INDEX 



Geese, profit of raising, 78 ; raising and picking, 



Girls, can take care of themselves, 40 ; education 

 of, ... . . . 



Goats, are they profitable, 134 ; Cashmere, in 

 Ohio, 



Good, how to do, 



Gopher, 



Gooseberry, mountain seedling, 



Grafting cherries, plums, and peaches, 247 ; 

 stocks for, ....... 



Grain, rousing crop of, 16 ; stocking, . 



Grapes, hot houses for, 107; culture of the, 144 ; 

 Concord, 162 ; how to preserve, 388 ; signs of 

 ripeness in, 463 ; native, 464 ; wine from wild, 

 466 ; a barren, 



Grass, witch, 160 ; a method of raising, 245 ; the 

 true fowl meadow, 336, 430, 453, 513 ; an old 

 use for, 365 ; seed, 394 ; land, manuring, 459, 

 526 ; specimen of, . '. ' . 



Grog, stop that. 



Page 

 403 



458 



497 



542 



207 



16 



490 

 416 



527 



52 

 140 



Guano, application of, 



127, 218 



H 



Ham, to preserve through the summer, 



Hands, beautiful, ...... 



Harness, how to oil a, 



Hay, caps for, 54, 92, 471, 384, 409; making, 

 277 ; haying and hoeing, 378 ; salting and 

 marsh, 437 ; crop of 1858, 440 ; clover, value 

 of, 



Hazlc nuts, growing on grape vine. 



Headache, ]\Icxican cure for, 



Hedges, and evergreens, 204 ; hemlock. 



Heifers, heifer calves, 



Hemlock, trees, ...... 



Hens, setting, 18; to prevent setting, 219; pro- 

 lific, 223 ; Dorking, and Shanghai, 224 ; shoe- 

 ing, 229 ; treatment of, ... . 



Highway, autocrats of the, .... 



Hive, bee, 408 ; bee, ..... 



Holdfast, or bone wen, ..... 



Hoc and i)low, ...... 



Hoeing, and haying, ..... 



Hogs, large, 180; Chester county, 193; vs dogs, 

 203; Green Mountain, 224; yard, compost, 

 307 ; and Jews, 357 ; a 594lb. one 



Holbrook, F., letters from, . . . 435, 



Hops, culture of, . 



Horn ail, or hollow horn, .... 



Horses, stables for, 42 ; in extremely cold 

 weather, 61 ; to manage a rearing, 118; tor- 

 turing a, 167 ; shoeing, 267 ; taming, 2G9, 302, 

 431 ; feeding, 271 ; tail of the, 284, 290 ; bar- 

 barity to tlie, in pricking and docking, 323 ; 

 worth owning, 347, 353 ; Arabian, importation 

 of the, 3G0 ; with a cough, 365, 411 ; galls on 

 a, 367 ; properties of a good, 368 ; exhibition 

 at Springfield, 371 ; teething in, 423 ; poisoned 

 by fumes of lead, 426 ; memory of the, 433 ; 

 young, hoofs of, 455 ; fast, 



Horticulturist, the, ..... 



Housekeepers, burdens of, . 



Houseleek, . 



3.53 

 258 

 309 



504 

 101 

 243 

 224 

 63 

 254 



359 

 358 

 571 

 89 

 555 

 378 



467 

 282 

 143 



535 

 416 

 190 

 352 



Illinois, crops in, ..... . 23 



Insects, destructive, 219 



Irrigation and drainage, 134, 172, . , 217 



Iowa, crops in, 197 ; matters in, . . . 438 



Islands, Sandwich, letter from, 221, 236, 262, 506 



January, calendar for, . , ■ . . 9 



July, calendar for, . ,. , , . 297 



Page 

 Ladies, young, is health proper for, . . 391 



Ladder, a new fire, 532 



Lamas from South America, . . . 554 

 Lambs, wintering, 189; weakness in, 207; rear- 

 ing, 310; black, 421 



Land, laying down inundated, 158; reclaiming 

 light, 228, 241 ; bill, Mr. Morrill's, 258 ; pas- 

 ture, 328 ; table of meaures> of, 331 ; rent 

 for, in England, 426 ; mossy, fertilizer for, 

 430 ; reclaiming and draining, 467 ; plain, 



and muck, 557 



Leaves, value of fallen, 69 ; from a lady's note 



book, 198 



Leather chips, 77 



Legislative agricultural meeting, 126, 147, 149, 



1.56, 173, 185, 195, 210, .... 220 

 Letter, the captain's, 69 ; fi-om Concord, Mass., 

 84, 515 ; from an English fai-mer, 293 ; from a 



traveller, 422, 439 



Library, agricultural, 365 ; a farmer's, . . 672 

 Lightning, injuries by, 432; how to prevent 



buildings being struck by, .... 560 

 Lime and muck compost, 107 ; superphosphate 

 for squash bugs, 243 ; superphosphate of, 

 290 ; air-slaked for plants, . . . 334 

 Locust, yellow, 167 



M 



Machine, sewing, 77, 208 ; pocket-printing, and 

 meat cutter, 164 ; mowing, 255, 380, 414, 425 ; 

 by oxen, 510 ; stump, 356 ; Willis's, stump, 

 418; for lifting I'ocks, 355, 424; ode horse 

 power, 430 ; fanning and grain assorting, 493 ; 

 api>le paring, ...... 513 



Maine, fencing in, 210 



Mangel Wort'zel, culture of the, 214; salt for, 315 

 Manliness, true, 55 ; wiiat an industrious, can 



do, 255 



Manure, manuring, on tlie surface, 17 ; make the, 

 53 ; on purchasing, 61 ; waste of farm-yard and 

 sewage, 71 ; from abroad, 79 ; ashes, 107, 117 ; 

 lime and muck compost, 107, 110, 169, 203; 

 concentrated, 204 ; blood, an experiment with, 

 213; making and preserving, 227; for corn, 

 263 ; covering, 268 ; farm-yard, application of, 

 299 ; vegetable and .animal, 305 ; hogyard, 

 307 ; surface application of, 350 ; for compost- 

 ing, 351 ; about, 570 



Marcs, t's. geldings, ..... 59 



March, calendar for, ..... 105 

 Marshes, Albanian, 27; salt, 185; mud from 



the, 206 



Maps, subsoil, ...... 50 



Matter, indestructibility of, . . . . 490 



May, calendar for, 202 



]\Iaryland, state fair, 558 



Meadow, land, manure for, 110 ; peat, crops on, 

 176 ; a large barren, 282 ; grass, true fowl, 336 



Measure of land, 331 



Meat, and cooks, 168 ; of neat cattle, how driving 



atfects the, 395 



Mechanics, evening hours for, . . . 287 

 Mechi, Mr., farming by, . . . 406r, 447 

 Medicine, reality of science of, 47 ; popular 

 errors in, ...... . 525 



Melon, early, 194 



Michigan, agriculture in, ... . 210 

 Mill, portable grain, 134 ; for grinding feed, 176 

 Milk, about the use of, 75 ; for butter, 282 ; trade 

 of, in Boston, 292, 318 ; swill, 351 ; trade, 357 ; 

 morning and evening, 383 ; business, 386 ; 

 wells for keeping, 400 ; bloody, 457 ; from 

 spayed cows, 549 ; of native cows, 566 ; cow 



shedding her, 566 



Millet, Egyptian, 184; Hungarian, . . 314 

 Milton, daily life of, 385 



