INDEX 



Times, by J. G. Whittier, 323 ; I must not tfase m >, 

 mother, 33() ; Looli not on Wine, 352 ; the litllo boy's 

 Wish, 352; May, by E. S. Cnpron, 3(iO ; Let us de- 

 part, by Mrs F. Hemans, 376 ; The flower of the des 

 ert, by Mrs Hemans, 38-4 ; The Gladness of Nature, 

 by Wm C, Bryant, 302 ; The Envious Tail, 400; 

 The last rose of Summer, 408; Morning Hymn, 41G 

 Poisons, mustard an antidote to, 179 

 Population of the United States, 37 



Purk, hiiw preserved in warm weather, 20; apples and 

 ruta baga useful for fattening, 58; great quantities of 

 slaughtered in Ohio, 233, 235 

 Poller, Kufus, his proposals for introducing his useful 



inventions, 59 

 Potato bread, remarks on by Mr Burgess, 202 

 Potato Clieese, use of ip. Prussia, 35 

 Potatoes useful in feeding sheep, 50 ; maching for cut-' 

 ting, notice of, 159 ; manured with pine boughs, 101 ; 

 mode of preserving by charcoal, lljl ; advantages of 

 lato diggiHg, 1U7; how raised down east, 179; Mr 

 Hatch's experiments on for seed, 205 ; remarks on 

 the culture of, 217, 350; recipe for making bread 

 from, 242, 275 ; how to have good all the year, 243 , ' 

 noticeii of a new kind called French blues, 262 ; how, 

 to raise early, 263; frozen, quere concerning, 273\ 

 Mr Hazen's experiment on, '^77 ; on planting for seed , 

 those which are uniipi', 289 ; method of raising early, 

 299; experiment with, by Nathan Wild, 308; W 

 Claggett's observation on, 315 ; remarks on for seed, 

 355; Horace Wilder's remarks on, 364; Lime used 

 in the cultivation of, 387 

 Poudiette, and night soil as manure, remarks on, '398 

 Poultry, on raising, "22 ; thrive best in warmth and 



smoke, 187 ; how fed in winter, 243 

 Poverty, BO disgrace. 204 

 Pn fessions, wrong estimate of, 152 

 Providence raihoad. sad accident on, 7 

 Pump, invented by Thomas Ordiotne, 5 ; by Mr Ed- 



wards,59, 294, a modi of thawing out stated, 75 

 Rumpkiiis, notices of large, 197 

 Puvis, M., on the use of lime for maniire,&c., 97, 105, 



113, 121, 129, 130, 149, 153, 104, 1(9, 11, J!-* 

 Radish, a remarkably large, 88 ; how giown free from 



worms, 309 

 Railroad cars, improvement in, 105 



Railroad convention at Knoxville, notices of, 37 ; for the 

 west, proposed project for, 70 ; across the Isthmus of 

 Darien proposed, 114,139; llirough Connecticut riv- 

 er valley, 194; iiicreaseof travel, caused by, 336 

 Railroad iron, might be made in great quantities in 



Ponn., 115 

 Railway tongues, Col. Sargent's plan fur, 78; advanta- 

 ges of railroads in case of war, 148 

 Rara avis, a rare b'rd, notices of, 283 

 Rats, how destroyed by a farmer near Edinburgh, 46 ; 

 may be destroyed by terrier dogs, 141, how to stop 

 them out of cellars, 187; a trap tor, 243 

 Rattle snakes, b te of, cuied by saltpetre, 133 

 R. C, on the use and abuse of horses, 314 

 Recipes. For preserving cheese, 4 ; for making a jelly 

 for rearing calves, 27 ; for bloody murrain in cattle, 36; 

