INDEX 



III. 



How to Destroy Molhe In Feathers, 47 



How to Friiassec Chicken, 47 



How to Stew Soup Beans, 47 



How to make Turnip Salad, 47 



How to Manage Setters, 48 



Harrowing Wlieat In Spring, 60 



How to (irow Broom Corn, 61 



How to Vreserve Cut Flowers, 61 



How to use Coal, 62 



Honey, 63 



How to fasten Comb Foundation, 63 



How Insects Hear, 75 



How to riant IVas, 77 



How many Tobacco Seeds to an Acre, 



77 

 Home-made Cracked Wheat, 77 

 Ham Dressed iu Claret, 78 

 How the Youujt Bird is Hatched, 79 

 Home Advice as. to Poultry, 80 

 History of Celluloid, 88 

 Home-made Fertilizers, 92 

 How to Make Sauce and Croquettes, 93 

 Hints to Housekeepers, 94 

 Houcy in the Boston Market, 96 

 Honey Product, 97 

 How to Raise a Bull, 100 

 How to Preserve (irapes, 101 

 How Civilization Benefits our Birds, 



105 

 How to Cook Cheese, 184 

 How to Keep Fowls, 186 

 How Far Bees will go for Honey, 191 

 Harmful Insect, A, 107 

 Hint on Lawn Hedges. A, 109 

 Hints on Cooking Poultry, 110 

 Horses Lyinu: Down, 111 

 How Perches Should be Made, 111 

 Have a Fish Pond if You Can, 126 

 How to Deal with Rati, 126 

 Hot-beds with Muslin Sashes, 142 

 Hints for the Kitchen, 143 

 Hurrying the Cows, 143 

 Home and Export Tobacco Market, 149 

 Hints for Horse Trainers, 159 

 How to Make Cows tiive Milk, 159 

 Hints to Poultry Breeders, 159 

 Hints for the Kitchen, 175 

 ^air Invigoralor, 

 Henslow on Self-Fertilization, 67 

 Horn Ail, &c., 55 

 It Stands to Reason, 2 

 Insect Sagacity, 3 

 Imperial Walnu: Moth, 4 

 Industry of Bees, 16 

 Imported Cattle, :il 

 Incorporation, 33 

 Indian Tobacco, 41 

 Is the Lowest Price the Cheapest, 51 

 Imported Currant Worm, The, 60 

 Indian Turnip, 70 

 Insects and Animal Diseases, 75 

 Ice Cream Cake, 78 

 Information About Cheap Lauds, 83 

 InHuence of Forests on Climate, 88 ■ 

 Interesting Fads Concerning Bread, 93 

 Irish Stew, 94 

 Injurious Insects, 107 

 Ingrowing Nails, 110 

 IsClover'a Fertilizer? 1J5 

 Introductory, 146 

 Inspect Your Cellars, 175 

 Incubator, The, 178 

 Ice Houses, 183 

 Intelligent Farmer, The, 184 

 Indian Meal Pancakes, 190 

 July Iteport Dep't Agriculture, 120 

 Juice of Tomato Plant an Insecticide, 



153 

 Japanned Ware, 190 

 Kitchen (iarden in April, 50 

 Keipinir Work Ahead, 73 

 Keep Pure-bred Fowls, 112 

 Letter from Iowa, 5 

 Letter from North Carolina, 7, 85 

 Laying Out a Farm, 10 

 Lancaster County Poultry Society, 



11,38, 4:^,58,74, 89, 106,123, 



134, 138, 154, 171, 187, 188 

 Lemon Vies, 190 

 Linnaian Society, 12, 39, 46, 59, 75, 



91, 10(i. 12J, 140, 155, 172, 188 

 Length of Roots, 13 

 Look to the Farm Trees, 13 

 Lemon Verbena, 14 

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



80,96,112,128,144,160, 176, 192 

 Liquid Manure, 22 

 Langshaw, 32 

 Lancaster Farmer, &c., 33 

 Lime, 49 

 Large Farms and Stock in Lancaster 



County, 68 

 Lemon Pic, "78 

 Large Farming Precarious, 81 

 Lancaster County Tobacco, 97 

 Lime and Limestones, 99 

 Large Catfish, 101 

 Lancaster Virginia Farming, 108 



141 

 156 



Larva of Saturnia lo, 116 



