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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



EDITORIAL. 



September 129 



" Petticoat Radishes." 129 



The Lancaster County Fair 130 



Nature's Equilibrium 130 



The "Seed Drill Regulator." 130 



A Plea for the Robin 131 



What the Kobiu Steals— The Robin's Return— His 

 Food Examined- Pre-eminently Insectivorous. 



Entomological— The Blight Beetle 1.31 



Sack-Bearer 132 



Excerpts 133 



CONTRIBUTIONS. 



Owning Land. 



.133 



SELECTIONS. 



Destruction of Small Birds 133 



Vitality of Weed Seeds 134 



The Good Well 1,34 



Green Manuring 13.5 



Cause and Cure of Constipation 13.5 



Condition of the Barn at Milking Time 135 



Clean Dairies 13.5 



Canada Thistle l.Sfi 



Cheese for Home Use 136 



A Novel Swindling Scheme 1,36 



The Cabbage Fly audits Relatives 137 



lee in the Dairy Must Go 137 



American Wonders 138 



Curing Cheese 138 



OUR LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS. 

 Lancaster County Agricultural and Horticultural 



Society 1.38 



Crop Reports. 



Fulton Farmers' Club 138 



Poultry Association 139 



Premium List of Lancaster County Fair 139 



AGRICULTURE. 



What Shall the Farmer Sell? 142 



" A Little Farm Well Tilled." 142 



A New Requirement in Modern Farming 143 



Feeding Depleted Soil 142 



HORTICULTURE. 



Watering Newly Set Trees 142 



Setting Strawberry Plants 143 



Grape Vines Growing on Trees 143 



Beet Method with Celery 143 



Shorten the Canes 143 



HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. 



Cream Cake 143 



Rice Cake, Very Delicate 143 



Delicious Cookies 143 



Lemon Marmalade 143 



Pieserve Plums 143 



Pickled Peaches 143 



Spiced Currants 143 



Pickled Crab-Apples 



Governor Mixture, or Sweet Tomato Sauce. 



Aunt Maria's Tomato Preserves 



Fruit Fritters 



Mrs. Roberts' Boston Brown Bread 



Pancakes 



Rice Griddle Cakes 



Muffins 



Rye Cakes 



Apple Fritters 



Astor House Corn Bread 



Pan Doddlings 



Sally Lunn 



Mrs. H.'s Flap Jacks 



Mrs. H.'s Muffins 



Mrs. Barnes' French Rolls 



Harrington Rusk 



Indian Meal Puffs 



French Tea Biscuits 



Mrs. Gaubert's Coffee Cake 



Mountain Cake 



Jumbles 



Ginger Snaps 



A Small Sponge Cake 



Poor Man's Cake 



Fruit Cake 



Cup Cake 



Delicate Cake 



Sugar Gingerbread 



Old Colony Cake 



Removing Spots 



Chicken Corn Pie 



To Prevent a Felon 



To Remove Mildew from Linen 



Purgative Ball for Horses 



Literary and Personal 



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