WDEX. 



^Pest, on its use as a manure 4C ; ashes of, useful as a 

 manure I3S 



J>crkinii, Samuel G. notice of his exhibition of fruit 19 



Perkins, Joseph, notice of his preuiiuin crop of onions 285; 

 see apples, pears and poaches, description of his appa- 

 ratus for lieaiin;; hot houses with hot water 3()2, 37S; 

 remarks on his article by the Editor 3ti(» 

 Perrotel, on the Ciiioese Mulbeiry U>6 



Perry, Gardner B. his conuuuuication relative to raising 

 calves, &c 25 



Petrifactions discovered in the Mohawk valley 235 



Pettee, Otis liis notice of preserved Rhubarb, presented 

 to the Editor 2oi 



Philadelphia, census of 133. 



Philosopliy in a poor woman 141. 



Phinney, Elias, Esq. notices of his improvements in farm- 

 ing 22 ; his improved roller, description and cut of 22 ; 

 his Address before the Middlesex Society of Husband- 

 men and Manufacturers 217, 225 ; remarks on said Ad- 

 -dre-ss by the Editor 221 ; his directions for jilanting 

 Torn on greenswards 266. 



Pickles, condemned as unhealthy 126. 



Pigeons, swift flight of 80. 



Pieplant, cultivation and uses of 220. 



Pine, New Holland, gre.it height of 325. 



Place, Enoch, his method of preserving cabbage plants 

 from worms 3()9. 



Planting on greensward, directions concerning 266. 



Plants, new specimens of, collected by Mr Nultall 1 ; on 

 preserving through the winter, by the temperature of 

 spring water t-6. 



Plalina, observations on the coining of 280, 



plum, Mr Prince's remarks on its culture 101 ; on the 

 irost gage 196. 



Plums, exhibited by Rufus Howe, Gen. Dearborn, Stc. 18 

 54 ; from Messrs Downer, Prince, Gardner, and Man- 

 ning 30, 78 ; by Mr Manning and Mr Pond 47, 62 ; 

 samples of from C. Stearns 50; by Mr Hovey 63; by 

 Mr Fiske 63 ; by Mr Edwards 63 ; by Mr Derby 78 ; 

 Messrs Winships 86. 



Plum tree, great produce from 118; mistake concerning 

 corrected 137. 



Poetry, The Course of Culture, by T. G. Fessenden, a 

 song sung at the second anniversary of the Mass. Hor. 

 Soc. 7S; Beauty, lines on 72; Song 80; on War 80 ; 

 Epitaph on T. Kemp 80 ; Description of a Cow SO ; 

 The Midnight Mail 96 ; The Concord Cattle Show 

 a04; Autumn Woods 112; The Dying Child 120; 

 Songs written for the Merrimack Agricultural exhibi- 

 tion, by J. B. Moore, Esq. and George Kent 128 ; 



1 Tired of Play 136 ; Autumnal Scenery 144; Cottage 

 Contrast 152 ; Thanksgiving Hymn 160 ; The Ant 

 and the Cricket, 216; New England 216; Signs of 

 Prosperity 191 ; The Accepted 192 ; The Carrier's Ad- 

 dress 200 ; Childhood 208 ; Speed the Plough 208 ; 

 Hymn of the Moravian Nuns &.c. 224 ; Moonlight 232; 

 The Farmer's Vernal Ode 288 ; I'm not a single man 

 296 ; Mrs Hood's reply 312 ; The Refuge 328 ; Artifice 

 ■336 ; The Spring Journey 344 ; Incomprehensibility 

 of God 352 ; Nothing to do 360 ; The False One 368 ; 

 Mother of Washington 376 ; Printing Office Melo- 

 dies 384 ; Departure of the Pioneer 342 ; Melody 400 ; 

 The Three Homes 408 ; Jonathan and John Bull, a fes- 

 tive song 416. 



