INDEX 
V 
Market—Washington. 364 
Mason & Dixon’s Line—Origin of. .... 18b 
May—Suggestions—Flower Garden.*. .129 
Meadows—Reclaiming. -..Wl 
Meat Cutter—Hale.’s.’ . .dl 
Melodeon—How to obtain one—Capi¬ 
tal Opportunity for Young Folks.313 
Melons—How to Raise.149 
Japan or Apple Pie. 36 
Memoranda Useful. 9. 
Microscope Humbug...313 
Milk—Deep or Shallow Vessels for.... 138 
■ • Spoiled by Turnips. 27 
• • To test quality of.186 
Milking Once a Day..•••••.164 
To make Cows give down—238 
Moles—Castor Oil Plant for—Drowning 
Out.’.346 
To Destroy. 121 
We give them up—Remedy _ 
wanted.274 
Windmills versus, etc.303 
Money Matters—Sundry Notes on. 64 
$1 Well Expended..—345 
Moneywort—New Variety of......147 
Mount Vernon—Contributions from 
New-York.164 
Mouse and Rat Trap—Cheap ....*.. 86 
Moving—Think twice before. 35 
Mower—Shall I buy one ?....201 
Mowing Machine—Who invented it?. .201 
Practical Hints.174 
Muck—Treatment of.330 
Mulberry—Downing’s.*..212 
Mulberries—Seedling.281 
Mulching—Benefits of. .250 
Music—Influence of in the Family. 85 
ESI 
Nails—How to drive. . .. 137 
Nasturtiums at the South.281 
Nature—Following.44 
Nebraska Correspondence—Insects on 
Apple Trees. 15 
New England—Summer Rambles in. .362 
Newspaper—" The Methodist”.250 
Night Air not Unwholesome.233 
November—Suggestions—Leisure.321 
Nurseries—Directions for Starting —110 
Nurserymen — Complaints against — 
Kansas Correspondence. . .212 
© 
Oats—Oregon ..'.313 
October—Suggestions—Apple Parings, 
Huskings, etc.289 
Oil Cake—How Made.327 
Onion Hoe—A new one.*..137 
Onions—Extirpating Wild.185 
Growing—Work on. 60 
Pickling.311 
Okchard and Nursery—C alendar in 
Jan., 2—Feb., 34—March, 66—April, 
99—May, 131—June, 162—July, 194— 
Aug., 226—Sept., 258—Oct.,290 — Nov., 
222—Dec.354 
Orchard—Winter attention to. 53 
Ornaments—Inexpensive Household- 
No. I — Pendant Bask¬ 
ets. *.. 56 
No. II — Cone Baskets, 
etc., etc.2*.. 85 
•• No. Ill — Skeleton 
Leaves. *.. 117 
No. IV — Specimens of 
Birds. *. .181 
No.V—Keeping Flow¬ 
ers.214 
Overdoing.201 
Overworking—Note from the Doctor.. .246 
P 
paint—Ellery’s India Rubber.250 
Painting Buildings—Zinc Paint. 14 
Papering damp Walls. 22 
Parsley—Fresh in Winter...367 
Parsneps for Stock.186 
not Poisonous.185 
Pastures—Remedy for Short. .175 
Patience—Trial of.. *■ .312 
Peaches—Large.— 313 
Pears—Beurre Giffard.*. .281-308 
Buerre Superfin. *. .276 
Peas—Directions for Culture.117 
Garden, Notes on Varieties. 18 
Pencil Drawings—How to Fix.278 
Phy sails—Different Varieties.345 
Picture—Peale’s Court of Death.250 
Pie—A Christmas.370 
Pius—Connecticut.346 
Entomological.313 
Pitchfork—Improved Horse Power.2*.201 
Plant from Seed found in Coffee.218 
■ • Lace Leaf . 2*. .309 
•• Named for Subscriber, Ground 
Hemlock.121 
•• That Nameless, Name Given —121 
Plants—Names of—How pronounced..313 
Plaster of Paris—Use of Old.219 
Plowing Deep, and Good Corn.138 
Good Effects of.121 
Is it injurious.206 
• • Opposite Results.328 
Shall it be done in the Fall ?.. 302 
