IV 
INDEX 
VOL. II. 
Pea Vines, curing 159 
Peach, the 165 
“ Trees, 128 
“ Trees, decay of 173 
“ Stones, 53 
“ “ planting of 51 
Perseverance, a farmer rewarded by 197 
Pickles, 134 
Pies, a recipe for Dr. Henkel’s best 181 
Planters, observations to 190 
Planters’ Club of Hancock, 23, 167 
Plant Lice, soap-suds to kill 142 
Plowing, 17 
“ subsoil, 48, 139, 181 
“ fall 158 
“ Corn — Topping Cotton, 71 
“ Orchards, 164 
Plow, labor-saving 161 
“ subsoil, a new 111 
“ steam 157 
Plum Trees, oil destructive to 2l 
Potatoe, the sweet 40 
Potatoes, 151, 189 
“ experiment with 88 
“ observations on sweet 22 
“ experiments in raising 37 
“ Irish 86 
Poultry, value of in United States, 111 
Pride of China, 117 
Productive Powers of Nature, 67 
“ Farms, 165 
Professorship of Agriculture, 183 
Prospectus of the Third Volume, 191 
Punch on Long Dresses, 120 
Pudding, a new 135 
Pumpkins, preservation of I89 
“ great yield of 176 
Purifying Water, simple mode of 86 
Ba 
Rattle-snake, bite of a 104 
Razor, how to have a sharp 21 
Reapers’ Harvest Song, 158 
Recipes, 125 
Remarks by a correspondent 49 
of an Old Correspondent, 206 
Roots vs. Hay, 82 
Root Culture, 84 
“ “ and Rotation of Crops, Deep 
Plowing-, 138 
Ruffin’s Survey, extracts from 129 
Rural Embellishments, 134 
Ruta Baga, culture of 100 
‘s “ as Food for Cattle, 115 
Saddle-galls, 103 
Salve, valuable, 79 
Salt, an injury to stock 52 
“ and Soot, 143 
as a fertilizer, durability of 142 
Saltpetre on Seeds and Plaster on Flowers, 166 
Salutary Restriction, 136 
Scare-crows, 
104 
Scours in Calves, 
. 64 
Seasonable Rem arks, by a friend to economy, 31 
Seed, selection of 
75 
“ proper depth of 
125 
“ save your own clover 
168 
Seeds, vitality of 
2 
“ saving 
152 
“ valuable 
47 
Seedsmen, a hint to 
159 
Sheep, 
191 
“ Merino 
203 
“ age of the 
53 
“ experiments with, to control the sex of 
lambs. 
134 
“ sprains in 
103 
Show of the Agricultural, Horticultural, 
and Botanical Society of Jefferson College, 115 
Sick Animals, treatment of 
109 
Singular case, a 
112 
Soil, effects of deepening the 
24 
“ sandy, clay as an amender of 
102 
“ analysis of 
103 
“ pulverising the 
100 
Soils, table of 
143 
“ improvement of clay 
91 
Smithsonian Bequest— Model Farm, 
206 
Smut, salt a preventive of 
3 
Soap, soft, recipe for making 
191 
Southern Agriculture, 
130 
“ Products, 
132 
Speech, substance of a, delivered before the 
Spartanburg Agricultural Society, by Col. 
E. C. Leitner, 
25 
Spider Bite, cure for 
151 
Spiders, habits of 
24 
Squirrels, grey 
136 
Stains, to remove 
62 
Stock, feeding 
63 
“ native 
185 
Strawberries, 
110 
“ extraordinary 
87 
“ manuring 
78 
Substitute for Slave Labor, 
151 
Sugar, maple 
141 
“ cornstalk 
22, 39, 51 
Sunflower, the 
128 
Swine, cooking food for 
191 
Swiney, cure of 
T- 
58 
Take Care, 
77 
Tart, tomato 
159 
Tea, North Carolina 
23 
Teeth, blind 
64 
Terms, explanation of 
27,42 
To make Water Cold in Summer, 
104 
Things that I have seen, 
93 
“ “ do not look well, 
112 
Tooth Ache, 
112 
Turkeys, fattening 
124 
The Physician an Agriculturist, 
126 
Tomatoes, to preserve 
126 
Turneps and Turnep Liquor, 
139 
Turnep Fly, to protect the plant from 
29 
To clean brass. 
117 
To our Patrons, 
205 
Too much Land, 
140 
Twitch Grass, the way Friend Hanson 
mur- 
ders 
142 
Tree, mending a 
152 
Trees, trimming, the season for 
117 
Treating cucumber bugs to eggs 
111 
U. 
Useful Plant, a 
127 
V. 
View from the Pyramids of Egypt, 
205 
Vinegar, 
192 
“ sugar 
72 
Vines, to prevent the bleeding of 
46 
“ to protect from bugs 
104 
W. 
Wages of Farm Laborers in England, 
157 
Wells, bad air in 
104 
Wet Lands, 
77 
“ “ reclaiming 
149 
Wheat, 
164 
“ great yield of 
11,116 
“ sixty bushels to the acre. 
72 
“ prevention of smut in 
20 
" use of charcoal as a manure for 
68 
“ how my friend Cook raises 
79 
“ what is the proper food of 
85 
“ disease of — Preventive measures 
117 
“ culture, philosophy of 
138 
“ the smut in 
139, 146 
“ culture. 
157 
“ China 
181 
White Wash, 
74 
“ “ and Paint, 
92 
Who can beat it. 
11 
Wife, to select a good. 
48 
Willis Gaylord, death of 
55, 78 
Wood, recipe to render incombustible 
20 
“ green and dry 
93 
Wool, 
143, 175 
" growing in Alabama, 
149 
“ growers, hints to 
163 
“ Trade, the 
181 
Woman, the physical education of 
92 
Women, married, a hint to 
64 
Work for September, 
150 
“ “ October, 
162 
Worn-out Lands, 
161 
“ “ restoration of 
0? 
“ “ improvement of 
86 
“ “ scooter and shovel plows, 98 
Y. 
Yankee Wager, a 
141 
Young Ladies, to 
53 
“ Men, hints to 
126 
men, to — truth well spoken 
52 
