INDEX. 



June, work for 

 July, farm work for 



K. 



Kindness, thoughtful 

 Knowledge, progress of 



Lard, to preserve ..... 



Lawns, formation of, 28 ; grasses for 

 Ladies, hints for, 40, 183 ; to be imitated 

 Lambs, shearing ..... 



Labor, saving ...... 



Lands, wet, reclaiming, 265 ; flowing grass 



Leaves, utility of . 



Life, the charms of. 



Lion, catching the, in South Africa 



Lithography ...... 



Lice on fruit trees, 142 ; on apple trees . 



Lime and ashes for plum trees 



Linen, to whiten, 23 ; to take ink out of 



Locks in the groat exhibition 



Love, a mother's ..... 



Lucerne 



Lunar influences ..... 



M. 



Manure, value of night soil, 128; newly dis- 

 covered, 138 ; ashes and plaster for, 159 ; 

 saving, 220 ; errors in composting, 222 ; save 

 your, 238 ; concentrated, 269 ; applied in 

 fall and winter ...... 



Mahogany, to take stains from 

 Market, gardening, and high farming 

 March, work for ..... 



Meat, scientific mode of roasting 



Meadows, reclaimed ..... 



Mechanical Department. — Elevation of me- 

 chanics, 22 ; new fur fabric ; rusting of iron, 

 39 ; a new watch, 39 ; gravel cement, 54 ; 

 silvering coin ; every farmer his own miller, 

 71 ; varnish for coaches, 7 1 ; building mate- 

 rials, 71 ; artesian well, 86 ; timber-preserv- 

 ing works, 86; harness machine, 87; rail- 

 road alarm, 87 ; flax manufacture, 87 ; flint 

 enamel ware, 103 ; to engrave on steel or 

 iron, 103 ; butter machine, 103 ; planing, 

 tonguing, and grooving machine, 119 ; new 

 style of sleigh, 119 ; bending carriage 

 springs, 119; respirator cravat, 119; air, 

 steam, and water engine, 134 ; painting, 135 ; 

 new lathe ; razor strops, 150 ; glaze for 

 earthen ware, 150; labor is capital, 150; 

 folding harrow, 155 ; machine for draining 

 and irrigating, 183 ; glazing earthenware, 

 198 ; lithography, 198 ; barrel machine, 199 ; 

 horse-shoeing, 214; to dye ivory, 214; fire 

 places, 215 ; cutlery, 215 ; chimneys, 229 ; 

 restoring sight, 230 ; horse-shoes, 230 ; 

 blasting rocks, 231 ; machine for printing 

 oilcloth, 247 ; terra cotta, 262 ; marble 

 staining, 278; steel, manufacture of, 279; 

 coating metallic substances, 295 ; bridging 

 the Nile ; locks, thimbles, scissors, libraries ; 

 to harden steel Avithout springing, 327 ; 

 American mechanism at the world's fair, 

 342 ; beautiful specimens, 359 ; railroads 

 of Massachusetts, 359 ; window-sash fas- 

 tener, 359 ; perforation of a leaden water 

 cistern by insects, 359 ; to harden steel 



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186 

 218 



312 



242 



24 



52 

 311 

 175 

 246 

 286 

 214 

 296 

 391 

 198 

 258 



21 

 299 

 263 

 360 

 170 

 250 



390 



23 



34 



73,29 



167 



323 



Mechanical Depaktment. — Continued. Page 



without springing, 374 ; paper from flax, 

 391 ; fire varnish, 391 ; brick machine, 407 ; 

 deck-plug machine, 407 ; shoe patterns, 407 ; 

 steam excavator, for digging guano, 415; 

 new patents, 415; steam drilling machine, 

 415 ; letters sent by atmospheric pressure . 415 



Mechanics, elevation of, 22 ; young, the way 



to use, 246 ; let us reason together . . 294 

 Meetings, agricultural (see Agricultural Meet- 

 ings) 10 



Men, young, a word to 82 



Milk, eff"ect3 of food on, 16 ; establishment of 

 G. E. Adams, 355 ; bloody, 372, 393, 398, 



406; solidified 414 



Mowing lands, 256 ; management of . . 323 

 Moths, in furniture, 152 ; to prevent getting 

 under hives ...... 326 



Mothers, a hint to . i . . , .416 

 Mortar, to make good . . . . .183 



Mulching, 223 ; a new method of . . . 342 

 Mules, use of . . . . . . . 240 



Mutton broth, 48, 71; fine mutton . .128 



N. 



Name, what's in a . . . . . . 387 



Navigation, our ...... 278 



New England Society, 143 ; and the West . 371 



Newhall, Hon. Asa t 10 



New Year ....... 9 



November, work for, 363, 386 ; a rough month 394 



Nursery, late work in 379 



O. 



Oatmeal . . 

 Oats, plowing in . 

 Occupation out of door's . 

 October, farm work for . 

 Olden times .... 

 Orchards, renovating, 116, 140; old 



. 208 

 96, 127 

 . 106 

 . 329 

 . 221 

 . 367 



Patent-office Report, 203 ; circular from, 357 ; 



report of 185, 378 



Parsnips . . . . . . . .102 



Painting houses ...... 95 



Papers, agricultural 204 



Paine, Mr., apparatus ..... 49 



Paper from flax . . . . . .391 



Peach (see Trees), culture of, 238 ; Melocoton . 273 



Perfumes, vegetable 58 



Pears, grafting, 106; Buff'um, 145 ; gray Doy- 

 enne, 169 ; on quince stocks . . .356 

 Peat and coal, 140 ; converted into manure, 



165; uses of 239 



Pemigowasset Agricultural Society . .412 



Pickering, Timothy, last document of, 12; 

 memoir of . . . . . . .211 



Pigs, fine Suff'olk, 58; 129; Chinese, 395; 



Suff"olk 346 



Piano, electric . . . , . .166 

 Pipes, stoneware for water, 182 ; water, inde- 

 structible 247 



Plum trees, ashes and lime for . . .21 



Ploughs and ploughing, 109, 117; eff'ects of 

 deep, 160 ; deep, 274, 288 ; matches, 334, 

 349 ; stubble, 353 ; fall and manuring, 377 ; 

 by steam, 388 ; report on . . . 389 



Plum, in the wild cherry, 12G ; weevil, 304 ; 



curculio in . . . . . . . 336 



Plants, food for, 181 ; rapid growth of . . 235 

 Pomolosical Congress . . . . .218 



