520 



INDEX. 



Pnfre. 



Prain tiles 1 CP, 



Drummond light 346 



E. 



Eggs, insreasing the size of 241 



Electrotype plates, improvement in mak- 



ing. 



384 



Essay on the cultivation of the potato 44 



Evergreens 5(3 



Eulogium, occasioned by the death of 

 Prof. Renwick 24 



F. 



Farmers' Club, how to make the meetings 



more interesting 210 



proceedings 54-336 



rules and regulations of 



the 54 



Fences 289 



Fibrous plants 227, 331, 420 



Field artillery 436 



Fig trees, preservation of, during winter, 175 



Filberts, how to grow , 278 



Finances of the Institute 16 



Fisher on locomotion in cities and suburbs, 300 



roads 512 



Flax, growing of, 247, 253, 277, 303, 328, 329 



in Iowa 234 



Flowers , , , . c 141 



and frui ts of the season 107 



Force of men and horses compared.. .229, 240 



Fragaria or strawberry family 107 



Fruit 140, 145 



culture of, in the mountain regions 



of New England 197 



how to pack 214 



models of 259 



preserving of, in air-tight cans and 



bottles.....' 97, 137, 186 



protecting, from insects 71 



rooms and detention houses 103 



thinning out 176 



to preserve all the year 140 



wha t is the best treatise on 332 



Fruit trees, how to make them bear every 



year 194 



pruning of 195 



Fruits of Minnesota 290 



Wisconsin 316, 329 



Fuel in the arts 374, 377, 379 



Fuller's seedling strawberries 99 



report of committee on, 99 



G. 



Gas lime 256 



meters 392 



Gedney's pistol 396 



Gophirs and other burrowing animals, how 



to destroy 169 



Grade of country roads 240 



Grain aphis 118, 274 



insects found in 62 



Grape, Adirondac 167 



Faueher 174 



Isabella 164 



rot 145 



Grape vines, barren 62, 76, 88, 136, 329 



grafting 162, 169, 177, 314 



insects infecting ] 77 



layers of 162 



pruning, 168, 195, 262, 269, 273 



277, 333 



the way to grow 161 



Page. 



Grapes 164, 167, 174, 255, 316, 320 



forcing of, as practiced in Holland, 175 



for wine, profits of 169 



of the world 156 



selection of 313, 336 



that promise well 235 



what kind of, to grow 274 



Great Eastern steamship, damage to the. . 379 



Great guns 399, 430 



how to make 410 , 430 



Grub worms 90 



Guano, hen manure a substitute for 276 



Mexican , 297 



Gun, accelerating 426 



carriages 440 



gliding 469 



wheels of 444 



Gunpowder, measuring the force of 355 



Gypsum 64 



H. 



Hall's pedigree wheat 54 



Hamburg International Agricultural Ex- 

 hibition, at 288 



Harbor defences 614, 685 



Health, happiness and comfort for children 



and mothers 90 



Heat 454 



and its economical applications in the 



arts 379 



the cause of 455 



Hens, why they eat their feathers 330 



Hessian fly in Iowa 84 



Hobbs on locks 450 



Hog scalder, a convenient 228, 252 



Horses 229, 260 



I. 



Illinois coffee 269 



Illuminating materials 345 



Indian corn, culture of 63 



Ink for farmers 187 



Inland navigation 447 



Insect eaters 179 



Insects injurious to farmers, and those 



not so 244 



the grape vine 177 



Iodine for insects 139 



Iron-clad vessels 397, 514 



plated ships- 397 



railway 475 



Isabella grapes 164 



Japan rice 331 



Jones' mechanical lamp 606 



Judges appointed to examine essays, 



fruit and vegetables 231 



Jute 262 



K. 



Kansas, fruits and flowers 145 



Kendall's aneroid barometer 215, 221 



Knight's improvements in making elec- 

 trotype plates 384 



Lactometer, Seely's 384 



Lamp, furge 379 



Lamps for burning coal oil, 382, 398, 485, 493 



605, 506 



