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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents for November, 1858 
Agricultural College in N. Y. State.348 
Ants—Red.■.347 
Apples—Big ; Rotting on Trees, <fcc.347 
Apples—Half Sour and Half Sweet.323 
Air—What kind do you Breathe.335 
Basket—Our.340 
Beans—Lima, 16 Feet High.328 
Bees—Apiary in November.323 
Bees and Bee Culture—Donkey among.327 
Birds—American Starlings.Illustrated. 344 
Birds—A Team of—Sniffing.347 
Books—Farmers’ Library .334 
Books—American Herd Book . 348 
Books—Loudon’s Works.346 
Boys—School for.348 
Buildings for Farm.. IX. .Ground-level Barn. .2 Illus. .329 
Cabbages—Keeping. 335 
Cake—Citron.343 
Calendar of Operations for November.322 
Cattle Poison in Pastures.328 
Chestnuts, Quinces, &c., in Illinois. 347 
Cotton Plant—Iiow to See. 339 
Cranberries—Book on...323 
Dairy—Butter and Cheese—Prize Articles..328 
Dairy—Hints on Butter Making.328 
Deportment— Hints on Home. 342 
Draining—Experience in.328 
Draining with Wood. 347 
Editor and his Young Readers.Illustrated. .344 
Exhibitions—N. Y. State and Canada West.348 
Exhibitions—Reports on.326 
Farm Operations for November.322 
Flowers—Hardy, in Bloom Oct. 16..-..323 
Flowers—Cypress Vine Trellis.Illustrated. .339 
Flowers—Daisy.Illustrated. .338 
Flowers—Escholtzia Californica.Illustrated. .339 
Flower Garden and Lawn—Operations. 323 
Flowers—Mignonette not Fragrant.346 
Flowers—Thunbergia.Illustrated. .339 
Garden—Kitchen and Fruit, Operations.322 
Grape Humbug.323 
Grapes—Experiments with Twelve Kinds.337 
Grapes—Dr. Underhill’s...347 
Grapes—History of Isabella ...,.337 
Grapes—What Kind to Plant. 337 
Grass—Clover and Breeding Animals.347 
Grass Seed for the Lawn.347 
Grass—Timothy or Herd’s—How Named.347 
Green and Hot Houses—Care of in November.323 
Hams—Curing.343 
Horses—Mistake in Feeding.329 
Humbugs not Advertised.348 
Hydraulic Ram Explained .7 Illustrations. .324 
Ik Marvel—The Right Kind of Talk.330 
Implements—Care of.326 
Indoor Work. 331 
Insects—Katy-did.•.Illustrated.. 334 
Lantern Blinks . V—A Desponding Farmer.330 
Leather—Castor Oil for_■. .347 
Letters—Anonymous, again. 340 
Letters Deferred.348 
Manure Inquiries.347 
Manures—Using the Muck of Ditches.334 
Manures—The Farmer’s Mine .330 
Manures—Waste in Cities—Home-made.327 
Manures-“ What Shall I Buy?”.326 
Market Review, Weather Notes, &c .349 
Mowing Lands—Sheep on.331 
Mutton—Give us More.331 
Nebraska Territory.348 
November—Suggestions for Month.321 
Ohio Agriculture—State Fair.325 
Orchard and Nursery—Operations in November.322 
Paints—Water Colors.347 
Paper Mills Dry. .«. 349 
Pay—Does it?.. 348 
Pea—Nutmeg, or Scotch Speckled. .347 
Pennsylvania—Notes On Crops in Southern.326 
Personal Requests.346 
Pickles—Apple, Pear, and Quince.343 
Plowing—Shallow vs. Deep.347 
Pomological Society—American.338 
Potato Balls—Plant.335 
Poultry—Best Breeds of Fowls.347 
Poultry—Hens Laying when Shut Up.347 
Problem 31—Twelve Questions.346 
Pudding—Cracker...343 
Pumpkins—Drying . 343 
Pumpkin Vines—Pinching.347 
Quinces—Preserving Tender .343 
Race Course—Women on the.Illustrated. .332 
Rats and Mice—New Remedy for.335 
Recipes—Horse-Radish, To keep Meat Frozen—Sea¬ 
soning Sausage-meat. 343 
Rocky Land—Does Clearing pay ? 333 
Roots—Storing . 335 
Saleratus—Is it Poisonous ?.343 
Seed Distribution for 1859.348 
Sewing Machines—Good News.321, 342 
Squashes—Large. 347 
Steam Plow Firing up.325 
Swamp Land—A good Investment.333 
Stump Puller—Another.Illustrated.. 326 
Tea—China, described .3 Illustrations. .341 
Threshing—Flail vs. Machine.333 
Tim Bunker on Woman folks and Horse Racing.332 
Tomato—Husk.Illustrated. .340 
Trees—Ailantus in the Garden. 347 
Trees—Attend to Young Fruit. 335 
Trees—Heading back Peach.346 
Trees — Monarch Oak.Illustrated.. 336 
Trees—Pears with Dead Bar'. 347 
Tree—Splendid Ornaments,—Tulip. 338 
Uncle Frank’s Chat with Boys and Girls, II. 2 Illust. .345 
Weeds—About. 335 
What’s the Price—Will it Pay ?. 334 
Wind Mills. . 347 
Winter Cherry (Physalis and Alkekengi ) 4 Illust..340 
Wood—Weight of Green and Dry.347 
Woman’s Wages. 342 
Woman’s Position on the Farm. 321 
Write on One Side of a Sheet.349 
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