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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



■Dairj'inc on Grain Farms 297 



Cheese lor Ensbmd V'JS 



Agricultural Exhibitions 293 



New Jersey State Fair. Illinois State Fair 298 



The Springfield Horse Show 29'! 



Cotton-Seed Cake. Large crop of Rye 299 



Spirit of the Agricultural Press 800 



Late Sown Wheat. Boiled Corn for Hogs and Stock 3 



Breaking Prairie Land. Buckwheat Straw 3i:U 



Sorghum Sugar. Salt for ienco Posts. The Tea Plant 300 



Look to ihe Chests of your Animals 300 



How the Shakers Unload }Iay. The Cattle Disease 8o0 



Feeding Turnips to Cows Si'O 



Design for a Sulmrhan Villa 301 



Wheat from the x.uth 302 



More Good Calves 303 



Notes for the Month— by S. W 304 



An Unpatented .^owing Machine 805 



Notes from Canada 305 



Something about the Musk Duck 800 



Fattening Hog. Where's your Proof? ."!ti7 



New Sandy Land SOS 



Notes from Down East. Salt for Working Oxen 309 



The American Lotus as a Substitute for the Potato 809 



Fa ten Hogs Early. Setting Fence Posts 810 



Weight of Hay for Sheep. Rats 810 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



A Day in a Pear Orchard 311 



A few words on Grapes 311 



Blanching Celery. Grape Mildew in France 312 



Dwarf Apple Trees 812 



American Pomological Society 813 



Neglect of Orchards — The present Fruit season 31.^ 



She ter for an Early Garden Plot 315 



ladies' departmext. 



A Suburban Cottage 310 



Idleness a cause of Disease 810 



Original Domestic Receipts 316 



editor's tadle. 



Great Provincial Fair of Upper Canada,. .. ,, 317 



Notes on the Weather 318 



Items, Notices, &c 818 



Weather and Crops in England, 819 



Inquiries an<l Answers 319 



Books, Pamphlets, &c., Eeceived 320 



REVIEW OF THE M.A.RKETS. 



General Remarks 821 



Market Reports 321, 322 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Design for a Suburban Villa 301 



The Musk Duck 30(5 



Dwarf Apple— the Wagener 312 



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