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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents for May, 1864. 
Apple—American Golden Pippin. Illustrated. .\ f 
TUi- Strimr— New . Illustrated. .139 
Barberry—An Ornamental Shrub .. .5 Illustrations . 148 
Barometer and Thermometer in March.. Illustrated .136 
Beans—Variety and Field Culture. 
Beehive—New Home-made. Illustrated. .139 
Bees—Apiary in May.... • • • .. 
Boils, Bunions, etc.—Remedy fox.150 
Boys’and Girl.VCoiumns—Value of Neatness—Game 
of Double Acrostics—Problems and Puzzles—Safe 
■at Home again-Three ways to be Happy-Some- 
thing about your Name—A Parrot m Court—The 
Mysterious.Quarter of Mutton-The Slaver and the 
Shark .-..4 Illustrations.. 151—152 
Bread—Directions for Good.......M' 
Broom Corn—Varieties and Cultivation.133 
Butter and Cheese in Winter. 
Cattle in the Highway. 
Climbers—Desirable Sorts.I™ 
Clubs-Experience in Malang up.. .. • • • • • 
Cooking Hints—Rusks—Soda Biscuit—Rice Pudding 
—Chocolate Custard—Cheap Cake—Sponge Cake— 
) Loaf Cake—White Mountain Cake—Scotch Cakes— 
Jelly Cake—Madison Cake-Ginger Snaps-Ginger 
Crackers ■ • • • • • .—*' )i 
Corn-Different Varieties Described. .7 Illustrations.. 137 
Corn for Fodder. 
.142 
Corn—Sweet for the Garden.147 
Corn—When to Plant... 
Cow—Howto Choose. 
Cows-Soiling on Dairy Farms. ..Ill 
Cows-Summer Feeding Shed.2 Illustrations.. 141 
Cypress—Deciduous. .. ••• ■•■•••••I’l 
Elk—American . Illustrated.. 144 
Dyeing with Purslane . 
Farm Work, etc. for May.1-9 
Fences for Prairie Lands... 
Flower Garden and Lawn in May.134 
Flowers—What Annuals to Plant. ....147 
Fruit Box—Cheap and Easily Made.146 
Fruit Garden in May ........• • • •.131 
Fruits—Effects of Cross Fertilization.146 
Fuchsias—Non-Blooming . 147 
Garden—Kitchen in May..13« 
Grapes—Keeping under Ground.146 
Grapery—Cold in May...134 
Green and Hot-Houses in May. . . . . .132 
Hop Yard-Collins’ Horizontal.3 Illustrations. .140 
H 0 p S _Notes on Cultivation.. 3 Illustrations.. 140 
Horses and Mules—Prospective Demand for.141 
Housekeeper—Views of an Educated.loO 
Jnseet Pests of the Household.... .. ........ ..... 149 
Insects—Curculio or Plum Weevil . Illustrated. .145 
Irrigation with Sewerage Water .142 
Lambs—How to Designate. 139 
Lands—Waste near Cities.139 
M anure—Home- Made Poudrette.142 
Market Review, Weather Notes, etc.133 
Markets—Hints from for Cultivators .143 
Melons—Culture in New Jersey.... 146 
Mushrooms—How to Cultivate. Illustrated.. 145 
Notes and'Suggestions for May. Illustrated ..129 
Orchard and Nursery in May. ■ ■ J30 
Osage Orange from Cuttings.147 
Paint—Removing from Silk and Woolen.149 
Potatoes—Best Sorts for Market.138 
Prairie Breaking—Shallow Plowing Advocated.142 
Provisions—Hints on Keeping...• ■ 149 
Rustic Seat for the Lawn. Illustrated. .149 
Salads—A Word about..150 
Sheep—Washing, and Shearing Early.... .139 
Stramonium—A Poisonous Weed... Illustrated.. 148 
Tuberoses—Treatment of.147 
U. S. 10-40 Bonds.133 
Walks or Paths—How to Make.144 
Wheels—Best Shape for Wagons.143 
“Wines” in the Household.149 
BASKET,” OR SHORTER ARTICLES. 
