INDEX. 



V. 



35G— hill of should be made \vi(\c but not high 357 



the last hoeing of should be finished before Uie 



plants are in blossom ibid.— plaster of Taris applied 

 to the leaves while growing recommended :35!t— pre- 

 served from (he grnb worm by qiilcklime and nnleach- 

 ed ashts ibid.— inTjirovement on the process of mak- 

 ing brandy from SSO— flowers of worn by Louis X\'. 

 39U— on the various uses of, ibid. 

 Potter Mr R. notice of his practice of shearing sheep 



early, by the first of May 'Z93 

 Powel'Col. his letter to the president of the Penn. Agr. 

 Soc. respecting improved breeds of cattle 5!! — on the 

 folly and mischief of shooting small birds 357 — on na 

 tive cattle 364 393— his importation of Southdown 

 and -New Leicester sheep and a heifer 'lOG 

 Poultry, directions for the fattening of Q75 

 Preston Samuel, on the frost of last summer 25 — notices 

 of the season in Pennsylvania 41 97 — queries respect 

 ing onions 65 — remarks on mills moving with more 

 velocity in the night than in the day 156 — on the 

 sinking of a log which had been soaked in water 156 

 on potatoes 289 — on grafting, destroying bugs, cut- 

 worms, and yellow bugs 369 396 

 Preston, A. Dr on cheese smeared with red lead 29 

 Proctor Mr notice of his cider mill 147 

 Progress of science 75 

 Pruning fruit trees, see Fruit Trees. 

 Pulmonarj- consumption, inhaling tar beneficial 166 

 Pumpkins for feeding cattle 195, 200 — breaking the 

 stem olf causes them to rot the sooner 209— varieties 

 of should not be planted near each other 210 

 Putrefaction animal, remarks on 331 

 Pyroligneous acid, a memoir relative to its modeof pre- 



paraiion and uses 36 — further remarks 165 205 

 Quackery, instance of in destroying sheep 363 

 Quince trees, mode of propagating 131 

 Quince wine serviceable in the cure of asthma 173 

 Quincy Hon. J. on forming a stercorary 172 — his ex- 

 position of the faults of some farmers 172 

 R. on harvesting Indian corn by cutting it up by the 



roots 57 — on the culture of peach trees 177 

 Radishes a new mode of cultivating 350 

 Rail Roads on their advantages 251, 253,313, 355, 384 

 Recipes for the cholera morbus 3 — toolh ach 'i — weld- 

 ing cast steel and iron 5 — sick head ach 5 — raising cat- 

 tle without milk 65— making currant wine 10 — presei-v- 

 ation of harness 19 — purifying oil 19 — purifying musty 

 bottles of stone ware 27 : making metheglin 35; for 

 burns 35, 253 ; making fruit jelly 37 ; curing the scrof- 

 ula 43; giving new rum the flavour of old spirits 43 ; 

 destroying mice 43, 224 ; making vinegar from the ref- 

 use of bee hives 53 ; making elder wine 53 ; preparing 

 tnolasiee for preserving fruit 59 ; making a lute for cru- 

 cibles and retorts 61 ; making a razor strop 66; pick- 

 ling beets 67 ; rendering wood, &c. incombustible 75 ; 

 preserving fish 75 ; extracting roots which have been 

 swallowed by cat'le SI ; colic in horses 85; for making 

 yeast 95 ; preserving apples 98 ; to make names grow 

 pn fruit 100 ; weak sight 109 ; hurts and bruises in the 

 ■withers of horses 131 ; taking spots of ink from linen 

 12-3 ; securing (he blossoms of fruit trees from frosts 123 

 making the teeth white 136 — convulsions in children 

 139 — burns, scalds and chilblains 155 — to clean thread 

 lace 157 — cleansing glass vessels 172 — making: spruce 

 wine 173 — making spruce beer 173, 182, 225 — to take 

 mildew out of linen 173— making Kiltredge's bone oint- 

 ment 181 — cure of epilepsy 182 — making Crandel's 

 salve 195 — pomatum 165 — Stoughton's elixir 211 — for 

 the scab in sheep 206 — roasting eels 21 I — for preserv- 

 ing leather 215 — to cure the jaundice 226 — substitute 

 for coffee 229 — to cure bolts and the rot in sheep 229 ; 

 ticks in sheep 249, 414 — making sealing wafers 251 — 

 cleaning pictures 251— ointment for sheep after shear- 

 ing 252— apple bread 253— for sore eyes 253— locked 

 jaw, cement for steam apparatus, and to give lustre to 

 silver 253 — substitute for yeast, preserving ships from 

 ■worms and for making rice jelly 261 — several kinds of 

 cake 275 — to make salt butter fresh 283 — to remove the 

 taste of turnips from butter 283 — for otto of roses 299 ; 

