INDEX. 



A. 



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Agricultural Department of the General 



Government, . . .29 



Adoption of a Dog by a Mare, &c., . 72 



A Bill — Donating Public Lands, &c., . 104 



Asparagus, Cultivation of . . . 127 



Application of Fertilizers, . . 164 



Asparagus, Poetry of 238 



Agriculture in China, . . . 281 



Army Worm, History and Habits of the 295 



Agricultural Humbug at Washington, . 309 

 Artichoke — Culture, &c, . . .316 



Asparagus, Receipt for Cooking, . . 362 



Albemarle Co., Defects in, &c, . . 432 



Agriculture, British . . . 447 

 Amateur's View on Propagation of New 



Varieties of Fruit, . . . 448 



Air, Invaluable to the Soil, . . 449 



Agriculture, English Progress of . 482, 530 



Astor House Farm, A Day at the . . 485 



Apple Crop, .... 492 



Alternation of Crops, . . . 492 



Answer to Inquiry of G. G. M., . . 498 



Agriculture and Commerce, . . 513 



Ashes and the Potato Rot, . . 609 



Agriculture, American, of the Old Time, 612 



Apples, Falling . . ... 742 

 Agricultural Society, Virginia State, « 



Award of Premiums, . . . 743 

 B. 



Breeding, In-and-in, . . .19 



Beauty an Element of Value, . . 59 



Butter, To Sweeten Rancid . . 70 

 Brick Laying, . . . .98 

 Butter-Making and Butter, . .139 



Blue Grass Sod for Wheat, . . 181 



Best Age for Transplanting Fruit Trees, 167 



Butter Workers, .... 270 



Bourbon Co., Ky., Sale of Stock in . 406 



Butter, To Keep Hard and Cool, . . 407 



Boiling, Philosophy of . . 481 



Bullock, The Heaviest Ever Butchered, . 484 



Birds, Character and Habits of . . 502 



Bones, .... 512, 607 



Boiling Potaloes, .... 576 



Brunswick and Dinwiddie Club, . . 592 



Bush and Briery, Reply to . . 609 



Black Tongue, .... 618 



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Bots in Horses, .... 699 



Brandy, Origin of . . . .699 



Bless God for Rain, . . .704 



"By-and-By," . . . .762 

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Col. Cocke's Proprosed Donation, Objec- 

 tions to . . .3 

 Cattle Dying from Eating Cornstalks, &c, 7 

 Cold House Grapery, . . .21 

 Carrot Pie, . . . . .22 

 Clear Steep Land, . . . .23 

 Cheap Board Fence, . . .33 

 Cure for Chapped Hands. . . .42 

 Composition of Soils Adapted to Clover, 46 

 Cape Jessamine, . . . .61 

 Culture of Domestic Animals, . . 71 

 California Soap, . . . .87 

 Composition of Cake ProdAed by Press- 

 ing Distillery Dregs, . . .93 

 Clover Seed, . . . .105 

 Corn Crop, . . . . . 106 

 Chinese Sugar Cane, . . .129 

 Canvass-Back Ducks, . . . 132 

 Clover, Frozen Out . . . 134 

 Curious Question, . . . .136 

 Corn Crop of the West, Damage to the . 137 

 Coal Ashes,' . . . .147 

 Cure of Itch in Half an Hour, . . 160 

 Chemist in the Laundry Washing, . 161 

 Corn, Largest Yield of on Record, . 184 

 Culture of Apple Trees, . . . 199 

 Clear the Track for Reapers and Mowers, 201 

 Cultivation of Pea-Nuts, . . .208 

 Corn Planting, . . . 209 

 Culture of Sugar Cane, . . .209 

 Chinese Sugar Cane a Humbug, . . 223 

 Cleaning Saddles, &c„ . . .225 

 Chinese Sugar Cane, . . . 239 

 Copperas as a Deodorizer, . . 270 

 Carrying Weights, .... 286 

 Cure for Garget, . . . .286 

 Cultivation of Sun Flower, . . 290 

 Chinch Bug, Two Remedies, . . 294 

 " " Proposed Remedies^ . 294 

 Cut Worms, . . . .295 

 Cooling Rooms, . . . . 307 

 Corn, Great Yield in South Carolina, . 307 



