INr_)EX 
V 
Manure—Meadow Benefited by.69 
■ • Mixing with Loam. 57 
•• Muck—Value of. ..234 
•• Night Soil—How to Compost_ 46 
• • Night Soil—Leached Ashes—Ci¬ 
der Pomace.102 
*• On Com—Experiments.232 
” Pulverizing—Benefits of.46 
Queries and Answers.74 
•• Salt in.357 
•• Salt Mud.325 
•» 8 heds Recommended.198 
♦» Something Better than Guano... 235 
•• Spontaneous Combustion.324 
•• Street Scrapings for. 10 
•• Superphosphate—Raw Bone.259 
" Tan Bark—Muck with Offal— 
Bone Dust or Guano for Oats.. 135 
■ • Tan Bark for—Plaster, Amount 
of per Acre.166 
• • Used on Long Island.235 
•• Wool Waste.357 
Manuring—High, Pays.136 
•• With the Hoe.172 
Map of Eastern Virginia.*..345 
•• Of Kentucky.*..349 
• • Of Missouri.*.. 348 
•• Of Port Royal anti Vicinity...*. .384 
Mapes—A Great Mistake. 57 
Maps—Note on.323 
March—Suggestions—Fickle Men..*.. 65 
Market Fair.134 
• • Fairs in Illinois.266 
•• Review, Weather Notes, etc. 
28—59—91—123-155-187-218-251- 
283-316-347.376 
Marls.134 
Mass. Agricultural Reports for 1860.... 165 
Matches—Death from.69 
•• Substitute for. 87 
Matting—Russia Bass.259 
May—Suggestions—Poultry Raising.* ..129 
Meadows—Blanketing.360 
•• Burning over.293 
Meals for Emergencies.214 
Meat—Boiling, Broiling, Roasting and 
Frying. 54 
” Cooking: Making Soup.311 
•• Cooking “Scientifically ”.119 
” Keeping under Ground. 58 
Melons—Persian or Cassabar.292 
•• Rotting.. 134 
Microscope Premium Discontinued.... 102 
Milk—Depth of Pans .197 
• • First Flow Poisonous.230 
• • Increasing Flow of.324 
• • Keeping in Hot Weather.279 
Milking Machines.166-230 
Miller’s Bolt—Cleaning.228-268-300 
Millet for Fodder.170 
•• Texan.135 
•• Three Specimens of.293 
" Valuable Variety fromWisconsin298 
Mills—Farm—Bennet & Brothers’..*..268 
Minnesota Crops.357 
Mistake of Binders.57 
Mole Trap—Simple. ..135 
Moles—Destructive.369 
•' Do they Eat Peas.173 
• • Driving from the Corn Field. ..• -136 
• • Poisoning. 58 
Money—Heavy Discount on.32-64 
Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 68 
Morel Described.229 
Mothers—A Word to.311 
Mowers and Reapers.172 
Mowing Machine Attachment—Inven¬ 
tion by a Lady. 10 
Muck for Bedding.326 
Mulching—Benefits of. 50 
Mushrooms—How to Raise.274 
• • Poisonous.47-103-198 
Muskmelons—Cracking.229 
Muskrats—Destroying.293 
N 
Nails—Preventing Rusting.58 
•• To Make Weather-proof.230 
Nasturtiums.. 134 
'• Wh’ere to Plant.198 
Neatness and Health—Playing in Dirt . 246 
Newspapers and Periodicals in the U.S.250 
•• Bonner’s Ledger. 26 
•• Miner’s, Dead.102 
• • “ United States Mail ”.197 
November—Suggestions—Visiting Pa¬ 
rents..*..321 
Nursery Catalogues—Bridgeman’s_166 
•• Starting a. 57 
o 
Oats—Irish,.260 
• ■ On a Wheat Head.58-165 
•• Sample of. 324 
October—Suggestions— Planting Fruit 
Trees.*. .289 
Ohio Crops in 1859—60. 47 
Oil Cloths—How to Choose and Pre- 
„ serve.—. 182 
Okra or Gumbo Soup. 343 
Onion Culture—New Edition. 68 
• Seed—Scalding.292 
Onions—Crop in Danvers. 69 
• • Lost in Storing. 57 
Obchard and Nursery — Calendar 
for Jan., 2—Feb., 34—March, 66 
—April, 98—May, 131—June,162 
—July, 194—Aug., 226 -Sept. 
