IV 



INDEX. 



Pish-pash of Mutton, 63 



Potted Meat, 64 



Poor Man's Sweet Cake, 64 



Potato Salad, 64 



Prepare for the Fruit Crop, 77 



Pigs Feet, 77 



Putting Away Clothes, 78 



Pruning Roses, 94 



Pork Chop, 96 



Planting large Pear Trees, 110 



Public Docun-ents, 114 



Plowing Toung Orchards, 126 



Poultry Notes, 128,159,176,191 



Preserving Grapes for Winter, 143 



Plowing and Pulverizing, 142 



Preserving Eggs, 143 



Pan Dowdy, 143 



Pocklington Grape, 146 



Peacock Moth, 147 



Pennsylvania's Untilled Acres, 155 



Poultry Exhibition, 163 



Plain Kice Cake, 173 



Potato Pudding, 173 



Persimmon, the 192 



Queries and Answers, 22, 182 



Quitters, 184 



Robbing the Soil, 5 



Rotation, 12 



Removing Candle Grease, 14 



Raising Ducks for Profit, 32 



Reply to W.H. S., 53 



Rice au jus, 63 



Raising Peas, 77 



Raise Gapes, 77 



Rhubarb Tart, 78 



Royal Diplomatic Pudding, 78 



Raising Calves, 79 



Raising Camels in Nevada, 79 



Ravages of the Insect Army, 86 



Rhubarb, 110 



Rhubarb Jam, 111 



Raising Jersey Cattle, 111 



Remedies Against Injurious Insects, 



149 

 Revised Fruit List, 150 

 Remove the Dend Limbs, 158 

 Raising the Price of Sour-Kraut, 161 



Rolls, 173 



Rice Chicken Pie, 173 



Roast Duck, 174 



Salt as a Preservative of Timber, 12 



Scrape the Feet, 13 



Sausage, 14 



Short Cakes, 14 



Sweet Potato Fie, 14 



Sheep-Raising Near Large Cities, 14 



Seventeen Year Locust, 17, 22 



Shelter Belts, 23 



Salt in Sowing, 30 



Snowball Pudding, 31 



State Fruit-Growers' Association, 46 



Suggestions of and for the Season, 

 46 



Soused Herrings, 47 



Snow Pudding, 47 



Stuffed Potatoes, 47 



Suffering of the Cattle on the Plains, 

 48 



Scientific Conjugation of the Alliga- 

 tor, 50 



Sand Bag in a Sick Room, 63 



Soiling Milk Cows, 69 



Systematic Farming, 76 



Stumps, 76 



Some Items in Farm Economy, 76 



Snow Cakes, 78 



Spice Cakes, 78 



Salt for Poultry, 80 



Sure Death to Flies, 86 



Summer Salads, 94 



Salt for the Throat, 95 



Sassafras for Killing Lice, 95 



Scrap Bags, 96 



Silk Cultu.e in the United States 98 



Silk Culture, 105 



Sods, 110 



Summer Pruning, 110 



Strawberry Culture, 111 



Sheep Husbandry in Virginia, 112 



Slow Progress, 113 



State Board of Agriculture, 114 



Summer Drinks, 120 



Scientific Notes, 121 



Summer Treatment of Calla Lilies, 



126 

 Salad Dressing with Raw Eggs? 127 



Sugar-Beet Flea Beetle, 131 

 Suggestions of and for the Season, 142 

 Storing and Keeping Potatoes, 143 

 Sweet Pickles, 143 

 Sago Pudding. 143 



Smothered Chicken, 143 



Secure Good Seed, 157 



Shade in Pastures, 158 



Sugar-Beets, 162 



Selecting a Good Cow, 168 



Swine-Raising— A Different System 

 Desirable, 169 



Seed Buns, 174 



Spontaneous Forests, 178 



Strategy vs. Strength, 180 



Sources of Sugar, 177 



The New Tear, 1 



Two Remarkable Apples, 5 



The Oyster, 9 



Taking Cold, 9 



Toxic Effects of Tea, 10 



The Beet Sugar Industry, 13 



To Wash Flannels without Shrink- 

 ing, 13 



To Prepare Iron Kettles for Use, 14 



To Kill Unpleasant Odors, 14 



The Silk Worm in Nevada, 16 



The Honey Ant, 15 



The Best Food for Egg Producers, 15 



The late Poultry Show, 18 



The Timber Question, 19 



The Stone Age, 19 



The New Holland Clarion, 30 



The Freezing of Insects, 21 



The Corn Cut-worm, 23 



The Finest of the Wheat, 30 



The Best Time for, Grafting Trees, 30 



The Feathery Acacias in Bloom, 30 



To Color Roses, 30 



Tuberoses, 31 



To Renovate Black Goods, 31 



The Railroads and the People, 33 



The Mammoth Pearl, 34 



The Sources of Springs, 36 



The Elm Tree Beetle, 36 



The Two Catapals, 36 



Tobacco Cultu e— How to Grow our 

 Next Crop, 37, 56, 71, 89, 97, 

 103, 119, 136, 188 



The Poultry Society, 44, 75, 123, 141, 



