Constipation,

Committees, duties of at Cattle Shows,

Cotton, seed meal,

Couple, an aged,

Education, fallacy of premature,

371 Egg, a large, 77, 134; Dorking, 267, 381; sex

138

of the,

330 Elements, indecomposable,

575

446

34

395

382

522

434, 512

233

Entomology,

285, 390

Ermine, the,

Estate, real, in Rutland county,

Vt.,

223, 244

181

457 Evaporation,

449

528

314 Electricity,

37 Elins, transplanting,

565 Evergreens, and hedges, 204; transplanting,

Corn, among potatoes, 40; Indian, 58; fodder,
dried, 60, 208; King Philip, 122; culture of,
131, 168; how to raise pop, 134; fodder, and
on muck land, 169; measurement of, 183, 226,
255; manure for, 263, 265; cobs, analysis of,
314; pop, 343; stooking, 416; suckers among,
421, 458; green, as fodder, 457, 460; vs. beef,
429, 541; 200 bushels per acre of, 555; how
preserved in Russia, .

Cows, management of milch, 29; garget in, 40;
pumpkins for milch, 60, 91; wintering milch,
62; a fine herd of, 66; and butter, 72; progeny
of one since 1852, 78; difference in, 96; a
lusus naturæ in a, 107; spaying, 131, 223;
when to feed, milch, 134; income from a, 166;
a good, 166, 334; a fat, 194; a fine, 244;
milch, 256: a butter, 267; a leaky, 283; Mas-
sachusetts dairy, 314; Guænon's, escutcheon
on, 351, 381; how to treat a, that holds up her
milk, 352, 371, 432; a diseased, 366; for the
dairy, 367; the Oakes, 455; abortion in, 464;
difference in, 464; to prevent a, losing her
milk, 497; milk from spayed,
Cream, increasing the quantity of,
Crops, green, for manure, 59; culture of spring,
226; in Marblehead, 276; rotation in, 308,
452; accounts of the, 403; in Berkshire county,
411; in Maine, 471; in Windham county, Vt.
517; in Wisconsin, 518; root,
Crow, the, 39, 63; and robins, 114; and chickens,
194, 268; 359; and swallows,

99

544

F

522 Fairs, county,
138 Farm, and young men, 19, 110, 187; viewing
entire, 40; size of, in America, 84; model, in
Essex county, 146, 179, 243; home on the,
164; in debt for, 167; hilly, 208; in Rutland
county, Vt., 212; life in winter, 319; produc-
tions of, on Cape Cod, 319; productive, 399;
life in New England,
Farmer, position of, 72; what he should live for,
75; the, 160; practical, as a writer, 313; his
motto, 316; largest in U. S., 386; advantages
of education to the, 553; who is a,
Farming in New Jersey, 46; miseries of, 78;
scientific, 85; in Orange county, N. Y., 101;
book, errors in, 119; requires study, 158; in
Lebanon county, Conn., 294; is it profitable,
316; art of, 327; in New England, 332, 540,
546; progressive, 381; neatness in, 405; 10
per cent. income in, 410; book, 470; on a
grand scale,

562

Fat, use of, in animal economy,
February, Calendar for,
Feed, grinding,

Felon, how to cure, on fingers,

Fence, a living, 243; wire, 427, 432; stone,
Fertilizer, a good, 207; comparative value of,
Field, the best way to make a large,
Fish, cow, of South America,
Fire, and fire systems,
549 Flag, sweet, how to destroy,
332 Fleeces, fine,

Flowers, the, 235; and their influence, .
Fodder, pickled, 295; corn, 411,

Food, Baxter on excess of, 397; and drink, .
Forests, for wood,

35.

498

517

554

461

57

10, 68

354

496

335

375

408

431

411

421

422

457

429

223

Page

Gopher,

Gooseberry, mountain seedling,

Grafting cherries, plums, and peaches, 247;
stocks for,.

Grain, rousing crop of, 16; stooking,
Grapes, hot houses for, 107; culture of the, 144;
Concord, 162; how to preserve, 388; signs of
ripeness in, 463; native, 464; wine from wild,
466; a barren,

Grass, witch, 160; a method of raising, 245; the
true fowl meadow, 336, 430, 453, 513; an old
use for, 365; seed, 394; land, manuring, 459,
526; specimen of,

Grog, stop that,

Guano, application of,

Ladder, a new fire,

458 Lamas from South America,

Lambs, wintering, 189; weakness in, 207; rear-
497 ing, 310; black,

207

542 Land, laying down inundated, 158; reclaiming
light, 228, 241; bill, Mr. Morrill's, 258; pas-
ture, 328; table of meaures of, 331; rent
for, in England, 426; mossy, fertilizer for,
430; reclaiming and draining, 467; plain,
and muck,

16

490

416

527

Leaves, value of fallen, 69; from a lady's note
book,

Leather chips,

Legislative agricultural meeting, 126, 147, 149,

156, 173, 185, 195, 210,

Page

391

532

554

421

557

198

77

220

358 Manure, manuring, on the surface, 17; make the,
53; on purchasing, 61; waste of farm-yard and
sewage, 71; from abroad, 79; ashes, 107, 117;
lime and muck compost, 107, 110, 169, 203;
concentrated, 204; blood, an experiment with,
213; making and preserving, 227; for corn,
263; covering, 268; farm-yard, application of,
299; vegetable and animal, 305; hogyard,
307; surface application of, 350; for compost-
ing, 351; about,

