iv 
Mowers, the trial of 184,194,216,233,242 
Muck operations 
291 
“ swamp 
275 
Mulberry tree 
74 
Mules, kicking 
89 
Musketoes 
350 
Mustard culture of 
130 
“ growing 
196 
Mutual support 
76 
N 
Nails, driving 
217 
Name, appropriate 
36 
“ in full 
92 
Narcotics 
244 
National Magazine 
169 
Nature, human 
298 
Needles, making 
395 
New-Jersey as a farming State 
195 
New-York, view of 
361 
No change really 
393 
North, Lord, anecdote of 
315 
Nutmeg and its culture 
339 
Nutmegs outdone 
252 
Nymph—Illustrated 
387 
O 
Oath, a queer 
44 
Oats, barley 
20 
“ cultivation of 
49 
“ fine 
394 
“ on Long Island 
344 
“ Poland 
53 
Ohio State Fair 
328 
“ Agricultural Report 
145 
Oil, a new 
180 
Old soil, renovating 
115 
Olive trees at the South 
257 
Opium, use of 
260 
Orange melon 
81 
Organ, the greatest in the world 
268 
Osage Orange 
73,151,276 
“ “ hedges 
137 
0 tempora ! 0 mores 
58 
Ox, how to move a sullen 
355 
P 
Page's letters 90,121,145,178,297,321,361 
Painting in the capitol 
293 
Panama railroad 
122 
Pansies in pots . , 
7 
Paper-mill, ligneous 
379 
Parents, honoring 
399 
Parental firmness 
235 
Parks in the cities of New-York 
230 
Parody 
203 
Partington, Mrs., on markets 
28 
“ “ on war 
336 
Past and present 
60 
Paste 
363 
Patching a fine art . 
282 
Pat, good for 
110 
“ on the horse 
171 
Patience 
283 
Paulovnia imperialis 
263 
Peach crop 
313 
“ trees, shortening in 
43 
Pea nuts, cultivation of 
154 
Pear trees, pyramidal 
55 
“ “ culture of 
391 
Pears, grittiness of 
310 
Peevish, warning to 
156 
Pennsylvania Poultry Society 
344 
People, genteel 
219 
“ industrious 
219 
Phosphate, nitro 
149 
Physic to colts 
291 
Pigeon’s dung 
185 
Pigish 
168 
Planting, keep 
200 
Plants, diseases of 
279 
Plenty of it . 
68 
Plowing deep or shallow 
67 
“ steam 
197 
Plums, save them now 
214 
Poetic 
332 
POETRY. 
Address of a three cent piece 
314 
Baby Poetry 
10 
Clover, the white 
135 
Daisy, the 
71 
INDEX. 
II n i in' " 1T~i ilini ril mi i iiiim— 
Drunkard’s wife 
263 
Father, my 
315 
Harvest hymn 
348 
Medical 
110 
Mountains, the 
395 
Music, where dwelleth 
69 
Opal, origin of 
21 
One by one 
380 
Parody 
27 
Penny and the grain of corn 
188 
Presidents of the United States 
199 
Retort, the 
155 
Right, sustain the 
218 
Robert of Lincoln 
251 
Robin’s appeal 
373 
Spinning-wheel song . 
298 
Spring 
44 
Summer 
267 
The little frock and shoes 
364 
Thistle-blossom, the 
250 
Violet, an April 
119 
Water-song 
195 
Wedded couple, to a 
284 
Wife, be getle with . 
218 
Word, a little 
60 
World Would be better for 
107 
Politeness 
, 
76,332 
“ extreme 
234 
Poll evil 
307 
Popular fallacies 
106 
“ very 
171 
Posts, inverting 
217 
Potato dealer, a philanthropic 
226 
“ disease 
360 
“ oats, origin of 
119 
“ IjSt ... 
133,196 
Potatoes 
69 
“ culture of Sweet 
55 
“ experiments in (Cultivating 
82 
“ raising 
97 
“ sweet, level ground for 
154 
Poughkeepsie, its environs 
266 
Poultry, a post mortem on'hens 
184 
“ cleaning out a hen’s crop 
168 
“ cooking feed for 
5 
“ exemplary mothers 
117 
“ farm-yard 
324 
“ feeding 
* 
3 
“ golden-spangled Hamburgs 
117 
.“ guide, the comic 
276,324 
“ how we keep our hens 
40 
“ improvement in 
10 
“ manure 
52 
“ new cure for roup 
169 
“ raiser's experience 
19 
“ Russian fowl 
152 
“ sun-flower seeds for 
168 
“ the rooster’s letter 
213 
“ white Shanghais 
58 
“ yard 
69 
Preacher, a powerful 
332 
Premiums for 1855 on New-York farms 
169 
Preserved vegetables, &c. 
