IV 



Cream, a patent mode of obtaining from milk, 354. 



Ciops in Lancaster county, Penn., 51 ; Worcester oo. 

 Mass., 51 ; in New Jersey, 413; Wm Kenriclt's no- 

 tices of raising, 163; succession of, from Cliaptal's 

 Chemistry, 373. 



Crossbill, a bird, notice of its manner of feeding, 301. 



Crossing vegetables, remarks on, 51. 



Croup in ch Idren, remedies for, 309. 



Cucumber, a large, froMi the garden of Wm Pratt Esq., 

 22; from the garden of A. Mitcliel, Esq., weighing 

 eight pounds, 115; liow preserved against insects, 37i). 



Currant, superiority of the white for the table, &c., 132. 



(Customers lo merchants, how to judge, 282. 



Cut glass, manufactory of, in Barnstable, 290. 



Cut-worm, how to preserve Indian corn against, 380, 

 405; destroyed by brine, 390 ; plants how protected 

 against, 390 ; attacks the Chinese mulberry, 405. 



Dahlia, a splendid flower, notice of, 181. 



Dandelion, a mammoth, 411. 



Deafness, how to avoid, 228. 



Dearborn, Gen. [1. A. S., his address to the Mass. Agr. 



Soc, 170, 177 ; his notices of silk culture in India, 



179; on the introduction of the vegetable productions 



of China, 209 ; his translation of a French memoir on 



beet root sugar, 4J2. 

 Debt, the miseries of, 144. 



Derby, E. Hersy, his report on premium butter, 193. 

 Dickson, James, his .essay on the points by which live 



stock are judged, 145. 

 Discoveries in natural science, curious, 344. 

 Dixon, Joseph, his method of destroying insects by the 



fumes of heated (il, 30. 

 Dogs, remarkable sagacity of, 224, 270. 

 Domestic concerns, 1G8. 

 Do neslic habits of females, 203. 

 Downing, A. J., his remarks on temperature considered 



in relation to vegetation, 217. 

 Drunkenness, excuses for, 64. 

 Dry rot in limber, how prevented, 197, 399. 

 Ducks and turkies, remarks on raising, 397. 

 Dunlap, governor of JMaiae, extract from his inaugural 



address, 219. 

 Dysentery, recipe for, 182. 

 Dyspepsia, machine for curing, 192; cause of among 



Americans, 244. 



Earth's surface, and countries below the level of the 



ocean, 136. 

 East Boston, remarks on, 19. 



Economy, true, in expending all that is necessary, 85 ; 

 in wasting nothing that can be applied to use, 109; 

 on the use of horse rakes, 189 ; false, ia stuffing chil- 

 dren, 243 ; on applying turf a.shes to fruit trees, 253. 

 Economy of heat, remarUs on, 182,190; of fuel, 267. 

 Education, advantages of, 184. 

 Eels, anecdotes of, 133. 

 Elderberries for shoe blacking, 299, 



jCggs, the reason why not laid in winter, 281 ; on differ- 

 ent modes of preserving, 387. 

 Elder tree, virtues and uses of, 242. 

 Electrician, a practical, on the effects of lightning, 12. 

 Elliot, J., hia mode of preserving milk for long voyages, 



69. 

 English cultivation, remarks on, from Dr Humphrey's 



tour, 300. 

 English scenery, remarks on, 72. 



Everett, Hon. Edward, notice of his address at Am- 

 herst, 80; extract from his 4th of July oration, 80 ; 

 extract from his address to the Legislature of Massa- 

 chusetts, 222. 

 Ewe, remarkable fecundity of, 132. 

 Examine your farms for mud for manure, &a,, 108. 

 Example, good, 248. 



Exercise, skipping rope recommended for, 203. 

 Experience, his remarks on cultivating orcljards, 20 ; on 

 transplanting trees, 101. 



Fall ploughing, advantages of, 30, 142 



Farmer, a, should know a thing or two, 25; traits of 



character to constitute a good one, 300. 

 Farmer C. on Saxony sheep, 204. , 



Farmer, an old, on the management of large flocks of 



sheep, 21. 

 Farmer, a young, on fattening hogs with apples, 172 ; 



:n England, income and expenditure of, 396. 

 Farmer s work, 6, 14, 22, 35, 46, 70, 94, 142, 150, 166, 



174, 246, 278, 286, 302, 310, 318, 346, 335, 358, 390, 



398. 

 Farmers, hints lo, 84, 355 ; causes of their frequent want 



of success, 290 ; causes of their poverty in Maine, 



308; remarks on the health of, 370. 



INDEX 



Farmer's Library, notices of, 41. 



Farmers in Vermont, notices of, 374. 



Farmer's produce, high prices of, 203. 



