INDEX TO THE EIGHTH VOLUME. 



A. 



Accounts, faiin 



Acid, or sours ...... 



" in the soil 



Acre, to measure an, 16 ; yield of, 31 ; trees on 



Activity, early mental ..... 



Address, Col. Ncedham's . . • . 



Age, superiority of our .... 



Agricultural, press, spirit of, 42 ; meetings at State 

 IIousc, 118; address, 293 ; products, 293 ; ex- 

 hibition at Philadelphia, 476 ; exhibitions, 

 515; Association, Boston .... 



Agriculture, benefits of snow to, 43 ; an exten- 

 tensive science, 38 ; instruction in, 63 ; State 

 Board of, 75, 452 ; in Sullivan eo., N. II., 

 128; in Maine, 159; new ideas in, 172; in 

 Mass., 300, 400; principles of, 431; experr- 

 ments in, 443 ; relation of to health . 



Air, out-door 



Alum, to purify water 



Ammonia, is it a fertilizer .... 



Animals, on feeding, 27; winter shelter for, 30 ; 

 domestic, 98 ; a luxury for, 288 ; beating of, 

 380 ; chloroform for 



Anti-progression 



Apes, liow they catch crabs .... 



Apple, nutriment in the, 34 ; russet sweet, 54 ; 

 fine, 63 ; scale insect on, 78 ; several kinds on 

 one tree, 78 ; no blow, 90 ; orcliards, 101 ; for 

 cows, 101 ; granite beauty, 182; keeping win- 

 ter, 218; odd year, 231"; sweet, 234; R. I. 

 greening, 311 ; without blossom, 312; winter 

 green sweeting, 343 ; a good, 390 ; Baldwin, 

 286 ; and insects, 496 ; crop, 501 ; for export 



Ai'istocracy, Britisii 



Ashes, coal, 101, 406; save the coal, 174; and 

 muck ...... 214, 



Asparagus bed, how to get, 130; fall treatment 

 of 



August, work of 



B. 



Bacon, save your 



Barbarism 394, 



Barns, plans for, 102 ; ground plan of a, 136 ; evi- 

 dence of tin-ift, 1 70, 339 ; octagon 

 Beans, on rye land 



Page 

 133 

 312 

 270 

 180 

 151 

 560 

 573 



570 



573 

 473 



498 

 438 



506 



.528 



29 



Beauty, female 

 Beds, husk . 

 Bees, about, 53 ; look 

 310, 346 ; wintcrin 



leaves, maggots on, 368 ; 



It, 138; managing, 151, 

 ,,, 175; and tlie sparrow, 

 403 ; Iiydropathy ap])licd to, 436 ; raising, 497 ; 

 liints on wintering 



Beet, early, 132 ; 

 leaves, ashes on 



Billcrica, town of 



Birds, sense of sight in, 12; the chickadee, or 

 black cap titmouse, 37 ; spare the, 60 ; king, 

 or tyrant fiy-catcher, 95 ; king, and its ncs^, 

 184 ; blue jay, 192 ; habits of, 320 ; protect the, 



543 

 419 



231 



520 

 345 



350 



548 



390 



280 



440 



18 



566 



390 

 19 



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336 ; that might be domesticated, 283, 295 ; 



swallow, clifi', 330 ; 404, 428, 450, 470, 483, 507 



Blackberry, tlie common, 233 ; Lawton . 540 



Blacksmith, stool for 337 



Blueberry, year 439 



Boa and elephant 572 



Bolt, transient 62 



Bone, meal, effect of, 131 ; what to do with 



old 280 



Books, notice of new 21I 



Borer, remedy for, 372 ; apple tree . 398, 511 



Botany 342 



Brakes, 159; how to kill, 326; and live forever 



to destroy 397 



Brazil, slavery in 306 



Bread, the most nutritious, 18,212; something 



about, 527 ; tons of 549 



Breathing and thinking .... 474 



Breck's book of flowers .... 455 



Bricks, perforated . . , . , 340 



British energy ...... 480 



Bucks, to prevent from fighting . . . 538 



Budding 329 



Buildings, farm 355 



Burgett, Henry, story of ... . 287 

 Butter, stock, 36 ; why it is dear, 36 ; and milk, 



84 ; how to make it come, 200 ; one word 



about, 206 ; how to make good . 218,230 



C. 



Cabbage, early, 132; crops, 279; for stock, 



403 ; stump-footed 437 



Calendar, for January . . . • . 9 



Calf, meal for, 216; rearing, 279 ; how a cow 



may have a good 519 



California, letters from, 405 ; miglity cedars 



of 412 



Camel, travelling powers of ... 462 



Cane, Chinese sugar . . 447, 504, 522, 551 



Carbon . . 296 



Carlton, Luther, biography of . . . 317 



Carriage, new style of 54 



Carrots, and oats, relative value of, 22 ; fine 



yield of, 40 ; for horses . . 199, 212,250, 309 

 Cat, why don't she sweat, 77, 416 ; whiskers, use 



of 492 



Caterpillars, 311 ; to destroy with molasses, .•]12, 



343 ; with jiowdcr 279 



Cattle, accidents and diseases of, 131 ; watering, 

 135 ; lice on, 241 ; about, 545; shows, racing 

 at . . . . ■ . . . .547, ,548 



Cattle show, in Griggsville, 111., 556 ; at Amherst, 



557 ; at Northamjjton .... 557 

 Cauliflower, and sea kale .... 258 

 Caution, a woril of .... . 419 

 Cedar, red, 61, 200, 230,383; and other ever- 

 greens 398 



Celery 398 



Cellar, clean your 275 



Cement, water, for roofs . , . . 311 



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