Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man .— Washington*. 
VO I* X._ NEW YORK, JUNE, 1851. _NO, VI. 
A. B. Allen & R. L. Allen, Editors. C. M. Saxton, Publisher. 
THE 
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CONTENTS OF JUNE NUMBER. 
Virtues of Milk ; A Jaunt in Ohio, No. 3, A Visitor. 170 
Sheep in the Rio Grande. .. . 172 
Horses in Belgium; Side-hill Ditching and Level Cultiva- ) |~<> 
tion. ) 
Shoulder Lameness. 174 
Brown Corn, II.; Experiments in Oats and Barley; Value ) 
of Sewerage Water.... i 
Apparatus for Branding; German Agriculture. 17G 
The Purik Sheep of Thibet; Bathing; Cotton-Sweep Culti- ) 
vator; An English Bull; Worthless Furniture.£ ' 
Pork—Bacon—ITam, No. 3. 178 
Kentucky Farming and Cattle Shows, A. S. M. 170 
Piank Roads; Suggested Remedy for the Potato Rot; ) 
Charred Posts...4 
A New Draining Plow; The Shorthorn Cow Grace. 183 
John James Audubon. 185 
A Chapter on Fowls, Lewis F. Allen. 187 
Review of the April Number of the Agriculturist, Review- \ 
er... i 
Cheap Virginia Lands; Morgan Hunter. 132 
Fowl Breeding, T. B. Miner. 193 
Foreign Agricultural News.. 134 
Editors’ Table. 19 5 
Review of the Market.... . 136 
