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111 



! .TClory Mniiuic, 'i.>\. 

 ■ rri.'S. VKHV- Mildi-w, 323,071. 

 ... ii_\V,.l. iii», 181-new imKin 333— wax, 312. 

 », 301, 3IS — soiiking :UJ<") — pru«orv- 



: I. 



Catcrpillait on, 401. 



ch, 1117. 

 '. eiiu-nt of, by Hurl, 41 — SoeOing on 



oeding, 77 — foul Moadow, 123 — 



3 — Sfeding, 380. 



r. Sowing 111 Knglanil, 212 

 v«m_i , .violi/..!, .AildrCT'C, 27li. 



Grupn cnips, wends mid bu.ilie?, J. U., 45, 395, 406. 

 Guariu, 310. 



Gum, in Ollorrv and Plum Trocs, 3^1. 

 Oyp«um, 205.' 



H. 



Hail Slorm in Kssei Cminiy, f> -KffecH of, 70. 



Hav, Vi'gi'lalilps, and Corn, comparative value of, 170. 



Hn'v makiiis, 14. 



Ilniris, T. W., Squash Vino Desitciyor, and Apple Tree 

 Borer, '.'Co. 



Henri, ils slriirlure, 8S. 



Hedges, W— Hucklliorn, 125. 



Hemlock and I'ine for Sheep, 300. 



Hrlp 10 Editor, l(iti— has come, 183. 



Henhouses, 101. 



Hens, 177, 195— Winter, 223, 2211, 230, 249— diseases, 

 341,303 — Guinea, protects, 36!. 



Hessian Fly, by C. C. Herrick, 17— J. Mines, 17 ; Har- 

 ris, 409. 



Hints for the month 99, 115, IGG— t.) working classes, 

 13t", 211. 



Hired Men, advice to, 6. 



Hill, Gov, Oat Crop, 83. 



Hill, Leonard, statement, 237. 



Hoeing and Weeding, 22, 395. 



Hogs, medium sized be3i,'J. Mahard, Jr., 51 — fattening, 

 90— Col. Adams', 24G— Jenkins', 246, 250— large, 

 218— Berkshire, 226— fattening, 228— pot liquor for, 

 229. 



Honor, tiue, 184. 



Hool Ail, 68. 



Horn Shavings, 141— Oil, 187. 



Hou>e of Industry at South Boston, 46. 



HoriicuUura! Siicniiy, see Massachusetts Horlicultural. 



Hoises, slabbering in, 3,28. 



Horse trading, 40 — -How Icirn ages of, 59 — Glanders in, 

 r,8_Sag;icity of, 88, 130— Harness, lOH— versus Oxen, 

 133 — taming of and iiaining, I'dS — disease of, 211 — 

 method of working four, 241 — Stabling for, 277 — in 

 cellars, 406. 



Horse Rake, for collecting leaves, 69 — by one who has 

 used it, 414. 



Hospitals for the In'anp, IC8. 



Hours of Work, 326. 



Houses for Tools, 115. 



Hybrids, 180. 



Hiiniiiig in Vermont, 216. 



I. 



I can't afford it, 198. 



Ice-Houscs, 68 — Construction of, 74 — .Artificial, 2"24. 



Ice Crop, 280. 



Idleness, patent Sermon, S, 75. 



Inch Augur, 96. 



Industrious Habits and Men, 49. 



Industry, 178. 



Insane, Hospitals fur, 168. 



Insects, destructive, 369 — in Barley, '393. 



Insiiuct, Spider's, 1"20. 



Inventions, aversion to, 221. 



Irrigation, 76. 



Isles of Shoals, 248— Dana, 340. 



J. 



Jaqaes, Col., catalogue of Stock, 196. 

 J. A. J ,on British Farming, 42. 



Kidney Worms, 51. 



L. 

 Lacing Tight, 2.53. 

 Lactaries, London, 197. 

 Labor, duty to, .%— Statistics of, 117. 

 Leallier, new method ofTanning, 66— Chips as mandrc, 



286— by M. A ,300. 

 Ley, salt, 62. 

 Lice on Plants, 385. 

 Liebig's Agricultural Chemistry, 350. 



I Life beyond the Grave, 16. 

 : Light, imporlnnt to Vegeintion, 349. 

 I Lightning Sluuk, reiiieily for, 24. 

 I Lime, 99, 1-26, 3H.'. 



Liquid manure, for Turnips, 21. 



Live Fences, by Dr. Sliurtletf, 92. 



I.ucorno, 156, 195. 



.M. 



Mangel Wurtzol, 305. 



