INDEX TO THE SEVENTH YOLUME. 



Acre, products of a single 53 



Acid, from oak timber 389 



Accident 35 



Acknowledgments . . , . . .121 



Acorns, and cattle . . . . . .112 



Africans, no mathematicians ..... 302 



Agriculture, in North Carolina, 19; Mass. State 

 Board of, 66, 275; Maine State Board of, 352; 

 Hawaiian, 355, 542; antiquity and dignity of, 

 414; increased attention to, 430; the proper 

 calling, 457, 561; study of, 478; advancement 

 of, 495 ; instruction in, 573 ; war and . . 574 



Agricultural, Press, spirit of the, 37 ; addresses, 50 ; 

 meetings, legislative, 88, 98; premiums, 187; 

 exhibitions, 437; Society, U.S., 439, 562; Fair, 

 U.S., 457; Vermont State, Society, 482; Middle- 

 sex North, Society, 486; Society, Vermont State, 

 officers of, 498 ; Society, Middlesex South, 509; 

 Society, Worcester North, 511; Society, Essex, 

 520; Society, Hampshire, at Amherst . . 624 

 Agriculturist, Washington as an . . . . 409 



Almanac, the Old Farmer's 59 



Amherst, show at . . . . . . . 524 



Animals, ruminating, 13; chloroform for domestic, 

 110; cruelty to, 219; foretelling the weather, 



272; language of 467 



Ants, battle of 317 



Annual, the Illustrated 13 



Apple — apples, how long it takes to get, 30; crop 

 in New England, 46; the Hurlbut, 25; orchards 

 and the market, 43; trees, pruning, 54; selec 

 tion of, 62; a fine, 103; value of, 101; Ribstone 

 Pippin, 167; Red Russet, 290; Washington Roy 

 al, 231; Newtown Pippin, 233; Northern Spy 

 235; trees unfruitful, 327; dying, 354; tree 

 borer, 313; seed, 405; American Summer Pear 

 main. Cole's Quince, Garden Royal, Famcuse, or 

 Snow Apple, Red Astracan, 469 ; Winter-keeping, 

 479; trees, what ails them, 451, 443 ; insects on 

 389; Bethel Belle, 423; Progress, 442; sting 

 ing of, 418; large, 491; Morrison's Red, 496 

 tree-worms, 508; seed, how to clean and plant, 

 511; trees, what ails, 534; fine sweet, 551 



new 551, 552 



Aphides, or plant-lice, . 



Apricot, the peach, 433 ; fine 



Appleton, Samuel .... 



Arctic expedition, return of . 



Articles, in season .... 



Ashes, peat, 52; and plaster, 454; in agriculture 



525 ; to crumble bones ..... 547 



Asparagus 240, 509, 534 



Atmosphere, has the moon any . . . .102 



Page. 



418 



487 



, 450, 516; 



117, 155; 

 155; cat, 



B. 



Bacon, curing without smoke . 



Barberry 



Barley, four-rowed, 149; production of 



Barn, an hour in a great, 46; a splendid, 50; im 



provement in . 

 Basket, willow 

 Beans, and potatoes 

 Beautiful, and useful 

 Bee, look to your, 287; hive 



habits and instincts of 

 Beef, the year-old 

 Beetle, and moth hunting 

 Beets, baked . 



Berkshire County, cattle-show in 

 Birds, sensitiveness of, 86; houses for, 

 winter, migratory of New England 

 384; don't shoot the, 207; of New England, 

 370; spare the, 212, 235; blue-birds, 272; in- 

 stinct and affection of 



Bison 



Blackberry, the New Rochelle, 148, 465; the white 



188, 267 



Black-knot, cure for 272,341 



Black-leg, cure for 351 



Blight, frozen sap ....... 556 



Book, a good, 157; new, 218; worms and dunces, 



364; knowledge 



Bones, cows gnawing, 103 ; weight of, in animals, 

 128; vs. guano, 294; old, 387; crumbling in 



ashes 



Borer, apple-tree, 313; potato-stem . . . 



Bots, in horses, to prevent 



Brakes, to kill pasture 



Bread, milk in 



Breeds ......... 164 



Breeding, sheep ....... 170 



Bristol County, show in 503 



Brush, machine for chopping 93 



Buckwheat, or turnips, 373; plowed under . . 534 

 Budding, hints on, 349; with the Seckel pear . 534 

 Building, concrete, 26; a new material . . . 459 

 Bull, improved short-horn . . . 49, 613, 514 

 Business, other people's, 42 ; how to commence . 474 

 Butter, how to make good in winter, 134, 274; mak- 

 ing, 375; history of . . . ■. . . 48» 

 Burns, cure for 160 



Cabbages 375, 509 



Calendar, for January, 9; February, 67; March, 



105; April, 153; May, 201; June, 249; July, 



297; August, 345; September, 393; October, 



441; November, 489 ; December 

 California, agricultural premiums in . . . 

 Calves, rearing, 270; tails and wind spavin, 290; 



marked by first sire . 



540 



84 



497 



396 



675 

 304 

 368 

 536 



498 



493 



228 



366 



547 

 419 

 335 



418 



104 



668 

 609 

 483 



Candles, cheap and excellent 

 Canker-worms 

 Cape Cod, farms on 

 Carbon, starch, sugar 



637 

 27 



325 



15, 18, 458, 631, 549 

 , 558 

 . 453 



Carrots, how to raise, 135; the white, 178; and 



water-melons, 231; value of . . . .651 



