The American Farm Book. 1849

Dedication: 3.
Preface: 5.
Introduction: 7.
Chapter 1: Soils. 13.
Chapter 2: Manures. 32.
Chapter 3: Organic Manures. 56.
Chapter 4: Irrigation and Draining. 79.
Chapter 5: Mechanical Division of Soils. 87.
Chapter 6: The Grasses, Clovers, Meadows, and Pastures. 97.
Chapter 7: Grain and it's Cultivation. 127.
Chapter 8: Leguminous Plants. 162.
Chapter 9. Roots. 167.
Chapter 10. Miscellaneous Objects of Cultivation. 187.
Chapter 11. Fruits. 248.
Chapter 12. Miscellaneous Aids and Objects of Agriculture. 269.
Chapter 13. Farm Buildings. 303.
Index. 320.

INDEX
Agricultural education, 11, 300, 301 AFB.
Agriculture defined, 7 AFB.
Agriculture importance of, 9—12 AFB.
Agriculture legislation for, 9 AFB.
Agriculture national board of, 10 AFB.
Ailantus, see trees, AFB.
Air, essential to the roots of plants 85, 86 AFB.
Alluvial soils, character, and management of 22 AFB.
Ammonia, how composed 55 AFB.
Ammonical liquor, useful as manure 52 AFB.
Analyzing soils 11 AFB.
Analyzing marls 23 AFB.
Animal substances for manure, 70 AFB.
Apatile, see phosphate of lime, AFB.
Apple, see fruits, AFB.
Apricot, see fruits, AFB.
Arrow-toot, how cultivated, 241, 242 AFB.
Artichoke, the jerusalem 156 AFB.
Artichoke, cultivation and uses 186 AFB.
Ash, the white, see trees, AFB.
Ashes defined and quantity in vegetables 35 AFB.
Ashes of what composed 35 AFB.
Ashes quantity abstracted from the soil by crops 36, 270 AFB.
Ashes economy of as manure 37 AFB.
Ashes quantity to be applied 37 AFB.
Ashes beneficial for grass nod clover, 37 AFB.
Ashes coal, how applied 38 AFB.
Ashes from marine plants 38 AFB.
Ashes from pent how treated 38 AFB.
Balm of gilead, see trees, AFB.
Banyan tree, see skuits, AFB.
Barley 142—144 AFB.
Barley, varieties, soil, and cultivation, 143 AFB.
Barley, harvesting and uses 143, 144 AFB.
Barns, how made, 307—311 AFB.
Beans, soil and cultivation 164 AFB.
Beans, harvesting, 164, 165 AFB.
Beans, uses, 165 AFB.
Beans, the english field 165 AFB.
Beets, varieties, planting, and cultivating, 181 AFB.
Beets, harvesting 181, 182 AFB.
Beets, uses and analysis of 182, 183 AFB.
Birds, utility of 281, 282 AFB.
Bones, of what composed 45 AFB.
Bones, how treated and applied, 45—47 AFB.
Breeding defined 8 AFB.
Bricks, broken, useful as manure, 49 AFB.
Broom corn, soil and manure for, 187 AFB.
Broom corn, planting and cultivating, 188 AFB.
Broom corn, preparing the brush and uses 188, 189 AFB.
Buckwheat, cultivation and uses 160 AFB.
Buildings for the farm 302 AFB.
Buttonwood, see trees AFB.
Calcareous soils, see marls and soils AFB.
Canada thistle 276 AFB.
Canary seed, cultivation and uses, 161 AFB.
Cane, see sugar cane AFB.
Carbon, increases in meadows, 37, 38 AFB.
Carbon, described 56 AFB.
Carbonates as manures 49 AFB.
Carbonic acid described 56 AFB.
Carbonic acid, its properties 57 AFB.
Carbonic acid, caution in using 230 AFB.
Carburetted hydrogen gas 58 AFB.
Carriage house 313 AFB.
Carrot, soil and varieties 178 AFB.
Carrot, planting and harvesting 178 AFB.
Carrot, its uses 179, 180 AFB.
Castor bean, cultivation of 241 AFB.
Cedar of lebanon, see trees, AFB.
