IV 



Cider-brandy, how mixed with cider, to make cider 



wine 37. 

 Cider-oil, or more properly, cider royal, how made 227, 

 Cisterns, on the construction of 204. [254. 



Clearing of land, best modes of 129, 172. 

 Clothes of females, when they have taken fire, how 



extinguished 142, 282. 

 Clover hay should be salted at the rate of one peck for 



a ton 12. 

 Clover seed, on g-athcring and cleaning 202. 

 Clover, while, on saving the seed of 395. 

 Coal discovered near Detroit 360. 

 Cobs of Indian corn, said to be valuable as food for 



cattle 228. 

 Cock-chaffer, a destructive insect, notices of 102, 112, 



118, 128. 

 Colic in cattle 201. 



Columella, his remarks on educating plough boys 170. 

 Combustion, spontaneous, instances of 53, 143, 168. 

 Composts, directions for making 321. 

 Consumption, caused by carelessness in clothing 283. 

 Cookery, country, general cautions respecting 369. 

 Cooking food for cattle 22, 30, 38. 

 Cooper Thomas, M. U. his axioms in husbandry 66. 

 Copperas, Vermont, Dr. Locke's description of 326. 

 Corn, sweet, notices of 3, 48. See Indian Com. 

 Cosmetic, superior, for ladies 3. 

 Cotton, cultivation of in New York and New Jersey 62 



— on Long Island 216. 

 Cow, marks of a good one 21— in her prime at five 



years old 21. 

 Cows, warm water for in winter recommended 108 — 



when fed with cabbages the decayed leaves should 



be taken off 148 — should not be exhausted by too 



much milking 157 — those which give the greatest 



quantity of thin milk most proper for suckling calves 



157 — difference of milk in ib. — on the management 



of when near calving 233. 

 Coxe, Wm. his mode of managing a millet crop 299. 

 Cream, method of preserving 37. 

 Crickets, how destroyed 28. 

 Crops, of potatoes, mangel wurtzel, &c. much greater 



now than thirty years ago 1 — fallow, Mr. Pickering's 



remarks on 36. 

 Croup, a remccly for 72. 

 Crowninshield Richard, Esq. his remarks on cultivating 



Woad 387. 

 Cucumber, on cultivating 302, 363. 

 Currants, how propagated 310. 

 Curwen, his remarks on breeds of cattle 362. 

 Cutlery, American, in Pittsburgh, notice of 163. 



D. 



Dairy, a remarkable one, near Baltimore 251. 



Dana, Professor J. F. his remarks on bleaching flax 62 



— his account of a disease in neat cattle in Burton, 



N. H. 105 — notice of his lectures 254. 

 Dana Samuel, Esq. his communication respecting straw 



for Leghorn hats 212. 

 Dandelions, medical uses of 331. 

 Davis Gideon, notice of his substratum plough 366. 

 Davis Lemuel, his statement relative to raising Indian 



corn 8, 342. 

 Deane's edition of New F.ngland Farmer, notice of 8. 

 Dentifrice of alum and sage, from Markham's English 



Housewife 148. 

 Diamonds obtained from charcoal 37 1 . 

 Diarrhoea in cattle 209. 

 Ditching, may be begun in winter 171. 

 Divining rods, remarks on 67. 



Dogs, distemper in, cure for 73 — the labor thCy per- 

 form in Holland 320. 

 Dog-star and dog-days, origin of those terms 24. 

 Draining lands, Mr. Elkingtnn's mode of 409. 

 Dress, or clothing, useful remarks orf 250 — females' on 



fire, how managed 142, 282. 

 Drilling .Match in Nova Scotia, account of 412. 

 Drought in the southern states, notice of 40. 

 Drowned persons, directions for recovering 163. 

 Dry rot in timber, cause of, and how prevented 340. 

 Dung too much rotted of no value 393. Hee Manure. 



E. 



Eaton Peter, D. D. his address to the Essex Agricultu- 

 ral Society 244. 

 Elder, virtues and uses of 3, 113. 

 juice, kills skippers in bacou, &c. 3, 46. 



CONTENTS. 



