ANALYTICAL IXDEX. 



Ill 



Cream pot breed of cattle, characteristics 



of the, 1838, 66. 

 Chops, double, on same land, 1840, 163. 



— green, as a manure, 1837, 69; 1839, 81, 

 187; 1840,238. 



— rotation of, 1837, 15 ; 1838, 17, 40 ; 1839, 

 82 ; 1840, 6, 133, 136, 240. 



Chows, protection against, in corn culture, 

 1840, 388. 



Dairies for manufacture of butter and 

 cheese in Essex County, 1837, 40. 



— neatness of, essential, 1838, 71. 

 Dairy cows, corn-stalks as food for, 1837, 



24 ; 1840, 82, 163. 



— feeding and management of, 1837, 39, 

 41; 1838, 4.'); 1840,41,249. 



— potatoes as food for, 1837, 39, 41 ; 1838, 

 90 ; 1840, 254. 



— roots as food for, 1837, 40. 



Dairy farms, raising of pork on, 1838, 74. 



Dairy in Berkshire County, the, 1838, 45, 

 58, 71; in Essex County, 1837, 38; in 

 Franklin County, 1840, 41 ; in Middle- 

 sex County, 1840, 193, 249. 



Daisy, ox-eyed, characteristics of, and 

 methods of destroying, 1837, 69. 



Dana, Dr. S. L., letters by, on ashes, 

 lime, etc., 1838, 157, 170. 



Danish Rural Economy Society, Royal, 

 queries by the, 1840, 520. 



Deaconing of calves, 1838, 53. 



Deane, Dr. James, letters by, on experi- 

 ments in silk culture, 1839, 227 ; 1840, 480. 



Deane's silk reel, description of, 1839, 232. 



De Domhasle, M., statement by, concern- 

 ing relative value of different kinds of 

 food for sheep, 1840, 459. 



Deerfield meadows, value of natural 

 grasses of the, 1840, 6, 166. 



Devon cattle, characteristics and value of, 



1838, 62 ; 1840, 265. 



Dewey, Professor, on grasses of Berk- 

 shire County, 1838, 184. 



Diking salt marsh, methods and results 

 of, 1837, 74, 127. 



Domestic economy, 1838, 137 ; 1840, 15."). 



Draining, tile, method of (Daniel Web- 

 ster), 1839, 217. 



— White's account of, on Smith's plan, 



1839, 215. 



Dun. i.-harrow, description of a, 1838, 144. 

 Dikes County, wheat returns of, 1839, 47. 

 Durham Shorthorn cattle, Improved, 



characteristics and value of, 1837, 52; 



1838, 66, 142 ; 1840, 264, 292, 294. 

 Dutton or Sioux corn, characteristics of, 



1837, 25; 1840, 10. 



Education, agricultural, importance of, 

 1840, 431, 437. 



— objects of, 1840, 437. 

 Electricity, forests as conductors of, 



1840, 508. 

 Emerson, George B., on the forest trees 



of Massachusetts, 1840, 503. 

 England, comparison of trees of America 



and, 1840, 504. 



— irrigation in, example of, 1839, 218. 

 English bent-grass, characteristics and 



value of, 1840, 7. 

 Essex Agricultural Society, concerning 



the, 1837, 92. 

 Essex County, agricultural schools in, 



1837, 91. 



— agriculture in, hindrances to progress 

 of, 1837, 90. 



of, report on the, 1837, 11. 



— barley in, cultivation of, 1837, 31. 



— beef production in, 1837, 46. 



— bee keeping in, 1837, 70, 123. 



— beet sugar in, manufacture of, 1837, 71. 



— boundaries and aspect of, 1837, 11. 



— buckwheat in, cultivation of, 1837, 33. 



— buildings, farm, character of, in, 1837, 

 66. 



— butter and cheese in, manufacture of, 

 1837, 40. 



— cattle, attempts in introducing foreign 

 breeds of, into, 1837, 52. 



— cattle in, neat, 1837, 49. 



— climate of, 1837, 12. 



— corn in, Indian, cultivation of, 1837, 19. 



— cows in, records of, 1837, 50. 



— crops in, 1837, 14, 90. 

 rotation of, 1837, 15. 



- - yield of, 1837, 15, 37. 



— dairy in, the, 1837, 38. 



— farms in, reports of, 1837, 81. 

 size of, 1837, 14. 



— farming in, kinds of, 1837, 36. 



— fences in, character and condition of, 

 1837, 65. 



— flax in, cultivation of, 1837, 72. 



— forest trees in, 1837, 63. 



— fruit trees in, 1837, 61. 



— grasses in, cultivation of the, 1837, 15. 



— land in, acres of, 1837, 12, 135. 



— manufactures in, 1837, 72. 



— manures in, 1837, 54. 



— markets of, 1837, 13. 



— oats in, cultivation of, 1837, 32. 



— onions in, cultivation of, 1837, 35. 



— pauper establishments in, condition and 

 management of, 1837, 89. 



— peat meadows of, value of, 1837, 74. 



— population of, condition of, 1837, 89. 



