INDEX TO VOLUME XXI. 



A 



About trees and country life, 348 



Acacia, Raspberry Jaro,. 281 



Acre", a large yield for two, 42, 116 



Affairs in Iowa, 178 



Agriculture and women, 376 



— Koglisb 289 



— shall it be taught in our common 



schools? 160, 216 



Agricultural discussions, 834 



— exhibitions, list of, 256. 2^7 



— Fair Suite, Illinois, 29S 



Iowa, 832 



Michigan, 832 



New Hampshire, 332 



New Jersey, 298 



]Sew York, 331 



Ohio, 831 



Provincial (C. W.) 817 



United States, 319 



— statistics of Canada, 201 



— papers as premiums, 81 S 



Horace Greeley on, 278 



influence of, 15 



Air drains 179 



Alpacas in Australia, Ill 



American lotus as a substitute for the 



potato, 309 



— Pomological Society, 313 



— wine, 155 



Amusements and recreations for farm- 

 ers and their families, 56, 116 



Animal food and bread, 368 



Animals, do they consume food in pro- 

 portion to iheir live weight,... 169, 208 



— look to the chests of your, 300 



— rationale of chewing the cud in ru- 



minating 79 



Apple, Baldwin, 186 



— king of Tompkins county, 92 



— lady, 12S 



— trees at the west, injury to, 62 



around the farm 59 



culture of dwarf pear and, 3.54 



dwarf, 812 



insect <ggs on the leaves of, 128 



— — renovating old, 153, 188 



unfruitful, 255 



Apples, Canadian, in England, 282 



— be>t six varieties of, for market pur- 



poses, 59, 157 



— for feeding, 183 



— keeping, 252 



— list of, which promise well, 313 



— would it be pnititable to raise sweet, 



for feeding cattle and swine ? 50 



Ashes, coal, as manure, 107 



— selling, 206 



Ayrshires as milkers, Ill 



— cows, yield of milk from, 270 



B 



Bacon beetle, 109 



— English, 15 



— how to cure 47, 82 



— singed, 45, 47 



Bark-louse, sure remedies for, 95, 218 



Barley, cultivacion of, 137 



— skinless, 27<i 



— soil best adapted to 138 



— steeping before sowing, 77 



— why, so often fails in NewYork, 77 



— winter, 285, 246 



Barn, design for complete farm-houre 



and, 272 



small farm-house and, 25 



Bates, Thomas, sketch of the life of,.. 12 



Beef, curing, for d rying; 82 



Beets, kind of, to plant, 122 



Bees, feeding in spring 117 



— hiving, management of, etc., 278 



Bees, hunting wild, 57 



— stealing 868 



— transporting, 206 



Beans and Indian corn forcows.,. 15, 46 



— California prolific, 156 



— how to plant 151 



— feeding, to milch cows, 118 



— profitable to raise white, 138 



Berberry, or barberry, 96 



Best food for laying fowls, : . . SO, 116 



Bed -room decoration, 93 



Bird's-foot trefoil, 208 



Birds, yellow, vs. the midge 44 



Blackberries, 89 



— list of, which promise well, 313 



Blanching celery, 312 



with charcoal, 220 



sawdust, 2"'3 



Black Hawks the best roadsters, 205 



Bloody murrain; 2U6 



Books, new, 96, ICl, 193, 226, 287, 820, 355 

 Bones as a fertitizer, 41, 105, 116, 147 



— for grape vinesi 121, 147 



Breadstuffs, on, 113, 147, 307 



British Yeoman, the hunting-horse,. . . 21 



Bricks about melons, 220 



Breeding, on cross, 387 



— or raising farm stock, 78, 116 



Broccoli, white sprouting, 64 



Buckwheat straf/ injurious to young 



pigs, 800 



Budded stocks, 286 



Budding the pear on thorn, 265 



— or grafting grape vines, 6-3 



Bug-eaten peas, 206 



Bug, the cucumber striped, 2J 8 



— the potato, 341, S.'i-l 



Bugs and cucumbers, 176 



— the battle of the, 261 



