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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
L1861. 
Contents for August, 1861. 
August—Suggestions—Insect Life.. .... .Illustrated.. .225 
Bags versus Boxes ...246 
Beans—Notes on Early...245 
Bees—Apiary in August. •— .-.228 
Beginner’s Troubles—Raspberries—Planting Trees..239 
Blunders—Undertaking too Much—Draining—Dahlias.23g 
Boys’ and Girls’ Columns—Editor with his Young 
Readers—Explanation of War Terms—No. II.. 
Illustrated .—An Eventful Period—How to Learn 
Geograph'—Learn to Punctuate—Problems, etc., 
etc.13 Illustrations.. 248—50 
Bulbs—Take Care of the.245 
Calendar of Operations for the Month .226 
Cattle—Black Leg in Calves.238 
Cattle—How to Feed Calves.238 
Cattle—Premium proposed for Steers.238 
Census—Population of U. S. in 1860.231 
Copper—Never Cook in.247 
Corn—Experiments with Manures.232 
Corn—Steaming Soft and Frozen.236 
Crops—Reports on.251 
C urrant J e Uy—Notes on........ ■ ; .247 
Draining—How Tiles are Made.5 Illustrations.. 232 
Eggs—Value for Food—Preserving .246 
England—Imports of in Three Months...237 
Exhibitions—Agricultural in 1861.251 
Eyes—Care of.245 
Farm Work In August.226 
Flax Cotton Premiums.251 
Flower Garden and Lawn in August.227 
Flowers—Exhibition of Brooklyn Horticultural Soc.. .245 
Flowers—New Chrysanthemums_3 Illustrations. .244 
Flowers—The Petunia.244 
Flowers—Wintering Carnations.244 
Fruit—Save it. .245 
Garden—How to Show, and How to View.243 
Garden—Kitchen and Fruit in August.227 
Grapes—Training. Illustrated.. 241 
Green and Hot-Houses in August. . .228 
Horse Power—Sanford’s Improved. .2 Illustrations. .237 
Horse—To Hold Hard-headed. 238 
Horses—Why they Kick—Rarey’s method of Cure... .238 
Hydraulic Ram—Notes on.236 
Insects—The New Insect on Rye. 235 
Lambs—What ails them ?.. 239 
Manure—Muck, Value of.234 
Manure- Something better than Guano.235 
Manure used on Long Island.235 
Market Review, Weather Notes, etc.251 
Neatness and Health—Playing in the Dirt.246 
Newspapers and Periodicals in the U. S.250 
Orchard and Nursery in August.226 
Peas—Notes on Early.245 
Potatoes—Deep and Late Planting—Large Yield.236 
Poultry—To Prevent Henseating Eggs.239 
Prizes—$240 Offered for Practical Articles. 231 
Prospects for Farmers. 230 
Recipes—Blackberry Wine, Currant Wine—To Pre¬ 
serve Currants—Pickling Ripe Cucumbers—Cu¬ 
cumber Catchup—Strawberry Short Cake—Nice 
Pop-Overs—Delicate or Silver Cake—Rooster 
Cake—To Keep Old Cheese.247 
•Seed—Apparatus for Sowing. Illustrated. .236 
iSheep—Scab in—Remedy for .239 
rShrub—Manzanito.241 
Strawberries—A new Patch.242 
Strawberries—Notes on. 243 
Strawberries—You must Have them.241 
Tim Bunker on Top-dressing and Feeding Aftermath..234 
Transplanting and Shading.243 
Trees—Fruit, Trimming up.245 
Trees—Model.4 Illustrations.. 240 
Trees—The Best Elm.241 
Vermont—Live Stock from.239 
World’s Fair in 1862—Commissioner to.236 
INDEX TO “BASKET” ITEMS. 
