FARM HOUSES AND FARM BUILDINGS, IMPROVED BREEDS OF UTENSILS, &c. NEW SERIES-VOL. VII. ALBANY, NEW-YORK : OFFICE IN NEW-YORK CITY, AT M. H. NEWMAN & Co.'s BOOKSTORE, No. 199 BROADWAY, FROM THE STEAM PRESS OF C. VAN BENTHUYSEN. 1850. INDEX TO VOLUME VII. (NEW SERIES.) [EXPLANATION.-In making out the annexed Index, we have placed every thing relating to CATTLE, under that head—so with Horses, SHEEP, SWINE, POULTRY, DOMESTIC ECONOMY, Books, PERIODICALS, MANURES, &c. Every article referring in any way to these subjects, will be found arranged under these separate heads.] A. ber of 47 114 355 Briars and Bushes, to destroy, ........ 257 Brick, advantage of wetting,.... .. 150 Broomcoru, Premium Crops of . 116 - Profits of,......... 259 ***"" * Buckthoru Hedgcs, ........ -- Hardiness of, ...... Buckwheat, Premium Crops, ...... 78, 116 Budding, Science of,................: - Expeditious,............... 207, 7, 395 Bug3, Striped, to destroy,............. 301 BUILDINGS- Bracketted Farm House, 305 Coliages, common derect in,...... 307 397 Improvement in, neede 59 Mechanic's House, Suburban Cottage, ... ... 346 ...282 199 119 249 185 ... 170 181 135 173 399 | Apples-Sweet and Sour,......... Acclimation of Tropical Plants,.... 231, 314 Three years old, ....... Acknowledgments, 60, 91, 123, 154, 184. Time of ripening at the South,.. 217, 249, 2+1, 314, 346, 350, 405 W agener, ...................... Acre, number of yards in, ..... ..... 122 Apple Trers, large, .............. Addison County (VI.) Fair, ........... 371 394 Gratung old, ....... Address of Prof. Johnstou at Syracuse, 71, - From the South, .... 395 91 - - To Protect from Borers, of Prof. Dean at Albany, ....... 339 Mice, CC............. Agricultural Chemistry,...... 381 Apricots, Culture of,................ - College, plan of, .... - Select lists of,.. - Bill for,....... | Arabian Customs and Tillage,...... Commissioner, .......... Austria, Silk Culture in,..... ......... Economy, .........." | Axle, Oscillating Roller,.............. Education, importan in France,....... 18. 116 - Improvement, obstacles to, - Grown with Flax,.. - Encouragement to,... Bavaria, Agriculture of,.... - Papers, importance of, .. Bean Meal for Milch Cows, .... 152 Beans, Culture of, ............... 377 - Remarks on, ........... 324 Bec-house, Gilmore's, ........... 379 Agriculture, Diguily of,........... 135 Bee-Moth,............. General relations of,............ Bees, in winter,..... 175 Its Labors. Profits and Pleasures, 353 - Management of, ......... Relations of to Science, . - to take honey without destroying, 0 Ocience, ........ 136 1 Proposed school of, iu Wayne co., Bennington co. (Vi.) Ag. Society,..... State of, in Europe, ..... 71 | Beets, to keep in winter, ............. Things necessary to the successful Belgium, Agriculture of,.. pursuit of, ................... Black-leg in Cattle,...... Use of Science to,.... Blight in Pear Trees,..... Albany and Rens. Hort. Society,... Blind Teeth in Horses,..... "A little land well tilled," ............ Birds, Treatment of, 341 "All work and no play makes Jack a BOOKS-American Fowl Breeder, 1 209 dull boy,”..................... - Poultry Yard........... 12 American Institute Fair, ........ 28 - Bird Fancier,... 216 - Pomological Congress; - Fruit Culturist,............... - Its list of select fruits,... Annual of Scientific Discovery,.... - Its list of rejected fruits, Bennett's Poultry Book,...... 216, 264 - Meeting at Cincinnati... Buist's Kitchen Garden, .......... 216 - - - Difficulty selecting fruits, Colman's European Agriculture,.. Analysis of Soils, &c.,,, Downing's Country Houses,....... 305 - Artificial Manures, ..... 193 Dadd's Veterinary Reform,... 1 216 Cow and Hog Manures,.... 199 Elements of Scientific Agriculture, 216 - Oat Straw,................... Farmers' Encyclopedia,..... ... 61 - Of the Apple, .............. 290, 3, 216 Animalcules on human leeth,.... - Every-Day Book,... 250, 314, 345 Animals, Breeding, .... ...... 311 Illustrated Domestic Bible,.... 314 - Care of, in Winter, 397 New England Poultry Breeder,... Best mode of fattening,... 