Enthusiastic collector*,.197 
Entomological Society, search- 
in<t tor a... St 
Evergreen cutting* rooting.99 
Evergreens, shearing.346 
— tender unci hardy..-.244 
— transplant mg...297 
Jflrowood for summer use,......ISO 
Flower hcrls, preparing.290 
Foreman strikes,...360 
Frames In green-houses.09 
Fuchsias from loaf cuttings,.. •. 132 
Warden labels,.132 
Ooranlums, grafting.230 
Wrapes, summer pruning.371 
Grass seed, sowing.182 
Grocn-bouaea, inside frames in. 99 
Honey, Tjluden . 60 
Ice, storing ..06 
— too warm for.66 
Insects by mall, sending.66 
deformed and monstrous... 31 
— lighting.408 
Ivies, Japan. 10 
Japan Ivlos.10 
Labor question, wrong on..60 
Late spring.241 
Linden or basswood honey,. 60 
Magnolia umbrella.802 
Magnolias In bloom,.....328 
Maple seed, save the.374 
Milkweed fiber.213 
Mowing lawns,.392 
New Jersey, across. 84 
N. V. State Ag. Soc., meeting of. 160 
Nuts, gathering,,.. .81 
Ornamental leaf plant#.316 
Orobus vernus.328 
Packing the soli.369 
Painting roofs,.50 
Pear trees, pruning.182 
Peas, planting.280 
l’eoijlas, massing.408 
— Siberian.328 
Planting cuttings.,...280 
Plants, fumigating. ..99 
— plunging potted......350 
— re-potttng .. 99 
— too many kinds of......10 
— treatment of sickly.. 34 
— uncovering....197 
— under the drip of trees.GO 
— unprotected... .182 
— winter killed,.21S 
Plowing*........ 2(51 
, Poluaettla pulcherrlrna.31 
Potatoes, early and late.280 
rrimroses, double Chinese. 10 
Pruning hardy shrubs.241 
Pterofltlolius Provocmtil.31 
Uabblts In a garden,.132 
Haspberrles, among the.201 
— tying up.123 
Resurrection plants. 10 
Roofs, painting. 50 
Rose of Jericho,.-... 10 
Roses, grafting. 31 
Rural’s new departure.66 
Rutgers College, visit to.230 
Sage, planting scarlet.423 
Sanchezla nobtlta vanegata.. . 06 
Shepherd las m bloom... .312 
Shrubs, making cuttings of. 10 
Silkworms, Ynina-mui.318 
Silver maples in bloom.297 
Snake, harlequin.117 
Spruce, varieties of the Norway.371 
Steel rake In the garden,... .392 
Strawberries, planting.328 
— ripening.108 
Tomato seed, sowing.31 
To my correspondents.161 
Trees, cutting down old forest..117 
— for railroads.197 
Tulip trees, transferring.392 
utilising wusto water,.359 
Washington’s birthday,.101 
Windbreaks for railroads.197 
Woods, collection of tropical. .117 
Write a book.230 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
BUI of fare for a week, Mon¬ 
day's breakfast.....214 
— -dinner.. .362,410 
— ---tea.410 
Biscuit, cream of tartar.118 
— recipe for... 103 
— soda....211 
— to make....118 
Biscuits, good... 6T 
Bread, Boston brown ....281 
— corn.214 
Graham.230, 215, 311, 347 
Indian...,..,.311 
aoft Graham .311 
Brine for cucumbers.830, 378 
Butter in small tin cans.-105 
— to ornament.182 
— washing.133 
Button-hole worker...378 
Cnke, cream.149 
— feather......214 
— frost.215 
— Johnny.103 
— Rose's raised.230 
— silver. .140 
Cakes, vegetable oyster— .149 
Candy, hoarhound.362 
— home-made.....862 
— - cream.... 138 
Cup bag. to make a.878 
Carpet, fancy home-made.214 
Carpets, rag.198, 281 
Carrot fritter*. 133 
Curving, a word on...39 
Cauliflower salud....394 
Cement for broken china. 410 
Chloride of lime and Insects ... .103 
Cotfco making.378 
— pots. 56 
— to make good.262 
v.v husbands and wives.830 
Color kid gloves black, to .......423 
Coloring blue..165 
— orange,.165 
— recipes wanted.214 
Cookies, ginger,.214 
— plain.103 
Corn, preserving sweet.347 
Crackers, G raham.214 
Cucumbers, cooked.410 
Cushion, walnut, shell emery—149 
Custard, very nice snow......... 87 
Dessert, cold.71 
Domestic inquiries. .118, 183, 214, 
245, 262, 330, 362, 410 
Dumplings, apple..119, 183 
— — or fruit. 183 
Egg plants, or vegetable eggs.. .813 
