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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
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Acknowledgements.152 
Back Numbers.152 
Bees, beneficial to fruit trees-..149 
Bone Question, A woman on the.147 
Bound Volumes...152 
Candles, Lamps &c.. Interesting facts about.152 
Chloroformed Horse.149 
Correspondents, Note to.15G 
Crops, Appearance of ..15G 
Digging Machines.149 
Drouth, Will there be this summer?.145 
Eclipse, of 26th May, 1854.153 
Elephant on Board.155 
Enough.15G 
Farmers, Two contrasted.148 
FenciugTimber, Whence are we to derive it?.147 
Fish, Plenty of. 155 
Flax from Russia cut off.14G 
Flax, Cultivation of.145 
Flowers of Spring in New-England.151 
Fowl, Tenacity of life in a....153 
Fruit.155 
Frying Pans.-.149 
'German Agriculture.148 
Grape Culture, Buchanan on. 150 
Height of a horse, How to determine from colt.148 
Hope.154 
Horticultural Society of Brooklyn,.150 
Horticulturists, Notes to.150 
Kentucky Correspondence. 147 
Liquor, Good.155 
Magazine, United States, Notice of.153 
Markets.156 
Mastich for outside of Buildings 153 
Mean time. ^..155 
Mother, Deal Gently with My, (Poetry).154 
Nebraska Bill, Another.155 
Nitrate of Soda, Value of as a Manure.147 
New-York City 15G 
Patent Claims, Agricultural.149 
Pie Plant.153 
Plowing, Lucky yield from.14G 
Polishing, Wanted.155 
Prices thirty-seven years ago.155 
Reply, A good. 155 
Rhetoric, Practical. 155 
Sad Iron, What is the sorrow of the.154 
Sickness.155 
Spring Sport 149 
State Poultry Society 153 
Suckers don’t bite - - - -.155 
Subscribers, Special notice to all 157 
Sugar cane, Tall.15g 
Switch him on.. 
Taste. Home of 155 
Thorns, Little.155 
Trap for a thief, A new. 156 
AVanted, you will be 154 
AA’atson, Farm of Mr..145 
AVeather, Animals foretelling 149 
AVeather, Probable, During coming summer - - - 145 
AVoman 155 
Wool, Price of.15g 
Yankee getting married, 154 
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