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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents for January, 1861. 
American Agriculturist—How to Preserve files........ 6 
American Agriculturist—Thoughts on Commencing the 
Twentieth Volume. ,* 
Animals—Comfort Necessary to Thrift.. 16 
Animals—How Shelter Saves Food.14 
Barreling Fruit—Contrivance for......2 Illustrations.. 9 
Barrels—Musty—How to Cleanse...... .6 
Basket Items—500 Wanted.... .... ....25 
Bees—Apiary in January.............. " 
Bees—Honey from Pine and Oak Trees.13 
Bees—Sagacity of Humble Bees.14 
Bees—Senses of—Curious Structure of their Wings.... 14 
Bppts_Sugar—Abuse of. 
Birds—Familiar and Useful Hints—Snow Bird. .Illus .. 13 
Books—American Herd—Pronouncing Bible—Central 
Park—Old Mackinaw—Am. Cyclopaedia,Vol. XI....26 
Books—Grape and Hedge... ■ .•••• v 2b 
Bovs’ and Girls’ Columns-Editor with his V oung Read¬ 
ers—A Happy New Year—Trick that did not Pay- 
Uncle John’s Study, No. II.-Problems-'Ae 
“ Digger Indians of California ”.4 Illustrations ..23-2 4 
Butter too Good for Market.• .. 18 
Calendar of Operations for the Month. 2 
California Farm... 
Carrot Culture...• • y ■ • • • • •::";.f? 
Carrots—How much are they worth for Feeding?.11 
Cellars—Jack Frost in.U 
Cookfnfe” Hints—Chicken ’ Pie—Boned Turkey—Deli¬ 
rious Pudding—Cottage Pudding—Flour Pud¬ 
ding-New Year’s Cake—Ginger Snaps—Jumbles 
without Eggs—Cracker Mince Pie—Cream Pies.. 22 
Corn—Frozen Seed.• ■ .. .. ® 
Corn— Humbugs—Egyptian and Chinese Tree.. . 2o 
Corn—Tall, and a Great Deal of it... 2a 
Cosmopolitan Art Association .. ............... • • • • • • ■ ■ 2b 
Crochet Work—Elementary Instructions—Woolen Un¬ 
dersleeve. 8 Illustrations. .20 
Dahlias, etc.—Look to...... 
Dogs—Costly—Heavy Tax..... 
Digging Match.......* . « 
Draining—Extensive.. ” 
Exhibition—Our Tables during December....... 3 
Farm Scenes—Winter —Illustration by Darley.16 
Farm Work in January. 2 
Farmer the True Aristocrat... 2 
Farmers’ Club—Keep it up.. . 1/ 
Feeding Rack—Portable, wire. Illustrated.. 9 
Fences—Wire ... Illustrated.. 9 
Files—For Papers. .. • • • .. 2 b 
Flower Baskets—Rustic.....3 Illustrations. .20 
Flower Garden and Lawn in January. 2 
Flowers—Cactus—Pin-cushion._• • • • ■ • • .2a 
Flowers—Chinese Chrysanthemums—Best Sorts .19 
Flowers—Sketches of—Standing Cypress.25 
Flowers—Wilmer’s Laura Pink.. 3V 
Frozen Plants—How to Treat.. . ■■ ■....■ 1J 
Fruits Grown in Bottles . Illustrated. .18 
Fruits—How to Judge of .... 
Garden—Draining Beneficial. 2a 
Garden—Kansas 2a 
Garden, Kitchen and Fruit in January.. . 2 
Gardeners’ Wages ..... ...y; . ..2a 
Grapes for the North. 25 
Grapes—The Newer...if 
Grapes—Wild Texas . ...2a 
Grigs—New—From California........................ 25 
Grass-Pampas.. ■ • .. Illustrated.. 12 
Grasses—Dried—Preparing. 25 
Green and Hot-houses in January. 2 
' Holy Land—Items from.IS 
Horses... ^ 
Humbugs—What they are Doing—Gift Enterprises—A 
Charming Home—Lotteries, etc......6-7 
Indians—” Digger” of California.2 Illustrations. .24 
Insects—Grub Worms Destructive ..2a 
Insects—Seventeen V ear Locusts ...26 
Ivy—Poison.25 
Land Sale of the Right Sort. b 
Lands—Cheap in the Old States .25 
Lantern Blinks—XXIV —Diogenes Redivivus in Search 
of a Farmer’s wife.21 
Leather from Alligator’s Skin....10 
Lime Questions to be Answered....11 
Liming Lands—Hints Given, more Wanted . .10 
Manure-Street Scrapings for.. 10 
Market Review, Weather Notes, etc.28 
Mowing Machine Attachment.10 
Orchard and Nursery in January. 2 
Oxen—How to Throw .... . 16 
Paints—Mixing, Book Wanted.2a 
Paper—Can’t do without it.14 
Paper from Corn Husks and Leaves.10 
Paper—Too Poor to take it.14 
Peaches—Belter.... 25 
Pies—Those Cream—Erratum.2o 
Plow—Fawkes’ Steam .• ■ • • ■ • • • • • ••••■• . 8 
Potato-Man—How Mr. Jones Tilled his Land. 8 
Potatoes and Manure. .26 
Potatoes—Cut for Seed.....-... ■ ■ • .. 0 
Potatoes—Profitable Experiments with.11 
Poultry—A Lady’s Experiment with.12 
Premiums for 1861 .... • ■ • • ■ ■ • • - • -27 
Puzzle — Pomological. Illustrated . 18 
Rarey Returned. 26 
Rats Afraid of Powder. L5 
Salt—Why Animals Need it.■_•••..10 
Seed List — Descriptive Notes on those Distributed. 3 4-5 
Seeds—Germination of—Aiding. 5 
Shrub—Manzanneta. 25 
Snow—Uses of. ‘I 
Sorghum at the West . b 
Squash—Mammoth Leghorn. 25 
Stack Shed .. 8 
Sugar Estates of Cuba^.. 6 
Tim Bunker on Cattle Disease...1 j 
Turnips—Large Yield.. 12 
Trees—Inducing Fruit-bearing.-.25 
Trees—Long Leaf Pine.25 
Trees—Quince Stocks—Distinguishing...25 
Umbrellas—Taking Care of them.21 
Washing Hands—Hints on.21 
AVater tor Stock. 17-25 
Water from Springs.. .... ..25 
AVheat—Extraordinary Yield. .13 
Witty Reply—Which was “ Sold V’.. ... 6 
Yale Agricultural Lectures.26 
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Doubtless, 
Every subscriber can think of several neighbors who 
would be really benefited by the perusal of the Agricul¬ 
turist —much more than the small cost. Please talk the 
matter over with them, and invite them to try the paper 
for a year. A double favor will thus be conferred—one 
upon the recipient, and one upon the publisher. 
