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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents for April 1863. 
Advertisers—Special Request to.104 
Analysis of Soils and Plants.114 
Apples—What kind to Plant.115 
Bees—Apiary in April.101 
Beets—Large for Stock or Sugar.115 
Boys and Girls’ Columns—Editor with his Young Read¬ 
ers—Flying Foxes—Blue Birds — Confiding Birds ; 
Pleasing Incident—A Mysterious Black Cat—Boys 
and Girls’ Garden—Problems...3 Illustrations.. 120-21 
Buying—A Good Time for.104 
Clocks—Cleaning . 117 
Cloves and Allspice. Illustrated.. .117 
Coffee Substitute.118 
Cooking Hints—Railroad Cake—Soda Biscuit—Apple 
Pudding—Corn Bread Coffee—Economical Wheat 
Bread—Potato Yeast—Boiled Wheat—To Boil Eggsll9 
Corn Marker—Improvements on.112 
Crops—Reports on State of .104 
Dog Question—Both Sides of.110 
Ergot or Spurred Rye . Illustrated.. 105 
■Exhibition—Strawberry—$50 in Premiums. ..101 
Farm Work for April. 97 
Flax Culture—Notes on..Ill. Illustrated. AW 
Flower Garden and Lawn in April.108 
Flowers—Perennials—Good Selection.117 
Fruit Garden in April. 100 
Fruits Bottled—Success in Keeping..119 
Fruits—Small—Good Varieties.101 
Garden—Kitchen in April. 99 
Grape Trellises. Illustrated. .116 
Grape Vines—Propagation by Grafting-3 Illustr.. .116 
Grass Lands—Seeding.106 
Green and Hot-Houses in April.101 
Harness—Care of.Ill 
Healing Association Humbug.119 
Horses—Lampas in.110 
Humbugs—Notes on a Few.104 
Insects—Are Earthworms Injurious ?. 113 
Insects—Tobacco Worm.3 Illustrations. .108 
Lantern Blinks XXXIII.—A Bachelor Farmer.Ill 
Letter from a Housekeeper.118 
Lime—Notes on Using.107 
Lincll Pin Extractor. Illustrated.. 105 
Losses Turned to Profit. .114 
Manure—How to Stop a Leak.112 
Market Fairs . .106 
Market Reports.121 
Orchard and Nursery in April. 98 
Peaches—Treatment for the Yellows.115 
Pears—Late Profitable.116 
Peas—Cultivating Early.115 
Plowing—Importance of Good. illustrated. .112 
Plum Knot—'Observations on.4 Illustrations .. 113 
Premium List—Changes in.104 
Premiums—Good Grape Vine.104 
Potatoes—What they are.. Illustrated. AM 
Poultry—Profits of Hens.Ill 
Rats—Relief Wanted.119 
Roller—Field ; Home-made. Illustrated. AIM 
Seed Distribution—Special Notice.104 
Shoeing a Family—Western Life.118 
Sowing Early—Objections to.115 
Stockings—Strengthening Woolen. 114 
Strawberries—Cultivating with Grapes.116 
Suggestions and Notes for Aeeel. .. Illustrated. .108 
Sunday School Question Book—New Edition.121 
Sweet Potato Culture. 114 
Tobacco Book—Prize .104 
Tobacco Culture—Prize Essay. Illustrated 108 
Tomatoes—Starting Early.114 
Wisconsin Farming—Notes on...106 
index to “basket,” or shorter articles. 
The following Premiums will he continued through 
the month of April. See N. 15. below, and page 104. 
GOOD GRAPES 
FOE 
EVERYBODY. 
Here is a Special Offer that will interest 
a very large number of our readers. 
During the past year we have had grown and selected a 
choice stock of vines of the best two grapes for general 
culture now known, viz.: the Delaware and Concord .—Our 
successful experience in sending out 40,000 Strawberry 
plants by mail, ail over the country, and without a dozen 
cases of failure, has demonstrated that with the same 
care in putting up and mailing, we can send grape vines 
in the same manner. AVe therefore offer to send these 
vines as premiums to all who will forward subscribers to 
the American Agriculturist.. (See conditions below'.) 
We believe almost every one can find two or more 
neighbors or others, who will subscribe for the paper 
if its merits and cheapness are properly brought to 
their notice by some one who lias read the paper and can 
speak from experience of its value. It is now the cheap¬ 
est journal in the country—with its many carefully pre¬ 
pared articles for the Farm, Garden, Household, and the 
Young People. Though constantly making improvements 
—and though printing paper and other expenses are near¬ 
ly doubled—we keep it at the old price of $1 a year. (The 
purchase of Hrge stock of paper in advance, and the 
great increase in subscriptions enable us to do this.)- 
The vines we offer, are not only good ones, but they are 
of the best two sorts for general culture, viz.: the 
Delaware and. Concord.. 