Pneumonia of Horses—Analogy with 
Cattle Disease.269 
Poisoning by Laurel—Remedy for. 185-345 
Poisons—Keeping them Safe.... 87 
Politics and Agriculture.8*. .329 
Pomological Society—American,Eighth 
Session.275-292 
Pom. Society—Time' of Meeting of the 
American.186 
Pork—Measly—Cause of.218 
Quantity from a bushel of Corn. 185 
Postage—Notes on.256 
Postmasters—Mean Imposition.224 
Potato Man—Note from.374 
■■ Rot.297 
Potatoes—Arc they Wholesome Food?.279 
Deep Bins for.345 
Experiment with Manures. .138 
How to Raise Early. 73 
Keeping.27-60-296 
Peach Blow....121-154 
Planting Small Tubers.197 
Sweet—Cultivating.Ill 
Poultry—Apoplexy in Fowls. 137 
Cure for Gapes in Chickens.. 137 
Eggs in Winter.375 
Geese—Bremen or Embden * 41 
Chinese.76 
Hong Kong. 00 
Sebastopol.*.. 333 
White phmeie. ..*. .105 
Hot Corn for.374 
Internal Breaking of an Egg.121 
More Laying Hens.153 
•• Musk Duck.300 
Shoe the Fowls.229 
Turkey—Domestic.*.. 137 
•• How Named.359 
How to Raise. 76 
The Wild.*-..169 
Why the Hens do Lay. 41 
Why Hens do not Lay. 7 
Preaching under the “ Third Head”.. .281 
Premium—New—Barometer.224 
July Seed.224 
Queries.345 
Standing..256 
Premiums—Extra.128 
for Boys and Girls.281 
for 1860. .-. 25 
for 1861.282-348-373 
Seed—Valuable... 96 
Preserving Fruits—The best method.*.214 
l’ropagating Cases—Waltonian — 2*.. 113 
Prospects for Farmers Improving.324 
Protecting Tender Plants.35-338 
Pruning—Neglect of..306 
Root—Time for.374 
Puddings and Pies—A Domestic Chat 
—Recipes....,.3*3 
Pump—A Cheap.2*.. 341 
Pumpkins and Squashes—Best Mode of 
Drying.370 
Pumpkins—More. 374 
Quacks—One of the.357 
Queries—For N. Y. Farmer’s Club-206 
Personal from Correspond¬ 
ents .153 
Questions Unanswered—Note to Cor¬ 
respondents .121 
Quiet Woman—How She Conquered . .278 
Quilting Frames—Convenient Form.‘*,149 
11 
Railroad Managers—Hint to.264 
Rain—Amount of in Connecticut.359 
Rats—Chat about.310 
•• Lynching.163 
Reading Room—Agricultural.256 
Recipes wanted. 23 
Returning Articles to writers.345 
Rhubarb or Pie Plant—Cultivation of.. 50 
Distinguishing Varieties .345 
How to obtain Early. 83 
Improving Growth of..185 
Rocking Chair—A Plea for.182 
Roofing—Sheet Lead for. 153 
Roofs—Cement for.346 
Root Crops—Hints on.175 
Cheap Building for Storing.298 
Roses from Cuttings.147 
Roses—Prairie.365 
& 
Safe for Provisions—Shaler’s.*.. 55 
Saleratus—Why it is Used.215 
Salt—A talk about Common. . 22 
Sanfoin—Note on. .153 
Sap—Proper Vessels for Boiling.107 
Scales—l J rogress in Manufacture.185 
Schools—Good.250 
Seed Trade—New feature in. 90 
Seeds—Cheating in.374 
Cleaning. .345 
• ■ Carrot.—281 
Duration of Vitality in. 09 
Failure of—Blackberry.256 
For Free Distribution...373 
For Spring—Look after. 17 
Garden—Notes on. 3 
Increase from an Ounce.207 
Insuring Germination of.244 
List of those Distributed. 26 
Notes on Field, Flower, Fruit 
and Ornamental. 3 
Quantity per Acre.139 
Raise your own.147 
Send for early. 64 
Subscription Paid by.345 
