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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Index for December. 
Apples, important List..332 iHorses, Shoeing.340 
Ask your Wife.348 [Household in Dec.348 
Baby Tender .8*..347 |Humbugs .339 
Barns, How about?.336 [Insects, Fighting.346 
Bees, Apiary.330 Insects on House Plants.346 
Boys’ and Girls’ Depar’t— |Javelle Water. 348 
Kale, Ornamental 
Leaves, Fall of.344 
Manure, Care of.336 
Manure, Economy in-336 
Manure Cellars.336 
| Market Reports.331 
iMeadow Saffron.*..343 
.329 
Thoughts for Dec.—A 
Lively Plant—Problems 
and Puzzles—Read Pre¬ 
mium List—First and 
Last Steps—Now for the 
Wood Pile—Fortunes of 
War — Little Tilings— 
Learn to Give 5*..349-350 Notes and Sggeslions 
Blue Grass, Seeding.337 |Oil Cake or Meal.340 
Cattle of Brittany.340 jOrehard and Nursery ....329 
Cattle, Sheltering.336 Oysters, Cooking.348 
Candy for Children.349 |Pea-nut or Ground Pea..341 
Cooking Hints—Oysters; iPear, Lawrence.*..345 
Mush ; Muffins.348-349 Potatoes, Size to plant..336 
Corn Crib, a good_*. .335 IPoultry and Poultry 
Corn. Saving Seed.342 1 Houses . ... 3*..335-337 
Farmers’ Clubs.338 Premiums for 1865.330 
Farm Work in Dec.. - .329 |Pruning, Hints on...3*..345 
Flower Garden, etc.33o iRoot Grafting.5*. .344 
Fodder, Cooking.337 Rose, The Green. ..*..346 
Fruit Garden.330 ISheep, Grub in Head — 339 
FruitTrees,Strengthen’d344 [Smoke House.*..339 
Garden Kitchen.329 |Stocks, Doue.in, etc.345 
Grapery, Cold.330 [Tending the Baby... .8*. .344 
Green and Hot Houses. .330 Tools. Wagons, etc.340 
Grape Mania ..341 Turnip, Strap-leaf...—340 
G raps Vines, Unfruitful*.345 I Weather Vane.*. .339 
Grapes in Kentucky . .341 |Wheeler & Wilson’s....351 
Hogs, Slaughtering..2*..338 |Wine Grapes, Wine.344 
Homestead. Attractive. .348 I Winter Journey.2*..342 
Honey Locust Hedges.. .343 I Witch Hazel.*. 346 
INDEX TO “ BASKET,” OR SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Advertisers’—Notice....331 iMuck, Treatment.333 
Apples for West.332 Mullein, Origin.333 
Apples, Wormy.332 I Notice to Subscribers — 334 
Beehive, Protection.333 I Orchards, Manuring.332 
Bess in Cellar.334 Orchards, Replanting. .,332 
Book, Farm 4 Acres.331 Osage Orange Cuttings. .332 
Book, Greeley’s.'. ..334 Osage Orange Seed.332 
Books, Tucker’s Register334 I’eanuts in Illinois ...333 
Broom Corn Seed, Dw’f.333 Pear Trees, Manuring. .332 
Cabbage Seed.333 I Pears, Knotty.332 
Chicory Failure .333 iPears, Sheldon.322 
Cistern, Bam.333]Pears, Winter..332 
Cistern, Brick ..333 [Petroleum Humbugs-331 
College, Agl., Mich.334 
Compost Defined..333 
Concrete Wall.. 333 
Corn Stubble Compost. .333 
Drying Kilns Wanted...333 
Evergreens from Seed .332 
Evergreen Screen . 332 
Flowers,Brompt’n St’cks334 
Fruit, etc., in Del. 333 
Fruit-Picker.*..331 
Fruit. Stock Seeds.332 
Game, Laughable.331 
Gingerbread.333 
Grafting Wax .334 
Grape Trellis, Osier....333 
Grapes, Iona ..332 
Grapes in Hen Houses..332 
Grapes, Propagating-332 
Grapes, Yeddo.332 
Hedges, Hawthorn.332 
Hedges, Native Thorn..332 
HotBed Sash....,....*—334 
Humbugs, Sundry.334 
Plowing for Corn.‘333 
P. O. “As Usual”. -334 
Pom. Soc. Proceedings..332 
Poplar, Seedling .333 
Portraits. Military.331 
Potato, Prairie Seedllng.333 
Potatoes, Sweet Kp’g. ..333 
Poultry, Nesis.*....334 
Roses from Seed .332 
Soldiers, Papers for.331 
Splice for Timber—*..334 
S. S. Singing Book .334 
S. S. Question Book — 333 
Strawberries Killed.334 
Strawberries, Protee’ng.332 
Strawberries, Query....332 
Subscribers 100,000 .334 
Terms, New. ,..334 
Thorns from Seed.332 
Time Up ?.334 
Tobacco Culture.331 
Tree for River Bank.... 332 
Vine, Long.332 
Index’to Bind.331 Vinegar, Cider 
Items in Index ..331 Wheeler & Wilson’s... .331 
Kerosene for Lice.333‘Wormsin Well .333 
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