©EE’S BUBAL NEW-YORKER. 
Mushroom catsup ... 410 
Mustard, how to mix.303 
Napkins Capuctl n style, foldlng.il!) 
— folding lady’s slipper style. .103 
— miter shape, folding.133 
— pillar shape, folding.103 
— tulip shape, folding. .,245 
— folding water lily shape.118 
Orange chips.230 
— salad.230 
Paint, cleaning....378, 410 
Pie, apple........105 
— cranberry... ..105 
— crust, cream,...,.105 
— poach . ........165 
— pumpkin.105 
Pies, about ..105 
Pickles for market, how to put 
up. 243 
Polishing Irons.39 
Pork, diseased . 119 
Potatoes, to cook.103, 410 
— “ peel and send to the tabie”.211 
Pot-pic. 183 
Pudding, boiled Indian.103 
— Outsklll.119 
— Items. 87 
— recipe for cocoanut.345 
— rlco..149,214.215.110 
— rolly-poly...1*9 
— tapioca .119 
— to make nice floe...183 
Rag carpels ..193 
Raps for cutting, preparing.193 
Red on cotton, to color.311 
— with unaline, to color ....... 87 
Rico, how the Chinese cook.87 
— pudding. 193 
Sally Lunn. Rosie's...230 
Sausage recipe. 71 
Serving at table.105 
Side dishes, the use of. 39 
Skippers tu dried apples.39i 
Small things of the table.39 
Soup, humbug recipe for New 
England.*.>03 
Sofa bolster.*.39 
Soup, about.118 
— bean .133 
— how to make a good, old- 
faaUt'ined.449 
— In Winter and Spring, green 
— recipe...211 
— — wanted...71 
— rloc ..183 
— vegetable...183 
— vermicelli.. .• -214 
Stair rods...183, 281 
Stamp for stamping butter,,... .373 
Stove pipes, t,o prevent rusting.133 
Strawberries and raspberries... 123 
Table mats, straw.39 
That week’s bill of faro.423 
Tinware, cleaning..55 
Tomatoes, to pleklo.378 
— in Iron pots....214 
To restore color of a linen dross 55 
Trlllc.315 
Truffles a lTtnllonne.230 
— an vtn. ..230 
— winters ... ..230 
Turkey red on cotton.• •• 55 
— to steam a .... .... 103 
Turnips, Russian. 71 
Vegetable cookery, the why in.330 
Vegetables and a moos, when to 
use . 87 
Vermicelli soup...211 
Vinegar, grape. 281 
Washing flannel.39 
— now mode of.332 
Wheat, cracked.230 
— preparing cracked.215 
White linen table cloths.281 
Work-basket- and wall-pocket...281 
EDITORIAL. 
Advance In numberand price of 
sheep. 232 
Advertisers’ Magazine.104 
Advertising In the Rural New- 
Yorker .50 
Adlrondacks. the...101 
Agencies for importing Chinese 
eervan is.. .*..300 
Agricultural hook-keeping..200 
— collego funds..2si 
— colleges open to hired men..218 
— convention, a national.40 
— — nt Madison, Wls. 83 
_ — at Washington.152,168 
— and Mechanical Collego of 
Alabama.300 
American A ttsun...........332 
— workingmen.88 
i homological Society’s trans¬ 
actions...301 
— sliort-horn herd book .203 
Ah'-word 1 a iv In Penn..120 
Ar'- r it ly in X >bras’.t.i.181. 318 
Artit,nal a irisuin London.2lfi 
Ax-gr.idiws’ club .243 
Ax-prl-.llng at the Farmers’ 
Ci:.. .Stt 
Barry’s '’rnlt Garden.301 
Beautifa.car.>miis of flowers...253 
Beat »u n- in E trope.170 
— -W soimSln .232 
— — manufacture In California 10 
Bliss & So >y catalogue.88 
Books f >r ntr i Ists ..261 
Botani 'il a it’d m proposed......412 
Botanist of the Department of 
Agriculture. .. .83, 313 
Boy who wants to run away. .. .233 
Brief lull hearty erecting. 13 
