INDEX TO THE FIRST VOLUME. 



A. 



Accounts, settle by New Year, 8. 

 Acknowled!,nncuts, 15, 31, 79, lU, 130, 146, 1G2, 178, 



301, 320, 335, 351, 367, 384, 400, 408. 

 Acorns, as food for swine, 235. 

 Address of Professor Johnston, 360. 

 Affection for offspring, 59. 

 Agricultural chemistry, 38. 



education, 39 ; discussion, 145 ; advantages 



of, 194. 



exhibitions, (see Cattle Shows,") 353. 



• experiments, precision in, 37, 358. 



improvement, progress of, 167. 



meeting at the State House, 49. Subjects 



discussed arranged under their appropriate heads, 

 papers, 138. 



schools, in France, 47 ; report on, in New 



York, 159 ; Mount Airy, 160. 



science, 296. 



societies, Norfolk, and formation of, 33, 72, 



210 ; libraries for, 228 ; utility of, 254 



Agriculture, science in, 2 ; in Maine, 6, 199 ; legis- 

 lative aid to, 24, 74; importance of, 26, 98; in 

 New Hampshire, 77 ; neglected in Texas, 80 ; of 

 Massachusetts, 149 ; influence of, 231 ; remarks on, 

 233 ; history of, 343, 373; new discovery in, 395. 



Alpine i)lants, 299. 



Animal heat, chemistry of, 64. 



Animals, care of, 8 ; fattening, 24 ; habits of, 27 ; 

 different species require different food, 62 ; rearing, 

 keeping, and fattening, 253 ; remedy for lice on, 

 299 ; various pulse of, 354. See also Cattle, 

 Horses, &c. 



Apples, Gravenstein, Hurlbut, Portsmouth Sweeting, 

 15 ; Hubbardston Nonsuch, 25 ; Red Russet, Aunt 

 Hannah, 32 ; grafting into the pear, 40, 79 ; re- 

 marks on varieties, 53 ; Yellow Bellflower, Bag's 

 Favorite, Holmes', 79; Jonathan, 79, 90; Golden 

 Russet and Red Russet, 89 ; Domine, Winter 

 Sweet Paradise, Vandevcre, Swaar, Newtown Pip- 

 pin, Tewksbury Winter Blush, I^adies' Sweeting, 

 90 ; an ancient, 91 ; American in England, 103 ; 

 Novthei-n Spy, 105 ; Old Nonsuch, Peek's Pleas- 

 ant, 114; Danvers Winter; Sweet, 118; Philadel- 

 phia Pippin, 130; Talman .Sweeting, 132; Sutton 

 Beauty, Winter Sweet, Jones's Sweeting, Sutton 

 Export, 146 ; Priest Sweeting, 162 ; Strawberry 

 Sweet, Shawmut, 178; general remarks on, 214; 

 late, 225 ; Northern Spy, 281 ; as an article of food, 

 297 ; Summer Rose, Summer Queen, Ives's Sopsa- 

 vine, 320 ; Porter, 335 ; large crab, Fall Spice, Ba- 

 ker's Swtqt, 336; Pearmain, 351; Spice, 352; 

 Large Sweet, Green Sweeting, Baldwin, fine, 367 ; 

 Sassafras Sweet, 383 ; Porter, 405. 



Apple-trees, time of blooming for fifty-two years, 

 213; barren, 310; monster, 319; iron as manure, 

 363. 



Apple worm, 297. 



Apricot, 147. 



Architecture, rural, 58. 



B. 



Beans, mode of harvesting, 328. 

 Bee-hives, 195. 

 Bee-houses, floating, 267. 

 Beef, prospect for, 347. 



Bees, disease of, 5 ; care of, 8 ; protection against 

 moths, 42 ; earliest food for, 67 ; the queen, 98 ; 

 robbers, 174 ; moths, 207, 319 ; water for, 232; to 

 feed salt to, 319 ; bees and the moth, 331. 



Beets for winter, 210. 



Biids, effects of domestication, 47 ; utility of, 91, 

 191, 201. 



Blackberry, its utility and cultivation, 378. 



Bones. See Manures. 



Book knowledge for farmers, 8. 



Books, interesting and useful, 356. 



Borers. See Fruit trees. 



Boys' Depaktmext. — Important station of boys, 

 farmers' boys, 13; importance of education to, 28 ; 

 advice to, 29 ; maxims of Washington, 44 ; econ- 

 omy in sleeping, 60 ; gude proverb, politeness, 61 ; 

 resolution, 76 ; cruelty to animals, 77 ; they should 

 be mechanics, sympathy, 92 ; is the bee the pio- 

 neer of civilization ? way domestic animals collect 

 their food, 108 ; prepare seed, taking care of the 

 pence, 124; industry, 140; early rising and ijidus- 

 try of birds, 156 ; utility of frogs, thought for every 

 day, 172; to young men, 189; do animals reason? 

 204 ; no weeds, evil effects of smoking, 220 ; value 

 of books, 23G ; little kindnesses, 236 ; lish breed- 

 ing, 252 ; vulgarity, learning not education, 268 ; 

 counsels for the young, emblematic properties of 

 flowers, 284 ; be kind to animals, 300 ; business 

 first, then pleasure, glowworm, 316 ; redbreast, 

 332 ; docile, sagacious bull, 348 ; jjolitenoss at 

 home, 365 ; what it is to be polite, 380 ; tame 

 fishes, 396; bad books, 365; the beautiful total 

 abstinence boys, 306. 



Brakes, to destroy, 277. 



Bridge of poles, 31. 



Briers, to destroy, 362. 



Brighton Market, sales for one year, 47. 



Buckwheat, on raising, 177, 200. 



Building, new mode of, and planting, 331. -^ 



Bush and root puller, 323. 



Butter, preservation of, 72 ; American, 296. Se« 

 Domestic Department. 



C. 



Cabbage, analysis of, 176. 



Camels, useful, 169. 



Camomile, effects of on plants and insects, 344. 



Carrots, the white, 50. 



Carts and wagons, 359. 



Caterpillars, to destroy, 67, 177. 



Cattle, care of, 17; food for, 26; neat, discussion on, 

 85 ; horn ail, 88, 154 ; camphor, to destroy lice, 88 ,• 

 gadfly in, 126, 150, 402 ; diarrhoea in, 135 ; fattening, 

 175 ; salt for, foot ail, 190 ; to learn tke weight o^ 



