INDEX. 



Millet, Sugar 233 



uses of 317 



Ministers' Gardens 289 



Miuk raising 387,532 



Mosquitoes, Camphor for . . . 387 



Mowers, Amherst Trial .... 471 



Paris Medal 231 



Mowing Lands, feeding .... 398 

 Muck — see ManuriS. 



Meadow, a 555 



Mutton 51 



breeding Sheep for 499 



NAIL-WOUKD, euro for . . . 387 

 Nebraska, sale of Agricultu- 

 ral Innjlements in .... 546 

 Inew Books. 



American Entomologist . . 177 



Farmer 2l3S 



Fruit Culturist 177 



Gardener's Assistant . . . 177 



Naturalist 177 



Annual of Scientific Discov- 

 ery 23S 



Bourguignon on Cattle 



Plague 224 



Elliott's Essays 332 



European Vineyards, Flagg 382 

 Fann Book, Allen's .... 382 

 How to malio it Pay ... 83 

 Horse in the Stable and Field 309 

 Land and Fresh- water SJiells 322 

 Poultry Keeper, Wright . . 332 

 Pear Culture for Protit . . . 540 

 Practical Floriculture . . . 177 

 Report of New Brunswick 

 Agricultural Society . . . 2(i3 



Rose, Parsons on 334 



Seats and Saddles ..... 233 

 Transactions of Wisconsin . 309 

 Utica Plough Trial .... 184 

 Willamette, Oregon, Far- 

 mer 321 



New England Agricultural Soci- 

 ety 257 



Breed's Remarks on . . . 23 



Constitution of 168 



Fair at Portland 522 



Trial of Implements . . . 471 

 New England Farmer, first 



Volumes 137 



New Hampshire Agricultural 



College 393 



Agricultural Societies, oflB.- 

 cers of Merrimac County 99 



Cheshire County 383 



Contoocook 99 



Merrimac County .... 99 

 Farmer's Convention .... 117 

 Season and Crops in . . 128, 573 



Newport. Me 73 



New York and Vermont, Season 



lit 296 



State Fair 236 



November 493 



Garden in 497 



Work 494 



OATS 282 

 common 554 



Degeneracy of 212, 447 



fine Field of 472 



Native 523 



Norway . . 53, 172, 194, 218, 260 



272, 518, 519, 520, 673 



on hard, rocky land .... 232 



Oregon Wild 513 



Sweden 520 



Western 505 



October Farm Work 447 



Garden in 443 



Moods of 445 



Offal in Cattle, Sheep and Hogs 189 



Ohio, Stock in 460 



Oiling Cart ^Vheel3 49 



Oil Meal 573 



Orchards, Birds in 303 



failure of 192 



Uogs in 233 



Orchards. Manure for ..... 427 



Mice in 2GU 



Screens for 457 



Onions 160, 210, 350, 403 



Flea 342 



Sets 280, 330 



Oregon, need of Home Market . 321 



Oyster Shells and Bones .... 400 



Oxen, sea Cattl'. 



PAINTS for Barns 411 

 to prepare 344 



Washing 344, 845, 346 



Palmer Worm 458 



Papering 346 



Papers. Agricultural 239 



Papilio Turnus 519 



Parsley 160 



Parsnips 160, 296, 497 



Pasturage of Commons at the 



West 416 



Pasture, dry Grass in 413 



improvement of 433 



management of ...... 162 



reclaiming 177 



Peaches. Cultivation of .... 179 



in Vermont 330 



Leaves, properties of . . . 479 



Pear. St. Michael 562, 504 



Tree, Barren 315 



Tyson 197 



AVliite Doyenne .... 552, 564 



Peas 160, 210 



Bugs in 306, 460, 471 



Cultivation of 145, 231 



Early 76,95 



instead of Corn 14 



Peat as a Fertilizer 302 



Persons of Public Note .... 353 

 Petroleum for Preserving Imple- 

 ments 553 



Phosphates, see Manures. 



Phosphatic Deposits 153 



Pigeons, Feeding 59 



Pigs, see .Swine. 



