CONTENTS OF VOLUME FOURTEEN. 



EDITORlAt. 



Our Fourteenth Volume, 1 



The Moo?u-Deer 109 Ycare Ago, 1 



Killekinio, 2 



The Value of Snow, 2 



Kitchen Garden for January, 2 



Winter Blooming, 2 



" Aid and Comfort," 3 



How Do Eel6 Breed ? 3 



Excerpts, 3, 20, 37, 52, 67, 84, 100, 



114, 133, 163, ISO 

 Our Responsibility, 5 

 Edible Fungi, 5 

 The English Sparrow, 17 

 Ourselves, 18 

 February Snows, 18 

 Wood-worm, 18 



Planting Trees on Railway Embank- 

 ments, 18 

 The Largest Tree in the World, 19 

 Shifty, thrifty France, 19 

 Kitchen Garden for February, 19 

 Poultry Exhibition, 20 

 Rules and Exceptions, 20 

 Writing for the Farmer, 20 

 Our Apology, 33 

 " Our Winged Friends," 33 

 Kitchen Garden for March, 33 

 Why not Write for the Farmer ? 33 

 The Bane and .\ntidoie, SI 

 " Revised Fruit List," 34 

 Ealing Before Sleeping, 35 

 How Long are We to Live ? 36 

 The Will and the Deed, 37 

 Ensilage, 49 

 April Meeting, 49 

 Snails in Gardens, 50 

 Kitchen Garden for April, 50 

 Phenomenal 51, 

 Eating Between Meals, 51 

 Pyrethrum, 05 

 Gapes vs. Entomology, 65 

 A New History of Lancaster County, 



67 

 Lime in Soil, 67 

 Queries and Answers, 69 

 The Proposed New Department of 



Agriculture, 81 

 Increase of our Crops, 81 

 Potash in Plants, 81 

 Kitchen Garden for June, 81 

 Exports of Cheese', 83 

 The Conestoga Flying Fish, 82 

 Pyrethrum Koseum, 8_ 

 Vennor Predicts a Bad Summer, 83 

 Caddice Flies, 84 

 Eggs, 84 

 Our Crops, 84 

 Egg Culture in France, 97 

 Gapes in Chickens, 97 

 Entomological Notes - Directions for 



Sending Insects, 87 

 Kitchen Garden for July — Quality and 



Vitality of Seeds, 98 

 How to Kill Wheat Moth, 98 

 Our Local Crops, 9S 

 Destroying Weevil, 99 

 EtTects of Baking on Flour, 99 

 Phosphoric Acid iu Plants, 99 

 A Mare's Nest, 100 

 Three Wonders, 100 

 A Chosen People, 113 

 Green Corn Pudding, 113 

 Kitchen Garden for August, 113 

 Good Husbandry, 113 

 How lo Preserve Stable Manure, 114 

 Gapes and Eels, 114 

 A Big Bug, 116 

 Tomato Horn Worm, 116 

 Goldsmith Beetle, 116 

 The English Sparrows, 116 

 State and County Fairs of 1882, 129 

 Kitchen Garden for September (Seed- 

 purchasing a Matter of Confi- 

 dence), 129 

 Insect Migrations, 129 

 ■ The Wheat Crop of 1882, 130 

 Tobacco Worms — Curious Facts Con- 

 cerning Them, 130 

 The Royal Horned Caterpillar, 133 

 The Stanwich Nectarine, 145 

 Luscious Grapes, 145 

 Something about " Hair-Worms " and 

 Eels, 145 



Kitchen Garden for October, 146 



Necrophore, 146 

 Seedling Peach, 146 

 The History of the Tomato, 161 

 " Leaves," 161 



Kitchen Garden for November, 161 

 Insects Injurious to Forests and Shade- 

 trees, 101 

 A Plea for Trees, 162 

 The Farmer's Creed, 162 

 Volume Fourteen, 177 

 Myriapoda, 177 

 The Tariir and Free Trade, 178 

 The Turkey, 179 

 Kitchen Garden for December, ^9 



CONTRIIJUTIONS. 