Horn ail, or hollow horn,
Horses, stables for, 42; in extremely cold
weather, 61; to manage a rearing, 118; tor-
turing a, 167; shoeing, 267; taming, 269, 302,
431; feeding, 271; tail of the, 284, 290; bar-
barity to the, in pricking and docking, 323;
worth owning, 347, 353; Arabian, importation
of the, 360; with a cough, 365, 411; galls on
a, 367; properties of a good, 368; exhibition
at Springfield, 371; teething in, 423 ; poisoned
by fumes of lead, 426; memory of the, 433;
young, hoofs of, 455; fast,
Horticulturist, the,

Housekeepers, burdens of,
Houseleek,

282

334

167

513

210

315

255

570

59

105

206

50

490

202

558

336

331

395

287

406, 447

525

194

210

176

352 Mechi, Mr., farming by,

566

314

385

Pigeon catching,

324

Pipe, water, 89, 283; gutta percha, 255, 325,
Pine, white, 254; seed of the white,
Plants, and animals, sudden appearance of, 125;
disturbing the roots of, 432; agitation of,
Planetary system, the,
Plow-plowing, steam, 120, 237; and plowing,
128, 177; how deep to, 258, 327, 385; and
the spade, 430; and the hoe, 555; fall, 568;
-steam, success of the, 568; American, 574
Plum, 467; tree, 472, 527; tree, salting the, 552
Poison, remedy for,
457, 463

.

167

525

210

61

501

216

School, moral tone of a,

56

418

302

Season and crops, 22; the past, 74, 242, 426, 466
Seed, planter, Willard's, 48; age of, 223; adven-
tures of a,
September, calendar for,
Sex, influences of,

412

393

365, 421

89

446

Sheep husbandry, 40; Shropshire Down wethers,
106; a new breed, 193; feeding oats to, 220,
334; and dogs, 241; feeding, 310; to protect
from dogs, 347; value of, to the farmer, 399;
fine fleeces of, 421; hints on keeping,
Shingles, sawed, 180; whitewash for, 183; and
nails,
Sick, how to get,
Skin, the seat of pain,
Snake, rattle,

499

359

543

242

95

61

Pop corn, harvesting, 36; how to raise,
Posts, directions for setting, 168; for fences, 410,
456; inverted,
Potato, sweet, 23; Davis's seedling, 148; State
of Maine, 148; Jackson White, 148; St.
Helena, 148; Jenny Lind, 179; Pogies, 179;
rot, 208, 232, 289; plaster for, 315; a fine
field of, 451; rot, and remedy for, 465; rot,
cause of, 511; Rocky Mountain, 512; cut,

Snow storms,

Soap, how to make, 253; suds for currant
bushes, 254,
Society, United States, agricultural, 73, 159,
672; U. S. delegates to, 79; Berkshire agri-
cultural, 82; Norfolk, Worcester West, Ply-
mouth, Middlesex, Worcester, North, 175,
505; contributions of state to county, 230;
American pomological, 233, 389; Franklin
county, 235; officers of North Middlesex,
244; Warwick, Mass., 251; Middlesex, South,
505, 514, 535; Bristol county, 505; Leomin-
ster, Farmer and Mechanics, 505; Essex In-
stitute, 505; Newton Horticultural, 505; Gro-
ton Farmer's Club, 505; Rockingham county,
505; Connecticut River Valley, 506, 516, 521;
Maine State, 506; Norfolk, 518, 531; Ply-
mouth, 519; Essex, 443, 519; Salisbury, 519;
Cheshire, 520,

Soil, warmth of, 24; owner of the, 58; and
mind, cultivate the, 97; subsoiling wet, 133;
analysis of, 166; culture, a book on, 202; re-
storing the, 202; restoring exhausted,

Page

390

523

Trap, a novel rat,.
Traveller, tales of,

Tree, apple, curious, 39; getting, by cuttings, 39;
whitewashing, 51; apple by side of fences,
100; walnut, colossal, 118; Porter apple,
133; wash for fruit, 133; and their uses, 135;
position of apple, 136; preaching of the, 140;
peach, 184; to protect peach from borers, 184;
protector for, 191; apple, 194; from cuttings,
200; wounds in apple, 207; hemlock and white
pines, 222; cracks in, 223; locust, 224; beside
the wall, 253; live braces for fruit, 261; time
to set apple, 315; time to prune apple,
315; rule in pruning, 333; blight in pear,
333; to measure the height of, 354; culture
of forest, 360; growth of, 442; age of, 451;
plum, warts on, 455; how to manure in grass
land, 510; grafted fruit, 529; pruning fruit,
539; apple, a nice way to make,
Tripe, preparation of,

Page

365

254

562

64

Trout, the,

274

Soot, 291; to destroy vermin with,

Sow, and 71 pigs, 244; a prolific,

Spavin, bone,

284 Turnip, crop, experiment with, 67; and witch
grass, 121; crops to follow,

420

Spaying and caponizing,

457

Spiders, and their spinners,

Squashes, 28; Hubbard, seed of, 30, 55; and

pumpkins, 103; summer, early, 194, 239;

borer,

291

Stables horses',

42

V

ening in,

Town and country,

Transmission, hereditary,

324 Wood, fire proof, 196; growth of, for fuel,

494 Woodland,

456 Wool, in Vermont,

Transplanting, fall,