INDEX TO VOI. XV 
A. 
Acknowledgments.283 
Acorns—Oils from. 13 
Advertising.113—189—284 
Age—An. 21 
Agricultural Exhibitions.28—60—271 
Agrieultural Exhibitions—Hints on 
getting up.,.,.229 
“ Chemistry—Principles_ 32 
“ College—Ohio. 3 
“ Fair—A German. 61 
“ Journals Noticed....75, 211 
“ Machinery now and then.. 173 
“ “ New-Hampshire, 94 
“ “ United States,80-123 
“ “ Exh’n at Boston. 51 
“ Society—N.Y. State,70,98* 
“ Patents.63 
Agriculture and the Government. 28 
“ Capital in. 127 
“ Principles of Practical.... 32 
“ Right Views of. 8 
“ Year Book of. 70 
Air necessary for Decomposition. 53 
Always be Polite. 46 
American Herd-Book. 8—113 
Animal or Plant. 4 
Animals—Language of. 14 
Ants—Expelling, Trapping, &c... 64—249 
Apple—An Amateui’s First. 42 
“ Jelly. 10 
Apples and Pears—Ripening of. 12 
“ “ Gathering. 67 
“ Best Kinds for Cultivation. 152—301 
“ Keeping Frozen. 67 
Apple Trees—Planting. 91 
“ “ Blooming for 59 years.... 302 
“ Worm 01 Codling Moth.254 
April Work for Females.140 
Apology—An.188 
Asparagus—Culture.127, 130, 161, 233 
“ Fall Treatment of.305 
“Ax to Grind”—Origin of.187 
B. 
Bacon—Curing without Smoke. 57 
“ Baker’s Dozen”.333 
Barley—Cultivation.155 
BamBuildings—A Yankee’s Views on.279 
“ Cellars.251 
Barns—Yellow Wash for.155 
Bathing and Swimming. 16 
Beasts that Perish. 62 
Bed-quilts—A Chapter on.116 
Beef—Cutting up and Retailing, lllus. 52 
Bee-hive—Peeps into a...131 
Bee-moths—Destroying. 86 
Bees—Errors of Am. Inst. Trans.154 
“ How are your ?.100* 
“ Practical Hints on Wintering.. .323 
Beets—Baking. 78 
“ Grafting. 20 
“ Sugar.104* 
Beets in the Garden.184 
Begonias.116 
Bible—Analysis of.240 
Birds—Ingenuity of.227 
“ More about Sparing.279 
“ Nest Pie.186 
“ Poisoned by Painted Cages.235 
“ Sight of.135 
Bird Law—Tim Bunker on.197 
Blackberry—New-Rochelle or Lawton, 257 
“ Culture, [illus.] &C..257, 258 
“ Vines killed in Kentuoky, 206 
Blood as a Manure.347 
Bodies—Taking Care of our. 87 
Boys—Honor Among. 187 
Book-farming—Will it Pay 1. 101 
Books on Agriculture.292 
Book-notices. 8 , 70, 140, 234, &c. 
Bone-dust, &c.—Trials of. 98 
Boys help yourselves.136 
“ Something for. 93 
Bobolink—The.186 
Boston Horse Race.325 
Bread—Apple. 37 
Bread from Grown Wheat. 59 
Breeding Animals. 57 
Broom Corn Items.5, 78 
Broom Corn—A Great Crop. 56 
Broth—Dry.113 
Brush Swamps.98* 
Buckwheat Cakes. 56 
“ as a Green Crop..244 
“ with Com.250 
“ Porridge. 62 
Bucks County, (Pa.)—Corn, &c. in —153 
Builders of Suburban Villages—Hits at.181 
Bulbs—Flowering—Direc. for Growing, 281 
Burdock and Violet...151 
C. 
Cabbage—Early. 17 
“ Large Jersey.247 
Cabbage Crop.184 
Cake—White, &c.126 
Calendar of Operations-May, 171; June, 
194 ; July, 218 ; Aug. 242 ; Sept. 266 ; 
Oct. 290; Nov. 314; Dec. 341. 
