Kentucky Blue Grass, 157 

 Ladies' Parlor or Window 



Flowers, 8 

 Look out for Canada Thistle, 9 

 Live Stock, 10 

 Lice on Poultry, 16 

 Literary and Business Notices, 



10, :v.', is 



Lancaster Co. as a Grand Ap- 

 ple Orchard, -4 



Lar?e Poultry Yard, 32 



Light Bralinias, 35 



Lambs and Calves, B2 



Literary Notices, 64, SO, 1'28 



Lawns — How to Make and 

 Keep Them, 77 



Late-KecpinR Fruits, 85 



Locomotion, 91 



Labels, 9R 



Labor Necessary to Happiness, 

 111 



Lightnins; & Llght'g Rods, 1^1 



Locusts as Food, 1:^5 



Late Flowering Trees, 137 



Living Within bne'sMeau's, 144 



Lovely Blooming Bulbs, 151 



Lice on Young trees, 131 



Live Gate Posts, Ipit 



Linnaeau Notes, 104 



Live Stock, 190 



Lice on Colts, 191 



Light in Stables, 19J 



Literary Notices, iil 

 . Matched Teams, 11 



Miscellaneous, l.', 4'.', 44, 60 



Miscellaneous Business, M, 14 



Mental Culture among Far- 

 mers, Iil 



Make Hot-Beds, 24 



Management of Orchards, i!7 



More about Apple Orchards, i:7 



M'scellaucous Topics, '.9 



Milk Transmits Infection, 46 



Meteorology of March, 1776 - 

 1870, 50 



Meteorological Diary at Phila- 

 delphia, for March, 1776, 50 



Meteorological Diary at Liber- 

 ty Square, Lancaster county, 

 March, 1870, 51 



Management of Manure, 62 



Muchor Little, 0:i 



Manure for Grass, 78 



MyExperience with Italians, 87 



Meat Safes or Closets, 93 



Management of Horses, 94 



Milk from Holstein Cows, 94 



Mulching Recently Planted 

 Trees, 95 



Mellow Soil around Trees, 

 144, 96 



Meeting of Millers' Ass'n, 100 



Maryland Fruits, 100 



Meteorological Diary at Phila- 

 delphia, for June, 1776, 103 



Meteorological Diary at Phila- 

 delphia, for July, 1776, 116 



Mushroom and Truffle, 1.'4 



Manurial Value of Clover, 139 



Mulching Grass for Winter, 159 



Manuring In Fall, 159 



Making Good Butter, 159 



Mucilage, 175 



Main Build'g & Annexes, 184 



Machinery Hall, 184 



Memorial Hall A Annexes, 184 



No. 4, Asparagus, 2 



Neat Cattle, 11 



New Process for Preserving 

 Meat, 14 



New Use for Chicken 

 Feathers, 66 



Neatness in Making Butter, 78 



New Potatoes, 79 



New Stock Yards, 96 



Our Centennial Greeting, 1 



Our Cultivated Vegetables, 2 



Our Paris Letter, 11, '..9,42, 

 75, 90, 91, 103, 125, 140, 17j 



Our Local Organ zatlon, 12, 30 

 140, 156, 173 



Our Past and Future Pros- 

 perity, 13 



Our Farmers in Council, 30, 

 00, 75, 6.', 99, 126 



Old Bufo, 53 



Old and New Flowers, 53 



Old Inventions &, laventora, 58 



Our Centennial International 

 Exposition, 66 



Our Bee-Keepers In Council, 76 



Our Nut-Bearing Trees, 79 



Our Centennial Annlvers'y, 97 



On Bee-Culture, 105 



One Egg Cake, li;8 



Old-fashioned Reaping, 144 



Oatmeal in the Household, 159 



Our Lawns aud How to Keep 

 Them, 76 



Our Nat'l Year of Jubilee, 97 



Oatmeal In the Household, 190 



Paris Green, 4 



Paris Green as an Insect De- 

 stroyer, 4 



Potatoes for Stock, 5 



Poultry, U 



Proceedings of the Lancaster 

 County Agricultural and 

 Horticultural Society, 12, 42 



Peculiar Etl'ccts of Winter 

 Heat, 19 



Practical Hints about Making 

 and selecting good Cheese,V() 



