INDEX 



Fuelisa Tree, its introduction into England,_280. 



Fungi, remarlcs on the natural history of, 275. 



G. hts remarks on the influence of the scion of a tree, on 

 the stock, ays. 



Gates instead of bars advised, 317. 



Garden, a, remarks on, by A. W. 242. 



Gardener, properties of the, 40; pleasures of the profes- 

 sion of, 3d0. 



Gardener's work for May, 350 ; for July, 406. 



Gardening, cautions and directions in, 213. 



Gardens, on the management of, 146 ; their use to far- 

 mers, &c., 237, 410. 



Gas, notice of an apparatus for roasting by, 299. 



Genius, not always known to its possessor, 184. 



Gentleman, description of the life of a, 312. 



Geological facts, of coal embedded in a rock, 16. 



Geolotry of Massachusetts, Professor Hitchcock on, 8, 

 2.59." 



Giants, height of different, 256. 



Gilbert, Aaron, on an antidote against vegetable poi- 

 sons, 3. 



Gilmore, John, his profitable cultivation, 340. 



G. H.B.on tlie culture of the strawberry, 121. 



Goat, Cashmire Shawl, introduced into Fr-ince, 181. 



Good temper, remarkable instance of, 181. 



Graft and Stock, reciprocal influence of each on the oth- 

 er, 97. 



Grain, difference in the maturity of, on old and new 

 land, 394. 



Granite, description of, 149. 



Grapes, ripened by tying them up in black crape, 50 ; 

 vines, remarks on, 69 ; rapid mode of raising, 371 ; ob- 

 servations by M. S., 210 ; remedies for mildew in, 342 ; 

 how preserved fresh through the winter, 348 ; remarks 

 on the rot in, 381 ; observations on, by D.Fosdick, 81; 

 on ripening, by S. W. 154; Thomerymode of training, 

 193. 



Grass lands, on watering,' 142; manure for, 286. 



Green, Roland, his report on Peter Thatcher's premium 

 farm, 12-!. 



Greens, vegetables suitable for, 382. 



Gregory, J. B. M.on disease in horses, 108. 



Ground nuts, remarks on, 38. 



Grumblers, notices of, 204. 



Guessing, safe, 336. 



Gypsum, an improved mode of sowing, 405. 



Habit of finishing what we have begun, valuable, 8. 



Hams, mode of curing, 51. 



Harris, Dr. T. H. his address to the Mass. Hor. Soc. 204, 

 211,220,225, 236,244, 2.52. 



Hartshorne, Hugh, on preparing the seed of orchard 

 grass for sowing, 254. 



Hawk, an anecdote of one, 189; how used to frighten , 382; cobs, of their use, 402, 



remedy for scouring of, 101 ; remarks on a disease in, 

 by J. M. Gregory, 108; American, wild, notices of, 

 115; Turkish cure for founder in, 225; remedy for 

 heaves in, 261; to prevent botts in, 277; trotting 

 horses, queries concerning, 282; reniarks on, by J. 

 W. Capron, 297 : lose 25 per cent, of their value, by 

 having their tails cut off, 315 ; how to cure founders 

 in, 315 ; drink for, 305; on watering, improperly, 381 ; 

 on cooking food for, 404. 



Horse Radish, on its cultivation, 117. ' 



Horticultural Journal, kept at the garden of the Proprie- 

 tor of the New England Farmer, 15, 51, 86. 



Horticultural Society, Massachusetts, proceedings of, 14, 

 23. 30, 33, 3-<, 40, 54, 59, 65, 70, 86, 94, 103, 1 18, 127, 

 156, 202, 259, 283, 299, 338,346,354,363,371,379, 

 367, 395, 403, 411 ; notices of their festival, 102, 118, 

 127,134,150,186; premiums awarded by, 186,202, 

 226; premiums ofl'ered by, '307. 



Horticulture, its influence on the taste, morals, and com- 

 forts of the community, 125, 222 ; notice of an e.xperi- 

 ment in, 163; in Maryland, notices of, 330. 



Hot houses, heating by hot air, practice of condemned, 

 13. 



Hot water, houses warmed and meat roasted by, 118, 

 262 ; insects destroyed by, 377. 



Houses, built of iron, 377. 



House-keepers, good, benefits derived from, 10. 



Howard S., his remarks on bees, 50. 



Howard's ploughs recommended, 334 ; Roland, his ad- 

 dress to the Bristol County Agr. Soc. 364. 



H. S. his recipe for good house soap, 206. 



Husking, without spirits, 155. 



Hybrid vegetables and animals, on propagating from, 73. 



Hydrostatic, bed for invalids, 224, 227. 



Hypochondria cured, 240. 



Ice, remarks on preserving, 227, 261. 



Ice-house, a portable, 261. 



Incombustible wash, and stucco white-wash, 380. 



