INDEX. 



proof, 131 — for water proof glue, 131 — for a crack in 

 a stove, 132 — for a poultice for burns and frozen flesh, 

 132 — lor making barberry jelly, 138— to have minced 

 pies at any time, 142 — lo take out grease spots by 

 bleaching salts, 15G — for curing c;rneer by nilro-muri- 

 atic a' id, 160 — to remove spots of grease or pitch from 

 woollen cloth, 16S — for the cure of ague and fever, 

 171 — several for difi'erent preparations of tomatoes, 

 181— for strangary, 182— for lock-jaw, 183— to make 

 gold colored varnish, 187 — several for preserving 

 meats, 189 — for the tooth-ache in the use of soda, 194 

 — simple cure for the rheumatism, 232 — for making 

 hard water soft, 222 — for a burn, 227 — for cooking 

 cauliflowers, 235 — to make johnny-cakes, 235 — for 

 preserving hams in pepper, 238 — to drive bugs from 

 vines, 243^ — for seasoning sausages, 243 — for partially 

 recovering a drunken man, 250 — for making family 

 bread of rice, 259 — cure for corns, 260 — for preserv- 

 ing grain from mites and weevils, 269 — against the 

 canker worm, 270 — lo prevent brass vessels fi-om con- 

 tracting verdigris, 277 — for destroying worms on cab- 

 bages, 282 — for preventing the hollow horn, 294 — for 

 coughs and colds, 294 — (or making shoe blacking of 

 elderberries, 299 — to make potato balls, 391 — to pre- 

 serve books, 301 — to kill rats or crows, 301 — to get 

 rid of ants, 310 — to restore tainted beef, 317 — to de- 

 stroy cockroaches, 317 — to make plain gingerbread, 

 317 — a baked potato pudding, 317 — Unseed cough 

 syrup, 317 — for botts in horses, 323 — cure of scratches, 

 323 — white and other washes, cheap paints &c. 324 

 — f<ir making corn rolls, 330 — for bloody murrain in 

 cattle, 331 — for making grafting wax, 331 — several 

 for diflerent preparations of rice, 332, for making cold 

 soap, 333 — for big head in horses, 333 — to cook pota- 

 toes for breakfast, 338 — to preserve beef for a year, 

 33S — cure for cramp, 338 — for making new bread oi 

 old, 339 — to make perpetual yeast, 339 — to extract oil 

 from linen or cotton, 339— cure for yellow water, 339 

 — for making a cheap cosmetic, 341 — for whito-wash- 

 ing, 346 — to cure the swelling of the throat in hogs, 

 346 — to prej-erve corn for boiling, 347- — to cure chronic 

 rheumatism, 354 — for making strong wool and healthy 

 sheep, 363 — for scratches, 365 — to preserve books, 368 

 for the lock-jaw, 374 — simple cure for rheumatism, 

 379 — for making ink, 398 — to save labor in washing, 

 405 — against ants and spiders, 406 — to preserve hams, 

 406 — for making rice family bread, 413 — for curing 

 tooih-ache, 413 



R. H. on cholic in horses, 43 



Rhode Island Society for the encouragement of Indus- 

 try, liberality of, 134 



Rhubarb, culture and uses of, 91 



Ribbon grass, remarks on, by A Robinson, 50 — by A. 

 Harris, 125 



Riee, recipe for making family bread of, 259 



Rice grass, notices of 178 



Ringworm, cranberry jurce said to be a cure for, 91 



Roberts' Silk Manual, notices of, 180 



Roots, on the preservation of 121 — on the culture of 388 



Rotation of crops, remarks on by VV. G. 60 



Rfim, injurious to working men 91 



Rural chronicle, a jeu d'esprit 345 



Riisticus in Urbe, his notice of Tracloraiion 345 



Rula baga, how cullivated by D. J. Beck 11 — uses and 

 culture of by J. H. Gibson 101 — on the culture of, 

 Irom the Ohio Farmer 284— by Edward Miller 333 



Rye, proper time for sowing &c. 30— on its culture 54 

 great crop of by Mr Kingsley 116 — remarks on by H. 

