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INDEX. 



interniixture 298— on the culuiic of 31S, 326, JiSO, 363, 

 392— liow oljiairieil early 311 — slioulii not be pUnted 

 whole 341 — iiolicf of a trciiii-e on 349 — on their cul- 

 tivation Liy " No Theorist" 353— hlossoms of should be 

 pincbeil oil 371 — pot ash extracted from the tops of 388 

 — pudding ol3S9. 

 Potato, sweet, enltivatcd in Haverhill, Worcester, &c. 93, 



118— large 110 — on ils cullivation 334. 

 Poultry, on rearing 22 — queries concerning and remarks 



on 370. 

 Povvel, Col. J. H., notice of his imported Durham short 



horn cow 53. 

 P. R., on broad wheels 267. 

 Preston, Samuel, his remarks on grafting; 337. 

 Prince, John, on engrafting grape vines 329 — on fine 



stock, 394. 

 Prince, \Vm., notices of his vines received from Germany 

 2 — of his treatise on Horticulture 10, 42, 170 — and 

 sons elected members of the Paris Horticulttu'al Society 

 14 — notice of his nurseiy 25, 355 — of hii intioduction 

 of the bread fiuit tree 73 — extracts fiom his «oik on 

 Horticulture 131 — on foreign plants which have with- 

 stood the present sevei'e winter 324 — schedule of fiuit 

 trees, presented by him and sons, to the Mass. Hor. 

 Soc. 385. 

 Prince, William Robert, on Bleecker's Meadow pear 393. 

 Printing press, improvements in 379. 

 Proctor, J. W., his reply to Essex 275. 

 Products, cultivated for London Market 91. 

 Prunes, how made from plums 112. 

 Pudding, tansy, receipt lor 342. 

 Pumpkins, how raised with corn 225. 

 Pumpkin seeds, oil made from 163 — bread made of 163. 

 Punctuality, duty and value of 128. 

 Quinces, on their cultivation, ^-c. 361. 

 Radishes, best method of raising 372. 



Kail roads in the U. S., table of 69 — increasing in Eng- 

 land 83 — remarks on 116, 149, 277 — -new invented cai' 

 for 197, 251— remarks on by the editor 201, 2(19, 233, 

 245 — in South C.noilna 210 — Guv. Lincr)ln's remarks 

 on 211, 380— in France 2 19 — Chevalier de Baader's 

 improvements in 226 — notice of Jackson's lectures on 

 312 — arguments against prove too much 339 — great 

 draught on 412. 

 Raspberry, how forced at Haarlem 28 — notices of its cul- 

 tivation 53. 

 Rats, how driven away .391. 

 Rattle snakes, remarks on 21. 

 Razor straps, best njode of preparing 234. 

 Razor, cuts belter for di|)ping in hot water 336. 