Brigis Urn’s catalogue...83 
Broadlands .. 10 
Business law. .. .216 
Buy b a i';s relating to your bus¬ 
iness ..300 
Bays ),’ and distributing homo- 
grown seeds.............21G 
— implements. 316 
Canada thistle laws of Illinois. .316 
Canandaigua Lake. 16 
Capacity of telegraphs doubled..281 
Catalogues Of Ml. Hope nur¬ 
series.152 
— received.101,120, 168. 200, 232, 
248. 332, 364 
Cattle in the United States, dis¬ 
eases of. 101 
Changing business...216 
Cheap preparatory school.300 
Cock lighting.201 
Colton. 1. & E,.103 
Commissioners of Agrtculturo 
for Tennessee.200 
Committee on Ag. in Now York 
Assembly..56 
Comparison and.conclusion.40 
Congress, what Is tho business 
of this. 56 
Cost of living.364 
Crandall, A. B.168 
Dairy exhibition in Austria.181 
— mooting.... 56 
Death of a centenarian.234 
Deferred.....181 
I Division of labor.412 
Dollar Weekly Sun. ..10 
Don't bet on election.364 
Dr. Parry vs. Judge Watts.... 56 
Effect of strlkos.424 
Eight hour strike........424 
Elastic roller cotton gin.300 
Electro-magnetic curling oomb.228 
Ely. Wm. M.130 
English Ag. laborers’ strike.300 
Entomological report of Mis¬ 
souri.332 
Facts about tacks...332 
Failures In 1871.130 
Farm gardening and seed grow¬ 
ing.332 
Farmers as legislators.184 
— Club of tho American Insti¬ 
tute.396 
— poisoned by wild parsnip_390 
— sons corresponding with 
each other .218 
Fighting manufacturers of Ag l 
Implements.181 
Financier, the...101 
Flower and vegetable seeds.182 
Franklin statue In New York ... 72 
Free libraries. 72 
Fruit lists, no more. 40 
Gas from n Rochester well.120 
George V.isoy. Botanist of De- 
part.mcntof Agriculture.. .332 
Georgia tea. 88 
Ginseng in North Carolina.40 
Gloom of n day.261 
Good men gone to rest.72 
Graceful compliment_...._332 
Gregory, obituary of Joseph W. 56 
Harris, 8. D.412 
Hill's ‘‘Archimedean" lawn 
mower..243 
Ilonostj—Independence.310 
Hop crop of 1872. 210 
Horticultural school for women 88 
How to make money off a farm.309 
l low to remit for tho Rural.120 
Importing 9tock for breeding 
purposes.318 
Increase of advertising rates...138 
Instruction for Ag. and Ilort. 
Boo.124 
Investments In bonds.....213 
Investigation..181 
Ireland becoming a pasture 
farm. 3S0 
It is well to have something to 
think about.168 
James Stewart & Co.200 
Japan and the American Agri¬ 
cultural Commission. .396,171 
Johu Weiss on the music of the 
trees—.. 88 
Josiuh Hoopoe’s Rural Club es¬ 
say.’261 
Judson of branching corn noto¬ 
riety . .396 
Kansas farmer...300 
Keep cool and grow corn.. .332 
Kelley, Wm.73 
Konnicott, Charles.261 
Labor unions and strikes.890 
Large vs. small farms.316 
Legislation for farmers.40 
Liberul Cl ub of New York....... 40 
Lightning rods.331 
Lyman, Joseph B...10i 
Maine Agricultural College.364 
Manufacturing patented arti¬ 
cles . 232 
Massachusetts Ag. College.112 
Michigan Ag. report.318 
Microscopes wanted..248 
Milk condensing factories and 
fixtures.281 
— swindling In Now York city .380 
Monroe Co., N. Y„ Agricultural 
Society... 72 
Moss on the walls of a conserva¬ 
tory.364 
Mulching. 361 
Must have the Rural.412 
