INDEX. 
• v 
Soiling stock 
161 
Soils, cultivation of sandy 
5 
Sold 
168 
Something to be proud of 
268 
Sound, measuring distances by 
309 
South Salem Farmers’ Club 
249 
Southern readers 
40 
Sowing thick and thin 
323 
Spanish moss, &c 
282 
“ proverbs 
268 
Speech of Spitfire Buncombe 
75 
Spelling, original 
314 
Spider, the •. 
Spider’s love of her'progeny 
91 
110 
Spinach, White Mountain 
7 
Spiritual story 
219 
Spirits, to the rapping 
140 
Sponging it 
348 
Spring . , 
110 
Squash, bugs spare that 
214 
Squirrels 
265 
Star papers 
358 
State, a noble 
298 
Statesmen, misery of 
156 
Steam .... 
283 
“ music 
235 
“ plowing 
338 
Steamboats on the Hudson River. 
152 
Stock growing 
211 
Stockings a pair of 
75 
Story, a short 
104 
“ a touching 
92 
“ with a moral 
155 
Strawberries 
85 
“ in California 
262 
Strawberry beds, making 
374 
“ plantation 
262 
St. Petersburg bird market 
244 
Stump machine 
282 
Stumps, killing 
402 
Strychnine, camphor for 
149 
Subscribers, specially interesting to 
376,397 
Subscription, a generous 
76 
Subsoiling vs. drouth 
201 
Succory, culture of 
295 
Sugar cane 
“ a substitute for 
58 
115 
Sugar plant, the new 
52 
“ prospects 
5, 85 
Suggestion a capital 
394 
Sulphur as a medicine 
136 
Sunflower seed 
201 
Sun stroke 
297 
Superphosphate, rules for application 
152 
Sweetheart, the 
Swim, learning to 
155 
395 
T 
Tail, thereby hangs a 
59 
Tallow tree of China 199 
Tamarind in Virginia 323 
Tastes differ . 59,155 
Tea, adulterated 74 
“ at half price 149 
“ in Mississippi . . . 89 
“ origin of 390 
Teacher, a sagacious 75 
Tharand, it forest and agriculture 313 
Theft, a novel 333 
Tile machines 216 
Toads .... 269,308 
Tobacco chewer cured 381 
“ chewers, pleasant for 300 
“ effects of 345 
“ Mosquito 202 
“ uses of 268 
Tooth-achial conundrums 155 
Traveler, a great 295 
Tree planting in the Papal States 308 
Trees 39,54 
“ at the side of railways 312 
“ forest . . . .133 
“ shade and ornamental 70 
“ take care of the 6 
“ watering transplanted 294 
Tribune on salt 280 
Trip to West Bloomfield, N. J. 233 
Trouting .... 396 
True 216,268 
Truffles, cultivation of 372 
Truth, simple .... 235 
Tubs, buckets, kegs, pails and firkins, at law 233 
Turnips 329,361 
“ for cows 234 
U 
Underdraining .... 370 
“ profit of 168 
Undertaking, a formidable 183 
United States, progress of 378 
Urchin in a bad fix 280 
V 
Vandalism, detestable . . 248 
Vegetable life, duration of 110 
Vegetables, how to keep green 185 
“ trial of new . . 359 
Venable’s address 146 
Ventriloquist on the dock 283 
Verbenas .... 134 
Verdict, a model r 186 
Versailles, gardens of * 247 
Veterans in literature . . . 12 
Vines, to stop the bleeding of 198 
Virginia, from 120 
Vitriol, soaking wheat in 274 
W 
Walking . 311,373 
WaUs, hollow 393 
War terms, explanation of 
368 
Warwick—Illustrated 
371 
Washington 
Washington’s last vote 
252 
395 
Wasp, habits of the 
299 
Watch, a 
235 
Waterloo correspondence 
50,105,346 
Watermelon juice 
119,250 
Weather, the 
90,136,328 
Webster estate, sale of 
50 
Weeping willow . 
317 
Weevils 
137,185,243 
Westchester county milk 
73 
Westward 
218,328 
What shall we eat 
88 
Wheat and chess 
323 
“ crop 
27,41,88,120 
“ “ where to keep 
312 
“ Golden Drop 
'6 
“ great fields of 
281 
“ growing 
81,212 
“ guano on 
387 
“ harrowing in on new land 
51 
“ hints on sowing 
401 
“ Mediterranean vs. Soules 
312,338,378 
“ “ vs. White 
273 
“ new .... 
296 
“ soaking in blue vitriol 
274 
“ spring, &c. 
105,121 
Whooping cough . 
, 149 
Why don’t he do it 
69 
Widows’ tears 
34 
Wife, economy of a small 
218 
“ where to find a 
300 
Wilder, Col. M. P.’s farm and garden 
385 
Willow, the 
197 
Wine growing countries 
124 
“ manufacture of Port 
23 
Winter evenings 
35 
Wire-worms and cobs 
168 
Wit, living by 
380 
Wives, good 
60 
W oman, the sympathizing 
282 
Women, pretty 
108 
“ spinning 
219 
“ the American 
139 
Wood, raising 
323 
Wool circular 
133 
* growers association 
282 
“ what food will prodnce the most 147 
World a tribunal 
149 
Wren, the house 
213 
Wrong and right 
¥ 
359 
Yam, Chinese 
202 
Yankee Notions on markets 
344 
“ taken in 
11 
Yerba Amarilla 
388 
You forgot me 
364 
