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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents for October, 1864. 
dontinxiatioix of tlie 
Agricultural Society of New-England—Show.....287 
American Pomological Society's Meeting.287 
Barns—Make them Comfortable.291 
Bees—Apiary in October.283 
Blackberry, New—The Kittatinny. Illustrated ...293 
Boys and Girls’ Columns—Resurrection Fish—Too 
much Display—An Anecdote—How to See a Ghost— 
The Travels of a Letter-A Wealthy Sentinel-Curious 
Freak of a Hen—Use Plenty of Fresh Air—Puzzles 
and Problems.4 Illustrations.. 297-298 
Card of Acknowledgement from Mr. Judd. 234 
Catsup—How lo Make. -295 
Charcoal as a Deodorizer and Manure.-90 
Cheese—Making in the Smalt Way.29o 
Cold Grapery in October.“'3 
Cold Pits and Frames—How Made ..8/ 
Cooking Hints, etc.—To Keep Mince-meat—Omelet 
—Flake Pudding—Sponge Cake—Salt Rising—Cu¬ 
cumber Catsup .297 
Cows, Fall Feed for. Illustrated..2b 8 
Dyeing Butternut Color . v . 
Exhibition Tables at Agriculturist Office .287 
Exhibitions—Agricultural in 1864.:.2S7 
Farm Work in October...'. 281 
Farmers’ Club—Constitution for. 28/ 
Fence Posts—Setting inConcrete. Illustrated ...285 
Figs—How they Grow and Flower. Illustrated ..295 
Flower Garden and Lawn in October.262 
Fruit Garden in October.282 
Garden—Kitchen in October.2S2 
Green and Hot-Houses in October.283 
Horses and Horse Shows—Hints bn. Illustrated ..292 
Houses, Country—Useful Hints.292 
Ice-Houses—Ilovv to Build. 3 Illustrations. .290 
Insects—Curious Hag-moth. t Illustrations ..286 
Leather Scraps—How to Use.291 
Live Stock Markets in N. Y.284 
Market Reports and Commercial Notes.283 
Mosquito-Life and Habits of.9 Illustrations ..289 
Notes and Suggestions for October. Illustrated. .281 
Orchard and Nnrseryin October. 282 
Ovals—How to Lay Out. .2 Illustrations. 285 
p ear _The Peters. Illustrated. .294 
p ears —Curious Growth.2 Illustrations. .285 
Planting in Quincunx Order. Illustrated. .285 
Plants Grown from Leaves. Illustrated. .294 
Plowing in Autumn for Spring Crops..293 
Pomological Society .287 
Potatoes—Digging and Sweating. ..2S8 
Protection of Plants in Winter...... 294 
Scarlet Fever—Treatment of..3 Illustrations ..296 
Soda and Saleratus in Food. 297 
Strawberry Beds-Slate Coverings for.. Illustrated.. 286 
Strawberry Plants—Explanation of Delay. 284 
Trees—Apparatus for Planting Straight. .Illustrated. .285 
United States 7-30 Loan—. 284 
Veterinary Physicians and Surgeons Wanted.2S8 
Wine-Making Suggestions. Illustrated ..294 
Woodchucks—How to Snare. Illustrated. .285 
INDEX TO “ BASKET,” OR SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Ag’l Soc., N. E.2871 Grass, Neglected.286 
Advertisers..284 Ice-House Queries- 2S6 
Cattle Lice....285|Inseots Named.286 
Coal Ashes.281.Ovals, Laying Out.285 
Cold Pits and Frames . .2S6 PcSches on Plum.264 
Corn Husks, newuse—284|Pear, Curious Growth...285 
Crop Reports.2S6,Planting Quincunx.285 
Currants, Berries.286| Plants .Named.285 
Cuttings. Striking .2S6 Plowing, Steam...286 
Fence Posts, Setting_285 P. O. Stamps.284 
Fruits, Planting.28G| Pumpkins, etc., dried — 287 
Fruit Trees .2841 Rosin from Michigan — 285 
Gooseberries, Native . .. .286 Sketches Wanted.286 
Gophers .286|Soils, Heavy.283 
Grape Culture.2S6iSorghum Mills.‘-'86 
Grape Notes.286 S Irawberry Beds.286 
Grape Pies .286I.Strawberrv— Sending-284 
Grapes, etc., in Virginia.286'Timber, Preserving-285 
Grapes, Grafting.2S5|Tree Planting Guide—285 
Grapes. Iona.284 1 Woodchucks, Snatjng.. .285 
Grass, Kentucky Blue...2S4|Wool Washing.285 
Mailed Strawberry Plants, Wilted 
hut not Dead.—Very much to our gratification, many 
of the first on our list-have written that their plants 
reached them by mail In a perfectly fresh condition, and 
when set oiit stin ted at once into vigorous growth, send¬ 
ing out runners. This is better than we can usually ex¬ 
pect. The best gardeners cut off all the old leaves and 
stems when they transplant strawberries, leaving the 
whole vigor of the roots to go to the growth of new 
leaves from the crown; and they advise this practice. 
