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cool place. They should be taken fi'Oin the thrifty 
growth of last season, and be carefully labelled. 
The trees already planted need some care. The 
young orchard should be well fenced and cattle 
kept from browsing on the young trees. If a limb is 
broken by accident, the wound is to be neatly pared 
and covered with grafting wax or shellac varnish. 
If the weather is mild, considerable preparatory 
work may be done, such as draining if the ground be 
not thoroughly dry, excavating holes for trees, etc. 
The nurseryman will find occupation in root graft¬ 
ing and cutting l)ack and shaping the stock grown 
last year. He should accumulate a store of labels, 
moss, and all the needed packing materials, and get 
thoroughly ready to attend to the spring trade. 
Kitdicai €ji:ti’494!ii.—There is little to do 
here except to take care of the few things wintered 
over, and to pl.au out and prepare for spring work. 
If water stands on parsnips, spinach, and other 
erops left in the ground over winter, surface drains 
may be m.ade to let it off. Keep fences tight and 
fates closed, so that no stray animals do mischief. 
There is now sufficient leisure to review last sea¬ 
son’s work and see what may be improved upon. 
Map out the garden and determine on the location 
of the princip.al crops, ensuring proper rotation. 
Whenever the weather and state of the soil are 
favorable, drains may be laid and plowing be done. 
Bean Poles, Pea Brush, and all similar stuff ai'e 
more conveniently cut during winter. If the por¬ 
tion which enters the ground be dipped in coal tar, 
or in a solution of blue vitriol they will last longer. 
Cold Frames—G'wa air on mild days, but keep 
all closed during severe weather and at night. Give 
water only when necessary to keep the plants 
from wilting. Trap or poison mice, if troublesome. 
Hot beds. —Rep.air and strengthen old frames ; 
glaze and repaint sash if they need it, and make new 
ones. Accumulate an abundant stock of manure, 
and have a good supply of rieh mould under shelter. 
Seed.'i. —Keep nothing but good varieties and true 
to kind. If necessary to buy seeds, do so early. 
Frilit Crai’den.—Things here are at rest, 
and there is little to do except to see that no harm 
comes to the plants. Those covered need the pro¬ 
tecting material replaced if it blows or washes off. 
Flower Garden and Fawn.— If the 
tender plants are properly protected, the chief care 
is to look after the injury done by gales or heavy 
snow which sometimes break down the limbs; 
snow is troublesome with evergreens and should be 
shaken out of the trees before it becomes compact. 
Much can often be done in this month at making 
roads and paths, and other work of construction. In 
all projected improvements it will be found much 
more satisfaetory to sketch the plans on paper and 
subject them to the criticism of judicious friends. 
The present is a good time to decide where 
evergreens shall be planted at the proper season. 
Greeii and IIot*Iloii$es. —Everything 
should be looking at its best in the houses for bloom¬ 
ing plants ; and in those where plants are placed 
merely to protect them from cold, and growth is not 
looked for, clean pots, neatly trimmed and tied up 
plants should be the rule. 
Bulbs. —Proper management in bringing them 
forward in suecession, secures flowers all winter. 
Camellias. —Give more water and occasionally sy¬ 
ringe the foliage; ventilate freely. 
Cactuses. —Almost all of this family need to be 
kept moderately dry at this season of the year. 
Calceolarias and Cinerarias. —Shift to the pots in 
which they are to bloom and water moderately. 
Faschias. —Prune and repot them in fresh soil. 
Insects. —Fumigate before they get the mastery. 
Use >*bacco smoke for green fly, and sulphur fumes 
for ii-spidcr. In fumigating with sulphur it must 
not be ignited but simply laid upon the cooler part 
of the flue where its odor will be slowly dissipated. 
Htunias and Verbenas —m.ay be encouraged to 
grow and cuttings taken from them for propagating. 
Boses. —Those coming into flower may have some 
liquid manure which should be made very weak. 
Seeds of many plants for spring blooming may be 
»owu now, and be grown in pots. 
Ventilate whenever the weather will allow ; use 
shutters at night for the green-house ; during very 
severe cold weather they may be kept on all day. 
Wafer.—This when applied to plants, should be of 
the temperature of the house or even a little higher. 
Plants which are not growing need but very little. 
Apiary in J’annary.- Preparedly M. Quin- 
by .—Bees must have access to their stores every few 
days. In colonies that have but little honey, it is 
quite sure to be further from where they have clus¬ 
tered than in those that are well supplied. Ice 
among the combs will prevent their reaching it. 
