INDtaX. 
Societies, 40 - 318 - S55 — lllino 
vherry, 2U— List of, for IMS, 
317-352— Mass. Hort. Soc'y, 284— 
.Minn. State. 233— New England, 
2I0-2s3-li5S-N. E. Agr. Soc'y Plow 
Trial, 210- N. H. State, 2-81-N. J. 
Slate Agr. Soc'v, 210-2SI-31S-N.J 
399— Ohio Slate, 1-3-401 — West- 
Chester Co., N. T., Agricultural 
Soc'y, 49 — West Jersey Fruit 
Growers' Ass'n, 180— Whitlock's 
Exhibitions, 284-320— Grape Show, 
Whitlock's, 354. 
Farmers' Wives-Relief for 284 
Farmers— Women 286 
Farming— Advice to a Novice, 557 
— lirain. 11— Bv Proxy, 4U0— Co- 
operative, 171— Education for, 825 
— "Extra" 131-ITorida. 10-141- 
High without Stock. 129— Labor 
and Profit in, 131-Little Things 
in, 18-Prolits of, 345. 
Farm Laborers, Prospects of 51 
Farm Lands. Measurement of.*. .444 
Feed— Coarse or Fine 10 
Fences across Streams— Swinging, 
2*254— Durable Stone • 3.7— Port- 
able, 111— Sod. 443— Stone orWood, 
400— White Willow for, 218-Wirc, 
248. 
Fermentation of Apple Juice 142 
Fertilizers-See Manure. 
Figures from Mail-room— Interest- 
ing, 123 
Fire Kindlings 8 
Fire— SI art in g a 8 
Fish Eggs— Hatching 53 
Fish Hatching, Curiosities ill 247 
Fish— Keeping in Moss 8 
Fish-Oil and Guano Factory, 4*. .451 
Fish Ponds 131-214-402 
Flocks— Shall We Keep up? 12 
Florida— Home for Northern Men, 
220. 
Flower Garden— The 87 
Flower Garden' and Lawn— Jan.. 
3— Feb.. 43— March, si— April, 121— 
Mar. Its — June. 207-.lulv, 243- 
Angnst, 279-Sept., 310— Oct., 351— 
Nov.,395— Dec, 435. 
Flower Seeds 443 
Flower Stand— A Handsome 3*.. 373 
Flowers — Akebia riuinuta, * 331 — 
Amaranth Familv, Tlic, 3* 831— 
Begonias, 7-2" 239 — Hell-dowers, 
Campanulas, * 185 — Chi-vsarithe- 
niums. 261 — Everybodv's Hardv. 
•101— Fuel, si ,s. The. 2' "ll'lli-llla.ll- 
olnscs, Fine, 320— House Plants, 
Management of, 370— Japanese 
Knotweed, * 101— Lilies, 332— Lo- 
phospcrn urn erubescens, * 61 — 
Slaurandia Barclavana, « 61— 
Mignonette and Its Culture, * 24— 
Monkey Flower, Mimulus, * 2:3 
— Monkshood. Aconites. * 456— 
Rose, "Gem of the Prairies," 7— 
Michigan, 281- Willi Single and 
Double Flowers. 371— Hose Leaves. 
Spots on. 350— Tricvrtispilnsa, '188 
—Virgin's Bower. The * 413— Vio- 
lets and Primroses, 21— Wistaria, 
American, 295. 
Flowers— Mr. Buchanan'sSule of.355 
1'lv lime 300 
Free Martins Again 411 
" Freezing Kills the Eggs" 401 
Frost Uitten Feet 66 
Frothy Cream and No Butter. . ..148 
Fncif Garden' — Jan.. 3— Feb., 13— 
March, S3— April, 123— May, 167— 
June, 207 — July, 243— Aug., 279- 
Sept., 315-Oct., 351— Nov., 395— 
Dec 135. 
Fruit-Drying. 246— Farm. Knox's. 