Eggs In lime water, preserving.378 
— In salt, keeping.311 
— keeping. 55 
— to boll.347 
Farmers' kitchens. 65 
Fish fresh. To keep.149 
Flannel, Washing........ 89 
Flavoring with leaves.362 
Flouting island......214, 378 
Food, remnants of. 39 
Foot-stool with hot water tin... 87 
Fritters, carrot.133 
Fruit creams.165 
— In tin cans.4J.0 
Fur, to color... 165 
Ginger snaps. 55, 
Grahum bread.230, 245, 311, 347, 39* 
— — soft.....3 u 
— crackers. . f 
— gems.4 
Hams, to keep insects from.. .VAX 
neadllco./ 71 
House cleaners, to. .311 
— furnishing./. ..165 
— - vs. homo making_J....394 
How summer suits shoulfi be 
washed. 423 
to utilize pressed leaves.378 
Humbug recipe. .103 
Ice cream, currant.410 
Indian bread.311 
Johnny eukn. .. .103 
Kid gloves, to cleun......103 
Knitting-needle case.....198 
Lard, saving. 71 
Lemon butter.. -423 
Lice, head .... . 71 
Macaroons....245 
Maple molasses crystallsing, to 
prevent.230 
— sirup without graining.378 
Meat, to pickle.103 
Minute pudding.391 
Mittens, directions for making 
Ringed. 133 
Cream dipper...54 
Curd nulls..-.-.830 
Dairy, commercial aspect of the 83 
cows, management of........246 
— goods, putting up. .298 
— husbandry, the future of,. .88 
— in Ohio.100 
— lands in Ohio.186 
— notes......... 302 
— products, general market¬ 
ing of... 99 
— products of Ohio.....100 
— stock and food therefor,.99 
— cooking fodder for.131 
- how to Improve.83 
Dulryinen’s Association, North¬ 
western.391 
In convention, Canadian.198 
— New York.70 
Factory system and dairy busi¬ 
ness. 70 
Horse power for churning 
wanted.230 
Low prices and exports.70 
Milk aeration.,...282 
aerator... 330 
affecting cream, agitating. ...394 
agitating... 6 
— by measure..,.,. 6 
— composition of condensed...330 
• concerning condensing.298 
condensed.230 
— coolers...,.330 
— farming, hnmillating annoy¬ 
ances.378 
— — In Now England.378 
— — relief for grievances sug¬ 
gested .378 
— - rugged facts.878 
for choose, skimming.330 
— how to produce.I.VJ 
— Imaginary profits.378 
— in Ohio, cost of.100 
— losses on. 378 
— question again.362 
relative richness of.330 
— trade, the. 38 
— watering.378 
— weight of ft quart of. 38 
New York dairymen. . 99 
— — Dairymen's Association.. 70 
Ohio Dairymen's Convention.... 106 
Ontario as a dairy section.314 
I’ork muking.... 70 
Products of the dairy as articles 
of export.150 
Salt for cheese.198 
Stock for the dairy, breeding.. ..314 
Vermont Dairymen's Associa¬ 
tion, transactions of.246 
APIARIAN 
Chestnuts in N. W. Missouri.... 196 
Cions, time to cut..328 
Coal ashes about fruit trees.241 
Coniferous seed. . 190 
Currant cuttings, planting .400 
Cuttings by mail. 244 
Dragon tree.265 
Elm, the.200 
Evergreen seed.190 
Evergreens In barnyard ma¬ 
nure.wo 
— the use of.100 
Fagus ferruglnea... 53 
Flow of sap In maple trees.3-1* 
Forest tree planting in the 
West.-.893 
Forests in New Hampshire.35 
— save the.290 
Fruxtnus Americana...200 
— snmbucl folia.200 
— quadrungulata.200 
— verdis.260 
Fruit trees, how the South 
A mericans make......196 
Fuller on forestry.... .200 
Goats and apple trees.....53 
— killing trees.......148 
Grafts, treatment of...196 
Hawthorn wanted.....148 
Hickory timber, when to cut.. .117 
Hickories for culture..200 
Lurch, European.260 
Weeping.. . ..241 
l.lrlodendron tulipifera.260 
Locust trees fruiting .. ..148 
Locusts, value or fifteen years 
growth of.II* 
Mahcmla from Colorado.200 
— re pons.200 
MagnOltus In bloom.. .328 
Manure for apple trees.100 
Muplo, red.200 
— silver...200 
— sugar or rock.200 
Maples for culture.260 
Norway spruce, transplanting. .328 
Nuts, planting.118 
Osage orange hedges.. ..290 
— — In Vermont.190 
— — raising. 100 
— — seed.100 
Palm avenue at Rto Janeiro .. .209 
