ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



IX 



AMERICAN 



APPLE 



1854 (Pt. 1), 150; 1875 (Pt. 1), 154, 158, 

 269. 

 American guano or poultry manure, 

 value of, 1855 (Pt. 2), 67, 74; 1858 

 (Pt. 2), 301; 1867 (Pt. 1), 184, 185, 199; 

 1872 (Pt. 1), 184, 185; 1873 (Pt. 1), 

 318; 1876 (Pt. 1), 77. 



— horses, history, characteristics, and 

 value of, 1857 (Pt. 1), 78, 87; 1859 

 (Pt. 2), 255; 1860 (Pt. 1), 183, 187; 

 1863 (Pt. 2), 168, 169, 205; 1806 (Pt. 

 1), 91; 1867 (Pt. 2), 168, 170; 1873 (Pt. 

 1), 6, 57-59; 1875 (Pt. 1), 76, 77. 



demand for, in England, 1875 



(Pt. 1), 224. 



— improved Devons, characteristics 

 of, 1875 (Pt. 1), 224. 



— labor, position of, 1868 (Pt. 2), 33 

 37. 



— reaping-machines, trial of, in 

 France, 1855 (Pt. 1), 91. 



— robin, habits and food of the, 1865 

 (Pt. 1), 102, 106, 109. 



— mania for large farms, 1870 (Pt. 2), 

 1, 8, 10, 13. 



— trotting-horses, characteristics of, 

 1870 (Pt. 1), 120, 121, 



Ammonia, position and value of, as a 

 fertilizer, 1856 (Pt. 1), 225, 226; 1868 

 (Pt. 1), 97, 262, 263. 



— sources of, 1868 (Pt. 1), 97, 99, 263. 

 Ammoniated superphosjjhate and its 



value, 1876 (Pt. 1), 269; 1877 (Pt. 1), 

 323. 

 Amount of capital needed for success 

 in farming, 1874 (Pt. 2), 1, 6, 9. 



— of pork in one hundred pounds of 

 corn, 1874 (Pt. 1), 132-135. 



Anaheim, Cal., history of communis- 

 tic society in, 1875 (Pt. 1), 61, 62. 



Analyses of soils, importance of, 1853 

 (Pt. 2), 449. 



— of grasses, 1856 (Pt. 1), 82, 126, 129, 

 132. 



Ancestral transmission in breeding, 

 laws of, 1864 (Pt. 1), 132, 136. 



Andrew, Gov. John A., views of, on 

 the establishment of an agricultural 

 college, 1864 (Pt. 1), 44, 47, 51. 



Ancon sheep, origin of the, 1870 

 (Pt. 1), 115. 



Angora goat, characteristics and 

 value of, 1867 (Pt. 1), 78, 



— wool, qualities of, 1867 (Pt. 1), 78. 

 Animal fat, production of, 1861 (Pt. 1), 



38, 39, 93. 95. 



2 



Animal life, chronology of, 1866 (Pt. 



1), 77, 78. 

 affected by climate, 1854 (Pt. 1), 



80; 1863 (Pt. 1), 58. 

 salt as a promoter of, 1869 (Pt. 1), 



31. 



— dust. See Abattoir. 



— manures, use and value of. See 

 Fertilizers. 



Animals and plants, their functions 

 shuilar, 1869 (Pt. 2), 35, 36. 



— dead, are quickly decomposed, if 

 buried in a manure-heap, 1864 (Pt. 

 1), 230. 



— humane destruction of, 1873 (Pt. 1), 

 234, 240, 245. 



— structure and growth of domesti- 

 cated, 1873 (Pt. 1), 222, 228, 234. 



— native of Massachusetts, 1861 

 (Pt. 1), 137, 192. 



— selection of, for breeding-purposes, 

 1866 (Pt. 1), 95; 1867 (Pt. 1), 23, 30. 



Annual spear-grass, characteristics 

 of, 1856 (Pt. 1), 11, 43, 120, 126. 



Apparatus for testing the lifting- 

 power of the squash, description of 

 the, 1874 (Pt. 1), 219. 



Apple, best varieties of the, 1859 (Pt. 

 1), 67; 1862 (Pt. 2), 165; 1867 (Pt. 1), 

 258, 259; 1875 (Pt. 2), 103; 1876 (Pt. 1), 

 19, 20, 38, 42, 46; 1877 (Pt. 1), 307. 



— antiquity of the, 1867 (Pt. 2), 85. 



— home of the, 1868 (Pt. 1), 81. 



— seeds, position of, in the fruit, 1877 

 (Pt. 1), 63. 



— insects attacking the, 1801 (Pt. 2), 

 91; 1868 (Pt. 2), 102; 18G4 (Pt. 1), 143, 

 147, 151, 157, 222; 1874 (Pt. 1), 348; 

 1869 (Pt. 1), 2J5; 1870 (Pt. 1), 362. 



— the, the fruit best adapted for gen- 

 eral cultivation in New England, 

 1853 (Pt. 2), 426. 



— where and when first planted in 

 this country, 1853 (Pt. 1), 38. 



— number of varieties of, in use, 1854 

 (Pt. 2), 90. 



— list of varieties of, recommended 

 for cultivation in Massachusetts, 

 1859 (Pt. 1), 100; 1861 (Pt. 2), 216: 

 1862 (Pt. 1), 72; 1866 (Pt. 1), 196, 198, 

 201; 1875 (Pt. 1), 182; 1877 (Pt. 1), 307. 



— premium offered for new winter 

 varieties of, 1877 (Pt. 2), 53, 54. 



— deteriorates in quality and quanti- 

 ty with increase of age of varieties, 

 1877 (Pt., 2), 57. 



