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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 1 , 
INDEX. 
Aftermath, or second hay crop.35 
Agriculture a d the government.28 
‘ ‘ principles of chemistry.32 
“ “ of practical.32 
Agricultural library, a cheap.25 
“ Exhibitions.28 
Always be polite.46 
Apple, an amateur’s first.42 
Bear grass.39 
Canada thistle .34 
Cattle breeding.33 
“ cheat in stock.27 
“ Prince George of Cambridge.33 
Cattle’s horns, shaping..37 
Colds.38 
Cranberry cultivation.39 
Cultivation, economic.35 
Curiosity, a.28 
Currants, a chapter on.31 
Draining, what it did.30 
Farm and Garden of Sir. Amos Briggs.25 
“ true value of a.36 
Farmer’s boys, a story for.46 
“ future, the.36 
“ wife, which of the two ?.44 
Fortune knocks once.45 
Garden, notes from our.41 
Garden seeds, pure.27 
Gentleman, the true.45 
Grapes in New'-York.44 
Guano sprinkler .27 
Household management, hints on...37 
Illinois agricultural products.29 
Illustrated Annual Register, &c.32 
Inside view of slavery.32 
Johnson, Jas. W. F., death of. 27 
Kissing a pig.44 
Lettuce, cultivation of.43 
Love-letter, a floral.45 
Manure-yard, one way to construct.40 
Meats, cooking.37 
Meadows, improving, &c.26 
Muck beds, hunt up the.27 
Nobleman and the cow-boy.38 
October issue, our.28 
Oxen vs. horses.36 
Paint, how to clean. 37 
Pea, produce of a single . 29 
“ the Oregon.29 
Peas and potatoes for hogs.36 
Pears for vicinity of Philadelphia.41 
Personal habits, hints on.32 
Peppermint in Michigan.40 
Pickle for hams.28 
Pigs, one of the.45 
Planter’s victim, the.32 
Popular definitions. 38 
Pork packing, a hint on.28 
Potatoes, keeping sweet...39 
Preserving Pippins.35 
Quick work. 3 ~ 
Review of markets, &c.46 
Retort, a successful.38 
Silverware, washing.,..26 
Stephen, &c.44 
Stock raiser’s arithmatic.45 
Supherphosphate, manufacture of.37 
Systematic, be.37 
Tit for tat.45 
Trees, best season for transplanting.42 
Waterloo correspondence.29 
Ways of committing suicide.40 
Weeds, how r to plow under.37 
Wethersfield in danger.27 
&HORT 
Heifers ai 
HORNS.—Short Homed Cows. 
and Bulls for sale. Address 
JAMES W. WILKIN, 
Wilkin’s Villa, (near Montgomery,) 
105-110nl233 Orange County, N. Y. 
A NDRE LEROY’S NURSERIES, AT 
X3L ANGERS, FRANCE. 
The undersigned begs leave to inform his numerous friends 
and customers that he is now ready to execute all orders for 
Fruit, Forest and Oreamental Trees, Evergreen Shrubs, Stocks 
&c. His collection is particularly fine this year for all kinds of 
Trees, &c., except Quince Stocks, the crop of which has again 
failed. 
The Catalogue for 1855 is ready for distribution, and all those 
who wish to get a copy can obtain one, free of charge, by address¬ 
ing our agent in New-York, Mr. F. A. BRUGUIERE, 138 Peail- 
st., successor to our former agent and friend, Mr. Ed. Bossange, 
who has retired from business. Orders should be sent at once 
to secure a complete assortment. All required inlormation to 
import Trees, &c., will be found on the first page of our Cata¬ 
logue. ANDRE LEROY, Angers. 
F. A. BRUGUIERE, Sole Agent, 
105-107nl234 138 Pearl-st., New-York, 
| 0 0 K S FOR THE FARMERS. 
P ALL SENT FREE OF POSTAGE, 
on receipt of the price annexed. 
Furnished by R. L. ALLEN, 189 and 191 Water-st. 
I. The Cow, Dairy Husbandry, and Cattle Breeding. Price 
25 cents. 
II. Every Lady her own Flower Gardener. Price 25 cents. 
III. The American Kitchen Gardener. Price 25 cents. 
IV. The American Rose Culturer. Price 25 cents. 
V. Prize Essay on Manures. By S. L. Dana. Price 25 cents. 
VI. Skinner’s Elements of Agriculture. Price 25 cents. 
VII. The Pests of the Farm, with Directions for Extirpation. 
Price 25 cents. 
VIII Horses—their Varieties, Breeding, Management, &c. 
Piice 25 cents. 
IX. The Hive and Honey Bee—their Diseases and Remedies 
Price 25 cents. 
X. The Hog—its Diseases and Management. Price 25 cents. 
XI. The American Bird Fancier—Breeding, Raising, &c., &c 
Price 25 cents. 
XII. Domestic Fowl and Ornamental Poultry. Price 25cents. 
XIII. Chemistry made Easy for the Use of Farmers. Price 
25 cents. 
XIV. The American Poultry Yard. The cheapest and best 
beek published. Price $1. 
