CONTENTS. 



FMC 



Prelimlnarj 



Our Creed 10 



Almanac for Uie Year 11 



Educated Farmers 20 



An Acre of Words about Aker 28 



Farmer's Library 87 



Nine Mistalce« 89 



Agricultural Societies 80 



gliiflless Tricks 88 



Electro Culture 80 



Single Crop Farming 89 



Improred Breedn of Hogs and Cattle 41 



Absorbent Qualities of Flour 44 



Portrait of an Anti-Book Farmer 46 



Good Breeds of Cows 90 



Cutting and Curing Grass 63 



Country and City 66 



Lime upon \Mieat 66 



Culture of liops 68 



Wliite Clover 60 



Flouring Corn 61 



Clean out your Cellars 64 



When is Haying over ? 6C 



Laying down Land to GruM 67 



Theory of Manure 71 



Fodder for Cattle 78 



The Science of Bad Butter 75 



Cincinnati, the Queen City 79 



Cai e of Animals in Winter 88, 165 



Winter Nights for Reading 85 



Fuathers 85 



Nail up your Bugs 87 



Ashes and their Use 90 



Uard Times 9S 



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Qypram Ofl 



Acclimating a Plow 93 



Scour your Plows Sright 95 



Plow till It b Dry and Plow till It if Wet. 96 



Stirring the Soil 97 



8obw>U Plowing 93 



Fire-BUght and Winter Tilling 99 



Winter Talk 101 



" Shut your Mouth " 108 



5prii>g Work on the Farm IM 



Spring Work In the Garden 107, 214 



Foil Work in the Garden 118 



Guarding Cherry-trees from Cold 118 



Shade Tre«s« 114, 174 



A Plea for Health and Floriculture.. 117 



Keeping Young Pigs in Winter 120 



Sweet PotatoM 181 



Munagement of Bottom Lands 181 



Cultivation of Wieat 124 



Pleasures of Horticulture 136 



Practical Csc of Leaves 187 



Spring Work for Public-spirited Men . 140 

 Farmers and Farm Scenes in the West . 142 



Ornamental Shrubs 146 



Gooseberries 149 



Pulling off Potato Blossoms 161 



Blading and Topping Com 158 



Maple Sugar 163 



Lettuce 15© 



Geological Definitions 160 



Draining Wet Lands 163 



Oh dear! shall we ever be done Lying ? . 16-1 



Deep Planting 167 



Com and Millet for Fodder 167 



