IV 



INDEX, 



Cow, short-horned, Cambridge, 6.5 ; milch, 

 food for, 102 ; profitable, 143 ; food for, 188 ; 

 profitable, 228 ; product of, 2.37 ; profitable, 

 258 ; who sucks herself, remedy for, 277 ; 

 profitable, 302; milkers, Knapp's patent . 



Corn, Indian, a steep for, 138; broom, 144; 

 crops, 176; for fodder, 197, 202; preserving 

 from worms, 207; for fodder, 219; flour, 

 260, 28.5 ; crop, management of, 298 ; fod- 

 der, 310; crop in six states compared 



Colts, rearing, 158 ; breaking 



Corns, how to cure . . . . . 



Cranberries, cultivation of, 14 ; do. 18 ; flowing 

 necessary for, 158 ; culture, 227, 274, 298, 

 380; upland culture of, 397 ; correction 



Crop, what is most valuable . . . . 



Cuttings, brick dust for . . . . . 



Cutlery, manufacture of . . . . 



Curculio, the, 191, 192; 

 of ... . 



natural historv 

 . 224, 235, 



Pnge 



347 



404 

 205 

 198 



414 

 229 

 192 

 215 



336 



D. 



E. 



Education, home, 56 ; female 

 Editorial corps, introduction of 



Eggs 



Emigrating west 



Exercise, bodily, in early life . 



Farming, in Georgia, 47 ; skill in, 122 ; profits 

 of, 138; ancient, 177; skill in, 182, 204; 

 and education, 255 ; in Indiana, 272 ; a lit- 

 tle experience in, 302 ; in Raymond, N. H., 

 303 ; extensive, 368 ; what is practical 



Farm, accounts of . 



Farmer, every, his own miller, 71 ; customs 

 among, 100; education of the, 114 ; occupa- 

 tion, 162 ; honor to the .... 



Fair, World's 



Family altar, its influences .... 



Fever, scarlet, treatment of . 



Fire, artificial heat ....... 



Flowers, influence of, 15 ; collection and trans- 

 planting of, 29 ; selection and cultivation 

 of 63, 



Flax, manufacture, 87 ; growing in England, 

 182 ; seed as food, 374 ; cotton . 



Fowls, domesticating, 19 ; Bolton gray, 33 ; 

 merits of, 39 ; a China hen, 67 ; confined, 

 139 ; profit of, 141 ; ancient, 177 ; keepers 

 of, 189 ; best kind, 238 ; right kind of, 316 ; 

 best market, 339 ; Yankee .... 



Food, reducing before giving to cattle, 80 ; 

 cooking for stock ..... 



Frozen vegetables, thawing of . . . 



Friendship, ties of . 



Fruits, testing of, 41 ; remarks on, 99 ; to pre- 

 serve, 215 ; economy of, 245 ; dried, to keep 

 worms from, 280 ; preserving and ripening, 

 287 ; drying, 293 ; the crop 



312 

 361 

 339 

 257 



183 



402 

 69 



256 

 143 

 328 

 247 

 358 



213 

 375 



355 



208 



10 



280 



325 



Fur, new fabric from 

 Furnace, Mott's agricultural . 

 Furniture, to remove grease spots from 



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315 



184 



G. 



Gates, improved ...... 2-3 



Gardening, market, and high farming . . 34 



Garden, a good 373 



Gooseberries, Houghton's seedling, 97 ; mulch- 

 ing, 154 ; origin of Houghton's, 252 ; mulch- 

 ing 255 



Glanders, cure for ...... 320 



Girls 248 



Grasses, cultivation of, 85 ; lands, time for top 

 dressing, 90 ; for pasture, 94, 153, 127 ; 



ploughing under 170 



Grapes, Isabella, 93; summer pruning, 233; 

 time for layering, 236 ; summer pruning, 

 269; grafting, 273 ; how to destroy witch . 309 

 Grafting, in odd and even years, 128 ; impo- 

 sition, 285 ; to raise an orchard without . 374 

 Grains, nutrition in various .... 325 

 Green crops, plowing in . . . . 261,285 

 Ground, right of occupants to, in front of their 



houses 190 



Guano, experiments with, 79 ; price of . . 396 



Hay, straw and corn stalk cutter ... 27 

 Hams, to preserve ..... 48, 184 

 Harness, machine. Brown's .... 87 



Hail 191 



Harrows 258, 292 



Hands, chapped, recipe for . , . .71 

 Health, 42, 69, 411; rules of . . . .163 



Hedges, seeds for ...... 154 



Horses, care of, 17; swapping, 102; chloro- 

 form with, 207; feeding on the road, 213; 

 mango in, 272 ; English draft . . . 369 



Homestead, exemption, 26 ; beautifying the . 147 

 Hogs, large, 42, 107, 181 ; what ailed my, 189 ; 



large ....... 340, 388 



Horse-radish, how to grate it . . . . 378 



Hot beds, 90 ; the farmer's .... 123 



Houses, painting, colors, 95; color of, 126; 

 color of, 228 ; color of . . . . 271,307 



Home, a happy .... 200, 232, 263 



Hooks and eyes, making of . . . . 343 



Horse shoeing, 214 ; fitting shoes hot . . 230 



Hoes, bog 299 



Horticultural exhibition, 321 ; exhibition at 



Haverhill, 324 ; in Boston . . . .364 

 Husk beds 15, 384, 406 



388 



2G2 

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I. 



Ice houses ...... 26, 



Ice produced bj' steam power 



Idiocy ........ 



Insects, on trees, 165 ; to destroy, 203, 243 ; 

 operations of, 267 ; depredations, 268 ; po- 

 tato rot caused by ... . 287, 322 



Instruction, self ...... 334 



Indian, anecdote of a young .... 407 



Irrigation, water for ..... 32 



Iron, oxidation, or rusting of, 39 ; or steel, to 

 engrave on . . . . . . . 103 



Ivy on buildings 175, 275 



Ivory, to dye, 214 ; flexible . . . .231 

 Industrv and skill, effects of, 195 ; honor and 

 profit"of 391 



