INDEX. 



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 Churn, the, 157, 160; Clark's excelsior . . 192 

 Circular, from State Board of Agriculture, 604 ; 

 to the friends of agriculture in Massachusetts 44 



Cisterns, illustrated 305 



Clover, seeds for an acre, 149 ; white, 62 ; 

 living in . . . . . • • 320 



Climate of countries 336 



Coal, against sinews 485 



Cob meal and hay 639 



Cooking and digestion 34 



College, N. Y. State Agricultural . . .355 

 Corn, sweet, 139; sheller, 47; music of a 

 sheller, 165 ; Stowell's evergreen sweet, 165 ; 

 comparative merits of, 172; culture of, 51, 

 191, 214 ; growing and hilling, 38 ; a query 

 about, 68 ; topping, 74 ; cobs, 77 ; flat vs. 

 hill culture, 330 ; fodder and stalk cutter, 

 335 ; hoeing, 381 ; tall . . . .468 

 Cow, Ayrshire, 110; milch, treatise on, 175; 

 cooked food for, 197 ; Guenon on the milch, 

 209 ; used for plowing in Savoy, 243 ; ima- 

 -gination in, 250 ; and oxen in Portugal, 

 284; apples for, 294; milch, 101; soiling, 

 329; and tar, 356; shedding milk, 363, 380; 

 ' holding up their milk, 371 ; garget in, 415 ; 

 a good one, 525 ; Alderney, 645 ; to cure 

 warts on, 546 ; lice on .... 562 



Connecticut river, a trip to ... . 490 



Crayons, how to make 197 



Cranberries, 134, 191; culture of, 409, 493; 



inquiries abou^ 477, 545 



Cricket, the climbing 448 



Crops, why they lodge, 276; food for, 416, 

 419 ; in England, 432 ; prospects of the, 

 436,519; and the season, 460 ; in Washing- 

 ton county, R. I. 479 



Curculio, discovery about the, 372 ; to destroy 



the 479 



Cultivation', true mode of . . . .316 



D. 



E. 



Earnings, save your 198 



Editor at home again ..... 145 



Effort, benefits of, associated . . . .193 



Egg, a large, 306 ; found in the middle of an 

 elm, 408 ; how to preserve . . . .513 



Elements, organic ...... 69 



Engines, garden and fire . . . .404 



Ergot, in grain 359 



Farming, difficulties of New England, 13, 35 ; 

 prejudice against, 46 ; in the East, 96, 106 ; 

 Chinese, 110; interests neglected, 119; ex- 

 perimental, 127, 259, 471, 310; good, 211 ; 

 in Maryland, 226 ; tired of, 283 ; in Missis- 

 sippi, 294 ; productive, 331 , inconsistencies 



• in, 332 ; Southern 494 



213; front, 

 a number 



Farm, model, 241 ; accounts, G7 ; work for the 

 century, 70, 72; State pauper, 311, 337; 

 George Patterson's 



Farmer, important to the, 49 ; libraries, 64 ; 

 clubs, constitution for, 76 ; improvidence of 

 the, 84 ; practical facts for, 99 ; the progres- 

 sive, 100 ; the New England, 142 ; Monthly 

 for March, 154; with two ideas, 187; club, 

 Concord, 197, 244 ; Framingham, 216 ; 

 Monthly, for April, 263; for May, 290; 

 chapter for a nice old, 313 ; important to 

 the, 320 ; Monthly, for June, 327 ; for July, 

 384 ; what he most needs, 364 ; the thrift- 

 less, 402 ; Monthly, for August, 428 ; three 

 kinds of, 498 ; Monthly, for September, 500 ; 

 festivals of the, keep pure, 506 ; Monthly, 

 for October, 555 ; for November . 



Factory, imperishable potato .... 



Fairs, list of, in 1853, 414; agricultural, at 

 Westminster, Vt. 495 ; Worcester county 

 agricultural, 502 ; Framingham society, 

 505 ; Norfolk county, 505 ; Essex county, 

 507, 527 ; Hillsborough, N. H. 508 ; Graf- 

 ton county, N. H. 509 ; Middlesex county, 

 514; Franklin county, 522; at Northamp- 

 ton ..... 



Feeding, teams 



Feed-cutter, cross-cut 



Feet, cold, consequences of . 



Fence, live, 118, 226; cost of, 

 303 ; front yard, 358 ; farm, 574 , 

 one ..... 



Fertilization, cross 



Field, book, the pictorial 



Fields, old .... 



Flowers, cultivation of. 111, use of 



Food, equivalent value of different kinds 



Forests, 185; destruction of . . . . 



Fowls. — See Poultry. 



Fruit, gathering and preserving winter, 24 ; 

 for Northern cultivation, 95 ; hardy, for 

 the North, 121 ; cultivation of, 217 ; how 

 to raise every year, 242 ; immense supply of, 

 276 ; hints on thinning, 334 ; to keep birds 

 from pecking, 339 ; indigenous, and improv- 

 ing, 351, 359; of Iowa, 460; exhibition of 



G. 



Gardening, good effects of 



Garden, short chat in, 550 ; the 



Garget, 384, 400 ; in cows, 415 ; < 

 the 



Gas, restorative . . . .- 



Georgia, agricultural show in 



Gold vs. hay ..... 



Good management vst bad 



Gooseberry, the .... 



Grasshoppers .... 



Gras?, a new, 162 ; native, 185 ; seed, sowing, 

 83; seed 



Grafting, 182 , on the thorn, 224 ; cloth, 273, 

 288 ; old trees, 314 ; curious device in - . 



Grape, Allen on the, 196 ; new seedling, 274; 

 special manure for, 359 ; summer pruning 

 of the, 407 ; the, a healthy fruit, 432 ; frost- 

 proof ......•• 



Grapery, the cold 



Grecian farmers 



Guano, use of, 12, 14, 25, 30, 100, 148, 155, 

 160, 218, 254 



Gypsum, great field of 



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559 



246 

 567 



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436, 496 

 . 373 

 . 560 

 . 560 

 . 130 

 48, 243 



519, 528 



406 



448 



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