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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents for February, 1860. 
Advertising Information—Gratis—VIII—Recipes.38 
Agricultural Convention at New Haven.50 
Asparagus,—Cultivation of.50 
Bee-Hive—Miner’s.60 
Bees—Apiary in February.35 
Biscuit—Graham . .56 
Books—Appleton’s Cyclopaedia.60 
Boys’ and Girls’ Columns—Editor with his Young 
Readers—Learning to sing—“ Chickadee,” Song 
and Music—Pleasant Plays—The Bachelor’sGifts— 
“ Served him Right ”—The Poor become tho Rich 
—Problems etc.4 Illustrations. .57—58 
Buildings—Country Residence—Homestead of the Pub¬ 
lisher.4 Illustrations. .48—49 
Buildings—Premium Offered for Plan of Barn.. .60 
Burying Grounds—Style ofin the Country.36 
Calendar of Operations for the Month . 34 
Charcoal—How Prepared for Market. .3 Illustrations. .42 
Chrysanthemums from Seed.60 
Cisterns—Filtering—Plans of New..4 Illustrations.. .45 
Clover for Worn out land—Valuable Experience.46 
Coal Ashes—Save the—An Improved Sifter... lllustr.. .54 
Correspondents—Note to.60 
Crackers—Soda.56 
Doctor—Familiar Talks by the_II .54 
Drain Tile Machine—Winegar’s.Illustrated. .44 
Errors in Speaking—by Anna Hope.55 
Exhibitions—County Fairs and Humbugs.45 
Explanation—A Failure. .60 
Farm—Work for in February . 
Farmers-How they live Down East...43 
February, Suggestions—Intellectual Culture.33 
Fences—Hints on Making Board...37 
Flower Baskets—Pendant.Illustrated.. 56 
Flower Garden and Lawn in February. S4 
Fruit Garden—A dog in the.Illustrated. .53 
Garden—Kitchen and Fruit in February.34 
Grafting Knives .3 Illustrations. .51 
Grafts —Sending by Mail .CO 
Grape-Vines—Raising from Seed.51 
Grape Vines—Raising in pots--4 Illustrations. .52 
Grape Vines—Ringing.51 
Grass—Direction for Sowing Timothy.60 
Grasses and their Importance.39 
Green and Hot-Houses in February.34 
Hastening Vegetation in Spring.35 
Head Work.39 
Hedges for Shelter.60 
Hog Trough—A New.Illustrated. .41 
Horse Nettle—The .60 
Hungarian Millet in Iowa and Rhode Island.47 
Ice Manufacturing.60 
Insects—Aphides or Plant Lice.60 
Insects—Bugs receiled from Correspondent.60 
Inserts —Grubs in Apple Trees.60 
Insects—Taylor’s Tree Protector.60 
Lamps—Hand, for Coal Oil.56 
Lantern Blinks—XVI—How the Farm is depopulated. .43 
Letter—Acknow ledging Premium. 64 
Manure-Scientific and Practical Talks about. ..II... 40 
One of Many. 
We beg pardon, if need be, for inserting the letter be¬ 
low. It is very seldom that we occupy space with the 
kind commendatory notices from our cotemporaries ofthe 
press, or from our subscribers, though we have on file 
enough of them to fill many entire numbers of the paper. 
Our jealous western brother editor who recently hinted 
that others did not fulfil their promises of premiums, etc., 
will please “put the following in his pipe and smoke it,” 
and if this does not soothe his disturbed nerves, let him 
call on us and we can privately furnish him any quantity 
“ more of the same sort.” 
Bridgewater, Mass., Dec. 29, 1859. 
Ed. of Agriculturist. 
Dear Sir :—Your letter of the 27th enclosing a re¬ 
ceipted bill for a Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine 
was received last evening, in which you say that “ you 
have made extra efforts to get the machine off at once, 
and that per haps you will receive it by Thursday.” Well, 
sure enough, Thursday morning’s Steamboat train brought 
it. It has the appearance of being a perfect machine, 
and Mrs Keith, will have a. splendid New-Year’s present. 
For this meritorious promptness on your part, I extend my 
grateful thanks, and for the premium itself, my special 
acknowledgment.—When I had obtained 60 of the required 
144 subscribers, I began to falter, but an incidental remark 
in a business letter from your clerk, assured tne that the 
machine “ was a prize worth seeking.” I persevered, and 
the prize more than meets my expectations.—Long live 
the American Agriculturist, and its liberal hearted Pro¬ 
prietor. Truly Yours, L. Keith. 
