DEPARTMENTS. 
APIARIAN. 
Artificial queens.174 
Bee culture in Oregon.122 
— hive, Phelps'.250 
— — the best.250 
— stings, to cure. 45 
Bees and fructification..365 
— book Oil. 45 
— cider as full food for..346 
— distribution of honev.303 
— dying in Kansas.308 
— full feeding.314 
— forage plants for.365 
— Italian.220 
— leaving hives, to prevent—220 
— prevent fructification of 
seed, do.220, 803 
— reports on the condition of.. 45 
— transferring.45 
— winter management.283 
— wingless. ..220 
— working of n swarrfi of.250 
Cider as fall food for bees.340 
Cow flung for fumigating bees..340 
Drone comb, how to distin¬ 
guish ... 45 
Dysentery in boos. .235 
Fertilizing Italian queens.46 
Forage plants for bees.. .305 
Illve, to make movable comb...122 
Honey, chemistry of........250 
— comb. 803 
— plant, thoronghwort as a.., .340 
— producing plants. 45 
— -- frost grape as a..220 
How to secure luck and protit. .122 
Italian drones.346 
— qttoon In a hive, introduc¬ 
ing.250 
— — Importod...,.346 
Mel-extractor.250 
Natural vs. forced queens.131) 
ARBORICULTURE. 
Ailanthus trees, how to kill.186 
Alba pyracanthus hedge.347 
Antt.iris toxlcaria.106 
Apple tree story, a Minnesota.. 61 
Back lice, turpentine for..390 
Blackberries, planting..332 
Budding. 92 
Cedar, weeping. H 
Cherry tree, a venerable black- 
heart . 42 
— now ornamental......410 
Cherries on Mazzard stocks, 
Morollo. 12 
Chestnut trees die, why.30 
Chestnuts, largo.330 
Cinchona plantations in Dar¬ 
jeeling.329 
Clover and apple trees. 76 
Cutting-grafting.269 
Doubtful freak...300 
Evergreens, dead. 42 
— from cuttings. 340 
— patching.234 
Full planting of trees.317 
Figs in pots.172 
Fire bliglit.221 
Forest tree seeds, gathering.. .201 
— trees, planting....221 
— — time to plant. 92 
Fruit trees.galvanized wire on.410 
Grafting or building.186 
Green worm on evergreens.310 
Hedge, alto pyracanthus.317 
— plants, inquiry about.221 
Hodges, about.106 
— question about...42 
Hedging along railroads.830 
Hickory, grafting und budding.,196 
Kansas Umber bounty act.390 
Larch and wooden pavements.. 42 
— problem.185 
Leaf blight on apples.172 
Leiuuu trees ..284 
Material for tying up fruit trees.299 
Morellu Cherries on Mazzard 
stocks. 12 
Mulching Seed beds.1,2 
Oiive oil in California.299 
Orange trees.284 
Orchard, preparing ground for.890 
Palm, Loiitar....70 
— Pashiuba,..186 
Peaeb tree, a Jerseyman’s.224 
— trees, potash for...317 
Peaches ripening unevenly.317 
Pecan culture.......347 
Planting, what I know about 
fall. .269 
Points in orchard culture.61 
Potash for peach trees.....347 
Rabbits and mice eating trees..330 
— -from gnawing trees, to 
keep...332, 381 
Raspberries, planting.332 
Seed for name.106 
Stock on graft, influence of....2299 
Sugar producing trees.14, 92 
Trees, mulch the. 92 
— wash for.106 
— with manure, mulching.42 
Tuliptrees, success with.172 
Upas tree.106 
Walnuts, English, in California.4H) 
Wash for fruit trees.330 
Willow trees. Interesting fact in 
the growth of.381 
DAIRY HUSBANDRY. 
Aeratl oulu cheese making.Ill 
American dairy inventors 
claims vindicated.331 
Blake pan..Sts 
Butter, artificial....317 
— Belln’s method of preserv¬ 
ing.187 
— brining...IS. 
