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INDEX TO VOLUME VIII, 
Domestic Economy —Tomatoes, to cook, 24 
Kisses, to make,. 24 
Raspberry Syrup and Jam,. 24 
Blackberry Syrup,. 24 
Sausages, receipt for,. 24 
Eggs, to preserve,. 24 
Simple remedies,. 27 
Curing prize hams,. 5S 
Pine Apple Cheese,. 76 
Recipes for using corn meal,. 76 
Washing fluid,. 76 
Cooking for the sick,. 23 
— meats, time for,. 24 
Making candles,. 76 
Making tea,. 76 
Poisons by copper vessels,. 76 
Treatment of Scarlet fever,.I 37 
to make whitewash,. 138 
preparations of barley,. I 38 
to make lard candles,. 207 
to keep preserves,.207 
New water cement,.207 
to cure leaky roofs,. 208 
Drag roller, utility of,. 305 
Draining, tile machine for,. 5y 
— with tile, how done, .... 169, 283, 341 
— sanatary effects of,. 184 
— and irrigation, remarks on,.200 
— deep ana shallow,.219 
— with brush,. 219 
— by wood,.329 
— advantages of,. 341,366, 21 
Drill machine, improvement in,.72, 184 
— Bickford & Hoffman’s,. 209 
— advantages of,. 7 
Dwarf fruit trees, remarks on,. 77 
Ducks, Variety of,.405 
E. 
Eclipses in 1851,. 2 
Egg-hatching machines, failure,. 119 
Elms, successfully transplanted,. 113 
Emigration from Great Britain,.250 
Evergreens, raising them from seed,.... 329 
Exotic Vegetables,.403 
F. 
Pan mill, Grant’s,. 14 
Farmer’s boys, science for,. 215 
Farming, high, fine examples, .... 34, 35, 36 
— English, average products of,.... 60 
— importance of improved system in, 75, 
248 
— philosophy of,. 116, 134 
— m Otsego county,. 129 
— suggested improvements in,. 193 
— profits of,. 205 
— good and bad,. 206 
— on a grand scale,. 219 
— in England,. 247 
— in Pennsylvania,.399 
— bad management in,. 276 
— unimproved, the science of,.309 
— of the Earl of Leicester,.328 
FARMS—Notices of: 
George Pierce’s, West Cambridge,. 35 
Leonard Stone, Watertown,. 36 
D. D. T. More, Watervliet,.397 
A. Cornell, jr., Pennsylvania,. 400 
Jas. C. Cornell, do . 401 
Farms, worn out, improvement of,. 65 
— m Amherst county, Va.,..... 121 
Fences, cost and economy of,. 67 
— wire, how made,. 82, 122, 21 
— improved ornamental,. 144 
— worm, damage by,. 216 
— remarks on,.244 
;— on wet lands,.... 245 
Fire annihilator noticed,.378 
Fish, singular death of,. 405 
Flax cotton,. 89, 341 
— seed, quantity per acre,. 185 
— improvement in the manufacture of 199 
Flowers, utility of the cultivation of,.... 173 
Foot-rot and Foul-foot, distinct,.248 
Forks, hay and manure, improvement in, 34 
Franklin Coal Burner,. 403 
Frosts in valleys,. 47 
Fruit, models of,.121 
— prospects of, for 1851,. 142 
— profits of in Illinois,.. 212 
~ drying,. 236 
— — apparatus for,.268 
— economy of, . 16 
— for market,... 16 
— circle of,. 17 
FRUIT CULTURE—Trimming down 
lists,... 77 
Fruits changed by climate,. 78 
Brief hints for winter,.. 78 
Bearing trees in nurseries,. 79 
Canker or decay,. 79 
in New-Jersey,. 92 
list of trees to supply a family,. 110 
protecting trees,. 119 
advantages of suckers,. 141, 143 
Northern trees, remarks on,. 142 
lime for curculio a failure,. 173 
successful treatment of trees,. 212 
timely hints,. 238 
laying in Trees for Winter.394 
familiar hints on good culture,.333 
secret of a great improvement in,... 365 
planting too deep,. 367 
disease in trees,. 367 
Fuel, to save,. 4 
G. 