 Colman 148 — great crop of 242 — how cultivated by 

 Wimhrop 355— by Thomas Melville 328— culture of 

 with potatoes 401 — great profit in raising 402 



S., his recipe for destroying ticks on sheep 10 — for de- 

 stroying vermin on all kinds of plants 10 



Salisbury, Stephen, his Address to the Worcester Agri- 

 cultural Society 153 



Salt, new mode of intmufacturing by steam 326 



Sawmill, the first in England, opposition to 48 



Sawmill dogs, patent 405 



Scott, Walter, reminiscences of 290 



Scraps of tallow melters for feeding hogs 83 



Sea coal for manure, MrH. Prince's queries concerning 

 316 



Season, m f ces of 22, 43,51,206,254,331,347, 387, 

 398— in Europe very cold 69 — in Berkshire, Mass. 76 

 — in Louisiana 331 



Sea water as manure 317 



?ea weed as manure in Scotland 43 



Seeds, locomotive power of 27 — selection of prevents 

 degeneracy of vegetables 41 — vital principle of con- 

 tinues for centuries 243 — remarks on the formation of 



Sentiments 248 



S. F. on making butter in winter 293 — on watering live 

 stack 203— on the use of tea and coffee 293 — on cut- 

 ting clover hay green 293 



Shade of difi'erent sorts of trees, effects on plants 25 



Sheep, in large flocks, how managed 21, J73 — Merino, 

 remarks on by T. 49 — South Down breed 52 — number 

 and quanlily of wool of in Vermont 15— worms in the 

 head of how destroyed 130— folding of and raising 

 turnibs 132 — importance of breed in 194 — Saxony 

 breed, by Farm.^r C. 204 — and wool 213 — choosing of 

 for breeding 259 — remarks on washing and sheering 

 358, 360, 387 — remedy for ticks on 10, 366— scab in 

 how cured 11 — worms in the head of how prevented 

 30 



Sheep husbandry, remarks on by Lewis Armstrong, on 

 the profits of, &c. 25 — remarks on by Leonard Jarvis, 

 Esq. 193 — on choosing for breeding 372 — notice of 

 large 380 



Sheep shearing at Nantucket 20 



Sibley, Stephen, on wintering sheep on browse 180 



Silk, on the culture of in Marblehead 10 — on its cultiva- 

 tion 10 — in Fiyeburg, Me. 19 — in India 179 — Ameri- 

 can, superiority of 34 — medical and oiher properties 

 of 66, '275 — Hon. A. Spencer's remarks on 67 — Har- 

 vey Johnson's 68 — disbanding from the reel 116, 117 

 — raising of in Delaware 133 — in England 109 — Act 

 for the encouragement of 340— facts and observations 

 relative to the culture of 34,44, 66, 145,179,250, 

 251, 300, 371, 393— remarks on in the Mass Legisla- 

 ture liv Mr Fessenden 291 — remarks and translation 

 of a French report on, by Hon. E. Vose 314, 321 — 

 sowing, price of in Northampton 316 



Silk companies. The Massaahusetis 134 — in Rhodi 

 Island 149, 165— in Penn. 181— in Concord, N. H 

 187 — in Poughkeepsie 227 — Atlantic Silk Company 

 261, 350— Beaver Silk Company 261— West Chester 

 Silk Company 331 



Silk, specimens, exhibited 70,84,89, 166, 198, 347, 355 

 371 



Silk Factory at Dedham 355 



Silk Machinery, grand 66, 81 — Mr Gay's improvements 

 in 77, 261 



Silk manufacture introduced into the Auburn State 

 Prison, 237 — Rev. Dr Wood's remarks on, 323 — re- 

 marks on from the Nantucket Inquirer 433— Dr 

 White's remarks on 340 — Silk Society of Hartford 

 County, reports of 349 — notice of 371 



Silk worms, extra food for 3 — notices of their eggs 35, 

 147 — how to prevent the black ant from destroying 45 

 — remarks on rearing, &c. 171 — a new species of 157 

 —stages in the life and labors of 151— how preserved 

 against ants 362 



Sinclair Robeit, his remarks on grasses, &c. 57 — on sow- 

 ing mulberry seed 75 



Slater, memoir of 381 



Skunk, the penetrating odor of 244 



Sleep, a due quantity of necessary 260 



Sno« , on its use fur domestic purposes 165 — a man bu- 

 ried in 277 



Snow storm in September 131 — old fashioned, in 1717 

 320 



Soap, cold, receipt for making 333 



Soap stone, utility of 284 



Soap suds for cleansing trees and preventing the attacks 

 of insects 43 — cures mildew on grapes 85 



Soda, said to be a remedv for teeth ache 194 



Spanish etiquette 336 



Sfiecimen Farmer 107 



Spring, unwritten music of 334 



Squirrel, a pretty incident concerning 360 



Spider, combat with a rat 32 



Spring work, brief hints for 355 



Squash, weighing 200 lbs. 131— from Sicily, weight 206 

 • — Valparaiso, notices of 233 



Stair carpels, how managed 390 



Starch from potatoes, manufactured in Vermont 405 



Steaming food for horses 97 



Sting of a bee cured by an alkali .395 



