INDEa to volume XXI. 



Labels for fruit trees, 29 



Labor, suggestions on mental and phy. 



sical, 369 



Ladies, write for the Farmer,. 319 



Land, iharcoal on oM orchard, 219 



— cheap, in Connecticut, 36T 



— for wheat can be made too fine, 20S 



— new sandy SOS 



— prairie, breaking, 300 



deep plowing injurious on, 117 



— wood, 65, 116 



Layers, best, 'i06 



Lambs, care of, 43, 109 



Leiceslers vs. Soiithdowns, 266 



Letter fro :, John Johnston, 203 



— — Utah Territory, 216 



Lettuce, earliest sown, the best, 122 



Lice, cliielien, how to get rid of, 210 



— on fowls, , ISO 



Lime and wheat, 369 



— as a manure, 46 



— for fruit trees, 123 



— plowed in 161 



Lindley, Dr. Jnhn, sketch of the life of, 173 



Locust trees, 189 



Lotus, American, as a substitute for 



the potato, 309 



Lucerne 12, 79, 268 



— excellent for fodder, 10 



Lupine, white, 267 



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Mange, black hogs not subject to, 271 



Mangel-wurzel, how to prep re the 



seed of, 138 



Maine items, 276, 833 



Manure, applying, to corn, Ill 



— best for potatoes, . . .■ 188 



— coal ashes as a, I(i7 



— drawing out, in winter, 67 



— for potatoes, tobacco stalks a good,. . 205 

 spring wheat, 129 



— lime as a 46 



— most profitable for corn, 137 



— Yalue of, dei>end3 on the food, not 



on the animal, 202 



■ from difTerent kinds of food, . . 143 



Manures, artificial, experiments with, 



on oats 363 



unhealthiness of, 77 



Manm-ing, surface, 74, 112, 206 



— the wheat crop lii 



M apes' '■ Progressive Primaries," 170 



Marking sheep, Ill, 176, 181 



Martynea 156 



Maxims from the journal of a Canadi- 

 an farmer, 81 



Meat, high price of, in England, 266 



Meilicago lupulina, 268 



Melon, apple pie, 156 



Melons and cucumbers, 151 



— bricks about, 2'20 



Midge, the wheat, 19, 46, 238 



Mildew, grape, in France, 312 



sulphur for, 374 



Milk becoming thick while sweet, 271 



— cows can not hold back their, . . 146, 3 .'0 



— glass pans for, 206 



— taste of turnips in, 26, 118 



— yield of, from Ayrshire cows, 270 



Milkers, Ayrshires as, Ill 



— Durham cows good, 378 



Milking, importance of clean, 44 



Muck for compost, 2^6 



— value (if, to light land farmers, 114 



nature and, 9, 40 



Murrain, bloody 206 



Miisk duck, something about the,. . . . 3ti6 

 Mustard, mammoth, 125 



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Nature and value of peat and muck, 9, 46 



Nature's mode 179 



Nectarine, the Stanwiek, 185 



New sandy land, 2"8 



Nitrates in phosphatic guanos, 269 



Notes from CanaJa, 246, 277, 3ii5 



West, 160, 209 



" Down East," 309 



— for the month, 137, 276, 304 



Maine, .373 



— of an European tonr 1 89 



— on fruits around Cincinnati, 250 



horticulture, scattered, 373 



the April number of the Genesee 



Farmer 147 



Notes on tlie crops, 319 



December and January num- 

 bers of the Genesee Farmer, . . 46, 79 



February and March numbers 



of the Genesee Farmer, 116 



peach, 1S8 



weather, 34, 66, 94. 127, 159, 192 



222, 253, 284, 318, 352 



Nutrition, table of, 361 



Nutriti . e value of different foods, 261 



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Oats, experiments with artificial man- 

 ures on, 363 



— heavy, 44 



— sown with carrots, 146 



— thick or thin seeding of,. , 206 



Od cake for heifers, 109 



Onion niaggot, 146 



Onions, and how to raise them, 92 



— seed, how, may be sown, 122 



— for cattle, 271 



Orchard, a day in a pear, 311 



— culture, 3'J5 



— land, charcoal on old, 219 



— sod, best crop for an old, 96 



Orchards, best method of renovating 



old...... 58 



— cropping dwarf pear,. 96 



— neglect of 315 



— wliat is the best manure for prepar- 



ing ground for ? 62 



Oxen, salt for working 809, 366 



Ox, how to throw an, 367 



Parsley,. 122 



— California curled, 125 



Parsneps, best variety of, 19, 12i 



— profitable roots for cattle, 19 



Pans, glass, for milk 206 



Pasture land, streams in, 177 



Pastures, changing, 179 



— plowing up, IS 



— renovating, 214 



Peaches, to make sure of a crop of,. . . . 283 

 Peach trees, proper time for budding,. 225 



Peacock, the, ' . . 148 



Pear, Bartlett, 2;) 



