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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Aug. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



August Page 345 



Calendar for J uly 345 



Com post ing 347 



Monthly Farmer for July 348 



The Milk Maid and the Banker— Hilling Plants 349 



Swamps — Drnining 350 



Indigenous Fruits and Shrubs — Imiiroving Fruit 351 



The Drought — Imporlance of the Leaf to the I'laiit 351 



Rose Bugs 353 



Muck— The New Insect 354 



New York State Agricultural College 355 



Cows and Tar — EfTects of Deep Plowing 356 



A Raie and PleasHnt Hook S'u 



Front-Yard Fences— Alders 358 



Pleasant Words from "Down East" 358 



Indigenous Fruits and Shrubs — Ergot in Grain 359 



Making Butter : 360 



Horticultural Exhibition at Concord— The Moth 361 



A New Insect — Is the Slole a Devourer of Vegetables 362 



Kyanizing Timber — Setting Fence Posts 363 



Cows Shedding Milk— Butter-Making 363 



What the Farmer most needs — Weeds 364 



State Reform School again— Girdled Apple Trees 365 



Cross Fertililaiion — A New Weed S66 



Culture and Value of the Parsnip 367 



Agriculture in New Hampshire 367 



Use of Flowers— Warls 3S8 



Palmer Worm 369 



State Reform School- Cows holding up their Milk 371 



Practice of Shoeing Horses— Love All 372 



Entomological Discovery 372 



Barn Cellars, Restorative Gases, &c 373 



Apple Trees killed by Potash— Trimming Pine Trees 374 



Canker, or some other Worms 374 



The History and Culture of the Mignonette 375 



Black Knots again — Prospects of the Season 376 



Black Knot in Plum Trees 378 



Hay Caps— Effect of High Culture on Fruit Trees 379 



To prevent Cows from Shedding Milk 330 



Circulation of Sap 33i) 



Hoeing Corn — A Residence in China 381 



Stale Reform School 382 



Insect Destructive to the Apple — Saleratus 383 



Ferry's Patent Cress-Cut Feed Cutter 3=3 



Much L ibor on Little Land— War — Extracts and Replies. 384 



How the Water Boiled away from the Potatoes 985 



Prospects ol the Season — Communication of Ideas, &c 387 



Manure for Laying Down Grass Lands 387 



Preserving Timber — The Fable of the Rain Drop 386 



Agriculture in France 388 



Setting I'osts- Canada Thistles — Lime from Gas Works.. 389 



Boy's Department 3?9 



Ladies' Department 390 



ILLUSTRATxONS. 



Application of Wind as a Power for Raising Water 353 



French Buck "Matchless" 369 



Garden Shears 377 



Black Tartarean Cherry 385 



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Fruit anil Ornamental Trees, 



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Movable Comb Hive, 



(Patented Oct. 5th, 1&52.) 



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 brood froiTi stronger ones; queenless colonies supplied; the 

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