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Contents 



AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING. 



Anti-Mildew Grain Protector 

 New Method of Fastening Cattle ... 

 Murray's Brick-making Machine 

 An Improvement in Cattle-Tying ... 

 Trial of Green's Mowing Machines ... 

 An Improved Bag-Holder 



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 181 



The Prize Engine at Cardiff C71 



Improvements in Breast-Strap for Horses 273 



The Prevention of Formation of Scale in Boilers ... 348 



Haltering Wild and Checking Vicious Horses ... 431 



Bread and Sugar Grinder, &c. 432 



THE GARDEN. 



Suggestions for the improvement of the Verbena 45 



Herbaceous and Alpine Plants 47,205,306 



Rotation of Crops in the Kitchen Garden 49 



Glass Houses — Construction and Ventilation ... 51 



New and Rare Plants 55, 136, 212, 458 



Pruning Shears 59 



M'Tntosh's Turf Verge Cutter 60 



The Pansy 133 



Wallflower 13S 



MountaVjIe Flower Pots 140 



The " Syreileon " 141 



Table and Stand for Flowers 141 



Drescheler's Fumigator 142 



Sweet Smelling Flowers 



A Ground Vinery and its Management 

 A Few Beautiful Shrubs for the Spring 

 Bud- Pruner and Fruit-Gatherer 



Some Flowering Begonias 



How they Grow Bulbs in Holland ... 



A Cheap Fumigator 



A Gardener's Stool 



Improved Grafting Tool 



Campanula Media Calycanthema ... 

 A California Lawn Sprinkler 

 The Construction of Fountains 



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ARBORICULTURE. 



Evergreens for Small Pleasure Gardens 

 Peach Trees Attacked with Mildew 



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 62 



Ornamental Trees for City and Suburban Planting 143 



THE VETERINARIAN. 



Garget in Cows 63 



Red Water in Cattle and Sheep ... ... ... 64 



Some of the Causes of Disease in Stock 66 



Scour in Sheep 146 



Diagnosis — Discrimination of Disease ... ... 148 



Supposed Case of Poisoning a Cow by Populus 



Balsamii ... ... ... ... ... ... 150 



The Prevention of the Cattle Plague 219 



Disease of the Intestines 220 



Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Australia 223 



Rabies and Hydrophobia 225 



Treatment of Foot-and-Mouth Disease 312 



Prevention of Abortion, &c., in Mares, Cows, and 



Ewes 379 



Horses' Feet 3^^ 



Horse-Shoeing : 3^3 



IncUnation, or Obliquity of the Horse's Foct ... 464 



Horses' Shoes 4^5 



The Sulphur Treatment for the Lung Disease in 



Cattle 467 



DAIRY AND POULTRY-YARD. 



The Curing of Cheese ... ... 68 



Facts and Hints about Poultry ... ... ... 69 



Rearing Turkeys ... ... ... 71 



Three Years of Poultry Keeping ... 151 



Poultry from a Commercial Point of View ... 226 



Impure Milk ; How Caused andits Injurious Effects 315 



The Comparative Profits of Butter and Cheese ... 317 



The Adulteration of Milk 

 The Condensation of Milk ... 

 Improvement in Cheese-making 



Poultry and Profit 



Butter Factories 



Butter Making in Cheese Factories 

 Feeding for Eggs, &c. 



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THE APIARIAN. 



Uniting Hives 



Experience with Bees ... 



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 73 



Pasturage of Bees 

 Transporting Bees 



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THE NATURALIST. 



Salmon and Trout Breeding ... 



A Monster Sturgeon ... 



Grouse Shooting and Pigeon Shooting 



The Friends and Foes of the Farmer 



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 156 

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 231 



American Black Bass 



Salmon Breeding at Invertrossachs . 

 The Parasitical Foes of the Farmer 

 Pond Fish 



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THE COUNTRY GENTLEWOMAN. 



Ferns for Drawing-room Decoration 

 Liquid Manure for House Plants ... 



My In-door British Fernery 



How Wax Flowers should be Grouped 

 The Decoration of Windows in Summer 

 Glass Cases for Ferns ■ . . , *. . /. 



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Window Gardening 283 



Something about Pickles . ••• 239 



Conservatory, Fernery, Staircase^ and Drawing- 

 room Decorations 39^ 



Recipes for Cooking Spinach 400 