 Recipe, for making ca'iiip poullice 4 — for rot in sheep 4 — 

 to make a family medicine of walnuts 5 — to take spots 

 out of silk, linen or woollen 5 — for cancer 5 — to pre- 

 serve against molbs 17 — for making metheglin 21 — for 

 preserving grape! 21 — for destroying cocliroaches 3, 

 6, 21 — for cleaning silks, i^c. 21 — io keep plums, peach- 

 es, &c. fresh through the year 23 — to remove spo:s or 

 stains, £lc. 23 — foi' the fever and ague 21 — for making 

 raspberry wine 24— for dyeing cotton yarn with iriad- 

 •der 28 — for making vinegar from honey 29— for dysen- 

 tery 39, 72 — for making apple jelly 45 — for making 

 bai'm or yeast 45 — for whooping cough 4i5 — for the 

 cholera morbus 47 — to destroy nirs and lice in ciiddren's 

 heads 53 — for pickling girkin cucumbers 55 — for mak- 

 ing peach pies 57— I'or bleeding Irom the nose 58 — 

 for burns 58, 72, 131, 224, 2iJ9, 3;39— for the wliooping 

 cough 5S — for curing blindness 59 — for wens 59 — to 

 raake starch 59 — to preserve cheese liom miles 69 — 

 for sores CI — for a cheap and durable painl 62 — for the 

 summer complaint 64 — for restoring hair 65— for mak- 

 ing elderberry wine and syrup 65 — for preserving mel- 

 on seed from bugs 67 — for a new mode of njaking fruit 

 jelly 71 — lor cleaning stoves 72— for bolts in horses 23, 

 74, 155, 299 — for a baked soup 74 — for making Johnny 

 or hoe-cake 75 — lor slasgers in horses 77 — lor elder- 

 berry syrup 78 — for making economical bread 79 — for 

 making slap-jacks 79 — lor a cement for wooil or paper 

 80 — for bilious colic and dysentery 83 — to dye cotton 

 blue 83 — to pickle walnuts S3 — (o make brandy peaches 

 85 — to make yeast 85 — for preparing molasses for pre 

 serving fruit 89- for the teller vvori:i 93— for the croup 

 96 — lor cleansing musty wheat 101 — Io prevent horses 

 from being teased by flies 101 — Io kill moles and niice 

 104— for the gapes in chickens 1 11— several for cook- 

 ing toinalos 116— for ni.iking shoe blacking 116— for 

 foot rot in sheep 121— sweci potato pudding 125— for 

 destroying ibc mealy bug 12.5 — for making' fly water 

 128— for pickling beef and pork 133— for the cure of a 

 cancer, 14! — to prepare waterproof boots 141 — to pre- 

 serve buildings from fire 141 — to prevent beer from 

 growing Hat 155 — for making Lapland glue 163 — for 



baldness 171— for warts 182— for curing ham 189-for 

 the horn oil in rallle 194, ^34— for dyspepsia 197— for 

 blistered f.-el I9S — for a weak slomaeh 199— for a cold 

 203-lor making bread 907-for hoven caltle aiO-for 

 destroying caterpillars 213— for sea sickness 230— lor 

 making composition cakc^-c. 235— for a sore throat fi om 

 cold 235—10 dry cows which you wish Io (atten 235 — 

 for dropsy 235— for scouring in calves 238— for curing 

 bacon 251— for wet feet 251 — Iwo for curing hams — 

 277— for impioving candles 283— lor the sick head 

 ache 285— for garget in cows 302— for dyeing a perma- 

 nent buff color 310— for German polish forlurnilure 

 310 — foryeaslSlO — for sick headache 315— for pre- 

 serving landis from vermin 326— for Ihe destruction of 

 slugs 326 — Ibi- destroying rose bugs 3:12f— or destroy- 

 ing insects 332— for'stcVping seed coin 334 — for nnis- 

 quiloe bites 334— for killing lice in calves 336— for tlie 

 loss oft-ud in cattle 337— compositions for grafling337, 

 358 — for sore eyes 349— to make bread foi- horses 349 



for sponge blacking 358 — for ice cream 373 — several 



for presp"'ing smoked meals 378 — fcr blacking for 

 lealh" 380 — for making potato pudding 389 — to pre- 

 vp/it wounds from inoiiil\in° 391 — for fever and ague 

 397 — for bad water 403 — for loolh powder 403 — Io 

 improve dried figs 403 — for an incipient cmcer 407— 

 of mustard as an emetic 410 — for making red currant 

 jelly 414 — for preserving slrawberries 415 — for making 

 raspbeiTy jam 415 — for removing spots and stains in 

 silk,&c. 416 — to preserve furs and woollens 416. 



Refrigerators and ice houses, an es.say on 212, 217, 228, 

 236, 244. 



Reed mats, their use in gardens 73. 



Revere, John, on the manuHicture of soda 9. 



Reynolds, S. his observations on diseased sheep, and 

 queries respecting the Girkin cucumber 294. 



Rheum palmalum, cr pie-plant 10. 



Rhubarb, cheap method of forcing 285. 



Kice, Siberian, 285. 