266 
Pretty conceit 
331 
Printer, a novel mode of paying 
202 
“ the 
187 
Primrose, the Chinese 
341 
Progenitors, no scarcity of 
12 
Prohibitory laws and the farming interest 
306 
Property, how it descends without a will 
330 
Prosperity and cold water 
124 
Pruning .... 
215 
Pulverizing soil 
34 
Pump, how to mend a chain 
341 
Pumpkins and squashes . 
308 
“ cheese 
83 
Pun, a cold 
Quaker answer 
26 
. 
234 
Question, a nice 
314 
IS 
Rabbits, experiments in raising . 
it 
Railroads, aid to agriculture 
Rainy days in July for 67 years 
347 
Rain in Peru 
.181 
Randolph, John 
284 
Raspberry, red Antwerp 
“ the black 
281 
119 
“ the Cattawissa 
294 
Rasper, the steam land 
149 
Rats, how to get rid of 
231 
Rattlesnake bites 
248 
Reaping and mowing machines 
168 
Reason, a good 
55,92 
Reasonable 
75 
Rebuke, merited 
27 
RECIPES. 
Bean turtle-soup 
164 
Blackberries, preserving 
340 
Blackberry wine 
328 
Bread, corn, rye, etc. 
“ how to make. 
309 
85 
Burning and scalding 
154 
Cake, superior 
245 
Cockroach riddance 
167 
Cold, to cure a 
170 
Corn, to preserve 
403 
Drugging food 
25 
Gingerbread, soft 
245 
Meat biscuit 
217 
Senna, taking 
217 
Soap 
362 
Stains, to take out 
406 
Starch 
245 
Tomatoes, preserving 
376,390,403 
Whitewashes 
136 
Recommendation, a good 
219 
Repartee, a quick 
267 
Reputation, good 
76 
Reply, noble 
300 
“ unhappy 
327 
Reservation, a . 
76 
Retort 
59 
Rhode-Island awake 
329 
“ Horticultural Society 
261 
“ Society, &c 
265 
Rice crops 
394 
Root crop, the 
210 
Roses from root cuttings 
55 
“ raising from seed 
391 
Rose, the 
301 
Ruling passion 
44 
Runnet for scours 
315,402,403 
Rupture .... 
149 
Russian bullets 
250 
Rusting, to prevent metals 
265 
Rye grass, perennial 
233 
§ 
Sabbath, rest of the 
373 
Saffron 
338 
Saliva, use of 
347 
Salmon, young 
265 
Salt, guano, &c. 
196 
“ River 
• 391 
Sanitary substances 
339 
Saracena drummondi 
278 
Satisfied, never 
379 
Savings, little 
185 
Saw, sir 
91 
S’cat, again 
331 
Schoolmaster, value of 
229 
School, the heart goes to 
203 
Sea fowl, black 
347 
“ serpent, the 
347 
Season, lateness of 
136 
Seed amount of to the acre 
72 
Seeds in given weights 
245 
“ Patent Office 
376 
Self-defense 
235 
Sensible 
219 
Serenading a young lady 
75 
Sevastopol—Book notice 
346 
Sewing machine 
75 
Shadding in the Delaware 
218 
Shakers, fowl-raising among 
306 
Shallots 
117 
Shanghai, an unfortunate 
204 
“ work, another 
186 
Sheep, dying 
27 
“ feeding 
180 
“ foot rot in 
403 
“ in Texas . 
321 
“ model 
177 
“ Nankin or Shanghai 
406 
“ one of the 
219 
“ shearing 
138 
“ Southdown 
216 
Shelley, anecdote of 
330 
Shilling story 
251 
Shinning, tired of 
155 
Ship, a monster 
181 
Short Horns, Col. Sherwood’s sale of 
Shows, State and County 
243 
152,232 
Simplicity, truthful 
380 
Sit upright 
12 
Skulemaster, where’s the 
27 
Slicking up 
56 
Small loaves 
252 
Smith, Sydney, table-talk of 
394 
Snake, the horn 
213 
Snipes’s litany 
74 
Snow, fall of black 
34 
