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EATHVON, Editor, 



LANCASTER, PA. APRIL, 1882. 



JOHN A. HIESTAND, Publisher. 



Entered nt the HoNt OlUee at Lancaster as 

 !>erond C'Ihks Mntter. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



EDITORIAL. 



EnBilage, - . . 



April Meeting, ---.-.. 

 Soails in Gardens, ...... 



Kitchen Garden for April, - . - . . 

 Phenomenal, - - - . . . . 



Eating Between Meals, ..... 



Excerpts, -•--..-. 



ESSAYS. 

 Fruit and Vegetables — their Culture, 

 The Bright Side of Horticulture, . . - 

 Horticultural Fertilizers, - . - . 



What are Best and Cheapest and How Applied. 

 SELECTIONS. 

 The New Wheat Kegion, ..... 

 How to Deodorize Stables, .... 

 Utilizing Rough Ground, - - . . . 

 The Building of Homes, ..... 

 When to Cut Grass, -.--.. 

 Feeding Poultry and Raising Chicks, 

 Vegetable condiments, . - - . . 



Trichinosis, ---.... 

 Testing Cream, ---...- 

 Application of Liquid Manure, ... 

 Early Price of PennsylTania Lands, - - - 

 A Home Fruit Canning Factory, ... 



OUR LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS. 

 Fulton Farmers' Club, - . - . . 



Mftrch Meeting— April Meeting. 

 Linnaean Society, ---... 



Museum - Library — New Business. 

 ENTOMOLOGICAL. 



Swarming Ants and Allied Phenomena, 

 Curculio in Plum Culture, - - . . 

 Birds and Canker Worms, - - - - . 

 AGRICULTURE. 



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Sowing the Seed, - . . - 

 Clover and Grass, - - - ■ 



Clover, ...---. 

 Ploughing, . . - . - 

 Potatoes, ---..- 

 Onions, -..--. 

 HORTICULTURE. 

 The Rhubarb Plant, .... 

 The Mulberry Trees, 

 An Excellent Old Apple, 

 An Experiment in Potato Planting, - 



HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. 

 To make a Cheap Wash or Paint, 

 Rice, Milanaise Style. - - . 

 Macaroni and Ham, - - - . 

 Poor Man's Plum Pudding 

 Fig Pudding, - . . . _ 

 Yorkshire Pudding, - 

 Warm Slaw, ----- 



Cold Slaw, - - . . . 

 Lincoln Cake, ..... 

 Pastry, -.--.. 

 To Clean Marble, - - - . 



Valuable Hints, .... 

 Cocoanut Cookies, .... 

 To Renovate Black Grenadine, ; 

 To Wash Silk Stockings, - 

 Corn-Starch Cake, . . . . . 

 Black Bean Soup, . . . • . 

 To Clean Musty Barrels, - - . ■ 

 Cottage Gingerbread, - J . 



Household Weights and Measures, 

 Scotch Butter Candy, ... 



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LIVE STOCK. 



Sawdust for Bedding, . . - . - 62 



Salting Stock, - 02 



Floors for Horse Stables, - ... - 63 



Charcoal for Sick Animals, 63 



The Hog Crop, ...---- 63 



Tying Up Calves, ...... 63 



Ma»'s Treatment of the Horse, . - - .63 



Advantages of Small Flocks, ... - 63 



'•Loss of Cud," .-.-... 63 



Training Heifers to Milk, 



Bedding for Cows, . . . - 



Inoculation of Animals, - 



POULTRY. 

 Sunflower Seed for Poultry, 

 Grain and Vegetables, 

 Poultry Upon the Farm, 

 Dressing and Keeping Poultry. 

 Common Sense in the Poultry Yard, - 

 The Roup in Fowls, - - . - 



Poultry, 



Literary and Personal, 



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