But, as this is not generally understood, and also to let the 
recipients see what vigorous leaves the plants have borne, 
we generally send along most of the foliage, expecting 
that it will wilt and usually die in the mail parcels. 
This does not at all affect the soundness of the roots ; if 
those are not thoroughly dried out, the plant will grow 
•■quite as well as if the leaves were still green, when set 
in (lie moist soil if not too cold and wet. We wrap the 
roots first in fine damp moss and oil-cloth, then in a thick 
sheet of specially prepared heavy paper almost water¬ 
-proof, and then in an outside sheet of sized paper ; and 
the whole is firmly tied three or more times. It is very 
seldom that the roots of plants thus packed will so far dry 
out in ten days, or more even, that they will not grow 
well. We have received plants not so well packed 
which had endured a month’s carriage. The mailing 
boxes were designed to wholly shield tire plants from 
pressure, as well as from drying. Why they were not 
used is explained in another coiumn. (See page 284.) 
$5.00 PREMIUM. 
With printing paper at triple the old price, and other 
expenses to match, we are compelled to adhere strictly 
to our only terms, viz., SI a year. Nor until Lieut. 
Gen. Grant, and his coadjutors reduce the price of gold 
and cotton (and consequently of printing paper), can we 
afford premiums. But the recent excellent weather has 
favored us by pushing on the great Strawberry Plants 
until we have some more than enough to supply every 
subscriber with a specimen. Experienced fruit growers 
esteem them so highly as to readily pay $5 a dozen for 
them. As these now involve little additional outlay, we 
can continue the offer of last month as follows: Any 
person sending in during this montli (Oct.) a Club of 
20 subscribers, • at $1 each, will be presented with 
Osie Dozen of the “Agriculturist Strawberry” 
plants; and each subscriber will of course, be also en¬ 
titled to liis own plant, if he enclose the usual 5 cents 
extra for packing, and postage. When $1.15 is sent (in¬ 
stead of $1 each), the paper will be supplied fifteen 
months, that is, the last three months of this year, and 
all of 1865, (Vol. 24).—Extra time will be allowed for 
responses to the above offer, coming from the Pacific 
Coast and other very distant points.—The plants will 
now be forwarded at once, or early in spring if requested. 
Special Uotes to all Expecting or 
Wishing Strawberry Plants. 
1st. See explanation of delay, and Box failure, p. 284. 
2nd. The Plants aie ’mailed at Flushing P. 0., the 
nearest office to our Homestead, where they are put up. 
This is not our business address, however. Direct all 
letters to the Office, 41 Park Row, New-York City. 
3d. Every parcel is sent post-paid; the law requires 
this, and no Postmaster is allowed to send any other than 
post-paid matter. We hear that in some cases the par¬ 
cels have arrived without any stamps on ; owing to the 
dampening through of the envelopes, the stamps slipped 
off in the mail bags. The marks left- by them and 
the P. 0. imprint ought to show that postage had been 
paid. On hearing of this difficulty, after sending off the 
first parcels, the envelopes were stamped “ PAID,” by 
the P. M., in addition to the usual “killing” of the stamps. 
4th. N. B.-We cheerfully give every subscriber for 
Vol. 23 (1864), at least one plant, on furnishing his 5 cents 
extra to pay simply the expense of putting up and mail¬ 
ing. (It has cost us more than that, andti.ere is no profit 
on the paper this year to pay even this small sum.) A 
good many attempts have been made to impose upon us 
by persons not subscribers at all, who have , in a very 
ingenuous, plausible manner, enclosed 5 cents and said, 
“ Please send my plant to-etc.” Some others have sent 
in the 5 cents and applications from 2 to 6 times, expecting 
us to overlook previous applications in our hurry, and 
send them as many different parcels. This has made it 
necessary to look over the previous list of names in every 
case where an application comes separate from the sub¬ 
scription—a very serious trouble, ’fl’lierefore, as a 
rule for the future, we must require every one wishing the 
plants to send the application and 5 cents, along 
ivitls the subscription and always in the same letter. 
