INDEX. 



Progress and improvement 

 Prosperity, effects of 

 Pruner, oak . 

 Pudding, green corn 

 Pumpkin, 244; large . 

 Puritan, the . 



Quinces 



R. 



154, 



Railroad, stockholders of, 29; agricultural and com 

 mercial value of ... . 



Rain in a year ..... 



Rat, and weasel, 51; how to get rid of . 



Recipes for honey cakes, 246; for tea cakes and 

 icing for cakes ..... 



Report of State Board of Agriculture 



River, an unknown .... 



Robin, the ....... 



Roots, cultivation of, 132; importance of 



Rose, bugs, 109; bush, 404; climbing . 



Science, democracy of ..... . 



Scions, cutting ....... 



Beasons, cycle of, 255; the, 274, 292, 320, 321, 



387, 534, 



Seed, sower, 186; sowing clover, 210; for an acre 

 of beet, carrot, and turnip, 244; change of, 256; 

 and buds, 333; saving grass, 386; grass, sowing 

 in the fall, 449; clover, when to sow, 532; grass 



Sewing machine ....... 



Shade, a fertilizer ....... 



Shell, marl . . . . . ... 



Shows, agricultural, in 1854 ..... 



Shoes ......... 



Sheep, husbandry, 13; colds in, 14; polled, 24; im- 

 prove the farm, 176; profits of, 180, 389; South- 

 down, 198, 339, 4(;5; care in feeding, 246; salt 

 and ashes for, 278; signs of health in, 320; 

 French merino buck, 321; scab or itch in . 



Silk, culture of ...... . 



Slug, slimy ........ 



Socioty, officers of Windham County, Vt., 18; Ver- 

 mont State Agricultural, 03, 354, 443; Worces- 

 ter County, 71; U. S. Agricultural, 87, 178; 

 Franklin County, 90; Connecticut State, 90; 

 lei;islative, at State House, 91, 100, 119, 131, 

 136, 139, 146, 104, 181, 187, 204, 214, 226; 

 Hampshire County, 95, 112; Framingham, 97; 

 New York State, 130; officers of Worcester 

 County, 160; Middlesex County, 216, 221, 277, 

 519; Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, 224; 

 American Pomological, 238, 484, 513; Norfolk 

 County, 245; Essex County, 365; Bristol County, 

 411; New Hampshire State, 535; Cheshire Coun- 

 ty, N. H 



Soils, on renovating, 206; do they lose manure by 

 leaching, 267; classification of, 277; mixing, 

 305; influence of, on color of flowers, 352; sha- 

 vings, horn, for, 219; mulching with wood, 351; 

 the, 380; analysis of, 406; improved by shade, 

 499 ; corrective of ..... . 



Spades, and muskets ...... 



Spider, nest of ...... . 



Squashes, how to plant, 289; marrow, 330, 471; 

 old 



Squirrels in the woods 



Stable, a model, 196; a barn .... 



Statistics, agricultural .'.... 



Steers, how to break, 275 ; yearling, in the mud 



Stock, too much, 15; Durham, 35; wintering, 37; 

 feeding, 75, 143, 184; high prices for, 267; ex- 

 periments in, 268 ; salt for ... . 



Stoves 



Page 

 423 

 553 

 351 



340 

 204 

 150 



575 



548 



32 



406 



294 

 159 

 135 

 401 

 284 

 531 



Strawberries, 320; runners 



Stump puller ....... 



Suckers, don't pull them . . . . . 



gugar, how much do wc eat, 75; maple, 98, 262; 

 great crop of, 135; trade in, 341; pine of Ore- 

 gon 



Sulphur 



Surfaces, laying out ...... 



Swallow, the ....... 



Swamps, reclaiming ...... 



Swine, fattening, 24, 242; profit of feeding corn to, 

 39; and dogs, 53; Suffolk, 98; is it profitable to 

 fatten in New Eflgland, 155; fine, 239; charcoal 

 for, 278; garget for sick, 329; treatment of, 369; 

 killing in Cincinnati, 494; scurvy in 



System, solar, symmetry of 



Page 

 545 



485 

 71 



384 

 502 



293 



418 



77 



532 

 123 



319 

 112 



542 



568 

 235 

 117 

 479 

 398 

 174 



433 

 338 

 314 



535 



558 

 276 

 367 



398 

 396 

 223 

 133 

 562 



325 



294 



Tanners' trimmings ...... 555 



Tanning 477 



Tesch maker, James E. . . . . . .31 



Thanksgiving 28 



Thrush, anecdote of ..... . 517 



Timber, time to cut, 52, 328; ship, 135; forest- 

 trees for 309 



Tobacco ........ 113 



Tomato, setting out, 209, 284; figs . . .465 



Trade, having a ...... . 400 



Transplanting, fall and spring .... 454. 



Trees, on forms, 22, 352; tall vs. low-limbed, 23 ; 

 autumn transplanting of fruit-trees, 29, 39, 238, ' 

 368; plum, salting of, 38; wash for, 38, 307; 

 trimming, 38; planting, 39; peach, 97, 173; 

 shade and fruit, 187; extraordinary, 209; natu- 

 ral beauty of ornamental, 237, 314, 416; plum, 

 warts on, 239; fruit, wh.at kinds to plant, 242; 

 a barren pea, 244; washing and scraping, 303; 

 finest, fur timber, 309; protection for, in winter, . 

 326; H. W. Beecher on, 450; manuring, 454; 

 the locust, 479; the yew, 480; removing large, 

 511; barking a, 531; forest-trees, how to start, 

 532; fruit, cuttings of, 542; forest, 563; sowing 

 seeds for ....... . 5C8 



Tripoli, or Bergmeal . . . . . . 1 18 



Underd raining . . . . . . .150 



Urine, waste of . , . . . . .11 



Useful and beautiful 474 



Vegetables and meats, English .... 473 

 Vegetation, history of, 44; state of, at the close of 



May 351 



Veterinary school of Alfort ..... 50 

 Vermont, agriculture in, 90; mountains of, 119; no 



city in ....... . 503 



Virginia, agriculture in .... 27, 41 



W. 



Wages 468, 504 



Walks, gravel ....... 377 



War, and the linen-trade ..... 428 



Warts on plum-trees 239, 278 



Water, plenty, 23; how to find .... 367 



Weasel and rat ....... 51 



Weather . . . . . . . .323 



Weeds in door-yards ..... 306, 41 J 



Well-digging 339 



Westborough, State f;irm at 227 



Wheat, per acre, 127, 141,230; winter, 315, 429, 

 461; must in, 355; a purifier of the atmosphere, 

 381; crop in California, 381 ; in .Alassachusetts, 

 402; crop of, 419; price of, 463, 466; manuie 