1.56, 188 

 The Bee Keepers' Association, 45 

 To Clean Ermine and Minever Skins, 



47 

 To Remove Ink Stains from Printing 



Books, 47 

 The Rearing of Calves, 47 

 That's what all should be doing, 49 

 The Magnum Bonum, 50 

 The Seventeen-year Cicada, 51 

 The " Sack Worm," 53 

 The Uses of Lime in Farming, 58 

 Tree Trimming, 58 

 The Mfuagement of Liquid Fertil- 

 izers, 61 

 The Co.v Pea, 62 

 The Pomegranate, 62 

 To Cut Sod, 62 

 Take Ca»e of the Matches, 62 

 To Remove Glass Stoppers, 63 

 To Avoid Insect Ravages, (i6 

 The Skunk, 67 

 The Peach Crop, 68 

 To Make and Maintain a Lawn, 71 

 Table Corn, 76 

 The Wheat Crop in Kansas, 76 

 Timely Notes of Seasonable Interest, 



77 

 To Take Woody Taste out of a Pail, 

 78 



To Make Chocolate, 78 



Treatment of Cows with Calf, 79 



The Value of Water for Cows, 79 



The Apple Worm, 85 



The Tear without a Summer, 88 



The Farm Laborer, 88 



The Tobacco Trade, 89 



Tea Two Hundred Tears Ago, 89 



The American Merino, 91 



The Ground Limestone Question, 93 



The Millet Crop, 94 



To Keep Very Shaded Places Green, 

 95 



Tying up Raspberries, 95 



To Remove Caps of Glass from Fruit 

 Cans, 95 



To Counteract Salt, 95 



To Destroy Fungus Growth, 96 



To Keep Preserves, 95 



To Utilize Feathers, 96 



T\.oof aKind, 100 



The Free Pipe Line, 102 



The Agricultural Circle, 110 



The Exportation of Dried Apples, 110 



Transplanting, 111 



To Determine the Weight of Live Cat- 

 tle, 111 



The Kieffer Pear, 114 



The Game Laws, 115 



The Terrible Heat, 115 



Tabulated Analyses of Fertilizers made 

 by Prof. Genth, State Chemist, 

 118 



Trade in Flowers, 120 



The Turnip Crop, 125 



The "Monthly Reports from the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, 125 



Top Dressing Meadows, 126 



Two Good Pears, 126 



Thin the Crops, 126 



Timely Suggestions ps to the Treat- 

 ment of Persons Overcome by 

 Heat, 126 



The Milk Periods, 127 



Tossed Potatoes, 127 



Tomato Soup, 127 



To Boil Rice, 127 



The Drouth, 130 



"The Sugar Beet," 131 



The Spectre Insect, 1-34 



The Peach Cnrl Fungus, 136 



The Discovery of Silk, 136 



The Fruit Garden, 143 



The Corn Crib, 143 



The Feeding Value of Corn Fodder, 



144 

 The Crops of 1881, 145 

 The Corn Worm, 148 

 The Elm Tree Worm, 149 

 The Atlanta Exposition, 164 

 The Coming Tree, 154 

 To Propagate the Currant, 158 

 This Will Pay Tou, 162 

 The Coal-bug, 162 

 The Sources of Sugar, 167, 177 

 The Short Wheat Crop, 171 

 To Relieve Asthma, 174 

 To Remove Proud Flesh, 174 

 To Prevent Choking, 17i 

 The Shropshire Sheep, 174 

 To our Patrons and the People, 177 

 Thick and Thin Seeding of Wheat 



185 

 Useful Remedies, 31 

 Usefulness of Lemons, 127 



Useful Hints for Measuring Land, 

 173 



Valuable Hints, 13 



Value of Water for Cows, 15 



Varnished Work, 31 



Vennor's Latest Weather Predictions, 

 53 



Veal with Tomato Sauce 63 



Vermicelli Soup, 78 



Vegetable Animals, 168 



Value of Tobacco Stalks, 171 



Well Water, 6 



White Veins in Tobacco, 6 



Waste of Manure, 7 



Wise Ants, 10 



Wheat-Growing Experiments, 12 



What Not to do for Sick People 13 



Washing Made Easy, 14 



Why We Use Quick Lime Upon the 

 Land , 3(; 



What is Good Grape Culture, 30 



White Cake, 31 



Weight and Measure, 46 



Why We Shall Never Starve, 46 



Work in the Orchard Now, 47 



Whip Sauce, 63 



Why Cattle and Other Stock Die To- 

 wa. cis Spring, 64 



Weeds, 76 



White Grubs, 87 



What a Tenant May Remove, 88 



Waste Material from Towns, 89 



Wire-Worms, 97 



What About Liquid Manure, 110 



Wo -th Knowing, 117 



Wonders of Broom-Corn, 126 



Whipped Cream, 127 



Weather Wisdom, 158 



Wo -king Brood Mares, 159 



What Does Dew Come From, 163 



Wheat, 167 



Which Brings the Most Money, 179 



