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Mineralogy, 12 



Minnesota, crops and weather in, . . . 128 

 Month, to tell the days in by counting on the 



knuckles, 335 



Morning, on the, 532 



Moi-tar, 88 



Mowing lands, 181 ; machines, 255, 425, 380, 



414, 510 

 Muck and ashes compost, 405 ; salt and lime 

 compost, 432 ; digging and piling, 451 ; and 

 plain lands, 557 ; and ashes, . . . 565 



N 



Nature, the wonders of inanimate, 367 ; man's 

 teacher, ...... . 377 



Newell, Moses, death of, . . . . 215 



New York, Orange county, products of, . Ill 



Nicotine, 67 



Nose bleed, to stop, 268 



O 



Oaks, famous English, . 



Oats, feeding to sheep, . 



Observation, ..... 



October, calendar for, . 



Oil, Masson's for wounds, 202 ; lamp, 



Onion, blight in, 74 ; wild, 



124 

 334 

 152 

 441 

 256 

 354 



Orchard, right way to make, 492 ; a good, is the 



beauty of the farm, 524 ; lime on the, . 574 

 Ornithology,. . . 156, 284, 402, 462, 563 



Ox yokes, 279 ; heaviest ever butchered, . 450 



Paper, tarred, for roofs, 247 ; a new way to pay 



for a news, 510 



Parsnips, how to keep for winter and spring, 18 ; 



as a field crop, 92 



Pasture, brush in, 169 ; lands, 328 ; butter, 410 ; 



in the highways, 508 ; plowing old, . . 509 

 Patent Office report, for 1856, . . .35,251 

 Pea, bugs in, 221 ; experiments with the, 232; 



planting in the fall, ..... 464 

 Peaches, early, 194 ; culture of, . . . 330 

 Pear, stocks for dwarf, 39 ; the Belle Lucrative, 

 65 ; the Lawrence, 97 ; on quince stock, 182, 

 246, 266, 276, 309, 420; Flemish Beauty, 

 240 ; tree, blight in, 333 ; culture of the, 340 ; 

 treatise on the, 372; Glout Morceau, 417; 

 blight in, 455 ; fine Seckle, 527 ; culture, 



profits of dwarf, 565 



Pepper, 324 



Phosphorus, facts about, .... 287 



Pickles, 61 



Pig breeding, 373 



Pigeon catching, ...... 78 



Pipe, water, 89, 283 ; gutta percha, 255, 325, 352 

 Pine, Avhite, 254 ; seed of the white, . . 352 

 Plants, and animals, sudden appearance of, 125; 

 disturbing the roots of, 432 ; agitation of, . 455 



Planetaiy system, the, 302 



Plow — plowing, steam, 120, 237 ; and plowing, 

 128, 177; how deep to, 258, 327, 385; and 

 the spade, 430; and the hoe, 555; fall, 568; 

 — steam, success of tlie, 568 ; American, . 574 

 Plum, 467 ; tree, 472, 527 ; tree, salting the, 552 



Poison, remedy for, .... 457, 463 



Pop corn, harvesting, 36 ; how to raise, . 89 



Posts, directions for setting, 168 ; for fences, 410, 



456 ; inverted, 446 



Potato, sweet, 23 ; Davis's seedling, 148 ; State 

 of Maine, 148 ; Jackson White, 148 ; St. 

 Helena, 148; Jenny Lind, 179; Pogies, 179; 

 rot, 208, 232, 289; plaster for, 315; a fine 

 field of, 451 ; rot, and remedy for, 465 ; rot, 

 cause of, 511; liocky Mountain, 512; cut. 



Pago 

 513, 528, 543 ; cause and cure for rot in the, 

 551 ; sweet, keeping for seed, . . . 552 

 Pork, shall we eat, 265 ; how to raise, . . 280 

 Poultry, 77 ; white Dorking, 80 ; profits of, 130; 

 feeding, 206 ; large breed, 314 ; Guilderland, 

 315; breeding in-and-in, 322; black Poland, 



41 1 ; creeper, 464 



Poudrette, 266 



Pox, small, and vaccination, . . . 376 



Professions, proportion of the learned, . . 4l 



Prospects, 576 



Pruning, over, 74 



Pumice, apple, 453 



Pump, patent ball valve, .... 566 



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Quarrel, how settled, 382 



Quince, on pasture lands, 233 ; stocks for pears, 383 



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Rabbit, to prevent barking young trees, . 151 



Radishes, 471 



Rako, horse, which is the best, . . 290, 351 

 Rambles among rocks, . . . 520, 534 



Rat trap, a novel, 355 ; to prevent undermining 



cellar walls, 357 



Raven, cunning of the, 33 



Reading, pleasure of, .... . 24 



Reaper, and mower, the Eagle, . . . 323 

 Recipes, domestic, 56, 104, 152, 200, 392 . 636 



Reports, agricultural, 28 



Rhubarb, Myatt's Victoria, 85 ; Linnasus, 85, 



334 ; wine, 344 ; how to cook, . . . 344 

 Robin, and crows, 114 ; plea for the, 205 ; killing 



the, 259, 542 ; food for the, 261 ; food and 



habits of the, 360 ; another plea for the, . 567 

 Rock digging, and laying wall made easy, 64 ; 



lifter, 512, 559 



Roller, field, 182 



Roofs, covering for, 208 ; remedy for leaks in, 



268 ; how to make a good shingle, 281 ; and 



roofing, 295 ; reshingling old, 429 ; materials 



for, 530 



Rooms, heated, 31 ; cooling, . . . 273 



Roots for stock, and machine to cut them, 89, 



463 ; culture of, 221 ; will they pay, 230 ; 



pulping, 400 ; crops, 544, .... 559 

 Rose, buds, how to plant, .... 289 



Saddle, spring, 167 



Safety, out-doors, 525 



Salt, . 210 



Sausages, seasoning for, .... 61 



Science, answering simple questions, . . 501 

 Scions, seeds and soils, .... 216 



School, moral tone of a, ... . 56 



Scythe philosophy, 418 



Season and crops, 22 ; the past, 74, 242, 426, 466 

 Seed, planter, Willard's, 48 ; age of, 223 ; adven 



tures of a, 



September, calendar for, .... 



Sex, influences of, .... 365, 421 



Sheep husbandry, 40 ; Shropshire Down wethers, 



106; a new breed, 193 ; feeding oats to, 220, 



334 ; and dogs, 241 ; feeding, 310; to protect 



from dogs, 347 ; value of, to the farmei-, 399 ; 



fine fleeces of, 421 ; hints on keeping, . 499 



Shingles, sawed, 180; whitewash for, 183; and 



nails, 359 



Sick, how to get, . 

 Skin, the seat of pain, . 

 Snake, rattle. 

 Snow storms, 



412 

 393 



543 



242 



99 



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