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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
Contents for October, 1861. 
Animals -Diseased ; Treatment of.204 
Animals—How to Improve .294 
Animals—Improvement of. JJl 
Animals—Keep Farm Stock Thriving...3U0 
Aquariums—Care of.310 
ilees—Apiary in October.201 
Bees—Interesting Experiments with.301 
Bees—Wintering in the Cellar.301 
Bone Mill—A Good Wanted.317 
Books—American Cyclopedia . 201 
Boys’ and Girls’ Department—The First Day at School; 
How a Boy Paid for the Agriculturist ; The “Know 
How”; A Luscious Peach; A Noble Boy; The 
War and Corns; About the Treasury Notes, etc.; 
The Brave Gander ; The Dandy’s Ruse ; A Royal 
Barber ; A Living Hippopotamus ; Problems. 
3 Illustrations. .312-14 
Cabbages—How to Keep in Winter. 296 
Calendar of Operations fob the Month .290 
Cellars under Barns.• .. • • -296 
Cheese Press—A Simple. Illustrated. .301 
Corn Stalks—Save the.298 
Cotton—Raising in the Colder States.295 
Dahlia—A Hint for the...;.307 
Draining—Sundry Suggestions.5 Illustrations. .29/ 
Eggs—Preserving .309 
Exhibitions—Agricultural in 1801—Time and Place of.315 
Exhibition Tables at Agriculturist Office.317 
Fall Work—A few “Chores”..298 
Farm Work in October .290 
Farming—The Great End in.300 
Fencing—A Durable Bar-post .300 
Flower Garden and Lawn in October.290 
Flower Seeds—Save the. .307 
Food—Cliean.311 
Fruit Gatherer—Siratde. Illustrated ..309 
Garden—Kitchen util Fruit in October. 290 
Green and llo- Houses in October.291 
Green Houses foi the People—No. 1. .3 Illustrations. .307 
Greenwood Cemetery. ..303 
Hedges—Chapter on .3 Illustrations.. 302 
Horse—How to Choose.300 
Humbugs—Great Barquct—New Dodge.296 
Husbands—Short l.i-oiuie to..310 
Hyacinth—How to Grow the.306 
Insects—Aphides on the Aster .306 
Insects—Borers Caught “ Napping”.306 
Insects upon Evergreens 306 
Laws—Publishing ; A Hint to Editors.317 
Market Review, Weather Notes, etc.316 
Meat—Cooking ; Making Soup.311 
Miller’s Bolt—Cleaning; Another Method. 300 
Millet—-Valuable Variety from Wisconsin.298 
llolhers—A Word to.311 
October—suggestions ; Planting Fruit Trees.. Illust. .289 
Orchard and Nursery in October.290 
Perfume of Flowers—To Obtain and Preserve. 308 
Plants—How to Improve ..295 
Poultry—Commence to Fatten . 301 
Premiums for Indoor Manufactures. 310 
Premiums offered for 1862.315 
Prize Art cles—Time Extended.293 
Prospects for Farmers.294 
P's—The Three—Value of Health.310 
Recipes—Green Corn Cake—Tomato Corn Cakes.. 311 
Soil—Benefits of Pulverizing .299 
Strawberries— Transplanting—Good Method. .Illust. .309 
Swine—Chester Co., Pa.—Described.301 
Tile Machines—Information Wanted.291 
Tim Bunker on Buying a Farm.1.299 
Tree Planting—Hints on. „ .305 
Trees—Disease in Apple.306 
Trees—Plant Small .305 
Trees—The Best Elm—Desirable Sorts.305 
Trees—To Revive Dormant Buds.305 
Trenching—Overdoing in —.307 
Ventilating Dwellings—Simple, Cheap Method. Illus. 309 
War—The Campaign of the Agriculturist... .Illust. .304 
Weeds—A Good Law Disregarded.299 
Weeds in Walks . 307 
INDEX TO “BASKET” ITEMS. 
Animals and Plants—Relative Size of.293 
Apples and Wheat from Minnesota.293 
Apples in Newspapers......: 292 
Beans—Stacking.292 
Bees—Candy for .293 
Bees—Oil Cake for—Amount of Honey Needed.293 
Blackberries—Protecting.292 
Bones—Dissolving.293 
Cement Drains for Wate'.293 
Cotton from Milk-weed . 293 
Drains—Open Ends of. 293 
Exhibition—Brooklyn Horticultural Society.292 
Fish Culture—Information Wanted..293 
Fruit—Hot-Beds for Drying .292 
Grain—Immense Stock of. 292 
Grape Layers. 292 
Graperies—Cold—Queries..292 
Insects—Destroying Earth Worms.292 
Insects—Twenty Bushels of Army Worms. 293 
Ireland—Cultivated Land in.293 
Lawn Grass—Best ........ 292 
Magazine of Fashions—Something New..-._292 
Meadow—Burning over .. 293 
Melons—Persian or Cassabar.292 
Millet—Three Specimens of.293 
Muskrats—Destroying .293 
Onion Seed—Scalding.292 
Orchard Houses—Failure of.292 
Osage Orange Seed—Sowing.292 
Peas—Guinea Dwarf.293 
Plants by Mail.292 
Plows—Wheels on .292 
Premiums—No more Special.292 
Soap Weed from California Described.293 
Strawberry Runners—Potting. 292 
Straw for Feed ... .292 
Swine—Scrubbing—A Convenient Pig Trough.293 
Trees—Protecting from Rabbits .292 
Wine—Home-made from Native Grapes.293 
2 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 offej*: 
To all new subscribers for 1862, ( Vol . 21,) whose names 
are received during October , we will send the paper 
for the remaining two months of this year 
without charge ; that is , we will send the paper 14 
months for the regular price of one year. GSip’ This 
offer extends to all new subscribers received this month , 
whether in premium clubs or otherwise, and also to very 
distant subscribers received after November ls£. 
few hundreds of the first names now received, 
will also get the present number, (October,) as we shall 
print a moderate extra edition. 
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AI>out Mest Year 9 
Large Premiums. 
FREE SEEDS. 
Bounty to Fkw Becniits. 
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 ttie 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 315.———-To new “recruits”, now, 
we offer a “ bounty.” See above.-To all subscribers, 
new and old, we shall not only offer a lot of good 
seeds (see page 261 last month), 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. 
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Will it i’ay i 
(A Dialogue, “ made to Order." ) 
(not) Mr. Smith.—S ee 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 pay ? 
1st Speaker. —Well, it has paid me for twenty years 
past, and it is likely to pay better now than ever before. 
2 nd 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 singie volume. You see there are 3S4 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, c about various farm ani 
mals, or something for the young people ; and see bov-’ 
many fine engravings there are that show just how things 
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. Whv, 
if I only valued one item in every ten, these would cost 
me only a cent apiece, and I have found many hints that 
havo each paid me more than a dollar. 
2nd Speaker. —What about the “extras ” for next year ? 
1st Speaker. — We.I, 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 the rest 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 loll 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, tne 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 eacli 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 you 
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 tiie 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 all.—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, Neiu-York City. 
American Agriculturist. 
For tlie Farm, Garden, and Household. 
A thorough-going, RELIABLE, and PRACTICAL 
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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, and many useful items, 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 ihs name indicates, for the 
whole American Continent. 
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price as theEnglish, and containing all of its reading mat¬ 
ter, and its numerous illustrative engravings. 
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