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CONTENTS OFJHIS NUMBER. 



EDITORIAL. 



A Choeen People 113 



Green Corn Pudding 113 



Kitchen Garden for August 113 



Good Husbandry 113 



How to Preserve Stable Manure 114 



Gapes and Eels 11 i 



Excerpts 114 



QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 



A Big Bug 116 



Tomatto Ho-n worm 116 



Goldsmith-Beetle 116 



The English Sparrows 116 



CONTRIBUTIONS. 



Gapes in Poultry 117 



Lime 117 



Tariffs and their Effects 118 



SELECTIONS. 



Silk Culture 118 



Nature of the Silk Worm — Enemies and Disease — 

 Varieties of Ra^es — Wintering aiid'IIatohiiit^ the 

 Eg^s — Keediny and Itearin^^ the Worms. 



Mineral at the Exposition 121 



Diversified Farming in the South 121 



The Mosquito 122 



OUR LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS. 



Lancaster County Agricultural and Horticultural 



Society 122 



Crop Reports— Wheat Crop of 18.S2 — How should 

 Manure be Applied — New Business — Miscellane- 

 ous Husiness. 



The Poultry Society 123 



I'revention of Clapes. 



Fulton Farmers' Club 1'.'4 



E.\hiljits— What is the Best Kind of Wheat?— The 

 Best time to Wow — A Question of Plows — Russian 

 Oats — Literary Exercises — A Farmers' Reunion 

 Noxious Weeds. 



Linnsean Society 124 



Museum — Donations to the Library. 



AGRICULTURE. 



Lying in Fallows, 12.'5 



A Short-Sighted View l-.;5 



Select Yourown Seed Wheat liiS 



A Talk About Grasses 125 



HORTICULTURE. 



The Peach Crop 12.'3 



Value of Fruit 12.5 



Shallow Cultivation for Fruits 125 



The Vegetable Garden 125 



Fig Culture 126 



HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. 



Cucumber Mangoes 126 



Peach Mangoes 136 



Veal a la Mode ^ 126 



Breast of Veal Baked with Tomatoes 126 



Breast of Veal Braisedj 126 



White Sauce 129 



Boiled Tongue J-' 



Boiled Corned Beef J-° 



Boiled Ham ]-° 



Pork Chops, Spanish Style J-" 



Koast Pork J^° 



Pork Tenderloins 1-^ 



Irish Stew \-'> 



Persillade of Mutton 126 



Fried Breast of Mutton l2o 



Breading 126 



Ragout of Cold Beef and Vegetables 120 



Koast Leg of Lamb or Mutton 126 



Garlic Cloves ^-6 



LIVE STOCK. 

 Advice of a Lancaster County Blacksmith on 



How to Shoe Horses 1-6 



Trainiog Horses 1-6 



The Best Farm Horses .■ 127 



Draught Horses 127 



Is Horseshoing Useless 127 



Keep the Stable Clearof Flies 127 



Remedy for Side Hole in Cow's Teit 1:;7 



Care of Horses 127 



The Stock 1^^ 



POULTRY. 



Poultry Gossip 127 



Feather and Egg Eating 127 



Geese - 12'* 



The Wonders of Incubation 128 



A Meat Diet 12^ 



Feed lor Laying Hens 128 



Literary and Personal 128 



SILK-WORM EGGS. 



Aniftlcur Silk-srowprs t-an be Hiipi>lie(i with superior 

 silk-worm tggs, oii.ruasonablc lenus, by applyiiitc.iinint'- 

 diately lo 



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