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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



April 



CONTENTS OP THIS NUMBER. 



Calendar for April Page 153 



Is it Profitable to Fatten Swine in New Knglaud 155 



Pruning Orchards 157 



Where Docs all the Corn go to 159 



Bee-Culture— No. 3— The Bee and the Cricket 160 



The Concord Grape — Error in Judgment 162 



Improvement of the Dairy 163 



Seventh Agricultural Meeting 164 



Garget in Cows — Improved Super-Phosphate of Lime 166 



The Seasons — Fanning in New England — No. 3 167 



Solid and Liquid Excrements of Animals , 168 



now to Make the Butter Come 168 



Improvement of the Dairy — My Country Home 169 



Milk and Butter Cows — Song for the Seasons — Buffaloes 170 



Spirit of the Agricultural Press 171 



How I saved my Currant Bushes 172 



Carrots for Horses, Milch Cows, &c. &c 173 



Does Cold Kill the Peach Trees 173 



Carrots vs. Corn — Farm Implement Fair 174 



The "Apple Man's" Story 176 



Farms Improved by Keeping Sheep 176 



United States Agricultural Society 17S 



Quano Factory 179 



Ilome Ashes — Experimental Farms 180 



Soaked Corn for Horses ISO 



Eighth Agricultural Meeting 181 



Agriculture in Massachusetts 1S3 



New use of Plaster of Paris 183 



Ancient Spinning Wheel — Our Country's Area 184 



Feed of Stock 184 



Country Farmers and City Mechanics 185 



Tenacity of Life 185 



Cheap Experiment in Decomposing Bones 186 



Profits of Sheep 186 



Cooked and Uncooked Mtal 187 



Ninth Agricultural Meeting 187 



The Culture of Onions — Concord Farmers' Club 190 



A New kind of Fence 192 



What a Garden Should be 193 



City Railroads— A Model Stalile 196 



Bread-Making 197 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Wells' Patent Grass Seed Sower 159 



The Concord Grape 161 



Steel Double Plow 177 



Village Homestead as it is — Unimproved 194 



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Super-Phosphate of Lime. 



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Fertilizers. 



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