Hybridising Fruits and Flowers, 6 



Persimmons, 6 



The Egg — Its Contents, and Haw It Is 

 Made, 22 



Fruit Belts, 23 



Chinese Fruit Pear, 23 



Commercial Fertilizers, 23 



Forestry, 38 



Strawberries, 39 



Practical Poultry Notes, 39 



Domestic Hints, 39 



Practical Recipes, 39 



Comparative Value of Farms between 

 Now and Fifty Years Ago, 85 



On Wheat Crops, 86 



The Uses of Pruning, 102 



Balance of Trade, 102, 164, 183 



Gapes in Poultry, 117 



Lime, 117 



Tariffs and Their Effects, 118 



Gapes in Poultry, 133 



Shallow Cultivation, 133 



Not the Taritr Question, 133 



The Eel— Its Habit and Growth, 133 



The Value of Clover on Land, 147 



The Leaves, 147 



Save the Peach-stones. 147 



" The Farmer's Friend," 181 



A Sure Preventive of Chicken Chol- 

 era, 182 



The Balance-of-Trade Delusion, 183 



ESSAY.S. 

 The Growth and Consumption of Tim- 

 ber Trees in America, 40 

 "Our Winged Friends," 41 

 Seedling Fruits, 44 

 Fruit and Vegetables — Their Culture, 



53 

 The Bright Side of Horticulture, 54 

 Horticultural Fertilizers, 55 

 .Some Practical Points in Peach Cul- 

 ture, 69 

 The Management of an Orchard, 71 

 Insects and Some of Their Relations 

 to the Vegetable Kingdom, 86 



.SELECTIONS. 



Farming about the Rocky Moun" 

