INDEX- 



Milk, nutritive qualities of, 286; what will make a 

 cow give down, 31; production of, 133; facts 

 about, 358; clean ...... 



Millet, 148; cultivation of 



Mortgages ........ 



Moth and beetle hunting 



Mowinir, lawns, 180; exhibition of, machines, 361, 

 ZIB, 381, 391, 406, 420, 449; work done by 



Muck, swamp, 86; how to use, 439; experiment 

 with meadow ....... 



Mulching 



Muriate, of lime, 245, 400; as a top-dressing 



N. 



Page. 



Nahant, a morning at 

 Native, as applied to stock 

 Nature, perfection in 

 Needle, making a . 

 Norfolk Agricultural Society 

 Nose, remedy for bleeding 

 Note of thanks 



0. 



Oatmeal and the intellect 

 Onions, 571; blight upon 

 Orchard, apple, and the market, 43 

 Osier ..... 

 Oxen, mammoth 

 Oyster 



settino 



493 



270 



65 



368 



448 



501 

 326 

 447 



475 

 306 



45 

 533 

 491 



26 

 120 



530 



469 

 238 

 231 

 25 

 199 



Painting, a magnificent 25 



Pastures, old, 438; short 445 



Pea, nuts, and pop-corn, 119; champion of England, 



435; weevils 242 



Peach, growing, 82; a China, 198; crop and cold, 



259; trees, coal ashes for, 298, 430; gum in . 534 



Pear, 58; culture of the, 08; Oswego Buerre and 

 Buerre Diel, 185 ; tree, cultivation of, 192 

 trees, what shall I set, 197 ; experiments with 

 seedlings, 199; cherries and, 199; Dix, 327. 

 Napoleon and Urbaniste, 3 29 ; trees, disordered 

 419,423; proper time for gathering, 436; bud 

 ding with the Seckel, 534; on quince, 551; Ma^ 

 deleine and Osband ..... 



Peat, pulverized, 73; for manure . 



Photographic counterfeiting .... 



Pig, turnips for, 149, 309; and poultry, 365; a 

 thrifty 



Piper or witch grass ..... 



Plant, new, 10; maturing, 44, 241; wintering cab 

 bage, 16; climbing, 215; sleep of, 266; hardy 

 border, 280 ; can we see them grow . 



Plaster, 26, 07, 181; and ashes 



Plows, and plowing, fall, 11, 62, 67; and cut-worm, 

 34; breaking up, 52; horse, 52; plows, 262; 

 sandy soils, 233; and stone, 214; sub-soil, 291, 

 293; double, 298; with an elephant, 328; plows, 

 334, 352; for stony soil, 351; that don't clog, 

 495; deep and shallow, 463 ; in drought philoso- 

 phically considered 



Plymouth County fair 



Plum, trees, 255, 475, 509; Washington, 481; rot 

 in, 528; trees and plums ..... 



Poison of cherry-leaves 386, 



Pork, poultry cheaper than 



Pone, bachelor's ....... 



Poland, serf-labor in ..... . 



Pomological Society, American . . 131, 136, 



Potato, 58; cultivation of, 127; experiment with, 

 149, 205, 211, 237, 244, 240, 255, 342, 372; the 

 sweet, 237; State of Maine, 256, 478, 533; In- 

 dian, or ground-nut, 291; small, 293, 324, 354, 

 419,430,432,496,516; great yield, 348; stem- 

 borer, 419, 487; crop, 471, 502; for planting . 534 



Portrait, how to get a 502 



532 

 503 



552 

 422 



72 

 536 



94 

 146 



Page. 



Poudrette 268 



Poultry, cheaper than pork, 72; keeping large 



numbers 186, 30» 



Practical effort 256 



Premiums, Middlesex County, 202; California Ag- 

 ricultural Society ...... 187 



Press, spirit of the Agricultural .... 37 



Prices, of flour and grain, 478; of wheat, 407; of 

 flour for twenty years, 467 ; thirty -seven years 

 ago, 218; high .... 222,284,299 



Profanity 248 



Prospects 574 



Provender, horse ....... 443 



Pruning, and grafting, 264, 268, 278; when the 



leaves are on . . . . . . .365 



Publications 240 



Pudding, voyage round a 73 



Purging, cure for 276 



Q. 



Quinces, for pickles, 198; trees, salt for, 334; bar- 

 ren, 405; orange, 423; trees, to make barren 

 ones fruitful 466, 471 



E. 



. 544 

 29 

 2, 420, 442 

 . 560 

 . 363 

 . 455 

 . 418 

 . 335 



Rain, the philosophy of, 259; from the roofs 



Randolph, John 



Rape, or Cole, culture of . . 309, 3 

 Raspberry, Antwerp .... 



Rats, and horses, in Paris ... 

 Reading, and thinking, 341 ; in the cars 

 Reapers ...... 



Reclaiming, swamp-lands, 191 ; meadow-land 



Recipes . 200, 248, 276, 295, 344, 392, 403, 488 



Reports 265 



Rheumatism, cure for . 

 Rhode Island State Fair 

 Rice, wild .... 

 Rods, divining 

 Roots, 319; bulbous 

 Roses, standard climbing 

 Rumination, or remastication 

 Rural, taste, 332; atFairs, taste in 

 Russia, how she treats her best generals . 

 Rye, spring, 200; and the crops, 418, 438; a good 

 product of 



388 

 473 

 569 

 149 

 561 

 65 

 285 

 477 

 109 



472 



Salt, 63; for animals, 265; buy, 234; as a manure, 

 435 ; for animals .... 



Sanatory substances .... 



School, to young men at, 143 ; Agricultural 



Season in Vermont .... 



Sebastopolf city of . .... 



Seed, vitality of, 136; sowers, 208; grass, 246, 247; 

 planter, and manure-dropper, Woodward's im- 

 proved, 288, 306; change of, 366; importance 

 of sowing good, 402; apple, 405; save the best, 

 507; to clean and plant apple, 511; corn, 507 

 preservation of . 



Shadbush 



Shade .... 



Shakspeare, a hint from 



Sherman, Morgan horse 



Sheep, and wool, 14 ; new food for, 21 ; winter man 

 agement of, 22; breeding, 170; cutting roots 

 for, 157, 205; quick work with, 274; ticks on, 

 290, 326, 327, 359; skin, to cure with wool on, 

 306; what are best, 351; crossing the breed of, 

 446; staggers in, 450; husbandry, in Massachu 

 setts, 545 ; maggots in 



Shore, wonders of the sea 



Shot, how made .... 



Shrubs, to owners of oak and pine . 



Skunk cabbage .... 



Soap, vs. hens and orows, 221; soft 



544 

 544 

 551 

 341 

 31 



541 



58 



65 



263 



304 



552 



77 

 402 

 382 

 418 

 302 