Poisons, animal, including that of a mad dog, cured by 

 chlorine 36 ; effects of on vegetables 177 ; from 

 weeds and potato tops 214. 

 Poiteau.on the Chinese mulberry 106; extracts from 



his lecture on Fruit Trees 297, 

 Polishing substance, a cheap 227. 

 Politeness in children &o. 357. 

 Politics for farmers 241, 249, 257, 265. 

 Pomeroy, S. W. his communication on Champaigne cur- 

 rant wine 402. 

 Ponceau, Peter S. Du, his letter to Gen. Dearborn on 

 the culture of silk 57; Pool, John and Horace, report 

 on their premium pro-tractors 132. 

 Pork, and bacon, remarks on curing 19G. 

 Potato cheese, recipe for making 20. 

 Potatoes, early, premium awarded for to Mr Pond 60 ; 

 how gathered and secured 93 ; great produce of 106, 

 134; experiments in planting 106 ; great product from 

 a single one 106 ; food for horses 150; 31 different 

 sorts of uses of 205 ; partly boiled supply the place of 

 soap 365 ; remarks on new varieties of, byMrTidd 

 210 ; remarks on their culture, by T. A. Knight 213 ; 

 premium crop of, by Mr Williams 261 ; an economi- 

 cal mode of raising early 348. 

 Potato onion, remarks on, by S. R. 25 ; how cultivated 



134 ; new, presented by Mr Pond 395. 

 Potato starch, notices of manufactories of 233, 355. 



Potato, sweet, a new variety of 3S8 ; remarks on the 

 preservation of 394. 



Poultry, meal and boiled potatoes proper food for 142; 

 remarks on, by the Editor 254, 278, 293, 318, 341 ; 

 management of 379. 



Practices, unseasonable and dangerous 48. 



Prince, John, on keeping bees in the upper stories of 

 houses, bams, &c. 310,3.38. 



Piincc, William R. on the introduction into this country 

 of the Chinese mulberry tree 11; on wrong names 

 given to some pear trees cultivated near Boston 25, 4!), 

 100, 112, 124 ; his notices of several sorts of pears 41, 

 49, 72 ; remarks on the best time for transplanting 

 trees 100 ; on the culture of the plum 101 ; on several 

 kinds of magnolia and abele 137 ; his description of the 

 Ambrette and Echassery pears, 140 ; review of his 

 treatise on the vine 145 ; his notices of several kinds of 

 fcuit brought to New York maiket 158 ; his remarks 

 on the season 101 ; his description of Stevens' Gene- 

 see pear, and other pears 165, 173, 189, 212; on the 

 frost gage plum 196 ; on the blood orange 350. 



Prince, Messrs, notice of iheir Linnsean garden 397. 



Printers, unrequited labors of 205; enthusiasm of 239. 



Pump, newly invented, by Mr Hale, report on 132. 



Pumpkins, large, notices of 155 ; how cultivated 334 ; 

 their use recommended 341. 



Punctuality, the want of condemned 157. 



Putnam, General, anecdote of 51. 



Quakers, morals of 373. 



Q. B. on making and curing hams 324. 



Quince, remarks on its culture and uses 224. 



Quinces, exhibited by Mr Prince 150. 



R. his remarks relative to tumors in horses 253. 



Radishes, how best raised 375. 



Rail road, of Manchester and Liverpool 149, 238, 277 ; 

 notices of, in the Western and Southern States 204 ; 

 Hudson and Mohawk 206 ; not obstructed by snow 

 219 ; carriage on, moved 64 miles in 58 minutes 219 ; 

 of South Carolina 245 ; several notices concerning 

 277, 301, 320, 332, 349, 355, 357. 



Rattle snake, a remarkable 27. 



Rats, a mode of destroying 18. 



