INDEX TO VOLUME YIIL 



A 



Address of the late Silas Wrighty 



read at N. Y. State Fair, 238 



Agricultural Associ'n of Webster, 116 

 and School, 10 



— Education, 187 



— Fairs for 1847, 193, 213 



— Society, Monroe county, 22 



N. Y. State, 23, 45, 70, 117, 194 



Fair of, 213, 236 



premiums for 1847, 94, 118, 



142 



premiums awarded, . . . 262 



Wayne county, 23 



Agriculture of New York, 258 



— Southern, 274 



— trade and commerce, 235 



Ammonia, 179 



Animals, cooking food for, 15 



— castration of, 19 



Apple, the Red Astrachan, 219 



— Early Joe, 73, 269 



— Golden Reinette, 73 



— Canada Reinette, 99 



— the red Canada, 288 



— Benoni, and Summer Queen,.. 244 



— Yellow Newtown Pippin, 100 



— stock, the Paradise, 221 



— tree blight, 270 



Apples, exportation of, 167 



Ashes, wood, 66 



— on corn, 87,281 



— on dry plains, 36 



— value of, and other manures,.. 115 



April, hints for, 85 



August, hints for, 192 



B 



Barley, 155 



Barn, a Pennsylvania, 188 



Bees, 15, 70 



Bee-hive, Dr. Reynolds', 24 



Parks' reversed, 113 



— hives. Premium, 233 



Beer-making in England, 23 



Birds, a plea for, 138, 162 



Books, &c., noticed. 



American Agriculture, 57 



— Journal of Agriculture and 

 Science, 61 



Address of David Thomas before 



Aurora Hort. Society, 50 



Analysis of the Oat, 37 



Annual Report Ohio State Bd. 



of Agriculture, 57 



Cole's Am. Veterinarian, 237 



Dictionary of Modern Gardening, 177 



European Ag., by Colman, 61 



Farmers Ag. Chemistry, 83 



Fruits and Fruit Trees of A mer., 121 

 Fruits of America, by Hovey, 97, 221 



Illustrated Botany, 250 



Landreth's Rural Register and 



Almanac, for 1848, 250 



Prince's Manuel of Roses, 29 



Silliman's Chemistry, 201 



Trans, of Am. Ag. Association,. 59 



— of N. Y. State Ag. Society, 



for 1846, 177 



— of Mass. Hort. Society, 121 



The American Architect, 250 



The Farmer's Book and Family 



Instructor, 250 



The Trees of America, 28 



The Piff, by Youatt, 177 



Bone Mill, 37 



Budding, experiment in, 222, 268 



Buds, starting too soon, 269 



Buckwheat, 17 



— for coloring, 30 



Butter, Chemung county, 19 



— yield of, 167 



— to make good, in winter, 291 



— making, 199 



— making, inquiries about, 282 



C 

 Cattle, improved breeds of, 47 



— to cure hoven in, 227 



— to destroy lice on, 23 



— and sheep, transportation of on 

 railroads, 143 



Carrots and rowen, 109 



Central N. Y., matters in, 284 



Chatauque Co., Ag. Geology of,.. 214 



Charcoal around peach trees, 35 



Cheese, 156 



— making, 223,284 



— daires, -. 178 



— how to toast, 283 



Cherries, new American seedling, 286 

 Cherry, Wendell's Mottled Bigar- 



reau, (with outline figure,) 386 



— Coe's transparent, 286 



Chess, --.- 137 



— transmutation, &c. , 67 



Chimneys, to extinguish on Are,.. 253 



Clevis, Van Brockhns, 161 



Clover seed, cleaning, 66 



Constitution, form of for Ag. Asso- 

 ciation, 13, 116 



Correspondents, notices to, &c. 21, 45, 



57, 93, 97, 117, 141, 145, 249 



277, 288 



Corn culture, 105, 114, 136, 161 



— Ashes on, 87, 281 



— cobs, nutrition of, 229, 257 



— for exportation, 85 



— planted for fodder, 



— prolific, 15 



— cultivator, a good, 140 



Cottage, Italian, design of, 92 



Cotton worm, war on, 250 



Cow, " Lady Barrington," 212 



Cranberry, cultivation of, 70, 139 



Criticisms, Dr. Lee's, 84 



Crops and the season, 160 



Currant, double crimson, 219 



— May's Victoria, 288 



— Wine, how to make, 200 



D 



Debt, running into, &c., 38, 107 



December, hints for, 276 



Dietetics, 202 



Digestion and assimilation 33 



Draining, 131, 135, 203 



Domestic Economy — 

 Items for house-keepers, <fec., 30, 47, 

 53, 76, 199, 223,. 224, 247, 271, 291 



Cabbages, preserving, 265 



Corn meal cakes, 241 



Making preserves — Green Corn 



pudding — To destroy ants, .. 199 

 To prepare superior mince meat, 271 



Watering house plants, 124 



Pickles, making, 247 



Paring peaches, 248, 271 



Pumpkin Butter, 271 



E 

 Entomology, 50 



Europe, letter from, 252 



Evergreens, transplanting, 74 



Experimenting, importance of,..- 62 



F 

 Fair of American Institute, 250 



— Genesee County, 282 



Fairs, county, notice of, 227 



Farmer, the — his position, &c.,.. 18, 



40, 90, 134, 184, 253 



— interests and rights, 46 



Farmers' daughters, 76, 124 



Farming, &c., in the west, 210 



— great, on a small scale, 278 



— in winter, 13 



— on 35 acres, 167 



— scientific, 62 



— true, 278 



Farm labor, 91 



Farms, small, 109 



Female trials, 53 



Fences, 136, 159, 186 



Fence making,. 208 



— posts, preservation of,- 68, 89, 168 



Fencing, hedges for, 114, 186 



Fire wood, green, 16 



Fleece and carcass, comparative 



weight of, 191 



Floriculture, 149 



Flowers, annual, culture of, 96 



Flower bedsand borders, plants for, 146 



Fowls, Cochin China, 16S 



Fruit trees, culture of, 74 



successful planting of, 121 



to protect from late frosts,.. 222 



banking, 290 



— and vegetable preserver, 148 



G 



Gardens, front, 146 



Gates, 217 



Genesee Farmer, the,.. 211, 233, 260 



Grain Drill, Pennock's, 93 



Grasses, disease in, 63, 139 



Grapes, from seed, 146 



Grape vine, enormous, 147 



H 

 Hams, preserving, 42 



— superior mode of curing, 271 



— and pork, curing, 383 



Harvest without previous sowing, 285 

 Hay making, 157 



— measure of, 265 



Heated rooms, 291 



Hedges and fencing, 114, 186 



Hemp brakes, improved, 208 



Hessian Fly, 205, 234 



Hogs, chapter on, 166 



— medicine for, 211 



Honey, taking from hives, 232 



Hop Culture,.- 58, 87, 91, 158 



Horse " Black Hawk," 164 



— guide in buying, 23 



Horses, epidemic among, 266 



— slobbers in, 216, 257 



— to relieve colic in, 216 



Horticultural inquiries and answers 172 



— Society of Rochester, 29 



premiums for 1847, 72 



exhibitions, 72, 268 



of Buffalo, 198,288 



— Societies and exhibitions, 220 



— festivals in Boston and Phila.,. 245 



Horticulture in the west, 195 



Hot beds, construction of, 48 



House plants, watering, 124 



