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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Jack—The 2.10 Wells—Digging in Sand and Quick-sand (4) 90. Wall of Heavy Stones 327 Watering and Feeding Trough.. .139 Weeding Hook—A (2)..225 Whetstone Holder and Guard (2) 43 Whiffle tree Boot 219 Whiflletrees—Perfectly Safe (2)..291 Work Stand (2)..227 Wild Boar and Yorkshire Hog (2)177Wild Turkeys 349 Y Yak of Thibet, The 03 AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST FOR TIIE Farm, Grarclexi, axLcL Household.. •AGRICULTURE IS THE MOST HEALTHFUL, MOST USEFUL, AN1> MOST NOBLE EMPLOYMENT OF MAN.-W* orange judd & co.,) ESTABLISHED IN 1842. r $i.so per annum, in advance. PUBLISHERS AND FB.0PP.IET0B.S. ( -J SINGLE NUMBER, 15 CENTS. Office, 245 BROADWAY. ) Published also In German at $1.50 a Year. Ucopiesfm-$5 ; lOfor $12; 20ornwe, fcleach. Entered according to Act of Congress In December, 1S6T, by Orange Judd & Co., in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York. VOLUME XXVII.—No. 1. NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1868. NEW SERIES—No. 252.
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THE ARTISTS (OOPTRIQHT SECVKKT).) PETS .—Fkom a Painting by Sin Edwin Lanpsef.r — Draw and Engraved for the American Aat This successful representation on wood ofone of Landseers famous pictures, will givepleasure to many of our readers. Even thosewho constitutionally hate dogs, will admire thefaithful portrayal of the animals. Few disputewith Landseer the palm, which all Englandawards to him, as the first living animal painter.We have in the picture the artists tahle, withpencils and crayons, stump, and bit of bread forerasures, (which last has attracted that frequentdenizen of artists studios, a mouse,) the silken-haired poodle, and the gigantic mastiff. Asidefrom the beauty of the picture, and its interest as exhibiting two of this artists own dogs—it isinstructive, as showing also to what an astonish-ing degree a natural species of animals may varyunder the influence of food and surroundings.In horses we see a great variety in a singlespecies, varying in size from the great

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