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INDEX, 



Irrigation 434 



Isabella Grape, Culture of . . . 210 



Items, Agricultural 52, 85. 95, 117 



137, 183, 212, 271, 279, 291, 318 



335, 373, 419, 448, 468, 498, 525 



538, 578 



JANUARY, Thoughts for the 



First of 41 



Work for 10 



Japan Lily 184 



June, Garden in 315 



Thoughts for 249 



July, Garden in 384 



Hay month 298 



KENTUCKY, Cattle Show . 27 



Kingbirds, Catching Bees . 810 



and Honey Bees 375 



Knot, Black, Treatment of . . . 349 



LABOR 146 



and Capital 20 



Eight Hour System of ... 87 



Is it Disreputable 581 



Laborers, Farm 376 



Wages for 191 



White, in Mississippi . . . 499 



Lady Wheat Grower 495 



Land, Table of Measuring . . • 554 



Lands, laying down 525 



Leasing 47 



Marks 51j9 



Owner 486 



stony, cultivating 482 



too much mowed 120 



Laying down land 525 



Lead I'oisoning 45 



Leasing Land, Rules for .... 47 



Lice. Cure for, on Cattle ... 327 



Kerosene Oil for . . . 218, 271 



on Pear Trees 213 



Plant 340 



Lightning, Singular Freak of . 481 



Lily, Japan 184 



Lime and Salt for curing Hay 443 



462, 473 



and Old Plaster 661 



and the Soil that needs it . 528 



Muck and Ashes 514 



Linseed Compound, with Oats 



and Corn 273 



I,ittle Falls Farmers' Club ... 395 



Logic, Female 584 



Lock and Key 17 



Louisiana Sugar Crop 183 



Lunar Influence 470 



MACADAM Roads, cost of . £53 

 Machine, Egg Hatching . . HO 

 Maine Agricultural College, 



Trustees of 291 



Agricultural Society .... 131 



Kennebec 256 



West Somerset 279 



Land and Crops in Aroos- 

 took Co 44 



Letter from 510 



Notes fiom 441 



Oxford County 5 5 



Sheep Shearing in 380 



Mange, the 363 



Manures, Application of . . . . 496 



Animal Matter 279 



Artificial, for Hops .... 94 



Ashes for Onions 222 



Leached 216 



Wood 167 



Bommer 218 



Bone Dust 69, 2^0 



Flour of ... . 164, 215, 237 



Meal 164 



Bones 125, 461 



Cheapest 317 



Compost for Melons and 



y quashes 214 



f(jr Potatoes 164, 412 



Composting 226 



Manures, Discussion on ... . 412 



Dove in Egypt 233 



Experiments with 120 



Fermentation 222 



Flour of Bone . . 164, 215, 237 

 from Cow, Value of. . . . 318 



Hen 167,378 



Hops, Ashes for 94 



Importance of 361 



Management of 431 



Muck 64,415 



Nutriment in Water .... 96 

 Phosphates, Hen and Privy 63 



Plaster 412 



and Salt 70 



Ploughing in 564 



Potash 412 



Preparation of Bones . . . 25S 

 Resources of Farm for . . . HO 



Salt for Wheat 235 



Sawdust 205,412 



Sheep 237, 334 



Special 329, 4fil 



Experiment with . . 129, 172 



Failure of 196 



Onions, Ashes for 222 



Time to Apply 227 



Top-dressing Meadows . . 490 



Turning in Green Crops . . 40^ 



under Plants ....... 380 



Unfermented 115 



Waste, Economization of. 423 



Weight of a cord of ... . 59 



Winter Management of . . 64 



Manuring Land for Grass . . . 139 



March, Farm Work for . . . . 106 



Thoughts for 105 



Market, Faneuil Hall 23*1 



Gardening 483 



Reports 31 



Marriage, Favorite Days for . . 683 

 Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege 36, 188, f.33 



Societies, Berkshire ... 119 



Hampshire 119 



Norfolk 258 



Board of Agriculture . 107, 147 



