INDEX. 



Marchand's suggestion, 60. 



Maury, Lieut., meteorological observations, 20. 



McFarland's corn-planter, 104. 



Meat for food, relative value of different kinds, 



199. 



Mechi, Mr., and Tiptree Hall, 140. 

 Mell, J. B., bis invention, 25. 

 Meteorology for farmers, 221. 

 Mexican frijoles, 328. 

 Mildew, grape, 195. 

 Milk, solidified, 62. 



Milker's protector, 44. 

 Mills, flouring, 124. 



Mixing of common salt with guano, 160. 

 Mosquito window screen, 55. 

 Mowing and reaping machines, scale for estimat- 

 ing the value of, 114. 



trials of, 110. 



machines vs. scythes, 108. 

 Muck, preparation of, for manure, 152. 

 Mules, 357. 



NATURAL supply of ammonia in ordinary soils, 



161. 



Nesmyth, John, patent of, 127. 

 New method of determining nitrogen, 175. 



theories in agricultural science, 177. 

 Nitrogen, absorption by plants, 166. 



new method of determining, 175. 

 Nitrate of soda and guano on a peat-bog, 163. 



on a peat-bog, 163. 



Nixon's potato-planter and seed-drill, 103. 

 Nordyke & Hunt, patent for dressing flour, 35. 

 Nutmeg of California, 300. 



ODOBS of flowers, 207. 



Oidium Tuckeri, or grape malady, 340. 



Oils, new sources of vegetable, 250. 



Oil-plant, new, 252. 



Olive, propagation of, in the U. States, 334. 



Orange insects, 369. 



Oregon, fruit crop for 1854, 15. 



Ox-yokes, 40. 



Ogster, C. & L. B., their improvements, 39. 



PARKER'S flax-breaking and scutching machine, 



25. 



Parker, Wm. D., his patent, 46. 

 Parmentier, Mr., of Long Island, 73. 

 Pasturage, qualities of, 189. 

 Patents, agricultural, for 1855, 388. 

 Patent office reports, character of, 20. 

 Peach, culture of, 316. 



the yellows of, 316. 

 Pear, Kirtland on, 321. 



new varieties from seed, 318. 

 Pears, grittiness of, 209. 



time for gathering, 322. 

 Pearsal, Thomas, his improvements, 32. 

 Peat-bog, nitrate of soda and guano on, 163. 

 Peckham's cultivator, 91. 

 Phosphate of lime a new test, 175. 

 Phosphates in turnips, 176. 

 Pierce, John B., his improvement, 41. 

 Plantain fibre, cloth made from, 26. 



new mode of preparing, 26. 

 Planting plow, 85. 

 Plants for hanging vases, 294. 



influence of situation on diseases of, 230. 



new, 300. 



under different conditions, 208. 

 Plaster, crops benefited by, 172. 



does not exhaust the soil, 174. 



effect of climate and weather on, 173. 



influence of soil on the action of, 173. 



Plow cultivator, 84. 



improved ditching, 85. 



improvement wanted in, 82. 



Mapes's lifting subsoil, 84. 



subsoil^and trench, 86. 

 Plows, improvements in their construction, 86. 



patents of, for 1855, 388. 



trial of, at Paris Exhibition, 89. 



without plowmen, 87. 

 Plowing, amount of travel, 83. 

 Poetry, its influence on cultivation of flowers, 292. 

 Potato, on the culture of, 287. 



planter and seed-drill, 103. 



seed, 289. 



substitutes for, 19. 

 Potatoes, machine for planting, 101. 



method of storing, 339. 



Powell, T. M., improved ice-cream freezer, 61. 

 Present state of agriculture, 21. 

 Prindle, D. R., patent of, 128. 

 Pumpkins and squashes, 329. 



QUALITIES of pasturage, 189. 

 Quina, cultivation of, in Java, 255. 



RAFTING cotton, 23. 



Rain water, ammonia and nitric acid in, 177. 

 Rakes and harrows, patents for 1855, 391. 

 Ramsay's flexible harrow, 96. 

 Rapeseed-oil, 251. 

 Raspberry, Catawissa, 323. 



Reapers and mowers, trial of, at the French Ex- 

 hibition, 113. 



mowers, and harvesters, 108. 

 Records, uncertainty of preserving, 49. 

 Redick, Wm., corn-planter, 99. 

 Review of prospects and progress of agricul- 

 ture, 7. 



Rhynchospermum.jasminoides, 304. 

 Ricepaper-plant of China, 259. 

 Riddle, Gen., experiments of, 1"83. 

 Robinson, J. A., cultivator, 90. 

 Rollers, wooden, of the Sea-Island cotton-gin, 23. 

 Root crops, cultivation of, 335. 



superphosphate of lime for, 160. 

 Roots and plants, their health essential to their 

 growth, 260. 



preservation of tender flower, 314. 

 Roses, new, 292. 



propagated by cuttings of the roots, 303. 



propagation and winter forcing of, 303. 

 Rugg's mower and reaper, 110. 

 Rural economy, 21. 



pursuits should be directed by science, 21. 

 Russia flax and hemp exportations, 242. 

 Russel, F., mowing machine, 108. 

 Russel's machine, 110. 



SALISBURY, S. M., M.D., experiments of, 182. 

 Salt, composition of, for dairy purposes, 188. 



use of, in boiling vegetables, 204. 

 Saw-gins, improvement in cotton, 22. 

 Saws for cutting cotton-stalks, 25. 

 Scale for combined reapers and mowers, 118. 

 of points in trials of mowers, 117. 



of reapers, 115. 



Science is connected with agriculture, 21. 

 Seabrook, Gov., his experiments, 23. 

 Sea-Island cotton, 232. 



from Algeria, 239. 



for spinning, 239. 



in Texas, 239. 



Sea water, does it kill seeds, 213. 

 Seed-planters, patents for 1855, 389. 

 sower, 98. 