Lamp Wicks, 143 



Large Water Beetle, 145 



Letter from Missouri, 146 



Lancaster County Cattle, 148 



Labor-Saving Implements, 151 



Lemon Cake, 175 



Law of Newspapers, 82 



Little Pudding, 110 



Monthly Reminder, 2, :54, 67, 101, 163 



Miscellaneous Notes, Ac, 2 



Moonlight, 5 



Muscovy Ducks, 15 



More About Eels, 17, 42 



Modern Fruit Houses, 20 



More About Cattle, 24 



Mince Pies, 31 



More Light, 40, 53 



Migration of Eels, 53 



Mulching, 62 



Milk, 66 



Market Gardeners, 67 



Moonshine, 85 



McKinstry's Great Orchard, 80 



Mulching Planted Trees, 93 



Milk Soup, 94 



Maccaroni and Cheese, 94 



Moon's Influence, 69, 102 



Maccaroni with Tomato Sauce, 110 



Milk Beef, 111 



Magnolia Glauca, 116 



More Moonshine, 116 



Mother of the Chickens, The, 127 



Migatory Quail, The, 137 



Mottled Horn-Beetle, 150 



Moon's Signs and Phases, 132 



Moon Seed, 133 



Mlnesota Wheat Crop, 



Maple Coccus, 145 



Mulching Strawberries, 



Metelotte D'Anguilles, 158 



Mock Oysters, 158 



Memories of Bees, 162 



Management of Horses, 169 



Meeting of State Board Agriculture, 17 



Meteorological Contrast, 178 



Mauuriug Fruit Trees, 189 



Mince Pics, 190 



Mixed Foods, 190 



Mixture of (Jrasses, A, 173 



Miss Parton's Angel Cake, 175 



Meat Cheese, 126 



No Farmer Need Expect, Ac, 16 



New Subscribers, 17 



New ?B0 Grape, 36 



Nests for Setters, • 



Non-Recognition of Agriculture, t 



New Way to Cook Oysters, 110 



New Departure, The, 113 



No Egg Good as Fresh Ones, 142 



Natural Fertilizer, A, 163 



New York Seed Leaf Market, 167 



Nice Tea Cake, A, 175 



Non-Hatching, 96 



Necessity of Sun Light, 62 



Our Paris Letter, 9 



Our Orchards. 18 



One Year's Experiment, 20 



Orange Cake, 31 



Oats as Fool for Horses, 42 



Oatmeal Cakes, 63 



One-Eye System of Potatoes, 71 



Ozone, 89 



Origin of the Apple, 92 



Omelette Sounie, 110 



Oil for Sewing Machines, 110 



Our Local Exhibition, 114 



Onions for Fowls, 128 



Our Late Exhibition, 131 



Origin of Wheat in America, 141, 



Oats and Wheat, 141 



Our Late Local Exhibition, 



Olives in Califoruia, 1.57 



Organization, 161 



Oatmeal in the Household, 



Our Contributors, 177 



Our Grain Capacity, 182 



Oatmeal, 183 



Oatmeal Pudding, 190 



Orange Pudding, 190 



Our Receipt for Curing Meat, 190 



Pennsylvania Fruit Growers Society, 



145 



174 



Practical Hints for Young Farmers, 6 



Presidents Address, 8 



Progressive Agriculture, 8 



Planting Corn in Old Times, 13 



Parlor Flowers, 14 



Profit with AmUBcraeut, 16 



Product of Eggs in Winter, 15 



Protection of Bees Against Wasps, 16 



Peach Bark Louse, 17 



Polled Cattle, 2;^ 



Pruning Fruit and Ornamental Trees, 



30 

 Practtical Essays on Entomology, 33 



Peurl Millet, 37 



Pulmonary Spiders, 39 



Pruning— Its use and Abuse, 41 



Premature Evolution, A, 46 



Pruning Trees, 47 



Potatoes and Nep, 47 



Plucking Poultry, 48 



Personal, 51 



Planting Grape Vines, 61 



Potato Fancy, 63 



Preservation of Furs, 63 



Pasturage for Bees, 6.) 



