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INDEX, 
Economical Hints. 2 ®® 
Editor and his Young Readers.*..344 
One Feeling very Badly.154 
•• Unwell. 252 
Editors—Agricultural—Convention of 
.131-167—288-291 
Eggs—Selling by Weight. H 
England—Green Lanes of.*..240 
Endive.*..368 
Ergot—Removing from Rye.141 
Evergreens—A Look at.145 
Books on. 186 
•• Descriptions and Illustra¬ 
tions of American and European 
Balsam Firs, Cluster and Scotch 
Pine, and White Spruce Fir.*****.112 
Evergreens from Seed.251 
•• Norway Spruce, Douglas 
Spruce, Corsican Pine, Himalayan 
Spruce, Magnolias, Glauca and 
Grandiflora—Hints on Transplant¬ 
ing.*******..144—145 
Evergreens—Pruning .209 
Exhibitions—Agricult’l—List wanted. .187 
•• Horse Racing at.*.272 
•• "vs. Shows.296 
•• for 1858—List of for States 
and Counties.252—283 
•• New York State and Can¬ 
ada West.348 
•• Perverted.359 
•• Reports on.326 
Fallows—Summer.163 
Farm—Calendar for January, 2—Feb¬ 
ruary, 34—March, 66—April, 98— 
May, 130—June, 162—July, 194—Au¬ 
gust, 226—September, 258—October, 
290—November, 322—December... 356 
Farm—Is it a Debtor?.298 
• • Leaks of. 46 
•• Make a Map of. 35 
•• Work—April Hints. 99 
Farmers’Clubs—Further Talk on. 10 
Farmers—Jones, Smith and Johnson... 79 
Observing.234 
Of the Old School. 55 
Farming and Gold Digging. 41 
by Machinery.266 
Luck in... 13 
Fat Men—Hard on.265 
February Notes—R otation in Crops.. 33 
Fence Posts—Setting. 13 
Fences—Wire. 39 
Ferns and Brakes—How to Kill.236 
Ferrets Wanted.154 
Flies to keep from Ceilings.280 
Flour—Selection of.58 
Flower Garden and Lawn—C alendar 
for January, 2—February, 35- 
March, 67—April, 99—May, 131— 
June, 163—July, 195—August, 227— 
September, 258—October—291—No¬ 
vember, 323—December.356 
Flower Garden—Anemone, Drummond 
Phlox, Golden Bartonia, Nemo- 
philla, Snow Drop_*****.. 56 
Seeds for Distribution*******20—21 
Flowers at Trinity Church.*..304 
Candytuft.251 
Culture of Ixias and Sparaxis. .305 
Cypress Vine Trellis.*..339 
Daisy.*. .338 
Escholtzia Californica.*..339 
For the Lawn .151 
House in Winter.*..371 
In Bloom Oct. 16.323 
In Winter.123 
Mignonette not Fragrant.346 
Prairie.218 
Thunbergia.*. .339 
Fly Trap.*..247 
Fodder—Coarse, To be looked after... 14 
Forests—Destruction of.177 
Frost in Valleys.182 
Fruit Growers Society of West. N. Y. .250 
Planting.305 
Shelves and Boxes.307 
Stealing-Remarks on.23 
Trees and the Lawyer. 15 
•• Bark Louse on. 22 
•• Important Articles. 20 
•• Suggestions on Pruning**** 24 
.. .. winter Protection of. 19 
•• Young, in Autumn.335 
Fruits—Modes of Preserving Fresh. .*.217 
Everybody may have an abund¬ 
ance in a year or less—Blackber¬ 
ries, Raspberries, Strawberries and 
Rhubarb.277 
•• Gather the Falling.213 
•• Official Catalogue of Am. Pom. 