Cellars, how constructed 306 AFB.
Chalk is carbonate of lime 197 AFB.
Charcoal for manure 50 AFB.
Chemical changes illustrated 18, 19 AFB.
Cherry, see fruits, AFB.
Chloride of sodium, see salt, AFB.
Chlorides as manures 49 AFB.
Chlorine essential in soils 34 AFB.
Chlorine combined with soda 7 AFB.
Cisterns, how made, 312, 313 AFB.
Clay soils described 14, 15 AFB.
Clay soils, how managed 17—20 AFB.
Clay soils, useful as manure when burned 49, 50 AFB.
Clovers, cultivation of 117—127 AFB.
Clovers, common red or northern, 117 AFB.
Clovers, cultivating 111, 120 AFB.
Clovers, cutting and curing 119 AFB.
Clovers, importance of 120 AFB.
Clovers, as a fertilizer 120, 11)1 AFB.
Clovers, harvesting seed 121 AFB.
Clovers, southern 122 AFB.
Clovers, white or creeping, 122 AFB.
Clovers, yellow or shamrock, 122 AFB.
Clovers, crimson or french 123 AFB.
Clovers, lucern, 123, 124 AFB.
Clovers, salafoin 124 AFB.
Clovers, Bokhara or sweet scented, 124 AFB.
Corn, see Indian Corn AFB.
Cornplanter described, 96 AFB.
Corn crib, how made 313 AFB.
Cotton, seed for manure 71 AFB.
Cotton, quantity raised in U. States 198, 199 AFB.
Cotton, climate and soil 199 AFB.
Cotton, planting 199, 200 AFB.
Cotton, varieties of seed, 209 AFB.
Cotton, cultivation of 200, 201 AFB.
Cotton, enemies and diseases 201 AFB.
Cotton, harvesting 201, 202 AFB.
Cotton, saving seed 202, 203 AFB.
Cotton, topping 203 AFB.
Cotton, Sea-Island, where raised 203 AFB.
Cotton, preparation of land and planting 203, 204 AFB.
Cotton, after culture 204, 205 AFB.
Cotton, manuring and amount of crop, 205 AFB.
Cotton, Varieties of Cotton seed, 205, 206 AFB.
Cotton, changes in nod uses of of 206 AFB.
Cultivator, use of, and how made 95, 96 AFB.
Curcullo described, how destroyed, 259 AFB.
Currant, see fruits, AFB.
Dews, effects of 27, 28, 85 AFB.
Dews, how secured 85 AFB.
Dew-point, when attained, 27, 28 AFB.
Draining described, its advantages 83 AFB.
Draining spring and swamp 86, AFB.
Drill barrows, how used 96 AFB.
Education, agricultural 11, 300, 301 AFB.
Electricity, conductors and non-conductors of 319 AFB.
Electro-culture considered 279, 280 AFB.
Elm, see trees, AFB.
Ergot or cockspur, 142 AFB.
Experiments among farmers, 280, 281 AFB.
Fallow system described 77, 78 1 AFB.
Farming, good only profitable 41 AFB.
Feeding defined7 AFB.
Feldspar useful as manure 51 - AFB.
Fences, excess of in 13, states 283 AFB.
Fences, varieties and materials of, 284 AFB.
Fences, wire 285, 286 AFB.
Fences, hurdle 286 AFB.
Fibrous covering, its advantages 276—279 AFB.
Figs, see fruits, AFB.
Fish for manure 70, 71 AFB.
Flax, soil for 189, 190 AFB.
Flax, cultivation and harvesting, 190, 191 AFB.
Flax, water-rotting and varieties of, 191 AFB.
Flax, its importance for manufacturing 191 AFB.
Frogs, their utility 282 AFB.
Fruits 248—269 AFB.
Fruits, the apple 248—257 AFB.
Fruits, soil for 248,249 AFB.
Fruits, planting 249, 250 AFB.
Fruits, cultivation 250—252 AFB.
Fruits, pruning 252, 253 AFB.
Fruits, grafting and budding 253 AFB.
Fruits, rearing and selecting trees 253, 254 AFB.
Fruits, gathering and preserving the fruit 254 AFB.
