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THE FARMER IS THE FOUNDER OF CIVILIZATION.'- WEBSTER 



Prof. S. S. EATHVON, Editor. 



LANCASTER, JUNE 



PEASSOL li GEIST, Publishers. 



THE FARMERS HOME ORGAN. 



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A MONTHLY NEWSPAPER, 



DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE, HORTI- 

 CULTURE, DOM ESTIC ECONOMY 

 AND MISCELLANY. 



PRACTICAL ENTOMOLOGY 



Made a promiuent feature. vr\:h s] ecJal reference to the 

 wauts of tUe Farmer, the G^rdeuer uud Fruit-Grower. 



Founded under the au<;pices of the L.incaster County 

 Agricultural and Horticultural Society. 



Edited Ij Prof. S. S. EATHVON. 



The Lancaster Farmkb has uow completed its seventh 

 year — the last having been under the. auspices of the under- 

 signed as pubhshere. 'Wheii we assumed the resiioueibllity 

 of the i^iublication one year ago, it was with a determination 

 to make such iniprovemeut» during the year as would place 

 the FarmexB" Orgau of this great agricultural county in the 

 very front rant of publicatioue of its class. That we have 

 done so, our readers will bear cheerful testimony. But our 

 work of improvement is only fairly begun. We propose to 

 make the volume for the Conteunial year still more interest in g 

 and valuable than its predecessor for ls75. In this, how- 

 ever, we need the co-operation of every friend of the enter- 

 prise. To make it a succetis, every one who now reads The 

 Farmer should at once send us at least one new subscriber. 



The coutributious of our able editor, Prof. Kathvon, on 

 subjects connected with the science of farming, and partic- 

 ularly that specialty of which he is so thoroughly a master- 

 entomological science— some knowledge of which has become 

 a necessity to the successful farmer, are alone worth much 

 more than the price of this publication. 



The Farmer will be published on the 15th of every 

 month, printed on good paper with clear tyjte, in con- 

 venient form for reading and binding, and mailed to eub- 

 scnbers on the following 



TERMS: 



To subscribers residing within the county — 

 One copy, .one year, ----- $i,oo 

 Six copies, one year, - - - - . . 5.00 



Ten Copies, one year, ------ 7.50 



To subscribers outside of Lancaster county, including 

 postage pre-paid by the publishers: 



One copy, one year, ----- $1.25 



Five copies, one year, - - - - - - 5.00 



All subscriptions will commence with the January num- 

 ber unless otherwise ordered. 



AU communications intended for publication shonld be 

 addressed to the Editor, and, to secure insertion, should be 

 in his hands by the first of the month of publication. 



All business lettersi^containing subscriptions and adveV- 

 tieements, should be aadressed to the publishers. 



PEARSOL & GEIST, 



Express Buildings, 22 South Queen Street, 

 LANCASTER, PA. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



RATES OF AnVERTISIXG Ten Cenf<i n 



line for caob insertion. Twelve lines to the iucb 



White Cochius. Illmfraterl. W. AtleeBuupec, - 81 

 The Colorado Potato Beetle. Editorial, - - 81 

 Cabbages. (Srasska Oleracea.) Editorial, - 82 



Cauliflower. Eilitorial, - 8S 



Something about Fir Trees. Editorial, - - 8.3 

 Packing Egcs. Editorial, - - - - - 84 

 IIow to Get Kid of Rose Slusfs. Editori:iI, - - 8-t 

 Late-Keepins: Fruits. Editorial, - - - 85 

 Answers to Carrospondont8. Editorial, - -8.5 

 A Pair of Texas Travelers. Editorial, - - 8.'i 



About Flies. Editorial, 80 



What the Country Pajiers Do. Editorial, - 86 

 A Complete Remedy for Tobacco Fly. E.Utorial, 86 

 .Simple Cure for Dyspepsia. Editorial, - - 86 

 Timely Garden Hints, Walter Ei.deu, - - 87 

 Dottin^s from Leoline, - - - - - 87 

 My Experience with Italians. Z., - - - 87 

 Turnips for Milch Cows and Sheep. Ay Oi.i) 



HCSBAXDM.VN, 87 



About Grasses. J. Staupfer, - - - 87 



IIow to Stack Grain. J. C. Lixvn.LE, - - 88 



Something About Bees. Wm. I. Pvle, - - 89 



From Over the Pond. .J. C. ScnMrDT, - - 89 



Poisons in Afrriculture, ----- 89 



The Centennial, 90 



The Hawthorn, 00 



Tlie Crop Prospects, 01 



Improvement of Grass Land, - - - - 91 

 Our Paris Letter, --..---91 



Our Farmers in Council, - - - - - 02 



Proceedings of the Lancaster County Agricultural 



and Horticultural Society. 



Domestic Economy, ------ 9.3 



Meat Safes or Closets — Care of Canary Birds- 

 Household Eecii-es— To Make Cheese-Cake— Try 

 It— lu Waehiug Calicoes — Experiments— Taste of 

 Turuirs in Slilk and Butter— Horse Radish Sauce- 

 Drumstick Asparagus. 



