8 pages. Vignette of spead winged eagle at the top of the masthead. Illustration on the front page of a Farm Cottage. Mainly a farming related newspaper with numerous such articles: Application of Manure. Merino Sheep vs Natives. Culture of Wheat. Thirteenth Agricultural Meeting at the State House. Carbon and Carbonic Gases. Farmers Try Experiments. Can Plants Avoid Poisons. Disease Among Fowls. The Potato Onion. Colonel John C. Fremont and His Expedition. Essex Mining and Trading Company. News From California. The American Indian. The Massachusetts Legislature. Cholera on the Rio Grande. Case of the Ship Franklin. The African Slave Trade. Gold Mining vs. Agriculture. Capital Punishment. The Wilmington Tragedy. Mosaic Account of the Creation. The Markets, and more. Light wear and age toning.
