THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER; A MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND THEIR KINDRED ARTS AND SCIENCES; AND ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS. THE PRIME PRINCIPLES OF AGRICULTURE. 1. The soil ought to be kept dry; or, in other words, free from all superfluous moisture. 2. The soil ought to be kept clean; or, in other words, free from noxious weeds. 3. The soil ought to be kept rich; or, in other words, every particle of enriching material which can be SIMON BROWN, EDITOR. VOLUME XIV. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY NOURSE, EATON & TOLMAN, 1862. INDEX TO THE FOURTEENTH VOLUME. A-going too fast, 500, 517 America, age of States of, 54 Animals, salt for, 31; protecting from storms, 561 Ant, dwelling of the, 413 Apple, new method of keeping, 16; Baldwin, Acid, sulphuric, A 346 309 325 28 Address, by L. H. Tucker, Agriculture, manual of, 18, 35, 83, 109; hints 369 541 April, calendar for, 153 Arboretum, our, 355 Ashes, of vegetables, 62; as a fertilizer, 98; 546 Asparagus, how to raise, 219; roots of the, 285 Atmosphere, influence of, on soil, 267 Atom, story of an, 520 Autumn, scenes in, 516 Calendar for January, 9; for February, 57; for Cart body, a new, B Carpets, manufacture of, Case, a new propagating, Cattle, hoven in, 19; to stop vomiting in, 78; 537 265 76 370 148 501, 531 562 Barometer, the, 233, 289; is it weatherwise? Bean, meal, for pigs, 76; white, culture of, Bees, at war, 37; culture of, 288; and king- Chrysanthemum, the, 451 birds, 408; pasturage for, 453 Bells, steel amalgam, 417 Churn, a good, 244; how to make a, Cistern water, Bird, 73; protect the, 218; of New England, Clay, a fertilizer, 207; for drain tile, 178040 |