Sundry Notes on Money Matters. 
We willingly receive in payment of subscriptions the 
bills of all specie paying Banks in the States and Canadas, 
and would not have our subscribers put themselves to 
any special inconvenience to get other money than that 
current in their several localities. Still, as the prefit on 
a subscription is very small, we shall feel obliged, if when 
just as convenient, persons remitting money will send 
those bills the nearest to par value here Nearly all our 
payments for materials and labor must be made in cur¬ 
rent funds, and hence we are obliged to pay a discount to 
brokers, on nearly all subscription money received. The 
rate of discount varies a little from time to time, but the 
following are about the average sums we pay on each 
hundred dollars received in bills. 
Nova Scotia Banks (British Province).$10.00 
New Brunswick, (British Province). 5.00 
Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, (now $34) usually . 3.00 
Tennessee, Missouri (just now $3) usually $1 to.. 2.00 
Alabama, Indiana, (except State Bank). 1.50 
North Carolina, Georgia, (except Savannah and 
Augusta) . 1.25 
Virginia. Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana State Bank- 1.00 
Pennsylvania* (interior and Western), Maryland 
(except. Baltimore), Louisiana. 75 
South Carolina. Savannah and Augusta, Geo , and 
Honesdale, Pa._. 50 
Delaware, Baltimore, Md.. Eastern Pennsylvania, 
New Jersey, and New York State . 30 
New England. 10 
New York Cit.v, Hudson River, 5’s in Eastern N.J., 
Easton B'k, Pa., Pahquioque, Pequonnock, Ct., etc Par. 
Manure—Village Wastes.39 
Market Review, Weather Notes etc.59 
Melon—Japan or Applo Pie. .36 
Money Matters —Sundry Notes on.64 
Moving—Think tw ice before. 35 
Nature—Following.44 
Onion Growing—Work on. 60 
Orchard and Nursery in February. 34 
Orchard—Winter Attention to. 53 
Ornaments- Inexpensive Household.IIlustrated. 56 
Potatoes—Keeping . 60 
Poultry—Bremen or Embden Geese.Illustrated . .41 
Poultry—Hong Kong Geese. 60 
Poultry—Why the Hens do Lay. 41 
Premiums—List of.58 
Protecting Tender Plants.35 
Recpes—Head Cheese—Arrow Root Pudding.Pumpkin 
Fritters—Pop-Overs—Snow Corn Cakes—Cleaning 
Rhubarb or Pie Plant—Cultivation of.50 
Safe for Provisions—Shaler’s. Illustrated. .55 
Seeds for the Pacific Coast.61 
Seeds—List of those Distributed.58 
Seeds—Send for early.64 
Small Plots—A Mechanic’s Garden.47 
Special Premium—New Rochelle Blackberry Seeds_61 
Spring Work—Forwarding.35 
Slump Puller—A New one.Illustrated. .37 
Swine—Antimony for .60 
Swum—Teaching them Good Behavior .4! 
Sw ine—Where the (logs are raised.40 
Tho-ley’s Cattle Food. 60 
Tim Bunker on Giving Boys a Start..37 
Toads-Another Advocate for.44 
Tobacco — How Grown and Prepared for Market.46 
Trees—How are Forests being Preserved . 36 
Tries for Prairies—Transplanting Forest. . f t 
Trees— Seeming Second Growth.60 
Tices—Training to induce Fruitfulness..Illustrated. .53 
Trees — Two kinds of Mountain Ash.51 
Trees Splitting—To Prevent ... 47 
Trees—Winter Attention to the Orchard .53 
Willows—Osier or Basket.47 
Winter Cherry—Perennial..... 60 
Checks on banks out of the city cost us 25 cents and 
upward for each —no matter how small the amount. 
Br lifts or checks on New York city banks are 
equivalent to gold. We always prefer these on all sums 
of $10 and upward, for if payable to our order, they can 
not be lost or stolen from the mails. On thes; we are al¬ 
ways willing to allow the cost of exchange, if not ex¬ 
ceeding one per cent, and half the exchange if two per 
cent or more. 
Postage Stamps are convenient for remitting 
small sums; they should always have a piece of paper 
between the gummed sides, when mailed, to prevent 
their adhering together. Ten cent stamps are not so easi¬ 
ly sold as 3-cent stamps, but can be disposed of in time. 
The 3-cent stamps arc most desirable. 
