CONTENTS OF VOLUME TEN. 



About Mosquitoes, 2 



About Bats, 3 



Answiv to a Correspondent, 5 



Address, fl 



Airriciiltural Outlook, 13 



A Portable Fence, lo 



A Hint to lirape Urowcre, l-t 



Auiuial InstiiR't, 15 



A New llouseliold Pest, 15 



Around the Farm, 23, 42, 57, 70, 



Aijrieultural Notes, 30 



Airins Beds, 30 



A Horse's I'etitiou to His Master, 31 



Apollo, 35 



A Larce IIorse-Kadisli, 36 



About Dark Bralimas, 40 



April, 49 



Asparagus, 62 



Aboition in Cows, 64 



About Potatoes, 65 



All AL'od Apple, 65 



Attraction Extraordinary, 65 



About May, 65 



A ?50-' Hooster, 79 



Apple Tree Borer, >'4 



Around the F'arni, 88, 119, 133, 151 



A Simple Kefriijerator, 89 



A Hint/o Geranium (irowers, 93 



A Manfmoth Bunch of (irapes, 93 



Arab Maxims for Horse-Keeping, 94 



A Wheal Crop Saved by Skunks, 109 



Aromatic Principles in Milk, 110 



August Caterpillars, 116 



Agricultural Exhibitions, 116 



Asparagus Plantintr in Summer, 137 



A Varied Diet for Fowls, K8 



A Winged Host of Sennecharib, 136 



Agricultural Journals, l.SS 



Agricultural Products of Englaud and 



France, 141 

 Among the Points, 143 

 An Appeal, 145, IGl 

 Acknowledgment, 145 

 Amber Sugar Cane, 147 

 A Snake in His Eye, 147 

 Answer to Correspondent i, 150 

 Acreage Kequired for a Cow, 159 

 A Gigantic Puff-Ball, 163 

 Autumn Leaves and Ferns, 162 

 A ChupieronPennsylvaniaSnakes, 164 

 Are County Fairs Benefieial to Farmers 



and Fruit-Growers? 164 

 Asclepias Tuberosa, 168 

 Autumn Top-Dressing, 173 

 A Study of Sheep, 175 

 As Others See Us, 178 

 About Canary Birds, 176 

 A Few Words on Bees and Grapes, 181 

 A Household Fruit Dryer, 187 

 Bury the Kubbish, 14 

 Buckwheat, 15, 93 

 Brown Leghorns, 37 

 Black Hellebore, 41 

 Barnyard Manures, 51 

 Bleaching Broom Corn, 63 

 lieans, 62 



Beautifying the Grass Plot, 62 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, 77, 125 

