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 stock of New England, 222 ; flesh of extra fat, 

 287 ; warm water for, 294 ; color of, 300, 379 ; 

 disease in, 335 ; for the dairy, 3G7 ; white, 450 



Cauliflower, late Dutch, .... 86 



Celery, Seymour's, superb, 85 ; Cole's dwarf, 85, 



183, 194 

 Cement, iron, CI ; shaker grafting, 25G ; hard, 



307, 352 

 Charcoal, is it liable to spontaneous combustion, 507 

 Chickens, gapes in, ..... 264 

 Chilblains, cure for, .... 208, 256 



Chimney, a good, 196 



Cholera, hog, 244, 293 



Clay, on sandy land, 513 



Clover, white, 200 ; hay, value of, 218; cutting 



and curing, . . . . , . 371 

 Clubs, farmer's, 108, 162 ; Bethel, farmer's, . 138 



Coal, 330 



Cobs, corn, analysis of, .... 314 



Cold, how people take 37 



Colt, management of a young, 44, 136; keeping 

 a, in winter, 66 ; height of, 71 ; a pair of, 103 ; 

 injured by running, 431 ; a sick, 433 ; acci- 

 dents to, 457 



Composts, muck and ashes, .... 565 



Cooking, 298 ; thoughts on, 300 ; legitimate, 



320, 373 

 Commerce, curiosities of, ... . 404 



Constipation, ...... 522 



Committees, duties of at Cattle Shows, . 138 



Cotton, sec^l racal, 198 



Couple, an aged, ...... 459 



Cranberry, meadows, 77, 168, 206, 207, 268, 528, 566 



Crane, sand hill, 99 



Crops, root, 544 



Corn, among potatoes, 40 ; Indian, 58 ; fodder, 

 dried, 60, '208 ; King Philip, 122; culture of, 

 131, 168; how to raise pop, 134; fodder, and 

 on muck land, 169 ; measurement of, 183, 226, 

 255; manure for, 263, 265 ; cobs, analysis of, 

 314 ; pop, 343 ; stooking, 416 ; suckers among, 

 421, 458 ; green, as fodder, 457, 460 ; vs. beef, 

 429, 541 ; 200 bushels per acre of, 555 ; how 



preserved iu Russia 562 



Cows, management of milch, 29 ; garget in, 40 ; 

 pumpkins for milch, 60, 91 ; wintering milch; 

 62 ; a fine herd of, 66 ; and butter, 72 ; progeny 

 of one since 1852, 78 ; diff'erence in, 96 ; a 

 lusiis naturai in a, 107 ; spaying, 131, 223 ; 

 when to feed, milch, 134 ; income from a, 166 ; 

 a good, 166, 334; a fat, 194; a flne, 244; 

 milch, 256 : a butter, 267 ; a leaky, 283 ; Mas- 

 sachusetts dairy, 314 ; Guainon's, escutcheon 

 on, 351, 381 ; how to treat a, that holds up her 

 milk, 352, 371, 432; a diseased, 366 ; for the 

 dairy, 367 ; the Oakcs, 455 ; abortion in, 464 ; 

 difference in, 464 ; to prevent a, losing her 

 milk, 497 ; milk from spayed, . . . 549 

 Cream, increasing the quantity of, . . 332 



Crops, green, for manure, 59 ; culture of spring, 

 226 ; in Marblehead, 276 ; rotation in, 308, 

 452 ; accounts of the, 403 ; in Berkshire county, 

 411 ; in Maine, 471 ; in Windham county, Vt. 

 517; in Wisconsin, 518 ; root, . . 544,559 

 Crow, die, 39, 63 ; and robins, 114; and chickens, 

 194, 268; 359; and swallows, ... 458 



Cucumber, green, 456 



Curculio, 73, 274, 455 ; remedy for, . 464, 471 

 Currants, how to set, 430 ; cherry, 458, 464 ; 

 wine from, 466, 467 



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Dairy, premiums on, 101 



Devastator, a new, 366 



Drains, draining, 77 ; with tiles, 91 ; and irriga- 

 tion, 134, 140, 172; stone and tile, 194 ; com- 



Pags 

 parativc cost of tile and stone, 197, 217 ; under, 

 will it pay, 267, 311, 315, 419; thorough, 556, 



undei-, 569 



Dress, extravagance in, .... 495 



Dog, mad, cure for bite of a, 213,382; taxing 



to preserve sheep, 282 



Drought, how it benefits the soil, . . . 260 

 Dust, where does it come froM, . . . 281 



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Earth, feeding on, 575 



Eating and sleeping, .334 ; over, . . . 446 



Economy, rural, 34 



Education, fallacy of premature, . . . 395 

 Egg, a large, 77, 134 ; Dorking, 267, 381 ; sex 



of the, 382 



Elements, indecomposable, . . • . 522 



Electricity, 434, 512 



Elms, transplanting, 233 



Entomology, 285, 390 



Ermine, the, 223, 244 



Estate, real, in Rutland county, Vt., . . 181 



Evaporation, 449 



Evergreens, and hedges, 204 ; transplanting, 528 



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Fairs, county, 35* 



Farm, and 'j'oung ,mcn, 19, 110, 187; viewing 

 entire, 40 ; size of, in America, 84 ; model, in 

 Essex county, 146, 179, 243; home on the, 

 164 ; in debt for, 167 ; hilly, 208 ; in Rutland 

 county, Vt., 212; life in winter, 319; produc- 

 tions of, on Cape Cod, 319 ; productive, 399 ; 

 life in New England, .... 498 



Farmer, position of, 72 ; what he should live for, 

 75; the, 160; practical, as a writer, 313; his 

 motto, 316 ; largest in U. S., 386 ; advantages 

 of education to the, 553 ; who is a, . . 517 

 Farming in New Jersey, 46 ; miseries of, 78 ; 

 scientific, 85 ; in Orange county, N. Y., 101 ; 

 book, errors in, 119; requires study, 158; in 

 Lebanon county. Conn., 294 ; is it profitable, 

 316; art of, 327; in New England, 332, 540, 

 546; progressive, 381; neatness in, 405; 10 

 per cent, income in, 410 ; book, 470 ; on a 

 grand scale, ...... 554 



Fat, use of, in animal economy, . . . 461 

 February, Calendar for, . . . . 57 



Feed, grinding, 10, 68 



Felon, how to cure, on fingers, . . . 354 

 Fence, a living, 243 ; wire, 427, 432 ; stone, . 496 

 Fertilizer, a good, 207 ; comparative value of, 335 

 Field, the best way to make a large, . . 375 

 Fish, cow, of South America, . . . 408 



Fire, and fire systems, 431 



Flag, sweet, how to destroy, . . . 411 



Fleeces, fine, 421 



Flowers, the, 235 ; and their influence, . . 422 

 Fodder, pickled, 295; corn, 411, . . . 457 

 Food, Baxter on excess of, 397 ; and drink, . 429 



Forests, for wood, 223 



Foul, in the foot, how to cure, . . . 40, 182 

 Foul, meadow grass, true, 336, 430 ; creeper, 464 

 French, B. B., letter from, 20, 163, 422, 439, 500 

 French, Henry F., letter from, 13, 44, 87, 170, 



188, 237, 277, 341, 348, 387, 447, 502, 523 



Frog, showers of, 46G 



Fruit, and fruit juices, 81 ; its benefits, . . 323 



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Gapes, in chickens, 264 



Garden, a walk in, 138, 207 ; how to lay out, 



566 ; market, 361 ; syringe, or window washer, 384 

 Garget, cure for, 291 



