INDEX TO ABSTRACT. 



Accounts on the farm, necessity for keeping, 7. 



Adaptation of special crops to certain soils, 7, 48. 



Agricultural papers, value of, 56. 



Apples, reports on, 97, 99. 



Appleton, Francis H., statement of, on fertilizers, 65, 66. 



Barn-cellar, value of a, 9. 

 Barnyard-manure, value of, 49. 

 Bowlders, clearing a farm of, 37, 39. 

 Boys, why they left the farm, 9. 



Cabbages, methods and cost of cultivation and yield of, 109. 



Cattle, neat, management of, 112, 113. 



Characteristics of a good butter cow, 44. 



Chapin, George P., report by, on dairy stock, 117-120. 



Conditions of success on the farm, 28, 36, 47, 51. 



Dairy interests of New England, importance of the, 44. 

 Dairy products, systems of management of, 134, 137. 



stock, characteristics and value of, 13, 44, 45. 

 Drainage, value of, 53. 



Ellsworth, J. T., report by, on farm-management, 55, 58. 

 Emerj', Henry, statement by, on farm-management, 52. 



Farm help, faithful, should be retained, 23. 

 Farming, aids to, afforded by science, 50, 51. 



in New England, condition of, 28, 36, 42, 47. 



becoming more popular, 55. 



source and conditions of success in, 15, 22, 46, 47, 51. 

 Farms, systems of management, 52, 54, 58, 61. 

 Fertilizers, commercial, use and value of, 49, 64, 65, 68, 69. 

 Frost, Professor S. T., address by, on New-England farming restored, 28, 36. 

 Fruit-culture, methods of, 11, 74, 85, 93, 97. . 



Goodrich, James H., report by, on sheep-husbandry, 121, 124. 



Grass, improved time of cutting for hay, 14. 



Gregory, J. J. H., essay by, on clearing a farm of bowlders, 37, 39. 



Hancock, John, statement of, on farm-management, 59, 60. 



Hard times, cause of, 19, 21. 



Hitchcock, Henry E., essay by, on conditions of success on the farm, 47, 51. 



Howe, Joseph, report by, on manures, 64, 65. 



Hubbard, N. S., essay by, on New-England farming, 42, 44. 



Hyde, Alexander, report by, on apples, 97. 



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