258—Oct., 290—Nov., 322—Dec.354 
•• Eight Reasons for Planting.. 82 
• • Houses—Failure o.292 
• • Lands—Tilling.i! 338 
*• Large Pear. ‘357 
Orchard—Notes for the.113 
Oregon Fruit—Large. 51 
Osage Orange Seed—So wing.. 292 
Paint—Cheap Cement . 136-229 
Painting Buildings.72-333 
Paints—Mixing—Book Wanted.26 
Paper—Can’t do without it.-... 14 
• ■ From Corn Husks and Leaves... 10 
• • Too Poor to take it. 14 
Parsneps—Wild and Cultivated.228 
Pasture Lands—Hints on Improving. ..206 
Pastures—Evils of Late Feeding.330 
Patent Office — New Agricultural Su¬ 
perintendent . 259 
• • Office—Reports and Seeds.135 
Peaches—Better. 25 
Pear—Doyenne d’Ete.*..146 
• • Grafting on the Butternut.57 
• ■ New Winter—Duchesse d’Hiver.145 
• • Rostiezer .324 
Pears—Bicknell.356 
•• Keeping.356 
•• More Wanted.325 
Peas—English Speckled.198-326 
• From Michigan.260 
• • Guinea Dwarf...293 
•• How to Start Early. 57 
" Japan. 68 
•• Notes on Early.245 
• • Supporting—Convenient Way... 135 
Pen—New, Cheap. 68 
•• Use the. 43 
Perfume of Flowers—To Obtain and 
Preserve.308 
Pickles—Greening with Grape Leaves.279 
Picture Frames—Rose Leaf. 212 
Pine Apple—Large.198 
Pitchfork—Horse—Beardsley’s.... 2 *.. 41 
Plants by Mail.292 
•• Climbing. 57 
• ■ House, tor Winter.275 
• • How to Improve.295 
•• Replacing Weak.180 
•• Thin the..179 
Plaster of Paris—Practical Suggestionsl37 
Plow—Fawkes’ Steam. 8 
•• Fowler’s Steam .*..323-366 
” How to Scour.172 
• • Knighting the.326 
Plowing by Steam.174 
•• By Steam—Howard’s Apparatus*265 
■ • Deep—Testimony of the Crib — 47 
•• Greensward.107 
Plows—Draught of — Experiments — 
The Cylindrical Plow.136 
” Wheels on.292 
Poisonous Toys. 58 
Pomological Societies—Defence of .. 175 
Pork—How to Cook.171 
Potato—Curious Growth of.*..332 
•• Disease.102-168-361 
Potatoes—Cut for Seed .. 6 
• • And Manure. 26 
•• Deep and Late Planting—Large 
Yield.236 
• • Early—Mercers and Buckeyes... 135 
•• Early Sovereign.260 
• • Experience with. 43 
•• How to Cook.54 
• • How to Raise Cheaply.139 
” Large.69-229-292 
•• Mixing in the Hill.166 
• • Planting in Autumn.339-356 
• • Preservation of..361 
• ■ Price for Seven Years in N. Y.. .204 
•• Profitable Experiments with. 11 
•• Raised’under Straw. 58 
•• Sefed—French Treatment of... ..’.361 
•• Sods under—Bugs.134 
Sweet—Keeping.326 
•• Sweet—Starting Plants.68-115 
Poultry—A Crowing Match.331 
•• A Lady’s Experiment with. 12 
•• A Neighbor’s.357 
•• Book—Best.357 
•• Cholera in Hens.166 
•• Commence to Fatten.301 
•• Cure for Gapes and Cholera.198 
•• Feed.357 
•• Gapes in Chickens.69-135-229 
House—Good and dheap.331 
•• Lecture in Few Words. 80 
• • Meat for Hens.205 
•• Novel Chicken Question. 58 
Raising Chickens in Hot-Beds.. .134 
•• Raising—Experience in — Black 
Spanish—Cracked Com Feed. 142 
•• Shanghai Creepers.*.. 80 
• • To Prevent Hens Eating Eggs. .239 
• • To Prevent Hens Sitting.135 
• • Turkeys—How to Raise.142 
Premium- Barometer—Extra.188-220 
• • Books—Extra.256 
•• New—Dictionary.96-128 
■ • To Ourselves. 325 
Turnip Seed.188-220 
Premiums for All .134 
• • For 1861....27-60-90-122-154-186-218 
•• For 1862 . 282-315-346 
•• For Indoor Manufactures.310 
•• No more Special... .292 