Alsike or Swedish Clover.230 
Bee Poison in Buckwheat.230 
Bees—Absconding.229 
Book—Singing for Children.230 
Broom Corn—Dwarf in Ohio.229 
Cattle—American, Good Prices for.228 
Celery—Blanching with Sawdust.229 
Chicago Grain Market—Immense Receipts.,..*230 
Chimneys—Cement Pipe .230 
Clothes Wringer—Recommendation of. 228 
Draining—Siphon.258 
Drains—Tile—Choking—Wood.228 
Flowers—Monster Arum—Escholtzia Perennial-Mau- 
randia Barclayana—Dicentra Cucullaria—Coboea 
Scandens—Pot Roses and Acacias in Borders— 
Tea Roses not Hardy.229 
Flowers—Tulips from Seed—Wild from California— 
Acrolinium Roseum-Collinsia Bi-color—Convol¬ 
vulus Tri-color—Tufted Vetch.230 
Fruit—To Grow Large.230 
Gardeners—Lady. 229 
Grapes—Wild—Market for . ' 229 
Horse—That Mammoth. 229 
Horses—Feed for. \ \ 228 
Horses—Origin of Morgan. 230 
Insects—Hornets and Wasps Serviceable.230 
Insects—Squash Vine Borer—Wire Worms. 219 
Manure—Hair for. 230 
Milk—First Flow Poisonous.‘ ’ ‘ ‘ 230 
Milking Machines Injurious.^30 
Miller’s Bolt—Cleaning. ......!. 228 
Muskmelons—Cracking.' ' ’ 229 
Nails—To Make Weather-proof. 230 
Parsneps—Wild and Cultivated.228 
Poultry—Gapes in Chickens . [229 
Rats, Mice, Squirrels, Gophers, etc. 229 
Schools—Two Good . . . 228 
Strawberries—A Good Picking... .M. ....229 
Strawberries and Blackberries. 228 
Strawberries on an Acre. 228 
Swine—Kidney Worms in..229 
Trees—Low Branching for Prairies.. !!!!!!!.230 
Tea—New Tax on. 230 
Vermont Farmers . 229 
Wheat—Salt on--Separating from Chess!! .'. ....230 
Publisher’s Notices. 
To Subscribers in Great Britain, 
We have an increasing list of subscribers to the Ameri¬ 
can Agriculturist, in England, Scotland, Ireland, and 
Wales, and to accommodate such we will answer that 
hereafter subscriptions for all parts of Great Britain may 
be sent to John G. Waite, Seedsman, 181 High Holborn, 
London, which will save the trouble and expense of re¬ 
mitting single names across the ocean. Terms, to sub¬ 
scribers in all parts of Great Britain, Jive shillings,sterling 
per year, which covers ocean postage to be prepaid here. 
The papers will be mailed direct to the Post Office address 
of each individual. 
EXTRA BOOK PREMIUMS. 
[ For other Business Items, see page 252— For valuable 
Seed Premiums, etc., see page 255— For Standing Pre¬ 
miums, see page 218, July No.'] 
Our “ Extraordinary Premiums ” closed July 1st, but 
owing to depression in the book business, we have 
been able to secure a few valuable works at such prices, 
that we can offer them, for the time being, on the terms 
named below. (N. B. Two new subscribers for half a 
year, say from July to December, inclusive, at 50 cents 
each, may be counted as one new subscriber at $1.) 
This is an excellent opportunity for all to secure 
good books at a very trifling outlay of time and effort. 
All the books here offered, will be delivered to the 
recipient free of all charges. We shall send them paid 
through, by express, or mail, as may be most economical 
for us in each case. 
Eor One New Subscriber at $1, 
The sender will receive a post-paid copy of a capi¬ 
tal work on Onion Culture (2nd Edition), which 
contains essays by 17 experienced onion growers, residing 
in different parts of the country— each one of whom gives 
full, plain, practical directions, from procuring seed to 
storing and marketing the crop, and raising seed again ; 
Or A copy of that interesting little work entitled 
“Our Farm of Four Acres.” 
Or American Bird Fancier. 
Or Ameiican Kitchen Gardener. 
Or Bement’s Rabbit Fancier. 
Or Domestic Fowls. 
Or Skillful Housewife. 
For Two New Subscribers at $1 each, 
will be given 
Buist’s Family Kitchen Garden, price 75 cents ; 
or Youatt & Martin on the Hog, price 75 cents; 
or Youatt & Martin on the Sheep, price 75 cents ; 
or Allen’s Diseases of Domestic Animals, 75 cents. 
or American Florist’s Guide, 75 cents ; 
or Bridgeman’s Kitchen Gardener’s Instructor, 60 cts. 
For Three New Subscribers at $1 each, 
Any one of the following books : Price. 
Youman’s Household Science—very excellent.... .$1 25 
The American Farm Book—a good practical work..$l 00 
Todd’s Young Farmers’ Manual—new and valuable,$1 25 
Herbert’s Hints to Horse-Keepers—excellent.$1 25 
Dadd’s Horse, or Cattle Doctor .$100 
Thomas’ Farm Implements—a standard work.$] 00 
Barry’s Fruit Garden—very good and practical.$1 25 
Breck’s Book of Flowers—very good.$1 00 
Allen on the Culture of the Grape.$1 00 
French’s Farm Drainage. $1 00 
Miss E. M. Hall’s Cookery and Domestic Economy.$l 00 
Or, Herbert Spencer’s important new work on the physical, 
moral, and intellectual care and training of Children. 