Fruits, value for farm stock 254, 255 AFB.
Fruits, making cider 255, 256 AFB.
Fruits, snaking vinegar 256 AFB.
Fruits, best varieties 256, 257 AFB.
Fruits, the pear, 257, 258 AFB.
Fruits, the quince, 258 AFB.
Fruits, the cherry 258, 259 AFB.
Fruits, the plum, 259, 24i0 i AFB.
Fruits, the peach, 260, 261 AFB.
Fruits, the apricot, 261 AFB.
Fruits, the nectarine, 261 AFB.
Fruits, the olive, 261 AFB.
Fruits, the orange, 263 AFB.
Fruits, the fig, 264, 265 AFB.
Fruits, the banyon, 264 AFB.
Fruits, the grape, 265, 266 AFB.
Fruits, the currant, 266 AFB.
Fruits, the gooseberry 266 AFB.
Fruits, the raspberry 267 AFB.
Fruits, the strawberry 267 AFB.
Fruits, the cranberry 267 AFB.
Geine defined 34 AFB.
Ginseng described, how reared in the United States 242 AFB.
Glass, broken, for manure 50, 51 AFB.
Gooseberry, see fruits, AFB.
Grain and its cultivation 127 AFB.
Granite useful as manure 51 AFB.
Grapes, see fruits, AFB.
Grasses defined 97 AFB.
Grasses, number cultivated 97 AFB.
Grasses, Timothy 98 AFB.
Grasses, meadow foxtail 99 AFB.
Grasses, green (or blue) 99 AFB.
Grasses, roughish meadow 100 AFB.
Grasses, flat stalked meadow or blue, 100 AFB.
Grasses, annual meadow 100 AFB.
Grasses, Narrow leaved 100 AFB.
Grasses, red top 100, 101 AFB.
Grasses, uptight bent 101 AFB.
Grasses, tail oat 101 AFB.
Grasses, the fescue 101, 102 AFB.
Grasses, orchard or cock’s foot 102 AFB.
Grasses, American or swamp 102, 130 AFB.
Grasses, biennial rye or ray 103 AFB.
Grasses, florin 103 AFB.
Grasses, sweet scented vernal 104 AFB.
Grasses, Lawn and mountain 104 AFB.
Grasses, ribbon 104 AFB.
Grasses, gama j05 AFB.
Grasses, Egyptian or guinea 105 AFB.
Grasses, Bermuda 105, 106 AFB.
Grasses, crab, 106 AFB.
Grasses, winter 106 AFB.
Grasses, muskeet 106 AFB.
Grasses, grama, 106 AFB.
Grasses, buffalo 107 AFB.
Grasses, tornillo or screw 107 AFB.
Grasses, prairie 107 AFB.
Grasses, poney 107 AFB.
Grasses, wild rice 108 AFB.
Grasses, tussac 108 AFB.
Grasses, arundo 108 AFB.
Grasses, value of american 108, 109 AFB.
Grasses, sweet-cented, soft or holy 109 AFB.
Grasses, table of 110, 111 AFB.
Grasses, sowing grass seeds 112 AFB.
Grasses, lands that should be in, 112—114 AFB.
Grasses, means of renovating 114, 115 AFB.
Grasses, pasturing meadows 115 AFB.
Grasses, rotation in grasses 115 AFB.
Grasses, time for cutting 115 AFB.
Grasses, loss in curing, 115 AFB.
Gravelly soils, how treated, 21 AFB.
Grazing defined 7 AFB.
Green crops for manure 7! AFB.
Green sand, of what composed 44 AFB.
Green sand, its beneficial effects 44 AFB.
Guano, where found and front what derived, 52 AFB.
Guano, Peruvian, analysis of 33 AFB.
Guano, African or Icliboe 83 AFB.
Guano, Patagonian 53 AFB.
Guano, how applied 54 AFB.
Guano, used as steeps 54 AFB.
Gurneylem, see fibrous covering, AFB.
Gypsum, if what composed 44 AFB.
Gypsum, beneficial application of 44, 45 AFB.
Harrowing 94 AFB.
Hedges 287, 288 AFB.
Hemlock, see trees, AFB.
Hemp 101—108 AFB.