Farming, notes on, 234 ; successful, bv Caleb N. Be- 

 ment, 402. 



Farm school on Thompson's Island, notice of, 6, 



Feathers, an invention for purifying, 370. 



Fellcnberg's school of Agriculture, 234. 



Fence posts, how rendered dur;ible, 284. 



Field, J., his remarks on silk culture, &c., 140. 



Finsbury lectures, notice of, 358. 



Fire proof building; in New York, notice of, 212. 



Fire-wood, on splitting, 198. 



Fire, rules for preseiving against, 112; the great, in 

 London, 205. 



Fish, salt water, on introducing into fresh water, 372. 



Fiske, Oliver, his remarks on premiuui potatoes, 37 ; on 

 trees injured by mice, 302. 



Flagellation, a cure when too much laudanum has been 

 taken, 363. 



Flannels should not be laid aside too early in spring, 326. 



FI&X, remarks on, by H. Colman, 148 ; in Ireland, in- 

 crease in the value of, 181 ; on its culture, 341. 



Flower markets in Paris, 88. 



Flutes, a new method of manufacturing, 371. '■ 



Fodder for cattle should be cut with a straw cutter, 253. 



Fodder racks, 263. 



Fowls, how fattened speedily, 410. 



Franklin, his remarks on the culture of the mulberry, 

 the manufacture of silk, &c., 323 



Frenchman, a, on the diseases of trees, and the methods 

 of cure, £2. 



Fruit, remarks on the use of, 21 ; on the qualities and 

 improvement of, 67; remarks on stealing, 101. 



Frugality, early, importance of, 315. 



Fruits, valuable donation of, from Professor Van Mons 

 to \Villiam Kenrick, 9 ; remarks on the properties of, 

 from Knowledge for the People, 227 ; grafted influ- 

 ence of stock on, 237 ; profits, »&c., resulting front the 

 cultivation of, 325. 



Fruit trees, how protected against frost in Chiswick, 

 England, 27 ; liow to prevent their casting their fruit, 

 45 ; how preserved when the bark has been eaten off 

 by mice, 107; remarks on transplanting, 233; how 

 preserved against insects by ashes, 410. 



Fuel, wood for, remarks on, 258. 



Gale, Professor, on the uses and advantages of zinc, 385. 



Garden, soil for, 340. 



Garden, kitchen, products and management of, 336. 



Garlic, medical properties of, &c., 301. 



Gas, carbonic acid, condensed to a solid state, 227. 



Gaylord, VV., on the manufacture of sugar from beets, 



potatoes, &.C., 124. 

 Geese, cruelty of plucking alive, 5 

 Genet, M., his notes on the growth aud manufacture of 



silk in the United States, 220. 

 Geology, Dr Jackson's lectures on, notices of, 334, 342, 



353. 

 Gold mines, American, notices of, 192, 405, 411. 

 Good natured fellow, sketches of a, lta8. 

 Goodrich, S. G., extracts from his address on the bene- 

 fits of industry, 17. 

 Grafting, manner of performing, 341. 

 Grafting-wax, directions for making, 331. 

 Grain, on preseiving, by stowing it away with the chaff, 



l.W. 

 Grape vines, mode of planting, 91; pruning of, 229; 



remarkable product of, 326. 

 Grapes, mildew on, prevented by strong soap suds, 85 ; 



how preserved in saw dust, 91. 

 Grass land, on laying down, 4 ; on top dressing, 22. 

 Grasses, queries relative to culture and suitableness of^ 



Heat, economy and sources of, 214 ; internal of t 

 earth, &c., il4, 230. 



Healing rooms without wood or coal, 216. 



Heifer, a large, notice of, 203, 



Hen and rat, combat between, 136. 



Hens, how freed from lice, 212. 



Hebremont, H., his agricultural address, 361, 369. ' 



Hill, Governor, extract from his message, 403. 



Hiller, Thomas, on a new method of setting timoth 

 and the properties of millet, 357. 



Hint, a valuable, on extracting foreign substances fro 

 the ear, 3. 



Hogs, on fattening with apples, 29 ; English, descri 

 tion of, 141 ; a mammoth, in Cincinnati, 154 ; on rai 

 and fattening, by Agricola, 188 ; a large, killed by N 

 Frisbie,27d; improved China, 262; to cure swellir 

 in the throat of, 282. 



Holt, Asa M., on the selection of seeds, &c., 41. 



Home, a new work, dedicated to farmers and mechanic 

 by Miss Sedgwick, 33; how to make happy, 96. 



Mops, value of in diseases of the skin, 88; on their cu 

 tivation, by H. Colman, 148; improvement in the 

 culture, 244 ; iron rods used as poles for, 259; healt 

 of growers of, 325. 



