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INDEX. 



Cliocolate, Iceland moss, 345. 

 Cliokiug, 460, 

 Cholera morbus, 441; 



infantum, 458. 

 Cliowder, fish, 291. 

 Cliromos, to monnt, 517. 

 Claiming, power for, 224; 



hard, and ))lue cream, 225. 

 Cider, how to preserve, 266; 



liow to keep sweet, 517. 

 Cisterns, 263; 



to purify, 263. 

 Citron, preserved, 314. 

 Clams with cream, 292; 



panned, 292; 



how to cook, 293. 

 Clod crusher, a, 251; 



a good, 245. 

 Closets, damp, 523. 

 Cloth, black, to renovate, 509. 

 Clothes brush holder, 354; 



washing without fading, 477; 



a French way of washing, 477; 



new mixture used in washing, 478; 



to take mildew from, 479; 



bars, convenient, 473; 



sprinkler, 475; 



care of, 501 ; 



grease spots on, 506; 



to perfume, 528. 

 Clothing, winter, putting away, 525; 



Ink on, 527. 

 Cockroaches, to exterminate, 528. 

 Codflsh with cream, 291; 



balls, 292. 

 Coffee, good, to make, 277; 



cream, 330; 



and tea pots, to clean, 527; 



pot care of a, 529. 

 Cold in the head, 436; 



taking, 453. 

 Colic, 444; 



in infants, 453. 

 Coloring recipes, 484. 

 Colors, to set, 518. 

 Color, to restore, 516. 

 Colt, raising a, 138; 



to bit a, 139. 

 Colts, ringbones on, 149. 

 Combs, fine toothed, to clean, 524. 

 Complexion, the, pearl water for, 469. 

 Compost, ash€s in the, 75; 



materials for, 79. 

 Cones, cocoanut, 332. 

 Conserve, lemon, 883. 

 Consumption, 429; 



the earliest sign of, 444. 

 Contagion, to prevent, 455. 

 Conveniences, household, 494 

 Convulsions, 443. 

 Cookies, 342; 



good plain, 335; 



currant, 336; 



molasses, 337; 



soft, 340; 



hickory nut, 342; 



ginger, 342-! 



cocoanut, 343. 

 Copying-ink, 518. 

 Corn, hilling injurious to, 40; 



Corn crib, an Ohio, 40; 



seed, 41, 56; 



crib, a convenient, 41; 



cribs, cheap, 42; 



the enemies of, 43; 



seed saving, 44; 



fodder, curing, 44; 



culture, 44; 



points on, 44; 



raising good in a dry season, 46; 



cabbages with, 45; 



with tomatoes, 300; 



beans, etc., to can, 489; 



sweet, canning, 500. 

 Corn-marker, a good, 245. 

 Corns, 434. 



Corn-sheller, a home-made, 249. 

 Corpulence, 452. 

 Corsets, to clean, 513. 

 Cosmetics, 464. 

 Costiveness, 440. 

 Cottage, an inexpensive, 11; 



an ornamental country, 12. 

 Cottons, colored, to wash, 478. 

 Coughs and colds, 435. 

 Cow, marks of a good, 158; 



horse or, to test the health of a, IflOj 



how to milk a, 170; 



foul foot in a, 171. 

 Cows, milch, bone disease in, 158; 



good, how ruined, 160; 



milch, currying, 161; 



to prevent kicking, 162; 



the soiling system with, 104; 



winter themselves, 171; 



kicking, 171; 



warm water for, 171; 



celery tops for, 172; 



garget in, 173. 

 Crabs, deviled, 292. 

 Crackers, home made, 307; 



oatmeal, 308. 

 Cracks in a wall, to remove, 527. 

 Cramp in the leg, 456; 



In bathing, 459. 

 Cramps, 452. 



Cranberries, to keep all winter, 52S. 

 Cranberry culture, 130. 

 Cream and cold, 226; 



whipped, 331; 



Dorcas American, 332; 



velvet, 332; 



apple, 334; 



chocolate, 334; 



Caledonian 334; 



pineapple Bavarian, 329: 



cold, 468. 

 Creams, walnut, 346. 

 Cribbing, 151. 

 Cribs, hemlock, 152. 

 Croup, 433. 

 Crow's nest, 319. 

 Crows, to banish from a field, 66. 

 Crullers, 343. 

 Cucumbers on trellises, 93; 



melons and, boxes for, 93* 



melons and, early, 101; 



st«wed, 295. 

 Curbing, a good well, 273. 

 Curculio, pluui, destroying tti«, 114; 