321 .... 217 - From Spain and Africa, .. 346 Pictorial Field Book of the Revolu. APPLES- Analyses of,... 290. tion, ....... .................. 4 As food for Stock,........... 289. 323 Phrenology and Physiology,....... Best for Wisconsin, ......... Proceedings Seneca Co. Ag. SocieBearing years of,... 182 ty, .... For Illinois,............ 142, 143, Report of the Ohio Board of AgriFrom Vermont, culture,... ... 258 From the first iree planted in Mas Richardson's Domestic Fowl,..... 209 sachusetts,........ Transactions N. Y. S. Ag. Society, Market, ............ 281, M elon, ..............." Bone Disorder in Cows, .............. Northern Spy,.... Bones for Manure,-see Manures. Nutritive properti Box, the Tree,........ 206 Rejected list of,.... Bread, Premium on,..... 380 Seedling, ................ 380 - Importance of good,......... 192 Select lists of ............. 366 | Breeding Auimals, ........, Cabbages, Culture of, .......... 147 - How to make head, ........ California, Trees of,..... - Plants from, : .... Camellias, grown in Ghent,....... Canada West, Fair of,............. and the United States,......... - Agricultural enterprise in, ..... 123 Cane, Sugar, Seed of, ............ Caponizing, how performed, Carbon in the Soil, use of,.. - as food for Plants, ...... Carriages, Iron,........... ........... 37Y Carrois, Culture of, ............. - Most productive 153 - Premium Crops of,.......... Catalogues, Long,........: Cator Oil Bean, Culture of, ...... - - - To exract oil from,. 51 CATTLE-Ayrshire, Sales of, 61, 282, Alderneys, ......... 176, 212, 314, 106 - Spaying, .................... 169 - Liberal Feeding, ....... Bean Meal for,............... 239 248 154, 177, 189 - - - Sale of,...... 92, 186, 245 4.. 311 317 315 219 404 105 170 338 378 393 108. 140, 236 140 46 46 302 149 Cattle-Pedigrees of, ................. 177 , Dairy Steamer, .... | Fruits-Improvement in, ........... . 11) - Bull, Locomotive, ....... 184, 217 Dairying in Si. Lawrence County,.. - New names lo old, 143 -- — 3rd Duke of Cambridge 241, 249 - in Sullivan County, .... 373 - Oven for Drying, . 542 - Belleville, ......... - in Ohio,.. - Selecting for Continued Supplies, 331 Mr. Sheal's, Sale of,.. 346 Death of C. Hilliard, ..... 61 Shipment of,................... 174 - Imported by Col. Sherwood, .. 281 Delaware, Agriculture of, .. Fruit Trees, Charcoal and Lime for,... 79 - Sales of,................ 217 Labels for, ................ 269 Feeding in winter, ......... 106 Dogs, Tax on, in Quio,......... Luck with,................ 333 Fai,........... 123, 154, 184, 185, 381 | DOMESTIC ECONOMY-Bread, Pre Manures for, ..... 111, 143, 173 For Nova Scotia, .. mium for,............... 182, 380 Successful Treatment of, 172, 393 For New Brunswick, . Dunlop Cheese, liow made, ... Summer manageinent of Galloway, .. Egg Plant, to cook,......... 303 young, ...... Herefords, Notice of,... 202 217 to keep mice from,......... 366 Hungarian, Importation of,....314, Pickles, to make, ...... ..... 303 - Unfavorable Localities for,.. 271 Heifers, time for calving, .... 178 Preserves, to make............. 247 Jersey, Prices of, ............... 314. Sausages, to make and preserve, 105 155 303 Gardens and Nurseries near Boston,... 236 Maryland,... - Figs, .......... 303 207 Suffolk,......: - Preserves,..... 301 New Hampshire Steers, heavy,. Door Yards, to improve,.... 361 - Market, and Railroads, ......... 332 Sale or Mr. Suckney's,........... 405 Draining, cheap mode of,........ 163, 161 Geology, Relations of to Agriculture,.. Time to turn to grass, ............ 181 - Effects of,..... .............. 376 · Knowledge of Important to the Vermont, ....................... 371 120 402 Vermin on, to destroy, ... 106 . 2-0 Winter care of, ......... 337 71 Cauliflower, large,...... 405 121 Cellars, Fruit in,...... 366 with Tiles, . Glue, not dissolved by Alcohol, 60 - To make Water-ugbt,. 62, 120, Drills for W heal,................. Gooseberries, Houghtou's,.. S6 Cement, Water, ........... - Seymour's Grain,...... - Select Lists of,........ 