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INDEX 



Famiikin vines, remarkably fertile, ]!4; largp, grown 

 in Nantucl;i;t, 141 ; Siaini'se pumpkins, notice of, 

 14^; remarUa on raisins, 181, 



Panciuality, importance and remarkable instance of, 40. 



Qjjebec, Agricullural Ivcpcit tor, !)1. 



J"R<l!ation 'I'errestrial, remarks on, 18r>. 



Uail roads l">ir transporting cattle to niaikct, queic con- 

 cerning, 374. 



Rainy days, employment for, 15fi. 



E-am, a lai ;i;e, iniporled by J. Bmney, Esq , 37 



Uandolpli's, Julin, estate, visit to, ;joli. 



Kalio, on mice injuring nursery plairs, 2. 



Kals i»n treating with grog, 11; biting infants. 23; 

 leme'di 's against (it), 94 ; white, notices of, iO'J. 



Ratile snake, the bite of, how cured, 40. 



Hecijics, to prevent mice I'roiii injiu'ing nursery plants, 

 2; for destroying ticks in sheep, 2, 113 ; for e."itract- 

 ino' foreign substances i',tn\\ the ear, 3; for destroying 

 the turnip-fly, 4 ; for destroying rat^ with grog, 11 ; 

 for poison by ivy, 11 ; (or poison by dogwood, 11 ; 

 to boil peas or beans, 11 ; to keep plums'and peaches 

 sweet through the year, 12; for the preservation of 

 skins, 11; to remove a hard coating or crust from 

 glass or porcelain vessels, 1 1 ; to restore tlie growth 

 of hair, 11; how to make enamel, 11; for making 

 jfun-metal, 11 ; for tru\king soda water, 11; for mak- 

 ing small beer, 21 ; to keep off, or drive away 

 bud bugs, 21 ; cheap anti Jotes for poison, 21 ; to make 

 mortar fur buildings, 21 ; to stop bleeding, 21 ; fir 

 flesh cuts, 21 ; for a cooling ointment, 21 ; for hi'ad 

 iu:be, 21 ; for njaking ve.il olives, 21 ; for cooking 

 calf's liver, 21 ; for keeping cider for years, 21 ; for 

 \7en in cattle. 20; for slioe blacl'.ing, 37 ; for preserv- 

 fiig apples, 37; to slop bleediii;^ from a Irech-bite, 37; 

 remedies against the ravages of the Hessian fly, 37; 

 for restoring tainted beef, 42: to make jelly from 

 apples, ^3; to make yeast l'>r summer use, 43; for 

 making a preparaiion of milk called Junket, 43; to 

 make a minute pudding, 43; to making currant jelly, 

 43; for the gapes in chickens, 4.'> ; to preserve grapes. 

 64; to clean white saiin, 04 ; for a solvent for lndi:i 

 Rubber, 55 ; for making dry ye.ast, 57 ; for botts or 

 grubs in horses, 59 ; for preset ving vines from bugs. 

 Si ; to make a ro.fe color, (iO ; to make a slate color, 

 »nd a purple color, 00 ; for making oil soap. 00 ; for 

 a burn, 00,85; lor elderberry syrup, 00; lor ticks 

 and other vermin which infest slieep, 07 ; to guard 

 ac.iinst the canker worm, 09 ; to destroy cockroaches, 

 t/, 7d; to cuie a dysentery, 57: for making small 

 beer. Oil; for killing eockro.<ches, 78; to make toma- 

 to kelehnp. 78 ; for making and using chlorine gas, 

 &4 ; for preserving tomatoes, 90 ; for])reserving hams, 

 S4 ; fur dysentery, 94 ; for cholera morbus' 94 ; for 

 preserving cln'cse from worms and mites, 94; for 

 knven iu cattle, 98, for the club foot jn cabbage, 

 199; a eheap and durable paint. iOJ; to preserve 

 |)urnpl.ins llirrmgh the winter and spring, 109; fat 

 cbolera, 114; for the piles, 139; for white swellings, 

 144; lor ehihilains, 244; for flesh wounds, 144 ; to 

 prevent mortifieaiion, 144; ftu' a sore mouth from 

 taking calomel or other cause, 144 ; for making 

 pumpkin ap|>le sauee, 140; for keeping bread moisi, 

 J47 ; hov/ to have mince pies at any time, 147 ; 

 fcr making corn siaicli, 147; ior boiling meat, 147 ; 

 for the bite of a snake, 147 ; for poisoned sheep, 147 ; 

 cure for founder, 147; for preserving tomatoes, 155 ; 

 to make a minute pudding, 1.55 ; for making cheap, 

 light and wholesome bri'tid, !03; for destroying tlrt; 

