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INDEX TO VOLUME XT. 



©reen wood, viuprofitableness of, 



Groundnuts, tlio trade in, 



Guano and gypsum, -- 



— on corn, 



— on cotton, 



— on potatoes and corn, 



— on wheat, 



— Pettit's fisheries,.- ,-- 



— the amount on the Chincha Islands, 



— the best mode of applying,. 



— the trade in, 



— trade, horrors of, 



— with plaster, lime and ashes, 



6uUe, 



H. 

 High manuring, - 



Hint for every reader, 



Hints for the season, 



Hogs, how to fatten, 



— how to keep, - 



— in Kentucky, number of, 



— packed in the West,.. 



— remarks on, 



Home of taste, - 



Honey a profitable crop, -- 



Horses, colic in, 55, 



— foot-evil in, — 



— method of administering medicines to 



— poU-evil in, - 



— remedy for sore backs, — 



— sale of In New York, 



— scours in, 



— the breeding and rearing of, 56, 



Horticultural Exhibitions, &c., in Cay- 

 uga and Tompkins counties, 



— Soc. of the Valley of the Genesee, 93, 

 Hydraulic ram, 



I. 

 Ice-houses, 



Insect, a destructive, 



Insects, destruction of, 



Interesting discovery, 



Idternal commerce of the West,. 



Inquiries and answers, 37, 66, 127, 163, 



227, 260, 292, 323, 355, 



Irrigation and insects, — 



— experiments in, 



— importance of, 



— in the old vrorld, 



— spring and river water for, 



J. 



January, operations for, 



Japan Cedar, ---_- 



July, operations for, 20o, 



June, hints for, 



— operations for, 



L 



Lftdies and agriculture, 



Leguminous plants, 



Lightning conductors, 



LiriumTuouipsoniaum, 



Lime and ashes, experiments with, 



Linen trade, eil'ect of the Russian war 



upon, 



Utera7y notices, 65, 162, 195, 227, 291, 



356, 



London Crystal Palace, - - - 



M. 

 Manure, cost of, -- 



— covered and uncovered, 



— experiments with, 



— fire-fanged, :---.-.--- 



— from sewers, cess-pools, &c., in cities, 



— how to convert straw into, — 



— its properties of sinking in the soil,. 



— the study of, - 



Hills for grinding feed, 



Mince pies, how to make without mince, 

 Moffil's Grain Separator, trial of in 



England, 



Mothers, advice to, 



Mount Vernon for an Agricultural Col- 

 lege, 



N. 



Kebraska and Kansas, 



Kemophila insipnis, - . 



Notices of periodicals, &c., 36, 37, 12V, 

 194, 226, 258, 259, 322, 



— to correspondents, 65, 



Kovember, hints for, 



50 



151 



127 



78 



77 



78 



27 



244 



79 



368 



240 



250 



348 



13 



322 



63 



96 



33 



355 



322 



193 



175 



257 



36 



291 



185 



309 



308 



152 



259 



86 



172 



251 

 253 

 235 



366 

 219 

 94 

 162 

 333 

 195 

 381 

 129 

 335 

 275 

 143 

 267 



0. 



Obituary notice of the death of Mrs. 



Daniel Lee, 226 



October, hints for, 298 



(Ml for machinery, wagon wheels, &c.,. 305 



Orchard, singular disease in, — .- 223 



Oregon, letter from 213 



Ornamental flower sUmds, 220 



Osage Orange, -- 68, 90 



Patent Office Report for 1852-3, items 



from, - 20, S32 



Peach ochards, ripening of the fruit,.. 350 



— trees, a select list of, 31 



remedy for the curl, 377 



Peaches, different methods of preparing 



for the table, 257 



Pear culture and vegetable physiology,. 91 



— Sheldon, 283 



— trees, River's remarks on, 33 



Pears, descriptions of new varieties, ... 253 



— gathering and preservation o^ 319 



— on Mountain Ash stocks, 235 



— on Quince stocks, 350 



— winter, cultivation of, 373 



Philosophy of advertising, 35 



Pie plant, ashes as a manure for, 224 



Pine wood in Eastern Virginia, 282 



Plan and description of a cheap Farm 



Cottage, - 151 



of a Fai-m Cottage in the Ru- 

 ral Pointed stvle, 61 



of a Manure Cellar and Barn,. 49 



of an Octagon Barri, 119 



of Denwood, a private resi- 

 dence at Germantown, Pa., 180 



of Messina, a country seat on 



the Hudson, - - 276 



Plow vs. spade, 118 



Plumbago larpent<e, 189 



Plum trees, how to prevent insects from 



ascending, 124 



disease of, 68 



Poland oats, 227 



Pomolog-ical gardens in California, 377 



— literature, critical remarks on, 187 



Potato culture, 79, 148, 193, 305, S36 



— digger, - . 355 



— insect, . 116 



— prejudice against it in olden time, 218 



— rot, cause and cure of, 126 



Potatoes for seed, how to preserve, 280 



— in Ireland, 365 



— manure for, 66 



— sound and unsound, 11 



— storing, 305 



— their deterioration and improvement, 146 



— to prevent the rot in, 47 



Poultry cholera, a preventive, 185 



— economy. 



