VI 



INDEX 



99 

 118 

 140 



29 

 195 

 241 

 194 

 270 

 314 



345 

 191 



376 

 95 



382 

 93 



Salt, why healthful, 



Sand, account of, 



Sap, boiling inaple, 



Sawdust for stables, . • ... 



Schools, in the last century, 189; visiting the, 



Scene, a rural, 



Sea, mining iinder the, 



Season, hints for the, 133; and prospects, 214, 

 313, 



Seed, sowers, 67; of vegetables, age of; 158, 

 313, 318; quantity to be sown per acre, re- 

 quii-ed, 204, 205 ; saving of, 280 ; how to send 

 by mail, 281 ; selection of, 337 ; heavy appli- 

 cation of, 



Sexes, disproportion of, 



Sheep, a Cotswokl buck, 16 ; grub in head of, 

 35; winter management of, 45, 85, 117, 213, 

 227; about, 47; diseased, 70, 180; sore 

 mouth, and remedy for, 91, 83, 188 ; profit of, 

 102 ; Spanish Merinos. 103; sales of in Ver- 

 mont, 131 ; eating wool, 120, 131, 147; ex- 

 citement about, 147 ; best time to feed gram 

 to, 160 ; roots for, 171 ; in Kansas, 189 ; rec- 

 ords of, 207 ; husbandry, 216; shall they be 

 washed, 218; portable feeding rack for, 248; 

 wool and lambs, 280; shed room for, 291 ; 

 best, and cattle, 344 ; at the World's Fair in 

 Hamburg, 347 ; damage to, . 



Sheldon, Asa G., 



Sleep, get enough, 



Snow, winter, 



Society, North Franklin, Me., 25 ; Am. Pomo- 

 logical, 28; Essex County, 29; Vermont 

 State Ag., 71, 298 ; H.ampshirc, Franklin, and 

 Hampden, 93 ; Middlesex, 94 ; Mass. Horti- 

 cultural, 119; Merrimack River, at Nashua, 330 



Soil, renovation of the, 59 ; preparation of for 

 an orchard, 146; exhaustion of the, 256; 

 clay, fertility of, 317 ; cost of analyzing the. 



Spirit, a cheerful, 71, 



Squash, excellent, 209 ; pure, 218 ; custard, . 



Stables, ventilation in, 93 ; old folks of the, . 



Starch, potato, 



Stock, fine, 42 ; expenments in feeding, 57 ; cut- 

 ting food for, 58 ; for our fai-ms, 83 ; winter- 

 ing, 97 ; feeding meal to, 143, 198 ; farm in 

 Maine, • 



Stones, ........ 



Strawberry, culture of the, 167, 373 ; growing 

 on a tree, 



Stove, cooking, 



Stump puller, a novel, 



Sugar, maple, how to make, 69, 101, 129, 151, 



Swallows and gull.'?, ..... 



Swine, dry food for, 10, 139 ; sick, 62, 92, 96, 

 146; fine, 63, 82, 91, 120, 152, 171 ; salt aud 

 cold water for, 68, 374 ; pumpkins and npplcs 

 for, 70 ; cooked and uncooked food for, 77 ; 

 experiments in feeding, 90, 160; sweet ap])lcs 

 for, 91 ; and meadow hay, 113 ; how to feed, 

 191 ; profits of, 212; ashes for, 301 ; breeds, 

 and management of, 371 ; why eat ashes, 



r>7G 



207 



241 



114 



21 



242 



288 



260 

 151 



48 

 203 

 358 



383 



Tea, culture of in California, .... 



Tillage, good, is manure, , . . . . 



Trees, pruning forest, 30 ; g'rowth of forest, 38 ; 

 apple, renovation of old, 59 ; for shade, orna- 

 ment and profit, 145 ; what to plant, 146 : ap- 

 ple, dec.iy of, in Illinois, 184; protector, a 

 new, 194; cherry, 207; and vines, roots of. 



267 

 212 



208; plum, salt for, 224; wash for, 235; 

 pear, re-rooting on quince stock, 240; fruit, 

 when to trim, 255 ; planting, 359 ; apple, sand 



around, 377 



Toad, about the, 32 



Tobacco, in Hampshire coaftty, 358 ; and 



wheat, 375 ; shall we raise, .... 377 

 Tomato, plants, how to raise, 181 ; com cakes, 

 288 ; training the, 292 ; need of sunshine on 



the, •.347 



Turkey, bronze, 158 



Turnip crop, how to raise a, . . . * 70, 97 

 Typo setters, wicked, 144 



U 



United States, triumph of. 



347 



Vegetable, growth, 14, 139 ; garden, seeds of, . 204 



Ventilation, 214 



Vermin on colts, calves, and cattle, 63, 82, 120, 



199, 248 

 . 298 

 . 50 

 . 311 

 . 361 



146 



Vermont State Fair, 



Vinegar, 



Visitor, a pleasant, . 



Volume, our next, . 



W 



158 

 281 

 389 

 61 

 253 



Warts, cure for, 18 ; on cattle. 



Water, about raising, .... 



Weather, the, 93, 188; signs of the, 



Webb, Jonas, death of, 



Weedcr and sower, Harrington's, 



Weeds, killing by law, 280; fighting them reso- 



lutelv, 370 



West, affairs at the, . . . .217, 249 



Wheat, culture of, 155, 177; winter, 289; crop 

 in Southern Illinois, 292 ; show of at Roches- 

 ter, N. Y., 294 ; after sorghum, 301 ; premium 

 on winter, 32) , 326 ; of my own raising, . 365 

 Whiskey and newspapers, . . . .33 



Wives, farmers', overtaxed, . . . 141, 153 



Wine, elderben'ies for, 390 



AVood, how to split, 129; to prevent the rotting 



of, 216 



Wool, in Micliigan, for 1863, 90; grower's or- 

 gan, 106; influence of food upon quality of,' 

 108; sheep-eating, 120, 131; growing, 132, 

 150, 163 ; board of trade in, 213 ; deception in 

 sale of, 250 ; growing in Michigan, 278 ; im- 

 portation of in 1802, 307 ; large load of, 313 ; 

 grower, experience of a, 318; in Boston, 326 ; 



price of, 305 ; goat's 



Women, with rakes .and spades, 161 ; English, 

 176; true, 179; mission of, 199; farming, 

 229, 287 ; who arc the patriotic, 239 ; what 

 they can do, 267 ; long skirts of the, . 

 Worm, canker, 250 ; cut, 251 ; a new. 



379 



376 

 278 



Yankee, the universal, 



Yarn from milkweed, 



Year, new, duties of the, 43 ; a happy new. 



Yokes, about the use of, 



Youth's dep.artment, a game for little boys ; 

 why the sea is salt ; a boy's letter ; weeds and 

 flowers, 



353 

 141 



80 

 95 



134 