Rice, Jonathan, his mode of making cider 123. 



Richardson, Francis, on destroying the eggs of caterpil- 

 lars. 230. 



Richmond, W. E., extracts from his address .36. 



Rivers, on Ihe origin of 59. 



Roads, good, advantages of 214 — bad, a sign of barbarism 

 214. 



Roller, use of on grass lands 349. 



Roots, on gathering and preserving 126. 



Rose, the double yellow, on its cultivation, 3S7 — Ihe 

 Greville nol found valuable in Ihe vicinity of Boston 4U9. 



Rose bugs, remarks on and remedies against 332. 



Rose bushes, on llie culture of 28 — varieties of 187. 



Uuses, how raised twice a year, 389^ 



Rotation of crops, remarks on 49. 



Rum, Sir Richard, his poiver anil prerogatives 308. 



Rural economy, remarks on 266. 



Rusticus, on fire bliglit in li'uit trees, &c, 136. 



Rula baga, raised on new land 267. 



Rye, ivinier, best lime for sowing 17. 



Rye, for coffee, should be sprouied 348. 



Srdlads, should be washed in sea or salt wafer 341. 



Salem .'Vssocialion against trespassers, &c. 133 — oflicers 

 of 371. 



Salt, improvement in the manufacture of 239 — remarks on 

 as a manure 377. 



Scions, received from Penn. 286 — how selected 286. 



Scrutator, his remarks on insects in fruit trees 82. 



Seakale, seeds of should be sown in .\ugust .334 — premi- 

 um for its cullurc 334. 



Sea sickness, remedy fo;- 173. 



Season, notices of 14, !7, 19,21, 30, 3."., 97,101,112, 

 125, 198, 231, 380— comparative state of 351, 394, 3y5. 



Seaweed, valuaLde for nr^nm-e 29. 



Secret in buying liquids 310. 



Seeds, necessity of changing 8 — of fruits should be sown 

 with Ihe fruit 73 — should be sown as soon as Ihe fruit; 

 are lipe 7.^ — on selecling the best and pievenling their 

 deterioration 140 — to promote the germination of 163, 

 391 — fertilizing effecis of chlorine on 343 — destroyed 

 by stagnant air in close vessels 414. 



Septeir.ber, farmer's work to be done in 41— gardener's 

 work for 77. 



Sheep, how preserved against worms in the head 5— 

 folding of injurious 36 — remarkable instinct in 75 — me- 

 rino, .samples of wool from, sent from Gen. La Fayette 

 92 — remarks on a di-^ea'e in, by /" Wonlgrower" 109 

 — remedy for foot rot in 121 — feeding and management 

 of in wdnter 206 — queries on their management 225 — 

 how kept in Switzerland 288- Mr Barstow's queries 

 respecting disease in 267 — answers to salt! queries 290, 

 294 — fine one sold in Boston market 342— English im- 

 uoi ted 3S9. 



Shoe blacking, recipe for 116. 



Shooting matches reprobated 140. 



Sick head ache, remedy for 11. 



Silk, on the inaMifoclure of 21,27,100,220,237,333, 

 390, 413— raised i^o Rochester, N. Y. 38— by Mr Eoyn- 

 ton 91— climate of New England adapted Io 252— do- 

 nations of, to Pliiladelptua Agricultural Society by Mrs 

 Adams 328. 



Silk-worms destroyed by a spider 10— disease in, and its 

 cuie 30— directions for reaiing, from a pamphlet, pub- 

 lished by Ihe Pennsylvania Socieiy, &c. 44, 50,60, 68,. 

 76, 92— raised by Mr Ahbolt 117— proper temperature 

 for 3?5— on the culture of, by a commWee of ihe Ham- 

 illon Counly Socieiy, Ohio 365— qireries respecting its 

 culture in Maine 382 — Mrs Jones' Machinefor manu- ■ 

 facluring406. 



Sinclait beet, on its properties 406. 



Slug worms, how destroyed 33, 326 — among cauliflowers 

 and cabbages, how destroyed 387. 



