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JSEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Jan. 



CONTENTS OP THIS NUMBER. 



Calendar fur January Page 9 



The New Your — ^V;l?te of Urine — Good Kxampk- 11 



Draining 12 



Practical Hints in Slieep llusbiindry 13 



The Forest Trees — Colds in Sheep ^ 14 



Chronicle of a Clay Farm — Too Much Stock 15 



Mr. Russell's Address 17 



The Farmer 18 



A Home Tieture — Cultivation of the Chestnut 19 



Observations in a Garden 19 



Manures — liarn Cellars 20 



Death of Bees in AVintor 21 



Trees on Farms — Low-Limbed, vs. Tall Trees 22 



Great Crcps— How to have Plenty of "Water 23 



Polled Sheep — Fattening Swiue 24 



Maryland Cattle Show and Fair 25 



Oyster Shells and Stone Lime — Points are Pins 26 



Agriculture in Virginia 2 



Tar-water for the Onion Maggot — Thanksgiving 2S 



Kailroad Stockholders Benefactors to the Country 29 



Double, or Michigan Plow — Fall Plowuig, &c 30 



James E. Tesclunacher — Humus 31 



Bain in a Year — Slackening Lime 32 



Birds of New England, No. 8 35 



" Something New — Guano" — The Wintering of Stock 37 



Upland Cranberry — AVinter Evenings 38 



Spirit of the Agricultural Press 39 



The Maize — Comparison of Plows 41 



Culture of "Willow for Osiers 42 



Green "Wood ' 43 



History of "Vegetation — No. 2 44 



Chinese Manures 45 



Superphosphate of Lime 46 



Charcoal — Its Alimentai-y Character 46 



Management of Poultry — Double Plow 47 



Extracts, Replies, &c — Coal Ashes 48 



Report of the Transactions at the Veterinary School of Alfort. . 50 



A Pound of Butter to a Gallon of Milk 50 



Dry Food— The Rat and the Weasel 51 



The Michigan Double Plow 61 



The Old AA'asUerwoman — AVhen should-Timber be Cut 52 



Pigs and Dogs .53 



The Monthly Farmer for December 53 



Mr. Greeley's Address 53 



The Finest Ox m the World 54 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



The Winter Nelis Pear 17 



Short Horn, or Durham Heifers 33 



Grape Vines — Reaxiing and Pruning 49 



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Oyster Slieli Lime, 



rpIIE subscriber has been induced, at the request of several of 

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It also contains double the quantity of Phosphate of lime than 

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March 26, 1853. 



Muriate of LiMie, 



A superior article for top dressing Grass Lands, put up in bar- 

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March 21, 1853. tf. JAS. GOULD. 



THE BOSTON AND WORCESTER 



EAIilLE DOUBLE PLOWS. 



Imported Suffolk Boar, 



BULRUSH. 



The subscriber now offers the services 

 of hi.s SulVolk Boar, Bci.ul-s.'i, (to those who 

 wish to improve their Stock.) Bulrush was 

 imported last spring, and is now about one 

 _^ year old. -He is rcmarkaljly vigorous, and 

 "-*' a superior animal. He will be kept for the 

 present, at my stable, near the Depot, Concord, JIar-s. 



JOHN RAYNOLDS. 

 Dec. 17, 1863. tf. 



THE superior merits of these Plows consist in 

 1. The mode of attaching the forward mould-board to the 

 beam, by which great strength and dm-ability are secured, as also 

 the various desirable changes in debt of work and relative depth 

 of each plow, the same being regulated to any shade of lucety, 

 with perfect facility: 



2. The entire and handsome overturning of the sod furrow, by 

 the forward mould-board, to the extent of the whole width of fur- 

 row taken by the plow, jdacing it beneath, out of the way of the 

 teeth of the harrow, cultivator, or other implement, so that it is 

 in no case dragged to the surface in the after cultivation of the 

 crop : 



3. The thorough and finished work done by the rear mould- 

 board, iu taking up its furrow of under soil and sifting or scat- 

 tering it over the inverted sod, so as to entirely fill to the surface, 

 and at the same time break open any undue cohesion of the soil, 

 leaving the plowed land in a perfectly pulverized condition, ro- 

 qmring little labor with the harrow or other surface-working in- 

 strmnent, — and indeed, in all tolerably ft'ce loams, rendering the 

 use of these instruments, as pulverizers, quite unnecessary : 



4. The remarkably light draught of the jilow, in proportion to 

 the amount of work and the thoroughness of pulverization ac- 

 complished. 



Several sizes of the BOSTON AND WORCESTER EAGLE 

 DOUBLE PLOW, are made by the subscribers, from patterns of 

 their own original invention. They invite their friends and cus- 

 tomers to examine these Plows, as to quality and durability 6f 

 material, tborouglmess and finish of construction, and to test 

 their working properties. 



Manufactory at Worcester, and Warehou.=e, Quincy Hall, over 

 the Market, Boston. 



RUGGLES, NOL^lSE, MASON & CO. 



AprU 30, 1853. 