Ciohl Coins should always be securely fastened in a 
card, or between tw o thick pieces of paper, by pasting or 
stitching, before putting them into a letter. Letters en¬ 
closing money should always he well fastened, clear to 
the corners, to prevent money from slipping out, and also 
to prevent l heir being opened. 
Always be sure that you have actually put the money 
in before sending, and that lhe outside direction is right, 
and also that tile name. Post Office, and State be given 
inside Very many letters come to us with one or more 
of these items omitted. 
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Notes on Poslnffo. 
—o— 
No Postmaster has any legal right, to charge over Six 
Cents a year postage on tile American Agriculturist. The 
paper is manufactured expressly wilh reference to having 
each number w eigh a trifle less than three ounces, when 
weighed dry and without the wrapper, as the law directs : 
and the law isexplic.it that periodicals weighing not over 
three ounces, shall be charged onc-cent each, if sent 
singly, and only An//"this rate when the postage is paid 
quarterly in advance at the office where received. 
Can at any time be increased, by remitting for each ad¬ 
dition the price paid by the original members—provided 
the subscriptions all date back to the same starting point. 
The back numbers will of course be sent to added names. 
Send on for Vour Seeds. 
We have now got our seeds for this year’s Distribution 
fully arranged, and have been sending off from 5.000 to 
10,000 parcels a day, since January I2th. The present 
applications come in nearly as fast as they can be filled, 
but we hope to oveitake the demand on or before the mid¬ 
dle of February, so as to respond to after applications 
within two or three days from their reception. N. B.— 
The parcels to go by Express can not well be got ready 
before about the close of February. 
AH our readers who anticipate sending for seeds, will 
please do so at as early a day as possible. We provided 
an ample supply of all kinds, so far as we could form an 
estimate in advance, but it happens that at least ten thou¬ 
sand persons have taken a fancy to particular kinds of 
seed, so the probability is that some varieties will soon 
run out. Those sending hereafter, will do well to put a 
second list on the lower left hand corner of the envelopes, 
to be selected from, in case the upper list can not all be 
furnished. Three kinds, Nos. 81, 112, and 125, are already 
nearly out. 
For 112 we put down j of 3-cent stamp in the list, not 
expecting to get clean seed, as we succeeded in doing. 
This and a few other parcels appear small. Those who 
think so, will please count the seeds, if they have time 
and patience enough. Some of these choice seeds cost 
us $40 per lb. 
A Request.—May we ask our friends w hen sending 
for seeds to do us the favor to cast about, and see if they 
can not at ihe same time send on Hie subscription of a 
neighbor or friend. Favors of this kind wilt be recip¬ 
rocated in any way practicable by sending any extra 
parcels of seed desired, or otherwise. 
^meruan ^griralturist. 
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A thorough going, RELIABLE, and PRACTICAL 
Journal, devoted to the different departments ol SOIL 
CULTURE -suoli as growing field CROPS; orchard 
and garden FRUITS; garden VEGETABLES and 
FLOWERS; trees, plants, and flowers for the 
LAWN or YARD; in-door and out door work around 
the DWELLING; care of DOMESTIC ANIMALS 
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ST The matter of each number will be prepared main¬ 
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be promptly and regularly mailed at least one day before 
the oeginnirig of Ihe month. 
A full CALENDVR OF OPERATIONS for the season 
is given every month. 
FOUR to FIVE hundred or more, Illustrative EN¬ 
GRAVINGS will appear in eacli volume. 
Over SIX HUNDRED plain, practical, instructive 
articles will be given every year. 
The Edi’ors and Contributors are all practical, 
WORKING MEN. 
The teachings of the Agriculturist are. confined to no 
State or Territory, but are adapted to the ivants of all sec¬ 
tions of the country—it is, as its name indicates, truly 
American in its character. 
The German edition is of the same size and price 
as the English, and contains all of its reading matter, and 
its numerous illustrative engravings. 
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An extra copy to the person sending 15 or more names, 
at 80 cents each. 
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cents, to England and France 24 cents, to Germany 21 
cents, and to Russia 72 cents per annum 
Delivery in New-York city and Brooklyn, 12 cents a year. 
Postage anywhere in the United States and Territories 
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Subscriptions can hegin Jan 1st, July 1st, or at any 
other date if specially desired 
The paper is considered paid for whenever it is sent, 
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it is ordered expires. 
All business and other communications should be ad¬ 
dressed to the Editor and Proprietor. 
ORANGE JUDD. 
No 189 Water st , New-York. 
