INDEX. 



Page 

 Climate, changed by fences .... 228 



Clover-seed, how to gather, 64 ; white . . 43S 

 Colts and calves . . . . . .277 



Co-laborers ....... 87 



Convention, U. S. agricultural . . . 373 

 Colors in ladies' dresses ..... 292 



Colleges, Agricultural, 267, 330, 475 ; Dart- 

 mouth 430 



Cotton from straw 189 



Cow, milch, 49 ; and carrots, 83 ; vegetables 

 for, 122 ; a fine, 174, 180 ; what shall I keep, 

 192; carrots, &c. 207, 213; patent milkers 

 for, 234, 281; to kill ticks on, 275; and 

 carrots, 341; poisoned by dogwood, 354; a 

 profitable, 438 ; effect of imagination on, 458 ; 

 cure for poison by cherry leaves, 477, 479 ; 



working 477 



Corn, the first ear, 43 ; the crop, 61, 158 ; fields, 

 large, 183 ; hilling, 273 ; its component 

 parts, 281; for green fodder, 283; culture 

 of, 324 ; saving seed, 483 ; broom . . 545 

 Correspondents, replies to 242, 291 



Crops, the, in July .... 334, 343 



Crows, killing 279 



Cranberries, 21, 35, 89; flowing meadows for, 



137 ; culture of 180, 217 



Cream, artificial method of raising . . 338 



Currants 205 



Cutlery, manufacture of .... 98 



Cuttings, growing trees from .... 354 



D. 



Dairy, profits of a small . 137 

 Daughter, what every one ought to be, 303 ; 



farmer's ....... 320 



Depredator, a new ...... 403 



Dog, the shepherd's ..... 80 



Dogwood, cow poisoned by . . . 354 

 Downing, A. J. death of, 414 ; notices of, 426, 



432, 435 



Doctrines, sound . ..... 177 



Draining in Indiana 174 



Dry weather 399 



Drought 402, 419 



Dwellings, farmers' 11 



E. 



Eastham 91 



Editor in the garden, 290 ; editorial delin- 

 quencies . . . . . . 477 



Education, female ...... 99 



Elm trees, diseases of 438 



Emigration 274 



Employment, winter ..... 86 



Endicott, governor, an horticulturist, . 429, 449 



Encouragements ...... 12 



English luxuriousness . .... 32 



Evergreens for a northern defence . . 40 



Fair, Hillsboro' county, 352 ; State, for 1852 402 

 Farmer, New England, 13; the, 20; club, 



North Stockbridge, 28 ; hint for the, 44 ; 



Canadian, 45 ; the Ohio, 80 ; the Valley, 86 ; 



and Planter, 107 ; advantages of the, 135 ; 



clubs, 138; working, 162; creed, 239; 



guide, 252 ; club, Concord, 263 ; daughters, 



320 ; what knowledge is most valuable to, 



333 ; a Maryland, 392; sons . . .461 



Page 

 Farm, discovery of new, 29 ; model school, 

 118; school, 128; Mr. Sheldon's, 185; 

 school for the, 185, 191, 224; products, 

 prices of, 250 ; school, 265 ; a Missouri, 324 ; 

 Mechi's model, 397, 433; a fine, 448 ; pro- 

 per size for, 464 ; and the mill, 482 ; Mr. 



Webster's 459 



Farm work for January, 33; for February, 

 57; for March, 105; for April, 153; for 

 May, 201 ; for June, 249 ; for July, 299 ; for 

 August, 348 ; for September, 395 ; for Oc- 

 tober, 443 ; for November, 491 ; for Decem- 

 ber 539 



Farm, B. V. French's 546 



Farming, English, 40; extensive, 70; is it 

 profitable in New England, 78 ; in Oregon, 

 112; skill in, 162; success in, 176; em- 

 ployment in, 180; practical, 220; experi- 

 ments in, 232; hill, 302; compared with 

 manufacturing in New England, 377 ; no 

 profit in, 383; in California, 392; Bob's 

 notion of book, 468 ; is it profitable . . 480 

 Farming, is it as profitable as other occupa- 

 tions ........ 544 



Feeding stock, Worcester county, report of . 308 

 Feldspar, composition of .... 371 



Female, an expensive ..... 30 



Fence, wire 270 



Fire, how does water extinguish, 36 ; alarm, 



electric 98 



Flame, blue, on charcoal fire .... 484 

 Flax seed, quantity for an acre, 64~; and flax 



cotton 340 



Flag, blue 93 



Flowers, made to bloom by gas, 97 ; culture 



of, 286; and Fruit, 377; "iron . . 390,428 

 Food, man's ....... 475 



Forests, extension of, 185 ; culture of, 262 ; 



rotation of . 363 



Frankness . * 100 



Frosts, 25 ; and fruit 177 



France, agriculture in . . . . 470 



French, H. F. address of .... 541 



French, B. V. farm of 546 



Fruit, use of, 50 ; culture in the United 

 States, 67; keeping, 110; and frost, 177; 

 preservation of, 195 ; grafted, change of, 

 207 ; rooms, 239 ; selection of, 241 ; pre- 

 serving in its own juice, 293 ; improvement 

 of native, 334; rind of, indigestible, 383; 

 does the stock affect the, 450 ; growing, 

 460 ; names of ..... 479 



Furniture, taste in . . . ... . 148 



G. 



Gardening 317, 389, 428 



Gate, vertical 142 



Geologv, interesting experiment in, 30 ; agri- 

 cultural 233, 437, 455 



Girls, gardening for .... 293 



Glass, to grind and cut • 245 



Gold, placers of New England . • .178 

 Grapes, white, 37 ; Isabella, 192 ; culture of, 

 283 ; white native, 300 ; insects on vines, 

 306 ; culture of, near Cincinnati . ■ 392 



Grafting wax on cotton cloth, 189 ; the apple 



tree ....-•• 203, 239 

 Grain, time of cutting ..... 382 

 Grass, great crop of, 96 ; seed, 181, 212 ; va- 

 rious kinds of, 252 ; under trees, 263 ; a 

 new, 270 ; witch, 305, 362 ; seed, saving 

 herds, 379 ; seed, 419 ; culture of, 427 ; a 

 new ........ 457 



