[AMEBICAN AGRICULTURIST 
FOR THE 
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AGRICULTURE IS THE MOST HEALTHFUL, MOST USEFUL, AND MOST NOBLE EMPLOYMENT OF MAN."l.-WAaHmQTON) 
Volume XLIII.—No. 8. 
NEW YORK, AUGUST, 1884. 
New Seeies— No. 451. 
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Drawn and JBngrav^d for the American Agriculturist.—{See next page.) 
Copyright, 1884, by Orange Jddd Company. 
Entered at the Post Ofpice at New York, N. T., as Second Class Matter, 
