'.v l TO vt,,v l 
H 
HitTR'Y h QJ^ 
VOR. XXXVII. No. 50. 
WHOLE No. 13 «r. 
PRICE FIVE CENTS. 
8 -i.OO PER YEAR. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, in tie year 1878, by the Rural Publishing Coiupany, in the office of the librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
Jfaim Copies, 
Farmers’ boys hate to work in the garden where 
much hard labor is required, and especially 
when it has to be done at odd times and at noon¬ 
ings. They will follow the team without mur¬ 
muring, but '‘puttering” in the garden among 
beds is another sort of business. This system is 
apt to put the garden in the background, or to 
i put it out of the way altogether. A better place 
and one more in accordance with the boys’ 
tastes, and the fathers’, too, is to have the gar¬ 
den in a field. The corn field, if not too remote 
J from the honse, is a good place. In the field 
often farmers fail to have a good garden, think¬ 
ing they couldn’t epare time from attending to 
the farm crops to prepare the ground and put in 
the seeds. Where this has to be done with the 
spade and by hand labor it is a great deal of 
work and necessitates patience and painstaking. 
AN INNOVATION. 
Wore is always pressing on the farm. And 
NEAY YOK CITY, DEC. 14, 1878. 
imam* 
ili.* 
■^rr- i Mu i. 
' n »■ i*i it, ynM^Mnii 1 Ssi 
> : M •'< 't liiim > 
m&xi *mw. 
BMI 
mps* 
_ • 
8CENR A."T THE INTERNATIONAL DAIRY FAIR 