87— From Iowa, 7 — Mai formed * 
29S— In Nebraska, 6 — New Em". 
.land. 284— Nova Scolia, I6-Paek- 
ing for Market, .'ill-Picking and 
Marketing • 224— Spoiling oi, 24. 
Fruit Growers — Law to I'loleet. " 1 s 
Food-More Variety Wanted in .lis 
Fool-Best— A * 117 
Foot Warmer •>• 8— 3'. .25 
Foremen— How lo Get Places 377 
loresi — Setting a 131 
Forsyth's Composition. .. 
Gang Plows and Sulky Cultivator; 
119. 
Garden— cleaning up the, 111— Fan- 
and Familv. IW— Fault ot Towi 
331— Market around Phil., 102. 
Garget and Bloody Milk 40 
Gate— New Carriage 
5 Tar forPaiut 
Gas Lime ; 
Gherkin, Prickly-fruited *.. 
Giraffe— The, Mending Broken Ja 
..■ 175. 
Cold Fish — Health of 
Good for Maine 49 
Good for Po-lma-ier Kelly lo 
Gralt— Effect of on Stock,'. 201 
Graft Hybrids 231 
Gra^s— (lest lime lo Cut, 210-Iioe- 
lor. A— Scuffle Hoes. 291— Seed for 
Salt Marsh, 129 — Seed on Old 
Meadows, 8 — Troublesome, A, 24S 
—When to rut, ill. 
Grain— When to Sell and Thrash. 100 
Or aj.es— I'alawba. [liana, and Iona. 
90 i liM II. glitmg. I"9 -Cold 
Grapery, Mar.. Si-Apr., Ill-May, 
163— June, 203 — July. 211 - \ng . 
in Mo., 419- Cuttings, 7-Plana 
Hamburgh, 111 -Euinelan, 354— 
H"t-house, 211— Grafting the. 319 
under Glass, 451— Notes on, 415— 
Pears and, 319— Ptemiunis lor, 
— Prize, The Longwortli, 411 
—Ripe, for Wine-making. 187 
— Scuppernong. 351- * 411— Test- 
ing. 440— Walter, 47— White, 47 
—Vine in Europe, Culture and 
Prod., 246— Grape Vine. How It 
Grows and \\ hat lo Do will. It. 2'. 
HoT-nousKSj — Ian., 3 — 
Feb.,43— March.SI-Apr.,124— May, 
168— June. 2eS— July. 2 13— Aug.. 230 
—Sept.. 316-Oet., 352 — Nov., 895— 
Dceember, 435. 
Greens in Summer 832 
Grind-lone lor Mowing Machine 
Knives. *.. 214 
Guano— Peruvian and the Chincha 
Islands, 4* 10. 
Guard Against Spilling 2". .286 
Guess-work- in He- Household.. ..221 
Guests-How to Entertain 60 
Gypsum— Action of 240 
Hair Worm— The 130 
Hard Coal-Small 8 
Harrow— A Good Woodcii-to othed 
* 450. 
Hay— Am. in England. 359— Keeping 
over Old. 357— Loss in Stacking, 
S61— Implements, Trial of. 217- 
" idl'ul of. 9— Stacking with 
Hedge :, llll-l'.arhei rv f,,r, 47— Buck- 
thorn. 59— Hemlock lor, 213— In 
Maryland, 50. 
Hedge Triuniier 1:9 
Helps-Little 101 
Herbs, Sweet ss 
Herb, for "Winter 371 
Hickory Nnis and Timber.. .2' .11. i 
Hickoi v N uls— Planting 439 
Hints from an Old Housekeeper, .loo 
" .320 
.172 
Iloise-hoe and Cultivator, Differ- 
ence, 357. 