 Ginger wine, apple jelly, mutton hams, and preserva- 

 tion of grapes 299— removing hoarseness 299 — preserv- 

 ation of posts, and of the health of sheep 300 — preserv- 

 ation of hams and of green house plants 301 — economy 

 in candles 301 ; extraction of meat from the windpipe 

 309 ; to render bottled beer ripe 315; to keep potatoes 

 for sea provisions 315 ; to bottle table beer, to mend 

 China, and to keep hops for use 315; for a composition 

 &r grafting fruit trees, and to make Eye ■water 325 ; for 



curing sore and weak eyes 325 ; to talce mildew (Vom 

 linen 333 ; antidote ag.iinst ])oifons 338; several for 

 botts in horses 338 ; cattle which have eaten too much 

 grain 339 ; against insects in hot houses 341 ; making 

 bine colour 342 ; for a composition for preserving wea- 

 ther hoarding 341 ; making parsnip wine 'M6 ; worms 

 in horses &c 349 ; destroying insects and pickling seed 

 wheat 354 ; marking slieep 356 ; exjieditionsiy latten- 

 iiig chickens 356 ; to presi rve against llea^ 372 ; make 

 rice glue and to destroy rats and mice 373 ; cure of the 

 piles 379 ; destroying bed bugs 381 ; cramp in the 

 stomach 403 ; poison by ivy, by dogwood, for the" stings 

 of bees, and tor licks in lambs 414 ; against the ell'ects 

 of drinking cold water 415 

 Reed, A. on worms in the head of sheep 60 

 Renssellaer school 187 



Resuscitation, a remarkable instance of 101 

 Roads a machine for levelling and destroying ruts 181 

 Rohbins Rev 'Ihomas, his address 140 

 Robinson E. his method of ilissipating noxious vapour 



in wells 398 

 Rocks, a mode of splitting them by fire 293 

 Roller, uses of 245 



Roots for feeding cattle recommended 195 

 Rose bugs, quere concerning and remarks on 398 ; pre- 

 mium offered for the natural history of by the Mass. 

 Agric. Society 406 

 Rotation of crops, remarks on by the Editor 294 

 Roumage notice of his machine for dressing flax 291 

 Rules for summer health 383 

 Rush Dr on our domestic wines 165 

 Rusticus on grafting 369 370 



Ruta Raga recommended 209 ; between 13 and 14 hun- 

 dred bushels of raised as a second crop on two ami a 

 half acres ibid. ; premium crop of raised by Col. \\'il- 

 son 213 ; .Mr Cobbett's remarks on raising alternately 

 with wheat 325 

 R3'e a remarkable bunch of 35 ; observations on its cul- 

 ture and uses 49 ; experiment showing the increase 

 of by boiling 274 ; should be cut as soon as possible 

 after the milk is out of the berry 378 ; manner of se- 

 curing at harvest ibid. 

 S. on lice on apple trees 9 ; on the season in Medway, 

 Mass. 50 ; on the acceler;ited velocity of mills in the 

 night 234 

 Sage, on curing of in England for the China market 125 

 Sainfoin seed description of 142; remarks on by " A 

 farmer" roots of said to be sometimes 38 feet long 263 

 Salt different kinds of made at the Onondaga salt works 

 93, American superior to the imported 167; quantity 

 sufficient for cows and sheep 182 ; supposed to pre- 

 serve horses against botts ibid. ; how manufactured 

 in Western Virginia 340 ; on the importance of giv- 

 ing it to cattle in fresh pastures 398 

 Sargeant Mr H. a description and drawing of his cheap 

 engine for raising water 169 ; saw mills notice of an 

 improvement in by Capt. VV. Kendall 180 

 Saw setter patent, notice of 301 



Saxony sheep, remarks on by a Yankee Farmer 9 ; no- 

 tice of an importation of from Saxony 382; sales of 413 

 Sawyer J. his machine for sawing shingles 357 

 Scarlet fever, fatal relapse in, in consequence of eat- 

 ing raw apples 195 

 Scions for grafting, should be taken from the most thrif- 

 ty trees 246 ; should be cut in Feb. or March 264 ; 

 should be kept from water 247; should not be taken 

 from a seedling tree 246 ; should be cut in such a 

 manner as to take in the bulge between the year's 

 growth 246 ; may be inserted in potatosibid. ; those 

 engrafted should be of the same kind and quality with 

 the tree in which they are inserted 345 

 Sea Kale, quere and remarks on its culture 57, 69 

 Season in New Hampshire 1, 6 — in Maine C, 89 — in 

 Virginia 11 — in Pennsylvania 41, 97 — in Medway 50 

 Upper Canada 92 — in Massachusetts 307, 304 

 Seeds, on the best methods of preserving 36 — on the 

 importance of selecting those which are first ripe 60 

 some sown best in the autumn 1 18 — to preserve 293 

 September, diseases how guarded against 69 

 Shawanese sallad, a plant eaten by the Indians 28 

 Sheep, remarks on insects that destroy them 5 — a fat 

 one 69 — breeding ewes should not be kept too fat 133 

 further rem^'rks 133 — remedy for the scab in 205, for the 

 rot 229 — turnips injurious to ewes with lamb 238 — po- 

 tatoes useful for 238, best when baked or steamed 238 

 sh»uld have water in winter, but will do without it in 

 summer 238 — pine boughs and tar will cure colds in 

 238 — further remarks oq their food 238 — when ewes 



will not own their lambs, mode olproci dure 238 rem- 

 edy for ticks in 249— .^ol•lh^,lnberlalld oin'niiit to be 

 used alter shearing 252, 350— how pn »i rv( <l fr m dogs 

 '■iGl — early shearing recommended 273.1:87. 'heir health 

 preserved by tar 300— importation oi ( aranianian sbeep 

 307 — Ladahk sheep 339 — washing and thtariig 2£'i — 

 mode of linilding pbids lor 3,50 — coirposidons us< d .ifter 

 tluaring 350, 351 — cnie rimaikal.li lor li rundity 353 ; 

