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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
Contents for January 1859. 
Almanac for 1859.32 
Aloe—American, or Century Plant.Illustrated.. 17 
Aquariums —Prices of. 27 
Bank Bills.27 
Basket—Our.....Illestratek. .26 
Bees -Aprary in January. 3 
Bees—Honey Boxes.Illustrated.. 14 
Bookshelves in the Kitchen.23 
Bones—Gather them—Dissolving.14 
Bones—Dis-solved with Ashes.27 
Bound Volumes.32 
Bulbs—Croouses, etc., in Pots. 8 Illustrations. .21 
Bulbs by Mail...27 
BurningJFluid—Making._.27 
Calf's Head—Turtleizing. 23 
Calendar of Operations fob the Month. 2 
Cistern’s Building for Filtering.Illustrated.. 6 
Clubs.Illustrated. .32 
Coffee and Coffee Boilers.2 Illustrations. .21 
Communications received late.26 
Corn liaising—Is it Profitable.12 
Corn Stalks—Falling.27 
Chufas or Earth Almonds.26 
Dahlias—An Amateur’s troubles with.20 
Dairy—Prize Articles—No. I—Climate and soils. 9 
Dairy—Note on. 4 
Dairy—Report of Hon. Z. Pratt’s Farm.... 9 
Draining Level Lands .27 
Editor and his Young Readers—Sunday School Festi¬ 
val-Problems, answers, etc.2 Illustrations. .25 
Engravings—A word on Our.27 
Farm-Calendar for January. 2 
Farm of Hon. Zadock Pratt. 2 Illustrations.. 8 
Fencing—No. I—Prize Articles.13 
Fencing—Note on Prize Articles. 4 
Flower Garden and Lawn—Care of in January. 2 
Flowers for the House in Winter—Bulb Pots_ 8 Ill..21 
Flowers—Snap Dragon.Illustrated. .20 
Garden—Kitchen and Fruit, in January. 2 
Gardening—A Talk on.17 
Grandmother with the Girls—II—Sweeping_Illust..25 
Grape—Clinton. 26 
Grape, Vines—Root Pruning.27 
Grapes—Prices of the Newer.27 
Green and Hot Houses in January. 3 
Horse—Poin s of described.2Illustrations.. 11 
Horse —Why Daher did’nt keep. 11 
Horses—Cholic in. 27 
Horses—Ring-Bone in .11 
Horses—shoeing those over reaching .11 
Household Conveniences—Cheap llome-made.23 
In Door Work—W inter House Flowers—Coffee Pots 
Shoe-bags—Cheap Chamber Furniture—Work bas- 
ki is—Match Safes—Kitchio Hook shelves—Turtle¬ 
izing a Calf's Head, etc. 2 Illustrations. .21—23 
January—Suggesiions fob thb Month. 1 
Kohl Rabi.Illustrated.. 4 
Ladies—Note to.21 
Lantern Blinks—VII—Steam Cultivation.12 
Liming Land for Potatoes.15 
Locust Seed—Yellow.27 
Mail Bags Roughly used.32 
Magnet—New use for. 6 
Market Review.26 
Match Safes.23 
Nothing for Sale.26 
Onion Experience Wanted—Prize offered. 3 
Onions-Winter Keeping of.27 
Orchard and Nursery—Opelations in January. 2 
Paper—Blotting.7 
Pomological Repoit—Wheietogel .27 
Postage on the Agriculturist.32 
Potatoes —Liming Land for . 15 
Potatoes—Lime on Seed.15 
Poultry—Dorkings for See.'.07 
Premiums. . s .28 
Problems—Dogs.Illustrated. .25 
Raspberries—Heading back....27 
Root f rops for Stock.27 
Rowing against the Tide.27 
Rye—Large Yield of.. 7 
School—Farmer’s High of Pennsylvania.15 
Seeds —Field and Garden-Notes on. 3 
Seeds—Flower and Ornamental—Notes on.18 
Seeds—List of those dtstnb • ed.28 
Sewing Machines.28 
Shears—Gr ipe or Pruning. .27 
Sheep—Winter Management of. 6 
Show Bills.27 
Squashes—About.18 
Stock—Improvement of Fainr.. .In-and-in-Breeding_10 
Stock-Profits of Protecting from cold.16 
Sugar Cane—Chinese in Kansas. 5 
Sweeping and Dusting.25 
Tim Bunker on Saving Sixpences—Tile. 4 
Time—Waste.13 
Trees for Shelter—Belts.2 Illustrations.. 5 
Uncle Frank’s Chat with Hoys and Girls—IV—Father 
January—Horned Frog . Ftench.. .2 Illustrations. .24 
Vegetables of the Garden- O-jgin of. 17 
Water Melons—The Little Gill’s.24 
Weight of Animals. 7 
Wells and Cisterns—Examining. 5 
Whistling.7 
Windmills. 7 
Winter Scene. .Illustrated.. 16 
Webster and the Witness.27 
Westfield Academy.....27 
West—Good Farming atthc..15 
Work Baskets.23 
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engtaving which we could not otherwise procure. 
