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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
VOLUME LIV., 1895. 
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Aberdeen-Annus cattle. Talk on. 802 
Abortion, Cause of. 273 
In heifer. 665, 738 
Remedy for. 403 
Accounts, Farmers’. 603 
Farmers and their. 535 
Agitator for spraying outfits. 159 
Agricultural politics in Germany.861 
Science made easy_328, 349.381, 392 
Agriculture, Dept, of, report .797 
Non-Partisan Board of.91, 147 
Ailanthus, Growing and pruning the.. 262 
Alfalfa and beets. 47 
And Crimson clover. 203 
In the East. 825 
Potatoes and corn for steers. 729 
Alkali soil in Indiana .261 
Soil, What to do for an. 697 
Almond nuts at the South:. 424 
Ammoniacal liquor for fertilizer. 681 
Amplexicaule at Rural Grounds. 663 
Animals and medicine. 273 
Ant remedy. 601 
Ants as a fertilizer. 633 
Anti-toxine. 25 
Anthracnose, Tc eradicate raspberry 220 
In raspberries. 158 
Aphis, Woolly, on apples.393 
Apple, Baldwin, monument. 428 
Boiken. 806 
Borers, Destroying. 66 
Bounty.587, 619 
Charlotten Thaler. 539 
Dominie. 744 
Early Melon. 650 
Evening Party.806 
llerr Wood. 843 
Insect, A bad.328 
Lady, seedlings. 106 
Maggot, History and treatment of 280 
McIntosh. 238 
New, ripening from July to October 849 
Notes, Wisconsin. 22 
Orchard? What alls the..646, 666, 731 
Pest, A new. 425 
Pomeroy.600 
Red Bietlgheimer. 67 
Rust, History of. 841 
Scale.856 
Senator. 848 
Spitzenberg, Care of. 844 
Starr.119, 587 
Tenderskin. 806 
Trees, is it necessary to spray.602 
Trees, List of. 21 
Trees live longer when sprayed? 
Do.69, 138 
Trees, Scurfy bark-louse on. 85 
Twig disease.329 
Walter Pease.776 
Wealthy. 682, 744 
Winesap. 859 
Worms, False information on. 777 
York Imperial. 744 
Apples, Best early.765, 792 
Best locality for tine. 204 
Best red and yellow.685, 712 
Earliest. 221 
Early bearing.326 
Early maturing.275 
Highest quality dessert.68, 204 
Keeping, down South. 792 
Datekeeping.602 
Dlst of.715 
On rocky soil.. . . 309 
Oyster-shell, bark-louse on.140 
Succession of.632, 666 
Unknown. 242 
Valuable varieties of.179 
Woolly aphis on Kansas. 393 
Arsenate of lead as insecticide. 299 
Artichokes. 104 
A weed . 173 
For hogs.38, 87 
To kill. 107 
Ash borer. 521 
Mountain, Knots on a. 160 
Ashes and manures. Value of. 281 
And salt on potatoes.313 
Or lime? Lime-kiln. 5 
Something about wood. 5 
Asparagus, Argenteull. 427 
Beetle, Killing the. 301 
Beds, Renovating old. 521 
Conover’s Colossal....,. 5 
Difference between male and fe¬ 
male . 395 
In Georgia.-.. 410 
In Texas. 5 
Nitrate of soda on. ] 745 
Rows, Distance between. 112 
Seedling. 85 
Talk, An. 298 
Treatment of. 649 
Ayrshire calf, Big. 233 
Cattle. 02 
Ayrshires, Good points of...835 
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Babcock test for cheese-making.261 
Balanced ration.14, 30. 40, 62. 78, 90 
Banana, Abyssinian.843 
Bank note, Lost value of an old. ”.... 69 
Barberries as shrubs. 747 
Bark-louse on apple trees... ... .. ..85 140 
On shrubbery.......’ 345 
Barley awns.618 
Barn, A basement. 279 
Circular, and silo.[. 841 
Floor, Cheap..1 66 
For a fruit farm.695, 711, 744, 759 
Barn, Frame, A convenient. 472 
Frame. Shawver.581, 809 