Hemp, soil and cultivation 192 AFB.
Hemp, cutting, drying and securing, 193 AFB.
Hemp, ricking 194 AFB.
Hemp, dew, rotting and shocking 195 AFB.
Hemp, brake and water-rotting 196 AFB.
Hemp, raising seed, 196—198 AFB.
Hemp, its uses 198 AFB.
Horse powers, for the farm 313, 314 AFB.
Hops, cultivation 237,241 AFB.
Horticulture defined 8 AFB.
Houses for the farm 302—304 AFB.
Humus defined 34 AFB.
Hydrogen described 57, 58 AFB.
Hydrogen, useful in ammonia, 58 AFB.
Ice houses, utility of, 316 AFB.
Ice houses, how constructed 316 317 AFB.
Implements for the farm, iii, 04 AFB.
Indian corn 148—154 AFB.
Indian corn, quantity raised within the united States 148 AFB.
Indian corn, varieties of 149, 150 AFB.
Indian corn, analysis of 149 AFB.
Indian corn, soil and preparation for 150 AFB.
Indian corn, selection of seed 150, 151 AFB.
Indian corn, hybridizing 150 AFB.
Indian corn, preparation of seed 151 AFB.
Indian corn, planting 151 AFB.
Indian corn, cultivation of 152 AFB.
Indian corn, harvesting, 152, 153 AFB.
Indian corn, kiln, drying 153 AFB.
Indian corn, for soiling and other uses 154 AFB.
Indigo, cultivation of 225,228 AFB.
Introduction 7—12 AFB.
Iodine essential in soils 34 AFB.
Irrigation 79-83 AFB.
Irrigation, waters suitable for 80 AFB.
Irrigation, effects of 81 AFB.
Irrigation, time for applying 81 AFB.
Irrigation, manner of 82 AFB.
Irrigation, advantages of 82, 83 AFB.
Irrigation, quantity of grass from 82, 83 AFB.
Irrigation, kind of solls for, 83 AFB.
Kelp described, 80 AFB.
Larch, see trees, AFB.
Lava, useful as manure, 51 AFB.
Legummous plants 162, l66 AFB.
Lightning rods 317,319 AFB.
Lightning rods, materials for, and how usad 318, 3l9 AFB.
Lightning rods, conductors of electricity 319 AFB.
Lime described 39 AFB.
Lime, Its value to soils 39 AFB.
Lime, Its use with clover 40 AFB.
Lime, how applied 41 AFB.
Lime, magnesian, its effect 49 AFB.
Lime, quantity for land 42 AFB.
Lime, applied to meadows 42 AFB.
Lime, phosphate of see bones, AFB.
Lime, carbonate of, large quantity in soils, 31 AFB.
Locust, see tree AFB.
Loamy soils described 21 AFB.
Lucern, how cultivated and value of 123, 124 AFB.
Lupine, the white for manure 78 AFB.
Lupine, how cultivated for food 166 AFB.
Madder, 226, 230 AFB.
Madder, soil, preparation and culture 227, 228 AFB.
Madder, harvesting 228, 2211 AFB.
Madder, kiln-drying 229, 230 AFB.
Madder, preparation for market and profits of 230 AFB.
Maize, see Indian corn, AFB.
Mangers, how made 300, 311 AFB.
Magnolia, see trees, AFB.
Magnesian lime, its effects on land, 42 AFB.
Manures 32—76 AFB.
Manures, their inartificial effects 32, 33 AFB.
Manures, defined and classed 33 AFB.
Manures, partial, insufficient 34 AFB.
Manures, what is requisite in 34 AFB.
Manures, various inorganic deflned and applied 35—55 AFB.
Manures, ashes, 35—38 AFB.
Manures, from coal, sea weed and peat, 38 AFB.
Manures, lime 39—42 AFB.
Manures, do, magneslan 41, 42 AFB.
Manures, marl 42, 43 AFB.
Manures, analysis of 43 AFB.
Manures, shell sand 43, 44 AFB.
Manures, green sand, 44 AFB.
Manures, gypsum or plaster of paris 44 AFB.
Manures, bones 45—47 AFB.
Manures, phosphate of lime 47 AFB.
