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INDEX. 



Lycopersicum esculentum 220 



McAlpine's. Capt. J. W., Hook and 



Roller 25 



Magnesium, Chloride of 44 



Injurious to Cabbages 44 



Potatoes 44 



Manure, Applied in the Hill 31 



Bars-yard 31 



Composting 28 



Constituents of 50 Tons 144 



Covered and Uncovered. Value 



of 26 



Cow 31 



Constituents of 32 



Daily from a 32 



Definition of 17 



Earth Closet ... 40 



Economy needed in 16 



Fermentation, to retard rapid.. 27 

 Fresh and Decomposed, Compo- 

 sition of 27 



Green '. 19 



! Importance of 16 



In large Piles 28 



Liquid 53 



How used 54 



Loss in 26 



Manner of applying 30 



Moist, Must be kept 28 



Necessary to Success 15 



Night Soil 39 



Analysis 39 



Of Oxen 32 



Poultry 34 



Rotation needed . . 58 



Sheep 34 



Stable 25 



New York Streetcar 29 



Swine 33 



Value depends upon Food of 



Animal 29 



Weight of 32 



Yield from 10J Ibs. each Hay, 



Oats, and Grass 29 



Manures, Relative Value of 33 



Kinds and Uses 15 



Markets 94 



Melons to New York in 1882 5 



Menhaden 38 



Moss-bunkers 88 



Moles, Useful 99 



Muck 41 



MulcTi, Value of Cow-peas for 23 



Negro Labor 7 



Night Soil 39 



Composting 40 



From Earth Closets 40 



Nitrate of Soda 52 



Nitric Acid, How taken up 18 



In the Air 18 



Nitrogen in Acre of Soil 11 



In Cow-peas 21 



In Drain Water 23 



In Human faeces 40 



Urine 40 



In Soils 4J) 



Oat Straw, Analysis and Value of. . 33 



Onion 181 



Analysis of 182 



Bermuda 182 



" Giant Rocca." 182 



"Globe Madeira." 183 



Insects Attacking 190 



" Italian Queen." 183 



"Madeira." 182 



Potato 1S3 



"Red Wethersfleld." 183 



Seeds, Raising 183 



Sets 189 



"Yellow Danvers." 183 



Opuntia vulgaris 62 



Oxen, Amount of Manure from 32 



Ozone 18 



Packing 90 



Paritium datum 128 



Pea 191 



' ; Black-eyed " 192 



'Early Alpha" 19 



"Daniel O'Rourke" 192 



" Philadelphia Extra Early ".. .191 



" White Marrowfat " 192 



Insect Enemies 194 



Penning of Sheep 34 



Peruvian Guano 34 



Phaseolus vulgaris 180 



Phosphates in Urine 33 



Phosphoric Acid 41 



Value of 253 



Pisum sativum 191 



Plants, Composition of 17 



Endogenous 59 



Exogenous 59 



Manner of Growth 59 



Plaster-land 61 



Plowing Deep 11 



Fall not. Useful ... .. 12 