How to build a small. 425 
Without beams.344, 391, 420 
Barrelhead, Anew. 458 
Bean culture In Mich. 325 
Culture, N. Y. State. 374 
Culture In West-rn New York. 325 
Culture, More about. 458 
Culture, Wyoming County N. Y_ 394 
Harvesters. 325 
Straw for feed. 181 
Beans, First crop of. 40 
For cows.115 
Preventing bugs in.271 
Stung by an insect. 52 
When to cultivate . 569 
Beech, European Pendulous.474, 537 
Beef from scrub or pure blood. 645 
Bees and pollination. 213 
Beet sugar in the South. 365 
Sugar produced in Germany. 764 
Beetle, Blister. 617 
Graveyard. 521 
May,Larvffiof. 326 
Rhinoceros. 521 
Berkshire herd at Willswood Farm .. 5S9 
Berries, Irrigated. 86 
Mix In the field ? Can. 5 
Biota aurea nana .. 1 6 
Birds as civilizers. 706 
Defended. 422 
From cherrries Scaring the_414, 460 
Injuring fruit.618 
Save the song. 362 
White snow. 160 
Black-knot with kerosene. Treating.. 40 
Black spot on the peach. 377 
Blackberry, Eldorado.106, 489 
Leaf-spot fungus. 665 
Minnewaski. . 651 
Ohmer. 857 
Oregon Evergreen. 667 
Rathbun . 587 
Blood for hens. 611 
Value of new . 371 
Blooming, Retarding early. 163 
Boar, Care of the breeding.. 515 
Boarders, Summer. 405 
Bone and potash, Applying. 297 
Ash, Value of. 263 
Cut, for poultry...153, 652, 570, 595, 711 
Raw and steamed. 745 
Bones, Burning. 323 
Crushed at nome. 160 
To dissolve with ashes. 808 
To grind or burn. 637 
Boroeaux Mixture. 381 
Mixture, Dry. 37 
Mixture. New method of making.. 648 
Mixture on sirawberry plants, for 
rust. 663 
Mixt re, Strength of. 392 
Borer in cedar wood. . 617 
Shot-hole. 585 
Borers and other insect bores. 422 
Destroying apple. 66 
Dose for the. 410 
Squash Vine .261, 305 
Squash-vine, Killing. 362 
Borrow? Can I afford to.34, 98, 162 
How can farmers. 506 
Borrowing, The farmer and. 583 
Boys on the farm. 571 
Bran for fertilizer.104 
And shorts compared. 133 
And wheat as foods. 37 
Bread for cattle. 835 
Breeding, Early, heifer. 371 
Notes. 371 
Up plants . 3 
Broiler farm, How I run a. 198 
Brooder, Jug of water for a . 312 
Brooders, Pipes for hot water. 86 
Broom corn. 37 
Buckwheat to horses, Feeding.713, 738 
Budoing, What is June. 665 
Bud-moth, Work of the. 361 
Buffalo berry. 826 
Bug, Harlequin cabbage.649, 697 
Squash. 158 
Tarnished plant. 328 
With a long snout. 665 
Buhach, what it Is. 729 
Bulb culture for profit . 21 
Bull. Care of a.273 
Ephraim W., Death of. 685 
Jersey, How to select a. 141 
Treading a. 419 
Bulletins, Experiment station.365, 381, 
Burdocks, To destroy. 569 
Bushel box, A handy. 519 
Business, To start up . 491 
Butter accumulator,. 21 
All about flavor in. 358 
Diarv of a pound of. 563 
Fat into milk, Feeding. 520 
Fat, Questions about. 617 
Foods for coloring. 14 
Fraud, Black Pepsin. 375 
From whey . 346 
Is not more salable. Why farm.... 531 
Machine for making, directly from 
milk. 780 
Or milk selling.... I43 
Out of whey. 263 
Packages, Best. 194 
Peddling. 34 
Sales, Unsatisfactory. 839 
Solid. 37 
vs. beef.15 
Buttermsker’s trade, To learn the_761 
Buying of first hands. 554 
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Cabbage bug, Harlequin.649, 697 
Keeping. 650 
Root maggot . 259 
To keep worms and lice out of. 346 
Worms and bugs. 649 