Pears and their Culture, 28 



Preservrtion of Fruit by Ice, 28 



Peach Culture, '^9 



Potatoe Culture, 40 



Practical Lectures on Farm 

 Animals, 42 



Profits of Raising Corn In 

 Chester county, 44 



Points of a Jersey, 47 



Proceedings of the Agricultural 

 and Horticultural Society, 

 60, 75, 92, 126, 140, 188 



Potatoe Growing, 63 



Potatoes for Horses, 03 



Plaster for Clover, 64 



Peck's Imported Liquid 

 Atomizer, 69 



Precocity in Animals for 

 Milk, 75 



Proceedings of the Lancaster 

 Co. Bee-Keepers' Society ,76 



Planting Ciardens Early, 79 



Poultry Manure, 79 



Packing Eggs, 84 



Poisons in Agriculture, 89 



Potatoes and Potatoe Grow- 

 ing, 94 



Peas Among Potatoes, 96 



Prayer, 97 



Prologue, 98 



Peroration, 9S 



Potatoe Beetle Progress, 115 



Properties of Fuel— Wood, 118 



Penn . Fruit Grow's' Society ,145 



Pennsylvania Fruit at the 

 Centennial, 145 



Pure and Impure Water, 153 



Proceedings of the Agricultural 

 and Horticultural Society, 

 1.50, 173 



Proceedings of Tobacco Grow- 

 ers' Association, 157 



Persian Insect Powder, 164 



Protecting Garden Roots, 175 



Portable Pig-Pen, 176 



Public Acknowledgments, ISO 



Pennsylvania Fruit Growers' 

 Society, 199 



Plymouth Rock, 181 



Pumpkin Pies, 190 



Queries and Answers, 3, 34, 

 45, 14, 8 



Queries, 68 



Quidding Horses, 112 



Quick Work, 114 



Questions and Answers, 158 



Running & Trotting Horses, U 



Red Pepper and Vegetables, 14 



Rural Life, :5 



Raspberries & Blackberries, 29 



Roses, ■-9 



Rural Improvements, 42 



Reports of Crops, 42 



R ch and Poor Grow a Grape 

 Vine, 57 



Recompensingof Teachers with 

 Gold Medals, 75 



Root Pruning and Blight, 80 



Raising Chickens, 112 



Reproductive Force, 122 



Reversion of Seeds, 122 



Rules for Home Education, 128 



Remember This, 128 



TNDEX. 



Rye for Winter Pasture, 176 

 Repelling the Grain Weevil, III 

 Selections & Change of Seed, 4 

 Successful Orchards, 9 

 Shearing then Is Apparently 

 Unfavorable to Nutrition, 11 

 Salt for Domestic Animals, 15 

 Stock-Keeping on Small 



F'rms, 15 

 Spiders, 22 

 Strawberries, 105, 29 

 Sliade Trees, 31 

 Stale Agricultural Reports, 



the, 31 

 State Agriculturists, the, .32 

 Slaughter of Blnls for their 



Plumage, 35 

 Suiiplementary, 36 

 Selection of Seed Corn, 40 

 Slovenly Women, 46 

 Small Fruit on the Farm, 47 

 Small Potatoes for Seeds, 48 

 Summer-Blooming Bulbous 



Flowers, 58 

 Standard French Cattle Show, 



the, 00 

 Substitute for Clipping Horses 



In Autumn, 60 

 Spring Care of Sheep, 62 

 Selecting Fowls for Breed- 

 ing, 65 

 .Seasonable Hints, 71 

 Shearing Sheep, 75 

 Sunlight, 79 



Something about Fir Trees, 83 

 Simple Cure for Dyspepsia, 86 

 Something about Bees, 88 

 Scalv Legs on Fowls, 96 

 Saving Seed., 99 

 Scale Insects, 101 

 Surface-Stirring the Soil, 107 

 Sale of Short Horns, 110 

 Seasonable Hints, 110 

 Stick to your Farms, 111 

 Something for the Sick, 112 

 Swarming by Division, 139 

 Something for Bachelors, 144 

 Saving and Having, 144 

 Sensational Agricultural Writ- 

 ing, 1.54 

 Seed Wheat and Fruits, 1.57 

 Sowing Grass Seed alone, 158 

 Seed Wheat,ltsPreparat'n,158 

 Sending Plants to Sleep, 158 

 Strawberry Plants, 159 

 Social Life on the Farm, 171 

 Sleeping Warm, 174 

 Sheep— The Outlook, 175 

 Substantial, 180 

 Selection of Breeds, 181 

 Soil of Florida, the, 186 

 Scientific Agriculture, 188 

 Starting a Fire, 190 

 Sheep as Fertilizers, 191 

 Saddle Galls, 191 

 Sparrows, 192 

 Salt and Lime for Horses' 