Manures, salt 47, 48 AFB.
Manures, sulphate of soda 48 AFB.
Manures, sulphate of magnesia 48 AFB.
Manures, sulphate of potash 48 AFB.
Manures, nitrate of soda,18 AFB.
Manures, nitrate of potash 48 AFB.
Manures, carbonates, nitrates, sulphate, phosphates, silicates, and chloride’s, 49 AFB
Manures, old plaster, 49 AFB.
Manures, broken brick 49 AFB.
Manures, burnt clay 49 AFB.
Manures, charcoal 50 AFB.
Manures, broken glass or silicate of potash 50 AFB.
Manures, crushed mica, feldspar, lava, the trap rocks, granite, sienite, ETC, 51 AFB.
Manures, spent lye of the asheries, 52 AFB.
Manures, ammoniacal liquor 52 AFB.
Manures, guano 52 AFB.
Manures, soot 55 AFB.
Manures, Organic manures 58 78 AFB.
Manures, Organic, of what composed, 56—59, 66,67 AFB.
Manures, Organic, barnyard how managed, 59—67, 310 AFB.
Manures, Organic, analysed, 66, 67 AFB.
Manures, Organic, long and short 60, 61 AFB.
Manures, Organic, decomposition of 61,62 AFB.
Manures, Organic, tanks for holding liquid 62, AFB.
Manures, Organic, management 63, 64, AFB.
Manures, Organic, value of 64, 65 AFB.
Manures, Organic, quantity voided by different animals, 65 AFB.
Manures, Organic, various solid animal 65-67 AFB.
Manures, Organic, quality of food affects, 66 AFB.
Manures, Organic, analysis of barnyard 66, 67 AFB.
Manures, Organic, special manures defined 67 AFB.
Manures, Organic, poudrette and urate 67 69 AFB.
Manures, Organic, night soil 68 69 AFB.
Manures, Organic, excrements of fowls 69, 70 AFB.
Manures, Organic, flesh, blood, hair, bristles, horns, hoofs, pelts, the waste of woolen manufactories and tanneries 70 AFB
Manures, Organic, fish 70 AFB.
Manures, Organic, Cotton seed, 71 AFB.
Manures, Organic, seaweed 72 AFB.
Manures, Organic, peat 72 AFB.
Manures, Organic, turf 73 AFB.
Manures, Organic, swamp muck 73 AFB.
Manures, Organic, green crops for 73 AFB.
Manures, Organic, advantages of 76, 77 AFB.
Manures, Organic, clover for 74 AFB.
Manures, Organic, the cowpea 75 AFB.
Manures, Organic, spurry 76 AFB.
Manures, Organic, white lupine 76 AFB.
Maple sugar where made 219 AFB.
Maple Sugar, quantity of in United States, 220 AFB.
Maple Sugar, season for and manner of tapping trees 220,231 AFB.
Mokoks for packing it 220 AFB.
Making sugar 221, 222 AFB.
Maple tree, see trees, AFB.
Marble is carbonate of lime, 19 AFB.
Marls of what composed, and how applied 42, 43 AFB.
Marls, how analysed 43 AFB.
Marles, green sand, see green sand AFB.
Many soils described, and how treated 15 16 21 AFB.
Meadows how managed 97-127 AFB.
Meadowlands should remain 112 114 AFB.
Means of renovating 114, 115 AFB.
Mechanical division of soils, 87 96 AFB.
Mica, useful as manure 51 AFB.
Millet, cultivation of 159, 160 AFB.
Millet, Indian or grand 160 AFB.
Muck from swamps as manure, 73 AFB.
Mulberry, varieties for silkworms 244, 245 AFB.
Mulberry for shade trees 230 AFB.
Mustard, cultivation of time black, 293 AFB.
Mustard, the white 237 AFB.
Nectarine, see fruits, AFB.
Night soil, how treated 68, 69 AFB.
Night soil, see poudrette AFB.
Nitrate of potash for manure 48 AFB.
Nitrate of soda for manure 48 AFB.
Nitrate for steeps 48 AFB.
Nitric acid described, its utility 59 AFB.
Nitric acid formed in the shade 278, 279 AFB.
