CONTENTS! OF VOLUME NINE. 



AfleiTlioiifchte, 1 



Are Forests a Beuetit to Fruit Grow- 

 in;; ? -t 



A Moelel Farm, 9 

 A WorJ to Ilousewifes, 13 

 Ayrceliire Cows, 14, 58, 79 

 A Broadway Farm, 15 



Apples iu Eiislaud, 10 



A Special Ajipeal, 17 



A Successful Farm Operation, ^9 



A Momentous Question, 33 



Ants ami Ant-eaters, o5 



A Queer Calf, 48 



April, 49 



Answers to Correspondents, 53 



Annual Address, 54 



A Xew A^frieultural Plant, 63 



A Kemiiider, <J3 



American Vomological Society, 60 



A Voice from the South, 65 



Aijrieultural and Horticultural Socie- 

 ty, 73, <)l), WO, 187 



A Farm that Kuined the Owner, 77 



A Wonderful Book, 81 



A Xew Insecticide, 82 



A Lcssou AVorth Learning, 83 



A Cholera Cure, 83 



Aliout Froffs, 84 



Archaeological Communication, 87 



At the Head of His Class, 89 



A Hood Fertilizer, 92 



About Milk, 94 



Against the World, 95 



A Word of Caution, 95 



A Bettor Civilization, 97 



Abiix — Spruce Fir, 102 



A Farm Roller, 108 



Apples and the WayTto Keep Them, 

 109 



American Fruit iu F.urope, 109, 141, 

 UK) 



A Milk Diet, 110 



A Good Mare, 110 



All 81 vies of Chicken Coops, 112 



A Muddled Tolwcco Leaf, 114 



Apple-tree Insects, 116 



Adulteration of the Necessaries of 

 Life, 119 



A Bountiful Harvest, 127 



A SiUKUlar Potato, 132 



Artiticial Butter, 133 



Around the Farm, 134, 153, 16S 



A Propagating Secret, 140 



A Lanih with a Cow Mother, 142 



Age of Sheep, 142 



A Beet Hard to Beat, 146 



American Pomological Convention, 

 165 



Autumnal Coloration of Leaves, 169 



A Root Cellar or House, 175 



A Cheap Smokehouse, 175 



Advice to Drivers, 79 



Au Admiralilc School Book, 177 



Around the Farm, 180 



Address, 181 



Age of Nursery Trees, 190 



A Cure for Diptherla, 191 



Blackberries, 6 



Bread^Iakidg, 13 



Balky Horses, 14 



Hy Uail to Frederick, Md., 21 



Build Bird-houses, 21 



Baked Corn and Eggs, 26 



Boiled Dinners, tO 



Blue Glass. 33 



Bottle Grafting, 45 



Bitter Cream, 47 



Better Prices for Seed-Leaf, 60 



Book-Keeping by Farmers, 70 



Bee Keepers' Association, 75 



Beef Extract, 78 



Barn Wash, 78 



Birds vs. Hopijers, 85 



Blackberry Culture, 93, 109 



Black Teeth in Hogs, 110 



Bees-Wax, 111 " 



