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ILLUSTEATIONS. 



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Initial Letter, J, 9 ; Moving Trees, - - 16 



The Crimson Clover, 25 



The Dearborn Seedling Pear, - - - 33 



Initial Letter, A, ----- - 41 



Dcsifjn for a Suburban Residence, - - 48, 49 



Initial Letter, F, 57 



The Spruce Fir, Abies Excelsa, - - - 64 



Tiie Apple Plum, 81 



Initial Letter, E, 89 



A Suburban Eesiclencc, .... 97 



Bucktiiorii for Hedges, - .... 113 



The Muskingum Pear, .... 128 



Initial Letter, L, 137 



Rural Architecture — A Suburban Residence, 144 



A Cylindrical Meat Masher, - - - 161 

 A Cottage Home and Grounds, - - 176, 177 

 Rowc's Patent Drain Tile, - - - 181,182 



Hogle's Rotary Star Harrow, - - - 185 



The Marblehead Drumhead Cabbage, - - 192 



The Delaware Grape, 209 



Pure Cots wold Buck — Dr. Kane, - - 216 



Wood's Improved Mowing Machine, 



The Red Astrachan Apple, - 



An Abused, Old, Sick Horse, 



The Original Black Hawk, - 



A District Schocl House, 



The Buckeye Mowing Machine, - 



Initial Letter, N, - 



The Universal Clothes Wringer, - 



Duncan's New Horse Rake, - 



The Clydesdale Horse, 



The Mammoth Peach, - - - 



Poultry House, and Gronnd Plan, 



The Bunco Strawberry, 



Design for a Village Residence, - 



A New Ventilator, . . . 



Stoddard's Self-Operating Horse 



Cocker, ---... 

 The Bloodgood Pear, . - . . 

 The East India or Shakebag Fowl, 

 A New Sugar Evaporator, . - . 

 Whittemore's Patent Vegetable Cutter, 



Rake 



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POETRY. 



The Wreath I've Got, 17 



Golden Davs of November, ... - 28 



The Cottag-e Under the Hill, ... 37 



I Shall Know Her Again, - . - - 51 



Autumn is Dead, --.--- 74 



If we Knew, 83 



Telling the Bees, 86 



Labor is King, .-.-.. 95 

 Virgil on Agriculture, .... 133, 492 



Hope Memories, - .. ... 175 



Railroad Song, 230 



Sugar Making, 274 



How I Live, - - 308 



The Farmer's Best Friends, - - - - 311 



As you train it, so 'twill grow, ... 339 



Rain, Country, City, - - - - - 351 



The Old Wooden Plow, - - - - 362 



Clover Blossoms, ..... 376 



On the Cross Road by the Mill, - - - 381 



Summer, ....--. 339 



Our Farmers, .--... 399 



The Song of the Flail, .... 421 



The Song of the Rain, .... 427 



Give as you would Take, - - - - 439 



The Weeder, 446 



The Independent Farmer, .... 454 



Farewell Summer, ----- 476 



The Light of the Hearth, .... 430 



A Harvest Hymn, . - - - - 512 



Indian Summer, ...... 523 



Maize and Tol)acco, - . . - . 549 



Ditty of the Meadow Owners, ... 563 



