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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Accident, Not fatal. 
Aim High. 
Anecdote. 
Ball, Not a Fancy. 
Beets, Large Early. 
Books, Review of, Farm Implements. 
*• “ “ Hawaiian Agr. Soc. Trans... 
Bound Volumes, and Back Numbers. 
Brains, Location of the. 
Bread, Domestic.-. 
Broom Corn. 
Cattle, Short-Horns, Fine Shoulders. 
" Export of British, What the English say. 
Clover. 
“ Hay Stacks Protecting. 
Corn, Hoeing and Top-dressing. 
Correspondents, Note to. 
Country Home, (Poetry,). 
“ A Trip to the. 
Court, A Sneezing. 
Crops, Prospect of. 
Crops. Still in Season.. 
Doggerel. 
Domestic, Labor, Practical Knowledge of. 
Draining, Manure. 
Dun, A. 
Editor’s Farm Notes. 
Farming, A relic to old style. 
Fish Story. 
Flax, Cultivation of. 
France. Postage to. 
Fruit at the South. 
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Twelfth Volume of 
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
THE LEADING WEEKLY AGRICULTURAL PAPER 0E THE COUNTRY. 
THE -<^.3VE33DE=AXO-A.3Nr AGniCUIiTURIST, 
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 cast 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 Publicationjof the 
day. 
CORRECT AND VALUABLE MARKET REPORTS. 
The Markets will be carefully reported, giving the actual transactions which take place from week 
to week, in Grain, Provisions, Cattle, Ac., thus keeping our readers constantly and reliably advised 
as to their interests. During the past year the knowledge obtained from these Market Reports alone, 
has saved our readers thousands of dollars, by informing them of the best time to sell or purchase. 
Frying-pan, Animated.219 
(Jetting along.220 
Golden Mottoes.213 
Grass, Broom. 220 
Gum Arabic.213 
Hawaiian Islands, Transactions of Agricultural Society. ..217 
Horticulturists, Note to....214 
Horticultural Society of Albany and Renssalaer.214 
“ “ ** Astoria and Ravenwood.214 
“ “ “ Brooklyn.214 
“ “ “ New-York.214 
Instructions, Following.219 
Liberal.219 
Lightning, To restore those struck by.213 
Manners for the Millions.220 
Markets.220 
Middlesex County (Conn.) Agricultural Society.217 
Ministers, Rights of.213 
Nile Valley, Fertility of the.213 
Nutmegs, Bayard Taylor on... . .215 
Of Age.220 
Orange Family.215 
Ould. 219 
Palace, Crystal.217 
Patent Claims, Agricultural.213 
Philosophy, Speculative.219 
Pigeon, Carrier.212 
Postage to France.220 
Potato, A Heathen.211 
Practised.220 
Prices, Future.212 
Print it in Letters of Gold.219 
Resurrectionist, A.220 
Robin, Singularity in a.213 
Sayings, Wise.213 
Seed Grass.216 
Sharp. 220 
Shaving by the acre.213 
Somebody says truly.220 
Species, One of the.220 
Stock, Export of British.210 
“ ''Feeding 1.211 
Stupidity, Cure for.220 
Subscriptions Expiring.216 
Swearing, Remedy for. 219 
Tomatoes, Bush your.215 
True, Mostly.220 
Urchin, An.220 
Weevil, Barn.213 
■Wheat and Wool.212 
Wife, A Frightened.218 
Year, The Present.219 
^'Economical Arrangement to furnish other 
Periodicals. 
Arrangements have been made with several Publishers 
to furnish their periodicals in connection with the Ameri- 
can Agriculturist at reduced prices. Read the following: 
The American Agriculturist will be furnished 
Harper’s Magazine, one year for 
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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 now in 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 Hglit, 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 be 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 itsoum 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 und 
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 th eir profession, each of whom can handle the 
Plow as weU as the Pen. 
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The American Agriculturist is supplied to regular subscribers at a cost of less than four cents a 
number, of sixteen large pages; and to large clubs for less than two and a half cents. Each number 
will contain suggestions for the treatment of soils, manures, crops, stock, &c., which will often be 
worth t-o tlie reader more than the cost of the paper for a year. 
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J. A. GRAY, Printer, 95 and 97i,ClifF street, N.Y. 
ALLEN & CO., 
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