INDEX TO VOLUME VIII, 
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Mulching, importance of,. 78 
Mules vs. Horses,. 122 
Musk rats, how to catch,.182 
Mustard, manufacture of,. 250 
N. 
National park at Washington,.217 
Nectarines, large,. ••••••;• 79 
NEW-YORK STATE AG. SOCIETY: 
Annual Meeting,..58, 90 
Delegation to World’s Fair,.120 
Plan of Winter Meeting,. 183 
list of Superintendents,. 251 
Account of its Fair at Rochester,.... 337 
Implements at the Fair,. 369 
premiums awarded by,. 371 
number of animals exhibited,.380 
Winter Exhibition,. 404 
Notes of a Tour in Central and Western 
York, Norton’s,. 43, 74 
Notes of a Tour in Europe,. 273, 330 
Notes for the season,... 85, 390 
Potatoes —Experiment with,.. 
'J'o raise early,.. 
Culture of,....., 
POULTRY—Prolits of fowls,....., 
Building for,.. .. 
Standard shape for fowls,. 
Native breeds of Fowls,. 
Egyptian Goose,............ , 
Successful management,. 
New England Poultry Society, 
Best mode of making yard,. 
Gapes in chickens,.. 
Management of,. 
Bucks County,... 
Product of Twelve Acres,.. 
Putnam co., N. Y , sketch of,. 
— farms, sketch of,. 
Q. 
Quack grass, destruction of, 
Quinces grafted on thorns,.. 
— how to raise,. 
390 
18 
20 
44 
54 
59 
88 
88 
151 
218 
313 
402 
393 
163 
357 
207 
212 
17 
o. 
OBITUARY—J. S Skinner and I. Hill, 183 
Ohio State Fair,.376 
Onion grub, how prevented,. 60 
Orchards successfully managed,. 237 
Osage Orange, hardiness of,. 238 
P. 
Paris, excursion to,. 343 
Patent office Report,. 281 
Pea, best sorts,... 112 
— culture of field,.;.214 
Peach trees, shortening in,... 77 
— crop saved by root pruning,.HO 
— buds, to save,. 121 
— trees, early summer budding,.217 
— curl m,...269 
Peaches, drying,. 236 
Pear blight, .. 239, 26S 
PEARS—The Seckel on apple,. 46 
Training dwarfs,. 47 
The Chaumontel,. 110 
Pyramidal trees,. 209 
New sorts proved,...210 
Succession of,. 237 
The fame of a name,.238 
Hardy,.303 
Experiments with stocks,. 334 
Dwarf culture of,... 17 
Planets, rising and setting of, &c.,. 2 
Planting trees to protect from winds,.... 45 
Planting table,. 30 
Plants, protecting half hardy,. 173 
Plow, improvements in,. 33 
— centre draft, . 49 
— side hill,... 
— Chase’s,. 145 
— horticultural,. 146 
Plow3 and plowing, principles and prac¬ 
tice, . 105 
— American, at the World’s Fair,... 307 
— — remarks,.................... 373 
— trial of at Norristown, Pa.,.379 
Plum trees, salt applied to,. 47 
— McLaughlin,. 79 
— Reine Claude Bavay,. 211 
— knots, remedy for,.268 
Plums at Albany, new,.346 
POETRY—Invitation to the country,... 216 
Pork made with corn, costly experiment, 241 
— making in Ohio,...325 
— — remarks on,. 20 
Postage law, outlines of,... 281 
POTATOES—Small for planting, good 
as any,. 49, 394 
Very bad,. 46 
Dissolved bones fine for,. 54 
Rot in, remarks on, 86, 92, 202, 335, 379 
Fumigating,. 121 
Mulching,. 139 
Cultivation of,. 181 
Carter,. 185 
Comparative rotting in sorts,. 220 
Special manures for,...373 
Stone Hill, noticed,... 379 
R. 
Rabbits, fine,. 152 
— their management and breeding-,.. 176 
Railroads, benefits of,. 151 
— effects on Agricultural products,.. 183 
Raspberries, culture of,... 17 
Reaping machines, description of Hus¬ 
sey’s and McCormick’s,.. 40, 41 
— — improvements in,. 7.3 
— — remarks on,..... 83 
— — Hussey’s,. 149, 186 
— — American, in England,.327 
Remedies for cuts, burns, &c.,. 27 
Republican presents to royalty,.208 
— extravagance,. 215 
Rhubarb, best sorts,.,. 46 
Rich, how to grow,. 28 
Roofs, painting,... 366 
Root culture, experiments in,. 147 
Root crops and weeds, .. 20 
Root-grafting apple trees,... 46 
Rose, Augusta, noticed,. 346 
Roses, protecting tender,. 268, 394 
— grafting,. 334 
Royal Agricultural Society, premiums of, 143 
— — show of.. 185, 297 
Rye, multicole, value of,. 60 
Rye-grass, value of,. 57 
S. 
