INDEX. 



Page. 



Valley, the Mascoma, Vt., .... 85 

 Vegetable physiology, .... 229 

 Vegetation, power of, to resist extremes of tem- 

 perature, 28 



Veterinary school, 72 



Vermont, soil and climate in, 132 ; crops and 

 weather in, 375, 376, 469 ; business and crops 

 in Eyegate, 406; State Fair in, 508; Cale- 

 donia County fair in, .... 543 

 Vine, to save from bugs, 323 ; squash, . . 499 

 Vineyard, cultivation of the, . . . 437 



W 



Wagon, Willis' steam, .... 481 



Wart, on a calf's neck, 233 ; to cure a, 259 ; on 

 plum trees, 269 



Water, decrease of on the globe, 190; running, 

 240 ; poisoned by lead, 242 ; well and aque- 

 duct, 269; cress, 415; rain, and underdrains, 485 



Weather, of 1858, 150, 162; of the summer 

 months, 482 



Weed, noxious 



Wells, Artesian, injurious, .... 



Westboro', cattle sliow at, . 



AVheat, crop, 56, 242, 489 ; Java, Spring, 

 165; Martin Johnson's crop of, 188; value 

 of, 237 ; land, lime on, 278, 279 ; winter, 285, 

 315; crop of 1859, 417; Weevil proof, . 



Willow, basket, .... 



Windows and walls, leaky. 



Wine, to make pure, from apples. 



Wood, Elijah, Jr., farm of, . 



Woodland, ..... 



Women, in the garden, 447 ; universal benevo- 

 lence of, . 



Work, doing too much, 



Worms, canker, 161, 269; green, 



Wrens, family of, 



Page. 

 409 

 510 

 497 



Wurtzel, mangold, 



451 

 37 



525 



559 

 99 



383 



504 

 404 

 323 

 300 

 179, 180, 185,218 



Yearlings, and two year olds, 



Year, crowned with goodness, 545 ; closing. 



405 

 573 



ILLUS TRATIONS. 



Van Zandt's Superb Peach, 



Figure of an Ayrshire Cow, 



Willard's Patent Root Cutter, 



Fanning and Assorting Machine, 



The Gray Doyenne Pear, .... 



The Hubbard Squash, 



Design for a Farmhouse of the Rural Gothic 



Style, 



The Crawford Early Peach, 



Chester County, Pa., Sow, .... 



A Pair of White Shanghai Fowls, 



A Queen and her Bees, .... 



The Mario Louise Pear, .... 



A Portable Iron Grist Mill, .... 



Folding Vine Protector, .... 



W. and B. Douglas' Hydraulic Ram, . 



The Guelderland Fowl, .... 



Siiort-Horn Bull, Double Duke, . 



A Barrel Fountain 



17'Ketchum's One Horse Mowing Machine, 



33! Design for a Country Residence, 



48 Drajjcr's Machine for dressing Mill Stones, 



65 A pair of Java Fowls, 



96, Design for a Country Schoolhouse, 



113! Hay Caps, Use of, illustrated, 

 I The Little Subsoiler, . 



129 Field's Horse Pow-er Jlachine, 



145 Design for a Suburban Cottage, 



161 1 A Splendid Dominique Fowl, 



1 76 i Ayrshire Bull, Albert, 



182|A'Pair of Scotch Game Fowls, 



193 A Design for a Country House, 



198|A Full-Blood Devon Bull, . 



203 1 The Bremen, or Embden Geese, 



209 Pure Devon Cow, Fairy, 



225 The Scotch Pine, 



241 

 251 



The Honey, or Sweet Locust, 

 The Small Stinging Nettle, 



273, 



385, 



256 

 274 

 289 

 305 

 320 

 336 

 353 

 368 

 386 

 416 

 433 

 449 

 464 

 481 

 496 

 513 

 529 

 544 

 569 



POETRY. 



The Laborer and the Warrior, 



Swinging in the Barn, 



Agriculture and Horticulture, 



Inscription on a Watch, 



King and Queen, 



Charities that Sweeten Life, 



The Corn Harvest, 



There's Work Enough To Do, 



The Slave Boy's Wish, 



A Scotch Love Song, . 



An Autumn Leaf, 



Both Sides, .... 



The Fanner's Giri, 



Live for Something, 



23 Nursling Vespers, 



34 Cottage Song, 



38 Never put oft" till To-morrow, 



64 Times go by Turns, 



68 The New Mown Hay, . 



72 1 The Night before the Mowing, 



85 [A Farmer's Song, 



98; Farewell to the Swallows, 



103 

 121 

 158 

 181 

 242 

 292 



Autumn Wild Flowers, 

 Love is Everywhere, 

 Autumn — A Dirge, 

 A Harvest Hymn, 

 The American Autumn, 

 Autumn, 



306 

 322 

 357 

 391 

 4ol 

 422 

 432 

 468 

 476 

 484 

 500 

 505 

 528 

 553 



