INDEX. 



Page 



Swallows 402, 410, 485 



Swamp and meadow lands, improvement of . 276 

 Sweet potatoes ..... 206, 285 



Sweetser, Thomas ...... 45 



Swimming apparatus ..... 288 



Swine, Suffolk, 47, 438 ; best breed for the far- 

 mer, 124 ; phthisic in, 142 ; number slaugh- 

 tered, 143; parsnips for, 162; little waste 

 in, 232, sick, 238 ; vermin on 386 



Sugar plant, new IPO 



Sulphur ........ 27 



System, order, regularity . . . .24 



T. 



Tan, 262 ; spent, 420 ; for strawberries . . 474 

 Tanneries in the United States . . . 485 

 Technical terms ...... 307 



Teaching, parental ...... 52 



Ticks, to kill 275 



Timber, best time for cutting .... 419 



Time, well improved ..... 288 



Timely words ...... 207 



Toad, tree, eyelid of .... . 476 



Tobacco, three modes of using, 100; chewers, 

 hints for young ...... 4 



Tools 317 



Tomato, in Virginia, 76 ; growing early 308, 354 

 Tower, a glass ....... 250 



Transplanting nursery . . . 214, 238 



Trees, effects of salt water on, 19 ; shade, 23 ; 

 plum, 25 ; do they talk, 28 ; apple, 49 ; 

 Baldwin, peach, plum, &c. 50 ; automaton, 

 64 ; apple, planted by Peregrine White, 113 ; 

 grass under, 122 ; apple, history of, 123, 167, 

 235, 250; peach, to preserve, 124; manu- 

 ring, 142 ; and flowers to make fruitful, 143 ; 

 pruning and grafting old apple, 159 ; apple, 

 lice on, 168; plant a, 215 ; directions for 

 planting, 218, 290 ; transplanting, 229 ; reno- 

 vating old apple, 236 ; best location for 

 peach, 318; deep planting, 316; what are 

 they made of, 317 ; what kills the apple, 325; 

 tree club, 331 ; and shrubs, cultivation of, 

 332; question about, 339; ancient, 343; 

 double blossom on apple, 348 ; reverence 

 for, 380 ; and buds, what kills the, 387, 430 ; 

 to preserve girdled, 402 ; struck by light- 

 ning, 416; moss on, 437; elm, 438; the 

 peach, 472 ; fruit, time of transplanting . 483 

 Truth, ignorance of great physical . . 15 



U. 



University for education of farmers and me- 

 chanics ....... 90 



United States agricultural society, 117, 454 ; 

 convention ...... 373, 482 



Vegetation, effects of cold winter on . 365, 434 



Vegetables, freezing of, 283 ; thinning out, 

 231 ; source of nutrition, 314 ; property of, 

 314; and fruits, early, 344; influence of the 

 atmosphere on, 363 ; physiology of 



Venison .... 



Vermin on hogs . . 



Vermont State fair 



Vines, to preserve bugs from 



Vinegar from beets 



Visitor, Farmers' Monthly 



Volume, a new 



w. 



Wall, stone 



Washington, the capitol at 



Watt and steam-engine ..... 



Water, predominance of, 91; hard, 175; wa- 

 tering grounds ...... 



Wax, grafting . 220, 



Weather, spring, 206 ; the, 274 ; table of the, 

 350, 449 ; dry, 399 ; observations on . 



Webster, Daniel, in boyhood, 149 ; his farm . 



Weeds, 9 ; white ...... 



Western Horticultural Review 



Wheat crop, the, 35, 44 ; in Vermont, 49, 158, 

 180 ; winter, in Maine, 227 ; spring, 287 ; 

 Italian spring, 285 ; harvesting, 303 ; plas- 

 ter on, in the fall ..... 



Whortleberry, the, 97 ; white 



Wife, the good, 52; the farmer's, 221 ; influ- 

 ence of, 292 ; prayer of ... . 



Wilmington, town of 



Winter, effect of, on vegetation 



Wire, fence, 270 ; chain .... 



Wool, growing, 160, 322 ; clip of 1852 . 



Women, school of design for, 204 ; rights of, 

 243 ; poor, abused ..... 



Working dogs ...... 



Worcester county exhibition, remarks at 



Y. 



Young, character of the 



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 278 

 384 

 343 



324 

 243 



412 

 459 

 306 

 134 



448 

 426 



440 



478 

 364 

 486 

 485 



487 



46 



409 



440 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Long Wooled Sheep 



Black Tartarean Cherry . 



Black Hawk . 



Stevens's Self-supporting Movable Hinge 



Fence .... 

 Marsh's Prairie Steers 

 Mother Apple 



Perspective View of a Gothic Cottage 

 Durham Cow Azalia 

 Pear-shaped Quince 

 Preventive of Crib-biting 

 Brown's Poultry Feeder 

 Improvement in tying up Cattle 

 A D vvarf Pear Tree 

 Short Horn or Durham Bull 

 Horse, Empire State 

 A Model Barn 

 Independent Horse Rake 

 The Apple Tree Borer . 

 The Safaru Peach . 

 French Merino Sheep 

 A Devon Heifer 

 Summer Rose Apple 

 Mowing Machine . 

 Ilovey's Seedling Strawberry 

 Hereford Bull 



Needham's White Blackberry 

 Golden Poland Hens 

 The Imperial Gage Plum 

 Arabian Horse Tartar 

 Horse Drill Machine 



17 

 33 



48 



65 



83 



96 



128 



161 

 177 

 192 

 209 

 205 

 240 

 257 

 272 

 289 

 303 

 307 

 323 

 339 

 355 

 370 

 387 

 403 

 418 

 435 

 451 

 467 

 482 



