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INDEX. 



More Pollen Needed, 93 



Milk Diet, 110 



Manure for Fruit Trees, 126 



Management of Fruit Trees, 140 



Mice and Young Trees, 190 



Mr. Kurtz's Pumpkin, 178 



More about Bees, 178 



Newspaper Making, 19 



New Yoak Tobacco Trade, 76 



Nebraska Notes, 86, I'H 



New Feed — Buckeye Grain Drill, 133 



Non-Sitters, 143 



Number of Hens to a Cock, 144 



Notice Extraordinary, 161 



Nafonal Bee Keepers' Association, 



178 

 Our Local Organizations, 11, 27, 43, 



61, 15.5 

 Origin of Dessert, 13 

 Otter of Roses, 23 

 Oyster-shell Bark-louse, 67 

 Origin of Prairies, 105 

 Oliver Dalrymple's Farm. 131 

 Our Local Organization and Ourself, 



131 

 Original Seckel Pear Tree, 158 

 0:a Frames, 159 

 Our Delinquent Subscribers, 161 

 ObUuary, 164 

 Opposition to Potatoes, 189 

 Our Prospects, 180 

 Oleomargarine Butter, 183 

 Parsnips, 2 



Penn'a State Agricultural Society, 9 

 Pennsylvania Fruit-Growers' Society, 



10, 161, 177 

 Poetry— To My Friend Lena, 13 

 Planting and Care of Trees, 46 

 Perfected Butter Color, 46 

 T'itris Rapa, .53 

 Pennsylvania Wheat Crop, 76 

 Profit in Good Soil, 77 

 Potatoes, 78 

 Peas in Missouri, 78 

 Profits in Almonds, 78 

 Preserving Figs, 78 

 Pa'nting Buildings, 78 

 Pay Attention to Live Stock, 79 

 Protection of Useful Animals, 83 

 Prospects for Farmers, 89 

 Potatoes a Profitable Crop, 93 

 Poultry-Keeping by Boys, 95 

 Plymouth Rock Fowls, 95, 160 

 Patrons of Husbandry, 99 

 Purification of Hen-houses, 111 

 Potatoes Without Paris Green, 121 

 Proceedings of Society, 124, 171 

 Propagating Secret, 140 

 Potomac Fruit-Growers' Association, 



154 

 Packing Poultry for Market, 160 

 Pruning Roses, 175 

 Preparing Poultry for Market, 176 

 Propagating Rabbits, 192 

 Queen Bees, 32 

 Queer Calf, 48 

 Queries and Answers, 85, 101, 117, 



132, 149 

 Questiins and Answers, 92 

 Recipe for Cleaning Wool, 12 



Rats and Mice, 14 



Repairing Leaky Cellar Walls, 80 



Rearing Lambs by Hand, 48 



Reminder, 65 



Raising Onion Sets, 77 



Re-cooking Meat, 94 



Raising Geese, 96 



Reminder for July, 98, 115 



Report of Agricultural Department, 



108 

 Raspberries from Cuttings, 109 

 Refrigerators, &c., 110 

 Royal Cow, 110 

 Red Pepper and Poultry, 112 

 Recipe for Butter, 128 

 Recipe for Decorating Eggs, 147 

 Rest Before Eating, 159 

 Root Cellar or House, 175 

 Raise Your Own Cows, 14 

 Reminder for December, 178 

 Sparrows, 2 

 Salt for Chickens, 15 

 Safeguards Against Rats, 15 

 Sowing Clover on Grass, 15 

 Some Hints on Grafting, 15 

 Strange Substance in a Horse, 19 

 Symptoms of Rabies in Dogs, 31 

 Sentimentalisms, 33 

 Saving Manure, 45 

 Sap and Plant-Life, 56 

 Shipment of Apples, 64 

 Six Months for an Owl, 66 

 State Board of Agriculture, 66, 92 

 Shite-Poke, (Butorides Viresceus') 68 

 Seed Wheat, 69 

 South-west Missouri, 70, 150 

 Small Fruits in Gardens, 77 

 Safety From Rats and Mice, 79 

 Strawberry Culture, 85 

 Strawberries, 67 

 Stocking and Feeding, 96 

 Sweet Potatoes for Hogs, 94 

 Soft Eggs, 112 



Supply Your Chickens with Milk, 112 

 Strikes and Riots, 113 

 State and District Fairs, 117 

 State Fair, 131 

 Singular Potato, 132 

 Sugar Corn vs. Hungai'ian Grass, 140 

 Shall Old Orchards be Plowed? 141 

 Soot as a Garden Fertilizer, 141 

 Setting Milk for Cream, 141 

 Simple Cure for Earache, 141 

 Shaker Pickles, 141 

 Stumbling Horses, 142 

 Smcych's Seedling Peach, 147 

 Splenetic Fever, 148 

 Salt as a Fertilizer, 158 

 Synopsis of Crops of 1877, 104 

 Special Premiums for 187S, 165 

 Sour Bread, 175 

 Special Premiums for 1878, 177 

 Splenetic Fever of Cattle, 182 

 Something About Dragon-flies, 186 

 Saving Sweet Potatoes, 1K9 

 Silver Hull Buckwheat, 190 

 Setting Trees, 190 

 To the Public, 1 

 To our Readers, 1 

 The Care of Hogs, 8 



The Yam Sweet Potato, 4 



Twenty Millions in Beef, 5 



Tobacco Growers' Association, 12, 27, 

 62, 74, 90, 107, 173, 125, 138, 150, 

 188 



The Liunsan Society, 12, 28, 63, 75, 

 91, 108, 120, 139, 1.58, 173, 189 



The Leghorn Fowls, 14 