Recipe, for the bite of a snake 5 ; to destroy insects that 

 infest peach trees 5, 323 ; for delirium tremens 5 ; for 

 a gooseberry puddmg 6 ; lor Boston puddings 6; for 

 red currant jelly 7 ; for raspberry jam 7 ; for black 

 cake 7 ; for cockroaches 7 ; for softening hard water 

 7 ; to remove a tight stopple from a decanter 11 ; for 

 drinking cold water when heated 15; to remove water 

 spots from black crape veils 15 ; to make very strong 

 vinegar 15 ; for making potato cheese 20 ; for^hoven 

 cattle 24, 123; for burns and scalds 27 ; for cuts with 

 an edge tool 27 : for making dyspepsia bread 27 ; to 

 prevent horses from being teased with flies 27 ; to re- 

 store the beauty of brick buildings 27 ; for botts in 

 horses 30 ; for preserving vegetables green until win- 

 ter 36, 42 ; for destroying caterpillars 36 ; for slabber- 

 inir in horses 42 ; for stings and bruises 43 ; for worms 

 in°peach trees 43 ; for destroying slugs 43 ; for burns 

 and scalds 45, 222 ; for ring worms 45 ; for the croup 

 45 ; for the whooping cough 54 ; to preserve cheese 

 against mites 53 ; for a cough 56 ; lor poisoned ani- 

 mals 59 ; to remove a tight stopple from a decanter ^4 ; 

 to cut glass vessels in two 04 ; for destroying red anls 

 64 ; several for water proof cement 71 ; for setting 

 colors 75 ; for making Gombo, a West India dish 75 ; 

 to preserve dead game 77 ; for destroying rats 78 ; for 

 making vegetable extracts 83; for scratches in horses 

 85 ; for preserving apples 8-' ; for making elderberry 

 syrup 85 ; to remove water spots from black silk veils 

 115; for ring bone and spavin in horses 124; for 

 lockjaw 125; for cattle bloated, hoven or swollen 133 ; 

 for making sour kraut, or salted cabbage 139 ; for 

 itching feet 140 ; for sick head ache 144; for hydro- 

 phobia 36, 150 ; for preserving iron from rust 154 ; for 

 preserving grain from mice 162; for horses which 

 have been heated 172; of a composition for the shoes 

 of gardeners 173 ; for the glanders in horses 174 ; for 

 painting wood 174 ; for preserving the wood of wheel 

 work 184 ; for purifying oil 184 ; for frost bitten feet 

 199; for ladies' rheumatism 214; for consumption 

 235 ; to remove spots of grease, pitch, or oil from 

 woollen cloth 235; to destroy weevils among corn 237 ; 

 for sore throat and cold 238 ; for sore mouths in horses 

 243 ; for making cows become dry 246 ; for a disease 

 in sheep 260 ; of a composition for preserving gates, 

 pales, barns, &c. 264; a varnish to preserve insects 

 264 ; for extracting a blue color from buckwheat 

 straw 272; to prevent milk from becoming sour 272; 



■ for securing timber from decay 272 ; to remove ice 



I from door steps 272 ; for a soar throat 272 ; for chil- 



blains 272 ; for a felon 272 ; for wounds inflamed by 

 taking cold 272 ; for curing the scab in sheep 276 ; 

 for preserving eggs 278 ; lor lice in cattle 258 286; 

 for salt rheum 291 ; for making sympathetic ink 304; 

 for removing hoarseness 323; for making hams 324 ; 

 for feeding calves 324 ; for consumption 3'25 ; for pre- 

 serving eggs 341 ; for preserving hams 357; for pre- 

 venting mildew on peach and nectarine trees 365 ; for 

 destroying insects 365, 360 ; for worms in horses 366 ; 

 for a paint for garden fences, &c. S73 ; for making 

 Champaigne currant wine 402 ; for the sting of a bee 

 407 ; for an ox strained by overdrawing 415. 