Feet, 192 

 Scotch Farmers Ruined by 



Mice, 192 

 Small Farms, iil 

 The May-fly, 1 

 The Facts of Natural History 



—No. 7, 5 

 The Pilgrim's Progress, 6 

 The Fruit Growers' Society, 7 

 Time for Reading, 7 

 The Dairy, (Nos. 1. 2, 3,4,) 



7, 36, 72, 1:4 

 The Centennial Exhib'n, 10, 53 

 The Foot and Mouth Disease, 11 

 The Animal Food Question, 11 

 The Best and Most Succulent 



Meat Is Furnished, 12 

 The Beet Sugar Manufactories 



on the Continent, 12 

 Two Means of Reduciner Bones, 



12 

 The President's An. Address, 12 

 The Grangers n Lancaster, 14 

 The Cheese Production, 16 

 The Progress of Invention, 16 

 Toulouse Geese, 17 

 The KedEchymyd, 17 

 The House-moth, 18 

 The "Snowflake" and "Eu- 

 reka" Potatoes, 19 

 The Dairy Interests, 20 



The Facta of Natural History 



—No. 8, 21 

 The Grangers, 24 

 Testing Fertilizers and their 



Continued Action, '.'5 

 The Patrons of Husbandry, 25 

 The Fruit <irower«' Society, 20 

 The Codling Moth, 28 

 Thoughts for March, 31 

 The Pestilential East Wind, 32 

 To Our Contributors, 33 

 The Cent'y Weather Report, 34 

 The Potatoes Enemies, 36 

 The Negiecteil Hollyhoek, 41 

 Transplanted Trees, 41, 151 

 The Horses of Hungary, 42 

 The Ltbrary ami Finances, 42 

 The MeriU of Hungarian 



(irasH, 44 

 The Experimental Farm Club, 



44 

 The Agricultural Horse, 47 

 The Bee-Keeping Industry, 47 

 Travels of I'lauts, the, 50 

 Tulip .Mania, the, 52 

 Toads, 53, 1-7 

 Thrushes, 54 



The CulH'u of Hardy Roses, 54 

 Tree I-aws, 5tl' 



The Dairy iV Butter Mak'g, 56 

 The Best Cow for the Dairy, 58 

 The Cost of Planllug an Or- 

 chard, 57 

 The Culture of Vegetables, 57 

 The Humming Bird, 59 

 Transp'g Hardy Trees, &c., 

 The Government Show of Fat 



Stock, 00 

 Telller's New Process of Pre- 

 serving Meat Fresh, 60 

 The Best Chickens, 61 

 Tree MIgnonnctte, 64 

 Tobacco Crop of 1,'"75, 08 

 Tuberous-Rooted Flowers, 72 

 To Prevent the Birds from 



Pulling Corn, ~i 

 The Hamburgs as Layers, 74 

 Two Bee Questions Answ'd, 74 

 The Phylloxera, 75 

 The BcetSugar War, 75 

 The Annual Horse Show, 75 

 The Projected International 



Exhibition, 75 

 The Absence of Iron lo Wheat, 



75 

 The Management of Lamps 



and Oil, 77 

 To Fix or to Lift a Gate Post, 78 

 The Crops In Illinois, 1-0 

 The Colorado Potato Beetle, ^^l 

 Two "Horned Frogs" Visit 



Lancaster, 85 

 Timely Garden Hints, 87 

 Turnips for Milch Cows and 



Sheep, 87 

 The Centennial, 90, 145, 163 

 The Hawthorn, 90 

 The Crop Prospect, 91 

 The Edgewood Farmer on 



Fences, 92 

 The Taste of Turnips In MUk 



and Butter, 93 

 The Peach Crop, 95 

 The Feeding of Horses, 95 

 "Transplanting Evergreens, 96 

 To Prevent Splitting of Han- 

 dles, 96 

 The Crops, 96, 163 

 The Centennial InvocalloD, 97 

 Thanksgiving, 97 

 The Introductory Address, 97 

 The Centennial Oration, 99 

 Thermometer, June, 1876, 103 

 The Currant, 103 

 The Old Apple-Tree, 103 

 The Centennial Live Stock 



Display, lOS 

 The Language of Fowl*, 109 

 The Grain .Movement, 112 

 The Care of Canaries, 112 

 The Vegetable Caterpillar, 115 

 The Centennial Heat, 116 

 The Temperature for the Last 



Half Century, 116 

 The Birds and their Uses, 117 

 The History of Cultivated 



Vegetables, 118 

 The Magpie Pigeon, 124 



riL 



The Tomato or "I^ve Apple," 



