INDEX TO THE NINTH VOLUME. 



Accounts, farm 348 



Acre, product of ..... . 47 



Acid, free, in soils 42 



Address, Col. Needham's, 27 ; Wilder's pomo- 

 logical, 70 ; of B. P. Poore ... 96 



Aeration of the soil 373 



Agriculture, State Board of, 54, 101, 131, 135, 

 194, 371, 388 ; at the south, 69 ; in Mass., 237; 

 bequest to, 253 ; art in, 285 ; an honorable 

 pursuit, 429 ; early taste for, 470 ; progressive, 502 

 Agricultural, transactions of Essex County, 88, 

 108, 120, 500, 525, 530; librari^a, 189; re- 

 ports, 224, 373 ; fair in Boston, 255 ; educa- 

 tion, 319 ; periodicals, prejudice vs., 405 ; 



press, spirit of 408 



Air, pure, and sleep 335 



Almshouse, Bridgewater . . . . 178 

 America, North Western .... 59 



Animalcula3, singular 306 



Animal, dead, 185, 238; breeding, 301; skin- 

 ning, 328 ; kindness to, 475 ; a new, among us 568 

 AntSj^black . . . . . 319, 365, 408 



Appearances, utility of .... 472 



Apple, remarks on the, 38 ; large, 78, 132 ; 

 insects that infest the, 91; the trunk, 114, 

 149, 198; cuttings, 118; seeds cf the, 130; 

 how to pack, 145; Fameuse, 215; fall pippin 

 and Brown, 218 ; Siberian crab, 300 ; wormy, 

 346 ; this year, 360, 452 ; yellow Belle Flower, 

 408 ; parer, new, 456, 491 ; and grapes, . 524 

 April flowers and flower gardens . . . 153 

 Arbor vitae . . . . . . . 133 



Ashes, 319 ; coal, 259 ; and plaster, experiments 



with 572 



Asparagus, to raise gaint, 189 ; bed of . 415 



August 345 



Awards and medals . . . . . 390 



B 



Bacon, how to keep, 96 ; to cure ... 96 



Baga, ruta, and beans 357 



Barley, a tine field of, 78; meal, 218 ; bread 462 



Barometer, a wooden 491 



Barn, a modern, 233, 234 ; much in a . . 548 

 Beans, for sheep, 144, 233 ; and ruta baga, 357; 

 fattening properties of, 428 ; early Victoria 467 



Beef, very fine 314 



Bee, on wintering, 49, 177 ; hives, 203, 279, 322, 

 327 ; culture of, 352, 478 ; moth, 336 ; about, 

 369,382,411; how to transfer, 425; Lang- 

 strotli on the, 461 ; errors about . . 535 



Birds, 33 ; activity of, 63 ; snow, family of, 174 ; 

 swallow, family of, 219, 274 ; spare the, 291 ; 

 bobolink, 299 ; about, 355 ; cherry . . 386 



Blind, window 378 



Bones, 167; mill for grinding, 260 ; as manure, 317 



Books, new 213 



Borer, a tall, 107, 224, 315, 365 ; apple tree, 387, 



397, 460 



Page 

 Boys, an evening with the, 89 ; who wish to be 



men, 104 ; labor of, 242, 382 ; wages, 244, 351 ; 



farmer's, 333 ; education of, 391 ; a word to, 



392 ; example for, 440 ; one of the . . 488 



Brake, yellow 235 



Bread, healthy, 73, 100 ; pone, 355, 358 ; ripe, 



104, 226 ; oricular 510 



Brown, Simon, letter from, 396, 404, 454, 474, 



481, 485, 518 

 Bugs, cucumber, 343 ; vine . . . 377, 398 

 Building in frosty weather . . . . 156 

 Bushes, cutting, 453 ; time to kill . 479, 549 



Butter, making, 181, 268, 295, 299, 301, 452; 



worker, 391 ; milk and cows, 471 ; products 565 

 Butternuts vs. apple trees .... 131 



Cabbages and onions, 44, 45 ; stum]i footed, 114, 

 359; how to grow, 169; plant where it is to 

 grow, 296, 308; new, 332; worms in, 409; 

 insects on, 419 ; Mason's drumhead . . 467 

 Calves, rear your heifer, 142; large, 240, 315 ; 

 feeding and weaning, 342 ; disease and death 

 among, 385 ; water for, 408 ; fat . . 525 



Canada, trade with 283 



Can, Whitney's self-sealing .... 498 

 Cane, Chinese sugar, 109, 574 ; or sugar millet, 

 112, 114, 173, 198,207,217,235,246,264,283, 

 324, 327, 407, 449, 473, 481, 484, 502, 514, 516, 



526, 527 ; sugar 565 



Canker worms 358, 549 



Caps, hay . . . 361, 380, 406, 409, 516 



Carrots, 567; culture of, 88, 161 ; on the same 

 ground, 182, 233 ; on meadow land, 261; white, 

 266, 439 ; early scarlet horn . . . 467 

 Cashmere, goats and shawls ... 37 



Caterpillars, look out for, 296 ; how to destroy 322 



353, 365 

 Cattle, feeding, 12; shows, 14; foot rot in, 34; 

 growth of and keeping, 96 ; soiling, 167 ; mar- 

 ket reports, 209 ; Durham, 226 ; fine, 235 ; De- 

 von, 240 : soiling, 267 ; disorder in, in Europe, 

 302 ; decrease of, 303 ; choked, to relieve 473 



Cauliflower, Hovey's early .... 467 



Character, influence of 344 



Charcoal ....... 476 



Cement, on walls, 260 ; for iron, 506 ; uses of 



hydraulic 550 



Celery, to keep 27 



Chemistry, value of, 143 ; discovery in . 304 



Cheese, dust on old, 78, 96 ; making, 314, 367 ; 



in Vermont, 411 ; good .... 470 

 Cherry, stones, 33 ; birds, 386 ; black tartarian 569 



Chimney 373 



Chickens, gapes in 214 



Churn, what is best, 197 ; Fyler's, 234,451, 502 ; 



what do you use 268 



Cisterns 261 



Clean up, clean up 199 



Climate, moral effects of . . . . 105 



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