the breeding and reai-ing of, 25 



Poudrette, home manufacture of, 346 



Produce, speculations in regard to fu- 

 ture prices, 321 



a 



Queer logic for an editor, 289 



Question for the scientific, 319 



R 



Rain-guage, or pluviometer, 273 



Ranunculus, cultivation of, 255 



Recipe for boiling fresh pork,. 160 



cooking onions, 353 



sweet potatoes, 160 



curing bone felon, 22 



dysentery, 353 



destroying bedbugs, — 353 



drying pumpkin, 353 



fixing carpets on Hobrs, 218 



keeping green corn, 288 



pickles, 288 



making a blue and yellow wash 



for walls, 1 95 



apple frittere, 353 



pies without apples, 378 



arrowroot and rice flour blanc- 

 mange, 160 



a wa.sh for the head, 160 



beef soup, a la Francaise, 160 



Buckeye bread,. 22 



buttermilk pop, 95 



chilblain liniment, 353 



crackers, 86 



Recipe for making cup cakes, 



ginger bread, 



snaps, - .- 



green corn soup, — 



gum paste, 



hoe cake, ^ 



instantaneous black ink, .".. 



jumbles, — - 



Kentucky corn cake, — 



milk porridge, •-- 



mince pies without mince, 



Minot's pudding,... 



. pancakes fried without butter, 



pineapple jelly, 



rock cakes, — 



soda bread and biscuit, 



sponge ciike, 



substitute for cream, 288, 



tomato pickles, 



■ removing marks from tables, 



roasting fowls, 



Reciprocity Treaty with Canada, .. 313, 

 Red ants, to keep out of closets, &c., .. 



Rhubarb, cultivation of, ._ 



Roses, propagation of, 



— on the Manetti stock, 



— Remontant, description of different 

 varieties, 



Rumination, 



Rural life, 



Rye grass, Italian, 



a 



Saxe-GothcEa conspicua, 



Seeds, a few words on the vitality of, .. 



September, hints for, 



Sheep and cattle in Scotland, 



— and wool, 



— experiments in feeding, 



— foot-rot in, 271, 282, 



— from Ohio in Illinois, 



— house-feeding of, 



— how to ^vinter 100 from two acres of 

 land, 



— New Leicester, 



— observations on in-and-in breeding, . 



— raising in Illinois, 



-in Virginia, ■- 



— Southdown, — 



Shell marl, 



Slavery of ignorance and vice, 



Smoke-consuming stove, 



Smoked hams, how to keep, 



Soils, moisture in, 



— the absorptive power of, 



— the hygroscopic power of, 



— ' the study of, -. 



Something about schools, 



Spare the birds, ...^ 



Stable ventilation, remarks on, 



Steam, the purifying effects of, 



Stock, foreign, introduction of into S. 



Carolina, -- 



— rules in breeding, . 



Stone walls, 



Strawberries, second crop of, 



— improvement in, 



— Southworth's, 



Straw on wheat fields, — 



Stump Machine, new, 



Superphosphate of lime, 15, 



Swine, imported, 



— tlie profit of fattening, 



95 

 378 



160 

 288 



18 

 288 

 353 

 28S 

 160 



22 

 367 

 343 

 352 

 224 

 124 



28 

 272 

 125 

 365 



373 



61 



266 



51 



339 



43 



370 



259 



311 



218 



87 



369 



259 



28Z 



52 



66 



192 



80 



21 



364 



183 



173 



234 



313 



185 



343 



55 



371 

 22 

 145 

 256 

 251 

 219 

 355 

 336 

 117 

 380 

 245 



Tansy va. the peach worm, 319 



Teas "of commerce, black and green, ... 223 



The Genesee Farmer and its contempo- > 



raries, 34, 63 



— study of the calendar, '. 204 



Thin seeding, . -_ 275 



Threshing grain, 31S 



Tile, how to manufacture, 148 



To the ladies, 95 



Tobacco, cultivation of in Afiica, 281 



Transactions of the Rhode Island Soci- 

 ety for the encouragement of domes- 

 tic industry, 170 



Trees and shrubs of California and Ore- 

 gon, - -- 158 



— hints on the rearing and manage- 



' mentof, 220 



— to cure the canker in, 314 



Trial < f churns at the New York Crys- 

 tal Palace, 304 