— the date. 53 
Peneh trees, protecting.132 
— — yellows in.148 
Peaches, blight among ...,.323 
Pear blight.393 
— trees, deep planted.210 
— in Mo., standard. 53 
— — on the mountain ash.290 
Pears on a western slope.290 
Phoenix dactyllfern. 53 
Protection vs. no protection. ...117 
Raspberry canes, cutting out.. .290 
Rhododendron, Mexican.310 
Sour-wood and crystalized 
honey.148 
Timber, best time to girdle.132 
— the moon theory, cutting .. ,406 
— when to cut. 310 
Tobacco 6taiks as mulch. 69 
Tree seeds for planting, prepar¬ 
ing....117 
Trees, cutting down old forest. .117 
— digging holes for.209 
— from cuttings, fruit.53 
— — hogs, to protect orchard. .360 
— fruiting, locust..148 
— goats and apple.53 
— goats killing.148 
— growing nut.244 
— In the shade of pines. .241 
— of pears, replacing the old.. 53 
— on Mt. Etna, old chestnut.. .266 
— plant.296 
— planting forest...146 
— Pyramidal.69 
— snb-irrigatton of.400 
— too old to plant. 63 
trimming...260 
r- — cedar. 63 
— yellows in peach.143 
Tropical plants and trees at 
Amherst....300 
Ulmns Americana.260 
— racemosa.. .200 
Way to Sandringham church.. ..152 
Wbite pine and birch. 393 
Willow, early flowering.260 
— French.... .148 
— wood, uses Of .314 
Woodlands, to renew,.260 
Yellows la peach trees. 148 
BUSINESS INFORMATION 
Accident Insurance, Successf ul.152 
Agood exhibit...... ..184 
— — Investment...20 
American Artisan.332 
Ames Plow Co's Catalogue.120 
Averlll chemical paint.168 
Briggs llro’s lllust'd catalogue.. 72 
Boynton’s lightning saw.136 
Buckeye Agricultural Works..,380 
Canada Southern Bonds. 412 
Gaboon's broadcast seed sower.. 180 
Carhart pulverizing cultivator. .332 
Catalogues, etc., received..., 130, 
332, 380 
Cayuga Lake R. R. .130 
Ohurter Oak Life Ins. Co,.152 
Chesapeake & Ohio It. It.101 
Dana Bickford’s Improved knit¬ 
ting machine. 50 
Desirable Investment.108 
Domestic sewing machine. 20 
Electros of wood engravings... 
380. 412 
Equitable Life Ins. Co.201 
Facts about tacks.332 
Fine Jewelry and good watches. 80 
Good and useful... .72 
idea lit advertising,.120 
- security, a. .130 
Hall’s patent bricklayers’ gloves 20 
Harrington’s seed sower and 
hand cultivator.108 
Inquiries for advertisers.412 
Iowa farming lands. 72 
Lightning saws. 20 
Now nurseryllrm. 20 
Now York Life Ins. Co.120 
Paper bouses.152 
Perkins & Honso lamp.108 
Remington rtlle, the now.180 
Silver tipped shoe#. 20 
Texan Liebig’s extractor meat, 300 
Tin-Hnedlead pipe...8w 
The right, weigh.300 
Toy steamboat.380 
Vegetable and floower seeds. ...184 
Warren's patent cooking pot.. ..210 
Water pipe, now composite san¬ 
itary ......101 
Ants about bee hives,.282 
Apiarian's challenge, An.34 
Artificial swarming.282 
— swarms,.343 
Australian honey-board. 34 
Barrels for extracted honey.375 
Bee forage..150 
— — hoarhound for. 31 
— hires.50,150, 227, 282 
— house. Building a ...211 
— —how to build a.163 
— • — to make a.227 
— houses,... 10 
— ntites for February,.110 
— ranches. 282 
— robbers, How to treat.311 
Bees and grapes,. .163, 243, 375 
— best and cheapest winter 
food for. 34 
— candy for...311 
— does the old queen lead the 
first swarm...110 
— dysentery among.1IW 
— dying", 179 
— In Marcellus,.282 
— Italianizing.375 
— longevity of Italian.34 
— mortality among.375 
— overstocking the country 
with.... .259 
— rearing-brood, water for.375 
— swarm before second crop of 
drones appear, will.408 
— transferring....2,9 
— treatment of quocnle## 
stocks. 31 
— winter feed for Italian.211 
Burch's hive,.110 
Candy for bees.311 
Drone* do, whn.t..50, 69 
Dysentery among bees.100 
— in bees the past winter.375 
Fertile workers, how to got rid 
of.7.250 
Food for bees,...,. 31 
Foul brood... 50 