Garden economy at midsummer,.237 
GARDENING—Drying sage,. 88 
planting on sod m hot beds,. ill 
management of kitchen garden, .... 140 
on a large scale,.212 
good vegetables and small fruits,.... 366 
Gardens ana orchards for market near 
Boston,. 35 
— value of toads in,... 250 
Good rules and good management,. 21 
Gooseberries, long lists of,. 77 
— mildew prevented,. 315 
Grafting-wedges, simple,. 77 
— and grafting tool,. 142 
Grafts may be cut frozen,. 46 
— recovering dried,. 77 
— on stock, influence of,. 77 
Grain, cutting and securing,. 232 
Grain binder’s wheel rake,. 9 
Grape-house combined with poultry- 
house, . 54 
— cold, description of,.113, 301 
— Diana,.HO 
Grapevines, trellis for,. 174 
— protecting from rose bugs,. 174 
— summer pruning,. 211 
— bleeding of,. 268 
— culture of,. 17 
Grass for mucky land,. 88 
— tall oat,. 89 
— best sorts for low lands,. 181 
— directions for seeding with,.313 
Greene county, agriculture and horticul¬ 
ture in,.339 
INDIAN CORN—best kinds of,. 57 
relative weight of grain and cob,.... 60 
intermixture of varieties,. 394 
for the World’s Fair, . 91 
varieties of,. 114 
for fodder,. 180, 29 
inquiries respecting,. 182 
culture of in Ohio,. 289 
Harvesting, . 296 
large crops of,. 335 
experiment with topping,. 338 
[See Corn.] 
Indian portrait gallery,. 60 
INSECTS—Salt for curculio,. 79 
on the Verbena,. Ill 
destroying wire-worms,. 114 
to destroy woolly aphis,. 121 
lime for curculio a failure,... 173 
rose bugs on grapes,. 174 
remedies for curculio,. 175 
Chinch-bug,. 402 
Curculio repelled by fumigation,.... 265 
Curculio—causes of failure,.269 
remarks on the locust,.277 
joint-worm in wheat,.282, 402 
destructive caterpillar,. 282 
remedy for plant-lice,. 303 
fowls for curculio,. 303 
wheat insect, joint-worms,. 321 
wheat midge,. 323, 402 
bugs on vines,..329 
how to kill black ants,. 366 
Irrigation,. 55, 68 
— in Switzerland,. 229 
K. 
Knowledge, pursuit of, under the difficul¬ 
ties of scientific quackery, ..103 
Kew, national gardens at,. 24 
It, 
Landscape gardening, two kinds contras¬ 
ted,. 112 
Lard oil, amount made,. 346 
Lawrence Scientific School,. 91 
Lenawee Ag. Society, liberality of..303 
Letters from England,. 279 
Lettuce, to raise early,. 18 
Lightning rods, height for,. 60 
Locust, seventeen year,. 45 
— for timber, how raised,. 139 
M. 
H. 
Hay, benefit of cutting,. 5 
— large yield of,.54, 219 
— press noticed, .379 
— value of clover for,. 57 
— pitching by horse power,. 84 
— culture and curing. 201 
— best time for cutting,. 277 
Hedge, buckthorn,. 138, 302 
— Siberian Crab,. 212 
— Osage Orange,... 238, 302 
Hemp, culture and preparation of,. 97 
Heating Dwellings,. 403 
History of Phelps and Gorham’s Purchase, 395 
Hog, wild,... 93 
Horse rake,. 9 
— powers,. 27 
HORSES—English draft, figure and de¬ 
scription, . 80 
Gifford Morgan,.. 85 
A smart old fellow,. 91 
Morgan, notice of,. 153, 218, 26 
cure for scratches in,. 173 
breeding,. 266 
in Ohio!". 326 
Black Hawk and his progeny,.380 
Colic in,. 19 
of the Ancients,. 26 
heaves in, remedy for,. 26 
Horticulture, mania for new things,. 78 
I. 
Ice, importance of intense freezing,. 83 
Illinois and Iowa, agriculture of,... 355, 386 
Implements, English vs. American,.249 
— at New-York State Fair,.369 
Improvements in farming, causes of,.... 165 
Manetti stocks for roses,. 302, 367 
MANURES—Bones, reduced by steam¬ 
ing, . 270 
materials for,. 282 
evaporation of,. 354 
bones for,. 52, 62 
— — softened by fermentation... 83 
shelter for,. 149, 245, 313 
from poultry, value of,. 151 
barn for,. 214 
sulphate of ammonia for,.217 
Fish guano,. 218 
mixing plaster with,. 229, 364 
Tan-bark for,. 248 
economy of,. 52 
phosphate of lime at Crown Point,.. 59 
Chappell’s fertilizer, useless, ....... 59 
management of, .66, 68 
economy of top-dressing,. 68 
lime in composts,. 81 
importance of phosphates in pastures, 99 
New-Jersey marl,. 119 
nature and composition of coal ashes, 136 
loss of,. 138 
management of animal offal,. 138 
suggestions of experiments with gyp¬ 
sum,. 195 
Peat and peat charcoal,. 203 
leached ashes and muck,.5*214 
phosphate of lime, notice,. 249, 345 
mineral, theory of,. 392 
Maryland Cattle Show,.388 
Meat chopper, improved,.380 
Mechanics’ Institute, New-York,. 218 
Melons, culture of,. % . 18 
Method and order,..“..220 
Mice, to protect laid-in trees from,. 110 
— to destroy,. 215 
Milk establishment of Geo. E. Adams,.. 294 
Moore’s New-Yorker,. 381 
Mowing machine, Ketchum’s. 248, 315 
