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Index. 



Page. 



Peaches, how to peel '. . . . 328 



in northern Michigan 455 



Pear culture 520 



Pearce's propagating boxes 298 



Peddlers, defense of 248 



Peck's milk cooler 297 



Persian berries, coloring matter of. 825 



Petroleum and Schist oils 903 



safe for burning 1002 



Perturbations of our planet 756 



Phinn on the Bude light 1008 



velocipedes 1076 



Phosphate organic manures 687 



Phosphorescent photographs 732 



Phosphorus, antidotS'to 939 



Photographical section discussions. 1087 

 Photographic camera, automatic. . . 1057 



box 1104 



old 953 



copying 1100 



experiments 1106 



outfit 1104 



process of McLoch- 



lan 1094, 1095 



Photographing bj' travelers 1087 



Photographs on tombstones 948 



Photography^ cotfee used in 813 



Photometer 129, 950 



Piano, electrical 857 



Pianos for children 852 



Pickles 499, 663 



Piers in sea water 799 



Pigment, new green 1034 



Pine cones from California 237 



Pitch, Trinidad, as fuel 934 



Plant protector 484 



roots, extent of 542 



the earliest 1058 



Plastering, machine for 1058 



Plaster, when to sow 666 



Plow clevis 484 



item in the history of 514 



universal wheel 483 



Plowing, deep and shallow 222, 238, 267 



268, 296, 340, 404, 439, 479, 490, 503 



539, 609, 624, 692 



Plows, steel 427 



Plumbago 867 



Plumb's new excavator 429 



Postal scale 728 



subsidies 877 



Potato, early rose 281, 303 



digger 311 



mercer 502 



pride of Dutchess 670 



slugs 303 



wild 309 



Potatoes and their culture 545 



desiccating of 454, 516 



device for washing 437 



early 443 



Potatoes, new seedling 426 



sweet, how to keep. ,434, 500 



582 



varieties 489 



Page. 



Polytechnic proceedings 693 to 1087 



Posing rest, Kriigers 1104 



Potter's milk cooler 281 



Poudrette, manufacture of 682 



Poultry, profits of. 299, 583, 638, 661 , 679 

 raising, as a business. 299, 588 

 647 

 Presentation of a gavel to the chair- 

 man 419 



Presentation to the secretarj- 576 



Preservation of forests and of wood . 365 



377 



Preservative preparation 1009 



Primeval flora 69 



Prince, Wm. R.. death of 651 



Prosser or Burlington raspberry. . . 376 

 Protection for the originators of new 



fruits 347,562, 599 



Prunes 392 



Pruning in spring 618 



instruments 378 



Pmnps, importance of using 313 



E. 



Railway across the Appenines 1052 



elevated 907 



mail apparatus 1017 



tracks 861 



laid by machinery . . 828 



wheels, Raddin's 900 



Railways, new rails for 1030 



underground.699,710, 717, 761 



Rainfall effected by the moon 827 



Ramie, a new fabric plant 361, 668 



Raspberry, Prosser or Burlington . . 376 



Red spider, to remove from plants. 676 



Refraction of light 811 



Report of board of managers 13 



trustees 3, 15 



committee on admission 



of members 9 



committee on agriculture 7 



finance ... 6 



library. ... 11 

 m a n u f ac- 

 tures and 



machinery. 8 

 special committee on 



American champagne 461 

 special committee on 



Brown's hay cutter. 336 

 special committee on but- 

 ter powders 696 



special committee on 



farming in Salem, N. J. 404 

 special committee on Lo- 

 zier's hay loading appa- 

 ratus 401 



special committee on marl 599 

 . special committee on na- 

 tional corn busker 205 



special committee on Nut- 

 ting's wheel plow 400 