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Mail Bags arc Roughly Used 
As everybody knows, who has ever seen them on their 
travels, whether in cars or steamboats, or in the boot of a 
stage, or carried dangling over a horse’s back. A letter 
inside must of course get a terrible jamming, mashing, 
and crumpling. Ergo, let no one expect that a gold coin- 
dropped loosely into a half-sealed envelope or stuck to the 
letter with brittle sealing wax—will faillo slip out There 
are loose gold dollars enough in the mail bags every year 
to pay at least one man a good salary. Lesson 1st. In 
mailing gold coins, slip them into a split card, or paste¬ 
board, and paste them in ; or paste two pieces of paper 
together with the coins between them. 2 nd —Whenever 
money is mailed, paste the letter thoroughly together, so 
that nothing can get out, and nobody get in by wetting 
the paste or otherwise. 
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overcharge in the postage. We now make what we hope 
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Post Master. 
P. O. Department, ) 
Appt. Office, Nov. 26, 1858 i 
Sir:—Your monthly paper, the '• American Agricultur¬ 
ist," is subject to a postage of six cents a year, if paid in 
advance, or one cent and a half a quarter in advance- 
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New-Yorlc. 
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Bound Volumes—Binding—Covers. 
We have bound sets, of Vols. XVI and XVII, singly, and also 
both volumes in one cover. The piices of these are : 
Vol. XVI,or Vol. XVII, unbound. Si 00 each, 
do do ntatly bound, $1.50 each. 
VolumeXVI and Vol XVII neatly bound inone cover, S2.60 
N. B.—These volumes unbound can he sent by mail, pre-paid, 
at SI. 12 per volume. If bound the postage (which must be pre¬ 
paid) is4Z cents forvolume XVI, und 50 cents tor Vol. XVlI, 
making the cost of Vol XVI bound and sent pre-paid by mail, 
£1.92, and of Vol. XVII, *2 00. 
Cost of Vols XVI and XVII bound together and sent by mail 
post-paid, $3 40. 
Of Vol. XV, we have nocopies, and unfortunately, no stereo¬ 
type plates. 
Of Vols. XII. XIII and XIV. we have some sets bound and 
unbound, at the same prices as named above for Vols. XVI and 
XVII. 
Binding. —Sets of numbers brought to this office will be 
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Jlmmro Agriculturist. 
(ISSUED IN BOTH ENGLISH AND GERMAN.) 
A thorough going, RELIABLE, and PRACTICAL 
Journal, devoted to the different departments of SOIL 
CULTURE —such as growing field CROPS; orchard 
and garden FRUITS; garden VEGETABLES and 
FLOWERS; trees, plants, and flowers for the 
LAWN or YARD; in-door and out door work around 
the DWELLING; care of DOMESTIC ANIMALS 
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FOUR to FIVE hundred or more, Illustrative EN¬ 
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Over SIX HUN DRED plain, practical, instructive 
articles will be given every year. 
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WORKING MEN. 
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its numerous illustrative engravings. 
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it is ordered expires. 
All business and other communications should :e ad¬ 
dressed to the Editor and Proprietor, 
ORANGE JUDD, 
No. 189 Water st, New-York 