•• Seeds, etc.—Giving—Objections 
Answered. 101 
Preserving Fruit—Best Method—Straw¬ 
berries, Cherries, Blackberries, 
etc.,.*..215 
Prizes—$240 Offered for Practical Ar¬ 
ticles.231-293 
Prospects of Farmers.230-261-294-327 
Pruning—Talk about. 82 
P’s—The Three—Value of Health.310 
Publisher’s Notices.32-64-96-128-160- 
.192 -224-256-288-320-352 
Pump Wanted. 325 
Pumpkins—King of.369 
Purchasing for Subscribers.61-92 
Quince—Cultivation of.209 
• • Seed—Angers .. 69 
Quinces in March.166 
I£ 
Raisins—How Prepared. 325 
Rarey Returned. 26 
Raspberry—Allen.103-135 
•• And Blackberry Shoots.180 
• • Antwerp. 68 
• Cultivation. 83-274 
Raspberries—Everbearing.260 
• • Notes on Varieties.273 
•• Protecting.57 
Rats Afraid of Powder. 15 
• • And Mice—Poisoning.57 
• • And Mice—Wool for Bait.293 
•• Coal Oil for—To Kill Muskrats. 135 
• • Drumming Out.325 
•• Howto Kill.324 
•• Mice, Squirrels, Gophers, etc... 229 
•• Preventive.229 
• * Shooting and Worrying. 69 
•• Stop them. 44 
Reapers and Threshers Combined. 68 
Reports—Agricultural—Securing...... 103 
Rheumatism—Remedy.326 
Rhubarb."..134 
• • Cahoon’s.260 
•• Cultivate. 83 
•• From Seed.355 
•• New Seedling...198 
Ribbons—To Clean. 87 
Rock and Stump Extractor—Lyon’s.2*.108 
•• Lifter—Bolles’.*..359 
Rockland Co. Farmers and Premiums.259 
Roofs—Composition for—Roman Ce¬ 
ment—Leaky.166 
Roots—Harvest the.339 
Howto Feed.361 
■ • Suggestions on Storing for Winter334 
Rose of Jericho.229 
■ • The Best Noisette. 324 
Roses—Climbing. 57 
Rye—Giant and White.134-261 
§ 
Sad Iron- Flat Iron, etc.371 
Salt—Why Animals Need it.. 16 
School—Scientific at Yale College.103 
Schools—Two Good.228 
Seed—Apparatus for Sowing.*..236 
• • Distribution Closed.189 
•• Envelopes—Defective. 102 
•• Exchanging ; Does it Pay?.203 
• • List—Descriptive Notes on those 
Distributed.3-4-5 
• • Selecting and Preserving..360 
Seedlings—Interesting Discovery.324 
Seeds—Free ; Large Distribution_.261 
•• Germinating of, Aiding. 4 
•• Germinating Old. 68 
•• Hints on Sowing Garden.149 
• • Immense Distribution of.. 92 
•• List of those Distributed in 1861 
and 1862.5 60-90-123-154-355 
•• Number in a Bushel.356 
•• Old—Vegetating. 68 
■ • Persons Offering Free.134 
•• Results from One Package.103 
• • Send Now—Two Lists—Not sent 
by Express.102 
•• Sowing Soaked.171 
•• Vitality of.356 
September—Suggestions—Farmers’Ad¬ 
vantages .*..257 
Sewing Machine to Agr’l Society.64 
Shallots.134 
Shaving—Easy.373 
Sheep and Dogs in Massachusetts. .57-166 
•• Dressing—Quick Work. 68 
• • Feeding in Winter.166 
• • Foot Rot—Treatment of.141 
•• Hemlock for—Saved from Dogs 
—Profitable. ..103 
•• Hint to Breeders.363 
•• Leicester vs. Bake well.357 
• • Prolific. 69-357 
•• Rot in.205 
• • Sale of Jonas Webb's Flock.197-266 
■ • Scab in—Remedy for.239 
■ • Ticks—Oil for.325 
•• Wanted.363 
Shrubs—A few good.114 
•• Manzanijo.25-241-260 
Silk Worm—New—Substitute for Cot¬ 
ton.*..40-81 
Sleep—How much is needed .183 
Smut—Cause and Preventive.103 
Snow—Uses of. 17 
Soap Weed from California.260-293 
Socks—Government Pattern.*. .371 
Soil—Benefits of Pulverizing.299 
" Burning the.360 
•• Mixing.108 
Song—“A Farmer I Will Be,” by W. 
