640 INDEX. 



Proceedings of the Farmers' club, 223 



Proceedings of the Fruit convention at Rochester, 478 



Mechanics' club, » 543 



Property held by the American Institute, 11 



Prospects for American farmers for 1855, 231 



Prunes, 249 



Pruning grapes, 286 



Q. 



Quantity of water used by vegetables, 231 



R. 



Receipts and expenditures of the 27th annual fair, 1855,. . . 19 



Reese's address at the close of the 27th fair, 1855, 127 



Report of the judges on machinery at the 27th fair, 1855,. . 51 



managers of the 27th fair, 1855, 13 



on fire engines, hook and ladder trucks, &c., 97 



Fisher's steam carriage, 27 



Holmes's patent crank capstan, 35 



Jean Blanc's improvement in preparing vegetable 



fibre, 453 



lathes, planers, boring and slotting machines, &c., 



for iron, 55 



machines for working wood, &c., 61 



railroad machinery and fixtures, 51 



steam engines, &c., 75 



the farm of Chas. Wilson at Deer Park, L. I., . . . 39 



fleeces of the cashmere or shawl goat, 48 



scales of the Vergennes scale manufacturing 



company, 33 



steamer New World, 38 



Thompson's graduating life preserving seat, 37 



Reports of special committees of the American Institute, ... 27 



managers, ^ . . 37 



Ross's hygrometric self-regulator, 305 



Rotation book, 227 



S. 



Seasons in New-England for 200 years, 260 



Sebastopol, 312 



Size of animals in different ages of the world, 306 



Soil of Long Island, 331, 374 



South down sheep, 242 



Steam cultivator, 227 



