INDEX. 



321 



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Cotton, cultivation of 200, 20 1 



enemies and diseases 201 



harvesting 201,202 



savingseed 202,203 



Sea-Is 



Island, 



where raised 203 



preparation of land and planting 



203, 204 



afterculture 204,205 



manuring and amount of crop. . 205 



varieties of cotton seed 205, 206 



changes in and uses of ........ 206 



Cultivator, use of, and how made 95, 96 

 Curculio described, how destroyed. . 259 

 Currant, see FRUITS. 



D. 



Dews, effects of 27, 28, 85 



how secured 85 



dew-point, when attained ... 27, 28 

 Draining described, its advantages 8386 



spring and swamp. 86, 87 



Drill barrows, how used 96 



E. 



Education, agricultural 11, 300, 301 



Electricity, conductors and non-con- 

 ductors of 319 



Electro-culture considered 279, 280 



Elm, see TREKS. 



Ergot or cockspur 142 



Experiments among farmers . . . 280, 281 



F. 



Fallow system described 77, 78 



Farming, good only profitable 41 



Feeding defined 7 



Feldspar useful as manure 51 



Fences, excess of in U. States 283288 

 varieties and materials of . . 284, 285 



wire 285,286 



hurdle 286 



Fibrous covering, its advantages 276 279 

 Figs, see FRUITS. 



Fish for manure 70, 71 



Flax, soil for 189,190 



cultivation and harvesting. . 190, 191 

 water-rotting and varieties of .. 191 

 its importance for manufacturing 191 



Frogs, their utility 282 



Fruits 248269 



the apple 248257 



soil for 248,249 



planting 249,250 



cultivation 250 252 



pruning 252,253 



grafting and budding 253 



rearing and selecting trees . . 253, 254 

 gathering and preserving the fruit 254 



value for farm stock 254, 255 



making cider 255, 256 



making vinegar 256 



best varieties 256, 257 



the pear 257,258 



the quince 258 



the cherry 258,259 



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Fruits, the plum 259, 260 



the peach 260,261 



the apricot 261 



thenectarine 261 



the olive 261,262 



the orange 263, 264 



the fig 264,265 



the banyan 264 



thegrape 265,266 



the currant 266 



the gooseberry 266, 267 



the raspberry 267 



the strawberry 267 



the cranberry 267,269 



G. 



Geine defined 34 



Ginseng described, how reared in 



the United States 242, 243 



Glass, broken, for manure....... 50, 51 



Gooseberry, see FRUITS. 



Grain and its cultivation 127166 



Granite useful as manure 51 



Grapes, see FRUITS. 



Grasses defined 97 



number cultivated 97 



Timothy 98 



meadow fox-tail 99 



green (or blue) 99 



roughish meadow 100 



flat stalked meadow or blue. . . . 100 



annual meadow 100 



narrow leaved . . 100 



red top 100,101 



upright bent 101 



tall oat 101 



thefescues 101, 10* 



orchard or cock's foot 102 



American or swamp 102, 130 



biennial rye or ray 103 



florin 103 



sweet scented vernal 104 



lawn and mountain 104 



ribbon 104 



gama 105 



Egyptian or Guinea 105 



Bermuda 105,106 



crab 106 



winter 106 



muskeet 106 



grama 106,107 



buffalo 107 



tornillo or screw 107 



prairie 107 



poney 107 



wild rice 108 



tussac 108 



arundo 108 



value of American 108, 109 



sweet-scented, soft or holy 109 



table of 110,111 



sowing grass seeds 112 



lands that should be in .... 112114 



means of renovating 1 14, 1 1 5 



pasturing meadows 115 



rotation in grasses 115 



