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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents for August, 1860. 
Agriculture—Progress in.235 
August—Suggestions—Compensation for Short Crops. 
Illustrated.225 
Arctic Vegetation—Summer Jaunt to Polar Regions. .231 
Barometer—Description of Mercurial and Aneroid. 
7 Illustrations.232—233 
Bees—Apiary in August.228 
Bees—Diseased.230 
Bees—Inaugurating a Queen.230 
Bees—Loss of Queens. 229 
Boys’ and Girls’ Columns—Editor with his Young 
Readers—Mischievous Tom—A Startling Report- 
Happy Jack—Needed Medicine—Beware of the 
Serpent—Dog Afraid of Noise—Language of 
Fowls—New Problems—Answers to Problems 
S Illustrations.248—249 
Budding Oranges and Lemons.249 
Buildings—Barn, Carriage House, etc., Combined. 
Form of Specifications and Contracts. 4 Illustra¬ 
tions.240—241 
Calendar of Operations for the Month .226 
Cauliflower—How to Raise and Cook.246 
Chess and Wheat—The Old Story.234 
Cows—Disease among. 249 
Cows—Superior Milch.250 
Currants—Improved.250 
Draining—Briggs’ Apparatus for Laying Tiles. .Illus .236 
Drain for House Slops.234 
Exhibitions—Agricultural in 1860—Times and Places 
of holding.231 
Farm—Stick to the.234 
Farm—Work in August.226 
Farmers—Refinement among.346 
Fences—Wire.238 
Flower Garden and Lawn in August.227 
Flowers—Cactuses—Mamillaria Weldii.Illustr.. 344 
Flowers—Orchid—Phalaenopsis Grandiflora..Illustr. .344 
Flowers—Standing Cypress.250 
Garden—Kitchen and Fruit in August.226 
Gooseberry Bush—Prolific.249 
Grape Vines—Winter Killing, to Prevent.243 
Green and Hot-Houses in August.227 
Horses—Premium for Fast Walkers. ..230 
Hydropult—The.2 Illustrations. .236 
Humbug—One Horse.237 
Humbug or Two.239 
Implements—Sedgwick’s Improved Cultivator.. .Ill .229 
Insects—Bark Lice Killed by Sulphur. .239 
Insects—Chickens versus.242 
Invention—New—Sewing Machine.250 
Inventors—Hints to.236 
Ladder and Wheel-barrow combined .2 Illustr. .237 
Lands—New-Jersey...250 
Lois Weedon Culture.234 
Long Island—Agricultural Products of. 229 
Manures—House Slops, How saved.234 
Manures—Poultry Droppings. 239 
Manures—Scientific and Practical Talks about .VII. .228 
Milking—To make Cows Give down... .238 
Mulching—Benefits of.250 
Night Air not Unwholesome.233 
Orchard and Nursery in August.226 
Overworking—Note from the Doctor.246 
Paint—Ellery’s India Rubber.250 
Picture—Peale’s Court of Death.250 
Postage—Notes on.256 
Poultry—Shoe the Fowls.229 
Premium — Standing.256 
Reading Room—Agricultural.256 
Recipes—Cheap Sponge Cake—Boiled Suet Pudding— 
Omelette—Yeast—Flour Pudding—Tomato Figs. .247 
Seeds—Failure of—The New-Rochelle Blackberry.. .256 
Seeds—Insuring Germination of.244 
Sheep—Description of Breeds.238 
Sheep—Broad-tailed African.250 
Sheep-Husbandry.Ill.238 
Schools—Good.250 
Shrub—Silver Leaved Shepherdia.243 
Strawberries Cheaply Raised—Austin Seedling. 3 111—245 
Strawberry Markets.256 
Strawberry Protector—Novel.256 
Sugar Cane—Chinese and Iinphee.250 
Sugar Evaporator—Cook's.250 
Tree—The Hop.249 
Trees—Lye for. 249 
Trees—Promoting Fertility in Fruit.243 
Trees—Protecting from Sheep.249 
Trees—Raising Locust.249 
Trees—Timely Hint to Planters.243 
Trees—Training Peach.242 
Wine from Native Grapes.243 
Wringing Glothfi— Apparatus for.2 lllust...247 
Failure of §eeds—The New Ro¬ 
chelle Blackberry Seed. 