Nnthun C. Ely ill .333 
National Agricultural Conven¬ 
tion at St. Louis.284 
— — Congress.412 
— swine breeders’ convention.318 
New postal law.124 
— York Rural Club..,431 
— — silver medal in Great 
Britain. .281 
Ninth Agricultural census.380 
Normal schools—location.88 
Not a putron of husbandry.232 
— — wise Southern policy..380 
Notes by the wayside..816 
Nursery book wanted.215 
New Hampshire women horti¬ 
culturists.413 
— York Evening Mall. 40 
— — State Ag. Society.136 
Ohio Dairymen’s Convention.. ..216 
Ornithological response.300 
Our New Year’s call. 16 
— story, back numbers.120 
Out of door notes.364 
Pair of dressed chickens.332 
Patrons of husbandry.181 
— -- advice to.......120 
— -of Indiana.300 
— -In Iowa.284 
People and tho press. 56 
Plowmen’s Club. 18 
Political reform... 16 
Practical dairy husbandry.232 
Premiums appreciated.348 
Preserving horse records.264 
Presidency of Brown Univer¬ 
sity .101 
Proceedings Nutlonal Ag. Con¬ 
vention. 424 
Propagating plants In tan bark.,364 
Public corruption.152 
Randall, A. P.120 
Reasons for Civil Service re¬ 
form. 284 
Reform for workingmen........120 
Report of the Commissioner of 
Ag. on diseases of cattle...200 
Retributive justice.56 
Reynolds. Wm. A..72 
Roberts. Martin. 72 
Rural Brevities. . 10, 40, 56, 72, 88, 
101, 120, 152,163. 184, 200, 216, 
204,281, 316, 332, 348, 364, 380, 
396,424 
— club dinner.200 
-of New York.398 
— New Yorker, now Btyle.40 
— profitable....,412 
— purchasing agency.248 
Rural’s circulation.,... 88 
— compliments to the Co. 
Gent’s, B. F. J.380 
— " Now Departure ".16 
Sanctum gossip... -332 
— personals.396 
Shipping California fruit East...200 
Short-horns for Japan. 89 
Signal service bureau, lndorsing.184 
Southern cotton planters con¬ 
dition.184 
— Indiana lands...72 
Spring of 1832. ...232 
Statue of Seth Boyden.,.396 
Steam plow in California.424 
— walking vehicle. .248 
Stimulants.348 
Stone and rail fence.310 
Strike against gang plows.248 
St. Paul. Minn., commerce.332 
Study of natural history Impor¬ 
tant...88 
Sugarcane seed.216 
Sunday trade In live stock.152 
Swindling In packing hay.424 
Swine breeders' convention, na¬ 
tional..184 
Swivel plows.264 
The birds are coming.281 
— men needed....248 
— two campaigns of 1872.300 
To anybody. 264 
Tradomark on fruit.*..200 
Transactions N. Y. State Ag. 
Soc.424 
Tribune almanac and political 
register..88 
Tried and approved.216 
Tough job.281 
— way of getting a living.364 
Unfair criticism.264 
United States Ag. Society...152 
Unveiling the Shaksperian mon¬ 
ument. .361 
Vermont Dairymen’s AAB’n.72 
— gold mines, don’t invest in. .101 
Veterinary vandalism...318 
Wagner, Samuel.108 
IVnr among the roses.168 
Weekly epltomlst,..—248 
Western N. Y, ponlrry A ss’n.... 72 
Wheat, British Imports of.168 
— turning to chess. .216 
Where to go to school.316 
Whitney, James A.380 
Willow, the great French.56 
Wisconsin Ag. Convention.152 
— farmers help for. ...40 
Woodcock, when may 1 kill.101 
Wool tariff, a Wisconsin farmer 
on the.... .. .101 
Word to advertisers..16 
Would we plant onions.232 
X. A. Willard's address.216 
ENTOMOLOGICAL. 
