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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
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Air, subterranean, essential to vegetation.264 
Ass'S, belling.267 
Bound Volumes, and Back Numbers.268 
Bugs on the melon, curs for.263 
“ To destroy on trees.261 
Calves, Rearing.261 
Canary birds—Our sanctum.267 
Cattle, Hints to stock growers.262 
“ Large sale of Short-horns.264 
Chickens, to preserve young.267 
Connecticut River Steamers—Granite State.265 
Corn soaking for horses. 262 
Correspondents, Notice to.268 
Correspondents & Contributes, Note to.268 
Cows, Great butter.264 
“ Poisoned with saffron.267 
“ Spaying for milking and fattening.258 
Crops Prospect of.268 
Curculio on the Plum, Sulphur and lime water for.263 
Dutchess County, Agricultural Society.264 
Editorial Correspondence.265 
Editor’s Notes on Mr. Haines’ Farm.257 
Eggs in Great Britain.267 
Farming, Basis of good.261 
Fast men.267 
Flies, How to get rid of.266 
Food, Variety of, Necessary.260 
Fuchsias.263 
Garden. Hints for the.262 
Gardening for the Young.263 
Gun, Son of a.267 
Haine’s Farm, Editor’s notes on. 257 
Hawaii, Horticulture in.262 
Horticulturists, Note to.262 
Horticultural Products at the South.262 
Hours, Bright and Gloomy.266 
Ingenuity, American.-.266 
Inns, English and Irish.267 
Issue, An early.264 
King Birds, Do they eat Bees ?.264 
Ladies, Oh!.266 
Lake Farm, Visit to a.265 
Manure, Mixing sawdust with.260 
Markets.268 
Meech’s, (Judge,) Farm.265 
Milk, Composition of. 260 
Name, What’s in a.267 
New-York State Agricultural Show .257 
Paid, Not well.207 
Patent Claims, Agricultural.262 
Piece, A small.-...267 
Pigs, Extraordinary yield of.266 
Pity, Objects of our.267 
Plowing deep.261 
Potatoes, Heavy business in.263 
Poultry, Heroism of a Cochin-China.260 
“ Points of the Spanish Fowl.260 
Promise, A.267 
Rice, A good kettle for boiling.266 
Rooster, Hannibal on the.267 
Sawdust with manure.260 
Shortening in Lime beans and Squashes.263 
Shows, State and County, Time of holding.264 
Sowing thick and thin.259 
Summer Hymn, (Poetry,). 266 
Subscriptions Expiring.264 
Subscribers, Special notice to all.268 
Talkers, The.267 
Tea in America.267 
Vermin on Animals and Trees.261 
Wheat crop in California.261 
Wheat, Hoeing.263 
Wisconsin Agricultural Society.265 
Witness, Witty.266 
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