Society.314 
• Preserving.249—279 
•• Shelves and Boxes—..307 
•• Summer. 210 
• • Tender, apparatus for carrying*122 
G 
Garden—Kitchen and Fruit : 
Calendar for January, 2—February, 
34— March, 66 —April, 98—May, 130 
June. 162—July, 194—August, 226— 
September. 258—October, 291—No¬ 
vember, 322—December.356 
•• OrnamentalWorkNo.il****.. 48 
Winter Fixing and Digging_369 
Gardeners—Our Best.307 
Gardening for Ladies.119 
Garget or Poke Weed described.251 
Gas making and Candle Wicks. 25 
German Edition—Please Speak of.256 
Gherkins . 187 
Girl—Little, in a Court oi justice. 58 
Glasses—Hand.*..117 
Gooseberry—Downing’s New.23—83 
Mildew on.251 
Gophers—Ground Squirrels. .154—251—365 
Grandmother with the Girls.**..375 
Grape Humbug .323 
Vine—A Word for.122 
•• Rows—Direction of.251 
Vines—Don’t Neglect.24 1 
for Conservatories.186 
Wild Grafting. 19 
Girdling.*..367 
Grapes at the North .151 
Experiments with 12 Vines....337 
Dr. Underhill’s.347 
•• History of Isabella.337 
Hybridizing.315 
In Winter.90—307 
New, Logan and Winslow. 88 
Training. Pruning, etc.***.212. 367 
Varieties of.251 
Vine Districts of Missouri.250 
Vines—Injured by Sulphur.306 
What Kinds to Plant.337—367 
Grape Vines—Sulphur dangerous 306 
Grass—Clover and Breeding Animals. .347 
Hungarian.294 
Land—Top Dressing.141 
Light and Heavy Seedling.140 
Prolific Clover.207 
Quack or Couch.236 
Seed—Profit of Timothy.140 
•• •• For the Lawn.347 
Seeds—Mixture of.206 
•• Timothy or Herds.140—347 
•• Tuft—Destroying.186 
TwoBladesvs. One. .271 
Grasses—Beauty, Culture of, etc. 97 
Grasshoppers m Cataraugus Co., N. Y.315 
Green and Hot House — 
Calendar for January, 3—February, 
35— March, 67—April, 99—May, 131 
June, 163—July, 195—August, 227— 
September, 259—October, 291—No¬ 
vember, 323—December, 357. 
Green and Hot Houses—American— 
Notes with descriptions of New 
Plants.— 
No. I—Acacia pubescens, Grevillea 
Tillermanii and Sternbergii, Pentas 
Rosea, Aphelandra roi Leopold , and 
squarrosa citrina, Eschvnanthus 
Splendidus and Lobbianus', Rojiera 
cordata and amoerta .54 
No. II—Acacia acutissima Drummon- 
dii and grandis, Bilbergia, acaulis 
zebrina, Euphorbia pumceus, Indi- 
gofera decora, lxora javanica, Vi¬ 
burnum japonicum and suspensum 80-81 
No. Ill—23 New Azalias described, 
Pimelia, Chorozemas, Gardenias, 
Clerodendrons, Diplandenia, Es- 
chynanthus, Centradenia.Ill 
Greenest—Who is ?. 43 
Grevillea Tillermanii .*.. 81 
Gypsum as a Manure. 5 
II 
Hams—Curing.185—311—343 
Harrow—Buckeye, Rotating.*. .203 
Hay and Grain Caps..****.. 167—207-228 
•• Crop....’.236 
Cutting, Curing, etc.206 
•' Next crop of.'. 77 
Health—Twelve Rules for.310 
Healthfulness of Soil Cultivation. 74 
Hedge Plants—Hawth"rn, Cockspur, 
Thorn and Buckthorn.*****..208 
Hedges—Norway Spruce for.186 
Osage Orange, Honey Locust 
etc. *****».. 176 
•• Trimming. 27 
Hoe for Carrots.166 
Hoeing—Benefits of.260 
Hoes —Weeding or Bayonet, Scuffle 
Cou'ter, Lothrops, etc.*******166—196 
What Feeding does for. 14 
Holiday Gift.378 
Honey—Marketing in Glass Boxes. 7 
Hops—Culture of in Garden.150 
Horse—Care of the Health.269 
Foot of..234 
Management of.302 
-• Pulling atthe Halter.*..260 
Radish .118—343 
•• Rake. Origin of. 266 
Horses anu Oxen—Which shall weuse.lio 
• • Galls on. 13 
• • Horse Books, and Ring Bone.. 251 
Mistake in Feeding. .329 
” Safety Stirrup.***.. 4 
Horticultural Societies—Town.149 
Hot Beds Described.**.. 53 
Leaves for.153 
Hot House Calendar (See Green and 
Hoi House)..-. 
