INDEX. 
October— Suggestions for the month.. .289 
Ohio Agriculture—Slate Fair.325 
Onions—Keeping... 
Practical Hints.108 
New Seeds for Distribution***101 
Orchard and Nursery— 
Calendar for January, 2—February, 
34—March, 66—April, 98—May, 130 
June, 162—July, 194—August, 226— 
September, 258—October, 290,—No¬ 
vember, 322 —December, 356. 
Orchard-No. I—The Apple. .......... 17 
No. II—Number and Varie¬ 
ties of Apples, etc. 49 
No. Ill—Apples, Locality, 
Profits, etc. 83 
No. IV—Pears, Varieties, 
Soils, Locations.114 
No. V..Am. Pears, Varieties, 
Dwarfs, etc.146 
No. VI—Chapter on Cherries. 179 
No. VII—Chapter on Peach.209 
•• No. VIII—Chapter on Plum.241 
No. IX—The Quince, Varie¬ 
ties, Culture, etc.273 
Premi ms—Agricultural.231—361 
Extra.157 
Preserving Cans, and a Hint to Tinmenl53 
Press—Convenient Kitchen.*..310 
Prize Articles.264 
Problem 31—Twelve Questions.346 
Problems—Answers to and New..28** 
***_59**_90***—122*— 155****—187 
Prune Fruit Trees in July.209 
The Gorman (Zwetsche).213 
Pruning—Defects in.147 
Fruit and Forest Trees.178 
Suggestions— II —84****—III 
H6******-IV.**..148 
Published to do Good and Make Money 3"8 
Pump— Edney’s.*. .251 
Pumpkin Vines—Pinching.347 
Pumpkins—Bitter, Notes on. 22 
Drying. 343 
•• Some more.53—123 
u 
Questions—A String of.315 
Quinces—Preserving Tender.343 
Paine—Thomas.147—250 
Paints—Water Colors.347 
Paper Mills—Dry.349 
■■ Tracing. 252 
•• Value of a.154 
Papers—How to Preserve.249 
Park—Great N, Y. Central.*..175 
How to get up a Country.177 
Parsnep Sweetmeats...279 
Past and Present. 60 
Pasture—Fall.294 
Lands—Treatment of. etc... 173 
Patent Office Report, 1856—A look into. 5 
Seeds. .123-154 
Pay—Does it.348 
Pea—Nutmeg, or Scotch Speckled.347 
Peanut—Manner of Growth.*.. 53 
Peach Culture.209 
Pear—Flemish Beauty.»—*.. 20 
Tree—Enemies of.211 
Pears—Gathering.. —307 
Pa. Farm School—Acknowledgments.. 27 
■ ■ N otes on Southern.326 
Personal Requests.346 
Pickles—Apple, Pear and Quince.343 
Pictures from Leaves and Flowers ...121 
• ■ How Made. ..***♦*****. .59—156 
Planting ones own Name.*. .252 
Plants and Animals—How they Grow.*.239 
Crowded .245 
Degeneration in Cultivated.273 
How to set out Young.182 
Howto start Early.100 
How to water.245 
In House—Care of.119 
What kinds grown from Seed... 85 
Plowing—Shallow vs. Deep.347 
Plows—Land Side Cutter....'*..237—299 
Pseony Culture.*..275 
Pom. Society—American.314—338 
Pom. Society—Am.—Meetings of.119—250 
Postage only six cents a year.96—378 
Potato Balls-Planting.335 
Culture—Experience in.. .12—134 
•• Digger—A New one.*..262 
Parings for Se*d.154 
Potatoes—Antidote for Rot. 70 
Description of 19 kinds for 
Market.100 
In Iowa.315 
Lime on Seed.296 
Mixing in the Hill.229—262 
Do they mix in the Hill.165 
Peach Blo'w.134 
Prince Albert and Black Mer¬ 
cer.167 
Sweet, Culture, etc. .*. .150—293 
To Raise Early. 86 
What makes them Rot.104 
Poultry—Best Breeds of Fowls.347 
