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INDEX 



TO THE NINETEEiNTH VOLUME OF THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



A. 



A Mother's evening ihouglils, 416 

 Absorption of water by plants, 273 

 Accuunls squjtred,222 

 Address, Poinsett's, 339 

 " Darlington's, 388 



Biddle's, 172 

 " Russell's 370 

 *• Dearborn's, 233 

 " Breck's, 369, 394 

 " Huntinglon's,257, 266 

 Ai'vice to the young, 43 

 Agriculture, importance of, 18, 27 



" in IVIassacliusetts, 22, 30, 38 



" English, 8(3, 149 



" (Jonneclicul, 153 



Agricultural papers, 98, 109 



*' meeting in England, 08 



AonicuLTiiRiL Meetings at the State House, 220, 

 Mr Colnian's introdu<tory — Dr Jackson's account 

 of soils in N. H. 230, — Discussion upon grasses, 2'38, 

 24C— Discussion on live stock, 254, 262, 270 — Dr 

 Jackson and others on soils and manures, 278, 282 — 

 On Stock again, 286 — Roots and fruits as food for 

 stock, 294,298 — J. B. Emerson on forest trees, 302 

 Agricultural Scliool, 238 



" Chemistry, 205 



" Commissioner's third report, Albany Culti- 



vator's notice of, 28 

 " Seminary at Andover, 306 



" Improvements, 84, 149 



Allen R. L., 100 

 Alderney Cows, 156 



Analysis of soils, &c., A. Nichols, 290, 294, 318 

 Answers to a Correspondent, 326 



Anecdotes ofa goose, 64 — frog, 64 — Aged plowman, 69 — 

 Good man, 72— Horse, 80, 88— Shark, 136— Mice, 

 160, 248, 328 

 Animals, treatment of sick, 105 

 " useful often destroyed, 91 

 " kindness to, 314 

 Auti friction, 355 



Apples, winter, preservation of, 85, 131, 196 

 Auger lioles with a gimlet, 112 

 Ayershire Cattle, 132 



B. 

 Banks, &c., 62, 74, 82, 102, 118 

 Barnlla,229 

 Barns, Shakers, T5 



*• structure of, 273 

 Barilctt, Levi, 00 

 Bee, 243. 24."), 248 

 " profu of, 45 

 " hive, 43 

 Beach grass, 197 

 Berksliir.;s and China, 251, 274, 284, 259, 298. Letter 



from down East, 306, 316, 374 

 Benedict, D., on Silk, 250 

 Bell, Benj., Mildew, 27 

 Bishop and his birds, 72 

 Bible, 24 



Biddle's Address, 172 

 Birds, spare them, 61 



" protection of, 69, 354 

 '* niockin;;, 88 

 Bleeding, how stopped, 67 

 Blossom, Durham Cow, 101 

 Blackbird, son.r of, 96 

 Blind staggers, cure of, J. M. H., 349 

 Book farmers, 3 



'• farming, 82,94, lO.'j, 246 

 Borrow! ni; ami ('r(;diting, 234 

 Bone, 117,257, 316 

 Borer, 21, 53 



*' pine tree, 179, 

 Boston I'oudrclte, 398 

 Bieck,J., address of, 369, 394 ' 

 Breeding back, 285 

 Brother Jonathan's wife's advice, 216 



Burn, cure of, 357 



Broom corn, 146, 147 



Bronchotomy, 332 



Buckwheat, 50 



Bunker Hill Monument, 70 



Butter, Wm. Foster, 11 



Butter, winter, 220, 299,316 



C. 



