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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents for September, 1861. 
AnimSls—Branding in Texas. Illustrated ..209 
Animals—Insurance on.208 
Apples—Packing in Leaves. .278 
Barley—Nepanl Variety. Illustrated. .201 
Bedrooms—Ventilation of.278 
Bees—Apiary in September .258 
Bees—Mignonette for Feeding.208 
Boys’ and Girls’ Columns—Editor with his Young 
" Readers—About Picture of Pet Rabbits—A Little 
Girl’s Logic—Lizzie and her Flower Seeds—No¬ 
body’s Baby—Caught in his own Trap—Expla¬ 
nation of War Terms—No. III.—How to Dis¬ 
tinguish Officers of the Army—Problems, etc. 
.16 Illustrations.. 280, 281 
Calendar of Operations for the Month .258 
Cheese Making.269 
Clothing—Cheap—A Dear Bargain.278 
Coffee and Cotton in Africa.270 
Consumptives—Cream vs. Cod Liver Oil.278 
Crops—Reports on.284 
Cuttings—Hint on Striking.273 
Dahlias Look to the.275 
Draining—Laying out Drains .7 Illustrations ..264 
Drills—Which Way should they Run ?.265 
England—Land Cultivated—Work for Steam Plow.. .265 
Exhibitions—Agricultural in 1861—Time and Place of.262 
Farm Work in September.258 
Flower Beds—Position of .275 
Flower Garden and Lawn in September.258 
Flowers in the House—How to keep Bouquets... III. .276 
Fruit and Flower Decorations for the Table .. 3 III. .276 
Fruit—Apparatus for Drying. . .Illustrated.. 277 
Fruit Gatherer. Illustrated. .273 
Fruit in Minnesota.274 
Galvanism for Slugs and Snails. Illustrated. .273 
Garden—Kitchen and Fruit—in September .258 
Garden—Love of the. .277 
Graperies, Cold Frames, and Hot-Beds for the Million, 
. 6 Illustrations. .272 
Grapes—Growing for Forcing .273 
Grain, Winter—Sowing with Buckwheat.263 
Green and Hot-Houses in September .258 
Horses—Dentistry for Dobbin.268 
Horses—Effects of Hungarian Grass on.268 
Horses—Period of Gestation.267 
Insects—The Army Worm.263 
Insects—The Grain Aphis ._..263 
Kansas—Farming Prospects in .'..262 
Lantern Blinks. XXVIII.—Diogenes Redivivus Re¬ 
visits Higgins’ Rest .271 
Leaves—How to copy on Paper .277 
Literature—Agricultural, Extraordinary .271 
Market Fairs in Illinois.266 
Market Review, Weather Notes, etc.283 
Milk—Keeping in Hot Weather.279 
Alillers’ Bolt—How to Clean .268 
Mills—Farm—Bennet and Brothers’. .2 Illustrations. .268 
Mushrooms—How to Raise .274 
Orchard and Nursery in September.258 
Pickles—Greening with Grape Leaves.279 
Plants—House, for Winter.275 
Plowing by Steam—Howard’s Apparatus_ Illustr. 265 
Premiums offered for 1862.282 
Prospect for Farmers. .261 
Raspberries—Cultivation of; Notes on Varieties.273 
Recipes—Cooking Eggs; Corn Yeast; Root Beer; 
Tomato Pickles ; Clove Cake .... .279 
Seeds—Free—Large Distribution for 1862.261 
September—Suggestions—Farmers’ Advantages. 
. Illustrated. . 257 
Sheep—Sale of Jonas Webb’s Flock.266 
Stables—Short Sermon on.267 
Stains—How to Remove.279 
Stammering—$40 Cure for. 278 
Sugar from Imphee and Sorghum..270 
Swine—Hints on Fattening . 266 
Thistles—Teaching Hogs to Destroy them.263 
Tim Bunker on Lightning Rods . 267 
Timber—When to Cut. 270 
Trees—Ailanthus—Use for.262 
Verbenas—How to Raise .275 
Washing Day—Apparatus for .3 Illustrations. .277 
Whooping Cough—Remedy for ; Second Attack.. .. 278 
Wine Making.270 
ABOUT NEXT YEAR. 
