INDEX TO VOLUME XL 



Agricullural Education, 13 



Arnold's Patent Sash Lock, 17 



Arsenic for the Wire Worm, 18 



Answers to Correspondents, 



25, 46, 73 97, 145. 194, 215, 242, 287 



Agriculture, 51, 75, 99 



Address before the Jeft'. Co. Ag. Soc. 67 



April, 99 



American Ag., A general view of,- 130 



Answers to Inquiries, 134 



Am. Fomolopical Congress, 169, 193 



Apples, Northern Spy 1(39 



Analogy between Animal and Veg- 

 etable Life 171, 196, 268 



Appearance of the Crops — Geology, T81 



A Curiosity, 194 



Ayrshire Bull, Dandy, 212 



Apples, Red Astracanand Northern 



Spy, 217 



Am. Ag. statistics in G. Britain,.. 235 



Ag. Societies and Exhibitions, 249 



Analysis of the Apple, 250 



Acknowledgements, _ 267 



A Good Garden essential to Good 



Living, 268 



Architecture. Bureau of, 286 



B 



Bit of Practical Farming, 15 



Butter, Chemical proprieties of,... 60 



Benefit of Deep Plowing, 86 



Bones as a manure, — 87 



Beaiia, Culture of, 88 



Bourassa Apple, 96 



Bone manure, durability of, 106 



Bickford &, Huffman's Drill, 136 



Bees and Bee Houses, 140 



Budding and Layering, — 144 



Butter making,.- 146 



Bees,. . .163, 181, 208, 229, 263, 



Barns and Farm Gates, 213 



Balsams, 218 



Best mode of feeding Bran, 256 



Bloodgood Pear, 266 



Bezyde Montigny Pear, 287 



Composition of Bones and Guano,. 11 



Care of Stock, 16 



Cultivation of the Sweet Potato in 



New York, 18 



Canada Thistles, 20 



Chrysanthemum in China 23 



Canandaigua Pear, - 24 



Country Girls, 27 



Canada Thistles, to destroy, 35 



Carrots in France, cultivation of,.. 36 



Corn vs Wheat,— Drill C ulture, &e. 38 



Corn sheller, 66 



Canada Thistles, destruction of, 76 



Corn tii Wheat, 85 



Calf, alarge, 91 



Curcuiio, remedy for, 97 



Corn, the cost of producing, 105 



Cow found, Ill 



Cultivator, Roger's wheeled, 112 



Chess, 160 



Curcuiio, Whitewashing a remedy 



for, 169 



Cherries, Duke ana Morrello, 191 



— Dr. Kirtland's, &c., 192 



Chapin'a portable Cider Mill, 213 



Currants— Victoria, Cherry, 216 



Chmbing Rosea, treatment of, 219 



Cow again, 234 



Cobea Scandens, 241 



Carrying Fruits to market, 243 



Chess and Wheat, 254 



Country Houses, 260 



Canada Thistles, 280 



Cottage, a small bracketea, 281 



Closing words for 1850 288 



Coffee, adulteration of, 288 



I» 



Drill, use of, 39 



Drain Tile machine,.. 41 



Design for a suburban residence, . - 44 



Dwarf Stocks, 49 



Diana Grape, 120 



Dignity of Labor, 147 



Devon Cattle, 161 



Death of the President, 196 



Draining, 210 



Durham Cattle, 235 



Design for a small cottaee — 260 



Dix Pear, r.. 286 



Diana Grape, 237 



Ditches, 280 



K 



Early Rising, 2/ 



Editor's Table, 29, 52, 76. 100, 124, 148 



172, 197, 220, 245, 269, 289 



Emery's Cylinder Dynamometer, . . 117 



Effects of the Winter on vegetation, 145 



Exercise, - 146 



Elder — Gapes, 160 



Elder, 207 



English Ladies' sports. 219 



English and American Landscapes, 243 



Experience of a Young Farmer, 251 



Exhibition of Winter fruits, 267 



F 



Fowls, 19, 276 



Fall Pippins, 25 



Farm House, convenient plan for,. 63 



Filtering Cisterns, 68 



Fowls, Fowl Books, &c. , 93 



Flowers, a word for the, 98 



Family Scene, 99 



Farming in North Carolina, 113 



Flower Gardening, 123 



Flowers, Correspondence, &c.,... 123 



Fowls, chapter on, 141 



Fruit "rrees, selection of varieties, . 142 



Flower Gardens, 170 



Fair and Flowers of Seneca Co., — 171 



Farm House, plan of, 183 



Fowls, Game, 189 



Fire blight in Pear, Apple and 



Quince, 192 



Fair for 1850, 230 



Farmer's Guide, 238 



Fattening Stock, 239 



Fruit Ladder, 266 



Farm Improvement, 281 



a 

 Gypsum — its elements and value, . 34 



Good time coming 38 



Gossip with the Ladies, 74 



Grasses, the analysis and study of, 81 



Gas Lime, value of, - 118 



Grapes and Pears, 145 



Guano and Lime, 211 



— Fraudin, 256 



H 



House and Home, 26 



Hints 27 



Hemlock Soil, 35 



Husbandry in Belgium, 36 



Hemlock Lands, 87 



Ilmts for May 107 



Hard-Pan Soils, 113 



Hydraulic Ram, 116 



Hints for July, 157 



Halfday inEastWajrne Co., 184 



Horticultural Exhibitions, — 193 



Hovey's Seedling Strawberry, 218 



Horticultural Show at the Stmte 



Fair, 242 



How to kill Elders, and improve 



the Farm, 253 



Horticultural Exhibitions, 263 



Hints for November, 265 



Horticultural Socie^, Mass., 285 



Imported Cattle — Bates' stock, 42 



Insects on the roots of Corn, 87 



Influence of the Stock upon the 



Graft, --. 96 



Improved Short Horns — Bates' 



stock, - 136 



Insects, destruction of, 209 



Ice Houses, 277 



J 



Jumping at Conclusions, 12 



January, 21 



Jefferson Co. Agricultural Fair, — 43 



Jane and John of Fnrmersville, 50 



Johnston's Lectures, 261 



I. 



Light in the East, 73 



Live Fences, ^ 91 



Large White Grub, 118 



Large Fleeces, 228 



Luscomb's Nonsuch Plum 244 



Lame Hogs, 256 



Letter from Holland, 276 



Letter from Lake Co., Ohio, 278 



lU 



Magnolias, 22 



More Light given, 41 



Milk — Its composition, 59 



Magnolias, 72 



March, 75 



Meteorological Abstracts of 1848-9, 91 



Manure, wrong application of, 111 



Management of Trees, Hints on,.. 110 



Milk story, 138 



Munson Sweet & Northern Sweet- 

 ing Apples, 168 



Moss and Rough Bark on Trees, - . . 194 



Muscat Robert Pear, 218 



Manners of American Ladies, 219 



Mutton, Production of, 274 



Manure, Howtoapply, &c., 277 



Mustard, Wild, 278 



Manure, management of. 279 



N 



Northern S weeting Apple, 24 



Notes for the Month,... 45, 61, 82, 108 



132, 161. 186, 214, 238, 258 



N. Y. State Ag. Soc. Prem,...114, 139 



Nightsoil, preparation of, 129 



New Pear, 244 



Nicholas Longworth, of Cincinnati, 266 

 Northern Spy Apple, 267 



Our Cause and Ourselves, '9 



Organic Acids — Parasite Plants — 

 Minerals, 12 



