INDEX. 



Maine, Swedish Settlers in 140, 203 



Wheat in 19 



Manure, Application of 106, 171, 239 



298, 335, 338 



Aphes ..111,142,176,323,375 



Coal 58, 353, 376, 599 



for Wet Land 534 



Dry, as an Absorbent . 383 



for Apple Trees 179 



How to Use 598 



in Hill 507 



Lt ached and Unleached . 280 



of Sods 171 



Wood, value of 375 



with Chip Manure .... 289 



Bone Dust 176 



Bones, Uulizing .... 167, 169 

 Chemical Reasons for saving 



Liquid 655 



Compost 176 



lor Top-dressing 24 



Composting and Saving 142, 290 



Crib for Compost 83 



Experiments in, for Corn . 507 



Special 247 



Fertilizers 131 



Fall Application 667 



• Hiime-made 644 



Etl'ects of on Soil 317 



Frauds in 173 



for Potatoes 320 



for Tobacco 279, 355 



Gas Lime 1.39, 176, 200 



Grafton Fertilizer . Ill, 112, 120 



142, 320, 328 



"Heavy" Manuring .... 344 



Harrowing in 290 



Hen Manure Compost . 258, 341 

 Hauling out in February . . 63 



How lost 170 



Indian Meal for .... 364, 560 

 Increase and Strengthen the 597 



Lime 176, 223 



and Muck Ill, 176 



and tialt 142 



Ashes 320 



Making 290 



Marl and Muck 140 



Muck, 76, 111, 122, 131,140, 142 



145, 176,178,290,309, 319, 3-^3 



328, 374 



and Manure ..■••.. 178 



Collecting 576 



boils adapted to 532 



for Apple Trees 24 



Uses and Value of. . 273, 518 



U^ing Fresh 383 



Value of 648 



Mulching 254 



Phosphate, Loss of .... 232 



Ploughing in 65, 132, 164, 170, i!13 



2:il, 243, 290, 298, 328, 335 



Potash for Orchards .... 177 



In Ashes 179 



Privy Compost 300 



Kotten Wood, for Violets . 275 



Rubbish, Rotting 83 



Salt 323 



Saving 27, 239, 544 



Use of on Soil 598 



Sawdust 58, 88 



Seaweed, Cove 652 



Spreading in Winter .... 353 



Superphosphate 247 



Braaley's 233 



Does It Impoverish the 



Soil 317 



Experiments with .... 655 



Surface Manuring 384 



Top Dressing, 55, 88 143, 164 



243, 290, 298, 54o, 571 



Urine as a Fertilizer . 277, 290 



Value of from Different 



Feeds . , • 97 



Winter care of Stable - . . 231 

 March, Flower Gardening for . 190 



Garden in 110 



in New England 109 



Marketing Farm Produce . , . 191 



Marsh in Lenox, Mass 279 



Matter, Insoluble 256 



Mass. Ag'l Board, Framlngham 95 



College Prizes lo Students 36 



Does Farming Pay in . . 64 ■ 



Essex, Transactions .... 159 



Farms Cheap in ... . 56, 86 



State Board of Ag'l Subjects 



for Report 175 



Tobacco in Western .... 41 

 May, and May Revelries .... 205 



Garden in 242 



Farm Work for 206 



Flower Garden in 244 



Meadow, a Reclaimed 651 



an Old Bog 217 



Meadows, Flowing 560 



Meal for Miinure 560 



Merrimac, Valley of 666 



Michigan Ag'l College, Students 279 



Farm of 672 



Microscope in Post-Morttm Ex- 

 aminations 386 



Millet 184, 255, :-.71 



and Hungarian Grass . . . 516 



for Fodder 147 



Mink Breeding 352 



Mocking Bird 204 



Mosquitoes, to Prevent .... 636 

 Mowing Machine, Spite against 



in England 617 



Muck, Sharp Siicks In . . . 21, 70 

 Use of — See Manures 



Mulching 254 



Mushrooms 5«4 



Muskmelon 64, 542 



Mustard 243 



Cultivation of 198 



]V[E1GEB0RS, Friendly ... 572 



i\ New England Ag'l Society . 116 



Depopulation of Rural 



Towns In 225, 272 



Farmer, Monthly .... 174 



Close of Second Series . 676 



Farmer, New Volume . 141 



New Hampshire Board of Ag. . 537 



Corn Raising in .... 26, 6;.6 



Crops and Fairs in Merrimac c61 



Mountaineers 615 



Notes from 614 



Questions of Board of Ag'l 21 

 New Publications. 



