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THE FARMERS HOME ORGAN. 



A MONTHLY NEWSPAPER, 



DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE, HORTI- 

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PRACTICAL ENTOMOLOGY 



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Founded under the auspices of the Lancaster County 

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Edited Ij Prof. S. S. EATHVON. 



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CONTENTS OrmiS NUMBER. 



Farmers and tlieir Relations to the Country, - 145 

 Bees Stinging Fruit, ..... 145 

 Do Swallows Emigrate, ..... 146 



A Beet Hard to Beat, 14C 



Fine Tobacco Leaves ..... 146" 



Recipe for Decorating Eggs, .... 147 



Smeych's Seedling, ...... 147 



Monthly Reminder for October, - - 147 



Cattle DisiMse, No. 1, - - - - - 147 



The Cattle Disease— No. 2, .... 148 



Splenetic Fever, ....-- 148 



How it was Introduced — Its Symptoms and Cause 

 —The Tick Theory not Tenable— Post Mortem Re- 

 sults — The Symptoms Described — A Post Mortem — 

 The Tick Theory Disposed Of— The Only Sure Pre- 

 ventive — Other Theories Advanced — Veterinarians — 

 Nothing but SpleneticFcver. 



The Continental Strawberry, - - - - 149 



Queries and Answers, ..... 149 



Saliccacea; — Willowworts — Cuttrebra buccata, or 



"Squirrel hot"— The Hair Worm — Phnltus impudi- 



cus — Wheel-bug — Danais Archippti — Horned Toad 



— The Yellow Crab-Apple Tree. 



Southwest Missouri, ..... 150 



The Gravcnstcin Apple, ..... 151 



Wheat and its Culture, .... 151 



Italian vs. Black Bees, ..... 152 



Forests — Their Destruction and Restoration, - 152 



Hard Times, - 15.i 



15.3 

 153 



1.54 

 154 



155 



Letter from North Carolina ... 

 Around the Farm — No. 2, . - - 



Ho^ Styes — Cornstalks — Papaw. 

 Nebraska Notes ..... 

 Potomac Fruit-Growers' Association 



September Meeting — Fruits in Disease. 

 Our Local Organizations, ... 



Proceedings of the Lancaster County Agricultural 

 and Horticultural Society — American Pomological 

 Society — Crop Reports — Essay on Wheat — Death of 

 a Member — Fattening Stock — T'he Cattle Disease — 

 Fruit Committee — Questions for the Next Meeting. 



Tobacco Growers' Association, ... 156 

 Crop Reports— The Society's Anniversary — New 

 Members F-lectcd — Debate on Preparation of Soil — 

 Plowing Down the Stumps — Business for next Meet- 

 ing — Subscription to Newspapers— Thanks to Brother 

 Kurtz. 



The Bee-keepers' Society, ... 



The Liun;iean Society, - - - . 

 Donations to the .Museum — Papers Read. 

 AGRICULTURAL. 



Wheat-Growing in -America, 



Home Manures, ..... 



Hungarian Cirass, - . . - . 



Soiling Doubles t lie Acreage, . . - 



Liquid Excrement, .... 



Hints to Growers of Tobacco, ... 

 HORTICULTURAL. 



The Original Seckel Pear Tree, 



Grafting and Its EtTects, .... 



Salt as a Fertilizer, .... 



DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 



Weight of Milk, 



Effect of Tea on the Skin, . . - 



Rest Before Eating, . . . - . 



Convenience, --.... 



Old Frames, ---... 



Household Receipts, .... 

 LIVE STOCK. 



How to Bi-eak Colts, .... 



The Cow for Small Farms, ... 



How to Grow Pigs, 



POULTRY. 



Packing Poultry for Market, 



"Plymouth Rocks," 



Charcoal and Lime, .... 



To Preserve Eggs, ..... 



Literary and Personal, .... 



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1.5S 

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