B. Bradbury.121 
” Star-Spangled Banner.185 
Sorghum at the West. 6 
• • Brooms. 69 
• • Hints on its Culture.107 
• • Notes on Cultivation, etc.203 
•• Sugar—Improvement in Manu¬ 
facture of..329 
•• Sugar—Inquiry.134 
• • Syrup in Iowa. 69 
•• Syrup in Iroquois Co., Ill.. .68 
Sorghum—Syrup in La Salle Co., Ill.. .354 
•• Syrup in Wisconsin.log 
•• Value of..jus 
Sorrel—To Destroy. 355 
Spades and Shovels... '335 
Spring—Ready for.m 
Squash—Hubbard. 68-134 
" Mammoth Leghorn.. ... 25 
" Vine—Long. 355 
Squashes—Keeping in Winter. 339 
• ■ Seeds—How to Keep Pure.149 
" Versus Pumpkins. 166 
• ’ Without Seeds. 198 
Squirrels—Ground, Destroying. 204 
Stables—Short Sermon on.267 
•' Sparred Floors for. 141 
Stack—Improved Bottom for.*. .309 
" Shed. g 
" Stables on the Prairies. 71 
Stains—How to Remove.279 
Stammering—$40 Cure for.278 
Starch—Charcoal in—Chemistry. 53 
•• In Vermont.‘. 39 
Steaming Food—Pipes under Ground.,103 
Stoves and Pipes—Care of.. 87 
Straw for Feed..292 
Strawberry Beds—Slugs in. 1*9 
Cultivation—Notes on. 211 
'' Cutter’s Seedling. 68 
•• Runners—Potting.292 
Strawberries—A new Patch.242 
• • A Good Picking .229 
• • And Blackberries...228 
•• Barren... 197 
• • In Hills—Gveat Yield.166 
•• In November.356 
” Late.260 
• • Managing. 149 
• ‘ Mulching. 5 g 
•• Notes on.243 
" On an Acre .228 
•' Premium—Inquiry.256-292-323 
• • Sex of..... 57-357 
• • Transplanting- Good Method.*.. 309 
•' You must have them.241 
Subscribers—150 Lost.355 
Subsoiling—Benefit of—Examples.71 
Sugar Cane — Chinese — Forwarding 
Growth of.161 
" Cook’s Evaporator.251 
Sugar Estates of Cuba. t 
■ ■ From Imphee and Sorghum. .68-278 
• • Making—Important Discovery... 174 
■ • Maple—Crop in Vermont.198 
•• Maple—Fine Sample.230 
Summer House—Rustic.172 
Swine—Cheap Feed for.173 
Chester Co., Pa.—Large. 103-160-301 
■ • Corn and Cob Meal for—Large.. 69 
•• Curing Pork Profitable.364 
•• Hints on Fattening.266 
•• Hog Cholera .260 
• • Kidney Worms in..229 
•• Large. .’.10* 
• • Making Breeding Sows Docile. .198 
• Pasture.106 
• • Pigs more Profitable than Calves 142 
•• Prolific.325-357 
•• Salt for.103 
•• Scrubbing — A Convenient Pig 
Trough. . 293-357 
•• The Family Pig.141 
•• To Free from Vermin.. .173 
•• Water for.324 
•• Water of Boiled Potatoes for_ 20 # 
X 
Tanning Skins with Hair on.324 
Tea—New Tax on.230 
Telegraph to the Pacific.*. .358 
Thistles—Canada.69-107-166 
How Disseminated—Important 
Suggestion. 46 
•• Taxon.356 
• • Teaching Hogs to Destroy them.263 
Tidy—Ironing—Valuable Hint.343 
Tile Machines—Information Wanted..291 
Tim Bunker on Breastworks.202 
•• On Buying a Farm.299 
•• On Cattle Disease. 15 
• • On Lightning Rods.267 
• • On Painting Buildings.333 
• • On Seed. 79 
• • On Top-dressing and Feeding 
Aftermath.234 
Timber—Time for Cutting.260-270 
Toad—Horned.357 
Toads Eating Bees.230 
•• Killing and Bloody Milk.260 
Tobacco Question in France.198 
Tomato Culture—Successful.369 
New Upright. 50 
Tomatoes—Improved Trellis.369 
Tool House Wanted..106 
• ■ The Best for Tillage.139 
Tools for Boys.333 
•• Neglected.229 
Topiary Work in Gardening.5*. .176 
Transplanting and Shading. 243 
•• Directions for.*..149 
Treasury Notes Described.*. .313 
Tree—Ailanthus—Use for.268 
•• Largest Apple in America.321 
• - Largest in Massachusetts. 69 
Trees and Plants—Protection.368 
And Vines—Dry Rot in Living... 179 
• ■ Apple; Largest in America ; Low 
Branching ; Early Decay of.. .260 
• • Apple Leaves—Blighted; Double 
Flowering Apple.198 
• ■ Barked ; Warming an Orchard. .135 
•• Barren Pears.356 
BestElm.241 
■ • Best Elm; Desirable Sorts.305 