 for fever and ague, 37 ; for making strong and healthy 

 sheep, 43 ; for making queen cakes, 43; for curing 

 ring worm by cranberry juice, 44 ; for the ring worm, 

 51; to cure gapes in chickens, 58; for curing blight 

 in pear trees, 58; for keeping fruit fresh with cotton 

 baiting, 58; for making currant jelly, 58; to pre- 

 serve horses, cows, &.C., from being annoyed by in- 

 sects, 08; to keep ofl'and drive away bed bugs, 73; to 

 kill bed bugs, 75 ; for making molasses from sweet ap- 

 ples, 107; for tempering tools, 107; to cure Ihechol- 

 era, 122; to cure dysentery, 122; for raising and 

 cooking skinless oats, 120; for the bite of a raitle 

 snake by the use of aalipeire, 133; to give lustre to 

 silver. Ill; for pieserving fruil, 150 ; lor preserving 

 cheese against mites, 155; fur preserving winter ap- 

 ples, 158; for grubs or hots in horses, 163, 390; to- 

 bacco, a remedy for arsenic, 105; for fastening leather 

 on metal, 173; for curing toiithache with lime water, 

 173; to prevent mice tioni gnawing the oacks of 

 books, &c , 178; Antidote to prisons, 179; for hots 

 in horses, 187; for hydrophobia, 195; for cooking |io- 

 tatocs, a la maitrc ilc hrtcl, 213; lock jaw, cure of, 

 213; for chillbla:ns, or frosted feet, 213; for making 

 Indian corn bread, 213; for curing the toochache by 

 creosote, 213; to cure hydrophobia, 227; cure for 

 bruises, 238; for the crnup,239; fnr making potato 

 bread, 'i42; for the whooping cough, 244; for making 

 yeast, 24G; for a cold, 202; for preventing ink from 

 becoming moul ly ; to euro swelled throat in hogs, 275 

 Miscellaneous receipts, short cakes and superior John 



ny cakes, 275; to make plate look like new, 288; for 

 making cements, 290; several in cookery, 291 ; for 

 incombustible and stucco white wash, 300; for the 

 hollow horn in cattlo, 306 ; for making sweet apple 

 bread,315; for the dropsy, 339; To cure inflammation 

 in the tli oat 344; fur curing dried beef, 355; for 

 Household soap, 355; for the cioup, 357 ; for a corn 

 meal rusk, 363 ; for influenza, 305 ; for preparing Mo- 

 rocco leather, 387 ; for fever and ague, 387 ; for pre- 

 aring molasses for preserving frnit, 400 , for da nde- 

 Rlioii beer, 387 

 lienvvick. Professor, his remarks on lime as manure, 97 



heubarb, Wilmot's early, notices of. 326 

 Rice, very henliliy and palatable food, 262 

 Ring worm, cured by cranberry juice, 44; also by wild 



dock, 51 

 Roads, remarks on by E., 2S6 



Rochester, greatest flour manufactory"in the world, 122 

 Rocky njouniains, immense hcighth of, 254 

 Rollers, hollow wooden, how constructed, 333 ; on the 



use of, 364 

 Ronaldjon, James, his letter to the farmers of the United 



States relative to improved seeds, &c., 123 

 Roots for cattle, on the culture of, 210 

 Uose bu"s, inquiries concerning, 273; antidotes against, 



342 

 Russian hack drivers, anecdotes of, 408 

 Ruta baga, good food for horses, 12 ; notiee of large, 194 

 201; belter to make cows give milk than Indian 

 mea',210; remarks on the culture of, by James M. 

 Lawlon,331; directions for the cultivation of, 396 ; 

 questions and answi^rs relating lo,405 

 Rye, on harvesting, 14 ; report on Edward C- Sparhawk's 



premium crops of, 260 ; on its cultivation, 343 

 S. communltion from, 57 

 tfago bread, how made, 278. 

 Salety valve for steam boilers, 221. 

 Salmon, anecdote of, 416. 

 Salsify, or veget.ible oyster, 99. 

 Salt lor cattle, how and when given, 43; quantities of 



made in Syracuse, 99. 

 Salt hay, tor manure, 355. 

 S-indford's grindstone shaft, notice of, 227. 

 S;n)' boiling, for sugar, improvement in, 309. 

 Sshool fund, distribution of, 278. 

 Scientific lectures remarks on, 150. 

 Scions, long and short, remarks, 365. 

 Scotch Kale, advantages and uses of, 43. 

 Scot's asbestos fire proof chest, 307. 



Season, in Canada, backward, 4 ; in Newhampshire, 4 ; 

 remarks on, from the Norihamptim Gazette, 36; ob- 

 servations on, 51,374,389; in the neighborhood of 

 Portland, 93. 

 Seasons, on foretelling, 357. 

 Sea weed for manure, 50, 118. 



Seed, many sorts of should be rolled or pressed down 

 hard, whin sown, 43; on selecting and preserving, 

 46 ; of garden vegetables may be sown in autumn, 

 142; how 6a\ed, and the number of years which 

 lliey may be kept before sown, 380. 

 Seeds', imfosilions in selling, 22; importance of select- 

 ing by Mellville, 213 ; how preserved in Gum Ara- 

 bic, 213 ; how prepared tor sowing, 350. 

 Segato, Signoir, his discovery o( a mode of petrifying 



animal substances, 37. 

 Sequel to Three Experiments in Living, 312. 

 Sewing silk, great quantity of mauufactuied in North- 

 ampton, 29S. 

 Shade trees, advantagea of, 14. 

 Shad, great haul of, 4l3. 



Sheep, worm in the head of, how prevented, 3S ; re- 

 cipe for making strong and healthy, 43; great fleece 

 from, 61; notices of their diseases, 187, 338, winter 

 food, .212; a disease in, called the stretches, how 

 cured, 245; washing of, directions for, 300; shearing 

 lime for, 364 ; tar recommended foi, 366 ; garget root, 

 recommended for, 366. 

 Shepardia, or Buffalo berry, notices of, 284. 

 Shoes and boots, Imw to prevent them front cracking, 



27; mamifaclures of, in Massachusetts, 28. 

 Silk, American, presented by Adam Brooks, 38 ; by 

 Thomas Whitmarsh, 226; print works of, in Lynn, 

 59; goods, exhibiiion ol, in Nantucket, 193, and 

 mulberry trees, (Jen. Talmadga's Letters concerning, 

 75,83; facts and observations, 115 ; on its mauufac- 

 lur:-, by James Walker, 123; by Mrs Messenger, 

 155; ill China, 186. 