Horse-radish— ruin yation of 23 
Horse-radish Grater 355 
Horses— Clobbers. Check for. 2*. 139 
-283— Clipping. 9— Crop. The. 10— 
The Outside on Sweep Power. 285 
— Percheron. * 121-215-287-318— 
Perrheron stallion, * 391 -Price 
of, 138-Training for Gardening, 
249— Trotting Horse " Dexter," • 
S6S-\Volr-Teetu in, * 218. 
Horticultural Department — 
WORK IN — 8-18-85-133-107-2:17-113- 
Hoi tieultiiral Wonders 
Horticultural Soe.. Alton. 111. . lit) 
Hose Pipe— Sprinkling Jet lor..' S7 
Hot-beds ami Frames.Sli utters for 7 
Hotels in Europe 50 
llou-ehold Correspondents — To 
Our, 66. 
Household and Farm Articles— 
L'seful. 171. 
Hon-, -bold Journal — Do you 
Keep a ? 65. 
Household I'alks. • 327-191- * 110-171 
Hoven and s.eghum 40n 
Huckleberry Tom ito n 
Hileklelierries-Wliiie 319 
Ice-l.200.ono.noo lbs 171 
lc.-h.iusc. 311-317— Prairie, 357— Sell- 
filling, 400. 
Be- Profitable 171 
Imaginary Di.-eases - Grub in the 
Head, 179. 
Immigrants as Farm Laborers ..132 
Immigration— Value of 412 
Improvement— An 88 
In a Bog— All Ag'l Problem 410 
information Wanted. 
Ink-Use Black... 
Insects— Aphides 
Do They Sting? 319— Work of, ml 
—Moths * 189 -Named. 355-Oak 
Scale Louse • si— Pear Scale, 03 
—Plant Lice. IB — Potato Beeilc, 
2|s-s|83-82n-Slnried Bug. 22.'- .81- 
Sipiash Bugs, While 17 I 
2s|— Squash-vine Borer. 240— Tur- 
nip El" 1 1 ,:e S , ;;;;, _\ 
354-Wheat Weevil ami Hover. 
321— Wheel-bug, 3* 416— Walnut 
Worms, lis— Wi, tana. An Euemy 
to, 2* 371. 
Irrigation in Winter 4ni 
In glnei oi Gra-s Lauds 250 
It Will Pay 410 
Keeping a Boarding House 139 
Kerosene on Explosions 105 
Kitchen Garden— Jan., 3— Feb.. 43 
-Mar.. Kl-Apr., Ill -May, 107 
Kuivcsand Forks— Cleaning 83 
Knowledge 011 the Farm— Accu- 
rate, 411. 
Kyauiziug 7 
Labor Exchange 441 
Labor on the Farm-More 441 
Ladder-Fruit Gatherer's "..310 
Ladie- at the Fall Fairs 330 
Lady's Experience— A 171 
Lamp Chimneys 228 
Land— How Much? 212— Cheap at. 
the East. 127-375— In Ma-s., Price, 
212— Improvement of Sandy, dun- 
Make the Most of, 87-Nehraska, 
357— True Way to Enrich, 214— 
Profitable L'se of, 443. 
Lap I'.obes and Picture Frames—* 7 
Larger Yards about the nouse..190 
Lust Shot— The "..184 
Lawns and Grass Plots 141-372 
Lawns— Seeding down In Audi. .1:55 
Lend Pipe- — Lead in Water. .. 49 
Leather Preservative— Water-firoi.il, 
6. 
Leaves for Bedding 2*. .440 
Lemon— "Small" 172 
Letter— Llllle Girl's 130 
..110 
..247 
Lime-Gas. house 10-147 
Lime in Stanles 173 
Li ineslone— Grinding 442 
Liming and Plowing Land in 
Spring, 10. 
Lobelia— Is it a Poison? 8 
Log— Number of Feet in. 3.-8— Load- 
ing Heavy. * 12— Loading u ithout 
Gins. 171— Va, Way ot Loaning 
Heavy, 2* 304. 
Long. Straight stiot 8 
Lost Letters and Money . . 5 
Lost Papers 5 
(VI 
Mnccaroni 
Machines— The Best. .. 
