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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Apples, Wintering in a Hay-mow.118 
Baby Show.125 
Barn-yard Manure, management of.11G 
Beets, Baked .117 
Boy’s Letter, a Delaware. 122 
Bridal, The (Poetry).123 
Character, Early.122 
Cattle—Mr. Kelly’s Bull.121 
Cattle Show, National.121 
Cattle, Sales in Kentucky.125 
Chinese Proverbs.122 
Clerk, a Prompt.122 
Cold Vinery of Win, Vial.113 
Circulio Remedies.118 
Domestic Scene.123 
Editors, Agricultural, indemand. 120 
Encounter, singular.122 
Fish, Growing.121 
Farm, How to Improve.124 
Farm, Winter Labors on the.117 
Fowls, Rare.121 
Farmers Going West.124 
Filter, Ivedzie’s Rain-water.117 
Grape-growing, Hints on.110 
Guano and Good Ears.120 
Hampshire County Show.113 
Hogs—Suffolk Pig (Illustrated).115 
Hog Trade, Western.117 
Honey, Some Fine (from Mr. Quinby).120 
Hope and Memory.123 
Horticulturist for October.118 
Horses for France. . 114 
Labeling Trees.120 
Lectures on Agriculture.. ■ 120 
Markets.125 
Mulching with Wood Shavings.119 
Notices, Special.128 
Osage Orange Hedge. 121 
Pea, the Japan. 120 
Potatoes, Dover.114 
Potatoes Grown in Tan.121 
Publishers’ Announcement.128 
Read, no Time to.115 
Reaping and Mowing Machines.115 
Respectable, How to become.125 
Prices Current.125 
River, Beyond The (Poetry).125 
She Wished he’d been there.123 
Sugar in Siberia.121 
Temperament, Philosophic. 125 
Turkeys, Fattening with Charcoal.115 
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