 tains, 6 



"Go to the Ant," 7 



A Great Southern Farmer, 7 



Lime as a Preservative, 8 



On Square Acre, 8 



Yards iu a Mile, 8 



Wheat Crop of the United States, 8 



A Plain and Easy Way of Curing 

 Hams, 8 



The Part which Worms Play in Na- 

 ture, 9 



Spare the Tree, 10 



Let the Frost Help You, 10 



Tobacco Review — The Old Year and 

 the New One, 11 



Berks County Agricultural Society, 11 



Poultry Show, 24 



White Vein — Cause of the Disease in 

 Tobacco — The Early Cutting 

 Theory— Convincing Experiences, 

 26 



Tobacco Growing— Profits Realized by 

 someExperts-Early Buying in the 

 Field— Result of Careful Hand- 

 ling — An Excellent Crop — Cost of 

 Growing Tobacco — Another Pay- 

 ing Crop— Still Another — In Con- 

 clusion, 26 



American Silks Good, 27 



Coal Tar and Alkali in Peach Cul- 

 ture, 3.S 

 Points in Cows, 28 

 The New Wheat Region, 55 

 How to Deodorize Stables, 56 

 Utilizinj; Rough Ground, 56 

 The Building of Homes, 56 

 When to Cut Grass, 57 

 Feeding Poultry and Raising Chicks, 



57 

 Vegetable Condiments, 57 

 Trichiuosis, 57 

 Testing Cream, 58 

 Application of Liquid Manure, 68 

 Early Price of Pennsylvania Lauds, 



58 

 A Home Fruit Canning Factory, -59 

 History of Pyrethrum, 72 

 Quince Culture, 74 

 Poultry Farming, 75 

 Poultry Abundant, but Dear, 75 

 Notes on French Agriculture, 76 

 The Benevolent Sunflower, 89 

 Our Timber Lauds, 90 

 Roots and How to Grow Them, 91 

 Green Manures, 99 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, 103 

 The Happy Granger, 103 

 Uuderdraining, 104 

 Education for Farmers, 104 

 Success in Farming, 104 

 The Department of Agriculture, 105 

 Fancy Butter, 106 

 All about Poultry, 106 

 Talks about Fruit, 107 

 Silk Culture, 118 

 Minerals at the Exposition, 121 

 Diversitied Farming in the South, 121 

 The Mosquito, 122 

 A Grand Harvest, 134 

 Occupation and Longevity, i:54 

 The War in Egypt, 135 

 The Climate in Different Parts of the 



Union, 135 

 Pure and Wholesome, 135 

 Temperature and Rainfall, 136 

 Barn Yard Manures, 136 

 Preserving Fence Posts, 136 

 Some Wheat Statistics, 136 

 Importance of Having a Good Queen, 

 137 



Draining of Land, 137 

 The Practical and the Scientilic in 

 Agriculture, 138 



Fighting the Phylloxera in Europe, 

 147 



Protecting Plants During Winter, 148 



Self Dependence, 148 



The Preservation of Forests from 

 Wanton Destruction, and Tree 

 Planting, 148 



Cultivation of Peppers, 150 



How to Bottle Wine, 1.50 



Practical Forestry Illustrated, 151 



Summer, 152 



How to keep Houses Healthy, 153 



The Coming Fence, 1.52 



The Trade in Nuts, 152 



Work and Leisure, 1.53 



Stable Cleaning, 153 



Worthless Do^s, 153 



The Black Walnut, l.K 



Trees, Climate, and Soil, 164 



Heavy .Manuring, and How ? 165 



Artiticial Incubation, 166 



Indian Corn in Kansas — Its Value 

 and Importance, 166 



The Effect of a Good Silo, 167 



Agricultural Prosperity Should Bene- 

 fit the Farmer, 167 



Tree-Planting in Streets and Grounds, 

 168 



The Fair Season, 168 



Italian Bees and How Italianize Com- 

 mon Black Bees, 168 



Preventable Losses on the Farm, 169 



Yield and Condition oi Crops, 169 



The Virtues of Coffee, 183 



Feeding Stock in Winter, 183 



The Rational Method of Tree-Pruning, 

 184 



Letter from the Mother of Bayard 

 TaylortoProf. E.V.Riley, 185 



Soiling Cattle, 185 



Smoke House at Small Expense, 186 

 The Sugar Beet, 186 



OIR LOCVL ORGANIZATIONS. 



Lancaster County Agricultural and 

 Horticultural Society, 11, 28,45, 

 76, 92, 107, 133, 138, 1.54, 170, 187 



The State Grange, 12 



Poultry Association, 13, 30, 47, 77, 93, 

 108, 123, 140, 1.55, 171,187 



Fulton Farmers' Club, .30, .17, 59,77, 

 124,140, 16.5, 171 



Linna-an Society, 13, 30, 47, 60, 93, 

 109,124,1.56,171,188 



State Board of Agriculture, 16, 140 



KNTOMOI.OGICAI-. 



Swarming Ants and Allied Phe- 

 nomena, 60 

 Curculio in Plum Culture, 61 

 Birds and Canker Worms 61 



AGKHIXTl KK. 



Look after the Implements, 14 



Do Your Own Repairing, 14 



Ensilage Solus, 14 



Bad Seed, 14 



Planting Tobacco, 31 



Improved Grasses, 31 



Rotation of Crops, 31 



Sowing the Seed, 61 



Clover and Grass, 61 



Clover, 61 



Ploughing, 61 



Potatoes, 61 



Onions, 61 



French Farming, 78 



Sand Farming, 78 



Crop Prospects, 78 



Fence Posts, 78 



Rotation of Crops, 94 



Manure Made under Cover, 94 



Exports of Breadstuffs, 94 



Corn Culture in Gardens, 94 



Green Crops, lOS 



Loadinir Hay, 108 



Manure under Cover, 108 



Plaster, 108 



The Largest Land Owner on the Con- 



tinent, 108 

 Best Pasture Grass, 109 

 Pacific Coast Wlieat Items, 109 

 Lying in Fallows, 125 

 A Short-siirhtcd View, 125 



Select Your Own Seed Wheat, 125 



A Talk about Grasses, 125 



Pasture Grasses, . 141 



Experiments with Green iManurlne. 

 141 *' 



Wheat Raising, 142 



What of the Future as Regards Grain, 

 142 



What Manure Loses by Healing, 142 



Good Crops in .Vlabama, 142 



Magnesia for Wheat, 142 



Wheat Growing, 150 



An Excellent Fertilizer, 1.56 



How to Remove Stumps, 156 



The Telephone on the Farm, 15(> 



Octagonal Barns, 1.56 



The Use of the Roller, 172 



Progressive Farmers, 173 



Effect of Draining, 172 



Fall Plowing, 172 



Ivory Wheat and .Millo .Maize, 188 



Economy on the Farm, 188 



Rules Adopted by the Hay Trade, 188 



Effects of Broom Corn on the Soil, 

 188 



The Agricultural Interests of the 

 Country, 188 



Small Potatoes, 189 



HORTICULTURE. 



Rosebushes, 14 



Pears, 14 



Nqtes on Orchard and Garden Work, 



14 

 Making Butter, 14 

 How to Make Tea and Coffee, 14 

 Butter Easily Spoiled, 15 

 The Rhubarb Plant, 61 

 Mulberry Trees, 61 

 An Excellent Old Apple, 63 

 An Experiment in Potato Planting, 82 



