Index. 



1121 



Page. 



Lime and manure 327, 403 



plaster 591 



as a preservative 311 



when to apply 444 



Locomotion, mountain 735 



Locomotive car 730 



Locust, planting the 563 



Longevity 693 



Long Island, farming on 356 



Louisiana 255 



Luminous flames 1072 



Lyman on New Jersey green sand . 603 

 the preservation of for- 

 ests and of wood 



365 



M. 



McAlpine on modern engineering. . 169 



McElroy on New York harbor. . . . 966 j 



Magnets of tungsten steel 934 



Mail bag apparatus for railways. . . . 1017 ' 



Malt, solid extract of 823 i 



Manufacturers, inventors and mid- j 



die men 806 j 



Manure, cotton waste as 1034 i 



fish 460 j 



oil for 253 I 



saving barn yard 482 i 



Manures 527, 689 ! 



Commercial, adulteration ; 



of 690 i 



application of 689 | 



progressed and lost 579 | 



Manuring, green. 337, 386, 478, 541, 548 



surface 414, 638 



Maple sugar, deposit of sand in ... . 665 



dirt'Ction for the house 629 ! 



from Vermont 215 | 



high flavored 523 , 



trees, experiment on 206 I 



transplanting young. . 199 i 



Marine velocipede 855 | 



Market approaches 998 



Marl, New Jersey green 603, 622 



report on 597 



Mason's method of copying 1100 



Measures of distance 1035 



Measuring telescope 759 



Melons, pruning of 240 



rust on 257 



Mercury, transit of. . . 951 



Meteoric stone 820 



Meteorites, composition of 997 



Mica spectacles 721 



Michigan, grand traverse region . . . 383 



homes in 246 



Microscope and its revelations 18 



the 761 



Migration southward 448 



Mildew, how to remove 314 



Milk racks 457 



weight of 307 



Minargent 824 



Mineral spring 715 



[Inst.] 71 



Minerals 750, 1071 



estimated weight of 707 



Mines, position of 942 



Mirage 713 



Missouri lands 218 



Models of animals and plants 397 



Moon, its influence on rain 827 



Motor, a new 1063 



Napthaline, test for 759 



Napthyl, carmine 813 



Nebraska jiij 468, 510 



Nebula, observaticfii*" of 759 



Newton on photographic experi- 

 ments r 1106 



New York and Brooklyn, transit 



between 948 



harbor, improvem'ts of 966 



Nickel plating 1081 



Nightsoil, how to manage 581 



Nitrogen, preparation of 1033 



Nitro-glycerine 853 



Nitrous oxyd gas, liquifaction of . . 816 

 oxyd, for neuralgia. . . .997, 1005 



Norway spruce 485 



Nuts, check bolt for 1019 



Nutting's fanning mill 237 



wheel plow 400 



o. 



Oak, the, and its preparation 853 



Oats, Hungarian 470 



or shorts, for feed 631 



Ocean navigation 877 



Oil gas lights, new 752 



Oils, mineral, aff'ected by 100 



Omnimeter 1034 



Ophthalmos, the 1057 



Opium 265, 595 



Optical glass, new 1056 



Organic bodies, transformation of . 760 



Ornithological rarity 935 



Osage orange 216, 485 



Oven, the philosophy of the 99 



Oxen and yokes 312 



yoking of 460 



Ox yokes 310 



Oxygen, preparation of 996, 1024 



Painting of walls and ceilings 696 



Paint, new white 1065 



Palm oil, bleaching of 721 



Papyroxyline 999 



Pardee, R. G., tribute to the memory 



of the late 565, 581 



Park's small fruit crate and basket. 437 



Parmelee, papers by 752, 793 



Patent laws 1023 



Peach orchards, cultivating of. ... 228 



