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Conttnts of tliijg Numiitr. 



Principles of Improving Domestic Animals 20H 



Health and its Preservation 



How shall we Improve our Agriculture 206 



Turnip Culture 207 



Useful Recipes 208 



To Destroy Caterpillars 20t 



Potatoes 20t 



Swamp Muck 20f 



"The Little Busy Bee" 211 



Geese 211 



How to prevent Smut in Wheat 21! 



Hiving Bees _. .- 21; 



The importance of Deep Cultivation 21^ 



Wheat a semi-tropical Plant 21J 



To preserve Flowers, Leaves, and Fruit from Caterpillars 211 



Guttapercha 211 



Experiments in Land Drainage 21! 



What Meat loses by Cooking 21! 



Bird Islands 2a 



Cure for Rheumatism 22' 



A Thriving Farm 22 



HORTICDLTUBAL DEPAHTME.NT. 



The Horticulturist.... 22 



Hints to Purchasers of Trees, Seeds, etc 22 



Rural Cemeteries 22 



The Hawthorn 22 



Remedy for the Curculio 22 



Geraniums _ 22- 



LADIES* DEFAJtTMEXT. 



Hints to Housewives 22r 



Dietetic Buds and Young Shoots 22(' 



Animal Foods - 22» 



A Touch of Nature 22^ 



Stains upon Cotton or LinenGooda 22' 



Washing Silver 22* 



To Cement Broken China 22'.' 



EDITOR'S TABLE.' 



A Backward Season 221' 



The State Agricultural Exhibition 221 



Rhode Mind Horticultural Society 22! 



Chufas or E.arth Almonds 22t 



Milk Sidiness 22f 



Vienna Plaster 



Notices of New Books, Periodicals, etc 22t 



Answers to Inquiries ., 221 



fLLUSTRATIOWa. 



Aborigines Gathering Gutta Percha 216 



Flower, Fruit, and Stem of Percha Tree 21 J 