Worms, Salt for . 458 
Worms, To kill the. 408 
Cabbages, Burying. 745 
Savoy, as headers and' keepers_733 
Calf, Nursing a . 835 
Paralysis in hind legs of a. 857 
Calves, Box beds for. 35 
Calving case, Curious. 691 
California or Delaware?. 86 
Camping out for a week. 453 
Canal, Down on the. 727 
Cementing a. 844 
Cane for stock, Amber.14, 822 
Canna Queen Charlotte. 474 
Cannas at Rural Grounds. 282 
Best varieties of... 283 
Cantaloupes in hotbeds, Starting . 201 
Carnation belt, Notes from the.662, 680, 781 
Carnations, Plant food for. 536 
Carriage, Horseless. 743 
Carrots, Feed value of. 15 
Mold on. 243 
Cassabanana, The.843, 859 
Castor oil plants as mole exietmln- 
ators. 245 
Cat and limed kitten. 818 
Breeding. 290 
Catarrh. Treatment of.364, 380, 409, 445 
Catch crops, among currants. 258 
Crops in strawberries. 312 
Cattle poisoned by wild cherry..531, 
... aa, o r.i, 021 
Lice, Preventive for. 47 
Prices for Western. 326 
Red water in. 105 
Cauliflower and celery the same year 5 
Insect pest. 521 
Cauliflowers, Col 1 weather. 66 
Celery, Best soil for. 18 
Blight, Copper solution for. 681 
Blight, Treatment Of. 633 
Culture and irrigation. 326 
Culture, Fine. 714 
Culture, New.88, 154 
Fertilizer on. 194 
Growing and selling. 423 
In a greenhouse. 104 
Protection for.283 
Seed. Growing . 221 
Surface tile irrigation for. 375 
White Plume. 587 
Storing, for winter. 791 
Cellar, Root, for cold climate. 89 
Cement floors,.457, 887 
Cnains made by machinery. 220 
Cheese, Preventing mites in.595 
Chemicals and clover well tested. 741 
Prices for. 73 
With manure? What. 73 
Wrong ideas about. 73 
Cherry. Dwarf Rocky Mountain. 102 
Dyehouse.102 
Roots. 36 
Wild, poison.531, 547,579, 627 
Cherries, List of. 162 
Protecting from birds.311,414, 460 
Pruning. 617 
Six best sour... 36 
Chestnut, Colonel Martin. 69!) 
Doctor Black. 699 
Grafting In New England . 742 
Moncur. 23 
Ridgeley. 7 
Worms, How to destroy.408, 470 
Chestnuts Best locality for. 50 
Improved, for New England. 773 
Paragon. 7 
Chicken cholera. 691 
Cholera and castor oil. 79 
Chickens, Bread and pot cheese for... 573 
Copartnership in. 755 
For broilers. 198 
Chicks by hand. Raising. 312 
Feeding Leghorn. 754 
Chicory ss a farm crop. 729 
To rid fields of. 553 
Chimneys, Non-smoking. 455 
Chinese vegetables. 214 
Cholera, Chicken .79, 691 
Chrysanthemums in January.855 
Clay soil, Improving a tenacious. 730 
Clematis, Propagating.21, 813 
Clover and Alfalfa notes. 225 
And dogs.706, 746 
As a corn substitute. 34 
Bokhara. 88 
Crimson. Advice about. 424 
Crimson, among raspberries. 223 
Crimson, and buckwheat.408, 521 
Crimson, and cutworms. 441 
Crimson, and zero weather. 244 
Crimson, as hen food. 89 
Crimson, at N J. Exp. Station.357 
Crimson, at Rural Grounds....314, 330 
Crimson, Bacteria. 477 
Crimson, Can’t kill. 458 
Crimson, comes through blizzard.. 274 
Crimson, Cost of thrashing. 585 
Crimson, Difference in. 505 
Crimson, does well in Pa. 810 
Crimson, Early sown. 538 
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Clover, Crimson, for bees. 
Crimson, for chickens. 
Crimson, for corn.179, 
Crimson, for corn and potatoes... 
Crimson, for spring sowing. 
Crimson, hay in an orchard. 
Crimson, hay injuring stock. 
