INDEX. 707 



Exsiccated potato, 233, 235 



Extracts — Agriculture of the ancients, 331 



Bad effect of clover hay on animals, 345 



Black boned fowls, 328, 331 



British museum, statistics of, 307 



Bunson lamp, 618 



Cotton, 328 



Decay of gutta-percha, 628 



Fish breeding, _ 287 



Fowler's steam plow, 637 



Hall's traction engine, _ 637 



Himalaya liemp,__ _ _ 309 



Indian corn, _ 323 



Iron, 647 



Plowing by steam, 567 



Potato,. _ 343 



Premiums for poultry, 515 



Railroads of Great Britain, 636 



Railway accidents in Great Britain, 618 



' service in Great Britain, 618 



Romain's Canadian steam plow, 637 



Silk culture, 250 



Steam boiler explosions, 618 



cultivation, 516 



The first railroad,. 617 



The Rhea fibre of India, 309 



The threatened approach of the murrain,.. 249, 483 



The use of the prism in detecting impurities, 323 



Vitality of seeds, _ 323 



F. 



Fair at San Francisco, 1857, _ 320 



Farmers' Club, proceedings of the, 219, 610 



Subjects — 



Propagation of fish, 439 



Relations of ammonia to vegetation, 283 



Small fruits, 296,318,581, 607 



Strawberry culture, _ 581, 607 