Malice among Plants.. 
nation, 399. 
Uaniir.-s and Fertilizers-Applying 
to Growing Crops, 17— Ashes, Plas- 
I'hos, .hate and Supei phosphate, 
311-Bone Phosphate of South Car- 
olina, 248— Bones, Steamed as a 
.Manure, Ifl — Carting out in the 
Fall, 4ln— Com post, 9 -Corn, for in 
Ohio. Ill-Dead Animals for, 10— 
Distributing in Pastures. 35.8— Fer- 
mented, 89— Fertilizers, Inform:!, 
tion about, 129- Fertilizer Market, 
N. T.. 49— Fish Guano. Value. 3.'! 
—Fresh Fish, 111— Goose Manure, 
ill-Green Grass and Weeds for, 
Si-Handful of. 9- Harness Clip- 
pings, 442 — Hauling Stable, 174— 
Heating in Poialo Hills, 128 — 
Hen Manure in the Garden, 90— 
Leather Scraps for, 211— Lime on 
Clays. 9:)— Lime and Salt. 90 — Lime 
245— Liquid 
Yard M 
Gardens, 262 — Man 
Barn Cellars for. 290— Mill pond 
Mud. 89- Mutton as. 211-I'eat 
and Muck as. 291— Photographic 
E-laidishmen; WasP-s.l-l-Pit, 9— 
Pla-ter vs. Stable Manure, 50 — 
Poudrctte, 212-110 — Poultry Ma- 
nure, How to Save and Use. 59— 
Liver, I'oiidMiul nsTop-dressinglU 
Load Wash, Value of as a Fertil- 
izer. 10— Saw-dust as. 171— Salt Mud 
as Fertilizer, 2:11— Saw-dust and 
Tan-bark as, 173— Scarce in 111. 
132 — Selling, 215— Shallow Clay 
Soil, for a. 90— Sheds vs. Cellars. 
172— Shelter for, 3" 408— Slaughter- 
house, 4no— Street Sweepings as a 
Fertilizer, 7— Sulphuric Acid as a, 
182— Superphosphate from Hones, 
Ilome-piade. 91— Com. and Home, 
made, 210— Test ol'Good Fanning. 
Sill— Why Heap up. 175— Wood 
Growing Crops, 249— In 
-15-87-124-170-208- 
-1-138 
■meat of Salt.. 10 
293 
Medusas and l: >: iiers. 
Mccrschaui 
Melon— Tin 
Me 
ml Fi 
Mcrehi 
Milk— Beets Ih'M eg up 117 
Milk-CiViig s aliv. le.g I -•■■ 
217- Clotted o- Bio „|v. I-I.x- 
■ .-'11-, 111 -Factorli - .1 1 
densi-,1, 129-Funning. is; How 
d When to. I 0-Souilng, to 
t. 247— Weigh, 211. 
Milkers— Hard 
Milkmg-Hov, 
Milking Mac, 
Milk Producers' Association. 
210 
Milk.ng-IIow often Done 50 
Milking Murl.i :.es 7 
More Glass... 
Moths in Furs 
Mouse— A White 
Mower and Lea per— Buckeye 119 
...217 
'—When Will it Pay ? 132 
Mowing Machines, Decision of 
Paris. 213— Hill's Lawn, 284. 
Muchness of Land 400 
Muck in Barns and Stables, 172— 
Benefit to the Soil, lllll— Deposit, 
858— Getting out. 3", 4119— Meaning 
of Word,H7-.Minlng, 441. 
Mulch— Pine Leaves as, 50— Tan- 
bark as, 88. 
Mule Teams vs. norses 10 
Mule Team — Matter with, 80 — A 
Southern. «41. 