Manure*, naiuru and application, Miirinn, 12 — Brewer's 

 grains. '27 — .iction of, 29 — Salt Fish, 33 — ilruii, 4:1 — 

 Ashes, 46 — StindinB dish, 94 — Bone, 97— Piiinaee 100 

 Farm Yard, 1-29, "169, 130— Sea Sand, 130— Horn 

 Shavings, 141— Save, 146— Urino, l(i3— Kock and 

 Sen Weed, 164, lO.'i— Woollen Rbes, 169, 317— on 

 surface, IS'" — Sand, Glass Factory, 251 — Comparison 

 of, 260, 2(;.8, 278— Leather Cliips, '286, 300— A-hcs, 

 298— Mixed earths. Creek mud. Tanner's bark, 306 

 —Clover and Buck Wheal, 306— Soot, 316— Guano, 

 316— Bones and Soot, 317— Urine, 317— Salt, 3'2'2— 

 for Gardens, 347— Saltpetre, 363— Salt, .364 ; Plaster, 

 388 ; Green, 31i5. ' 



Massachusetts Horlicultural Society, Premiums ofl'ercil, 

 10; on Flowers, 20 ; to have Exhibition, 54 ; Annual 

 Exhibition, 102, 105, 121; llepon -on flowers, 275; 

 Letter to, from Toiigard, .355 ; Exhibition of (lowers, 

 411, 414; Exhibilioii oi fruits, 414; Exhibition of 

 vegetables, 414 ; Report of Committee on flowers, 

 4lo. 



Massachusetts Society for Promotion of Agriculture, 

 Report on Orchards, 204 ; Crops, 2'36 ; on Farms, 258 ; 

 Premiums, 1842, 273. 



Meadow Lands, J. Elii>t, 89. 



Mechanic's Exhibition, third, 102. 



Melons, 3-'>S. 



Memory, Scraps from, 157. 



Merry's Musuum, 222. 



Mice, girdling Trees, 162, 323. 



Metcalf, A. C , Rotation, 269, 296. 



Mildew, on Wheat, 10. 



Milk, sailing of, 100; its components, 116; establish, 

 menis, London, 197; Rich, 243 ; Churning, .347. 



Milking, who shall doit .' 61. 



Morlgiigc, incumbrance, 113. 



Moll's Vegetable Boiler, 158. 



Moustaches, 400. 



Muck and Draining, 38, 114, 133, 134, 164, 174; mean- 

 ing of the term, 212 ; subject al Stale House, 222,249, 

 274, 302 ; fresh dug, A. Nichols, 318. 



Muck-iana, first gun, l37. 



Muck manure, 294, 310. 



Murrain, Bloody, 84. 



Mutton, English, 206. 



Kational Agriculuiral Society, 90 ; Address upon, by S. 



Robinson, 91. 

 Nature's testimony, 200 

 Newspaper's, good scare crows, 307. 

 Nichols, A., on Muck, 318. 

 Nonanium Hill, 144. 

 Noyes, John, statemenl, 2.37. 

 Nurseries of Fruit Trees, 142. 



O. ' 



Oat Hay, 250. 



Oai Crop, Gov. Hill's, 83; Vermont, 148, 228, 268. 

 Odds and Ends, 13. 



Oil, from Corn, 137 ; pumpkin Seeds, 141 . 

 Oil Soap, 43. 

 Old Things, 211. 

 Only Half a Dollar, 22). 



Orcliards, by A. VV. Dodge. Report upon by .Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural Society, 204, 349. 

 Ouraiig Oulang, 235. 

 Ox, treatment ol, 116. 

 Oxen in harness, 411. 



Painting, lime for, 362. 



Paragraphs, all sorts, 120. 



Parental instruction, 176. 



Pasture lands, old, seeding, 77 — Economv of, 188. 



Patent Office, 1.14. 



P. D. 10 Maine Farmer, 304. 



Peaches, for picklinir, 77. 



Peca Worm, 358, 394. 



Peach tree, yellows in, 18 — benefited by salt-petrc, 60, 



351 ; Preservation of, 401. 

 Peat, 30, 84— compost, 274. 

 Peat lands, improvement of, 44. 



I'enii, 3'J6. 



Peteri, Luvrit, on roinovnl ornvciindlne, 5— on slubboi- 

 ing ill lioru-, 28. 



Philniiophical finli, IT,. 



I'liinney E., un Anii:rican ftwine binder, 22t>. 



Ph)»itiil difgenerory, 10. 



Plagiarism, 39H. 



Plans for the Soanon, 2H0. 



Plants, Cabbage, 410. 



Plant Lice, 3.N>. 



Plaster, helps manures, 277, 357, :t88. 



Plowman, Mass., 114. 



