Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man .— Washington. 
VOL. X. NEW 
YORK, JULY, 1851. 
NO. VII. 
A. B. Allen & R. L. Allen, Editors. 
C. M. Saxton, Publisher . 
THE 
CONTENTS OP JULY NUMBER. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
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Carrots and Parsnips—Substitutes for Potatoes as Field } on5 
Crops... ‘ 
Pork—Bacon—Ham, No. 4. 203 
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Meadow Lands in North Carolina, George Luther ; Utility ) on , 
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Steaming Potatoes; Poultry Raising, II, B. Rogers; To f on . 
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Shorthorn Bull Splendor; Cultivation of Flax. 206 
Poultry Raising, No. 5, T. B. Miner.. 20? 
Guano—How Used in Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, ) 
Solon : Cultivation of Rice in Ceylon ; Lemon Grass ; > 208 
The Use of the Field Roller in Cultivation ; Singular ) 
The Three-Share Plow; A Virginia Plantation, Solon Rob- ) on(1l 
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Horticultural Department: Preliminary Remarks;) 
Barkbound Trees; Cultivation of Fruit Trees; Bark > 2iS 
Lice on Trees.) 
i Ladies’ Department : The Future Wives of America;! 
Indian Loaf; Farmer’s Rice Pudding; To Make Cur- i qjq 
rant Jelly; Food of Chickens Previous to Weaning ; \ 
Pine Straw Braid.i 
Review of Professor Johnston’s Travels. 221 
The World’s Exhibition . 226 
i Foreign Agricultural News. 227 
| Editors’Table. 228 
! Review of the Market. 229 
