6S6 INDEX. 



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 Hogs and pork packing, &c. — Continued. 



English meats - 214 



Field feeding 202 



Histon- of pork packing in Chicago 2U7 



Hog raising 201 



Hog taming 205 



Individual practice 205 



JIarketing ho^s 204 



Method of killing 211 



Plan of hog house and yards 204 



Points of a good hog 198 



Porlc packing at Terro Haute, Indiana 209 



Price of com and pork 203 



Sufl'olks ■- 201 



Symptoms of disease 207 



Table of prices of live and dressed hogs in Chicago during 18G3 209 



Table of current prices of provisions at Chicago during ld(>3 and 1864 210 



The cutting up process 212 



The curing room 213 



Lard house 212 



Otial, manner of disposal 214 



Homestead law, benefits of, in Minnesota 35 



Honey bee, importation of and general history 530, 531, 532, 533, 534 



Horses, American, iu England 1G4 



Cavalry 159 



Best breeds of 162 



Conestoga 175 



Horses and mules in army June 30, 1862 190 



Hot beds for farmers' gardens 345 



Houses, their location and construction 313 



House plants, article on, by Kuth Hall, Chicago, Illinois 366 



Aster, Cape 377 



Auriculas 376 



Azaleas, Chinese 373 



Bouquets, winter 880 



Cactus 37] 



Calla, Ethiopian 370 



Camellia 368,369 



Carnations 374 



Cissus discolor : 373 



Cut flowers, arrangement of 379 



Ferns 375 



Geraniums 372 



Hints on management of 378 



Ice plant 377 



Influence of cultivation of 366, 367 



Insects injurious to 379 



Lily, blue African 377 



Lily of the valley 376 



Mignonette 375 



Noty lia albida 376 



Passion flower ^- 368 



Preserving flowers, recipe for *. 380 



Eoses, monthly 369, 370 



Spirea, Japan 368 



Tcmperatme required for 368 



Treatment of 374 



Tuber rooted plants 377 



Verbenas 367 



Veronica 372 



Violet 378 



AVatering 368 



Wax plant, ( Hoya) • 373 



Window culture of 373 



Zebra plant, {Maranta Zehrina) 370 



Howard, Sanford, on Ayrshire cattle 193 



Hummingbird 281-293 



Hyacinths 373 



