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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Farm Work for June Page 249 



Is it not so?— Barns— Glass Tower— Care for others 250 



Deep Plowing accompanying high Manuring, an antidote 



to New England Sterility 251 



Farmer's Guide — Grasses 252 



Outburst of Spring ... .253 



Alumina 254 



Duration of Vitality pf Seeds — Sale of Stock 255 



Don't Kill the Birds— Worn out Soil 256 



Tying up Cattle 257 



Cisterns vs. Wells — History of the Apple Tree 2E8 



Pone Manure— Fried Potatoes 259 



Transactions of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society 2H0 



What saves the Potatoes— More Smiling 261 



Slavering in Horses 261 



Shavings — Tan — Horns — Bones— Culture of Forests 262 



Concord Farmer's Club — The Poor Man's Book 263 



Cleanliness for Plants— Grass under Trees 263 



Why Honey Bees die — Food required by Animals 264 



A new Farm School — Borers — On Tears 265 



Carrots — Number of Plants on an Acre — The Strawberry. 266 



Vegetable Poisons — Agricultural Colleges 267 



Northern Lights— Hemlock 268 



Cattle gnawing Bones — The Plowman's Life — Milk 269 



Wire Fence— Look out foi your Horses 270 



A new Grass — A suggestion for Farmers 271 



Hilling Corn — North Dan vers : .273 



The Weather and Emigration 274 



Sulphur— Fruit Ticks— A string of Questions— Stock 275 



Improvement of Meadow and Swamp Land — Rural Labor. 276 



Recipes — The Farmer's Guide 277 



Large Calf — White Beans vs. Colored — Stone Wall 278 



Agricultural Museum — A Larger Calf— Sporting 279 



Essex County Transactions — Deep Plowing — Cherry Slug 28(1 



Milking — Cow Milkers, &c. — Indian Corn — Asparagus 281 



The Lesson of a Plant 282 



A few words on Grape Culture — Corn for Green Feed.... 283 



Book Notices 284 



Italian Spring Wheat — Sweet Potatoes — Inventions 295 



A string of Answers — Flower Culture — The Strawberry.. 286 



Preserving Birds — Longevity — Whitewash 287 



Mechanics' Department, Arts, &c 287 



Boy's Department 288 



Agriculture as an occupation 289 



An Editor in the Garden— Planting Trees 290 



Intellectual Culture — Thinning out Vegetables 291 



To Correspondents 291 



Ladies' Department 292 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Empire State 257 



A Mode] Barn 272, 273 



Independent Horse Rake 289 



Pure Devon Stock. 



Dec. 27, 1851. 



COWS, HEIFERS, BULLS and BULL 

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Improved Sod Ploughs, for flat furrows — improved Scotch 

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Self-sharpening, Hill Side, Sub-soil, Double Mould, Corn, 

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Cylinder Hay Cutters, Smith's Patent Lever Gate, and oth- 

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 Seed Sowers, of various sizes and prices. Batchelder's patent 

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SCIONS. 



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