House—Log—How to Build.***..200 
Plan of an Editor’s.*. 297 — 360 
•• Keeping in Country—Help . 71 — 121 
Houses—Ash and Smoke, Fireproof_297 
Cheap inside Finish for.106 
•• Farm—Laborer’s Cottage.***.. 73 
” More Extended.***. U'4 
■■ First Class.***..136 
Huckleberry Culture.103 
Humbugs—Horticultural, etc. 251 
Not Advertised.348 
Humor in an Agricultural Society.133 
Humus—Soluble—What is.. ... 140 
Hydraulic Ram Explained. ..♦******, .324 
June—Suggestions for the Month.161 
July ” ” *193 
K. 
Keep Cool ”.359 
Kentucky—Crops in. 229 
LaSalle Co., Ill.—Crops in .251 
Lampblack for Flowers and Grass ... .214 
Land—Dear, and Emigration.133 
Tables—Showing the Amount of 
Public Lands. Sold and unsold July 
1st. 1857. with Notes. 198 
Lantern Blinks—I—Leaks of the Farm* 46 
II— A Large Farm_106 
III— New Location for 
Farms.266 
IV— Farm of Slothful.3U3 
V—A D e s p on 
ding 
Farmer. 
’’ VI—Going to 
Emi- 
grate. 
Laurels and Rhododendrons. 
.272 
Lawn—Care of. 
Lead Wire for tving Vines, etc.. 
.212 
Leather-Castor Oil for _ 
.347 
I 
“ lb ”—Where Publisho'* ?.197 
Ice Crop this Year..134 
■ Room—A Cheap one. 8 
• Rooms—new ; Schooley’s.*..120 
Ik Marvel—The R'ght Kind of Talk... 330 
Illinois Farming—Notes on.102—364 
Imfe—Sorgimm—Darkie’s Letter. 8 
Irnphee—African. 60 
Implements—Care of.326 
for Weeding Field and 
Garden.*******..196 
Ladies Garden Fork. .*.. 149 
Incendiaries—Look out for.358 
Indian Arrow Heads.*.. 28 
Indiana Farmer—“ Home Papers ”....187 
Indoor Work:— 
January—That Sewing Machine— 
Gas-making and Candle Wicks .. 25 
February—How Sewing is Done by 
Machinery.*************.. 57 
March—Snatches of Science—Water, 
Washing, Filtering—Wisners Wash 
Tub.***** gg 
April—Care of House Plants—School¬ 
ey’s Preservatory.*..119 
May—A Batch of 19 Recipes .152 
June—Milk as Food—Lime—Scrap¬ 
books—Whitewash, Hams, Bleach¬ 
ing wax*—Recipes, etc.184 
July —Food for Children—Important 
Hints on its Preparation—Cheese 
Press*—Setting out Table,* etc_214 
August—A Chapter on Meats—Com¬ 
position of Meats, Cooking fresh 
Meats, Broths, Salting Meat—Fly¬ 
trap*—Recipes, etc.246 
September—About Soaps, Wines, Cat¬ 
sup-Preserving Fruits—Parsnep 
Sweetmeats—Cockroach trap*— 
Washing Machine***—Coloring, 
Flies, etc.278 
October—Hints on Setting out a Table, 
Deportment while at Table, Kitch¬ 
en Press*—Masticator,* Rules of 
Health, Drying Apples, Bread, So¬ 
da, Butter, Hams, Flies, Starch** 309 
November—Chinese Tea described*** 
Hints on Deportment—Woman’s 
Wages, Sewing Machines—Salera- 
tus— and several good Recipes.341 
December—About Coffee**—Garden¬ 
ing for Ladies—More about Starch* 
Winter Flowers for the House*— 
Ladies and Gentlemen going up and 
down stairs, walking, etc.,—Colds, 
coughs, Consumption, etc..—Chap¬ 
ped hands, Saleratus-Cooking Spin¬ 
ach. 370—372 
Insects—A Squash Bug.******* 143 
Apple Tree Borer.*.. 50—243 
Bed Bugs, Flies, etc.251 
Bugs on Vines.214 