If moderate weather does not occur sufficient¬ 
ly often—say at intervals of two or three weeks 
—to melt the frost, the hives should be warmed ar- 
titicially. The hive may be brought into a warm 
room for a few hours ; the bees will then go to their 
sealed honey and remove into the cluster a supply 
for several d.ays. Unless the room is dark, they 
should be brought iu at evening. It is seldom that 
severe w'eather is sufficiently protracted to make 
this trouble necessary for strong heavy stocks, but 
if such weather should oceur, and prevent the 
warmth of large colonies from thawing out the 
frost in their hives during the month, it would be 
necessary to warm them also. In handling the 
hives, avoid any jarring and any unnecessary dis¬ 
turbances. If there is sufficient snow to cover the 
hives entirely, it may remain, as it affords good pro¬ 
tection in the coldest weather. When there is but 
little around the bottom, sweep it away. Keep the 
air passages free from dead bees, etc. If the weather 
be mild and the sun warm, bees m.ay be allowed 
to fly—unless there is light snow on the ground, 
in which case the hive should be shaded by setting 
a board before it. Straw hives are not readily af¬ 
fected by winter sunshine, and when the air is suf¬ 
ficiently warm to entice them out, it will generally 
do to let them fly. If all frost leaves the hive at 
any time so that it may be raised without disturb¬ 
ing the bees, the filth, dead bees, etc., should be 
swept out. See if mice have not found or made a 
passage into the hive. They sometimes build a 
nest Inside, and decide on spending the winter. To 
keep them out, cover all passages with wire cloth, 
except a space for the bees to pass. Bees that are 
housed should be disturbed as littleas possible. Go 
among them occasionally to see that all is right. 
Twenty Good Premiums 
For Voluaiie 1865. 
We can not employ traveling or local Agents to solicit 
sobsci'iplions, as is done by many other journals. There 
is no margin of profit out of which to pay commissions. 
Tlie (new) terms are arranged to just meet the present 
cost of supplying tlie pa[ier. We liope “in the good 
time coming” to make a reasonable profit; but while 
waiting for better times, our chief aim is to maintain and 
increase the present circulation. Even this will require 
some effort, for at the usual rate of mortality, 3000 or 
more out of every 100,000 die annually; while many 
thousands of our subscribers liave volunteered in the ser¬ 
vice of tlie country. The enterprising men who take 
and read journals of this kind are foremost in every good 
work. We met many readers in the camps in Virginia, 
and we hear of and from tliem in almost every part of 
the country wliere the Union armies have penetrated. 
We shall be glad to send the Agriculturist into many 
new families, believing that its mission will be useful. 
All who aid in this will do a good work. 
To those who take time to collect clubs of subscri¬ 
bers, we offer below .as premiums, some good articles 
purchased witli funds derived from other resources than 
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to make an effort to obtain one of the good articles 
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Send along the names as fast as obtained, that the 
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only one premium will be given for the same subscriber. 
jc-ieiiiiuiuH a.iia j.erms^ 
For Volume 24. § ” 
Open to all—No Competition. 
Names of Premium Arlicles. ^ _ 
1—Good Books— ter7ns below * . 
3—Case ol Drawing Instruments.... ^ 00 
3— Best Family Clotlies-Wringer. 4:10 00 
4— Doty’s Washing Machine. ..$12 00 
5“'Sewin" Machine, (Wheeler & Wilson),.OO 
6 — Four Octave Melodeon (best). .$67 00 
7— Five Octave Melodeon (best). $112 00 
8 — Brown’s Baby Tender.:*;30 00 
9— Brown’s Baby Tender. $42 00 
l®“J]Joodruft'’s Mercurial Barometer. $10 00 
11—Woodruff’s Mercurial Barometer. $15 oo 
154—Tlie Amiarius. $12 oO 
13— Ladies’Rosewood Writing Desk. $12 00 
14— Gentleman’s do do do . . $14 oo 
I.*!—Any b*\ck Volume Agriculturist, ) $ 1.50 
Two do do do £ S $3 00 
17—Any Three do do do } .g-o $4 .50 
JS-AnyFour do do do ( S? $6 00 
J ‘S'S $7 50 
540—Strawberry Plants—iSee Te^'ms below** . 
60 
TO 
80 
360 
400 
600 
180 
236 
70 
90 
80 
80 
90 
20 
25 
30 
40 
50 
lEl^iVo charge is made for packing or boxing any of tht 
articles in this Premium List. The Books, also Premiums 
2, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20, are delivered to any part 
of the United States and Territories, free of all charges. 
The other articles cost the recipient only the freight af¬ 
ter leaving the manufactory of each, Every articli 
offered is new and of the very best manufacture 
notes on the premiu.ms. 