Preserving the Proceedings, 66 



Pruning Peach Trees, 77 



Potato Noodles, 78 



Practical Bee Culture, 79 



Poultry Profits, 80 



Peach Tree Borers, 84 



Promise of Crops, K6 



Pleuro Pneumonia, 87 



Plowing iu Croijs as Manure, 91 



Pruning Evergreens, 93 



Poisoned by Mushrooms, 93 



Potato Croquets, 95 



Packing EgifS, 101 



Pear Blight, 109 



Potato Putr, 110 



Potato Cutlets with Tomatoes, 110 



Potato Curry, 110 



Pudding Pies, 110 



Puff Pudding, 110 



P'Tches for Flowers, 111 



Parasite on Hens, 112 



Paliscr's American Cottages, 114 



Peach Beetle, 115 



Preserving Flowers, 126 



Pigs, 127, 143 



Phylloxera in France, The, 133 



Planting and Transplanting, 136 



Pruning Fruit Trees, 141 



Pruning Grape Vines, 142 



Preserving Sheep from Dogs, 143 



Poultry Notes, 144 



Poultry, 144 



Production and Keeping Eggs, 150 



Plowing Down Green Crops, 165 



Putting ill Wheat Crops, 165 



Putting away Potatoes, 157 



Proverlis in Cookery, 157 



Petroleum, 1.58 



Polling Cattle, 1.59 



Plowing by Electricity, 189 



Principles of Pruning, 189 



Pie Paste, 190 



Pumpkin Pudding, 190 



Poultry Interests of America. 191 



Poultry Breeding, 191 



Profitable Bees, 191 



Pure Bred and Common Fowls, 192 



Pasture Fields, 168 



Poultry Habits, 176 



Questions, 18 



Queries and Answers, 53, 68 



Queen Biscuits, 62 



Queer Fish, A, 163 



Quinine Flower, 174 



Rolling After Sewing, 189 



Roasted Chicken or Fowl, 189 



Roast Duck, 189 



Rice Pudding, 190 



Random Thoughts, 5 



Rules lor Gilt-edged Butter, 56 



Regular Meetings, &c., 57 



Remedies Against Insects, 60 



Rolling Grain in Spring, 61 



Remedy for Hoarseness, 63 



Rose Legends, 89 



Rosewood, 109 



Remedy, A, 111 



Red Rust, 116 



Raising Pigs, 127 



Revised Fruit List, 148 



Raising Horses in Texas, 149 



Ranciil Butter, 1.58 



Rabbit Stew, 15S 



Runaway Horses, 159 



Red Canary Birds, 160 



Rest After Eating, 175 



Rice Snow-Balls, 175 



Rolls, 175 



Remedy for Diphtheria, 183 



Rabbit Cutlets, 175 



Second Crop Pears, 1 



Scouring Rush, 2 



Surface Manuring, 13 



Save the Liquid Manure, 13 



Save by Handsfull, 15 



State Fruit-Growers' Society, 95 



State Millers' Association, 25 



Smilax, 30 



Sweet Omelet, 31 



Sour Milk Cheese, 31 



Selecting Breeding Turkeys, 38 



Society Proceedings, 33 



St. Matthew's Day, 35 



Sowing Oats Early, 47 



Soup, 48 



Silk Culture, 49 



Supposed Sulphur Shower, 50 

 Strawberry Proteetws, 51 

 Spring and Winter Tree Cleaning, 51 

 Seeds, 55 



Splenic Fever, &c., .55 

 Salt as a Fertilizer, 61 

 Special Notice, 177 

