INDEX. 



a manure, H2 — use of il, 105, 430 — on wheat crop. I Onions, great yield of, 170 — Samuel Newman's account Review of tlie Third Annual Report of tlie Geology of 

 influence of, 145 — Ruflin on calcareous manures, 344 I of preniium crop, 2S(i Maine, by H. C, 58, 68 



Liiming and wheat on clover, 1!I3 — benetit of, and green i Ornithology, knowledge of, important to farmers, 3,18 



manuring with peas, 21(> 



Live and learn, 148 



Lincoln, VVilliain, report on swim:, 181 



Lowell, Hon. John, obituary notice, 314 



l.iOweII Hi'rtioullural Society, notice of, 83 — first exhi- 

 bition of, lOG 



Loams, management of sandy, 135 



London dairies. 249, 257; 



Locust tree, Uaniel Stclibins necount o? his plantation, 

 327 



Lucvni'i cultivation t>f, 41" 



Lying, 100 



M. 



Marl, it.« meliorating etleci, 13l> — espeiiment with, 30(5 



Madison's homestead, 220 



Mammoth pear, 241 



Man's necessities his greatest l^tnporal UIes.*sing, 191 



iVIanure, accumulating of, 13G, 173— from peat and lime, 

 17 — from sea weed and dry straw, 121 — application 

 of, 54 — materials for, by H. C. 86^ — urate and pou- 

 drette, 12.") — nutritive, 31G — experiments in, 354 — use 

 of long, 414 — and ill effects of dirty stable, 329 — ap- 

 plication of, by Jamis A. Garrett, G2 



Manuring, cheap, .''>7 



Mackey pigs, Mr Phinney's, 701 



Marsh mud, experiment witli, 434 



Management of the dairy, 112 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society, see Horticultural 

 Society — Society fur Promoting Agriculture, premium 

 list 1839, 14, 23— remarks on premiums, by H. C 50— 

 premiums lor butter and cheese awarded, 203 — report 

 of committee on butter, 234 — report on beet sugar 

 premiums, 2G4 — of Dr Stebbins on beet sugar, 384 — 

 on best cultivated farms, 285 — on vegetable and grain 

 crops, 28G — on trees and live hedges, 308 — premium 

 farm reports, 325 — Icliabod R. Jacob's answers to in- 

 quiries, 344— premium list for 1840, 381 



Means and measures of educating farmers, 33 



Meadow land, by W. B., 37 



Merriam, H. C, on education of farmers, 281 



Memorial of agricultural commissioner, 293 



Milch cows, importanre of their having access to good 

 water, 135 — and heifers, 375 



Milking by women, 50 — instructions for, 217 

 . Milk, the importance of pure, for the supply ol New 

 York city, 160 — sickness, observations upon, 88 



Millet, time of sowing, great produce of, 30 



Middlesex cattle show at Concord, 134 — notice of, by 

 H. C. 122— address befiire the society, by H. C. 333 



Monre, (^ol. Abel, notice of li,s larm, by J. B. 61 



Mole, natural history of, 276 



Monopoly, by H. C. 50 



Morus Multicaulis, failure of cuttings, 40 — virtue..^ and 

 value of, 63 — tea and cigars made from it, 63 — buds, 

 failure of those planted, 64 — excitement about, 76 — 

 shoes made of it, 100— sales reported, 112 — the staple 

 product of New Jersey, 1()9 — speculation in at an end, 

 170- bad business, 209 



Mulberry trees, sale of, 62 — and the silk business, con- 

 fidence in, 81 — bad business, 209^silk culture in 

 1772, 112— essay on, by Daniel Stebbins, 385— Mas- 

 sachusetts Agricultural Society's premiums on, re- 

 marks, by H. L'. uO 



Mutual improvement clubs, 263 



Much ado about nothing, 316 



Mysteries of the Kitchen, 220 



N. 



Natural history, 60 



New Jersey farmin", 109 



Negro fiddler, 100 ° 



New York Pondretle Company, 125 



New York annual horiicullurai exhibition, 108 



Newspapers, benefits of, 177 



Night s..il, 230 



Ni.hols, Dr. A., statement on mar.ures, 368 



Notes on New Jersey farming, 109 



Noithem shepherd, 85 



Notices of larnis, minute? by the way, and li. Phinney's 

 farm, 53. 61— Col. A Moore's farm, 61— E. L Pen- 

 nimans place, 90— Gen. Holman's, 93— Calvin lias- 



Orchards, good eti'cct of swine running in them, 105 

 Order, every thing in its, 432 — and regularity, 393 

 Osborn, William, on reclaimed meadows. 

