AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
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Farm, Garden, and. Household. 
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in July, 1873, by Orange Judd & Co., at the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
VOLUME XXXII.—No. 8. 
NEW YORK, AUGUST, 1873. 
NEW SERIES—No. 319. 
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AT REST. —Drawn and Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
The common deer is one of the few animals I are rarely seen save by those who know how In autumn the velvet becomes hard and dry, 
that will remain near civilization in spite of I to hunt them. The engraving shows a young 
the huntsman. As the deer feed by night and l buck just in “ the velvet,” as the soft downy 
keep hidden and at rest during the day, they I skin is called that envelops the growing horn. 
and is no longer of any use; so the animal 
stands forth in the full glory of a new pair of 
antlers, which,however, he Will lose next winter; 