 Sooty Chimneys Cured, 190 

 Senator's View of Farming, A, 180 

 Statistical, 186 

 Sugar, 18B 



Sowing Garden Seeds, 61 

 Spring" Planting of Slrawl>errle«, 61 

 Sprouting Potatoes, 62 

 Some Items About Sugar, 62 

 Sick Headache, 62 

 Small Fruits, 68 

 Spring Days, 69 

 Sandy Soils, 73 

 Store of Grain in the West, 76 

 Sowing Garden Seeds, 77 

 Signs of a Prosperous Farmer, T7 

 Stallion Shows in Spring, 78 

 Southward, Ho I 81 

 Soot vs. Wlreworms, 84 

 Sale of Short-Horns, 95 

 Swarming of Bees, 95 

 Summer Time, 101 

 Sugar from Indian Corn, 104 

 Sorghum Sugar, 104 

 Spined Soldier Bug, 107 

 Squash Bugs, 107 

 Sowing Wheat, 108 

 Soot as a Manure, lOS 

 Steamed Pudding, 110 

 Stewed Pears, 110 

 Sirangc Ginger Bread, 110 

 Sponge Cream Cake, 110 

 State Agricultural Fair, 114 

 Setting out Strawberries, 125 

 Sheep and Wool, l'.;7 

 Something Abont Tomatoes, 129 

 Science and Agriculture, 129 

 Soiling, 140 

 Saddleback Moth, 140 

 Self-Binding Reapers, 141 

 Storing Hay, 141 

 Suckers Around Apple Trees, 141 

 Spiced Cantaloupe, 142 

 Sheep in Cornfields, 143 

 Save the Choice Fowls, l44 

 Specter Insect, 145 

 Sheep Husbandry in U. 8., 149 

 Standard of American Jerseys, 153 

 Singular Discovery, 1.53 

 Smut in Grain, 155 

 Small Fruits, 156 

 Sailed Dressing, 1.58 

 Squash Pie, 158 



Swiss Dairymen in California, 159 

 Salt for Stock, 1.59 

 Strecker Prof. Herman, 162 

 Starting a Flock of Sheep, 168 

 Summer Cultivation of Wheat, 173 

 Storing Fodder-Corn, 173 

 Stewed Pigeons, 175 

 Straw as Food for Cattle, 175 

 Sugar Beets to Fatten Swine, 170 

 Salt for Poultry, 



To our Patrons and the Public, 1 

 To Our Patrons, 177 

 The Fox Squirrel, 3 

 Twelve Thousand Caterpillars, 5 

 Thoroughwort, 5 

 The Wheat Crop, 12 

 The Scarcity of Quinces, 12 

 Taming Stubborn Bees, 16 

 Tobacco Growers Society, 28 

 The Late Summer Grass, 29 

 The Kulahaga, 29 

 To Preserve Potatoes from Rot, 81 

 To bake Eggs, 31 

 Tapioca Cream, 31 

 To Lessen Friction, 31 

 The Sleep of Children, 31 

 The Poultry Association, 32 

 Tar in the Chicken House, 32 

 Treatment of Cholera, 32 

 The Lancaster Farmer, 33, 163 

 Table Sauce, 47 

 The Best Kind of Eggs, 48 

 The Balance of Trade, 53 

 Turtle Head, .54 

 The Imported Currant Worm, 60 

 The Tobacco Worm, 60 

 The Use of Entomology, 60 

 The Hours of Children, 62 

 Test Record of Dairy Cows, 6.3 

 Tramps ahd Incendiaries, 66 

 Timber and Fences, 71 

 The Pennsylvania Board of Agricul- 

 ture, 71 

 The Wheat Crop, 76 

 The Question of Weeds, 76 

 To Preserve Gum Solutions, 78 

 To wash Silk Stockings, 78 

 Treatment of Cows at Calving, 78 

 Tender and Small Feet, 79 



