INDEX TO VOLUME XI. 



Our Homestead, 50 



Okro 59 



Orcliard and Garden, cultivation of, 284 

 P 



Prinf^iplea of Agriculture, 33 



Products of Wayne Co., 45 



Pruning, facts to be remembered in, 46 



Pruning tile Pencil Tree, 47 



Pear Bligbt, 49 



Plowing, when, and when not to 



plow, — 58 



Preserving Fence Posts from Rot, . fi5 

 Pruning and Training of Hardy 



Grape Vines, i.^c., 69 



Pomological Couvention, 71 



Pear Seedlings, 72 



Patent Suction and Force Pumps,. 90 

 Pruning Trees at the time of trans- 

 planting, 94 



Plow, - 107 



Plowing, horizontal, 118 



Pyramidal Trees, Summer manage- 

 ment of, 143 



Pruning 145 



I'ntent Office Report, 154, 178, 2B2 



Pear Trees, French management of, 16lJ 

 Proceedings of the sectond Congress 



of Fruit Growiers, 167 



Peonies, ??? ---- 169 



Portraits of "Eminent Horticultu- 

 rists," 169 



Pigeon Weed, or Red Root,. -.187, 275 



Profits of Poultry, -- 210 



Premiums awarded at the N. Y. 



Slate Fair, - 232 



Peat Charcoal manure, 239 



Peaches,.. 242 



Poultry statistics, --- 256 



Preparation for Winter — Its im- 

 provement, - 257 



Potash as a fertilizer, 273 



B. 



Rural Pursuits, 40 



Recipes, 67 



Rotting Straw, 118 



Remedy for Ignorance,. 162 



Resuscitation of worn out lands,.. 177 



Remarkable Fleeces, 182 



Railroad Horse Powers and Fan 



Mill, - - 2.37 



Remedy for Split Hoof, 237 



Rhubarb, Gooseberries, &c., 241 



Rough and Ready Apple 244 



Raising Water by the Syphon, ... 256 



Root Pruning, 285 



S 



►Study of .Agriculture, 10 



Salt as a Manure, 14 



Seymour and Morgan's Improved 



Reaping Machine, 16 



Sally Sly and Jenny McKean's 



Butter, 26 



Spirit of the Agricultural Press, ... 28 



Slock in Genesee Co., 35 



Simple Remedy for Brittle Feet in 



Horses, -- 35 



Seneca Co. Fair and Transactions, 40 



Sub-Soil Plowing, 57 



Smut in Wheat, and the cause of it, . 