118 

 Transplanting Trees In Fall or 



Spring, 119 

 Truffles, 1.4 



The Wintering of Plants, 124 

 The Crops of the East, l27 

 The LucuHt, 132 

 The Barreil Owl, 133 

 The (ireat Trees of Call- 



fornia, 139 

 The Bee- Keep's' Sorl'y, 141 ,173 

 The .Millers' Asn>elallou, 142 

 Tlie Tobacco tJrow ers, 142, lh9 

 T(i Use Hen Manure, 143 

 The Wheat C'roirln Euro|>o, 144 

 The Farmers' Centenulal, 144 

 The Animal and the Vegeta- 

 ble, \w 

 Their Phvfleal Relation toeach 



Other, I4<5 

 Thanksln.Mr.J.WIndolph,14a 

 The Wurm Snake, 147 

 The Morse r>r Walrua, 14S 

 The l)oU)llnk, 14 -i 

 The Selcellon of Cows, 152 

 Test of Quality, 153 

 The Im|Kirlance of Educating 



llorsi's, 151 

 The Curulverous Pllcber- 



Planl, 1.54 

 The Chinese Management of 



Ruses, I5S 

 Top-Uresslug Wheat, 1.59 

 The Hotting of Celery, 1.59 

 The Dry Earth Trealmonl, 159 

 The September Sn.rm, l«4 

 The Dlsbemlnal'n of Plants, 104 

 The Destruction of -Noxious 



Insects, lOii 

 The Exiwrtatlon .if Beef, 171 

 Treatment of Unmanagebla 



Horses, 170 

 To Our Patrons, 177 

 To Learn a Horse's Age, 191 

 The Hoc Bouncer, 191 

 Useful Hints, 87 

 Useful Recipes, 160 

 Useful Notes, 190 

 Valuable Essays aud Discus- 

 sions, ^6 

 Value of Barnyard Dung, 69 

 Veterinary Notes, 74 

 Value of Road Dust, 1.59 

 Vines (ironing Sinmgly, 159 

 Ventlatlon, 167 

 Veget'le Food, an Essay on, 182 

 Whv don't Chickens Lay I 9 

 Walking Hordes, 11 

 Winter Yard for Sheep, 15 

 What Kind of Oil I IH, 41 

 Walking Horses vs. Trott'g, 31 

 What It will do, 32 

 Where did they come fromi 50 

 Which Potato Is the Best? 58 

 What Causes Honey-Dew? 60 

 What will I'ayJ 62 

 Whipp'g Horses Dangerous, 63 

 Will Bec-Keeplng Pav t 78 

 What Is the Best .Mod'e of Arti- 

 ficial Swarming ? 76 

 Worms In Fowls, 95,78 

 White and Red Wheat, 79 

 Whitewash, 79 

 White Cochins, 81 

 What Country Papen do, 88 

 Which Ways should Drllli 



Hun I 90 

 Whitc-Crestcd Bl'k Polish, 101 

 Watercresses, 112 

 Where the Potato Bugs go, 114 

 Western Crop Heporu, 1-7 

 What Is Blight! 1 9 

 Wheat Growing. 1 8 

 What Kind of Wheat shall w« 



Sow? 142 

 What Cause* Blight? 149 

 Why large Cities Escape Thun- 

 derbolts, 155 

 When and Why Lamps Ex- 

 plode, 174 

 Warmed-Up Mutton, 175 

 What Shall we Eat ? 183 

 Wheat Supply In England, I9i 

 Waste on the Farm, 192 

 Watering Winter PlanU, Ul 

 Yard for Plgi, 15 

 Yorkablres, IBS 



INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Arctic Wolvcreen, or Glut- I Bl'k Polish, White-crested, 101 



ton, 132 Centennial Grounds (Birds-eye 



Barred Owl, the, 133 View) 10 



Black Cochins, 17 Chester Whltel, 18 



Black Hamburgs, 135 I Dorkings, 48 



Houdans, 65 

 Light Brahmas, 35 

 Locust, the, 132 

 Magpie Pigeon, the, 124 

 Morse, or Walrus, the, 148 



Morell, the, 149 

 Mushroom, the, 149 

 Oriole, Nest of the 21 

 Peck's Liquid Atomizer, 69 

 Queen of torksblra 2d, 165 



Red Echmyd.the, IT 

 Sloth or A , the, 5 

 Swallows, 51 

 Thrush, the, 54 

 White Cochloa, 21 



