IV. 



INDEX. 



Personal, 1 



Programme of Meetinff of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Board of Agriculture, 3 



Pedigree of Sliort-Horned Bull Jave- 

 line, i3,5i5, 5 



Pulverizing Manure, 13 



Poultry and Eeg Production, 15 



Pruning and Training Our Grapevines, 

 20" 



PlantingTreesforTimber and Fuel, 23 



Pruning During Winter, 30 



Pruning Fruit Trees, 30 



Philadelphia Poudrette, 34 



Pennsylvania Apples for Export, 39 



Pennsylvania Leaf Tobacco, 48 



Pennsylvania Wheat Prospects, 61 



Peas, fiJ 



Pruning Dwarf Pears, fi2 



Potato Planting, fi2 



Preserving Fence Posts, 03 



Protitahle Butter-Making, 63 



Propaifating by Natural Selection, 70 



Pop-Corn as a Leading Crop, 78 



Potato Salad, 79 



Percentage of Cream and Butter, 79 



Plymouth P.ock Foivls, 85 



Protecting Cornfields from Birds, 93 



Protecting Trees Against Worms, 93 



Poland China Hogs, 99 



Prickly Ash, 117 



Pleasures in Farming, 137 



Pure Milk for Sickly Children, 142 



Putting Away Winter Cabbage, 158 



Packing Butter, 160 



PreservinET Grapes, 174 



Pear Blitrht, 187 



Poultry Hints, 188 



Queries and Answers, 18, 36, 51, 67, 

 83, 99, 132, 162 



Questions Suggested in Conversations 

 on Fertilizers, 57 



Quince*, 174 



Rust on Blackberries, 14 



Revu of January Number, 19 



Raising Cloverseed, 30 



Report' of Fruit Committee, 36 



Revu of February Number, 42 



Revu of March Number, 57 



Right Kind of Farm, 61 



Running Beans, 62 



Rats and Harness, 63 



Revu of April Number, 68 



Renovating Black Silks, 79 



Revu of May Number, 86 



Rambling Thoughts Strung Together, 

 87 



Reminders for June, 92 



Raising Pork, 94 



Reminder for July, 99 



Revu for June Number, 104 



Random Thoughts, 105 



Restoring Old Trees, 110 



Raspberries, 110 



Recipe for Making Currant Wine, 110 



Reminder for August, 116 



Random Thoughts, 118, 132, 152, 167 



Revu of July Number, 119 

 Rapid Growth of the Aloe, 137 

 Reminder for September, 131 

 Remedy for the Hessian Fly in Wheat, 



136 

 Revu of August Number, 138 

 Reliable Pears, 142 

 Raising Calves by Hand, 143 

 Remedy for Choking Cattle, 143 

 Reminder for October, 146 

 Red Bietigheiraer, 148 

 Raising Colts, 159 

 Rise and Progress of Bee Culture, 168 

 Random Thoughts, 180 

 Revised Fruit List, The Germantown 



Telegraph's, 183 

 Receipt for Curing Meat, 187 

 Special Premiums for 1878, 2, 17 

 Standard of Excellence of Berkshire 



Swine, 4 

 Specialties in Farming, 9 

 Suggestion About Plants, 14 

 Sowing Flower Seeds, 14 

 Scarlet Fever, 14 

 Suggestive to Fault Finders, 14 

 Sheep for Profit, 15 

 Sheltering Cattle, 15 

 Something About Insects, 15 

 Something for Poultry Men, 15 

 Sore Eyes in Poultry, 31 

 Something Good and True, 49 

 Scale Insect on the Peach, 50 

 Selecting Seed Corn, 62 

 Something About Eels, 66 

 Scurvy Less in Fowls, 85 

 Soot and Wire Worms, 93 

 Success of an Exposed Orchard, 93 

 Selecting Meats, 94 

 Success in Breeding Fine Stock, 95 

 Setting a Plow, 103 

 Sowins Rye Amonar Corn, 109 

 Scientific Potato Culture, 109 

 Setting Out Strawberries on Parry's 



System, 110 

 Sheep and Soil, HI 

 Steady Demand for Sumac, 115 

 Strawberry Culture, 120 

 Sowing Turnip Seed, 120 

 Sugar Beets, 122 

 Salt and Soot as Manures, 126 

 Sawdust for Cleaning Horses, 127 

 Subduing Fractious Horses, 127 

 Save the Best Fowls for Breeding, 128 

 September Meetingof Fulton Club, 140 

 Stormy Days on the Farm, 142 

 Sugar from Cornstalks, 146 

 Scientific, 148 

 Storing Potatoes, 158 

 Sharpless Seedling Strawberry, 163 

 Saving Cabbage Till Spring, 174 

 Storing Turnips, 174 

 Strawberries, 181 

 Sheep, 188 

 The Tomato, 87 



The Utilization of Waste Matters, 89 

 Thinning Out Fruit, 93 



To Keep Cabbage, 93 



The Egff-plant," 93 



The Uses of the Lemon, 94 



The Perfect Sheep Dog, 95 



The Keep of a Horse, 95 



The Cherry Crop, 97 



Trial of aSelf-Bindcr, 98 



The Tobacco Horn-Worm, 98 



The Lancaster Cherry, 98 



The Depredations of Insects, 102 



The Honey-Bee, 103 



The Millers' Convention, 107 



The Wheat Crop, 109 



Thinning Fruit, 110 



The LTses of a Microscope, 111 



