/To BUbHcribers in 

 ( the county. 



f CITY U9T 



Lane Agri & Ilorlioiiltural 



3^i'fJ -w-i-i^^'io CENTS. 



To BubBoribern out of > dri OC5 

 the county. (' Cpl.^O. 



Prof. S. S. EATHVON, Editor. 



LANCASTER, JANUARY 15, 1877. 



LINNiEUS EATHVON, PuMisher. 



THE FARMERS HOME ORGAN. 



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A MONTHLY NEWSPAPER, 



DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE, HORTI- 

 CULTURE, DOMESTIC ECONOMY 

 AND MISCELLANY. 



PRACTICAL ENTOMOLOGY 



Hade a promiiient feature, with special reference to the 

 wants of the Farmer, the Gardener and Fruit-Grower. 



Founded under the auspices of the Lancaster County 

 Agricultural and Horticultural Society. 



Edited Tjy Trof. S. S. EATHVON. 



The Lancastrh Farmer having completed its eighth 

 year under various viciseitudes, now commences its ninth 

 volume' under, it is hoped, more favorable auspiceB than 

 attended its former volumcB. When the publishers of the 

 last two volumes assumed the responsibilities of its publi- 

 cation, it WU8 with a determinatiou to make such iinprove- 

 meuts HS would place the farmer's organ of tins gieat iipri- 

 cnltural county in the very front rank of agricultural jour- 

 nalism. That this has been accompliBlied wo think our 

 readers will bear cheerful teetimony. If reason bly sus- 

 tained, our aim is to make it stiD more interesting and iu- 

 Btructive under te new proprietorship. In this, however, 

 we need the co-operation of every friend of the enterprise. 



The contributions of our able editor, Prof. Uathvon, on 

 subjects connected with the science of farming, and partic- 

 ularly that specialty of which he is bo 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 type, in con- 

 venient form for reiuling and binding, and mailed to sub- 

 Bcribers on the following 



TERMS : 



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All subscriptions will commence with the January num- 

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All cuminunications intended for publication should be 

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



All business letters, containing subscriptions and adver- 

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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



LINNiEUS RATHVON, 



32 South Queen Street, Lancaster, Pa. 



RATES OF ADTERTISING — Ten Cents « 

 line for each Insertion. TweWe lines to the inoh. 



To the Public, 1 



To our Readers, .-.--- 1 



After Thoughts, 1 



Sparrows, .---•-- 2 

 Parsnips, ...-----2 



Green Manuriug. A. B. K., - - - - 2 



Essay on Tobacco Culture. Pbter 8. Rbist. - 3 



The Care of Hogs. John B. Ebb. . . 3 



The Tarn— Sweet Potato. Old Cultivator. - 4 



AreForests aBenefittoFruit-Growing. L.S.R. - 4 



Egypt, ..--.-.. 4 



Twenty Millions in Beef, .... 5 



Blackberries, --.....6 



Choice Winter Flowers, ..... 7 



French Land Owners, -.---- 8 



A Model Farm, ....... 9 



Clearing Land by Dynamite, .... 9 



Farming vs. Profession, - . . . . 9 



Pennsylvania State AgricuU.ural Society, - - 9 



Pennsylvania Fruit Growers' Association, - 10 



Our Local Organizations, ----- 11 



Proceedinge of the Lancaster County Agricultural 

 and Horticnltnral Society. 



Tobacco Growers' Association, ... 13 



The Linnasan Society, ------ lH 



Recipe for Cleaning Wool, - - - . 12 



Poetry— To My Friend Lena. MaryL.Groff. - 13 



DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 



Bread Making, ..13 



A Word to Housewives, ..... 13 



How to Pour Tea, - 13 



Origin of Dessert, ...... 13 



Valuable Recipes, -.-... 13 



LIVE STOCK. 



Hens in Winter, - - ..... 13 



Raise Your own Cows, ----- 14 



Ayrshire Cows, - .--... 14 



The Leghorn Fowls, .... - 14 



Facilitating Draught of Horses, - - - - 14 



How to Buy a Horse, . - ... 14 

 Farm Horses, -------14 



Balky Horses ------- 14 



Management of Geese, - - - - .14 



Rats and Mice, ------ 14 



Salt for Chickens, - 15 



Feed Horses Regularly, . - ... 15 



Make Feed Raeks, ...... 15 



To Keep Chickens Clean, - - - - 15 



Safeguards Against Rats, - - - . . 15 



AGRICULTURAL. 



Lime as a Fertilizer, 15 



A Broadway Farm, -....- 15 



Sowing Clover on Grass, .... - 15 



Good Yield of Corn, --.... 16 



HORTICULTURAL. 



8orae Hints on Grafting, ..... 15 



Snecession of Fruits, --.... 15 



Heat for House Plants, ..... 16 



Thinning Fru t, 16 



Tar on Fruit Trees, 16 



Grafting Currants, ...... 16 



Apples in England, ------ 16 



Literary Notices, ...... 16 



Advertisements. - - - - - ii, iii, iv 



THE PUBLISHER TO THE PEOPLE. 



Having assumed the publication of the Lan- 

 caster Farmer in obedience to the wishes of 

 many of its former friends and patrons, I 

 confidently look to the agricultural com- 

 munity in general, and to Lancaster county in 

 particular ,f or those supports, in subscriptions, 

 contributions, advertisements, and moral in- 

 fluence, which are the essential elements to 

 success in any enterprise. I have undertaken 

 the task before me at a period of great busi- 

 ness depression thi-oughout our wide extended 

 country, and my main object in doing so — 

 aside from the moral necessity of having a 

 local journal as a representative of the farm- 

 ing interest of our great county— is to fur- 

 nish just so much more labor to a mechanical 

 interest which is acknowledged as — " the art 

 preservative of all arts" — and which hasteen 

 sorely aft'ected by the present stringency of the 

 times. 



The friends of progressive agriculture in 

 tlie county and elsewhere feel confident that 

 a local journal devoted to their calling, con, 

 and owg^t. to be sustained; and whatever ef- 

 fort of mine may be necessary in making it 

 creditable to the profession, to the people, and 

 to our rich agricultural domain, will be faith- 

 fully and unstintingly accorded. I am sure I 

 have the loill and I believe I have the ftbilily 

 to meet the expectations of its friends and 

 patrons, if I am sustained by those material 

 means through which alone eitlier will or 

 ability can be successfully mainfested. The 

 Farmer has already attained an advanced 

 position in the ranks of agricultiu-al journal- 

 ism, and I propose to improve it as a rapidly 

 as the sustaining means will possibly allow. 

 Therefore, if it fails to meet the requirements 

 of its patrons and the community, it will not 

 be for a lack of effort on the part of either its 

 editor or its publisher. All communication 

 and contributions should be addressed to the 

 editor. No. 101 North Queen Street, Lancas- 

 ter, Pa; and subscriptions and advertisements 

 may be sent, either to the same address, or to 

 the publisher, No. 22, South Queen street, 

 office of the Examiner and Express. 



LiNN.«;us Rathvon. 



We call the attention of our readers to 

 our scale of adtxrtisiwj in another column of 

 this issue of our journal ; and also to the ad- 

 ditional fact that our subscription list has 

 been greatly enlarged ; and con.sequently, our 

 efficiency as an advertising medium has cor- 

 respondingly increased. All having articles 

 for sale, and that they wish brought to the 

 notice of the public, will find that through 

 our columns, they will reach as staunch a 

 class of people as any in the country ; and 

 therefore it will be to their interest to make 

 use of them in making their wants known, 

 either in buying or in selling. 



