INDEX TO VOLUME XV. 



vn 



U. 



Onderdraining, 78 



tTnfermented bread, 48 



University of Georgia, 289 



Useful hints, 125, 191 



— metal, 259 



V. 

 Valley of the Amazon, 300 



Vegetable vitality, ....» - 111 



Veterinary knowledge, 290 



— School at Alfort, 54 



Victoria Regia in open ponds,. .. 286 



w. 



Washing machine, the Knuckle, 35-1 



Wash-tub, Wisner's patent, 342 



Watermelons, Orange and Ice Cream, 

 description o^ 352 



Water-tight cellars, how to make, 206 



AVhat can be done in a garden, 376 



— shall we eat? 281 



Wheat after corn, 107 



— beuetit of nitrate of soda on, 348 



— crop in Illinois, 213 



— culture in Massachusetts, . 50, 344 



the United States and Canada, ... 201 



Western New York, ^ 372 



— drills, 38 



— fl}', orweevil,. * 258 



— how to improve, 250 



— its introduction into the Valley of 

 the Mississippi, 126 



— manner of harvesting and saving, .. 365 



— on old lands, 37 



— preparing land for, 246 



— sowing and fallowing, 274 



— splendid specimen of, 372 



Why don't the ladies learn to cook ?.. . 191 

 Wind engine, Halliday's, 356 



— mill for raising water, 312, 347 



Wine, American, 228 



'■ recipe for making, 323 



— currant, recipe for making, 269 



Willow, Kilmarnock Weeping, 256 



— Marsh, how to destroy, 128 



— Osier, 9T 



Wool, decline in the price of, 20$ 



— growing in Australia, 127 



in California, 355 



— interest, 169 



Woman, epigram on, 257 



— proverbs on, . 288 



Words of encouragement, 379 



Y. 



Yellow dock, how to destroy,; 3S3 



INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. 



TOWLS AXD DOITESTIC ANIMALS. 



ISroup of Cochin China fowls, 24 



Portrait of an Ayrshire cow, 215 



■—Cleveland stallion, 56 



"—■Earl Spencer's prize Short-horn ox,. 142 



■ — Holderness cow, 215 



I— New Leicester sheep, 88, 89 



•— Short-horn buU, 214 



s*» South. Down sheep, 63, 63 



FARM AND OTHER BUILDINGS. 



Carriage-house and Stable, 241 



Church in the Romanesque (or Lom- 

 bard) style,.... 248 



Cottage in the Rural Pointed style, 61 



tJenwood, a private residence at Ger- 



mantown. Pa., 181 



Farm Cottage,' 151 



Improved Octagon Barn, 120 



Ksssina, a country seat on the Hudson, 276 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Atkins' Automaton, or Self-raking 



Reaper and Mower, 27 



Eagle Cotton Gin Ill 



Ice-cutting at Rockland Lake, 366 



— implements used, 367 



Ornamentil Flower Stands, 220 



Patent Smoke-consuming Stove, 81 



Plan of a Manure Cellar, 49 



Seven figures, illustrating the manner of 

 gathering and preserving fruits, 315 — 318 



The Months : __ 



July, 7. 204 



August, 233 



September, 266 



October, 299 



November, 331 



December, 363 



Tillinghast's Centrifugal Chum, 304 



Water Tower, 30 



Wheat Midge, or Weevil, i 238 



Wind-mill for raiding water, 312 



Wisner' 3 Patent Wash-tub, 342 



HORTICULTURAL. 



Clematis azurea, 252 



Dwarf Cherry Tree, 23 



Houghton's Seedling Gooseberry, 123 



Japan Cedar, 188 



King Apple, i 59 



Lilium Thompsonianum, 351 



Lonicera fragrantissima, 285 



Nemophila, 189 



New Eochelle (or Lawton) Blackberry, 157 

 Osage Orange Hedge, manner of trim- 

 ming, M 



Plumbago larpentje, 189 



Saxe-Gothaea conspicua, branch o^ 374 



fructification o^ 375 



Sheldon Pear, 283 



Victoria Regia in open ponds, 2SS 



