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INDEX. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



A House to Live lu ... 



Jersey Cow, Flora .... 



Czar, Calf of Jersey Cow, Flora 



Howe's Adjustable Cattle-Leader 



The Williams Apple 



The Tyson Pear .... 



Scott's Grain-Mill .... 



Homes for the People 



Esopus Spitzenberg Apple 



Training the Grape .... 



A Shallow Catch Drain . 



Grade Cow-Beauty .... 



The Lodge Pear .... 



Grand Plan of a Convenient Barn . 



The Giant lledwood 



Emery's Railway Horse-Power 



Lawrence's Favorite, Purple Gage . 



Imperial and Prince's Gage, and Smith's 



A Village or Farm Cottage 



Engine Pump for Wells and Cisterns 



Blue Jay destroying Robins' Eggs . 



Morrisons' Red Seedling . 



An Ornamented Cottage . . . 224 



Maidens' Blush Apple ... 



Howes' Expanding Horse Hoe 



An Alderney or Jersey Cow 



A Cart for Distributing Liquid Manure 



A New Seed-Sower 



Training and Pruning Trees 



Kural Homes 



Belle Lucrative and Washington Pears 



97, 



Page 



17 



32 



33 



41 



49 



64 



72 



80 



88 



98 



107! 



1131 



129 



136 



144 



161 



168 



Orleans 169 



176 



185 



193 



208 



226 



232 



238 



241 



304 



256 



265 



273 



281 



, 225, 



Layers ., . , _ . 

 The old St. Michael Peafj^'or White Doyenne 

 The Curculio .... 

 j Improving Pasture Lands 

 j Patent Self- Regulating Wind-Mill 

 The North Star Morgan Horse 

 Illustrations in Budding . 

 A Beautiful Cottage 

 Knox's Patent Gang Cultivator 

 Beurre Clairgeau Pear 

 Woodward's Patent Weeding Plow, 

 Woodruff's New Self-Acting Gate 

 Plan for a Double Cottage 

 Machine for Stripping Broomcom 

 Cherries — Rockport Bigarreau, 



Manning's Late Blackheart . 

 An AjTshire Cow 

 The Seckel Pear 

 Morgan Horse, Vermont . 

 A S(|uare Cottage 

 Salem Normal Academy of Music 

 A New Apple-Parer . 

 Brinckle's Orange Raspberry . 

 A New Stump-Puller 

 Early Joe and Mexico Apples ^ 

 A Hereford Heifer . 

 Rebecca Grape 

 Dederick's Parallel Lever Vertical Hay-Press 

 A Side-Hill Cottage . 

 Atwood's Patent Globe Mills 



Richardson 



. 284 



. 289 



. 291 



. 294 



. 313 



. 321 



. 329 



. 336 



. 340 



. 353 



. 360 

 368-9 

 384-5 

 401 



. 408 



. 417 



. 432 



. 448 



. 457 



. 465 



. 472 



. 481 



. 497 



. 506 



. 512 



. 521 

 529 



. 544 



. 569 



POETRY. 



Wind and Rain 

 Georgic about Trees 

 To the Peasant Bard 

 Home Picture .... 

 Chimes for the Times 

 Reply to " R. E. G." 

 The Fireside 



Harvest Home .... 

 The Old Homestead . 

 The Golden Rule . . 

 The Farme)"'s Winter Hearth .. 

 The Oriole's Lament 

 . The Farmers' Life . 

 April 19, 1775, and April 19, 1856 

 The Country Child . 

 The Happy Lot 

 Brothers Quarrelling 

 Bessie 



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11 



13 



36 



52 



63 



85 



93 



115 



135 



139 



223 



237 



268 



271 



277 



292 



296 



351 



Page 



Hoe out Your Row 375 



How Countrified 383 



The Farmer 389 



No 407 



Cornfields . . 413 



Song of the Peasant Wife .... 420 



My First Whistle 428 



A Garden 431 



How Much Education for the Farmer . . 435 



Work— An Ode 452 



The Farmer's Harvest Hymn .... 503 



To Autumn 506 



Horticultural Song 509 



The Farmer's Song 518 



The Dying Wife to Her Husband . . . 536 



Memory 541 



Blessed Memories 556 



Autumnal Elegiac 567 



