THE

NEW ENGLAND FARMER;

A MONTHLY JOURNAL,

DEVOTED TO

AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE,

AND THEIR KINDRED

ARTS AND SCIENCES;

AND ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS.

“What may not enlightened citizens accomplish, who have discarded the falsc, bustling pleasures of
towns, and, carrying into the country the knowledge they may have acquired, apply to Agriculture the rich
aud varied assistance of the physical sciences ?” — FourcroY.

SIMON BROWN, EDITOR.

FREDERICK HOLBROOK AND HENRY F. FRENCH, ASSOCIATE EDITORS.

VOLUME XIII.

BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY NOURSE, EATON & TOLMAN,

34 MERCHANTS' ROW.

1861.

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Tralusrar EBOM
BUSSEY INGI, IN

19.36

INDEX TO THE THIRTEENTH VOLUME.

395

A

Page
Blackberries and raspberries,

59
Afford it, I cannot,
Pago, Blacksmith, a word for the,

15
Agricultural mass meetings, 60; literature,

Bone, converted into superphosphate, 73, 77 ;
573

how to manage, 121, 145; for hens, 239; dis-
Agriculture, State Board of, 61, 99; at New

solving, 251, 401; use of, as a fertilizer, 256;
Haven, 83; and mechanics, 291 ; is king, 319;

dust, for beans,

342
New Hampshire Journal of, 385 ; Virgil on,

Books, new, on principles of breeding,

159
133, 492; in Maine, -

542
Air, in a crowded room, 107; fresh for children, 400 Borer, a prolific, 88; glue for the,

Boots, how to save,

433

247
Alps, wedding on the,

152
Ammonia, charcoal, gypsum,

Boy, about a, 377; a good, 392; exchanging,
27

417; for the, 487, 488; who is a polito, 516;
Animals, becoming parents too early, 526 ; and

the pocket.of a,

536
bces,

567
Ants, ten mile army of,

Breeding, principles of, 317; blood in,

341
Apples, for milch cows, 13; packing in leaves,

Brinc, poisonous qualities of,

437
Brown, Simon, letter from, -

365
32; composition of, 38, 67; roasting, 152;

Brush, how to clear land of,

487
sweet, 174; a new seedling, 198; what kind
to set, 247; red Astrachan, 257; choice, 266 ;

Buckwheat,

90
Roxbury russett, 268 ; what kind to plant,

Buckthorn, for hedges,

113
298; barrel, ventilation of, 455 ; grinder, 465;

Bugs, about, 199; a new,

538
Building, designs for,

86
sweet, use of,

545
Bull, Durham,

55
Arch, how to build,

276
Bushes,

326
Ash, soda,

47
Business, mind your,

358
Ashes, for corn, 93; not a stimulant, 160;
leached, and stable manure, 268; relative valuo

Butter, how to work, 79; worker, Smith's, 266;
of leached and unleached, 326; and lime for

errors and requisites in making,

361
corn and wheat, 326 ; leached,

495

Ć
Aster, the,

248
Audience, a new,

108

Cabbage, Marblehead, drumhead, 192; clubbing,

to prevent, 225; salt for, 308; ashes for, 313;
B

for fodder, 384, 421, 496 ; lice on, remedy for, 498

Calendar, for January, 9; February, 57; March,
Balm,

321

105 ; April, 153; May, 201 ; June, 249 ; July,
Bamboo, the,

354 297 ; August, 345 ; September, 393 ; October,
Bark, tan,
47 441 ; November, 489; December,

537
Barley, winter,
433, 456, 511 Calico, in love with,

440
Barn, and stable, in winter, 19; and manure, Calves, raising, 98; hay tea for, 213; a large,
445; the corn,
525 213; wintering,

437
Barometer, rules for observing the, 16, 395, 518 Camel, in California, 472 ; as beasts of burden, 490
Beans and oats, 254; meal, for pigs,
534 Canada, climate of,

33
Beaver, a, in London,
443 Capital, use of,

382
Beautiful, tho,
559 Carbon, source of, to the plant,

358
Beds, importance of wholesome,
357 Carcass, dead, what to do with a,

94
Bee, wintering the, 84, 136; do frogs eat the, Carrots, value of, 44; how they affect horses,
87; annoyanco by the, 99; about the, 121 ; 132, 246; culture of the,

262
how to handle the, 190; Italian queen, 243; Cart, horso, 88, 151 ; body, a new,

548
hives, straw, 252 ; hives and culture of the, Catarrh, cure for the,

462
254; effect of chloroform on, 307, 413; har- Caterpillars, 335; in the garden,

554
vests, 442 ; wild, hunting in Australia, 446 Catne, remedy for choked, 17, 29, 68, 188, 199,
Beef and ham, how to salt and prosorve, 35 ; 223; foul foot in, 68, 188; commissioners, 75;
preparing it for driving,

83 to kill vermin on, 88; disease in, 88, 92, 103 ;
Beer, mortality from drinking, 409 ; California, soiling, 103 ; running at large, 109; market rc-
sced,

430

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