XV. The American Field Book of Manures. Embracing all 
the Fertilizers known, with directions for use. By Browne. 
Price $1 25. 
XVI. Buist’s Kitchen Gardener. Price 75 cents. 
XVII. Stockhart’s Chemical Field Lectures. Price $ 1 . 
XVIII. Wilson on the cultivation of Flax. Price 25 cents. 
XIX. The Farmer’s Cyclopedia. By Blake. Price $1 25. 
XX. Allen’s Rural Architecture. Price $1 25. 
XXI. Phelps’s Bee Keeper’s Chart. Illustrated. Price 25 
cents. 
*, XXII. Johnston’s Lectures on PracticarAgriculture. Price, 
75 cents. 
XXIII. Johnson’s Agricultural Chemistry. Price $1 25. 
XXIV. Johnson’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistiy and 
Geology. Price SI. 
XXV. Randall’s sheep Husbandry. Price $1 25. 
XXVI. Miner’s American Bee-Keeper’s Manual. Price $1. 
XXVII. Dadd’s American Cattle Doctor. Complete. Price 
XXVIII. Fessenden’s Complete Farmer and Gardener. 1 vr 1 
Price SI 25. 
XXIX. Allen’s Treatise on the Culture of the Grape. Prica 
$ 1 . 
XXX. Youatt on the Breeds and Management of Sheep. Price 
75 cents. 
XXXI. Youatt on the Hog. Complete. Price 60 cents. 
XXXII. Youatt and Martin on Cattle. By Stevens. Price 
$1 25. 
XXXIII. The Shepherd’s own Book. Edited by Youatt, Skin¬ 
ner and Randall. Price $2. 
XXXIV. Stephens’s Book of the Farm ; or Fanner’s Guide. 
Edited by Skinner. Price $4. 
XXXV. Allen’s American Farm Book. Price $1. 
XXXVI. The American Florists’ Guide. Price 75 cents. 
XXXVII. The Cottage and Farm Bee-Keeper. Price 50cents. 
XXXVIII. Hoare oh the Culture of the Grape. Price 50 
cents. 
XXXIX. Country Dwellings; or the American Architect. 
Price $6. 
XL. Lindley’s Guide to the Orchard. Price SI 25. 
XLI. Gunn’s Domestic Medicine. A book for every married 
man and woman. Price §3. 
XLII. Nash’s Progressive Farmer. A book for every boy in 
the country. Price 50 cents. 
XLIII. Allen’s Diseases of Domestic Animals. Price 75 
ents. 
XLIV. Saxton’s Rural Hand-books. 2 vols. Price $2 50. 
XLV. Beattie’s Southern Agriculture. Price $1. 
XLVI. Smith’s Landscape Gardening. Containing Hints on 
arranging Parks, Pleasure Grounds, &c. Edited by Lewis F. 
Allen. Price $1 25. 
XLVII. The Farmer’s Land Measurer ; or Pocket Compan¬ 
ion. Price 50 cents. 
XLVIII. Buist’s American Flower Garden Directory. Price 
$1 25. 
XLIX. The American Fruit Grower’s Guide in Orchard and 
Garden. Being the most complete book on the subject ever 
published, $1 25. 
L. Quinby’s Mysteries of Bee-Keeping Explained. Price 1. 
LI. Elliott’s Fruit Grower’s Guide. Price $1 25. 
LII. Thomas’s Fruit Culturist. Price $1. 
LIII. Chorlton’s Cold Grapery. Price 50 cents. 
LIV. Pardee on the Strawberry. Price 50 cents. 
LVI. Norton’s Scientific Agriculture—New Edition. Price 
75 cents. 
LVII. DADD’S MODERN HORSE DOCTOR. Price $1. 
L1X. Guinon’s Milk Cows. Price 38 cents. 
LX. Longstroth on Bees. Price $1 25. 
LXI. Book of Caged Birds. Price $1. 
LXII. Gray’s Text Book of Botany. Price $2. 
LXIII. Directions for Use of Guano. Price 25 cents. 
PARSONS & CO., Flushing, near New 
York, offer for sale their large assortment of APPLES, 
standard and dwarf, PEAR, CHERRIES PEACHES, PLUMS 
and other Fruits. 
To their stock of well-grown PLUMS, they would call espe¬ 
cial attention. 
They also offer a large assortment of the well-known and also 
the more rare Deciduous and Evergreen Trees and Shrubs. 
They also grow for massing, and can offer, at reduced rates by 
the quantity, the different varieties of Maples, Elms, Lindens, 
and other Deciduous Trees, with many sorts of Shrubs. 
They would also call attention to their Evergreens, which 
are unusually finely rooted and symmetrically formed. Of these 
they can supply Norway Spruce, at prices ranging according to 
size and form, from §10 to §60 per hundred. 
Cedars Deodora, Siberian Arbor Vitae, White Pine, Pines 
Benthamiana. and others, can also be supplied for planting in 
masses, at moderate rates. 
Their stock of ROSES is always large, and can be furnished 
by the quantity at greatly reduced rales. 
'Their Foreign Grapes are propagated from bearing vines. 
