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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents for April, 1861. 
Agriculture—Poem .. • •••;. }J® 
Apple Pie Melon and other Substitutes for Apples.... 119 
Apples—Keeping Quality—Notes on Virginian.110 
Apples—Reports on Best for different Localities.110 
April—Suggestions—The Husbandman’s Hopes ..III.. 97 
Ashes—Coal on Grass Land.....117 
Bee-Hives—Straw—A Word for . 109 
Bees—Apiary in April.101 
Bees Sundry Notes on—Italian. Illustrated. AW 
Beets—Sugar—How to Raise.108 
Bird Laws—Enforce the .109 
Bleeding—To Stop .. 118 
Boys’ and Girls’ Columns—Editor with his loung 
' Readers—The Hour-Glass—What will You Plant? 
—Looking into the Horse's Mouth ?—The Doctor’s 
Fee—” A Farmer I will Be,” Original Song by 
Wm. B. Bradbury—Problems.. 2 lllust.. 120-122 
Boys—Bad Custom.100 
Calendar of Operations for the Month . 98 
Celery—How to Raise . 
Corn—Early Germination of Seed...108 
Corn Coverer—Cheap . 108 
Door-Catch—Self-Fastening. -108 
Draining—Where Beneficial—Howto Drain..2 /U..105 
Farm Scenes—Spring —Illustration by Darley.. .112 
Farm Work in April. 9° 
Feather Beds...• ••• 11° 
Feet—“ Frosted”—Chilblains .118 
Fences—Inclined Board.. ... •— 107 
Flower Garden and Lawn in April.100 
Flowers—Early—Desirable Sorts. 113 
Garden on the Housetop... .2 Illustrations. .116 
Garden—Kitchen and Fruit in April.. .. 99 
Grapes—What Shall I Plant ?.114 
Green and Hot-Houses in April.101 
Horses—Administering Medicine to.109 
Humbugs—What they are Doing—Japanese Wheat— 
Editors Humbugged—Bogus Jewelry—Tree Ped¬ 
dlers—Rats.. 104 
Inarching or Grafting by Approach..2 Illustrations 117 
Insects—Smoking out Lice 106 
Lantern Blinks. .XXVI—Diogenes Redivivus visits a 
Croaker .117 
Lawn—Suggestions about the.116 
Lime—Experience of Cultivators.104 
Maine Correspondence ... . . .Ill 
Market Review, Weather Notes, etc. 123 
Meat—Cooking “Scientifically." .119 
Orchard and Nursery in April. 98 
Orchard—Notes for the. 113 
Plowing Greensward .107 
Potatoes—Sweet—Starting the Plants... 115 
Premiums, Seeds, etc.—Giving—Objections Answered. 101 
Recipes—Oranges and Flavoring—Toast Pudding- 
Baked Dumplings—Best Lemon Pie—Sour Milk 
Cheese—Sweet Potato Coffee—To Clean Tripe. .119 
Rock and Stump Extractor—Lyon’s..2 Illustrations.. 108 
Shrubs—A few Good. . 114 
* Soils—Mixing. 108 
Song—” A Farmer I Will Be,” by W. B. Bradbury. ..121 
Sorghum—Hints on its Culture . 107 
Spring—Ready for .Ill 
Swine Pasture. . 106 
Tuistles—Canada. 107 
Tool House Wanted.. 106 
Trees—Mice-Gnawed—To Save. Illustrated. .113 
Trees—Shade—Hints on Choosing.113 
Vegetation—Spontaneous. Ill 
Whitewash for Indoors ... .118 
Work for the Opening Season.106 
INDEX TO ‘! BASKET” ITEMS. 
Advertisements—Endorsing.102 
Agicultural Society—N. Y. State—Officers.102 
Ashes on Sandy Soil. 102 
Barley Seed—Soaking. 103 
Bee-Hives—Glass Boxes on . 103 
Bees—Are Birds Destructive ?—Prolific...103 
Blackberries from Cuttings .103 
Buying Implements, Plants, Seeds, etc.124 
Carrot Seed per Acre..102 
Draining—Plowing for—Cost of.102 
Flowers—Standing Cypress—Single Made Double— 
Petunias—Chinese Wistaria.103 
Fruits—Preserving—Nyee’s Method.103 
Gift Enterprises in Kentucky.102 
Grafting Wax—How Made. 102 
Grapes—Cuttings Received—Best Soil tor.103 
Grass Seed with Oats.102 
Hedge Plants—Distance Apart.102 
Hedges—Norway Spruce . 103 
Horses—Stabling with Cattle.103 
Insect Powder—Coal Tar..102 
Insects — Aphides — Borers — Turnip Fleas — Wire 
Worms.103 
Lawn Grass.103 
Lime on Seed Potatoes. .102 
Locust Seed—Planting..102 
Madder—Cultivation of . .102 
Manure Cellars under Barns. 102 
Manure — Night Soil—Leached Ashes — Cider—Pomaeel02 
M.croscope Premium Discontinued...102 
Mushrooms—Detecting Poisonous.103 
Potato Rot—Cure for .102 
Raspberry—Allen.103 
Reports—Agricultural—Securing.103 
Seed Envelopes—Defective . 102 
Seeds — Results from One Package.103 
Seeds—Send Now—Two Lists—Not Sent by Express.102 
Sheep—Hemlock for — Saved from Dogs—Profitable.. 103 
Smut—Cause and Preventive . 103 
Sorghum Value of. 103 
Steaming Food—Pipes under Ground...103 
Stuartia and Wistaria.102 
Swine—Salt foi .103 
Trees—Propagating Willows—Magnolia Hardy in Mo. 
—Retarding Buds—Renovating Peach—Branch¬ 
ing Low—Apple, etc., from Cuttings .103 
Trellises—Cast Iron .103 
Wheat—Winter — Sowing in Spring.102 
Whitewash—Out Door ... 103 
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