INDEX. 



Patent office reports .... 



Pastures, old, 305 ; how to doctor sick . 



Paper, ^ire . . . . . . 



Paint, green . . .... 



Peas, early, what are the best, 177 ; early 



Peat, mud ...... 



Pears, running out, 43 ; new from Angers, 50 

 best varieties, 194; on the quince, 195; se 

 lection of, 225 ; on quince and pear roots 

 241 ; excellent ..... 



Peaches, American, in Liverpool, 87 ; best 

 varieties ...... 



Peach, trees, how to preserve, 124 ; die before 

 old age, 136 ; buds, what kills the, 208 ; pre 

 ventive of gum on, 280 ; the Safaru, 307 

 trees, best location for, 313; leaf 



Pigs and Pig-pens, 171; twenty at a litter 

 355 ; Suffolk 



Physical recreation .... 



Plant, care of house, 98 ; sickly, treatment of, 

 175 ; effect of cold on, 226 ; cleanliness for, 

 263 ; number on an acre, 266 ; the lesson o 

 a, 282 ; addition to the stock of useful, 444 

 454 ; air ...... 



Planter, Southern ..... 



Plaster on wheat in the fall . 



Plow, the 



Plowing, 134, 156; deep or shallow, 219 

 subsoil, 230 ; deep . . . 251, 280, 



Plum, best varieties, 194 ; trees, warts on 

 373 ; imperial gage . 



Poultry, 16, 27 ; experiment in, 72 ; Palmer's 

 Shanghaes, second importation, 126 ; profits 

 of, 154, 158; bantams, 182 ; and eggs, 182 

 remarkable hen, 189 ; profits of, 235 ; gold 

 en Polands ...... 



Prayer, a wife's ..... 



Practical suggestions .... 



Press, new power ..... 



Productions, agricultural 



Products of three rods of land 



Pruner, the oak .... 425, 434, 



Pruning, 456 ; time for .... 459, 



Pudding, apple ...... 



Pump, to thaw out frozen .... 



Pumpkin, 58 ; vine, tall .... 



Potato, and rot, 18, 36, 38, 48, 181, 192, 229, 

 240, 444, 446, 485 ; remedy for rot, 231 ; 

 seedling, 68 ; and corn, 73 ; measurement of, 

 112; arousing, 127; nameless, 142; trans- 

 planting, 170 ; sweet, culture of, 206 ; new 

 variety of, 207 ; more about the, 215 ; fried, 

 259; what saves the, 261 ; sweet, 285; and 

 men, 322; correction about the, 327 ; balls, 

 368 ; large blossoms, 389 ; crop in New 

 York, 392 ; machine for digging, 402, 

 weighing ....... 



Postmaster, election of 



Poisons, vegetable, 267, 321 ; dogwood, cow 

 poisoned by, 354 ; cure for, in animals 



Potash, water, for trees . . 301, 350, 411, 



Q. 



Questions, a string of, 275 (see page 286) 



Page 

 31 

 446 

 390 

 37 

 401 

 304 



265 



194 



368 



438 

 483 



476 

 85 



448 

 42 



481 



450 



435 



440 



355 



342 



367 



47 



453 



481 



52 



36 



485 



443 

 49 



477 

 458 



R. 



Page 



Rebuke, a just 209 



Recipes, domestic, 52, 198, 244, 277, 293, 342, 



391, 439, 487 



Reaper, the Virginia 383 



Recreation, physical 483 



Rice, directions for boiling, 293 ; blancmange 293 



Rhubarb, mammoth 329 



Roofs, cheap 95 



Rosin, oil from 109 



Rose and rose insects 143 



Ruin, first step to 148 



Rye, tall, a good crop of .... 472 



S. 



Salt, as food for plants 13 



Sandwich Islands 413 



Scarifying the soil ....... 233 



Scorpions, killed by covering them with oil . 484 



Schools, winter, 120 ; summer, 327 ; agricul- 

 tural 366 



Science, practical advantage of, 73 ; and tail- 

 less foxes 



Seaweed 



Seasons .... 



Seeds, duration and vitality of, 255 ; 

 best, 425 ; musk-melon 



September, hints for 



Serpent, a new 



Shade-trees 



Shavings 



Sheep, wintering, 10 ; long-wooled, 17 ; reme- 

 dy for worms in, 59 ; blankets for, 69 ; 

 curious, 95: profits of, 160; how to catch 

 a, 176; otter breed, 216; new importation 

 of, 255 ; French merino, 323 ; and wool, 

 344 ; raising and shearing, 389 ; merino, 



Shingles, mode of preserving 



Ships, safety . 



Skin, the 



Slaughter-house, an hour in 



Small pox 



Smiling, more 



Smut machine 



Snow, red 



Soap plant, 79 ; arsenical 



Society, Berkshire agricultural, 74 ; Middle- 

 sex, 76, 460 ; Berkshire, address before the, 

 107; national agricultural, 135, 141, 373; 

 Norfolk county, 206 ; New York State agri- 

 cultural, 260 ; Massachusetts horticultural, 

 271, 486, 315 ; "Worcester county, 308, 356 ; 

 Worcester west, 544 ; Andover horticultu- 

 ral, 356 ; meeting of county, 402 ; Vermont 

 State, 408 ; United States agricultural 373, 



Soil, scarifying the, 233 ; worn out 



Sorrel ........ 



Spring, outburst of . 



Squash ....... °°> 



Statistics, interests of the farmer in, 63 ; agri- 

 cultural ....... 



Stealing other people's thunder 



Steam, curiosities of, 143 ; engine and Watt . 



Straw as a covering . 



Strawberry, the, 266, 286, 344 ; Hovey's seed- 

 ling, 387 ; tan for 



St. Paul's clock ..•••• 



Stock, wintering of, 94 ; sale of improved, 255 ; 

 attention to, 275 ; neat, 304 ; Worcester 

 county report on feeding, 308, 356 ; feeding, 

 331, 335 ; cutting fodder for 



Stones, machine for picking, - 348 ; on culti- 

 vated land .....•• 



Stork, an emblem of filial affection 



432 

 256 

 338 

 253 

 308 



117 



66 



343 



364 



275 

 47 



366 



479 

 391 



