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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents for February, 1861. 
Agricultural Societies, etc—Special Notice to.........41 
Apples—Which are Best? Important Request.49 
Bees—Apiary in February. .. 
Berries—Yield per Acre. ••*••••••*•••; • y • • rj 
Birds—Familiar, andUseful Notes—t he Barii Owl.Nj. .44 
Boys’ and Gihls’ Columns. Uncle Johns Study, 
No III —Editor with Ins Young Readers—Smart 
Boys—“ Bite bigger, Billy’’—Problems—Our New 
Pet—How Tom was Caught—John Brunt and his 
Friend“ Sharpy”.4 Illustrations.. 55-56 
Bridges—Sleighs on." 
Buckwheat Cakes.?! 
Buildings—Decay of.... 
Calendar of Operations for the Month. -...-34 
California—Fruit and Horticulture in the Mountains..51 
Carrots—Value of—Answer to Query in Jan. No.43 
Cattle—Are American Improving ?.41 
Cattle Disease—Petition to Congress.43 
Cattle—Good Stock Cheapest. 42 
Children—How to Keep Healthy.. ..53 
Children’s Sleep—Practical Suggestions. j3 
Cities of U. S—Population and Rank. ...40 
Coffee Culture—Notes on.2 Illustrations . .52 
Cooking Hints—BoiUng, Broiling, Roasting and Frymg..54 
Corn in Connecticut—Good—The “ Argument Acre”. .36 
orn—Trying Seed... *5 
Cow—Model, Portrait of.42 
Cranberries—Highland .............--••.••••. 
Culture—What Kind . „ - a best?—Stick a Pin Here.. .35 
Dairy Farming on Long island..38 
Dogged Advertisement. 38 
Door Catch—Self-Fastening..-.41 
Draining—Why is it Beneficid.3o 
Farm Work in February.. • ■ ■ ■. -34 
February—Suggestions—Proper Treatment of Am- 
. . Illustrated.. 33 
Flower (Harden and Lawn in February.34 
Flowers —Tritoma Uvaria—Experience with.48 
Garden—Kitchen and Fruit in February.34 
Grape-Growing on Kelley’s Island.*.47 
Grapes—Harvard. 49 
Grapes—Notes on Newer.49 
Grapes—Ripening Isabella.49 
Grass Culture—Experiment in.4/ 
Green and Hot Houses in February.35 
Green Houses for Invalids.47 
Hedges—Privet not Hardy —.50 
Hedges—Shelter for Fruit Garden.50 
Horses—Stumbling—To Cure.37 
Horses—Two Hours with Mr. Rarey. Illustrated.. 36 
Humbugs— What they are Doing, II. .Advertised ‘-Doc¬ 
tors,” and Medicines”—Another Seed Swindle—38 
Ik Marvel—Truthful Hints by. .. .44 
Illinois—Notes from.43 
Insects on Evergreens . 51 
Japan—Horticultural Novelties from.51 
Japanese Wheat a Humbug.38 
Lantern Blinks—XXV—Diogenes Redivivus Visits a 
Woman of Homespun. 45 
Liming Land—Experience in.40 
Manure—Bone, Permanence of. 39 
Manure—Night Soil—How to Compost.46 
Manure- Pulverizing, Benefits of.46 
Market Review—Weather Notes, etc...59 
Mulching-Benefits of..50 
Mushrooms—Poisonous.47 
Chio Crops in 1859—60. 47 
Orchard and Nursery in February.34 
Oregon Fruit—Large. 51 
Pen—Use the . 43 
Pitchfork—Horse-Power—Beardsley’s. 'llllustr .. .41 
Plowing Deep—Testimony of the Corn Crib.47 
Potato Man—How Mr. Jones Tilled his Land, II.—In¬ 
structive Experiments.39 
Potatoes—Experience with.43 
Potatoes—How to Cook.54 
Rats—Stop them .44 
Silk Worm—New—Substitute for Cotton.40 
Starch—Charcoal in—Chemistry.53 
Thistles—How Disseminated—Important Suggestion.. .46 
Tomato—New Upright .50 
Trees—Stuartia Petagynia .2 Illustrations .48 
Vegetable Curiosities. .,49 
Vines—Ornamental.51 
Wheat—Mulching with Buckwheat.35 
Potatoes, Raised under Straw.....58 
Raspberries—Allen.58 
Raspberries—Protecting. .57 
Rats and Mice Poisoning.57 
Roses—Climbing.57 
Sheep and Dogs in Massachusetts.57 
Strawberries Mulching.58 
Strawberries—Sex of .57 
Trees—Locust for Timber.58 
Trees—Remedy for Barrenness.58 
Wheat—Wild Goose.57 
Wheat in Minnesota—New England.58 
Worms—Earth, Troublesome. 5g 
Yale Agricultural Lectures Postponed.57 
Publisher’s Notices. 