General Miscellany, 93-96 



Have Faith in Your Business- Management of 

 Horses— Potatoes and Potato Growing — Milk from 

 Holstein Cows— Culture of the Yam— Convenient • 

 Barns- How Plants Feed on Ammonia— About 

 Cheese— Worms in Fowls— Good Thing About Bye— 

 Mulching Recently Planted Trees— The Pe»ch Crop 

 —Be Sociable with Young Cattle— Improvement of 

 Grass Land— .\sheB for Crops— The Feeding of 

 Horses — Transplanting Evergreens— Application of 

 Lime— Mellow Soil Around Trees— Which Ways 

 Should Drills Run— Bees on a Small Scale— Uar- 

 nessing Colts— Cutting Off Lower Limbs — Scaly 

 Legs on Fowls— New Stock Yards— A Hen— To Pre- 

 vent Splitting of Handles- Buckwheat as a Poultry 

 Food— The Crops— Heaves in Horses— Labels— Poaa 

 amone Potatoes— A Fact for Farmers— Various 

 Items* 

 Our Fence Corners, . - - - - - ii, lil 

 United States Centennial Commission, - - ill 



flje Jarmer^ printing ^{fice. 

 THE LANCASTER EXPRESS, 



(DAILY AND VTEEKLT.) 



Tlje Lfadirjg Local Family and business Newspaper, and the 

 oi;ly Independei^t Republtcai} Journal JQ the County. 



THE A FOXJNDED r THE 



WEEKLY,'- i:v iHK .' DAILY, 



1843 J PRESENT PROPRIETORS. ( 1856 



The Weekly ExPittK^ has btn-n Iwfore iho pitlRen'i of 

 LftiicuBter county for a j.eriod of tUirly-thri-*' yt-Hrn. aii'l Ihe 

 Daily Exprehk for over niiiete«-o ypHrn. Dunuif thin long 

 period, nud without cbaiiKe of iiiauiiK*'iiient, THt Kxtbekd 

 has fairly earued s Inrm' share of piidouaKe ftiid flnnly 

 entabli^hed itflelf in the i>ut>ljc coiitlileuco, ah nu ui>ri({bt and 

 indej eiidcnt journal, never beHiiatiuK to defend ttie rlsht 

 and denounce the wrouK, no matter where fnuud to cxlit. 

 It haH alwaye been a jourual of itrotfre»>*', and the outHix>keu 

 friend of education, teniae ran re. nomid morals and rellglou. 

 As iu the paHt, so it will continue iu the future. 



TERMS OF THE EXPRESS. 



The Weekly Express, one year, - - $a.oo 



The Daily Express, one year, .... 5,00 



The Express and The Farmer : ToRuy vernon residlug 

 within the liniite of Lancaster county we will mail — 

 The Weekly and the Lancaster Farmer, one year, $3.50 



REAL ESTATE ADVERTISING. 



The extended circulation of The Exprkss maken it the 

 best medium for advertising Heal l^Letate ond X'ersoual 

 Projierty iu the county, a fact which can be atteHted by bo 

 many farmers and others who have avuib-d themselveii of 

 the use of Itrt oolumufl, and to which wc iuvite the attcutlon 

 of all having property to disj o^'e of. 



PRINTING SALE BILLS. 



The Express printing ofBce is one of the l)est fumfahad 

 establishments for lurniog out all kinds of pnullng to \m 

 found in the iuterior of the State, We are j.repared to 

 print any job from the small visiting card to the largest aalo 

 or horse bill, poster, or broadside, iilniu or lu colors, aa 

 quickly as it can be done at any other establishment, and on 

 as reasonable terms. We make the pilnting of iSale'lniU 

 f»t Fiinnern a. epeclalty, and guarautw satiafacliou to oar 

 customers. 



OUR STEAM POWER PRESSES 



inclutle the vahoua i-attems adapted to printing bookff, 

 ]>amphlet8, posters, aale-bllls, hund-bllls, millcm' receipt*, 

 catalogues of live stock, and any kiud of work done In a 

 firet-clana printiug office; Iu short an>-1hing that may be 

 called for by the farmer, merchant, l»auker, mechaulc, or 

 busluefts man. and we guarantee to do the work as Baliafaa- 

 tory aa it can be done in Philadelphia or elsewhere. 



With one of the moat complete Job Olllces iu the State, 

 and uupurpassed conveniences for expeditiously turning oat 

 work bv the best workmen, under the j-craonal Bupervlaion 

 of the proprietors, who are both i>ractlcal printers, all iwr- 

 pons iu need of iTlntlug will find it to their Uitcrest to give 

 us a trial. 



PEAESOL S^ GEIST. 



BOOK, NEWSPAPER AND JOB PRINTERS, 



Express Buildings, 22, South Queen-st, 

 LANCASTER, PA. 



CnnTAKHCrtt WanlCJl for TuE Fahsieii, with whom 

 liberal arraugenjeDta will be made. 