Crimson, hay no injury to horses.. 
Crimson, in 1869. 
Crimson, In Canada. 
Crimson, in Connecticut. 
Crimson, in Delaware.339, 406, 
Crimson, in Illinois. 
Cilrason, In Indiana. 
Crimson, In Kentucky . 
Crimson, in Mlchignn.295, 
Crimson, in N. Y. State. 
Crimson, in Northern New Jersey. 
Crimson, in Oregon. 
Crimson, in Pennsylvania ..225, 
Crimson, in Penn, peach orchard.. 
Crimson, in So. Central Ohio. 
Crimson, in Southern Ohio. 
C'lmscn In Tennessee. . 
Crimson, in V irglnia.22, 
Crimson, in Wisconsin. 
Crimson, In young peach orchards 
Crimson, Lively.. 
Crimson, on Long Island. 
Crimson, on Puget Sound. 
Crimson, reports.316, 330, 357, 
Crimson, Saving, seed. 
Crimson, seed, Harvesting. 
Crimson, seed. Weeds in .. 
Crimson. Sowing.. 
Crimson, straw useful. 
Experiments in Canada. 
For horses. 
For the silo. 
Half-cured. 
Hay for horses.159, 
In. . 
Second growth . 
Seed, Secret of sowing. 
White. 
Club-root, Lime to prevent. 
Clubs, farmers’ collect ignorance? Do 
Coccus, Norfolk Island Pine. 
Cockle in wheat, To prevent. 
Coeoanut oil as a substitute for oleo.. 
Codling moths, Killing. 
Cold storage room of a cellar, Mak¬ 
ing a. 
Colt, A weak. 
Educating a. . 
Sore on a. 
Teething in a. 
626 
22 
345 
521 
160 
633 
742 
713 
257 
762 
225 
421 
811) 
295 
568 
408 
245 
410 
570 
810 
357 
442 
197 
36 
394 
795 
552 
i»50 
225 
362 
378 
457 
60 
505 
451) 
283 
275 
387 
760 
103 
505 
835 
857 
199 
745 
443 
503 
345 
364 
348 
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Colts, Castrating.233, 393. 407, 451 
Castrating weaning. 291 
Knee c^p out of joint. 141 
Leg, Puff on a. 477 
Nose, Trouble In a. 809 
Training. 2, 250 
Commissions, Costly. 109 
Cooking stock food. 63 
Coriander and other herbs. 5 
Corn, Analysis of. 37 
And cob grinders. 650 
And corn meal, Difference be¬ 
tween. 203 
Barren plants among. 265 
Brazilian Flour. 242 
Cob ashes, Value of. 142 
Culture, Improved. 311 
Culture in Indiana. 874 
Cutting, with grain binder. 730 
Cutter, A Kansas. 551 
Deep and shallow cultivation of... 395 
Discing and drilling. 808 
Drilling. 104 
Earliest field. 19 
Fertilizer for. . . 222 
Fertilizer for, on sod. 263 
Fedderln Manitoba. 213 
Fedder? Shall we cut dry.697, 725, 841 
For Connecticut. 69 
For fodder. 104 
Growing. 28 1 
Harrow. 199 
Harvesters.493,525, 603 
Holding, for a higher price.856 
How to fee-i. 738 
Husking, without cutting bands... 18 
Largest ear of. 87 
Meal ration for cows. 611 
On sod. 263, 730 
Plants on an acre, Number of. 374 
Pop, cakes for poultry,. 745 
Profit and loss in holding. 794 
Rotation without. 159 
Rural Thoroughbred F’lint. 763 
Seed, Flar for.241, 506, 665 
Shrinkage of. 471 
Shrinkage of, in the crib. 725 
Stalk pith for war vessels:. 396 
Stalks, Cutting and soaking.. ..786, 841 
Stalk without ears, Value of. .857 
Sweet, crop. 482 
Sweet, Early Vermoqt. 53 
Sweet, for soiling.297 
Sweet, stored in the barn _681, 710 
Sweet, Sugar in. 70 
Sweet, Zig-zag .314,411 
To hogs ? Shall he sell. 534 
Transplanting. 265 
Unhusked, preferred by stock. 674 
Worm. 143 
Cost of a crop. 759 
Cottolene, Use of. 522 
Cotton-boll weevil. 284 
