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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Farm Work for February Page 5' 



Pumpkins — Squashes 58 



Remedy for Worms in Sheep — Compliment to Jonathan. ..59 



Knowing How 60 



The Cora Crop — Breaking Steers 61 



The Nursery Business 62 



Interests of the Farmer — Statistics 63 



Bloody Milk — Quantity of Flax-Seed for an Acre 64 



Hybernation of Insects — The Automaton Tree 64 



Orchard Caterpillar 65 



Stealing other People's Thunder 66 



First Agricultural Meeting at the State House 67 



Fruit Culture in the United States 6" 



Guano — Seedling Potatoes 68 



Poetry — Blankets for Sheep 69 



Extensive Farming — Origin of Agriculture 70 



Granite Farmer — Chemistry of Nature 71 



Second Experiment in Poultry 72 



Practical advantages of Science — Corn vs. Potatoes — Bread. 73 



Selection of Apple* — History of the Apple Tree 74 



Selection of Apples 75 



Middlesex Co. Agricultural Society — Heat and Cold 76 



Churchyard Beetle — Soap Plant — Colts and Calves 



Renovating Old Orchards 78 



Is Farming Profitable in New England 78 



Shepherd's Dog — Pomological — Ohio Farmer 



Marsh's Prairie Steers — Cows and Carrots 83 



Agricultural — Good Tools 84 



Labor not a Curse— Southern Planter 85 



Winter Employment — Notices 86 



A Georgic about Trees — Co-Laborers 87 



Wintering Domestic Animals 88 



Massachusetts Board of Agriculture 88 



Cranberries 89 



University for Farmers and Mechanics 90 



Successful Industry - 90 



East ham — Predominance of Water 91 



Second Agricultural Meeting at the State House 91 



Blue Flag 93 



Wintering of Stock 94 



Cheap Roots — Novel Milk Arrangements 95 



Great Crop of Grass — Morals at Cattle Shows 96 



Carrots for Horses — Horticultural 97 



Media i lies' Department 98 



Ladies' Department 99 



Boy's Department 100 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Stevens' Self-Supporting Movable Hinge Fence 65 



Marsh's Prairie Steers 81 



Mother Apple 96 



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