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THE AMERICAN FARMER, published
in the city Baltimore, Maryland, commences the
9th volume of the present series the lst July,
1850, (Which will be the 32d Of its existence 1t
is published on the ls OF each month, each number
containing thirty two arge oc' avo pages
Terms: "a per annum six c0pies for IS thir.
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known.
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States well as of Maryland and a spirit of i'm
provement has been aroused, principally through
its instrumenaty in these States, which is effect
ing great revolution in the agriculture thereof
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the new supplies from such sources will be contr-
buttons from the pen of Edmund Ruffin, ESQ.,, of
Virginia, to every number the ensuing volume.
The work of this gentlemon on Calcarous Manures,
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we'd to be the most practical work on farming pub
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