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INDEX. 



Pickles, sweet, 306; 



to improve, 522. 

 Picture frames, ivy for, 381. 

 Pie-crust witliout lard, 328; 



oat-nieal, 328. 

 Pie, pigeon, 286; 



Frencli cliiclcen, 287; 



mutton, 289; 



Cornish flsli, 293; 



tomato, 296; 



potato, 298; 



apple meringue, 327; 



cherry, 327; 



cream, 327; 



custard, 327; 



mock lemon, 328; 



Beverly, 328; 



corn-starch custard, 328; 



lemon, 328; 



lemon meringue, 328; 



apple custard, 328; 



rliubarb cream, 329; 



orange, 329; 



buttermilk, 329; 



rice, 329; 



pumpkin, 329; 



Marlborough, 329; 



Washington, 329; 



cocoanut, 329; 



peach, 329; 



prune, 329; 



banana, 334. 

 Pies, spring mince, 327. 

 Piggery, a winter, 174. 

 Pig raising, 175; 



sty, a good, 178; 



the, as a plt)wraan, 179; 



scraping table, 181 ; 



a, how to give medicine, 182. 

 Pigs, phosphates essential to, 181; 



paralysis in, 183; 



scurvy, 183. 

 Piles, 459. 

 Pillow Bham, 353. 

 Pimples, 464. 

 Pincushion, 374; 



toilet, 357. 

 Pineapples, to preserve in slices, 311, 

 Pine work, to improve, 515. 

 Pip, to cure, 212. 

 Plant, basket, a beautiful, 398; 



stand, a cheap, 405; 



a novel house, 409; 



fertilizers, 411. 

 Plants, protecting young, 98; 



starting early, 100; 



room, diseases of, 381; 



how to kill insects on, 387; 



ammonia for, 388; 



to prepare for winter, 801; 



house, selection of, 392; 



soil for, 392; 



sickly, hot-water cure for, 303; 



the mud system of slipping, 394; 



novel method of euriclilng, 397; 



house, growing in moss, 3'JS; 



■ome new, oifured by German florists, 

 309; 



kouse, 406; 



tiellia for, 407; 



Plants, to re-pot, 408; 



frozen, 409; 



potting and watering, 409; 



tender, covering for, 409; 



moving, 410; 



watering, 410; 



starting, 411. 

 Plaster and ashes, use of, 69. 

 Plow attachment, coulter cleaning. 248; 



hand, 253. 

 Plowing, experiments in, 51; 



early or late fall, 52. 

 Plums, a suggestion to growers ot, 114; 

 Plush mosaic, 365; 



thermometer frame, 373; 



to clean, 509. 

 Pneumonia, 412. 

 Poisoning, ivy, 437. 

 Poisons, antidotes for, 413. 

 Polish, furniture, 489; 



French, 496; 



glycerine leather, 504; 



dressing, for leather, French, 504; 



stove, to improve, 520. 

 Pop-corn, to sugar or crystallize, 347; 



balls, 347. 

 Pop-overs, 324. 

 Portfolio, music, and stand, 358; 



hanging, 373. 

 Post driver, spile or, 246. 

 Posts, easy method of taking up, 33. 

 Potash, the work of, 74. 

 Potato culture, 45; 



disease, the, 48; 



bugs, new remedy for, 61; 



dumplings, 296; 



croquettes, 298; 



snow, 300; 



puffs, 300; 



fritters, 300; 



balls, 301. 

 Potatoes, phosphate for, 46; 



methods of raising, 48; 



points about, 50; 



getting early, 50; 



raising, 50; 



in winter, 51; 



Combining different varieties o^ tt\ 



nitrogen for, 79; 



boiling, 294; 



snap beans and, 294; 



Saratoga, 295; 



a Ui Duc7iesse,2Q1; 



fried whole, 298; 



fried with butter, 299; 



fried, 299; 



scalloped, 300; 



browned, 300; 



to prepare for breakfast, 301. 

 Potpie, peach, 324. 

 Poultry house for chickens, a, IW; 



house, movable, 193; 



house, model, 194; 



keeping for profit, 203; 



house, a rustic, 204; 



packing for market, 206; 



raising as a business, 20«; 



on a large scale, 207; ^ 



raising, successful, 211; Wk 



flBh for, 212; " 



