IV 
INDEX. 
Draining—Successful..260 
•• Where—When—How—No. I.— 
Benefits of Draining.36 
•• No. II.—Where to Drain — 4*.. 70 
•• No. III.—Character of Soil—IIow 
to Drain. . 2 * 105 
•• No. IV.— Open Ditches—Well 
Drains..2*.. 137 
■ • No.V.—Wood andStoneDrains.6’169 
•• No. VI.—Tile Drains.10*..200 
• No. VII.—How Tiles are Made.5*232 
• • No. VIII.—Laying out Drains.7*264 
•• No. IX —Books; FindingDefects; 
Making Plans; Leveling. .5*. .297 
•• No. X.—Depth ; Distance; Dig¬ 
ging; Traps.*..329 
Mote Plow. 168 
•• Questions.134 
Drains—Open Ends of.293 
Pipes ft: House Slops..137 
P!c’*nng for. 102 
• Tile—Choking—Wood—Siphon..228 
Dream—Profitable—Paying Interest*.. 73 
Drills vs. Hills. 360 
•• Which Way should they Bun ?.. 205 
E 
Economy—Not True. 326 
Editors Humbugged. 72 
Egg Plants—Raising and Cooking.180 
Eggs—Preserving.309 
■ • Value for Food—Preserving.246 
Elgin—IIow Pronounced .103 
England—Imports of in Three Months.237 
Land Cultivated—Work for the 
Steam Plow.265 
Engraving—Fine.323 
Exhibition—Brooklyn Hort. Soc ..215 292 
•• N. Y. State Agricult. Society.165-292 
" Tables at Agriculturist Office 
.3-92-187-250 285 317-350 
Exhibitions — Agricultural in 1861— 
Time and Place of —251-262-314 
Eyes—Care of.245 
Fair—Queens Co., N. Y.323 
•• Westchester Co., N. Y.323 
• • Worlds in 1862.205 -236-323 
Fairs—Paying Judges . 357 
Fall Work—A few "Chores”..298 
Fallow for Fall Crops . 201 
Farm—Calendar for Jan., 2—Feb., 34 
—March, 66 —April, 98—May, 
130—June, 162—July, 194— 
Aug., 226 —Sept., 258—Oct., 290 
—Nov., 322—Dec.354 
Farm—Laying out—Economy in Fen¬ 
cing . *139 
•• Scenes — Spring, Summer, Au¬ 
tumn, and Winter—Illustra¬ 
tions by Darley.4*.. 16-112 208 336 
Farmer the True Aristocrat . 8 
Farmers’ Club—Glen Cove.323 
•• Club—Keep it up . 17 
Farming—The Great End in.300 
Feather Beds. 118 
February—Suggestions—Proper Treat¬ 
ment of Animals.*.. 33 
Feeding Boxes vs. Racks. 363 
•• Rack—Portable, Wire .*.. 9 
Feet— “ Frosted ”—Chilblains.....118 
Fence Posts—Setting.325 
Fences—Inclined Board.107 
Wire.*.. 9 
Fencing—A Durable Bar-post.300 
Fig Trees—Raising.326 
Files—For Papers.26-188-220-255 
Fires—Extinguishing—Hints on.214 
Firkin—Convenient Way of Hooping.. 151 
Fish Culture—Information Wanted_293 
Flagstaff—Douglas Pine . 198 
Flax Competing with Cotton.170 357 
■ • Cotton Premiums.251-259 
Flower Baskets—Rustic .3*.. 20 
'• Beds—Position of..275 
• • Garden—An Impromptu.* .. 148 
Flower Garden and Lawn—Calen¬ 
dar for Jan., 2—Feb., 34—Mar., 
67—April, 100—May, 132—June, 
163—July, 195—August, 227- 
Sept., 258—Oct., 290—Nov., 322 
—Dec.. .354 
.. God Seen in the.175 
•• Seeds—Save the.307 
Powers—Cactus—Pin-Cushion. 25 
• • Chinese Chrysanthemums—Best 
Sorts. 19-324 
• Drying in Sand.326 
• Early—Desirable Sorts.113 
• Everlasting.. .356 
•• Fadeless—Helichrysum; Lupi- 
nus Nanus ; Pink ; Commelyna200 
Green Rose.166 
Herbaceous Perennials — Value 
and Cultivation of.146 
• • In the House—KeepingBouquets*276 
Mammoth Poppy—Aloe .198 
•• Monster Arum—Escholtzia Per¬ 
ennial— Maurandia Barclay ana 
—Dicentra Cucullaria—Cobcea 
Scandens—Roses andAcacias in 
Borders—Tea Roses not Hardy 229 
New Chrysanthemums. 3 *. .244 
Passion Flower.*. .180 
Perennials—What to Cultivate. .140 
Petunias. 214 
Pin-Cushion Cactus .356 
Prairie. S56 
Single made Double—Petunias. .135 
Sketches of—Standing Cypress.. 25 
Standing Cypress—Single Made 
Double—Petunias—Wistaria. . 103 
