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 LANCASTER. PA.. MAY. 1884. 



HOUSEHOLD RECIPES, 



Gems 79 



Omelette 79 



Sugar Biscuit "9 



Molasses Pies TO 



Cocoanut Tarts —79 



Parloa Potatoes 79 



Fisli Toast '. 79 



Nut Cake 79 



Moclc Lemon Pie 79 



Fish Pie 79 



A Rich Dish 79 



Eggs on Toast 79 



Delicious Fig Candy 79 



A Good Recipe for a Loaf Cake 79 



Minnehaha Cake 79 



Delmonico Cake 79 



Fairy Cake 79 



Watermelon Cake 79 



Orange Puddins; 79 



Velvet Pudding 79 



English Plum Pudding 79 



POULTRY. 



Points About Raising Turkeys 80 



Fowls Must Have Green Stuff SO 



Change the Food 80 



Poultry Keeping for Women 80 



Literary and Personal 80 



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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



EDITORIAL. 



May 65 



The Farmers' Institute 65 



The " Black-Knot." 65 



Excerpts; 66 



CONTRIBUTIONS. 



Poultry Raising 68 



Employment for Women 68 



Communication from Ohio 68 



SELECTIONS. 



Great Milk Producers 68 



Imitation Butter (.0 



Cheese in General Cookery dO 



A Fruit all May Raise 64 



The Value of Soiling Crops 70 



Dairy Notes 71 



Why Eggs do not Hatch 71 



Danger in Barbed Wire 72 



Experiments in Potato Planting 7J, 



Handy Remedies 73 



The Disappeauce of (.ame 7^ 



Foot and Mouth Disease 7i 



The Speed of a Fljinsr Duik Ti 



My Eight-Acre Farming 74 



Spare the Toads 74 



How to Cook an Old Htn 74 



The Use of a Dry Well 74 



Preserving Salt Mcit 74 



In the Hay and Harvest Fuld "'5 



Improving Farm Houses 7") 



Ivy Poisoning 75 



A Dish of Strawberries 75 



OUR LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS. 

 Lancaster County Agricultural and Horticultur- 

 al Society 76 



The County Institute— Crop Reports— Essay on 

 WnKcs-OooU and Bud Butter. 



The Farmers' Institute 77 



Liunsean Society 77 



Donations to .Museum— A Xew Planet. 



The Fulton Farmers' Club 77 



Asking and .\nswering Questions— Afternoon Ses- 



AGRICULTURE. 



Composition Manures 78 



Soiling 78 



HORTICULTURE. 



Root-Habits ot the Strawberry 78 



Pruning the Grape Vine 78 



Raising Potatoes by the Straw Process 79 



How to Get Early Potatoes 79 



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