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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
Index for February, 1859- 
Acre—Number of hills, trees, etc., in.36 
Agricullural Society—United States.35 
Apples—D warf.5° 
Apples for Cows.42 
Bees—Apiary in February.35 
Bees—Mistakes about.37 
Birds—Pigeon Hawk and Woodcock.47 
Books—Supplied.60 
Buckwheat—Culture of.47 
Buildings—House of S. B. Parsons_3 Illustrations. .44 
Calendar of Operations for the Month.34 
Cattle-Breeding in-and-in [by C. M. Clay].43 
Cattle—Kicking Cows Subdued.. .1.40 
Coffee Adulterations—Chicory, Cocoa, Chocolate.2 111.53 
Challenge, The.Illustrated. .41 
Chrysanthemums—Culture, etc.Illustrated. .50 
Corn—Improved King Philip Distributed.3G 
Dahlia Culture—Amateur’s troubles.52 
Dairy—Prize Article IT., Selection of Cows; Descrip¬ 
tion of a Dairy Cow.41 
Delays—Unavoidable.64 
Editor with his Young Readers—Merry Christmas and 
a Happy New Year ; Trapping Birds ; The Best 
Girl; Eclipse; Vote of Thanks, Ac.Illus..57 
Engravings—Note on Sale of.60 
Eyes—Disease of in Animals.37 
Farm—Calendar for February.34 
Farm Life—Making attractive.40 
February—Sugoestions for the Month.33 
Fencing II.—Prize Articles—Hedges discussed.46 
Flower Garden and Lawn in February.34 
Garden—Kitchen and Fruit in February.34 
Geraniums—Preserving in Winter.5i 
Grafts—Cutting.50 
Grandmother with the Girls—Neatness, Washing D.sli- 
es, etc.Illustrated. .56 
Grapes—McKay’s.60 
Green-house Calendar for February.•.34 
Help-Hiring.36 
Hollyhock—The.52 
Hot House and Conservatory in February.34 
House Furniture—Carpets, Sofas, Chairs, Wall Papers, 
Window Curtains.54 
Ice-Houses in Cellars.45 
Illinois Farmers Vindicated.36 
In Door Work.53 
Manure Puff—Strong medicine. 60 
Market Review, etc.59 
Milk—Singular effect of first milkings.42 
Mink and Muskrat Hunting.47 
Nurserymen—Frauds and mistakes of.51 
Oalen Cakes—Healthy Food. 54 
Orchard and Nursery—Operations in February.34 
Patent Office—Advisory Board of Agriculturists.35 
Pod Auger’s Letter—Dwarf Apples and White Straw¬ 
berries.•.50 
Postage Stamps—Remittances.64 
Postage —Proposition to.Increase.60 
Poultry—Profits of—Feeding,etc.37 
Poultry—Silver Spangled Bantams.Illustrated. .37 
Premiums.58 
Premiums—Plenty of time to secure...60 
Problems—New.2 Illustrations. .58 
Railroad Conductors—Hint to .64 
Recipes—Apple Fritters ; Apple Pie, mock ; Bird’s 
Nests; Dough-nuts; Ginger Snaps; Hams, curing 
and keeping ; Lemon Pie ; Mince Meat, preserving; 
Minee Pie hints; Muffins; Neats-foot Oil; Pie 
Cakes ; Potato Bread ; Snowball Custard ; Tea 
Biscuit.54—55 
Religion—Pure.GO 
Rye—Larger Yield of.35 
Seeds Distributed in 1859.58 
Seeds—Starting Early.51 
Sewing Machine Explanation.64 
Sheep—A flock cheaply saved, etc.40 
Sugar—Hints on making Maple.36 
Territories—Far Western, Capabilities of the.39 
Thanks—Many.60 
Tim Bunker—Jake Frink’s Apology for.46 
Trees—Shade and Ornamental—European Linden, 
Fountain Pine, Magnolia macrophylla, Torreya 
taxifolia, and Weeping Juniper... .5 Illustrations. .48 
Trees, Plants, or Hills upon an acre of ground.36 
Trees—White Pine.50 
Undo Frank’s Chat with Boys and Girls, about Com¬ 
positions ; Boy doing his own business ; Whip Be¬ 
hind, etc.2 Illustrations. .5G 
Wood Pile—The.46 
Woods—Young.50 
can at any time be increased, by remitting for each ad¬ 
dition the price paid by the original members—provided 
the subscriptions all date back to the same starting point 
The back numbers will of course be sent to all added 
names. 
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Unavoidable Belays—Explanations. 
