INDEX. 



Page. 

 Soil, saline matter in, 120; analysis and specific 

 manures for, 270; true value of mineral ele- 

 ments in, 356; practical value of analysis of, 

 367; a yellow loam, 488; exhaustion of the . 557 

 Society, American Pomological, 131, 136, 146; Es- 

 sex County Agricultural, 87, 520 ; United States 

 Agricultural, 90, 173, 439, 445, 562 ; New- 

 Hampshire Agricultural 132; New- York Agri- 

 cultural, 96; Vermont State, oiRcers of, 498; 

 Norfolk Agricultural, 491; Worcester Agricul- 

 tural, 492; Middlesex, South, 509; Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural, 528; Worcester, South, Ag- 

 ricultural, 535; what is respectable . . , 245 



Solder 342 



Sparrow, the hedge 497 



Spring, work, 200, 253 ; springs . . . .223 

 Squash, cultivation of the, 159; vines, 516; fine, . 529 



Squirrel, striped 456, 552 



Stables, ventilation of 24 



State, the way to build up a, 79 ; Granite, Agricul- 

 ture, light from, 300; Fair, Rhode Island, 473; 



New Hampshire 484 



Statistics 327 



Steers, breaking 460 



Stock, to ascertain the weight of live, 12; what 

 vegetables are best for, 212; a show of dairy, 



424; blood 554 



Stone, 20; and plows, 214; for building, 278; 



houses 415 



Stocking, corn 507 



Strawberries, about raising, .... 207, 295 



Straw-cutter, Gales' 444 



Stump, puller, 362, 371, 427; removal of . 398,535 



Sun-scald, and pruning 175, 244 



Sulphuric acid 180 



Super-phosphate, and guano, 168, 218; of lime 228,470 

 Swallows ....... 182, 547 



Swamp, muck, 86; reclaiming . , . 191, 267 

 Swine, profit of fattening 318 



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Trout, and gold-fish 388 



Tucker, Luther 28 



Turkey, domestic, 113; to kill grasshoppers, 119; 

 tenacity of life of the, 136; a big, 149; about 



the 229 



Turnip, and salt hay, 27; crop, 51; for pigs, 88, 

 149, 301; as feed for stock, 155; seeding down 

 to grass with 404 



U. 



United States Agricultural Society . 90, 173, 439, 445 



Vegetable, garden, 197: what are best for stock, 



212; life, duration of ..... 239 



Vegetation, does the moon influence . . . 350 



Ventilation of sta;bles ...... 24 



Vermont, weather and crops in ... • 342 



Vetches 148, 388 



Veterinary Journal ...... 502 



W. 



T. 



Tap, root 255, 261 



Teacher, hints for 104 



Telescope, glasses 87 



Terms, scientific Ill 



Thimbleberry, white -290,327 



Thorn, cock's-foot 405 



Ticks on sheep .... 290, 326, 327, 359 



Tillage, deep 329 



Timber, deadening, 16, 48; the decay of . . 468 



Time, it will save 310 



Toads 294, 385, 406 



Tobacco, chewer cured, 493 ; use of . . . 552 



Toil, dignity of 526 



Traps, grasshopper 497 



Transplanting 438 



Tree, the Argan, 56; pear, 123; planting, 120; 

 pruning apple, 122; American crab-apple, 135; 

 importance of forest, 137; treatment of pear, 

 149; raising apple, 157; setting out fruit, 159; 

 pruning, 160; and sun-scald, 175; propagating 

 apple, 178; plum, 181, 182; pear, 192; graft- 

 ing chestnut, 196; choice and culture of apple, 

 203 ; legal protection to fruit, 206; pruning and 

 sun-scald, 244; pruning and grafting, 204; lo- 

 cust, 253; plum, 255; sucker plum, 247; apple, 

 267; boiling water on fruit, 291; prevent mice 

 from girdling, 267; hemlock, 291; juniper, 318; 

 labelling fruit, 324; keep straight, 332; salt for 

 quince, 334; black knots on plum, 341; wash 

 for, 335; buttonwood, 380; insects on, 389; 

 barren ]ilum, 471 ; apple, worms in, 508; peach, 

 gum in, 534; what ails the apple, 634; planting, 

 549; young, grafting, 555 ; coffee, in Maine . 556 

 Trouting 374 



pipes. 



485 

 29 



230, 438 

 77 

 554 

 369 



161 

 476 

 301 

 77 

 526 

 327 



481 

 250 



Wakefield's hand corn-planter 

 ; Wakefulness, cause and remedy 

 I Walnuts, for pickling 

 ! Walks, weeds in . 

 1 Wall, building, 438 ; gravel . 

 '] Warts, cure for ... . 

 I Washington, city, an agricultural glimpse of, 85 ; as 

 I an agriculturist, 409; plum 



Washing windows ..... 



Water, melons and carrots, 231; proof, 233; 

 air in, 291 ; rams, and cement pipes . 



Webster, Noah 



Weeds, the way they multiply 



Wells, impure air in 



West, the 



Weeping willow . . . . • 



Wheat, to prevent smut in, 18; spring, 52, 177 

 fact in regard to drilling, 319 ; winter, 339, 401 

 summer, 268 ; crop, injury to the, 403 ; charcoal 

 for ....... . 



Whitewash 



Wilder, Marshall P 



Willow, machine for peeling, 40, 56; basket, 84, 93 



culture of 106, 149 



Wine, and grapes .... 



Winter, cabbage-plants, how to, 16; management of 

 sheep in, 22; prepare for, 21 ; in Canada . 



Wire fence ....... 



Wisconsin, things in .... . 



Witch-grass ....... 



Wood, destruction of, 371; land, 265, 382; thrush 



Wool, and sheep, 14 ; American, in England . 



Wolf, on the jaw ...... 



Worcester, Agricultural Society, 492 ; South, Agri 

 cultural Society 



Work, work ! 



AVorms, canker, 15, 18, 426, 468; the cut, 34, 388; 

 wire, 155, 327; in corn-stalks, 259; grub, 351, 

 338, 372; red-headed, 470; onion, 327; apple, 

 388 ; trapping of, 390 ; potato, 424 ; apple- 

 tree ...... . . 508, 535 



544 

 177 

 102 



373 



292 

 91 

 325 

 48 

 308 

 452 

 504 



535 

 570 



Y. 



Year, close of the . 

 Yo-Semity, valley of the 

 Young men, short history for . 



. 676 



. 671 



312, 372 



