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Clover, cultivation of, for fodder, 365 ; and 



iilastcr, 388 ; crops of, 399 ; in orchards, 403 

 Club, Farmer's, - - - - 106, 187, 311 

 Coal, hard, dust of, 326 ; how to bum, - 559 

 Coffee, substitutes for, 200 ; recipe for making, 243 

 Colt, how to feed a, 326 ; a fine, 72 ; bunch on 

 the iaw of a, 78 ; warts on a, 78 ; early train- 

 ing- of a, 210, 290 



Conversation, home, ----- 107 



Coral, the, 308 



Correspondents, to 199 



Corn, seed, 16, 125, 260 ; a good kind, 52 ; rel- 

 ative value of different kinds, 59, 171 ; in 

 Illinois, 64 ; will doves pull up ? 78, 84 ; 

 broom, 175; experiments with, 175; fodder, 

 206 ; cobs to be mixed with hay, 207 ; a 

 large crop of, 223 ; shrinkage of, in drying, 

 246, 547 ; deep and shallow culture of, - 561 

 Cotton, in the Free States, 102 ; culture of, 



165; flax, 346, 567 



Cow, garget in, 12, 478, 497 ; stables, 53 ; 

 extra feed to, 75 ; soiling, 77 ; bone dust for, 

 84, 195; a sick, 88; eating litter from ma- 

 nure heaps, 110; an hour with the milch, 119; 

 a fat, 131 ; parsnips for, in certain cases, 165 ; 

 that gives too much milk, 174; chewing 

 bones, 174; leaks her milk, 221 ; to prevent 

 from kicking, 260, 373 ; and ten months' 

 calf, 266 ; versus horses, 270 ; a good, 282 ; 

 health of the, 406 ; to prevent from throw- 

 ing fences, 427 ; abortion in, - 



Courtesies, home, 



Cranberry plants, setting the, 220; culture of 



the, 221, 258, 519 ; vine, worm on, - 

 Crop, feed the, 183 ; in England, 294 ; pre- 

 mium on field, 354 ; the grass. 

 Crow, the, and robin, 269 ; the, - 

 Cucumbers, in pots, 117 ; and melons, 

 Curculio, remedy for, 265 ; the, - 

 Currant, how to propagate the, 246 ; cuttings 

 of the, 285 ; wine, how to make, 391 ; drying 

 the, 391 ; about the, - - - 412, 539 



479 

 342 



222 



373 

 302 

 339 

 332 



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Dahlias, to preserve tubers of, 448 ; soil for, 



Dairy, keeping a, 



Daughiers, marriage of, - - - - 

 Day, John, farm of, 301 ; an autumnal, 

 December, thoughts suggested by, 

 Desert, pillars of sand in the. 

 Dog, wood, 293 ; power, 334 ; versus wool, 

 Draining, 23, 76 ; new book on, 131 ; will it 

 pay? 205: clay lands, 220, 256; how deep, 

 389, 508, 526 ; with stones and pipes. 

 Dress, extravagance in, - - - - 

 Drought and freshet, 3^5 ; spring, 

 Dunbarton, N. H., notice of, - - - 

 Dust, charcoal, as a deodorizer, - - - 



Duty, home, 



Dysentery and fever, - - - - 462, 



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Eagle, stratagem of the, . - - - 

 Earth, the, a burning cauldron, 85; the age of 

 our, -------- 



Economv, thoughts on, . - - - 

 Education, agricultural, 2G2 ; for sons, 279, 315 ; 

 advantages of, 397; and thinking, 442; re- 

 laxation in, ------ 



Eggs, how to pack for transportation, 124 ; how 

 to cook in the shell, 151 ; iiow to examine for 

 setting, 185 ; a Jiundred from a Python, 232, 

 287 ; keeping properties of, 347 ; hens cat- 



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Elm, when to prune the, - . - - 

 England, what is she doing ? 142 ; Japanese in. 



