Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man .— Washington. 
VOL. IX. NEW YORK, AUGUST, 1850. NO. VIII. 
A. B. Allen &. R. L. Allen, Editors. 
C. M. Saxton & E. Blanchard, Publishers. 
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CONTENTS OF AUGUST NUMBER. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
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PUBLISHED ON THE FIRST OF EVERY MONTH 
Capacity of Soils for Absorbing Fertilising Matter. 
Food for Calves ; Everything should be done systemati -) 
cally; A Disinfecting Agent.( 
Insects Useful to Agriculture. 
Horse Breeding in Russia. 
The Use of Chloroform During Castration of Horses.... 
BY 
G. M. SAXTON & E. BLANCHARD, 120 FULTON st. N. Y. 
JOSIAH TATUM, 50 NORTH FOURTH ST., PHILA . 
J. C. BUTTERS, 19 STATE ST., BOSTON. 
Proposed Remedy for Stealing Fruit, S. E.; The Rolling 1 
Stone Gathers no Moss ; Value of an Orchard ; The > 
Home of Taste..) 
To Measure the Height of Standing Trees, A Traveller; ) 
Gunpowder for Choked Cattle; Irrigation, No. 2- \ 
To Destroy Weeds in Walks ; Mr. Sheafe’s Sale of Short- } 
horns, A. B. Allen. \ 
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Remarks on Improved Farming Implements, L. Durand ; 1 
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Manures—The Food of Plants, No. 4, Levi Bartlett; ) 
Spaying Sows, Inquirer; Sore Necks of Oxen.... i 
Cultivation of Orchards, A Farmer ; The Scoville Iloe, ) 
M. W. Philips; Starch from Indian Corn.i 
Sale of Mr. Bates’ Shorthorns. 
Difference Between Selling Milk and Butter. 
Sebright Bantams; A Plow for Wet Meadows and ) 
Rooty Land.$ 
The Musk Duck,. 
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A Specimen of Agricultural Knowledge, S. R.; Remedy ) 
j for Diseased Swine, Shelden Esborn ; Cotton Batting \ 
! Review of the June Number of the Agriculturist, Re- ) 
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Shrubby Cinquefoil, T. S. Gold ; How much Pork will a t 
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Mr. Robinson’s Tom-, No. 20. 
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Rat’s Bane, Properly so Called—A Settler for the Mill- \ 
j ion; Packing Establishment of the Messrs. F'-azer S 
i To Country Gentlemen; Large Strawberries. 
i Ladies’ Department : Southern Recipe for Okra Soup,. 
M, ; Washing Made Easy; Corn Bread ; To Prepare f 
Bees’ Wax ; Sponge Cake; Sweet Bacon ; To Prevent ( 
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Charcoal in Cisterns; Cement for Alabaster; Sweet r 
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| Foreign Agricultural News.... 
Editors’ Table. 
I Review of the Markets. 
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