Aenrus teturus.-.101 
Angoumol's grain moth .227 1 
Aphis on single plants, to de¬ 
stroy.360 
Apple twig borer.2i3 
Bai k lice, will nitrate of sliver 
kill.360 
Beetles and bugs, where to tlnd.2SQ 
— hit tv to pack and fiend....... 261 
— mounting.*...377 
Borer, hickory or locust.133 
Borers on pin onk..... 243 
Bostrichns blcnudatue.243 
Butalla cemilclla...227 
Rugs anil beetles, killing.261 
Butterflies, breeding and 
hatching.,...343 
— collecting.280 
Cabbage butterflies.297 
— pests.-. 360,422 
Olytus flexuosus.133 
Cni'cus cacti... 86 
Cochineal.. 36 
Collecting Insects. 280 
Colorado potato beetle.360.122 
Cotton worm, to destroy.353 
Currant worms, killing.422 
Cutworm In Burn, remedy for..258 
Eutomology, first book on ......390 
Errata,... 179 
Grape vine borer.377, 390 
Grasshoppers, killing.343 
Harlequin bug— ..421 
Hickory or locust borer.133 
Insects, collecting.261, 2S0 
— collecting apparatus.........261 
— how to preserve and trans¬ 
port........261 
— in Ohio.,...179 
— killing minute.343 
— numbering specimens.261 
— Texas. 66 
Lady birds and aphides.243 
Leaf rollers .377 
Mealy bugs—..179 
Moths, how to collect.280 
Noxious Insects in Illinois.422 
Oleander scale.179 
Piissalus cormitus.66 
Pirns Rjpte.297 
Red spldor.101 
Robliv.a pseudacacia....133 
Scale insects on plants.213 
Seventeen year locust, look out 
for...377 
Study Insects.227 
Texas Insects.66 
Tortrix.377 
White worms in sod.343 
Wire-worm In corn.343 
Worm9 on corn.390 
— — currant and gooseberry 
bushes.....360 
FARM ECONOMY. 
Ashes, coal.,.134 
— leached.,. 82 
— softwood.....62 
Barn cisterns. ,35 
Barnyard manure and ashes...422 
Bone upon lands, effects of._ 211 
Bones and ashes for peas.195 
— dissolving.,....82, 315 
— utilising........259 
Castor bean pomace.329 
Catt le, gleaning hay for.134 
Clearing hind.211, 358 
Clover for an orchard, Alsike... 243 
— seed sowing,....214 
Coalaslies,.. ...... .134 
— — and goseberry bushes.259 
Cooking food for stock,.2li 
Corn cob meal...211 
— stalks, decomposing.343 
— marking ground for.243 
Cotton seed ns a fertilizer. .3(5 
Couch grass, killing.269 
Deodorising sinks & outhouses. 07 
Draining blue clay,.259 
Farm pay tn Arkansas, to make.328 
— tools, about.229 
Farmer Garrulous talks.l&j 
Farmer's heating furnace,. .118, 243 
Fish gun.no,.3M 
Furnace and evaporating pans 
for maple sugar manufac¬ 
ture.134 
Gas lime, ..,.. S3 
— — and wire worms.211 
Goux’s absorbent closets,.. . ,181 
Harrow, a Western N. Y.243 
lien manure for corn,.374 
Hides of animals, taking off the. 85 
Uorso manure for corn, fresh. 343 
loo, making and keeping.229 
Implements, resolving not to 
buy.422 
Leachy land,.259 
Legislation to prevent Arcs.147 
Lime superphosphate of.117 
Live-forever, to kill.259 
Manure, application of.195 
— economy in applying. ..50 
— for corn and potatoes.35S 
— -hen...371 
— — strawberries,..147 
— management of.195 
— salt bay for.147 
— yard, making a... 67 
Manures for clover....422 
Maple trees, manner of tapping 134 
— sirup ami sugar, the manu¬ 
facture of..134 
— sugar, clarifying. 131 
— — finishing.134 
— — making, how to collect 
sap—.134 
Mud of coves for fertilizer,.82 
OH meal, feeding..134 
Onions, to exterminate wild..., 67 
Plaster on mossy pastures,.323 
— — land, effects Of.422 
Plow, Alliance shovel.328 
Potash from salt wells,.11S 
Proposed experiment,.211 
Pulley, a large.118 
Salt hay for manure.147 
Saw to cut down timber,.358 
Soiling stock.195 
Straw for fodder, utilizing.391 
Stream gate and footway,...... 118 
Sugar orchard, the.134 
Throe-horse evener,.243 
Timber, sawing down.422 
Underdraining, advantages of, .229 
Utilizing the contents of privy 
vaults,.,,...328 
Well, cheap way to make a.229 
Willow basket making.345 
Woodland, treatise on clearing.147 
FARM IMPLEMENTS. 
Cherry stoner, Goodell’s.392 
Fanning mill, to fasten.66 
Harrow, Monroe Co..66 
—: Thomas’ smoothing...345 
Ilay carrier. Louden.392 
Reaper and mower. Excelsior...342 
Steam on Alabama plantations. 66 
StOtnway piano-forte.21 
Thomas' smoothing harrow and 
broadoast weeder.273 
Western machine manufactory .373 
FIELD CROPS. 
