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Indian method of storing'grain, 6 



" Corn, 4, 15, 19 



" " amount raised, 19 



" " average yield of, 20 



" " mode of planting, 22 



" Barns, 6 



Indians, farming of the, 4 



Labor on the farm, 94 



Land, tillage, 20, 66 



" " decrease of, 68 



" drainage of, 67 



Lands, reclaimed, 66 



Tjarch, Scotch, ........... 73 



Library, Agricultural, . 101 



Livingston, Chancellor, , 8S 



Locust, Yellow, 7$ 



Manures, importance of, ......... . 73 



" mode of increasing, ......... 75 



" loss of, 74, 80 



Merinos, first imported, 88 



Newspapers, 9 



Oats, decrease of, .......... . 31 



Oxen, number of, 82 



•' improvement of, ......... . 2 



Pastures, improvement of, 68, 70 



*' number of acres of, ........ . 69, 70 



Pear Tree, Endicott, 42 



Pine, culture of, .......... . 72 



" transplanting the, .......... 73 



Ploughs, want of in the Colony, ........ 4 



" . Indians surprised at, ........ . 6 



" form of, .......... . ll 



Pork, profit of raising, .......... 92 



Potatoes, statistics of, .......... .3,2 



" disease of, 32 



" nutritive value o^, ........ , 35 



Poultry, 93 



Premiums, awarding of, . . , . . . . . . 103, 122 



Reclaimed Lands, statistics of, ........ . 66 



Report on the Essex Society, 121 



" •' " Middlesex « 124 



it « « AVorcester " 126 



" " " Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden Society, , . . 131 



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