INDEX. 



331 



its valne, 127 ; the course to be 

 adopted by farmers having few 

 animals, 127-8; mixing salt with 

 lime, 128, 147, 167 ; diversity of opin- 

 ion about, 233 ; as an illustration of 

 the need for more scientific knowl- 

 edge, 233-4 : as an illustration of 

 winter work, 304; it is abundant 

 and accessible, 304; proof thereof, 

 305-6; value of muck, 305 ; where to 

 _procnre, 318. 

 MUTTON. See SHEEP ; also, 200, 220. 



NAPOLEON I, 33, 292. 

 NEVADA, 46, 76, 83, 260. 

 NEWBURG, N. Y., a fruit farm above, 



on the Hudson, 16. 

 NEWCASTLE (township), Westchester 



Co., N. Y., 62, 147. 

 NEW ENGLAND, 25, 34. 36, 39, 45, 50, 



69, 78, 79, 139, 152, 163, 164, 165, 171, 



190, 206, 214, 266, 279, 286, 287, 289, 290, 



291,303. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE, 87, 140, 172, 237. 



NEW JERSEY, 49, 85, 109, 165; South- 

 ern, 166, 167, 168, 169, 190, 251, 305,315. 



NEW RIVER, Va., 86. 



NEW YORK (citv), 13, 60, 87, 129, 269. 



NEW YORK STATE, 37, 49 ; cheese 

 dairymen of, 36,47, 62,68. 79, 102, 131, 

 140, 164; Western, 163; Eastern, 164, 

 165, 100, 286, 290. 



NIAGARA, the falls of, 285. 



NINEVEH, 266. 



NITRATES. Kff. FEIJTILIZEBS. 



NITRATE OF SODA, 122. 



NORTHERN STATES, 48, 139, 140, 192, 

 297. 



OATS, 67, 92, 94, 113, 118, 121, 143, 189, 191, 



210, 238, 245, 264. 265. 

 OHIO, Slate "of, 37, 163, 220; valley of 



the river, 38 ; the fiver, 53, 159. 

 OLD STATES" the, 73, 249, 306." 

 ONIONS, 191. 

 ONTARIO, Lake, 156. 



PACIFIC STATES, 178. 



PACIFIC, the coast, 156; valley, a 

 broad, 101. 



PACKER, Gov.William F., of Penn., 130. 



PARIS, 103. 



PASTURES Pasturing will soon dis- 

 appear in the Eastern and Middle 

 States, 19; its pernicious efi'ccts, 19 ; 

 soiling Is preferable to pasturing, 20: 

 a pasture should be the first field 

 Belecteel on a new farm, 40; where it 

 should be placed, 41 ; misconceptions 

 respectirg Indiscriminate pasturing, 

 41; treatment of a pasture, 42-3; 

 should have ashed, 43; appearance 

 of pastures where there is bad farm- 

 ing, 152 ; summing up of the author's 

 views on pasturing, 313-4. See also 

 HAY. 



PEACH-TREES. See FKUITS, also 129, 

 ijo, 161. 



PEARS. See FBUITS, also 129, 139, 156, 

 204. 



PEAS. To. <X>, 271, 296. 

 - PENNSYLVANIA, 23 ; Eastern, 165, 172, 



288. 

 I PES1IGEWASSET, the river, 75. 



PHILADELPHIA, itf, 159. 



PHOSPH ATES. Se'e COMSTEBCIAL FEE- 



TILIZERS. alBO 119, 121, 122, 1Q2. 

 PHOSPHORUS, 118, 119, 235. 

 P1PPINS.53. 

 PITCH-PINE, 314. 



PILGRIMS, the descendants of the, 289. 

 PINE, 58, 223. 

 PIKE BAKREire, 166. 

 PLAGUE, the, 268. 

 PLAINS, the, 46, 101, 261 ; irrigation of, 



275-9, 316. 

 PLASTEU (Gypsum). Kee CCMMEB- 



CIAL FEBTILIZEBS, also 80, 173,211, 



232, 233. 

 PLATTE, the river, 82, 260, 261, 262 ; val- 



ley of the, 274. 

 PLOWS, steel, 87. 

 PLOWING: PLOWIKG, BEEP OB BHAI.- 



low, CHAP, xiv, 87 ; the Dei p Plow- 



ing of oU lands. not advocated, 85; 



reasons therefor, 8s; instances 



where Deep Plowing was unadvis- 



Plowing pay? 87; author's expe- 

 rience of the plowing of a plat in 

 New York city, 87-8 ; plows deeply 

 with profit, 88-9 ! D English lar- 

 mer's trial of Deep Plowirg,89-<;o; 

 the imperative reasons for Deep 

 Plowing, 50. PX.OWINO GOOD AND 

 BAD, CHAP, xv, 91; misconceptions 

 regarding Deep Plowing, 01 ; the 

 right conditions for Deep Plowing, 

 91 ; case of a farmer of the old 

 school cited, 91-2; how Deep Plow- 

 ing will prove profitable to him, 

 92-3; how ho should proceed, 02-3; 

 subsoillng hill-sides, 94 ; author's 

 own experience, 94 ; the revolution 

 that steam-plowing will cause, 9=; ; 

 plowing of Grass land considered, 

 05 ; treatment of Grafs land that has 

 been plowed, 95; plowing of a poor 

 ' 



, 



f quatter on the prairie in regard to 

 plowing, 101 ; the p'.ows ol sixty 

 years ago, 237 ; thetMOM s use din the 

 greater part cf Europe, 238; im- 

 provement in plowing inevitable, 

 241 ; the improved system would 1 c 

 ndopted in the West, 241 ; eteam 

 plows and their Inventors, 243; at 

 work in Great Britain, 243-4; the 

 locomotive that is needed for flenm- 

 plowing, 244 ; losses from want of 

 such, 244-"; ; nccessitv for greater 

 rapidity In plowing demonstrated, 

 246; advice of a German observer 

 on plowing for ( orn, 246-7; sulhor's 

 experience of the coPt r:d delry of 

 plowing, 2^1-2; not half eo much or 

 B'> thorough plowing done, rs there 

 rhonld be, 282 ; the imperfect mear s 

 of plowing, 282; t-tcair-rlov.lng in 

 England, 2^3-4-5 ; application of the 

 facts to this country, 2^4. See also 

 STEAM. 



PLT ' SI-TREES. See FKUITS, r.lso 129, 

 139, 294. 



