INDEX TO VOLUME XVI. 



A. 

 Acacia diffusa, 319 



— marginata, 190 



Agricultural Bureau, National, 47 



— education, 191, 368 



— fairs and cattleahows, 300 



tents for, 258 



— lectures, _ 114 



— literature, progress ofi 34 



— plants, study of, 172 



— societies, __ 116 



— Society, New York State, Transac- 

 tions for 1854, 378 



Youths* 376 



— statistics, 25 



— suggestions from travel, 257 



Agriculture, geology as connected with, 121 



— how shall we improve our,.. 206 



— important fact in, 300 



— relations of chemistry to, 238, 267 



— study of, 97 



Almonds, earth, or chufas, 228 



Alum whey, .._ 96 



American implements in France, 308 



Analyses of milk, 78 



Analysis of guano, 107 



— human excrement, 107 



— leaves, 23 



-shell marl, 62 



Animal foods, 226 



Animals, domestic, improving, 177, 201, 233 



265, 297, 329, 361 

 Apple grafts, keeping, 324 



— Melon,. 291 



— molasses and apple butter,., j _. 24 



— tree bark-louse, remedy for, 99 



— trees, new depredators on, 29 



planting orchai'ds of, 125 



Apples, culture of at the wes^ 28, 91 



— for general cultivation, 58 



— keeping,. 324 



— new disease in,. , 90 



varieties which promise well, 68 



— ripening of, 282 



— to prevent being wormy,.. 61 



Apricots for general cultivation, 58 



April, 129 



Arbors, ^... 69 



Aehe3 and plaster in the hill for corn,.. 341 

 Auriculas, culture of, 95 



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Bark-louse, ravages of the, 152 



— remedy for the, 99 



Bariev, culture of, 144 



— Salt Lake, 61 



Barn, L. F. Allen's premium, 344 



Bean poles, raising, 323 



Bee culture, 12 



— moth, remedy for, 369 



Bees, habits and instincts of, 211 



— hiving, 213 



Beets, sugar, culture o^ 74 



Berberis pallida, 319 



Big head in horses, treatment of, 277 



Bird islands, 220 



Black-knot, 61 



— remedies for, I...'. 188 



Black-leg in calves, cause of, 67 



Blight in the pear, , 314 



BUnd. ot- wolf- teeth in horse's',! 117 



Bloody murrain, preventive of,.. 196 



Bones and their uses, 46,162, 229 



-in the soil, I73 



Books, notices of, 



Botanical gardens, 285 



Bread, ropy, and yeast fungi, 64 



Budding, 



Buff color en cotton, 



Bugs in peas, remedy for, 243 



— to keep from vines, . 



Butter, effects of temperature on the 

 yield of, .- 



Cabbage, culture of, 241 



— worms, to destroy, 61 



clubbing of the roots in, remedy for, 322 



— hints on transplanting, 241 



— to destroy the green insect on, 241 



241 



— to keep the fly from, 



— to prevent from growing to *'long 

 shanks," 241 



the ravages of the black grub on, 241 



Cake, winter, 60 



Calves, cause of black-leg or quarter in, 67 



— rearing, 147 



Canada thistles, law relating to, 323 



— — to destroy, 243 



Candles, making, 379 



Carrots, culture of, 74 



Caterpillars, to destroy, 209, 215 



CatUe,.. 77 



— American, for the Crimea, 194 



— beef, price of, 176 



— choked, to relieve, 276 



— experiments in feeding, 98 



— Galloway,.. 342 



— Herd Book of, 62, 160 



— hollow horn in, 162 



— improving, 177 



principles of, 201, 233, 265, 361 



— in New Hampshire, 118 



— lice on, to destroy, 80, 139 



— native, improvement of, 41 



— points of excellence in, 233 



— rape cake for feeding, 19 



— Red Durham,. 63 



— science of wintering, , 9 



— Short-horns, improved, 178 



— to preserve from disease in winter,,. 372 



— warta on, to cure, 53 



Celery, culture of, 163 



Cellars, manure, 115 



— rat-proof, 36 



Cement, broken china, to, 227 



Cemeteries, rural, 221 



Change not always improvement, 354 



Chemical question for boys and girls,.. 64 

 Chemistry of soils, 11 



— relations of, to agriculture, 238, 267 



Cherries for general cultivation, 68 



— new varieties which promise well,.. 68 



Chickens, food for, 274 



Chufas, or earth almonds, 228 



Cider, to keep, 116 



Cities, the feeding of, 73 



Clearing new land, 242 



Clover as a manuring crop, 340 



— seed, gathering and cleaning, 161 



Colts, breaking, 84 



Commemorative trees, 352 



Compost, leaves for, 22 



Cooking, what meat loses by it, 219 



Copperas as a deodorizer, 292 



fertilizer, 196 



Com and pork, 281 



— ashes and plaster in the hill for, 341 



— crops, good, _. _. 378 



— sweet, Stowell, 357 



Cottage, a symmetrical, 64 



— building, warming, &c., 311 



Cotton, consumption of in England, 25 



Cows, milch, feeding with sainfoin, 148 



how to feed, 21 



— summer and winter food for, 21 



— what breed would you recommend, . . 77 



Crocus, 377 



Crops and prices, 278 



— and the country 196 



season, 257 



Crows, to keep from corn, 144 



Cucumbers, great yield of, 117 



CurcuUo, 188 



— remedy for the, 60, 225 



Currants for general cultivation, 58 



D. 



Dairy business in New York, 246 



— management of the, 146 



— produce, effects of temperature on,.. 186 



— stock, improvement of,. 361 



Deep cultivation, importance of, ,. 214 



— plowing a remedy for weeds, 196 



in sandy soil, 132 



Deterioration of the soil, 121 



Dietetic buds and young shoots, 226 



Distillery slops, 113 



Dogs and sheep, important decision, 61 



Domestic animals, improving, 177 



principles of; 201, 233, 265, 297, 329 



361 



Drainage, 83 



-effects of on fruity 250 



— experience in, 218 



Drain-level, 79 



Dwarf fruit trees, 351 



E. 



Economy in time and labor, 63 



— in the kitchen,. 33 



— of farming, 105 



Education, rural, 191, 368 



European farming, „ 364 



F. 



Farm, athriving, 220 



— house, design for a, 370 



— life, make it attractive, 27^ 



— two acre, 290 



Farmers' creed, 24 



— lawns, 243 



— life, 254, 288 



Farming, changes ia, 303 



— economy of; .. 105 



— European, . 364 



— in Belgium, 18 



Chili, South America,. 142 



Eastern Pennsylvania, 15 



Essex Co., Mass, 49 



Hungary, 364 



Illinois and Wisconsin, 27 



— Minnesota, _ 80 



— Potter Co., Pa., 177 



— Wisconsin, 290 



tenant labor in, 44 



— and farmers, 65 



Farms, small, in Belgium, 18 



Feeding cattle, experiments in, 98 



— of cities, 73 