Alfalfa in New Jersey.279 
Alsike clover In Michigan.162 
Bean, castor oil. 180 
— Japan... 210 
Beets for stock,.. 342 
— on a dairy farm.,,. ..374 
Broom corn culture.. 82 
— — Tennessee evergreen.82 
Carrots, Growing.258 
Castor oil bean.,...180 
— — culture......279 
Chess and smut.......147 
Clover, Alsike vs. red.342 
— Carter’s annual blue,.180 
— Sutton's new giant hybrid 
cow..,.,.ISO 
— wild.,,.194 
Clovers for checking prairie 
fires.374 
Corn and cobs, comparative 
weight of. 10 
— applying hen manure to.258 
— care of.279 
— culture. 82, 162, 194 
— — in Missouri...279 
— cutting and curing._,....19* 
— fodder..194 
— for seed, prepa ring....67 
— marketing vs. hogging.258 
— result of selecting seed.259 
— Sanford.... 10 
— selecting seed.226 
— shrinkage of. 10 
— “snow”.10 
— — or hominy. 82 
— swindle, probnbly.226 
— tearing up the roots of.82 
to preTont, ernw* pulling_327 
— without hoeing, making.194 
— " York cheat".242 
Cotton production for 1872.130 
Cows, best roots for milch.130 
Cut-worms In corn, to prevent. 
258, 374 
Department of Agriculture 
Meeds. 82 
English seed in Franco.67 
Farm crops, Iowa Ag. College..130 
Flax crop, nboutthe. 10 
Forage plants, new.180 
Grass, u deadly.194 
— early cut...,. 10 
— for hay, Hungarian.180 
name, wild.374 
howto kill quack.358 
— on sandy land.130 
— — wet land, foul meadow .. .268 
— orchard.147. 220, 327, 342 
— seed, orchard.180 
— — with buekwhent.327 
Grasses for pasture.279 
— wanted, name* of. 37 
Lucerne, Or nlfulfu.342 
Nitrogenous substances and 
salt for wheat. 67 
Nutgrass, how to destroy.-242 
Oats for Louisians, best.37 
— in Missouri, Winter.37 
Pea. Japan.115 
Peanut culture.115, 210, 374 
Peppermint culture.242 
Plaster for wheat.279 
— on potatoes...,,.374 
Plowsand plowing.147 
Potash tor potatoes.327 
Potato, a new seedling by 
Wood house.-.180 
— a tunning.226 
— crop, Peerless. 10 
— Brazilian Southern Queen...327 
— Bresoe's Peerless.258 
— the Peerless. . 342 
— Thorlmru’a Late Hose.242 
— White Rose.358 
Potatoes after cabbage.37 
— big crop of Peerless.162 
— Campbell's Late Rose.115 
— Early Rose. 115 
— how to grow sweet.,...130 
— my plan of planting.374 
— Peerless vs. Prolillo. 67 
— plaster on. . 374 
— potash for. 327 
— to advance tho crop, sprout¬ 
ing.258 
— twelve good varieties of 
English. 210 
— seedlings vs. sports.115 i 
— under straw, growing... .82, 180 
— without bugs .327 
— — plowing, growing......147 
Pulverizer drag.. 162 
Roots for milch cows, the best.. 130 
Rye for summer pasture.67 
— -spring...279 
Sage, culture of.827 
Seed from male pumpkin,.,....180 
Sorghum for soiling.. 191 
Sugar beet culture....253, 374 
— beets In New Jersey.327 
— cane, deterioration of South¬ 
ern .358 
Sunflowers as a field crop.327 
Tobacco barn. 98 
— collecting seeds. 98 
— cost of cultivating an acre... 98 
— culture...,...98 
— — in Connecticut. 98 
— -Kentucky.210 
— — of seed-leaf. .130 
— curing.162 
— how long It should remain 
stored.98 
— In Ohio.147 
— preparation of land for.98 
— quality and culture.226 
— seed for Cayuga Co., N. Y.. .279 
— setting the plants.98 
— sowing the seed..93 
— Spring plowing for.98 
— when to gather.93 
— whan to top..,,..,...147 
Tobacco, yellow Pryor and Mis¬ 
souri broad-leaf. 194 
Wheat, best kind of Spring_ISO 
— culture...358 
— lose in grinding? how much 
does.. 