The Delaware is universally conceded to be the 
best flavored grape, and taking into account all its good 
qualities, it is placed highest on the list in many parts of 
the country. The scarcity and high price of the vines 
have hitherto prevented their general diffusion, (Less 
than three years ago we fiaid $3 each for our first stock 
of vines, and very small ones at that.) 
The Concord is a very early grape, adapting it to 
cultivation much further north than the Isabella and 
most others. It is exceedingly productive and vigorous, 
and thrives even under neglect. It has been thoroughly 
tested, East and West, and though some think it not equal 
in flavor to the Delaware, it is pronounced very good by 
Agricultural Bureau.lnijGrass.SeedingBare Spotsl02 
Apple Pomace for Feed. 102[Grass, Specimen Named.102 
Apple, Sweet and Sour.. 102iIIedges—Willow.103 
Apples from Sprouts..,. 102]Hungarian Grass. 102 
Apples in So. Illinois... 102|Milkweed.103 
Apples—Strawberry.102|Nectarines.103 
Apples,Stocks for Dwarfsl02] Orchard—Treatment of..l03 
Ashes—Coal.I02iOsage Orange Seed . 103 
Beans, Lima.103|Peach Trees, Ashes for.102 
Bees—Italian.102|Pear Stocks .103 
Beet—Large .102jPersimmons.103 
Books—Prices of.128 Plant Named.103 
Bouquet—Fine.lOSlPotatoes—Garnet Chili.. 102 
Butter and Cheese in Vt.l03|Poultry Disease.102 
Catalogues, Nursery-103iRabbils in Orchards.103 
Cherries for Iowa.103|Radish, Black Spanish. .103 
Coon Hunting, Good_102lSeed, Quantity per Acre. 102 
Corn—Binders for.102 Seeds, Notes on New_103 
Corn, Giving good Start 102|Sheep, Blind Staggers. .102 
Corn, Protect from Birdsl02|Sheep, Foot Rot Remedyl02 
Cotton in Illinois.102|Sheep, Grub in the Head.102 
Crop for Drained Land. .102|Sheep, Poisoned.102 
Cucumber Seeds, Saving. 103 Shrill), Named. 103 
Drill—Seed—English.. 102|Soot in the Garden.103 
Exhibition, Intel nationallOSISorghum Seed .103 
Exhibitions in Prospect..104]Sugar, Beet in Illinois.. .102 
Flax Seed. .102|Sweet Potatoes, Keepingl03 
Grafting Wax.103]The Weather.lot 
Grain—Average Yield... I02|Trees from Cuttings_102 
Grape—Creveling.103 Tuberoses.103 
Grape Cuttings .103|Turriips, Weightof.103 
Grape Vines—Bleeding..103|Vineland Lands.. 101 
Grape Vines, Inarching. 103 Wine Plant—English_ 101 
Grapes, Keeping.103|Willow— White.103 
Hoolcs Not Advanced. —By reference to 
the list on page 127, it will be seen that the prices remain 
the same for April as for March, with Iwo or three ex¬ 
ceptions. Several are struck out because no longer is¬ 
sued, and some additions are made. This list is good 
only for the month in which it appears, as during the 
scarcity of paper publishers are continually advancing 
prices, and suspending publication of many books. 
all. For general, careless culture, under all circum¬ 
stances, we place the Concord first on the list. Most 
olhers put the Delaware far before it. (See report of the 
Fruit Growers’ Meeting, on pages 82-3 last month.) 
Our advice therefore is, that all who can do so, should 
get one or more vines of each variety, and afterward 
multiply the kind that proves by experience to be best 
suited to their individual locations, soils and preferences. 
AVe offer to send these Grape Vines on the following 
CONDITIONS:—On and after March 1st, 
(not before), to those sending 1 Subscribers 
to the American Agriculturist for Volume 
XXII..41863) at One Dollar each, we will 
forward, securely packed and post-paid: 
For Two Subscribers at $1 each, 1 Viue. 
For Five Subscribers at SI each, 3 Amines. 
For Fight Subscribers at $1 each, 5 Vines. 
For Xen Subscribers at $1 each, lO Vines. 
And for over ten subscribers, one vine for each 
name. We specially request that the names of any 
chib for the vines be all sent at the same time. 
Those sending for premium vines can make 
their own choice: if for one vine, which kind; if for 
two or more, what number of each, and give in full the 
Post Office address to which they are to be sent. 
N. IS. —1. The above premiums are only for subscribers 
sent in on or after March 1st, and will only continue open 
so long as our supply lasts. Probably however the 
supply will hold out through the month of April, and 
perhaps as long into May as it will do to mail the vines. 
2. These premiums are special ; no other premiums o. 
any kind will be paid on names sent for these vines. 
