INDEX. 



III. 



Ill 



ii;i; 



Kich 



154 



17S 

 190 



193 

 14 



74 



m 



! Haying, 93 



^ Hints on Household Matters, 94 

 i Honey Soap, 95 

 ' Hamburg Bitters, 95 

 j Hew to Feed Shelled Corn, 9ii 

 I How the Army Worm was Clrcum- 

 I vented in Hartford^tlounty, 99 



How to Destroy Army Worms, 99 

 How the Oceans were Made, 104 

 Home Bread and Imported Jerseys, 



105 

 Handling Sheep, 106 

 How to Cure Toothaehe, 109 

 How to Cook Beans, 110 

 How Mueh wlH'Keep a Horse, 

 How to Make Tea go Further, 

 Hoji Yeast, I'JT 

 Hard Yeast, 1^7 

 Hydrophobia or Kahies, I'S 

 How to Cook Green Corn, 142 

 How to Find Buyers, 142 

 How to Get a Large Yield of 



Milk, 144 

 Health of Horses, 144 

 Harness Sores on Horses, 144 

 Hints for Oetober Work, i49 

 How a Famous Cheese is Made, 

 Harvesting Broom Corn 15(5 

 Hen Manure, 157 

 How to Harvest Apples, 157 

 Hectic Fever in the Cows, 159 

 How the Woodman's Axe is Decimat- 

 ing the Michigan Pineries, IflO 

 Harvesting and Storing Turnips, llJ9 

 Horned Fungus Eaters, 17S 

 Honey Bees and Grapes, 

 How to Carve a Turkey, 

 Hot Cakes, 190 

 How to Test Cows, 191 

 Horseback Riding, 191 

 Hen Lice and Kerosene, 

 Indian Meal Pancakes 

 Indian Turnips, (iti 

 Information for all who Breathe, 

 Insects, 78 



Insects and How to Fight JThem, 

 Improved Method, 93,100 

 Isn't it Hard on Trees, 94 

 Intermittent Fever Mixture, 95 

 Indian Meal Pudding, 109, 174 

 Iron for Fruit Trees," 141, 15S 

 International Potato Society, 187 

 Imitation Bay Rum, 191 

 July Rains, 115 

 Jealousy of Birds, 187 

 Jockev Club Bouquet, 191 

 Keep Pure Bred Fowls, 48 

 Keeping old Sheep, 64 

 Kentucky Mules, 64 

 Keep the Good Calves, 79 

 Keeping Cider Sweet, 142 

 Kansas Fair and Travels to the Rocky 



Mountains, 147 

 Keeping Celery, 157 

 Keep Sheep, lt;0 

 Kindness to Cows, 

 Lancaster County 

 Horticultural 

 42, 58. 75, 91 

 171, 187 

 Linn.T?an Society, 13, 28, 44, 77, 92 



107, 12;^, 140, 155, 172, 188 

 Lemon Cake, 14 

 Lemon Pie, 14, 30 

 Look After your Hen Houses, 

 Literary and Personal, lH, 32, 

 80, 9(i, 112, 128, 144, 100, 

 Letter from North Carolina, 

 Lice on Cattle, 31 

 Local Agricultural Fair, 34 

 Long Legged Centipede, 50 

 Land Wearing Out, 84 

 Lightning and Trees, 102 

 Lemon Ginger Cakes, 109, 174 

 Lobster Murphy, 110 

 Lobster Soup, 110 

 Lemon Sauce, 12tJ 

 Lime as a Fertilizer, 13U 

 Lemon Syrup, 14S 

 Light upon Light, 153 

 Liquid Manure, 1.5(5 

 Large Roots, 1.57 

 Lunch for the Team, 160 

 Leoline at the Late Fair, 161 

 Learn the value of Money, 174 

 Lice on Stock, 175 

 Meeting of Board of Agriculture, 2 

 Measuring the Height of a Tree, 30 

 Mince Meat, 30 

 More about Sorghum Sugar, 41 

 Milk— What is it? 46 

 Milk for Fowls, 48 

 Milk Rolls, 63 

 Mixed Farming, 78, 108 

 Mixed Pickles, 79 

 Merinos Improved, 79 

 Milk as a Poultry Food, 80 

 MUk and Lime Water, 109 



175 



Agricultural and 



Society, 10, 37, 

 107, 132, 139, 154, 



15 



48, 64, 

