INDEX. 



999 



Page. 



Plumbago 708 



Plums 4ti 



how to secure a good crop .... 69, 340 



Plum trees, insects on 196 



Pneumatic express 7.32 



Podura scale « 82fi 



Pork barrels 299 



is it unwholesome SO 



Potato bugs 132, 200 



Potatoes 70, 110, 112, 392 



disease of 114 



early 259, 272 339 



how to raise 320 



improvement in 112 



new seedling 375 



origin of 345 



planting of 344 



six best varieties of 406 



starch in 7415 



sweet 227 



wintering of 284 



Poultry, treatment of... 369, 374, 377, 448 



foreign 388 



Power, new mode of communicating .... 486 

 Preliminary statement for subscription 

 paper presenting the claims of the 



American Institute 32 



Premiums awarded for fruits, flowers 



and vegetables 19 



Premiums awarded for horse hay forks, 31 



Preserving by vacuum 734 



Printing machine 880 



Privies, how to build 186 



Proceedings of the Farmers' Club.. 42, 424 

 Proceedings of the Polytechnic Associa- 

 tion 425, 982 



Product from half an acre ..... 322 



Prunes 236 



Pruning, summer. . ■ 308 



Prussian needle-gun 648 



Psychrouieter 936 



Pumpkin and pumpkin seeds 277 



Pyrotechnics 540 



Q. 



Quarternions (misprinted "quarter- 

 mores ") 471 



Quinces 46 



a new use for 197, 240 



Quinn on pear culture 200 



selling vegetables by weight.. 371 



the culture of carrots 149 



celery 233 



parsnips 148 



pear 310 



E. 



Kadishes 70 



Rain, colored 967 



fall of 1866 117 



Rails, double 970 



Raspberries 46, 366, 378 



blight on 293 



Raspberry, Fuller's premium for the 



best 320 



Rats 347 



Raw bone fertilizer 408 



Rays, persistence of 615 



Razors . 572 



Reaping by machinery,early attempts at 316 



Page. 



Red bud or Judas tree 115 



Report of the Board of Managers on spe- 

 cial exhibition of fruit, flowers and 



vegetables 17 



Report of the Board of Trustees 3 



committee on admission of 



members 16a 



committee on agriculture. 9 



finance 7 



hortici'lture 11 

 committee on manufac- 

 tures, science and art.. 13 

 on Rowell's valve for steam en- 

 gines 14 



the Amsden hydrostatic scale 15 



Alden's horse hoe 251 



Campbell and Labaw's truck 



springs 411 



Durand's seedling strawberry 177 

 Fithian k Young's rotary ami 

 cutting plow or earth pul- 

 verizer 210 



Lenox's potato digger 249 



Leroy's nursery at Augers, 



France 37 



Neshwitz's self raker 282 



Respiratory apparatus 921 



Rhigolene 501 



KhiBudine 592 



Khuburb 46, 71 



wine 396 



Rinderpest 402 



Rings, primitive 678 



Rocks, crystalline 805 



Roofing material 301, 433, 462 



Roses, culture of 179, 303 



Rowell's balanced steam valve... . 487, 434 

 new mode of communicating 



power 487 



Rowland's new plow coulter 236 



Rowing, work done in 619 



Rows, the best direction to run 405 



Rubidium 459 



Rules and regulations of the Farmers' 

 Club 42 



s. 



Saccharine body, anew 609 



Safety fender for horse cars 970 



Saiford's cattle stanchion 332 



Saleratus 542 



Salsify 71, 353 



Salt marsh turf 265 



for cattle 272 



as a manure 98, 296 



Saltpetre 630 



Sapo);ification 887 



Satellites of Jupiter 681 



Saturn 681 



Uranus 682 



Scurvy, treatment ol' 888 



Sea kale 352 



Sea weed, treatment of 617 



Seckel pears from Illinois 212, 241, 279 



Secor's hay fork 413 



Sediment, ocean 599 



^■;eeds and the ground they will occupy. 73 



distribution of 401, 412 



from Japan 215 



planting of 95 



report of the Secietary on., 186, 401 