Pin-worms 316 



Pine, pruning the White .... 478 



Shavings for Litter .... 230 



White i'or Wind-breaks . . 232 



Pitch, to remove from hands . . 250 



Planting the Seed 222 



Plants, Growth of 518 



Protector 380 



Plaster, Ashes and Hen manure 213 



Ploughing 169, 167 



deep • . . -. 372, 455 



Deeper or Better 515 



Fall 534 



Seeding, Harrowing .... 121 



Steam 372 



to avoid dead Furrows . . . 340 

 Ploughs and Ploughing . . 184, 235 



California Steam 257 



hardening Mould-Boards of 16 

 steam in tfnited States . . . 340 



in England 220 



Syke's 191 



Poison for rats dangerous . . . 391 



Cherry leaves 390 



in Potato sprouts 220 



Pollen 370 



Pork Brine, Souring 630 



cost of raising 98 



Is it unclean ? 176 



raising and fattening .... 544 



Potatoes . 83, 210, 258, 202, 303, 543 



afiected by the Season ... 90 



amount of Seed .... 270, 543 



Balls, raising fi'om 505 



Bugs 363 



Calico 339 



cultivation of 127, 574 



Disease, cause of 543 



Dover Red 556 



Early Goodrich . 90, 219, 339, 574 

 Early Rose . 76, 130, 146, 339, 573 



Early Samaritan 339 



fancy 170 



from Sets 280, 331 



Gardner 339 



Potatoes, Gleason 339 



growing under Straw . . . 512 

 Harrison . . . 193, 219, 339, 574 



Harvesting 39S 



Ilorton 5.^:! 



in Stowe, Vt 292 



King of the Earlies 231 



Long Red 574 



Mania 139, 574 



Orouo 183 



Peach Blow, origin of . 339, 487 



Remarks on the 287 



Sebec 219, 574 



Sprouts, poison in 220 



Superphosphate for .... 291 



Sweet 403 



Vandervcer 339 



vield of 571 



Poultry, Account with 128 193, 232 

 Blacksmith scales for . . • 274 

 Black Spanish Fowls ... 352 



Brahma Fowls 193 



Breeds and Management of 325 



Bones and other Feed for 192 



293 



Creepers 33 



eating Eggs 323 



Dominique Shanghai . . . 140 



Ducks, Crested 230 



Muscovy 193 



Gapes in Chickens . . 391, 574 



Hen Fever of 1S44 399 



House 85 



Lice, Gas-tar for 313 



Poland Fowls 243 



to Keep Healthy S04 



Winter care of 76 



Turkeys. Disease in ... . 231 



killed by Foxes 20 



Prairie Farming 409 



Prairie flies on Horses . . . 43S 

 Premiums on trotting Horsiis . 532 



Premium, Standard of 433 



Prices at White River Junction 250 



fancy 572 



in 1850 and 1809 .... 255, 25C 



of Produce in 1870 449 



Privy, Straw for 517 



Produce by Railroads 558 



Pumpkins, drying 27 



made a cow sick 236 



with Corn 291, 295 



Poetry. 



A Little Goose 53 



A Little Maiden's Song to 



her Dolly 152 



Baby's Drawer 489 



Blacksmith's Daughter . . 263 

 Dog and Water Lily .... 104 

 Farmer Brown, Solus . . . 238 

 Five o'clock in the Morning 420 

 Gay Little Dandelion . . . 323 



God's Almoner 297 



Little Brown Hands .... 100 

 Love ligiitens Labor .... 201 



My Garden 233 



October 655 



Our children in Heaven . . 439 

 Perplexed Housekeeper's So- 

 li loquy 154 



Points of a good Cow ... 19 



Sheridan's Ride 223 



Tell me a Story 203 



Three Little Chairs . . . .. 249 

 To a little Housewife ... 535 ■ 



To-Morrow 491 



Willie Went a AVooing . . 52 



rjUINCE, culture of 272 



RABBITS in Australia .... 99 



Race Course, Gambling on . 164 



Raccoon 61 



Radishes 210 



Ragged Robin 363 



Railroads and Farming .... 553 



Rails and Boards. Seasoning . . 14 



Rake, Taylor's Sulky ...".. 316 



