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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[October, 
THIRTY-EIGHTH NATIONAL. 
13X555 5SITSON 
OF THE 
AMERICAN INSTITUTE 
opens to tl.e public this 
WEDNESDAY EVENING, at 7 o’clock P. M„ 
and continues daily from 9 A. M„ to 10 o’clock P. M., 
until SATURDAY, Oct. 30, 1809, 
AT THE 
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