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replenishing your library ; on the new sub¬ 
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creasing its facilities for usefulness. 
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25 cents. 
II. Every Lady her own Flower Gardener. Price 25 cents. 
III. The American Kitchen Gardener. Price 25 cents. 
IV. The American Rose Culturer. Price 25 cents, 
V. Prize Essayon Manures. By S. L. Dana. Price 25 cents. 
VI. Skinner’s Elements of Agriculture. Price 25 cents. 
VII. The Pests of the Farm, with Directions for Extirpation 
VIII. Horses—their Varieties, Breeding, Management, &c. 
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XIII. Chemistry made Easy for the Use of Farmers. Price 
25 cents. 
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beelyjublished. Price $1. 
XV. The American Field Book of Manures. Embracing all 
the Fertilizers known, with directions for use. By Browne. 
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XVII. Stockhart’s Chemical Field Lectures. Price $1. 
XVIII. Wilson on the cultivation of Flax. Price 25 cents. 
XIX. The Farmer’s Cyclopedia. Bv Blake. Price $1 25. 
XX. Allen’s Rural Architecture. Price $1 25. 
XXI. Phelps’s Bee Keeper’s Chart. Illustrated. Price 25 
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XXII. Johnston’s Lectures on Practical“Agriculture. Paper, 
price 25 cents. 
XXIII. Johnson’s Agricultural Chemistry. Price $1 25. 
XXIV. Johnson’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry and 
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XXV. Randall’s sheep Husbandry. Price $1 25. 
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Allen. Price $1 25. 
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LVI. Norton’s Scientific Agriculture—New Edition. Price 
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LX. Longstroth on Bees. Price $1 25. 
LXI. Book of Caged Birds. Price $1. 
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of the above books, will please name some 
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press, as it is often cheaper for ns lo send 
them thus than by mail. 
THE GOOD WORK COMMENCED- 
Our prizes are already being called for. 
Names are coming in to commence two 
weeks a head. Our table is loaded with let¬ 
ters containing old and new subscriptions, 
and orders for Premiums; inquiries as to 
uniting smaller premiums for the larger 
books ; notices of new clubs of fives, tens, 
and twenties, &c. We have endeavored to 
answer as many questions of this kind as 
possible, by introducing a new list of Pre¬ 
mium Books with prices annexed. 
These books at wholesale prices cost us 
with the postage just about the sum named 
for each, but there is a real pleasure in 
scattering so many books all over the coun¬ 
try. 
Our friends will oblige us by connecting as 
few other matters as possible with their sub¬ 
scription lists and premium orders, for two or 
three weeks, as these will occupy us much 
of the time. When other matters than busi¬ 
ness are inclosed in the same letter, let it 
be on a separate piece of paper. 
Now, then , friends, one and all, give the 
American Agriculturist one strong push. 
W r e have struck for 20,000 new subscribers 
to begin the new year with. We hope for 
20 ,000. If you, and you, kind reader, do all 
you can, we shall have 40,000. We have ex¬ 
tensive plans for adding greatly to the real 
value of the paper for the year to come. 
Remember that every dollar you add to its 
subscription increases its facilities for use¬ 
fulness. 
jpHTEvery dollar received for the Ameri¬ 
can Agriculturist will be expended in enrich¬ 
ing its pages w r ith collections of practical 
knowledge, valuable engravings, &c. &c. 
To Old Subcribers. —We seldom say any¬ 
thing to old subscribers about renewing. To 
lose one of these is so rare an occurrence, 
except by death or removal, that it calls for 
no attention. Besides, we do not feel dis¬ 
posed to urge any one to renew, if he does 
not do it of his own free will, after reading 
fifty-two numbers of our paper. 
We send out in this number a notice of 
expiration of subscriptions to a large number 
whose time expires with the year. Please 
recall the hundreds of valuable articles which 
have appeared during a year past, and then 
calculate whether you can do without anoth¬ 
er similar lot, for the year to come, and one 
which we promise you will he still more 
valuable. 
It is our purpose to commence, soon after 
January 1st, a series of plain practical ar¬ 
ticles on Chemistry and its applications to 
every day life. We hope to present the sub¬ 
ject in such a manner that every young per¬ 
son who reads the American Agriculturist, 
will become acquainted with this most im¬ 
portant branch of science. We think that 
this series alone will be worth to every per¬ 
son many times the subscription price of the 
paper, as we shall apply the principles of 
chemistry to the actual operations of prepar¬ 
ing food, drink, clothing, &c., besides show¬ 
ing wherein it may assist in cultivating the 
soil, and wherein it can wot do so. The se¬ 
ries will consist of short articles, and extend 
through the year. We delay commencing 
it till our new subscribers for 1855 are most¬ 
ly in. 
Particular Notice. —We daily receive 
new subscribers without any specification as 
to the time they are to commence. W T e 
have printed a large extra edition of this 
volume, up to this time, and, as long as we 
have them, will send back numbers from the 
commencement, (September 13th,) when de¬ 
sired. Subscribers can commence at any 
time they will name. 
Asparagus &c. —At the expense of variety 
and to bring the articles on a given subject 
together as much as possible, we have to¬ 
day devoted considerable space to the cul¬ 
ture of asparagus which will be found fully 
discussed in the Horticultural department. 
We have a variety of other practical articles 
in different parts of the paper. 
The Christian Chronicle of the 13th 
inst. contains a very good article on New- 
Jersey Farming, credited to “ Cor. of Ag.” 
Query —What, paper is this Cor. of Ag. 1 
We refer our readers to the advertise¬ 
ments of Atkin’s Reaper, and the forthcom¬ 
ing National Poultry Show 
A Good Move. —The Wilmington Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce have resolved to buy and 
sell corn, rye, oats and meal by weight, after 
the 1st of January, 1855, as follows : 
Corn, 56 pounds to the bushel ; wheat and 
rye, 60 pounds ; oats, 32 pounds ; and meal, 
60 pounds. 
Keep Your Stock Warm. —Nothing will 
pay better at this season than the care given 
to domestic animals of every kind. A dolla 
in time or expense devoted to sheltering 
them from cold, will save many dollars in 
food. A cow or flock of sheep will thrive 
better and keep in better health on 1,500 lbs. 
of hay in a comfortable stable, than on 
2,000 lbs. if left exposed to wind and storm. 