INDEX TO 
Azalea, Fine.134 
Barley, Beardless. .135 
Beans Covered Deep....136 
Bean for Name.135 
Bones, To Comminute.. 135 
Books on Fruit .136 
Books, Prices of.136 
Broom Corn, Dwarf ...132 
Cabbages, Transplanting! 36 
Cactus, Plural of.134 
Catalogues of Plants ... .134 
Cole-Slaw, How Spelledl36 
Corn and Cob Meal. .. .135 
Corn Crop, Paying.135 Poultry in Barns.135 
Cows, Profitable,,.135. Prairie Breaking in Ill. .135 
Chickens, Gapes in- .. .135| Sanitary Fund, Agricult.136 
Dogs, Shepherd.1341 Sheep, Foot Rot.135 
Drawing Instruments.. 1341 Sheep kept in Straw —135 
Eggs, Keeping -.1351 Sheep, Salt for Stretchesl35 
Errors Corrected.136 Sheep, Shearing, Scab..135 
Gold Mines, Beware of.l34l Sorghum Culture.136 
Crane Queries.1301 Squash Beetle.136 
Gras“, Seeding to.134 Strawberries from a $1. .134 
Grass Seed for Pasture. .134 1 Swine, Bed for Breedingl35 
Gypsum on Corn.1351 Ten Acres enough.134 
Herbarium,Hamilt’n C’11.1341 U. S. 10-40 Loan.134 
Humbugs, Sundry.136 
Hungarian Grass.135 
Items, Condensed.136 
Live Stock Markets.146 
Live Stock Sales.134 
Lucerne or Luzern.135 
Marl Described, etc.135 
Mean Imposition.134 
Osage Orange Hedges...136 
Piggerv, Plan of.135 
Plant Boxes, Mailing.... 134 
Plants for Name.134 
Pleuro Pneumonia.135 
American ^grintliitrist. 
(For either the English or German Edition.) 
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Postage anywhere in the United States and Territories 
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Address all communications to the Editor and Proprietor, 
ORANGE JUDD, 41 Park-Row, New-York City. 
Another Strawberry Show, 
AT THE 
Office of tlie American Agriculturist. 
About tlie middle of June. 
The Proprietor of the American Agriculturist again 
offers the use of his commodious establishment, 41 Park 
Row, for the Third Annual Exhibition of Strawberries. 
To add to the interest and to secure a careful and sys¬ 
tematic examination of the merits of the berries, he 
takes pleasure in offering the following 
PRIZES. 
A—For best 12 approved varieties (one quart each). .$1 O 
B—Second best — do.do.do. 5 
C—For best market berry (two quarts of one varie¬ 
ty. —It is desirable to show plants with fruit). 5 
D—For second best do. do. 2 
E—For heaviest three berries of one variety. 3 
F—For best flavored Strawberry (one pint). 2 
G—For best quart of White Strawberries. 2 
H—For best Alpines—(not less than one pint). 1 
J—For the best New Seedling. 5 
IC—For the 2d best do. ' do. 3 
[The berries shown as new seedlings must have 
been fruited two years and not previously made 
public by exhibition, sale, or otherwise. The 
entire plant, or at least fruit stalks with berries 
attached, and the leaves, must be shown.] 
L— Discretionary Premiums. —The Committee will 
also award, at their discretion, 10 premiums of $1 
each, to meritorious samples not included above. 10 
No sample can compete for more than one prize. 
The berries to come, in competition for the premiums 
must be upon the tables as early as 11 A. M. on the first 
day of exhibition, and each specimen must be correctly 
labeled and entered in the name of the Producer. The 
Awarding Committee will attend to their duties at 12 M.~ 
When the premiums are awarded, the names, residence, 
and places of business of the exhibitors will be put upon 
the specimens, and the samples designated.—No Fruit ex¬ 
hibited will be removed before the evening of the 2nd day. 
The exact date of the Exhibition will depend upon 
the weather ; it will be stated in the June Agriculturist, 
which will reach subscribers two weeks before the show. 
Premiums for 1864. 
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Table of Premiums and Terms. 
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Names of Premium Articles. . * 
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II—Best Family Clothes Wringer. $7 ( 
('—Nonpareil Washing Machine.SIS i 
D—Sewing Machine, (Wheeler* Wilson)...*50 ( 
E—Sewing Machine, (Wilcox & Gibbs).$45 ( 
F—Woodruffs Mercurial Barometer... 
G—Woodruffs Mercurial Barometer... 
H—Tlie Aquarius. 
I— Five Octave Melodeon (best). 
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K—Seven back Volumes Agriculturist, 
L—Six do do do 
M—Five do do do 
N—Four do do do 
O—Three do do do 
.$12 00 
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1—Jacob’s Portfolio Paper File. J $1 50 
S—Osborn & Hodgkinson’s Paints-. $1 50 
T—Premium Cylinder Plow No. 1.$10 00 
U—Eagle Plow No. 20, with coulter.$10 00 
V—Hay and Straw Cutter (best),No. 1. $9 50 
W—Steel-tooth Cultivator (best). $7 50 
X—Family Lard and Wine Press, No. 2. $7 00 
an—Case of Drawing Instruments. $6 50 
No charge is made for packing or boxing any of the ar¬ 
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ums K,to S, inclusive, are deltvereo to any part of the 
United States and Territories, free of all charges. The 
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leaving the manufactory of each. tisrEvery article 
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N. B, —The varying cost of books and other articles, 
requires some changes in the above premium terms, from 
month to month. Tlie terms > therefore, hold good only 
for the particular month in which they are published. 
