PN{t)'E;X. 
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Facts in fragments , . 12 
Fairs, Agricultural 356 
Famine at the east . . 236 
Farm and stock of Jonathan Thorne 369 
“ Fence, Uncle Sam’s . . 201 
“ implements, improvement in 3 
“ life (poetry) . . 277 
“ “ Slicking up” the 40 
“ 150 miles long . . 309 
Farms and lots in and around New-York 321 
“ for sale ... 40 
“ new lately discovered 20 
Farmer, about setting trees . . 69 
“ (Rhyme) 58 
“ Brown’s kitchen, a morning peep 
into . . . 233 
“ of the old school 230 
“ pretty picture of a . 21 
“ what he most needs 187 
Farmer’s daughter, reminiscences of, No. 3. 10 
“ “ “ “ No. 4, 41 
“ “ “ “ No. 5, 82 
Farmers, (Poetry,) 100 
“ a word to young . . 232 
“ bank 26 
“ girls, (Poetry,) . . 26 
“ two contrasted 148 
Farming, a relic of old style . . 209 
“ basis of good 261 
“ making it attractive for the young 41 
Fast men .... 1.267 
Feed, cut 35 
Feet, take care of the ... 40 
Felon, bone 43 
Fencing timber, whence are we to derive it ? 147 
Fertilizers, chapter on . 180 
“ shall I use special 1 
Fever and ague . . . 249 
Fire kindler 41 
Fires, hints about avoiding . 184 
Fish hawk 36 
Fish, plenty of ... 155 
“ story 219, 234 
Fisherman’s hymn, (Poetry,) . 36 
Fish-hook, removing a 123 
Flame, proof that it is hollow . . 18 
Flax and its seeds 113 
Flax, cultivation of 145, 177, 217, 273, 360 
“ “ “ for 1854 . 132 
“ “ in the west 305 
“ culture .... 309 
“ from Russia cut off 146 
“ seed, lending . . 163 
“ white, seed of 137 
Floriculture . . . .165 
Flour, American, abroad 342 
“ going east by a new route . 245 
Flower garden, ladies’ 54 
Flowers and perfumery . . 300 
“ beauty of native wild 359 
“ how to dry specimens of . 279 
“ of spring, New-England 151, 166 
“ use of (Poetry) . . 119 
“ raising 406 
Fodder, green 275 
Food, variety of, necessary . 260 
Forks, elastic steel digging 52 
Fowl, tenacity of life in a . . 153 
Fowls, gapes in 164 
“ have we among us Black Spanish 2, 83 
“ who keeps for sale . . 56 
Fox, a reasoning 186 
“ habits of the 311 
Fox’s revenge 107 
France, farming in . . . 372 
“ fruit trade of 279 
“ land owners in 69 
“ postage to 219 
“ weather and crops in 325, 332 
French exhibition for 1855 . 197 
Friday, is it an unlucky day ? 394 
Frogs, singing .... 228 
Fruit 155 
“ at the south . . . 215 
“ improving 199 
“ market of London 118 
“ trees, queries about 405 
“ to keep birds from picking 229 
Fruit-grower’s guide, Elliott’s, review of 22 
Fruits and their varieties , . 4 
“ preservation of 5 
Frying-pans 149, 219 
Fuchsias . . . 165, 263 
G 
Garden, a mechanic’s . . 321 
“ hints for the 262 
“ what it should be . . 250 
Gardens, Persian 183 
“ that never fail . . 247 
Gardening, a new hand at 327 
“ for the young . . 263 
“ winter 86 
Garget, (caked udder) in cows . 169 
Gas not unhealthy 171 
Gem, (Rhyme) . . . 108 
Gentleman, do you wish to be a 282 
German agriculture . . 148 
Gethsemane, the olives of 167 
Getting along .... 220 
“ on too fast 75 
Glue.liquid 361 
God hath a voice, (Poetry) . 55 
Golden mottoes 213 
“ rules for guidance of the green 235 
Gone right over it . .75 
Good Hope, visit to the Cape of 183 
Good humor, a test of . . 172 
Goose, death of a venerable 277 
“ story .... 171 
Gooseberries, cultivation of 247 
“ mildew on . . 119 
Government and agriculture 289 
“ what is it doing for agriculture 227 
Grain crop after another, cultivation of one 84 
“ fleet, inland . . . 136 
“ probable future prices of 25 
“ swelling of . . . 245 
“ where it goes to 164 
Grape crop .... 325 