 192 

 24, 85 



Marlborough Pudding, 109, 174 



Milk Fever, 111 



Mixed Milk, 126 



Make the Lunch Attractive, 126 



Management of Cream, HH 



Meat Bread, 158 



Minced Mutton ;with Poached Eggs, 



1.59 

 .Milking Three Times a Day, 159 

 Manuring Fruit Trees, 165 

 Mice anil Rats Gnawing Trees, 170 

 Mulching Newly Set Trees, 173 

 Meal and Grain for Breeding Stock, 



175 

 New Process of Butter and Cheese 



Making, 38 

 Notes for the Farmer, 45 

 Nitrate of Soda, 45 

 Neatne.s at the Barn, 73 

 New Fruit, 98 

 New Mexico, 118 

 Normal Length of Life, 121 

 National Bee-Keepers' Convention, 



145 

 New Early Peaches, 148 

 New Mexican Items, 161 

 New York Tobacco Market, 166 

 Night Air, 174 

 Our Tobacco Crop, 5 

 Obituary, 34 



Our Revised Fruit List, 39 

 Ox-Tail Soup, 47 

 Our Home Crops, 86 

 Offensive Smell in the Feet, 95 

 Orange Bitters, 95 

 Our Domestic Progress, 97 

 Our Local Fair, 97 

 Observations and Exceptions. 101 

 Odds and Ends, 109 

 Oyster Pie, 109 

 Omelet and Sardines, 110 

 Old Time Agricultural Implements, 



124 

 Old Hens, 128 

 Our County Fair, 129 

 Our Big Wheat Crop, 140 

 Our late Fair, 145 

 Oats with Wheat, 157 

 Over-big Horses a Mistake, 160 

 Orchard Products, 169, 189 

 Own a Home, 174 

 Our Holiday Greetings, 177 

 Our Contributors, 177 

 Our Game Food, 187 

 Our Agricultural Progress, 189 

 Norman Stallions for Illinois, 191 

 Pennsylvania Fruit Growers' Society, 1 



'36, 51 

 Poultry Exhibition, 2 



Prof. Blount's White Prolific Corn, 3 

 Plum Pudding at Sea, 7 



Poultry Association, 11, 28, 43, 59, 

 76,91, 139, 155, 171, 18S 



Pierre Lorillard's Farm, 13 



Pennsylvania Sponge Cake, 14 



Plain Talk About Stock, 15 



Pumpkin Pie, 15, 143 



Pedigree of Homers, 16 



Preserving Food I'or Stock, 31 



Popular Breeds for Pork and Lard, 34 



Plant Apple Trees, 29 



Polishing Furniture, 29 



Pound Cake, 30 



Potato Pie, 30 



Pearl Barley Pudding- 30 



Pistachio Diplomatic Pudding, 30 



Plain Pastry, 30 



Poultry Interest of America, 31 



Pickings from the Poultry Yard, 31 



Peas in Plenty, 45 



Peach Culture, 45 



Pan-Dowdy or Apple Slump, 47 



Pure Bred or Common Fowls, 47 



Practical Hints for April, 53 



Pleuro-Pneumonia, 55 



Potted Beef, 63 



Poudrette, 72 



Plants and Plant Food, 78 



Piccalilli, 78 



Patent Yeast, 79 



Pure Milk, 79 



Put Bells on Your Sheep, 79 



Premium List, 88, 89, 90, 91 



Powell's Cough Ralsam, -95 



Precaution Against Nightmare, 95 



Pudding Without Milk or Eggs, 95 



Precautions to be Observed in Entering 

 a Sick Room, 95 



Protection Against Moths, 98 



Pests Along the Sound, 100 



Pleuro-Pneumonia in this State, 102 



Preserving Timber, 108 



Percheron Horses, 110 



Poultry Notes, 111 



Pennsylvania Peaches, 125 



Protection Against Mosquitos, 126, 

 142 



Pickled Mutton Hams, 126 



Potato Yeast, 127 

 Parliament Gingerbread, 127 

 Poultry Raisint; in France, 128 

 Personal Acknowledgement, 129 

 Potato Weevil, 1,34 

