INDEX. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Page. I 

 Initial Letter for January , . . . . !) i 



Gales' Eagle Straw-cutter , . .17! 



Hurlbut Apple . . .... 25 1 



Bracketed Cottage, with Veranda . . . . 3'2j 



Improved Short-horn Bull -19 ; 



Initial Letter for February . . . 58 ' 



Standard Climbing-roses ^ . . G.5 j 



Wire-fences made by Machinery . . 80, 81 [ 



GifTord Morgan Colt, Vermont - , . . 97 ; 



Initial Letter for March . . . ; . 105 j 



The Domestic Turkey . . . . .113 



Short-horn Durham Bull ■ , . ; 129 j 



Pruning the Grape ..... 144-5! 



Initial Letter for April . , . . 15;! 



Wakefield's Hand Corn-planter Cll 



A Suburban Cottage . 17(i 



Oswego, Beurre and Beurre, and Ueurre Diel Pears 18.v 

 Cultivation of the Pear-tree 192 



Initial Letter for May . . 202 



Seed-sowers .... 208 



Manny's Improved Mowing and Reaping .Machine 224 

 The Newtown Pippin Apple ... 233 



The Wheel Hoe . . . , . . .241 

 Initial Letter for June . .... 249 



Messenger Black Hawk 257 



The Oaks Prize Cow 273 



Woodward's Improved Seed Planter and Manure 



Dropper 288 



Initial Letter for July 297 



Sherman Morgan Horse 304 



The Apple-tree Borer — his Work . 



Ketchaiu's One-horse Mowing-machine 



Napoleon and Urbaniste Pear 



Haymakers ... 



Initial Letter for August 



Wheeler's Patent Washing-machine 



A new -Macliine for Mowing . 



The Cat-bird 



Initial Letter for September 



Morgan Draft Horse Clyde 



Iron Settees for Piazzas and Gardens 



Design for a small Farm-house 



The Peach .Apricot 



Fay'.'^ Portable Hand-power, Hay, Cotton 



Press . 



Initial Letter for October 

 Gales' Eagle Straw-cutter 

 Outline of the Melon Apple 

 New Rochelle or Lawton Blackberry 

 The Washington Plum . 

 Initial Letter for November . 

 The Hedge-sparrow 

 Short-horn Bull and Cow 

 Early Sweet Bough Apple 

 Initial Letter for December . 

 Scott's Little Giant Corn and Cob Mill 

 The Rostiezer Pear 

 Madeleine and Osband Pears . 

 The Vermont Wind-mill 



and Cider 



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 313 

 325 

 329 

 337 

 345 

 353 

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 384 

 393 

 401 

 408 

 416 

 433 



440 

 441 

 448 

 456 

 465 

 481 

 489 

 497 

 613 

 529 

 537 

 545 

 561 

 569 

 572 



POETRY, 



Voice of Autumn . 



The Blacksmith 



Brilliants , . 



There's much in Life, after all 



Timber .... 



A Lesson in itself Sublime 



Honor to the Toiling Hand 



Homesick for the Country 



The Garden . 



Forgive and Forget 



Now-a-days . 



Hi! G'along! 



The Brain-fever 



A Winter Night . 



Let U8 try to be Happy 



Souls, not Stations . 



Home . 



He never told a Lie 



A Sketch of Farm Life 



The Dawn of May 



Flowers 



Scatter ye Seeds . 



Rain in Summer . 



A Home Picture . 



12 



27 



28 



52 



55 



60 



70 



73 



82 



93 



111 



127 



133 



158 



196 



205 



214 



229 



245 



256 



260 



277 



283 



291 



Hidden Light 301 



The Birds 314 



Spring . • 325 



The Frog 332 



The Rain Concert 347 



Woman 356 



Good Advice. Fadeless in a loving Heart. Simple 



Truth 374 



Family Jars 374 



Who would not be a Farmer 390 



The Sky-lark 399 



One by one ........ 403 



Push on 422 



Song of the Harvesters ...... 431 



Thomas Tytte 472 



The Farmer's Life for me 479 



The Old Homestead 495 



Nothing lost 507 



The Farmer 517 



The Tiller of the Soil 525 



Tete-a-tete of the Milk-maids . . . .548 



Corn Poetry 555 



Indian Summer ....... 568 



