s. 



Salt, as manure, 45 — for destroying grubs, 59, 235 — for 

 wheat, 113, 3C5— on vines, 38a 



Salts, chemical as I'ertilizers, by C.T. Jaclison, 379 



Saltpetre, 113, 259 



Saunders, 11. his farm, 322 



Seaaon, 350, 363, 3H3 



Seed, selection of, ti7— vitality of, 405 



Self made men, 213 



Sexes, life and death of, 171 



Sexton, E., premium farm, 291 



Sheep, saxoii merino, history of, 74 — winter management 



■ of 83— bells, 93 



Sheep, preserved from gad fly, 37 — hemlock for, 210 — 

 foot rot, 324 



Shoemaker's wife, 149 



Silk reels, culture, 52, 54 — convention, 58, 329— native, 

 60, 306, 334, 341, 347, 353 



Seasons, cycles in, 108 



Skins, Indian dressing of, 171 — with wool on, 251 



Sheep, 13 — turnips fur, 178 — slaughtered fur their pells, 

 206, 211— wintering, 245 



Sleep of plants, 11 



Slobber grass, 299 



Snow birds, 198— owls, 216 — snow a fertilizer, 301, 324 

 —in Maine, 347 



Smith, G. B., on silk, 53 — soda nitrate, trial with, 78 



Soap, 357 



Soil, improvement of by mixtures, 20 — stirring of, 45, 

 310 — of the road, who owns it? 53 — physical proper- 

 ties, 18G — pulverising, 197 — renovated, 389 



Sorrel, 90— N. Darling, 361— D. 369— S. L. Dana, 393, 

 U. T. Jackson, 306 



Sowed corn, by J. Welles, 83, 86— G. Denny, 117 



Spin, can she? 13 



Spy, Mass., 292 



Spring work, 310 



Stall feeding, bj' James Mease, 92 



Stock, home bred, 81— handling of, 149, 246, 240 



Stones on land, 409 



Sloven, 190, 206 



INDEX. 



Straw, 195 

 Strawberries, 347 

 Slumps, 169 



Sub soil, intervale, 28, 235— plowing, 332 

 Sugar froM] corn stalks, 54, 205, 393 

 Swallows, their instinct or reason, 56 

 Swimming, 96 



Swine, profit of, by H. Colman, 21 — report upon at Al- 

 bany, 163 

 Sycamore tree, disease of, 406 

 Symphytum, a new kind of food, 173 



T. 



Tan, a manure, 373 

 Teschemacher's address, 122 

 Thanksgiving, 166 

 Thistle, a biennial, 11— Canada, 30 

 Thunder and lightning, 4 

 Tight Dressing, 274 

 Tillage, 390 



Timber, time ofcutting, 405 

 Times, 315,352 



Tomatoes, cure scours in pigs, 81 

 Too late, 192 

 Too much truth, 213 

 Top dressing loam, 90 — ashes for, 231 

 Transplanting trees, 350 

 True spirit, 232 



Turner, J. H., on rolation, 17, 50 



Turnips, English, J4— effects upon the soil, 121— -and 

 bones, 196— feed in England, 274— experiments in, 324 

 Turnip fly, 141, 404 



U. 



Uncertainties, charming, 198 



Vegetable weather prophets, 75 



Vegetables, comparative nutriment in, 316 



Ventilation, 141 



Vine, grape, culture of, 19, 331— manure for, 37 



Vineyards, dressing for, 265 

 Vines, squash, near the sea, 388 

 Voice, its power over children, 59 



V/. 

 Wail, Wm. S , on apples in Illinois, 373 

 Warmth, as food for cattle, 251 

 Wasliington's appointment, 224 — letter, 226 

 Water, cold, as drink, 20, 30— lime, 81, 227 

 Wax grafting, 332 

 Weather prophets, vegetable, 75— animal, 112, 184, 30; 



322 

 Webster, Daniel, his country residence, 96 

 Weeds, destroy them, 68, 141 

 Welles, J., sowed corn, 83— sycamore tree, 406 

 Welles, T. N., 194 

 W"erden, Elias, prem. farm, 281 

 Wheat, mediterranean, 57"-seed, 65— quality improvec 



65 — culture, 140 

 Smut in, 253— from H. L. Ellsworth, 202— Black se< 



341— seed, 380— slugs, 401 

 While weed, or ox eyed daisy, 29, 406 

 Who knows the moat, 229 

 Windpipe, opening of, 208 

 Winter weeding, 195— breaking up of, 230 — work, 23 



—butter, 255 

 Wood, dry and green, 188 

 Wool, importation of, 235 



Worcester Co. Agr. Soc. report on root crops, 218 

 Work, taking in, 27— farmer's in winter, 174 

 Worm cut, 19 



Yankee oxen and drivers, 277 

 Year, close of, 206— new, 214 

 Toung, W. C, his corn crop, 4, I 

 Young men, hints to, 100 



Zizania equatica, or wild rice, 74 



