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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Contents for August, 1863. 
LAST MONTH 
Paying tlie Strawberry Premium. 
Animals— Blooded Stock versus Native. 234 
Bags—Convenience of.246 
Battle-Field at Gettysburg—Editorial Letter.249 
Beef Tea.247 
Bees—Apiary in August. 226 
Boys and Girls’ Columns.—A Lesson from the Wheat 
Field—Coaxing out Whiskers—Sagacity of a King 
Bird—Boys and Girls’ Garden—He knows the Rest 
.—Puzzles and Problems—The BaLtle Field at Get¬ 
tysburg.19 Illustrations.. 248—49 
Bread- Aerated or Unfermented.247 
Butter Worker—Nonpareil. Illustrated. .245 
Children — Moral Education of.246 
Children—Suggestions about Naming.245 
Clothes Lines. 246 
Colleges—Agricultural. . ..238 
Cooking Hints, etc.—Green Tomato Pickle—Pickled 
Cabbage — To Pickle Ripe Cucumbers—Hotch Potch 
—Home-made Hard Soap.247 
Corn Raising in Illinois.235 
Crops — General Prospects.228 
Cucumbers—Economy in.243 
Currants and Gooseberries. ;..242 
Cuttings— How to Make. Illustrated.. 244 
Drouth — Lessons of. 235 
Exhibition—International—Preparations for.231 
Exhibition Tables at Agriculturist Office.231 
Exhibitions—Agricultural, State and County in 1803..234 
Farm Work for August.,.225 
Flax Brake —Mallory & Sanford’s.232 
Floral Zodiacs.243 
Flower Garden and Lawn in August.227 
Flowering Trees, and Bushes....243 
Flowers—Pillar Fuchsias.243 
Flowers — Perennial Phloxes..243 
Fruit Bottles—Sealing with Putty.247 
Fruit Garden in August.227 
Garden—Kitchen, in August.225 
Grape Cuttings — Experience with.243 
Grape Trellis — Fuller’s, Plan.2 Illustrations ..244 
Grape Vines—Renewing Old.242 
Green and Hot Houses in August.227 
Green House—Substitute for.243 
Humbugs A Few More.238 
Implements—Agricultural and the War.233 
Insects — Another Enemy to the Fruit Grower., .III. .242 
Insects—Coal Oil for Bed Bugs.246 
Insects — Notes on Scale Louse and CutWorm.236 
Japanese Agriculture—Instructive Notes...218 
Manure — How About the Compost Heap ?.235 
Manure — Use of Fish.235 
Manuring—Proper Depth for.-.234 
Market Review, Weather Notes, etc. , .250 
Milk Rack—New Improved. Illustrated. .245 
Money—How to Invest.... .232 
Muck or Peat—Digging.234 
Nubilily —True .23o 
Oils— Value of Illuminating.247 
Orchard and Nursery in August.225 
Plants in Sleeping Rooms.'..247 
Postage — New Mail Law... .232 
Potato Digger—Conover’s Patent....2 Illustrations ..233 
Poultry — Chicken Pox.236 
Poultry House—Cheap.2 Illustrations. .236 
Prices—What of the Future?.232 
Pumpkin Exhibition at Agriculturist Office.228 
Rats Driven Away.245 
Shrubs—Azaleas, Rhododendrons and Kalmias.243 
Sick Room—Hints for.247 
Strawberry Experience.242 
Strawberries The New and Wonderful Seedling 
attlie Agriculturist Show.3 Illustrations ..240 
Strawberries—Two Bushels for Every-Family.241 
Suggestions and Notes for August. Illustrated. .225 
Sweet Potato Vines for Cattle.239 
Tobacco Crop—Statistics.239 
Wheat Show — Great International.236 
Weeds — Talks About. .Ill..2 Illustrations.. 237 
Wool Importation — Hint to Sheep Growers.234 
Wool in Pennsylvania.234 
INDEX TO “BASKET,” OR SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Agriculturist Premium.228|Paint, Gas Tar.231 
Ants, Preventive.23I|Paint, Zinc.230 
Blackberries.23IIPlants Named.228 
Book on Trees.228 Plants, Propagation.228 
Borers, Remedy.230|Poor Land, Renovating.229 
Cabbage Flies.2291 Quince Stocks.231 
Chaff for Feed.230|Rhubarb, Cultivation_229 
Corn for Sheep.229|Saracennia.228 
Cows, Kicking.230|Shades, Ground Glass...231 
Cows. Salting.231 Sheep Sale.228-229 
Curculio.23l|Smut, Prevention.230 
Draining Uneven Land.229jSnakes Useful.231 
Editorial Note.228 Soils, Changing.,229 
Eggs, Milky .230iSc|uash Seeds.-..228 
Eggs, Testing.2301 Strawberries.229 
Flowers, Wax.230|Slrawberry Question... .228 
Food, Cooking.230 Strawberry Seeds.228 
Fruit Book*.22SlStriped Bugs.229 
Fruit-Bottles, Cleaning. .2311 Sugar in Illinois. .230 
