IV 



INDEX. 



Page 

 Character, a young man's .... 143 



Charcoal 132 



Cherry, 408 ; the ground .... 438 

 Children, 296 ; health for . . . . 458 



Chips, about 568 



Circumstances alter cases . . . 196, 233 



Cistern, how to build 266 



Cleanliness 567 



Climate makes the people .... 74 



Clothes, washing 401 



Clover seed, 231 ; why abundant, 371 ; year 406 



Clover, what brings the .... 546 



Club, Concord farmers', 40, 138; farmers', 66; 



at Chelmsford . . . . . 116 



Coal, how made, 284 ; for locomotives . . 456 



Cold days fso 



Colts, how to raise, 104, 164, 167; care of, 202, 



362 ; feeding 255, 278 



Combustion, spontaneous .... 350 



Composting 233 



Composts 559 



Corn, fodder, 16, 279, 484, 486, 490 ; h.arvesting, 

 60, 511 ; and oats, 180; on an acre, 189 ; king 

 Philip, 217 ; broom, 248 ; Darling's early 

 sweet, 258 ; planter, 269 ; starch, 274 ; Brown, 

 279; planting l)y horse-power, 318; value 

 of, 358 ; selecting seed, 460 ; early sweet, . 559 

 Correspondents, to .... 466, 503 



Cottage, farm and vill.age, 181 ; a square . 457 

 Cow, milch, 31 ; what ails my, 107, 198 ; grade, 

 beauty, 113; parsnips for milk, 115; an A}t- 

 shire, 181, 417; warm drink for, 184; barn 

 itch in, 199 ; as a water-lifter, 200 ; Mr. Hunt- 

 ington's, 223 ; talk, 275; one .acre to support 

 through the year, 281; poisoned, 310; and 

 pigs, feed for, 321 ; good, 335 ; difference in, 

 346 ; profitable, 390 ; machine for milking a, 

 399 ; bone sickness in .... 409 



Cough, v.iiooping . . . . • 59 



Cramp 496 



Cranberry, culture of, 14, 51, 134, 552,572 ; up- 

 land, 129; meadow 16 



Cream, new experiments in churning . . 286 



Cricket, mole 449 



Crops, root, 15, 387; storing for winter, 73; 

 measurement of, 166 ; how to get grass . 179 



Crow, the 102 



Cucumber, 249 ; how to pickle . . . 513 

 Curculio, and plum . . . 289, 438, 463 



Eighteen things 

 P^lepliant and boa . 

 Elm, an old, gone . 

 Emmets, how to get rid of 

 Engl.and, war with 

 English characteristics . 

 Errors, popular 

 Essex county, a day in 

 Evergreens, transplanting of 

 Eyes, use of the . 



F. 



D. 



Dairy products, 282 ; neighbor Dumpdirts . 471 



December, suggestions of ... . 538 



De Soto, Wisconsin 260 



Dinner, a thanksgiving, 52 ; Queen Elizabeth's 467 

 Disinfectants, cheap ..... 469 

 Dogs, keeping, 367 ; a savage, in a school- 

 room 404 



Dogwood, poison ..... 280 

 Draining, 16; vs. subsoiling, 222; book about, 



343 ; vrith tiles, 532 ; thorough . . . 574 



Drowned, restoring the .... 453 



Ducks in China 298 



Dykes in Holland 90 



Earth, form of 390 



East and west 567 



Economy, vegetable ..... 403 



Editorial accuracy 108 



Education better than wealth . . . 335 



Eels and eel-catchers 466 



Eggs, value of, 80 ; liow to tell good, 132 ; of 



the canker worm, 1 84 ; codnensed : . 342 



Fair, agricultiiral, at Portland 



Fallacies, popular 



Farm, work in winter, 158; and village cottage, 

 181; small, 402, 526; nothing like the, 422, 

 555 ; water for tlie, 287 ; stick to the, 465 ; why 

 don't you sell the, 486 ; sheep on small 



Farmer, how to become a true, 57 ; Nash's 

 Amherst, 62 ; open questions among, 81 ; what 

 his education should be, 89 ; club at Chelms- 

 ford, 116; the model, 124; the New-England, 

 150; home of the, 266; the, a man ot taste, 

 274 ; hint to, 286 ; wife of the, 324 ; what a 

 poor cannot afford, 370 ; new steam, 447 ; Cali- 

 fornia, 448; the model, 451 ; rich and poor, 

 464 ; festival at Groton, 491 ; Monthly New- 

 England, 499 ; education of . . . 



Farming, on poor land, 34 ; is it profitable, 108 ; 

 good and bad, 114; mode of, 247; fancy, 

 386 ; objections to, 410 ; good, makes its mark, 

 415 ; in western Mass., 467, 472; Shaker in Ky. 



Feast, a Japanese 



Feet, care of the 



Fences, willow, 189 ; wire 



Fertilizer, 396 ; is ammonia a, 438 ; a new 



Fields, how to fill blanks in corn . 



Filbert, the 



Fish, as a manure, 311 ; tame 



Flannel next the skin 



Floors, barn 



Fly, how walks on ceiling .... 



Foddei', corn, 16 ; cut 



Food, value of different kinds, 414 ; fat meat as 



Forests, cultivation and iji-eservation of 



Fruit, discussion about, 244 ; in cans and pies, 

 344 ; stealing, 480 ; sealing wax for, in cans, 

 505 ; growing ...... 



Fuel, unseasoned 



G. 



Garden (gardening), ornamental, 116, 188, far- 

 mers', 376, 385 ; a walk in, 264, 269, 397 ; 

 for the South ...... 



Garget, or inflamed udder .... 



Geology 



Girls, American factory, 28 ; should learn to 

 keep house, 128 ; American is. English . 



Goldfinch, American 



Good, do, in your lifetime .... 



Gordon, old, and his ladies .... 



Grafting the plum and peacli 



Grain, sprouted, 202 ; prospects of 



Granite bouldei'S 



Grape, the, 25 ; pruning, 83 ; culture of the, 97 ; 

 seeds, 102; how tor.aise under glass, 137; 

 vine, the, 149 ; vine, grafting the, 215, 240, 280 ; 

 and sweet potato, 221 ; the Concord, 247, vine, 

 laying the, 284 ; vine, barren, 398; in pots, 521 ; 

 native, 528; Concord . • . . 



Grapery, Simpson's, in SaxonviUe 



Grass, seeding land to, 150, 246 ; and gr.ain, 153; 

 crops, how to get, 179; worthless, 211 ; time 

 fur cutting, 297 ; pasture .... 



440 

 572 

 569 

 438 

 337 

 422 

 372 

 424 

 326 

 376 



538 



285 



559 



505 



562 

 557 

 493 

 280, 367 

 558 



53 

 373 

 346 

 139 

 279 

 416 



53 

 456 



50 



555 

 52 



293 



475 

 418 



538 

 271 

 396 

 430 

 499 

 420 

 354 



551 

 266 



499 



