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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Accounts, Keeping Farm. 
Agents wanted. 
Agricultural Society of Montgomery Co. Ohio. 
Blessings unequally distributed. 
Cakes, Cocoanut. 
Charge, Serious. 
Chemistry of common life. 
Clergymen. 
Corn, Experiments in raising. 
Correspondents, Notes and Answers to. 
Cow, Esterville 3rd. 
Draining. 
Farm Accounts, Keeping of. 
Flour, Fluctuation in. 
Food, is it most profitable when cooked and ground 
Fowls, Bramah Pootra. 
Geese, Are they profitable or otherwise. 
Guano, directions for using.. 
Happiness, Sure recipe for. 
Honesty, Mala’s test of. 
Hood on Health. 
Horticultural Society of New-York. 
Jew, a match for.-.. 
Jobs, dreaded. 
Ladies, Intelligent. 
Manures, Experiments with special. 
Markets. 
“ Remarks upon. 
" Review of British Corn Trade. 
“ Review of Continental Corn Trade.. 
" New-York Produce. 
“ “ Cattle. 
Marriages, Early. 
Montgomery County, N. J„ Agr. Soc. 
Mother, Our.. 
Pigs, China.. 
Post office, Yarn.. 
Poultry Show at Birmingham. 
Price Current. 
Punch and his American Pippins. 
Punch, How to hoax. 
Scholar, the penitent. 
School Reminiscences. 
Somerset County, New-Jersey. 
Stock Raising. 
Strawberries in Winter. 
Taxodium of California. 
Trees, appearance of in Winter,. 
Virginia, Western, Farming in. 
Winter, (Poetry). 
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PUBLISHERS’ ANNOUNCEMENT! 
Eleventh Volume of 
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
THE LEADING WEEKLY AGRICULTURAL PAPER OF THE COUNTRY. 
THE 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. 
It is beautifully printed with type east expressly for it, and on the best of clear white paper, with 
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to the great business of agriculture. The household as well as the out-door work of the farm will re¬ 
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reliable scientific rules, and their worthlessness exposed. It is the aim of the publishers to keep this 
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