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INDEX 



bones, 21, 27, 62, 70; ashes for potatoes, 23; 

 leaves for, 2^; jjotash for grapes, 31 ; oak leaves, 

 31; action of jilastcr, 37; discussion on, 54, 65; 

 flax water, 56 ; peat, 58 ; on applying cornstalks, 

 69 ; soot, 71 ; burnt clay, 80 ; animal manure and 

 peat, 80 ; wood and coal ashes, 82 ; coal ashes, 83, 

 113, 18G; jieat ashes, marl, 90; action of, 90; salt 

 and soot, 91; human excrement, 94; lime, 100; 

 com[)Ost, 109; hog, 112; plaster, remarks on, 122 ; 

 experiments with guano, 136 ; spent dye-stuffs, 

 165; wool waste, 166; prepared bones, 178; soa])- 

 suds, 187, 266, 274; a new, 192; Bommer, 193, 

 273, 308 ; special, 203 ; dissolving bones, 207 ; 

 green craps, 215, 262 ; i)lastcr and ashes for mead- 

 ows, 215 ; lime and salt mixture, 217; appdication 

 of lime and its uses, 231 ; saving, 241 ; new mode 

 of pre]mring bones, 247 ; ashes for grass lands, 248 ; 

 compost, 261; Jatfret's, 273; fertilizing, 286; the 

 sinew of a'^'riculture, 286 ; tolls on, 294 ; soils on 

 whicli lime is useful, 312 ; patent, 315 ; effects of, 

 335; for nurseries, 373 ; ashes and lime for plum- 

 trees, 376 ; various kinds tried for potatoes, 379 ; 

 time to apply to mowing fields, 392 ; salt, 394 ; 

 analysis of, 398 ; effects of plaster, 402 ; long ma- 

 nure recommended, 404; for grass lands, 407. 



Marl, 257. 



Mechaxics' Department, Arts, Si,c. — General re- 

 marks, flax machine, soddering ferrules, watci-proof 

 glue, French polish, 14 ; land for mechanics, well 

 directed labor, picture varnish, court plaster, 30 ; 

 promptness, 45 ; manufacture of glass, to produce 

 the exact likeness of any object instantly on paper, 

 fire and water proof cement, a cement for stopping 

 the fissures of iron vessels, to ))revent iron from rust- 

 ing, to stain wood like ebony, 46 ; importance of good 

 tools, 61; cement for floors, 62; covering metals 

 with brass or bronze, to cut glass or drill glass, fi ic 

 blue wash for walls, 77 ; time for cutting timber, ea^y 

 method of breaking glass in any rcc^uircd direction, 

 to preserve specimens in natural history, 93 ; now 

 application of India rubber, a new thing in me- 

 chanics, 109 ; water hammer, new princii)le in the 

 saw mill, inaproved shoe-pegging machine, ma- 

 chine for carving, 125 ; gutta percha, 126 ; platina 

 metal, improvement on windmills, 141 ; gardening 

 for, philosophy of labor, 157; wetting bricks, value 

 of a barometer, 173 ; ink-supplying pen-holder, 

 artificial stone, 189 ; preservation of timber for 

 sleepers, 205 ; gutta percha, 206 ; elasticity, or 

 spring temper of metal, 221 ; time to cut timber, 

 237 ; new and important invention, 253 ; white- 

 wash, new uses for granite, 301 ; alum, important 

 invention, soldering cast iron with wrought iron, 

 285 ; new process of tanning, fire-jjroof wood, 

 269 ; mineral cements, 333 ; self-sustaining bridge, 

 fire-proof paint, to soften putty and remove glass 

 without breaking, 349 ; construction of ice-houses, 

 365 ; cheap and valiuible paint, 380 ; incombusti- 

 ble preparation for wood, 381 ; a dry, clay brick 

 press, 397 ; new invention in baking, 398 ; facts 

 for mechanics, 406 ; machine to make envelopes, 

 407. 



Meeting of farmers at the State House, 50 ; at Han- 

 over, N. H., 79. 