Large Premiums. 
FME SEEDS. 
Hoasuaty to New RcciraiSs. 
The motto of the Agriculturist has always been, and 
still is: “Published to do Good and Make Money ."—Acting 
on this maxim, we have spared neither exertion nor ex¬ 
pense, to make it a good paper, and to increase its circula¬ 
tion and good influence. That much good has been ac¬ 
complished, our readers have abundantly testified. We 
might refer, also, to the thousands of homes that, during 
many years past, have been bettered, and beautified with¬ 
out and within, by its hints, suggestions, and plain, prac¬ 
tical instructions. The amount of money we have made, 
is not worth talking about yet.-After so many years of 
strenuous effort, we had hoped to rest from extra pub¬ 
lishing labors for a year to come, but the times admonish 
us to the contrary. Our Southern subscribers are cut off 
for the present, and many of our Northern subscribers 
have exchanged the plow for the sword. To make up for 
all possible losses, and to reach a little higher circulation 
still, we are now ready to put forth any amount of further 
effort.-To those who will aid us by collecting clubs of 
subscribers, we shall not only be grateful, but we have 
provided to remunerate them for time and labor expend¬ 
ed. See premiums on page 282.-To new “recruits”, now, 
we offer a “ bounty.” See below.-To all subscribers, 
new and old, we shall not only offer a lot of good 
seeds (see page 261), but shall also try to give them just 
the best paper that can possibly be made. 
Our business is arranged to give a large dollar’s worth 
to every reader, and yet to save a small profit on each 
annual subscription—an amount so small on each, that 
no one would wish to make it less ; still on our great cir¬ 
culation, even this affords a nice little sum that we would 
like to “store away.” But in these hard times we are wil¬ 
ling to divide the profits among our readers. So, after ap¬ 
propriating what may be needed to remunerate voluntary 
agents, we intend to “ invest ” the balance in distributing 
good seeds to all who desire them, and in improving the 
character, beauty, and real value of the paper. 
3 Months Free. 
As every person who reads a few numbers before 
January, will be quite likely to influence others to begin 
with the next volume, we make the following offer: 
To all new subscribers for 1S62, ( Vol. 21,) whose names 
are received during September, we will send the paper 
INDEX TO “BASKET” ITEMS. 
Advertisements—“ Noticing”.259 
Agricultural Societies—Hints to.259 
Barometer—Mercurial.259 
Bess in War.260 
Bushel Box—Size of..259 
Cattle—Great Sale of Herefords.259 
Clover—Sweet Scented. 259 
Coffee—Condensed.259 
Combustion—Spontaneous in Hay Mows.259 
Copperas as a Disinfectant.259 
Corn in the Crib—Measuring .259 
Corn—Selecting Seed.260 
Flax Cotton—$500 Premium.. 259 
Flowers—Fadeless ; Ilelichrysum ; Lupinus Nanus ; 
Pink; Commelyna.260 
Grapes in Dwellings—How far Apart?.260 
Grass Seed—Sowing Thickly.259 
Hog Cholera—Potato Water for Hogs. .260 
Insects—Onion Maggot; Tar Water for...259 
Land—Value of near London.259 
Lime—Refuse from Kilns . . .260 
Manzanilo Shrub..260 
Patent Office—New Agricultural Superintendent.259 
Raspberries—Everbearing... ...260 
Rhubarb—Gaboon’s.260 
Rockland Co. Farmers and Premiums.259 
Soap Weed from California—A new Plant.260 
SugarCane—Cook’s Evaporator .259 
Superphosphate — Raw Bone.259 
Timber—Time for Cutting.260 
Toads—Killing and Bloody Milk..260 
Trees—Apple ; Largest in America; Low Branching ; 
Early Decay of.260 
Trees—Transplanting Budded.259 
Wheat From Illinois—Good Spring Variety.260 
Winn — T ln ,,ln.259 
for the remaining three months of this year 
without charge ; that is, we will send the paper 15 
months for the regular price of one year. UJgr 1 This 
offer extends to all new subscribers received this month, 
whether in premium clubs or otherwise, and also to very 
distant subscribers received after October 1st. 