Hive, Burch's .. 116 
— double story...408 
— swarm before second crop of 
drones appear, will. ...,,..408 
— how shall I make a . .110 
— Mr. Burch's movable comb.. 84 
Hives, about.100 
— value of frame. ..248 
Hoarhound for bee forage,..34, 150 
Honey bees and grapes,.IB 
— board, Australian.84 
— candying, to prevent.375 
— do drones condense.85 
— Extracting.85, 213 
— extractors,.100 
— in market....408 
— In wood,. 375 
— producing plants.179 
— when to extract.211 
Inquiries, Mr. Ladd to answer..422 
— from West Virginia....118 
Italian, hybrid and black bees 
ns honey producers,.211 
Queeus when laying eggs, food 
for. .311 
Red ant and beos.259 
Reply to Mr. Moore.343 
Tennessee Apiarian Society.31 
Winter feed for Italian bees,...21 
DAIRY HUSBANDRY 
Abortion among cows —cause 
and remedy. 99 
A lsike clover for pasture.314 
American Dairymen’s Ass’n—282 
--Officers of.118 
— — Convention.118 
Annaito, prepared.,.. .256 
Butter and cheese factory.422 
— artificial color of.99 
— come easy, how to make.70 
— cure for rancid.182 
— early, selling creamery.330 
— good winter, making and 
packing.246 
— — valuable statistics.230 
— — winter..... 11 
— making, results of experi¬ 
ments in.422 
— or cheese.166 
— prints. .290 
— worker, an Improved.11 
Calves, deaconing.166 
Canadian dairymen in conven¬ 
tion.314, 198 
Cheese, a make of.51 
— curious notions about.422 
— factory notes.246 
— improved quality of Ohio. ...166 
— making as a science.99 
— — Sunday.310 
— market, Wellington,O., as a. 160 
— or butter...160 
— rack aud setter in court.378 
— requisites In Ohio.160 
— salt for...198 
— size and style of Ohio.160 
— vats, shall we skim the.202 
Chemistry of the cow.99 
Churn power.. ..230 
— top, Improved.182 
Churns.. 298 
Condensing milk.298 
Cow, chemistry of. 99 
Cows, abortive..391 
— bag caking.182 
— cause and remedy of abor¬ 
tion among. 99 
— during the grass growing 
season, does It pay tomcss.}00 
DIARY OF A RURALIST 
Agreeable surprlso,. 84 
Albany, at. 150 
Anastatlea hterochuntina,. Ki 
Apple trees, pruning old. 81 
A shea, making.. • 132 
Azalea amoena.133 
Beautiful shrubs, a few.346 
Beech, the purple.374 
Bee hives, patent.117 
Bens, about .312 
— and flowers.164 
Beetles, Guatemala.150 
Begonias, propagating.99 
Blackberries, a strike at.261 
Blue birds, arrival of.164 
Cabbage butterflies. . ■ .297 
Camellias dropping tlielr buds,. 50 
Cherry cions, cutting. . 99 
Christmas,. 34 
Cleaning up the lawn.164 
— roads and fence corners... .433 
Clover In lawns, white...........37* 
— seed, sowing. .297 
Clytus, hickory.297 
Cold snap,.10 
Carculios. 117 
Cuttings of roots. 10 
— — shrubs. 10 
— sea beech sand for... ....50 
Cutting timber,.213 
Dally Rural Life, 10.34,50,99,117, 
132,150, 164.182. 197, 213. 230. 
214, 261, 280, 297, 328. 346, 359, 
374, S92. 408, 423 
Deutzta, double erenate-leaved.423 
Diary, keeping a.50 
Double plum-leaved spirea,.. .346 
Early and late planting. 392 
Effects of cold weather upon 
plants,.,,,..,..,,.312 
ARBORICULTURE 
Acerdasy carpum. 
— rubrum. 
— seccharinum.... 
Ants on poach trees. 
Apple and cherry seedlings. 
— trees, manure for. 
Apples In Northern Indiana, 
Winter. 
— unfruitful dwarf. 
Ash. the... 
— upon oak, grafting. 
Beech, American. 
— in the West, American. 
Bertholetta excelsa. 
Black walnut... 
Blight among peaches.— 
Box, when to transplant. 
Brazil nut.. 
Carya alba. 
— .. 
Cedar trees, trimming. 
Cherry seedlings.. 
Chestnut, the.,,,.,,.53. 
Alcoholic liquors In cooking. 
Ants, to expel. 
Apple Charlotte. 
— dumplings. 
A new year’s talk. 
Arches upon dinner tables.. 
Artichokes for the table. 
Bean soup..,.... 
Bedbugs, to exterminate- 
Beef tender, to make tough. 
Beets, how to boll and serve 