Flowers—Stuartia and Wistaria.102 
•• Tritoma Uvaria—Experience ... 48 
■ • Tulips from Seed — Wild 
from California — Acrolinium 
Roseum—Collinsia Bi-color— 
Convolvulus Tri-color—Tufted 
Vetcli . .230 
Verbenas—How to Raise.275 
•• Wilmer’s Laura Pink. 20 
• Wintering Carnations. 244 
Food—Cheap. .. 311 
Cheap for War Times—Thirty 
three Ways to Cook Corn..341-43 
Frost in the Garden.357 
Frozen Plants—How to Treat. 19 
Fruit and Flower Decorations.*. .276 
•• Apparatus for Drying.*..277 
•• Cellar—Improved. 367 
• ■ Gatherer—Cheap and Conveni-’ 
ent.4* . .209-273-309-367 
•' Hot Beds for Drying. 292 
■ In Minnesota.274 
•• On Hillsides .102 
Outlines—To Take. 102 
' ’ Save it. 245 
• • Stealers to be Felons. 57 
■' To Grow Large...230 
Fruits Grown in Bottles .. .*.. 18 
• How to Judge of.. 19 
• • Preserving—Nyce’s Method.103 
Wild in Iowa.260 
Fuel—Hint for December.364 
Furniture—A Man’s Views . 85 
C>r 
Galvanism for Slugs and Snails,_*..273 
Garden—Children’s Corner Important..339 
" Draining Beneficial.. . 25 
•• How to Show and Howto View..213 
Kansas. 25 
Garden—Kitchen and Fruit — Cal¬ 
endar for Jan., 2 — Feb., 34— 
Mar., 66 —Apiil, 99—May, 131— 
June, 163—July, 195—Aug., 227 
—Sept., 258—Oct., 290—Nov. 
322—Dec.. .354 
" Kitchen and Fruit — Preparing 
for Winter.338 
•• Love of the. ..277 
•• On the Housetop .. 2 *.. 116 
•• Plants—How to Start Early .... 79 
Gardeners—Lady....229 
• ■ Wages . 25 
Gardens for Health.147 
Gas Lime—Johnson’s Opinion—Expe¬ 
rience with . 75 
Gift Enterprise in Kentucky.102 
Girl—Hiring a .151 
Gleaners in France—Rights of.336 
Goat—Plea for the.363 
Grafting Wax—How Made.1U2 
Grain Crop of the West. .. 68 
•• Feeding vs. Sellipg.364 
•• Immense Stock of.292 
" In Chicago. 324 
■ • Measurer—Convenient. 336 
Raise one Bushel More.136 
" Winter—With Buckwheat. 263 
Grape Culture—A Hint in—Layering.. 147 
•• Cuttings—Preserving.324 
" Grafting the. 83 
• • Growers’ Meeting in Connecticut 57 
•• Growing on Kelley’s Island.. 47-357 
•' Layers .292 
'' Leaf—Large_..... .260 
■■ New—The Skunnymunk.210 
•• Vine—Mechanic's.323 
'' Vines—Bleeding—To Prevent81-135 
" Vines—Protecting.323 
Graperies, Cold Frames, and Hot Beds 
for the Million..6*..272 
•• Cold—Queries.292 
Grapes—A French Vineyard.210 
• ■ Best Soil for. .103 
■ • California . 68 
• • Dwarf or Shrub. 103 
•• Fine Delaware.325 
•• For the North. 25 
•• For Wisconsin.198 
•• Growing for Forcing.273 
•• Hardiness of—The Delaware— 
Stakes for.166 
•• Harvard. : . 49 
• ■ How to Start a Vineyard—Profits209 
'' In Cities and Villages—How to 
Raise.338 
•• In Dwellings—How far Apart?..260 
• • Keeping.324 
.. New Seedlings—Raising..325 
• • Notes on Newer.19-49-367 
• • Ripening Isabella. 49 
•• Second Crop..356 
Training.241 
What shall I Plant ?..114 
•• Wild Texas. 25 
: Wild—Market for.. .229 
Grass Culture—Experiment in. 47 
•• Cutting next Year’s.207 
" For Prairies—Red Top—When 
to Cut.155 
• • New—From California. . 25 
•' Orchard.356 
•• Pampas. .*.. 12 
" Seed—Sow this Month. 71 
•• Seed—Sowing Thickly.259 
■ Seed with Oats.102 
Grasses—Dried—Preparing. 25 
Green and Hot Houses—Calendar 
for Jan., 2—Feb., 25—Mar., 67 — 
April, 101—May, 133—June, 164 
—July, 196—Aug., 228—Sept., 
258—Oct., 291—Nov., 322—Dec.354 
•• House on a Hill Side .198 
Houses for Invalid*.47 
Green-Houses for the People—No. 1.3*.308 
• • Houses for the People—No. II.4*.340 
•• Houses for the People—No. III. 