Will all our present readers please make the above of¬ 
fers known to their friends and neighbors ? The extra 
three months free, will lead many to subscribe. 
Will it Fay ? 
(A Dialogue, “ made to Order." ) 
( not) Mr. Smith. —See here, neighbor, I want to advise 
you about making a small extra investment, in these hard 
times—say a dollar. 
( not ) Mr. Jones. —What is it ? Will it ray ? 
1st Speaker. —Well, it has paid me for twenty years 
past, and it is likely to pay better now than ever before. 
2nd Speaker .—I am in a hurry, but what is it ? 
1st Speaker. —You see the great piles of papers on those 
shelves—twenty large volumes of them. Here just look 
at a single volume. You see there are 384 great pages, 
more than twice as large as a common magazine ; and 
if you will count up, you will find about a thousand ar¬ 
ticles or “ pieces ” each one of which gives some use 
ful instruction about field work, or orchard work, or gar 
den work, or house work, or about various farm ani 
mals, or something for the young people ; and see how 
many fine engravings there are that show just how tilings 
look why there are hundreds of them in this one volume. 
2nd Speaker.— Must be much trash in so many things ! 
1st Speaker.—I have not found any. There may be some 
—it would be strange if there were not—but I find plenty 
of good things, enough to pay a hundred fold. Why, 
if I only valued one item in every ten, these would cost 
me only a cent apiece, and I have found many hints that 
have each paid me more than a dollar. 
2nd Speaker. —What about the “ extras ” for next year ’ 
1st Speaker. —Well, you see, in addition to what you 
find in this one volume, (the next one will be quite as 
good, I suppose,) the publisher is offering some extra in 
ducements for these “ war times.” If you send on your 
name now for the next volume, which begins January 
1st, you will get the paper for three months of this year 
free. Then, the Editor is going to present to each sub¬ 
scriber a lot of good seeds, next Winter. He has done 
this every year, but on account of the reduction in the 
postage on seeds, and other reasons, he is going to send 
an extra lot this year. 
2nd Speaker.— It must pay. Will you send my name ? 
1st Speaker .—Yes, with pleasure.-1 forgot to tell you 
that the Publisher of the Agriculturist has offered $240 
for information from practical experienced men, about 
cultivating Fall and Spring Wheat, Corn, Oats, Apples, 
Peaches, small fruits, feeding animals, fattening animals, 
and about the Kitchen Garden, and Flower Garden. 
From all these contributions of experienced men, the 12 
best articles are to be selected, and $240 paid for them, 
and these are all to be published in the Agriculturist. 
So we shall each in reality get, for one dollar, all the in¬ 
formation for which the publisher pays $240 ! 
2nd Speaker. —Well, I’ll try the paper, as you say j r ou 
have had it for 20 years, and find it all right. I guess, 
from its looks, it will be good for wife and children too. 
But how is so much given for so little money ? 
1st Speaker. —It was all explained in the paper last Win¬ 
ter. You see, the Agriculturist has about twenty times 
as many subscribers, as most other papers have. So the 
publisher saves the expense of nineteen business offices, 
nineteen printing presses, nineteen sets of office men— 
editors, clerks, foremen, type setters, etc.—because one 
set answers just as well for a hundred thousand as for 
one thousand subscribers. So, you see, the publisher 
has more profit to expend in making a good paper, in get¬ 
ting fine engravings, and in raising and buying good seeds 
for distribution; and also for offering premiums. This 
explains it ali.-But you need not wait for me to send. 
Just write your name on a piece of paper, with Post Of¬ 
fice, County, and State, and say “ Send Agriculturist for 
1862, and the extra numbers." This is all the writing need¬ 
ed. Enclose it with a dollar, seal tight, and direct it 
plainly to : Orange Judd, 41 Park Row, New-York City. 
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FLOWERS; trees, plants, and flowers, for the 
LAWN or YARD; care of DOMESTIC ANIMALS, 
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and YOUTH. 
A full CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS every month. 
THREE to FOUR HUNDRED, or more, illustrative 
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Over SIX HUNDRED plain, practical, instructive 
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The Editors and Contributors are all practical 
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The teachings of the Agriculturist are confined to no 
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ter, and its numerous illustrative engravings. 
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