The Capet Beetle, 113 



The Sparrow Nuisance, 114 



The Crop of the State, 117 



The Wheat Crop in the Northwest, 

 121 



The Price of Flour, 121 



The Art of Makinff Cofiee, 127 



To Cure Dogs of Killing Chickens, 127 



The Narragansett Turkev, 128 



Thanks, 130 



The Most Wonderful of Trees, 135 



The Pennsylvania Crops, 141 



The Management of Horses, 143, 159 



The Texas Cattle Plague, 143 



The Average of the Horse, 143 



To Tell the Age of Fowls, 143 



To Make Hens Lay, 143 



The Langshans, i43 



The Sulky Plow, 146 



The Comparative Exaustive Power of 

 the Cereals, 154, 166 



The Horned Owl, 2 



The Reliance Raspberry, 7 



Tobacco Growers' Association, 11,28, 

 45, 60, 76, 124, 140, 157, 171 



The Linna;an Society, 12, 29 



The Weather, 17 



The Peach Bark-Louse, 18 



The Lumbar Plum, 19 



Thoroughbred Short-Horns, 19 



The Ditanv, 21 



The Coming Tomato, 23 



The Past, Present and Future of Dairy- 

 ing, 24 



The Value of Hen Manure, 30, 92 



Tobacco Farming, 37 



The "Short-Palmed Mole-Cricket," or 

 " California Potato Cricket," 38 



Times and Seasons, 41 



The Tobacco Fever, 43 



The Cultivation of Wheat, 50, 83 



The Brighton Grapes, 51 



The Oats Crop, 61 



The Benefit of Lime, 62 



Thoroughbred Slieep, 64 



The Cat-Bird, 66 



The Mennouite Grass-Burner, 69 



The Improving of Varieties of Farm 

 Crops, 73 



The Dairy Situation, 74 



The State Millers' Association, 75 



The Culture of Cantaloupes, 78 



Things Useful to Know, 79 



To Relieve Choked Cattle 79, 



Tarred Paper for Poultry Houses, 79 



The Robin Doomed to Death, 81 



Two Hundred Thousand Bugs, 83 



Thin Out Your Fruit, 84 



The Game and Fish Laws, as Passed by 

 the Legislature of 1878, ^4 



The Wool Product of the World, 155 



The Wairons, 158 



The Coffee Tree in California, 158 



The Guernsev Cattle, 159 



The Hessian Fly in Wheat, 160 



The Vegetable Wax, 162 



The Hessian Fly, 163 



The Kochester Grape, 165 



The Business of Farming, 173 



The Peach Borer, 174 



The Best is Always Demanded, 174 



The Guinea Fowl, 175 



The American Bird Trade, 176 



The Snyder Blackberry, 187 



Tne Cow, 188 



Table Showing Quantity of Wheat to 

 Acre, 186 



Useful Hints for Home, 14 



United States Entomologist, 49 



Vermont Wool Growers' ABSociation, 

 31 



Vinegar from Sugar Beets, 36 



Virginia Snakeroot, ISO 



Visiting Committee, 18 



Views of a Connecticut Tobacco Grow- 

 er, 47 



Various Notes, 53 



Varieties of Fruit for Pennsylvania, 54 



Value of Special Manure, 61 



Verifiable Incidents in Crownology, i:i7 



What a Big Country We Live in, :^0 



When is the Proper Time to Sow Clo- 

 verseed, 33 



Wheat in Australia, 62 



Which is the Richest, Morning's or 

 Evening's Milk? 6J 



Wind Sucking, 64 



When is the Best Time to Harvest 

 Wheat? 85 



Work Baskets, 94 



Wire-worms and Corn, 96 



Wheat Harvest, 98 



Wash for Fruit Trees, 110 



Whipping Horses, 111 



When is the Best Time to Sow Wheat 

 and How to Prepare the Soil? 118 



Wheat Growing, 126 



Where to Plant an Apple Orchrrd, 1-7 



White Specks in Butter, 127 



What is Honey-dew ? 139 



Windmills on the Farm, 136 



When a Few Fowls 144 



Waterloo Peach, 149 



What is to be Done ? 165 



Winter Treatment of Poultry, 188 



White Willow for Hedges, 187 



Weaning Colts, 188 



Japanese Persimmons, Frontispiece 

 Short-Horn Jersey Bull Javelin, 5 

 Reliance Raspberry, 7 

 Guinea Fowls, 10 

 Lumbard Plum, 19 

 Echotf Tomato, 23 

 D.irk Brahma Fowls, 25 

 Percherou Horse Apollo, 35 



INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Brown Leghorn Fowls, 37 



Black Hellebore, 41 



Brighton Grape, 51 



Hovey Seedling Strawberry, 54 



Celandine, 56 



Mennonite Grass-Burner, 69 



Eui-eka Post-Hole Digger, 71 



Plymouth Rock Fowls, 85 



The Tomato, 87 

 Black Snakeroot, 89 

 Poland China Boar, 99 

 Brighton Grape, 101 

 Setting a Plow, 103 

 Jersey Red Boar, Duroc, 

 Prickly Ash, 117 

 Red Beitigheimer Apple, 



115 



148 



Waterloo Peath, 149 



Large Flowering Spurge, 151 



Sharpless Seedling Stiawberry, 163 



Kocbester Grape, 165 



Tubcred Asclepias, 168 



Virginia Snakeroot, 180 



