Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man .— Washington. 
VOL. X 
NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1851. 
NO. I 
A. B. Allen & R. L. Allen, Editors. 
C. M. Saxton & E. Blanchard. Publishers. 
Solon Robinson, Assistant Editor. 
THE 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
AND 
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CONTENTS OR JANUARY NUMBER. 
Review of Professor Johnston’s Notes on American Agri- ) 
culture. ^ 
Interchange of Visits among Farmers. 
Bad Farming. 
Economy in Human Food; A Fact in Deep Plowing.. .. 
Raising Geese; Potato Rot; Harvesting Turnips. 
Jersey Farming; To Cure Stings and Bites; Imported/ 
Berkshire Pigs; Plaster upon Clover. \ 
Cure for a Foundered Horse; New Plan of Growing Cel¬ 
ery ; Watering Crops ; Economy for Using Mules. 
N. Williams... 
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Conversation about Delaware ; Ice Preservers; Price of ) 
Peachesin London.£ 
Steam Plowing. 
Letter from Virginia. 
String Halt—Is there any remedy ? ; Cheap Blacking for ) 
Harnesses.*.^ 
Salt for Cattle and Sheep; Fanners’ Clubs. 
A Northern Country House ; Bean Straw_ » . 
West-Highland Cattle; The Price of a Flower.. . 
Oats an Exhausting Crop ; Village Lectures, No. 3. 
The Great Poultry Show at Boston, Solon Robinson .... 
Review of the November and December numbers of the ) 
Agriculturist, Reviewer. \ 
Mouldy Beans; A Day in Westchester County, Solon ) 
Robinson.. .j 
Goose and Duck Pasture, Inquirer.. 
The European Quail. 
Small Farms; Stealing Fruit; Cold, or Catarrh iu Sheep : ) 
Connecticut Tobacco. . 
Ladies’ Department : Fancy Buiscuits; Coloring Green ) 
Tea; Alum Whey; Preserving Wild Fowl; Almond > 
Flavor for Pastry, & eg Almond Paste; To Make ) 
Blanc; A Valuable Cement for Household Use ; Egg ) 60 
Biscuits; To Remove Grease Spots from Furniture, > 
Wood, or Marble.$ 
Foreign Agricultural News. gg 
Editors’Table... 
Review of the Markets. . 33 
