INDEX. 



Page 



553 

 541 



477 

 158 



Pear, Bloodgood and Rostiezer, 144 ; on thorn 

 stocks, 176; Vicar of Winkfield, 177; skin- 

 ning a tree, 184 ; Beurre d' Anjou, 225 • 

 a monster, 40; cultivation of the, 422; the 

 Tyson, Dearborn's seedling, and the' Os- 

 born, 480 ; Nouveau Poiteau, 529 ; gather- 

 ing and keeping 



Pigs and turnips •...*' 



Piaster .' .' 240 310 



Plants, soot for, 190 ; house in winter, 28 • ' 

 niode of supply of, 323; hilling, 349; action 

 ot drought on, 403 ; spontaneous 

 Pleasures, rural • . . . 

 Plow, plowing, how they used to, 69, 158*, 202 * 

 more about, 210, 278 ; sod and sub soil, 282^ 

 oo! ' ^^^y ^'*^ *^^ Sreat, 309 ; trial of, 

 325 ; effects of, deep, 356; what kind of, for 



Plnt/°''^f^'/,^^'^"" • • • 520,546 

 ir'lum trees, black knots on, 26; diseased, 47; 



80, 108 ; warts on, 262, 292, 376, 378 ; 



Smith's Orleans 



Pork, profit on . . , | ' ] 

 Posts and stakes, 208 ; duration of, 256*; set- 

 ting, 303 ; thrown by the frost, 341 ; setting 

 fence, 363, 384, 389 ; hitching . . 

 Potash, water • • . . 



Potatoes, feeding them to the cows, 112; rot 

 in, 160, 433 ; interesting experiment with, 

 169; experiments with, 235; crop, 303; 

 how the water boiled away from them, 385 ; 

 harvesting, 396; diseased, 399; blast on, 

 436 ; application of tan to, 454 ; crop, 461 ; 

 disease in, 469; factory, 481; rot, remedy 



Poultry, profits of, 12, 89 ; a 



to destroy vermin on . 

 Practice and theory 

 Premiums, agricultural, 176 ; 



43 ; at Middlesex fair . 

 Press, a wonderful printing 

 Prices of produce . 

 Pruning . 



Page 



448 

 72 



424 

 50 



511 

 ■are brood, 145 ; 



. 397 

 315, 337 

 at Framingham, 



524 

 531 

 485 

 544 



R. 



Radishes and turnips . - 



Radish, horse 



Railroads, effect of . , .* ] 

 Rain-drop, fable of the . 

 Rat and hen, battle between . ! 

 Reaping and mowing machine 

 Recipes for the sick, 149 ; variety of 

 Records, keep exact 

 Ridging and draining 

 Rockingham- county fair, N. H. '. 



Roller, the 



Roots vs. hay, 168; depths of, 45*4; botanic 



divisions of .... 



Rose bugs •..'.,'' 



^ye . . . .1 



206, 

 342, 



37, 



281 

 525 

 459 

 388 

 414 

 449 

 390 

 94 

 301 

 445 

 428 



463 

 353 

 157 



Sheep, Silesian merino ewes, 129 ; shearing 

 festival, 210; Spanish merino ewes, 273, 

 316, 421 ; fall care and feeding of, 531 ; for 



mutton 5g9 



Shrubs, indigenous . . . . 351, 359 



Sink, wash from the 283 



Skin, sheep, to cure with wool on . • . 234 

 Society, Wisconsin State Agricultural, 23 ; 

 U. S. Agricultural, 30, 92, 109, 135, 173, 

 412 ; Bristol County Agricultural, 111 ; 

 Massachusetts Horticultural, 191 ; Frank- 

 lin County, 269 ; Hampshire, &c. 86 ; Frank- 

 lin, 86 ; Hampshire, 86, 563 ; Town Horti- 

 cultural, 335 ; Massachusetts Agricultural, 

 409, 434, 544 ; New Hampshire State Agri- 

 cultural 



Soil, power of, to retain manure, 71 ; analysis 

 of, 93, 125, 324, 418 ; tempering the, 267 ; 



productions of the 



Soot for plants ...... 



Sorrel, what it indicates . . . ! 



Spade vs. fork ...... 



Squash, the marrow, 190, 419, 509 ; to protect 341 

 Spring, a southern, 158; welcome to, 204; 

 work ........ 232 



Spruce, how to propagate .... 575 



Stable, warm, 184; ventilation of, 276; ma- 



^ "ure ....:... 341 



tetate, farm •...,.. 272 

 Stockhardt's field lectures .... 190 



Stock, stabling, 24; cutting fodder for, 117; 

 sale of Earl Ducie's, 413 ; native and im- 

 proved, 458 ; small and large . . .527 



Stones in land 330 



Strawberries 160, 245, 302 



Surfaces, laying out 39 



Swallows, migration of, 397, 410, 484, 519, 



528, 529, 540 



Swamps, draining of 350 



Swine, raising, in Mississippi, 50 ; feeding sows 421 



Sycamore, the 553 



Sylva, North American 332 



476 



324 

 190 

 211 

 523 



T. 



S. 



Saddles 



Safe, the salamander . . ', 



Saleratus ... 



Sandwich Islands ..'.'. 



Sap, circulation of . 



Schemes, new and untried *. 



Science, a co-worker, 554 ; in farming .' 



^'i^f'J'%,^f^'^' Westboro', 317, 334. 



Scythe, fastenings . . , ' • • 

 Shelter for stock ..."'*' 

 Shoveldom ...'*"' 



. 87 



. 128 

 383, 426 



. 398 

 312, 380 



. 286 

 418 



572 

 265 

 420 

 238 



Tan, bark 



Timber, change of, from clearing land*, 35; 

 durability of, 45 ; Kyanizing, 341, 363 ; 

 preserving ....,,. 



Theory and practice 



Thistles, Canada, 389 ; how to destroy . 



Thorn and quince stock 



Thought, bits of • 



Tomato, the, 398, 430 ; drjing the 



Tools, good, 211 ; for the boys 



Transplanting ...... 



Travel, sketches of 



Traveller, the young 



Trees, washes for the surface of, 72 ; old apple, 

 75, 254; the chestnut, 86; from seed, 88; 

 cultm-e among, 89; dwarfing fruit, 120; 

 thorn and quince stock for pear, 143 ; wash 

 for, 185 ; ornamental, 185 ; and shade, 235 ; 

 experiment on, 251; the pine, 279; fruit, 

 280 ; peach, 92 ; manuring fruit, 93 ; apple, 

 large product of, 306; grafting old, 314; 

 trimming the pine, 339, 374 ; apple girdled, 

 365; apple killed by potash; 374; inocu- 

 lation of, 412; fruit, effect of high culture 

 on, 379 ; value of, 414; depth of roots of, 

 454; anewcatalpa, 462; forcing the growth 

 of, 463 ; destroying, 478 ; extraordinary site 

 of a, 494 ; on setting young, 496 ; a prolific 

 pear, 497 ; fraud in fruit, 529 ; transplanting 

 and grafting 



262 



388 

 315 

 574 



58 

 170 

 464 

 389 

 227 

 251 



54 



546 