45, 366 Characteristics of the Season of 1850,.. 400 Grafting Grape Vines, ........... 123, 366 Cheese Dairies-see Dairies. - Improvement by,..... 111 - American, in England,.. Economy of Agriculture, ......... Old Apple Trees,.. 394 Dunlop, how made,...... 105 - of Farming, .... - Influence of,...... 206 - Large versus Small,...... Equinoctial Storms,............. 239 143 - Manufacture of, in Ohio,..... Egg, large,............. 406 140 - Press, Kendall's,............... 272 Essex County (Mass) Ag. Society, .... 60 Grain, Harvesting, ........... 246 - Trade, ........... ...... ..... 245 Evergreen Screens,.. - Binder's Wheel Rake,,........ 273 Chemical Investigations,........ 296, w to Transplant, ................. Graperies at Salem,..... 235 Chernistry, Agricultural, .......... 132 Grapes, Culture of, in Ohio........ 359 - Relations of to Agriculture, 75 Dialla, 108, 143, 155 CHERRIES-Belle Magnifique, ..... 302 False Economy,........ Early second Crop of,.......... 333 Best for Wisconsin,............. 111 Farmers, Good and Bad,..... Fox,................. 86 Kirtland's new, .............. 391 from Cuttings, ......... 143 Notes on New,.... 270 Grafting,................. 123, 366 Select Lists of,....... 366 Hardy, iu Maine, ...... 143 Cherry Trees, Mulching, ... 110 Pruning in Summer, ......... 395 - - Peeling bark off, ..... ........ 271 Seedling,...................... 395 - Shortening i2, ........ Studies for,.................... Select Lists or, ................ 45 - - Split by Frost, ......... to young,............... to Preserve in Winter,......... 365 Very Productive,.... Farming Economy,............. Vines, Soup-suds for,..... ....206 Cherry Bird,... - in Indiana, ............... Grass, best for Michigan,.......... ... 247 Chess, wil grow,... in Ohio, ........ - Canary,..................... 308, 353 - Controversy aboul, 103, 184, 185, Notes on American,.... - Seeding Land 10,.... .. 79 '275, 292 on a Large Scale,........ Seeding with Buckwheat, ...... 153 .... 185 Chiccory, Culture of, ..... 243 Grasshoppers and Locusts,............ 343 Churns, Atmospheric, ................ FARMO-Notices of: Great Britain, Agricultural Improve. Churning, Temperature for, .......... 379 Col. Briggs', Wayne Co.,.. m ents .......................... 13 Cider Mil and Press, Portable, E. H. Derby's, Mass.,...... Guano, Effects of, ................... Cincinnati Hort. Society, ....... 394 Geo. E. Adams, M:ss., .... Time to apply, &c., ............ 79 Climbing Plants, Supports for ..... 171 Harvey Dodge's, Mass.,..... Gypsum, should be kept from air,...vor 79 Clinton County Ag. Society, ...... Improvements on suggested,,.... 218 H. 373 Clover Seed, how to sow, ..... J. W. Lincoln's, Mass., ..... ... 41 Hamilton College, Notice of, ......... - - how to gather, ......... Jos. Watson's, Wayne Co.,..... ... 364 399 - to plow in.......... Mr. Streeter's, Wayne Co.,...., - American in England, Coal Tar, how applied,...... N. Dodge's, Mass,... Harnesses, Splendid, ......... College, Agriculiural, Bill for,. T. G. Yeoman's, .... Harrow, Geddes' Folding,..... - Report of Committee on,.... Premium, .... Harvesting Machines, ........... 379 Compost, see Manures. S. B. Halliday's, R. I.,.. Hay, Advantages of Cutting,..... 175 Connectieut, Improvement in,......... 180 Viewing, Advantages of,......... 312 Caps, to make,......... 315 Cooking Food for Animals, ........... Wm. Sutton's, Mass.,..... 40 360 Corrections,............ 124, 217, 219, Worn out, to restore, ............ 161 276 Coupling for Pipes and Hose,.... 299, Fences, Live, remarks on,.... Great Product of, .............. 283 Cranberry, Culture of........... 218, Hedge, ..., 40, 47, 68, 235, 278, 366 Harvesting and Curing,......... 225 Crops of 1849,.................. Timber for,..... 152 at, value of,................. of 1850,.................. ..... 400 - Wire, Construction of, 84, 144, 145, Heat, Loss of, ............. in Bennington County, (Vt.).... 115 278, 351, 380 Hedges, Buckthorn,........ 40, in New Hampshire,........: - Durability of doubted, .....47 - How to plant,........ in Ohio, ................. 