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FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY ILLUSTRATIONS. - 
Country Dwellings.—Laying Out Grounds.—What Fruits to 
( boose. — Domestic' Animals. — Emit Culture. — Farm 
Buildings.—Farm Implements.—Blitter and Cheese Mak 
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FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS. 
A Comnlete Country Residence.—Country Houses. — Fruits 
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Workingnum's Cott: ges — Grounds and Greenhouses.— 
Farm Buildings. — Architecture. — l-arm Husbandry.— 
Weeds and Grasses.—Practical Entomology.—Fruits and 
Fruit Culture.—Flowers.—Vegetable Physiology.—Do¬ 
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The artificial incubation of the past and present.—Re¬ 
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Diseased feet in chickens.—Infectious water for chickens.— 
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