 D'd spider, 1*2; for making rice g'riddle cake, 181 ; 

 ibr »or : backs in horses, 187; for chronic rlieuma- 

 ti-m, 194; i'or weak eyes, 194, 212 ; to destroy ver- 

 Biin in cattle, 202; to 6c:ilter swellings on iior.sea, 

 305; for preserving meal, 205; supposed cure for 

 bahlness, 212; for sinokiig bacon, 212; for jireserv- 

 in^- the eyes, 212; fur rheumalism, L12; t.i color a 

 Sue nankin color, 212 ; f u- clinmic rheumatism, 227; 

 an aniidote to arsenic, 227; for making an ini'.ombiis- 

 tible w liitc wash, 22J ; clienain, a cement that hard- 

 ins under water, how made. 227; lor profusi: bleed- 

 wig by leech bites, 2.!2 ; l'<ir durable while wash, 235, 

 for weak eyes, 239 ; fur bot^s in horses, 235 ; to stain 

 wood green, 2.')7 ; for the cioup,'243 ; gangrene, 243; 

 fer a 8 ire thro;it from cold, 24:'.; lor h rsi-s and cattle 

 when they have eaten loo much grain, 243; li)r in- 

 lieiible ink, 243; for making pumpkin bread, 243; to 

 sViiu wood blai k, 251 ; lor teiti-r by using blood lOot. 

 !J-53 ; for the poll evil in a Imrsf, 253 ; fi.r frozen feel 

 »nd c!-ilolains, 2.53; sweei oil tor ciiolera, 2.53; for 

 lUe ring woim, 2d3; to detrct copper in green lia. 

 iSOl ; to mike castor (il palatable, :.;0I ; for a cheap 

 green pamt, 275 ; for a wa'er pruof varnish, 275 ; 

 for preserving iron from rust, 277; for cramp in the 



Gtomach, 277; for a durable white wash, 283; for 

 drying string beans so that they may keep through 

 winter, 294 ; for burns and chilblains, 299 ; for bolts 

 in horses, 307 ; for giving strength to thread Ac, 309 ; 

 for I he whooping coul'Ii, 309; fur making ink, 309 ; 

 for pickled oysters, 317; for Indian batter cake, 317 ; 

 for a Dutch rice pudding, 317 ; for making permanent 

 ink for marking linen, 323 ; for big head In horses, 

 3J5; fur drying unripe corn, 349; for salting butter, 

 300; for the black canker in trees, 340; to make 

 yankee bread, 403; for rhubarb pies, 403; for 

 sjiruce beer, 403. 



llespeetability, in what it consist", 80. 



Ketus, his remark on the turnip fly, &c. 413. 



Rcvolutioner, a, on destroying Canada thistles, 45. 



jvheumatism, chronic, recipe for, 194, 212. 



Khoades, S. Porter, on hogs fattened on apples, 141. 



Rhubarb, or pie-plant, on its culture, 2; its cultivation 

 recommended, 283. 



Ilibbon-grass, recommended, 41, 129. 



Richenback, Ur, notice of his newly discovered sub- 

 stance called flesh preserver, and said to be a cure 

 for cancel, 108. 



R. M. VV., im destroying the cut worm by salt, 171 ; 

 on lucky and unlucky days, 347. 



Robinson. Abedncgo, on grafting and inoculating fruit 

 trees, 45. 



Roller, a cut of, and remarks on its uses, 14 ; descrip- 

 tion of one from the Maine Farmer, 245. 



Rose, S.. on preji-rving grapes, .57. 



Rose leaf spice, how obtained and preserved, 411. 



Roses, pillars of how formed, 11 ; to obtain large heads 

 of, 53. 



Rositer, W. S., on cattle imported for Genesee Couniy, 

 70. 



