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
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onby mail or otherwise. PRnCIPAL WAREHOUSES s FAIRBANKS & CO.. 252 Broadway, New York.FAIRBANKS, BROTVN& CO., US Milk-st., Boston. Mass.FAIRBANKS, GKEENLEAF & CO., 22G & 821 Lake-street.(Chicago. 111.FAIRBANKS. MORSE & CO., 225 Walnut-st.. Cincinnati, O.FAIRBANKS & EWING, Masonic Hall, Philadelphia, Pa. AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST Farm, Grarden, a,nd Household. AGRICULTURE 18 THE MOST HEALTHFUL, MOST USEFUL, AN1> MOST NOBLE EMPLOYMENT OF MAN.-Washi»°tox. oraiwge jtjdd & co., ) ESTABLISHED IN 1842. ( $1-so PER ANN™. IN advance. publishers AND PROPRIETORS. ( .1 SINGLE NUMBEH, 15 CENTS. Office, 245 BROADWAY. ) Published also in German at $1.50 a Year. (4 Copiesfor $5 ; lOfor $12;20ormore, $leach Entered accordln to Act of Congress in May, 1S63, by Orange Judd k Co., in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York. VOLUME XXVII.—No. G. NEW YORK, JUNE, 1868. NEW SERIES—No. 257. ..n.lllluAl .•fffll ; 0
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THE C A T-B I R The Cat-bird receives its common name fromits call note, which closely resembles the mewingof a cat, and is used by both sexes. This is nota particularly agreeable sound, yet indicating,as it does, the fact that these beautiful birds areentirely at home in the thickets or shrubberywhence it proceeds, we like it. The cat-bird (COPYEIQHT SECURED.) JJ,—(GalcoscopUs Carolinwnsis)—Drawn and Engraved/or the American Agriculturist. seeks rather than shuns the abodes of men. Itsfood is chiefly seeds, berries, and insects, andthough it takes some of the fruit, its presence inour gardens and orchards is productive of greatgood. The song of the male is a soft, sweetmedley, not unlike the songs of the brown thrushand mocking-bird. It is a good mimic, also, and caged it becomes quite proficient in this way,and may be taught to repeat a whistled strainmuch as the mocking-bird will do. The alarmnote is an angry chatter. The nest is built inshrubs, and four or five bright green eg

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