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Plants’auras, Humbug about. 778 
Breeding up. 3 
For winter. 874 
Wintering, In cellars . .. 7s0 
Plaster, Action of. 160 
Something about.242 
Plow points. Some. 205 
Plowing by electricity. 727 
Deep, at the South.664 
Points about foil.181 
Shallow. 442 
To conserve moisture. 238 
Plum, Abundance.104, 158, 163 
Growth at the South. 694 
Growth in Canada. 730 
Injured by curculio. 489 
Japan, culture. i02 
Marianna. GOO 
Mikado. 843 
Orchard' Pruning and feeding a... 761 
Pest, A troublesome.161 
Propagating the Marianna. 633 
Scale, Distribution of the.200 
Shropshire Damson, in Indiana.... 633 
Stock. 53 
Trees in standing water.2S0 
Trees, Insect that nips. 194 
Trees, Washing or spraying.361 
Twig Gall-mite. 161 
Weeping Blood. 843 
Yield in Delaware. 856 
Plums, Buu-moth on. 361 
Burbank. What temperature kills. 53 
Dying from frost.425 
For market. 698 
For Maryland. 202 
For Virginia.68 
Grafted with apricots. 826 
Japan.21, 107 
Japan, Fruit buds of. 6 
Japan,Hardiness of 70, 224. 346, 376, 865 
Japan, in Canada.482 
Japan, when and where hardy.240 
List of.312 
Bouse on.361 
On peach stocks.777, 809 
S. D. Willard on culture of.821 
Top-working. 598 
Plumbagos. 747 
Poisonous plants of New Jersey. 668 
Pomology, Our relation to the Division 
of. 615 
Pony, Stocking leg in » . 281 
Popcorn. Golden Queen. 202 
Pork making in Oregon. 233 
That won’t keep.808.842, 858 
Postage stamp collectors. 109 
Potash, Forms of. 521 
How to apply. 489 
On Crimson clover. 537 
Salts, Different. 329 
With packing house manure. 649 
Potato, Bliss’s Tliumph.1U4, 243 
Blue Victor. 857 
Bug, The old-fashioned. 569 
Bugs, Petunias kill. 598 
Carman, from cuttings. 265 
Carman, Trial of,. 763 
Carman, yield..634, 698, 727, 730, 759 
.796, 811 
Cellar, Cover fora Wisconsin.. .701, 714 
Charter Oak . 4 
Crop doubled by Rural trench 
system. 218 
Crop, Humus for a. 160 
Crown Jewel. 104 
Day. A Colorado. 8 >7 
Digger, Work of a. 717 
Disease, A new .361, 573 
Early Norther.2sl 
Early Ohio. 201 
Experiment. 746 
Experiments in selecting seed. 717 
Experiments in the Catskills. 717 
Experiments in Vermont. 219 
Experiments with fertilizer. 717 
Fertilizer ... .. 261 
Fertilizer, A Wisconsin. 315 
Freak, Explanation of i>.585 
Grower, A veteran, talks. 240 
Growing, Some mistakes In . 455 
Home Comfort. 4 
Mixture. 281 
New Queen. 281 
Notes. 616 
Notes from Horseshoe Farm. 774 
Notes from Iowa. . 749 
Notes fr m Kansas. 632 
Notes, Ill. 776 
Picker, English. 792 
Planting spliced ouds. 54 
Prices and Imports.. 57 
Prolllic Rose. 118 
Report. 682 
Rot, Lime for. 739 
R N.-Y. No. 2, Quality of. 794 
Scab, Curing. 85 
Scab, Effect of lime on. 266 
Scab gnat. 284 
Scab, Soaking sprouted seed for... 104 
Scab spread? Will. 4 
Scab. Sublimate solution didn’t 
prevent. 727 
Scab, successfully treated. 774 
Scab, Treating. . 241, 376 
Seed, Cutting. 220 
Seed, g owing at wholesale_661, 678 
Seed, Machine-cut. 200 
Seed, Planting whole.278, 294 
Seed, Selecting by vines.... . 255, 774 
Seed, Sunning and soaking. 263 
Seed, Sprouted.263. 749 
Seedling, plot at Rural Grounds 
.635, 683 
Seedling, What is a. 793 
Sprouts and light.69, 205 
Sprouts, Yield from.205, 265 
Sweet, Vineless. 811 
Tennessee Red. 5 
Tops, Use for. 713 
