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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
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Agents wanted.400 
Bachelor wanted.391 
Barley, Astonishing Yield of.394 
Bees, Securing wild.395 
Blood Spavin.392 
California Farmer.394 
Chilblains, Ointment for...391 
Children’s Side-table.389 
Clover Seed, Experiments with.389 
Correspondents, Notes and Answers to.392 
Crops, Maximum.385 
Dairy Maid, A model.391 
Editor, Assistant wanted - - ■.392 
Feeling, Mutual..,391 
Fertility, Well Grounded.391 
Fever, Yellow.389 
Girls, Something for. .391 
Guano Coolies. Cruel treatment of.388 
“ From Sea-weed. 395 
Ilead Lost...391 
Home in the Evening.390 
In Statuo quo. 389 
Incident, Thrilling.390 
Judgment, Erroneous.391 
Knickerbocker Magazine.389 
Laboring Man.397 
Light for Animals.397 
Living, The cost of. 395 
Manure gatherer.396 
Markets. 397 
Mules vs. Horses.395 
Nature, Wake with, (Poetry).390 
Orator, An Illinois.389 
Orchards, How to Lay out and Plant.386 
Patent Claims, Agricultural.396 
Pear Tree, A large... 395 
Poultry Concert at the museum.393 
“ Fattening.'.395 
" Raising.394 
" Show, Amusing description of..394 
Presents, Valuable. 391 
Pudding, Corn meal.391 
Schools, More About.392 
Seed-planters.396 
Seen Through. 391 
Shanghai in Rat Trap.389 
Slaughter on a large scale.396 
Sleigh Riding in Detroit.389 
String Halt.392 
Squashes, Chapter on.388 
Subscribers, Special notice to . 392 
Thought, Pretty Little 391 
Turnips for cows --------- 287 
Turnpike Boy and the Banker.390 
Well Said.391 
Wit, Quick.391 
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PUBLISHERS’ ANNOUNCEMENT! 
Eleventh Volume of 
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
THE LEADING WEEKLY AGRICULTURAL PAPER OP THE COUNTRY. 
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