ONE DOLLAR FEE ANNUM-SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS. 



Dr. S. S, P.ATHVON, Editor. 



LANCASTER, PA.. MARCH, 1879. 



JOHN A. HIESTAND, Publisher. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



EDITORIAL. 

 . The Lancaster Farmer as an Advertising Medium, 

 , Society Proceedings, . . . - - 

 , To Correspondents, ------ 



, County Fairs, ------- 



, Practical Kssays on Entomology ; or. Essays on 

 Praetical Entomology, - - - - 



• Incorporation, ------- 



» Buy Your Trees at Home, - - - - 



r A Grape Swindler, - - - - 



,The Agricultural Society as a School, - 



. Monthly Keuiindero, - 



• Groundhog Meteorology, . . . - 



• New $(i0.00 Prize Grapes — Moore's Early, 



, 8t. Matthew's Day, . . . - - 



• A Chapter on Macaroni, - - - . - 

 . Chemical Farming, . - . - - 



Pliiut-Kood — Dung jind Chemicals. 

 . Pearl Millet, ------- 



VThe Fish Question, 



ENTOMOLOGICAL. 

 iTo Destroy the Currant Slu;;, 

 .^loversecd Fly, - - . - 

 A Premature Evolution, - 

 Experiments with Moths, - 



AGRICULTURE. 

 Deep and Shallow Plowing, 

 Sowing Oats Early, 

 American Wheat in Spain, - 

 Salt as a Manure, 

 American Produce Abroad, - 



QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 

 •The Hand-Maid Moth, ----- 38 



• Galley-Worms and Crane-Fly, - - - 39 



• Pulmonary Spiders, ------ 39 



ESSAYS. 



. 'The Care of Fruit Trees— C'a/i'in Cooper, - 39 



•Essay— Jb/«i Grossman, - - - - - 40 



CONTRIBUTIONS. 



• More Light Wanted— Jwii<e«r Farmer, - 40 



• A Word in Keply— /. A'. T., - . - - 41 



• Indian Tobacco— J. Stauffer, - - - 41 

 -Pruning, Its Uses and Abuses — L. S. R., - 41 

 . More About Eels— i?. K. Hergheij, - - - 42 

 .<)at8 as Feed for Horses— jl.i>. ^., - - 42 



OUlf LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS. 



• Agricultural and Horticultural Society, - • 42 



Remarks tioni JiidgR stitzel— The Societys Char- 

 ter — BueluesH for Next Meeting. 



• Bee-Keepers' Association, - - - - 43 



Reports— Feeding Glucose to Bees — Dollar Qneeos— 

 Comb Foundations — Springing Bcok— Marketing 

 Houey -Honey Exhibition — Esso ys for Next Meet- 

 ing— Hye Flonr tor Bees. 



• Poultry Associatiou, ----- 43 



Chicken Cholera— What Mmst Hens have to Pro- 

 duce Eggs— The Best Barnyard Fowl— Chiokens 

 aud Sunlight— MiRcelluueouB. 



/Warwick Farmers' Club, . - - - 44 

 Meetiug of February l.-,th, 1819. 

 . Fulton Farmers' Club, ----- 45 

 Asking uud Answeriug Questions — Afternoon 8es- 



h Linofcau Society, ------ 4fi 



/ Additions to the LlhrarT— Pnj'erp Bend — Letters 



Bead— Dr. KathvouH Adrtiosn— (Jn;«ni/.ation of 



the Society— Progris- . :m I i itlhiiltlee— 



Not DisapiJointeU— i, ^ ipointed 



In One Particular— \i . i . , Leads- 



Who the Founders U\ . ., i . i:itOrgaui- 



lation- Whiit the I.i; .; L r .' 5— No Fail- 

 ures— The Friends ol th.- I. iMi:i> 111— Building 

 Bi tterlhiin They KncM— Looking Hopef»Uy Into 

 th*Jf*)ire— Scieuiifio Miscelhiny. 



r An Ancteti^Mouse and Barn, - - - 46 



HORTICULTURE. 



Pruning Fruit and Oruameutal Trees, 

 Hide-Bound Trees, - - - . 

 Early Cabbages and Tomatoes, 



HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. 

 How to Neutralize Skunks' Odor, 

 How to Pickle Artichokes, 

 How to Destroy Moths in Feathers, - 

 How to Fricassee Chicken, - 

 Potatoes and Nep, - - - - 

 How to Stew Soup Beans, 

 How to Make Turnip Salad, 

 Table Sauce, - - - - - 

 Broiled Kidney, - - - . - 



Soup, 



POULTRY. 

 Non-Hatching Eggs, 

 How to Manage Setters, - 

 Questions, ------ 



The Best Kind of Eggs , - - - 

 What and How to Feed, 

 Degeneracy in Fowls, 

 Plucking Poultry, - - - - 



Literary and Personal, - 



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