Chapter on. 47 
Cheaper than Pork. 4 
Disease at Rock Island, Ill.. 12 
Disease, new.364 
Still Slops for.263 
Domestic Pigeons. 88 
Experience in Chicken Cul¬ 
ture. 78 
Feed for Chickens. .142—237-263 
Gapes in Chickens.287—303 
Guinea Hens—In-and-in 
Breeding. 78 
Hens Laying when shut up.. 347 
Plea for Shanghais.*.. 11 
Preparing, Killing, Dressing, 
and Marketing.357 
Profitable in Cities.109 
Profitable.142—166—364 
Smoking Chickens and saving 
a Dollar.109 
Spring Chickens. 68 
Story of the Ship and the 
Guinea Hens. 15 
The Best Goslings. 12 
What is the matter with the 
Turkeys. 47 
Yard, Look to, in October.. .292 
Prairie Farming—Notes on.102—364 
R 
Race Course—Women on the.*..332 
Rain—A Refreshing.229 
Rainy Day—Moralizing upon.234 
Rambles, VI—Setting Trees. 81 
Rake Horse—Origin of.206 
Raspberries—Allen, Bagleys Ever Bear¬ 
ing, Brinkle’s Orange and Fastolff.277 
At the South.149 
Training.*..182 
Raspberry—Culture of.117 
Winter Covering.369 
Rats—Do they Reason ?.365 
Rats and Mice—New Remedy for. .. .335 
Reapers and Mowers—Review of Trial 
by U. S. Ag. Society..36-69-102-141-174 
Recipes—See last column of Index. 
Rhubarb—Improvements, Culture and 
Value.275 
Rice—Culture of, in California. 55 
Roads—A model Highway. 48 
Bocks—Getting Rid of, Amusing Exam¬ 
ple.164 
Rocky Land—Does Clearing Pay. 333 
Rooms—Cooling and Drying.*. .120 
Root and Bush Puller.**..13—110 
Crops for Stock—the positive side. 165 
Roots for Stock—The other Side.109 
Large Crops of. 55 
Storing.335 
Roses—Culture, etc.—Giant of Battles*184 
For Prairie Cottages.186 
From Cuttings. 84 
Rotation of Crops. 33 
Rural Gossip. *..308 
Rye—Sow Early.264 
Squashes and Pumpkins—Keeping — 259 
•• Large.347 
Stable Floors—Improved... 75 
Stables—Sawdust for. 11 
Starch—Chapters on.....**..812—371 
Statistics In American Agriculture.135 
Steam Plow Firing up.325 
•• On trial.376 
Still Slops for Geese and Ducks .263 
Strawberries—Felton’s Great Seedling.307 
•• Burr’s Pine, Pistillate.. 123 
•• Killed by Watering.307 
•• Runners Clipped.186 
” White Naiive.276 
Strawberry—A New (Ward’s).*..181 
Peabody's.246—276 
•• One Little Plot .276 
Stump Puller—Everybody’s.140*—295-315 
Another... .*..326 
Subscriptions in Order—Half yearly 
do.60—188 
Sugar Cane—A Brief Talk on. 39 
•• Chinese for Sweetening. .259 
•• Not Poisonous.362 
•• Seed for Feed.186—189 
Sugar—Maple—Making, 3 Articles 37—38 
Mills and Boiler Ranges. .***. .230 
Sulphur—Dangerous for Vine Mildew.306 
Summer day—Not Sunday. 39 
Sunflower—Culture of.122 
Swamp Land—A good Investment.333 
Swine—Breeds of.. *********^ .30(1 
•• Crack in Hog Trough.362 
Fattening Hogs.300—362 
Management of Sty. 39 
Syringe—Garden—Cheap Double.. .*. .213 
Sap—Rise and Bid of.*..212 
School—Agrlct—tural. Wanted. 40 
Schools—Ag.—Morrill’s Land Bill.166 
Scripture Sum. 123 
Seed Bed—A Good One.]ly 
Seeds, Cabbage and Cabbage Lettuce.. 72 
