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NEAV ENGLAND FARMER. 



May 



CONTENTS or THIS NUMBER. 



Ciilendar for May Page 201 



Rancid ISuttcr 203 



LeRislsitivc Agncultuial >lcetin);s — Preparing Seed Corn.... 204 



l*roflt in Kaisiiig Corn — Concord Farmer's Club 205 



On Renovating Soils 206 



Classification of ^lanures — Bugology vs. Squashology 207 



What a Oarden Should Be 20S 



Sowing Clover Seed — Plums— The Curculio — 210 



Larva; of the Crane Flj- — IIow to Make the Butter Come 210 



Farming in New Kngland — No. 4 211 



Raview of the Past and the Present Condition of Agriculture. .212 



The Crow— Winter Worms 213 



Tenth .\gricultural Meeting, — 214 



The '-Witch Hazel." 215 



Save the Bones — Middlesex County Society 216 



Guano and Super- Phosphate 218 



Horn Shavings — Plowman's Song — Early June Beet 219 



Successful Butter-Making — Onions and Carrots 220 



Facts in Human Life 220 



Kleventh Agricultural Meeting 221 



Prepare your f i round for the Mower — Barn Stables 223 



Twelfth Agricultural Meeting 226 



State Farm at Westborouph 227 



Composting Lime and Ashes with Muck 228 



Monthly Farmer for March 230 



Potato Rot 231 



I'se of Guano 232 



Effects of Inuoculation 233 



New Books — To Destroy the Curculio 234 



Natural Beauty of Ornamental Trees 237 



American Pomological Society-Koots of Plants-Transplanting. 238 



Warts on Plum Trees 239 



Potash as a Feriilizer 240 



Country Farmers and City Mechanics — No. 2 241 



The Profit of Fattening Swine — Plant the Fruit Trees 242 



lUionis Farm Implements 243 



Extracts and Replies 244 



Cattle of New England — Norfolk Agricultural Societj- 245 



Will Ashes Desolve Bones 246 



Ladies Department 246 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Village Homestead as it should be — Improved 200 



Ketchum's Mowing M.ichine 225 



Sewing Machine 235 



The Horse Hoe 240 



Improved Hinge Harrow 245 



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