To diefourtli vokune of the New England Fanner. 



A. B. his statement of the fruit raised by Mr Prince 60 

 A lover of good fruit, his inquiry relative to the best va- 

 rieties of fruit 249 



A lover of the vine, his remarks on the vine 257 

 Adams, Dr Daniel, address to Hillshoro' Ag. Soc. 148 

 Acids, their use in summer recommended 13 

 Acorns of the Knglish Oak, sent for distribution by E. 



H.Derby Esq. 135 

 Address delivered before the Hillsboro' Agric. Soc'yby 

 Dr Spalding 28— Editor's remarks on 39— to the Hills- 

 boro' Agric. Society by Dr Adams 148— to the Plymouth 

 Agric. Society by John E. Howard Esq. 161 — to the 

 Berkshire Agric. by Col. .M'Kay 185 — to the Middlesex 

 Husbandmen and Manufacturers by Rev. Mr Briggs204 

 — to the Worcester Agric. Society by GeoTge A. Tufts 

 Esq. 258 — to the Rhode Island Society for the Encour- 

 agement of Domestic Industry by Dr Drown 388 

 Agricob, his obserpations on the culture of corn and 



potatoes 34— on fruit trees 52 

 Agricultural Districts in Worcester county 53 



College in .Massachusetts recommended 51, 



139 — on the advantages of placing it near Boston 158 



establishment for colleges recommended 100 



school at Derby, Con. notice of 166 



Society of Massachusetts, their rules and reg- 

 ulations at the Brighton Show 78— notice of their cat- 

 tle Show 103— Reports of 106, 1 13, 127— on agrirul 

 lural experiments 196 — list of their premiums for 1826 

 244 — officers chosen by 374 

 Society of Hillsborough, remarks on their ex- 

 hibition 86— questions proposed by 379— of Philadel- 

 phia, notice of their proceedings 20, 52 84, 1 16. 220, 

 257, premiums offered by 282 — of Pennsylvania do 11(3 

 164, 170, 225, 410— of Middlesex 92, 189— of Plymoull. 

 93— of Essex 93, 121— of Cheshire 141— of Hartford 93 

 of Worcester 25, 99, officers of 341— of Patuxet 108— 

 of Rockingham 118— of Berkshire 125, 129— of Bristol 

 140 — of Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden 306— of 

 New Brunswick 369 



exhibitions, on the !i'1«aufa»Ts "'''"' 



Agriculture state of in Rhode l3lcvrtd^2 

 — — • of Ireland 60, 261— of England, Hesse Darms- 

 tadt, Spain, Corsica, &c. 216, 229 



Amesbury Flannel Manufact'g Comp'y their medal 374 



.immonia as manure, query respecting 409 



Anthracite coal, remarks on the discovery of &c. 323 



Ants, remedies against 222 



Apparatus for conveying away dust in dry grinding 405 



Apples, how preserved 99 — of second growth 150 — 

 sweet make the most valuable cider 407 



.\pple tree producing seventy bushels of apples 119 



.Ardent spirits, danger of drinking 384 



Arrachaca, notices of 53. 85 



Ashes for manure 84 — mixed with salt for cattle and 

 sheep recommended 382 — on its application to pca«h 

 trees 339, 362, 393 



Asparagus, remarks ou the cultivation of 278 



A — X his queries on lightning rods 61 



B. W. jr. his observations on breeds of cattle250 

 Ballard, Dr on the cultivation of Potatoes 172 

 Barberry bush, its influence in blasting grain 401 

 Barley should be steeped in nitrate of soda or saltpetre 



219— its cultivation recommended 229 — rolling the 

 ground where it is sowed recommended 407 

 Bartlett Levi on burying bees 339 — on the season 403 

 Barton Wm. M. his remarks on cob meal 195 

 Bathing and swimming recommended 13 — Coffin on 378 

 Beans baked, recipe to improve 127 — culture ol 333 

 Bed bugs best destroyed by tobacco 7 

 Bedchambers, to correct bad air in 83 

 Beef, Mr Slade's method of preserving 117 

 Beer strong, recommended 9 — receipt for making 347 

 Bees without stings 53 — -on their preservation by Rev. 