•• Distribution for Field, Culture of.101 
" Flower Garden •• 118 
" Vegetable •• •• 118 
•• Notes on Distribution in 1858.... 8 
•• Notes on.29- 60—124—348—358 
• • Notes on Distribution for 1859_358 
•• Notes wanted.288 
•• Send for them. 72 
• ’ Sowing Two Layers of.184 
Seed List for 1858. 32 
Seed List for 1859.377 
Seed.Sower—Broadcast.*. .293 
Seedsmen—Good and Bad for.220 
September—Suggestions for the month.257 
Sewing—How done by Machinery. .*** 
********** 
•• Machines—Note on.121 
Good News.321—312 1 
three month’s Ex¬ 
perience.25 
Shade Trees in Pasture.23—368 
Sheep—Early Lambs. 68 
Introduction of Merinos into the 
United States.71—109 
On Mowing Lands. 331 
•• Southdowns.*..271 
•• Tape-worm in Lambs.187 
Weaning Lambs.205 
Ship—“ My Ship Comes ”.90 
Shuttlecock and Battledoor described.*.3l3 
Slaughter which sustains us.267 
Snow drifts by Fences—To Prevent.... 13 
Soap—Whale Oil . 149 
Soaps—Cast le, Common, Transparent, 
Winsor, etc.278 
Soda—Is it Poisonous.343—372—373 
Southern Vegetation Date Tree, Live 
Oak, Palmetto, two varieties. Sago 
Plant, Spanish Bayontr t, Yellow Jas¬ 
mine . ******** _ .16—17 
Spinach—Raising and Cooking.217 
Sprain*—Treatment of.267 
Table—Hints on Setting Out, Deport¬ 
ment at, etc.216*—246*—309..342 
Tape Worms in Lambs.187 
Tea—China described.***• • 341 
Telegraphing Familiarly Explained.** 
★**•****★.....281 
Tennessee Lands—Eastern, Beware of. 133 
Southeast—Notes on Farm¬ 
ing in.102 
Note on.198 
Times—Cogitations of Old Farmer- 3 
Thorns—Hawthorn, Cockspur and 
Buckthorn.****** .208 
Thought—Profitable in Farming.360 
Threshing—Flail vs. Machine.333 
Tim Bunker—Domesticities at.232 
Curing a Horse Pond... .169 
Losing the Premium. 79 
On a new Enterprize.... 197 
On a new Manure. 6 
On Beginning Life.365 
On the Clergy.295 
Tile Making.263 
Women Horse-Racing.* 332 
Timber—Cutting for Posts.187 
Toads in the Garden.218 
Tobacco Culture.154—251 
Tomato Catsup.279 
The Husk.*..340—368 
Tomatoes—Early.245 
Not too late to Plant.214 
Tooth Washes. 27 
Transplanting in Hot Weather.245 
Tree—A Double Beech.*..103 
Set out a Shade.308 
Trees—Ailantus for Prairies.175 
• in the Garden.347 
• • Apple, What is the matter with.213 
• • Ashes on Peach.153 
• • Attend to Young Fruit.335 
Bearing Year.115 
• • Best Time for Transplanting... 305 
Buds from Nursery.154 
•• Buttonwood. 183 
•• Centenarian Planting. .242 
• • Deep Planting, etc.153 
Dwarfing.153 
Failure of Young Fruit.211 
•• For Shade.113 
•• Form of a Pear.**..115 
•• • Quince.*..149 
Fox Oak.*..359 
; •• Fruit, to make Bear Early.242 
Growth of Young Forest.294 
Heading Back Peach.346 
How to Select for Planting.... 115 
Injured by Mice.211 
Land lor and Culture of Fruit. .306 
Management of in Summer... .242 
Monarch Oak.*..336 
Nativo and Foreign. 23 
On hilly ground.123 
On made ground.183 
Paulownia Imverialis .183 
Pear, What to Plant.153 
Pears with Dead Bark.346 
