CONTENTS OF VOLUME TWELVE. 



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A Word in Time, 1 



A Card in The Interests of Quail, 8 



Are Ants Civilized? 9 



A Wasteful Interest Paid by Farmers, 



14 

 Apple Dumplings Boiled, 14 

 A Superior Omelet, 14 

 About Roosters, 15 

 A New Insecticide, 17 

 About Graham Bread, IS, 36 

 American Cheese in Eng:laud, 25 

 Annual Meeting of the Fruit Growers, 



26 

 A Good Farm Stock Food, 29 

 A New Nut, 29 

 Apple Jelly, 30 

 Almond Pastry, 30 

 About Rotten Manure, 45 

 Apples, 46 

 Apple Sauce, 46 

 Apple Pie, 46 

 Apple Dumplings, 46 

 Apple Custard, 47 

 Apple Fritters, 47 

 Agricultural Department, 50 

 Another Peach Tree Enemy, 50 

 A New Myriapod, 51 

 A Magnificent Gift, 51 

 A Good Egg, 51 

 Agricultural Items, 61 

 Abortion in Cows, 63 

 A Horse's Foot, 04 

 An Acre in Onions, 70 

 American Merino Sheep, 70 

 Agriculture in the Schools, 74 

 About Cut Worms, 77 

 Asparagus and Celery, 78 

 A Jersey Cow's Record, 79 

 A Household Pest, 86 

 A Successful Sheep Raiser, 96 



A Reply from Secretary Edge, of the 

 State Board of Agriculiure, 99 



Animal Intelligence, 104 



A Fierce Combat Between a Cat and a 



Rattlesnake, lOU 

 A Great Waste, 109 



A Mare that Nursed a Calf, 111 



A Supplement to the Army Worm, 

 114 



A Thistle, 116 



A Curious Bird, 117 



Agricultural Products — Eastern States 

 of America, 120 



Antiquity of Wheat, 121 



A Mountain Fruit Farm, 121 



Angora Goats, 122 



Agriculture, 124 



A Good Drink for the Lungs, 126 



A Knowing Sheep, 127 



A Beautiful Fungus Resembling White 

 Coral, 139 



Apologetic, 129 



A Juvenile Column, 129 



A Butterfly, 133 



Answer to Andrew T. 6. Apple, 134 



Answer to Dr. C. A. G., 134 



Answer to Mr. G., Lititz, 134 



Answer to S. P. E., Esq., 134 



Answer to Mrs. P. E. G., 134 



Answer to Mr. L. L. D., 134 



Autumn Work in the Garden, 138 



Autumn Seeding to Grass, 140 



A Chapter on Rose Culture, 141 



A Stuifed Beefsteak, 143 



A Hint, 143 



A New Horse Distemper in Boston, 

 143 



Autumn Management, 144 



Answer to J. H. P., 147 



Answer to J. H., 147 



Answer to H. G. D., 147 



Apples, Apple Juice, Cider, Vinegar, 

 162 



Absorbents for Stable Manures, 152 



A Great Apple Jack Crop, 154 



American Tobacco, 156 



Amount of Seed, 156 



Apple Culture, 157 



A " Handy " Application for Pain 158 



Apples in Jelly, 159^ 



A Big Liver, 161 



Agricultural Chemistry, 163 



Arabian Mode for Taming Horses, 166 



A New Idea of Hedge Culture, 168 



^ Mexican Market, 170 



A Great Orchard, 170 



American and Italian Sumac, 170 



Agriculture Advancing, 172 



A Wet Cellar for Apples, 173 



A Great Oak, 173 



A Cheap Well, 174 



About Tobacco, 183 



A Wonderful Jersey Cow, 184 



A Notable Pigeon Koost, 185 



Apple Custard Pie, 190 



An Equine Monster, 191 



A Remedy Against Worms in Pigs, 



191 

 Botany, 3 



Bogus Havana Tobacco, 8 

 Baker's Gingerbread, 14 

 Brine for Corn Beef, 14 

 Banish Every Dairy Pauper, 15 

 Bone Dust, 29 

 Bloody Milk, 29 

 Boston Jumbles, 30 

 Bonner's Horses, 31, 

 Brown Betty, 47 

 Bran for Cows, 47 

 "Bleeding Kansas," 49 

 Beef Like Game, 62 

 Baked Fish, 63 

 Baked Calf's head, 63 

 Beef Cakes, 63 

 Black Leg in Calves, 64 

 Breed Rather Than Purchase, 64 

 Beef and Mutton, 73 



Breeding for Shape and Style, 80 



