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Bv  ELBERT  S.  CARMAN. 
Editor  of  The  Rural  New-Yorker. 
,  Originator  of  the  Foremost  of  Potatoes— Rural  New 
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Injurious  Insects,  with  preventives  and  remedies. 
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