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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
America as a Field for Gardeners.119 
Anecdote of a Gate .Sic.123 
Back Numbers.120 
Barn Cellars.120 
Barn-yard Buildings.114 
Birds, Protect tlie Little.121 
Bound Volumes.120 
Boy, A Noble.- - - 122 
Bulls and Mares in Buenos Ayres.120 
Business, How to commence.122 
Cattle, Hoven in.114 
“ More Short-Horn Coming.121 
“ Show. Great French.113 
Charley, Epitaph on.123 
Chinese Note Beek, Leaves from my 115 
Chloroform Counteracted.121 
Corn, Harvesting.119 
" Pop.121 
Crystal Palace.121 
Cucumbers, To keep Fleas and Bugs from - . - - 118 
Hog, Terrier.113 
Fishhook, Removing a.123 
Flax and its Seeds.113 
Flowers, Use of, (Poetry,).•.119 
Gooseberries, Mildew on.119 
Grapes for food.118 
Horseback Exercise.117 
Horticulturists, Notes to.118 
Horticultural Society of N. Y.118 
“ “ “ Spring Exhibition.121 
Lakes, Size of our Great.123 
Manures, AVaste.. ..120 
“ AVhy should we compost ?.110 
Markets.124 
“ London Fruit.118 
Millionaire. An Incipient.123 
Mind, Overwork of the.124 
No.123 
Oregon, A New and Beautiful Tree in.115 
Osage Orange Hedge, Cultivation of.114 
Paper, AA r ood.116 
Party, A Family.123 
Patent Claims, Agricultural...117 
Peas, A Thing to Plant them with.120 
Pig, Fat Suffolk.117 
Plowing Deep.116 
Poultry, A Hen Story.110 
“ Is itprofitable.122 
Questions well answered.124 
Raspberries, Prune your.118 
Rose. Salfaterre.118 
Senses. Deception of the.123 
Show of Flowers and Singing Birds.121 
Smart.123 
Something Left.123 
Subscribers, Special notice to all.124 
Switch him^n.124 
Tallow, Tallow.115 
Thoughts, A few Sober.122 
Vine Mildew.119 
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Twelfth Volume of 
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