25, - - Strength of,................ Osage Orange,..... in Seneca County, ....... Fish, Reviving after Freezing,........ 347 Red Cedar, ....... 278 - Rotation of,....... 86, 119, 136, | Fire-blight, reinarks on, ........... Holland, Agriculture of... 72 CULTIVATOR, 'The-Value of,.. Flanders, Agriculture of,.. Honey, Fine Sample of,... ......... 346 Close of the Volume,..... Flax, Culture of, in Ohio,........ 308 HORSES-At State Fair,... 337 Premiuins for,............... - Trown with Barley, ............ 149 346 To Readers of, . - Rust, history of,......... Blind Teeth ill, ............ 130 To Agents and Corresponden Flowers, Autumnal,........... 44 Breeding, ... ....... Death of Gifford Morgan,..... . 239, 302 90, 309 Inflammation of,........... 211 Cultivator, Steel-tooth,.......... Forest Trees, Propagating,. Lady Gifford,......... 176 - Sieel Teeth for....... 404 Leap of, ini.......... 317 Curculio, Early Notices of, ..... 269 France, Agriculture of, .............. 73 Morgan,........... 176, 194, 279, 371 - Destroyed by jarring,.. 47, 110, 395 - Gardens in,........ Ringbone, to eure,...... 106, 168, 219 333 Franklin Institute Fair, 378 Sales of Morgan, -- ... Stumbling,................. ton,........................... Vermont,..................... 236 Select List 45, 366 394 Horse-powers, Wheeler's,........ 95, 111 - - Emery's...sooo 95, 272, 280, 312 D. Culture, Profits of,..... 173, 207, 237 Dairy, Cows for,................... from Clinton County,.... • 1. Cheese, in Washington County, 106 for Central Illinois,............. 239 Ice Houses, to build, .............. 79, ..., 170 - - Above ground, ........... 366 | Ice, Cheap,..... TI 369 308. i.. 79 60 .......... 61 79 2-0 361 279 . . . . .. 162 284 ..... 165 121 257 1, 399 193 . 315 366 Insition sigland Industrial Exhibition at London, money Manures-Hog, Composition of,...... 198 , Peach Trees, Culture of,.............. 367 raised for, ...... Imported into Great Britain, ... - - New mode of propagating, 373 - Building for, ..... Ivory Dust, Wool and Hair, . - Pruning,.......... 107, 171 Articles to be Exhibited,.. 214 Lime for,................... Transplanting,............. 140 - - U. S. Committee for, ....... 250 Liquid, 'Tanks, &c., ............ 234 - Worms M, ................ 207 - New York Committee for,.. 314 - Yellows in................. 367 9, 369 PEARS- Best for Wisconsin, .........111 Cracking of the Doyenne, ..... 307 Kirtland, ... 109 Crops in Ohio,..... 358 Louise Bonne de Jersey, .. sey, ......... 111 Fields and Cribs of the West,..... 185 New kind of,.. Rejected list of, ... .............. 45 Good Crops of,... 58, 123, 152, 155, 184 Principles or, .......... Raising new,.................... 237 How to reise,...... Profit of, doubted!... Si. Ghislain,........ 271 Peal,...... Seedling, ............... 360 Mode of Plantin Slaughter-house,..... 41 Select lists of ............ 45, 107, 306 Tan-bark for,........... 121 Premium Crops,......... 78, 115, 186 Two best,....................... 333 Winter, ..... 8, 143 how grown,.. 386 Value of............ 389 Pear Trees, blight in, : 1, 204 Waste of, .. Shrinkage of, .................... 200 - Dwarf, cultivating,.... 108, 153 Steeping Seed of, ............... 3:39 Marls of New Jersey, . Peas, Culture of,..... - of Maryland, .... 279 - and Beans, value of,.. and Muck,..... 141 Maryland State Fair, . 387 196 279 Agriculture of, . - Varieties of,........ 172 .. 153 Importation of Animals from Asia,.. 150 Peat, Consutuents of,......... - see Manures. PERIODICALS-Notices of . - Test of ripeness, .... Am. Jour. of Science and Arts, 122, 183 of Wet Lands,..... 134 Mental Culture, necessity for,........ Family Visitor, ........ 122 on the Farm, ..... 257 .... 122 Improvement, means for,...... Genesee Farmer,...... 404 Meteorology, study of, ........... Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Remarks oli, ............. 370 Medico Chirurgical Review,...... 153 Siriped Bugs, .............. 301 Mice in Nurseries, ..... 239 Moore's Rural New-Yorker, ..... 122 Plow, Loom and Anvil, .......... 