INDEX. 



397 



Granary, Ford's improved, 29. 

 Granger's magic corn and cob mill, 123. 

 Grapery, cold, 312. 

 Grape-mildew, 195. 



vines, improvement in the frames of, 305. 

 Grapes ripening earlier than usual, 229. 



and grass cultivation, 277. 



varieties of American, 307. 

 Grass-land, preparation of, 275. 

 Grasses for lawns, 274. 



notes on, 271. 

 Greeley, Horace, his correspondence, 77. 

 Green-house plants for winter bouquets, 295. 

 Griffith, G. R., his cotton-raft, 23. 

 Grinding-mills, 120. 

 Grittiness of pears, 209. 

 Ground cherry, 324. 

 Guano deposits of the Atlantic, 158. 



and nitrate of soda on a peat-bog, 163. 



how to use, 158. 



mixing common salt with, 160. 

 Gum, new American, 254. 

 Gutta percha, production of, 279. 

 Gypsum, agricultural value of, 171. 



analyzed, 173. 



duration of its effect, 173. 



effect of, on the quality of plants, 172. 



quantity of, and time of application, 173. 



Hail, protection against, 225. 



Hallenbeck's machine, 111. 



Hallidav, Danl., improvement in windmills, 35. 



Hall's s'ide-hill plow, 83. 



Hammon, Heman B., invention of, 40. 



Hand thrashing-machine, 105. 



seed-planters, 97. 

 Hanford, W. B., harrow, 95. 

 Harness-buckle, improved, 39. 

 Harrow, flexible, 96. 



roller and seed-planter 96. 

 Harrows, improvements in, 95. 

 Hats, papier-mache, 53. 



Hayes, Dr., on the composition of guanos, 158. 

 Hay-caps, 65. 



knife, improved, 104. 



making, 191. 



presses, improved, 66. 

 Helve fastener, improved, 49. 

 Hemp, Canadian, 246. 



and flax-breaker, Hughes's, 25. 



flax and wool, patents for 1855, 392. 



recent improvements in its preparation, 25. 



Sugett's improvement in treating, 25. 

 Hildreth, G. W., invention of, 87. 

 Hill's combined harrow, roller, and seed-planter, 



96. 

 Hoe, Knox's horse, 89. 

 Hog killing in Cincinnati, 43. 



pens, improvement in, 42. 

 Holwell, W. A., invention of curbing bit, 38. 



invention of safety rein, 37. 

 Hops, new plan of raising, 328. 

 Home, J. V., patent of, 120. 

 Horses, carriages, &c, patents for 1855, 391 

 Horse-chestnut for food, 20. 



flesh for food, 367. 



muzzles, 39. 



neck-yoke, 41. 

 Horse-radish, culture of, 334. 

 Horse-shoe, improved by W. H. Towers, 37. 



shoeing apparatus, 36. 



shoes, improvements in, 36. 

 without nails, 36. 

 Horticulture, 291. 

 Houses, building-stone, 132. 



Hot-beds, construction of, 63. 



cotton waste in, 65. 

 Hughes's hemp and flax-breaker, 25. 

 Human life, period of, 366. 

 Hyde, W. S., invention of, 84. 



Ice-cream freezer, 61. 



Importation of cattle in the United States, 16. 



Indian-meal sizing, 120. 



Indications of weather as shown by animals, &c, 



223. 

 Influence of soil on the action of plaster, 173. 

 Insects, use of red camomile destroys them, 205. 

 Irwin, John L., new invention of, 41. 



Japan pea, 328. 



Jennings's process for improving the quality of 



flax fibres, 25. 

 Johnson, H. M., invention of, 88. 



S. AV., on the value of gypsum, 171. 

 Jones, J. 0., his new patent horse-shoe, 37. 



Keech's and Stillwell's combination fanning 



mill, 119. 

 Ketchum's machine, 110. 

 Kind, Mr., improvements in machinery, 53. 

 King, Mr., invention of, 49. 

 Kirtland on the pear, 321. 

 Knox's horse-hoe, 89. 

 Kroger, A. E., improved harvester, 109. 



Labels, necessity of correct, 50. 



Lake Fucino, draining of, 143. 



Lancaster, P., his patent, 45. 



Land drainage, experience in, 163. 



Lapham's cultivator, 91. 



Lapham, Win., patent of, 110. 



Leach's grain-cleaner, 119. 



Leaf venation, and ramification of the plant, 248. 



Leavitt, Charles, patent of, 122. 



Leavitt's, D., barn, 30. 



Leary, A., his experiments, 76. 



Liberia, agriculture in, 281. 



Liebig, his teachings, 21. 



on phosphates in turnips, 176. 



on the improved manufacture of bread, 199. 

 Liebig's fifty propositions, 183. 

 Lightning, statistics of, 225. 

 Ligneous fibre, and twist of trunks of trees, 247. 

 Lime, refuse, of the gas-works, 148. 

 List of agricultural works, 382. 

 Logs, way to transport, 55. 

 Longworth, Mr., of Cincinnati, 73. 

 Lupton, T. W., improvement in harvesters, 109. 

 Lyon, John, invention of, 85. 



Machine for cutting corn-stalks, 22. 

 Madder, its cultivation, uses, <fec, 255. 

 Maize harvesters, improvements in, 110. 

 Manning's reaper and mower, 109. 



reaper, trial of, 110. 

 Manure, amount of, applied per acre, 161. 



Chinese economy of, 140. 



excavators, 125. 



experiments with, 162. 



liquid, collection and preservation of, 145. 



preparation of muck for, 152. 



sewage, 157. 



subterranean application of liquid, 139. 

 Manures, covered and uncovered, 146. 



nascent, 150. 

 Manuring, a fact in, 157. 



fruit-trees, 146. 

 Mapes's lifting subsoil plow, 84. 

 Mapes, Prof., on soil analyses, 175. 



