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THE GEKESEE FARMER. 



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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Agricultural Statistics of Canada 201 



" The Value of Manure depends on the Food " 202 



Do Animals c nsurae Food in proportion to their live weight? 203 



Chester Co. Hogs 204 



Spirit of the Agricultural Press 205 



Sheep Washing. Transporting Bees 2i 5 



The Eyes of Horses and Cattle 205 



To kill Vermin on Cattle or Fowls. Tobacco Stalks 205 



A Good Creed for Plowing ,. 205 



Cheap Apparatus f(ir giving Salt to Sheep 205 



Dogs and Bell Sheep 205 



Black Hawks the best Roadsters 206 



. Profits of Fruit 2(i5 



Planting Trees. Profits of Sheep raising 206 



Surface Manuring. Glass fans for Milk 206 



Improving Swine. Profits of Rhubarb 206 



Thick or Thin Seeding of Oats 206 



Ashes Bloody Murrain 206 



Bug-eaten Peas. Best Layers 206 



Short-horns in California 206 



Tree Planting Clubs. Large Calves 206 



English Plows and Plowing 207 



Land for Wheat can be made too fine 208 



Notes from Canada West 208 



la the keeping of Poultry profitable ? 210 



How to get rid of Chicken-Lice, etc 210 



Will it Pay to make Pork 1 A Profitable Dairy 211 



Stock at the Fair of the Royal Agricultural Society, continued 212 



Great Fecundity of I'igs. Wheat at the South 213 



Chester White Hogs 213 



Ri-novating Pastures ^ 214 



Hay-making. What I have Seen 215 



Shall Agricultnre be Taught in our Common Schools ? 216 



Letter from Utah Territory , 216 



HORTICULTUEAL DEPARTMENT. 



Strawberries 217 



Extracts from Correspondence 218 



Bark Louse. Wood-peckers. Cucumber Striped Bug.. 218 



Charcoal on old Orchard Land. Grafting Wax 219 



Extracts from an Essay on " Fruit Culture in theOhioValley" 219 

 Bricks about Melons. Charcoal as a Blanch for Celery 220 



ladies' department. 

 Original Domestic Eeceipts 221 



editor's table. 

 The Cattle Disease in Massachusetts. Notes on the Weather.. 222 



The Weather and the Crops. Items, Notices, &c 223 



Inquiries and Answers 224 



Books, Pamphlets, &c., Received 226 



REVIEW OF THE MARKETS. 



General Remarks 226 



Market Reports 226, 227 



ILLUSTRATIONS. '/ 



The Jenny Lind Strawberry 21T 



Burr's New Pine. Large Early Scarlet 218 



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