Nitrogen described 58 AFB.
Nutritive equivalents of food 183 AFB.
Nutritive equivalents, table of 154, 185 AFB.
Oaks, see trees, AFB.
Oats 144—148 AFB.
Oats, varieties 145, 146 AFB.
Oats, cultivation, 146, 147 AFB.
Oats, harvesting 147 AFB.
Oats, uses 147, 148 AFB.
Oats, analysis of 148 AFB.
Olive, see fruits, AFB.
Orange, see fruits AFB.
Oxides described, 57 AFB.
Oxygen described 57 AFB.
Parsnip cultivation and uses 180 AFB.
Pastures 97—127 AFB.
Pastures, means of renovating 114, 115 AFB.
Pastures, how managed 125—127 AFB.
Peach, see fruits, AFB.
Pear, see fruits, AFB.
Peas, soil for, and varieties 162 AFB.
Peas, cultivation 162, 163 AFB.
Peas, harvesting 163 AFB.
Pea, the cow or stock (southern) 75, 163 AFB.
Peanut, uses and cultivation of 161 AFB.
Peat soils described 111 AFB.
Peat cultivating 22—24, 87 AFB.
Peat analysed 72 AFB.
Peat for manure 72 AFB.
Peat ashes applied to lands 38 AFB.
Pecan, see trees, AFB.
Phosphate of lime, see bones, AFB.
Phosphate of lime used as a fossil 47 AFB.
Phosphorite, see phosphate of lime AFB.
Pindar, see peanut, AFB.
Pine, the long leaved, see trees, AFB.
Pine, the white, see trees, AFB.
Planting defined 8 AFB.
Plaster of paris, see gypsum, AFB.
Plows described 88, 93 AFB.
Plow shovel 96 AFB.
Plowing, principles of 88—92 AFB.
Plowing, clay lands 89 AFB.
Plowing, sandy lands 90 AFB.
Plowing, depth of 91 AFB.
Plowing, subsoil 85, 86, 91, 92 AFB.
Plum, see fruits, AFB.
Poplar, see trees, AFB.
Potato, varieties of, and how produced, 167, 168 AFB.
Potato, soil, and qualities of, 188 AFB.
Potato, planting and cultivation, 169 AFB.
Potato, harvesting and storing, 169, 170 AFB.
Potato, diseases, 170—172 AFB.
Potato, prevention of rot 171, 172 AFB.
Potato, its uses 172 AFB.
Potato, the sweet 172—174 AFB.
Potato, soil 172, 173 AFB.
Potato, cultivation 173, 174 AFB.
Potato, preservation of 174 AFB.
Poudrette, defined and applied 67 AFB.
Preface 4 AFB.
Profits from large crops 40, 41 AFB.
Quince, see fruits, AFB.
Raspberry, see fruits, AFB.
Rice, varieties of 155 AFB.
Rice, cultivation of lowland 155, 156 AFB.
Rice, of upland 156, 157 AFB.
Rice, varieties and value 157—159 AFB.
Rice, quantity raised in United States 159 AFB.
Roller, how constructed and used 94,95 AFB.
Roots, cultivation of 167—186 AFB.
Rotation of crops 269—275 AFB.
Rotation of crops, systems of 274, 275 AFB.
Rust, in wheat, 133P,tist in wheat13:1 AFB.
Rutabega, see turnip, AFB.
Rye 139—142 AFB.
Rye, Soil, and cultivation of 140, 141 AFB.
Rye, southern 141 AFB.
Rye, for soiling 141, 142 AFB.
Rye, diseases in 142 AFB.
Sainfoin, cultivation of 324 AFB.
Salt, of what composed, and how used for manure 47, 48 AFB.
Saltpetre, of what composed 48 AFB.
Saltpetre for steeps 48, 49 AFB.
Sundy soils, described and classed, 15 AFB.
Sundy management of 20, 21 AFB.
Seaweed as manure 72 AFB.
Seaweed, ashes from 38 AFB.
Sheds, how made 311 AFB.
Sheds, necessity for 313 AFB.
Shell sand, of what composed 43 AFB.
Shell sand, its effects, and how appliad 44 AFB.
Sienite, useful as manure 51 AFB.
