INDEX. 



A. 



Page. 



Aerated bread 357 



Adirondao grape 167, 17."5 



Agricultural exhibition at Hamburg 288 



statistics 188 



Agriculture, department of, at Washing- 

 ton 138, 248 



Agriculture of China 212 



Ambrose's hand and car lamps 505, 506 



Analogy between the vegetable productions 

 of China, Japan and North America. . . . 133 



Analysis of fruit, grain and potatoes 202 



Ant hills, the way to destroy 96 



Apatite rock vs. bones 266 



Aphis 118, 274 



Apple butter, how to make 186 



pumice for manure .• 315 



seed, how to save 171 



tree blight 96 



worms 301 



Apples... 123, 167, 176, 182, 193, 214, 225, 237 

 257, 264, 324, 330 



Apples, does freezing destroy 262 



keeping during winter 286 



preservation of 82, 261 



price of 268 



Arithmetic, a new system of 342 



Asparagus, cultivation of 173, 238 



Aspirator 359 



Australian wheat 268 



Autophoneon, a new musical instrument, 459 



B. 



Balsam of fir tree 198 



Barberry hedges 139 



Barley 268 



Barometers for farmers 215, 227, 261 



rules for the use of, 184, 215, 216 

 221 

 their construction, cost, use 



and utility 183 



Beans as a farm crop 275 



mode of curing 276 



Beautifying our country homes 218, 224 



Beer cooler for the army 488 



Birds, benefit of, to farmers 69 



destructive to worms 301 



to which guano formations owe their 



existence 191 



Blackberry, a new kind of 324 



Black blight on pear trees 78 



Black knot on fruit trees 55 



Black thorn 231 



Bone dust, quantity of, to be applied per 



acre 138 



how to dissolve 271, 272, 321 



Brakes and worms, how to destroy 138 



Bread, how to make 195, 303 



Broom corn 67 



Buckwheat, wild 275, 331 



Bulkley's new seedling potatoes 208 



Page. 

 Bulkley's new seedling potato, remarks on 



the culture of 299 



Burglar alarm, Vanderweyde's 491 



Burnside rifle 423 



Butter and butter making.. 106, 131, 147, 334 



c. 



Cabbage, marble head 277 



California wine 76, 85 



Canals, plan for enlarging the locks on. . . 398 



Carrots a substitute for coffee 297 



Carrot weeder 323 



Cast iron forts, Reid's 387 



Cattle, lice on 270 



stancheons for fastening 267 



Celery, cultivation of 62 



Chiccory, how it is grown 233 



its uses and growth, 238, 243, 244, 302 



Chickens, gapes in 69, 83 



Chinese agriculture 212 



Cider, how to preserve it sweet 170 



Clover seed 318 



Coal formations of the United States 494 



oil lamps 382, 505, 506 



pyrometer 50, 349 



Coffee, suisstitute for 297, 330 



Colburn's chimney for oil lamps 505 



Columbian Virgalieu pear 213 



Comstock's rotary spader 'and digger, 94, 105 



121 



report of committee on 131 



Coon's gas generator 380 



Corn and wheat, substitutes for 245 



cobs for fuel 187 



cultivation of 326 



how to have green, in November.... 191 



Cotton in Illinois 248 



Kansas 270 



New Jersey 262 



the number of seeds and plants per 



acre 320 



Country houses and their surroundings. . . 123 



Cranberries 168 



Cucumber bugs, remedy for 334 



Culinary plant, a new 220 



Cummings & Post's improvements in 



threshing machines, 180 



report of com. on. . . 188 



Curculio 179 



remedies 71 



I Currant jelly 329 



Currants, how to grow seedling 127 



upon upright canes 121 



varieties of 127 



Cut off in steam engines 488 



D. 



Demorest's sewing machine 378 



Detention houses and fruit rooms 103 



Diseases of fruit trees 55 



