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Acid Phosphate of Lime 41 



Allium cepa 181 



Ammonia, loss from Manure pile.. 27 



How taken up 18 



In different Soils 22 



In the Air 18 



In Surface Soil only 23 



Salts of 52 



Value of 253 



Ammoniated Superphosphate 42 



Analysis of Cow-pea 21 



Ash 21 



Ashes, Use of .. 48 



Ash of Roots left in the Soil 20 



Asparagus offidnalis 119 



Asparagus 119 



Bunchers 127 



Insects Injurious to 129 



Raising Plants 121 



Saving Seed of 128 



Varieties 120 



Atwater, Prof., on Fertilizers .... 36 



On use of Potash Salts 44 



Barn-yard Manure 31 



Bast, Cuba 128 



Beans- Bush or Snap .' 130 



Insects Injurious to 133 



Varieties of 130 



Beet 134 



" Bassano," 131 



"Early Blood Turnip," 134 



"Egyptian," 134 



Beta vulgaris 134 



Blue Bird a Destroyer of Insects. . . 



116-11,0 



Bone Meal 42 



Borecole 178 



Boussingault on Nitrogen 11 



Box for Tomato Plants 224 



Brassica oleracea 137 



var. Botrytis 163 



var. sabellica, 178 



Cabbages 137 



Analysis of 144-149 



Club-foot in 143 



264 



Cabbages, Cow-peas for 145 



Distance apart 147 



Injured by Magnesium 44 



Insect Enemies of 152 



Manures for 144 



Packing 149 



Puddling.... 147 



Seeds and Sowing 140 



Soils for 142 



Sowing in place 146 



Transplanting 14ft 



Cabbaee, Varieties of 137 



" Brunswick," 138 



" Early Summer," 138 



" Flat Dutch, American," . . 139, 151 



'' Fottler's Brunswick," 139 



" Jersey Waken 1 eld," 139 



"Schweinfurth,".* 138 



" Winningstadt," 138 



Carbonic Acid in Soil 13 



Cauliflower 163 



Cutting and Packing 168 



Protecting 168 



Varieties 165 



"Algiers," 166 



"Early Paris," 167 



" Short-stemmed Lenorraand,".167 



" Snowball," 165 



"Very Early Dwarf Erfurt,".. 167 

 Chenopodium ambrosiotdes, var. An- 



thelminticum 60 



Chloride of Magnesium . . 44 



Chuck-will's Widow and Spring. ... 76 



Citrullus vulgaris 229 



Clover, Analysis of 149 



Cold Frames 72, 80-81 



Composting Manures 28 



Materials for 28 



Cotton Seed as Cattle Food 37 



Injurious to Swine 37 



In Compost 37 



Cotton-seed Meal, Value as Manure 29 



Cow, Manure 31 



Annual Product 32 



Urine from, Annually 32 



Cow-pea, Analysis of Vine. ........ 21 



