Corn, seed, 16, 125, 260; a good kind, 52; rel- ative value of different kinds, 59, 171; in Illinois, 64; will doves pull up? 78, 84; broom, 175; experiments with, 175; fodder, 206; cobs to be mixed with hay, 207; a large crop of, 223; shrinkage of, in drying, 246, 547; deep and shallow culture of, Cotton, in the Free States, 102; culture of, 165; flax, 346, 567 Cow, garget in, 12, 478, 497; stables, 53; extra feed to, 75; soiling, 77; bone dust for, 84, 195; a sick, 88; eating litter from ma- nure heaps, 110; an hour with the milch, 119; a fat, 131; parsnips for, in certain cases, 165; that gives too much milk, 174; chewing bones, 174; leaks her milk, 221; to prevent from kicking, 260, 373; and ten months' calf, 266; versus horses, 270; a good, 282; health of the, 406; to prevent from throw- ing fences, 427; abortion in, Courtesies, home,
Family, a pleasant and well-regulated, 173; a birth in the,
Farm, small and large, 171; hints on buying a, 203, 316; roadsides of the, 237; labor, make it fashionable, 331; engineering, 374; personal experience in earning a, Farmer, natural science for, 34, 72; want of sociability among, 59; rights of the, 69; the New England, 89; high school for the, 101; timely advice to the, 163; and natural his- tory, 361; and the draft, 427; the Massachu- setts, 475; encouragement for the, Farming, is it profitable? 12, 21, 46, 97, 114, 123, 269, 290, 312, 338, 377, 406; contrasts in, 27; rivalry in, 322; why are so few young men fond of, 331; A. G. Sheldon's, Fat, use of, -
February, calendar for,
Feet, educated,
Fence, a new, 26; Smith's improved, 186, 243, 257, 312; about à, 314, 351, 422, 533; econ- omy of a,
Fever, and ague, 392; and dysentery,
Cranberry plants, setting the, 220; culture of the, 221, 258, 519; vine, worm on, Crop, feed the, 183; in England, 294; pre- mium on field, 354; the grass,
Fish, tenacity of life in a, 141; and fish breed-
Flannel for summer and winter,
Crow, the, and robin, 269; the,
Curculio, remedy for, 265; the,
Fodder and manure, relation of,
Food, qualities and changes in,
Forests, rotation in the,
French, Henry F., letter from,
Day, John, farm of, 301; an autumnal,
December, thoughts suggested by,
Desert, pillars of sand in the,
Dog, wood, 293; power, 334; versus wool, Draining, 23, 76; new book on, 131; will it pay? 205; clay lands, 220, 256; how deep, 389, 508, 526; with stones and pipes,
Frost, in the window, 68; and the weather, Fruit, culture of, in pots, 118; garden, 233; and flowers, 253; ringing for, 258; hints about, 326; wafers, for dessert, 391; how to stamp or figure when growing, 433; explana- tion of terms used in describing, 448, 449; gatherer, 467; ripening of, 499; as a medi- cine, 515; thinning of, 531; analysis of, - Fuel,
Garden, the vegetable, 216; kitchen, 242; sur- face of the, 256; a walk in my, 293, 360; plan of, 433; insects in the, 436; D. W. Lincoln's, 444; a pattern, 459; flower, in November,
Education, agricultural, 262; for sons, 279, 315; advantages of, 397; and thinking, 442; re- laxation in,
Grape, native, how to protect, 37; culture of, 51, 198, 417; vine, grafting the, 70,; vines, pruning, 164; vine, barren, 290; open-air, culture of the, 336; house for the, 399; how
Horse, staggers in, 12; fine, 23; glanders in, 26; bots in, 81; founder in, 102; hair of the, 147; number of, in Vermont, 184; how to cure heaves in the, 195; cure of ringbone on the, 207, 244; with a cough, 242; worms in the, 261; a thorough-bred, 273; Morrill Draco, 285; to cure scratches in, 290; crib- bing of the, 317; city, a look at the, 374 ; and a hat, 435; kicking, to cure, 517; to cure a breachy, 522; feet, treatment of, 532; a pull- ing-back,
House, smoke, a cheap and good, 478; warm- ing and ventilating a,
65, 392 117, 395 205, 308 261
Ice, a trot on the, 250; berg, bursting of an, 259; house, a cheap, 338; making, by ma- chinery,
Luxuries, ancient and modern,
Machine, Union mowing, 305; mowing, on small farms, 319; Manny's mowing, 372; trial of mowing, 380, 390, 418, 456; bread and butter,