— Dandrant's method of pre¬ 
serving.187 
— determining caseins in.43 
— firkin for transportation in 
hot weather.., ..363 
— for long periods, keeping... 75 
— Girard's method of preserv¬ 
ing.Is7 
— how Canadian Is Improved 
for shipment abroad.317 
— how to keep It. .187 
— in pound boxes, gilt-edged. .107 
— is spoiled, how easily.267 
— making, implement for.363 
— — in South America.299 
— — winter.267 
— — profits from.123 
— restoring rancid.187 
— sugar and saltpeter la.187 
— the secret of good.267 
California dairyman, a.283 
Canadian dairying.171 
— prize elioeso, method of 
making. 171 
Catturaugus pun..... 363 
Co. dairying.110 
Choose and the cheese trade. ...139 
— butter are flavored, how.171 
— cheapening... ..,.41,91 
curing rooms, heating.156 
— factory books.217 
— houses Improved.187 
— 1. Li m berg or.378 
— II., Limberger.306 
— maker and patron, settling 
differences...315 
— making, aeration in.11 
— — In Mo., chaticcs for.267 
— — Sunday. 58 
— outlet for Western..75 
— promoting home markets 
and consumption of.139 
— sales and market reports.... 43 
— trade, tiro English. 43 
Cream, aeration of. 43 
— dried..347 
— m butter, dried....155, 283 
— keeping.91 
Creamer, Hall's.363 
Cows up to the time of calving, 
milking . 43 
Dairy factories in England. 128 
— matters ln Russia......27 
— products in hot weather, 
forwarding. 91 
— — vs. beef for food.75 
— statistics, collecting.2.19 
Dairying In California.315 
— — Delaware Co.217 
1 — — 8t. Lawrence Co.267 
— — Sweden, associated.251 
Fat In mlik and cheese, forma¬ 
tion of. 27 
Feed-box and manger com¬ 
bined . 303 
Floating curd.27 
Jewett pan. 363 
Limberger cheese, l.3,8 
— — II. 396 
— — extent of manufacture ln 
No ,v York. .......378 
— — method of manufacture..378 
MUk and butter In winter, bad.267 
— — cream, preserving.43 
— aerator.. 11 
— at the West, cost of produc¬ 
ing.315 
— by boiling, preserving.396 
— cheap process of condens¬ 
ing.283 
— diseased. .75 
— fever. 68 
— influence of electricity on.. .203 
— in England, cost of....107 
— of whey-fed cows.155 
MUk to factories, drawing.299 
— vats, trouble in the.107 
— water and cold influence the 
flow of.11 
— with halimeter, testing.235 
Milking cows up to the time of 
culviug. 43 
— muuhlne...123 
New devices l’or dairymen.363 
Fan, Blake.303 
— t 'atlaraugus. .303 
— Jewett...303 
— Orange Co.303 
Skipper extractor.... 107 
Stagnant watur for cows pro¬ 
ducing typhoid fover.235 
Stanchion, Gifford swinging....303 
Water and sweet grass. Pure,.. 11 
DIARY OF A KURALIST. 
Rye, sowing.221 
Stenoeorus villosus...93 
Strawberry beds, top-dressing.. 93 
Strawberries in autumn.269 
TlgrUltas alid mice.Ill 
Tremex oolumbu.103 
Tulip trees, success with.172 
Verbenas, seedling.121 
5Vatic in my garden.150 
Watering plants. 13 
What the mails bring me.269 
VV11 low, laurel-leaved....,.411 
Wonders of ignorance.201 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Acorns, sprouting.269 
Amorphophnlliis lllvorl.(6, 382 
Begonias, a showy bod of.46 
Beetle, stvlped blister.108 
Beetles, long-lived.230 
Birth-day surprise party.108 
Black caps, among the.28 
Bouvardlas, sporting of.395 
Boxes for Insects.£52 
Birds, cats, rats and mice.40 
Bulbs and tubers, storing. .332 
Butter, making gilt-edged.300 
Cabbages, cured with.352 
— planting lute. 00 
Cam el las blooming.. .302 
Carbolic soap for insects.382 
Cherries oil mazzard stocks, Mo- 
roUo— . IS 
Chestnut, rapid growth of a...,252 
Chrysalis of a liawk-moth.316 
Cicada, tho first. (HI 
Cistern, another,. 221 
Clytns pictiis... 204 
Corn, harvesting sowed.110 
Currant worms. 60 
Currants, transplanting.236 
Cutting* of bedding plants.140 
— larking up rooted.362 
Destroying woods. 77 
Kpizooty among horses...832 
Evergreens from cuttings.346 
— patching...28-1 
