CONTENTS OF VOLUME THIRTEEN 



About Our Late Fair, 1 



A Forciijn Grain Enemy, 2 



Aildeudum et Correglcuduui, 2 



Annual Address, -i 



A Brief History of the Agricultural 

 Societiesof Lancaster County, 4 



A Foot-Warmer, 4 



A Clioap and Durable Cistern, 6 



A Difficulty with Shrubberies, l:! 



Apple Compote, 14 



Almond Pudding with Sauce, 14 



A Principle in Feeding, 15 



Arc Our Improved S\vlne too Fat ( 15 



A Huge Spider, 15 



" Ault Barricks," 10 



A Double Apple Preserved in Alcohol, 

 19 



An Ant Story, 22 



About Apples, 35 



A Patent Rat-Trap, 25 



American Agriculture, 2(> 



A Valuable Table, 26 



A Remarkable Year, 3(5 



Accumulation of Manure i Stables, 30 



A Grape Discussion, 49 



Artificial Milk, 185 



Arrareek Farm, 55 



About Orchard Grass, 59 • 



April Meeting of Fulton Farmers, 60 



About Limestone and Lime as Fer- 

 tilizers, 61 



A Half Million in Horses, 185 



Attention to Swine, G4 



A County Fair, 65 



Are Roots Worth Growing, 76 



A Cow's Cud, 79 



Analyzing Fertilizers, 94 



A Mistake of Cooks, 95 



Assassination, 97 



Arkansas, et al., 99 



About Bets, 101 



A Word for the Potato Crop, 110 



Apples, 116, 136 



American Archaeology, 117 



Almond Cookies, 127 



About Chickens, 128 



An Ungathered Harvest, 130 



A Worm, 133 



A Library Pest, 134 



An East Donegal Dairy, 135 



A Big Farm, 135 



About Frosts, 146 



A Giant Grapevine, 15S 



About Pigs, 159 



Address of William Saunders, 164 



American Cheese and Its Exports 168 



A Shoe-Black Plant, 172 



A Knit Bed QuUt, 173 



A Quick Pudding, 174 



American Horses Again, 174 



A Study of Various Sources of Sugar, 

 177 



A Relic, 173 



A Curious Beetle, 179 



Bone Dust and Wood Ashes. 12 



Bran for Milch Cows, 15 



Black Ants and Insect Destroyers, 15 



Bees and Grapes, 24 



Brightening Timware, 31 



" Butter and Cheese and I," -H 



Barley Soup, 47 



Barbed Wire for Fences, 186 



Beef and Mutton in England, 47 



Batter Salt, 62 



Beef Tea for Children, 63 



Baked Corn Meal Pudding, 64 



Broiled Chicken, 78 



Baked Pickerel, 79 



Barbed Wire Fences, 94 



Be Careful of the Cherry Trees, 94 



Butter and Cheese, 95 



Beef Stew, 95 



Breaded Eggs, 144 

 Bucgy Peas, 149 

 Bone Spavin, 150 

 Breeding and Value of Butter 



Cows, 151 

 Blount's White Prolific Corn, 157 

 Brittle Hoofs, 159 

 Boiled Rice, 174 

 Big Head in Horses, 174 

 Clothing of Glass, » 

 Cold Feet, 14 



Cocoanut Pudding, 14 

 Chicken Stew .or Potplc, 14 

 Chickens' Livers, 14 

 Chicken and Onions, or with Mush- 

 rooms, 14 

 Caged Song Birds, 17 

 Cold Winters, 25 

 Cultivating the Cherry Tree, 30 

 Cranberry Sauce, 31 

 Calves' Foot Jelly of 17S0. 31 

 Charlotte Ruese, 31 

 Capt. Ead's Ship Railway, 34 

 Corn Culture, 40 

 Cultivating Orchards, 47 

 Candle, 47 

 Chocolate Mange, 47 

 Cornstalks as Manure, fi'i 

 Cabbage, 62 

 Chocolate, 63 

 Clam Chowder, 64 

 Crow's Nest, C4 

 California Pudding, 64 

 Cultivating Spring Crops, 69 

 Castor Pomace as a Fertilizer, TO 

 Cement for an Aquarium, 78 

 Chicken Pudding, 78 

 Canadian Jelly Cake, 78 

 Care of Cattle in Warm Weather, T» 

