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INDEX. 



Cold grapery, 312. 

 Collette, C. Hastings, his patent, 76 

 Composition of salt for dairy purposes, 188. 

 Corn and cob mill, 123. 



and cob meal, 365. 



grinder and "crusher, 121. 



planter, 104. 



planters, improvement in, 99. 



sheller and winnower, 120. 



shellers, thrashers, Ac., patents for 1855, 392. 



stalks, machine for cutting, 22. 



stalks, manner of removing, 22. 

 Cotton-cleaner, 25. 



cleansing of Sea-island, 22. 



consumption and manufacture of, 236. 



fibre, its length, 233. 



plant, diseases of, 235. 

 its enemies, 234. 

 and its varieties in the U. S., 231. 



rafting of, 23. 



rope becomes smooth by use, 23. 



rope stronger than manilla, 23. 



saw-gins, improvement in, 22. 



seed-cake as food for cattle, 197. 



stalks, machine for cutting standing, 24. 

 Cows, blanketing of, 365. 

 Cranberry, cultivation of, 324. 

 Cream, proportions of, in milk, 60. 

 Crops, those benefited by plaster, 172. 

 Cultivator, improved, 90. 



improved rotary, 88. 



rotary, 91. 



two-horse, 91. 



Cultivators, patents for 1855, 389. 

 Currants, new varieties of, 327. 

 Cutting pot, materials for, 304. 



DAIRY implements, patents for 1855, 392. 



salt best adapted for, 188. 



stock, management of, 359. 

 Dana's hand corn-planter, 98. 

 Dederick's improved hay-presses, 66. 

 Deodorizing properties of charcoal, 212. 

 Dickey's patent butter-mould, 59. 

 Dietz & Dunham's reaper and mower, 109. 

 Digging machine, Gibson's, 81. 

 Dioscorea batatus, or new Chinese potato, 286. 

 Domestic fowl, and other hybrid species, 352. 

 Downing, biographical notice of, 5. 

 Drainage, land, experience in, 163. 

 Draining of Lake Fucino, 143. 

 Droughts, benefit of, 182. 

 Duplex safety rein, 37. 



EDISTO ISLAND, cotton gin in use there, 22. 



Education, agricultural, 7. 



Egan, T., improvement in dressing flour, 33. 



Egg-hatching, artificial, 47. 



Eggs, arrangement for holding, 48. 



of fishes, transportation of, 351. 

 Elastic horse-shoes, 36. 

 Ellis <fe Gordon, excavating machine, 94. 

 Ellsworth, H. L., experiments of, 87. 

 Excavating machine, 94. 



Exhibition of the natural productions of Illinois, 

 12. 



of Royal Agricultural Society, 12, 13. 

 Experiments with manures, 162. 



FACT in manuring, 157. 



Farinaceous aliment obtained from straw, 198. 



Farmers should give heed to science, 21. 



Faucet, improved, 49. 



Feeding, experiments in, 216. 



Felton, A., improved mill, 120. 



Fence, cost of, to fence the country, 126. 

 Fences, wire, 127. 

 Fenwick's corn-planter, 101. 

 Fibres, two new ones from Brazil, 247. 

 Fibrous vegetable substances, 243. 

 Field fence, 128. 

 Fields, G. B., patent of, 91. 

 Fish, artificial propagation of, in Ohio, 347. 

 breeding in France, 350. 



growth of, 350. 



propagation in Ohio, 16. 



Fisheries, legislative enactments re-creating, 351. 

 Fiskie's steam plow, 79. 

 Flax -breaking and scutching machine, 25. 



dressing machine, Caryl's, 25. 



gases evolved in steeping, 210. 



industry in Russia, 240. 



recent improvements in its preparation, 25. 

 Floral fete at the London Crystal Palace, 13. 

 Flour barrel, ventilating, 32. 



bolts, feeding, 34. 

 Flour, machines for dressing, 33. 

 Flouring and bolting, improvements in, 34. 



mills, 124. 

 Flowers, odors of, 207. 



their effect on the air of rooms, 226. 

 Food, new articles of, 20. 



new, for sheep, 365. 

 Forbush's machine, 111. 

 Ford's improved granary, 29. 

 France, amount of wine consumed there, 72. 

 French industrial exhibition, 13. 



agricultural department, 13. 

 Fresh meat, experiments on the preservation of, 



203. 

 Fruit, cultivation of, in New York, 13. 



drying of, 133. 



preservatory, 46. 



the ripening of, 338. 

 Fruit-trees, cultivation of, 336. 



improvements in raising, 337. 



influence of locality on, 229. 



manuring of, 146. 



protection of, 230. 



rotation of, 262. 

 Fruits, the gathering and preservation of, 337. 



GAGE, J. S., clover-gatherer, 108. 

 Gale, W., improved straw-cutter, 106. 

 Gang plow, 87. 

 Garden pot, new, 305. 

 Gas lime, value of, 147. 



and water pipes, improved joints for, 50. 

 Gate, self-acting, 129. 

 Germination, effect of colored light on, 208. 



of seeds, 280. 



Gibbs' & Mapes's rotary spade, 81. 

 Gibbs, Griffith & Co., grain warehouse of, 28. 



L. H., invention of, 81. 

 Gibson's digging machine, 81. 

 Goodman's improved axle-box, 41. 

 Gore, Ezekiel, patents and improvements, 58, 61. 

 Grafted chestnut-trees, 265. 



plants, 314. 



Grafting, interesting facts in, 220. 

 Grain and grass harvesters patents, 1855, 390. 



and grass-seed headers and harvesters, 108. 

 Grain, method of feeding, to millstones, 122. 



mills, portable, 122. 



should be cut, when, 195. 



and seed-cleaners and winnowers, 119. 



and smut machines, 120. 



transported in barrels, economical, 27. 



transportation of, 26. 

 Granaries, improvements in, 27. 



