INDEX. 



Fodder, feeding to stock, 233 ; good, 388 ; corn, 420 



Follies, 500 



Forests, destruction of, .... 120 



Fowls, how to keep, 47 ; diseases in, 164 ; white 



Shanghai, 170; black Spanish, 232; game, 405 

 French, H. F., letter from, on agriculture in Coos 

 County, N. H., 14; on various subjects, 2C0, 



284, 331, 473, 514 

 Frost, effects of, 3G5 ; early and late, . . 380 

 Fruit, report of committee on, in Charlemont, 

 Mass., 13; eating, 37; culture of, 197; raise 

 and eat it, 360 ; prospects for, 366 ; and birds, 

 388 ; mildew in, 427 ; gathering and preserv- 

 ing, 450; against robins, .... 467 

 Fuel, economy in, 25 ; wonderful power of, 22 



Furniture, home made, .... 287 



G 



Garden, flowers in the, 254 ; gardening, land- 

 scape, 264 ; a walk in the, 363 ; the, and pork 

 barrel, 405 ; women in the, . . . 447 

 Garget, cure for, . . . 376, 458, 542 



Geese, Bremen, ...... 567 



Girls, school, in winter, . . . . 104 



Gooseberries, mildew on, 513 ; and currants, 574 



Grafting, 363 



Grain, will it change its kind, 166 ; crops of, 183 ; 



harvesting, 381 ; sifter and assorter, . 423 



Grape, vine, grafting the, 155, 268; trimming in 

 spring, 281; raising the, 316; shortening in, 

 341 ; ringing, 367 ; propagating, 389 ; eggs of 

 insects on, 398 ; blight in, 246 ; unfruitful, 

 448 ; Hartford and Concord, 246, 534, 567 ; 

 $100 premium on, 281 ; Isabella, 437 ; how 

 shall we learn which is the best, 444 ; preserving 

 the, for winter, 457 ; white, fabled, 492 ; native, 

 510; Isabella, laying down vine of tlie, 570; 

 hardy, 574 ; native, .... 575 

 Grass, blue joint, 426,499 ; Hungarian, 114, 179, 

 192, 234, 237, 254, 264, 291, 308, 442, 452 ; 

 seed to an acre, 277 ; roots, and sward worms, 

 314 ; winter-killed, 366 ; what kinds, 398 ; wild, 

 in meadows, 405 ; tall oat and meadow fescue, 

 426 ; land, top-dressing for, 439, and manur- 

 ing, 458 ; witcli, . . . 499, 550, 574 

 Groton, Mass., farmer's club, . . . 223 

 Guano, 164; American, or Jarvis' and Baker's 

 island, 203, 265, 576; for onions, 314,376; 

 and superphosphate, 426 ; artificial, 491, 576 ; 

 Peruvian, 545, 574 



H 



Habits, negligent, boiTOwing, 



Harness, oiling leather, etc., 



Harrow, Bucklin's improved, 



Harvest, liomc, gigantic, .... 



Hay, stacks, 103 ; and roots, 226 ; caps for, 246 ; 

 caps, cloth for, .... 269, 



Hedge, osage orange for, 180; buckthorn, seed 

 for, 269, 



Heifer, a, that holds up her milk. 



Hemlock, and pine, transplanting the. 



Hens, disorder among laying, 50 ; diseased, 112 ; 

 laying all the year, 114; lame, 180; are they 

 profitable, 192; lame, that die, 230; profit of, 

 383 ; and hen's husl)ands, 406 : crowing. 



Hennery, great, French, . . . 12, 



Hints, to farmers, ..... 



Hive, bee, straight comb in, 324; bee, and 

 apiary, 



334 ; hoeing, .... 

 82; net weight of a, 91 ; large, 114 ; 



Hoe, wheel 

 Hog, a fine 



in Ohio, 



Hoof ail, 



Home, a permanent, and $40,000, 247 ; how to 



build up a, 



18 

 390 

 545 



95 



498 



383 

 437 

 372 



499 

 251 

 236 



334 

 358 



279 

 40 



433 



Page. 

 Horse, carrots for, 16 ; coat of the, 48, 158; in- 

 jured and diseased, 89, 123, 165, 312; floors 

 for the, 90, 174 ; stall for the, 123 ; buncli on 

 leg of a, 140; splints on a, 164; garget poi- 

 son to tiic, 191; barley for a, 203; premium 

 for speed of the, 218; ]iower, 222; treatment 

 of ringbone in a, 228 ; foot and shoeing, 234 ; 

 lock jaw in the, 234 ; blind staggers in the, 

 246 ; to cure sprung knees in the, 259 ; glanders 

 in the, 267 ; management of the, 303 ; as a 

 breeder, 316 : ringbone in tlie, 341 ; cure for 

 bots in the, 355, 357 ; worms in, 375; chafed 

 under the collar, 455 ; running and trotting 

 of the, 456 ; cure for breach in a, 459 ; to 

 cure a hard pulling, 490 ; handling the, while 

 being sliod, 493; walk, train him to, 500; 

 feed for a, 504 ; contraction of feet in the, 509 ; 



qualities of the, 510 



Horticulturist, the 289 



Hotbed, planting in the, .... 270 

 House, notes on tlie dwelling, . . . 412 

 Hungarian grass, 234, 237, 254, 264, 291, 308, 354 

 Hydrophobia, 274 



Illinois, from Northern, 

 Industry, habits of — nothing to do. 

 Institute, Powers, at Bernardston, Mass., 

 Iowa, its climate and crops, 30 ; season in. 

 Islands, Sandwich, letter from. 



January, calendar for, 

 July, calendar for, 

 June, calendar for. 



K 



Kale, sea, 

 Kansas, farminj: 



500 

 79, 295 

 230 

 279 

 362 



9 

 297 

 249 



190, 212 



487 



Labor, as a curse, 455 



Lambkill, 499 



Land, grass, management of permanent, 18; ma- 

 nuring the, in autumn, 27; tabic for measuring, 

 59, 80; meadow, in Concord-liiver valley, 77, 

 117; in Maine, 259; laying to grass," 268, 

 510; gradual improvement of, 78, 323,429; 

 sandy, exhausted, 83, 183 ; bill, Mr. Morrill's 

 172, 175; sandy, 350; grass, how to restore, 436 

 Law, delays of tlie, 65 ; about dogs, . . 451 

 Leaves and chemists, ..... 27 



Legislative agricultural meeting, 102, 108, 132, 



141, 147, 167, 185, 204, 214, 227, 243 

 Life, rural, influence of, ... . 552 

 Lime, in the hill, 139; and its properties, 163; 

 gas, 217 ; superphospliatc of, for trees, when 

 transplanting, 224; for squashes, 291 ; super- 

 phospiiato of, when to apply, 426 ; slaking 

 common, 436 ; and wheat, . . . 498 



Locust, yellow, cultivation of, . . . 101 

 Lumber, rules for measuring, . . 191, 438 



M 



Machine, mowing, wanted, 11 ; experience with 

 a, 63 ; four years' observation of a mowing, 

 in Essex county, 82 ; mowing, 139, 322, 335, 

 371, 374, 376, 389, 390, 391, 392, 396 ; a hay 

 sjireading, wanted, 194; sewing, in England, 

 203 ; horse power, 222 ; labor-saving, 364, 470 



Maine, crops in, 122, 365; lands in, 259; cli- 

 mate and fruits in, 347 ; Baldwin apples in, 

 376 ; State Fair, 502 



