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Houses, about our 33, 35, 37, 38, 60 



How to run an agricultural society 62, 66 



How to make the farm pay 55, 57, 60 



Increase of products, secret of success 3,61 



Indian corn, cultivation of, 79, 89 



Intellect on the farm 6, 7, 9, 15, 21 



Kitchen, important part of a house, 36, 37 



Labor on the farm and elsewhere . . 5, 6, 21, 33, 56, 59, 60 



Land, possessors of, 6, 19, 27 



Lawn around a farm-house, 35, 60 



Manures, preparation of, 13, 22, 42, 58, 87 



Mistake in management, 2, 22 



Mulch for fruit-trees, 71, 73 



New England farming, 15, 16, 24, 28, 41, 60, 79 



Onions, statement of cost and profit of, 94,95 



Orchards, site and shelter of, 72 



Ornamental plants about a house, 35, 43 



Oxen versus horses, 5, 7 



Pear, cultivation of the, 70,74 



Pedigree, importance of, iu stock, 114 



Planting or setting out trees, 72, 74 



Potatoes, cultivation of, 56, 79, 91 



Poverty and wealth, what are they? 1,42 



Profits and expenses 3 



Progress of Farming, 39, 43, 44 



Pruning of jjear-trees, ,. . . . 75 



Public and private debts, difference in 4 



Root-crops, raising and storage of, . . . 37, 91 



Rotation in office the life of a society 63 



Ruta-bagas, cost and profit of, 92, 93 



Science applied to agriculture 7, 17, 31, 41 



Site of the homestead, 33 



Soils for a pear-orchard, 71, 72 



Sour hay, preparation of, 53, 54 



Specialties, pursuit of, 31, 80 



Stock, progress in raising, 40, 58, 67 



Sunshine in life 34 



Success, wrong road to 12, 18, 22, 28, 61 



Swine, report on, 136, 138 



Time, value of, in summer 59, 60 



Tools used on the farm, 12, 18, 59 



Tracks at agricultural fairs, 68, 69 



Twenty-five years' progress, 39, 41, 43 



Underdrainage, advantages of, 58, 96 



Varieties of pears to cultivate, 75,77 



Vegetables, Cultivation of, 91, 96 



Ventilation of cellars and houses, 37 



Wages on the farm, 6, 56, 59 



Wealth and poverty 1, 6, 31, 42 



West, why go to the? 18, 24, 28, 41, 85 



Work a heritage and blessing 33, 56, 69, 60 