455 

 343 

 439 

 560 

 537 

 496 

 465 



541 

 64 

 388 

 328 

 264 

 409 

 496 



316 



367 

 492 



536 



507 

 220 

 333 



Engine, greenhouse, - - - - - 417 



Esquimaux riflemen, 143; architecture of, - 538 



Evergreen, how to make it grow compact, - 195 



Experiment, a curious, . - . - 296 



Explorer, arctic, return of, - - - - 498 



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Family, a pleasant and well-regulated, 173; 



a birth in the, 295 



Farm, small and large, 171 ; hints on buying a, 

 203, 316 ; roadsides of the, 237 ; labor, make 

 it fashionable, 331 ; engineering, 374; personal 

 experience in earning a, - - - - 405 

 Farmer, natural science for, 34, 72; want of 

 sociability among, 59 ; rights of the, 69 ; the 

 New England, 89; high school for the, 101; 

 timely advice to the, 163; and natural his- 

 tory, 361 ; and the draft, 427 ; the Massachu- 

 setts, 475 ; encouragement for the, - - 545 

 Farming, is it profitable'? 12, 21, 46, 97, 114, 

 123, 269, 290, 312, 338, 377, 406; contrasts 

 in, 27 ; rivalry in, 322; why are so few young 

 men fond of, 331 ; A. G. Sheldon's, - 336 



Fat, use of, 133 



February, calendar for, - . - - 57 



Feet, educated, 152 



Fence, a new, 26 ; Smith's improved, 186, 243, 

 257, 312; about a, 314, 351, 422, 533 ; econ- 

 omy of a, 546 



Fever, and ague, 392 ; and dysentery, 462, 496 



Fireside, winter, 110 



Fish, tenacity of life in a, 141 ; and fish breed- 

 ing, 457 



Flannel for summer and winter, - - - 428 

 Flax, dressing of, 38 ; culture of, 89 ; and 

 linen, trade of, in Ireland, 180; and fibrilia, 567 



Flesh versus milk, 265 



Flower, dielytra spectabilis, 168 ; early, annual, 

 217; and fruit, 252 ; the bur-marigold, 438; 

 and farming, 445 ; fresh, in winter, - - 487 

 Flowage, case of, 126 ; of Concord River, 254, 



274, 280, 514 



Fodder and manure, relation of, - - - 546 

 Food, qualities and changes in, - - - 563 

 Forests, rotation in the, - - - - 299 

 Fox, a story about a, - - - - - 253 

 French, Henrv F., letter from, - - - 323 



Frog, trade in" the, 388 



Frost, in the window, 68 ; and the weather, 490 



Fruit, culture of, in pots, 118; garden, 233; 

 and flowers, 253 ; ringing for, 258 ; hints 

 about, 326 ; wafers, for dessert, 391 ; how to 

 stamp or figure wiien growing, 433 ; explana- 

 tion of terms used in describing, 448, 449 ; 

 gatherer, 467 ; ripening of, 499 ; as a medi- 

 cine, 515: thinning of, 531 ; analysis of, - 561 

 Fuel, - '- - ' 225 



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Garden, the vegetable, 216 ; kitchen, 242 ; sur- 

 face of the, 256 ; a walk in my, 293, 360 ; 

 ]ilan of, 433 ; insects in the, 436 ; D. W. 

 Lincoln's, 444; a pattern, 459; flower, in 

 November, ------ 



Gas from coal. 



Gate, tlie best, 



Gentility, American, - 



Girls, English, - 



Goats, about keeping, ■ 



Gooseberry, the, 



Grain, plowing ibr, in winter, - - - 



Grammar, in rhyme, 



Grajie, native, how to protect, 37 ; culture of, 

 51, 198, 417; vine, grafting the, 70,; vines, 

 pruning, 164; vine, barren, 290 ;. o])en-air, 

 culture of the, 336 ; house for the, 399 ; how 



250, 



135, 146, 186, 244, 



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 391 

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 430 

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