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Small-fruits, profit on, 47, 48, 50, 55. 



Smith, Arthur A., paper by, on sheep and lambs, 202, 216. 



Smith, John M., address, on husbandry and commerce of neat-stock, 1G-38. 



Soap-factory refuse, composition of, 336. 



Soil of the Connecticut Valley ami Deerfield meadows, 10. 



Southern corn compared with Northern and Western, 244, 247. 



Specialties in farming, 47, 54. 



Stock on the farm, 18, 20, 205, 370, 372, 376. 



feeding of the, 20, 54, 101, 107, 122, 401. 

 Strawberry, chemical analysis of the, 367, 368. 



experiment with the, 47, 368. 

 Sugar, foreign importation of, 378. 

 Sugar-beet, analysis of the molasses of the, 395. 



residue of the root of, 397, 399. 

 juice of, 393. 

 harvesting the, 388. 



manuring lands for the, 381, 382, 383, 407. 

 paper on the, 378, 402. 

 rotation required by the, 381. 

 selection of varieties of, 379, 384, 387. 

 size of the, 381, 384, 386, 391, 407. 

 soil for the, 379, 380, 402. 

 sowing the seed of the, 386. 



value of the leaves of the, for fertilizing and feeding, 400, 401. 

 value of the refuse pulp of the, for feeding, 398. 

 yield of the, 390, 393. 



juice of the, 388, 392. 

 Superphosphates, chemical analysis of ammoniated, 322, 324. 



applied to grape-vines, 347, 352. 

 Swamp-lands, reclaiming of, 292, 296, 298, 300. 

 Swiss cattle, qualities of the, 115, 123. 

 Sweet-corn, composition of, 240, 245, 247, 255. 



best for a green fodder crop, 168, 254. 



Thermometer, use of, in the dairy, 156. 

 Tile drains, economy of, 261, 297, 299, 300. 

 Top-dressing of grasslands, 51, 58, 62, 65, 272. 

 Transportation of dairy products, 35, 137, 140. 

 Trees, trimming of fruit, 275. 

 Typhoid-fever, cause of the prevalence of, 77. 



Uuder-drainage, methods and profit of, 260, 261, 292, 294, 298. 



Ventilation in farmhouses, directions for healthy, 87, 89, 280. 

 Virgil on farming, 93, 94. 



"Water, how to obtain pure drinking, 78, 82. 



Ware, Benjamin P., essay by, on reclaiming swamp-lands, 292, 300. 



Webster, Richard, paper by, on his farming experience, 257, 282. 



Wells, pollution of, 78, 80, 82. 



Weeds, struggle against, 49, 64. 



Western compared with Northern corn, 244, 247. 



Wild and cultivated fruits differ in composition, 345, 352, 354, 367, 368. 



Winter work on the farm, 274. 



Wool, points to be considered in buying, 13, 216, 218, 221. 