249 The Horticulturist,............... 237 The Country Geutleman,......... 122 Workig Farmer,................ 183 Pipes, Glass, for water, .......... ... 124 Mill Tolls in Arkansas,..... Water Lime... 311 Plank Roads, Timber for,.. 72 Plant Lice, to destroy,, 233 Moles, to destroy, .... ... 121, 152 314 - Trap, .............. - Food of, ........... 309 248 331 Jefferson County Ag. Society,......... | Montgomery Co. (Pa.) Ag. Society,... 314 Materials for Pouting, - 166 Jellies and Preserves, to make,........ 247 Motion of Sap iu Plants, ..............1 Mou's Agricultural Furnace,... 322 Juries in Civil Causes,............ Protecting tender,.... 367 Moors and Arabs, their habits and im Plaster Paris,........ 79 Plowing. Benefit of deep,.... plements of tillage, ........... 152 Mules, raised in Ohio,.... 259 Knowledge, Progress in .............. 148 Fall, Advantages of ..... ... 250 Mustard Seed, price of,.............. and Winter, ......... ..... 34 Kew Palm House, ................... 395 - in Clover, Weeds, &c.,.. Match in Canada,........ .. 217 L. Remarks on.......... B, 297 Labels for Fruit Trees,.. 268 Nectarines, select list of,.......... - Sub-soll, Advantages of,. Ladders, Brigham's Extension, ... 377 333 Stanwick,.. - - How to perform,... - l'ulity of doubted,.. 50 Lands, Cultivaung Suiff, ...... - Season in,.... Plows, Bartleli's Double,... Form of,... 399 Michigan Sod and Sub-soil, 229, 336, 391 To prepare for Crops,.... 277 Moorish, ......... ... 337 Sandy, to reclaim, ..... 5 Fair al Albany,.......... Honorary Meinbers of, ......... 313 Premium, ............. 330, 336, 363 Prouty's Ceatre Draft, 79, 324, 336, Letter from President Fillmore,... 363 Officers for 1850,..... Lawrence Scientific School,.......... 123 ........ 77 Premiums offered for, 150 Layers, Propagation by,.............. 239 - Ruggles, Nourse & Mason's, 99, 297 Leaves, Effect of Cutting off,. 303 at Albany Fair,............. Premium Plows,........ 330, 336, - Report on trial of,......... 324, 368 Lectures by Prof. Johnston,....... 62, 91 Remarks of Mr. Ferguson about,.. 399 - Trial of, ......... 150, 217, 241, 324 Letters from Prof. Norton, 33, 69, 97, 151, PLUMS-Best for Wisconsili,. ....... 167, 197, 234, 260, 296, 323, 363, 390 77 111 Treasurer's Report,.............. Notes on, ........ 110 Lice, Black, described,...... Trial of Plows,......... 150, 241, 324 Select lists of,... 107 Plum Trees, Black-knot in,... 333 ~ on Poultry,............ 313 - - Killed by Fresh Manure, - Leaf-blight in, ........ 111, 207 Lizards, Poisonous,.......... 184 POETRY-Arabien Song,........... Locust, Seeds of, ............. 313 Oat Hay, value of,...... .. 260 Song of the Plowman,..... - Trees, Transplanting,... 249 Oats, Premium Crops, ........ 78, 116, 186 The Farmer's Song,...... The Cottage in the Glen,.... 281 Long Island, Lands of, .......... Notes on Farming in, ... 358 Pomological Convention, North Ameri- State of Agriculture in,... can,.... ..................... 107 Poor Man's Plaster,. Porcelain Ware, made in Vermont, .. Onion, Culture of,....... .... 401 Pork, American and English,....... Maniles, Cast Iron, 377 ... 314 403 153 - Red Cedar,.... Analyses of, ...... Large, .........::::: ...... 333 POTATOES-Experiment with,...... 118 Grown from Seed, .......... 116, 118 Premium Crops,.............. 78, 186 Rot in,............ Sweet,........... 153 Small, for Planting, 372 Dissolved by Steam,....... To raise Early,....... - Experiment in dissolving, un Paint, Ohio Mineral,.. To raise cheaply, . 175 successful.................. -'Wheeler's Durable,............ 938 Wild, from South America,....... 390 166 155 Potting Plants, ...................... 331 117, 205 POULTRY-At New York State Fair, 339 Coal Ashes, ..... and the Curculio,.... 206 and Poultry Books,...... 209, 227, 264 Cow, Composition of, ......... Select lists of,......... 45 Bantams,........................ Raising Seedling,....... 79 for Fruit Trees,..... for the South,...... 239 Caponizing, ..................... 401 Glae Reluse,........ Securing Crop of, ... 366 Cochin China................. 124, 377 |