 .lonas Perkins 77 — mode of taking honey from with- 

 out destroying 94. 283 — on preserving against the 

 bee moth 163, 290 — on burying to preserve through 

 the winter 325>, 339, 358— easy method of hiving 372 

 — remarks on 394 

 Beet weighing seventeen pounds 83 



sugar raiseU by Ben Osgood 133— sugar made from 



by Chaptal 210 



i.eelle extirpated by shaking from fruit trees 381 

 Bells triangular, notice of 283 

 Neman's Mysteries of Trade, notice of 230 

 Bennet, iV. S. on a new species of grass 380 

 Bicknell's grist mill, description and )ilate of -;13 

 B. J. his notes on farming and gardening 218 

 Black Cherry, gum of very nutritive 324 

 Blight, description of and "remedies for 238 

 Blood, transfusion of from one person to another 144 

 Big fence how made in low land 158 

 Boiling, waste of fuel in when loo violent 19 

 Bones for manure 4i)5 



Borer, an insect, rcm;uks on 239, 313--reraedy proposed 



by plusginsr Iheir holes 3G2— stopping their holes 



with lime 382— how extirpated from the locust 382 



Bots or worms in the head of sheep 26, 61, 62— in horses 



Dr Gretn's essay on 345— ashes and water said to be 



a preservative against 382 



Bradley D.on barberry bushes & disease in pear trees401 



Brjwer F. on the season in 'i' ringfield 133 — remedy for 



choked cattle 378— on an ox which gave milk 377 

 Bricks, improvement in malting by the wheel beating 

 press 146— by Moore's press 102— by M'Donald's 106 

 Briggs, Rev. Charles his address to the .Middltsex.So- 



riety of Husbandmen and Manufacturers 204 

 Bristol R. his remarks on fattening swine 94 

 Bristles of snine, the saving of recommended 176 

 Broadcloth, a fine piece made in Franiingham 314 

 Broom corn raised in Hadley 131 — notiresof l42 252 

 Brown & Robinson's improvement in lightnieg rods 187 

 Brown J. B. on the Baldwin or Woodpecker apple 297 

 ButI Jesse Esq. his observations on insects " hich ii-.tack 

 plum and morello cherry trees 202 — his remarks on 

 cider apples 282 — on destroying lice on apple trees 

 378 — on the construction and management of caitle 

 yards 402 

 Bulmina or ravenous fever, notice of 76 

 Burnt clay, its use in agriculture 251 

 {^''shes, on cuttip"-,''"'' „ 



Rnlter. now mad.- Irom the milk of cows fed on turnips 

 84 — how best made in winter 198 217 222 for pre- 

 serving -229 — statement o( the produce of from cows 

 kept by J. Putnam 233— directions for inaking350 357 

 Bylield farm owned by Gorham Parsons Esq. 404 

 v. his inquiry on cob mills 201 



Cabbages should be transplanted about the 20tb of May 



269 — mode of preventing their being stumpfooted 297 



Calves, excellent method of rearing 5 — remarks on 



raising by W. 30— on rearing by W. I,. 355 

 Canada thistle, on the best raeans'^f destroying 43 

 Candles, improvement in manufacluring by Mr Day 162 

 Canals, nolice of the principal ones in the U.S. 117.317 

 Canker worm, remarks .in their sudden disappearance 

 37— remedy against proposed by Dr SpcfTord 377— 

 remedies against 398— remarks on by Mr Howard 393 

 Capron, J. W. his nolice of the season 137 

 Caramanian or camblet wooled sheep II 52 246 

 Cary Isaac H. his remarks on extraordinary rye, herd's 



grass iScc. 394 

 Cast steel scythes remarks on 296 

 Carpet on the choice of 142 

 Carter John P. his crop of clover seed 172 

 ' 'ashmerc shawls, notice of 145 

 Cast iron grist mill, notice of 141— recommended for 



pillars for store fronts 152 

 Caterpillars modes of destroying 141 348 of an uncom 

 mon sort 354 notice of 354, soap suds said to be the 

 best remedy 

 Cattle remarks on native breeds of in reply to Col 

 Pickering by Col Powel 1 — improved short horns good 

 properties and recommendations of 1 2 3 5 225 — remedy 

 for when hoven or swollen 17 — Col Pickering's essays 

 I on improving the native breed of 30 41 49 57 73 81 89 

 I remarks on by a New England Farmer, 35— Holderness 

 I breed of, query concerning 127— answer to said query 

 'by a Farmer 137— remarks on native and imported 

 I breeds of 165 — on improved tTeeds of by Stephen Wil- 

 I liams 201 — by John Prince, Esq. 201 —queries concern- 

 I ing by a Connecticut farmer 201 — importation of by 

 Col Powel 241 — on the different breeds of by the Edit- 

 or 246 270 286 318 342 390— by W. B. Jr. 2.50— man- 



agement of for the dairy by Robert Smith oOj— number 

 of fatted in the county of Hamj shire 308— on improved 

 breeds of by Curwen 321 — premiums for improved 

 breeds of by the Essex Agricultural Society 350. 

