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VOLUME XXXVII.—No. 11. NEW YORK, NOVEMBER, 1878. NEW SERIES—No. 382. 
Contents of this Number. 
Among the Farmers, No. 34.—Balter—Influence of 
Breeding on Milk—Form of Cow—Milk Mirror..414 
Arcy Dairy Farm.7 Illustrations . .413 
Boys and Girls Columns.—Spruce Wood Work.— 
Young Microscopists—Puzzle Box—About Aunt 
Sue.—Some Common Birds.12 Illustrations. .426-42S 
Breeding, Success in.419 
Cattle, Choking or Bloat; Cure for. Illustrated. .419 
Cattle, New Breeds of. 410 
Cider and Vinegar House.2 Illustrations. .417 
Composts... .418 
Corn, Selecting for Seed.412 
Corn, Enemy to Sweet. Illustrated . .422 
Farmers' Clubs.417 
Farm Work for November.403 
Fruit-Box, Refrigerating. Illustrated. .422 
Frnit and Flower Garden.. 404 
Grasshopper, Western, no longer feared.411 
Greeahonse and Window Plants.405 
Grape, A New Hardy—Tiie Highland. Illustrated. .421 
Guenon Milk Mirror.....412 
Hoisting Apparatus.2 Illustrations. .419 
Horses. Halter for Swimming. Illustrated. AW 
Horse Shoe Nails.2 Illustrations. .410 
Horticultural Absurdities. .421 
Household Department.—Rag Carpets—Banged Hair 
—Making Comfortables—Christmas Decorations— 
Notes and Queries, etc.4 Illustrations. .423-425 
Humbugs, Sundry. 408 
Ice.3 Illustrations. .417 
Kitchen and Market Garden.405 
Market Reports..405--406 
Millet, Pearl,Experiment with. 420 
Nuts and Nubbins. 434 
Pampas Rice.—Drooping Sorghum. Illustrated ..420 
Pear, the Ansault. Illustrated. .422 
Pio-.Trough, Movable Door for.2 Illustrations . .412 
Potato, What is a Sweet?.2 Illustrations. .423 
Premium List, Supplement.439-448 
Prickly Comfrey—Failure and Success.410 
Rifle Shooting. Notes on.4 Illustrations. .409 
Road Scraper, Improved. Illustrated. .416 
Steaming Timber, Chest for. Illustrated. .416 
Stock Feeding, Relat on of Fertility to.412 
Stone Dray. Light power. Illustrated. .412 
Talks on Farm Crops, No. 21.415 
Thanksgiving. Illustrated. .403 
Ventilatin'* Door for Stable. Illustrated. AV\ 
Vinegar. Cider. Illustrated. .418 
West, Editorial Correspondence from the far—Micli- 
i 2 an_Wisconsin—Minnesota — Iowa—Dakota—Ne¬ 
braska—Use for Caives—Shorthorns—Machinery— 
Grasshoppers a Blessing—Indians. 410-411 
Wheat, Cultivator lor. Illustrated. AW 
INDEX TO “BASKET.” AND OTHER SHORT ARTICLES. 
Benzine. Caution.408 
Butter, Store.435 
Calf, howto Feed.433 
Cattle, Bloat in. .408 
Cattle. Choked, Cure for.434 
Charcoal Dust.408 
Cement. Hie Best.407 
Cerebro-Spinal Fever—433 
Chickens, Early.407 
Coni, (32) Rowed.434 
Corn, Saving Seed.407 
Cotton Worm.406 
Cow Milkers.407 
Cow’s Tail, Loss of.434 
Cow, Indigestion in.435 
Curb, Treatment for.. ..43: 
Dairy Barn, Cost of.40’ 
Dairy Fai r. International .434 
Deerfoot. Farm.434 
Exports Continue .406 
Feed RiMm. Illustrated. .408 
Fe d Rack for Sheep.2 111 A 07 
Fowl Houses.420 
Fuchsias. White.434 
Halter for Bulls.IH..40R 
Hogs. Disease in.435 
Hogs on Barley.407 
Hogs, Poland-China.435 
Horse, Power of.407 
“ Husk ” in Calves.433 
Italy’s Ag’l Products... 434 
Ivy..423 
Kids. 434 
Lightnintr-Rods.Lombar 
dy Poplars for.434 
N. C., Fertilizers in 
Manure, Worth of.. 
Marshes, Drained.. 
Milk, Bloody. 
Milk Cans. Rusty.. 
Milk in Glass Jars. 
Mosquitoes. Trapping... 
Oats for Milk.. 
Oats. Winter . 
Ophthalmia, Purulent... 
Peaches. Seedling. 
Pea F 'wls—Guinea Pigs, 
Pigs, Paralysis in_... 
Potatoes, Seed for South 
Poultry. Plymouth Rock 
Poultry House.. 
Rotation, A New. 
Saw, Gumming a. 
Roup. 
Scarifier for Meadow... 
Sheep, Disease in feet.. 
Sheep. Feed for 200 
Sheep. Foul water for.. 
Sheep Peeling Trees... 
Skin Disease. 
Sneeulation. Beware of. 
Stock. Imported vs 
Home-bred . 
Tails and Manes, Bald. 
Tethering Pin. III. 
Tomato, The Alpha.... 
Udder. Inflainafioii of.. 
West, Am. Agr. for. 
Wheat, Salt on. 
Wilder, Col., Birth-Day. 
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