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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



PAGE 



The Plough 73 



Practical use of Leaves, 74 



Importance of Cultivating the Oak and other 



valuable timber Trees, 75 



Cure for Foundered Horses. — The Soy Bean, .... 78 



Prepared Guano. — Influence of Horticulture, .... 79 



Farm of Thomas Bell, 81 



The Potatoe Rot in Ohio, 82 



French Farming, 83 



Farming in Western New York, 84 



The Principle of Draught. — Culture of the 



Peach Tree ^^ > 86 



Smoked Mutton, 87 



Remarks on the Potatoe disease, 88 



Memoranda on Pears, 91 



Lime, 93 



House-feeding Sheep, 94 



Flour and Wneat.— The Royal Ag. So. of England, 95 



Saxony Sheep, .- 9G 



Silas Wright's Address, read before the N. Y. 



State Ag. Society, by John A. Dix, 98 



Editorial Notices, 102 



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