Rotation of crops, remarks on by John D. Legarc, Esq. 

 204 ; Anthony Collamore, Esq. 217. 



Rothschilds:, notices of, 108. 



Rotten stone, found in West Springfield and' South 

 Hadley, 82. 



Rot in sheep, remarks on, 138, 



R. S., on destroying Canada thistles, 234. 



Rum for bathing injurious 344. 



liussel, John I. , his letter to Mass. Hor. Soc. 107. 



Riisticiis in Urbe, remarks by. 409. 



Rota baga, on its culture and uses, 374. 



R}e in the grain, reeommended as food for horses, 41 ; 

 ririiiarks on the culture of, 54 ; J. Gardiner's premium 

 crop of, 282 



S. his remarks on fatlening calves and lambs, 22G ; on 

 Iraiisphinliiig, 205; on the use of carrots in maiung 

 biilliu-, 274 



Salt fur live slock, 43 ; on giving it to sheep, 104 ; des- 

 troys grubs, 171; use of in piescrving posts and sills, 

 380 



Sail water, ils operation on plants, 137 



Sayres, Edrnniid, on forcing asparagus, 5 



fseeneat sea, 290 



Scythe snallis, on ihe mannfaeliire of, 187 



Season Ihe, remarks on, 07; in England, 27; in U.'S. 

 39,315,379,414 



Sea water, llie use of for manure, 82, 198 



Sea weeds, gie.it size of. an: colored wilhout light, 147 



Heeds, on su!ertiiig tlie best for pio))agatioii, 30, 02, 334 



Senex, on drying siring beans, 294 



Sermon, a pilliy, 04 



Serpentine, a species of roek, 302 



Shade trees, eomfurls and eonveuienees of, 1,56 



Shakers, remarks ou their eslablisliinent in Pitlsfield, 

 iMa.ss, 10 



Slieep, licks on, iiow destroyed, 2, 22, 3,54 ; remarks on 

 thclrealii'ienl of, 20; remedy for worms in liie head iif, 

 38'; should I ol be made very fit in summer, 01 i rem- 

 edy fir liei.s in,(i7; remarks on ihe rol in, 138 ; pola- 

 lues fioil tiir ; hesl mode of winieiing, 180; soiilh 

 duwn slieep, importi'd by rrancis Roieli, Esq, 2it2; 

 in Illinois, remarks on by W, and by George l-':ower, 

 2.52, on the disease iS. 300; on sowing oais fur, 317 j 

 remarks on slieiiriiig,«S:,e. 350 , on washing, 350, 302; 

 in I'ownal, Vernioni, 389 



.■^heep husbandry, remarks on, 315 ; hints on 371 



Sheet iron gi:;s, noiiei: ol. 37 



Sheldon Ainu.i, nport on his larm, 208, 274 



Shin, llie iiunih.ir ofstilelies in, 184 



Sliui, round, the making of. how discovered, 1,54 



Silk, prep.-iralions fur Us enliure in I'ennessee, 40; items 

 e.iui(erniiig,80, 93 ; on llie maniilaciiire ol, 113, 140, 



155, I()5, 320, 350. 302; ir OInryville, Rhoih^ 



Is], mil, 155 ; ongiiiand dill'ereni names of thi: woid. 

 283. rem, irks on llie ( nilnre ol. 2o5, 338. 3,'i4, 381 : 

