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LANCASTER, PA. DECEMBER, 1882 



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Kiitereil »( llir l*o>it Olllco nt Lancaster an 

 .Si'foiKl t'luss Matter. 



CONTENTS OFJHIS NUMBER. 



EDITORIAL. 



Volume Fourteen 177 



Myriapoda 177 



The Tariff and Free Trade 178 



The Turkey 179 



Kitchen Garden for December 179 



Excerpts 180 



CONTRIBUTIONS. 



"The Farmer's Friend" 181 



A Sure Preventive of Chicken Cholera 182 



The Balance of Trade delusion 182 



SELECTIONS. 



The Virtues of Coffee 183 



Feeding Stock in Winter 183 



The Rational Method of Tree-Pruning 184 



Lftter from the Mother of Bayard Taylor to 



Prof. E. V. Riley 18.5 



Soiling Cattle 185 



Smoke house at Small Expense 186 



The Sugar Beet 18(J 



OUR LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS. 

 Lancaster County Agricultural and Horticultural 



Society 187 



Crop Reports— Experimenting with Fertilizers 

 — Answering Questions. 



The Poultry Association 1S7 



Linnsean Society 188 



Donations to the Museum. 



AGRICULTURE. 



Ivory Wheat and Millo Maize 188 



Economy on the Farm 188 



Rule 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. 



Winter Flowers in the Window 189 



Preserving Garden Flowers 189 



HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. 



Roast Turkey Garnished with Sausages 189 



Mashed Turnips 189 



Canned Corn Pudding 189 



Cranberry Sauce 189 



Orange Snow and Snow Drift Cake 189 



Oyster Soup 189 



Boiled Chicken 189 



Browned Potatoes 189 



Baked Sweet Potatoes 189 



Scalloped Squash 189 



Baked Custards. .■. 189 



Simple While Soup 189 



Stewed Fillet of Veil 190 



Spinach 190 



Boiled Beans 190 



Mashed Potatoes •. 190 



Queen's Toast 190 



Brown Giblet Soup ^^° 



Minced Turkey and Eggs ^^ 



Stewed Potatoes '• ^^^ 



Celery ^^'^ 



A Plain Rice Pudding 1^" 



LIVE STOCK. 



Cotton-Seed Meal as Stock Feed 190 



Dry Food for Hogs I'-"* 



Lincoln Sheep 1^" 



Pasturing and Soiling Hogs 1^0 



Growth of Colts 190 



Sheep 191 



Cattle Range of Wyoming 191 



Training Horns 191 



POULTRY. 



Poultry Nonsense 191 



Poultry 191 



Women as Poultry Raisers 191 



To Fatten Fowls or Chickens in Four or Five 



days 19j^ 



Winter Rations for Hens I 9i 



Pekin Ducks 192 



Literary and Personal 192 



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