 Black Snakcroot, 89 

 Balking, 94 

 Brighton Grape, 101 

 Blackberry Causality, 104 

 Building Hoses, 110 

 Brine for Bathing the Feet of Horses, 



1-7 

 Bees and Grapes, 130 

 British Exports to the United States, 



141 

 Bone Meal and Crushed Shells, 144 

 Best Watch Made in America, 148 

 Blackroot and the Myriapods, 149 

 Bad Season for Dairy Farmers in 



Scotland, 160 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, 171 

 Clubbing, 5, 17, 33, 49, 65 

 Care of Domestic Animals, 6 

 Communication, 6 

 Cholera Among Fowls, 10 



Cost of a Bushel of Wheat, 13 



Cultivation of the Lilac, 13 



Ciicumveniing the Turnip Beetle, 15 



Culibages tor Fowls, 15 



Coal Ashes for Fowls, 16 



Correction, 17, 99 



Controlling Horn (Jrowth, 31 



{'orrespoudenec, 34, 57, 67, 83, 100, 116 



Commercial Fertilizers, 30 



Celandine, 56 



Clothes Moths, 56 



Correction for March, 58 



(Joal Ashes, <!2 



Coal Ashes and Curculio, 63, 136 



Celery, 62 



Corn ({rowing, 78 



Care of Voung Fruit Trees, 78 



Cooked Meats for Fowls, 79 



Charcoal for Poultry, 79 



Cellars, 94 



Curing a Sick Hog, 95 



Cooked Food for Chickens, 95 



Crop Keport, 103 



Chemical Fertilizers, 109 



Cabbage Grubs, 110 



Cooking Potatoes, 110 



Condiments in Poultry Diet, 112 



Crop I*^ailurcs, 113 



Cost of Cows' Milk, 123 



Condition of American Agriculture, 126 



Cottage Clieese, 1-7 



Cheap Poultry Yard, 128 



Correspondence, 131 



Clover and Chinch Bugs, 135 



Care of Fowls in Transportation, 143 



Cornstalks vs. Sorghum, 149 



Chronological History of Tobacco, 151 



Care of Poultry, 159 



Charcoal for Fowls, 159 



Cornstalk Molasses, 167 



Covering the Vines and Plants, 173 



Curious Fact About Potato Seed, 174 



Cultivation of Grain of All Kinds, 178 



Calves, 18s 

 ■Composition for Hen Roosts, 18S 



Charcoal in Turkey-Feeding, 188 



Cookeil Food for Cattle, 188 



Clover Aftergrowth, 186 



Care of Fruit Trees, 1H7 



Covering SIrawlierries, 187 



Corn Cultivation, 179 



Cliocola'e Sorghum, 181 



Do Bees Really Destroy Fruit ! 1 



Driving Away Rats, 17 



Dark Brahma Fowls, 35 



Drilling Corn, 109 



Dressing Land with Fish Scraps, 109 



Diiroc, or Jersey Red Pigs, 115 



Does Tobacco Impoverish the Soil, 129 



Doctoring Sick Fowls, 143 



Derivation of Common Names, 146 



Dairy Products, 160 



Depth to Sow Wheat, 173 



Di-horning Cattle, 175 



Essay on Manure, 7 



Eureka Tree and Post-Hole Digger, 71 



Excessive Stimulation of Strawberries, 

 78 



Externiinatiug Lice, 79 



England's Great Farm, 105 



Error in Wheat Husbandry, 109 



Experimenting on Bees, 117 



Experiments in Wheat and Oats, 121 



Explosive Dust, 136 



Evergreens and Birds, 139 



Eggs in Winter, 143 



English Sparrows, 145 



I'^uropean Sliipments from Philadel- 

 phia, 15(j 



Essay, 164 



Export of Breadstuffs, 173 



Elizabeth Stock Farms, 31 



Eggs, All About, ls4 



Fei-ding Young Chickens on Rice, 16 



February Kitchen-Garden Calendar 17 



Forcing Asparagus, 30 



Fowl Feeding in Cold Weather, 31 



Fruit — What Varieties to Grow, 42 



Fertilizers and Manures — Their Appli- 

 cations to Corn Crops, 4^! 



