INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME. 



Acknowledgments, 56, 72, 13t), 168, 184, 264, 280, 

 295, 312. 327, 343, 359, 375, 391, 408, 416. 



Agricultural commission, 203 ; education, 41, 69, 

 95, 110, 140, 196; fairs, benefit of, 373; lectures, 

 58 ; meetings, in towns, 10 ; at the State House, 

 25, 41, 57, 58, 69, 78, 90, 106, 137; papers, 49, 

 362 ; societies, N. Y. state, 171 ; N. II. state, 180 ; 

 (see (Battle-Shows ;) statistics, 185. 



Agriculture, history of, 14, 45 ; Bureau of, 30 ; ad- 

 vantages of, 87 ; useful knowledge in, 116; chem- 

 istry in, 157 ; poetry of, 309 ; importance of, 341 ; 

 New England, 365 ; improved and elevated, 390. 



Allen, llev. Morrill, a worthy veteran farmer, 89. 



American industry and skill, 120. 



Animals, discussion on the diseases of, 105 ; diseases 

 of, 139, 348 ; improvement of, 296 ; feigning death, 

 336. 



Apples, variety of Z. C. Taber — Pcaknose, Winter 

 Pippin, 56 ; Baldwin, Old Nonsuch. 72 ; list of, 

 121 ; Red Ilussct, 150 ; new. late keeping. Rock- 

 port Sweeting, Marston's Red Winter, 168 ; Fall 

 Sweeting. Roxbury Russet, Leland Pippin, 182 ; 

 •v Manomet Sweeting, Sassafras .Sweet, 295; Sum- 



mer Rose, Benoni, Early Harvest, 312; all about, 

 320 ; Thompson's Favorite, 327 ; Sweet Bough, 

 Gravenstcin, Williams, Mexico, 328 ; machine for 

 paring, 337 ; Garden Royal, Mother, Leland Pi])])in, 

 Jewett's Red, 344 ; as food, 35'i ; Spice Sweeting, 

 Rock Sweeting, 359 ; Peck's Pleasant, Long Stem, 

 360 ; Calef. 366 ; analysis of, 368 ; Holton Sweet- 

 ing, liOring Sweeting, Moodv, 375 ; excellent. 

 Beefsteak, 376 ; Oakes, 391 ; Mother, Holden 

 Pippin, Size, and other varieties, 392 ; Nortliern 

 Spy, 404 ; Calef Sweeting, 408. 



Apple-tiees, moss on, 26; causing to bear in odd 

 years, 30 ; bearing years of. 78 ; time of blossom- 

 ing, 207 ; remarks on borers, 249. 



Apple- worm or codling- moth, 230. 



Apricot, how to cultivate, 378. 



Art vs. Nature, 396. 



Asparagus, fall management of, 33-7. 



Assafcrtida, 379. -j 



Atmosphere, a fertilizer, 28. 



B. 



Barley, a machine for hulling, needed, 319. 



Barn-door rollers, 183. 



Beans, on raising, 199 ; Frejole, 295 ; mode of har- 

 vesting, 383. 



Bees, to manage, in winter. 23 ; ventilation, miller 

 trap, 52 ; of the miller, 59 ; pasturage, 149 ; and 

 honey, 199 ; mathematics of. 208 ; habits of, 285 ; 

 to protect against ants, 303 ; fall management of, 

 330 ; an old hive of, 345 ; fruitful, 388 ; manage- 

 ment of. 400. 



Berries, an act regulating the measurement of, 298. 



Beautiful extract, 407. 



Bilberry, remarks on, 346 ; or swamp pyrus, 379. 



Blackberries, cultivation of, 119 ; white, 280. 



Blasting, im])rovement in, 199. 



Blue flag, on destroying, 206, 241. 



Books of wood, 288. 



Borers, 249. 



Box, pro]iagation of, 126. 



Bread, throwing it away, 228. 



Bricks, wetting, before laying, 27 ; imnrovement in, 



362. 

 Budding, time for, 250. 

 Building, and materials for, 134, 172 ; more thoughts 



about, 410. 

 Bushes around cultivated lands condemned, 214. 



c. 



Canals and railroads, value of, to farmers, 352. 



Canker-worms, remarks on their habits and destruc- 

 tion. 401. 



Carrots, cultivation of, 151, 188; for horses, 412. 



Castor oil in South Carolina, 396. 



Cattle, Short Horn Durham heifer, 43 ; bone disor- 

 der in cows, 44, 93, 142, 189; estimate of different 

 food, 53; snuff for lice, 54; close feeding, 77 ; to 

 estimate the weight of live, 78 ; fat. 84 ; rent for 

 cows, 96 ; medicines for. 97 ; mode of feeding, 

 102; profitable cows, 150; free martins, 181 ; 

 sore teats in cows, 181 ; destroyed by eating wild 

 cherry, 187, 221 ; pulverized wood for, 230 ; fat- 

 tening, 267 ; breaking in heifers, 278 ; a produc- 

 tive cow, 295 ; cows holding up their milk, 298 ; 

 training, 303 ; Jersey, 308 ; ties for. bull ring, 321 ; 

 dressing. 358 ; amount of food consumed by, 358 ; 

 improvement in, 374; profit of cows, 377;- work- 

 ing cows, 383; mammoth ox, 391 ; importance of 

 ])ure water for, 405 ; short-horns, 407. 



Cattle-markets, 26 ; anniversary of Cambridge, 361 ; 

 annual report of, 306. 



Cattle-shows, list of, 282, 311 ; Middlesex, Worces- 

 ter, 314; Norfolk, Essex, 329; Now York state, 

 332 ; Bristol, 345; New Hampshire state, 351 ; first 

 Ohio state, 373. 



Cause and eftVct, 101. 



Cellars should be ventilated, 319. 



Chemistry and vegetable food, 100. 



Cheese trade, 303. 



Cheeses, large vs. small, 149. 



Chemical knowledge, value of a little, 386. 



Cherry, wild stocks for, 159 ; culture. 183 ; on bark- 

 bound trees. 211 ; Hyde's Late Black, 205; seed- 

 lings, 270; new seedling, 280. 



Chestnuts, planting, 49. 



(;hrysanthcmvim, China, 111. 



Churn, centripetal and centrifugal, 123; American, 

 394. 



Colman, Rev. II., respect to his mcmorv 14. 