Horrid spectacle of Indian barbarities, 224. 



Hiorse bee, natural history of, 356. 



Horso, complaints of the, 19 , different varieties of, 33i 



Horse-rakes recommended, 189. 



Horses, cruelty to, condemned, 3; cure for colic in, 4', 

 401 ; steaming food for, 97; breeding of, 205. 



Horticultural address, by John L. Russell, notice of, 23f 



Horticultural Society, Massachusetts, exhibitions an 

 proceedings of, 6, 14, 22, 32, 38, 46, 54, 62, 70, 78, 81 

 90, 94, 121, 131, 134, 139, 157. 166,174, 182, 198, 20( 

 214, 222, 230, 238, 246, 254, 278, 286, 302, 310, 31t 

 334,353,325,382,390, 398,406, 414 ; premium plate 

 awarded by, 157 ; notices of the annual exhibition 01 

 82, 86, 98, 106; officers of, 90; plate presented by, t 

 several gentlemen, 238; report of committee on flow 

 ers, 325. 



Horticulture, remarks on, 43. 



Hot air blast, for heating, smelting furnaces, 381. 



Hot water, on heating horticultural and other building 

 by, 65 ; its use in relieving pain, 405. 



Household aff^airs, 285. 



Hybrid squashes, remarks on, 58. 



Hydrostatic pressure, illustration of, 115. 



Ice houses, on the construction of, 62. 



Incident, a singular, relative to the anatomy of th* 

 brain, 202. 



Indelible ink, made of the juice of ivy, 16. 



Indian corn, on raising for fodder, by Emeritus, 1 ; suck 

 ers on, should not be cut off, 4 ; improved, by W. S 

 Gibbes, 34 ; experiments in topping, 69 ; on selecting 

 the best for seed, 70; should not be harvested toe 

 early, 70 ; an early sort of, 86 ; salted when put away 

 ill husks, by Mr Brown, 109 ; great crop of, raised by 

 Mr A. Benick, 168; remarks on its cultivation, 189, 

 342; remarks on raising, by Hon. S. Lathrop, 212 ; 

 bone manure useful for, 236 ; statement of a crop of, 

 and Its tillage, 237; on the disadvantage of topping, 

 250 ; great crop of, raised by Major Mowry, 234 ; large 

 ear of, 259 ; how to preserve against the wire worm, 

 334; crop of, raised by Edward Miller, 337; how pre- 

 served for boiling, 347 ; on cultivating and harvesting, 

 305 ; dropping from a small cup in planting, 395; on 

 raising for fodder, 398 ; remarks on hoeing, 389; seed 

 of should be gathered in the field befoie harvesting, 

 380. 



India rubber carpets, advantages of, 5 ; maps, &c, made 

 of, l(i6, 261 



Indostane, a new aliment, of the class of^arrow root, 109 





Green crops, on ploughing under for manure, 28, S69. 

 Green, Rohmd, on the culture of wheat, 313. 

 Green's strawcutter, notice of, 194. 

 Green, Henry, on the wheal fly, 409. 

 Gunpowder, when and by whom invented, 284. 

 Gypsum, its application to corn, 83; its action on veg- 

 etation, by Mr Adlum, 195 ; notice of, 409. 



Hair cloth, manufacture of in Deerfield, 245. 



Hams, how preserved in pepper, 238 ; recipe for curing 



316. 

 Harris, Andrew, his remarks on ribbon grass, 125. 

 Hay, short crop of in Connecticut, 108; scarcity of ir 



Massachusetts, 316. 

 Hay making, remarks on, 414 

 H. C, his remarks on the Shakers' establishment, 10 ; 



on the cultivation of broom corn, 12. 

 Ilealy, Moses, his remarks on the Si Helena potato, 147 



for dairy purposes, 57 ; on sowing seed of, 286. "7 "ilnsecls, soimds made by, f) ; destroyed by heated oil, 30; 



how driven from vines, S43 ; fruit trees preserved 



against by anthracite ashes, 347 ; diff'erent modes of 



destroying, 350 

 Iron healed to whiteness, and blowcd, continues to 



burn, 389 

 Iron mountain in Missouri, 340. 

 Irrigation, remarks on, by Hon. J. W. Lincoln, 252, 257, 



265, 273, 289, 299 ; of meadows, remarks on, 283 

 Isnard, Max'n, on the manufacture of beet sugar, 305, 



348 



Jarvis, Leonard, Esq, his remarks on sheep husbandry, 



193 

 J. C. II. on raising cucumbers, 379 

 J. E., his recipe for making barberry jelly, 138 

 Jewell, S. VV., on destroying Canada thistles, 53; on 



destroying ant hills, 53 

 Johnson, Harvey, on the culture of silk, 68 



