ORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Elk. moose, or moose deer.233 
Exchanging birds’ eggs.24*3 
Fish culture In Now York.......295 
Gulraea ludovlclana.....247 
Horned screamer. 13;> 
Moose, forming........235 
Octopus vulgaris.81 
Peewits.. 
Plovers, green......177 
Quail, California..24*3 
Rabbits, management of.33 
Rattlesnakes poison, bow...148, 295 
Sheep's bead...195 
Silkworm eggs, regulating the 
hatching of .812 
Taxidermy.195 
POMOLOGICAL. 
Apple In Virginia, Early Har¬ 
vest......181 
— Lanier. 68 
— Lawyer.327 
— Mathews.344 
— Rock wood.. 293 
— Skinner's Seedling.150 
— Stump.....293 
— the Vermont Greening.198 
Apples for Eastern Iowa. 68 
— Mr. Upton's,.. 3*3 
Blackberries for Eastern Iowa.. 68 
— in 1871.12 
Cherry. Black Republican.295 
— Ltd...198 
— Royal Anne.3*3, 130 
Cherries for California. 52 
Concord wine, old.22 
Cranberry culture...,.100, 3(i 
Currants In 1872. 12 
— — California, cherry.40*1 
Fig culture. 344 
Fruits, evident result of culture 
of small.St 
— In 1871, small,. 12 
— market over-stocked.83 
— origin of varieties of small.. 83 
— profitable, small. 
. 83 
.8a 
— taste for small. 
. 83 
— varieties of small. 
.83 
Gooseberries in 1H7I. 
Grape, Cuyahoga. 
. 36 
— for name. 
— Martha. 
— Waltor....... 
.327 
Grapes, bottllug... 
.223 
— for Eastern Iowa . 
Guava lu California.. 
.38 
Laurus persea. 
Oranges, Florida. 
.68 
Beach, Rlack’s Early. 
Beaches for New Jersey... 
.362 
— the new seedlings for 1871.. 52 
Pear, Alligator. 52 
— Bartlett...52 
— Clapp's Favorite...295 
-No. 72.100 
— — No. 73.100 
— — Sarah.295 
— Flemish Beauty in Iowa.2*32 
— Goortale.295 
— lilt. Vernon..............295 
— Seekol.62 
— Souvenir du Congress.293 
— to eat, the best.,...198 
Bears, California.181 
— for Allegany county.295 
— — Eastern Iowa.68 
— Fox’s seedling.40(1 
— new.....100 
— — and old.295 
Pomegranate, dwarf.2*12 
Quince, Anger’s.100 
— Orange.100 
Quinces. Angers and Orange... 3*1 
— from falling off, to prevent. .150 
Raspberry, Nuragansett. 68 
Raspberries for Eastern Iowa . 68 
— in 1871. 12 
Selling the box with fruit,..,—408 
Strawberry list, Dr. Hexamer’s.327 
— Monarch of t,ho West.2**2 
— Red Jacket.295 
Strawberries for Eastern Iowa.. (9 
— In 1871.12 
— information about..181 
— manure for.147 
POULTRY-YARD. 
Acknowledgments. 54 
^4vo, ,....ers.196 
Artificial Incubation..114 
— mother, ehea p... .212 
Breedlug pure.....212 
Canker tn fowls.. ..241 
Canary birds, male.229 
Canaries of lice, to rid.241 
Carbolic acid and poultry.891 
Catarrh In fowls. 54 
Chicken diseases.102 
— marking. 409 
— or duck coops and iuclosureB.38 
— story.376 
Chickens, early.70 
— out of the shell, helping.891 
— weak-legged.241 
— what alls the—..282 
— with weak legs....212 
Cholera in poultry.361 
Committeemen exhibiting...,. 13 
Correction, cleanliness.297 
Diseased St. Lawrence County 
chickens. 343 
Diphtheria in fowls, cankerous.391 
Duck egg. it large.102 
Ducks, quick growth of..........102 
Egg-eating hens.343 
Egg-room of Stokes Park.297 
Eggs by express, sending.147 
disappearing from under a 
sitting hen.,...320 
— In salt, packing.391 
— packing. 329 
— - and preserving.37*3 
— the sex of.130 
— to prevent hens breaking...361 
Feed, too much...241 
T'ood before fowls, keeping.313 
— for hens, cooking.54 
Fowl treatment..282 
Fowls. Japanese Bantam cock.. 13 
— -pullet. 13 
Vulturinc Guinea........1*36 
— account with barn-yard.229 
— a plea for lloudana.. .102 
as layers, Brahma.147, 313 
— — Summer layers, Brahma.229 
— — Winter layers. Buff Coch¬ 
in.343 
— Brahma. .312 