Trials at Rural Grounds. 184 
Trials at Mich. Agric. College. 459 
Triumph. 5 
Waiehouse, Se-d.220 
Potatoes, Alcohol from. 825 
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Potatoes among currants.258 
An acre of, for $40. 342 
And clover . 143 
And 8iiDsoiltng. 759 
Are big, best?.551 
Best early. 53 
Big? Why are Western. 4 
Brown streaks in. 36 
Carman, discussed. 777 
Carman, from skins.796 
Cost of an acre of. 390 
Cost of raising a bushel of .742, 776, 
Desciiptlon of vaiious. 4 
Digging, by han<i. 599 
Fall planted . 570 
Fertilizer formula for. 36 
Field for. 222 
Food value of, compared with 
others. 748 
For butter cows.809 
For sheep. 133 
For stock food... 21 
Growing in Colorado. 669 
Half developed, for seed. 729 
Hollow-hearted . 376 
How ninny eyes to the hill?. 774 
Importations of... 321 
In ammonia. Soaking.!?. 4 
In compacted soil.278 
In Kansas, How they grow. 551 
In Texas, Earliest. 5 
Irrigated, for seed . 53 
Keeping. 197 
Late planted. 38 
Methods of growing .— 726 
Mix in the hill ? Do. 827 
Mulched. 493, 582 
Mulcheo with straw. 488 
Mulching, The other side of.530 
Nitrogen for. 145 
On clover sod. 125 
On Crimson clover sod. 263 
Plowing in. 326 
Quality in.169, 224, 482 
Rolling land .for. 241 
Second-crop, in Oh o. 197 
Second-crop Methods of growing.. 20 
Sprouts from eyeless pieces of ... 262 
Sweet, How to grow “ Fancy Vine- 
land”.178. 198, 326,343, 360, 375 
Test for quality of.241, 588 
That would not sprout. 489 
vs. bran. 658 
Poultry, Australian shipments of.273 
Bone for.153, 552. 570, 59 , 711 
Business came out. How our. 504 
Crossing thoroughbred. 103 
Degenerating? Is.793 
Experience. 440 
Farm. An Ohio. 770 
Farming for profit. 614 
Feeding notes.710 
Feeding trial. 674 
Food, cheap . 653 
Girl, A successful. 253 
Grit feeder for. 34 
House, An Automatic. 293 
House. Size for a. 774 
Marking. 291 
Mash for. 856 
Need meat .273 
Notes. 618 
On toe farm. 4 
Pamphlet on infectious diseases of 764 
Profitable Illinois.834 
Ration. A close. 355 
Rations, Some. 723 
Some successful. 547 
Power, Be§t to run farm machinery... 712 
Preservation In California, Use of_539 
Prickly comfrey.307, 362. 411, 422, 424 
Lettuce. 6 
Privet, Japan. 474 
Prune, Right way to .296 
When to. 55 
Pruning large trees.369 
Pump, Kinney mixing. 397 
Pumping from a pipe,. 313 
Pumpkins in corn fields. 726 
Purslane, To exterminate . 649 
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Quince, Alaska.7, <183 
Blight, Experience with. . 178 
Blight, To cure. 160 
Borers, How to fight. .. 178 
Missouri Mammoth...859 
Rust . 254 
Quinces, Culture of. 178 
Transplanting. 313 
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Radish maggot. . 
Railroad charges in the West. 
Iron tool.. 
Rainbelt country. The terrible. 
Rake for orchard brush. 
Rape, Dwarf Essex. ... 
Dwarf Essex, for stock. 
For sheep. 
For sheep, Dwarf Essex. 
Raspberrv, Belle (le Fontenay. 
Blackberry, Logan.165, 
Canes, Treatment of old. 
Columbian.106, 489, 538, 
Conrath. 
Crosses. 
Destroyer Anew. 
Disease, A new. 
Earbart. 
French everbe ring. 
Miller Red, Value of. 
Miller Que* n. 
Shaffer, for.home garden. 
Shaffer, Origin of the. 
Story,A. 
Tips. 
Waters s Success. 
Raspbcries, Columbian r*. Shaffer395, 
Evaporated. 
Everbearing. 
For Canada. 