Embankments, dikes, ic. how constructed for reclaim- 

 ing land from the sea 241. 

 Experimental farms, utility of 154. 



F. 



F. his remarks on preparing wool for market 388. 



Fall fevers, garlic said to preserve against 335. 



Farmer, on the capital necessary for 13 — signs of a good 

 one 133. 



Farmer A, his communication recommending the New 

 England Farmer 47 — on a worm that destroys grass 

 47, 77 — on the best mode of constructing gates 129 

 — on destroying thirties 280 — on securing potatoes in 

 autumn 354 — on feeding swine with brakes 378. 



— a Pennsylvania, on farmers who do not work it 

 right ] 17. 



— a Roxbury, his notice of the products of the season 

 2, 80, 343. 



— a young. Sec. on earlv cutting grain, plaster of Pa- 

 ris, &c. 94. 



Farming societies recommended 219. 



Farwell, Mr. A. his remarks on making manure from 

 swine 282. 



Fastening for doors and window shutters 358. 



Fences should be attended too early in the sprin? 286. 



Fessenden Thomas G. his address to the Middlesex 

 Society of Husbandmen and Manufacturers 89. i 



Fever, inflammatory, in cattle 169. 



Fish, directions for curing 184. 



Fish oil, or vegetable oil, purified by tan 142. 



Fiske, Dr. his notice of an excellent breed of swine 107, 

 on attention to the selection of seed 222. \ 



Flax, remarks on the preparation of, in a letterlfrom 

 S. W. Pomevoy, Esq. to Gov. VVolcott 50— Professor 

 Dana's remarks on bleaching of 62 — machine for 

 dressing 54, 322 — dressed so as to resemble silk 830. 



Food, plain & good, with little meat, how made 20, 21. 



Forest trees, observations on 305, 329. 



Founder in horses, cure for 19. , 



Fruit, matured by painting walls black 108. ' 



— trees, a Norfolk Gardener's remarks on 84 — mode 

 of engrafting 121 — observations on, by Rev. Abiel 

 Abbot 141 — by Mr. Abner Landrum 145 — on pro- 

 moting the growth of 170 — to prevent the premature 

 decay of 187 — on pruning 278, 309 — best time and 

 manner of planting 301 — should be pruned in the 

 spring when the buds begin to swell 309 — should be 

 secured against cattle 317 — quere relative to cutting 

 off the fibres in planting 318 — Marshall's directions 

 concerning planting 318 — how protected from frost 

 322 — how produced by planting cions 331. 



Fuller's earth, discovered on North River 166 — des 

 cription and uses of 166. 



G. 



Gardiner Lyceum, a seminary for the education of me- 

 chanics, notice of 124. 



Garlic, said to be an antidote to fall fevers 335. 



Garnet, Mr. his address to the Fredericksburgh Agri- 

 cultural Society 164. 



Gas, how obtained from oil 118. 



Gate, on the best mode of constructing 129. 



German, a, his remarks on taking honey from bees in 

 Germany 322. 



Gestation, period of in different animals 138. 



Glass, easy mode of breaking in any direction 131. 



Gold, on the great ductility of 234 — mine discovered 

 in North Carolina 383. 



Goodsell's flax machine, recommendations of 339. 



Gorham, Dr. his analysis of Indian corn 366. 



Grain, should be cut early 94 — on preserving and im- 

 proving the quality of 297. 



Grain-sick, a disease in cattle 249. 



Grapes, mode of propagating 294. 



Grass, on laying down land to 158. 



— land, on sowing 278. 



Grasses, experiments on the evaporation of 235. 



Gravel, said to be cured by the wild carrot 368. 



Green crops, on turning in, Mr. Pomeroy's remarks 

 on 9— Mr. Pickering's do. 221. 



Green-gage, a plum, notice of 19. 



H. 



Hale, Hon. S. his address delivered before the Cheshire 



Agricultural Society 284. 

 Harris, Dr. T. W. his description of and remedy against 



the caterpillar which destroys grass in salt meadows 



238,385. 



Harris, Rev. T. M. his remarks on destroying insects 

 by lights burning 379. 



