AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
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Contents for January, 1863. 
Agricultural Bureau—Its Work. 8 
Animals—Shelter, not Imprison.10 
Animals—Treatment of Wounds .10 
Asparagus Bed —Good Way to Make.13 
Bees — Apiary in January. 3 
Bean Poles—Branched.13 
Book. New—For Sunday School Teachers and Others.25 
Boots and Shoes—Warm Feet.21 
Children of Smart Parents—Why Hull?.21 
Children on the Floor.21 
Corn Culture in Egypt, Ill.15 
Corn Marker—An Iowa.15 
Dakota Potato or Ground Nut .15 
Doll worth $150..•.23 
Economy— German. 23 
Editor with his Young Readers ;—Boys and Girls’ Col¬ 
umns—A “Happy New-Year ’’—Sayings of Children 
—■' Its Cold ”—A Brave Boy and'a Narrow Escape— 
Boys and Girls Skating—How to Save Shoe Leather 
—Improvement on Sleighs—The Statesman and the 
Horse—Learned it too Late—Editor’s Notes—A Boy 
that will Never be a Man—Puzzles — To Sunday 
School Teachers and Olliers—The Two Caterpillars 
—Grammar out West—Barnum nearly Humbugged 
.......7 Illustrations.. 23 fi 
Exhibition Tables—List of Contributions... .28-9 
Farm Work for January. 1 
Flax Culture—Improved Brake. Illustrated. .12 
Flower Baskets—Hanging. Illustrated. .20 
Flower Garden and Lawn in January. 3 
Flower Gardens—Mixed.20 
Flowers—New Convolvulus . Illustrated ..20 
Flowers—Pansy Culture. 19 
Garden—Kitchen and Fruit in January.. .■ 3 
Gizzards—Teeth—Stomachs.22 
Gourds and Squashes at Agriculturist Exhibition.. Ill.. 16 
Green and Hot‘Hoiisesin January. . 3 
Handkerchiefs—Designs for Ornamenting Illustrated. .21 
Hillside Lands—Management of!..:.19 
Home—Fitting up of a. 19 
Hominy—How to Prepare........22 
Horses—Raising and Training Colts. 11 
Household—Sundry Hints for — Suggestion, Good- 
Cheap Brown Bread—Mince Pics without.Brandy 
—Potato Custard—Crumpets — Opening Cemented 
Fruit Bottles—Apple Butter — Brandy in Cooking— 
Cleaning Pigs’ Feet..-23 
Humbug Doctors .—22 
Implements—Evans’ Rotary Digger.13 
Inventions—Agricultural in 1861.12 
January—Suggestions on the Work of the Month. .III.. 1 
Lawsuit—C.I1U Ol. .Leu., a 
Loudon—Horticultural Hints from.18 
Manure—Profit of Sheltering.14 
Map of Eastern Virginia.28 
Market Review, Weather, Notes, etc. 27 
Meadows—Inoculating.13 
Milking Machine—Colvin's. II 
Orchard and Nursery in January . 2 
Pork—Direction for Mess. 3 
Potatoes—Sweet, in Ireland..15 
Poultry—Feeding Turkeys in Winter.11 
Premiums offered for 1863.26 
Quack Doctors—Questions for.,.11 
Rhubarb—Large from Seed. 21 
Schools—Shall Agriculture be Taught?.14 
Seed—Changing Locality..15 
Seed Distribution for 1S63—Remarks . . 8 
Seeds—List for Free Distribution. 4 
Seeds—Notes on those Distributed. 5 
Sheep—Cure for Foot Rot.10 
Teams—Turning to Right or Left.1.3 
Tree-Planling Societies. 18 
Trees—A Farmer on Nature.18 
Trees—Compliment from John Bull.19 
Trees—Curious.18 
Trees—Pears—Select List of 25 Varieties.17 
Trees—Scalding Peach Trees. 17 
Trees—Varieties of Horse Chestnut.17 
Wheat—Cooking Unground.23 
Worms—Habits of the Earth Worn). Illustrated. .17 
INDEX TO “BASKET,” OB SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Advertisers, To.5[Maps, No more Premium.5 
Agriculturist Wanted. 5 Milkweed—California. ..7 
Agr. College Penn.8lNails called “Penny”...8 
Apples—Hardy in Minn . .6iPaper—Materials for. 7 
Barley — Weight of Bushel C| Parasitic Plants.7 
Beans—Case-Knife, Lima 7 1 Pears—Vicars Improving..6 
Bean — Prolific.. .6|Peppermint—Cultivation. 7 
Beef Tea—Solidified...7 Pomological Congress of 
Beet—Large. .7! Nations.6 
Book on Skeletonizing-8! Postmasters, Honest.5 
Books, Buy Now.5'Potatoes—Chili.7 
Butter—Keeping .7iPotatoes — Sweet at the 
Carrots — Steamed forCows7| North.6 
Coffee, Sweet Potaloes for.7|Poultry — Age of .6 
Cotton — Specimens of Nor- 1 Poultry — Amount of Grain6 
them .6 Poultry—Changing Color. .6 
Cotton—Tree—Seed.6 Poultry—Meat for Hens ..6 
Crocus—Double.7lPoullry — Oyster Shells for.6 
Currants — Good.6 Poultry Profitable .6 
Euonymus — Propagating. .71 Premiums—Last call.5 
Flowers from Vermont_6|Quinces — Ignoramus’.6 
Fragrant Fancy.71Salt Preserves Timber_6 
Fruit Grower’s Magazine. .6|Sawdust in Stables .7 
Fruit Growers’ Meeting. ..5|Sheep — Small Pox in .6 
Fruit Talk — Ancient. .filSilk in Ohio.6 
Garden Roller— IIowMade."(Sorgho—Egyptian .6 
Garden—To enjoy.7|Sorghum Seed..7 
Ginger Root.7|Swamp Land—Flowing... 7 
Grafting Apricots on Plums6|Sweet Potato Coffee.7 
Grape Vines. Prune now. fi;“Topping” Produce.7 
Grapes—GraftingDelawarefi’Trees — Brush for Scraping.8 
Hedges, Town.5jTrees, Propagating.7 
Jute — American.,7iTreesvs. Flowers . 7 
“ Live for Ever”.7 Turkey—Thanksgiving Sa- 
Manure—Cesspool Slops..61 crificed .6 
Manure—No use for. 7)Webb, Jonas—Death of...5 
Paper Has Gone Up. 
Yes, it has ! Last Spring such paper as we use was 
urged upon us at $9.75 per ream (of large double sheets,) 
and with any length of credit we might desire. Our 
most recent purchase was at $23.88 per ream, for the same 
or similar paper—cash down ! Paper has gone up 1 
Many Journals Have Gone Up. 
A large number of tha newspapers of the country have 
put up their subscription rates. This has been made 
necessary by the increased cost of paper, the taxes upon 
advertisements, and by the advance in tilings generally. 
Some Have Gone Down, 
A.considerable number of papers in different, parts of 
the country have been obliged to stop or to continue at 
a loss. The list of suspensions counts by hundreds al¬ 
ready, and includes several Agricultural Journals. 
We Go Heither Down Uor Up. 
The Agriculturist is too strong to go down, and it will 
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past, will be’continued for 1863, viz: $1 a year ; clubs 
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One Reason Why. 
Our aim has been, and is, to supply a first class journal, 
reliable and useful in its character, at a price within the 
reach of the masses of the people. To advance the price 
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Before paper rose very high, we were fortunate 
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that will not affect the intrinsic value of the paper, we 
expect to go squarely through the year—or at least with¬ 
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