*2, 83, 109, 159, 205, 254 



Sail as a Manure, 63, 185 



Swine, management of, 65 



Sweet Potato, 63 



Stocks for grafting, - 73 



.Salt and Arsenic,.-- ' ^ 83 



Short-Horns — Bates' Stoek, 89 



Smut Bugs, Ill 



Striding Caterpillar, 118i 



Special Manures, 147 



Seymour's Grain Drill, 158 



Simple Fastening for an Ox-Cart,- 158 



Swine, 163 



Season, Crops, &c., — 168 



Stanvvick Nectarine, 169 



Sheep, Imported French Merinos,- 182 



Sub-Soiling, 184 



Shepherd's Dog, 183 



Stravvborrios, 190 



Scientific Farming, 209 



Selection of Varieties of Fruit, 215 



Sheafe's Sale of Improved Stock,- 235 



Selection of Site for Farm Houses, 240 



Summer Pears, 241 



Season. Fruit, Crop, &c., in the 



Eriebist., Pa.,.. 243 



Singular Freak of Nature, 2.52 



Smut, to prevent, &c., 254, 255 



Summer F'rancreal Pear, -- 266 



Sweet Home, - 268 



Sheep, Herdwick,--- 275 



Snapdragon, 278 



Sraw Cutter, a new, 278 



Sweet Potato, culture of, 280 



Spaying CowS; '- 280 



Season, the, 287 



T 



Troublesome Weed, 86 



The Milch Cow, &c., 83 



Tyson Pear, 96 



Troublesome Weed Ill 



Two fine Flowering Shrubs, 165 



To Destroy Insects on house plants 170 

 Trans, of tlie N, Y. State Ag. Soc, 



211, 213 

 Thoughts on the Present System 



of Am. Agriculture, 227 



Third Duke of Cambridge, 236 



Transplanting, 242 



Turkey, the,.. 283 



V 

 Value of Annealed Wire for Fences, 17 



Virginia Lands and Farming, 201 



View of State Show Grounds, 231 



IV 



Wheat, its mineral food 58 



Wire Telegraph Fence, ^ 64 



Woad,.... -.- 66 



Wheat, economy in raising, 86 



Wheat Fly, or Weevil, 87 



Weeping Tree Roses, 121 



Wheat, Rust on, •- 1.17 



Wheat, Corn vs., 138 



Wheat Culture 153, 221 



Wool in Orleans Co., 226 



Wintering Stock, 234 



WireWbrm, 256, 277 



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noMESTiC ANIMALS, FOWLS, &C, 



Cochin China Fowls, 19 



Black Poland Top Knot Fowls,... 20 



Dorking Fowls 93 



Cochin China Fowl, 140 



Bantam, 141 



Devon Bull, "Holkham," 131 



Fat Pigs, 164 



Game Fowls, 189 



Ayrshire Bull, "Dandy," 212 



Sebright Bantams, 219 



Third Diike of Cambridge, 236 



IMPLKMKNTS AND MACHINES. 



Seymour & Morgan's improved 



Reaping Machine, 16 



Tile Machine, _. 41 



Yankee Corn Sheller '- 66 



Rogers' PatentWheeled Cultivator, 1 12 



Bickford & Hofl'man's Grain Drill,. 1.37 



Seymour's Grain Drill, 1.58 



Dog Power 189 



(Jrain Binders Wheel Rake 197 



flhnpin's Portnlile Cider Mill, 213 



New Railroad Horse Power and 



Feed Mill, 237 



KAKM nUlLDlNGS, &.C. 



Design for a Suburban Residence,. 44 



Plan of n F.arm HoHse, 183 



Design for a Small Cottage, 260 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Arnold's Patent Sash Lock, 17 



Wire Telegraph Fence, 64 



Sweet Potato, 68 



Floral Rake 74 



.Suction and Force Pumps, 91 



Buckthorn Hedge, 92 



Fowl House 93 



Hydraulic Ram, 116, 113 



Cylinder Dynamometer, 118 



Bee House, 147 



Scotch Sheep Dog, 183 



Kendall's Cheese Preee, 197 



Show of State Fair, 231 



Chess and Wheat, 254 



Portrait of Prof. Johnston 261 



HORTICULTURE. 



Magnolia, 22 



Northern Sweeting Apple, 24 



Canandaigua Pear, 2-5 



Five figures illustrating the mode 

 and effects of pruning Peach 



Trees, 47, 43 



Five figures illustrating the pruning 

 and training of Grape Vines, 



69, 70, 71 



Pear Seedling 72 



Hot-Bed Frame, 73 



Poach Tree one year from bud,--. 94 



Standard Cherry, two years old,.- 94 

 Dwarf Pears, one year from bud, . . 95 



Tyson Pear, 96 



Bourassa Apple, 96 



Nemophila Maculala, 98 



Diana Grape 120 



Weeping Tree Rose, 121 



Figure illuslrating the Summer 



management of Pyramidal Trees, 11.3 

 Figures illustrating Budding and 



Layering, 144 



Lance leaved Spir-Tea, 165 



Kim leaved Spir.ta, 165 



Flour Garden, 171 



Reine Hortense Cherry, 191 



Donna Maria CMierry, 192 



Victoria Currant 217 



Cherry Currant 217 



Muscat Robert Pear 213 



Climbing Cohea, 241 



Rough and Ready Apple 244 



Luscombc's Nonsuch Plum, 244 



Bloodgood Pear,-- 269 



Summer Francreal Pear 266 



Design for a small Bracketed Cot- 

 tale, 282 



Domestic Turkey, 283 



Dix Pear 286 



Bezy de Montigny Pear, 287 



