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VOLUME XXXI.—No. 4. 
NEW YORK, APRIL, 1872. 
NEW SERIES—No. 303. 
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THE BREAKING UP OF THE ICE ,—Drawn and Engraved for the American Agriculturist.—{See page 127.) 
