INDEX. 



Page. 

 Rats, how to cateli, 54 ; a monkey's affection for, 

 151 ; how to drive away, .... 553 



Rawliide, use of, 490 



Reading, power of, 343 



Recipes, domestic, 104; washing fluid, 151; 

 snow corn cakes, 152; blowing out a candle, 

 152; rich, nice pudding, 200; potted beef, 

 200 ; mince pie without meat, 200 ; fruit cake 

 Avithout eggs, 200 ; to save frozen house plants, 

 200 ; valuable, 352 ; to put up tomatoes, 

 melons, etc., to make rhubarb wine, soups, 

 veal cutlet, destroy flies, cure for corns, 392 ; 

 for washing fine and elegant colors, 419; 

 peach preserve, compote of peach, blackber- 

 ries, blackberry syrup, blackberry wine, black- 

 berry cordial, 440 ; apple pufl's, jelly cake, 

 pumpkin sauce, steamed Indian pudding, 

 Johnny cake, mince pies, imitation ajjple 

 pie, tomato pie, squash pie, . . 465, 536 

 Reports, agricultural, prizes for, . . . 512 

 Rhubarb, wine from, 255 ; analysis of, . 319 



Ringbone, cure i'or, 242, 265 ; about, . . 339 

 Ringworm, or tetter, in cattle, . . . 215 

 Roofs, preserving shingles on, 344 ; slated, and 

 lightning, 452 ; shingles on, to prevent from 

 taking fire, ...... 494 



Roller and grass seed, 469 



Roots, value and uses of, 183 ; their effect on the 



soil, 298 



Ruins, exhumation of, . . . . . 320 

 Rural scenes, occupations and pleasures, . 47 



Rye, perpetual crops of, 203; guano for, 215; 

 with buckwheat, .... 215,256 



Salve, a valuable, 



Sandy River, notes from, 87 ; land, 223, 276 ; 

 pillars of sand, ...... 



Sawdust, pine, use of, . . . . 31, 



Sewage, value of, ..... 



Scalds and burns, to cure, .... 



School, first agricultural, 239, 383 ; agriculture in 

 a boys', ....... 



Science of common things, 138 ; natural, 



Scraps, pork and beef, as manure, 



Season in Newbury, Vt., 27 ; and crops in Iowa, 

 51 ; review of the, 257 ; and crops, 306, 327 ; 

 and crops, faith and practice, 361 ; and crops 

 in N. Y., 



Seed, timothy, 63 ; Hubbard squash, 223 ; of 

 Chinese sugar cane, 231 ; quantity to an acre, 

 241 ; effect of soaking, 314 ; from' Syria, 420 ; 

 and cuttings from Syria, 461; Hungarian 

 grass, 463, 479 ; clover, sown in the fall, 463 ; 

 grass, and roller, 469 ; clover, . 



Sedative, a new, 



September, calendar for, .... 



Shark, the arctic, ...... 



Sheep, husbandry, 50, 58, 166; and the buck, 

 77 ; warts on, 86 ; and doo-s, 89 ; creeper breed 

 of, 117, 168, 247, 276, 326; breacliy, 146; 

 work on, 231 ; Southdown and Leicester, 

 277, 305 ; foot rot in, 409 ; hay for one, 437 ; 

 numbering, 451 ; in Texas, 469 ; and wool, 

 472, 504; fall and early winter care of, 543 ; 

 Kansas for, 



Shingles, laying new over old ones, 174; rapid 

 decay of, 504 ; to make them last, 523 ; shin- 

 gling, 



Shoes, copper-soled, 



Show, autumnal, 



Silver, ........ 



Skating, a word about, .... 



