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INDEX. 



Page 

 Millet, culture of .... 277,311,437 



Mistake, my friends 522 



Moles, utility of 332 



Moon, surface of 11 



Mowing, machine, 1 24 ; scythe and machine . 1 70 

 Muck, peat and crops, 195, 200 ; and ashes, 214 ; 

 preparation of, 305 ; the mother of the meal 

 chest, 333 ; meadow, 257; use of . . . 493 

 Music, old church , 416 



N, 



Nature, the work of mind .... 500 

 New Hampshire, things in, 68 ; Ipswich, New, 



notice of 4G8 



North Carolina, farming in . . . .331 



Nova Scotia, affairs in 388 



November, traits of 489 



Nuts for a farmer's son to crack . . . 492 



Nutriment in various substances . k_ • 38 



O. 



Oats, what made of, 73 ; and corn, 180, 212 ; and 



carrots, and relative value of 22 



Ocean, profusion of life in .... 96 

 October and its suggestions . . . .441 



Oliio, income of 347 



Oil in sunflower 215 



Oliver, Gen. H. R., address of ... 373 

 Onion, maggot, remedy for, 34, 180; and to- 

 mato, 285 ; seed and brine, 511; top . . 528 

 Orchard, plowing and manuring, 131 ; young, 

 what to do in a, 216 ; how to treat an old . 253 



Order . 399 



Owl, the 374 



Oxen, hauling in, 19; the old .... 74 



Oysters 526 



Paint, milk ^ 



Papers, agricultural, use of ... . 



Parsnips, for milch cows, 115, 312 ; and carrots 



Pasture, in Cheshire Co., N. H., 118; old, 130; 

 about the Monadnock, 223 ; what manure for, 

 231 ; improving 294, 



Patent Office, doings at, 364 ; reports 



Peach, grafting the, 499 ; fine .... 



Pearlash 109, 



Pears, several excellent, 15, 232; list of best 

 varieties, 244 ; a few words about, 326 ; trees, 

 jn-uning, 511 ; culture of the 



Peas, bugs in 



Peat, muck and crops, 195 ; and muck 



Pepper, 246 ; mountain sweet . 



Peppergrass among cucumbers 



Phosphates, their use .... 



Pickles and tomatoes .... 



Pies, mince, without meat, 54 ; fruit . 



Pine, cultivation of the, 217, 222; and .sand 

 knolls, 258 ; pitcli, culture of . . . 



Pipe, water, 248, 310; material for, 258; stone 



Plants, migration of, 96 ; hybrid, 287 ; food of, 

 307 ; mixing of, 438 ; protect your tender 



Plaster, use of^ 253, 268 ; or gypsum 



Plow (plowing) the double, 223; time to,253, 

 387, 397 ; deep, 234, 389 ; orchards, 234 ; foil, 

 395 ; .steam, 503, 527 ; side-hill 



Plum, Lawrence favorite. Purple Gage, 168; 

 Imperial Gage, Princess Imperial Gage, 

 Smith's Orleans, 169, 320 ; save the, 290 ; dis- 

 ease of, 423 ; and curculio, 438 ; grafting the 

 plum .... . . 499, 



100 



94 



180 



478 

 552 

 511 

 270 



523 

 511 



309 

 559 

 202 

 85 

 498 

 488 



288 

 316 



538 

 367 



529 



528 



543 



. 528 

 . 570 



. 576 



167, 328 



. 226 



Page 

 Ponds, of honey, 13; fish in artificial . . 474 



Potasli 112 



Potatoes, great yield of, 54, 104, 130; do they 

 mix, 102, 167, 291, 321, 337, 346; English 

 lapstone, 121, 134 ; for seed, 178 ; sweet, 221, 

 308 ; experiments with, 227 ; to be planted, 

 242, 301 ; for planting, 263; small, 316; and 

 lime, 487 ; State of Maine, 529 ; Irish . 

 Poultry, annual value of, 88 ; rearing, 250 ; 

 breeds of, 352, 407 ; facts about, 515 ; how to 

 send to market .... 

 Press, Hay, Dederick's Parallel Lever 



Prospects 



Pruning 



Publishers, agricultural 

 Pumpkin, seeds, effect of on cows, 510; and 

 vines 559 



R. 



Rain, effect of on fish, 444 ; power of . . 524 



Rake, a short tooth 261 



Rams, hydraulic 254 



Randolph, John 344 



Raspberry, Catawissa, 228 ; Brinckle's Orange, 481 



Rat, and sparrows 343 



Reading, a preventive of dotage ... 87 

 Recipes . 56, 104, 152, 296, 392, 440, 487, 536 



Recollections 549 



Redwood, the giailt 145 



Refrigeration 339 



River, in the Pacific 511 



Rods, lightning 21 



Roofs, whitewashing, 168, 199, 303; painting . 200 

 Root crops, 15, 180; culture of . 227, 295, 407 

 Rose, cuttings of the, 366 ; red spider on . . 247 

 Rothschilds, wealth of the . , . .93 



Rubber, wlien to wear India .... 64 



Rules and laws 55 



Rural economy of the British Isles, 117, 123, 

 159, 164, 177, 186, 194, 205, 238, 252, 259, 



276, 302, 322, 361, 381, 426, 458 



Ruta bagas 180 



Rye, etc., nutriment in, 38, 53 ; and wheat crops 215 



S. 



Salt under Niagara Falls, 41 ; medical use of, 



357 ; use of 405 



Sawdust . . . . . . . .159 



School, State Reform, 149; Luther's, 390 ; a 



Turkish . 439 



Science and the farmer 348 



Scion, a thrifty ....... 552 



Sea, the open Polar, 91, 563 ; water and a cotton 



shirt, 349 ; waves and sicknee-s . . . 458 

 Season, the, 388 ; in New Hampshire, 477 ; and 



crops 486 



Seed garden, 30 ; from Patent Office, 405 ; gath- 

 ering clover, 442 ; time, 454 ; time to attend to 509 



September 393 



Shaker farming in Kentucky .... 562 

 Sheep, winter management of, 48, 53 ; stall-feed- 

 ing, 55 ; Southdown, 186 ; to kill ticks on, 

 215, 247, 258, 279 ; valuable, 247 ; shearing, 

 255 ; on small farms ..... 559 

 Shingles, boil in lime and salt, 216; to preserve 



them 343,369 



Sliows, National and State, 437 ; Hampshire 



Cattle 569 



Sit upright 439 



Skins, how to dress with fur or wool on . . 456 



Snake, combat with a 148 



Snow, benefits of, 225 ; the . . . .518 

 Soap 432 



