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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents for November, 1860. 
Agricultural Literature—What it Has Done.333 
Apples—Pickled.343 
Apples—Yellow Bellflower.345 
Arguments—The Best from the Soil .341 
Artesian Well at Columbus.346 
Babies—A Word for—Hints to Mothers.342 
Bags—Marking.345 
Beans—Harvesting. 327 
Bees—Apiary in November.323 
Bees—Houses for.346 
Bees—H /jw to Tame.320 
Bees—“ Progressive’’—Their Operations Explained. .326 
Books—Age of Horses—Every Body’s Lawyer .346 
Books—Agricultural Scrap .346 
Boys’ and Girls’ Columns—Editor with His Young 
Readers—Thanksgiving—A Small Man—N e w 
Problem—Answers to Problems—The Knitting 
Lesson—Don’t Fret-Judge not from Appear¬ 
ances—One Drop at a Time. .3 Illustrations. .343-344 
Calendar of Operations for the Month.322 
California—Agricultural Progress of.329 
Cattle—Choice of, for Feeding.330 
Cattle—Fastening in Stalls...345 
Cattle—Food, Economy of...331 
Cellars—Ventilating.346 
Central America—Jottings, by A. O. Moore. .3 lllustr. .336 
Chess and Wheat ....345 
Chimney—Righting a Leaning one.342 
Chimneys—Take Care of the.331 
Cider-How to Make the Best.344 
Cisterns for Filtering.346 
Coal Sifter—A Cheap .342 
Cold Pits and Cellars for Plants. Illustrated.. 338 
Cotton Seed-Grinding—Experiment in.327 
Cows -Comforts for .331 
Cows—Concert by—A Hint to Bell-Makers.326 
Cranberries in Illinois.345 
Crow Frightener.333 
Dress-Errors in...342 
Eggs—How to Keep . .325 
Exhibition—Our Tables during the month.... 324 
Farm Work in November.322 
Filtering Spring Waters.346 
Flower Garden and Lawn in November.323 
Flowers-Aristocratic .339 
Flowers—Floral Question.339 
Flowers—Keeping Marvel of Peru. .345 
Flowers—Tulips from Seed. 345 
Flowers—Wild from Iowa—Wood Anemone.345 
Fruit—Ventilating when Barreled.345 
Fruits with Quick Returns.339 
Garden -Kitchen and Fruit in November.322 
Grape Cions—When to Cut..345 
Grape Vines—How to Prune.7 Illustrations. 340 
Grapes—Childs’ Superb. 339 
Grapes-Difficulties—Enclosed Border ...Illustrated. .341 
Grapes from Wayne Co., N. Y.—Fall Cuttings.345 
Grapes Northern Muscadine... 339 
Green and Hot-Houses in November. 323 
Healing Buildings . 324 
Hedge—Best Form of. 345 
Horse Power - What it is. 340 
Horses Rubbing—To Prevent. 345 
Horses—Saving from Burning. 345 
Horses—Staying a Mare .330 
Housekeeping -Untidy—Women not always at Fault. .342 
Humbugs-Look out for . 324-345 
Hyacinth—Cultivation of.338 
Ice House—Experience with. 325 
Insects - Apple Borer—Habits of... 333 
Insects—Arsenic for—Ashes for Rose Bugs. 346 
Insects-Microspocic Views..VII—Grape Vine Flea 
Beetle..11 Illustrations.. 332 
Insects—Potato Bugs-Snutf for Plant Lice. 346 
Lands—Sales in Iowa. 326 
Lantern Blinks—XXIII—About our Houses, etc. 335 
Leaves—Save them .. 
Magazine—N. Y. Coach Makers’. 346 
Maine Lands not Worn Out . 329 
Manures Purchased Annually in England. 325 
Market Review, Weather Notes, etc . 347 
Meadows -Reclaiming. . .327 
Moles—Castor Oil Plant for—Drowning Out.346 
Money—$1 Well Expended — . 345 
Muck—Treatment in the Stable and Afterward . 339 
November—S uggestions-Improvement of Leisure..321 
Oil Cake—Cotton and Linseed—How Made. .327 
Orchard and Nursery in November.322 
Physalis—Different Varieties . 345 
Plowing Deep- Opposite Results..328 
Poisoning with Laurel -Remedy for.. 345 
Politics and Agriculture. 8 Illustrations.. 329 
Potatoes—Deep Bins for. 345 
Poultry—New Breed Sebastopol Geese... Illustrated 323 
Premium Queries.. 
Premiums for 1861.. 
Prospects for Farmers Improving. 324 
Protection of Plants in Winter.338 
Puddings and Pies—A Domestic Chat—Recipes. 343 
Pump -A Cheap.2 / llustrations. .341 
Returning Articles to writers. 345 
Rhubarb- Distinguishing Varieties. 345 
Roofs—Cement for. 3.40 
Seeds—Cleaning. 345 
Seeds—Subscription Paid by. 345 
Shingles — Tarring. 346 
Sky-larks—Colony of. 346 
Sorghum Sugar Wanted. 331 
Spergula Piliferaor New Lawn Grass—Reports on. ..338 
Squashes Large. 345 
Stable—English Feeding. 331 
Stable—Leak in.. 
Stacks—How to Ventilate. 327 
Stock—Sales of Albany Breeding Association.325 
Subwiiling Easily Done.; 345 
Swine—Teaching Pigs to Eat Slow. 333 
Timber-When to Cut . .'.335 
Tim Bunker at the Farmers' Club .328 
Tires - Fastening with Oil... . 326 
Tomato-Wild . ..345 
Trees -Arbor Vitae from Cuttings. ...”345 
Trees—Cedar Berries. ..... 345 
Trees—Mata Palo Tree.3 Illustrations ..336-337 
Trees—Oregon—Scrub Oak. 345 
Trees—Plum, Unproductive. 345 
Trees—Quince Stock for Pears. 345 
Trees—For Towns and Streets. 337 
Turkish Bath—Described. 345 
Veterinary College at the West.’ ‘ ’ j '346 
Veterinary Physicians Wanted..... ’ 305 
Vineyard—Location of . 345 
Water Pipes—Cement-How Made.!.. .!..341 
Weather Notes from the Cherokee Nation.346 
Wheat and Manure—Plowing in. 329 
Wheat—Great Yield of—Prolific. 345 
Wine Manufactory.!..!!!. ^340 
Publisher’s Notices. 
(See Premium List and remarks, on page 348.) 
Tl»e Time has Expired, for new subscribers to 
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We can not. from present indications, promise that these 
extra copies will hold out for the whole of the month. All 
new names received during Nov. will certainly get the 
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lie looKed at the clear, sharp impression from the new 
type used in most of the present number. We intended 
this new type for the New Year, but we have plenty of other 
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