 Oxen against horses, 5(1 — remedy lor pulling olV I 



each other, 199 



P. 

 Pawliixet cattle show and fair, 141 — jiri-miotn lis 



1840,425 

 Parental affection, pleasures of, 188 

 Pauper farms, 277 

 reach tree borer, 361— pruning of, 382 — curiou 



freak 



jacn tree norer, jui— pruning oi.^v-i — curious ireak n ' r ,i,. 



r , ■ nc 1 ' 1 r I i/"» ' rvoinan agricu ture, l3b 



ol nature in, 95 — coal ashes for their preservation, 1(i7 : d l . Y' d . , 



p „, A A . J I I- 11' Koberts, L. P. account o 



real meadows, 4 — on peat and lime, from Jaikson s jl,- ' 



report, 77 

 Pepperell, notice of improvements iu, 104 

 Penn, William, getting what he wanted 130 i 



Penniman, E. L. notice of his pfice, 90 j 



Perluine of plants, deleterious in confined apartments, 10 ; 

 Phinney, E. Esq. notice of his farm, .53 — of his pigsand r> 

 piggeiy, 71 — un the cultivation of wheat, 389 — letter 

 to C. F. Jackson on peat, 77 

 Pigs anil piggery, Mr Phinney's, 71 

 Pine, Norfolk Island, 288 

 Plant, insect, 356 



Planting trees, 88 — seeds, inquiries bv W . Ames an- 

 swered by Rev. M. Allen, II 

 Plymouth cattle show, report of committee, &c. 174 — 

 on improvi;ment8, 311 — reports on silk, working oxen, 

 &c. 383 — on stock, produce, &c. 391 — on inventions, 

 399 — list of premiums for 1840, 3.56 — premiums 

 awarded, 407 — remarks on, by H. C. 154, by M. 154 



Poetry. I.ectufe to the world's people, 8 — the stormy 

 Petrel, 92 — Y.>nkee girl, 100 — our mountains and val- 

 leys, 108- the farmer, 132— birds in autumn, 124— 

 farmers' choice, 228 — the wild flower, 260 — consump- 

 tion, 292—1 bow not yet, 292— the monkev, 316— the 

 horse, 332— the farmer 380 



Potatoes, frost bitten, observations on, 223 — experiment 

 with, 262 — planting in the furrow, 394 — Gilkies, 17 — 

 hilling of, 17 — best soil for, varieties and cultivation 

 of, 32 — preserving of. 145 



Premiums awarded by Massachusetts Agrioutural So- 

 ciety, 203 — list of Mass. Agri. So. 15 — Plymouth 

 County Society, 356 



Pruning fruit trees, proper time, 399 — remarks on pre- 

 miums of Massachusetts Agricultural Society, by H. 

 C. 50 — utility of, force of prejudice, 134 



Politics fiir farmers, 400 



Poultry, to fatten, and rearing of, 193 — on the keeping 

 of, 57— management by Thomas P. Hunt, 330 — by 

 T. W. and H. C. 338— inquiries answered by T. P. 

 Hunt, 36'2 — and eggs, ;?51 



Pouvliette, recoinmendHtions of, directions for using, 

 &c. 12 



Profits of farming, by H. C. 26— of crops, 21- of an 

 English farm, by J. A. J. 131 | 



Profitable farming, 349 i 



Produce and expenses of farming, 29 



Preserving cariots and ruta bagi, 170 



Profession, choice of, 240— prolessional life, 389 



Putnam Allen, address before Essex Ai;ricultural Socie- 

 ty, 309 



Putnam, Daniel, statement on reclaimed meadows, 376 



Punctuality, value of, 346. 



Receipt for making table b(er,32 — to cure dysent3ry,73 — 

 for taking out stains of berries, 84 — liir curing wpund* 

 on horses and cattle, 90 — for curing broken wind in a 

 horse, 137 — for making buck wheat cakes, IbB— to 

 niake leather water proof, 238 — for making labor sa- 

 ving soap, 261 — to make rancid butter sweet, 261-:- 

 to prevent taste ol turnips in butler, 407 — to make 

 rich bread puddings, 415 — to make rich baked Inrlian 

 do. 415 — to make Indian boiled pudding, 415 — to 

 make a strong cement for glass, 417 



Rotation of crops, 21 — in gardening, 345 — applioatiott 

 of the principles of, 200 



I succesful culture of tree corn. 