Farm Notes, 55 



Facts for Farms, 55 



Flat Irons, 79 



Flower Pots, 93 



Feeding for Eggs, 95 



Feeding Fowls a Little and Often, 95 



Field Mulching, 109 



Figs for Fattening Hogs, 109 



Fat Horses, UI 



Forests and Cultivation, ]'22 



F'ertility <d' Dairy Farms, I2fi 



Feeding Value of Corn and Oats, 127 



Feeding Fowls, 143 



Farm Items, 158 



Fulton Farmers' Club, 92, 108, 172 



Fall Plowing, 173 



Feeding Apiiles, 174 



Frying Raw Potatoes, 174 



Farmer, to the Patrons of the, 177 



Farmer, Our Personal Relations to the, 

 177 



Fulton Farmers' Club, 92, 108 



Guinea Fowls, 10 



Give the Fowls Pure Water, 15 



Geo. Stiuton ifc Co., Art Publishers, 17 



(iood Stock, 31 



(iive us a Breed of Walking Horses, 31 



Grafting, 40 



(iardcn Vegetables, 71 



Grain for Poultry, 95 



Good Setters, 95 



Grass Seed lor Mowing Lands, 109 



Growing Chestnuts, 127 



Garden Culture of Strawberries, 142 



(ialley- Worms vs. Wire- Worms, 161 



Game Fowls, 175 



Greeting, Our Annual, 177 



Golden Millet, 186 



Good Fowls for Laving, 188 



Household Recipes, 14, 30,63,94, 111, 

 127, 14:1, 1.59, 174, 187 



Home Expressions, 17 



Half-way Plowing, 22 



Hoeing Wheat, 24 



How Fruit (i rowing May be Made a 

 Source of Prolit by Farmers, 25 



How to Manage, 31 



Hard Times, "33 



Honey-Bees and Fruit Once More, 35 



How to Use Bone as a F'ertilizer, 48 



Hovey's Seedling Strawberry, 54 



Hard Times of 1M7-IS22, .55 



Hauling .Manure, 61 



How a Water-Pipe May be Cleaned, 63 



How Can Poultry be Made Profitable to 

 the Farmer? 71 



How to Plow, 78 



How to Make Trees Fruit E^arly, 78 



Household Hints, 79 



How to Banish Rats, 79 



Hints for Horse Owners, 79 



Heaves, 79 



Hens that Eat Eggs, 79 



Haymaking, 82 



How to Save Plums and Gooscberriet, 

 82 



How to Use Fertilizers, 92 



Hoeing Wheat, 92 



How to Keep Eggs Fresh, 95 



Habits of Curculio, 96 



How Superi)liosphate of Lime is Made 

 Ineifectivc, 109 



How to Choose a Good Cow, 111 



Humming-Birds, 137 



Hints for Washing-Day, 142 



Hen Roosts, 14^5 



How Plants Provide for theFuturc, 148 



How to Make a Lawn, 158 



Hen Hints, 159 



Hams, 174 



Horses With and Without Shoes, 175 



How to Cure a Kicking Cow, 188 



Home-Made Manures, 182 



Homc-Made Superphosphate, 186 



In-Breeding of Poultry, 31 



Is the Strawberry Wholesome? 93 



If Cows Are Kept, 95 



Insect Pests, 97 



Interior Fences, 126 



Insect Pests and Their Remedy, 135 



If Von Want to Keep Your Hogs, 143 



January, 3 



Japanesi' Persimmon or Date Plum, 4 



J. B. G., el. al., vs. Italian Bees, 8 



Judging Draft Horses, 175 



Keep Borax in the Mouse, 30 



Kitchen-Garden Calendar for March, 34 



Keep llorses'Clcan, 111 



Keep Your Birds Tame, 128 



Keeping Grapes Fresh, 143 



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



Sl),'96, 112, 128, 144, 160, 176, 1.88 

 Lancaster County Agricultural and 



Hnrtieiiltural l^ociety, 44, .58, 75, 



107,123, 139, 1.5.5, 170, 1S5 

 Lancaster County Publications, 18 

 Lancaster Park Directors, 30 

 Linniean Societv, 47, 61, 78, 108, 126, 



141, 1.5.S, 172, 186 

 Lancaster County Beef, Go 

 Lice on Cattle, 04 

 Late Planted Peaehblows, 68 

 Leghorn Fowls, 79 

 Lancaster County Cattle, 81 

 Lancaster County Farming, 82 

 Local Fruit Nomenclature, 86 

 Lancaster County Tobacco, 88, 122 

 Lancaster Potatoes F'ulters, 110 

 Late Hatcbcd Chickens, 112 

 Letter from North C'arolina, 120 

 Letter from Iowa, 120, 152 

 Loss of Phosphate, I'ifl 

 Lean Cattle for Europe, 127 

 Lime as a .Manure, 130 

 Lime as a F'ertilizer, 151, 134 

 Lice on Chickens, 144 

 Large Flowering Spurge, 151 

 Largest Orchard in the World, 173 

 Literary Contributions, to our 177 

 Livestock Farming, 184 

 Livestock in Colorado, 188 

 Mysteries of a Cold Air Spring, 4 

 More Large Trees, 30 

 Manures and .Soil Fertilizers, 52,38 

 More About Horned Owls, 41 

 Milk, Cheese and Sugar, 49 

 Manure for Tobacco, 93 

 Mixed Paint, 93 

 Money! .Money! Money! 97, 113 

 Method of Judging a Horse, HI 

 Moscow Pigeons, 112 

 Moonshine, 133 

 Making Wine from Grapes, 142 

 Making Poultry Pay, 175 

 Matins; Fowls for Breeding, 176 

 Monthly Keminders, 178 

 Managing a Small Farm, 184 

 New Veifctables, 13 

 Notice Extraordinary, 34 

 Number of Stock, 95 

 Number of Eggs that a Hen Can Lay, 



95 

 November, 162 

 Notice, 177 



Notice Extraordinary, 177 

 New Mode of .Making Butter, 187 

 North Carolina Letter, l^'O 

 Our Tenth Volume, 1 

 Only a Farmer, 2 



Our" Local Organization, 11,27,91,170 

 Our Paris Letter, 26, 134, 153 

 Oatmeal as an Article of Diet, 30 

 Odor vs. Color, 33 

 Onions for Poultry, 95 

 Our Wheat Crop, 101 

 Ordinary Hen's Eggs, 112 

 Oyster Shells for Laying Hens, 112 

 Ox-eye Daisy, 115 

 Origin of the Domestic Turkey, 128 

 Of all Domestic Fowls, 144 

 Our (ireat Apple Crop, 173 

 Our Aggregate, 178 

 Our Corn Crop, l^l 

 Oatmeal in the Household, 187 



