FREDERICK HOLBROOK AND HENRY F. FRENCH, ASSOCIATE EDITORS.
PUBLISHED BY JOEL NOURSE,
Address, Mr. Russell's, 17; Mr. Greeley's, 52; Mr.
Proctor's, 82; Mr. Coming's, 116; Mr. King's,
Advice, good
Agriculture, and the President's message, 52; na-
tional, 74; literature of, 86; improvement in, 89;
Mass. State Board of, 97, 260, 495; south, 108;
Maine State Board of, 112; adapted to man, 113;
statistics of, in France, 114; statistics of, 133;
spirit of, 171; in Mass., 183; review of, 212; in
Nova Scotia, 276; in Egypt, 362; fairs, 374; in
schools, 382; its essentials, 394; exhibition of, in
England, 395; and the professions, 444; instruc-
tion in, 451; Hawaiian, 524; what Boston has
done for .
Page Boy, on the farm, 308; planting a
399 Brake, the pasture
478 Bread-making
Brick-making, machine for
148 Buckwheat
359 Budding, time for .
Buds, tying down
Bugology vs. squashology
Builders, facts for.
Bushes, destruction of
Alms-house, State, at Tewksbury, 455, 474, 493, 507, 521
Animals, introduction of domestic, 310; feeding, 348,
371, 389, life, 397, 409, 419; playfulness of,
464; feeding of
Butter, and milk, 41; and eggs, 48; pound of, to a
gallon of milk, 50, 509; products in Berk-hire,
58; and cheese, 72; why don't it come, 138, 160,
168, 210, 330; fine samples of, 149; rancid, 203,
292; making, successful, 220; good yield of, 264,
298; packing of, 347; making and preserving, 382, 389
Ants, red
Apples, 16; and other fruit, 176; best, 254; storing
them in sawdust, 280; gathering, 431; summer
rose, 433; the early strawberry, 433; trees, about,
458; Orne's early, 469; for cows, 485; sweet,
492; large, 509; a new, 513; in San Francisco
Apricots, rust on
April, Monthly Farmer for
Ashes, coal, 48; house, 180, 195; and lime with
muck, 228; will they dissolve bones, 246; and
lime, 322; coal, a remedy for bugs, 364; on pota
toes, 369; and sawdust, 384; leached
Atmosphere, and its effects upon animal life
August, Monthly Farmer for.
Beef, good, 266; high price of
Calendar, for January, 9; February, 57; March,
105; April, 153; May, 201; June, 249; July,
297; August, 345; September, 393; October,
441; November, 489; December
Calves, rearing, 118; gnawing wood
Bees, death of, in winter, 21; culture of, 76, 128,
160, 325
Cattle, tying up, 74; fat, 80; holdfast in, 195; of
New England, 245; why eat horse-manure, 278;
hay over, 312; show, national, 376, 518; at
Fitchburg, 483; at Leominster, 498; warts on,
532; salt for, 547; show, U.S.
Cellars, barn.
526 Charcoal, its alimentary character.
254 Cheese and butter, 72; as a digester
257 Chemistry, and farming
427 Cherries and plums, to dry
285 Chimney, smokeless, 134; salt your
Chinese, for farmers or gardeners .
Birds of New England, 35, 142, 251; and flowers,
271; and their songs
Book, for the farmer, 99; Elliot's new fruit, first
lessons in chemistry, culture of the grape, 234;
landscape gardening, bee culture, 263; farming
a swamp, 307; the modern horse-doctor
Bones, cheap experiment in decomposing, 186, 299;
save the, 216; meal
547 Clothing, effects of, on human skin'
534 Clover, seed, sowing
Club, Concord farmers, 43, 59, 110, 145, 190, 205;
farmers'
Colt, how to take height of
311 Cork
Congress, pay of members of.