To Keep Chickens Clean, 15 



Thinning Fruit, 16 



Tar on Fruit Trees, 16 



To Subscribers, 17 



The Ayrault Cattle, 17 



The Fire-fly, 18 



The Guava, 18, 51 



Table Costumes, 18 



The Dangerous Quail, 19 



Tobacco,' 24, 46 



The Fodder Value of Apples, 29 



The English Hop Trade, 30 



The Horse-Growers, 31 



The Country, 33 



The TobEcco Worm, .37 



The Thurber Peach, 45 



Tree Planting in Minnesota, 46 



The Pekin Ducks as Layers, 47 



The Colorado Bug Abroad, 50 



The Park Association, 50 



The Weather and Grouud-Hog, 50 



The Lancaster Tobacco Crop, 60 



Transplanting Large Trees, 64 



To Advertisers, 65 



The European War, 65 



Tobacco Stems, 65 



The Seuer Apples, 68 



The Lancaster Farmer, 68 



The Exchange List, 68 



The Permanent Exhibition, 69 



The Time to Spread Manure, 77 



The Peach Crop, 78, 127 



Twenty-Ounce Apple, 78 



To Keep a Fowl House, 79 



The Moving Season, 80 



This Paragraph, 81 



The Hopper, 81 



The Seventeen- Year Locust, SI, 90 



Tobacco Pests, 85 



Toulouse Geese, 87 



The Best Method to Destroy Cut- 

 worms, 87 



The Garden of Pennsylvania, 89 



Tobacco Culture, 92 



The Egg Plant, 93 



To Exterminate Parasites, 95 



The First Food for Chickens, 96 



Trees Killed liy Salt, 98 



The Elm Tree Beetle. 98 



The Horse, 103 



Thoroughbred Southdowns, 104 



Tobacco— A New Pest, 104 



The Turnip Crop, 105 



Tree Planting in Minnesota, 190 



Take Care of the Horses, 192 



To our Patrons, 177 



The Celebrated Horse, Jenifer Ara- 

 bian, 177 



The Omnivorous Caterpillar, 184 



The Cherry, 185 



Ten Rules for Farmers, 186 



To Make Butter Hard, 110 



The Royal Cow, 110 



Turkeys, 112 



The Ichneumon Fly, 114 



The Locust, 115 



The Turbine Wind Engine, 118 



The Crops We Raise, "121 



Tobacco Fertilizers, 122 



The Tobacco Fly, 123 



The Grape Leaf Folder, 123, 130 



Transplanting Evergreens, 123 



Treating Manure with Lime, 127 



The Spare Bed, 128 



The Tobacco Bug, 129 



The Cucumber, 129 



The Stings of Insects, 129 



The Codling Moth, 130 



The Grape Procris, 130 



The Flemish Beauty Pear, 1.35 



The Potato-bug Abroad, 142 



The Cattle Disease, 148 



The Gravenstein Apple, 151 



The Bee-Keepers' Society, 1.57 



The Cow for Small Farms, 1.59 



To Preserve Eggs, 160 



To Our Delinquent Subscribers, 161 



The Application of Fertilizers, 166 



The Tobacco Trade, 174 



To Keep Cabbage, 175 



Unpublished Letter of Henry Clay, 53 



Utilizing Coal Dust, 63 



United States Commissioner of Agri- 



culture, 98 

 Valuable Recipes, 13, 31 

 "Varmints," 24 

 Very Curious Experiments, 41 

 Valuable Cows, 45 

 Vienna Bread and CoflTee, 47 

 Value of Roots for Stalks, 48 

 Valuable Formulas, 63 

 Value of Salt, 94 

 Varieties of Celery, 109 

 Vermin on Poultry, 111 

 Value of Early Apples, 127 

 Varieties of L.ate Turnips, 129 

 Ventilation of Closets, 141 

 Vii-ginia Tobacco, 190 

 Wholesale Death of Honey Bees, 32 

 Words of Cheer, .50 

 Written Receipts by Mail, 50 

 What Soil Consists Of, 63 

 What the Birds Accomplish, 65 

 Wheat and Chess, 77 

 Water Your Cattle, 79 

 Wonderful Book, 81 

 Working Crops Early, 92 

 Words of Caution, 95 

 What is a Practical Farmer? 99 

 AVar LTpon Insects, 113 

 What Causes Rust in Wheat, 120 

 Wheat Crop of 1877, 132 

 Working Land on Shares, 140 

 Watering Trees, 141 

 Wax for Cans, 141 

 Wheat and Its Culture, 151 

 Wheat-growing in America, 1.5S 

 Weight of Milk, 1.59 

 Worms in Flower-pots, 175 

 Water ng Horses, 191 

 What Shall We Teach Our Girls? 185 



INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Imported Berkshire "Collier," 

 Ayreshire Bull "Casper," 58 

 Toulouse Geese, 87 

 Southdown Sheep, 104 



37 



Apple Tree Borer, a. b. and c, 116 

 Buckeye Grain Drill, 1.33 

 Flemish Beauty Pe.ar, 135 

 Continental Strawberry, 149 



Griivenstein ^Ppl'^i 151 

 Cinderella Strawberry, 166 

 Hubbardston Nonsuch Apple, 168 

 Turbine Wind Engine, 118 



Game Fowls, 39 

 Early Prolific Raspberry, 



181 





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