INDEX. 



Page. 

 Fir, European, and silver, .... 385 

 Fire .among the ancients, .... 390 

 Fish, as a manure, 223 ; keeping in tanks, . 372 

 Flax, cultivation of, .... 282,289 



Fleshy, but not fat, 574 



Floriculture, curious discovery in, . . 432 



Flowages, ....... 67 



Flowers, for a nortliern climate, 375, 458, 472, 



492, 514; love of, 547 



Fly clotiis, 384 



Fodder, corn, iiow to secure, .... 31 



Food, cooking for cattle, 23; animal, 18G ; 



cooked, for hogs, 302 ; adulteration of, . 324 

 Forests, immense, . . . . . 101 



Fowls, for cold weather, 86 ; how to feed, 80 ; 

 French pheasant, 117; Leghorn, 118, IGC, 



304 ; about 250, 205 



Freezin," and thawing, ..... 205 



French, B. V., 302 



Fritters, squash, how to make, . . . 549 

 Frost, effect of, on plants, 177 ; in the full of the 



moon, 487 ; in Fraid^lin County, Me., . 487 

 Froth ho])pers, or frog hoppers, . . . 374 

 Fruit, culture, 38; in Michigan, 72, 367 ; pros- 

 pects for, 328; samples of, 462; in winter, 

 488 ; barrels for, 502 ; preservation of, . 513 

 Furniture, kitchen, sink and utensils, . . 200 



G 



Garden, the, .... 



Gardening, landscape, . 



Garget, cure for. 



Geese, and goslings, 100 ; how to raise, 181 ; 

 raising and fattening, 199 ; Bremen, . 



Gold, influx of, 252 ; diffusion of. 



Gray, Lady Jane, character of, 



Grain, too much, 47 ; and grass, time 

 318 ; cutting and curing, 397 ; crops, 



Grapes, for open culture in Maine, 17 ; 



in Northern Ohio, 41 ; wild, 60 ; best four, 143 ; 

 new, 274 ; an early hard}', 280 ; cause of bar- 

 ren vines, 331, 478, 524 ; native, cultivation 

 of, 367 ; white, 375 ; culture of the, in Ohio, 

 407; to raise by horse power, 419; ciiltur.', 

 452; August, pioneer, 488; white and red, 

 520; Draeut amber, 529 ; pruning the. 



Grass, fowl meadow, 16, 85, 106, 427, 452, 472 ; 

 Hungarian, 69, 150, 174, 20_', 355 ; red top, 

 86 ; about varieties, 100 ; four of the, 144, 192 ; 

 seed, orchard, 215, 223 ; plowing in, 221 ; p;is- 

 ture, 232 ; and grain, time to cut, 318 ; seed, 

 406 ; a fine crop of, 



Grounds, laying out near the house. 



Guano, 75,' 120; for rye, 215; profit of, 215; 

 American, 332, 



H 



5:50 



427 

 573 



522 



142 

 511 



Page. 

 Highways, ....... 567 



Hills, on the, 535 



Hippopotamus, rearing the, . . . 388 



Hogs, two large, 215; cattle and pump, 215; 

 fattening of, ...... 561 



Holdfast, 375 ; to cure a, . . . 406, 435 

 Homestead, a pleasant, and convenient, 81 ; the, 97 

 Horn ail, in cattle, . . . . . 118 



Horse, !iow to make an obstinate, draw, 16 ; 

 scratches in, 63, 130, 189,287,327; to man- 

 age a refractorv, 81 ; pin worms in, 118, 175, 

 258, 287 ; walking, 127, 343 ; foundered, 151 ; 

 ciiiel treatment of the, 167; sand crack in 

 hoof of, 186; disease among, 216; cure for 

 1 ingbone in, 242, 265 ; cribbing in, 279 ; 

 power, as a measure of force, 333; air and 

 light for, 334 ; sweeney in, 349 ; in a fire, how 

 to get out the, 355, 542 ; thrush in, 375 ; about 

 shoeing the, 388; colic in, 394; how much 

 hay for the, 397 ; what constitutes legal un- 

 soundness in, 421 ; e3-e of the, 449 ; secret of 

 S])ccd in, 455 ; and carrots, 456 ; feed the, 

 too much, 475; dead, value of, 544; English, 

 554 ; legs and feet, 569 ; beds, sand for, . 

 Iliit-bcds, leaves for, ..... 



Houses, sunlight iu. 



Hardback, meadow, 



Harness and boots, oil for, .... 



Harrow, Bucklin's improve^, 



Hay, measurement of, 26 ; spontaneous cond)us- 

 tion in, 27, 215 ; cutting and curing, 148,394, 

 413; required per head for cattle, 216 ; caps 

 for, 276, 351, 366 ; value of a load of, 288 ; 

 how much for a horse, 397 ; getting the value 

 of, 406 ; theory of curing, 413 ; for one sheep, 

 437 ; and stock in Vermont, . . . 442 



Hedge, hawthorn, 487 



Heifer, a good, 315 ; a queer, . . . 364 



Hens, disease among, 242, 265 ; number to keep, 

 and time to sell, 266 ; look out for the, 295 ; 

 lice on, 299 ; and chickens, 304 ; dead, 350 ; 

 Leghorn, 350 ; shoeing 359 



Herbs, pulverized, culinary 119 



IIunLrarian grass 



574 

 569 

 476 

 69, 150, 174, 202, 355 



Ice water, 424 



Illinois, crojjs in, 143; nortliern, letter from, 259 



Implements, American agricultural, . . 443 

 Insect life, in Ceylon, 40, 146; froth, or frog- 



lioppcr, 374 ; unknown, 462 ; a new, . 46.3 



Iowa, the season in, ..... 305 



Iron rust, ....... 77 



Islands, Sandwich, letters from the, 300, 334, 



397; Long, lands in, . 172, 226, 253, 443 



Itch, barn, 508 



Ivy, poison from, how cured, . . . 175 



Tanuarv, calendar for, . 

 Japan, smoking in. 

 Jay, blue, and cornfields, 

 Journal, American, stock, 

 July, calendar for. 



9 



155 



544 



31 



297 



K 



Kansas, prairie breaking in, 89 ; letters from, 

 217.319,339; weather and farming in, . 250 



Katydid, the, 265 



Kerosene for lice and ticks, . . . . 150 

 Kctchni), tomato, 482, 504 



L 



Lamb, a fine merino, 189 ; raising a, by hand, 275 

 Land, three acres to sujjport a small family, 20 ; 

 on Long Island, 172, 226, 253, 443 ; "grass, 

 top dressing, 175 ; worn out, renovation of, 

 235 ; san<ly, 276 ; grass, seeding of, 279, 287 ; 

 how to measure, 396 ; and manure, 418 ; pas- 

 ture, 403 



Lectures, agricultural, ..... 340 

 Leech, the, as a weather glass, . . . 490 

 Legislative agricultural meetings, 98, 114, 123, 



131, 150, 169, 178, 195, 204, 219, 228 

 Lichens, or mosses, ..... 477 

 Lime, superphosphate of, 374 ; for turnips, 406, 



444 ; gas, value of, 548 



Lockjaw, cure for, ..... 559 



Lunar influences upon temperature, . 74, 129, 349 



