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SIMON BROWN, EDITOR.

FREDERICK HOLBROOK AND HENRY F. FRENCH, ASSOCIATE EDITORS.

VOLUME X.

BOSTON :

PUBLISHED BY JOEL NOURSE,

NO. 13, COMMERCIAL ST.

1.8 58.

INDEX TO THE TENTH VOLUME.

Absorption, power of,

A

Acre, fraction of, for an experiment,
Address, Mr. Everett's, 24; agricultural,
Agent, new and valuable disinfecting,
Agriculture, a study for common schools, 34,
313, 324; of Massachusetts, hindrances to, 92;
of New England, 93; boards of, 107; Maine
Board of, 132, 137; Massachusetts Board of,
184, 241, 248, 270, 391, 550; promotion of,
328; Massachusetts school of, 354; progres-
sive, 356; in New Hampshire, 460; festivals
of, 504; Chinese,

Air, necessity for pure,
Almond, earth, or chufas,
Alps, and glaciers,

America, interior of North,

69, 471

Animals, and plants, sudden appearance of, 125;
mercy towards is economy, 218; and reason,
286; tracks of, on Connecticut valley, 310;
drugging, 346; ages of,
Ant, hills, to destroy,

Apple, a fine, 39; Northern Spy, 43; Graven-
stein, 69; orchards, charcoal dust in, 169;
Russet sweet, 223, 471; as food,

April, calendar for, 153; farm work for,
Apoplexy,

Arbor vitæ, from seed,

Artichoke, relative value of,

Ashes, 107, 117; and potash, 200; on potatoes
and corn, 293, 339; wood, 367; and muck
compost, 405; leached, 421, 521; ways to use
them, 558; and muck compost,.

Asparagus, beds, 12, 207, 301; salting, 377;
fall transplanting of,

August, calendar for,

Aquarium, fresh water,.

B

277 Brush, how to destroy,

290

508 Bullock, heaviest ever butchered,
154 Burns, best thing for,

391 Bushes, cutting in pastures,

289 Business, revulsion in,

268 Butter, winter, 74, 169, 183; winter, and Dr.
Alcott, 143; milk for, 282; stock, 334; to
keep hard and cool, 499; making,

565

345
376

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506

555 Cabbage, Winnigstadt, 69; drumhead Savoy,
85, 284; green globe Savoy, 86; saving, 112;
plants, maggets in, 289; club footed,
374
Cake, how to make excellent, 133; buckwheat, 378
Calendar, for January, 9; February, 57; March,
105; April, 153; May, 201; June, 249; July,
297; August, 345; September, 395; October,
441; November, 489; December,
Calf, a fine heifer, 107; a big, 290; scours in a,

370

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414 Canada West,

537

454

Candles, how to made lard,
Candy and poison,

27, 529

139

148, 285, 400

457

315

368

349

71, 89

415

Cane, sugar and syrup of, 119; Chinese sugar,

391

247 Canker worm,

Carpets, manufacture of, 329; moths in,
350 Carrots, 39; culture of, 70; great crop of,
458 Caterpillars, how to destroy, 411; vegetable,
454 Cattle show, notes of, 43; lice on, 168; old red

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