Cabbages, preservation of, 116, 146 — Worm, 227 



Canker worms, destruction of, 2, 14, 59, 75, 109, 348, 

 — T. W. Harris, 141, 179, 315— new fact, 374— 

 S. P. Fowler, 377— P. G. Robbins, 25 



Cattle, 100, 182, 197— kept warm, 284 



Cattle Shows, Hampshire and Worcester, 124 



Care of Stock in winter, 217 



Camellia VVildeiii, 228 



Calves, rearing of, on flax seed and hay tea, 229, 259 



Calcines, 213 



Calcareous, manures, continued action of, '331 



Carrots, large crop of, 243 



Carrot, white, 292 



Canada Thistle, to destroy, 349 



Galerftillars, 374 



Cheese, miles in, 45 



Cheese making, 411 



Cheese in Ohio, 131 



Choaking relieved, 259 



Cider, manufacturing of, J. Cooper, 60 



Cisterns, 1 M 



Clover, Northern and Southern, 334 



Clearness of sound at night. 248 



Clilt, or Eave Swallows, 416 



Carrion, 412 



Colman. Third Report,28— Letter from, 70— Addresses, 

 218, 244— False delicacy, 218— City and Country 

 manners, 218 — New England and the West, 219 — 

 Manures and Agriculture, 226 — Peat meadows, 244 — 

 Climate of New England, 244 — Enriching soil, 244 — 

 Saving Manures, 244 — Effect of Climate upon man, 

 244 — Crops to be cultivated, 244— Address before the 

 American Institute, in New York, 4('9 



Cows, management of, after calving, 340, 353, 330, 387 

 402— for draught, 386 



Cows, milking of, 30 — Gestation of, 101 



Cows holding up milk, 90, 109 

 " Dialogue on, 222 



Cows in Essex Cunmy, 1S40, 330 



Common Schools, 230 



Comforts, 90, 185, 282 



Corn, which best to plant, 358 

 '* experiments wilh, 373 

 " tilling, 382 

 " for seed, selection of, 69 

 " grin. ling, in the ear, 106, 187 

 " large crops of, 116, 147, 178, 220, 227 

 " Hartwell, 234 

 " Red Blaze, J. Perkin's letter, 298 



Converse Boswell's statement, 277 



Cooper, Joseph, forwarding seeds, 42 — Cider, 60 



Cook, William, watering and feeding horses, 44 



Coh meal, 187 



Cooking meal by steam, laFlure, 253 

 1^ Cut worm, 147, 155 



U. 



Dahlia, exhibition of, 3, 99, 315 



Dairies, Dutch, 121 



Dairy, Report on Essex Agricultural Society, 361 



" hogs, o56 

 Darlington, Wm , on grasses, 368 

 Debt, in and out, 224 



Dennis. J. Jr , Canker worms, &o. 2, 14,25,32, 41, 179 

 Diet, vegetable, 117 

 Discourse, brief, 130 

 Ditching nnd draining, 54^ 100 

 Docking Hori^es, 229, 412 

 Domestic econouiv,yO 

 Dow, Jr.. sermon, 232 

 Dress, suitable, 253 



Drew, good husbandry, 44 

 Drinking in hot weather, 414 



E. 



Early rising, 22 



Editor, letter to, 237 



Editorship, change of, 198, 214 



Edmund's, Edmund, letter of, 76 



Eggs, sex of, 75, 139 



Elsworth, H. L., 54 



Englishman's account of United States, 76 



Engrafting, R. Newton, 269, 298, 325 348 



Emerson, G. B., remarks of,302 



Errors corrected, 281 



Essex Agricultural Society, annual Show, 1, 8,— Forest 



trees, 17, 92, 109,— Manurei, 3^7 

 Ewes and lambs, 325 

 Excretory powers of plants, 97 

 Experiments with artificial manures, report of, 97 



F. 



Fancy farmers, J. Prince, 13 

 Fares, low, 156 

 Farm, house of Industry, 378 

 Farms, premium, report upon, 258 

 Farms, notices of 



E. Phinney's, 50 

 Judge Hayes', 52,284 

 Royal, 52 

 in England, 78 

 Farming, its respectabilitv, 222 

 " successful, 202,235 

 '• iniellectual, 230 

 " in England, 356 

 Feet, wet, 301 



Fertility ofland, means of increasing the, 401 

 Fessenden, letter to, 306 

 Field Preaching, 23(1, 238, 246 

 Field, Joseph, on silk, 20, 21 

 I Firewood, 217 

 Fits, Humphrey, 224 

 Flour, trade in, 67 

 Flowers, 75 



" cultivated by ladies, 398 

 Forest trees, Essex Agricultural Society, 17, 134,204, 



236 

 Forwarding seeds, J. Freeman, 41 

 Foster, Wm., book-farming, haymaking, 3 

 " butter, 11 



" Ai;riiiiltural Education, 18, 26, 36 

 Food, cooki-d and uncooked, 132, 197 



** value of different articles of, 133 

 Fowler, S. P., canker worms, 377 

 Franklin's advice lo young, 43 

 Freeman, forwaiding seeds, 41 

 Fruit, ripening with slaics, 92 



" trees, 76, 109, 134, 141, 204, 236, 266 



" rights to, 250 



'* pruning, 362 



" plugging, 2 



" setting, 10'.», 141 



Gapes in Chickens, 35 

 Gannett's address, 211 

 Garden, 16, 192 



" ornamental, 308 

 Geese, 187 

 Girls, hints to, 64 



" New England, 147 

 Gillifiower Potato, 134, 164, 212 



Going to , 272 



Good cultivation, 411 

 Gould, J., wanderings, die, 8 

 Granary, 3(;0 

 Grape, culture of, 3 



" native, 99— jelley, 21 

 (Irasses, by J. Wells, 235, 252 

 Griiss, guineii, (Janneti, 21 1 

 Grasses, cultivated, 220, 238, 246 

 Grafting, various kinds, 298 