 Petroleum for Rustic Work, 142 



Potato Croquet, 143 



Pot-au-feu, 143 



Parthenia PuiMing, 113 



Pomology, 151 



Planting, 1.57 



Painted Ladies, 159 



Pot-pie Crust, 1-59 



Preparing and Seeding Ground for 

 Meadows, 166 



Pruning Dwarf Trees, 167 



Present (iarden Hints, 167 



Panned Oysters, 175 



Pigs for Next Year, 175 



Poultry Exhibilion, 177 



Propagating (ierman Carp, 186 



Primeval Forest Trees, 182 



Protecting Plants and Shrutjs, 189 



Productinn of Basket Willow in Berks, 

 190 



Perelierons for Small Farms, 191 



Quarantine New Stock, 16 



Queries and Answers, 66 



Quince .Marmalade, 1.58 



Recent Advances in Archaeology, 4 



Relief for Croup, 14 



Rice Pudding Boiled, 30 



Roup with Pigeons, 31 



Rearing and Value of Ducks, .33 



Reclaiming Swampy Land,' 41 



Resources of the South, .5(1 



Robert Bonner's Large Sale of Fine 

 Blooded Stock, " 64 



Report of the Present Crops, 67 



Ravages of the Army Worm in New 

 Jersey, 93 



Root Pruning, 93 



Raspberry and Currant Sponge, 110 



Remedies for Gapes in Fowls, 112 



Raising Wheat, 140 



Raising Wheat in Kansas, 141 



Rag Carpets, 142 



Rice Cakes, 143 



Raising Calves, 143 



Raising New Peaches, 1.57 



Removing Small Stones, 173 



Receipt for Curine Meat, 175 



Rice Bread, for Breakfastor Tea, 190 



Shrinkage in Killing Hogs, 2 



Seasonable Hints, 13 



Suet Pudding, 14 



Semi-Annuai Convention of the Mil- 

 lers' Association, 26 



Spring Cultivation of Strawberries, 29 



Should we Abolished Oxen, 43 



Sugar in America — Its Introduction, 

 45 



Some Corn in Illinois, 45 



Strange Taste in the Butter, 46 



Selling Eggs by Weight, 47 



Sugar— A Great Problem Solved, .55 



Selecting Seed Potatoes, 62 



Scrambled Eggs with Dried Beef, 63 



Stewed Chicken, 62 



Stewed Beef, 62 



Savory Eggs, 63 



Scrambled Eggs with Cheese, 63 



Scalloped Fish, 63 



Scotch Oat Meal Cakes, (',3 



Stellar Inllueuce, 69 



Sugar and its Production, 69 



System on the Farm, 78 



Sowing Orchard (irass, 78 



Simple Method of Removing Grease 

 Spots from Silk, 79 



Sweet Apples, 81 



Swallows, 81 



Something New for Tobacco Growers, 

 82" 



Still Harping on the Moon, 85 



Sugar vs. Corn, 86 



Something a Farmer Should Know, 

 93 



Salt the Garden, 94 



Sheep Raising — The Best Way of Do- 

 ing So, 95 



Seasonable Items of Importance to the 

 Farmer, 96 



Sheep Sheering, 96 



Swallows as Farmers' Friends, 97 



Scientific, 97 



Swine Industry, 105 



Stone Boats', 108 



Small Fruits, 108 



Summer Drinks, 109 



Soap, 109 



Schislih, 109 



Southern Mode of Cooking Rice, 110 



Scotch Potato Scones, 110 



Stock for Soup, 110 



Spike Fences, 124 



Salt and Ashes, 134 



Salt for Plum Trees, 125 



Sawdust for Bedding, 127 



Saddle Moth, 132 



Sowing Grain, 140 



Salt on Wheat, 140 



Scrajie the Feet, 142 



Sour Milk Cheese (Smear Case), 143 



Scours In Calves, 144 



Strawberry Culture— Fall Planting, 



1.50 ^' 