 Mr (Juhb s maniifieliire ol', 354 : mamilaelory in I'rov- 

 iduiiee, 302 : act of Alassacliusclls legislaluru to en- 



courage the reeling and throwing of, 386 : culture in 

 Ohio. 387 : facts and observations relative to the cul- 

 ture of 387, 404,410 

 Silk companies, rernarkson, 382 

 Silk spinner. Rruoks' PalenI, 214 ; cocoons demand for, 



350 

 Silk society in New 'i'ork, notice o{, 379 

 Silk worms, fiod fur 3.55; how hatched und managed, 



&c, 370 ; on doctoring, 390 

 Sisson F his inquiries relative to a bone and plaster 



mill, 139 

 Skins, how dressed in morocco, 01 

 Smith, Gideon B. recommends rye in the grain as food 



fir horses 41 

 Smoke house of Col, M'Allister, how constructed, 403 

 Soil of Plymouth, remarks on by Dr Thaeher, 139; re- 

 marks on improvement of by a planter, 154 

 Soiling, reinaiks on, 39 382 

 Soils, light, on the management of, 33 

 Spelt (trilieum spella) 34 



Spencer, Judge, his leUer on the culture of silk, 338 

 Spider, red, a compound for destroying, 172 

 Sportsmen, hints to, 06 

 Sqii:ish, aiitiimniil marrow, notice of by John M. Ives, 



121 ; large, 142; a superior, hv .Mr Tliaver, 150 

 Stables, and cow house, A:c. should be well venlilated, 



&c. 142 

 Stage, short, advantages of in drawing heavy loads, 40 

 Steam carriage, 09 



Steamed food for swine, advantages of, 172 

 Steam engines, portable, 34, 1.58 



Steam, on obtaining pure water by ils condensation, 145iil 

 Steam ships of vvar contemplaled in France, 150 

 Pleam ploughs, 10, 09 

 Steel busks, disadvantages of, 00 

 Steers, large, raised by Henry VV. Ciisliinan,253 

 Stock, on impro^iing the breed of, IU8; si e firiher, cat- 

 tle, too large should not be wintered, 142; remarks on 

 raising, 323, 325 

 Stove, for baking by Dr Nott, 5 ; notice of an improved,, 



147 

 Straw, aliment obtained from, 59 

 Strawberry, im tlie cultivation of, 109, 155, 188 

 Stubble ground, how managed, 43 

 Slye, fjr swine, directions for constructing, &c. 15 

 Submarine mines, notices of", 30 

 Subterranean Indian village, notice of, 20 

 Sugar from pot-iloes, mamifieturtd in Ohio, 11 ; on llic 

 properties of, 200 ; fVoni nuiple, how manufactured, 6i,c- 

 307 

 Sulky, notice of a curious, 211 

 Summer, remarks on, 9 

 Sunflowir, a splendid, 83 ; seed of, said to be a cure foi 



founder, 147 

 Sweet, his plan to prevent the swarming of bees, 28 

 Sweet potatoes, notice of large, 232; ou their eultiva 



lion, 245 

 Swiiie, remarks on fatting, 38,43 ; f f the M.ickay breed 

 recomiueiideii, 42 ; remarks on fi-eding ami fiiiiing by 

 Henry Colinan,49; suhslitule lor iiiiging, 54 fattened 

 on apples, 141 ; how fattened in cold vieailier,&c 

 1.58; on the advantages of feeding lliein with ternnnt 

 ed swill, 205; notiei's of large,' 230, 245 ; dill'.-reni 

 broods uf'277 ; apples fiir feeding, 307 ; remarks ou bj 

 H,C.308 

 Syren, notice of a, 182 

 Talk, excessive, remarks on, 320 . 

 'I'ar will kill or drive away lice from ealtlc,382 

 Tares, on the eiillivation of in the United Slate.s,52 

 Taste, as applied tu matters of urnameut and luxury, 189 

 Tea, notices of, 09 

 Teasels, sales of in Hatfield, &c. 

 Tea shrub, remarks on, 2ti0 



Teeth, the imporianee ol'attention to, 144; on the inju 

 rv resullitis! from the sto|iping of, 103 j remedy for de 

 feellve, 212 

 Temperanee men, notice of, 21 

 Tenii>eratore in hills and vallies, dilTerence of, and can 



sesof, 222.230, 318 

 Teller, blood root a nire for, 253 

 Thiielier, l)r James, on the failure of the cow cabbage 

 14 ; on the soil of Plvmonth ani us vicinity. 13:) ; oi 

 Ihe Isabi lla gnipe. &e. 139 ; on llie bum,' piaiits, 221 

 Tlire;id and coarse cluili to increase the firmness of, 34 

 Tliiinder storms, remarks on, 32 

 Ticks on sheep, how destroyerl.2 

 Timber, rein:irks on, 1 1 ; trees for, 30, 285 ; moon's in 



fliience on, 337, 358. oljii 

 Tobacco, remarks on by Dr I\liiss*'y 410 

 Tomatoes, ri'dpes fur preserving, 90, 91, 155; to maki 



catsup of, 300 

 Tools, farming, care of, 105 