388 Corn, measuring, 102; weight and measure of, 115;
534 cobs and grinding, 122; fine crop of, 133; in the
crib, 138; where does it all go, 159; vs. carrots,
174; soaked for horses, 180; old colony, 196;
preparing seed, 204, 267; profit in raising, 205;
steep for seed, 244; great crop, 244; and barley,
257; for cows, 265; experiments in, 268; south-
ern, 292; and the wire-worm, 292; green, for
pudding, 346; extensive field of, 467; crop in the
United States, 535; and hay, best method of
getting
Cows, stabling and feeding, in winter, 85; milch,
86, 259; profitable, 93; garget in, 166; milk and
butter, 170; carrots for, 173; extraordinary, 202;
green corn for, 265; tails, cutting off, 291; sum-
mer feed for, 331; milker's assistant, 353; to
prevent kicking, 388; abortion in, 399; milch
Country, our, area of
Cranberry, upland, 38, 109, 244, 509, 528; about
Credit, giving
green, for
Crops, great, 23; and the weather, 224;
summer use, 290; what is carried off by, 333;
rotation of, 346; in Massachusetts and Califor-
nia, 362, 388; when to be gathered, 407; in
Maine, 510; in Concord, Mass.
Criticism, a, on the New England Farmer
Crow, the
wants of the, 491; notice of Monthly, 538;
signs of a thrifty
Farming, in New England, 127, 167, 211, 261; by
steam, 84, 95; quackery in, 137; shall I engage
in, 278; northern, 280; profits of, 287; condu-
cive to health, 311; what kind of, 357; in Ohio,
366; successful, 383; 100 years ago, 412; in
Palestine, 418; on poor land, 422; is it profitable,
467; specimen of, 476, 500; is it respectable
February, calendar for
Fence, a new kind of, 192, 290, 387; posts
Fever, a remedy for scarlet
552 Fields, reclaiming old
184 Firewood, comparative value of
494 Flowers, and birds, 271; to crystallize
471 Flour, of wheat, bolted and unbolted, 455; fluctua-
tions in
Food, dry, 51; cooked and uncooked, 269; summer,
for cows and pigs, 331; variety of necessary
534 Fowls, to prevent from scratching.
Friday, the cold of, 1810
172, 426 Garden, observations in, 19; what it should be, 87,
99, 193, 208, 282, 332; work in, 129; irrigation
of the, 281; farmer's, 210; weeder, 330; subur-
ban, 430; a good, 463; that never fails, 495; of
E. W. Bull, Concord, 502; manure for, 509; why
fruitful
163, 169 Geological surveys, benefits of
100, 409 Girls, make them independent
537 Grafting, suckers on common plum
98, 99, 161, 162, 195, 509, 511; wine, 437; Ca-
tawba
Grapes, transplanting and grafting
Grass, seed sower, 159; rye, 195; burden, 196; seed-
ing land to, 268; tall, 387; for pastures, 425;
sowing in the fall, 449; means.
352 Guano, 37, 116, 542; how to use, 126, 129, 195, 216,
232, 266, 368, 378, 442; factory, 179; correspon-
dence about, 279; importation of, 501, 512; do-
mestic, 533; what our country pays for
38 Gutta-percha pipe
329, 363 Gypsum and ammonia
Farm, chronicles of a clay, 15; trees on the, 22;
products, effects of railroads on, 76; accounts,
77; fences, 78; a model, 89; for experiments,
111; stick to the, 286; viewing of, 359, 391;
entire, 375; Prince Albert's, 430; of Harvey
Dodge, 451; a one acre, 529; Wm. F. Porter's,
income of, 541; State, at Tewksbury
Farmer, the, 18; club, 43, 59, 110, 145, 190, 205,
355; Monthly, for December, 53; for January,
60; for February, 107; for March, 230; for April,
264; for May, 293; for June, 302; for July, 385;
for August, 399; for September, 507; for Octo-
ber, 549; for November, 572; for December,
537; and the Governor, 58, 94; in public places,
66, 133; thrifty and thriftless, 85, 271, 276; the
Granite, 126; legislative, 131; arithmetic, 259;
shall I be a, 307; the valley, Connecticut, 323;
home of the, 335; tact in selling, 379; theoreti-
cal, 408; hint to, 442; why discontented, 445;
Hogs, profit of feeding corn to, 39; fine, 239; fat-
tening, 240; killing in Cincinnati
Hop, roots, 265; about the
Horticulture, operations of
Horticulturist, the
Horn, to straighten steers, 81; shavings
Horse, careful use of, 49; swallowing a, 62; frozen
or starved, 80; kicking, 106; cruelty to the,
126; how to subdue a vicious, 144; carrots for
the, 173; shoe, elastic, 210; blind teeth in, 253;
foot of the, 304, 324; doctor, the modern horse,
311; instinct in the, 319, 438; radish, 349, 365;
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