MUTTON. _See_ SHEEP; _also_, 200, 220. NAPOLEON I, 33, 292. NEVADA, 46, 76, 83, 260. NEWBURG, N. Y., a fruit farm above, on the Hudson, 16. NEWCASTLE (township), Westchester Co., N. Y., 62, 147. NEW ENGLAND, 25, 34, 36, 39, 45, 50, 69, 78, 79, 139, 152, 163, 164, 165, 171, 190, 206, 214, 266, 279, 286, 287, 289, 290, 291, 303. NEW HAMPSHIRE, 87, 140, 172, 237. NEW JERSEY, 49, 85, 109, 165; Southern, 166, 167, 168, 169, 190, 251, 305, 315. NEW RIVER, Va., 86. NEW YORK (city), 13, 60, 87, 129, 269. NEW YORK STATE, 37, 49; cheese dairymen of, 36, 47, 62, 68, 79, 102, 131, 140, 164; Western, 163; Eastern, 164, 165, 190, 286, 290. NIAGARA, the falls of, 285. NINEVEH, 266. NITRATES. _See_ FERTILIZERS. NITRATE OF SODA, 122. NORTHERN STATES, 48, 139, 140, 192, 297. OATS, 67, 92, 94, 113, 118, 121, 143, 189, 191, 210, 238, 245, 264, 265. OHIO, State of, 37, 163, 220; valley of the river, 38; the river, 53, 159. OLD STATES, the, 73, 249, 306. ONIONS, 191. ONTARIO, Lake, 156. PACIFIC STATES, 178. PACIFIC, the coast, 156; valley, a broad, 101. PACKER, Gov. William F., of Penn., 130. PARIS, 103. PASTURES--Pasturing will soon disappear in the Eastern and Middle States, 19; its pernicious effects, 19; soiling is preferable to pasturing, 20; a pasture should be the first field selected on a new farm, 40; where it should be placed, 41; misconceptions respecting indiscriminate pasturing, 41; treatment of a pasture, 42-3; should have a shed, 43; appearance of pastures where there is bad farming, 152; summing up of the author's views on pasturing, 313-4. _See also_ HAY. PEACH-TREES. _See_ FRUITS, _also_ 129, 140, 161. PEARS. _See_ FRUITS, _also_ 129, 139, 156, 204. PEAS, 89, 90, 271, 296. PENNSYLVANIA, 23; Eastern, 165, 172, 288. PEMIGEWASSET, the river, 75. PHILADELPHIA, 156, 159. PHOSPHATES. _See_ COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS, _also_ 119, 121, 122, 192. PHOSPHORUS, 118, 119, 235. PIPPINS, 53. PITCH-PINE, 314. PILGRIMS, the descendants of the, 289. PINE, 58, 223. PINE BARRENS, 166. PLAGUE, the, 268. PLAINS, the, 46, 101, 261; irrigation of, 275-9, 316. PLASTER (Gypsum). _See_ COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS, _also_ 80, 173, 211, 232, 233. PLATTE, the river, 82, 260, 261, 262; valley of the, 274. PLOWS, steel, 87.