trees accumulate manure, 58; they can be placed so as to modify agreeably the temperature of a farm, 58; author's experience, 58; trees on the crest of a hill improve the crops on the slope, 59; trees may be placed with advantage on banks of rivers, &c., 59; a good tree grows as thriftily as a poor one, 59; evidence thereof, 60; diversity profitable, 60; wood-lot should be thinned out, not cleared, 60; the future should be considered when cutting, 60; evidence thereof, 60; a plantation furnishes employment at all seasons, 61; tree-growing will make springs appear, and cause rain, 61, 97. ABOUT TREE-PLANTING, chap. xxiii, 134; author's experience in raising Locust plants, 134; general counsel on the raising of locust and most other trees, 135; sowing seed and raising plants therefrom, 135; the raising of Chestnut, Hickory, White Oak, 135-6; how a farmer, having a rugged, stony hill should act, 136; profits which can be realized, 137; the utility of forests, 137-8; tree-planting as a field for adventurous young men, 138; how they should proceed, 138; the great profits to be realized, 138; drouths may be expected as the country is more and more denuded of its forests, 100; how stony land may be advantageously used for tree-planting, 215; treatment of forests in winter, 307; summing up of author's views on, 314. TREE-FRUITS. _See_ APPLES AND FRUITS. TREE-PLANTING. _See_ TREES. UNION COLONY--Its location, 262; the city of Greeley its nucleus, 262; irrigating canals of Union Colony, 262-4; doubts of the fertility of the soil of its location, 264; proved groundless, 264. UNITED STATES, 27, 53; the annual hay crop of, 150, 151, 315. UTAH, 46, 76, 181. VEGETABLES, culture of, 35, 37, 90, 107, 168, 228, 264, 265, 266; the growing of market, as a source of profit, 296. VENICE, 74. VERMONT--A grazing farm in Northern Vermont, 15, 25, 36, 48, 110, 159, 172. VINES. _See_ FRUIT. VIRGINIA, 50, 80, 86, 140, 166, 191, 237. WALNUT, 54, 60, 135, 136. WARREN COUNTY, N. Y., 191, 192. WARING, on drainage, 72; elements of agriculture by, 199; on drainage, 315. WATER, 231-2. _See also_ IRRIGATION. WATER MELONS, 300 WEBER, the river, 81. WEEDS, in pastures, 43. WEST, the, a farmer who migrated to, 16; illustration of good farming drawn from, 20, 23, 25, 26, 27, 36, 37, 41; regards tree growing, 45, 55, 142; the granary of the East, 163, 165, 168, 169, 179; the Far, 205; the Great, 241, 291, 311. WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N. Y., 49, 52, 62, 67, 118, 119, 125. WESTERN IRRIGATION. _See_ IRRIGATION. WHEAT, 21, 22, 37, 92, 94, 112, 113, 121, 131, 162, 167, 169, 238, 242, 245, 264, 265. _See_ also CORN. WHITE ASH, 291. WHITE BIRCH, 314. WHITE DAISY, 42.