INDEX. 



Page. 

 Can, preserviiifr, ...... 375 



Camel, strcno-th of, 255 



Caps, bay, L'4G ; cloth for hay, 269, 336, 415, 498 



Care, household, 104 



Carrot, for horses, 16 ; for culture, 55 ; J. and J. 

 T. Dinsmoor's crop of, 188, 237 ; value of for 

 milk, ;335 ; wild, 451 ; crop of, . . 567 

 Cattle, wintering, 19 ; sulphur for, 89; fatal dis- 

 ease among-, 90, 140; soiling of, 226,302; eat- 

 ing boards and boTies, 277 ; new way of salt- 

 ing, 280; native, 294; lice on, . . 480 

 Cellar, barn, for manures, .... 283 



Celery, cultivation of, 236 



Cement, for broken cliina, . . . . 130 



Cheese, porous, 36, 172; liow many pounds of 



milk to make a jiound of, . . . 218 

 Cheshire county, N. 11. , agricultural meetings in, 



97, 196; crops in, 443 



Chick, how liatched, 408 



Chicken, to prevent eats from killing, 456; how 



to fatten a, 560 



Child, obedient, 56 



Chimney, a large, 25 



Churn, a new, ...... 498 



Cider, how to improve, 38; how to keep it sweet, 564 



Cistern, 366 



Clay, to amend sandy soils with, . .316 



Clover, Alexandrian, ..... 259 

 Clubs, farmers', constitution of, 44 ; farmers', 

 144, 151, 156, 212 ; at Lunenburg, 187 ; Gro- 

 ton farmers', 223 ; pioneer farmers', . 330 



Coal, ashes, a fertilizer, 194, 237, 245, 277, 394, 



404, 432, 491 ; as a disinfectant, 412 ; and iron, 512 

 Cockroaches, 323 ; how to kill, ... 398 

 Cold, effects of on apple trees, . . . 380 

 Coffee, how made in France, . . . 334 

 Colt, a fine, 218; an injured, 223, 340; a sick, 

 291,367; bunch on hind foot of a, 366 ; a 

 ru])tnred, 427 ; cure for breach in a, 459, 470 ; 

 a contrary, 5.50, 569 



letter from. 



222 

 24 



121 



Concord, Mass 



Coop, chicken. 



Corn, its su])eriority to animal food, 26 ; crops, 

 measurement of, 32 ; largest yield of on record, 

 44 ; a new kind of, 48 ; stalks, topping, 52, 

 55, 72, 87, 115, 180,181,237,427; fall ma- 

 nuring for, 71 ; experiments in raising, 145 ; 

 Cyrus Kilburn's crop of, 187 ; Joseph Good- 

 rich's crop of, 188; culture of, 216; fodder, 

 233. 246, 399, 420 ; how to hull, 259, 277 ; 

 tarring seed, 274 ; seed, 383 ; crop, experi- 

 ments with, 421 ; pollen and suckers of, 458; 

 nativity of, 483 ; harvesting, 501, 535; husk- 

 ing, ." . . . . . . . .536 



Correspondents, to, ... . 210, 225 



Cottage River, residence of editor, 41 ; — Sec 

 frontispiece. 



Cotton-seed meal, ..... 



Cow, milch, and dairy farms, 36, 143; how to in- 

 crease tiie value of, 68 ; brain, tumor on, 69 ; 

 sick, 152; a kicking, 164, 191, 232, 277, 291, 

 308, .341,356,374,426; milch, feed of, 197; 

 s])ayed. 225, 561 ; stabled at night, 234 ; 

 milking young, 241 ; eating l)o.ards and bones, 

 277 ; india rubber ring for teats of the, 278; 

 a line. 278, 377, 382 ; product of ten, 296 ; ar- 

 tichokes for the, 323 ; salt and ashes for, 358 ; 

 that leaks her milk, 376 ; garget in, cure for, 

 376, 458 ; shedding milk, 383 ; pasturing the, 

 383 : food for the, 454 ; bunches on the teats 

 of the 



Cranl)erry, on upland, 210, 278 ; time to set the, 

 277 ; i)re|iaring meadows for the, 313 ; meadow, 

 a costly, 484, 524 ; meadow, questions about, 



Cream and churning, ..... 



Cress, water, 304, 



Crocodile, about the, 



i'aga. 

 Crop, in Essex County, Mass., 546 ; how to keep 



good, . 564 



Crow, to prevent pulling corn, 291 ; and other 



birds, 407 



Cucumber, how improved, .... 346 

 Culture and over culture, .... 506 

 Cultivator, Sawyer's improved, . . . 553 

 Curculio, 331; the, .... 375,469 



Currant bushes, soap suds for, . . 320, 518 

 Cuttings, striking in moss, . . . 188, 263 



D 



Dairies, 266 



December, calendar for, .... 537 

 Dinner, carving a, ..... 536 



Draining, in New England, 19, 50, 74, 92 ; leg- 

 islation about, and land drainage companies, 

 136, 159, 219; an experiment in, 146 ; "hnd 

 power of soils to retain manures, 284 ; under, 

 329; of forms, 331, 339, 394, 396,438,473, 



495, 524 ; in Paris, 528 



Drought, benefit of, 387 



Dog, a trap to catch sheep-killing, 370 ; law 

 about, Massachusetts, 451 : what they cost us, 451 



Dove, a story about; 38 



Ducks, Muscovy, 398 



Dust, saw, as a fertilizer, . . 550, 567, 570 

 Dyspepsia, to cure the, .... 470 



E 



Eagle, golden, 72 



Eat, what shall we, 144 



Echoes, ....... 141 



Education, agricultural, 71; female, 126; of 



voung men, 181 ; home, .... 491 



Electricity, and ventilation, . 82, 130, 218 



Equestrianism by ladies, .... 35 



Ergot, effects of, .... 40 



Exercise, effects of, 162 



Exports, our, 39 



525 



567 

 459 

 415 

 258 



Fair, fitrmer's market, 247 ; at South Danvers, 

 288, 377 ; for 1859, 395 ; attending the, . 



Fallacies, po])ular, notes on. 



Farm, life in New England, 47 ; system in man- 

 agement of a, 73 ; of Elijah Wood, Jr., Con- 

 cord, Mass., 99 ; intellect of the, 101 ; State, 

 240 ; experimental, 259 ; work, seasonable, 

 420, 438 ; labor, make it fashionable, 555 ; 

 order and economy on the. 



Farmer, the, his position, 21, 251; love your 

 calling, 128; education of the, 156; Nash's 

 Progressive, 164 ; mental activity of the, 307; 

 anti-book, portrait of the, 321 ; taste of the, 

 327 : science for, 359 ; the, and his surround- 

 ings, ....... 



Farming, economy in, 27 ; well, 47 ; in Maine, 

 55 ; Sir Isaac "Newton's taste for, 56 ; head 

 work in, 72 ; high, 260; high and insects, 370 : 

 is there profit in, 447, 553 ; in northern New 

 Hampshire 534, 538, 



Fashion, the hoop, 



February, calendar for, 



Feed, grinding, 



Feet, small, in Peru,| 



Female, influence of, 



Fences, wire, 50, 



Fertilizer, a new and useful. 



Fish, a fat 



Fish, northern and southern, 302 ; habits of, 409 ; 

 pond, ....... 



Flowage, 77, 117, 



Flowers, for rock work, 208 ; hardy, native, 224 ; 

 what are they good for, 438 ; fall. 



Food, cooked, for fattening cattle, 



525 

 503 



559 



572 



555 

 200 

 57 

 87 

 491 

 550 

 315 

 257 

 124 



532 

 143 



535 

 70 



