INDEX. 



390 



523 



284 



223, 301 



457 



555 



Soap, how to make, 253 ; suds for currant 

 bushes, 254, ...... 



Society, United States, agricultural, 73, 159, 

 672 ; U. S. delegates to, 79 ; Berkshire agri- 

 cultural, 82 ; Norfolk, Worcester West, Ply- 

 mouth, Middlesex, Worcester, North, 175, 

 505 ; contributions of state to county, 230 ; 

 American pomological, 233, 389 ; Franklin 

 county, 235 ; officers of North Middlesex, 

 244 ; Warwick, Mass., 251 ; Middlesex, South, 

 505, 514, 535; Bristol county, 505; Leomin- 

 ster, Farmer and Mechanics, 505 ; Essex In- 

 stitute, 505 ; Newton Horticultural, 505 ; Gro- 

 ton Farmer's Club, 505 ; Rockingham county, 

 505 ; Connecticut River Valley, 506, 516, 521 ; 

 Maine State, 506; Norfolk, 518, 531; Ply- 

 mouth, 519 ; Essex, 443, 519 ; Salisbury, 519 ; 



Cheshire, 520, 



Soil, warmth of, 24 ; owner of the, 58 ; and 

 mind, cultivate the, 97 ; subsoiling wet, 133 ; 

 analysis of, 166 ; culture, a book on, 202 ; re- 

 storing the, 202 ; restoring exhausted, . 445 

 Soot, 291 ; to destroy vermin with, . . 307 

 Sow, and 71 pigs, 244 ; a prolific, 

 Spavin, bone, .... 

 Spa5'ing and caponizing, 

 Spiders, and their spinners, . 

 Squashes, 28 ; Hubbard, seed of, 30, 55 ; and 

 pumpkins, 103 ; summer, early, 194, 239 ; 



borer, 291 



Stables horses', 42 



Stammering, cure for, 19 



Steers, training to the yoke, 382 ; fat, . . 566 

 Stock, feeding, 54 ; and crops in Mass. 261 ; but- 

 ter, 334 ; care of, 372 ; dairy, 379 ; sulphur 



for, 575 



Strawberry, beds, 16; white, 268, 314; time for 

 transplanting, 334 ; soil for, 365, 368; varieties, 

 384 ; easy way to raise, 398 ; wood, . . 430 

 Straw, wheat, 256 ; buckwheat, for sheep, . 288 

 Stump, blasting, 279 ; puller, Hall's, 313, 440 ; 

 machine, WiUis's, .... 418, 573 



Strychnine, 130, 176 



Sugar, cane, 16, 21, 96; maple, 28 ; substitute 

 for dear, 116; making, 199, 212, 229; boiler, 



a new, 224 



Sumac, how used, 184 



Sunflower, experiment with, .... 453 

 Superphosphate, does it pay, .... 290 



Swamp, a morning in, 252 



Swallow, and crows, ..... 58 



Swine, a fine, 40, 89 ; sows with pigs, 103 ; cheap 



feed for, 404 



Switzerland, letters from, . . .13, 44, 87 



Tanks, tight, under cattle, 



Tar, gas, or coal, 133 ; coal, for crows, 155 



of coal, - ,v • 

 Tea, cultivation of. 

 Teeth, keeping the, clean. 

 Then, and now. 

 Thinking and working, . 

 Thistles, Canada, how to destroy. 

 Tile, draining with. 

 Timber, .... 

 Times, hard, 165 ; how to prevent. 

 Toads, . 

 Tobacco, 

 Tools, lard and rosin for. 



Tomato, pear-shaped, 70 ; supporting and short- 

 ening in, 279, 396 



Town and country, 324 



Transmission, hereditary, .... 494 

 Transactions, Essex county, 91, 118, in Maine, 137 

 Transplaating, fall, 456 



285 

 use 



334, 421 



396 



469 



138 



304 



565 



91 



289 



267 



S50 



86 



29 



Page 



Trap, a novel rat, 365 



Traveller, tales of, 254 



Tree, apple, curious, 39 ; getting, by cuttings, 39 ; 

 whitewashing, 51 ; apple by side of fences, 

 100; walnut, colossal, 118; Porter apple, 

 133 ; wash for fruit, 133 ; and their uses, 135 ; 

 position of apple, 136; preaching of the, 140; 

 peach, 184 ; to protect peach from borers, 184 ; 

 protector for, 191 ; apple, 194; from cuttings, 

 200 ; wounds in apple, 207 ; hemlock and white 

 pines, 222 ; cracks in, 223 ; locust, 224 ; beside 

 the wall, 253; live braces for fruit, 261 ; time 

 to set apple, 315 ; time to prune apple, 

 315; rule in pruning, 333; blight in pear, 

 333 ; to measure the height of, 354 ; culture 

 of forest, 360 ; growth of, 442 ; age of, 451 j 

 plum, warts on, 455 ; how to manure in grass 

 land, 510; grafted fruit, 529; pruning fruit, 

 539 ; apple, a nice way to make, . . 562 



Tripe, preparation of, 64 



Trout, the, 274 



Turkies, large, 28 ; how to raise, 256 ; death of 



young, 384 



Turnip, crop, experiment with, 67 ; and witch 

 grass, 121 ; crops to follow, . . . 420 



U 



Urine, value of. 



26 



Vegetation in California, 111; gro^vth in Nor- 

 way, 303 ; effect of sun's light on, . . 428 

 Vegetables, and frost, 1 84 ; thinning out, . 253 

 Vermin, on calves and sheep, 40 ; to destroy, 

 352 ; destroyed by soot, .... 367 



Vermont, letter from, 564 



Vine, grape, 207 ; bugs on, 289 ; protector, 332 ; 

 to destroy bugs on, 355 ; to prevent bugs from 

 destroying, 380 ; melon, blast in, . . 565 



W 



Walnut, grove, planting a, . . . . 868 

 Warts, chalk for, 276, 371 ; on plum trees, 455 ; 



remedy for, 464 



139 

 365 

 123, 141, 163 

 210 

 520 

 536 

 extirpa- 



394 

 375 



109, 



Waste not, want not. 



Water, cool, .... 



Washington city, letters from. 



Wax, grafting, .... 



Weather, extreme cold, 61 ; all, good, 



Webster, Daniel, .... 



Weed, tumble, a vegetable curiosity, 19 

 tion of, 125 ; white, . 



Weeder, a good, .... 



Wells, artesian, in Illinois, 303; for keeping 

 milk, 400; how to examine, 521; reflecting 

 light into, 549 



West, and New England, . . . 259, 398 



Whalebone, artificial, 268 



Wheat, time to cut, 372 ; sour winter, 415 ; white 

 winter flint, 443 ; winter, cultivation of, 452, 

 456 ; harvesting, 491 ; winter and spring, 511 ; 

 and what it costs, 532 



Whitewash, a first rate, 385; brilliant stucco, 



409, 526 



Willow, basket, S66 



Wine, elderberry, 55 ; rhubarb, 344 ; currant, 413 



Winter, the past,^226 ; and fall, review of, 264 ; 