Their Exotic Department includes the desirable and rare 
sorts, and the Plants are well grown and thrifty. 
Catalogues furnished on application. 105—6nl237 
L AWTON’S BLACKBERRY PLANTS. 
GREATLY ENLARGED STOCKS. 
Prices Reduced for Autumn and Spring- 
Sales. 
Sold only in packages of four sizes, as follows: 
Packages of Six Plants ----- $3 0U 
Packages of Twelve Plants 5 00 
Packages of Fifty Plants - - - - 15 00 
Packages of One Hundred Plants 25 00 
Orders supplied in rotation as received, and none sold but the 
pure plants of MY own raising. 
F WM. LAWTON, 
No. 54 Wall-st., New-York, 
Or at New-Rochelle, 
l05tfiU235 Westchester County, N. Y. 
Publisher’s Announcement 
FOR THE 
FIFTEENTH VOLUME 
OF THE 
^nuriait ^grintlhtnid, 
A Leading, Standard Agricultural Journal. 
$1 Per Anmun—Discount to Clubs. 
The American Agriculturist will enter 
upon its Fifteenth Volume, October 1st, 1855, and be 
promptly issued thereafter on the first day of each month, 
making a large double quarto annual volume, printed with 
new and beautiful type, on heavy, extra white magazine 
paper of a superior fine quality. 
Its pages will be devoted exclusively to AGRICUL¬ 
TURE, HORTICULTURE, DOMESTIC ARTS, and 
those matters which relate directly to the cultivation of 
the soil. 
It is designed to embrace such subjects as—Selection of 
seeds; the best method of preparing the ground for, and 
cultivating the various field and garden crops ; fruit grow¬ 
ing; care, treatment and improvement of all kinds of do¬ 
mestic animals; the construction and embellishment of 
farm buildings ; housing, preserving, and marketing the 
products of the farm, orchard, garden and dairy ; and to 
the domestic or household labors of the rural home. 
It will be progressive in its character, having a constant 
watch for all improvements and new developments; and, 
at the same time, be sufficiently conservative to avoid and 
warn its readers against visionary theories, and the dan¬ 
gerous teachings of those who would create or distort 
scientific theories to subserve their private interests. 
The American Agriculturist will be entirely independ¬ 
ent of all collateral interests. The conducting and con- 
troling Editor, having no connection with any business 
whatever, will take good care that its pages shall be de¬ 
voted only to such matters as relate directly to the inter¬ 
ests of the reader. 
It will continue under the CONTROL and MANAGE¬ 
MENT of Mr. O. Judd, who will be assisted by the 
counsels and contributions of those gentlemen who first 
originated the Agriculturist, and have done much to main¬ 
tain its uniform high character—including Messrs. A. 15. 
Allen, Lewis F. Allen, Rev. Wm. Clift, together with 
several able contributors, whose united labors will serve 
to fill its pages with matter eminently serviceable to every 
owner or cultivator of even the smallest plot of ground. 
TERMS: 
One copy one year.$1 00 
Six copies one year . 5 00 
Ten copies one year. 8 00 
Twenty copies one year.15 00 
ADDITIONAL ATTRACTIONS. 
Combination of Agricultural and News Journals. 
In order to furnish all our subscribers who may 
desire with early agricultural intelligence, such as full, 
extended and reliable reports of the sa'es, transactions 
and prices of farm and garden produce, live stock, &c., 
together with full and comprehensive intelligence of a 
general character from all parts of the world, we have 
made arrangements with Messrs. Raymond, Harper & 
Co., to furnish us with an extra edition of the 
NEW-YORK WEEKLY TIMES, 
one of the largest and most comprehensive newspapers 
in the country. The Agricultural Department of the 
Times, together with its full reports of sales and price of 
live stock, farm and garden produce, &c., is prepared ex¬ 
pressly for that paper by Mr. Judd, the Conducting Editor 
of this journal. 
The two papers combined will embrace all that could 
be desired by the cultivator of the soil, wherever he may 
be located. The Monthly American Agriculturist will 
furnish standard articles of a high and practical character, 
adapted to the Month and Season in which they appear, 
and so valuable as to be worth preserving in a convenient 
form; while the Weekly will give the news of the day, 
not only agricultural but in every other departmsnt. The 
matter in the two papers will be different., and generally 
distinct from each other. 
Hereafter we shall mail the American Agriculturist on 
the first of each month, and the Times on Thursday of 
each week, on the following liberal terms,^ which will 
include the cost of both papers: 
One copy of both papers one year . $2 00 
Three copies of both papers one year.... 5 00 
Ten copies of both papers one year.16 00 
Twenty copies of both papers one year.. 30 00 
Back numbers of the Monthly American Agriculturist, 
when on hand, will be supplied at 10 cents per number. 
Back numbers of the Times can not be supplied. 
Specimen copies always sent free. 
All subscriptions or business communications to be ad¬ 
dressed to ALLEN & CO., 
Publishers of American Agriculturist, 
No. 189 Water-st., New York. 
N. B.—Editorial matters to be addressed, 
Editor of American Agriculturist. 
PRINTED BY H. C. REYNOLDS, No. 189 Water-st, 
