Machines, mowing, 98, 509; prepare land for, 223; reaping, 149; sewing, 235; influence of, on civili- zation, 338; in farming
Man, which is the happiest Manures, preparation and application of, 14, 20, 387, 474; Chinese, 45, 109; solid and liquid, 168, 178; classification of, 207; potash as a, 240; hen, 253, 547; specific, 270; save the, 275, 289; cost of, 337; almost equal to guano, 379; covered and uncovered, 390; perfect
March, Monthly Farmer for Market, taking fruit to. Maryland, cattle show
May, calendar for, 201; Monthly Farmer for, 293; the poor man's.
Meadow, sowing to grass, 126; mud, 195; mud and
Plants, chemistry of, 138; roots of, 238; protector for, 254; new, 326; splendid, 353; maturity of, 354; the butterfly, 394; poisoned, 407; matur- ing.
431 Potato, disease in, 100, 154, 231, 259; cut, for planting, 250; planting small, 275; ashes on, 369; fall planting, 469; origin of, 532; sweet, 195, 293, 437 Poultry, management of, 47; house, a model 13; and eggs, 253, 265; food for 338 Premiums, of Franklin County, 96; on farms, 99; 289 Middlesex County, 523; at fairs
lime, 303; muck, how to use, 406; reclaiming a Meal, cooked and uncooked
Meat, new system of preserving Meats, and vegetables
Mechanics, vegetable, 175; country and city, 185,
241, 471; city, and farmers
Medicines, quack
Melons, squashes, cucumbers, how to plant
531 Timber, time to cut, 52, 328; ship, 135; forest-
Tomato, setting out, 269, 284; figs Trade, having a
319 Transplanting, fall and spring
Seasons, cycle of, 255; the, 274, 292, 320, 321, 387, 534, 542
Seed, sower, 186; sowing clover, 210; for an acre of beet, carrot, and turnip, 244; change of, 256; and buds, 333; saving grass, 386; grass, sowing in the fall, 449; clover, when to sow, 532; grass Sewing machine
Shade, a fertilizer. Shell, marl
Shows, agricultural, in 1854
Sheep, husbandry, 13; colds in, 14; polled, 24; Im- prove the farm, 176; profits of, 186, 389; South- down, 198, 339, 465; care in feeding, 246; salt and ashes for, 278; signs of health in, 320; French merino buck, 321; scab or itch in Silk, culture of
Society, officers of Windham County, Vt., 18; Ver- mont State Agricultural, 63, 354, 443; Worces- ter County, 71; U. S. Agricultural, 87, 178; Franklin County, 90; Connecticut State, 90; legislative, at State House, 91, 100, 119, 131, 136, 139, 146, 164, 181, 187, 204, 214, 226; Hampshire County, 95, 112; Framingham, 97; New York State, 130; officers of Worcester County, 160; Middlesex County, 216, 221, 277, 519; Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, 224; American Pomological, 238, 484, 513; Norfolk County, 245; Essex County, 365; Bristol County, 411; New Hampshire State, 535; Cheshire Coun- ty, N. H.
Soils, on renovating, 206; do they lose manure by
leaching, 267; classification of, 277; mixing, 305; influence of, on color of flowers, 352; sha- vings, horn, for, 219; mulching with wood, 351; the, 380; analysis of, 406; improved by shade, 499; corrective of Spades, and muskets
112 Trees, on farms, 22, 352; tall vs. low-limbed, 23; autumn transplanting of fruit-trees, 29, 39, 238, 368; plum, salting of, 38; wash for, 38, 307; trimming, 38; planting, 39; peach, 97, 173; shade and fruit, 187; extraordinary, 209; natu- ral beauty of ornamental, 237, 314, 416; plum, warts on, 239; fruit, what kinds to plant, 242; a barren pea, 244; washing and scraping, 303; finest, for timber, 309; protection for, in winter, 326; H. W. Beecher on, 450; manuring, 454; the locust, 479; the yew, 480; removing large, 511; barking a, 531; forest-trees, how to start, 532; fruit, cuttings of, 542; forest, 563; sowing sceds for Tripoli, or Bergmeal
276 War, and the linen-trade 367 Warts on plum-trees
Water, plenty, 23; how to find
398 Weasel and rat
223 Weeds in door-yards
133 Well-digging
562 Westborough, State farm at
Wheat, per acre, 127, 141, 250; winter, 315, 429, 461; must in, 355; a purifier of the atmosphere, 381; crop in California, 381; in Massachusetts, 402; crop of, 419; price of, 463, 466; manure
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