INDEX. 



Sterility, by naked soils and fallows, 115. 



Steamengine for farmers, 377 ; profitable, 403. 



Stickney, the late William, 318. 



Stock, (see Cattle, Horses, &c.,) improvement of, 85 ; 

 improved, 262 ; reasons for keeping the best 

 breeds, 335 ; keep not too much, 345 ; sale of fine, 

 381. 



Stone fence, recommended, 314 ; stone rakes, 236. 



Storms, Professor Espy's thcorj', 263. 



Strawberries, Early Virginia, and Large Early Scar- 

 let, 154 ; remarks on varieties, 233 ; remarks on 

 various kinds, 346. 



Subsoiling and draining, 71. 



Sugar-cane in Florida, 181. 



growing in Louisiana, 272. 



refining, 248 ; new discovery in, 390. 



Swamp land, reclamation of, 270. 



Sweet potato, cultivation of, 386. 



Swine, swelling of the throat, 10 ; large, 26 ; brim- 

 stone for, 54 ; prolific sow, cooking food for, 56 ; 

 management of, 180 ; fattening, 267, 362 ; facts 

 about, 279; deficiency of, in Ohio, 394, 410. 



T. 



Tamarinds, cultivation of, 284. 



Tan, valuable properties of, 301 ; an agent to decom- 

 pose, 321. 



bark, spent, 316. 



Tea, American, 135. 



Texas as a sugar country, 128. 



Timber, best time to cut, 310. 



Thermometer for chums, 283. 



Think, 216. 



Threshing, to guard the lungs while, 250. 



Tomato, history and account of, 288 ; raising, among 

 corn, 302 ; large, 344. 



Tools, importance of good, 53. 



Trees, (see Fruit-trees, Apple-trees, &c.,) native, 

 shrubs and plants, 12, 60, 95, 109, 141, 411 ; plant- 

 ing, 102, 374 ; cleansing, -167 ; old, improved, 189 ; 

 for shade, 255 ; management of transplanted, 261 ; 

 injured by high culture, 389. 



Tropical fruits in Florida, 203. 



Turnips, fine, 240 ; ruta baga, 326 ; rot in, 330 ; 

 mode of pulling, 391. 



V. 



Vegetables, a new and economical mode for forcing, 



373. 

 Veterinary art, lectures on, 90. 

 college, 192. 



Villages, plan for improvement m, 291. 

 Vineyards about Cincinnati, 342. 

 Volume, close of, 409. 



TV. 



Water, procuring by the siphon, 271 J effects of, on 

 vegetation, 385. 



Wealth, desire of, 347. 



Weeds, destroy, 55, 250. 



Wells, how to examine, 289 ; Artesian, 403. 



Wheat, (see Grain,) to prevent smut, 80 ; harrowing 

 in spring, 86 ; Oregon, 118 ; winter, 221 ; of Ohio, 

 238 ; cultivation of winter, 294 ; winter, cultiva- 

 tion of, recommended, 302 ; winter in Maine, 318 ; 

 enormous crop, 336 ; ability of the east to grow, 

 343 ; Kloss Blue Stem, 36*6 ; remarks on, 374 ; 

 Etrurian, 387. 



AVine, New Hampshire, 319. 



Winter, prepare for a hard one, 361. 



Wire-worm, to destroy, 59. 



Wire, strength of, 340. 



Wood-houses, 16. 



Wool in Michigan, 55 ; amount in this co\mtry, 128; 

 growing in the south, 336 ; profits of fine, 356. 



growers, remarks for, 145. 



market, review of, 75, 278. 



Work, faint not, 309. 



for the last of May, 169. 



World's Grand Industrial Fair, 43, 393 ; building for, 



388. 

 Wrenches, adjustable screw, 235. 



Y. 



Yellow dock, some uses of, 355. 



Youth's Department. — Thoughts for the young, 

 18 ; one thing at a time, two ways of hearing, 34 ; 

 live for something, good advice of a mother, 50 ; 

 early rising, 66 ; how do you spend your evening, 

 83 ; thought for young persons, 98 ; beware of 

 beginning, advice to young men, 114 ; pleasiues of 

 gardening, classes to be avoided, 130 ; winter even- 

 ings for improvement, 146 ; labor and amusement, 

 162; good society, 178; only one step at a time, 

 duty of labor, 194 ; sjinpathy, 210 ; bees, 226 ; 

 counsels for the young, 242 ; curious fact, 258 ; a 

 word for the boys, 274 ; the best recommendation, 

 290 ; an antidote, 306 ; economy is due our em- 

 ployers, 322 ; maxims to guide a young man, 338 ; 

 temperance fables, the laborer, 354 ; murderers of 

 parents, 370. 



INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS 



The Bankiva Cock, 11 



Coe's Golden Drop Plum, 17 



Independent Horse Kake, 27 



Saw-Fly of the Raspberry, 33 



Short-Horn Durham HeU'er, 43 



Dorking Cock 49 



Self-adjusting Ox-Yoke 59 



Spangled Hamburg Fowls, 65 



Hand and Horse Grain-Mill, 75 



Lucomb's Nonsuch Plum, 81 



Black Spanish Fowls 91 



Fountains 97 



Hill-side, or Swivel Plough, 107 



Cochin China Fowls, 112 



Blackberry, 11?) 



Centrifugal and Centripetal Chum, 123 



Tarbell Peach, 129 



Emery's Cylindrical Djmamometer, 13) 



Emery's Seed- Sower and Corn-Planter 139 



lied Shanghae Fowls, 144 



White Shanghae Fowls, 155 



Smith's Orleans Plum, 161 



Ornamental Iron Fence 171 



Dorking Fowls, 17i> 



Barn Door Rollers, 1<S3 



Garden Engine, 187 



A Group of Choice Fowls, 193 



Grindstone on Anti-friction Rollers 263 