Haslam .lohn, veterinary surgeon, his remarks respect- 

 ing bots in horses 388. 



Hats, premium, notice of 103— made of spear grass 150. 



Hay, should be cut or chaffed for feeding cattle 12 



should be salted 12, 399— taken off a cart or waggon 

 by hooks 378. 



Hay-making, observations on 373. 



Head aches and apoplexy attributed to wearing too 

 tight cravats 366. 



Hemp, quantity of necessary to fit out a man of war 24. 



Herdsman, his plan for a cow-house 379. 



Hessian Fly, Professor Green's remarks on 113 — feed- 

 ing wheat with sheep supposed to be remedy against 

 347, 351— remarks on 351, 355, 410. 



H. H. D. a writer with that signature 125. 



Hoeing corn and garden vegetables, remarks on 389. 



Honey, description of a mode of taking 347. 



Honor, modern, ridiculed 147. 



Hoof-ail in cattle, remarks on and remedies for 225. 



Hops, on the cultivation of 73, 395. 



Horn distemper, in cattle, its symptoms & remedy 257. 



Horse, on the points of 33 — hoofs of described 33— cure 

 of a broken winded 35 — diseases of 45 — power of 148. 



Horse-rake, description of 389, 398. 



Horses, how saved from barns on fire 123 — English turf, 

 not a useful breed in the United States 267. 



Horse shoes, patent, made in two pieces 149. 



Horse shoeing, new system of 199. 



Hoven or blown, a disease in cattle, symptoms and 

 remedy 193. 



Howe Timothy, notice of his threshing machine 363. 



Hull, Gen. his mode of cultivating carrots and ruta 

 baga 265. 



Husbandry, axioms in 66, 113. 



Hydraulics, description of tools used in boring for wa- 

 ter 360. 



Hydrophobia, fatal instances of 19, 151. 



I. 



Ice, how it may be kept in a common cellar 114. 

 Implements in agriculture, new and improved, remarks 

 on 198,205. 



Indian corn, Mr. Davis' mode of planting 8 — Col. Pick- 

 ering's remarks on 36 — a second crop of 88— boiling 

 it for hogs recommended 108 — how raised by Thom- 

 as Shepiicrd, Esq. 116 — great crops of raised by J. & 

 M. Pratt 117- Col. Valentine's cultivation of 178— 

 too costly food for fatting cattle on 234 — new kind o 

 265 — Gen. Hull's mode of cultivating 265 — success 

 ful culture of by .John Lees 332 — by Henry Littli 

 332 — how planted, &c. 341 — remarks on its cultiva 

 tion 341, 342, 365 — on the various modes of prepar 

 ing and using it 348 — how raised for fodder 366— 

 quere whether best to take off the suckers 8, 390— 

 hilling of should not be delayed till haying 397. 



Indicator, his observations relative to the time of put 

 ting seeds into the ground, to be learned by tin 

 growth of asparagus, &c. 21. 



Indigo plant, wild, notice of 32. 



Inflammation in the stomach of cattle 185 — of the live 

 of do. ib. — of the kidneys of do. ib. 



Insects, remedies against 46, 293, 294 — those whicl 

 destroy fruit trees, remarks on 317 — destroyed b; 

 soap suds 333 — cabbage plants should be guardec 

 against, and how 350 — vines, &c. guarded agains 

 by boxes, &c. 377 — those which destroy Indian con 

 in the field, antidotes against 371,377,378 — destroyei 

 by flying at a light 376. 



Instinct, animals, remarkable instance of 376. 



Irrigating lands, remarks on 113, 317. 



Janes, Mr. his speech in New York legislature on thi 

 bill for repealing the law for the improvement of ag 

 riculture 298. 



Jaques, Col. notice of his breed of cattle 302, 350. 



Jaundice in cattle, symptoms and remedy 201. 



Joint oil, loss of in cattle 257. 



K. 



Kenrick John Esq. his remarks on the best time fo 



felling timber 223, 229, 234. 

 Knight, Mr. A. Adams, report on his crop of osious 178 

 Knight, Thomas Andrew, ou mildew 414. 