Camellias at Flushing.103* 
Camellias—Selecting and Cultivating..102* 
Camels for United States Army.196 
Canada Thistles.28, 34 
Cancerene.113 
Candles—To make Lard and Tallow. 101* 
Capital invested in Poor Soils.268 
Card of Messrs. Allen & Co.128 
Carnations—Impregnation of. 64 
Carrots for Poultry. 53 
“ Horses.113 
Cattle—A Good Place for.323 
Althea (illustrated). 13 
American Herd-book, Vol. III.320 
Astoria (illustrated).228 
Barbarism of the Farm.132 
Bloody Murrain and Scours... 4 
Breeding. . 33 
Cheats in Stock.27 
Choking.296, 327 
Comet (illustrated).204 
Cows holding up Milk.203 
Cows Kicking Prevented. 18 
“ Milk Fever.... 178, 204, 347 
Cows Difference in.228 
Death among. 13 
Fairy [illustrated].205 
Fattening.103 
From Texas.i. 3 
Highflyer [illustrated]. 84 
Homs—Shaping. 37 
L. G.JVlorris’—Sale of.223 
Lord Vane Tempest, illust... .252 
Mr. Thome’s importation of... 76 
Prince George of Cambridge, 
illustrated. 33 
Regularity m Feeding. 56 
Thorough Bred—Why Best_ 80 
Watering.17, 101* 
Cauliflower—Early Alma.331 
“ Poetry.305 
Celery—How to Keep in Winter.331 
“ Stewed. 85 
Cellars—Look well to.104* 
Cemeteries—Rural.293 
Cheese-making—Farmer’s Wife on_204 
Chiccory—Is it a Bad Weed ?.132 
Children—Teach to Love Nature.216 
Church—High or Low.298 
Cider—Hard.301 
Cisterns and Cistern Building.280 
Clay for Light Land. 56 
Clerk and the Plow-boy.135 
Climate—Differences in.150 
Clover—Plowing in. 221 
“ Red-Is it Injurious to Horses 1.101 
Clover for Manure—Why,When, How.172 
“ Seed Crop. 70 
Coal Ashes..100*, 104 
Cochineal.133 
Cockroaches—Destroying.278 
Coffee—Cost and Culture.158 
ColdB.38 
Com and Millet for Fodder.218 
Com—Gourd seed variety at the - South.l75 
“ Planting—Late Season.172 
Corn—Experiments; Premiums for...201 
“ Carrying in Russia. 59 
“ Crop in Virginia.77 
“ Feeding in the Ear. 13 
“ Pudding—Boiled.322 
“ Save Seed Carefully...297 
“ Seed to suit Climate.102 
“ Starting Early and Protecting.. 199 
“ Principal Varieties.202 
“ Shocking. 18 
“ Shortening in.297 
“ “Some”. 53 
“ Stalks—Stacking. 10 
“ “ Value for Feeding.327 
“ Wyandott.6, 132,344 
Corns on the Toes.138, 188 
Correspondents—To.212, 356 
Cotton Crop in Mississippi. 6 
Cranberry Cultivation.19, 39 
Crocus.282 
Crops—Extracts from Correspondents.235 
Crow—Our. 3 
Crown Imperials.282 
Cultivation—Economic. 35 
Curculio—Again Exterminated.233 
“ Lime and Sulphur for. 20 
“ Premiums.209 
“ Smoked out at Last.256 
Currants—A Chaptdk on. 31 
“ Improved.256 
“ Howto Raise. 304 
D. 
Dahlia Growers—A Boon for.92 
Diary of the 14th Century—A Lady,s.. 15 
Dioscorea Batatas.137 
“ Illustrated.348 
Dog-breaking.200 
Dogs and other Pets in New-York_151 
Do Something. 16 
Draining—What it Did. 30 
Drowning Persons—Restoring.37, 246 
Dyelytra Spectabalis.162 
E. 
Eating and Sleeping. 60 
Earth—Beauty of.186 
Echo answer Questions.264 
Economy—A Stroke of.125 
Editors Farm Notes, 2, 221, 249, 273, 297 
325. 