Burned Bones for Hens, 80 



Brown Windsor Soap, 95 



Boiling Fish, 95 



Baked Indian Pudding, 95 



Breed for a Purpose, 96 



Balky Horses, 96 



Bats, 100 



Black Walnut for England, 103 



Boston Baked Beans, 104 



Baked Halibut, Creole Style, 110 



Brioche, 110 



Be Careful with Carbolic Acid, 119 



Beet Root Culture for Sugar, 130 



Bone Dust as a Fertilizer, 124 



Barbed Fences, 124 



Butter Making, 125 



Beef Rolls, 126 



Breeds of Pigs, 127 



Bees do not Attack Sound Fruit, 135 



Blacking Stoves, 143 



Barley Pudding, 143 



Blight of Fruit Trees, 1.52 



Beef Stew, 158 



Beefsteak Omelette, 158 



Boiling Vegetables, 159 



Big Horses, 159 



Bartels Made from Pulp, 164 



Bare Pastures in Autumn, 168 



Beautifying Bedrooms, 174 



Butter Making in Denmark and Swe- 

 den, 185 



Business Habits for Farmers, 187 



Barbers' Shampoo Mixture, 190 



Blonde or Flaxen Hair Dye, 190 



Bouquet de Millefleurs, 191 



Bouquet de Rondeletia, 191 



Bran for Cows, 191 



Coal Ashes and Tobacco, 3 



Cuzco Corn from Peru, 13 



Cornmeal Muffins, 14 



Currant Pudding, Plain, 14 



Cattle on the Plains, 15 



Candlemas, 18 



Coming Events for 1880, 19 



Can we Plant too Many Fruit Trees, 

 21 



Comparative Value of Food, 26 



Custard Pie, 30 



Calf's Liver Broiled, 30 



Catarrh in Sheep, 31 



Country Road Making, 40 



Chicken Entozooty, 47 



Chemistry of Soils, 53 



Cheese Fritters, 63 



Cerealia Californica, 65 



Crabs and Their Habits, 7-3 



Colic in Horses, 79 



Cows, 79 



Chicken Cholera, 80 



Cedar Bird, S3 



Curing Fruit by Cold, 94 



Cocoanuts for Hanging Baskets, 94 



125, 

 126 



137 



Chilblain Liniment, 95 



Cure for Soft Corns, 95 



Cure for Earache. 95 



Children's Pudding, 95 



Chloride of Lime as a Disinfectant, 95 



Chrysochus Auratus, 98 



cultivation of Tobacco in Cuba, 108 



Cultivating the Raspberry, 109 



consumption Cured, 109 



Cattle on tlie Range, 111 



CooijS, 111 



Charcoal for Fowls. Ill 



care of Early Broods, 112 



Caterpillars, 117 



Crop Reports, 118 



Changing Seed, 134 



Cultivating Peach Orchards, 125, 141 



Cisterns for Farm Buildings, 



Cold Tea, 126 



Cultivating Basket Willow, 



Cultivation of Celery, 137 



Col. Scott's Model Barn, 138 



California Fruit Crop, 141 



Coffee Custard, 143 



Cork Soled Boots, 143 



Carolina Corn Worm, 145 



Cultivation of Tea, 157 



Carotte au Pot, 158 



Cinnamon Cookies, 158 



Chonfleur au Gratin, 1.58 



Celery Salad, 158 



Carottes a la Flamaude, 158 



Cattle at the Fair, 159 



Cincinnati's Consumption of Beer, 169 



Changing the Crop, 173 



Cold Slaw, 174 



Cream, 174 



Chow-Chow, 175 



Cure for the Epizooty, 176 



Complimentary, 177 



Codling Moth, The 178 



Cat Lice, 181 



Cold Weather, 185 



Champagne, 186 



Cooking Potatoes, 190 



Camphor Ice, 190 



Cheap Bay Rum, 191 



"Dairy Farming," 1 



Delicate Cake, 14 



Don't Give Preventives, 16 



Domestic Progress, 19 



Don't Crowd the Fruit Trees, 29 



Destruction of Weevil, 31 



Dried Fruit, 49 



Death of Jacob Stauffer, 49 



Dung Heap Liquor, .52 



Destroyers of Carpets, 61 



Don't Pare away the Frog, 96 



Durable Fence Posts, 101 



Do not Neglect your Wells, 102, 142 



Destroying Weeds, 108 



Durability of Timber, 113 



Dogs and Sheep, 127 



Do Bees Injure Fruit, 1.31 