Silicates, as manure 49 AFB.
Silicates of lime defined and applied, 19, 49 AFB.
Silicates, alumina 19 AFB.
Silicates, potash 59 AFB.
Silk, quantity imported into the United States 244 AFB.
Silk, best Mulberry for 244, 245 AFB.
Silk, varieties of worms 243 AFB.
Silk, rearing and management of 245, 246 AFB.
Silk, reeling 246, AFB.
Smut in wheat 133 AFB.
Snakes, utility of 283 AFB.
Soils, defined and texture of, 13 AFB.
Soils, classified and described 14—17 AFB.
Soils, many, classified and described 15—16 AFB.
Soils, analysed 16 AFB.
Soils, vegetable molds 16 AFB.
Soils, clay, treatment of 17—20 AFB.
Soils, sand, described 15 AFB.
Soils, how managed 20, 21 AFB.
Soils, gravelly 21 AFB.
Soils, loamy 21 AFB.
Soils, marly and calcareous 21 AFB.
Soils, alluvial 22 AFB.
Soils, pests 22, 23 AFB.
Soils, subsoils and their management, 24—26 AFB.
Soils, made useful by subsoil plow 24—26 AFB.
Soils, change in soils by cultivation, 25 AFB.
Soils, change in soils withoutcultivation, 32, 33 AFB.
Soils, additional properties of 26—29 AFB.
Soils, Jethro Tull's management with 27 AFB.
Soils, friableness and color of 27 AFB.
Soils, surface of soil important 27 AFB.
Soils, dew-point in, when attained, 28 AFB.
Soils, best for imbibing water 28, 29 AFB.
Soils, experiments with 28, 29 AFB.
Soils, necessity of fertilizing materials in, 211 AFB.
Soils, analysis of 311, 31 AFB.
Soils, what all fertile soils must contain 34 AFB.
Sole defined, 83 AFB.
Soot, how applied as manure 55 AFB.
Spading 87 AFB.
Spent lye useful as manure, 52 AFB.
Spurry, for green manure 38 AFB.
Spurry, cultivation and uses of 125 AFB.
Steaming apparatus, its utility,, 314 AFB.
Steaming apparatus, how constructed 314—316 AFB.
Strawberry, see fruits, AFB.
Subsoils and their management, 24—26 AFB.
Subsoil-plowing 55, 86, 91, 92 AFB.
Sugar, see Maple sugar and sugar cane AFB.
Sugar cane 206—219 AFB.
Sugar cane, history of in the united states 206—298 AFB.
Sugar cane, varieties of 208 AFB.
Sugar cane, soil for 205 AFB.
Sugar cane, seed cane 208, 209 AFB.
Sugar cane, preservation of cane 209 AFB.
Sugar cane, preparation for planting, 209, 210 AFB.
Sugar cane, advantages of wide rows 219 AFB.
Sugar cane, renovating the land for, 210, 211 AFB.
Sugar cane, planting 211 AFB.
Sugar cane, cultivating 211-213 AFB.
Sugar cane, advantages of deep and thorough AFB.
Sugar cane, plowing 213 AFB.
Sugar cane, harvesting 213, 214 AFB.
Sugar cane, quantity of sugar from cane, 214 AFB.
Sugar cane, composition of cane 214, 215 AFB.
Sugar cane, value for animal food 215 AFB.
Sugar cane, analysis of sugar 215 AFB.
Sugar cane, making sugar 215, 216 AFB.
Sugar cane, manures for cane 216—205 AFB.
Sugar cane, analysis of the ash, 217 AFB.
Sugar cane, quantity per acre, 217 AFB.
Sugar cane, drainage of cane fields, 218, 219 AFB.
Sulphate of lime, see gypsum AFB.
Sulphate of soda for manure 48 AFB.
Sulphate of magnesia 48 AFB.
Sulphate of potash, 411 AFB.
Sumach, varieties of, 234, 235 AFB.
Sumach, cultivation and preparing for market 235 AFB.
Swamps reclaimed, 87 AFB.
Sycamore see trees AFB.
Tanks for liquid manure 62 AFB.
Tares, uses and cultivation of 165 AFB.