Wanted.— Good Advertisements, 
to an amount wholly unlooked for, have come in this 
month. Tlie allotted space was all taken at an early 
day, and though we gave up some room designed for 
other matters, a large number of good advertisers com¬ 
ing in last, were necessarily left out. A multitude of 
queries addressed to us about things wanted, are an¬ 
swered in the business columns, which are allowed to be 
occupied only by men whom we have reason to believe 
will do what they advertise to do.—We continue the re¬ 
quest that all who write to advertisers in this Journal 
will state where the advertisements were seen. It is 
especially gratifying to the advertisers to know through 
what channels they reach the largest number and 
the most enterprising portion of the public. 
Business Notices, One Dollar per Line of Space. 
The Afi’ctic Cream Freezer. 
The Arctic is the only! freezer that can at all be de¬ 
pended on to freeze cream with any thing like a uni¬ 
form result. When the directions are followed (by its . 
peculiar construction) a uniform temperature of 2 de¬ 
grees below zero is attained and kept up; this degree 
of cold will invariably freeze cream in the 3 and 4 quart 
sizes within four minutes. The patent for the Arctic 
Freezer secures the only method by which any thing ap¬ 
proaching such a result can be obtained. 
Sizes and Prices.—3 qt. $4; 4 qt. $5; 6 qt. $6 ; 
8 qt. $8 ; 14 qt. $12; 20 qt. $15 ; with a liberal .discount 
to the trade. 
E. S. Sc 3. TORREY, Manufacturers, 
72 Maiden-Lane, New-York. 
The Kerosene Lamp Heater Co., 
Manufacturers of 
FISH’S COOKING LAMP, 
with which 
Water is boiled and two articles of food cooked at one 
time, with one coal oil burner, or a gas jet, and the 
cost is not one cent to cook a meal. 
Also 
FISH’S NURSING LAMP, 
indispensable in nursery and sick room. 
Illustrated Pamphlet furnished gratis. 
Address 1 WOT. B>. RUSSELL, Prest. 
206 Pearl-st., New-York. 
The Monsekceper’s Friend 
is he who furnishes reliable articles for home use. Good, 
pure, and of full weight. Housekeepers who will take 
care to secure from the grocer Pyle’s Saleratus, Soda, 
and Cream Tartar, will find that these articles serve their 
purpose better than any other of the kind in market. 
Pyle’s Blueing Powder is also the best and most 
economical Blueing that has yet appeared. 
No housekeeper should be without it or other articles 
of Pyle’s Manufacture. 
SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE. 
Plant Evergreens in May. 
Over 200 varieties of 
Evergreen Trees and Shrubs 
of the best standard sorts, and the chief new sorts, may 
be found in the Nurseries of 
PARSONS Sc CO., Flushing, N. Y. 
(Tip Call and see the different kinds; or send for a 
free Catalogue of leading sorts. 
Coe’s Superphosphate 
of LIME, PERUVIAN GUANO, PURE BONE 
DUST, PLASTER, &c., in quantities to suit pur¬ 
chasers. 
WETHERSFIELD SEED SOWERS, Price $?• 
ALLEN’S MATCHLESS CYLINDER PLOWS, 
all sizes. 
Cultivators, Horse Hoes, Harrows, &c. 
Palmer’s Patent Horse Hay Fork, Price 
(including pulleys) $13. 
ALSO 
The largest assortment of other Agricultural and Horti¬ 
cultural implements, Field and Garden Seeds, to he found 
any where in the city. 
R. II. ALLEN Si CO., 
189 & 191 Water-st„ New-York. 
The Craig Microscope. 
And mounted objects combine instruction with amuse¬ 
ment, the useful with the entertaining. This Micro¬ 
scope, in brass, is mailed, postage paid, for $2 25 ; or 
with six beautiful mounted objects for $3; or with 24 
objects for $5. In hard rubber, for 50 cents in addi¬ 
tion to above prices. Address, HENRY CRAIG, 335 
Broadway, New-York. 
Lands—To All Wanting Farms. 
Large and thriving settlements of Vineland, mild cli¬ 
mate, 30 miles south of Philadelphia, by railroad; rich 
soil; fine crops ; twenty-acre tracts, at from $15 to $20 
per acre ; payable within four years. Good business 
openings ; good society. Hundreds are settling and mak¬ 
ing Improvements. Apply to CHAS. K. LANDIS, Post¬ 
master, Vineland, Cumberland County, N. J. Letters 
answered. Papers containing full information sent free. 
