INDEX. 



507 



Page. 



Improving rich garden soil !)9 



India, relative food value of the grain 



of 8f) 



Indian corn 64, 77, 30'J, 349 



Insects, value of 51' 



Institution of civil engineers 374 



Iron •. 487, 4',)5 



best for steam boilers 491 



American and English 425 



building 4(>2 



rnanu faeture of 384 



ship building 373 



value of 464 



J. 



Jacqnard or multifarious perforating ma- 

 chine 374 



Japan rice, ten varieties 124 



Jardiu des Plantes 3 8U 



Jars for plants 3l)l 



Jenkins' cast iron fence posts 303 



K. 



Kaffer Reed 189 



Keeping fruit in winter 96 



Kerosene oil ♦... 424, 426, 430 



Lamas, South American 16 



Land, new, brought into cultivation be- 

 tween New York and Philadelphia. . . . 177 



Langdons (Mrs.) farm 246 



Lawns 344 



Laws for flowers and fruit 57 



Lawton blackberriis 142, 349 



Leather scraps for manure 119 



Library of the Institute 44 



Lime for trees 86, 355 



Liquid manure 218, 299 



List of choice flowers 84 



premiums 30th fair 28 



Lice on phxnts 301 



Live hedges 170 



Locomotive, the first 387 



Locomotives, Yankee, in Egypt 428 



Lunar influence 87, 362 



M. 



Magnolia grandiflora 81 



Management and breeding of cattlo .... 199 



Manur»;, converting straw into 164 



liquid 218, 313, 318 



Manures, application of sewer water, Ac, 



to agricultural productions... 222 



artificial 343, 356 



Manuring grass lands 176 



Manufactured foods for stock 175 



Market garden, planting a 163 



garders, vegetables for 152 



Marl, green land 313 



Measurement of the foot 378 



Mechanics' club, (see Polytechnic asso- 

 ciation.) 



Meigs, Hon. 11., opening address 



(sec Translations.) 



Melons, raising 



Metallurgy 



Miorosoiipe, the 439, 



48 



260 

 .384 

 458 



Milk-weed 164 



Miller s safety steam boiler alarm . ... 35 



Millet 311 



Mineral phosphates 356 



Mistletoe of Great Britain 206 



Molecular impressions by light and elec- 

 tricity 372 . 



Moles 165 



Mortar r 469 



Motive power, electro-magnetism as a . . 389 



Mowing machine, Bullock s 259' 



N. 



Navigation, canal steam 395 



New bee hive 351 



varieties of potatoes 339 



Numbers 493 



Nuts, ground 350 



0. 



Oak, silk worm 126 



Oats 307 



rusty 151 



Observations on the ccrealia 304 



Officers and committees of the Institute. . 3 



Opening address at the 30th fair 48 



Opium, value of 66 



Orchards, renovating old 347, 353 



Ornamental shrubs 255 



trees 256 



Ostrich 203 



Oysters of Virginia 281 



P. 



Painted statuary • 404 



Painters and paintings, great *. . . . 370 



Paper, watcr^proof 476 



Parraffine candles 435 



Paulownia impcrialis 186 



Pavements, fall of horses 383 



Paying out machinery on the Niagara.. 35 



Peach blight 164 



trees 317 



trees, renovation of 342 



wood for fuel 248 



Peas, how to cultivate wiilioutthe weevil 139 

 Pell, K. L., application of sewer water, 



Ac, to agricultural productions 222 



butter making 501 



coal oil 430 



drainage 289, 328 



electricity 483 



clectrotyping 481 



germir.alion of seeds 262 



iron ' 495 



liquid manures 318 



observations on cerealia, bar- 

 ley, oats, rye, Indian corn, 

 rice, buckwheat, and millet 



304, 311 



on the microscope 439 



on the telescope 412 



production, habits Ac, offish, 75 



Pcllham seedling potato 340 



Perpetual raspberries • 150 



Pests of the farm 112, 117 



Phosphates of lime 357 



mineral &c 356 



Photographs on wood 470 



