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Prof. S. S. EATHVON, Editor. 



LANCASTER. SEPTEMBER 15, i877. 



LINN5;iIS EATHVON, Publisher. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



The Tobacco Bug, 129 



The Cucumber, - - - - - 129 

 TheStiufc of lusects — Their Nature autl Treatment — The 

 Best Remedy of Thirty Years Experience — How to 

 Treat Inaect Stings, - - - - 130 

 The Codling Moth— The Orape Procris and Grape Leaf- 

 Folder, 130 



Black Bass and Baea-Bait, - - - - 131 



Oliver Dalrymple the '• Great Wheat King " of Minn., 131 

 State Fair, ...... 13] 



Our Local Organization and Ourself, - • - 131 



A Singular PoUto, ----- 182 



Wheat Crop of 187T, ----- 132 



Monthly Reminders, ..... 133 



Queries and Answers, ..... 132 



Culinary Contributions, .... 132 



New Feed Buckeye Grain Drill, - - .133 



Artificial Butter — ' Stauff'er, - - - 138 



Kebraska Notes — Sijtlnty A. Oai/lur, - - -134 



Around the Farm — Machinery — Tobacco Moths— iJtira?- 



ist, VM 



Description of a Roman Coin, . - . . 134 



The Flemish Beauty Pear, - - . - 1 35 



Htunbugs, Swindles and Frauds, as Practiced on the 



Farming Community, - . - - 135 



Dew, and its Cause, ...... 136 



OUR LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS. 



Lancaster Co. Agricultural and Horticultural Society, 137 

 Crop Reports — No Horticultural Exhibition — Premi- 

 ums for Best Crops — Oleomargarine — ,\n Act to 

 Regulate the Manufacture and Sale of Fertilizers — 

 Committee to Test Fruits- Testimonal to Prof. 

 JFUthvon — The Professor's Repl> — Social Inter- 

 course and Testing of Fruit — The Codling Moth — 

 Fruit Report — Business for Next Meeting, 



ToUacco Growers' Association, - - - . jgs 



Crop Reports — Referred Questions — Management 

 of Tobacco Sheds— A Plea for the Birds— Banging 

 op Tobacco. 



The Linniean Society. - - - . - 139 



AGRICULTURAL. 



Woking Land on Shares, - - . .140 



Compoet, -...-. 140 



Killing Canada Thistles, . . . . .140 



Sugar Com vs. Hungarian Grass, - - 140 

 Fall Plowing, .--... 540 



Coal Ashes, _--... 144^ 



HORTICULTURAL. 



Management of Fruit Trees, . - - - 140 



A Propagating Secret, .... 140 



Cracking of Pears, ...... 1411 



Watering Trees, ..... ]41 



Shall Old Orchards be Plowed 7 • - • -141 



American Fruit in Europe, .... 141 



Soot as a Garden Pert ilixer, . . . - 141 



DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 



Setting Milk for Cream, . - . - 141 



Cleansing Feathers of their Animal Oil, . . .141 



Ventilation of Closets, .... 14] 



Simple Cure for Ear-ache, - - . . .141 



Shakers' Pickles to Keep Ten Tears, - - 141 



Wax for Cans, - . . . . .141 



Household Recipes, ..... )4i 



LIVE STOCK. 



How to Have Healthy Pigs, .... 142 



Potatoes for Cows, - - . . . :42 



How to Fit Horee Collars, - . . - . 142 



Cleanse the Manger, .... - 142 



Stimibling Horses, ...... 242 



Full Feeding, ....-- 142 



How the Price of Cows has Risen, ... 142 



A Lamb with a Cow for a Mother, - • 142 

 Age of Sheep, ..... .142 



ENTOMOLOGICAL. 



Bot and Bot Flies, ..... 142 



The Potato Bug Abroad, - - - - - 142 



Industry of Ants, - - - . . ]4h 



Codling Moth, - • - - - - 143 



THE POULTRY YARD. 



Eggs and Ways of Using Them, ... 143 



Change of Color or Moult, ..... 143 



Effectsof Cold Storms on Poultry, - . 143 

 Non-Sitters, - - . . . - .143 



Profit in Poultry Keeping, . . - - 143 



Errors in Poultry Keeping, .... 144 



Profit in Poultry, ..... 144 



Capouizing, -•-.... 144 



Gapes, ....... 144 



The Number of Hens to a Cock, - - - - 144 



Chicken Choleia, - .... 144 



Lime Dust, - - - - . . - 144 



Literary and Personal. - . - . 144 



THE FARMERS HOME ORGAN. 



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