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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
PUBLISHERS’ 
ANNOUNCEMENT! 
April Fools.171 
Back Numbers.1G8 
Blackberry wine.167 
Bound Volumes.168 
Boy, My little.171 
Boy who kept his purpose...170 
Bread, The New Humbug.1G8 
Capsicum Plant, (Pepper,).167 
Carrot, Culture of the Field.162 
Cattle, Importation of Short-Horn.169 
Miller’s Sale of Improved.169 
Cinnamon Gardens in Ceylon.167 
Cholera for sale.172 
Conscience to be preserved.171 
Corn, To start with Guano.169 
Cows, Milking. 163 
Crops, Appearance of.172 
“ State of the.169 
Curious.172 
Dinner at the President’s in olden time.167 
Drill.1G9 
Done vs. Dun.171 
Editors Farm notes.161 
Eggs, Barge vs. Small.163 
Elephants in the East.171 
Flax seed. Lending.163 
Florticulture.165 
Flowers of Spring New-England.166 
Fowls, Gapes in.164 
Fuchsias.165 
Garget, (Caked udder) in Cows.169 
Gas not unhealthy.171 
Gethsemane, The Olives of.167 
Good Humor, A test of..172 
Goose Story.172 
Grain, Where it goes to.164 
Hay-making, Are you ready?.164 
Horse Premiums of Rhode Island Society.161 
Horticultural Society of Pensylvenia. 165 
Horticulturists, Notes to.165 
Humbug, the “New Bread”.168 
Jackson, (Gen.,) and the clerk.170 
Lily, The water.166 
Lucerne.169 
Lyons Manufactures.169 
Markets.172 
Milk, Croton.169 
Mixed Goods, Woolen and Cotton.167 
New-York, Lands in Western.1G7 
Newspapers, Marks on.169 
Patent Claims, Agricultural.164 
People’s Choice.172 
Potato yield. Stating it rather high.168 
Poultry Cheaper than Pork.163 
Poultry Show, National, And Northern Farmer.162 
Premium, Seasonable.169 
Raspberry, Hill Farm.161 
Seneca Co, (N.Y.,) Farming.163 
Sharpening up.172 
Sbuscribers, Special notice to all.172 
Sugar, How much do we eat.1G9 
Swinish.172 
Vegetables, Preservation of.171 
Virginia, Gardens Farms in.166 
Watt's, (Dr.) arrival.169 
Weevil.169 
Wonder, A..-.171 
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J, A. GRAY, Printer,, 95 and 97 Cliff street, N.Y, 
Twelfth Volume of 
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
THE LEADING WEEKLY AGRICULTURAL PAPER OF THE COUNTRY. 
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THE A3VIER.ICA.3\r iAGrniCULTUIlXST, 
A weekly Periodical of 16 large quarto pages , making an annual volume of 832 pages of 
nearly double the size of those in the first ten volumes of the Agriculturist. 
N. B. The work is divided into two semi-annual volumes of 416 pages, each volume having a com¬ 
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A copious Index is' weekly added, which will be fully amplified at the end of each half yearly vol¬ 
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and which can serve to instruct or interest the Farmer, the Planter, the Fruit-Grower, the Gardener, 
and the Stock-Breeder ; thus making it the most complete and useful Agricultural Puhlication|of the 
day. 
CORRECT AND VALUABLE MARKET REPORTS. 
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to week, in Grain, Provisions, Cattle, &e., thus keeping our readers constantly and reliably advised 
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SUCH A PAPER IS DEMANDED BY THE FARMING COMMUNITY. 
[. The Publishers confidently believe that the agriculturists of this country are becoming too much 
awake to the demands of their own calling, to be longer satisfied with the slow monthly issues of a 
paper professedly devoted to their interests, or to trust alone to the irresponsible extracts in a “farmer’s 
column,” so popular just nowin papers chiefly devoted to business, politics, or literature; and they 
look for the united support of all the intelligent farmers of this country in their continued effort to fur¬ 
nish a weekly paper of high and reliable character, which shall be progressive, and at the same time 
cautious and conservative in all its teachings. 
ESSENTIALLY AN AGRICULTURAL PAPER. 
The Agriculturist will not depart from its legitimate sphere to catch popular favor by lumbering 
up its pages with the silly, fictitious literature, and light, miscellaneous matter of the day; it has a 
higher aim; and a small part only of its space will be devoted to matters not immediately pertaining 
to the great business of agriculture. The household as well as the out-door work of the farm will re¬ 
ceive a due share of attention. The humbugs and nostrums afloat in the community will he tried by 
reliable scientific rules, and their worthlessness exposed. It is the aim of the publishers to keep this 
paper under the guidance of those who will make it a standard work, which shall communicate to its 
readers only that which is safe and reliable. 
AN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL. 
The American Agriculturist stands upon its own merits ; and the truthfulness, zeal and ability which 
it brings to the support of the interests of the farmer. It is untrammeled by any collateral business 
connections whatever; nor is it the organ of any clique, or the puffing machine of any man or thing. 
Thoroughly independent in all points, its ample pages are studiously given alone to the support and 
improvement of the great agricultural class. 
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. 
The American Agriculturist is under the editorial supervision of Mr. A. B. Allen, —its principal 
editor for the first ten years—and Mr. Orange Judd, A.M., a thoroughly practical farmer and agricul 
tural chemist 
They will be assisted by Mr. Lewis F. Allen, an eminent practical farmer, stock breeder, and 
fruit grower ; Rev. Wm. Clift, and Mr. R. G. Pardee, both widely known as pleasing and instructive 
writers on gardening and other departments of practical agriculture, and, in addition to these, a 
number of other eminent agricultural and horticultural writers. 
All the editors are men practically experienced in their profession, each of whom can handle the 
Plow as well as the Pen. 
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