Murrain— The Texas 31S-512 
Mustard— Wild or Kale 321 
Mutton— Best Cross for 285 
N 
"Night-bloom in g Cereus " 355 
Nursery Business— Fitting for. ...358 
Oai stubble— Seedii 
128. 
oiit. lining credit under False Pre- 
tei 
.171 
Otitis and Ends in Gardening .. 19' 
Oil-cake— What is it? 91 
Oils Dangerous 8: 
Ointment— An Excellent 1 
Old fashioned Shrubs ami Flowers 
295. 
Olive and its Culture " 133-171 
Olin Brothers 391 
OmNsion An IP 
On Ills Last Legs 9*. .25' 
Sept., 115 — Oct., 351— Nov 
Dec. 435. 
Orchard — Laying out, 3* 102— 
Planting. S8. 
Orchard Grass in Lawns 261 
Ornaments— Household, 
' 147-3 * 227- 
' 103. 
Osage Orange and Silk Worms. .303 
Postures — Management of Wo 
out. 215. 
Patents— Infringing 
and Privi 
Paths in Public 
Grounds, 259. 
Pa.-lnis' Standard— The *.. 48 
Peaches-miming 2S2 
Peach— Culture. 145— Double, 320— 
Early and Late. 24S. 
Peach' Fungus— The 354 
Peach— and Nee! a line, 855 — I lant ill g 
and Prospects in Mil., 113— Petard 
Budding the, 49 
—Trees, 319. 
Pea PUt Cultlll 
Pears— Cracking. 
453— Trees, Best Soil for, 243 
Dwarf. 0— Not Blooming, 211— 
Transplanting Large. 350— Yield 
Of, 319. 
Peas. Culture for Field, 174— As a 
Field Crop. 357— Some new. 354. 
Peat Analysis. 281— Pi " 
as Fertilizi 
Swamp Burnt out, 1 
Pee-in y— The * ..251 
Pepper Tree 415 
Periodicals— Alphas Americas, 131— 
Am. Fanner's Magazine,! |s_.\nn. 
Register of Rural Affairs, 1868. " 
354— Entomologist. The Practical 
6— Farm and Fireside, The, 47— 
Hop Growers' Journal. 212— New 
Paper, 'the Model Farmer, 127— 
Naturalist, The Am., 48-127— N. V. 
Independent a- a "Religious Jour. 
nal." 129— R.I. schoolmaster. 211— 
Southern Journals, lit — Texas 
Farmer. The, 212 - Whitlocl, s 
Hort. Recorder, 171-320 — Work- 
shop. The. 2>3. 
Pharaoh's Ilors. 
Photograph Frames— lluine-mudc, 
2' 189. 
Pickerel— The Common 2*.. 100 
Pickerel— How the Big oue was 
Cooked, 189. 
Pictures— Beautiful 21" 
Picture in the Backwoods 26 
8S— Group of Fancy, '112- 
• 411. 
ill Pest 355 
ig— Ornamental Ill 
American Farm-house, 2' 17 
-House 438 
-Annuals, 1-7— Are they Dot- 
it.il to Health? 6— Bene. 7— 
21 ■ 
Me 
—Movements of* 
— Pigeon Berrv. : ' . 
1:1, Grass* 1S»— Starting In n-.u-e 
2" 103— Treatment of House. 15,-- 
Wild Morning clorv, 281 -Weed, 
A Bad, 7. 
Ill 
Plants-Large Price for zlO 
plan is Named S10-3S5 
Plaster— How Prepared for Land. 511 
—Land, or Gypsum, 171— l'se in 
Sialics. 171. 
" Please Answer in the Paper".. 81 
Plow— The First, Cast-iron in Ani.35,' 
Plowing for Corn and Potatoes, 
* 11.8— Deep. Safe and Insate. nil- 
Fall, 401 -Orchards, Wlillfletree 
.305. 
