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INDEX. 



Shall we raise Osage Orange ? . 40 

 Something About Blackberries, 45 

 Scuppernong Grape, The . . 46 

 SalesofChester County Stock, . 47 

 Selection of Breeds of Cattle, . 47 

 Susquehanna Shad, The, ... 52 

 Super-phosphate, Raw Bones,.. 52 



Soap, 5S 



Separation of Butter in Churn 61 

 State Agricultural Fair, .... 62 

 Setting and Skinmiiug Cream, (J3 

 Summary of Winter Wheat, . . 68 

 Second Duke of Hilhurst, . . . 69 



Sing More 72 



Something About Grapes, . . 74 

 Scabby-legged Chickens, ... 74 



Shorts Pudding, 80 



Striped Apple-tree Borer, . .. . 81 



Short Hay Crops, 85 



Sulphuret of Lead, 86 



Soils as Filterers, 90 



Scale Insect, 92 



Skeletonizing Leaves, .... 94 



Shade Trees, 94 



Study to Save Steps 95 



Saratoga Potatoes, 95 



Short-horn Durham Cattle, . . 101 

 Strawberry Question, .... 102 

 Something about Eggs, .... 106 

 Sheep-farming for Wool . . . 107 

 Sit and Set, Lay and Lie, . . . 109 



Snails, 117 



State Fair Committees, . . . .118 



Seasonable Hints, 121 



Strawberries, 121 



Sudden Decay in Apple Trees, 123 

 State Agricultural Fair, .... 123 



Story of a Rose, 124 



Sheep on the Farm 128 



State Fair Again, 132 



State and County Fairs, . . . 137 

 Shade-trees for Stock and Profit,137 



Some Exp'ts with Gr'nd Bones,137 

 Sheep in the Lower Alps . . . 138 

 Salt, Preservation of Lucern, . 138 

 Sowing Flower-seeds in Fall, . 141 

 September Manage't of Bees, . 142 



Spanish Pickles, 144 



State Fair Reflections, .... 146 



Sheep and Wool, 154 



Simple Dyspepsia Remedies, . 159 



Slap-jacks, 159 



Sweet Potatoes, . . . . . . .164 



Save the Soapsuds, 175 



Simple-interest Rules, .... 175 

 Something to Set us Thinking, 181 



Spirit Duck, 181 



Skirmishes, 184 



Snows of Last Vear, 185 



Stick to Your Trade, 192 



Turning Points in Physical Life, 14 

 Training Young Stock, .... 15 



To Prevent Rusting 32 



This Number of The Farmer, . 38 



Three Good Recipes, 47 



Timber for Fences, 59 



Trees for Fencing and Fuel, . 62 



Testing Eggs 73 



Truffles, 84 



Testing the Fecundity of Eggs, 89 

 Tan Bark for Potato Bugs, . . 89 

 That Invitation to Dinner, . . 89 

 Treatment of Lambs for Market, 90 

 Treatment of Hoven, ... .90 



Thrips 92 



Tap-Root,The, 93 



Treasury Depar't Whitewash, . 95 

 Traps and the Potato-Beetle, . 103 



Tea-Pot Assailed, The Ill 



The Drop Worm 113 



To Make Jellies, 121 



Tin Fruit Cans, 121 



Thoroughbred Stock Sales, . . 126 

 Tomato Recipes, 127 



To Preserve Posts 128 



To Rid Wheat of Must and Rust,138 



