VI 



INDEX. 



Troop, Alexander 



Turnips and radishes, 281; crop, 302, 330; 

 and grass seed, 406, 455 ; and pigs 



U. 



United States, wealth of 



V. 



Valley, poisoned 



Vegetable economy, 312; reproduction . 

 Vegetation of the Arctic regions 

 Vehicles, housing and painting farm 

 Ventilation ....... 



Vermont State Agricultural Society, 400 ; 



State fair 



Vines, to prevent bugs from eating, 341, 402 ; 



summer pruning of the grape 



W. 



Wages of farmers and others .... 



Walks, to make good 



Walnuts, Persian 



War 



Warts, how to cure .... 368, 



Watering ....... 



Weather, warm, advantage of, 13, 16; the 

 Webster, Daniel's, mansion .... 



Weeds, 316 ; investments in, 329 ; white, 356, 



364 ; a new 



Weight of farm products per bushel 



Wens, bone 197, 



Westborough, farm at 



Wheat, what kills the, 452 ; culture of, 456 ; 



why don't the farmers of Massachusetts 



raise, 464, 541 ; winter .... 

 Winter, a Siberian, 21 ; lectures, 22 ; a mild . 



Wives, farmers' 



Wood, destruction of 



Words, pleasant, from down East . 



Worm, the core, 109 ; the onion, 326, 400 ; 



the palmer, 339, 354, 362, 374, 405, 408, 436 ; 



the apple 



Page 

 649 



541 



239 



483 



The American Crab Apple 



Silesian Merino Ewes . 



Bloodgood and Rostiezer Pears 



Remedy for Choked Cattle 



Forcing Vegetation ; Hot Bed 



Vicar of Winkfield . 



Grafting 



Clark's Excelsior Chum 



Emery's Reaping and Mowing Machine 



bined .... 

 Guenon on Milch Cows . 

 Beurre d'Anjou Pear 

 Brush Seed-sower 



456'*pian and Description of a Primary School 



89 



164 



40 



482 



407 



243 

 400 

 545 

 384 

 399 

 278 

 415 

 435 



366 

 285 

 204 

 253 



475 

 144 



77 

 451 

 358 



453 



Yarrow, or wild camomile 

 Year, the new 



281 

 9 



Z. 



Zinc, sulphate of 228 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Hunt Russet . 



Bull, " Earl of Seaham ' 



Canker Worms 



Vegetable Cutter . 



The Urbaniste Pear 



Steaming Apparatus 



Bull Rings 



The Long-stem Apple 



The Garden Royal Apple 



En 



house in Exeter, N. H 

 Spanish Merino Ewes 

 Phelps's Bee Hive .... 

 Monamet Sweeting, Golden Sweeting 

 Watering Pot, Water Carrier, Garden 



gine . . . r 

 Cisterns .... 

 Yellow Siberian Crab Apple 

 Fancy Lop-ear Rabbits . 

 Application of Wind as a Power for raising 



Water 

 French Buck Matchless 

 Sliding Pruning Shears, Garden or Hedg 



Shears, Grass-edging or Border Shears 

 The Black Tartarean Cherry 

 A Wheel Hoe 

 May's Victoria Currant . 

 Thorough-bred Ayrshire Bull, Prince Albert 

 Budding and Pruning Knives 

 Earth or Road Scraper . 

 Atkins's Automaton Self-raking Reaper 

 Deep TiUer, No. 77 

 The Tyson, Dearborn's Seedling and Osborn 



Pears . 

 Muskingum Pear . 

 Horse Consternation 



Seckle and Louise Bonne de Jersey Pears 

 Alderney Cow 

 One-horse Farm Tilt Cart 

 A Number One Fence . 



POETRY. 



Page 

 113 



129 

 144 

 145 

 161 

 177 

 182 

 192 



206 

 209 

 225 

 241 



257 

 273 

 289 

 293 



304 

 305 

 321 

 337 



353 

 369 



377 

 385 

 401 



401 

 417 

 433 

 433 

 449 

 465, 467 



480 

 497 

 513 



528 

 554 

 561 

 57» 



Harvest Hymn 



Corn Song . . , 



TThe Farmer . 



A Song for the Million . 



Plowman's Song 



Harvest Hymn 



Commonwealth of Bees 



Winter Sports 



Autumn and Winter 



The Flowers . 



The Milkmaid and the Banker 



Love all . 



Wait a while . 



The old Green Lane 



Morning 



Speed the Plow 



The Farmer's Song 



The Farmer's Daughter 



The Seasons . 



The Happy Farmer 



The Sabbath . 



The White Clover . 



A Lesson in Grammar . 



15 

 21 



117 

 186 

 253 

 36 

 41 

 54 

 95 

 326 

 349 

 372 

 400 

 424 

 431 

 451 

 460 

 468 

 477 

 482 

 493 

 519 

 532 