Aditr(s8, Lafayette College 602 

 American Nsituralist . . . . 602 

 Catalogue of Michigan Agri- 

 cultural College 671 



Curcnlio, Ransom's Essay 



on Trapping 286 



Guide to Study of Insects . 671 

 Money in the Garden . . . 235 

 Wallace, American Trotting 



Regihter 236 



What I Know of Farming . 285 

 War Department Circular . 670 



Nichols. Dr. Farm of 590 



North Carolina Cheese In . . . 42 



Note, a Swindling 332 



Farm, cares for 695 



November Asi)ccts 593 



Garden in 586 



Numbaculls and Book Farmers 642 

 Nurses, Lady 156 



OATS for Fodder 162 

 Musty 85 



October, Farm Work for . . . 546 



Facts and Fancies 545 



the Garden in 551 



Ogden Farm 258 



Oil Meal 117, 128 



Old and True 600 



Onions, 64, 202, 208, 243, 246, 272, 279 

 300, 314, 352, 552 



Grub 208 



Seed Growing 567 



Soil for 507 



OflBcers Agricultural So. . 2f6, 241 



Orchr.rd Culture 536 



Opium Culture 163 



from the Poppy 231 



PAINT, Fire Proof for Fence 330 

 Parsley Worm 573 



Parsnips 64, 243, 552 



Wild • . 549 



Passion Flower 630 



Pasture, changing Stock in . . 531 



Pastures, P'ailure of 129 



Fences for 34 



Management of , • . • . . 33 



Mosses in 372 



Improvement of . . . . 83, 6li! 

 Ploughing ......... 22 



Spade in 34 



Stock for 34 



Turning Stock to 2o7 



Patents, Agricultural 92 



in Borficuliure .... 42, 136 



P.iyasYouGo 611 



Pea Weevil 288 



Peach, Double Flowering . . . 191 



Peaches from one Pit 50 



Peanuts 119 



Pear, Admiral Farragut .... 6.S1 



Buerre Clairgeau 521 



Dr. Shurtleff 's Seedlings . . 631 



Gen. Sherman 631 



Golden Buerre if Bilboa . 260 



on Stiflf Soil 313 



Orchard. Profit of 105 



Tree Blight 557, 638 



Trees Dying 509 



Dwarf 657 



Winter care of 662 



Peas 64, 243, 262, 314, 3! 2 



Buggy 321, 341 



Bug proof ......... 169 



Dryliig Green 517 



Fall or Winter Planting . . 95 



Peddlers' License 340 



Peppers 64, 243 



Pierce, Joshua, Farm of ... . 525 

 Pile Driver, a Farmer's .... 531 

 Pine. Seeds of the White, when 



to Plant 246 



Pitchfork, Striking Horses with 636 



Swindle 673 



Plan and System 507 



Plastic Slate 58 



I'lants from Seed ...,,.. 277 



Pots, Worms in ... . . 94 



to Protect fr(>m Cold and Lice 176 



Planting Seeds, Depth for . . . 211 



Plough, I'aring or Turf .... 2S2 



Reversible" 578, 666 



Ploughing Advantages of Fall 70, 659 

 Boy killed by Horses taking 



Fright 390 



Deep and Shallow . 31, 41, 644 

 Deep, for Worn-out Land . It3 



in Spring 206 



Plum, Double Flowering . . , , 191 

 Poetry. 



Aftection's Tribute .... 372 



Baby Belle 616 



Baby's First Tooth .... 394 



Barn the Old 116 



Farm Wonders 609 



Forty Signs of Rain .... 266 

 Garden and Orchard .... 532 

 Grandfather's Barn .... 224 

 In My Garden ....... .'66 



Jones 240 



Jones and Smith 585 



July 363 



Love's Colors 269 



Marguerite 155 



Micliigan Emigrant's Song . 92 



My Birthday 637 



Our Darling 204 



"Smith and Joi es" .... 854 

 Spring — an Invocation . . . 215 



Sugar Camp 120 



'i'hat Line Fence 184 



The Bashful Lover .... 639 

 The Cows are Coming . . . 212 

 'J'he Seed and the Sowers 671 

 The Old Arm Chair .... 346 

 When I was Young .... 106 



Winter I'oem 81 



Poisons, 47, 69, 74 



Pollen, Substitute for 300 