3. The mailing of the vines will commence Marcli 27th, 
and continue until May 1st, or later, according to the to* 
caiity to wiiich they are sent. To all who apply early 
enough, a Circular Letter will be sent out about a week 
ill advance, stating the time the plants will be mailed 
to them. The Circular will also give directions for the 
treatment of the vines, with hints on culture, etc. The 
plants going furthest South, will of course be sent 
first, and those furthest North tile latest; but every ap¬ 
plication will be entered in order, as soon as it comes (o 
hand, so that no one will be unsupplied, who applies be¬ 
fore the entire stock of vines is exhausted. 
It will of course be a pleasure, as well as for our in¬ 
terest in the future, to have every vine a good one, put 
up carefully and in the best manner, and to have it re¬ 
ceive such care and attention as to make it give entire 
satisfaction. As slated above, we have within a year 
past mailed 40,000 strawberry plants, and have not 
heard of half a dozen cases of failure or dissatisfaction. 
We hope for equally good success with the Grape Vines. 
BSr Special to Subscribers in Canada, 
and on the Pacific Coast.— There will be con¬ 
siderable risk in sending vines to the Pacific Coast after 
April 1st. The practice of some of the Postmasters in 
the Canadas and other British Provinces, of charging 20 
cents an ounce, after the United States postage is pre¬ 
paid, will prohibit sending ihese vines there, except when 
they can be sent to a United States Post-Office near the 
Line, or be sent by express. AVhen eight or more are sent 
together, they can frequently go by express. AVe do not 
advise planting the Delaware in New-Brunswick, Nova 
Scotia, Lower Canada, or in Upper Canada, except south 
of .Lake Ontario. The Concord will often thrive further 
North; and in favorable locations, the Delaware also. 
Supplying Lost Numbers of tlio 
Agriculturist. —To several inquirers. —When we 
have mailed the papers carefully and correctly as we al¬ 
ways strive to do, our legal responsibility ceases. But 
our custom is to send a duplicate copy where the first 
has been lost by mail, or has been injured by using it as 
a specimen in securing subscribers—not when injured by 
lending to those who never subscribe. When specially 
desired, a specimen copy is supplied for canvassing. Pa¬ 
per is too costly to send out specimen copies at random. 
Wilh the aboVe exceptions, 10 cents is charged for extra 
copies, of the current or past volumes.—We can not send 
numbers or volumes prior to volume 16, (1857). . 
Back Volumes & Numbers For Sale. 
AVe have complete sets of Vols. 16,17,18,19, 20, and 21, both 
unbound, and bound in neat covers wilh gilt lettered hacks. 
PRICES AT THE OFFICE. 
Volumes 16,17,18,19, 20, and 21, unbound .$1,00 each. 
Volumes 16,17, 18,19, 20, and 21, bound .$1.50 each. 
PRICES AVHEN SENT POST-PAID BY MAIL. 
(They can not go unpaid.) 
Volumes 16,17,18,19, 20, or 21, unbound .$1.12 each. 
Volumes 16,17,18,19, 20, or 21, bound .$2.00 each. 
Binding.— Sets of numbers sent to the oflico will lie 
bound up neatly (in our regular style of binding the Agricul¬ 
turist) for 50 cents a volume. 
Snuruan Agriculturist. 
For tlie Farm, Garden, and Household. 
A thorough— o oing, RELIABLE, and PRACTICE [. 
Journal, devoted to tlie different departments of SOI I. 
CULTURE—such as growing fielo CROPS ; orchard 
and GAnnEN FRUITS; garden VEGETABLES and 
FLOAVEHS; trees, plants, and flowers for the 
LAAVNorYARD; care of DOMESTIC ANIMALS, 
etc., and to HOUSEHOLD LABORS, wilh an interesting, 
instructive department for CHILDREN and A T OUTH. 
The Editors are all practical WORKING MEN. 
The teachings of Die Agriculturist ore confined to iin 
State or Territory, but are adapted to all sections of the 
country—it is Jot the whole American Continent. 
A German edition is published, of the same size 
and price as the English, and containing all of its reading 
matter, and its numerous illustrative engravings. 
TERMS-INVARIABLA' IN ADVANCE, 
(For either the English or German Edition.) 
One copy, one year.,.$1 00 
Six copies, one year. 5 00 
Ten or more copies one year. 80 cents each. 
J^F'Add to the above rates: Postage to Canada, 6 cems; 
to England and France, 24 cents ; to Germany, 36 cents. 
Postage anywhere in the United States and Territories 
must be paid by the subscriber, and is only six cents o 
year, if paid in advance at the office where it is received. 
All business and other communications should be ad¬ 
dressed to tlie Editor and Proprietor, 
ORANGE JUDD, 41 Park-Row, NewYork City. 