 Currant Worms, 85 

 Corn Bread, 95 



Cement for Leather Belting, 95 

 Cheese Omelette, 111 

 Communicated, 116 

 Celery Fritters, 137 

 Cake or Fruit Sandwiches, 127 

 Causes of Roup in Fowls, 127 

 Colorado Potato Beetle, 133 

 Chow-chow, 143 

 Custard Souffle, 144 

 Corn Aphis, 147 

 Care of Fruit Trees, 158 

 Coal Ashes, 15S 

 Calves, 159 

 Cotton Manufacturers al the Atlanta 



Exposition, 161 

 Comparative Value of Feed Stuffs, 167 

 Cheap Sponge Cake, 173 

 Cold Spiced Beef, 173 

 Common Sense in the Poultry Yard, 



175 

 Difference in Farming, 13 

 Danger In the " Silos," 13 

 Delicious Pickled Oysters, 14 

 Dried Fruits, 16 

 Diseases ol Cows, 15 

 Double Apple, 36 

 Do Bees Puncture Grafes, and If so. 



How I 38 

 Drying Potatoes, 63 

 Danish Pudding, 63 

 Dietetics — Moral and Physical Reform 



Closely Allied, 87 

 Dried Peach Pudding, 96 

 Dairy Products, 111 

 Destructive Owls, 133 

 Death of President Garfield, 145 

 Delicious Strawberries, 153 

 Eggs as Food, 6 

 Enriching Poor Lands, 12 

 Excerpts, 20, 132, 146, 163, 181 

 Enemies of Spiders, 32 

 " Ex Libris," 24 

 EnsUage, 35,49,,70 

 Entree, 47 

 Encouraging Reports from all Over 



the Union, 75 

 English and American Implements, 78 

 Egg Dumplings, 79 

 Early Turnips, 95 



Estimate of Jay Gould's Wealth, 132 

 Early Frosts In the Garden, 143 

 Eggs vs. meat, 173 

 Farm Machinery, 7 

 Fresh Shad all the Time, S 

 Fulton Farmers' Club, 11, 28, 45, 60, 



93, 109, 124, 141, 18? 

 Facts In Soil Culture, 12 

 Facts About Timothy, 12 

 Fruit Garden, 13 

 Fuchsias, 13 

 For a Time of Need, 13 

 For Taking Out Scorch, 14 

 Foreign Slugs, 15 

 Fat Makes Hem Lay, 16 

 Fowls, 16 



Forests in Pennsylvania, 18 



Foreign Pears and Apples, 3ll 



Fruit Jumbles, 31 



Feather Cake, 31 



Fruit Crops In Pennsylvania, 39 



Fig Pudding, 47 



FrI-d Herring, 47 



False Flax, 68 



Fodder Corn, 69 



Flower Garden and Lawn, 76 



Fences, 77 



Feeding, 79 



Feeding for Eggs, 80 



First Annual Exposition, 84 



Free and Flour Gold, 85 



Failure of Seeds, 91 



Frosted Apple Pie, 95 



Fine Sweet Rusks, 96 



Fertilizers in Pennsylvania, 110 



Food for Roses, 110 



Flecks or "White Caps," in Cream, 

 186 



From Nature's Storehouse, 121 



Fifty-four Bushels Apiece, 126 



Forestry, 138 



Fall pasturing, 173 



Farmers' Gardens, 17j 



Flower Farming, 172 



Fruit Trees, 172 



Flannel Cakes, 172 



French Cake, 174) 



Fried Mush, 174 



Frosting, 174 



Feeding Calves, 174 



Food for Fowls, 176 



Feeding Chicks forjRapId Growth, 175 



Grape Culture, 5 



Garden Fruits— Getting Ready for Com- 

 ing Season, 46 



Game So'up, 47 



Green Manurina:, 61 



Gapes or Strbngyli, 81 



Glucose and Grape Sugar, 94 



Grow the Hollyhocks, 95 



Grapes from Thorns, 95 



Graham Meal Griddle Cakes, 111 



German xMillet, 125 



Garden Crops yet to Grow, 136 



Gingerbread Loaf, 144 



Garget ; Its Causes, Symptoms and 

 Cure, 144 



Glucose, 158 



Grape Vine Treatment, 172 



Grape Vines on Stakes, 172 



Gumbo, 174 



Gapes In Chickens, 175 



Grain Speculation of 1881, 184 



How to Treat Frozen People, 1 



Hotch-potch, 4 



Household Hints, 7, 127, 158, 17J 



How long will Seeds Live, 13 



How to Hang Thermometers, 13 



How to Boil and Stew, 14 



House Plants, 30 



How to Cook a Turkey, 31 



Hot Beds and Cold Frames, 47 



Hot Water for Insects, 50 



How we are poisoned, 58 



How to Wash Clothes without Fading, 

 63 



Horse Radish Sauce, 6:! 



