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of his farm, 62 ; drainage thereof, 

 63-8 ; observations la Italy, 74-6 ; ex- 

 periments in irrigation, 76-7 ; observ- 

 ations in Virginia, 80 ; experience of 

 the plowing of bis plat in New York 

 city,87-8: tries deep plowing,88: plow- 

 ing oi the hill-sides on his farm, 04 ; 

 benefits thereof, 94 ; judges that the 

 gravelly hill-sides of his farm would 

 repay applying 200 tons per acre of 

 pure clay, 108; experience of guano, 

 121 ; raising locust from seed, 134 ; 

 hay product of his farm, 151 ; helps 

 In haymaking from swamps, 152 ; 

 hoed corn in his boyhood, 162 ; ob- 

 servations on the cornfields of the 

 Mississippi valley, 163 ; observations 

 at Chicago twenty-three years ago, 

 164; finds potatoes less prolific on 

 his farm than in New Hampshire, 

 173; speaks as a journalist of the 

 difference in popular estimation 

 between the journalist's and farm- 

 er's calling, 187 ; observations in 

 barren county, N. Y., 191 ; the stone 

 wall on his farin, 218; experience of 

 agricultural exhibitions, 22=; ; the 

 plowing on his farm, 281 ; mentions 

 the sale of his apples as an illustra- 

 tion of the imperfect means of ex- 

 changing farm products, 298. 



GREELEY, the city of, 262. 



GUANO, 1 16, 120, 121, 192, 318. 



GULF STREAM, 178. 



GYPSUM, 120, 121, 122, 174, 233,317,318. See 



alSO 1 EBTILIZEBS, CoKUEECIAL. 



HARLEM RAILROAD, 62. 



HAWK, the, 132. 



HAY, 20, 68, 78, , 95, 119 122, 147. 

 HAT AND HAYMAKING, chap, xxvi, 

 150; importance of the grass crop, 

 i\o ; the portion made into hay, i-w ; 

 Its quantity, 150; the product and 

 quality should be better, 151 ; au- 

 thor's experience, 151 : the manage- 

 ment of grass lands is a criterion 

 of fanning, 152 ; haymaking in New 

 England fifty years ago, i; too 

 little grass-seed is now used, 152; 



England fifty years ago, 



little grass-seed is now 



too little discrimination used in 



sowing grass seeds, 153; the varie- 



ty of good grasses wilrbfl increased, 



3; grass is cut in the average too 

 late, 153; consequences, I^-M; the 

 plea that our farmers are "short- 

 handed in the summer harvest, 154; 

 treatment of grass when cut, 154 ; 

 the author's anticipation of how 

 ha.vmal:ing will yet be carried on, 

 i-f; the r.eed for Improvement In 

 haymaking insisted on 155 ; ex- 

 planation thereof, 155. Also 167, 189, 

 191, 211, 235, 2t8, 291, 306. See also 

 GRASS. 



HAYMAKING. See HAT. 



HEMLOCK, 19, 58, 60, 66, 223, 287, 314. 



HICKORY, 53. 54, 55, 59, 135, 136, 215, 291, 



HOES, 237. ' 249 * 

 HOGS, in. 

 HOLLAND, 238. 

 HOMESTEAD LAW 249. 



HOPS, 164. 



HOUSE.-!, 1^2; carrots as food for, 182. 



HUDSON, the, 16 ; a f;-nit farmer on the. 

 16 ; the valley of the, 165 ; banks of 

 the upper, 191 ; the valley of the up- 

 per. IQ2, 194, 317. 



HUMBOLDT, the river, 81. 

 HUMBOLDT, the, or Canada Creek, 75. 

 HUNGARY, 164. 



ILLINOIS, State of, 37; Northern, 163, 

 164 ; prairies of, 164, 246, 264, 289. 



INDIANA, 37, 163. 



INSECTS INSECTS BIRDS, chap, xxii, 

 129 ; the serious loss to farmers from 

 insects. 129; birds our best allies, 

 129; what good they can do, 130; 

 ravages of insects not entirely due 

 to the scarcity of birds, 130; degen- 

 eracy ot our plants largely causes 

 their ravages, 130 ; Gov. Packer ot 

 Pennsylvania's observations there- 

 on, 130-31 ; the case of wheat and 

 other plants, 131 : a war against in- 

 sects must continue for a genera- 

 tion, 131 ; the destruction of birds, 

 132 ; the measures to be adopted 

 against insects, 132 ; birds should ba 

 preserved, 132; associations should 

 be formed to do so, 132 ; artificial 

 nests, 133 ; legal measures proposed, 

 133; their ravages in Newcastle 

 township, Westchester, N. Y., 147-8 ; 

 caterpillars, 1481 numerous from 

 neglect, 148 ; duties of farmers and 

 fruit growers, 149. 



INTELLECT (in Agriculture) INTEL- 

 LECT IN AGBKTCLTUBJS, chap, xxxiii, 

 195 ; years of rugged manual labor 

 essential to success in hewing a 

 farm out of the forest, 195 ; value of 

 education to the fanner, 196; our 

 average common schools defective 

 In not teaching geology and chem- 

 istry, 196; the leading principles 

 and ricts of these sciences ought to 

 constitute the reader of the highest 

 class in the common schools, 196 ; 

 counsel to ths young farmer on 

 agricultural books, 197: their value 

 demonstrated, 198 ; a two-hundred 

 acre farm will be found to give 

 ample scope, 109; instructions re- 

 garding particular books, 109 ; men 

 of the strongest ralnds and best 

 abilities will be attracted to fann- 

 ing so fast and so far as it becomes 

 Intellectual, itxj. 



INTEREST, relatively high in this 

 country, 202. 



IOVTA, 27, 163, 164, 168. 



IlIKLANI), 170, 17 5,289. 



IliRIU ATIOX IRRIGATION MEANS 

 AND ENDS, chap, xii, 74 ; need of 

 water for crops not often kept in 

 view, 74 ; the author's observations 

 In Lombardy (Italy), 74-5 ; the At- 

 lantic Slope and irrigation, 76; au- 

 thor's experience in rrrijjation, 76-7; 

 results, 78; irrigation of New Eng- 

 land farms, 78 ; advantages that 

 would result therefrom, 78! Possi- 

 rsiLiTiKs OF IRRIGATION, chap, xlii, 

 -a ; natural facilities for irrigation 