— brown lingo not a blemish 
on Dark Brahmas.70 
— canker Id...,.241 
— catarrh In. 54 
choice. 54 
crossing Brahmas and Leg¬ 
horns. 196 
— diseased.212 
Dorkings as Winter layers..229 
— experience with Light 
Brahma.ISO 
— -while Brahma.422 
— for name.103 
— Game. ..343 
— gapes in *.343 
Golden Hamburg.70 
— — Pheasant.;«l 
Gray Dorkings.212 
Hamburg.13, 102 
— lloudun...,...196 
— - us layers.212, 229 
In Texas, dressed.,,..843 
Japanese Bantams.13, 3*31 
keeping food before.313 
Leghorn.....,..,,..102 
— moping.818 
Partridge Cochins.348 
points In Dark Brahma. 13 
— prize Creve Oisur.211 
— remedy for diseased.2S2 
— Silver - Spangled Hum - 
burgs.H6. 241. 131. 329. 313 
— sure remedy for roup in.130 
— that break eggs before lay¬ 
ing, what to do with.318 
— to prevent roup in.70 
— vermin in.8*1 
— wanted. 51 
— weak. 38 
will it pay to keep fancy.70 
— with black hones and flesh.. 38 
— denuded necks. .329 
— where have the Shanghais 
gone to ?.,...813 
— White Dorking Bantams.... 88 
- Georgian Game.813 
Gapes In fowls.. .343 
Pennsylvania chlekens...313 
— preventing.130 
Geese ? does it pay to keep.130 
Goose livers, fattened.Ill 
Hun that over-lays.313, 391 
to sit, inducing a.181 
what alls the.196 
— yard, starting a.229 
Hens and henery.....70 
— cost of food for. 61 
eating eggs.38 
— -remedy for.241 
— laying small eggs...329 
Hogs’ hair for hens’ nests...282 
lloudan pullet ailing .241 
incubators..391 
Inquiries aud answers. 54 
— for poulterers.241 
Insects from birds’ eyes, to keep.313 
Leghorn runt.376 
Lice on chickens........329, 376, 391 
Llmed-log disease.329 
Nest boxes.409 
— building.343 
X. Y. State Poultry Soc., premi¬ 
ums awarded.147 
Over-feeding, protest aga.nst 
deprecating.313 
Peacock feat hers.282 
— — pulling.£2S 
— — when to pluck.241 
Pigeon pens..86 
— Leghorn Runt.376 
racesof 1870 and ’71, Belgian.Ill 
— Trumpeter...,409 
Pigeons, Archangel. '!?' 
— Blue Brunswick.331 
— Ice. 64 
— Japanese.*. —a . 
Pigeons, male and female.102 
quarrelsome t are.180. 181 
— Troy.102 
— worms in...181 
*’ Poor stock bird ".297 
Poultry and eggs, of whom 
shall we purchase fancy... 88 
— care of.166 
— cholera in.361 
— feeding.181 
— inquiries.297 
— keeping, profits of.361 
— pay, will.409 
— prize.86 
— show, Northern Ohio.54 
— shows, management of.102 
— Society, N. Y. Stale.147 
— yard ethics.422 
— yards, Lady Gwydyr’s.. .229, 297 
Roup in fowls, to prevent. 70 
sure cure for......130, 181 
Satlnettc pigeons...13 
Scurfy legs.166 
Sllvcr-Humburgs vs. Leghorns.311 
Spanish cock’s combs.212 
St. Louis poultry show.196 
There’s no use o’ talking.343 
Turkeys at the Brandon, Vt., 
Farmers’ Club.212 
— Bronze.114 
— what alls my.13 
Worms In pigeons...181 
RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 
Asbestos roofing...281 
Bird house, a unique.281 
Building a conservatory.281 
— foundation*. ..65 
Chimney without draft.193 
Clergyman’s cottage.65 
Conservatory, building a.312 
Cottage,a Missouri.325 
Farm barn and plans. 65 
— house, ground plan of.408 
Garden cottage. 52 
House, a woman’s plan of a.389 
— divided, wants u.245 
— to cost but $1,000.,193 
Houses on the prairies—how to 
begin und liow to finish 
them.193 
ice house, how to build an..... .212 
Missouri cottage...,.323 
Nulls, wooden........326 
Paint for roofs. 52 
Prairie homes.. 193, 215 
Itestdcnuc of F. S. Bedell........381* 
Booling material . 52 
Roofs, form of.326 
Sound-proof floors and parti¬ 
tions.245 
Stanchions for cattle.281. 320 
Wooden nails .320 
SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL. 
