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INDEX 



PAGE. 



Iowa State Fair 232 



Insects on animals 307 



JANUARY, work for 1 



"weatherof ■ 69 



Juniper for mulch 20, 21 



Jackasses, 144 



June, work for Ifil 



Japanese Horticulture 235 



Jelly, crab apple 329 



KENNICOTT, ROBT., and the hyperboreans... 87 



Dr. J. A., obituary 198 



Kitchen garden 294 



LUXURIES OP HOME PRODUCTION 81 



at Memphis 216 



Littlo, J. T., letter of 232 



Lomh'irdy poplar for hedges 274 



MAiM.E ASH LEAVED 18 



Medi'vil Examiner 24, 57 



March, work for <'5 



McCorinick's reaper 85 



May, 'vork for 129 



Melons, how to grow 135 



and the striped bug 259 



Mice, how to destroy 141 



Machinery, labor saving 206 



and hand labor 242 



in agriculture 292 



Marietti lose slocks 218 



Mustard 236 



Missouri large fruited currant 270 



Manure how it operates 309 



Macoupin CO. Fair S48 



Meeker, N. C, letter of 361 



Macoujiin Co. Agricultural Society 362 



Marking trees 365 



NURSERIES, taxation of 12, 21 



Franklin Grove 57 



Niagara 58 



substituting stock 204 



Dupage Cs 120 



Cook's 121 



and tree dealers 90 



carelessness of 259 



trees, why they die 173 



N. C.Meeker, letter of 73, 142, 361 



Newton, Hon. Isaac, letter of 86, 169 



New England as a bread country 174 



weather and crops 277 



Navigation of the Mississippi 201 



New Jersey, fruitfulness of. S09 



November, work for 319 



New York State Fair 329 



Nails and the peach borer 332 



ORCHARDS, longevity of 2 



culture of 19, 263 



plant one 80 



hogs in 83 



planting between the rows 148 



work for 204 



and the fruit crop 217 



Wakeman 234 



from New York 264 



best trees for 266 



in California 297 



house at Hightstown 344 



Ohio Farmer 23 



Pomological Society 115, 140 



Oregon Farmer. 26 



Okra 37 



Osborn, Wm. H., letter of 60 



Opodildoc 137 



Oar dependence 174 



Onion setts 208 



October, work for 277 



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Osage for hedges 291 



Oil wells, visit to , 307 



Ourhard times 361 



POETRY— 



A farmer's wife to her husband 71 



A bouquet 291 



Corn on the prairies 257 



Fall of the leaf 361 



Godspeed theplow 197 



Julypoetry 197 



Lines on a bouquet '. 271 



Piccicola 35 



Spring 131 



To give is to live 197 



The husbandman ; 330 



The homestead 330 



Winter winds 101 



Pork, curing of 9 



American, 



Prairie Farmer 25, 120, 



breaking. 



303 

 217 

 183 



Potatoes, time to plant I80 



rot, time to cure of 268 



culture of sweet 118 



Shaker Russet 28 



Fluke 299 



Bweet how to keep 342 



planting and culture of 356 



sweet, ridges for 352 



Plows and plowing 69 



Plow cultivator, Stanord 312 



Product of England 348 



Prince, W. R., letter of 71, 72 



Pierce, S. D., letter of 27S 



Pruning, injurious effeets of 136 



of newly set trees 154 



the grape 218 



shears ]20 



Protection to trade 119 



Peppermint, growing of _ 146 



Painful bereavement 345 



Plum gouger 205, 239 



dwarf in the 270 



Black Knot 9 



Pickles, how to make 268 



Peaches, list of for orchards 38 



curl in leaf 66 



prospect of crop 122 



" in Egypt 156, 129 



borer andnails 232 



on plum stocks 233 



tanzy for the borer 266 



list of 79 



Bergeris Yellow 80 



Coles Early 79 



Crawford's Early 79 



Columbia , 79 



Delaware White 80 



Early Tillotson 79 



Early Cling 79 



Hale's Early 79, 298 



Kenick's Heath 80 



Large Early York 1. 79 



Lagrange 80 



Magnum Bonum 79 



Newington Cling 79 



Pettingill's Early 79 



Red Cheek 79 



Stump the World 79 



Troth's Early 79 



Yellow Rareripe... 79 



Pear tree, blight of 12,2, 80 260 



pruning 12 



when frozen ,.., 12 