Melons, culture, 98 ; mountain sweet, 384. 



Method necessary, 95. 



Milk, as an article of diet, 139. 



Milk houses, 290, 351. 



Milkmaids turned pianists, 64. 



Milkuans of glass, 113. 



Millet, liO. 



Mind, exercise of, 146. 



Moon, influence of, on the weather, 270. 



Mountain ash, European, 94. 



Muscular system, power of, 151. 



Mutton, to have tine, 185. 



Nature, study of, recommended to farmers, 263. 

 New England Farmer, reception of, 17. 

 Nurseries, manuring, 373. 



O. 



Oats, heavy, 115 ; smut in, 305. 

 Obituary, 313. 

 Olden times, 48. 

 One thing at a time, 312. 

 Onions, raising, 155 ; different varieties, 158. 

 Oi-chards, utility of, 7. 

 Organic matter in soils, 39. 

 Ornament, evergreens for, 10. 



Oxen, driving, 30 ; slow motion of, 79 ; education 

 of. 111. 



P. 



Pajiers, profits of, 277. 



Parsnips, culture of, 154 ; fattening quality of, 363. 



Pasturage, mode of, in Holland, 107 ; in England, 

 210. 



Patent office, 95. 



rights, profits of, 277. 



Peabugs'", 160. 



Peaches, ^lerriam, 15 ; to raise in the north, 37 ; re- 

 naarks on, 41 ; as to buds being killed, 131 ; on rais- 

 ing, 134 ; cultivation of, 178 ; Crawford's Early 

 Melocoton, Smith's Favorite, Southwick, 335 ; 

 Clarke, 336 ; Lincoln, 355 ; Chelmsford Mammoth, 

 and the Early Chelmsford, 352; seedling, 351. 



Peach-tn^f s injured by budding, 229 ; management 

 of, 328. 



Pears, Flemish Beauty, 9; Adams, M'Laughlin, 15$ 

 Echassery, 32 ; Easter Beurre, Catalac, 79 ; on 

 raising for winter, 117; Easter Beurre, 121; 

 Pound, 130 ; Seckel, 147 ; on apple stocks, 276 j 

 Pendleton's Early York, 304 ; Watson, 320 ; Bart- 

 lett, 335 ; St. (ihistlian. Fall Bonchretien, Water- 

 town, 352; Jalousie Fontenay de Vendee, Sicullie, 

 351 ; St. Michael, 368 ; Belle' Lucrative, 351. 



Pcarniains, 257. 



Pear-tree blight. 276. 



Pear-tree, the Endicott, 72. 



Pea straw for fodder, 387. 



Peat, 58. 



Pippins, 257. 



Physical geography, 303. 



Physiology, facts in, 144. 



Plants, cheap winter protection for, 175 ; growth o^ 

 in confined air, 239 ; Alpine, 299. 



Plaster. See Manures. 



Plough, clearing obstructions to, 78. 



Ploughing, depth of, 27; subsoil, 96, 99, 131, 126 { 

 fall, 325 ; report on, 358. 



Plums, on the curculio, 137, 206, 306; Wheat, Large 

 Black, Imperial, Princes Yellow (Jage, 304, 313; 

 Autumn (iage, Cruger's Scarlet, 320 ; Jefferson, 

 335 ; Manning's Long Blue, 393 ; Coe's Golden 

 Drop, 400. 



Plum-trees, management of, 328 ; ashes and lime for, 

 376 ; black Avarts on, 390. 



Poke root, 227. 



Pomological convention. North American, 166. 



Ponds, artificial, 360. 



Pork, j)rospoct for, 347. 



Postage of seeds, scions, &c., 72. 



Posts for fence, 290 ; setting, 304 ; upheaved by 

 frost, 367. 



Potatoes, experiments on, 11, 176; sweet, preserv- 

 ing, 21 ; ashes for, 23 ; from seed, 35 ; culture <ind 

 preservation, 75 ; substitute for, 105 ; to raise good, 

 111; efi'ects of manure on, 126; cultivation of, 

 135; an earlj kind, 162; on new varieties from 



