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VOLUME XXXVII.—No. 10. NEW YOEK, OCTOBER, 1878. NEW SERIES—No. 381. 
Contents of this Number. 
Calendar for the Month. 
Among the Farmers, No. 33.—Butter—Halier-Breaking 
—Heifers—Cattle and Children—Tethering Animals.374 
Bee Notes for October.370 
Blackberries in Indiana..383 
Boys and Girls Columns.—Collecting Autumn Foliage, 
Plants, etc.—Young Microscopists: Spores, Mosses, 
Lichens, Mould—Crazy Cushion—Aunt Sue’s Chats 
and Puzzle Box—Green Turtle. .10 Illustrations. .385-388 
Brass Milk Cans—Water Fences.370 
Catalogues Received. 395 
Cattle, Guernseys... Illustrated. .363 
Cattle, Marking Horns of..2 Illustrations. .376 
Color of Farm Buildings.376 
Eggs, Packing for Winter.4 Illustrations. .378 
Fertilizers, Home Made. Illustrated. .372 
Finances of the Country. 371 
Fire Wood, Cutting Logs for. 2 Illustrations. .379 
Fowls, Standard. 378 
Fruit and Flower Garden and Lawn.364-365 
Fuel, Grass, Straw, and Corn Stalks for.2 lUus.. 377 
Greenhouse and Window Plants.365 
Hints For Work in October.—363 
Horse, a Model Carriage . . Illustrated. .373 
Horses—Breaking and Training Colts.2 Illustrations ..372 
Horses With and Without Shoes. .. .4 lllusCrations ..375 
Household Department.—Graham Flour—Food for In¬ 
valids—Com moil Weeds Made Ornamental—Soap 
Making—Notes and Queries_4 Illustrations.. 383-3S5 
Humbug Column.369 
Kitchen and Market Garden.365 
Loco or Crazy-Weed, Animal Poison... .Illustrated ..380 
Market Reports... .366 
Milk Coolers.2 Illustrations. .377 
Moths in Furniture—Important. 370 
Notes from the Pines.—Day Lilies—Wistaria—Eulalia 
Japonica—Fruiting of Japan Quince—Chaste-Tree— 
Rose Mallow—Clapp’s Favorite Pear.383 
Orchard and Nursery in September.364 
Ox Yokes and Bows...7 Illustrations.. 376 
Paris Exposition.379 
Peaches, the Waterloo. Illustrated. .381 
Peat, Cutting and Drying.4 Illustrations. .377 
Plants, Multiplying, new method.382 
Poultry, House early.371 
Steam Power for Farm Use.2 Illustrations ..370 
Talks on Farm Crops, No. 20.371 
Tether, A Safe. Illustrated. .378 
Veterinarians, Lack of Educated.378 
Wheat, Cultivation of.3 Illustrations ..375 
Wheat, Tell us About. .370 
Winter, Preparing for Repotting.2 Illustrations. .382 
INDEX TO “BASKET,” AND OTHER SHORT ARTICLES. 
Abortive Ears in Corn.. .368 
Agricultural Congress.. 394 
Angora Goats. 394 
Apple Pomace.393 
Apples from North Caro¬ 
lina.394 
Ashes, Unleached. .394 
Blood Spavin.Treatment.394 
Breeds, Creating New..367 
Burnishing Iron_ 111. .367 
Butter, Gilt-Edged.368 
Capital, Five Hundred 
Dollars, too small.393 
Cistertis without Stone 
or Brick.368 
Coal Mined in the World.368 
Cooking Cattle Food.. ..367 
Corn, Pennsylvania.368 
Cow in Bad Condition. ..394 
Cows Eating Bones, etc.368 
Cows, Food for.394 
Cyprus, its Size.368 
Education. Compulsory.368 
Eggs Carried Safely.394 
Eulalia Japonica..".368 
Expenses of U. S. Gov’t.368 
Fair, Chicago Live St’ck.362 
Fair, International Dairy.36H 
Fair, New York State.. .369 
Fairs, Invitations to.367 
Fowls, Feather Eating..394 
Fowls for Winter.367 
Glue Scrap .368 
Honor Well Deserved.. .368 
Horses, Norman and- 
Clydesdale.395 
Iron Product of World. .368 
Latch and Hasp. 111. .367 
Lime, How to Apply_393 
Lost Teats, to Recover..395 
Mexican Tomato.393 
Niagara Falls.394 
Okra Soup. 368 
Orchard Treatment.367 
Orchards Renovating.. ..394 
Peach-stone Meats Poi¬ 
sonous .394 
Pennsylvania Crops.376 
Petroleum.368 
Plants, Fruits, and In¬ 
sects by Mail.366 
Plaster on Wheat.367 
Plum, a Sizable .394 
Plum, Difficulty with... .367 
(Poultry Matters.394 
Salt for Animals.394 
Salt Hay, Value of.394 
Salt in a Compost.394 
Salt on Land. 394 
Save the Eyes.394 
Sorrel, Horse.395 
Spiraea Palmata Elegans.393 
Sprained Shoulder.395 
Spring Halt .395 
Squirrel Pest. 395 
Strawberry Covering... .367 
Surfeit in Horse.367 
Ventilation, Too Much..394 
Visiting Farms. 367 
Weeds, Law about.367 
Wheat, Ashes for.393 
Wheat Bran for Fertilizer364 
Wheat, Market for_..374 
Wheat, Silver Chaff.394 
Wool Produced in U. S. .368 
Yoke for SuckingCow.IL379 
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