An Independent Green-House 
—Method of Heating - 6*. 370 
Greenwood Cemetery.303 
Griddles—Soap Stone not Good. 69 
Guess Work in Farming—Account 
Books—Platform Scales.364 
SI 
Hams—To Prevent Skippers... 68 
Hard Times—Housekeeper on.371 
Harvest Time.*..208 
Hawthorns—Flowering..324 
Hay and Grain Caps—Try them.197 
• • Mows—Air Ducts for.207 
• • Mows—Spontaneous Combustion 259 
Salting..........197 
Haying Time—Hints for.207 
Hedge Plants—Distance Apart.103 
Hedges—Chapter on. .3*. .302 
Norway Spruce...103 
•• Osage Orange.135-177-211 
'• Privet not Hardy. 50 
" Shelter for Fruit Garden....._ 50 
Highway—Clear up the..335 
Holy Land—Items from_... ... 18 
Home—Poor Man’s Pleasant in the 
Country...211 
■' Questions for the Household.182 
“ Homestead ” Transferred to Agricul¬ 
turist . 358 
Horse—A Large. 166-229 
How to Choose . 300 
• ■ Largest in the World . 69 
■ • Oldest on Record .259 
•• Power—Sanford’s Improved.2* .237 
•• Power—Unitof. 325 
• ■ Shoes for Snow.326 
• • To Hold Hard-headed.238 
• • What is a Sound Animal.198 
Horses—Administering Medicine to.109-166 
'■ Aged......25-69 
And Cattle—Warts on.166 
•• Colic—Cure for. 68 
•• Cost of Keeping .141 
Dentistry for Dobbin..269 
• • Effects of Hungarian Grass on.. .268 
•• Engraving from Landseer .144 
• • Feed for. ... 228 
'• Feet—Corns on....331 
Galls on....141 
Grainimg Colts.362 
• • Hair Oil for. .. . 2U5 
Herbert’s Book. 68 
• Loss of Appetite in.. 102 
Origin of Morgan.230 
•• Period of Gestation. 267 
•• Ring Bone...166 
• • Spavin—Remarks on. 72 
• • Stabling with Cattle....._.... 103 
Stumbling—To Cure. . 37 
•• Two Hours with Mr. Rarey. . 36 
• • Why they Kick—Rarey’s Cure. .238 
House Plan—Mr. Bishop’s Premium.. 165 
Household Department—Objection An¬ 
swered . 58 
• • Embellishments—Home-made.. .327 
Humbug—Agricultural at Washington. 189 
•• Medical.198 
Humbugs—Banquet—New Dodge.296 
• • Grand Banquet—Recipe Peddlers 
—Silvering Powder.*..332 
•• In New-Hampshire.357 
•• Mock Auctions .365 
•• What they are Doing—No. I.— 
Gift Enterprises—A Charming 
Home—Lotteries, etc . 6 7 
•• What they are Doing—No. II.— 
Advertised “ Doctors,” etc., 
—Another Seed Swindle. ... 38 
•• What they are Doing—No. III.— 
Japanese Wheat-Editors Hum¬ 
bugged—Bogus Jewelry—Tree 
Peddlers—Rats.104 
Husbands—Short Lecture to.310 
Husking Peg—Simple. 9 
Hyacinth—How to Grow the.306 
Hyacinths in Glasses.*. .341-369 
Hydrangeas not Hardy.356 
Hydraulic Ram—Notes on.236 
Hydropult at Palace Garden. 91 
Ice House—Cheap Way to Make.332 
Idea—Unwise. 57 
Ik Marvel—Truthful Hints by. 44 
Illinois as a Farming State. .. 58 
■' Good for—W. H. Russell Fined..323 
•• Lands—Answer to Inquiries.172 
•• Notes from. 43 
Inarching or Grafting by Approach.2*.. 117 
Indians—“Digger” of California. .2*.. 24 
Insect Powder—Coal Tar.102 
Insects and Onions. 324 
Aphides—Borers—Turnip Fleas 
Wire Worms.103 
Aphides on the Aster.306 
Apple Borer on Slate Lands. 83 
Army Worm.263 
Army Worm and Draining. ... 331 
Armv Worm—Plum Tree Borer 
—Worms among Pot Plants.. ..197 
Borer—Notes on the.209 
Borers Caught “ Napping”. 306 
Destroying Earth Worms...292 
Earth-Worms—Wire Worms- 69 
From Illinois. 25 
Grain Aphis . 263 
Grub Worms Destructive. 25 
Grub Worms—Destroying. 57 
Harris on.. 68 
