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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
PUBLISHERS’ ANNOUNCEMENT! 
Autograph, a valuable.315 
Agricultural State Society of Vermont.313 
Allied Armies, Feeding of. 309 
Business the charm of life.310 
Chemistry for small and large Boys and Girls.313 
Cucumbers, Forced.311 
Colt and Goose.311 
Conundrum Exhibition.314 
Cotton, Sea-Island.313 
Dilemma.316 
Eggs, Composition of.309 
England, introduction of Plants.317 
Farming Aristocracy.309 
Florida Lemons.306 
France, how they do things in .315 
Farmers’ Club at Pluckemine.312 
Farmers’ Club at Pompton Plains.312 
Horticultural Society, Brooklyn.310 
Horticultural Society, New-Haven, Conn.311 
Horticulturist for January.310 
House of Refuge, Report of.308 
Horses, Cavalry.307 
Impertinence Punished.316 
Judd, Mr.. ..312 
Labor wanted in Indiana.307 
Ladies, old.315 
Law, Beauties of.-.316 
Marriage, Mrs. Partington on.315 
Mormonism, New Phase of. 309 
Measures of Different Countries.317 
Non-Progressive.312 
Rose, a Blue.313 
Religion, Beauties of. 315 
Poultry Show, a Week at.306 
Poultry, Impoitance of, to the United States.305 
Poultry cheaper than Pork.308 
Polyanthus, Culture of. .311 
Potato Rot in Maine forty years ago... 307 
Painter, Art of a Yankee. 316 
Plaster of Paris and Green Manure.309 
Susie Sunshine, (Poetry).314 
Song of the Six Hundred, (Poetry).314 
Statuary at the Capitol. 318 
Smut in Wheat—Canada Corn.312 
Sponge Fishing.309 
Secret, the Old Man’s. 317 
Servants Half Price.317 
Witty.314 
Special Notices to Subscribers. Correspondents, &c. 
THIRTEENTH VOLUME OF 
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
THE LEADING WEEKLY AGRICULTURAL PAPER OF THE COUNTRY. 
The American Agriculturist, 
A weekly Periodical of 16 large quarto pages, making an annual volume of 832 pages of 
nearly double the size of those in the first ten volumes of the Agriculturist. 
N. B.—The work is divided into two semi-annual volumes of 416 pages, each volume having a 
complete index. 
It is beautifully printed with type cast expressly for it, and on the best of clear white paper, with 
wide margin, so that the numbers can be easily stitched or bound together. 
A copious Index is weekly added, which will be fully amplified at the end of each half yearly 
volume, for the hound work. 
COMPREHENSIVE IN ITS CHARACTER. 
Each volume \yill contain all matter worth recording, which transpires either at home or abroad, 
and which can serve to instruct or interest the Farmer, the Planter, the Fruit-Grower, the Gar¬ 
dener, and the Stock-Breeder; thus making it the most complete and useful Agricultural Publica¬ 
tion of the day. 
CORRECT AND VALUABLE MARKET REPORTS. 
The Markets will be carefully reported, giving the actual transactions which take place from week 
to week, in Grain, Provisions, Cattle, &c., thus keeping our readers constantly and reliably advised as 
to their interests. During the past year the knowledge obtained from these Market Reports alone, 
has saved our readers thousands of dollars, by informing them of the best time to sell or purchase. 
SUCH A PAPER IS DEMANDED BY THE FARMING COMMUNITY. 
The Publishers confidently believe that the Agriculturists of this country are becoming too much 
awake to the demands of their own calling, to be longer satisfied with the slow monthly issues of a 
paper professedly devoted to their interests, or to trust alone to the irresponsible extracts in a “ Far¬ 
mer’s column,” so popular just now in papers chiefly devoted to business, politics, or literature ; 
and they look for the united support of all the intelligent Farmers of this country in their continued 
effort to furnish a weekly paper of high and reliable character, which shall be progressive, and at the 
same time cautious and conservative in all its teachings. 
ESSENTIALLY AN AGRICULTURAL PAPER. 
The Agriculturist will not depart from its legitimate sphere to catch popular favor, by lumbering 
up its pages with the silly, fictitious literature, and light, miscellaneous matter of the day ; it has a 
higher aim ; and a small part only of its space will be devoted to matters not immediately pertain¬ 
ing to the great business of Agriculture. The household as well as the out-door work of the farm 
will receive a due share of attention. The humbugs and nostrums afloat in the community will be 
tried by reliable scientific rules, and their worthlessness exposed. It. is the aim of the publishers 
to keep this paper under the guidance of those who will make it a standard work, which shall com¬ 
municate to its readers only that which is safe and reliable. 
AN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL. 
When sending a subscription always state what num¬ 
ber it shall commence with. The back numbers of this 
volume can still be supplied to new subscribers. Back 
volumes neatly bound can now be furnished from the 
commencement. Price of the first ten volumes, $1 25 
each, or $19 for the entire set of ten volumes. 
Volumes XI & XII $1 50 each. 
Prepared covers for the vols. XI, XII & XIII are ready, 
and can be had for 25 cents each. They can not be sent 
through mail without danger of being spoiled. 
We can generally furnish back numbers. Where only 
one or two may be wanting, no charge will be made to 
regular subscribers, and all numbers lost by mail we will 
cheerfully supply. 
Correspondents will please keep matters relating to 
subscriptions on a separate part of the letter lrom commu¬ 
nications for the paper, so that they may be separated. 
The American Agriculturist stands upon its own merits; and the truthfulness, zeal and ability 
which it brings to the support of the interests of the farmer. It is untrammeled by any collateral 
business connections whatever ; nor is it the organ of any clique, or the puffing machine of any man 
or thing. Thoroughly independent in all points, its ample pages are studiously given alone to the 
support and improvement of the great Agricultural class. 
EDITORIAL DEPARTIIIMT. 
The American Agriculturist is under the joint Editorial supervision of Mr. A. B. Allen —its 
principal editor for the first ten years—and Mr. Orange Juan, A. M., a thoroughly practical farmer 
and agricultural chemist. 
They will be assisted by Mr. Lewis F. Allen, an eminent practical farmer, stock breeder, and 
fruit glower; Rev. Wm. Clift, and Mr. R. G. Pardee, both widely known as pleasing and instructive 
writers on gardening and other departments of practical Agriculture, and, in addition to these, 
number of other eminent Agricultural and Horticultural writers. 
Letters in regard to seeds, implements, books, &c., 
should not be mingled up with matters relating to the 
American Agriculturist. In this office we have no con¬ 
nection with any business whatever which does not relate 
directly to the affairs of the paper. When practical, we 
are glad to attend to any reasonable request made by any 
of our subscribers. 
Paper is cheap, so is postage, and we earnestly request 
correspondents to write only on one side of the sheet; 
and further, that they will place their lines as widely 
apart as may be, so that In preparing articles for the prin¬ 
ter, we can always have roomhetween them to insert ad¬ 
ditions or corrections. 
Postage is no higher paid at the office of delivery than if paid 
at the office where mailed, and as the “ regulations ” at the New 
Vork Post-office preclude us from paying by the quarter or year, 
it is useless for subscribers to send money for the pre-payment 
of postage, for we can not attend to paying postage fifty-two 
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but when Subscribers remit by mail this is less convenient 
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