424 
552 
522 
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854 
810 
726 
533 
278 
683 
747 
537 
651 
164 
715 
377 
557 
682 
794 
710 
663 
538 
442 
177 
585 
5n7 
51.7 
362 
682 
857 
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Raspberries, Irrigating black. 2 
Red, for market. 150 
To stimulate. 393 
Ration. Balanced, reviewed. 223 
Balanced.14, 30, 46, 62, 78, 96 
For cows, Balanced. 260 
Retiring from work, Age for. 690 
Rhubarb beds, renovating old. 521 
Insect fond of. 37 
Roacnes, How to kill. 505 
Roads. Bad. 103 
Good, made by convicts. 855 
Massachusetts expenditures for... 764 
Robin, Down on the.571 
Poetical view of the. 618 
Robins' food, The. 682 
Roof, Best metal.457 
Rooster as a watch dog. 579 
Root crops for stock. Growing. 726 
Pruning an apple tree..,.489 
Pruning for transplanting. 859 
Rosa Setigera.507 
Wlchuraiana. 795 
Rose, Agnes Emilv Carman. 731 
Bed, When to move a. 473 
Belle Siebrecht.330 
Bugs. 506 
Bugs at Rural Grounds. 474 
Crimson Rambler.54, 118 
Cultivating the. 520 
Mrs. J. Sharman Crawford. 119 
Of Sharon. 667 
Roses for hedges. 297 
When and how to transplant. 5.2 
Roup in the coop. 808 
Rubber boots, Drying.18. 67 
Russian varieties of fruit. Value of... 475 
Ruta-bagas. Crop of. 744 
Rye as green manure for potatoes. 142 
For green feed. 82 
For hay and pasture. 441 
For hogs. 489 
Hay, Value of. 79 
Hay, When to cut. 441 
In a peach orchard. 600 
July-sown..' 842 
Manuring, Value of. 224 
Pasture not good for milk. 792 
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Sage, Culture of. 259 
Saghalin.38, 53, 71, 181, 211, 313. 347, 395 
And cuspldatum.144, 651 
And prickly comfrev. 427 
At Rural Grounds. 663 
For sheep.’’. 419 
Hard to eradicate. 67 
On Long Island. 456 
Preferred to Alslke. 779 
Tea........ I .459, 539 
Salmonberry. The. 760 
Saloonkeepers changing bills . 859 
Salt test for potatoes.241, 588 
To preserve shingles. 297 
Sawdust and ashes for manure. 104 
As a manure.393, 441 
For the cow. 754 
Scale insects on the pine. 377 
San Jos6, Danger of spreading .... 5 
San .1086. Fighting tue. 53 
San Jos6, In Indiana. 87 
San Josft, in New Jersey. 167 
San Jos6, Nurseries with.266, 317 
San .JosO, Remedy for. 349 
Schools, Agricultural Industrial. 530 
Township system for. 861 
Science for old farmers. 506 
Scooter, A Kansas.. :. 199 
Sea mud, Value of. 441 
Seed, Treatment for smutty or scabby 255 
Seeds, Government. 70 
Seeding, To avoid new. 18 
Seedling fruit? What Is a. 242 
Separator and engine in the dairy.... 218 
For 12 c wb . 409 
Hand, is practical. 856 
Oil for the. 681 
Sex, Determining. 355 
Shavings for mulch. 729 
Sheep, Corn fodder for. 339 
Dips.112, 483 
For mutton. 313 
From Argentine. 595 
Gnawing trees. 538 
Gnawing trees, How to prevent.... 647 
In an orchard.328, 454 
In Kansas. 306 
Industry in Ohio. 278 
Industry. What to do in the... 88 
Man, Talk with an Ohio. 581 
National Delaine. 419 
Parasites in. 221 
Parasites in young. 161 
Prospect, The.277 
Skin, Tanning a.682, 730 
South Down. 643 
Sulphur fed to.355 
Ticks, Killing. 253 
Shingle hair for mulching trees.473 
Shingles, Salt on. 297 
Short-horns, A talk about. 837 
Shrubbery, Group of trees and.698 
Silkworm cocoon. 52 
Silo building, Points on. 520 
Built in a clrcu ar barn. $41 
Experience with a. 499 
Filling at Ellerslie. 637 
Filling Cost of.810 
How to empty a. 761 
In a barn. 68 
Not air-tight. 458 
Right kind of a. 595 
Roof, Metal. 665 
To cure a leaking.637 
What alls the. 393 
Slaughtering device. 82 
Smut In wheat, Killing.170 
Smutty seed, Treatment ol. 255 
Socialism ahead ? Is. 634 
Sod. A garden from. 424 
Soda, Nitrate of, for vegetables. 313 
