INDEX TO VOLUME XIX. 



j» gricultural books, American, 109, 142, 171 



— Fair, County, Monroe, 301 



Provincial, (C. W.) 831 



Siate^ Illinois, 302 



— — Indiana, 333 



New Jersey, 302 



'-— New York, 339 



Ohio, 302 



Pennsylvania 332 



St. Louis, 800 



— humor, 162 



— imple-nents in England, 857 



— library, advantages of an, 20 



circulating, 131 



— literature, 59, 82 



— papers 82, 154 



local,. 375 



— schools, 161 



— science, John Johnston vs., 368 



— Society, fair of the Eoyal 2.73 



N. T. State, annual meeting, 103 



United States, annual meeting, . . 68 



Agriculture, American, an English 



view of, 233, 273 



needs of, 803, 835 



— as a profession, 120, 153 



— in the west, 53 



— in Western Virginia, 81 



— progress in, 15 



— Roman. 78 



— scientific, 361 



— thoughts on, 180 



Ague, cure for, 79 



Alpaca, the, 149 



Analysis of soils, 55, 77 



Analysis of soil analyses, 44 



Animals, kindness to, 212, 305 



— teazing— caution, 312 



Appeal to young men, 250 



Apples and pears of Boston market, . . 350 



— great crop of, 369 



Apple orchards, best soil for, 61 



plant, 318 



pruning and cultivating, 190 



— tree, a profitable, 237 



borer, 373 



caterpillar. 257 



— trees, planting;, 69, 316 



Artesian wellg, 55 



Ashes as manure, 116 



— for corn, 273 



— on clayey soil, 69 



Asparagus, cultivation of, 90 



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Bark lice, to destroy, 182 



Barley, experiments on, with different 

 manures, 169 



— Siberian, 131 



— winter, cultivation of, 270 



Barn, a "Western New York, 118 



Barn-door fastener, cheap, 18 



Barn-yards, construction and arrange- 

 ment of, 216, 2.38 



Barometer, value of the, 249 



Basswood bark, to prepare, 163 



Beans as a field crop 177 



— cultivation of, 242, 273 



— Lima, 84, 156 



Bean straw as food for sheep, 218. 240, 273 

 Bees, food of, 67 



— management of, 211, 345 



Beet seed, sugar, raising 34 



Big-head, &c., remedy for, 151 



Blackberries, 124 



— in Iowa, 347 



Bogs, reclaiming and management of 85 

 Sones, dissolving, 172, 205, 227 



BOOKS : 