“Hard Times.” 
In some respects the times are hard, but less than two 
cents a week will pay for the Agriculturist, and the pa¬ 
per will help to make the times easier, by suggesting many 
hints for improving the yield of your fields and gardens. 
Lectures at One Cent Each. 
Twenty-five cents are usually paid for admittance to an 
evening lecture. The Agriculturist for 1861 will contain 
more than one hundred valuable lectures on practical 
topics relating to every day operations on the farm, in the 
garden, and in the household—and these will be as good as 
some at least, of those delivered before Lyceums. Please 
invite your neighbors to subscribe to a course of lectures. 
Please Make it Two Miles. 
The papers received during a year by a club of ten sub¬ 
scribers to the Agriculturist, when piled up, reach about a 
foot high. If, then, all the copies sent to 100,000 sub¬ 
scribers were piled together, the heap would extend 
upward, ten thousand feet, or nearly two miles. Friend, 
can’t you add a foot or two, or at least an inch or two, in 
your neighborhood, and help to make it plump two miles ? 
15,000 Miles of Paper. 
Every copy of the Agriculturist contains two sheets, 
eacli 2 feet 2 inches wide, and V/£ feet long. Lay these 
sheets end to end, and eacli subscriber’s papers for a year 
will extend 78 feet. The papers for 100,000 subscribers 
would extend very nearly 15,000 miles. Please ask your 
neighbor to add a length of 78 feet, 2 feet wide, and all 
covered with good reading matter. He can get such a 
piece for $1 ; or for 80 cents, if he joins a club of 10 or 
more already formed, or if lie gets up a new club. 
14,384 Thoughts. 
According to the calculation above, the surface of a sin¬ 
gle volume of the Agriculturist contains 14, 384 square 
inches. If then there should be only one thought ex¬ 
pressed on eacli square inch of the paper, the “ sum to¬ 
tal” of the thoughts printed in a single volume would 
amount to Forty-eight Thousand Three Hundred and 
Eighty-four’. Please mention the matter to a neighbor 
or two, and ask them if it will not pay to invest a dollar. 
The Seeds. 
After looking over our list of seeds on page 5, and read¬ 
ing the preceding description of the various kinds, please 
mention the matter to a neighbor, and ask him (or her) 
if they are not worth subscribing for, to say nothing of the 
value of the paper. A subscriber, in a letter just at hand, 
says he lias threshed 78 bushels of splendid oats, all pro¬ 
duced from a little letter parcel received free from the 
Agriculturist office three years ago, Please mention this 
to a neighbor, or two, or more. 
Premiums without Money. 
See the list of premiums oil page 27. There is plenty 
of time yet to get up a club, and secure one of these val¬ 
uable premiums. You need not mention this to your 
neighbors, but get them to subscribe, and thus secure the 
premium for yourself. 
Heavy Discount on Money. 
Just now-, the bills on Banks in the different Slates are 
charged the following rates of discount in this City, viz.: 
HI., AVis., Iowa, Mo., 12 to 15 cents on the dollar—N. C., 
S. C., Va., Tenn., 7 c. to 9 c.—Ala., Md., interior Pa., free 
Indiana, 4 c. to 5 c.—Ohio, Indiana State Bank, Ky., AVcst 
Jersey, Philadelphia, 2 'A c. to 3 c.—Canada and Midi., 
V/i to 2 cent.—N. Y., East Jersey, and New-England, 
c.—Gold, Drafts on N. A r . City banks, and 3-cent Post¬ 
age Stamps arc, of course, par .—We hope, the discount 
will soon he much lower, and do not refuse bills on any 
bank in good credit at home, but our friends will, we are 
sure, send us the best bills they can get. P. O. Stamps 
are good. Drafts on N. A". City banks are always prefer¬ 
able, and at least half the discount may always he de¬ 
ducted from any amount forwarded. 
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