296 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 



cou^rn.^rs op this number. 



CaleiiJ;ir for June Vagc2l0 



Ilybridi/.ins — Emigrant AM Company 250 



^oUto— Wheat 2&0 



Birds of Now Knaland, No. 10 251 



Poultry and E;;gs — Hen Manure 



Life of Kicliard Bagg, Jr 254 



The Cicle of the Seasons 255 



Barley and Indian Corn 



Plows ami I'lowin? 25S 



Farmers' Girls — Jlilch Cows 253 



State Board of Ajrriculture 260 



Farming in Niw England — No. 5 261 



Slaking Maple Sugar 262 



New I'u'olications — "Go Forth into the Country" 263 



Monthly Farmer for April— A Good Yield of Butter 261 



Green Corn for Cows — Extracts and Replies 265 



Peruvian Guano ; 266 



Preparing Sied Corn — Extravagant Prices for Stock 26 



Do Soils Lose their Manures by Leaching .' 267 



Seeding L'u.'l to Grass — Experiments, Stock, Corn, &c 268 



Cooked and Uncooked Food 269 



Setting out Cabbage, Tomato, and other Plants 269 



Lusus Naturtc — Specific Fertilizers 270 



The Flowers and the Bird?— The Thriftless Farmer 271 



The Season — Statement of John II. Robinson 274 



Save the Manure — Breaking Steers — Planting Small Potatoes. .275 



The two .Annie? — Musket and Spades 276 



Agriculture in Nova Scotia — Farmers 276 



Classification of Soils 277 



Transactions of the Middlesex Co. Agricultural Society 277 



A Fox'i Revenge— Black Warts— 'Whitewash 278 



Shall I engage in Farming 278 



Why do Cattle Eat the Horse Manure i" 278 



Guano — I'rivate Correspondence 279 



Northern Farming 2S0 



Irrigation of Gardens 281 



What a Garden Should be 282 



Cultivation of the Pear Tree 283 



The Tomato — Importance of Roots 284 



Speak Soothing Words and Kind 2S5 



iligh Price of Beef 285 



Stick to the Farm 286 



Profits of Fanninif 287 



Mulching Gooseberries 2: 



The CuUure of Onions — Fertilizers 2S9 



IIow to Plant Cucumbers, Melons and Squashes 2S9 



Green Crops for Farm Use in Summer. 290 



P^xtracts and Replies 291 



Rancid Butter— Corn and the Wire-Worm 292 



Monthly Farmer for May 293 



Culture of the Sweet Potato — Laying out Surfaces 293 



English Receipts — Ladies Department 294 



ILLUSTRATION'S. 



A Plant Protector 254 



Grain Drill 257 



Homestead of the Thriftless Farmer 272 



llomeste.ad of the Thrifty Farmer ." 273 



Expaudiiig and Revtrsable Tooth Cultivator 288 



Craiifeerry Plants. 



BELL, or Egg shaped Variety — commonly raised in New Eng- 

 land, and no doubt is the best variety for cultivation — they 

 are hardy and prolilic — somelimes produce over 250 bushels ^ 

 acre, aft».T 2 years, and needs but little cultivation. Circulars 

 relating to culture and price will be forwarded to api>licants. 



F. TROWBRIDGE, 

 New Haven, Conn 

 Feb. 18, 1854. tf* 



Fertilizers. 



EEST PERUVIAN GUANO. 

 Super-Phosphate of Limi-. — "DeBurg's No. 1." 

 Poudri tte, of the best quality. 

 Ground Plaster, suitable for agricultural purposes. 

 Ground Bone, Bone Dust and Burnt Bone. 

 Also, Grass Seeds of reliable quality at the lowest market price. 

 GEO. DAVENPORT, 

 5 Commercial, corner of Chatham Street, Boston. 

 Feb. 18, 1854. tf* 



8iiirt)!k Swine. 



The subscriber offers for sale, on reason 

 able terms, several full blood SufVolk Sows, 

 of dillerent ages, two Boars, .and a dozen 

 Pigs. Some of these animals are of the 

 — _,,^-._^ best quality for .symmetry ami beauty, and 

 f**^ - '^ are the descendants of Swine which were 

 imported from Kagland last spring. 



HENRY M. CLARKE, 

 Ijnden Pl.-.ce, Walthani 

 March 18, ISol' tf 



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 & HORTICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, GARDEN and FIELD 

 SEEDS, &c., to their stock, comprising the largest and best as- 

 sortment to be found in the United States, which are ofiered at 

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Of PLOUGHS — we have the greatest variety of kinds and 

 sizes. 



Improved Sod Ploughs, for flat furrows — improved Scotch 

 Ploughs for lapped furrows — improved Stubble Ploughs, which 

 are especially adapted to deep tillage, or varying from 6 to 12 

 inches in depth. 



Self-sharpc-ning, Hill Side, Sub-soil, Double Mould, Com, Cot 

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Cylinder Hay Cutters, Smith's Patent Lever Gate, and others 

 Patent Corn Shellers, with and without Separators. Seed So\yers, 

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 Farm or Garden. 



Illustrated Catalogues sent gratis on application, post-paid. 

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Boston and Worcester, Mass., Jan. 1, 1853. tf. 



PARKER, WHITE & GANNETT'S 

 Agricultural Warehouse and Seedstore. 



The subscribers have recently enlarged 

 their Warehouse by the additicn of tw^o 

 stores, running east to the corner of North 

 Street, so that they are now able to show 

 their friends and customers a more complete stock in their line of 

 manufacture and trade, than ever before, viz. : Machines and 

 hnphinents. — Imprnved Greensward, Stubble, Michigan, Sub- 

 soil and Double Mould Board Plou'S, Seed Sowers, Cornplanters, 

 Cultivators, Harrows, Ox Yokes, Wheelbarrows, &c. 



Tuttle's, Gr.aves & Ilatche's, Markhara's, Jackson Mason's, 

 Clark's and Waterbury Hoes. 



Ames', White's,A'aungban & Cobb's, and other Cast Steel Shov- 

 els and Spades. Tools of all sorts. Seeds, Trees, Fertilizers, at 

 U'hok'Sale and Retail. 



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 47, 53 & 63 Blackstone Street, Boston. 

 April 15, ISot. 6w 