A large number of seeds of various kinds have been 
forwarded to us from different parts of the country. 
With few exceptions these have all been carefully 
planted ; but we are sorry to report that very many 
of them have failed to vegetate. The excessive drouth 
has had much to do with this failure. Many of our own 
seeds, which were proved to be perfectly good by previ¬ 
ously starting them in pots, have entirely failed when 
planted out in the usual manner. Indeed, we have lost 
more seeds, plants, and trees, the present summer, than 
in all our past experience ; and we are now obliged to 
use hundreds of buckets of water every week to keep 
our trees and plants alive even, to say nothing of losing 
the usual new growth of the season. 
The New Rochelle Blackberry Seed sent out by us last 
Spring to a large number of persons all over the country, 
we are sorry to learn has, in some instances, failed to 
vegetate thus far. This has probably resulted from the 
dry season, or from allowing the seeds to become too dry 
before planting. As the seeds were without doubt 
sent in good order, having been secured with special 
care, the probability is that some of them may lie over 
in the ground until next Spring, as is frequently the case 
with wild seeds. However, to make assurance doubly 
sure, «e will gather a lot of fresh seed as soon as the 
berries are ripe this season, and forward a parcel to those 
whose seed has not yet vegetated—if a ready directed en¬ 
velope be provided for enclosing the new seed. The new 
seed can be planted as soon as it arrives, covering it with 
not over half an inch of fine earth. When thus planted 
fresh, it can hardly fail to start this Fall, or in Spring at 
the latest. 
Strawberry Markets.— Cincinnati, which has 
been considered the largest hog and strawberry market 
in the world, will have to look to her laurels, or San 
Francisco will bear the palm in the sirawberry line, at 
least. Only think of a strawberry patch of 80 acres, from 
which the proprietors sent in from 2600 to 4000 pounds of 
berries, daily, during the strawberry season, according to 
a statement in the California Fanner. 
Novel Strawberry Protector.— An Eastern 
exchange mentions an ingenious method by nhicli a gen¬ 
tleman saved his strawberries from the daily attacks of 
an army of robins. He killed a worthless cat, skinned 
and stuffed her, and having fitted in glaring glass eyes, 
he mounted her in the center of his strawberry patch. 
Although the robins continued to congregate upon the 
fence and trees near by, and scolded incessantly, none of 
them ventured upon the patch again. Perhaps the same 
scare-robin would save the cherries. It is worth a trial, 
particularly where cats abound as thex do on some 
premises at night. 
Agricultural Reading Room.— The Ches¬ 
ter Co.. (Pa ) Agricultural Society have fitted up in good 
style, an Agricultural Reading Room for the use of their 
members. The advantages of this arrangement are ob¬ 
vious. Although every cultivator should have a select 
library, many valuable works are beyond the means, 
or are inaccessible to private individuals, who would 
cheerfully contribute for the privilege of consulting such 
books from time to time as they might need. Such a 
room becomes a center point for the diffusion of informa¬ 
tion, and head quarters for local agricultural meetings, 
discussions, and interchange of opinions. The example 
is a good one, and will, we trust, be generally followed. 
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Price of tlie New “ Wringer”-Correctioii. 
In the description of this new implement, on page 247, 
(nhich was written without the knowledge of the manu¬ 
facturer,) the retail price is stated at $8 in a part of the 
present edition. This we learn is wrong ; and to avoid 
difficulty, we make the correction here, as the inside 
sheet is partly printed. The price is $10. We were led 
into the error by noticing that when sold w'ith the $10 
washing machine, the two are put at $18. 
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