — Comfort and Cookery ; Anotta 
Dye ; Elder-Bud Pickle ; Making BriMS— for the use 
of Young Housekeepers ; Jerked Beef 
Foreign Agricultural News 
Editors' Table - 
Review of the Markets 
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