Plum— The Miner, 62— Miner ami 
Others. ' 143— The Wild Goose. 181 
Policy— Settled on the Farm mi 
Pond Mud 4110 
Poppy Culture 511 
Pork— How Much a Day? 185 
Pork— Secret of cheap." 4f'0 
Postage Stamps— Old 282 
Post hole Borers *.. 12 
Potaloes— Early Cultivation or. 119 
—The Early Rose, 10-127-350-358— 
Excitement. 451 — Experience. A 
Bitof 47— Experiment. 131— Grown 
1 Cuttings, 2" 454— Large Price 
1 lm Scliee, 1 10 -Small and Large, 
41.12— Storing for Winter. 501— Un- 
der Straw, 99- Verv Early, 2S3. 
Potato Diggers 123 
Poultry— Ab.l iinil Tumors In, 2.83 
— Artificial Incubator. 10— Asiatic 
Cochins. 1' ICO— Bad Luck with. 7 
—Boiled Grain lor, 132— Pure Brah- 
ma, To Tell a, 2S4— Breeding from 
Young, 215— Breeding in-and-in, 
358 — Bumble-footed, 401 — 
Capons of the Largest Size, 171— 
'-— for. 
2S3-Feed for, 87— 
is, 282— Sick. 127— 
bed. 245 — Ducks, 
* Is!— "Ital, ,11 silver Top-Knot." 
131— King Dagobert. 171— Marking, 
249— On a Large Scale. 152-245- 
lol-Puller, What is a? 283— Pure 
Water for, * 171'.-* 254— Range for, 
21.5— Roosting on Ne.i Boxes. 243— 
Scabby Leg ill, 212-401— Sending to 
Market. 402— Sour Milk for. 8-245- 
Standard of Excellence in. 129- 
Standard Weight of, '215— Tlirki'VS, 
-Turkevs, 
Trunin 
B in 
Wii 
Scr 
La 
■ W; 
rks. 285— 
Pra 
: land— Breaking up... .151-1 H 
Premiums — 4-380-390-397-:: 
-436-437. 
Premiums— Splendid 354-818 
Propagating from Green Wood 111 
Pruning and pinrhins— snmmcr.221 
Pruning— Var. Produced by 198 
Publishing House— New 87 
Queries— An Amateur's 47— AString 
of. 6-17— Sundry, 213. 
Quince, Culture and Varieties, • 145 
—More Waufeil by Planters, 453. 
Rabbits in the Orchard 7 
Radi-dl-Kat-tailed 319 
Radishes— Winter 319 
Rag Carpet-Mending a lis 
Rail-roaos -Assistance to Farmers 
208— And Horticulture, 248. 
Raspberry— Ail odd SM 
Raspberry— The Nil 
1 get Rid of. IlKi 
Eats— Ho 
Red-root-IHsllov 321 
Refrigerators lor the Farm house! -0 
Rein's Nursery I!",.-. 
" Religions Hems "— 'Ihc Tribune'-. 
47. 
Residences-Two Country 390 
Rhubarb— Forcing 455 
Rhubarb-Turkey... 
Rool ( la-, I 
Ro 
and the Easl, 450 
Rilla-Pagas 
Rye— Winter 
s 
Sabbath Schoois-For l.l 
Satihalb School Index 119 
Salad Dressing— Lettuce 
Salmon Hatching ill N. II 112 
Salmon-Rapid Growth 01. 
Saisiiv and Parsnips 139 
Salt around Gate Posts 
Sample of Hundreds oi Letters. ..168 
Sandwiches lis 
Sausage Meal -Keeping 219 
Save the I. allies! 140 
s r, n:-s l-.nks and Fanner- 
-,- i - I .nil. Veil- l'seful 
-.- ,, !: ! '- Family '.'17 
. : • i r .pi "..l-'l 
-e . .- ... -. :.,;, e .;.,.— Fe uing.. 151 
Sen-side Km -1 lie i lam, 
The Crab, 2* 299— The Lobster, 
• 301— Ihc Mussel. 2" 457 — The 
Quahog, 2' 375— Scallops, 2" 417. 
358 