Skins, tanning with the fur on, 



Slates and lightning, 



Sleep, 439^ 



Smut in corn and other crrain, 



304 



564 

 232 

 513 

 118 



264 



477 

 294 



427 



479 

 518 

 393 

 149 



561 



538 

 511 

 542 

 96 

 104 

 347 

 484 

 498 

 532 



Society, Middlesex Agricultural, 46, 194 ; United 

 States Agricultural, 71, 101, 417; Essex Hor- 

 ticultural, 95, 119; New Hampshire State Ag- 

 ricultural, 111 ; Massachusetts State Agricul- 

 tural, 237 ; and Horticultural, 244 ; Worces- 

 ter South East, 261 ; Norfolk County, 287 ; 

 Horticultural at Needliam, 344 : American Po- 

 mological, 362 ; Town and County Agricultu- 

 ral, 382 ; North Franklin, Me., 401 ; Rutland 

 County, Vt., 479 ; Maine State, 491 ; Martha's 

 Vineyard Agricultural, .... 547 

 Soil, studies of the, 94, 269 ; how I improve the, 

 130; advantages of a heavy, 161 ; inilverizing 

 the, 501 ; to secure tiie fertility of the, 526 ; 

 action of frost upon the, 546 ; sub, and drought, 556 



Spider, thread of the, 376 



Squash, the Hubbard, 19, 223; Potter's, 151 ; to 

 get early, 264; seeds, liow to save fine, 278 ; 

 and coi'n, 452 ; squashing out, . . . 520 

 Stakes, to preserve in the ground, . . 59 



Steam, cultivation, 172 ; for farmers, . . 568 

 Stock, raising colts, calves, sheep, 58, 221 ; and 

 farms in Kentucky, 74; wintering, 141 ; cook- 

 ing food for, 227 ; Ayrshire, 479 ; economy in 



feeding, . 555 



Stomach, let it have its cravings, . . . 245 



Stoves, 77 



Strawberry, Cutter's seedling, 209 ; new mode of 



raising the, 258 ; how to set, . . . 375 

 Sugar, orchards, 87; from beets, 166, 304; ma- 

 ple, 245, 276 



Swamp muck, drainage of, 266 ; land, 408 ; and 



meadows, 505 



Swine, rearing and fattening of, . . . 462 



400, 477, 

 85, 111, 168, 232, 256, 



Table, a valuable, , 



Taxes, . 



Tea plant, the, 



Teacher, the true, 



Texas and sheep, ...... 



Things I love to see and read. 



Thinking, the art of, .... . 



Tiiistles, 



Tile, drain, 549 ; new style of, . 



Times, relics of old fighting, 369 ; ancient and 

 modern, ....... 



Tobacco, the use of, 93; culture of, 118,347; 

 the bane of Virginia husbandry, 



Tomato ketchup, where it comes from, . 



Tools, lending and borrowing. 



Tour, our, ....... 



Toys, where they come from, 343 ; vulcanite. 



Travel, sketches of, .... . 



Trees, care of old apple, 15 ; apple, lice on, 26 ; 

 peach, 40, 514; of North America, 45; apple, 

 at Woodside, 54 ; ornamental, 60 ; bones for 

 fruit, 68 ; pear, four, history of, 73 ; loose bark 

 on apple, 75; apple, diseased, 76,234 ; apple, 

 pruning and transplanting, 95, 101, 186, 247, 

 324, 370, 437 ; how to set tops of fruit, 117 ; 

 oak, disease in, 120 ; pine, pruning of tiie, 76, 

 119, 210; pear, 258. 271, 459; a petrified, 

 419 ; elm, a large one, 421 ; pine, 421 ; butter- 

 nut, 400, 478 ; planting a, 493 ; pear, soil for, 

 504; planting, 519 ; culture of. 



Trough, hog, crack in, 



Tumor on an ox, ...... 



Turkey, bronze, how to raise, 12 ; about the, 



Turnip, mixed with straw, 46 ; crop, in England, 

 77; their value in feeding stock, 163; a big, 

 287 ; superphosphate for, 365 ; wild, 



Varnish, India rubber, water proof, 



486 

 .346 

 294 

 252 

 554 

 94 

 479 

 346 

 556 



570 



364 

 146 

 513 

 539 

 570 

 562 



531 

 559 

 258 

 362 



504 



559 



