ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



117 



Oats as food for sheep, 1840, 113. 



— cultivation, yield and profits of, in 

 Berkshire County, 1838, 21, 33 ; in Essex 

 County, 1837, 32; in Franklin County, 

 1S40, 23; in Middlesex County, 1840, 

 213. 



— Kilkam, characteristics of the, 1837, 32. 



— peas and, or meslin, sowing of, 1840, 

 24. 



— Tartarian, or horse mane, characteris- 

 tics of the, 1837, 33 ; 1840, 215. 



Oil meal for fattening cattle, 1840, 58. 

 Ox ions, cultivation, yield and profits of, 

 in Essex County, 1837, 35. 



— labor of cultivating, performed by 

 women, 1837, 35. 



— subject to blight, 1S37, 35. 

 Orchards in Berkshire County, 1838, 141 ; 



in Essex County, 1837, 61 ; in Franklin 

 County, 1840, 174 ; in Middlesex County, 

 1840, 382. 

 Oxex for farm labor, horses versus, 1840, 

 121. 



— injured in growth by being worked, 

 1840, 92. 



— keep of, 1837, 73. 



— weight of, 1840, 51. 



Ox-eyed daisy, characteristics of, and 

 method of extirpating the, 1837, 69. 



Parsnips as food for cattle, 1840, 138. 



— cultivation of, 1840, 138. 

 Pastures, fattening cattle in, 1840, 78. 

 Peach culture, method and profits of, in 



Middlesex County. 1840, 383. 



— trees, mulching of, 1840, 384. 



Peas and oats, or meslin, sowing of, 1840, 



24. 

 Peat and potash in vegetable culture, use 



of, 1839, 186. 



— as fuel, value of, 1837, 74 ; 1838, 9. 



— as manure, value of, 1838, 9. 



— bogs, redemption of, method of, 1840, 

 355. 



— meadows, value of, of Berkshire County, 

 1838, 9; of Essex County, 1837, 74. 



— mud, analysis of, 1840, 343. 

 Pedigrees of cows, 1840, 497. 

 Peppermint, cultivation of, in Franklin 



County, 1840, 38. 



— preparation of essence of, 1840, 39. 

 Phixney, E., plan by, of hog styes, 1810, 



5U0. 

 Pickwacket corn, characteristics of, 1837, 



24. 

 Pigs, care and management of, 1840, 311. 

 Pines in France, experiment in planting, 



1840, 506. 



Pittsfield, agricultural statistics of the 



town of, 1838, 105. 

 Plants, carbon in, 1840, 466. 



— constituents of, 1840, 465, 469, 472. 



— flowering of several, in spring of 1S17, 

 comparative, 1838, 153. 



— food of, 1838, 11 ; 1839, 203; 1840, 134, 

 466. 



— humic acid received by, through agency 

 of rain water, 1840, 467. 



— list of native and introduced, growing 

 about fields and gardens (Rev. John L. 

 Russell), 1840,522. 



— number of, on an acre, 1S40, 514. 

 Plough, cast-iron, objections to the, 1S37, 



68. 



— Essex, characteristics of the, 1837, 68. 



— used in Franklin County, description 

 of, 1840, 176. 



— rack heath, description of the, 1837, 134. 



— side hill, use of the, 1837, 68. 



— subsoil, account of application of the, 

 to a dry soil (Charles S. Lefevre), 1S39, 

 216. 



evidence of inventor of the, 1839, 209. 



Smith's, description of the, 1S37, 132. 



Ploughing in green crops as manure, 



practice of , 1837, 59 ; 1839,81,187; 1840, 



238. 



— land, methods of, 1840, 380. 



— match in the United States, the first, 

 1840, 380. 



— subsoil, advantages of, 1S39, 91, 205, 

 216 ; 1840, 223, 377. 



Plymouth County, wheat returns of, 1839, 



43. 

 Pork on dairy farms, raising of, 1838, 74. 

 Potash and peat in vegetable culture, use 



of, 1839, 186. 

 Potatoes among corn, plantingof, 1838, 37. 



— as food for animals, 1837, 39, 41 ; 1S3S, 

 90; 1840,56. 



— cultivation of, in hills or in drills, 1840, 

 221. 



— cultivation, yield and profits of, in 

 Berkshire County, 1838, 19; in Essex 

 County, 1837, 33 ; in Middlesex County, 

 1840, 219. 



— experiments with, 1838, 87. 



— manuring for, 1837, 56. 



— preservation of, 1837, 34. 



— seed, amount of, and methods of plant- 

 ing, 1837, 34; 1840, 40, 166, 219. 



— soil for growing, 1837, 35. 



— varieties of, 1837, 33; 1838, 90; 1840, 

 40, 220. 



Premiums subjects for, 1838, 127. 



— what animals should receive, 1838, 125. 



