Identifier: americanagricult27unse (find matches)
Title: American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household
Year: 1868 (1860s)
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Subjects: Agriculture--Periodicals
Publisher: New York: Orange Judd
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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erican Chromos. Our Chromos are close fac similes of art paintings, and whoever loves stood pictures for a moderate price shouldask tor them at the pi. lure dealers, or seud for our descrip-tive Catalogue, which is mailed free. „,,-, Art Publishers. New and Rare Vegetables. igetables a specialty. Catalogue M APLE SUOAR ! fOOKSEVAP- AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST Farm, GrstrcLen, and Household. AGRICULTURE IS TnE MOST HEALTHFUL, MOST USEFUL, AND MOST NOBLE EMPLOYMENT OF MAN.-Wa»«i«oio». ESTABLISHED IN 1842, Published also in German at $1.50 a War, ORA1VGE JUDD & CO.,) PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. > Office, 245 BROADWAY. ) Entered according to Act of Congress in December, 1SG7, by Orange Judo & Co., in the Clerks Office of tbe District Court of the United States for tbe Southern District of New-York. ( $1.50 PEE ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.•) SINGLE NUMBER, 15 CENTS. ( 4 Copies for $5; 10 for $12; 20 or more, $leacb. VOLUME XXVII.—No. 2. NEW YORK, FEBRUARY, 1868. NEW SERIES—No. 253.
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A SOUTHERN The spirited and faithful engraving of asouthern mule team, with its black driver, andthe mud-burdened wheels of a winter road, pre-sents a scene familiar to many of our readers.How many hundreds of fine teams were sacri-ficed to wars necessities during the years 1861to 1865, not even the records in the quarter-masters offices will correctly show. But thewar fairly introduced the mule to northern agri-culturists, and now he is more than ever pop-ular with those who have steady hard teamingto do, where four or six mule teams can be con-veniently handled. Mules have greater endur- (COPVKIQHT SKCTTRBD.) MULE-TEAM.- Draion ami Engramafor the American Agriculturist. ever will be, a prominent feature of the agricul-ture of the Southern States. The negro driver anco than horses if put to hard labor. Theyare not so heavy as large horses, and on thisaccount not suitable for heavy city teaming,where two powerful horses must do the workof four lighter ones, principally on account ofth

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