Plows, trials of them, 86— steam, 93— ihe he>.i, 110— 

 for ditching, 164 — obstructions to, IMI. 



Plowing matches, institution of, 214. 



Plum trees, warts on, 379 



Plymouth Counly Catile Show, 1842, 337. 



Poelrj-, An Evening Reverie, 32 — Power ol the dead, 40 

 — Coiilempl,48 — who are the free, .56 — them is ■ God, 

 64 — Eiiiigrunl's Daughter, SO— Change 96— Wants of 

 Man, 112— Villa^io Bluckaniitb, 1'20— Little Fuclofr 

 Girl, 128— The Labourer, 136— To J. Q. A, 152— 

 Prayer Book, 160— Fisher Boat, 168— The Bowl, 176— 

 Backwoodnian, 184 — Death of the Flowers, 192 — the 

 Happy, 200 — Immortulily, 200 — Toniperaiicu Hymn, 

 20tt-— Skater's song, 256 — Come to prayer, 264 — For- 

 ecttne-not, 280 — V\ifes rejoicing, 296— Ode, 320— 

 Lament, '^'26 — Bucket, 336— Temperance standard, 

 334— Blind Boy, 368— Kind words, 406— Dash to the 

 floor thai boni, 416. 



Poor of England, 192. 



Potatoes — Kemoval of Blossoms, big business, 37 — har- 

 vcsling, 118— Frozen, 177— Red, flowers of, 167— 

 Velos, Florida, Dean, 158, 166 — crop in Vermont and 

 Editor's crop, 181 — Planted under bushes and straw, 

 181- Black, 1b2— from Seed, 195— Ibr light Soils, 

 238-Gen. Barnum's, 235,236, 2;t8, 241— Gen. Barn- 

 urn's mode, 2.')2— Culture of, 293 — Urge and small 

 Seed, 300— cutting Seed, 300, 302, 324, 3'25. 



Pork, preserving, 51, 139. 



Pot liquor, 229, 245. 



Poudritte Co., 97, 228. 



Poultry, 101— food for, 115, 195, 213. 



PruciicB and Science, M. A. on, 362. 



Premiums, offered by Essex Agricultural Society, 1841, 

 1, on Crops, 307; on Corn, 308. 



Prevention better than Cure, 208. 



Printers, 296. 



Prison Discipline in Berlin, 16. 



Protection, 380. 



Pruning, 28li, 290. 



Public Spirii, 265. 



Pumice, a manure, 100. 



Pumpkins, 357. 



Putnam, Gen , 128. 



Potatoes, early, 326— for Slock, 342— Lime for, 363— 

 how to boil, '363 — Bin-grief in, 380. 



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Quince Borer, 363. 



Radishes, 326. 



Radish, Horse, for slock, 322. 



Rail Road, Western, 214. 



Rats, destruction of, 21 — Fecundity of, 85. 



Rays, dilVerenl cfrects of, '373. 



Recipes, for Horses, 36 — Diarrhoea, 48— Kidney Worms, 

 51— sore Teals, 58— for Hogs, 59— Cattle and llorecs, 

 r,0_for Tomalo Figs, 66— danders, 68— Horn distem- 

 per, (iS— Hoof ail, CS-Lighlning shock, 24— for pre- 

 serving Eggs, 69— Sheep fly, 75 — pickling Peaches, 77 

 — extract glas.< Stnppli — preserve Apples and Pears, 

 Steel from rust. Reptiles, 80 — for poisoned Sheep and 

 bloated Cattle, 83 — bloody Murrain, 85 — Warts on 

 Cows, 101 — hydated in Sheep, 133— pickling Pork and 

 Beef, 139 — preserving Wood, 1()3 — Cough in Swine, 

 l&l—for new Boots, 165— Bois, 181— choked Cattle, 

 181— Horn ail, 187— Film in Eyes, 19.5— Croup, 203 

 — Grain Weevil, 205— Miss Beecher's Treatise, ex- 

 tracts from, 219— Sausages, 226 — Ants, 235— Grease 

 spots, 246 — Fever and Ague, 2.59 — Ninkin, 267 — Lice 

 on Cattle, 270— Scours in Calves, 323, 350— Rheuma- 

 tism, Burns, 336, 339- Canker Rash and Scarlet Fe- 

 ver, :'39— Wounds in Trees, 312— Choaking, 361— 

 to wash Woollen, 387— bloody Murrain, 394. 



Reclaiming wel Meadows, Peiensing, 84, 89, 124, 257— 

 laying down and dressings, 289, 348. 



Requital of Favors, 97. 



Ringing branches, makes them fruitfiil, 32 



Rhode Islsnd Cattle Show, 321 