Budding, 117 



Black Bass and Bass-Bait, 131 



Bafand Bot-Flies, 142 



Bees Stinging Fruit, 145 



Buy Your Trees at Home, 163 



Blue Glass, 41 



Breeding of Silk- Worms, 25 



Buckeye Grain Drill, 133 



Bark-Lice, 178 



Budding, 190 



Choice Winter Flowers, 7 



Clearing Land by Dynamite, 9 



Cultivation of Clilckory, 29, .36 



Covering of Strawberries, 29 



Coldslaw, 33 



"Collier," 37 



Corn Fodder, 45 



Celery, 40 



Care of Dairy Cows, 48, 79 



Crowded Out, 50 



Corn Cultivation, 57 



Culture of Broom Corn, 77 



Clean Out the Weeds, 77 



Cherries, 77 



Cleaning Silk, 78 



Chickens Fit to Eat, 79 



Cure for Chicken Cholera, 80 



Cress, 82 



Correction, 85 



Compost for Corn, 93 



Changing the Bearing Year, 93 



Correspondence, 100 



Crops iu North Carolina, 102 



Cutting and Curing Tobacco, 105 



Culture of Tobacco, 105 



Carting Out Manure, 108 



Cut the Weeds While Small, 108 



Catching H.iwks, 113 



Colorado Beetle in England, 116 



Cultivating Wheat, 127 



Culinary Contributions, 132 



Compost, 140 



Coal Ashes, 140 



Cracking Pears, 140 



Cleaning Feathers, 141 



Cleanse the Manger, 142 



Codling Moth, 143 



Change of Color or Moult, 143 



Caponizing, 144 



Chicken Cholera, 144 



Cattle Disease, 148 



Convenience, 1.59 



Charcoal and Lime, 100 



Continental Strawberry, 149 



Cinderella Strawberry, 166 



Care of Slock, 176 



Cooked Meat for Poultry, 176 



Cleaning the Hen-house, 176 



Clubbing, 177 



Curing Meats, 187 



Cracked Pears, 190 



Caring for Stock, 191 



Canada Cheese, 191 



Domesticating the Buffalo, 48 



Does the Water Strike Through? 70 



Does Buckwheat Poison Sheep? 79 



Durham Cows, 79 



Don't Omit the Turnips, 93 



Dried Potatoes, 94 



Dried Eggs, 110 



Dead-Shot onlPoultry Lice, 112 



Does it Rain Toads? 115 



Does the Shad Bite, or Take a Bait? 117 



Ducks— Setting Eggs and Rearing 



Young, 123 

 Description of a Roman Coin, 134 

 Dew and its Cause, 136 

 Do Swallows Emigrate? 140 

 Do Bees Cut the Skins of Fruit? 161 

 Domestic Recipes, 175 

 Devon Cattle, 176 

 Essay on Tobacco Culture, 3 

 Egypt, 4 

 Experiments on Nutrition of Domestic 



Animals, SI 

 Early Spring Salads, 45 

 Exports of Tobacco from New York, 



76 

 Essay on Wheat, 86 

 Effects of Climate on Soil, 93 



Extcrmiu.ation of Parasites, 95 



Explanation, 98 



Echoes from the Public Press, 100 



Extracted Honey, 111 



Effects of Cold Storms on Poultry, 111, 



143 

 Eggs and Ways of Using Them, 143 

 Errors in Poultry Keeping, 144 

 Efl'ect of Tea on the Skin, 159 

 "England's Imports, 174 

 Eggs fur Export, 176 

 Early Prolific Raspberry, 181 

 Economy in the Use of Fuel, 191 

 Extravagance, 191 

 French Land Owners, 8 

 Farming vs. Profession, 9 

 Facilitating Draught of Horses, 14 

 Farm Horses, 14 

 Feed Horses Regularly, 15 

 Fish, Flesh and Fowl, ilO 

 Farmers vs. Sportsmen, 32 

 Fruits of Kansas, 30 

 Farm Sacks 00 Years Old, 46 

 Facts Worth Remembering, 40 

 Fruit as a Medicine, 47 

 Food for Fowls, 47 

 Feeding Fowls, 47 

 Fattening Poultry, 47 

 Fine Test Potatoes, 50 

 Fertilization, Preventive and Cure, 50 

 Florida and its Oranges, 04 

 Farm Profits in America, 77 

 Fruit Prospects, 78 

 Fencing and Soiling, 38 

 Farmers Grindstone, 94 

 From Nebraska, 102 

 Floating Melon Gardens, 109 

 Flemish Beauty Pear, 135 

 Fall Plowing, 140 

 Full Feeding, 142 

 Farmers and the Country, 145 

 Fine Tobacco Leaves, 146 

 Forests, Their Destruction, &c., 152 

 Forests and Kain-fall, 170 

 Freshman vS Brothers, 110 

 From North Carolina, 179 