India Rubber cloth, on its manufacture, 216. 



Indian, female, adventures of, 2-88. 



Indian corn, use of wetting the seed of with soft soap, 

 and rolling it in plaster, 3 ; on cutting the stalks of, 

 25 ; great crop of, raised by H. & A. Spraguc, 45 ; 

 improved by impregnating the pistils of one species 

 with the pollenof another, 58; remarks on harvesting, 

 70; injured by early frost, 83 ; on removing suckers 

 from, i05 ; when touched with frost, how preserved, 

 182; on the culture of, 221, 305 ; plaster and leached 

 ashes for, 275 ; Mr. Clark on raising, 337 ; on sowing 

 broad cast for fodder, 340 ; planting early recommend- 

 ed, 357; on its culture, 362, 3C6; on preparing seed of 

 with tar, &c. 377, 382, 401 ; on sowing for fodder. 



birds, 346. 



Hay making, remarks on, 365. 



Hay, how best made from clover, 2, 25. 



Hayes, A. A. his analysis on ditl'erent sorts of salts, 345, 



H. C his remarks on feeding swine, &c. 361. 



Health, maxims relating to, 215. 



Heat, communicated from bored wells, 90 ; expansion of 

 solids by, 325. 



Heating apartments, remarks on, 42; by artificial foun- 

 tains, 45. 



Heaves in horses, how cured, 2G1. 



Hedcres, a shrub, called prickly ash, recommended for, 

 298. 



Hedgford, a celebrated horse, notices of, 29. 



Hemlock and Henbane, on the peculiar qualities of, 357. 



Hemn, American, manufactured by S. Allen, and pre- 

 sented to the American Institute, by A. Varick, 180; 

 remarks on its culture, 225, 233. 



Hens, how made to lay eggs in winter, 283. 



High ways, must be made passable, when blocked up 

 with snow, 285. 



Hildreth, S. P. his letter to Mass. Hor. Soc. together with 

 a package of seeds of the magnolia acuminata, 299. 



Hints to Farmers, No. 1 , 919 ; see Farmers, &c. 



Hints to Housewives, 330. 



Hogs, hov/ made to work in Illinois, 5 ; an improved 

 mode of scalding, 174. 



Homer, James, notices of sunflower oil, presented by, to 

 Mass. Hor. Soc. 363. 



Honesty in a boy, notice of, 400. 



Honey, purified and made a substitute for sugar, 91. 



Hops, in England, prospects of, 101 ; to be a substitute 

 for asparagus, 381. 



Horn distemper in cattle, how treated, 353,357. 

 Horse, to asceitain the pulse of, 3. 



Horse Chesnuts, useful in making paste, 13. 



House keeping in Germany, notice of, 13. 



Horses, slobbering of, said to be cured by sulphur, 61 ; 



^^sects in fruits, remarks on, by a lover of good fruit, 

 and by the Editor, 1 ; destroying by hot water, 1, 377; 

 found in pear trees, 6 ; remarks on their habits, &c., 

 36; not destroyed by putting sulphur in trees, 174. 

 See Address by Dr. W. T. Harris, 204, itc. ; on des- 

 troying in gardens, &c. 3S0; how destroyed in hot 

 beds, 411 ; destroyed by dry ashes, 412. 



Intemperance, deplorable instance of, 248 ; in France, 

 remarks on, 413. 



Inventions, American, notices of, 85; distinctions be- 

 tween and discoveries, 235 : for disengaging horses 

 from a carriage, 256. 



Iron, .American, compared with foreign iron, 410. 



Iron houses, remarks on, 'o77. 



Irrigation, Dr. Spafl'ord's Essay on, 26 ; remarks on, by 

 E. D. Andrews, 3.56 ; farther notices of, 370. 



Isabella Grape Vines, &>c. do, 54, 110; great produce of, 

 raised by A. Mitchell, Esq. 134 ; by Mr. Dobson, 147. 



Isabella wine, process in making, 117. 



Isis, relics found in the temple o', '371. 



J. on destroyincr Canada Thistles and raising potatoes, 

 229. 



J. B R. his remarks on wild or Canadian rice, 81. 



J. B. on the culture of Ruta Baga, 277. 



J. E. on an insect found in pear trees, 6. 



Jenkins, L. on Improved breeds of cattle, 315. 



Jerusalem Artichoke, should be planted in gullies, &c. 

 109. 



Johnson, W. R. notices of his farm, 31. 



Joke, a geological, 305. 



Jones, J. T., his economical mode of applying manure, 

 164. 



Jones, James, his observations on the rot of the grape, 

 381. 



J. S. M., his remarks on rural taste, 218. 



J. W. on guarding against the. bee moth, 363. 



Kangaroo, a tame, notice of, 20.3^ 



KenrickjWm., notices ofhisorchnrdist, 193,200,213,389. 