” Premium t.— Good Books.—Any person sending a 
club 0425 or more subscribers, may select Books from the list 
on page 23, to the amount of 10 cents for each subscriber 
sent at .$1: or to tlie amount of 60 cents for each name at $1 
50. Ihis offer extends only to ciiibs of 25 or more names. 
The Books will be sent by mail or express, prepaid by us.— 
This is a good way for the farmers of a neigeborliood to get 
up an Agricultural Library for general use. Several Farm¬ 
ers’ Clubs have done so. 
Premium 3.—The Case of Drawing Instruments is a 
Rosewood Box, containing a dozen very excellent articles, 
of polished steel and brass—useful for sketching, drawing, 
plotting, laying out plans of land, buildings, etc. There are 
dividers with joints, points, markers, pencil holders, ruling 
pens, semicircles, etc., etc. Each piece is fitted into a velvet 
cusliion. These instruments were part of tiiose ordered from 
Paris for last year’s premiums, wliich arrived too late. They 
could liardly be imported now for double the money. AVhile 
useful to all, notliing better could lie given to children to de¬ 
velop their tact, taste, and mechanical skill. 
Premium 3.—The Clothes-Wringer is too well known 
to need description. No Iietter or more useful labor-saving 
and clothes-sivving implement has ever been introduced into 
tlie household. We give only tlie “Universal Clotlics- 
Wringer,” fitted with cogs, which we esteem essential to 
any good wringer. Tlie one we offer (No. 2) is of the riglit 
size for general family use. It is a good Christmas or New- 
Tear’s present for your care-worn wife. 
l^remiiim 4:.—Doty's Washing ALachine we liave tried 
ttiorouglily for nearly a year past, in competition witli 
many otliers sent to us, and in Its latest form tliis seems to 
be an improvement upon every previous machine wc liave 
tested. It is compact, and easily and natur.ally worked. 
Our “better half,” wlio lias been complimented with tlie 
gift of a score or more of different macliines for trial, says 
tins is taken to most kindly by the “ lielp,” and that slie can 
not persuade tliem to use any otlier while tliis is at liand. 
The machines sent to those entitled to them as premiums 
will be forwarded fi'om Janesville, Wis., to those living in 
Oliio and furtlier west; and fi-ora the manufacturers’ New 
York Warehouse to those living cast of Ohio. Send to 
Messrs. Doty Brothers, Janesville, Wis., fora descriptive cir¬ 
cular, wliicli will be supplied free. 
Premium .T.—Woman’s Greatest Boon. We would ad¬ 
vise a man to forego a tiireslier, and tliresli wheat witli a 
flail, ratlier tlian to see the wife wear her healtli, vigor, and 
life away, in tlie everlasting “stitch, stitch, stitch," when a 
Sewing Macliine can be obtained. Tlie Wheeler & Wilson, or 
some other good in.achine, is an Inv.aluable aid in every 
household. We liave liad several dift'erent machines on trial, 
and after six years’ service tlie Wheeler & Wilson lias taken 
precedence as tlie best where all kinds of sewing are to be 
done in tlie family. A large number of persons have in the 
past years secured one of these premium macliines as Clirist- 
mas or New Year’s presents for the home circle. 
Premiums G tfe 7—We have had one of Geo. A. Prince 
& Co.’s large Jfelodeons in our Sunday School room for five 
years, wliere it lias given the liighest satisfaction, and in all 
tills time it has not liad the slightestrepair or tuning. We 
can recommend tliis instrument very lilglily. Send a P. O. 
stamp to Geo. A. Prince & Co., Buffalo, N, Y„ and get an 
lllnstrated descriptive catalogue, giving sizes, prices, etc. 
Tlie Premium Melodeons will be forwarded direct from the 
manufactory ready boxed, by railroad, steamboat or ex¬ 
press, ns directed by the recipient. OS'- It is very easy for 
the members of a Congregation to make up a club of sub¬ 
scribers to the Agriculturist, and get one of tliese Melo¬ 
deons for tlie Church or Snnd.ay Scliool room. Many 
cliurches liave done so since we first oflered tliis premium. 
Premium 8 Jiiul 9.—Tlie Baby Tender linppens to 
be BO well described in Dec. No., tliat we need add nothlnp 
further liere. We select two styles lliat will meet the wants 
of the larger class. More costly ones, in a liiglier s'yle of 
finisli (tliongh not more effective,) will be supplied for a 
proportionably greater number of names. 
Premiums 10 aiul 11.— Woodruff's AtercurUn Bar 