Snroked meals, reniarks on preserving 378. 



Soda, renrarks on the manufacture of 9. 



Soils, which absorb the most moisture ihe most fertile 182 

 — remarks on their cotnposition, &c. 401. 



Spofford, Dr, his Gazeleer 62. 



Spencer, J. L, his notice of a remarkable cow and calf 

 410. 



Spice seed, Italian, notice of 111. 



Spinach, New Zealand 131, 180. 



Squashes, crooked necked, a large 109, 112 — wreat growth 

 of II 1— how raised wilh corn 225 — on their cultivation 

 345, 347. 



Squinting in children, cause of 160. 



Squirrels, numerous and mischievous 117. 



Stage owners, ir.'.l to l-'?6. 



Staggers in swine, rc: larks on, and how cured 1. 



Stall feeding callle. remarks on 281. 



Starch, how made 59. 



Steam boats, consunqriion of fuel by 13. 



Sleam, heating hot houses by 28. 



Steel, new mode ol hardening 101— ore of, found in New 

 ■Nork State 349. 



Storms dissipated by explosions of gunpowder 75. 



Slrawberries, manured wilh rotten wood 93— make a 

 good dentifrice 262. 



Subscriber, on an insect on fruit trees 3 — his mode of ex- 

 tracting the broken spetfr of a pump 130 -his re- 



commendalion of Norlh Devon stock 171 his dii'ec- 



lions for crjiiivaling fruit trees 241 — on large pears 267 

 —on ihe Sinclair beet 406. 



Sugar, maple, an arlicle of commerce 116 — remarks on 

 making 269— from Ihe beet root 2S5, 346. 362. 



Sumac, on its cultivation 253— extroct of, how obtained 

 254 — remarks on, by O. P., Iwo vanctics of, &c. 326. 



Sun flowers, how to make a delicate oil frorrr 211. 



Sweet potatoes, large '10 — cultivated in Haverhill, Wor- 

 cester, &c. 93 — by others 118- pudding of, how made 

 125— maybe raised in Ihe vicinity of Boston 213 — on 

 their cultivation 334, 3-15. 



Swine, on a slye for 3 — subslilulc for ringing 31 — fatten- 

 ing of, 37 — staggei-s in 99.-ndxtme for fattening 100^ 

 Folices of fine ones 136— new sort of 391 — remarkable 

 lilter of 200. 



Switzerland, rural economy in 238. 



S. X. on stall feeding catlle 281. 



Tanning a new substance f)r 331. 



Tea, reduction of duty on recournrended 35. 



Tea pl.rnt, on its cultivation II, 410. 



Teamster, a good 43. 



Teeth and Gums, diseases of 276. 



Temperance, examples of .58— Society at Montpelier, Vt. 



exiiacis horn a discourse delivered befoi-e 215. 

 ■Tempests in New England, notices of 296. 



Thachor, Dr, nolice of his treatise on bees 302. 



Thistle, Canada, destroyed by salt 13, 17, 146. 



Thnrndike, C , on painting in milk 62. 



Thoiburn, Mi , arrecdoles of his life, &c. 120. * 



Tidd, Jacob, his experiments in raising new varieties o( 

 potatoes 242, 254, 257. 



Tillinghasl, Joseph L., extracts from his address. 



Timber, qualities of &c. 151 — season of the year for fell- 

 ing 170 — cullivation of recommended 324 — preserved 

 by lime water, 399. 



Tindier plane, revolving, nolice of 411. 



Time, economy of 59. 152. 



Tin, found in (^Josben 152. 



Toads, their utility in gardens 236, 411. 



Tobacco, dust of, preserves plants 21 — on its cullivation 

 and uses in preserving plants fioiri insects 300, tJOl, 

 371 — saiil Io preserve melons from bugs by soaking 

 seed in a decoctior;.of 67,310. 



Tomatos, recipes, for cooking 116, 174. 



Toohey, R., his notices of the Heathcot pear 82 



