INDEX 



Page 

 Woman, a slave in her own house, 30 ; young, 

 her part in life, 86 ; fair play for, 296 ; and 

 the household, 308 ; on the farm, . .. 312 

 Worm, a destructive forest, 74 ; canker, 315 ; the 



drop, 375 



Wurtzel, mangold, 534 



Page 



Yam, or dioscorea batatis .... 23 

 Yards, slaughter, ashes, bones, 224 ; bam, con- 

 struction of, 378 



Year, close of the, 575 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Initid Letter, 9, 57, 105, 153, 201, 249, 297, 345, 



393, 441, 489, 

 Mountain Seedling Gooseberff , . .- 

 Improved Supply Pipe for Hot Air Furnaces, 

 Willard's Patent Seed Planter, 

 Pondante d'Automne, or Belle Lucrative Pear, 

 A Pair of White Dorking Fowls, . 



The Lawrence Pear, 



Vermont Mower and Reaper, . 



Culture of the Grape, . . . . 144, 



A Stable for City or Village Use, . 



Plows and Plowing, . . . . 128, 



Caps for covering Hay and Grain, . 192, 



Johnson's Patent Hog Trough, 



Hall's Hand Power Stump Machine, . 



The Flemish Beauty Pear, . ^ 



Improved Hinge Harrow, 



A Fine Morgan, — Tom Howard, . 



Well's Grass Seed Sower, . , I 



Fowl Meadow, or. False Red Top, . 272, 



A New Hoe, : 



537 



16 



32 



49 



65 



80 



97 



113 



145 



161 



177 



193 



209 



225 



240 



247 



257 



264 



273 



289 



Buckeye Rotation Harrow, .... 304 

 Lion's Patent Copper Lightning Conductor, . 312 

 Hereford Heifer, Cora, .... 321, 322 

 Weeder, Trowel, and Dibble, combined, . 329 

 The True Fowl Meadow Grass, . . . 337 

 The Life of Sir John Barleycorn, . . • 343 

 BoUe's Patent Stone-Digger and Wall L*yer, 353 

 The Eagle Mower and Reaper, . . 369, 370 

 Black Spanish Fowls, ..... 401 



The Glout Morceau Pear, 

 An Experiment in Draining, 

 Perkins' Corn Husker, . . . . 

 The Potatoe Rot — Its Cause and Cure, 

 Drain tile and Stone drain pipe, . 

 Allen's Potato Digger, . . . . 

 Bleecker's Gage Plum, . . . . 

 Apple Paring Machines, . . 

 Spanish Merino Bucks, . . . . 

 Imported Dutch Cow, . . . . 

 Portrait of an Imported I)utch Bull, . 

 Illustrations of Draining, 



417 

 433 

 449 

 465 

 476, 477 

 480 

 496 

 513 

 529 

 544 

 560 

 569 



POETRY. 



Exhibition of Mowers afid Reapers at Syracuse,^ 



Going to the Fair, ; 



Points of an Ayrshire Cow, 



The Snow, . 



A Thought, . 



Lines for the New Year, 



Persevere — Persevere, . 



The Preaching of the Trees, 



The Height of my Ambition; 



God save the Plow, 



Be Gentle with thy Wife, 



Wliat the World Might be. 



The Preaching of the Trees,. 



Se^d Time and Harvestf 



37 iHome is where there's one to love ns, . . 288 



68 A Spring Carol, ....... 310 



76 We Knew it Would Rain, .... 340 



90 Lights and Shadows, 347 



102 Little Things, 364 



115 Smiles, ■" . 385 



124 Com Fields, 416 



140 Times Go by Turns, ..... 451 



175 Be Content, 495 



196 Autumn, 526 



213TheFlay, 550 



220 Two Hundred Years Ago, .... 555 



266 A Pomological Po«m, 562 



277 