Take Care of the Tools 140 



To Beginners with Poultry . .142 



Three Grand Points, 151 



Three Model Stock Farms, . . 155 



Tree Planting, 157 



Training Heifers to be Milked, 158 



Tobacco, 164 



Testing Richness of Potatoes, . 170 

 To Fatten Fowls Quickly ... 171 

 To Destroy Smut, Rust, &c., ■ 171 

 Thousands of Sheep atid Cows, 173 

 To Our Patrons and the People, 177 



The Pea, 178 



The Sheep — The Lambs, . . . 179 

 Things Worth Knowing, . . . 190 

 Teamsters, An Idea for, . . . 192 



Under Consumption 2 



Unaired Rooms, 32 



Utilizing Potato-Beetles, &c., 34, 85 

 Unclaimed Premiums, .... 42 

 Useful and Ornamental, ... 78 

 Use of Paris Green, The, ... 99 

 Utilizing Damaged Fodder, . 107 

 Utilizing Water by Irrigation, 110 



Useful Information, 157 



Useful Hints, 160 



Utilizing Raw Material, . . .191 



Voices from Abroad, 21 



Valueof Fish Food, The, . . . 52 

 Varieties of the Tree Borers, . 62 



Valuable Milk Cows 63 



Varieties and Cultivat'n Corn, 75 

 Valuable Recipes, . . .31, 80, 111 

 Vine Bug Disease, The, ... 90 



Violets, 93 



Value of Our Crops for 1874, . 140 

 Victoria Colony, Kansas, . . . 156 

 Vegetable Garden, .... 140, 156 



Vienna Yeast, 159 



Vegetable Ivory 181 



Wintering plants in rooms, &c., 12 



Winter care of Trees 12 



What is Auguentum? .... 19 



Wheat-gleanings, 5, 24 



Wh.at our Farmers ought to do, 26 

 What others say of us, . . . . 28 



Wheat and Cheat, 41 



Words of cheer from a veteran, 46 



White Gems, 47 



White Custards, 47 



What Fertilizers are used? . . 56 



Weather, the, 72 



AVeather two years ago, the, . 72 



Waifs of Society, the 72 



Why the Wheat was win'r kl'd 75 



Winterkilled Vines, 86 



Wife, Mistress and I/ady. . . 95 

 Way to Cultivate Flowers, the, 109 



Wine Making 121 



Winter Irrigation of Farms, . 122 

 We are growing Old together, . 126 

 What and How to Feed Bees, . 127 

 Write and Talk for the Farnier,134 

 Work to be Done in October, . 140 

 Winter Protection of Roses, . 140 

 Work to be Done in November, 156 

 Work to be Done in December,156 

 Women as Horticulturists, . . 156 



Wheat 193 



What is Good Grape Culture? 172 



Window Adornnienls 174 



Weight of Pigs for Market, . . 175 

 Winter-care of Pigeons, . . . 184 

 When I Mean to Marry, ... 182 



Woodpeckers 180 



Water Question, the, 179 



Whitewash, a Good Durable, . 190 

 Washing Woolen Clothing, . . 191 

 You may Smile or be Shocked,122 

 Yield of the Harvest, the . . .154 

 Zinc and Boiler Incrustation, 88 



INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Grape Trellises, 1,2,3, 22 