Severely Dry Times, 1.53 

 Sorghum as a Forage Crop, 186 

 .Sowing Wheat, 1.56 

 Small Compost Heaps, 1.56 

 .Simple .Method of Sharpening Razors, 



1.58 

 Scalloped Oysters, 1.59 

 Shorthorn Cattle, 160 

 Savini; Seed, 164 

 Sensilile \'iewR of Farming, 165 

 Small Potatoes, lliO 

 Storing Potatoes, 174 

 Spirits of Ammonia, 174 

 Sausages, 174 

 Saddle Horses, 175 

 Swine, 176 



Some Items in Farm Economy, 189 ° 

 Swamp .Muck as a Fertilizer, 189 

 Seed Corn, 189 



Success in Wheat Growing, 189 

 Scabby Potatoes, 189 

 Setting the Table, 190 

 Sauer Kraut, 190 

 Slaughtering Swine," 190 

 Sheep in Winter, 191 

 The Coming State Fair, 2 

 The Lung Plague, 5 

 Traits of Animals, 6 

 The New Era in Farming, 6 

 The Profit of Farming, 9 

 The Science of Agriculture, 9 

 The Poultry Exhibition, U 

 The Judges' Award of Premiums, 12 

 The Best Tim^to Plant Trees, 13 

 The Baby Plant, 14 

 Timely Hints About Furnaces, 14 

 Tender Poultry, 16 

 The Economy of a Garden, 24 

 The Making and Preservation of 



Manure, 25 

 The Menhaden Fishery, 25 

 Treatment of Frozen Plants, 30 

 To Preserve Shingles, .30 

 Tar for Warts, 30 

 Teething in the Horse— Wolf Teeth 



30 

 The War on Insects, 31 

 " Too Scientific," 33 

 The Weather, 34 

 The Chinch Bug, 35,61 

 The State Fair, 36 

 Tobacco Culture, .37 

 The Chatham Creamery, .39 

 The Manufacture of Beet Sugar, 41 

 Transplanting of Trees, 42 

 Think About the Garden Now, 45 

 To Cure Hams or Beef, 46 

 To Boil a Ham, 46 

 Testing a .Milch Cow, 47 

 The Position of Windows in Horse 



Stables, 47 

 The Question of Fruit Culture, .56 

 The Linn;ean's Tribute, 60 

 The Grain Blockade, 61 

 The Best Location for Fruit Trees, 62 

 The Best Fruit to Plant, 62 

 To Spice a Round of Corned Beef, 6^1 

 The Vilhiger's Pig— How to Keep It, 



6:i 

 The State and County Fairs, 65 

 The Brown Thrush, 65 

 The Coming Fair, 79 

 The Origin of the Potato, 71 

 The Wages of Farm Labor, 72 

 The Beekeepers' Association, 76, 133 

 Tobacco Plants — Depredations by Bugs 



77 

 To Prevent Powder Post, 78 

 To Remove Grease from Cloth or Silk, 



79 

 To Remove Grease from Silk or Velvet, 



79 

 Tomato Catsup, 79 

 The Fattening Process, 80 

 The Premium List, 81 

 Tobacco Pests, 82, 130, 145, 163, 180 

 The Plow, 85 



The Hygiene of the Eyes, 85 

 The Fruit Trade, 87 

 The Army Worm in Lancaster County, 



93 

 The Tobacco Worm, 93 

 The Sewage Waste of the Family, 94 

 To Clean Waste Pipe, 94 

 To Clean Varuished Paint, 95 

 To Relieve Vomiting During Pregnancy 



95 

 To Relieve Hard Corns, 95 

 To Remove Warts, 95 



