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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
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PUBLISHERS’ ANNOUNCEMENT! 
Accounts, True account of. 203 
Agricultural Society, Benton Co., Minnesota,.201 
American Institute, Report of for 1852.195 
Asparagus Beds.198 
Book, A Good.-.205 
Bound Volumes, and Back Numbers.204 
Boys Better, Another.203 
Camel Company, American.196 
Cattle, Short-Horn, the Blind leading the Blind.193 
“ For Breachy.200 
Cheese and Cider, False coloring of.196 
Cheese making.195 
Connecticut Agricultural Society, First Show of.200 
Editor’s Farm Notes, Bound Brook N.J.193 
“ “ “ Southern New-York.198 
Eggs, keeping.200 
Enjoyment making the most of.199 
Farm Fence, Uncle Sam's.201 
French Exhibition for 1855.,197 
Fruit, Improving...199 
Horticultural Exhibition, of Rhode Island.198 
Horticulturists, Note to...198 
Markets.205 
Mohawk Valley, N.Y., Farming in.196 
Moths, How we got rid of.201 
Muskeet Grass.201 
Ocean, Mysteries of the.203 
Patent Claims, Agricultural.197 
Potatoes, Quantity raised per acre.201 
Poultry, The Dorking Fowl.195 
Reaper McCormick’s, Legal decision.196 
Saleratus.200 
Seed, Changing.-194 
Subscribers, Special notice to all.205 
Subscriptions Expiring.200 
Tall Gentleman's Apology, (Poetry,).203 
Tired, Constitutionally...203 
Tree, Wellington...199 
Vermont.199 
What I see here and there, No. 1...202 
Special Notices to Subscribers, Correspondents, Ac- 
Twelfth Volume of 
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
THE LEADING WEEKLY AGRICULTURAL PAPER OF THE COUNTRY, 
THE AMERICA3ST AGRICULTURIST, 
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¬ 
plete index. 
It. is beautifully printed with type east expressly for it, and on the best of clear white paper, with 
wide margin, so that the numbers can be easily stitched or bound together. 
A copious Index is weekly added, which will be fully amplified at the end of each half yearly vol¬ 
ume for the bound work. 
COMPREHENSIVE IN ITS CHARACTER, 
Each volume will contain all matter worth recording, which transpires either at home or abroad, 
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 Publication|of the 
day. , 
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The Markets will be carefully reported, giving actual transactions which take place from week 
to week, in Grain, Provisions, Cattle, &c., thus keeping our readers constantly and reliably advised 
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