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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents for January, 1860. 
Accounts—Farm should be Kept. 8 
Advertising Information—Gratis—VII—Recipes. 5 
Advertisements not Endorsed.27 
Advertising Terms Advanced.28 
Animals—Young, Breaking.10 
Animals—Care of Breeding.12 
Apples —Best in N. Y. Market.-.25 
Apples—What Varieties to Plant.18 
Balsam Apple—Wild.20 
Beans—Garden, Notes on Varieties.18 
Bees—Apiary in January... 3 
Bees—Convenience for Feeding .20 
Bees—Profit of Keeping.26 
Bees—Swarming without a Queen. 7 
Berks Co., Pa., Products—Acknowledgment.27 
Books—Campbell’s Agriculture.27 
Boys’ and Girls’ Columns—Editor with his Young 
Readers—Miss “Sly Boots’’—A Happy New Year 
—Pleasant Remembrances—Sad Memories—A Cap¬ 
ital Trick—Did not Know his Best Friend—How 
“Low” was Caught —Weighing the Evidence—A 
Reserved Man—Fun for the Boys in Winter—Prob¬ 
lems.4 Illustrations. .24-25 
Brooms—Home-made . 6 Illustrations.. 13 
Calendar of Operations for the Month. 2 
Castor Oil Plant—Ornamental. 19 
Cattle Breeding—A good Talk on. 9 
Cattle—Currycombs useful for.12 
Cattle—Lean Calves unprofitable.12 
Clover—White.14 
Cooking—Hints on.23 
Correspondents—Note to.26 
Doctor—Familiar Talks by the. 23 
Farmer—A Shiftless.14 
Farm—Work for in January. 2 
Feed—Cutting too Short. 9 
Feed—How to use Rough Fodder.11 
Fence Stakes fastened with Wire...14 
Fires—Hints on Using Hard Coal.22 
Flower Garden and Lawn in January. 2 
Flower—Name Wanted.Illustrated.. 19 
Flowers—Sports among.19 
Fuel—Store it for Summer now.16 
Garden—Hints for Winter.'..19 
Garden—Hints on the Kitchen. 17 
Garden—Kitchen and Fruit in January...2 
Grafts may be cut Now.18 
Grape—Origin of the Delaware. .18 
Grape Vines—Barren.18 
Grass—Hungarian bad for Horses. 9 
Green and Hot-Houses in January. 2 
Hemp—How Grown and Prepared for Market.13 
Homo—Making it Attractive—Important Suggestion ... 21 
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Horses—Blanketing in the Stable.26 
Horses—Errors in Shoeing... S 
Horses—Number of in the World. 8 
‘How things are Made’’—Explanatory Note.25 
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Insects—Sulphur for Sheep Ticks ..-. 27 
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Tomatoes in Pots. 17 
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Winter in the City.Illustrated.. 18 
Workman—A Shrewd. 8 
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