INDEX TO VOLUME XVIII. 



Prairies, broaking up, 10, 276, 302 



Premiums Tor short essays, 35, 75, 3.">5 



Pricus, hiifh, 17 



PrOi^ross, a mark of, 64 



Pumpkins, 30-t 



Puritan, Devou bull, 54 



Raspberry beds, 95 



Kaspbernes, ever-bearing, 32 



— tliree good, 348 



Rat-trap, 100 



Rats and mice, 15, 43 



to destroy, 66 



— mice and other vermin, to destroy, 85, 100 



— to get rid of, 101 



Receipts, original domestic, G3, 123, 22(3, 257 



189,321,353, 379 



Red spider in green-houses, 67 



Rennet, to prepare, 3t)5 



Residence in the country or city, 258 



Rhubarb, I.: 95 



Roads, reflections on poor, 272 



Root crops, cultivation of, 143 



Rose-bugs, sulphur to kill, 192, 222, 290 



Roses, a small collection of first-rate,.. 32 

 Rotation, a proposed, 172 



— best system of, 150 



Runil Annual, the value of the, 376 



— New Yorker, ..194, 258 



Ruta bagas and turnips, cultivation of,. 169 

 Rye, cultivation of, 145 



Sawing wood, machine for, 68 



Season comparative backwardness of 



the, 287 



Seed, soakin?, 65 



Seeding, thick and thin, 323 



Shade trees, 252 



six good, 230 



Sheep, a profitable Hock of, 14, 78 



— cost of raising and keeping, and pro- 



ducing wool, 14 



— good, the most profitable, 300 



— keeping, on good land, 244 



— management of, 80, 113, 119, 120 



and breeding of, 374 



— profits of, 43 



— racks for feeding, 19, 50, 61, 368 



— Saxony, 139 



— scab in, remedy for, 13 



— watering in winter, 365 



— 'Wool grows in winter, 114, 139 



Short horn bull llajter Butterfly, 131 



Shrubs, leguminous, 32 



Skunk, 230 



Sma* fruits, cultivation of, 155 



Soil, advantages of stirring the, 153, 173, 195 



— analyses, jiractical utility of, 265, 331 



— Ciirbonic acid in the, 322 



— how Cfin we most economically in- 



crease the fertility of the, 297 



— quality of, 16 



— study the mecbaniciil iiualities of the, 298 



Sorghum ...17, 53, 269, 270 



South-down ram, great pi ice for a, 290 



Sowing and reaping, (poetry,) 120 



SpirKa Callosii, 283 



Spring work, hints on, 73, 109 



Stable, a cheap and commodious, 207 



Steers, good two-year old, 180 



Stock, care of, in winter, 51 



— great sale of imported, 291 



— lean, impolicy of selling olf, . 206 



^ on the management of young, 302 



and working o.\en, 146 



Strawberry plant, its insects, 223 



— plants, set out this month, 288 



Strawberries, 05 



— annual notes on, ., 223 



^ cultivation of, 287 



— notes on, 286 



Strijicd bug, charcoal a cure for the, 260 



Sugar cane, planting, instead of seed,.. 341 

 Chinese, chrystalized sugar from 



the, 337 



Sulphur to kill rose-bugs, 142, 222, 290 



Summer and autumn planting, 253 



Swamp muck as a fertilizer, 181 



Sweene}', cure for, 182 



Swine, management of, 80, 109. 114 



TarilT, reduction of, 110 



Ta.ste and thrift in Iowa, 273, 353 



Thoughts suggested by the May No.,.. 174 

 Tobacco, on the cultivation and man- 

 agement of, 307 



Tomato vines or small shrubbery, racks 



for, 132 



Tomatoes among corn, 238 



Tools, take care of, fodder, &c., 3^2 



Tree, big, of California, 61 



Trees, packing, 382 



— planting, on prairies, 192 



— pruning, . 3S2 



Turnips, 2<50 



— among corn, ■. 238, 2T4 



— an'1 carrots, 304 



— cultivation of, 215 



Turnip fly, .195, 196 



Underdraining, 68, 151, 301 



— clay land, 322 



Vegetables, hardy garden, 95 



— transplanting, 123 



Violet and ita varieties, the, 29 



Water, hard, 133 



Wax, 259 



Weather mid crops in Indiana, 100 



of 1857, 368 



fuel, 63 



Weeds, best means of destroying, 86, 109 



119, 131 



