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THE

NEW ENGLAND FARMER;

A MONTHLY JOURNAL,

DEVOTED TO

AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE,

AND THEIR KINDRED

ARTS AND SCIENCES;

AND ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS.

"What may not enlightened citizens accomplish, who have discarded the false, bustling pleasures of
towns, and, carrying into the country the knowledge they may have acquired, apply to Agriculture the rich
and varied assistance of the physical sciences?"-FOURCROY.

SIMON BROWN, EDITOR.

FREDERICK HOLBROOK AND HENRY F. FRENCH, ASSOCIATE EDITORS.

VOLUME XIII.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY NOURSE, EATON & TOLMAN,

34 MERCHANTS' ROW.

1861.

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HARVARD COLLEGE LITRARY

TRANSFERALD FROM
BUSSEY INSTRUON

1936

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Beds, importance of wholesome,
Bee, wintering the, 84, 136; do frogs eat the,
87; annoyance by the, 99; about the, 121;
how to handle the, 190; Italian queen, 243;
hives, straw, 252; hives and culture of the,
254; effect of chloroform on, 307, 413; har-
vests, 442; wild, hunting in Australia,
Beef and ham, how to salt and proserve, 35;
preparing it for driving,

446

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Cart, horse, 88, 151; body, a new,
Catarrh, cure for the,
Caterpillars, 335; in the garden,

Cattle, remedy for choked, 17, 29, 68, 188, 199,
223; foul foot in, 68, 188; commissioners, 75;
to kill vermin on, 88; disease in, 88, 92, 103;
soiling, 103; running at large, 109; market re-
ports of, 134; digestion of food in, 162; best
for Massachusetts, 187; bedding of, &c., 331;
chewing bones, 383, 556; show, in Concord,
502; a fine pair of,

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Charcoal, 27; burning of,

122

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553

Cheese, a large, 21; pineapple, 44; Berkshire, 286

Carcass, dead, what to do with a,

94

Carrots, value of, 44; how they affect horses,
132, 246; culture of the,

262

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