Agriculture is the most healthy , the most useful, and the most noble employment of man .— Washington. 
VOL. BX._NEW YORK, APRIL, I860-_NO. IV. 
A. B. Allen & R. L. Allen, Editors. C. M. Saxton, Publisher, 121 Fulton Street. 
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CONTENTS OF APRIL NUMBER. 
Tue Traveller, No. 1, Solon Robinson.. 
Manu i Orchards... 
Summer Squash, or Cymling for Stock ; Juvenile Vagran- f 
cy and Crime—Their Remedy...J 
Salt Injurious to Poultry. 
New Mode of Ventilation; Qualities of Lime, and its Com-) 
parative Value for Agricultural Purposes.j 
To Raise Early York Cabbages; Combined Wire and ) 
Picket Fence.j 
Patent Wire Railing ; Removal of Slaughter Houses from 1 
Cities; The Potato Curculio, M. H. Morris.J 
Roads. 
Improved Shorthorns—Bate’s Stock, A. Stevens. 
Guano vs. Worn-out Land; The Best Rotation of Crops, ) 
No. 1, A. Beatty.J 
Valuable Breed of Fowls, Samuel Y. Clark; Mr. Robin- ) 
son’s Tour, No. 16....j 
American Wine, N. Longworth. 
Pure Dorking Fowls, Eben Wight. 
A Double House for a Corner Lot. 
Guano. 
The Farm of L. M. Steven3, Norwalk, Ct. *. 
Poultry Inquiries; New-York State Agricultural Society; J 
Bailey for Soiling.) 
Agricultural Geology, No. 2.. 
Review of February Number of the Agriculturist, Re- ^ 
viewer. \ 
Amount of Human Food Raised on an Acre.. 
Cultivation _of the Sweet Potato, John G. Chambers. 
Medicine for Horses, S; SuccessfuyUxperiment in Grow- ) 
ing the Osage Orange ; To Correspondents ; Indian or V 
Grand Millet.) 
The Forest Scenery of California, Wrn. R. Prince. 
Ladies’ Department : What is Dirt? Toasted Oysters; } 
Couve Troncuda; Portuguese Method of Bleaching j 
Linen; New Greenhouse Plant; Embrocation fori 
Wounds. ) 
Foreign Agricultural News. 
Editors’ Table... 
Review of the Markets.. 
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