CONTENTS. 



Preliminary 9 



Our Creed 10 



Almanac for the Year 11 



Educated Farmers 20 



A n Acre of Words about Aker 23 



Farmer's Library 27 



Nine Mistakes 29 



Agricultural Societies 80 



Shiftless Tricks 33 



Electro Culture 86 



Single Crop Farming 39 



Improved Breeds of Hogs and Cattle. 41 



Absorbent Qualities of Flour 44 



Portrait of an Anti-Book Farmer 46 



Good Breeds of Cows 50 



Cutting and Curing Grass 53 



Country and City 65 



Lime upon Wheat 56 



Culture of Hops 68 



White Clover 60 



Plowing Corn 61 



Clean out your Cellars 64 



When is Haying over ? 66 



Laying down Land to Grass 67 



Theory of Manure 71 



Fodder for Cattle 73 



The Science of Bad Butter 75 



Cincinnati, the Queen City 79 



Care of Animals In Winter 83, 1G5 



Winter Nights for Reading 85 



Feathers 65 



Nail up your Bugs 87 



Ashes and their Use 90 



Hard Times ... .02 



Gypsum 93 



Acclimating a Plow 93 



Scour your Plows Bright 95 



Plow till it is Dry and Plow till it is Wat. 96 



Stirring the Soil 97 



Subsoil Plowing 93 



Fire-Blight and Winter Tilling 99 



Winter Talk 101 



" Shut your Mouth " 103 



Spring Work on the Farm 104 



Spring Work in the Garden 107, 214 



Fall Work in the Garden 112 



Guarding Cherry-trees from Cold 113 



Shade Trees 114, 174 



A Plea for Health and Floriculture. . 117 



Keeping Young Pigs in Winter 120 



Sweet Potatoes 121 



Management of Bottom Lands 121 



Cultivation of Wheat 124 



Pleasures of Horticulture 136 



Practical Use of Leaves 187 



Spring Work for Public-spirited Men . 140 

 Farmers and Farm Scenes in the West . 142 



Ornamental Shrubs 14<J 



Gooseberries 140 



Pulling off Potato Blossoms 151 



Blading and Topping Corn 1." - J 



Maple Sugar 153 



Lettuce l.VJ 



Geological Definitions 160 



Draining Wet Lands 162 



Oh dear! shall we ever be done Lying ? . 1 61 



Peep Planting IT," 



Crn and Millet for Fodder 167 