Allen's American Farm Book 109 



American Farmer's Cyclopedia. . . 109 

 Bov 8 nngault's Rural Economy, — 103 

 Cyclopedia of Commerce and Com- 

 mercial Navigation, 291 



Dairy Farming, 824 



Domestic Animals, 358 



Elements of Natural Philosophy.. 878 

 Fassenden's CompJ^ Farmer and 



Gardener 109 



Field Trial of Reapers, &c., 162 



Hadji in Syria, ^.... 377 



Hedgi 8 and Evergreens, 132 



History of Frederick the Great, ... 378 

 Hooper's Western Fruit Book,. . . . 162 



In and around Stamboul, 377 



Johnston's Agricultural Chemistry, 142 

 Johnston's Elements of Agricul- 

 tural Chemistry and Geology, 142 



Life of Summcrfield, 228 



Lite Thoughts, 162 



Lives and Times of the Chief Jus- 

 tices of the United States, 228 



Livingstone's Travels, 163 



Meadow Brook 228 



Nash's Progressive Farmer, 172 



Pear Culture, 261 



Pearls of Thought, 228 



Self-made Men, 378 



Soil Culture, 261 



Siockhardt's Chemical Field Lec- 

 tures, 143 



Story of the Telegraph, 333 



Thaer's Principles of Practical Ag- 

 riculture, 109 



Text Book of Vegetable and Ani- 

 mal Physiology, 824 



The Autocrat of the Breakfast 



Table, 878 



The Coopers, 324 



The Farm 260 



The Garden; 16;^ 



The New American Cyclopaedia, 162 

 291 



The Stratford Gallery, 377 



Border and bedding plants, 157 



Bets, cure for 209, 248, 278 



Breaking colts, 21, 50, 310 



— steers, 25 



Buckwheat, crops after, 112 



— injurious to pigs, 377 



— for a sod crop, 56 



Buildings and fixtures for a hundred 



acre farm 213 



Butter, coloring, 219 



— how to make bad, 175 



— making, 79, 214, 307 



and packing down for winter use, 82 



winter, 57 



— the good sells the bad, 175 



Cabbage, cultivation of, 92, 121 



Calf, a fine 131 



Calves, feeding, 188, 205 



— four in eleven months, 278 



— lice on, 116, 147 



— wintering, 364 



Canada thistles, destroying,.. 24, 114, 145 



Carnations, impregnating, 260 



Carrots, short-horn, 87, 122 



Castor beans and ground moles, 120 



Caterpillars, apple tree, 257 



— gooseberry and currant, 223 



Catterpillars on fruit trees, 101, 159 



to destroy, 192 



Cattle, African 278 



— Devon, 69 



— experiments in feeding, 86 



— fattening in winter, 28, 53, 76 



Cattle, feeding com stalks to, 214 



in winter, 118 



— keeping in sheds the whole year, 217, 277 



— poisoned by paint, 67 



— rack lor feeding, 182 



— salt in feeding 333 



— stalls, John Johnston's, 306, 835 



Cauliflowers, H 



Cellar for a farm-house, 219 



Cement cellar bottom, to make a, 246 



— for stopping leaks, 2.S9 



Cereals— do they destroy nitrogen, 202 



Cheese from few cows, ... 33 



— to preserve from flies, 279 



Cherries from seed, 250 



Cherry, best soil for the, 64 



— trees dying in Ohio, 817 



Chess, 57 



Chickens, a word about, 1 29 



China berries 182, 146 



Chinese hogs, 163 



— potato, 68, 338 



— sugar cane in France, 851 



Iowa, 56 



Chip manure, 181, 195 



Cholic in horses, cure for 52, 243 



Churning milk vs. churning cream, 214, 237 



Clay soils, pulverizing heavy, 24, 51 



Clean culture, 207, 241, 279 



Cleanliness at home, 94 



Clearing bush land, 181 



Clover cutting and curing, 26, 148 



— plowing in for manure, 174 



— seed, raising, gathering, and clean- 



ing 25 



Clubs, farmers', 18, 50 



CofiTee, hints to lovers of, 874 



College, Michigan Manual Labor, 17 



Colts, breaking, 21, 50, 810 



— wintering, 364 



Composts, making, 240 



— muck in, 67 



Cooking food for stock, 52, 215, 334 



Corn, applying artificial manure to, 207, 237 



— Ashes for, 273 



— crop, largest of the age, 339 



— Dutton 148 



— experiments in feeding cooked vs. 



raw, ; 180 



growing, 188, 174, 205 



— fields, seeding to grass, 209 



— fodder, curing, 346 



— for export, 362 



— good culture for, 15 



— growing, 117 



— grubs,. 209 



— in Indiana, 370 



— large yield of, 245 



— potatoes in rotation with, 811 



— test vour seed, SO 



— the large Ohio Dent, 869 



— travel, 183 



— vs. root crops, 144 



Corn-tops for fodder, curing, 313 



Corn-stalk fodder, rack 117 



Corn-stalks and mad-itch, 14fi, 181 



— feeding to cattle, 214, 239, 313 



Cottages, laborers'— farmers' wives, 16, 50 



Covering half-hardy plants, 287 



Cows, how to conquer vicious, 346 



— bad, made profitable, 844 



— blanketing in winter, 21 



— dairy, best pastures for, 25 



management of, 82 



wintering, 23, ,50 



— kicking,. 243 



— milking, in winter, 2i8 



young, 116 



— New York distillerv, 206 



— stalls for, 54 



1 Cranberries, cultivation of, 31 