Rohan Potatoes, Jnsiah Lovett, 2d., account of, 137 — 

 value of, 289 — Humphrey Webster's account of, 137 

 — ;>reat yield of, 153 — distinguishing trait of, 153— 

 J. L. L. F. Warren's experiments with, 277 — J. K. 

 Howard's account of, 313 

 )cky Mountain Flax, 262 

 Rose bush slug, premiums for destruction of, 394, 418 

 Root cultivation, benefit of, , 



Rliode Island Agricultural Reports, 141, 160 — premiums 

 offered, 425- report of the farm cf Wm. Rolch, 40J. 

 Rye, Pcleg S. Gardener's account of premium crop, 2i^ 

 Russian hogs, 169 



S. : 



Salt Hay, by H. C, 66 ,'".... 



Salt, for killing white weed, 66 — useful for fruit trees, 

 30— value of, 207 



Salting butter, 103 



Saltpetre in meat, 416 — as a manure, 432 — in liquor. 

 deleterious qualities, 416 — for garget, 81 



Sandy Loams, management of, 135 



Science and agriculture, 258 — applied to farming by W 

 B. 277— for farmers by W. B. 350, 373, 408— import, 

 ant to the farmer, 210 



Scotland, agricultural state of, 101 



Schools, common, remarks on, by Dr Humphrey, 177 

 — houses, by Dr Humphrey, J83 



Season, state of, by H. C. 18 — and meadow lands, by 

 W. B. 37 



Sea sand, vegetative powers of, 193 



Seed the continuance of vegetative powers, 369 — not 

 germinating causes of, 119 



Seed coin, preparation of, 47 



Sedgwick, Theodore, Hon., obituary notice of, 178 



Selfishness, 324 



Sheep, browsing of, during the continuance of snow« 

 246 — fine wooled, 231 — shearing at Nantucket, 10 



Shaw, Chief Justice, address at the centennial celebra- 

 tion at Barnst.ible, 116 



Shark, a large one, 20 



Sherman, Aliiiot, anecdote of, 396 



Short horned cattle, 41 



Silk business, much good will result from if, 140 — gilh 

 reel, 18(i— convention at Washington, 218-— from the 

 spider, 236— manufacture of, 288 — ciiitu e ol, 297— 



culture, essay on, 365 — remarks on, by H. C, 394 



growing in Hampshire County, 39 — incredulity of euo- 

 cess will give way, 49 — business, its agents, odd timesj 

 &c , 72 — as carried on by General Holinan, 94^a9 

 carried on by C. Haskell, 104 — Samuel Whitmarsh'B 

 communication on, 9? — company in Washington, 97 



Quince Trees, 353 



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kelFs, 

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104— "t E: 



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Agricultural Society, 114 — ol 



Oats, large ones, 81 

 Odds and ends, 60 

 Observation, value to farmers, 87 



Rain water cisterns, manner of constructing, 4 

 j Rail road engine, 36 — opening the western, 122 

 1 Rattlesnake, 08 

 I IJats, ingenuiiy of, 252 

 1 Raspberries, best metiii.>d of training, 255 

 Remarks on commencement of a new volume, 6 

 Remittances by mail, 113 

 Remedy, a simple one for dust in the eye, 20 — against 



disease in cattle, 32 

 Reaping machine, new one, 73 

 Kecliiined meadow, 376 

 Reproduclion ol Iruit, 151 

 Report, the second agricultural, by II. C 21,29, notice 



ol — ih.rd do. 386, notice of 

 Reverses in trade, 3ti2 

 Rule worthy the fanner's atteniion, 207 

 Ruta Baga, best mode of transplanting, 18, culture— 

 and the garden fla», 169— and carrots, by H. C. 176— 

 mode of preserving, t.Scc. 89 



— productiim and manufactuie, by H. C, 106— tnanu 



factoring, encouragement in it, 127 — Colinan's view 



of culture, 178 

 Silk Worms' Eggs, carelessness in saving, 119 

 Sllliman's address at the state house, 242 

 Slavery, effects on Virginia agriculture, 13 

 Sleep with ilie head covered, 180 

 Sleep, efl'ects upon the eves, 100 

 Slobbering of horses, lobelia the cause of it, 96 

 Smut in v\heat, how pr.'vented, 393 

 Soap suds, a specific fur nounshing flowers, 91— «oap 



makin:;, 190 

 Soil for the sugar beet, 15 

 Soiling cattle, 217 



Spirit of the age, agricnltiirul papers, &c. 118 

 Speculation, evils of it, 186 

 Spofford, (j'eorgH, statement on cows, 375 

 .■strawberries, great amount realiz.-d from a small plot, 



95 — acennnt of Mrs Arbigiist's plantation, by N. 



Lmigworth, 56 — im the cultivation of, by J. A- 



Powning, 48 — piofiis of raising, 25 — Hovey's new 



seedling; 7 

 Staking new set trees, 343 