This Number Worth a Dollar. 
We have just finished reading the proof sheets, and 
candidly think this single paper worth more than a Dol¬ 
lar to every one having a rod of ground to cultivate. We 
do not believe any person who carefully reads even the 
first eight pages will take a dollar for the hints, sugges¬ 
tions, and information received. Were not all the arti¬ 
cles good, we would specify “ Stick a pin here ; Two 
hours with Mr. Rarey ; Mr. Jones’ Experience ; Liming 
Land; Medical Advertisements ; the Household De¬ 
partment etc. Any person who can read this number 
without gaining valuable information is more fortunate 
than the writer, for he has learned much from the thoughts 
and investigations of several associates and contributors 
who have helped supply the material for these pages.- 
But this is a business paragraph, and to make it practical, 
we ask those who do value this number to mention the 
fact to a neighbor or two. 
We have stereotype plates to print plenty of copies of 
this and the preceding number for all new subscribers— 
and—ten more first rate numbers are yet to come. 
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All the Year!! 
The general premiums, offered on page 60, are good for 
all the year ; that is : all subscribers obtained by any per¬ 
son for volume 20 complete, may be counted in a premium 
list—no matter when the names are received. Of course 
it is preferable to have the lists made up as soon as may 
be. In the leisure of the Winter season, people have 
more time to read, and we desire to have the Agricultur¬ 
ist read as well as subscribed for. 
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Yes! 
Many write thus : “I am raising a club for a Melodeon, 
or Sewing Machine, or other premium, and shall get it. 
Can I not send on the pay for the number of subscribers 
required, and receive my premium, and afterward forward 
the names as I get them ?” We answer, yes, if the sub¬ 
scriptions all begin with the volume ; though we would 
prefer to have the names as early as possible that the sub¬ 
scribers may begin to receive their papers. In some cases, 
persons have subscribed at once for the whole number of 
copies, having those not subscribed for by others, for¬ 
warded to themselves, to be given out as subscribers were 
obtained. We prefer all names to come to our mail books, 
that the papers may be separately directed to them, as is 
always done, even where they go in club packages to the 
same office. 
Index to Basket Items. 
Agricultural Society—N. Y. State—Meeting of.58 
Beer Seed—California.58 
Bulbs in Pots. 57 
Cattle’s Horns — Preventing their Growth.58 
Cattle — Keeping Clean.58 
Chicken Question — Novel. ..58 
Cold — To Avoid Taking. 58 
Corn Cribs—Stoves for.57 
Cotton — Peruvian.57 
Cows — Abortion in .58 
Currant — Value of Black.58 
Fruit Stealers to be Felons.57 
Grafting Pears on the Butternut..57 
Grape Grower’s Meeting in Connecticut.57 
Household Department—Objection Answered.58 
Idea—Unwise. .57 
Illinois as a Farming State.58 
Insects—Grub Worms—Destroying.57 
Insects on Trees — To Repel Earth Worms.58 
Letters—Acknowledgment of.57 
Lime Question .57 
Mapes — A Great Mistake.57 
Manure — Mixing with Loam .57 
Meat—Keeping under Ground..58 
Mistake of Binders...57 
Moles — Poisoning.58 
N ails—Preventing Rusting. 58 
Nursery — Starting a.57 
Oafs on a Wheat Head.58 
Onions Lost in Storing.57 
Peas—How to Start Early.57 
Plants — Climbing .57 
Poisonous To-vs..58 
There is Time Enough Yet. 