Agricultural Building (Centeunial), 27 



Horticultural Hall (Ceutenaial), 37 



Henderson 's Early Summer Cabbage, .... 39 



Potato-Blight (Perouospora, infestans),. . 40 



Colorado Potato-Beetle, 49 



Doryphora 10-lineata, a, b, c, d, e, f, 49 



Poison Duster, 50 



Egg Sex Test, a. b, c, d, 51 



Susquehanna !5had, 52 



Alosa PrastabiliiS, 52 



Patent Fence and Gate, 1, 2, 3, 4, 54 



Main Hall (Centennial) , 55 



Art Gallery (Centennial), 55 



Centennial MedaU (Fac-Similies), 55 



Tachiua Fly (Lydella Doryphora), 65 



Convergent Lady-Bird, a, b, c, 65 



Hippodaima Couvergens, 65 



Spotted Lady-Bird, 65 



Hippodamia Maculata, 65 



Many Banded Robber, 65 



Harpactor Cinctue, 65 



Fiery Ground Beetle, a, b, 65 



(Calosoma Calidum,) 65 



Spined Soldier Bug, a, b, 65 



(Arma Siiinoso), 65 



Lancaster and Frederic Stage (1799), 67 



The Flying Machiue (1758), 67 



A Modern Steamboat, 67 



Second Duke of Hillhurst, 69 



Independence Hall (1S75), 71 



Independence Hall (1776), 71 



The Girl and the Flowerbed, 77 



The Girl and the Flowerpot, 77 



The Sick Girl and the Flowers, 77 



Striped Apple Tree Borer, 81 



a. Larva ; 6. Pupa; c. Imago, 81 



rf. Section of Perforated Trunk, 81 



(Lytta Vittata), 81 



Margined Blister-Beetle, 2, 82 



(Lytta Marginata), 82 



Ash Gray Blister-Beetle, 3, 82 



(Lytta Ciuerea), 82 



Black Blister- Beetle, 4, 82 



(Lytta Atrata), 82 



Morels (Morchella Esculenta), 84 



Poland China Boar, 87 



Green Fly, (Aphis), 92 



Flower Protector, 92 



Thrips, 92 



Red Spider (Accarus), 92 



Scale Insect (Coccus), 92 



The Man that Dislikes Flowers, 92 



The Man that Loves Flowers, 92 



The Woman whose Flowers don't come up,93 

 The Woman whose Flowers do come up, 93 



A Bouquet Holder, 93 



Three-Striped Potato-Beetle, 97 



Fig. 1 . Imago (Lema Trivitatta) 97 



Fig. 2. Larvas and Pupa, 97 



Potato Stalk Weevil, 97 



a. Larva; 6. Pupa; c. Imago, 97 



Flat-Headed Apple Tree Borer, 97 



a. Larva ; 6. Pupa ; c. Imago, 97 



(Chrysobothris Femoratus,) 97 



Bogus Potato- Beetle, 98 



(Doryphora Juncta), 98 



6. Larva ; a. Eggs ; d. Wing ; c. Imago ; 



e. One of the legs, 98 



" Old Sam "—Short-Horn Bull, 101 



Strawberry Flower, 102 



Agricultural Hall (new, Centennial), . . . .104 



Ground Plan of Ditto, 105 



The Drop Worm, a, b, c, d, e,/, g, 113 



(Thyridoptery X ephemerjeformis), 113 



Apple Codling, a, b, c, d, e,/, g, 114 



(Carpocapsa pomonella), 114 



Gravensteiu Apple, 116 



Hubbacdton's Nonesuch, 116 



Curculio or Plum Weevil, 129 



(Conotrachelus Neunphai, a, b, c, d), .... 129 



Rascal Leaf Crumpler, 130 



(Physita Nbulo), a,b,c,d, 130 



The Army Worm, 1, 2, 145 



(Lucauia Uuipuncta), 145 



Shorthorn Bull Scotsman, 150 



Mushroom (Agaricus Campestris), 161 



Dark Brahma Fowls, 163 



Young Blue Birds, 164 



Machinery Hall (Centeunial), i65 



Tropical Ferns and Palms, 167 



Corn Stalk Weevil, a, 6, c, 169 



(Sphenora Zea), 169 



Birds of Paradise, 179 



Lambs 179 



Wood-Pickers, 180 



INDEX TO SCIENTIFIC NAMES. 