Fruit-Boxes, Cheap_229ISwiU Tubs, Cover.230 
Gardening Book. 224 Tomatoes, Ripening .. 230 
Gift Enterprise.228lTrees, Age of.229 
Gladiolus Bulbs. 228|Trees, Ailanthus.229 
Gooseberry Worm.231 Trees, Bearing Year_230 
Gophers . 229!Trees for Transplanting.230 
Grape Vines.231[Trees, Pruning Young. .229 
Hay Caps ..229lTrees, Raising Forest ..229 
Hay. Weight of.229|Trees, Splitting.230 
I[einp for Caterpillars.. .23llTritoma, Hardiness.230 
liens, Greasing.231|Turnips witli Corn.229 
Horses Wanted.2311 Warts on Horses.237 
Journal, Mothers'. ... . 2301 Water Courses.229 
Larkspurs, Annual.229 Water, Impure.229 
Lice on Stock -.2291 Weed Seeds, Destroying230 
Magazine, Ladies*.230iWheat, Depth for.229 
Manure, Ashes.23o Wheat in Indiana.231 
Manure, Potato Vines.. .231)1 Wheat Seed. ....331 
Maple Seeds. 22BjWool-Growers’ Assoc’n.228 
Millet for Sheep.2291 Wool Lawsuit.229 1 
. OF THE SPECIAL 
Barometer Premium* 
Our contract with Mr. Wilder, for supplying the 
“ Woodruff Barometer” at ■premium rates, expires Aug. 31, 
and every one who can, should secure this extraordinarily 
liberal premium the present month. For general use it 
is the best and cheapest mercurial barometer to be ob¬ 
tained, even at the regular prices, while our offer makes 
it cost next to nothing. A person sending in 20 names at 
$1 each, would get the $12 barometer cheaply, even if lie 
actually gave away to his friends and neighbors twelve 
of the copies subscribed for. But this need not be neces¬ 
sary. A little effort will obtain the full 20 persons, who 
would find the dollar invested in the paper a very good 
outlay. (Every one of them will come in for a share 
in the distribution of the New Strawberry Plant, page 
240, next year, by adding the 5 cents for postage and 
packing material.) It only needs some one to exhibit the 
paper to them, and show its value, to induce many to 
subscribe; the barometer is offered as payment for their 
time to those who take the trouble to thus show the paper. 
Its Value.—A good barometer is not only an interest¬ 
ing instrument, but it is also a very useful one in every 
house. The interest on $8 or $12, is only 50 cents to 
$1 a year, and there are many times when it will re¬ 
pay this cost. After a little experience in observing a 
barometer, one can judge with a good deal of certain¬ 
ty, upon the land as well as upon the sea, with regard 
to the prospective weather. A sudden large fall of the 
mercury indicates a short, violent storm. A slow, steady 
sinking of the mercury, continuing through a day or two, 
indicates the approach ot a long storm, even though the 
skies may then be clear. On the contrary, no matter 
how threatening the skies may appear, if the mercury 
does not fall, we may confidently look for the absence 
of storms. Ollier general rules, and exceptions, ac- 
strument aids materia’lly in 
deciding when to cut grass, 
grain, etc., and when to 
gather or leave them expos¬ 
ed in the field ; when to un¬ 
dertake this or that work ; 
how to dress for a day’s 
journey,' and in most oilier 
cases where it is desirable 
to decide upon the probable 
weather just ahead. Mr. 
Woodruff’s newly invented 
mercury cup, the improved 
mode of packing in double 
boxes for carriage, and the 
low price of a good, reliable 
instrument, place these ba¬ 
rometers first. They are 
carefully and neatly made, 
and are even ornamental. 
The two instruments shown 
in the engraving, are about 
3 feet in length, and cost $8 
and $12, (he main difference 
being in the casing, which 
is more ornamental in fig. 2 
($12), and this is the prefer¬ 
able instrument, Both have 
thermometer and vernier. 
Mr. Wilder, the manufac¬ 
turer, guarantees the safe 
carriage of each instrument 
we order sent direct by him 
as premiums. The terms 
on which we offer them are 
very liberal, and can not be 
Fig. I. Fig. 2. continued beyond Aug. 31st. 
The $8 form {fig. 1) we present to any person 
sending us this month 14 subscribers at $1 a year. 