Premium Clulbs can still be filled up, and new 
ones be commenced and, completed. Our premium arti¬ 
cles tire valuable, and worth working for. Hundreds of 
them have already gone out, but the supply of most of 
them is inexhaustible. 
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A Sewing Machine at an Agricultural 
Society. 
Reference has already been made to the fact, that the 
Ozaukee County Agricultural Society, Wis., subscribed 
for 95 copies of the Agriculturist at $1 each, to give out 
as premiums instead of money, and the Society itself took 
the premium Sewing Machine, to be exhibited at the fair, 
and then sold at auction for the benefit of the funds of the 
Society. The Secretary, Mr. J. Tomlinson, thus reports: 
“The Sewing Machine affair, with the subscription for 95 
copies, was a complete success. The Machine arrived in 
perfect order—was sold at auction for $40,50 which is so 
much extra money in the treasury ; and I have yet to hear 
oi any one of those receiving the Agriculturist as a 
premium, who would exchange it for a money premium. 
So well is the paper liked that at one of our towns a large 
list, now nearly full, is being got up to obtain a ptemium 
Melodeon for a Church.” 
Send for the Seeds Now. 
We desire all present subscribers wishing seeds, and 
not having yet .sent in their envelopes, to forward.them 
now. Our list is as full as we can make it at present. 
Several desirable varieties, which we sent to Europe for, 
can not be obtained in quantity this year, and so we can 
not add them to the present list, as we have been waiting 
and hoping to do. The bad season for growing seeds in 
Europe has caused us great trouble and delay. The casks 
of seeds that should have been here early in December 
and would have been in ordinary years, are not all here 
yet (Jan. 18.), but they are daily looked for, and will be 
here before the close of January. The moment they ar¬ 
rive they will be put up as rapidly as possible. We are 
now putting up those grown in this country, and without 
doubt the assortment will be completed, so that the distri¬ 
bution can begin early in February. It will take a few 
weeks to get up with the applications, as we prefer to do 
the work with our old experienced force, instead of put¬ 
ting on many new hands. The mail parcels are put up 
and distributed in the country. An assortment for callers 
and for express parcels will be ready at our City Office 
about the close of February. Ample notice of the time 
of commencing the distribution, and any other items will 
be announced in our next number. 
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Each one Select his Own Seeds. 
Hundreds send in stamped envelopes, and ask us to se¬ 
lect seeds for them. We can not. Our list embraces 
many varieties, and it is impossible to even guess which 
will be most desirable for individual subscribers—whether 
field, garden, or flower seeds—or what variety. We 
should be quite likely, in many cases, to send those least 
desired, and besides, where so many are to be supplied, 
we can not devote the time or thought needed to select 
for a particular locality. The seed distribution, at best, 
involves immense labor, care, and expense.-Some 
have asked for seeds without making any selection, or 
providing stamps, or directing how or where to send 
them. They must not complain at receiving no seeds. 
Dear Subscription Money. 
In a few cases we have received by Express, from the 
distant West, $8 for 10 subscribers, upon which the Ex¬ 
press company has charged us 75 cts. to $1, and th« 
brokers 10 to 15 per cent on the money inclosed, leaving 
only about $6 for 10 subscribers, including expense’ for 
seeds and the premiums, when claimed. This lias doubt¬ 
less occurred through oversight on the part of the sender. 
If small sums are ever sent by express, at our ■ expense, 
please send gold, or money nearly current here, and Stip¬ 
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price plainly on the. parcel, where we can see it on de¬ 
livery. There is seldom a necessity for resorting to this 
mode of carriage. Small sums come safely by mail, and 
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