Insects—Hen Manure—Cut Worms un¬ 
der a Plank—Ants Injuring Poe- 
onies—Camphor for Pea Wee¬ 
vil—Currant Bush Borer—Ap¬ 
ple Tree Insects—Lice—Scale 
on Osage Orange.198 
•• Hens vs. Bu^s. 309 
•• Hornets and Wasps Serviceable.230 
•• Lice or Scale on Trees ... 83 
" Microscopic Views—Pigeon Tre- 
mex—Pimpla Vividus_10*.. 140 
•• On Evergreens . 51-306 
•• On Trees — To Repel Earth 
Worms. 58 
• • Onion Maggot—Preventives. 166-259 
■ • Pea Weevil—Polyphemus Moth— 
Destroying Green Fly—Wheat 
Insects — Sulphur for Potato 
Bugs—Soot for Garden Fleas— 
Tobacco for Roses.135 
•• Potato Bugs—To Destroy. 77 
•• Rye Fly.204-235 
•• Seventeen Year Locusts. 26 
•• Slugs on Pears.356 
•• Smoking out Lice.106 
■ • Squash Vine Borer on Hubbard 
Squash—Wire Worms....._229 
•• Troublesome House.150 
• • Twenty Bushels of Army Wovms.293 
•• Weevil in Grain. 325-356 
• • Wheat Midge—Disappearance of. 171 
Inventions—Agricultural Needed. 336 
Ireland—Cultivated Land in.293 
Ironing Apparatus Wanted.213 
Ivy (Ampelopsis) in England.... 339 
•• Poison. .....25-326 
.1 
January — Suggestions—Vol. XX. of 
American Agriculturist . 1 
Japan—Horticultural Novelties from. . 51 
Jones, Mr.—How he Cultivated... 8-39-73 
June—Suggestions—Dairying and Pas¬ 
tures. *..161 
July—Suggestions—The Hay Field.*..193 
K 
Kansas—Farming Prospects in....263 
• • Suffering in .93 
JL 
Lambs—What ails them?.239 
Lamplighters—Straw.182 
Laud—Cheap in the Old States. 25 
" “Land Poor”.337 
• • Sale of the Right Sort.. 6 
’' Value near London.259 
Lantern Blinks—XXIV—Diogenes Re- 
divivus in Search of a Farmer’s 
Wife. 21 
• • Blinks—XXV—Diogenes Redivi- 
vus visits a Woman of Home¬ 
spun.. 45 
•• Blinks—XXVI—Diogenes Redi- 
vivus visits a Croaker. 117 
’• Blinks—XXVII—Diogenes Redi- 
vivus visits a Contented Far¬ 
mer’s Wife . . 149 
" Blinks—XXVIII—Diogenes Ro- 
divivus revisits Higgins’ Rest..271 
Latin Quotations Explained . 186 
Laurel Poisoning—Cure for. 68 
" Transplanting.324-868 
Lawn Grass . 103 134 292 
•• Perfecting the.5*.. 148 
Suggestions about the.116 
Laws—Publishing—A Hint to Editors.. 317 
Leaf Crop Valuable.330 
Leather from Alligator’s Skin. 10 
Leaves—How to Copy on Paper.. .277-373 
Lectures — County and Village this 
Winter.335 
Lentils... 350 
Letters—Acknowledgment of.. 57 
•• For” John Smith”.165 
■ • From Pod Auger. 145 
Libraries for Farmers—IIow to Form..335 
Lilies—Japan.. 341 
Lily and Tuberose.323 
Lime—Experience of Cultivators.104 
How to Make Shell. 74-360 
• • On Seed Potatoes. 102 
•• Questions. 11-57 
•• Refuse from Kilns.260 
Liming Land—Experience in. 40 
Lands—Hints given—YVanted_ 10 
Literature—Agricultural,Extraordinary271 
• Poisonous Stuff.. 183 
Lotteries. 197 
Luxuries—Cheap. 365 
M 
Madder—Cultivation of. . 102 
Magazine of Fashions—Something New292 
■ • Record of the Times. 326 
Maine Correspondence.m 
Mangel Wurzels versus Corn. 71 
Manure—Barn-yard and Lime. 197 
•• Bone—Home-Made.168 325 
• • Bone, Permanence of. 39 
Cellars under Barns. 102 
•• Cider Pommace—Gas Liquor_165 
• • Dead Animals for. 168 
•• For Fruit Trees. 324 
•• For the Hauling. .198 
•• From Tanneries. 324 
•• Hair for.' 039 
•• Hauling out Green. 68 
High—How Much.09 
•• Leather Scraps for Fruit Trees.229 
Lime for—Soil Analysis. 201 