— how to make grass take the place of, 270 



— why they grow apace, 288 



West, a lady's opinion of the, 193 



Western amusements, 225 



— lands, buying, 116, 139 



— N. Y. Fruit Growers' Aas'n, annual 



meeting of, 55 



Wlieat, barley and oats, great fecun- 

 dity of, 22 



— crop in Indiana, 260 



— drilling in, 270, ^78 



— eating off, in spring, 118 



— Egyptian, 260 



— experiments in sowing different va- 



rieties, 52 



— great fecundity of, 275 



— growing in Western N. Y., 41, 75 



shall we have to aban- 

 don, 76 



— in Michigan, 132 



— laying out lands for, 132 



— midge, average injury from, 116 



destroyed by a rain storm, 132 



— seed, to clean chess out of, 104 



— sowing, after barley, 165 



harrowing and rolling, 73 



— spring, IIS 



cultivation of, 107, 144 



in Kentucky, 165 



— to clean cockle out of, 247 



— — prevent smut in, 120 



— Turkish Flint, 15 



— what shall we raise in place of, 249 



— winter, 109i 



cultivation of, 81, 233, 243, 383 



Willow, the, 352: 



Windows, bay, 100 



Winter, the,"... 110 



— evenings, how shall we spend them ? 321 



— in Iowa, 100 



Wire- worms, buckwheat to kill, 278 



Woman, influence of, ... 33 



Woodland, management of, 147 



Wool, that twenty-three pound fleece,. 270 



Yellow dock, 271 



INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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DOMESTIC ANIMALS. S, 



Bull, Short-horn, "Don," 217 



— Devon, "Puritan," 64 



Cow, Shorthorn, "Adelaide," 185 



Goat. Female Ca-shmere, 25 



Heads of the Alderney cattle, 330 



Ayrshire cattle, 329 



Galloway cattle, ,. 329 



Hereford cattle S31 



Long-horn cattle, 330 



North Devon cattle, 331 



Short-horn cattle, 331 



West Highland cattle, 329 



Horse, -Arabian, outline of head, 21 



— Morgan, "Gen. Gifford, Jr ," 304 



"Flying Morgan," 120 



" Paul CUffoid," 24 



Black Bantam cock and hen, 345 



Dominique cock, 344 wDwarf pear tree, 



Dorking cock and hen, 344 ' ~ 



Game cock and hen, 345. 



Silver-penciled Hamburgh cock and hen, 345 



Gold-penciled cock and hen, 345 



Heads of Spanish fowls, 344 



Polisli top-knotcock and hen, 344 



White Bantam cock and hen, 345 



FARM AXD OTnER BUILDINGS. 



Cottage residence of W. H. Aspinwall,. 28 



Farmhouses, wood, -421, 216 



— hou„2, brick, 248 



Haves' farm, Devonshire, 346 



Plan of a pig- sty. 270 



oullry-house, Browne's, with plans 



and cross section, . -280, 281 



^able, cheap and convenient, 207 



PLANTS AND TREES. 



Arbor Vita, American, 187 



Siberian, .. .. 187 



Big tree of California, 62 



Cineraria, the, 29 



- - _ . 67 



Eugenia Ugni, 30 



Plorse chestnut, scarlet-flowered, 220 



Laburnum, the, 32 



Linden, European, 94 



SpiKea Callosa, 283 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Apple, the Ortley, 319 



Barley, seven diilerent varieties,. ..106, 106 

 Curculio, appearance of a plum when 



stung by the, 218 



— four cuts representing the dilTerent 



transformations of the, 218 



Drill-rake, 123 



Group of domestic pigeons, 338 



Instrument for laying out curves, 60 



Moth of the cut-worm, 252 



Rack for feeding sheep, 368 



Raspberries, Brinkle's Orange, 348 



— Fa.stolir, 348 



— Hudson River Antwerp, 318 



Red spider, natural size and magnified,. 67 



Ruta bagas, three different kinds, 169 



Settlement in the wilderness,^ com- 

 mencing a, S70 



— first summer at the, 371 



subsequentj improvements 



at the, r 2 



Tomato rack, and vine as it appears when 



first planted ..' 188 



as it appears when fully 



grown, 189 



Transplanters, 123 



Wheat, six different yarieties, 233. 