 Cattle show at Brighton, rules and rtgulations of 78— 

 remarks on by a subscriber 124— see further Agri- 

 cultural Society 

 Cattle yards on tiie construction of by J. Buel, Esq 402 

 C. 13. l-kis notice of a pear obtained Irom a graft of the 



same year 95 

 Cedar apple or knott said to expel worms from chiK 



dren 3."4 

 Chandler David on protecting bees from the moth 290 

 Charcoal danger of buri.ing in tight rooms 142 

 Cheese poisonous, remarks on 349 369 385 399 — direc- 

 tions for making 357 362— to preserve from mites 391 

 Children complaints of 117 — on making them h^.rdy, 

 131 lime water with their food recommended 32 ex- 

 ternal impressions on 131 

 Chimnies how prevented from smcking 133 276 325 

 Chureh bell of stetl 143 

 Churns notices oili.'i 162 



Clark Jostph on cultivating the mulberry tree 233 

 Clark Ebenezer his mode of making premium cider 306 

 Cider apples, remarks on.^y J. Bnel, Esq. 282 

 Cider barrels, a cheap aiitl expeditious mode of clean- 

 ing 313 

 Cider on making 25 209 306 322— on iron screws in 

 presses for 30 50 51 IVly Comstock's establishment 

 for 50 51 — remarks on by a writer from Worcester 

 county 77— hints on making 125 — made by the Sha- 

 kers 163 — premiums awarded for. 306 — from sweet 

 apples niost valuable 407 

 '"leaveland Professor on the motion of water wheels in 



the night 187 

 Clover seed on raising gathering, S.r. 172 174 — ma- 

 chines (or gathering 253 — on getting out 407. 

 Coal in Worcisler 76 — on the western shore of lake 

 Huron <o-in Rhode Island 160— anthracite recom- 

 mended 308. 

 Cobbelt's statement on c ultivaling vines in France 4 

 Cob meal for feeding cattle, &c. 126 181 125— obser- 

 vations on by J. B. 202 

 Cob mills enquiry concerning 201~Mr Buckminster's 



notice ol 215 

 Codfish progress of to the southward 373 

 Coffee in Europe history of 269— Arabian mode of pre- 

 paring for drink 357. 

 Cold artificial the greatest ever known 120 

 Colic remedy for in men and horses 138 

 Colours manufactured in Roxbury 143 

 Colts on the management of 226 



Combustion spontaneous in cotton, notice of 3— retard- 

 ed by the rays of the sun 206— remarkable case in a 

 schooner loaded with wool 311— further notices 355 

 Compost, remarks on the best mode of making 15 

 Continent a new forming in the southern ocean 384 

 Copper .American found near lake Erie 119 

 Copper utensils a man and his wife poisoned by 86 

 Corn and potatoes, remarks on the cultivation of 34 — 

 neither should be gathered too early 34 on the stalks 

 of for manure its uses ic. 325, for seed advantages of 

 steeping. &c. solution of copperas for soaking 284 395 

 < orn laws, English, remarks on 405 

 Corn sheller, patent notice of 125 

 College English, description of 360 

 Cow, large notice of 248 



Cow-liouse a splendid erecting at Edinburgh 379 

 Cows, remarks on their keeping 18 — on milking 59 — 

 how to prevent them from ki'cking 132— winter food 

 for 210, experiments on the produce of at three milk- 

 ings 273 

 Cranberries, how preserved 324 

 Crops in England notice of 13S — rotation of 412 

 Crows how to prevent their pulling up corn 334 

 C. T. on potatoes vegetating twice the same season 78 

 Cow pox thought to be less effectual than formerly, 



and why 288. 

 Cranston J. on preserving fruit trees from field mice 



339— on applying ashes to fruit trees 339, 393 

 Cucumbers, delirium and convulsious caused by eatin<>- 



