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During the present year we have distributed among our 
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seventy-one varieties. The season has badly interfered 
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TERMS-INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. 
Contents for September, 1858. 
Agriculture of Olden Time in America.267 
Basket—Our. 259 
Beans—Limas, six feet high .275 
Bees and Bee Culture—A list of Books on.270 
Bees—Apiary in September.259 
Bees—A Weak Stock. 259 
Bees—Drones. Should they be killed.27n 
Bees—Reply to Notes on.269 
Birds—To Mr. and Mrs. Robin Red-Breast.274 
Blackberries—New Rochelle and Newman’s Thorn 
less.2 Illustrations. .277 
Borage.259 
Boys and Girls—Note to.282 
Boys’ and Girls’ Own Columns.281 
Buildings for the Farm—Barns..VII. .3 Illustrations. .264 
Calendar of Operations for September. 258 
Cat—An Honest.267 
Cattle—Hereford.2 Illustrations. .268 
Cattle— Swiss. 268 
Cattle—Values of Blooded.268 
Cement—Water Proof....261 
Cider—How to Make Good.274 
Cider Making—Treatment of the Pomace.274 
Cisterns—Cheap.266 
Colts—Fall.260 
Contributors—Note to .259 
Crops—Reports on—Model.262 
Currant—Cherry, &c...4 Illustrations. .276 
Donkey Race...Illustrated.. 272 
Dying Black and Cochineal.280 
Economical Hints.266 
Exhibitions —State and County—New List.283 
E xhibitions—Agricultural, Horse Racing at.... Illus.. 272 
Farm—Operations on for September.258 
Farming by Machinery. 266 
Fat Man—Hard on.265 
Flies—To Keep from Ceilings.280 
Flower Garden and Lawn—Calendar for.258 
Fruits—Everybody may have an Abundance in a year 
or less—Blackberries, Raspberries, Strawberries. 
and Rhubarb in a year or two.277 
Fruits—Preserving in Glass versus Tin. .279 
Garden—Kitchen and Fruit—Hints for September....258 
Grass—Two Blades vs. One.271 
Green and Hot House Calendar.259 
Hoeing—Benefits of.260 
Horse—Care of the Health of.269 
Horse—Pulling at the Halter.Illustrated. .260 
In-Door Work—S oaps, &c.278 
Insects—Cockroach Trap. . .Illustrated. .279 
Lantern Blinks.. Ill—New Location for Farms.266 
Laurels and Rhododendrons. 272 
Manures—Ashes and Muck.260 
Manures—Chinese Modes of making.261 
Manures—Errors in the Use of Muck.260 
Manures—Substitute for Barnvard.261 
Manuring in the Hill—Sausage Story.261 
Market Review. 2f^ 
Meadows—Top-Dressing and Re-seeding Old.262 
Melons—Experience in Raising.275 
Morrisania—Horticultural Society.259 
Orchard.. IX—The Quince—Varieties, Culture,<tc.. .273 
Orchard and Nursery—Calendar for September.258 
Parsnep Sweetmeats.279 
Plants—Degeneration in Cultivated.273 
Poeony.Illustrated. .275 
Potato Digger—A New One.Illustrated. .262 
Potatoes Mixing in the Hill.262 
Poultry—Feed for Chickens.263 
Prize—Two $100 Articles wanted — Fencing and 
Dairies.264 
Raspberries—Allen. Bagley’s Ever-Bearing, Brinkle’s 
Orange and Fastolff . 277 
Rhubarb—Improvements. Culture and Value.275 
Rye—Sow Early.264 
September— Suggestions for the Month.257 
Sheep—Southdowns.Illustrated. .271 
Soaps—Castile, Common, Transparent, Windsor, &C.278 
Sprains—Treatment of.267 
Squashes and Pumpkins—Keeping..259 
Still Slops for Geese and Ducks.263 
Strawberry—Peabody’s Again .276 
Strawberry Plot—One Little.276 
Strawberries—White Native.276 
Sugar Cane—Chinese, for Sweetening.259 
Telegraphing— Familiarly Explained_II Illus ..281 
Tim Bunker on Tile Making.263 
Tomato Catsup.279 
Trees—Raising Chestnut. .273 
Washing Machine—Metripolitan_-.2 Illustrations. .280 
Wheat Sowing—Hints on.264 
Wine—Blackberry.278 
Wine—Elderberry.279 
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COUNTY FAIRS continuedfcom page 283. 
PENNSYLVANIA. 
Bowling-Green... 
Sept. 
8- 9 
Florence. 
.Florence. 
16—17 
Armstrong. 
•Kittaning. 
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21—24 
Washington. 
. .Washington. 
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23—24 
Berks. 
. .Reading. 
“ 29 
Oct. 2 
Union .. 
. .Burgettstown_ 
Oct. 
5— 6 
Montgomery. 
..Spnngtown. 
5— 7 
Lancaster. 
5— 8 
Northumberland.. 
.Milton. 
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6- 8 
Monongahela ... . 
.. Monongahela_ 
WISCONSIN. 
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7- 8 
Lafayette. 
.Darlington. 
Sept. 
21-22 
Grant. 
. .Lancaster. 
22—23 
Waushura. 
..Wautoma. 
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22-23 
Rock. 
. .Janesville. 
it 
28—30 
Walworth. 
.. Elkhorn. 
Sept. 29 
Cct. 1 
Portage. 
..Portage. 
IOWA. 
it 
15—16 
Sioux. 
. Sioux City. 
Oct. 
— 4 
Washington. 
. .Washington. 
TENNESSEE. 
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6- 8 
Marshall. 
Sept. 
21-24 
Giles. 
..Pulaski. 
21—21 
Middle District... 
Columbia. 
Sept. 27 
Oct. » 
Smith. 
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