Alligator liido boots,. 52 
American wonders .285 
Ants, to get rid of.314 
Aquariums.331 
Basswood for water pipes.35 
Brick In chimneys, laying.410 
Cement for an aquarium.211, 
246,299, 331 
— — mending earthenware—410 
— of brick dust, a cheap.214 
Central Park drinking foun¬ 
tains. 360 
Charcoal, nutrition In. 52 
Cheese meerschaums.2)4 
Chimney that will not smoke, 
to build a. 410 
Coal oil aud lamps.377 
Cohl on iron and steel, effect of. 52 
Concrete pipe.211 
Deodorizing skunk - perfumed 
clothing.52 
Farmers’ furnace.214 
— hearing furnace. 35 
Fence, fireproof...., .85 
Filter, a brick..,.,.52 
Furnace, farmers’ heating.35 
Gutla perch a.311 
Harness should be made, how. .331 
Improvement in telegraphy.844 
Indian mode of preventing the 
ravages of moths.52 
Labrador tea . 311 
Leather scraps .... .GO 
Lime for wall... 410 
Microscopes for practical pur¬ 
poses.—255 
Minerals for name.246 
Moon, effect of changes of the..299 
Moonshine......410 
Mouse trap.311 
Mucilage molding, to prevent... 35 
Nails, size of ... ..35 
Nutrition in charcoal. .52 
Oak. to polish .344 
Paint for out.houses, durable- .360 
— on windows, dry ... .410 
Paraffine, new use for.. .246 
Pipe to supply water for trout 
ponds. .331 
Potato starch. 85 
Raising water with a siphon.246 
lints and their removal.211 
Red noses and electricity .211 
Rubber boots, to mend...211 
Sea horses, about.295 
Siphon, remedy for a trouble¬ 
some.311 
Siphons—useful hints.299 
Solder for iron and steel.2H 
Spent Ian..410 
Steaming food.211 
Sugar from com.52 
Tanning leather.211 
Telegraph, acoustic.110 
Tobacco, strength of.299 
Transparent varnish for steel 
engravings.,360 
Trapping vermin—1.360 
ii. 385 
Water for Irrigation, raising_214 
— palls, to preserve.240 
— pipe, wood for. 85 
— pipes, Basswood for..-..35 
— laying.410 
with u siphon, raising.895 
Wax flowers aud hair work.331 
— — to make.410 
Wliiffletrees, length of. 299 
Wood for water-pipe.85 
— splitting, to prevent turners.410 
SEASON. 
Amity, Yamhill Co., Oregon....412 
Areola, Douglas Co., Ill.216 
Arteslu, Lowndes Co., Miss.396 
Augusta, Gn...,..........300 
Barrington, Yates Co,, N. Y.304 
Bentonvllle, Benton Co., Ark...152 
Berkley Co., W. A’a.........274 
Blue Bull. Lancaster Co., Pa-364 
Butler Co., Pa.318 
Caledonia, Livingston Co., N. Y. 
288, 364 
Canton, N. Y..248 
Clarence, Erie Co., N. Y.288 
— Iowa.120 
Careuovia. N. Y.232 
Columbia Co., N. Y.390 
Condition of winter grain.316 
Cunningham's store, Person Co., 
N. 0.380 
Dallas, Texas. 361 
Decatur, Iowa. 104 
Do Vail's Bluff, Ark.232 
Douglas, Harrison Co., Iowa ...300 
Dunlap, Iowa. 101, 380 
Dwight, Livingston Co., Ill......412 
East Hebron, Pa... ,28( 
.1 affray, N. It....101,284 
Elizabeth ton, Carter Co.. Term,.264 
Fond du late, Wis.348 
Forest Hill, Harford Co., Md...832 
Frewshurg, Chant. Co., N. Y....318 
Glenville, Harford Co., Md.232 
Greeley City, Ool.200 
Griffin, lin. .232 
Grinnell, Powashlek Co., Iowa. .281 
Half Day, Luke Co., HI.88, 216 
Llallock. Peoria Co., Ill. 88 
Hall's Corners, Ont., Co., N. Y. 