429 Maine, correspondence from, 51; geology of, 203, 300 Mangold and carrots, Man, a contented, 360; great, tools he works with, 451; advice to young, Manure, to be used in autumn or winter, 79, 124, 164; weight of, 178; concentrated, 204, 317, 340; exact statements about, wanted, 206; from poultry, 201, 244; marine, 221; the best, 256; loss of, 370, 377; summer, 387, 397, 515; how to make, 414, 528; col- lection and preparation of, 426; green, 461; surface application of, 464, 527; supply of, 541; spreading in autumn, 543; and fodder, relations of,
March, thoughts suggested by, Mares, scarcity of pure Arabian,
Market, reports of, 82; cattle, for January, 104; for February, 152; for March, 200; for April, 248; for May, 296; for June, 344; for July, 392; for August, 440; for September, 488; for October, 511, 536; New York horse, 355.. Marketing, skill in,
Iron, new method of melting, 178; clad ves-
May, thoughts of the month,
Meadows, Sudbury, 69; top-dressing of, in au-
Meat, scientific mode of boiling,
as seed, 164; for sheep, 175; for horses, 400;
Plant, house, 63, 74; climbing, 188; planting, care in, 268; gigantic pitcher, 542; winter care of tender,
Plow, is there any substitute for, 20; American, 70; when shall we? 177; plowing bee, 244; Sutter's gang, 272; and plowing, 286; plow- ing, benefits of autumn,
Plum, the royal Hative, 209; tree, black knot on, 412, 415, 437; growing, Pork, how to sell fresh, 91; how to cure, 459, 566 Post, to prevent being thrown by frost, 38; how
to set a, 165, 469 Potato, tar on the, 127; seed, 127; on muck land, 184; new seedling, 200; running out of the, 213; sweet, culture of the, 237, 266; a novel mode of planting, 240; about the, 251; experiments with the, 275; cooking the, 487; rot in the, 490; digging the, Poultry, profit of, 22, 189, 207, 261, 471; sick, 22; about, 39; nests of hens, 90; the Brahma, 145; experiments with, 150; tapes in, 168; Leghorn, 195, 233, 261; fever, de- cline of, 218; chickens, summer, 277; pure blood, 282, 310; house for, 341; house and yard for, 421, 518; vermin on, 450; keeping on a large scale, 479; hens, eating their eggs, 507; dung of,
making, 155, 160; from beets, 162, 185, 194; Northern, - Sunlight, influence of,
Swine, water for fattening, 10, 125; working, 31, 254; a wooden sow, 44; how to raise, 52; fine, 115, 124, 125, 207; unmannerly, 112; and salt, 149; white Chester County, 210; cheap summer feed for, 283; how we caught a, 282; ashes for, 545; cure for thumps in, Sympathy,
Season, and crops, 58, 82, 314, 394, 415, 480, 496; hints for the, 102; in Vermont, 329; in Illinois, 401; being in, Seed, pure, 43; spring sown grass, 77; too much, 85; foul, 119; exchange of, 136; soak- ing the, 183; how it germinates, 202; quan- tity and quality of, 228; seeding with fowl meadow, 261, 271, 533; grass, for wet land, 479; of fruit, how to manage,
Shakers, a day with the,
Sheep, rye for, 35; fat, 64, 74; skins, to dress with wool on, 97; sales from, 101; questions about, 112; barns and feeding racks, plans of, 131, 481; turnips for, 150; oats for, 175; sales of, 214; barley for, 282; and lambs, and twin lambs, 329; three Spanish merinos, 372; and wool, 463; breeding of, 477; about, Shingles, about, 26; whitewashing the,
Thistle, money paid for the, 319; Canada, legis-
Society, Essex County, 22, 42, 78, 525; United States Agricultural, 59; Vermont State, 95, 202; Massachusetts Horticultural, 95, 534; Hingham Agricultural, 95, 184; Franklin County, 95; Hampshire, 95; Berkshire, 95; American Pomological, 100, 356; American, 101; Worcester, North, 120; Rutland County, Vt., 120; Caledonia County, Vt., 131; Mid- dlesex, 140, 493; Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden, 190; Rhode Island, 287; New York State, 307; Worcester, 478; Middle- sex South, 504; Brooklyn, N. Y., Horticul- tural, 504; State bounty to agricultural, 519, 544 Soil, temperature of the, 466; materials com- posing the,
Trees, to keep rabbits from in winter, 11; about, 54, 73; apple, injured, 100; scraping, 149, 310; fruit, and snow, 155; freak of a dwarf pear, 189; proper time to prune fruit, 217, 245; how the Chinese make dwarf, 227; fruit, look out for the, 234, 245; and mice, 239, 255, 313, 506; pear, and hens, 260; plum, 293, 360; pear, the Endicott, 311; cutting back newly transplanted, 369; and small birds, 412; forest, of America, 453; apple, bearing the odd years, 518; the Linden, 545; upright, 547 Trout factory in Connecticut, 454
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