Central, Crops in 376 



Manchester 418 



Shelburn, Crops, Weather, 



&c 217 



Stock 170 



May, TDoughts for 201 



Meadow Improved 226 



Top-Dressirg the 490 



Meat, Curing 252 



Boiling 221 



Preserving 32, 85, 449 



Melons, Compost for 214 



Men, young. Why go to cities . 83 

 Meteorology, February .... 261 

 August and September, 1866 19 

 July, August, and Septem- 

 ber, 1867 575 



Meteors, looking for 48 



Michigan, Ag'l College .... 82 



Tomatoes at 576 



Ag'l Board of 76 



Microscopes 232 



Milk Cans, washing by Steam . 427 

 and Cream, Preserving and 



Raising 36 



in Brittany, Division of . . 53 



Price of 236 



Sickness 319,498 



Weed, the common .... 396 

 Mines, shall young Farmers go 



to the 230 



Mop Handles and Brooms . . . U5 



Morgan Colt, Clifford 492 



Mothers, the 173 



Mowing Lands, Pasturing the . 261 



Machines at Paris Ex. . . . 399 



Muck .... 46, 49, 50, 132, 277, 514 



Muriate of Lime 38 



Mutton, Curing 50 



Myrick Horse, the 417 



NATURALIST, American . 2)3 

 New England Ag'l Society 2.6 

 Farmer Monthly . . 9, 20, 237 



N. E. Farmer, Compliment to . 515 

 First Subscriber in Me. 509 



New Hampshire, Apples in . . 11 

 Cheshire County, Notes for 518 



Chester Fair 60 



Crops in 441 



Kensington, Farms and 



Farming in 279 



Sheep, a Flock ff 215 



State Society, Oflicers of . . ti6 

 Wheat in 231 



New Jersey, Lands in 395 



Potatoes, Decrease of Yield 

 of 212 



New York, Cheese Factories in 202 

 State Ag'l Society 168 



Nitrogen 510 



November 501, 502 



Noxious Animals, 173. 189, 219, 301, 

 302, 340, 369, 372 



OATS, turning to Rye ... 442 



October, Garden in ... . 519 



Thoughts on 453 



Work 455 



Ohio, Dairy, Value of 371 



Ag'l Societies in 131 



Sheep in Portage Co. . . . 378 



Oil in Wool f69 



Olive Plants 180 



Onions, Ashes for 222 



Large Crop of 237 



Worm 512 



Orchard, Crop for 167 



of Isaac Emerson 18 



Old, in Connecticut .... 394 



Ploughing 562 



best in Massachusetts . . . 520 

 Osage Orange Hedge .... 85, CO 



Ox, Stick in Nose ot 193 



Oxen Yoked by the Head ... 499 



Oxygen 510 



PAINT Poisoning 45 



Paper Mills 82 



Paris Exhibition, American 



Grain at 484 



Mowing Machines at ... . 399 



Ploughs and Plowing at . . 393 



Poultry at 411 



Wool at 437 



Pastures 434 



Cut Brush as Mulch .... 366 



Improved by Sheep .... 265 



Old 418 



Philanthropy in 162 



Prairie 69 



Pastuiing Cows and Sheep . . 327 



Mowing Lands 231 



Peach Stones, Preserving . . . 518 



Peaches 431 



Pears, Bartlett 460 



in Maine 335 



List for Massachusetts . . 273 



New 21 



Pear Tree, Dwarf 257, 300 



Lice on 213 



Trees, Raising in Belgium . 261 



Root Pruning 393 



Peas and Birds 417 



to keep fr.im Bugs .... 420 



Peat, Character of 406 



Manatjement of 30 



Peddlers, Cloth 127 



Pembroke, North, Vegetables . 45 



Phosphate, Twell's Animal . . 48 



I'hofphorus 510 



Pickles, Sweet Tomato .... 514 



Pigeons, Wild 470 



Pigs and Poultry, profit of . . . 118 



Chester White 241 



Fine 127,140 



Good, on Cooked Food . . 181 



Trough, Wood for .... 440 



Pine, Scotch 208 



Plant Lice 369,372 



Plants — Bocconia, (cut) .... 364 



Food of 362 



How grow .... 210,304,409 



Language of 19 