Tea plant, how cultivated 243, 244 AFB.
Teasle, or fuller’s thistle, how cultivated 235, 236 AFB.
Tillage, husbandry defined 7 AFB.
Timber, time for cutting 298, 299 AFB.
Timber, preservation and improvement of 299 AFB.
Toads, utility of, 282 AFB.
Tobacco, soil for 222,223 AFB.
Tobacco, cultivation, priming, topping, worming, and suckering 223 AFB.
Tobacco, harvesting 293,224 AFB.
Tobacco, varieties, qualities, and analysis of 224 AFB.
Tobacco, quantity produced 224, 225 AFB.
Tools, the best, most economical, 299, 300 AFB.
Tool house for the farm 313 AFB.
Trees, see fruits, AFB.
Trees, for shade 288—295 AFB.
Trees, how arranged 289 AFB.
Trees, varieties of trees in north america 289, 290 AFB.
Trees, the sugar maple 219—222, 291 AFB.
Trees, the mulberry 244, 245,293 AFB.
Trees, the oaks 290 AFB.
Trees, the live oak 290,291 AFB.
Trees, the elm 291 AFB.
Trees, the black walnut 291 AFB.
Trees, the while oak 291 AFB.
Trees, the white and weeping willow 292 AFB.
Trees, the locust 292 AFB.
Trees, the button wood or sycamore 293 AFB.
Trees, the magnolia 293 AFB.
Trees, the pecan 293 AFB.
Trees, the paper mulberry 293 AFB.
Trees, the lombardy poplar 293 AFB.
Trees, the tulip tree, 293 AFB.
Trees, the ailantus 294 AFB.
Trees, the larch 294 AFB.
Trees, the cedar of Lebanon 294 AFB.
Trees, the hemlock 295 AFB.
Trees, the balm of gilead, 205 AFB.
Trees, the long leaved pine 295 AFB.
Trees, the white pine 295 AFB.
Tulip tree, see trees, AFB.
Tull, Jethro, his theory of cultivation 26, 27 AFB.
Turf as manure 37 AFB.
Turnip, flat english 174, 175 AFB.
Turnip, soil for 174 AFB.
Turnip, cultivation 175 AFB.
Turnip, Ruta baga, 175, 178 AFB.
Turnip, Ruta baga, cultivation 175, 176 AFB.
Turnip, Ruta baga, enemies and remedies 176 AFB.
Turnip, Ruta baga, harvesting 176, 177 AFB.
Turnip, Ruta baga, storing and feeding 171 AFB.
Turnip, Ruta baga, varieties of 177, 118 AFB.
Turnip, Ruta baga, value of 176 AFB.
Under-draining, see draining AFB.
Urate defined and applied 68 AFB.
Urea defined and applied 68 AFB.
Urine analyzed 68 AFB.
Vegetable molds 76 AFB.
Vegetables, loss in drying 36 AFB.
Vetches, cultivation and uses 165 AFB.
Vinegar, to make 256 AFB.
Walnut tree, the black, see trees AFB.
Water useful as manure 79—83 AFB.
Water, rain, how beneficial 84, 85 AFB.
Water, dissolves minerals 81 AFB.
Water, time for applying to meadows, 81 AFB.
Water, for the cattle yard 311, 312 AFB.
Weeds, how treated 273, 276 AFB.
Weeds, to destroy in grain 143 AFB.
Weld, cultivation of 232—234 AFB.
Wheat, qualities of 127—129 AFB.
Wheat, preparing land for 129,130 AFB.
Wheat, selection and preparation of seed 130 AFB.
Wheat, quantity of seed and time of AFB.
Wheat, sowing 131 AFB.
Wheat, manner of sowing 131, 132 AFB.
Wheat, after culture 132 AFB.
Wheat, enemies of 132, 133 AFB.
Wheat, harvesting 133,135 AFB.
Wheat, thrashing and stacking 135 AFB.
Wheat, varieties of seed 135, 138 AFB.
Wheat, spring 138, 139 AFB.
Woad, cultivation and tine of, 230—232 AFB.
Woodlands, how managed, 295—298 AFB.
Woolen waste and rags, useful as manure 79 AFB.