— lost nation.210 
— nitrogenous substances and 
salt for....... 67 
— plaster for.279 
— preparing seed.,.67 
— turn to Winter, will Spring..279 
FLORICULTURAL. 
Alocasias, select.393 
Amaryllis, culture of. 98 
— for Texas.405 
Anemone Carolinianum.357 
Anomntheca cruenta,.225 
Antherieum liliastrura.116, 244 
Auriculas, spring treatment of.225 
Aphides on plants.393 
Beaucarnea recurvata.. .261 
Blue grass for conservatories,. .132 
— -greenhouses,.34 
Bone for fuchsias....261 
Bouquet of wild flowers,.. 329 
Botany, standardard works on. .182 
Brackets for flower pots,.213 
Cactus, giant.49 
— non-blooming..,.341 
Cal I as, treatment of..312 
Camellns and lime.213 
Carinas from seed.312 
Census gtgantcus. 49 
Oestrum elegans.84, 116 
Clytonla Carolina.225 
Climbers for shading green¬ 
houses,..... 377 
Coleus, grafting.244 
— wintering...34 
Conocllnium,.. 244 
Convallarla mnjalis. 84 
Crnpo myrtle.225 
Crinnra Amerlcanum,.244 
Crocus bulb, tho English.110 
— English.225 
Crown Imperials,.357 
Cytlsus laburnum,.132 
Dahlias, old and new.296 
Daphne encorura, soil for.405 
Dletnmnu* frnxinollu,.296 
Dranirnn siirailosn ninculuta,.. .357 
Entrance to winter garden.311 
Eplroedtumalplnum rubruin,... 12 
— Jnponteum. 12 
Erlantbus ravhnna hardy, is— 28 
Euonyimis juponlca,.98 
Farm house. Interior of.. 68 
Fcrna, climbing.503 
Floral notes, send us.341 
Flower basket for vestibules... 312 
— gardens. 337 
— seed, separating.08 
— seeds In a hot-bed, how to 
start. 183 
— — without n hot-bed, how Pi 
start. 225 
— stokes, preserving.116 
Flowers for a brilliant show,... .357 
— — bouquets.329 
— —name, wild —..405 
— hybridizing.‘.225 
— in Texas, Christmas.116 
— soil for.116 
— the odor of....329 
Fountain, self-acting, portable 
and floral.. 68 
Fuchsias from seed, .49 
Gaianthus Invales.225 
Garden umbrella,.377 
Geruuiuin, Double.116 
— Kmllie Lemuine.116 
— leaves..357, 377 
Geraniums, double.214 
— from bead.296 
— sickly.296 
Gladiolus seedlings,.182 
Goodyera pnbcscens.. .34, 312 
Honeysuckles, propagating.312 
Huntsman's cup, simple mode 
of growing.341 
Hyacinths, trouble with .357 
Iria reticulata..225 
Iron for roses.225 
Ivy culture.225 
Ivies for Inside decorations.225 
Laburnum, or golden chain.132 
Leavos for name.812 
Lilies, about.214 
— Id shallow water. 98 
— wanted, new.148 
Llllum auratum.93 
— glganteum...357 
Lily. Florida.244 
— of the Valley, forcing. 84 
— SI. Bruno’s.116 
Liquid manure for house plants. 49 
Magnolias In bloom...328 
Mildew on roses.98 
Myrtle, Crape. -. . • 225 
Narcissus suavis.116,225 
Net*enthes Hookerlana.84 
Nytocalos Thompson!.405 
Orchids for conservatories, cool.213 
— potting.377 
Orchard items from Maine.296 
Orobus vernus....328 
Pansy, Her Majesty .161 
— Prlne .-ss of Wales.161 
— Prince of Wales.161 
— Thomas Moore.161 
Pansies, improved.161 
— selecting specimens.161 
— situation for seed-bed of... .161 
— sowing the seed.161 
— standard of excellence.161 
— transplanting.161 
Pelargonium, rose rcndatlcr—213 
Poonias. Siberian .323 
Petunias.357 
Phsodranassa chloracea.225 
Phlox Drummondli.367 
Pitcher plant, Hooker’s.84 
