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CONTENTS OP THIS NUMBER. 



Calendar for July Page 297 



Birds of New England 299 



Ridgins— UrainiiiK 301 



6trawherries--Tlie Turnip Crop 302 



The Potaio Crop— To Preserve Manures 303 



Fro:! I Fences — i^eltiug Posts .3(3 



Buckwheat— Sum nier and Autumn Apples 304 



German Agriculture 305 



Apple Trees — Almost a Rook's Egg 306 



liawaiifin Agriculture 3o7 



Plows— Variety of Borers 308 



A Day with the "Great Plow" 309 



Live and Dead Weight of Cattle .3..9 



'•Experimental Farmitig" again— Plaster Ashes, &c 310 



Action of the Atmosphere on the Roots of of Plants 311 



Stale Pauper Farm 311 



Cirrnlalidn of Sap — Vegetible Economy — Orchards 312 



Hawaiian Agriculture— Chapter for Nice Old Farmers 313 



Cruelty to Animals— Grafting Old Trees 314 



Diversity in Theory and Practice 31fi 



The True Mode of Cultivation — Weeds 316 



About Sheep and Steers 316 



Visit to the Slate Reform School 317 



Lunar and Stellar Influence 318 



Mount Airy Institute 319 



Living in Clover— Important to Farmers 32ii 



Charcoal 321 



Manures— their Nature and Constituent Principles 32;^ 



Composting 322 



Food of Plants— Mode of Supply — Nourishment 323 



Analysis of Soils and their Productions 324 



Another Trial of Pluws 325 



The Flowers — filorses— Careful Use of, &c 326 



The Onion Worm 3<!6 



Monthly Farmei for June 327 



Soiling Cows — Investment in Weeds 320 



Corn— F1,U vs. Hill Culture 330 



Laying Lands to Grass— Stones— Turnips 330 



Productive Farming 331 



The North American Sylva 332 



Witch Grass— State Chemist— Education ofOxen 333 



Hints on Thinning Fruit— Farm School at Westboro' 334 



Corn-Fodder and Corn-Slalk Culler 330 



Town Horticultural Societies 335 



The Climate of Countries -The First Saw Mill 336 



State Pauper Parm 337 



State Reform School 338 



Trimming Pine Trees— A New Enemy in the Field 339 



Orchards— Muck— Ashes — Order in Everything 34') 



Protection against the Bee Moth— Extracts and Replies. ..341 



Ladies' Dejiartment 342 



Boy's Department 342 



ILLUSTRATIONS . 



Watering the Garden 304 



Cisterns 305 



Yellow Piberian Crab 321 



Fancy Lop -Ear Rabbits 337 



LANGSTROTH'S 



Movable Comb Hive, 



(Patented Oct. 5th, 1852.) 

 TTIACH comb is built on a movable frame, and in five min- 

 Jji ules they may all be taken out, without cutting them or 

 enraging the be.es Weak stocks may be helped to h^mey and 

 brood from stronger ones; queenless colonies supplied; the 

 worms caught; and new colonies formed in less time than in 

 usually reijuired to hive a natural swarm. Thut the Srife and 

 easy control of the combs, makes a complete revolution in 

 bee-keeping the subscriber prefers to prove rather than as- 

 sert. At his Apiary, combs, honey and bees will be taken 

 from the hives, the queen exhibited, and new colonies formed. 

 By the close of May his work (350 pages) on the Honey-Bee 

 will be puiilished. It contains many new and highly impor 

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 May 14, 1853. 3\v*3 



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200 gross Scythe Stones. 



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June 25. 1853. '*■ 



