INDEX TO VOLUME XVII. 
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lowing Index indicate where engravings 
occur, and the number of them. Articles re¬ 
ferring directly or indirectly to Bees, Cattle, 
Fruits. Insects, Manures, Trees, <yc., will be 
found under these general heads. 
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About that paper. 28 
Abutilon striatum .. 8 ^ 
Adveilising Dodges — .. fi8 
Advei tisemeuts—Read them. l2 
Agricultural College in N. Y. State....348 
Agricultural Humbug at Washington... 
.40 72..104..198..230 
Agriculture in Olden Time. 82 
Agriculture or Olden Time in America 267 
Air—What Kind do you Breathe.335 
Ants—Destroying, etc.138. .251. .347 
Apples—Garretson, etc.316 
Bearing Year of.116 
Big, Rotting on Trees, &c-347 
Drying. 310 
Half Sour and half Sweet..323, 368 
Varieties of.14“ 
Apple Trees—Planting, Culture, &c... .368 
Trouble among in Del.. 20 
April—Suggestions for the month.. .97*99 
Arbor for Grapes and Screen.*.. 88 
Atmosphere and the Farmer. 86 
August—Suggestions for the month-225 
Auriculas, Verbenas, &e.316 
Banana Tree described. 80 
Baskets of Willows. 22 
Beans—Limas.275—328—3/3 
Bee-hive—Observing—Constructing.**. 171 
Wonders of— No. VII, Re- 
.. production.***■• 9 
No. VIII.******•• 4i 
No. IX. Honey, cells, &c.*** 75 
No. X, Kinds of bees. .****.. 107 
No. XI, Sting, Habits, etc.**.139 
No. XII, Swarming.*. .170 
No. XIII, Enemies of Bees.. 
..****..202 
No. XIV, Head, etc....***..238 
Movable Frames.****..363 
Bees—List of Books on.270 
Donkey Among.32' 
Apiary in January, 3—in March, 
67—in April, 99—in. May, 131—in 
June, 163—in July, 195—in August, 
227—in September, 259—in October, 
291—in November, 323—inDec’r..357 
.. Weak Stocks. .259 
Artificial Swarming...203 
.. Changing to New Hives.291 
.. Do they Dwarf in Old Hives?.*. .298 
.. . Drones—Killing.270 
.. Notes on, and Reply. .238—269—363 
,. Number in a Swarm. 
Observing Hives.171—23 
Clustering in Swarming.171 
Hunting Wild.363 
Berry Plants from seed, &c.251 
Best miss it Sometimes. 59 
Bird in a Bottle.238 
Birds—A Team of—Stuffing.347 
•• American Starlings.*..344 
American Sparrow-Hawk. .*. .366 
•• Our Singing. 86 
•• To Mr. and Mrs. Robin Red 
Breast.274 
White Robins. 
Blackberries—New Rochelle and Thorn 
less.164—277 
Wnite.376 
Bloom of Beauty.143 
Book Notices—Note on.123 
Books—American Herd Book, 348— 
Farmer’s Library, 334—Field on 
Pears, 220—Gray’s Botany and New 
American Encyclopaedia, 313— Lou¬ 
don’s Works, 346—Life Thoughts, 
187—Scrap book, 185—Landscape 
Gardening, 376. 
Borage.259 
Bound and Back Volumes.378 
Boy not afraid of a Dog.*. .312 
What a little one can do.252 
Boys and Girls—Note to.282 
Boys and Girls own Columns: 
January —About that Paper, Answeis 
to Problems, Indian Arrow Heads, 
New Problems, Big Dictionaries, 
What a Question to Ask. .******** 27 
February —Answers to Problems, How 
Pictures are made, New Problems, 
“ The Best Miss it Sometimes,” 
Work for Winter Evenings, Use of 
Letters . **** 59 
March —About the Problems, Enigma, 
My Ship comes.***.. 90 
April—A Scriptural Sum, Answers to 
Problems,* Molasses Candy, New 
Problems, the Warning Bell.122 
May —Answers to Problems,**** 155 ; 
Further Talk about Engraving.**** 
.*****156 
June —Alphabet used by the Deaf and 
Dumb,* Ans’rs to Problems, Differ¬ 
ent kinds of Type, Floral Enigma. .187 
July —About Microscopes.**•**. .219 
August —Editor Unwell, Planting 
One’s Own Name,* Tracing Paper, 
What a little Boy can do .252 
September —Telegraphing Familiarly 
Explained.***********. .281—282 
October —A Boy not afraid of a Dog, 
A Shuttle Cock, Microscopes at 
Last, Uncle Fbank’s Chat with the 
Boys and Girls.**. 313 
November —Editors Chat with his 
Young Readers, About the Tele¬ 
graph, “Idid’nt think,” Learning 
to write, or Howto become an Edi¬ 
tor, Living in the City, What 
o’clock is it with you? Working 
Cheap: Uncle Frank’s Chat with 
the Boys and Girls, A Ludicrous 
Escape from Drowning, A Peep at 
the Squirrels, Autumnal Memories, 
Husking Parlies, The Cider Mill***.344 
December —Uncle Frank, ** Dog 
Problems,* Alphabetical Character, 
Grandmother’s Afternoons with 
Girls.**..374 
Boys for the Country—To Farmers. 