(Price $1.) Every Parent and Teacher should have it. 
For Five New Subscribers at $1 each, 
Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, (new Edi¬ 
tion,) the best standard work, which gives directions fo 
culture, with accurate descriptions of the various fruits 
and a multitude of illustrations, (760 pages,) Price $1 75 
Or, The Shepherd’s Own Book.Price, $2 00, 
The Hydropult as a Premium. 
For 16 New Subscribers at $1 eacli, we will 
present that excellent, new implement, the Hydropult, 
which is very useful for throwing water to extinguish 
fires, water gardens, wash windows, carriages, etc. (See 
page 91, March No.) Price $12. It weighs but 8 lbs., 
can be packed in small compass, and go by express at 
little expense. 
Extra for August. 
To meet a very general want, especially in parts of the 
country remote from Nurseries and Commercial Gardens, 
we have made arrangements to send out as SPECIAL 
PREMIUMS, parcels of the 
BEST STRAWBERRY 
PLAWTS, FffiEE El MAIL,. 
The Plants will be of Jirst quality, the very best 
tbat can be obtained (including all we can spare 
from our own grounds). They will be packed in the best 
possible manner— in oiled silk, or wooden boxes, or tin 
cases, according to their destination—and will be sent 
paid through by Mail or Express. They will be forward¬ 
ed at the earliest date in September when the weather 
will allow of their going to the different points to which 
they are to be sent.—(It will be our pleasure, as well as 
oui interest to send them in such a way as to give entire * 
satisfaction). The Premium is designed more especially 
for the remoter regions of the country, but is not limited 
to any particular section. (Persons living on the Pacific 
Coast, in Utah, New Mexico, and at other distant points 
who may chance to send in too late for the plants to go, 
this year, can have them forwarded at the earliest practi¬ 
cable date in the Spring.) 
Conditions of tlie Premiums. 
f • To any person now forwarding One New Subscriber to 
the American Agriculturist, at $1 a year (to begin in Jan. 
1st, or July 1st, 1861) we will present One Dozen 
Plants of XTiomphe de (land Strawberry, 
to be forwarded free as above stated. This variety we 
think the best, but when preferred, we will send instead, 
a dozen plants of the Wilson’s Albany, 
OR 
II. To any person now forwarding two (or more than 
TWO) New Subscribers to the American A griculturist, at $1 
a year, (to begin Jan. 1st or July 1st, 1861) we will present 
for eacli name, Fifteen Plants of the 1’ri- 
omphe de Gaud Strawberry, (or the Wilson, if 
preferred) to be forwarded free as above. 
N. B.—Where there are two or more subscribers, the 
premium may be part Triomphe de Gand, and part Wil¬ 
son ; and for premium of four or more to be sent in one 
parcel, we will add a few plants of one or more other 
good varieties from our own garden. 
N. B. —The names to be sent in as soon as obtained, 
and the premiums will be entered to be forwarded at the " 
appropriate season, as stated above. 
^nuruau ^gnnliurht. 
For tbe Farm, Garden, and Household. 
A thorough-going, RELIABLE, and PRACTICAL 
Journal, devoted to the different departments of SOIL 
CULTURE—such as growing field CROPS ; orchard 
and garden FRUITS; garden VEGETABLES and 
FLOWERS; trees, plants, and flowers for the 
LAWN or YARD; care of DOMESTIC ANIMALS, 
&c., &c., and to HOUSEHOLD LABORS. It has also 
an interesting and instructive department for CHILDREN 
and YOUTH. 
A full CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS every month. 
THREE to FOUR HUNDRED, or more, illustrative 
ENGRAVINGS appear in each volume. 
Over SIX HUNDRED plain, practical, instructive 
articles are given every year. 
The Editors and Contributors are all practical 
WORKING MEN. 
The teachings of the Agriculturist are confined to no 
State or Territory, but are adapted to the wants of all sec ¬ 
tions of the country—it is, as its name indicates, for the 
whole American Continent. 
A Gorina n edition is published, of the same size and 
price as theEnglisli, and containing all of its reading mat¬ 
ter, and its numerous illustrative engravings. 
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Postage anywhere in the United States and Territories 
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