Bugs Repelled from Vines.*. .182 
Canker Worm.251 
Cetonia Inda.218 
Cockroach Trap.**..187—2 
Cucumber Bug Preventive.... i54 
Curculio. Conquering, etc. 154-245 
Currant Bush .. 180—215—218—368 
Cut Worm, Whence comes it. 103 
Destructive upon Apple Trees, 
Taylor’s Protection_****..244 
Feeding and Destroying Cut 
Worms.244 
Grubs and Worms in Corn....142 
Katy-did .**..334 
Locust Tree Borers.243 
On Fruit—Investigation upon 
Bark Louse.******.. 51 
Pea Bugs.186—214 
Pea Vines—Insects at roots.. .231 
Peach Borer Plastered tip.... 83 
Pear and cherry sltig******179~2l 1 
Plea for Flies and Spiders. ...311 
Rose Slugs.149 
January—Suggestions for the Month.. 1 
Refuse—Value as a Manure 14 
Leaves in the Orchard.. 167 
Leisure— Elegant. 201 
Letters—Anonymous.315—346 
Complimentary.123 
Use of . 59 
Leveling Instrument.*. .376 
Lice on Cattle, Colts, etc. 4 
Lime—Gas; value, etc. 15 
On Seed Potatoes. 298 
Use of about Buildings, etc... .185 
Loudon—Mrs., Death of.312 
M 
Magazine—Atlantic Monthly. 27 
Mandrake or May Apple.154—210 
Manure from Roads. 6 
How much to each Animal.... 69 
Inquiries.347 
New Fish Fertilizer .. 68 
Peruvian Guano. Price reduced 71 
Sea Sand for. 55 
Manures—Ashes and Muck.260 
and Piaster for Corn.. 166 
Chinese modes of Making.. .261 
Commercial value of Muck. .292 
Compost for Potatoes. 186 
Errors in the use of Muck.., .260 
Experiments on Potatoes.... 165 
Feeding Corn Stalks—Muck 364 
lienor Poultry.166-187 
Homemade Pnudrette. .228—327 
Sawdust and Urine.154 
Leather for. 14 
Sink Slops. I 99 
Substitute for Barnyard. 261 
Sundry Letters. 376 
Tanners’ Waste for..229 
The Farmer’s Mine .330 
Using the Muck of Ditches. .334 
•• Waste in Cities-Homemade.327 
•• “ What kinds to Buy ?”.328 
Manuring the Hill—Sausage Story.261 
Maple Sugar—Making.5—37 
March— Suggestions ofthe Month. 65 
Market Review, Weather Notes, &c. 
January, 29—February, 61 —March, 
91—April, 128-May. 160—June, 188 
July, 220—August. 253—September, 
283—October, 316—November, 349 
December.379 
Marketing Beans— Instructive Story... 26 
Masticator, or Tooth Helper.*..309 
May Day Reflections. 129 
Meadow or Mowing Lands.]o 3 
Meadows and Pastures. New Seeded..294 
• ■ Old—Top Dressing and Re¬ 
seeding.262 
Meats—Cooking Pickling, etc.246 
Melons—Experience in Raising.275 
etc., in Kansas. .. .154 
Mice among the Trees and Grape Vines 211 
Microscope Explained_*****. .219—313 
Milk as Food .J84 
” Can be Concentrated. 10 
Churning while new. 14 
Millet. 315 
Minnesota—Poultry and Cows in.154 
Moles—Plea for. 207 
Money by Draft.378 
Moneywort.149 
Moon-Struck Agriculture.202 
Morrisania Horticultural Society.259 
Moss on Pasture Lands.228 
Mowing Lands—Sheep on.331 
Maeliine—A Challenge.165 
Mulching Explained.218 
Mules and Hinnies.Q34 
Mushrooms—Maggots in.307 
Mutton—Give us more.331 
N' 
Nebraska Territory.348 
Nobodv—Poetry.183 
November—Suggestions for the month . 321 
O 
Oats—Poland at the South.91 