Mechanics, &c.’.15S 
•• On the Farm—Schools for_10—348 
Boys’ Tool Chest. 46 
Bread—Cream of Tartar, Soda, etc_310 
B riars— E radicating.154 
Brushes—Caterpillar.*.. 186 
Buckwheat—Raising, Threshing. .195—294 
Budding—Proper Buds to Choose. .**.. 83 
Buildings, Farm—Hints on.360 
Buildings for the Farm—Critique on .. 168 
•• No I—Laborer’s Collage***. 73 
•• No. II—Extended Farm 
House.***• 164 
No. Ill—First Class Dwelling 
‘f and Appendages .***..136 
• No. IV—Carriage House, Sta¬ 
ble, Woik Shops, Turkey 
and Hen-Coops.****..169 
No, V—Piggery, Poultry, and 
Pigeon Houses .****..201 
•• No. VI—Cart and Wagon 
Shed, Ash and Smoke 
House.**..233 
No. VII—Barns.***..264 
No. VIII—Ground Level 
Barn.**..319 
Burdocks—To Kill.191 
Bush and Root Puller.***..13—110 
Butter—Making Good. 311 
October.294 
251 lbs. to the Cow. .142 
Cabbage—Enfield Market.150 
•• for Seed.186 
Savoy. . .j .251 
Cabbages—Keeping..335 
Calendar of Work for January, 2— 
February, 34—March, 66—April, 98 
May, 130—June, 162—July,194—Au¬ 
gust, 226—September, 258—October, 
290—November, 322—December,.. 356 
Callas. Bloomingof.186 
Calves—Weaning.205 
Camellia, Lowii ...*• • 85 
Candy—Molasses, Making.122 
Candle Wicks—Suggestions on. 26 
Ciraway.164 
Carrots for Stock.42—154 
Sowing.164 
Cats for the House and Barn. .71—138—26' 
Cattle—A Dairy Manual Wanted. 14 
•• American—No. I—Kinds We 
need. What are our Common Cat¬ 
tle, Various Breeds,and Short Horns 
Described... .***..43—45 
•• American—No. II—Herefords.**. 76 
•• No. Ill—Devons.**. 132 
•• •• No. IV—Alderneys.. 
.****..172 
•• •• No. V—Ayrshire.**.204 
•• •• No. VI—Galloways 
Described.***..235 
•• Blooded Stock—Prices.70 
•• Cow should be kept by Citizens 
and Villagers. 77 
•• Cows with Swelled Udders.204 
•• Docking.205 
•• Feeding—Incendiaries....388 
Feeding Racks for.***.43, 110**, 358 
•• Garget in Cows.142—165—251 
Heifers with Defective Teats — 251 
•• Hereford.**..268 
•• Liniment for. 293 
•• Mad Itch in.110—293 
Poison in Pastures.328—364 
•• Sheltering in Winter.. 27 
•• Show Deception in Great Britain. 302 
•• Swelled Udders in Cows.142 
•• Swiss. 268 
•• The Alderney Cow. 14 
• • Twin Heifers, Free Martins, etc.154 
•• Value of Blooded.268 
'• Why use cut food for?. 42 
Cement—Water Proof.261—369 
Chapped Hands.372 
Cheese Press—A Oneap, Simple.. ..*. .515 
Cherry—Wintet.*****. 21—85—J40 
Chestnut—Raising.273 
Chestnuts. Quinces, etc., in Illinois, etc.347 
Children-Important Hints on Prepar¬ 
ing Food.214 
What Encouragement does..215 
Chimneys—Remedy for Smoky.70 
Cholagogue for Fever and Ague.249 
Chufas or Earth Almonds.150 
Cider—Making and Keeping. 22—274 
Cisterns—Cheap.266 
Climate—North and South Compared.. 193 
Clover—Sow Seed now.100 
Cockroaches.187 
Coffee—Chapter on.**. .370 
Colds, &c.—Sexton’s Appeal.372 
Colts, Calves, Lambs—Care in Oct.292 
" Fall.260 
Contributors and Correspondents— 
Notes to. ..27, 60, 123. 153, 186, 218, 259 
Cooking—Notes on. 26 
Copyright Secured—Notice to Editors 33 
Corn—Depth of Planting.140 
Dourah. 4 
Egyptian.310 
Green tor Fodder.171—228 
Grinding for Stock.316 
Growing Twice.187 
King Philip.60—154—218—299 
Late Plant mg of...167 
Mixing Seed.154 
Peabody’s Prolific.140 
Planter—New, described_V.108 
Shocking Instruments.**..299 
Squaw.154 
Stealer in a Trap. 7 
’ Unloading.315 
Wyandott.60—140 
Cotton Plant—Howto See.339 
Cranberries—Book on.323 
•• Cultivation of, etc... .82—218 
Crop—Trusting to a Single one.296 
Crops—Reports on—Model.262 
Currants—Varieties, etc. ..****.. 117—276 
Cut Feed—Why use. 42 
Cut Worm—Where does it come from ? 7 
Dahlias—Blooming first year from Seed 151 
•• Culture of.159 
Dairy—Prize Articles.328 
Hints on Butter Making.328 
Daisies—White, for Cattle.236 
Deaf and Dumb Alphabet.*..188 
December—Suggestions of the Month.. 355 
Deportment.216—248—309—342—371 
Diarrhea in Calves and Pigs.237 
Dictionary Prizes Still Offered.60—375 
Dielytra Spectabilis.*.. 152 
Dioscorea at a Discount—Free.106 
Ditch Banks—How to use.334 
Ditching Machines...251 
Ditches—Small Stones in.I64 
Dog—What a. 39 
Donkey Race.*..272 
Draining—Experience in.328 
•• Hollow Brick for.*..292 
• • Tint Bunker on.197—263 
• • with Wood.347 
Drouth on Cleared Lands.239 
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Early Plot of Beans, Com, etc.133 
Earth—What is it?—Answers.229 
