DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE, HORTICUIjTURE, AND KESTDRED ARTS. 



NEW SERIES. 



Boston, January, 1867. VOL. I.— NO. 1. 



R. P. EATON & CO., Publishers, 

 Office, 34 Merchants' Row 



MONTHLY. 



SIMON BROWN, 

 S. FLETCHER, 



Editors. 



AM" OLD FRIEND, IN A NEW DRESS. 

 NCOURAGED h}' the 



unprecedented suc- 

 cess of the weekly 

 New EngljVND Far- 

 mer, since the first 

 of January, I860, the 

 proprietors now re- 

 sume the publication 

 of the monthly edi- 

 tion of the New Eng- 

 land Farmer, and 

 intend to make it one 

 fc=^ of the most vahiable 

 and popular maga- 

 zines of its kind in 

 the country. As will be seen, it is enlarged 

 beyond the size of the old series, is printed on 

 better paper, and will be continually improved 

 by adopting such changes as progress in the 

 art of printing may present. Especial pains 

 will be taken to condense its articles, so as to 

 introduce as much variety as possible upon all 

 the leading branches of agriculture, such as the 

 location and construction of faiin buildings ; 

 the reclamation of lands ; the science and prac- 

 tice of drainage ; the modes of seeding lands ; 

 the cultivation of orchards ; gardening, for do- 

 mestic and market purposes ; the raising of 

 small fi-uits ; bee culture, and the principles of 

 breeding stock, and the modes of feeding and 

 tending, so as to secure the largest amount of 

 growth and profit, with the greatest economy. 



To these will be added notices of the intro- 

 duction of new and valuable farm implements 

 and machinery, such as will be supposed to 

 enable the farmer to produce larger and better 

 crops than heretofore, at a less cost of time and 

 labor. Great as has been the advance in these ' 

 things during the ten years just past, others of 

 much value, if not of equal impoi-tance, will 

 undoubtedly succeed them. As the cost of 

 clothing, groceries, and other articles which 

 the farmer does not produce, increases, so must 

 the products of his fields increase, — but as this 

 will not, probably, be in an equal proportion, 

 he must be constantly advised of the means of 

 producing at the least possible cost, so as to 

 avail himself of all practical labor-saving helps 

 as they are introduced. 



The Monthly Farmer will also be a suita- 

 ble medium through which to disseminate the 

 improvements which are continually introduced 

 in domestic industry, — in the house, as well as 

 in the field. No farm is entirely well conduct- 

 ed, where the kitchen is not well managed. 

 The importance of this department of labor has 

 been somewhat overlooked. Valuable receipts, 

 notices of new things intended for the kitchen, 

 larder, wash-room, dairy, and other portions 

 of the house, are frequently given in the weekly 

 journal, but before they can fairly be consid- 

 ered, the paper becomes lost or destroyed. It 

 is too ephemeral in its nature. But the monthly 

 issue not only disseminates information, but 

 brings it in a foiin where it can be preserved 