104,264 
Hampton, Va...181 
Hancock Co., W. Va.396 
Harlem borings, Carroll Co., 0..218 
Helena, Ark.232 
Hospor, WlnneslieikCo., Iowa....88 
Hickory, Benton Co., Miss.281 
Highland. Oakland Co., Midi...332 
independence, Buchanan Co., 
Iowa.. .152 
lmlaystown, Monmouth Co., 
v ,i.848 
Jackson, Hinds (>., Mich. 138 
Jamestown. Fulton Co., N. Y.. ..300 
Jerseyville. Ill.120 
Johnstown, Fulton Co., N. V.332, 
364. 413 
Johnsville, N. Y.248 
Jonesboro, Union Co., Ill.316 
Janesville, Saratoga Co.. N. Y.,.248 
Kalamazoo, Mleh.248,261 
Kenton, Imva.412 
Kingston. De ICalb Co., Ill.261 
Lament, Ottawa Co., Mich.284 
Lincoln. Sussex Co., Del.300 
Lewiston, N. Y.112 
Lyndonville, Vt --200,318 
Macon, Mo.380 
Madison. Wis . 258 
Marcellus, Onondaga Co., N. Y..261 
Margir, Wood Co., Ohio.216 
Martlnsburg, Berkley Co., Va... 40 
MlddlevlUe, Barry Co., Mich.... 
184, 364 
Milton Co.. Oft.284 
Monroe Co. N. Y.264 
Morgantown, W. Va.380 
Norfolk, Va.332 
Oak Grove, Wis.KM 
Oregon, Mo.8S, 3S0 
Olivet, Mleh.332 
reut water. Oceana Co., Micb .. .316 
Perry, Jefferson Co., Kan.300 
— Wyoming Co., N. Y.380 
Pittsfield, MerrimacCo., N.H... 
88,412 
Plainville, Mleh.348 
Polk City, Iowa.120 
Quaker City. Guernsey. Co.. O...120 
Raleigh, N. C. 200 
Red Wing, Minu. 40 
Rochester, Minn.248 
Rose. Wayne Co., N. Y.412 
Russell, Iowa.........120 
Salem. Neb......153 
Salisbury Center. N. Y...181 
Saltsburg, IndlunnCo., Pa.101 
Sanderson, Baker Co.. Fla.248 
Sangertlehl, Oneida Co,, N. Y....348 
San Saba, Texas.......162 
Saratoga Springs, Nt. Y.264 
Sednlia, Mo.390 
Sharon Center, N. V. .351 
South Logan, Oakland Co. Mleli.288 
— Scovllle. N. J. .40,181 
— Trenton, Oneida Co., N. Y. 
120. 21*1, 248 
Sparta, Hancock Co., Ga.........216 
St. Charles, 111.232 
Sterling, Cayuga Co., N. V.......312 
Stovensburg,Culpepper Co., Va.288 
Taylorsville, Hanover Co., Va. .361 
The Plains. Fauquier Co., Va .. .101 
Toledo, Ohio.361 
Trenton, Oneida Co., N. Y.396 
Union Co., Iowa.264 
Hardin Co., Iowa.232 
Upporvllle, Fauquier Co., Va...396 
Waukesha Co., Wis.300 
West Milton, Saratoga Ci)., N. Y.216 
West port, Conn.248. 316, 364 
Willitunstown, Mass.. ..216 
Winona, Minn.200 
Winslow, Stephenson Co., Ill...318 
SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
Colorado as a sheep country—115 
Cotswold fleeces, heavy.. .407 
Ewe with a diseased tall...258 
Ewes eating their lambs.311 
Foot-rot hi sheep.163. 258 
Goat, Angora.350 
Grass for sheep pasture.311 
Grub In the head.311 
Hoof-rot in sheep...359 
Lambs into cornfields, turnlng.359 
Weaning.. 163 
Leicester sheep for combing 
wools. 163 
— ewes, profitable.......,...163 
Letter from J. Wiley Edmunds,278 
Lincolnshire sheep for comb¬ 
ing wools....163 
Liquid soap for cleaning wool..258 
Manufacturers furnish, what 
our... 51 
Merino Hock, liioe.407 
Progress of production. 61 
Randall’s address, President.... 11 
Remedy for over-production... 51 
Sheep, covering grain with.359 
— country, Colorado ns a.115 
— dying, fat.226 
— in Wisconsin...226 
— farm, seasonable scene on a.293 
— feeding, profits of.850 
— for combing wool............. 82 
foot-rot in...163 
— French Merino and South 
Down cross.115 
— grub in the head.......115 
— liuuf-rot In.....359 
— husbandry, mutton.51 
— — pastoral.. 61 
— — progress of. 51 
— new disease among......359 
— Northern raius for Southern 
and Southwestern flocks.. 82 
— rules for the care Of.359 
shearing in Ohio.. —. .407 
— to kill ticks on.163 
washing and shearing........293 
— water for. 278 
bound in the feet. 407 
Sulphur for nursing ewes.311 
Swelled neck in Cotswolds.407 
Tariff of 1867, effect of.51 
Ticks on sheep, to kill.163 
Water for sheep...278 
Woolen industry,condition of.. 51 
— interests, future prosperity 
of. 51 
Wool clip of 1870.115 
— -the United States.115 
— growers and manufacturers 
tn council. 11 
— -National Conven¬ 
tion of.11. 51 
— — Ass’n National.178 
— new system of classification 
of.51 
— outside of Spain, fine..163 
— tariff, attempt to repeal.226 
— tariff.407 
— trade, cause for depression. 51 
Wools, combing and delaine—278 
— increase on.51 
— Lincolnshire and Leicester 
for combing.163 
SPORTSMAN. 
