5. Do not allow your poultry to freeze by any means. For transporting to a distant market, pack in shallow boxes never containing over three hundred pounds each and in clean straw without chaff or dust, and in such a manner that no two fowls will touch each other. 6. Geese and ducks look better with the heads cut off. But all fowls having their heads removed must have the skin drawn down and tightly tied over the end of the neck bone. This will preserve them well and give a good appearance. To preserve fowls for a long time in a perfectly sweet condition for family use, fill them half full or more with pulverized charcoal, which will act as an absorbent and prevent every particle of taint. AGRICULTURAL PERIODICALS. The following list of Agricultural Periodicals embraces all that have come to our knowledge. In a subsequent edition we shall endeavor to render the list more complete, and give the special design of each, with the frequency of publication, form, price, editor's and publisher's names, etc. NAME OF PAPER. PLACE OF PUBLICATION. American Farmers' Magazine _New York City._ American Farmer _Baltimore, Md._ Alabama Planter _Mobile, Ala._ American Agriculturist _New York City._ Canadian Agriculturist _Toronto, C. W._ Cultivator _Albany, N. Y._ Cotton Planter _Montgomery, Ala._ Cultivator _Columbus, Ohio._ Cultivator _Boston, Mass._ California Farmer _San Francisco, Cal._ Country Gentleman _Albany, N. Y._ Farmer and Planter _Pendleton, S. C._ Granite Farmer _Manchester, N. H._ Genesee Farmer _Rochester, N. Y._ Horticulturist _Albany, N. Y._ Homestead _Hartford, Ct._ Journal of Agriculture _Chicago, Ill._ Maine Farmer _Augusta, Me._ Michigan Farmer _Detroit, Mich._ Magazine of Horticulture _Boston, Mass._ Massachusetts Ploughman _Boston, Mass._ New England Farmer _Boston, Mass._ New Jersey Farmer _Trenton, N. J._ North Carolina Planter _Raleigh, N. C._ Ohio Valley Farmer _Cincinnati, Ohio._ Ohio Farmer _Cleveland, Ohio._ Prairie Farmer _Chicago, Ill._ Rural New Yorker _Rochester, N. Y._ Rural Southerner _Ellicott's Mills, Md._ Rural American _Utica, N. Y._ Southern Planter _Richmond, Va._ Southern Cultivator _Augusta, Ga._ Southern Homestead _Nashville, Tenn._ Valley Farmer _St. Louis, Mo._ Vermont Stock Journal _Middlebury, Vt._ Wisconsin Farmer _Madison, Wisc._ Working Farmer _New York City._ INDEX. Acclimation; 9 Agricultural Periodicals, List of; 440 Almonds; 10 Animals, Rules for feeding; 178 Apples; 12 Apple-Tree Wood, Analysis of; 14 Apple-Worm, Remedy for; 22 Apricot; 50 Artichoke; 52 Ashes; 53 Asparagus; 54 Atmosphere, Important Auxiliary in the Growth of Plants; 278