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INDEX. 



Page. 

 Miasm, 473 



Mice, spinning, ------ 347 



Microscopic research, 211 



Mill, grist, portable, 47, 114; owners, and land- 

 owners, 204 ; iron grist, - . - - 431 



Millers, kill tiie, 3CC 



Milk, before calving, 16; skimming, 32, 394; 

 pans of, 34 ; or cream, churning alone, 44 ; 

 how to make it cheaper, 208 ; setting, 265 ; 

 business, ------- 435 



Mind, importance of presence of, - - - 500 

 Mittens and gloves, - - - - ■ - 545 



Money, pin, - - 488 



Mosses, beauty of, ----- 394 



Motlicr, my, 392 



Muck, swamp, 117 ; experience with, 336, 430 ; 

 and compost, 479 ; and ashes, 496 ; value of, 555 



Mulch, how to, 389 



Mulching, winter, ----- 49 



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New York City, 527 ; apple, - - - 533 

 Nitrogen, - - - - - - - 471 



Notes, bank, how made, 473 ; by rail in Massa- 

 chusetts and New Hampshire, - - - 559 

 Nursery, J. W. Manning's, ... - 302 



O 



Oats, Australian, 80, 88, 117 ; injurious to sheep, 



251, 254, 295, 305, 318 ; and beans, - - 254 

 Ocean, aninuil life in, ----- 486 

 Occupation, choice of, 117 



Onions and peas, 247 ; how to plant, 247; sol- 

 phur, to kill worms in, 277 ; early, and lettuce, 

 429; sowing in the fall, - - 464,466,495 

 Ostrich, hatching the young, ... 524 



Ox, how to throw, 82 ; a large, 139; and beef, 169 



Paint, cheap, 44 ; mixing and applying. 

 Palace, exhibition of 1862, - - - - 



Pamphlets, old, ------ 



Parents, our, ---.-. 



Pasture lands, reclaiming of, - - - 75^ 



Pea, sweet, 151 ; and onions, . . . 

 Pear, Seckcl, 47 ; Muskingum, 128 ; Moore's, 

 136 ; Mount Vernon, 162 ; wash for blight in, 

 275 ; trees of 0. Morse, 312 ; blight in, 463 ; a 

 fine, 506 ; the Pocahontas, - . - 



Peanuts, ------- 



Peasantry, the Conamara, - - - - 



I'ebble, curious, ------ 



Perspiration, danger of checking, - 

 Pickles and pickling, 499; how to make, 504; 

 tomato, ------- 



Pigs in clover, 



Pinnco, Mr., death of, 



Pine leaves and sea weed, 246 ; seed of the, 254 ; 

 cultivation of the native, 346; collecting and 

 sowing tiic seed of the, - - - . 



Pink, a new beauty, 



Plants for food, 44 ; houses, 80; climbing, 248; 

 house, out of doors, 327 ; action of water on. 

 Planting on greensward, . - . - 

 Plaster on mowing lands, - . - - 

 Plow for sandy loams, 92 ; how deep to, 92, 



405 ; when shall we, - - - - - 



Plowing by steam, 34 ; subsoil, 93 ; deep, - 



Post fence, how to set, 18, 188 ; how to preserve, 



51, 87, 106; salted, - - - 173, 



Potato rot caused by insects, 12, 24, 53, 64, 69, 



341 ; planting the, in the fall, 88 ; experiment 



with, 221 ; new mode of planting on grcen- 



47 

 292 

 553 

 536 

 567 

 247 



550 

 245 

 375 

 216 

 386 



535 

 485 

 213 



416 

 39 



472 

 383 

 363 



557 

 117 



213 



Page. 



499 

 273 



sward, 341 ; cure for disease in, 445 ; harvest- 

 ing, 463 ; culture of the, - - - - 



Poudrette, - - - 



Poultry, Leghorn, 68, 158, 402 ; Brahma Pootra, 

 170, 325, 558; prolific, 173; how to raise, 

 143; profitable, 212, 264; raised by a little 

 boy, 235 ; to keep vermin from, 363, 507 ; why 

 do hens eat their eggs, 366 ; about keeping 

 cocks, 396; rearing, 400, 411, 415; to make it 

 lay, 476; pullets, smart, 486 ; plucking each 

 other, 496; management of, - - . 



Power, a new, wanted, 172 ; a one horse, 194, 

 285 ; a dog, 



Premiums at agricultural fairs, - - 36, 511, 524 



Proverbs, false, 439 



Pruning grapes, rule for, 63, 244 ; time for, 276 ; 

 in winter, ------- 437 



Pumpkin, king, 55 ; and squash, - - - 534 



519 



334 



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Raccoons, ------ 485, 511 



Rainvcnt, double use of, - - - - 529 



Ram, hydraulic, drive pipe for, - 276, 295, 334 



Rain, fall, amount of, 203 



Rake, a good drag, 373, 388 ; a fine horse, Stod- 

 dard's, 404, 497 



Rape cake, 80 



Raspberries, everbearing, - - - 152, 174 

 Rats, poisoning, ----.. 415 

 Recipes, domestic, - - 104, 344, 390, 440 



Register, annual, of rural affairs, - - - 552 



Rein, the check, 482 



Reports, agricultural, from Patent OEBce, 39, 41 ; 

 society, 89 ; of Secretary State Board of Ag- 

 riculture, ------- 



Rheumatism, remedy for, - - - . 

 Rhubarb, drying, -.-.-. 

 Ringbone curable, . - . - - 



Roads, macadamized, - - - - - 



Roofs, flat, 



Roses, climbing, 151; how to prune, 203; to 



strike cuttings of, - - - - - 

 Root, tuberous, 29, 61 ; and hay crops, 74 ; cut- 

 ters, economy in the use of, 222 ; culture of 

 the, 252 ; harvesting, 433 ; family of, 456 ; 

 cutter, ---.-.. 554 

 Rothschilds, rise of the, - - - - 510 



Russet, Roxbury, 268 



Ruta baga, 557, 572 



Rye, a great crop of, - - - - - 412 



S 



277 

 294 

 303 

 562 

 109 

 43- 



512 



Salt for animals, 58 ; experiment with, 74; why 

 do animals need, ..... 



Saws, circular, speed of, - - - - 



Scene, a touching, - - . - . 



School, State reform, 



Science is king, - - - - - 



Sea, Dead, ------ 



Seal hunting, 



Season, the growing, 42; reviewing of the, 71, 

 276, 550; and crops, 398, 423, 426, 434; 

 hints for the, -..-.. 



Seed, grass, getting in, 93, 143, 246; of white 

 birch and wliite pine, 116 ; time, 230; caution 

 in purchasing, 279 ; number of, in a bushel, 

 339 ; wiiy not vegetate, 380 ; and implements, 

 caution in purchasing, 408 ; save your, 423 ; 

 selecting, 



Seeding without a grain crop. 



Sheep, apparatus for salting, 27 ; about, 112, 

 185, 213; profits of, 116 ;' culture, 124,572; 

 farms in Illinois, 163 ; and hay, 169; killed 

 by an owl, 173 ; Colswold buck", 216 ; should 



96 

 376 

 439 

 115 

 11, 24 

 431 

 461 



399 



482 

 235 