Brook trout, to catch.245 
California quail. 97 
Deerskins, to tan...69 
Dog, a good varmint.. 39 
bird and rabbit. 39 
— for rabbits and birds .69 
English fox hound.195 
Fish In a moss-grown lake, how 
to trap. 359 
Fishing through Ice.77, 196 
Fox-hound, English.195 
— — wants a.69 
Foxes, trapping.*.69, 229 
From a young sportsman........ 39 
Game laws of New York.411 
Guns, to clean foul...69 
Hound, modern 8 t- Hubert.328 
Inquiries for sportsmen.195 
Mink, to trap. 69 
Moose In Maine, killing,. ....,,..229 
Partridges, hunting.311 
Hurt ridge trn p, to make a....245 
Pickerel through Ice. to catch...195 
Pigeons, destruction when rest¬ 
ing. 97 
Powder, to tell good...245 
Rabbit skins, utilizing. 69 
Rifle, best, breech-load'jig.359 
Rifles, Inquiries about.245 
Salmon, best fishing plnce for... 97 
Trap, dead-fall.131 
Trout, tackle for.328 
Wolves, to trap .. 69 
Woman catches the largest 
speckled trout In Auierica.359 
Woodcock in New York, when 
to kill..,.311 
SWINE-HERD, 
Black teeth ailing pigs....310 
— — In pigs. 51 
Chester Whites thorough-bred, 
are... ...243 
Circular to swine-lierds......82 
Curtis* vs. Babbitt.......130 
Hog cholera...35 
— what constitutes a thorough¬ 
bred .KM 
Hogs caring white corn.226 
— — yellow corn.35 
— for Texas, the best.61, 116 
— J ersey Red. 194 
— Thumps In.116, 194 
Iowa pigs. 51 
Jersey Red hog.191 
Kidney disease, remedy for.310 
— worms in hogs, remedy for.. 
281,359 
Measles in swine...132 
Peas for pigs.375 
Pig, to decoy a.342 
— trough, to make a....116 
Pigs, black teeth In. 51 
— castrating,.....226 
— diseased.226 
— Iowa,,,... 51 
— thumps In. 82 
— what i* the matter with my..359 
Poland sow. prolific*.310 
Quinsy m swine...194 
Sow eating her pigs, to prevent a t30 
Sows.keeping breeding...82 
Sprlngwater Valley, N. Y„ pigs.. 36 
Steamed food for hogs..842 
Sugar beets for swine....,.375 
Swine—Berkshire*....116,130 
— breeders’convention.86, 281 
— Chester White*.130 
— Essex ..110 
— frothing nt the mouth.359 
— herd book.342 
— Improved Cheshire.178 
— kidney worms In.359 
— measles In....130 
— more about Chester Whites.. 10 
— Neapolitan.116,310 
— origin of Improved Cheshire.375 
— Poland or Magie.116 
— quinsy In. 194 
— Suffolk.116 
— tribute to Berkshire.226 
— who originated the Improved 
Cheshire...310 
Thumps in hogs.194 
VINEYARD. 
Grape, Eumelan In Saratoga Co., 
N. Y. 36 
— grafting, the....197 
— growing on the borders of 
the lakes of Central N. Y.. 68 
— rot, cause of. 36 
— trade, the.165 
— unfermented juices of the.,. 36 
— vine cuttings....96 
— vines, grafting.165 
— — mildew on..295 
— — what to do with.197 
Grapes and honey bees.98 
— in summer, pruning.423 
— keeping.197. 313, 329 
— when ripe, cutting and bot¬ 
tling......197 
Mildew on grape vines.. ..295 
Scuppernong, unproductive .. .123 
Temperature of vines. 58 
Vines, best fruit buds on.295 
— temperature of...93 
Vineyards, Spring frosts in.197 
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