Reed, Alexander on sheep husbandry 170 



Reynolds, S. his remarks on twitch grass, and a plaster 

 for trees 329 



R. G. on gathering and preserving herbs 81 ; on bees 

 289 



Rheum, Salt, recipe for 291 



Rhubarb, preserved, notice of 253 ; on forcing and 

 blanching 291 



Rice, time and manner of its introduction into America 

 53 ; wild, queries and remarks on 274, 299 



Rich man, miseries of 155 



Richardson, Francis, report on his farm 182 



Ring worms, cure for 45 



Pi 1, his remarks on the importance of botanical 



knowledge 252 



Roads, how made through snow in Sweden 227 ; premi- 

 um offered for 307 



Robbins, G. P. on security against canker worms 410 



Rocrers, Wm. S. notice of his present ot seeds to Mass. 

 Hor. Soc. 302 



Roller, improved by E. Phinney, Esq. 22 ; a cheap, how 

 constructed 313 ; remarks on the form of 361 



Roots, on gathering and preserving 77 



Roseberry, earl of,"his letter to Gen. Dearborn, S23 



Rose bug, Dr Harris' remarks on 1 



Roses, translation of a French treatise on their culture 

 33 ; sliow of at Messrs Winships, 366 



Rotation of crops in gardening, remarks on .304 



Rustic, A, his inquiry relative to Milch Cows 259, 337; 

 on cooking green peas &c. 394 



Ruta baga, great crop of by Mr Colman, 284 ; remarks 

 on as food for cows .321 



Rye, on the cultivation of 37 ; description and effects of 

 the spur in 92 ; great crop of 239 ; premium crop of by 

 R. Adams, Jr. 261 



Sago an article of luxury in China 15 



Salmon fishery, remarks on 61 



Salsify, culture and mode of cooking of 162 



Salt, usually sent to market too soon after its manufac- 

 ture 45 ; as a manure for peas 106 ; put into the bot- 

 tom offence posts 191 ; Mr Buel's rem,irks on its use 

 as a manure 177; useful, for milch cows 185; how 

 given to cattle and sheep 365 



Salt water discovered in the interior of Penn. 163 



Sand, non conducting powers of 15 



Salt hay, inquiries concerning 210 ; answer to said in- 

 quiries 220 ; remarksonby Agricola 228 ; observation!! 

 on by Schoosctt 233 



Sauerkraut, or salted cabbage, how made and its use« 

 139 



Salt-petre, taken by mistake instead of salt, fatal conse- 

 quences from 323 



Salt rheum, cure for 291 



Sawyer Lemuel, on the Scuppernong Grape 163 



S. C. his remarks on the m.iufacture of bass matting 824 



Schools, public notice of 147 



Schooselt, his remarks on salt hay 233 



Scythes, sharpening of, an impoved rifle for 71 



Seakale, on forcing and blanching 291 



Seasons, at Ciiiciiin,iti 10; n-tices of45, IGl; in Penn- 

 sylvania 170 ; recollections of former 2()5 ; in the 

 Slate of Illinois 229; remarks on by Dr Green, .322 ; 

 further remarks on 349 ; by the Roxbury Farmer 350 ; 

 in Maine, remarks on 369 



Sedgwick, Theodore, Esq. extracts from his address 244 



Seeds, a mode of preserving 60 ; fall sowing of re- 

 (ommemled 62 



Sensitive plant, notice of 398 



September, farmer's work for 54 



Sergeant, S. his notice of an extraordinary milch cow 

 283 



Shakers, or United Society, notice of 248 



Sheep, number of in England, France, and Spain 85 ; 

 notice of prolific 171 ; great numbers diseased in Eng- 

 land. Scotland, &c. 179; remarks on a disease in by 

 L. W. Briggs, Esq. 260 , remedy for the scab in 275 ; 

 tar useful for 365; anecdotes of by the Ettrick Shep- 

 herd 410; management of in Spain 411 



Sbephardia, a new'kind of Fruit tree, notices of 326, 331 