Kersey, Joseph, recommends the use of tar for sheep, '331. 



Keyes, B. F. on the produce of peach trees, 105. 



KIrtland, Jared, P., his notices of vegetable productions, 

 peculiar to the western regions of the U. S. 198. 



Knight, Adams, Ills mode oi^ cultivating a premium crop 

 of rye, 238. 



Knowledge, on its advantages, by Rev. L. Withington, 

 1.52. 



Labor, remarks on the best hours for, &c. 138 ; on the 

 exchange of, 138 ; freedom of depends on the freedom 

 of the soil, 250. 



Lambs, remarks on weaning, &c. 398. 



Lambs and geese, protected by tar from foxes, 269. 



Lands in England, lying waste, notice of, 162. 



Laziness, grows on people, 216. 



Lazy Fever, a cure for, 328. 



Lazy man, notices of, 3.52. 



Leaves, for manure, recommended, 126, 329. 



Leavitt, Hooker, his mode of cultivating a premium crop 

 of wheat, 243. 



Legal impudence, anecdote concerning, 96. 



Leopard, caught by a mirror, 205. 



Letters, on the invention of, 173. 



Lettuce, on its culture and uses, 278. 



Life assurance, advantages of, 372. 



Lighting.a city, new mode of proposed, 334 ; economic 

 from the burning of wood to procure acetic acid, 344. 



Lime, ashes, &c. as appUcations to the soil, remarks on, 

 9, 22, 59, 217. 



Lime, for preserving health, 362. 



Lime-stone, how burnt with coal, in warming houses, 

 &c. 282. 



Lincoln, Gov. of Mass., his remarks on preparing men 

 for the State Prison, 96; notice of his address to Mas- 

 sachusetts Legislature, 214. 



Lindsley, Philip, on the cause of Farmers, 353. 



Little, Tristram, his cultivation of a crop of rye, 251. 



L. L., on the selection and management of a farm, 185, 

 186; on ao-riculture, compared with other pursuits, 

 209,210; on manure, 261. 



L. M. P., his remarks respecting a disease in oxen, 241. 



Lion and bear, interview between, 192. 



Locke, Charles H., his remarks on an apple tree injured 

 by the severity of the winter, 129. 



Longevity, remarkable instances of, 224, 333, 408. 



Longworlh, N. on the culture of the vine, &c. 137. 



Lover, Cobbett's advice to, 376. 



Lowell, Hon. J., his remarks on the Cattle Show and 

 Plou.cfhing Match at Brighton, 08; his strictures on 

 articles in the American Farmer, 68 ; on raising grapes 

 in the open ground, 69 ; on stirring tJie earth as a rem- 

 edy for drought, 92 ; on the culture of sweet potatoes, 

 326. 



Lowell, notice of the town of, 370. 



Loxia, bird that lights its nest with a glow worm, 345. 



Lucerne, on its culture, 334. 



Lyceums; County , remarks on organizing, &c. 45 ; 'Vil- 

 lage, a plan and description of, 130; for farmers, 140. 



M. on the causes of the deterioration of fruits, 281. 



Machinery, Miss Harriet Martineau's remarks on the uses 

 of, 3.34. 



Machines for sawing barrel staves, notice of, 69 ; for 

 transplanting trees, 169; for making nails, 195; for 

 cleaning rice from the hull, 219 ; for glass blowing, 

 261 ; for spinning and twisting silk, by Adam Brooks, 

 274 ; for knitting stockings, 291 ; for making pins, 

 299 ; for Imlling rice, 331 ; for grooving window 

 blinds, &c. 378 ; for sawing and bormg, 387. 



Mackay. John, on apple orchards, 61. 



Mad bull, anecdote of, 413. 



Madder, remarks on the culture of, by Russel BronsoB, 

 49; to dye red with on woollen, 109. 



Madness, extraordinary instance of, 112. 



Magnitude, how to acquire a correct idea of, 8. 



Magpie, the anecdote of, 336. 



Mahogany, size, value, and uses of, 85. 



Mangel Wurtzel, remarks on its culture and uses, 318. 



Alantel tree, an old, 336. 



Manure, an economical mode of applying, 164 ; wasted 

 by evaporation, 165; remarks on collecting, 172; on 

 gathering in pastures, &,c. 23; observations on, 218; 

 remarks on, by L. L. 257 ; on making from peat, 240, 

 257; for grass land, &,c. 286 ; liquid, use of. 



Martineau, Miss Harriet, on the use of machinery, 384. 



Marvin, Mr., his notices of Black Sea wheat, 118, 145 ; 

 on the tea wheat, 298. 



Mattress of cork, notice of, 390. 



Meade, R. K., on the improvement of sheep, 105. 



Mease, Dr. James, on the influence of the stalk on its 

 graft, 97; his experiments with Chinese silkworms, 

 188. 



