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Table of Contents. 



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" Mr. John Thrift," .340 



Strawberries in New York 342 



Capture of a Noted Wild Horse... 343 



Colonel Billy vs. Uncle John 344 



Cin. Horticultural Soc'y — Hedges 348 

 Farmers' Col. — Commencement.... 353 



Home Department 355 



Return of theJews 360 



The costof War 361 



The Raining Tree 363 



The Japan Pea 364 



Relaxations of Great Men 365 



Duration of a Flash of Lightning366 



Buried Treasures 367 



Washing Preparation 367 



Humboldt and Agassiz 368 



Osage Oi'ange Report Reviewed. ..369 



Sorgho Sucre— Sweet Millet 371 



"May Be So"— A Ch. for Mothers..375 



Apple Tree Borer 378 



Compressing the Bulk of Flour.. ..379 

 Horticultural Society Proceedings 380 

 Reflections by a "Resident on the 



Hill Side," 385, 430 



Shrubbery and Vines 391 



Agricultural Entomology 392 



What a Farmer needs an Educa- 

 tion for 397 



Education cheap Insurance 398 



Magnificent Project — An Artificial 



Sea 399 



The Man for the Times >401 



Prospect of Cheap Flour 405 



Cin, Hort. Society — Proceedings. ..406 



What is the Use of Botany? 413 



Our Farm Department 415 



Mr. Halloway's Report 418 



Catarvissa Raspberry 422 



A Sketch from Life 424 



Chinese Potato 427 



The Ravens — A Stratagem 432 



Personalities of Literati 434 



The Emperor and the Yankee 437 



Where and how Guano is obtained 440 

 The Mighty Cedars of California 442 



Tact and Talent 444 



Lord Rosse's Telescope 445 



The Mountain Wind 448 



Chapt. on Wheats and Wheat Cul. 449 



Study of Nature 453 



Transpl'ng Trees, Effects of Frost 455 

 "Terra Culture"— Prof. Comstock 457 



Scientific Agriculture 464 



Agricultural Discovery 465 



Cincinnati Horticultural Society..466 



Indian Corn 475 



Hard Study 476 



A Beautiful Thought 477 



"Royal Families" — Whence came 

 They? 478 



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A Public Rebuke — Anec. of Judge 



White 486 



Heaves in Horses 488 



Management of Canaries 489 



Discoveries of the Pres. Century ...492 



Our Forage Crops 497 



Mental Precocity 507 



The Guano Trade 509 



Small Farms 509 



Pomeroy, 510 



Hist. Author. Version of the Bible516 



Farm Records Important 518 



Ladies and Agriculture , 619 



Glass Milk Pans 521 



Couldn't tell the Difference 521 



The Calliope ....522 



Bottom of the Atlantic — Atheism 523 

 Wheat. — Points of a Good Milch 



Cow 524 



Exhausting the Soil 525 



The Sensitive Plant 526 



Egyptian, or Mummy Corn 627 



Vegetable Eggs 527 



Rye 528 



Influence of the Bible on Commun- 

 ities 528 



Ded. of Polytechnic Hall — Address 



by Pres. F. G. Cary 529 



Correspondence — Terra Culture... 551 



The Dead Sea 552 



Milk as a Manufacturing Ingred't553 



Vegetable Vitality 554 



Taste in Female Dress 658 



Facts for Mechanics 660 



Stall-Manure and Straw 661 



Married in spite of their Teeth.. ..565 



The Age of a Horse 666 



The Bloodhounds 667 



How to choose a good Milch Cow...569 



A Premium for Experience 574 



Grain in Great Britain 674 



More about Terra Culture 675 



The Wife for Me 581 



The Chinese Sugar-Cane 684 



The Immensity of the Universe. ..591 



Coffee 592 



Subsoil Plowing 594 



Something Worth Seeing 696 



The Tallow-Chandler's Son 697 



Our Botanic Garden 698 



Sharpening Edged Tools 600 



The Execution of Major Andre. ..601 

 The Black and Green Teas of Com- 

 merce 602 



The Great Wrought Iron Gun 603 



The Potato a Heathen 604 



A Scrap— The Seconds'of Eternity605 

 Experiments Tvith Cast Iron, etc. 608 