The $12 form (fig. 2) we present to any person 
sending this month 20 subscribers , at $1 a year. 
N. 15.—Subscriptions for the above premiums are to 
date Jan. 1st, or July 1st, 1803.—Back numbers supplied. 
Special Notice to tlio.se entitled to Straw¬ 
berry Plants. —During the last of August and early 
part of September, we shall send out the Strawberry 
Plants offered as premiums during the past few months. 
Those entitled to them will please notify us by letter 
which of the kinds offered below they may desire. After 
watching the results this year, we find nothing superior 
foi general culture to the Triomphe de Gand. There are 
others which will perhaps prove superior, but the plants 
can not yet be oblained in sufficient quantity. We shall 
therefore send the Triomphe de Gand where the Bartlett 
or Austin is not preferred. Those w ho have the Tri- 
omplie already, may choose either tile Barllelt or the Aus¬ 
tin. We are much pleased wilh the Bartlett, which lias 
borne freely, a large well formed berry. From a plot 1J£ 
rods wide, and 5 rods long, set only last season , we this 
year commenced picking a family supply June 12th : on 
June 14th, gathered a measured bushel ; and continued a 
daily picking, up to July 1st. All the berries we could 
spare were eagerly taken at our place by dealers, at 18 
cents per quart, for the unslemmed fruit. We do not 
place it before the Triomphe, though superior in some 
respects. It will make a good one for an assortment. 
The Austin has proved better than we anticipated. It 
is a large vigorous grower, very productive, and contin¬ 
ues bearing over a long season. We began picking on 
June 13th, and had from the same plot a fair picking 
on July 4th. The fruit is very large, which in part 
makes up for the want of high color, as a market berry. 
It is, however, better adapted fora home fruit than for 
marketing at a distance, as it is not firm enough to bear 
so severe hand ling as some others. VVe have reports of 
extraordinary crops and enormous market profits. Take 
it all in all, the Austin, though not the first, takes a pretty 
high rank, ami is worthy of a place in every home garden. 
Where premium plants are due for more than one sub¬ 
scriber, a part of the plants may be chosen from either 
two of the above three varieties. The premium offer 
closed July 31st, though we shall not be particular as to a 
few days in the limits of iime, as the distribution will not 
commence until the latter part of August, the lime de¬ 
pending upon the weather, and the localities to which 
the plants are to be sent. 
ESsicli V<jSm364es & Numbers For Sale. 
We have complete sets of Vols. 16,17,18,19, 20, and 21, both 
unbound, and bound in neat covers with gilt lettered backs. 
PItigES AT THE OFFICE. ’ 
Volumes 16,17,13,19, 20, and 21, unbound .....$1,00 each. 
Volumes 10,17,13,19, 20. and 21, bound .$1.50 each. 
PRICES WHEN SENT POST-PAID BY*MAIL. 
(They can not go unpaid.) 
Volumes 1G, 17,18,10, 20, or 21, unbound .-..$1.24 eacli. 
Volumes 1G, 17, IS, 19, 20, or 21, bound . \ . v $2.00 each. 
Binding.— Sets of numbers sent to the oflice will he 
hound up neatly (in our regular style of binding the Agricul¬ 
turist) for 50 cents a volume. 
Prepared Covers.— Covers for binding, neatly made, with 
title, etc., gilt upon the hack, ready for the insertion of the 
sheets hy any bookbinder, can be furnished for Vols. 12, to 21 
inclusive, at 25 cents per cover. Covers can not go by mail.* 
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A thorough—going, RELIABLE, and PRACTICAL. 
Journal, devoted to the different departments of SOIL 
CULTURE—such as growing field CROPS ; orchard 
and garden FRUITS; garden VEGETABLES ami 
FLOWERS; trees, plants, and flowers for the 
LAWN or YARD; care of DOMESTIC ANIMALS, 
etc., and to HOUSEHOLD LABORS, with an interesting, 
instructive department for CHILDREN and YOUTH. 
The Editors are all practical WORKING MEN. 
The teachings of the Agriculturist are confined to no 
State or Territory, but are adapted to all sections of the 
country — it. is for 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 also ils numerous illustrative engravings. 
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(For either the English or German Edition.) 
One copy, one year...$1 00 
Six copies, one year. 5 op 
Ten or more copies cfne year. SO cents each. 
p^Add to the above rates: Postage to Canada,12cents; 
to England and France, 24 cents ; to Germany, 36 cents. 
Postage anywhere in the United Slates and Territories 
must be paid by the subscriber, and is twelve cents a 
year, if paid in advance at the office where it is received. 
All business and other communications should be ad¬ 
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