 Facts not Generally Known, 186 

 Forest Planting in France, 190 

 Green Manuring, 2 

 Good Yield of Corn, 15 

 Grafting Currants, 16, 30 

 General Readers, 17 

 Golden Rules for Bee-Keeping, 32, 43 

 Garget iu Cows, 95 

 Gapes in Chickens, 90 

 Good Cows, 110 

 Grammar in a Nutshell, 115 

 Gapes, 144 



Gravenatein Apple, 151 

 Grafting and Its Effects, 15S 

 Good Farming, 174 

 Grapes and Bees, ISO 

 Gypsum, 183 

 Grape Yield in Ohio, 190 

 How to Pour Tea, 13 

 Hens in Winter, 13 

 How to Buy a Horse, 14 

 Heat for House-plants, 16 

 Hog Cholera, 25 

 How to Make a Hot-bed, SO 

 Handy Men, 30 

 Healthful Beds, 31 

 Horse-Growers, 31 

 Hell's Ten Acres, 33 

 Hay for Hens, 39 

 Harrowing Wheat in Spring, 45 

 How Much Lime to an Acre, 56 

 Hints to Farmers, 63 

 How Shall we Know How to Plant? 69 

 How Lancaster County Forced to the 



Front , 76 

 Haying, 77 

 Horse Hay-fork, 83 

 How to Ease a Cough, 53 

 Hungarian Millet, 93 

 Hot Beds, 93 

 Household Recipes, 78, 94, 109, 127, 



141, 159, 191 



Hanging au A.vc, 94 



Healthy Cattle, 94 



Half-bred Buffaloes iu the Dairy, 95 



How to Keeji Our Boys at Home, 100 



How to Begin Bee-Keeping, 111 



Have No Lights in the Barn, 128 



Humbugs, Swindles, Frauds, 6ci;., 135 



How to Have Healthy Pigs, 142 



How to Fit Horse-Collars, 14i 



How the Price of Cows has Risen, 142 



Hard Times, 1.53 



Home Manures, 158 



Hungarian (irass, 158 



Hints to Tobaccd-Growers, 158 



How to Break Colts, 159 



How to (irow Pi^rs, 1.59 



How to Make a Well, 1G3 



How to Make Paris Green, 165 



Horticulture and Education, 107 



Hubbardston Non-Such, 163 



How to Keep Cabbage, 175 



Hay Tea for Calves, 175 



How Long Will the Forests Last ? 18:« 



How Jacob Taylor Grows Plums, 190 



Influence of Reading, 23 



Ink for Horticultural Labels, 30 



Insects as Food, 40 



Incidental Suggestions, 71 



Is Wheat Culture Declining.' 70 



Intelligence of Cows, 110 



Italian and Native Bees, 111 



Industry of Ants, 143 



Italian vs. Black Bees, 152 



Improvement in Cultivating Wheat, 



104 

 Improvement in Farming, 168 

 Is Hungarian Grass Safe Feed for 



Horses? 190 

 Interesting Facts, 190 

 Jottings Suggested by a Circular, 41 

 Japanese Persimmon, 77 

 Keep Good Cows, 48 

 Kerosene Lamps, 110 

 Keep Horses' Feet Clean, 110 

 Knowing Horses, 192 

 Lime as a Fertilizer, 15 

 Literary and Personal, 16, 32, 48, 64, 



80, 96, 112, 128, 14-t, 160, 170, 192 

 Leak — Allium pornm, 20 

 Lice on Currant Bushes, 22 

 Letter from Daniel Webster, '24 

 Lumps on Udders, 31 

 Lettuce — Ladnva Saliva, 35 

 Leading a Colt, 48 

 Large or Small Potatoes, 51 

 Lime and Bark-Lice, 6(5 

 Lancaster County Peaches, 68 

 Landscape Gardening, 73 

 Liquid Mamire, 77, 108, 189 

 Look at Your Orchards, 77 

 Large Strawberries, 78 

 Lemonade for Invalids, 78 

 Look to the Chicks iu May, 79 

 Lice on Poultry, SO 

 Late Potato Planting, 97 

 Large Farms vs. Small Farms, 102 

 Legal Rates of Interest, 104 

 Letter from Florida, 119 

 Letter from North Carolina, 119, 153 

 Lancaster Countv Agricultural and 



Horticultural' Society, U, 27, 43, 



137, 61, 73, 90, 106, 134, 155, 171 

 Lime Dust, 144 

 Liquid Excrement, 158 

 Lancaster County Tobacco, 167 

 Lancaster County Cotton, 174 

 Letter from Cockej-sviUe, Md., 177 

 Management of Geese, 14 

 JIake Feed Racks, 15 

 Managing Queens, 32 

 Minnesota Wheat and Flour, 44 

 Monthly Reminders, 65, 81, 147, 165 

 Manuring Lands, 66 

 Millions for Middlemen, 71 

 Measuring Corn in Bulk, 77 

 -Manure on Frozen Ground, 77 

 JlUd Diet for Cattle, 79 

 More about the Lociuts, 82 