Egg Plant.185 
Eggs—Drying.296 
“ Poaching. 78 
“ Preserving and Marketing. 77 
“ Testing. 3 
Eloquent Extract.102 
Encouraging.125 
Endorsed—Not. 3 
Evergreen—Plant an.147 
“ Shrubbery.247 
“ Trees attended to.232 
Exchanges.3, 75 
Exhibition—Agricultural of N. J.212 
Exhibitions—Agricultural, 1857. Illus- 
1 rated.320, 324 
“ Lists of for 1856... .199, 223, 
229, 247, 272, 277, 296. 
“ Connecticut State.3,283 
F. 
Fair—Ladies at the. 14 
Fall Plowing and Spading.54, 316 
Farm—To My Sisters Upon.174 
Farm and Garden of Amos Briggs.... 25 
“ The Great Statesman’s. 
“ True Value of. 36 
“ Uncle Sam’s. 15 
“ Work Getting Easier.101* 
Farmer—The Oldest in the World. 6 
Farmers—Bargains and Trading. 11 
Farmer’s Boys—A Story for. 46 
“ Clubs—Value, &c.317 
“ Fix up your Homes.100* 
“ The Future. 36 
“ Hints on Fencing. 17 
“ Sons and Daughters—Educa¬ 
tion Compared.331 
“ Wife; Which of the Two!.. 44 
Farming—Does it Pay!.227 
“ in Connecticut.100* 
“ “ Maine.323 
February—Calendar for. 97* 
Female Jockeys. .. 79 
Females May Work for.170 
Fencing.129 
Fertilizers for Com—Premiums for ex¬ 
periments with.178 
Field Book—Notes From Our. 65 
Figures about New-York State.102* 
“ Important.103 
Fires—How to Avoid.355 
Fish Applied to Growing Crops.243 
Fish Pie or Fish Manure.273 
“ Ponds for Country Places.134 
Fish Manures.280 
Flax Cotton. 54 
Flower Garden—Winter Preparation. .330 
Flowers in Winter.162 
Folding Ladder. Illustrated. C 4 
Food—Ground and Unground. 65 
Fortune Knocks Once. 45 
Fruit Tree—Set Out One.182 
Fruit, Fallen—Take dwe of.254 
“ One Way to Dry. 6 
“ Improvement in.139 
“ Raising Profitable. 66 
“ Trees—Hints on Setting-129, 157 
“ Yard—Autumn—Work in.20 
Furniture. 10 
G. 
Garden—Cheap Watering & Manuring, 209 
“ Laying out.160 
“ Notes—From our.41 
“ Seat—Thoughts on my.86 
“ Seeds—Pure. 27 
“ Soils.99* 
Gardening by the Inexperienced.103* 
“ in Virginia.68* 
Gardens and Flowers.207 
“ What a small one Produced..352 
Genealogical.259 
Gentleman—The True Poetry. 45 
Glass Stoppers—To Loosen. 8 
Goats—Cashmere. Illustrated.345 
“ Maltese. 10 
Good Investment. 18 
Gooseberries and Currants.114 
Grafting Old Trees. 20 
Grain—Cutting Early.128 
“ for France. 99 
Granaries. 77 
Grape Growing.283, 302 
“ Vine—Roots vs. Cuttings.115 
Grapes—Concord.329 
“ Dr. Underhill’s.*..331 
“ in New York. 44 
“ not Ripening Well. 20 
under Glass—Will they Pay! 330 
Graperies — About Attics.302. 303 
Grass.59 
“ and Grain—Cutting Early.253 
“ Bear. 39 
Grasses—Questions about.153 
Grasshopper Traps. 10 
“ Where they come from.. 203 
Grave—The Little Winter.211 
Grease—About.133 
Grease—To Extract From Cloth —188 
Growing Corn—A Lesson. 249 
Guano and Stable Manure.129 
“ Facts about.104 
“ in Hill, and no Paper.220 
“ Recent Experiments on Grass.. 196 
“ Sprinkler. 27 
“ Trade of Baltimore. . .. 131 
Gum Arabic.355 
H. 
Hallowell, Me.—Farming in.65,223 
Hams—To cure.28, 86 