Salt as food for plants,. 306 
— for animals,. 378 
Saw-mill, cross-cut by horse-power,.... 81 
Scarlet Fever, treatment of,.. 137 
Season of 1851, characteristics of,... 390 
Seed-sowing, cheap and expeditious,.... 118 
— Sowers or Drills,. 7 
Seeds, steeps for,. 185 
— number of in given weights,...... 250 
Sick, hints for nursing the,.. .. 19 
SHEEP—Black faced,... 48 
Best time for yeaning... 57 
Breeding, Bakewell’s successful prac¬ 
tice, . 80 
Dogs, French,. 119 
South Down, weight of,. 153 
Foot rot in,. 173 
Notice of imported,. 184, 218 
Silesian Merino ewe,. 273 
French and German Merino,. 310 
Rambouillet,. 312 
Husbandry in Ohio,. 324 
French vs. American Merinos,. 342 
New kind,. 346 
Poisoned by peach leaves,. 354 
Notice of French Merinos,.... 379 380 
Cheviot,. 22 
Age of,. 22 
Shelter for,.. 22 
Shovel, improvements in,. 34 
Shrubs, protecting half-hardy,. 112 
Singular Phenomenon,.405 
Soil, pulverization of,.. 235 
Soils, comparative analysis of,. 332, 362 
Soils, advantage of paring and burning,. 342 
South Down mutton, delicious. 152 
Solar System, table of,... 3 
Spoke machine,... 88 
Straw cutter, improvements in,. 73 
Strawberries, successfully transplanted,. 237 
— relative productiveness,. 238 
— notes on,. ....- . 270 
— new sorts at Cincinnati,. 302 
— new qualities of,. 303 
Stump machine,. 88, 244 
— — Stewart’s,. 304 
Sugar boiling apparatus,. 6 
Swamp, reclaimed, management of, 313, 37R 
SWINE—Kidney-worm in,. 88 
Suffolk pigs,... 185 
Very large,... 216 
Different breeds of,. ,20 
T. 
Thresher and Winnower, Wheeler’s,... 338 
Tea Plant in the United States, -- .... 403 
The Cultivator—Close of the Volume, .. 385 
To Agents and Correspondents,.404 
Premiums to Agents,. 404 
Tide Table,.. 3 
Timber, time for cutting,. 245 
Time, equation of,... . A . 3 
— economy of,. 5 
Transmutation, absurdity of,..239 
Transplanting shrubs, how best done,... 46 
— shortening back in,. 77 
— good and bad shown,. 112 
Trees for waste lands,. 377 
— for Shade,. 23 
Turneps, flat, culture of,. 18 
u 
University of Albany,.. 344, 346 
Upas tree at Washington,. 99 
V . 
Verbenas, how to raise,.212 
Vermont State Fair,. 376 
Virginia lands,. 306 
w. 
Water lime, nature of,. 119 
Water rams,.366 
Weed seeds, strong vitality of,. 182 
Weeds, how to kill,.. 212, 283 
Weight of earths, metals, &c.,. 30 
Wells, experiments in digging,. 117 
wens,. no 
WHEAT—First raised in Western New- 
York,. 49 
Changed to chess, a humbug,. 53 
Increased production in New-York,. 91 
In Vermont successful,. 122 
Crop of New-York, increase in,.... 166 
Mediterranean, quality of,. 215 
— value of,.....'. 314, 346 
Banner, a misnomer,... 248 
Culture in Ohio,. 257 
Average yield in New-York,. 312 
Advantage of drilling,. 314 
and Bromus, notice,. 314 
Midge, joint-worm,and wheat insect, 321, 
402 
Will not change to chess,. 340 
Best time for cutting,. 340 
Plowing for,. 341 
Culture in Iowa,. 356, 385 
Experiment with,. 7 
Harrowing in spring,. S 
How to stock,. 10 
Wood, management in growth of,. 363 
WOOL—Great amount of gum in,. 50 
Depot at Kinderhook,. 92 
Great product of,. 145, 219 
Use of gum,. 150 
World’s Fair, notice,. 60 
— number of packages from each co., 219 
— account of,. 243, 247 
— conclusion of,. 393 