Asimina 41 



Aplodes ribivora 45 



Agrotis zea 45 



Agrotis jaculifera 98 



Alosa preestabilis 62 



Alosa tyraiLS 52 



Arctomis monax 53-66 



AlauB accuiatus 62 



Apion robinia 62 



Aphis avena 65 



Arma apiuosa 66 



Aniaopteryx vernalia 82 



Aristolochia clematis 86 



Agaricus campestris 84-161 



Argent ifera galena 86 



Antrostomus vocif era 131 



Antroatomus caruliuasis 132 



Antrostomus nuttalii 132 



Areca oleracea 167 



Attalea funifera 167 



Abraxes ribearia 168 



Ageria tipuliformis 168 



JEgeria exitoaa 168 



.^geria caudatum 168 



Aradiuidffi 178 



Accentor modularis 179 



Brassica oleracea 39 



Bucephala albeola 181 



Bromus 41 



Baridius trinotatus 97 



Beta vulgaris campestris alba 147 



Beta vulgaris 148 



Botry tis infestous 17-40 



Blatta orientalis 34 



Clytua robinia 62 



Clytua picta 62 



Calosoma calidum 65 



CasBida bicolor 89 



Copris Carolina 89 



Coreus triatis 89 



Crypt ogamns 167 



Cynlhese 167 



Capsus quadrinotatua 168 



ConotraclielUR nenuphar 129 



CapriniulgidiB 131 



Chordeilea popetua 132 



Chordeiles henry ii 132 



Chordeilea texensis 132 



Cetonia iuda 136 



Carpocapsis pomonella 114 



CetouiadBE 118 



Cephalotus 4 



Caloptinus spretus 35-82 



CuculuB canorus 179 



Chry Bobothria lemoratus 82-87 



Doryphora 10-lineate 49-82 



Doryphoro juncta 9'^ 



Dioscorea bat tala 69 



Diospyrus japonica 53 



Diosjiyrus Virginians 23 



Diouiea musicapula 4 



Darlingtouia brachyloba 4 



Darliugtonia gloudulosa 4 



Drosera longifolia , 4 



Drosera rotundifolia 4 



Drosera lilliformis 4 



DiosjiyrUH kaki 19-45 



Faba vulgaris arvensis 162 



Faba vulgarie equina 162 



Gymuetus nitide 1 18 



Hippodamia convergens. 63 



Hippodamia Maculata 65 



Harpactor cinctus 65 



Hispa BUturaiia 52 



Hypautria textor 89 



Hadeua arctica 168 



Lydella Doryphora 65 



Lycopodon germinatum 84 



Lixus concavua 89 



Lucania unipuucta 134, 145 



Lucania albilinea 134 



Liriodeudron tulipifera 121 



Lytta vittata 34, 81 



Lytta atrata 82 



Lytta cinerea 82 



Lytta marginata 82 



Lema triliueata 97 



Locusta migratoria 35 



Macrosylla carohna 45 



Macrosylla 5-maculata 45 



Macrodactylus subspinoaas 60 



Morchella eaculeuta 84 



Minus carolinensia 89 



Mlcropus lencop*erur 82 



Maritiua Viuife 167 



Nepenthe distiUaria 4 



Nematia ventricosus 168 



Nematis grosularius ? 168 



Nyctiardea gardenil 153 



Oiketicus couiferum , 113 



Osmoderma eremicola 118 



Ovisaries 179 



Podophylum pellatum 53 



Pieris rajife 70 



Petromalus puparum •. 70 



Phyllopetra obloilgifoUa 3 



Plalyphyllum coucavum 3 



Piugincula vulgaris 4 



Perouospora infestous 17-40 



Passer domestica 33 



Phaseolus vulgaris 162 



PhaseolvB avensis 162 



Phanogameie 167 



Phoenix dacty Ufera 168 



Pristophora grosularia 168 



Paenocerus superrotatus 168 



Phycita nebula 130 



Pyrus mains 116 



Paphilio turuns 118 



Philanopelis satellitia 118 



Phylloxera vastratrix 46-82 



Pieum sativum 178 



Paradiaae major 179 



Paradiaae regia 179 



Paradisae viridis 179 



Picidae 180 



Beduvius raptoriua 65 



ReduviuB uovenarius .163-65 



Rhyparochromua devastator 168 



Serracenia variolaris 4 



Serracenia purpurea 4 



Sarcophoga serracenia 4 



Spizella socialia 33 



Salaudria pyri 35 



Salandria mali 35 



Salandria pmni 36 



Salandria cydoni 35 



SialiaBialis 164 



Sialia mexicaca 164 



SiaUa arctica 164 



SagUB rumphii 167 



SagueruB saccharifera 167 



Syrphns philadelphicus 168 



Spcct rum femoratum 158 



SphenophorusZea 160 



Solidago odora 73 



Saperda candid^ 81 



SpermophiluB 13-lineata 53 



Tuber vulgaris 84 



Thyridoptery X sphemarBeformis 113 



Xylinetus robinia 63 



Xanthoptera semicrocea 4 



