No. 144.] 635 



Cooking food for animals, 373 



Improvement of swamp lands, 511, 531 



Insect injurious to crops, 326 



Prevention of the eftects of drouths, 296 



The best time to cut grass and harvest grain, ........ 227 



The potato, the best soils, and the best modes of cul- 

 tivation, 204 



The relation which an increase of crops bears to na- 

 tional prosperity, 234, 244 



Top dressing of grass and grain, 276 



Ventilation of stables, 354 



Weeding, spring and summer planting, and the best 



tools to do them with, 153, 162, 166 



Winter management of cold frames, 1 96, 351 



Farmer's Club, proceedings of the, 115 



Farmer's gold mine, 163 



Fencing, 145, 150 



Flax, 334 



Flax machine, 287 



Finances of the American Institute, 10 



Fleas on cucumbers, 125 



Food of plants, 492 



French wine statistics, 368 



G. 



Gibbs' rotary digging machine, 192 



Grafting wax, 126 



Grass, = 418 



Great tree of California, 191 



Griffith, on ship building, 95 



H. 



Hepp, on landscape gardening, ... 55 



Hotbeds, 439 



Houses and farmers' buildings, 402 



Hybridization and climate of plants, 191 



