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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
PUBLISHERS’ 
ANNOUNCEMENT! 
American Agriculturist, Credentials of.809 
“ English Proclivities.312 
Arkansas, Cattle Fields of.309 
Baby, A Model. 314 
Bonnets, Punch on.314 
Bound Volumes, and Back Numbers.317 
Botanical Science.311 
Boy, The Strawberry.310 
“ Who liked his seat. 310 
“ Letter—Delaware.310 
Brains vs. Money.316 
Cattle Train, An Immense.313 
Cholera. Bright side of.316 
Civility a fortune.315 
Convention, Joint-worm.312 
Corn Field, Extensive.309 
Correspondents, Notice to.•.317 
Correspondents & Contributers, Note to.317 
Couldn’t Believe him.309 
Crystal Palace, English Agriculture Museum.309 
Cucumbers, Raising.305 
Customer, An agreeable.-.315 
Dutchman abroad...315 
Editorial Correspondence.312 
Farm 150 Miles Long.309 
Flax Cultivation in the West.305 
“ culture.- - • - • ' • 309 
Fox, Habits of the.311 
Grass Seed, sowing.309 
Horse Distemper, Treatment of the.307 
Horses, Sale of Trotting. 313 
Horticulturists, Note to.311 
Illinois, Large Farm in.306 
Inconsistency.316 
Leg, The man of one.216 
Legacy, A large.311 
Longevity.306 
Magazine, National.313 
Markets.317 
Milk for the Parisians.309 
Mother. The Home .314 
North Carolina, Mountains, Agricultural Notes on.305 
Neighborhood, A Fruitful.308 
Newspaper, Influence of a.315 
Old but Good.316 
Parrot, Anecdote of two.316 
Peaches,.314 
Poultry—Sebright Bantam.307 
“ in France.309 
Punctuality.316 
Rain, Indication of. 309 
Review—The Modern Horse Doctor.306 
Sharon and Salisbury, Ct. Iron making in.314 
Shows, List of State and County.313 
" in 1854, “ “ “ .316 
Snowballs, Summer.315 
State, Doubting a future.311 
Subscribers, Special notice to all .317 
Subscriptions Expiring.312 
Tallow, Where to get.311 
Think again; A Story about the Queen.316 
Ulster Co. N.Y., farming in. 308 
What’s the use.311 
Wheat Crop,. 312 
Wife, The Loss of a.314 
Wisconsin and its crops.313 
Wish, A poor man’s. 315 
Women, young. ,....315 
Worship, Influences of family.315 
Special Notices to Subscribers, Correspondents, &c- 
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Twelfth Volume of 
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
THE LEADING WEEKLY AGRICULTURAL PAPER OP THE COUNTRY. 
THE! C3r3 FIXOXTXjsT'O’XI. X JS T T 
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 Puhlieation^of 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, &e., 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. 
SUCH A PAPER IS DEMANDED BY THE FARMING COMMUNITY. 
1 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 aU the intelligent farmers of this country in their continued effort to fur¬ 
nish a weekly paper of high and reliable character, which shall he progressive, and at the same time 
cautious and conservative in all its teachings. 
ESSENTIALLY AN AGRICULTURAL PAPER. 
The Agriculturist will r.ct depart from its legitimate sphere to catch popular favor by lumbering 
up its pages with the silly, fictitious literature, and light, misceUaneous matter of the day; it has a 
higher aim; and a small part only of its space will he 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 
reHable 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, slock 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. 
THE CHEAPEST PAPER IN THE COUNTRY OF ITS CHARACTER. 
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 he 
worth to the reader more than the cost of the paper for a year. 
SPECIMEN COPIES. 
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the publishers. 
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