Butter making, . . 274 



hints on, 178 



in winter, 93 



— Scotch 17 



— taste of turnips in, 26 



— white specks in, 55 



Buildings for a small farm ^3 



a large farm, 82 



Cabbages, best lime for transplanting,. 151 



— where to sow, 1 22 



Calves, big 246 



— cure for scours in, 362 



— more good, 308 



— scours in 272 



— rearing; 19, 110 



selecting, for 48 



— wintering 44 



Canada thistles, 249 



Canlelupes, extra qualities of, 156 



Carrots, best mode of raising, and their 



value for stock, 85 



best variety for garden culture,. . 122 



— clcanins, 1 77 



— early short-horn, 110, 151 



— oats sown with, 146 



— vs. paraneps, 224 



Cashmere goats in Kentucky, 271 



value of, 17 



Cattle, choice of a breed of,. 340 



— best breeds of..... 160 



— cooking food for, 3ii2 



— disease caused by immature food, . . 270 



in Massachusetts, 222 



the, 168, 224, 8' lO 



— feeding 51 



— how to foretell the sex of the young 



of neat, 246 



— onions lor, 2T1 



— proper form and shape of, 20 



— rack, good, 19 



Cattle, remedy for weak eyes in,: 205 



— rules for judging fat, . . ". 364 



— salt for working, 309, 3C6 



— stalls, sparred floors for, 77 



— to kill vermin on, or fowls, 205 



— weak eyes in, 367 



— wintering, 204 



Cedars, when and how to transplant 



white, <H) 



Celery, blanching, 312 



^witli charcoal 22(J 



sawdust, 283 



Charcoal on old orchard land, 219 



Che&p and speedy way to set a grass 



plat, ifib 



— apparatus for giving salt to sheep,. . 2U5 

 Cheese, American and English meth- 

 ods of making, compared, 265 



— Herkimer county, 268 



— for England, . . . ." 29S 



Cherries, 89 



— best varieties of, fur family use and 



market, ." 340 



— how to preserve winter, 156 



— in California, 2S1 



— seedling 378 



Chestnut trees for groves, 3T4 



Chieken-li.;e, how to get rid of, 210 



Chufa, or earth almond, 125 



Clover, Alsike, 146 



— amount of plaster in, 243 



Coal ashes ns a manure, 107 



Colt cured of a rupture, 184 



Compost?, preparation of^ 11 



Corn and beans for milch cows, 15 



— and potatoes 149 



— applying manure to, m 



— boiled, tor hogs and stock, SoO 



— cribs, keeping rats from, 341, 3tiS 



— culture of, 1.37 



— grinding, too fine, 246, 306 



— how it slirinks, 17 



— in stumpy fields, 146 



— is it best to hi 1, or not ? 51, 145, 176, 289 



— mos profitable manure for, 1.S7 



— not injured by late .spring frosts,... . 141 



— plaster for, 137 



— I otatoes planted with, 43 



— saving, .333 



— seeH, 48, 110 



copperas for 110 137, 161 



soaking, in chemical solutions,.. 224 



— soils best adapted to, P,3i 



— time of planting 140 



proper method of culuire of, on 



different varieties of, 834 



— sweet 161 



— — best v;irieties of. 125 



— value of. as a farm crop, 334 



Cottage, a country, 31 6 



— a Tudor, .342 



Cottages and villas, new American 



style for 119 



Cotton in Illinois, 42 



— seed cake, 299 



Cow, large, 77 



Cows, Ajrshire. yield of milk from 111 



— can not huld back tlieir milk,.. 146, 32j 



— dairy, good vs. pour 172 



— feeding turnips to 44, 800 



— railch,'lKans or corn for, 15, 46 



feeding, to, 118 



salt for, 44 



tomatoes for, 1^6 



— spaying, 17 



advantages of, Ill 



— wintering, 17 



Cream, how lo raise n'l 



Cranberries and their culture, l.'i'; 



Cranberrv culture, 23 



— high-bush, 123 



