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Prices of Agricultural Preclucts at the Principal Markets in the United States, Canada and England. 



i![,oviUnts of t^is Numitr. 



Oultivation of Wheat, - 



Premium Crop of Carrots, . 



The Horse Charm, 



How Nature Imparts Fertility to Land, 



Items Suggested by the July Number, 



Notes for the Month, by S. W., 



The May Beetle - 



A Glance at Virginia Agriculture, .... 



Objeets of Hoeing,. 



Applying and Leaving Manures upon the Surf:ice, 



CultiTation of Winter Wheat, 



Keeping Sheep on Good Land, 



Cattle Disease in Ohio, 



Sound Corn, -. 



A Farmer's Opinion of "Agricultural Quackery" 



Eeasona why our Agricultural Societies should and bhould not 

 offer Premiums for a Public Exhibition of Lady Equestri- 

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Teaching Animals, - 



Clean Meadows, 



To Clean Cockle out of Wheat, 



Design for a Brick Farm House, 



What shall we Raise in place of Wheat? 



How to Bind the Wildest Horse for Shoeing, and the Wildest 

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HORTICULTUBAL DBPARTMKNT. 



Annnal Notes on Strawberries, 250 



Ammonia in Green Houses, 251 



Horticultural Operations for .\u gust, 251 



In " My New Garden "—No. 2, 252 



Shade Trees, 2.52 



Summer and Autumn Planting, 253 



Celeriac, or Turuip-rooted Celery, 254 



Cultivating the Egg Plant, 254 



The Cultivation of Flowers, 254 



Apple Tree Caterpillars, 255 



Gardening at the North Pole, 255 



T.AmBS' DKPARTMENT. 



Ti«diea should do their own Gardening, 2oS 



A Re.^idence in the Country or City, 256 



The Farm House, 256 



An E.\;cellent Way to prepare Green Corn for Winter Use, 256 



Original Domestic Receipts, 267 



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 Rteto Fairs for 1S.57, 



The Rural New Yorker— Once More, 



Working Land in the Fall, 



Wax, 



American Horse Powers in England, _ 



The Rural Annual for 1857, 



Egyptian Wheat, 



Snti-odnction of the Alpaca Sheep and Angora Goat into Aus- 

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The Wheat Crop in Indiana, . 260 



Quality of Beef, 2«0 



Poor Butter 260 



Prolific Lawton Blackberries, 260 



National Trial of Reapers and Mowers at Syracuse, 260 



Japan Peas, 269 



Charcoal a Cure for the Striped Bug, 260 



Receipts for Pre.serving Fruits, &c., 260 



Inciuiries and Answers, 280 



ILLtrgTRATIONS. 



Six Fignre.% represanting different vaiieties of Wheat, 253 



Brick Farm House 248 



Moth of the Cut Worm, 2.52 



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