Planting Large ones. 17 
Staking and Moving..309 
Raising Chestnut.273 
Fruit from Seed.242 
Pruning Peach. 51 
Remedy for Barked. 48 
Renovating Old.186 
Setting out vs. attending Law¬ 
suits, etc. 81 
Shade, in Pastures.236 
Splendid Ornamental—Tulip...338 
Taking up and Packing.... * 117 
White Pine from Seed.154 
Willow-American Weeping.. 154 
Winter Rest of. 66 
Yellow Locust. 239 
Tulips—Large.186—251 
Turnips—Aberdeen.227 
Common Flat. 196 
Easily raised and Profitable 5 
For Pigs. 8 
I can Raise.197 
Long French.*. 134, 167, 168. 196 
Manure for.251 
May yet be Sown.2S7 
Rot in.187 
Varieties, Keeping, etc.251 
Type—Different kinds Shown.187 
Uncle Franks Chat—Introductory. 313 
No. II—Autumnal 
Memories—Peep at the Squirrels— 
Husking Parlies-Cider Mill—Es¬ 
cape from Drowning.**. .345 
Uncle Franks’ Chat—No. Ill—Winter 
Amusements.**..—374 
Vermont State Exhibition Located.... 142 
Vetch—Culture of.*..141 
W 
Warning Bell—Poetry...123 
Washing Day—Hints—Wjsner’s Tub ** 89 
Recipe—The Best.249 
Machine—Metropolitan. .**. .280 
Washington’s Tomb and Homestead.. .312 
Water—Pure, Impure, Filleters, etc.** 89 
Wax—How Bleached or Whitened *..185 
Weather—The.40—167 
Winter of 1858. 40—135 
Weeds—About . 236—335 
Garden—Destroy them. 214 
Well—Digging.199 
Wells—Making Deep. 39 
What’s the Price—Will it Pay.334 
Wheat—Fife, in Wisconsin.291 
Sowing—Hints on.264 
Whitewash—A first rate.185 
Wind Mills.347 
Wine—Blackberry, 278—Currant, 218- 
Elderberry.279 
Winter—Advantages of the past mild.. 87 
Cherries—Wild.251—368 
Cherry.85—149 
" Late Sprouting of....245 
” “ Physalis and Altcekengi 
described. *****\ 340 
•• Evening Work. 59 
Woman’s Position on the Farm.. .321—355 
Wages.342 
Wood—Green vs. Dry.42—247 
Woodlands—Thinning and Pruning... 54 
Hints on Clearing.360 
Words—Kind.315 
Write on one Side of a Sheet.349 
Recipes. 
Ants—To get rid of.247 
Apple Custard.373 
Bacon—Peppering.153 
Biscuit—Nahant Tea.152 
Boiled Bread. Fruits, Grandma’s Batter 373 
Cabbage and Turnips—Cooking. 26 
Cake—Cream and Loaf. 26 
Corn Starch. Election, Federal, 
Indian, Griddle, Loaf, Moun 
tain, Muffins, Poor Man’s, and 
Pork Cake.152 
Citron.343 
Coloring—Blue, Fellow, and Green_153 
Black and Cochineal.280 
Fly Powder. 247 
Furs preserved from Moths.186 
Grease Spots.153 
Hams—Curing.—343 
Ink—Black.293 
Lye Hopper.153 
Marlborough Pie.373 
Meat—Keeping frozen.343 
Milk to be boiled.347 
Pickles—Cucumber.153 
Pickling Sweet Apples, Pears and 
Quinces. 26 
• ■ Hams and Shoulders.166 
Pie Curd.. 247 
Pie Plant—Drying.....247 
Pie—Rhubarb.186 
Pop-overs.373 
Pudding of Bread.153—373 
•• Cracker-.—343 
•• Roly Polv, 247—Suet. 26 
•• Boiled, Fruit and Grandma’s. 373 
Pumpkin Preserves. 26—343 
Raspberry Shrub.243 
Sausaee Meat .347 
Soap for hard Times.153 
•• Whale Oil .186 
Spinach—Cooking.372 
Substitute for Ice Cream.247 
Turkey—Boiled and baked.373 
Wine Sauce without Wine.373 
Yeast—Ready Made.15S 
