SWAMP LAND: about 50,000,000 acres of, in the old States (including Maine), 125; _See_ DRAINING. SWINE, 143. SWITZERLAND, 139; Northern, 171. SYCAMORE, 59. TAMARACK, 223. TERRITORIES, the, 206, 249. TEXAS, 43, 205, 206; (Western), 260. TEXTILE FABRICS, 242. THEBES, 266. THISTLES, 42. THREAD, 200. TILLAGE: THOROUGH TILLAGE, chap. xvi, 96; rocky character of the author's own fields, 96; clearing off stones profitable, 96; cultivating wet lands without draining unprofitable, 97; the course a poor man with a rugged, sterile farm should adopt, 97; should reclaim one field each year, 97; should plow often, deeply and thoroughly, 98-9; reasons therefor, 99; Fall plowing, 99; enriches the soil, 99-100; fences, 100; the favored lot of the squatter on the prairie, 101. _See_ also, PLOWING--DRAINING--FARMING. THE TIMES (London),282 TIMBER. _See_ TREES. TIMOTHY GRASS, 38, 153. TOBACCO, 191. TOMATOES, 264, 296. TRIBUNE, the, New York, 188. TURKEY, 86. TURNIPS. _See_ ROOTS, also 178, 264, 300. TREES: clearing off timber, 30; New England must always be well wooded, 34, 37; TREES--WOODLANDS--FORESTS, chap. vii; the author not sentimental regarding the destruction of, 44; utility the reason and end of vegetable growth, 44; profit the main consideration, 44; the beauty and grace of trees, 44; New England a favored section in regard to tree-growing, 45; disadvantage of prairie land in that respect, 45; trees once grew on "the Plains," 46; tree-planting in Utah, and its climatic influence, 46; failure of congress to pass a bill encouraging tree planting, 46; mistake of the New York dairy farmers in destroying trees, 47; Spain, Italy, and portions of France suffering from the destruction of their forests, 47; other illustrations of improvidence, 48. GROWING TIMBER--TREE-PLANTING, chap. viii, 50; proportion of a farm that should be devoted to trees, 49; the question of "too much land" and tree-growing, 51-2; its general application, 52; timber should be culled out rather than cut off, 52; the care of apple trees applicable to all trees, 52; some woodlands, the cheapest property in the United States, 53; another profitable field of labor, 54; plant thickly, 54; a common objection answered, 54; the Far West and tree-planting, 55. PLANTING AND GROWING TREES, chap. ix, 56; timber general on most farms, 56; suggestions for locating trees, 56; trees once planted cost nothing for cultivation, 56; the soil is richer even after repeated crops of wood, 57; poor land improved by growing timber on it, 57; springs and streams will be rendered more equable and enduring by tree-growing, 57; trees should be set on all hill-sides and ravines, 57;