Tomato—How to Clean.359 
Wait Patiently for. 27 
Selling Produce—Bargain Making.167 
September—Suggestions—Progress in 
Fruit Culture.257 
Sewiiig Machines—Which is the Best. .346 
•* Price Reduced.373 
Shawl Pin—Home-made.*.. 86 
Sheep—Broad-tailed African.250 
Description of Breeds. 238 
House — Plan of.*..296 
Husbandry — No. I—Washing 
and Shearing.170 
No. II—Marking, etc.. .203 
No. Ill—Pasture, etc...238 
No. IV — Winter Treat¬ 
ment.270 
Protection from Dogs. 75 
Superiority of improved Breeds* 12 
Treatment for Laurel PoisoninglSa 
Washing and Shearing.136 
Shingles—Tar for Preserving.219-340 
Shrub—Silver-leaved Shephcrdia.243 
Shrubbery—Planting ..145 
Shrubs and Plants—Native.144 
Weeping Holly.179 
Silk—To restore Luster to.279 
Silkworms’ Eggs—Will it pay to raise 
them?. .-206 
“Slv Boots”.*.. 24 
Small Plots—A Mechanic’s Garden— 47 
Sontag—New Pattern.3*..369 
Sorghum—Notes on Planting—.78 
Reports on. 14 
Sugar Wanted.331 
Spelt, or German Wheat.104 
• • Experience in Raising.174 
•• Wanted.218 
Spergula Pilifera—Reports on.338 
Spices—Pure.154 
Spikenard Berries for Cooking. S5 
Spittoons—To Cleanse easily.119 
Spontaneous Vegetation.363 
Spring Work—Forwarding. 35 
Squash—A “ Whopper”.281 
Honolulu.,..218 
Large. 315 
Mammoth.313 
Stable—English Feeding. 331 
Leak in. 330 
Stacks—How to Ventilate.327 
Strawberry—Downer’s Prolific.153 
•• Markets'.256 
May Queen. 153 
New Seedling, the Aus¬ 
tin.3*..154-245 
Protector—Novel.256 
Strawberries—Best Varieties.245 
Cheaply Raised....245 
Covering...365 
How to Pick.*..181 
How to Raise.2*.. 117 
Killing with kindness... 18 
Stock—Sales of Albany Breeding Asso¬ 
ciation .325 
Stump Puller—A new one. * .. 37 
Subsoiling Easily Done.345 
Sugar Cane—Chinese and Impliee.250 
Mill—Where obtained... 153 
Sugar Evaporator—Cook’s.250 
Sulphur applied to Seeds.. —185 
Sun Dials — Description of.... .7*.. 20 21 
Manner of Marking—Mot¬ 
toes for ... . . *. . 180 
Superstitions—Curious.307 
Swine — Antimony for. 60 
Experiment in Feeding.281 
Hints on Fattening.269 
Singular Disease of. 154 
Statistics of Hogs at the West. 102 
Teaching to Eat Slow.333 
Good Behavior. 41 
Where the Hogs are raised.... 40 
T 
Talk at the Gate—Bright’s Grape Cul¬ 
ture Reviewed..306 
Edgings for Flower 
Beds, etc .*..178 
“ Terra Culture ” Man. 27 
Thinning out Plants.181 
Thorley’s Cattle Food. 60 
Timber—Solution for Preserving.186 
When to Cut.335 
Tim Bunker at the Farmers’ Club.328 
At the N. V. Central Park.207 
Feeding with Oil Meal-295 
Giving Boys a Start. 37 
Giving Land a Start.15 
How Jake Frink was sold. 134 
• ■ Irrigation and Invisible Toll 
Gates. . .267 
Jotham Sparrowgrass with 
a Tile in his head. 69 
on Bad Water.358 
Tires—Fastening with Oil.326 
Toads — Another Advocate for . 44 
Tobacco—IIow Grown and Prepared 
for Market. 46 
No. XI. 78 
Tomatoes in Pots. 17 
Manner of Training.*..118 
Perfect.316 
Wild. ..345 
Trees—Apple—Long Lived.340 
Peregrine White’s..*. 53 
Arbor Vitas from Cuttings.345 
Ash—Superstitions about.275 