F’actorles going South. 317 
New process of balings.509 
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Cotton worm. 143 
Seed F’eedlng, to stock. 562 
Seed hulls. F’eeding. 713 
Seed meal and bran for fertilizer.. 104 
Seed meal and straw . 133 
Seed meal and tan-bark ashes... 203 
Seed meal butter. 418 
Seed meal causes constipation.... 345 
Seed meal. Chemicals to add. 553 
Seed meal, Dangers of. 370 
Seed meal, Decorticated and un- 
decortlcated. 126 
Seed meal dry.738 
Seed meal feeding. 233 
Seed meal for cows.8, 56, 140 
Seed meal for feeding. 242 
Seed meal for fertilizing.242 
Seed meal for hogs. 690 
Seed meal for onions. 424 
Seed meal In fertilizers.139, 263 
Cow, A choking. 15, 63 
Best family. 273 
F’ood founder in a. 21 
Giving milk 14 years. 323 
Indigestion In a. 161 
Liver disease in a. 221 
Manure, Value of. 159 
Milk fever in a. 141 
Paralysis . repriancy In. 377 
Physic for a., 97 
Prurltis in a.1.505 
Ration for a.49, 79, 674 
Retention of afterbirth In a. 221 
Sick from eating crab apples.. .738, 818 
Sterile. 87 
Tail holders. 403 
Tie.18, 79 
To dry off a. 161 
With constipation. 345 
With lumpy jaw. 345 
With rheumatism.345 
With “ worm In the tall’’. 141 
Cow’s bad habit, Curing a,. 213 
Cud, The.531 
Extra teats,. 153 
Eye, Chaff In a. 63, 253, 306 
Heart pierced with hat pin. 691 
Shape, The dairy. 157 
Stomach, Wire In. 141 
Teat, Hole in.. 291 
Teat, Leak In a. 697 
Teat that spatters.125 
Teat, To close a. 125 
Udder inflamed.161,281, 627 
Udder, Lump in. 261 
Womb, Eversion of.819 
Yield Injured by careless treat¬ 
ment.675 
Barren.•.. 87, 418, 436, 451, 467 
Ensilage and bran for.124 
F'ed bone-meal. 8 
Graded rations for. 260 
Green food for. 38 
Hang poor.112 
In the yoke. 469 
Salting. 631 
Saving sick.253 
Snake skin for. 273 
Three ways of fastening. 138 
With depraved appetites.834 
With extra teats.97,115, 153, 173 
Cranberries, without flooding. 66 
Cream bitter? What makes.. .457, 806, 867 
F’or city consumers, Pure.281 
Separator on the road. 328 
Creamery and other humbugs. 759 
Largest, in the world.437 
Creamery shark. 9 
Sharks brought to court.348 
Cricket, Giant sand. 569 
Snowy Tree.345, 856 
Cropping, Double, Flconomy of. 714 
Crops. Condition of the. 365 
Cost of . 602 
F’or Georgia. 522 
Three, In twelve months.394 
To save the hay. 505 
Crossing seed blossoms.220 
Cucumber bug, Striped.424 
FTea-beetle.... . ..8, 505 
Japanese climbing. 459 
Cud, Chewing the. 133 
Cultivation, Right. 778 
Culture instead of manure, Good.666 
Curculio, Bug related to plum.665 
On apples Plum. 457 
On apricots.220 
Remedy for. 369 
Currant borers.104, 425 
Culture, S. D. Willard on . 821 
F'ay. 346 
New White. 587 
North Star. 539 
Pres. Wilder.587 
Worms.425 
Worms, Green. 409 
Currants, black, Culture of. 343 
Cuspidatum, Polygonum.234, 443 
At Rural Grounds.410, 663 
Cuttings, Give your neighbors.779 
Inverted. 69 
Of novelties cheap. 22 
Cutworms and corn.409 
City editor on.569 
Cyclone at Rural Grounds. 523 
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Dalrv course at Cornell. 473 
Education, A .108, 438, 665 
Farm in Connecticut. 584 
F’arm in North Carolina... 773 