Dusting Caps, 142 



Drying Apples, 174 



Do we Eat too Much, 186 



Draughts of Cold Air in the Stable, 



191 

 Does it Pay to Winter Turkeys, 192 

 Egg Eating by Pullets, 15 

 Extra Good Sausage, 46 

 Entomological Notes, 61 

 Egg Soup, 63 



Ephrata Publications, 6.5, 67 

 Excellent Glycerine Ointment, 75 

 Elizabeth Stock Farm Jerseys, 84 

 Essay on General Farming, 102 

 Experience with Canada Thistle, 108 

 Economic Entomology in the Common 



Schools, 117 

 Experience with the Imported Cabbage 



Worm, 117 

 Enriching Orchards, 157, 173 

 Egg-Plant Baked, 158 

 Eel Pot-Pie, 174 

 Essay on Wheat Culture, 182 

 English and American Wheat, 185 

 English and American Implements, 



189 

 Enriching Orchards, 189 

 Epizooty, 191 



Ewes for Breeding Early Lambs, 191 

 Eggs for Hatching, 192 

 Figs, 7 



Farm Food, 13 



Fruit in Cellars, 14 



Fish Pie, 14 



Florida Manufacturers, 18 



Farm Life vs. Town Life, 23 



Fulton Farmers' Club, 28, 60, 77, 171 



Forest Leaves for Stable and Yard, 29 



Fattening Sheep, 31 



Feeding Poultry, 4S 



Fencing and Fences, 54, 70, 167 



Flowers and Perfumes, 58 



Flowers and Insects, 60 



French Rarebit, 62 



Feeding Bran, 63 



Farmer and Gardener, 71 



Farmers Who Are Not Farmers, 73 



Farmers' Returns to Census Takers, 



74 

 Flowers and Shrubbery, 78 

 Fattened Poultry, 80 

 Facts and Opinions, 87 

 Fruit and Grain Prospects in Berks, 9S 

 Farm and Garden Notes, 108, 164 

 Fish Fritters, 109 

 For Rats, 110 



Feeding Horses — Sore Shoulders, lU 

 First tear of Heifers, 110 

 Fowls in Orchards, 111 

 Flour Manufacture, 119 

 Fish Pudding, 126 

 Free Martin, 127 

 Facts About Shoeing Horses, 127 

 Forgetfulness of Benefits, 1.J4 

 Farm Life, 142 

 Food for Fat People, 142 

 Fig Pudding, 143 

 Feather Pillows, 143 

 Frigadel or Veal Loaf, 158 

 For Pickled Butter, 158 

 Fried Mush, 158 



French Mode of Cooking Beans, 15S 

 Feed Calves Liberally, 160 

 Farm Notes, 160 

 Fattening Poultry for Market, 162 

 •French Reports on Diseases of Vinet 



and Remedies, 165 

 Fall Turning Up of Garden Soil, 17( 

 Fall Plowing, 172 

 Fall Transplanting, 173 

 Fattening Hogs, 176 

 For the Farmer, 186 

 Frying Oysters, 190 

 For Stewing Oysters, 190 

 French Rolls, 190 

 French Lip Salve, 190 

 Fair Tests for Draught Horses, 191 

 Glue and Glueing, 7 

 Glue for Polished Steel, 14 

 Graham Bread Again, 35 

 Ground Hog Philosophy, 35 

 Garberia, 50 

 Grafting Wax, 78 

 Garden Herbs, 94 

 Gooseberry Fool, 110 

 Gooseberry Trifle, 110 

 Ginger Beer, 126 

 Gravy for Potatoes, 126 

 Guinea Fowls, 128 

 Green Worm with Horns, 133 

 Goldfinches ve. Grapes, 1.35 

 Growing Flowers in the Shade, 14 

 Good Kye Bread, 143 

 Governor Hoyt's Speech at the Open 



ing of the State Fair, 149 

 Grading Sheep, 159 

 Grasses for Decoration, 167 

 Grafting in the Winter, 174 

 Green Manuring, . 183 

 Girls, go Marketing, 190 

 Golden Brown Hair Dye, 190 

 " Happy New Tear," 1 

 Height of Storms, 10 

 Horse Shoeing Again, 16 

 Had to Give a Pig Medicine, 15 

 Hickory Nut Macaroons, 30 

 How to Get Rid of the Pests, 31 

 Hints for March Work, 40 

 How to Cook Cod Fish, 46 

 How to Cook Poultry, 46 

 How to Water Horses, 47 

 Hair Worms, 51 

 Have Tou a Strawberry Bed, 54 

 Have Clean Beds, 62 

 How to Dissolve Bones, 78 ^^ 



How we Ought to House Our Fowls, 1 



