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INDEX. 



Page. 

 Report on Rowell's improvement in 



steam engines 14 



Thompson's automatic gas 



regulator 352 



Field's plans and model?, 

 illustrating his mode of 

 constructing forts and sta- 

 tionary defences 14 



Rhubarb wine , 287 



Rice from Minnesota 290 



Roads 373, 512 



obstructions to 62 



Rock oil 484, 488 



Rodgers' hybrid grapes 235 



Rose bugs, remedy for 78 



Russell's seedling strawberry 99,141 



s. 



Salt and lime mixture 322 



iSand, use of, in steam boilers 497 



Seeds by mail, cost of sending 271 



Sewers of Paris 496 



Shaw's sash lock 395 



Sheep, disease of 286 



Silk worm's eggs 322 



Smilh s ram torpedo 494 



Soap, manufacture of 338 



Sorghum, cost of growing 65 



syrup 262 



Sour and sweet apples 324 



Speed of war vessels 359 



Steam, economy of using 607 



superheated 350 



use of, expansive!}' 475, 476 



Steering vessels 359 



Stevens on the coal formations of the 



United States 494 



self regulating wind mill 355 



Stone as a mulch for fruit trees 188 



Strawberries, great crop of 136 



' mulching of 284, 290 



new varieties of 95, 99 



sealing 90, 101, 102, 281 



soil, preparation and culti- 

 vation of 282 



staminate, pistillate and her- 

 maphrodite, blossoms of, 282 



what kind to grow 279 



when to plant 57, 81 



Strawberry, culture of the, 72, 77, 80, 95, 306 



310 



farmers' 113 



tree 137 



varieties of the, 109, 279, 306, 310 



Street and suburban locomotion 508 



Subsoiling no advantage to some lands. . . 319 



Sugar beet, culture of the 267 



in wine 119 



T. 



Page. 

 Tagliabue's coal oil pyrometer 50, 349, 382, 388 



Taylor on inland navigation 447 



Telescopes in observatories 488 



Threshing machines, improvements in... 180 



Thompson's automatic gas regulator 352 



Tellman's new nomenclature 457 



on street locoDiotion 508 



the cause of heat 455 



Timber, preservation of 335 



when to prune and when to cut.. 287 



Tobacco 1 92, 267, 290, 293, 294, 295 



Tomato, French tree 140 



Tomatoes 262, 268 



Tree cotton 297, 328, 332 



Trees, planting of, along the highways... 98 



Truffles 182 



Trustees, report of. 7 



V. 



Vegetation requires the direct rays of the 



sun 263 



Ventilating apparatus, MoKinnell's 421 



Ventilation 492 



Vermont, hardy plants for 273, 302 



Vine, cultivation of, in high northern lati- 

 tudes 172 



location of a 254 



w. 



Warfare, modern improvements in... 399, 423 



432, 434, 461 



Water, modes of raising 356, 358 



Waves, theory of 492 



Wheat, distribution of 165 



hoeing of 232 



killed by corn shooks 263 



substitutes for 245 



Wiard's guns 399 



modern improvements in warfare, 



399, 424, 435, 461 



Willows 253, 288, 31 5, 323 



cultivation and use of 253 



Wine from California 76, 85 



fruit 170 



manufacture of spurious 87 



premium on 93 



Wisconsin, native fruits in 316, 329 



Woman, labor of 69 



z. 



Zephyranthus rosea. 



92 



