1000 



INDEX. 



Page. 



Seed, ripe vs. immature 113 



sowing of '^92 



testing of 199 



Semaphores, French 745 



Septa of India rubber 764 



Shark's teeth 257 



Shaw & Justice's steam hammer 467 



Shellmarl 294 



Sheep, diseases of 252 



shedding wool 392 



washing of 93 



Shoes with wooden soles 197, 496 



Silica in corn-stalks 592 



Filver, color of deposited 748 



hardness of 592 



Silvering paper 629 



Silver's excelsior broom 126, 4U7 



Slag, blue color of 630, 706 j 



a substitute for emery 673 



Slate, bituminous 91 , 



Slater's fruit ladder 376 | 



Sleeping rooms 106, 139 ; 



Smith's farm gate 92 



Smoke question 829 



Snakes 320 



Snow in 1867 886 



Soap bubbles, tough 667 



vegetable 595 



Soda, carbonate of 607 



lye, manufacture of 882 



Soiling cattle 337 



Solar focus as a medical agent 707 



heat 825 



observations, errors in 732 



. spectrum, map of 847 



system, formation of 672 



Solid, new artificial 665 



Sorghum 350, 628 



culture in China 255 



planting of 97 



value of 291 



Spaces, interplanetary 679 



Spark, effects of the 706 



Spectacles, metallic 693 



Spectra of heavenly bodies 669 



Spectral lines 644 



Spectrum, analysis by the 711 



of water vapor 846, 908 



Speech, vowels in 602 



Spiders, are they injurious to farmers, 215 



394 



Spinach 71, 83, 365 



Spring, a remarkable 847 



first work in 324, 339 



Seltzer of Saratoga 875 



Springs for heavy wagons 390, 412 



Squashes 72 



Squires on the preservation of fruits and 



vegetables 169 



Stables, basement 393 



Stanyan's bread mixer 297 



Star, the burning 749 



Starr's improved horso-power 356 



Starch in potatoes 746 



Steam boiler 768, 855 



engine, Avery's reacting 554 



hammer 467 



indicator 576 



plowing 934 



power on canals 644 



spader 88 1 



Steamers, Atlantic 595 



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Stereotype machine 880 



Stevens on denudation and transporta- 

 tion in Surface Geology 434 



Stock, care of 341 



Strawberries 199, 379 



best soil for 133 



in Illinois 140 



new varieties of.. 149, 157, 177 



Strawberry vines, barren 146 



mulching of 134 



exhibition at Hammonton, 



N. J 150 



Straw-cutters, trial of 388 



Street car, Taylor's 498 



Studies, natural course of 944 



Submarine cables 939 



Sugar from beets 318,743,751. 775 



separating of 591 



Sulphuric acid in vinegar 591 



Sun, nature of the 802 



Swine, breeding of 358 



Syrup from Indian corn 89 



Tallow tree 748 



Tan bark, the way to use 147 



Tape worm, a remedy for 297, 412 



Taxidermy 206 



Telegraph cable 766, 918 



Telegraphic 731 



Telegraphing by light 573 



Temperature in rooms 624 



Tetra chloride of carbon 556 



Thallium glass 669 



perchlorate of 667 



Thompson's portable fence 125 



Thread from cotton stalks 825 



Timothy hay, when to cut, 84, 121, 162, 165 



209, 229 



Tin lined lead water pipe 394 



Toads, a plea for the 181 



Tobacco smokers, hints for 569 



substitute for 871 



Tomato as food 118 



Tomatoes 72, 261 



trellises for 142 



Torpedo, use of in oil wells 646 



Tree hopper 112 



planting 266, 367 



Trees, moving large 132 



of Australia 626 



on an acre of land 76 



the highways 115 



spontaneous growth of 229 



white washing 137 



Trial of horse hay forks, March, 1867 . . 26 



Trichina 79 



Tuning forks 746 



Turnips 72 



Tusacks, or bogs, pulverizing of 317 



u. 



United States, great basins of the 831 



growth of the 844 



Uranus satellites 699 



Vacuum test 734 



Van Hoesen's sash stopper and lock .... 336 

 Vapor of water, heat absorbing power of 547 