“ cultivation 182 
“ culture, Buchanan on . 150 
“ the concord 37 
Grapes, experiments on varieties . 7 
“ for food 118 
“ Lake Erie ... 6 
Grass, voice of the (Poetry) . . 231 
Grasshoppers and tobacco 294 
Grass seed, sowing . . 309 
“ seeds, amount sown per acre 181 
Grave, march to the . . . 294 
Greedy Tom 394 
Green, J. S., villa grounds of . 326 
Guano 9 
“ another advance in the price of 185 
“ at home ... 52 
“ benefit derived from 357 
“ Chincha Islands . . 84 
“ discovery 35 
“ how to apply to corn 8, 24, 56, 98 
“ in Baltimore ... 35 
“ Mexican 293 
“ on cotton ... 20 
Guanos, South American 179 
Gum arabic .... 213 
Gun, let it alone 331 
“ son of a . . . 267 
H 
Habit, force of ... 252 
Haines’ farm, Editor’s notes on 257 
Hallock’s Cotswold sheep . . 385 
Hanging bells 277 
Happiness, domestic . . 140 
Hard-shell, a New-York 315 
Hartford Co. (Conn.) Ag. Show 377 
Hat, a bold stroke for . . 363 
Hawaii, horticulture in 262 
Hawaiian Islands, Trans, of Ag. Society 217 
Hay, new-mown, (Poetry) . . 323 
Hay-making, are you ready? 164 
Headache, sick . . . 13 
Healthy, how to be 283 
Heat vs. swine . . . 296 
Heaven, a new conveyance to 91 
Hedge, Maclaura . . . 373 
Height of a horse, how to detemine from 
colt .... 148 
Hemp 181, 361 
Hens, croup in 
Hen-persuader, patent 
Hints, seasonable 
Hog prospect at the west 
Hogs at the west 
the best for bacon 
Hakanum, a visit to 
Hollyhock, propagation of 
Home politeness 
Hominy 
Honest 
Hogs in Kentucky 
Hood, Tom 
Hoo sung 
Hope 
Hop growers of Mass. 
Hops, 30,000 lbs. per acre 
360 
9 
374 
407 
40 
273 
337, 353 
375 
107 
361 
183 
380 
407 
405 
154 
404 
404 
Horticultural exhibition of Rhode Island 198 
“ products at the south 262 
Hort. Society of Albany and Renssalaer 214 
“ Astoria and Ravenswood 214 
“ Brooklyn, 101,135,150,214, 
229, 295, 358 
“ Cayuga Co., N. Y., 182 
“ Cincinnati 103 
“ Mass, annual report of 22 
“ New-York, 37, 70, 86, 101, 118 
214, 246, 294, 358, 374 
“ Pennsylvania . 165 
“ Rhode Island 246 
Horticulture, foreign . . 246 
Horticulture—watering, &c. 403 
Horticulturists, note to 22 
Horse, an unparalleled . . 21 
“ a monster ' 252 
“ back exercise . . 117 
“ biography 68 
“ death of a trotting . . 296 
“ distemper, treatment of the 307 
“ Empire State, death and examination 322 
“ how to know the age of . 322 
“ premiums of R. I. Society 161 
“ shoe, patent elastic . . 181 
“ show in Rhode Island 248 
Horse-radish, don’t eat it too freely 88 
Horses, blinds on 83 
“ in Cincinnati 187 
“ “ Russia ... 2 
“ one of the 340 
“ resources for breeding . 131 
“ sale of trotting 313 
“ shoeing ... 35 
“ stud farm at Dudding Hill 67 
“ the Turkish . . 277 
Hotel, mammoth 36 
Hotels, European . . . 281 
Hot place 236 
Hours, bright and gloomy . 266 
Hour, the last 252 
Household wreck . . . 297 
Housekeeper, experience of a 74 
“ How’s your ma” . . 90 
Huckleberries 375 
Humor, good . . . 277 
Hundred years ago (poetry 347 
Hunter, a Kentucky . . 187 
Hurry, in a 295 
Iceland, agriculture in 
Idea, a new 
Illinois, large farm in 
Improvement, march of 
Indiana, crops in 
Inconsistency 
Ingenuity, American 
In ruins 
Instructions, following 
Intermarriage of blood relations 
Iowa, agriculture in 
Irrigation, 
Issue, an early 
J 
Jackson, (Gen.) and the clerk 
Japan, agriculture in 
“ expedition 
Joker, the practical 
Joshua and the sun and moon 
K 
“ Keep off the grass” 
378 
182 
306 
89 
361 
357 
266 
284 
219 
12 
387 
17 
264 
170 
325 
236 
282 
347 
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