AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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INDEX, 
Ag. Society, New-Hampshire. 
“ New-York State. 
“ United States. 
Apple trees, planting. 
Bee-moths, destroying. 
Beets, baking. 
Bodies, taking care of our. 
Boys, something for. 
Broom corn items. 
Cattle—Highflyer (Illustrated). 
“ Mr. Thorne's importation of- 
“ why a thoroughbred is best. 
Cellery stewed. 
Corn crop in Virginia. 
Dahlia growers, a boon to. 
Eggs, preserving and sending to market 
“ to poach. 
Exchanges, changes among our. 
Female Jockeys. 
Garden seat, thoughts on my . . 
Granaries. 
Hams, to cure. 
Hiccup. 
Hogs, Suffolk. 
Horse story, a.. 
Husk beds. 
Iron and lead pipes. 
Jelly cake. 
Manure heaps. 
Manures, waste of. 
Meat, preserving. 
Milk for children.. 
Nest in the honey-suckle. 
New-Jersey, to the people of. 
Oats, ground. 
Ox, moving a sullen. 
Painting farm implements. 
Paints,.preparing. 
Pears, market. 
Plums, raising. 
Potato digging machine. 
Potatoes, sweet. 
Pumpkin, that. 
Ruta bagas. 
Sheep, wintering. 
Shrubbery planting. 
Straw, cutting for manure—. 
Sugar cane. 
“ plant. . 
Trip to the west — No. 2. 
Washing, about. 
Wheat crop, California. 
Willows, &c. 
Working and thinking. 
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