Hereford Cattle, 64 



How Voltaire .Cured the Decay of his 

 Stomach, 77 



Horseback Riding, 78 



How the Chinese make Tea, 78 



Hellebore, 101 



Hurdling Sheep, 111 



Horses— Trotters and Walkers, 112 



How Cattle are Killed for New York 

 Market, 121 



How to Plant Celery, 136 



How the French Workman Lives, 143 



How the French Manage, 187 



Hominy Griddle Cakes, 144 



How to feed Pigs and What to feed 



then 



114 



Honey Locust, 146 

 How to Distribute Manure, 158 

 How to make Beefteak Tender, 159 

 How to Grow Clover, 17.' 

 Influence of Trees on Health, 14 

 Items for the Farmer, 36 

 Insanity of Farmers' Wives, 73 

 In Testing Eggs, 78 



Insects and Insect Remedies, 83 



Internal Revenue, 132 



International Cotton Exposition, Atlan- 

 ta. Ga., 145 



Insects on Fruit Trees, 149 



Japan Persimmons, 4 



Jelly Custard, 78 



Jersey Marl, 139 



Kieffer's Hybrid Pear, 3 



Killing Canada Thistles, 46 



Know how to Cook a Turnip, 63 



Kedgeree, 63 



Keep a Slate, 173 



Lancaster County Agricultural and 

 Horticultural Society, 10, 27, 

 43, 59, 74, 92, 108, 123, 139, 165, 

 170 



LInuaean Society, 11, 29, 55, 61, 75, 

 93, 109, 133,141, 156, 171 



Late Fall Plowing, 13 



Literary and Personal, 10, 32, 48, 64, 

 SO, 96, 112, 144, 159, 176, 191 



Lobster Patties, 31 



Lice on Chickens, 31 



Light Pot-pic, 78 



Lusus Naturae, 99 



Lancaster County Peat, 114 



Lima Bean Enemy, 148 



Large Flocks of Fowls, 1.59 



Lima Bean Soup, 174 



Lambs, 174 



Minnesota Flour, 7 



Mince Meat, 14 



Maccaronl, 14 



More Corn to the Acre, 29 



Manuring Lawns, 29 



Mayonnaise, 31 



More Eggs, 31 



Mayonnaise Dressing for Salad, 63 



Mayonnaise of Fish, 63 



Maguum Bonum Potatoes, 76 



Manuring the Garden, 77 



Marlborough Pie, 78 



Moisture, 85 



Moths' Ravages, 86 



Muck, 94 



Manure for the Gardener and Fruit- 

 Grower, 108 



Marl as a Tobacco Fertilizer, 115 



More About Bats, 115 



Mock Buckwheat Cakes, 127 



Mutton Haricot, 173 



iMush, or Hasty Pudding, 174 



Meat Pie, 173 



Notes and Comments, 13 



New Process In Milling, 27 



Nitrogenous Elements of Plant Food, 

 42 



New York Wool MarTtet, 186 



Noxious Weeds, 134 



Notes on Farm Stock, 174 



Nutritive Value of Animal Food, 178 



Oleomargarine, 5 



Our Exports, 7 



Our Great Staple, 8 



Our Grain Trade, 9 



Ofticers Elected, 21 



Oatmeal and Beef Tea, 47 



Omelette Souflee, 47 



Onions, 63 



Osufs a rOrange, Oi 



" Our Hellebore," 65 



Origin of Fultz Wheat, 71 



Orange Pie or Pudding, 78 



Oyster Fricassee, 9(> 



Old Documents, 113 



Our Coming Wine Crop, 121 



Our Primitive Forests, 131 

 On the Timber Line of High Moun- 

 tains, 1.52 



Onions for Chicken Cholera, 175 



Pennsylvania Fruit Growers Society, 



3 

 Preservation of Harness, 6 

 Preparing Poultry for Market, 8 

 Poultry Association, 11, 28, 170, 188 

 Practice on the Farm, 12 

 Planting Potatoes in Autumn, 13 



Protecting Plants and Shrubs, 13 



Pennsylvania Agricultural Society, 21 

 Potato Culture, 24, 184 

 Propagating Fuchsias, 31 

 Peach Buds and Peaches, 41 

 Potato Cakes for Breakfast, 47 

 Pruning Trees, 54 