 Silk company, '^lassachHSltts, notices of, 76. 

 Silk cuUure, in New Jersey, notice of, 43; Mr Ken- 

 rick's memoir on, notice of, 138 ; near Paris, 141 ; in 

 Muskingum, 171; comfiienced near New Haven, by 



Mr Du Duchet, 27; in Fredoricksburgh, Virgin 

 32 ; in Kentucky, 53 ; remarks on frem the corres- 

 pondence of Gen. Talmadge, 91 ; Progress of, in the 

 United States, 237 ; in Maine, notices of, 298 j on the 

 profits of, 325. 



Silken handkerahief, presented to the Editor, 54; other 

 do manufactured iu Nantucket, 166. 



Silk worms, on tliem.inagement of, by James Haui»iiton 

 21 ; from the Northampton Courier, 69; tho.se fed on 

 the black mulberry make the stror.gesi se win" silk, 99 



Silk Spinner, by Adam Brooks, 35, 154,325. ° 



Silk Investigation, by Andrew T. Judson, 113. 



Silk Machine, an improved, by Isaac G. Bottsford, 204. 



Silk Report of the Philadelphia Company, 36, 267, pre- 

 miums given on by the Hampshire, Franklin and 

 Hampden Agricultural Society, 396. 



Silk and Sugar beet, culture of, by Wm Kenrick, 292. 



Silk and the Mulberry, remarks on, 325, notices of a 

 report of a Committee on, in the House of Repre- 

 sentatives, 377, 385, manufactured by the family of 

 CaKin Moody, 333. 



Silk washing, how performed, 332. 



Smith Gideon, B. his remarks on the Morus Alullicaulis, 

 •201. 



Smut in Wheat, remarks on, 324. 



Snow, on dissolving, 283, valuable for washing hands, 

 283. 



Snow storm, in Canton, China, 88, the longest ever 

 known in England, 285. 



Soap from flints, how made, 278. 



So ips recommended to apply to seed corn, 339. 



Soda, for washing, 342. 



Soil, light, advantages of, 12 — Sandy, how improved, 

 356 



Soiling laboring cattle and horses recommended, 33,358. 



Songs of Zion recommended, 272. 



Soot, its benelicial efi'ects as a manure for wheat, 174. 



Spanish Girls at Travino, 400. 



Sp.irliawk, Edward C. report on his premium crop of 

 rye, 260. 



Speculation on a lot in Winsconsin, 379. 



Spontaneous combustion, notices of, 69, 307. 



Stains from cloth, art of removing, 196. 



Starch from potatnes, manufiictories of, in Vermont, 59. 



Steam flouring mill at Goshen, N. Y. 284. 



Steam navigation in Europe, 21. 



Steam Stove, Fossenden's Principles and Structure of, 

 •234. 



Steam boat, new model of, by D. Gerrish, 5 — by B. D. 

 Beeclier, 29 — remarks on the speed of, 122, 141, made 

 of iron, 211. 



Sleam,JplougJiing by, 28. 



Steam whistle, notice of, 275. 



Stearns, Isaac, his table, sliowing the limes in which 

 apple trees have been notced to be in full blossom 

 for a number of years past, 395. 



Stock, valuable English, importation of, into Charles- 

 ton, S. C, 189 ; on the management, by Old Riisticus, 

 197. 



Stone walls, remarks on, 35. 



Straw, how preserved, fyc, 81. 



Sugar Irom beets, see beetsugar, from Indian corn, 405. 



Sugar refinery, in East Boston, 59. 



Summer fallows, iu a great measure discontinued in 

 Norfolk, England, 12. 



Surgery, curious, 155. 



Sutton, Jwmes, his statement relative to large crops of 

 grain, raised in Delaware, 18. 



Sweet apples, remarks on the uses of, &o., 205 



Swine, cliarcoal useful lor, 43 ; time should be taken 

 for fattening, 150 ; Lynch law among, 50 ; to cure 

 swelling in the throat of. 53 ; remarks on fatleninj, 

 86, 107 ; report of tite Committee of, at the Worces- 

 ter Cattle Sliow, 132 ; may well be kept on frozen 

 apples, 226 ; notices of large 230, 235, 317. 



• Tacks manufactured in Massachusetts, 202 

 Talmadge, Gen his letters concerning Silk Mulberry 



Trees, &c., 75, 83. 

 Tanning leather, by a new mode invented by Messrs 



Bi Us, 114 ; tanning skins with the fur on, 273. 

 Tansy will preserve desh from flies, &c. 26. 

 Tar, recommended for sheep, 366. 



Temperance, advantages of, as exemplified in the life 

 of 1'ah Sisson, 352 ; notices of an address on by Wil- 

 liam E Channiiig,300 ; progress of in Northampton, 

 37 ; remarks on, by Dr Mus.sey, 229. 

 Temperance documents, permanent, notices of, 250. 



Societies, origin of, 261. 



Thames Tunnel, notice of its progress, 190. 

 Thermo-electric machine, notice of, 312 

 Thistles, on destroying, 30, 300, 406. 



