GREELEY, Horace--Arrival in New York, 13-4; own experience of the difficulties of securing a good start in life, 14; remark of his father to, on migration toward the West, 23; own evidence of the value of experience, 30; is descended from several generations of tree-cutters, 44; engaged for three years in land clearing, 44; reference to Amherst, N. H., his birthplace, 52; description of his farm, 62; drainage thereof. 63-8; observations in Italy, 74-6; experiments in irrigation, 76-7; observations in Virginia, 80; experience of the plowing of his plat in New York city, 87-8; tries deep plowing, 88; plowing of the hill-sides on his farm, 94; benefits thereof, 94; judges that the gravelly hill-sides of his farm would repay applying 200 tons per acre of pure clay, 108; experience of guano, 121; raising locust from seed, 134; hay product of his farm, 151; helps in hay-making from swamps, 152; hoed corn in his boyhood, 162; observations on the corn-fields of the Mississippi valley, 163; observations at Chicago twenty-three years ago, 164; finds potatoes less prolific on his farm than in New Hampshire, 173; speaks as a journalist's and farmer's calling, 187; observations in Warren county, N. Y., 191; the stone wall on his farm, 218; experience of agricultural exhibitions, 225; the plowing on his farm, 281; mentions the sale of his apples as an illustration of the imperfect means of exchanging farm products, 298. GREELEY, the city of, 262. GUANO, 116, 120, 121, 192, 318. GULF STREAM, 178. GYPSUM, 120, 121, 122, 174, 233, 317, 318. _See also_ FERTILIZERS, COMMERCIAL. HARLEM RAILROAD, 62. HAWK, the, 132. HAY, 20, 68, 78, 95, 119, 122, 147. HAY AND HAY-MAKING, chap. xxvi, 150; importance of the grass crop, 150; the portion made into hay, 150; its quantity, 150; the product and quality should be better, 151; author's experience, 151; the management of grass lands is a criterion of farming, 150; hay-making in New England fifty years ago, 152; too little grass-seed is now used, 152; too little discrimination used in sowing grass seeds, 153; the variety of good grasses will be increased, 153; grass is cut in the average too late, 153; consequences, 153-54; the plea that our farmers are short-handed in the summer harvest, 154; treatment of grass when cut, 154; the author's anticipation of how hay-making will yet be carried on, 155; the need for improvement in hay-making insisted on, 155; explanation thereof, 155. Also 167, 189, 191, 211, 235, 288, 291, 306. _See also_ GRASS. HAY-MAKING, _See_ HAY. HEMLOCK, 19, 58, 60, 66, 223, 287, 314. HICKORY, 53, 54, 55, 59, 135, 136, 215, 291, 314. HIGHWAYS, 249. HOES, 237. HOGS, 143. HOLLAND, 238.