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CONTENTS OP THIS NUMBER. 



Calendar for May Page 201 



Plowing f 02 



Millet 203 



Welcome Spring^Eoiie Wens— Special Manures 204 



How can Chemistry benefit the Farmer? 205 



Hedges 206 



The Hive and Honey Hee — Posts and StaJtes 208 



More about Plowing 210 



Hints for ihe Husbandman— Suggestions in Composting. . .211 



Choked Cattle 212 



Cost of Fences — Benefits of Agricultural Papers 213 



Indian Corn— Oyster Shell Lime 214 



Field Seeds- Address by Wm S. King, Esq 215 



New Brunswick 216 



Cultivation of Fruit 217 



Tenth Legislative Agricultural Meeting 217 



Guano— Agticultural Education 219 



Cloudy Season— Look at your Bees 220 



Birds of New England 221 



Remarks on Budding and Grafiing 222 



Manures again 223 



Grafting on the Thorn— Quesi ion for the Curious 224 



Live Fences — Maryland Fiirmiiig 226 



Transplanting 2i7 



The Value of Sulphate of Zinc to the Farmer 228 



Farm Accounts — Analysts of Clam and Oyster Shells 229 



Eleventh Legislative Agricultural Meeting 230 



Plisteted houses— Observations on Spring Work 232 



Urnanienlal and Shade Trees — More about Potatoes 235 



Twelfth Legislative Agricultural Meeting 236 



Shoveldom 238 



Wealth of the United States 239 



Plaster- Taking tloney 240 



Model Farms, &;c 241 



How to Raise Fruit everv Year 242 



The Gooseberry— What 'shall I do? 243 



Concord Farmers' i;liih— A Shower of Mud 244 



Good Effects ot Gardening— To Correspondents 245 



Equivalent Value of different Kinds of Food 245 



Ladies' Department 246 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 

 Emery's Reaping and Mowing Machine combined . . .206, 207 



Guenon on Milch Cows 209 



Beurre de Anjou Pear 225 



Brush Seed Sower 241 



Parker & White, 



8 4" 10 Gcrrish Block, Blackstone Street, 



AREo w remly to serve their Spring customers with Agri- 

 cultural Tools and Seeds of every description. They have 

 enlarged their establishment and are prepared to show a lar 

 ger and better assortment of Goods than ever before. 



The following are some of their leading articles. 



1000 Martin's celebiated Green Sward, Stubble, Horse and 

 Hill side Plows. 



50O other manufactures, all sizes and varieties. 



100 Michigan Plows. 



300 Improved Cultivators. 



Geddes' and other kind of Harrows. 



Improved Seed Sowers. 



Churns, Wheelbarrows, Oxyokes, Grindstones, Improved 

 Grindstone Hanging, by which any farmer can hang his own 

 grindstone. 



700 doz. Tuttle's improved concave cast steel Hoes. 



200 doz. Graves & Hatch's improved socket concave cast 

 steel Hoes. 



Also, Plimpton's, Tower's, Nason's, Clarke's and other 

 kinds. 



100 doz. Partridge's, 4, and 6 prong cast steel Manure Forks; 

 with every variety of other manufactures. 



650 doz. Ames's, Carr's, Stone's and White's cast steel Shov- 

 els; with every kind of garden tools, Rakes, Spades, Trowels, 

 Forks, Iloes, &c., &c. 



' IfO, Fruit and Orniimenlal Trees, Grass, Field, Garden 



A. ' i.xr Seeds. All at low prices, wholesale and retail. 

 and Flowtlt— ^^ PARKER & WHITE, 



8 & 10 Getrish''Brock, BlackstOT*e'5(*, Bi'^'P"'-- 

 April 9, 1853^ ^ - 



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Grafting Wax, 



\ FIRST-RATE ARTICLE, made by an experienced Fruit 



A G'^»«'«'-'f'"-RtGGLES, NOIIRi^E, MASON & CO., 

 March 26, 1653. if Over Quincy Market, Boston. 



For sale, a pure blond North Devon 

 Bull. Also, two Spring Bull Calves, all 

 as highly as can be found in this country. 



Inquire at this office, postage paid. 



April 23, 1853. 6w2* 



Garden Seeds. 



"ITfE respectfully solicit the attention of purchasers of GAR 

 VV DEN SEEDS to our extensive stock, which we offer for 

 sale. We have all the sorts of Veget.ible Seeds that have 

 proved worthy of cultivation; also. Grain, Grass and Flower 

 Seeds. All the varieties are raised and selected expressly for 

 our trade, and we do with confidence recommend them to all 

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 0» Catalogues gratis, on application. 



RUGGLE8, NOURSE, MASON & CO., 

 Jan. 1. Over Quincy Market, Boston. 



Houghton's Seedling 

 Bushes. 



Gooseherry 



IT'ROM one to five thousand of the above-named Bushes, 

 ^ well rooted, for sale on the premises of HE^J.AIV11N C. 

 MATPEiVLY, Chatham Street, Lynn, at prices tn suit,— from 

 four 10 twenty dollars per hundred. Persons desirous of ob- 

 taining some of these muchsoughi-for bushes, will now have 

 an opiiortiinity. 



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 - ""■ — - — Gkal.h.;'.;:i ."itree!, Lynn, Mass. 



April 2, 1833. 5w 



Seed Potatoes, 



EARLY AND LATE SORTS, for s le by 

 RUGGLES, NOURSE, MASON & CO., 

 March 26, 1852. tf Over Quincy Market, Boston. 



