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INDEX. 



Page. 



Canals of New York 462 



now, in the old world 471 



Canker worm in Iowa 294 



Carbine, Stevens' new 408 



Carbolic or phenic acid 478 



Carbon as a fuel 313 



bisulphide of 457 



Carharfs improvoments 525 



Carpets made by spiders 358 



Carpenter's seedling grape 121 



Carriages, improvements in 103 



Car wheels, pressure on 345 



Cashmere shawls, how made 680 



Casting, enormous 425 



Cataract, cause and cure of 495 



Ciitterpillars ; 96,97, 104 



Cattle on the highway 92 



jumping fences 87 



relieved from choking 184 



vermin on 40 



Cedar of Lebanon 673 



Cedar-birds 146, 701 



Cement, French 318 



Cherry trees, aphidea in 82 



Chess in wheat 75, 134, 159, 18d 



Chickens, gapes in 48,98, lOo 



Chickory 271 



Chimes, church 480 



Chinch bug 180, 217, 248 



Chinchilla fur 384 



Chloroform, how made 457 



how preserved 345 



Chrome alum 595 



double salt 344 



Cider, how to keep sweet 140, 171 



Cisterns, filtering 28 



City sewerage 73 



Cloth, from a new fibre , . . . . 276 



Clover and clover hay 84 



Clover hay worm 95 



Clydonics, treating of wares 537, 599 



Coal ashes 141, 262, 277, 288 



comparative value of 596 



dust, how to utilize 199 



in Great Britain 341 



in France 479 



in Minnesota 340 



mines, casualties in 404 



oil for insects 66, 94 



Coating for stone 318 



Caesium in the mineral (pollux 344 



Colorado ores 326 



views in 344 



Color in grapes 148 



of fruit 612 



Combs of India rubber 598 



Commerce of New York city 461 



Comstock's spader 89, 129 



Condensation by solids 311 



Cooling by tension 323 



Copper, haloid salts of . . 423 



Corl%f , refuse 450 



Coin, a new variety of 257 



harvester wanted 261 



in Peru 220, 285 



preserved for table use 288, 360 



sweet 133, 257, 259, 276 



sowed with small grain, 36 



stalks as winter fodder,.. 125, 149, 173 



paper from, ." 342 



syrup and sugar 154,1 3, 1 83 



worms in 38, 50, 248 



Cotton and wool, separation of 670 



cloth rotted by dyes 697 



pest, new 127 



Paob. 



Crab apple 75 



Cranberries 174, 234 



Crystaline pictures 455 



Cucumber vines, protection of 39 



Culture of small fruits 289 



clean, 266 



Curculio, 130 



CurrantSj 290 



D. 



Dana's Hovey Pear «. . . . 176 



Delaware and New Jersey compared 195 



Desert of Sahara 319 



Dessication 359 



Dewpoint 435 



Diamonds 321 



Diamond the largest ever known 595 



Diathermic compound 350 



Diggers vs. ploughs 123 



Dinoris 397 



I^islillation over Asbestos 597 



Dodder 107, 148 



Dogs and dog laws 203, 233, 241 



Doors, rollers for sliding 483 



Drowned, rescue of the apparently 340 



Dudley Observatory 676 



Dye for feathers 438 



E. 



Early fruits 620 



Earthenware, ornamenting of 332 



Earth fences 237 



Earthquake of 1811 503 



Eath or ether, density of 538 



Eggs, how to preserve 115 



Electrical discharge 403 



Electric currents, inductive, 382 



Electricity of metals 387 



velocity of 362 



Electro ballistic apparatus 424 



batteries, thermo 665, 566 



magnetic locomotive 491 



magnetism 493 



magnet, new .' 495 



of great power 347 



elongation of 348 



poion battery 348 



Emerald, color of the 350 



Emery in Massachusetts 474 



Emew 396 



Emigration to Del. and Md. 69, 87, 100, 153 



167 



Engraving, microscopic 459 



new process of 382 



Entomology 608, 618 



Ermine 384 



Esculent nests 356 



Ether, how made 458 



Evans' rotary cultivator 167, 161 



Evergreens, how to grow from seed 285 



when to transplant 74 



Explosion of pile hammer 660 



Explosive compounds 330 



materials, how stored 466 



F. 



Family receipts 369 



Fan for hospitals .' 489 



Farmers' club, proceedings of the.... 21, 295 



should economize time 49 



Farming tools, care of 191 



uninviting 184 



Farms in Missouri 122 