To take the place of potash. 301 
Soil. Curing a sour.770, 786, 802, 818,834, 850 
Soil, How Nature Improves the..341, 360 
Sour.601, 857 
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Soil. Rocuperatlve forces in the 693,726, 
.759, 792, 845 
The..306, 322, 338, 354, 370,386, 402, 
.418, 434, 450, 466, 482, 498, 514 
Soiling and partial soiling of cows. 238 
Crops, List of. 422 
Soot for fertilizer.841 
Sorghum fodder in Kansas. 803 
For stock.14, 3$, 822, 837 
Or corn for fodder. 822 
Pomace as manure. 313 
Sorrel land. Lime for. 585 
Sour land.601, 857 
South, Good wor-.'s for the. 694 
Southern agricultural problem.454, 503, 534 
Sow. Serving a. 133 
When to serve a. 79 
Sows, Breeding, ration. 451 
When to breed young. 467 
Spaying mares. 745 
Splriea, Blue. 51 
Spraver, Kerosene attachment for-329 
Spraying estimate. 394 
Law. Michigan's. 764 
Machines, Large. 413 
Machines, Trial of. 557 
Notes on. 391 
Wagon, Homemade. 376 
Sprinkling country roads in Calif. 780 
Spruce, Aicoc <’s. 6 
Colorado Blue. 6 
Spurry, Growth of. 165 
Squash bugs, A talk about. 473 
Bugs, Killing. 158 
Bugs, Shingling the. 504 
Growing in Chili . "86 
Vine borers, Hubits of. 261 
Stable floors.18, 457, 837 
Stallion, Grain ration for a. 105 
Care of.344, 371. 387 
Stanchions are best. 213 
Starch refuse, Value of. 729 
Starter for butter flavor. 361 
For cream. 141 
Steam and water pressure compare->.. 649 
Engine, Wouldn’t accept a. 776 
us. gasoline. 743 
Steer for fattening? What. 894 
Steers, Cheapest feed for. 729 
Feeding, in Indiana. 754 
Sterilized air for pros'-rvlng fruit. 482 
For snipping fruit. 620 
Stock, Care of . 595 
Food, Cooking. 63 
Food, Wavs of saving. 659 
Show, New York Live. 829 
St. John’s-wort. . 507 
Stone meal a fraud. 426 
Stones in orchards hold warmth. 439 
Stover, Value of. 588 
Strawberry, Anna Kennedy. 555 
Blight, Treatment for . 327 
Brandywine, Home of the. 517 
Crops in W. Virginia. 257 
Food. 409 
Insect pest. 69 
Insect pest, Chickens for. 154 
Jessie. 442 
List, An amateur's. 714 
Mulch, Leo ves for. 813 
Notes. 617 
Notes, Horseshoe Farm. 424 
Plants, Leaf-roller on. 553 
Plants, Machine for trimming. 713 
Plants, Potted. 761 
Plants, To prevent Idleness In. 617 
Point, A. 881 
Report from Rural Grounds. 485 
Specimens at Mlueola Fair. 456 
Talk, A. 487 
Talk on varieties. 825 
Timbrell, Unfavorable report of.. 144 
Tools,Two good. 634 
Strawberries and clover. 22 
And whits grubs.220, 275 
Bone and potash on. : 633 
Drought-proof. 468 
Failure of Gandy-Crescent. .490 
Fall care of. 632 
Fall planting of. 710 
Fertilizers for.... :.729, 793 
For New Hampshire. 241 
For pasture. 102 
For the South. 600 
For winter market.813 
From seed In 365 days. 392 
Frost-killed. 426 
Frost proof... .376, 406, 426, 439, 504, 538 
Ice for. 83 
In grass. 219 
Irrigated, Treatment or. 585 
Mulching, why and how. 790 
New. 615 
Nitrate of soda for.521 
Nitrate of soda spoils.422 
On a oamp soil. 536 
On wet soil. 102 
Pot grown. 810 
Potted Parker Earle. 501 
Preparing for.257 
Second-crop. 326 
Three best. 87 
Timbrell prize. 235 
To raise a big crop of. 220 
Tool for setting. 792 
Winter protection for. 729 
Wood ashes for. 280 
Yield of Irrigated.470 
Stump puller, Best. 392 
Stumps, Cultivating over chestnut.... 567 
Grubbing out. 89 
Removing. 6, 197 
Sub irrigation. 66 
In the greenhouse. 839 
Subsoiling.698 
Sugar, Price of.317 
Trust, Ways of the.397 
Sulphur for potato scab. 843 
For sheep. 355 
For sitting hens. 323 
Summer-fallow,Wisdom of a. 280 
Sunflowers as a farm crop.....261 
Sun-scald, To prevent. 525 
Superstitions, Farm.472 
Swamp. Clearing an alder.523, 570, 650 