Delay of Papers.— With six to twelve hundred 
subscribers arriving daily, it lias been impossible to al¬ 
ways get the names all selected from the letters, proper¬ 
ly arranged on the books, and the p ipers started off at 
once. Three times, our entire stock of Dec. and Jan. 
numbers have run out, and a little delay has been caused 
by waiting for new editions to be printed. In a few cases 
—certainly very few—there may have been an accidental 
omission or mistake in forwarding the back numbers, and 
in others the mails have been at fault. In at least one 
case a whole mail was submerged by a freshet, and the 
newspapers, with some letters, spoiled—we know not-how 
many of ours. In all these cases we shall be happy to be 
informed of the non-arrival of any number, and will 
promptly forward a duplicate We have, as usual, sev¬ 
eral remittances where the name, or Post Office, or State, 
lias been omitted by the sender. These must remain un¬ 
attended to until further information is forwarded—with 
the usual “ blow ing up” of course. 
Delay of Seeds.— Our seeds of American growth 
are put up and ready for forwarding—but a large lot from 
Europe, which should have been here the first of the year, 
have not yet (Jan. 20) come to hand. We have an in¬ 
voice of them, and advice of their shipment in December 
We expect them at any moment, and as soon as they 
come and can be got through the Custom House, w e shall 
have them put up and started off as rapidly as possible. 
We have already a large accumulation of envelopes sent 
in, which are sorted for being filled as soon as all the 
varieties of seeds are ready. 
N.B.—As the envelopes are classified according to the 
kinds to be put into them, it will not unfrequently hap¬ 
ped that different letters to the same individual will go 
at intervals of a week or two ; thus : No. 71 may chance 
to go one week, No. 21 the next week, and No. 2 a week 
or two later still, and so of other kinds. 
The above explanations will answer a score or two of 
queries already received. 
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Mint to Elailroail Conductors. 
A Conductor on a Railroad in one of the farming val¬ 
leys of Pennsylvania, put an Agriculturist in his pocket 
as a sample, and when opportunity offered exhibited it to 
farmers who chanced to take passage in his train. As 
the result he sent us 14G subscribers, Dec. 24, and w e at 
once forwarded him the prize of a $50 Wheeler A Wilson 
sewing machine. He has since, up to this dale (Jan. 18,) 
sent in 114 additional names, and expects to do much 
more. All this has been done without detriment to the 
R. R. Company, but rather to their advantage, for the Agri¬ 
culturist will doubtless help to increase the product of the 
256 farms where these numbers go, so much that in a few 
years the freight business of the road will be largely ad¬ 
vanced from this cause alone. . . At least two other 
Conductors are engaged in a similar enterprise. “A word 
to the wise,” etc. 
Sewing: Blacliines—Explanations. 
We have purposely avoided expressing any preference 
between the Wheeler A Wilson and the Grover A Baker 
Sew ing Machines, simply from the reason that we have 
used both for a year past, and like both exceedingly well. 
They each have peculiar excellences. In response to the 
oft repeated enquiry ” why we offer only one kind in om 
premium list, when we formerly expressed a preference 
for the other,” we reply that that opinion was given when 
we had only used one. Our more recent experience, with 
both machines in daily use, led us to believe that, every 
thing considered, those we offer would best suit the wants 
of those who would be likely lo receive them as premi¬ 
ums. We therefore decided to offer this kind only, since 
by concentrating our purchases upon one kind, we could 
take a larger number, and get and offer them at a lower 
rate. 
3- cut vs. 10-ccnt Postage Stamps. 
Owing to a large California subscription, where lO ccnt 
P. O Stamps are chiefly in vogue, we have received re¬ 
mittances of many hundreds of dollars in this currency- 
more than we can find sale for in this City, as the P. O. 
Department never redeems its own “ issues.” Since 
3-cent stamps are in more common use, and therefore 
more readily disposed of, we request that when just as 
convenient, subscribers would send these instead of 10- 
cent stamps. N. B.—A piece of paper should always be 
placed against tne gummed side when sheets of stamps 
are folded in a letter—to prevent their adhering. 
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to begin with the volume, and the names are so entered 
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1857, ahd in German, from July 1858. 
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N. B.—These volumes unbound can be sent by mail, pre-puid, 
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paid) i«44 cents fur volume XVI, and 50 cents for Vol. XVII 
making the cost of Vol. XVI hound and sent pre-paid by mail, 
$1.92, ami of Vol. XVII, $2.00. 
Cost ofVols XVI and XVII bound together and sent bymail 
post-paid. S3 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 an! 
XVII. 
Binding. —Se's of numbers brought to this office will be 
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Prepared Covers. —Stamped Muslin Covers, neatly made, 
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well go by mail. 
^militarist. 
(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 OAnDEN 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 
Ac. Ac. 
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A full CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS fortheseason 
is given every month. 
FOUR to FIVE hundred or more, Illustrative EN¬ 
GRAVINGS will appear in each volume. 
Over SIX HUNDRED plain, practical, instructive 
articles will be given every year. 
The Editors and Contributors are all practical, 
WORKING MEN. 
The teachings of the Agriculturist are confined to no 
State or Territory, but are adapted to the wants of all sec¬ 
tions of the country—it is, as its name indicates, truly 
American in its character. 
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the English, and contains all of its reading matter, and 
its numerous illustrative engravings. 
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ORANGE JUDD, 
No. 189 Water st, New-York. 