— culture and diseases, 314 



of dwarf, and apple trees, 354 



— Duchesse d' Angouleme, 850 



— dwarf, i-i it a humbug? 60 



— trees, dwarf, that have been neg- 



lected 178 



and standard, the adaptation 



ot, to ditferent soils in our climate, 345 



treatment of, 57 



to make extra branches grow on, 90 



Pears, 9i>, 314 



— best six varieties of, for market, .... 59 



— dwarf, best to plant 250 



— granting that the Lonise Bonne de 



Jersey and Duchesse d' Angouleme 

 are the best two varieties of, which 

 variety stands third for profitable 



cultivation on the quince ? 346 



Peas and potatoes together, 44 



— best varieties of, . . . 122 



— bug-eaten, 2o6 



— for hogs, 133 



planting, how to prepare, 122 



— Japan,, 189 



— sowing in the autumn, 341, 879 



Peat and muck, nature and value of, 9, 46 



— compost, 160 



Phygelius c^ pensis, 1S6 



Pig, large, 76 



— largest on record, 224 



Pigs, ' buckwheat straw injurious to 



young, 300 



— great fecundity of, 212 



Plantain, to exterminate, 283 



Planting trees 2u6 



Plants to an acre, 72 



Plaster and salt together, Ill, 147 



— amount of in clover, 243 



— foi grasses, 128 



timothy, 46 



vegetables, 44 



— on oals, 363 



— sowing 110 



Plow, Fawkes' steam, 17 



— how deep should we? 86,177 



Plowing, a good creed on 205 



— deep, injurious on prairie sods, 117, 147 



— up old pastures, 18 ^ 



Plows for cutting underdrains, 16 



— English plowing and, 207 



Potato, American lotus as a substitute 



for the, 309 



— bug, 341, 8f,4 



— convention, 88 



— rot, 2(9 



Potatoes 123 



— Bermuda, 20 



— best manure for, 138 



— Califojnia, ... 4.5 



— Chili 146 



— fattening stock on, 4(5 



— : in Bermuda, 174 



California, ] T9 



— mowing off the tops of diseased,'..'. 286 



— planted with corn, 43,149 



— preserving sweet, 840 



— Prince Alljert, 148 



— profits of, 27.3 



— seedling .'.'..'..... "20 



— tobacco stalks good manure for, 2ii5 



— to keep in the cella- , 271 



Posts, setting fence, ' . [ 26 



with the top down, 243, 310 



— fence, salt for, 300 



Poultry, fattening, \,\\' 179 



— guide ' ; ; ISO 



— keeping on a large scale, 275 



is it profitable? 21O 



Pork fat sows for breeders, 52, I44 



— will it pay to make? 211 



Progressed pumpkin produced by Pro- 

 fessor Puff's Patent Primaries,... . 24 



Pumpkins, large, 44 139 



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Eabbits, to prevent from gnai\in'» 



^ 'rees 68, 91 



l^aek. a good cattle, 19 



Kadishes" best kinds of, ..".."!.','.'.' 122 



Uaspberries, 3^3 



— best varieties of, for market,! '. . .' .' ! ." . 249 



Raspberry Jam Acacia 2S1 



Hats, keeping, from granaries, -333, y4i, 36S 



— to keep, from cellars, 310 



grain stacks, 271 



liearing calves, 19, no 



EECEIPTS, DOMESTIC: 



Asparagus, how to cook 



Beds, ■/■ 



Biscuit, fancy, . [ [ 



Blacking stoves, .". 



Blane mange, calves' feet, . '. '. ! '. '. '. '. 



or creams, froth for 



Bread, steamed Indian,. 



Burns and scalds, treatment of,." 



— for 



Cake, cocoanut, ' . ". 



— coffee, '. \ / ' 



— cream " " ' 



sponge, 



— election, [\\ 



— frosting for 



— jedy,..": :....]..[['..[[. 



— Lucy's delicate, 



— lemon, 



— mother's [\[ 



— pork 



soda sponge, 



— to make, light, 



— West Point 



Carpels, selecting, 



Canlifiower, ..." 



Celery sai.ce for boiled fowls, .. . 



Cider, to keep sweet, 



Cloih, transparent and waterproof, 

 Cookies, 



— Cyidlila's ginger, 



Corn, 10 dry and cook sweet, 



Complexion, to whiten the, 



Crape, old, 



Creams, fancy froth lor, 



Crullers, 



Crumb cloth, ... 



Cru mpets, 



Crust, pie, 



Custard, cream, 



Cun-ants, black, 



Cutlet, deli Sous veal, 



Dr.ving uupared peaches, 



Egg plant, baked, 



fried or boiled, 



Eggs. 10 beat the whites of, 



Flal-irons. to polish, 



Floating island, 



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