 extraordinary wi ight of one 355 — pri( e ol in Conn. ;)'55 

 lor marking aid — i.niportalion from ta.xony 38',;— tales 

 of do. 413 



Shepherd's purse, a plant 39 

 Shoes, wooden, their utility 300 

 Si k head ache, remedy (or 5 

 Sickness consequent on hot wealher 397 

 Silk worms, rni>ing nl recommendtd 363- 

 Slug, remarks on its ravag. s. Sic. 390 39.5 

 Soap, snbiiitnte for 1 !9 — ^oft soap to cl.anse trees 234 

 Soap siuls, how u«ed lo destroy insects 9, 10 

 Soiling of cattle I!i6. 194 

 Soils, on the chemical composition of 189 

 South .\merica, letter from, describing new plants 49 

 Spinning machine by Mi Fenn 301 — liy Mr Slater 358 

 Springs, and boring for water, theory of 251 

 Stables for horses i;c. require ventilation 150 — light ne- 

 cessary for 150 

 Staggers in sv.ine, remedies against 396 

 j Starch, Am(rican manulaclory ef by Dr. Perry 273 

 'Steam, its use in London for batching chickens 70 

 Steam Engine, of the Boston Cordage Comp.^ny 155 — 



Mr Perkins 235— of Mr James, in N. York 349 

 Steel, on cutting of by soft iron 61 

 St. John Mr Alexander, his cultivation cf clover 378 

 St Foil! Cr >ss. notice ot by '•^ A farmer," 166 

 Stephens Mr Phineas, on constructing a wind mill 315. 

 Stercorary, Mr Quiiicy's description of 172 

 Slimson Earl, description of his premium farm 82 

 Strawberry vines made very productive 5 

 Stumps, machine for raising 172 

 Sugar Rcet, on its culture and uses 3C3 

 Suet, preserved fre^^h for any length of time 326 

 Subscriber A, on making hens lay eggs 50 — on book 



farming 185 

 Sulphur, dreadful effects from excessive use of 83 — on 

 its uses to destroy or expel insects and as manure 411 

 S'lminer fallows and fallow crops, remarks on 21 

 Surveyors of Highways, rules recommended for 375 

 Swine, on fattening 54 — will fatten best when kept 

 separate 54 — their pens should be sufficiently ■narm to 

 render them comfortable 54 — if scurfy should be wash- 

 ed with lie or soap suds 54— should be fed sparingly 

 and with inferior food when first shut up for fattening 

 54 — thould have occasional doses of sulphur and cream 

 of tartar and nitre 54 — food slightly sour preferable for 

 feeding them 54 — lion. Mr I^owell's remarks in favour 

 of the English breed of 105 — the importance of keep- 

 ing them clean 133 — remedy for measles in 149 — of the 

 Bedford breed by Hon. Mr Fiske 150, 222 — on the ad- 

 vantages of keeping 222 — report of Com. of Worcester 

 Agr. Soc. on 226 — will thrive better on cooked meal 

 than on raw corn, 267, 274— Dr Fiske's breed of 226 — 

 large ones in N. Jersey 292 — staggers in 396 — on feed- 

 ing them with raw and cooked meal 412 

 T. B. on an unsuccessful experiment in cultivating In- 

 dian corn 315, 404 

 Tanning, new mode of by means of extract from barklS 

 Tappan C. on the borer which infests peach trees 326 

 Taylor Bird, remarkable for ingenuity in building its 



nest 3G8 

 Tea, remarks on the m.aking and drinking of 354 

 Tea plant its culture in Onondago County N. Y. 139— ^ 



in Louisiana 139 

 Thatcher Dr. J. ou pruning fruit trees 249 — on buck 



tboru hedges 214 

 Thomas E. Jun. on the causes of premature decay of 

 pear and apple trees 3, (Set pear tree) — on the pre- 

 servation of peach trees 12 — See peach trees 

 Tihbets G. on the cultivation of live fences 33 

 Ticks in sheep and lambs, remedy against 249, 414 

 Timber said to be preserved from the diy roi by soak- 

 ing in salt water 341 

 Trees, notiocs of large ones 355 

 Trimble D. on boring for water 389 

 Tucker I. Esq. on the culture of onions 265 

 Turkies, wild for Gen. La Fayette 331 — on fattening 



with walnuts 333 

 Turnips English, raised by Messrs. H. & T. little after 

 a crop of grass had been taken from the land 146-^ 