Slock, on the points by which they are judged 145 — 

 management of 229, 238 



Stone, artificial, Mr Parker's invention of 197 



Story's Eulogy on Marshall 203 



Stove for heating cocoons, for reeling silk, cut and de- 

 scription of 140— Douglas patent 243 



Straw, on the preservation of 117 



Strawberries, chaff as a manure for 259— on the culture 

 of 335, 396 — large, notices of 411 — Mr Darling's mode 

 of cultivating 338 



Straw cutter. Green's, notice of 194 



Subsciiber, a, on destroying Canada thistles 28 



Sugar, how made from various substances &e. 124 — 



from maple, profltaof its manufacture 392 — frombeets 

 305, 348, 378, 384 



Swamp mud recommended for manure 84 



Sweet potatoes, directions for cultivating and preserv- 

 ing 36, 54, 339, 345, 350— how preserved in sand 202 



Swine, on feeding, fattening, &C.78 



T., his remarks on Merino sheep, 49 



Tanning, improvements in by Edward S. and Daniel 

 Bell 81 



Tar for sheep, utility of, and mode of applying 390 



Tea plant cultivated by John Piatt 379 



Teasels, a profitable crop, 59 — notices of 339 



Tea trade, notices of 130 



Teeth, cold water the best application for 35 — remarks 

 on 184 



Temperance, condemned by Dr Caustic 345 



Temperature considered in relation to vegetation, re- 

 marks on by A. J. Downing 217 



Terrible Tractoralion, &c. notice of 345 



T. H. D. on preserving fruit trees against insects 410 



Thermometer, inaccuracy of how to remedy 194 



Tliistle, how destroyed 390 ; destroyed by a roller 390 



Ticks in sheep, how destroyed 366 



Timber, dry rot in, how prevented 197; how obtained 

 good by barking 386 



Time, on the value of 387 



Time's Soliloquy, 256 



Timothy, a new mode of setting 357 



Tobacco, use of condemned 56 — cultivated in New 

 England 171 



Tomahawk, Indian, found in the heart of a white oak 

 saw log 24 



Tomato, virmes of the, 62 — spiced, recipe for making a 

 bushel of 89 — for making catsup of 101 — to make por. 

 table catsup or, tomato jelly 100 — to preserve the fla- 

 vor of 109— medicimal and other qualities of 181 — 

 juice of make a fine green 301 



Tools, care and management of 285 



Top-dressing grass land, remarks on 22 



Tooth-aohe, cotton a remedy for 301 



Transplanting Fruit Trees 233, 275— evergreens 247 



Tree, an inhabited in South Africa 224 — rule for meas- 

 uring standing 338 



Trees, white washing of condemned 26 — different efl^ects 

 of on different plants 25 — remarks on their growth 2:}4 

 — when barked by mice, how managed ^94, 302 — 

 remarks on pruning 332 — preserved against insects by 

 ashes of anthracite coal 347 — on the destruction of by 

 the severity of winter 394 



Turf ashes, a useful application to fruit trees 253 



Tulip mania in Holland 336 



Turkeys, working for a living 93 — and ducks, on raising 

 377 



Turnips, how preserved from insects 21 — and ruta baga 

 &c. on stripping the leaves from, 86 — notices of large 

 102 — planting among corn 403 



Unwise men 400 



Unwritten music 400 



Van Mens, Dr, notice of fruits sent by, to Mr Kenrick 



and Mr Manning 9 — notice of his donation of books 



&c. to Mass. Hort. Society 353 



Vegetable world, dulness of 119 



Vegetable insect, a remarkable 243 



Vegetables, early garden, notice of 22 — crossing the 



breeds of 51 — large, curious and valuable 139 

 Vines, cucurbitacEe, on the culture of 202 — to drive bugs 



from 243, 386 

 Vose, Elijah, his note to Messrs Winship on the award 



of a piece of plate &c. 245 — his translation of a French 



report on the culture of silk 314, 321 



Waldo, Dr, notice of his flowers of the Yucca Superbum 



gloriosa 30 

 Walker, James, his notices of silk culture in Maine 18 

 Washing clothes, new mode of 59 

 Washing sheep in a vat 387 



Water, fresh, now extracted from salt water 274 

 Watkins, on dsstroying weeds by ashes 89 

 Watering plants, directions concerning 390 

 W. B. on the mixed cultivation of corn and potatoes 204 

 Weeds, destroyed in yards &c. by ashes 89 

 Weavii in grain, how destroyed by the Shakers 168 

 Western lakes, great depth of water in 253 

 W. G. his remarks on rotation in crops 60— his queries 



on raising mulberry trees 144 

 Wheat, 42 bushels to the acre raised by Moses Cowls 

 59; on its culture in Maine 61; smut in, produced 

 from smutty bags 99 ; on its selection for seed 125, 

 160 ; great crop of on the Genesee flats 181 ; new 



