Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most nolle employment of man .— Washington. 
VOL. X. NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER, 
1851. NO. IX. 
A. B. Allen & R. L. Allen, Editors. 
C. M. Saxton, Publisher ; 
Solon Robinson, Assistant Editor. 
CONTENTS OF SEFTEMBER NUMBER. 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
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Pork—Bacon—Ham, No. 6; Subsoil Plowing. 266 
Price and Weight of Fence wire; Application of Manures } 0 
—Concentration or Distribution.) ~ 
Draining Land Promotes Health; Poultry Experiments, \ O ro 
R. Linsley; The Use of Salt in Agriculture.. \ ~ c 
Reminiscences of California, No. 1, L. T. Talbot.... 2TC 
Gatling’s Premium Grain Drill; Poultry Raising, No. 6, T. ) 
B. Miner."...... \ ~ ~ 
Annual Show of the English Agricultural Society, B. P. ) 
Cultivation of Sainfoin...... 275 
Growing Rye ; Premium Fat Cattle.... 276 
Milking Cows, Lewis F. Allen. 277 
Rabbits for Market... 278 
A Letter From North Carolina About Abolitionism, John \ 
Robinson; Large Cow, W. II. Sotham; Pie Plant_‘ J 
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Rice Hullers and Polishers; Humbugs and Impositions \ wn 
of the Day, No. 1, Vermonter.i ~ 
Review of the July Number of the Agriculturist, Reviewer 281 
The Sweet and Sour Apple; The Heaviest Wheat Produe- \ 
es the Best Flour... \ 
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The Dairy Qualities of Shorthorn Cows. 284 
Horticultural Department : How to Lay Out a ) 
Kitchen Garden; Review ; Strawberries ; Preparation > 286 
of Soil for Flowers; Guano water.) 
Ladies’ Department : Pleasures of the Table—Stewed Pea 1 
Shells; Simplicity of Dress; Blackberry Syrup ; A $ nnq 
Very Good Plain Soda Cake ; To Make Preserves Keep ; j 
Mildew in Books.....» 
Foreign Agricultural News... 291 
Editors’Table. 291 
Review of Markejt. 297 