5 tli. All new subscribers, either for this year or next, 
coming in this autumn, will be presented with the plants, 
{/■ they send the 5 cents extra at tire time of subscribing. 
6tli. Applications arriving too late for forwarding the 
the plants this fall, will be supplied at the earliest mo¬ 
ment the weather will admit in the spring. Any one can 
choose the spring season, if he does so when subscribing. 
Jtli. Any well attested ease of loss of plants by mail 
we will be happy to duplicate, on receiving the extra cost 
(5 cents) of sending again. So much care has been con¬ 
stantly exercised, that we do not believe a single prop¬ 
er application has been omitted, or overlooked by us. 
00,000 IShsIecIs of Strawberries !— 
We are sending out at least 90,090 of the new Strawber¬ 
ry Plants this year. Each of these plants will with fair 
care make from 50 to 200 or more new plants next 
season, or enough to set a bed that will yield over a 
bushel of good berries the following June. This Should 
be the lowest average. So, if then living, we shall 
have the pleasure of thinking a year from June next, that 
at least 90,000 bushels of good, delicious strawberries are 
being gathered by our “ American Agriculturist Fami¬ 
ly-all derived from the plot we have been watching over 
with so much care and anxiety during fifteen months past. 
§trawberry JPlaMts for SaBe.—Our 
obligations to our subscribers are fulfilled, and we have 
some plants of the Agriculturist Strawberry-to offer 
for sale. We have been induced to do this from Hie de¬ 
sire frequently expressed by nurserymen and others to 
have it upon their lists, and from the repeated solicita 
tion of amateurs fofmore than the free specimens giv¬ 
en them as subscribers. The distribution of 90,000 plants 
this fall was all we expected to be able to accomplish, 
particularly after the unprecedented drouth, and we at¬ 
tribute it chiefly fo the’ great vigor and hardiness of the 
variety, that we have now any surplus stock on hand, 
even after the most careful and unremitting attention- 
involving a large outlay for a small^iart of which we hope 
to be reimbursed.-Cash orders will be promptly filled 
at the following rates, as previously announced, viz: 
1 plant 75 cents-2 plants $1.20-6 plants $3- 
8 2 plants $5- 100 plants $25. Only good, strong 
plants will be sent out and they will be well packed with¬ 
out charge, and sent by mail, postpaid, when desired. 
Awful Price of Prinliing- Paper !— 
After correspondence with the leading Paper /Mills of Hie 
country, we made the best contract possible for a supply 
the rest of this year; but the bills as they come in are 
enough to give one a “cold sweat.” The subscription 
money received little more than pays for the while pa¬ 
per; advertisements must pay other expenses. Bot we 
still cling to old rates, under the strong impression that 
Messrs. Grant, Sherman, Sheridan if Co., will very soon 
knock down prices. So confident are we of this, that 
we dare to solicit, and promise to receive during this 
montli, new subscriptions at $1 a year, or $1.15 for fifteen 
months. If the price of paper does not go down, we 
shall be compelled to charge more; and of course 
those subscribing later, will iiave to pay higher rates. 
rV©'PA SSEME.—NOTE WELL. 
All terms, subscription rates, premiums, prices of 
books, etc., are strictly limited to the month in wliieh 
they are announced. The constant changes in cm - 
rency oblige us to adopt this rule. The same terms 
may be continued, but can not be promised. .Whatever 
is promised for any montli will be fulfilled to the letter ; 
if we get the bad end of a bargain, u e shall live up to 
it. For example, those paying a year’s subscription now 
will get the paper a year at the rate now offered, how¬ 
ever high we may soon be compelled to fix our rates. 
Back Yolnmcs & Yninliers Snpplied. 
AVe have complete sets of Vols. 16,17,18,19, 20, 21,22, both 
unbound, and bound in neat covers with gilt lettered backs. 
Prices at the office: bound $1.75, unbound $1,00 each. 
Back Volumes are sent prepaid by mail, (they can not 
(to unpaid,) if bound, $2.25 each ,• if unbound; $1.24 each. 
Single numbers of any of Hie above Volumes, 12 cents eaeti. 
Binding.— Sets sent to the office will be bound up neatly 
(in our regular style of binding) for 75 cents a volume. 
Prepared Covers.— Covers for binding, neatly mado, with 
title, etc., gilt upon the back, ready for the insertion of tlie 
sheets by any bookbinder, can be furnished for Vols. 16, to 22 
lncluslvo, at 45 cents per cover. Covers can 'not go by mail. 
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