INDEX. 



Seeds, germination of, 280. 



vitality of, 315. 



Sesquoia gigantea, or great tree of California, 263. 

 Sewage manure, 157. 



Sewerage products for agricultural purposes, 135. 

 Shearman, S., patent of, 122. 

 Sheep, best for New England, 356. 



machine for shearing, 45. 



Tartar or Shanghai, 344. 

 Ship timber, season for cutting, 265. 

 Side-hill plow, Hall's, 83. 

 Silk in California, 368. 

 Silk-worm, new species, 367. 

 Sizing, Indian meal, 120. 

 Snell, B. M., patent plow of, 85. 

 Soda, nitrate of, as a fertilizer, 162. 

 Soil analyses, value of, 175. 



capillary attraction of, 181. 



deterioration of, 215. 



its influence on the action of plaster, 173. 

 Solidified milk, 62. 

 Sorgho, or new sugar-plant, 328. 

 Sowing, modes of, on the production of wheat, 282. 

 Spades and diggers, improvements in, 81. 

 Shade-trees, too many injurious, 268. 

 Sprouted wheat good for seed, 335. 

 Squire, G. L., straw cutter, 107. 

 Stable ventilation, 227. 

 Statistics of barley crop for 1855, 378. 



of cotton in the United States for 1855, 379. 



of hay and grass for 1855, 379. 



of hemp and flax for 1855, 379. 



of Indian corn crop for 1855, 378. 



of oat crop for 1855, 378. 



of patents, 388. 



of peas and beans crop for 1855, 375. 



of potato crop for 1855, 378. 



of rice crop for 1855, 378. 



of rye crop for 1855, 378. 



of wheat crop for 1855, 375. 



of wine production in the United States, for 



1855, 379. 



Steadman, T. S., clover-seed header, 108. 

 Steam for agricultural purposes, 78. 

 Steam-engine, farm, 12, 81. 



Steam-engines, portable, for farming purposes, 11. 

 Steam machinery for cultivating land, 79. 



plow, Fisker's, 79. 



sawing machine, 58. 

 Stewart, Dr., David, on manure, 150. 

 Stock, improving, 364. 



Stouffer, Brough,and Barr, their improvements, 34. 

 Strawberries of 1855, 317. 

 Strawberry culture, 317. 

 Straw-cutters, 106. 



patents for 1855, 391. 



Straw, farinaceous aliment obtained from, 198. 

 Stump-extractor, improved, 56. 

 Sugar, improvements in manufacture, 76. 



maple, tapping of them, 270. 

 Sugett's improvement in treating hemp, 25. 

 Sumach, its cultivation, Ac., 258. 

 Superphosphate of lime for root crops, 160. 

 Swamps, experiments in reclaiming, 218. 

 Sweet-potato vines, new use for, 335. 



TABLE of fruits recommended, 382. 

 Taggart, Samuel, his patent, 34. 

 Tallow from the tallow-tree, 62. 

 Tamarind-tree in Virginia, 270. 

 Tea, Chinese method of scenting, 204. 

 Teddy ing machines, 107. 

 Tennessee cotton, 232. 

 Terra cotta, manufacture of, 50. 

 Thompson, W., patent, 129. 



THE 



Thrasher and grain-separator, 118. 

 Tile-laying machine, 77. 

 | Till, Levi, improved brick, 52. 

 Timber, preserving, 202. 

 Tires on wheels, new mode of securing, 41. 

 Titus's and Fenwick's patent bit, 37. 

 Top dressings, 154. 

 Towers's improved horse-shoe, 37. 

 Traction engine, 80. 

 Transportation of grain, 26. 

 Trees, adaptation of, to economic purposes, 134. 



new mode of transplanting, 282. 



planting of, 271. 



Trifolium incarnatum, or crimson clover, 277. 

 Tropical scenery of the Amazon, 261. 

 Turnip and root-cutter, 106. 

 Turnips, machine for thinning, 77. 



phosphates in, 176. 

 Turpentine, product of the South, 252. 



UPLAND cotton, 232. 



Use of nitrate of soda as a fertilizer, 162. 



VALUE of soil analyses, 175. 



Vegetation, chemical investigation of, 168. 



Vegetable fibrous substances, 243. 



oils in the Amazon and Rio Negro districts. 

 250. 



new sources of, 250. 



textile fibres in China, 246. 

 Vegetables, preservation of, 202. 



use of salt in boiling, 204. 

 Ventilating flour barrel, 32. 

 Vermin, to clean animals and plants from, 363. 

 Vice. T. C., invention of, 35. 

 Vine, limits of its cultivation, 72. 

 Vitality of seeds, 315. 



WAKEFIELD'S seed-planter, 97. 



Walks, weeds in, 188. 



Ware, J. M., his patent, 44. 



Warlick, Noah, his horse-shoeing apparatus, 36. 



Washing machine, frictionless, 49. 



Watering transplanted trees, 269. 



Weather, indicated by animals, Ac., 223. 



prognostications of, 227. 

 Webster, B. B., improvement in window screens, 



Weeds in walks, 188. 



Weevil, prevention of, 374. 



Weigle, J., patent of, 121. 



Wells's patent grass seed-sower, 98. 



Whalen, Seth, improved hay-knife, 104. 



Wheat, corn, <fec., cost of raising, 284. 



methods of sowing, and their effects, 282. 



plant, its origin, 285. 



new mode of increasing its produce, 285. 

 Wheeler, Clark, improved drone-trap, 46. 

 Wheeler's machine, 111. 

 Wick's and Simonton's straw-cutter, 107. 

 Williams's lever plow, 86. 

 Willis, W. W., his stump-extractor, 56. 

 Wilkinson, Prof., 30. 

 Wilson, W. D., patent of, 121. 



Rev. Mr., thrashing machine, 105. 

 Wind, the cheapest power for a farmer, 36. 

 Windmills, self-regulating, 35. 

 Wine, manufacture of, 71. 



in Georgia, 76. 



Wines, aroma of American, 207. 

 Wire fences, 127. 



Wool-growing interest in Tennessee, 15. 

 Wright's reaper, 110. 



YAK, introduction of, into Europe, 343. 

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