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Swamp, gone to grass. 254 
Lands, Crops raised on.- 694 
Sweepings and stable manure.377 
Swine plague. 745 
Plague or worms ... 627 
Questions about. 63 
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Tank heater, Gasoline. 697 
Tanks, Frostproof wateilng..179 
Tankage, Value of.. 263 
Tannery waste. 280 
Tanning a hide.730 
A Sheep skin... 682 
Tap-root, Work of the. 55 
Tax, Single, in Delaware.610, 666, 746 
Teachers. Pensions for sc ool . 476 
Teats, Extra. 63 
Telegram, Charges for delivering a... 305 
Telephones, Cheap. 415 
Cost of. 393, 429 
Teoslnte.555, 667 
For stock. . 71 
Thistle destroyer, Liquid. 777 
Killing Canada. 457 
Thistles, Banishing Canada. 619 
Thrashing in Colorado. 421 
Tile drains better than stone drains.. 664 
Tiling, A talk about. 313 
Timber, Coal tar to prevent rot in__ 857 
Planting in burnt lands. 489 
Timothy, Fertilizers for.521 
Tires on farm wagons, Wide. 41 
Tomato crop, A boy's . 204 
Cross-breeding with Currant.2i>4 
Hybrids, Currant. 715 
New Imperial. 730 
Progress, The R. N -Y. 299 
Rot. 650 
Worm, History of the. 502 
Tomatoes, Atwenty-cent investment 
In. 67 
Early . 181 
Early, In South Jersey. 84 
For the greenhouse. 662 
Nipping. 312 
Soil for.313 
Trade mark names.36 
Trades union prices and farm produce 
prices. 749 
Tread-power, Governing the. 426 
Tree wash formula.369 
Trees along roads. 140 
Axle grease to. 794 
Dying from a fieeze. 393 
Painting, for borers . 424 
Pedigreed, and plants? Why not 811 
Shade, in the country. 424 
Wash to protect, from rabbits.552 
Tricksters, Tale of a trio of. 701 
Tuberculosis and ensilage. 47 
Cause of. .. 531 
Caused by bad air. 339 
Cured by good care. 732 
Guarding against. 173 
In Massachusetts. 47 
Tuberculous cows, Killing.339 
Turkey crosses, Wild and Bronze .. 31 
Turkeys. Danger from wild. 133 
Turnip, Scarlet Cashmere. 182 
Turnips for Bhe«p. 179 
Typhoid fever caused by milk. 413 
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Veal calf market. 385 
Vegetable growers, Advice to. .... 22 
Vegetables between cherry trees. 648 
<4rown in a back yard. 62 
Storing for winter. 791 
Valuable greenhouse. 380 
Verbena,Hardy Blue Chinese Shrubby 747 
Veterinary Science, Old-time. 371 
Vines for a rustic arbor. 826 
Violets in cold frames, English.473 
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Wagon, Low-down. 615 
Wheels. Draft of large and small. 103 
Walnut culture at the South. 744 
F’or timber. Planting black. 729 
Wash for trees. 777 
Washing by steam. 653 
Machine run by horse-power . 774 
Water cress, Cn liure of. 620 
Heater, Gasoline. 697 
Pipes, Best. 777 
Power to run a dairy. 620 
Supply operated by hydraulic ram 
.791, 824, 856 
Without wells, Stock. 601 
Watermelons, Insects on Georgia.392 
Tried at Rural Grounds. 164 
Waterproofing greenhouse boards. 730 
Muslin. 761 
Wealth Of America.. ..546, 562, 678. 594. 
Weed killer, Electric.444 
Seeds, F’eedlng, to poultry. 745 
Weeds as a green crop . 140 
Weeder better than harrow. 163 
Use of a. 283 
Weeders on stony ground.. 241 
Wheat after oats. 778 
Crop, A prize. 473 
What fertilizers for. 553 
Wheel-barrow, Homemade.466 
Where are we at?. 506 
Whev fed to hens.457 
Whitewash on hotbeds. 112 
Spraying. 618 
Whitewashing with a pump. 18 
With Bprayer. 650 
Windbreaks, Some Kansas. 653 
Windmill the best power. 826 
Work done by a.586, 616. 630, 693 
Wlneberry, Japanese.427 
Winter forcing of vegetables.541, 589 
Protection for tender plants. 701 
Wireworms. 601 
Woodchucks. Killing- :.323, 467 
Wool, Insects in stored.345 
Waste or manure?. 103 
Worm cure for hogs. 133 
Life story of the tomato. 502 
Terrible tales of a.441 
