ONE DOLLAR PEB ANNUM.- SINGLE COFIES 10 C^plNTS. 



Dr. S. S. EATHVON, Editor. 



LANCASTER, PA.. MAY. iSfcO. 



AGRICULTURE. 



System on the Farm, 78 



Walc'iiug in a Dry Time, 78 



Sowing Orcliani (irass, - - - . - 78 



Mi.vcd Fanning, ----- - - 78 



How to Dissolve Bones, 78 



HORTICULTURK. 



Flowers and Shrubbery, 78 



Gralling-Wax, 78 



Plants and Plant Food, 78 



Asparagus and Celery, 78 



HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. 



Picealilli, 78 



Worcestershire Sauce, 78 



To I'.eniove Urease from Cloth or Silk, - - 79 



To Remove Grease from Silk or Velvet, - . 70 



Patent Yeast, 70 



Tomato Catsup, 79 



Mixed Piekles, ------- 79 



Simple .Method of Kcnioving Grease spots from 



Silk, - - - - " - - - . 79 



LIVE STOCK. 



Pure Milk, - . . 79 



Colic in Horses, ------ 79 



A Jersey Cow's Ueeord, 79 



Cows, 79 



Put Bells on Your Sheep, ----- 79 



Merinos Improved, ----.. 79 



Keep the Good Calves, 79 



POULTRY. 



How we Ought to House our Fowls, - - . 79 



'laking care of his Kow Is— Poultry Houses do not 



Create Diseases— The House not the Cause— Died 



or Apoplexy— Wrong Again- How to Keep Fowlii 



Heathy. 



Brecdina: foi Shape and Style, . - - . f-o 



Milk as a Poultry Food 80 



Burned Bones for Hens, . - - . . so 



Chicken Cholera, 80 



Fattened Poultry, ----- . (.q 



The Fattening Process, ----- 80 



Literary and Personal, go 



JOHN A. HIESTAND. Publisher. 



^«><*ikn<l 4'laMM .flutter. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



EDITORIAL. 



The State, and County Fairs, - - - - 0.5 



Ephrata Publications, ----- *).5 



The Brown Thrush, ------ 65 



Cerealia Californiea, ----- 65 



Indian Turnip, --66 



State Board of Agrieulture, . - - - 66 



Queries and Answers, - - - - - 6(> 



The Coining Fair, 79 



Special Field Preiuiums Ottered iiy the Agricultural 

 aud Horticultural Society. 



ESSAYS. 



Report of the Present Crops — L. a. Heist, - 67 



Ephrata Publications— /.//. /.IhWs, - - - 67 



CONTRIBUTIONS. 



Stellar Influence, ------ 69 



Sugar audits Production— .4. ^. A'., - - 69 



SELECTIONS. 



An Acre in Onions, ------ 70 



Fences and Fencing, ------ 70 



A Kood Feuce. 



American .Merino Sheep, - - - - 70 



ThcOrigiuof the Potato, ----- 71 



What Shall We Itaisei 71 



Farmer and Gardener, ----- 71 



Grotnid-Dut Growiug .\gain — Tobacco Growing — 

 Look to the Koiids — Xrausplautiiig — Lund- Owning 

 iu Europe. 



Farmers who are not Farmers, - - - 72 



Poudrette, -------- 72 



The Wages of Farm Labor, - - - - 72 



Neatness at the Barn, ----- 73 



Beef and Mutton, - 7;! 



Value of Butter Package, 7,S 



Crabs and Their Habile, - - . - 78 



Farmers' Returns to Cencus Takers, - - 74 



Information for all who Breathe, . . - 74 



Agriculture iu the Schools, - - - - 74 



Excellent Glycerine Ointment, - . - 75 



OUR LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS. 



Lancaster County Agricultural and Horticultural 



Society, -..---. 7.5 



Poultry Association, ----- 76 



The Beekeepers' Association, - - - - 76 



Fullon Farmers' Club, 77 



.\skiDg and Answering Queitione — Viewing the 

 Premises — Literary Exerciaes. 



Linna?an Society, -.--.. 77 



ENTOMOLOGICAL. 



Tobacco Plants— Depredations by Bugs, - 77 



About Cut Worms, 77 



To Prevent Powder Post, - - - - 78 I 



Insects, - - - - - - - - 78 I 



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in your l'\'rtilizt'is by using 



"POWELL'S PREPARED CHEMICALS." 



Wliy ].oy S:*.'^ tr- Xfi lor yon r fertilizers when 

 $1.1 to 81.5 will buy you 



"POWELLS CHEMICALS" 



For Olio Ion 4'orii, Ontfx, Potnfo or Tolinoco 



Fertilizer, eqiiiil to tho benf, higb-iiriced Phosphate in 

 the market. Send for "PonelTH Book of f'ornm- 



Inn/* with directions for mixing, nearly 5(h> uamps of reli- 

 able Penueylvituia farnurs using ihem the past seapoii, 

 teetjmouials, etc. 



EDWARD J. EVANS & Co., 

 Mar-3mJ General Agents, Vork, Pa. 



?fy ttnntint VaO'V^gue of V^g'-tablfi and Flotorr 

 Sf.tti for I^SO, rich in orKrnviiifiS, Iroin pholOKraiilis, of 



the oriKiuals, will be Bent FitKT-: to all who h))] ly. My old 

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 lections of vegetable BL'ed everHeui out by any need hou«6 

 in America. » laree portion of wliirh were urown on my Mx 

 Bet-d fannp. Full (lirectioiu* for rultivat inn on rut^h paek- 

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 scores of other VHf^ctiihlt'»«. I *nvile the i atronago of aU wht* 

 are aiixinm '.o hav^ their need directly from t he grviter, froth, 

 t?-ite, anti of the eery bej*t ntrain. 

 New Vegetables a specialty. 



■lAMKS J. H. (*RE0ORY, 

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 AddreKK 



DR.. MA-YIT.B, 

 Wiilnw fitiiet, P. <)., I.iiicaster eo , Pa. 

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THIG 

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ThouHaDds are going Wcsl, and .hi- majority ' 



SETTLE IN NEBRASKA! 



AH Kastern Farnu'i's. wlien cuniini,' Wi-st are ]jlraHfd 

 wiib I he 



BurliuEtou & Missouri Im Railroail Laiils. 



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10.000 EIGHTY-ACRE FARMS ! 



S.uil l'u»Uil C.inl (or a I'lIAItT MliowiHR nil lie LANDS 

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Address (iCD 'I Ag'l B. & M. U. R., 

 Apl-Sni. Oliinhn, Nelj. 



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