Aversions of.306 
Cedar Berries.345 
Cembran Pind.■ 179 
Deep and Shallow holes for 
Planting.115 
Evergreens, Don’t forget them. 178 
from Seed .. .213.313 
Native — Juniper*. 179 
Two Curious.143 
For Prairies — Transplanting 
Forest .. 51 
For Towns and Streets.337 
Fruit injured by Sea Weed.306 
Tu 
Trees—Gas Tar on Fruit.10ii 
Grafting Old.308 
Grafting the Hickory.153 
Hop...249 
Inverted.275 
Locust easily raised.186 
Raising.113-249 
Lye for.249 
M aple— Value of for Shade-114 
Mata Palo Tree.3*..336-337 
Mountain Ash—Two kinds. 51 
Norway Spruces dying.281 
Oregon—S f crub Ork.345 
Osier or Basket Willows. 47 
Partly Buried.121 
Plum — Unproductive.345 
Premiums for Planting.307 
Preserving from Rabbits... 82 
•• Forests. 36 
Promoting Fertility in Fi nit.... 243 
Proper Size for Transplanting. 26 
Protecting from Sheep.249 
Pruning Dwarf Pear.3*.. 366 
Puddling.145 
Quince Stock for Pears_218 345 
Regrafting Pern - .366 
Removing Large.313 
Securing second Growth. 60 
Set out more Fruit.145 
Shade the Road Sides.103 
Splitting — To prevent.47-153 
Spruces—Our Native.213 
Spurious Scotch Pine. 19 
Straighten Fruit.145 
Timely Hint to Planters.243 
Training Peach.242 
Training for Fruitfulness.. 53 
Variegated Leaved Maple.114 
Vines, etc.—Not grown for sale 67 
Wild Pear Stocks. 82 
Wonderful in Oregon.114-143 
Working the Soil.213 
Turkish Bath—Described.345 
mips and Beet Tops — Curing for 
* Fodder.362 
Preserving in Winter.362 
Types — Errors of the. 89 
Y 
Vacant Spots — What to Plant in.164 
Value — Standard of. 7 
Verbenas—Potting for Winter.313 
Veterinary College at the West.346 
Physicians Wanted.325 
Vine Growers’ Convention.186 
Vineyard — Best Site for.153 
Location of.345 
•• Planting.281 
W 
Walks — Coal Ashes for.213 
Wardian Cases, Parlor Conserva¬ 
tories .5*..277 
Wafer for Pastures—Horizontal Wells. 72 
Pipes—Cement — How Made... 345- 
Winter in the City . 16 
Weather Notes from the Cherokee Na¬ 
tion. 346 
Weeds—A word for.206 
Legislating them out.197 
West — Emigration to the. 7 
Wheat and Manure—Plowing in.329 
• • Hints on Sowkig.202 
Large Yield of .. 121 
Planting—An Experiment.121 
Prolific.345 
Shall we Sow.262 
Whitewash—Humboldt’s Recipe_..186 
Wine Manufactory.340 
■■ From Native Grapes.243 
Rhubarb — Recipe for.180 
Winter Cherries from Cuttings.154 
Perennial.60 
Workman — A Shrewd. 8 
Wringer—Clothes.2*. .247- 253 
lEecspes. 
Apple Sauce—Fresh all the Year.370 
Biscuit—Graham. 56 
•• Honey Dew. 23 
• • Spanish. 87 
Bread—Corn. S7 
Home-made.150 
Premium.379 
Without Yeast or Drugs. .. .. 370 
Brentford Rolls.311 
Cake—A Good—Shrewsbury. 370 
Almond. 87 
Almond Sponge. 118 
Bread. 183 
Cookies.183 
Delicate. 87 
Domestic. 67 
Drop.119 
Fancy.119 
Fruit.118 
Ginger. 66 
Gingerbread.183 
Gingerbread, Mountain.311 
Ginger Nuts. 86 
Honey.119 
Jackson Snaps. 87 
Jelly.118 
Orange.117 
Pop-overs. 59 
Pound.'.115 
Spice Nuts. 83 
Sponge.118-183-246 
Tea. 87 
Tip Top. 23 
Washington.1 IS 
Cakes lor the Holidays — Welcome 