Kxoehurdin grand iflora.362 
Extra fire works.46 
First snow.346 
F'orest tree seeds, gathering ..201 
Frost, the first.269 
Fruit tree seedlings, trans¬ 
planting...300 
— trees, budding.,.140 
Gladioli, a succession Of.'..93 
Grapes ripening.150 
Grass alone, sowing.188 
Hedge, planting the.310 
Hedges, hemlock.316 
Insect, a destructive....'4)4 
June berry,dwarf. 28 
Liiatuna as a house plant.332 
lojcture, In vltcd to.411 
Life j.mongrho weeds..... 12 
Lytta vlttatu...108 
Marketing berries.. 77 
Mulching, saving materials l'or.124 
Ns name, no address...172 
Oak prtther...93 
Oats, Japan.124 
Peanut tree...252 
Pears, gathering.22i 
Pet animals.......382 
Pigeon tremex.108 
Pig pen, that,,..188 
Pirupla strata.108 
— lunator.108 
Plague of abundance.341) 
Plant, new bedding.46 
Plants by mail, sending.236 
— for sale, tio.362 
— — winter, banking up.221 
— protecting.8u0 
— sports among.....188 
— t akin g up and potting.172 
Plants, wluiur bluomlog...305 
Plum, wild sanrl or beech.816 
Potato crop, my .2bi 
Potatoes, digging early.77 
Price of wood.395 
Frov oxing correspondents.395 
Raspberry canes, cutting away. 93 
— Hers line......28 
— crop.252 
Raspberries anil blackberries, 
planting.3,2 
Red raspberries, early. 28 
Rose,a beautiful......411 
Roses, bedding. 124 
— from seed.284 
Rural club picnic.140 
Ruralizing on Bnake Hill.60 
Ants, to drive away,....12 J 
Apple butter, to make.305, 399 
Banana, eating the. .302 
Beans and vinegar......399 
— for winter, preserving string.171 
— to cook Lima. 79 
Bud linen Saturday, changing. .302 
Beeswax, bleaching. .318 
— Working. ...126 
Beets and inanguld wurtzul as 
substitutes for potatoes... 233 
Bill of faro, how to make.159 
— -that.63, 171 
Blue, dyeing.2ni 
Bread, brown. 47 
— good. 14 
— Gruhaui. 14 
Bristol brick dust for scouring.,399 
Broiler, covered. it 
Butter Inquiry. .159 
using strong.141 
G%Ke, an excellent....,.Ml 
— - corn starch .77, 222,2M 
— cream...,.. 47 
French loaf.222 
— recipe for Johnny..14 
— warm.222 
— Washington.264 
Carpots, colors for...47 
Catsup, turaato. 14, 313 
Cauliflower salad.302 
Cement, a good.190 
Chicken cheese.159 
Chow-chow...,318, 331 
Cider into vinegar, to make.95 
— pror.orving. 95 
Citron, preserving.Ml 
— preserved......159 
Clams. 222 
Coat, how to make a.399 
Coffee, to make...3;tt 
making, scientific.171 
Cold foot, remedy for.til 
— slaw.,...,. mi 
Corn, canning.302 
— drying swoet. .207 
Ciab apples, to preserve Sibe¬ 
rian.,.Ill 
Craw-llsh. 222 
Cream.47 
Cricket, the pestiferous.222 
Cucumbers in alcohol, toplokle.2"2 
Custard without eggs...171 
Dinner table flower vases. 47 
Domestic inquiries.., .47, 79,120, 
159,207,399 
Dumplings, drop.141 
Economy of b red girls.360 
EggB fresh, keeping. 14 
— In suit, packing. 95 
— preserving.171 
— to preserve through summer 47 
Elderberry wine. 11 
Farmers’wives work.3s3 
Figs, preserving.222 
Fish with sugar, preserving....302 
Floating island.47,159, 322, 256 
Flowers, wax....,.,....llt 
Fritters. 17 
Gold chains, to clean.238 
Grapes, preserving. 30 
Hams and beef for drying, to 
pickle..254 
— curing.302 
Ilygicnlo cooking.318 
Iron rust, to take out.79,120 
— — from white goods, to re¬ 
move . ...Ill 
Jam while hot, put Up....30 
Jolly, to make grape...238 
Lamps, ornamenting.Sal 
[ Lemon butler for tarts.334 
Lettuce, bo.led.30i 
— saiad...141 
Lobsters.........222 
Mu pie sugar, granulation of.... 14 
Meat, to keep....171 
Medley picture, how to make...411 
Mildew out of linen, to take....222 
Monday’s dinner, that.30 
Muffins. 63 
usbru t ms ala creme.190 
Mushrooms a la pvovenoale.190 
— uu Gratln.HO 
— baked....,...190 
— breakfast.190 
— curried.190 
— en eaiaso.199 
— eu ragout.190 
— on toast.190 
— soup.190 
— stews. 190 
— to pickle.190 
— — pot. ..HO 
— — Btcw.,190 
— with bacon..190 
Mutton kidneys. 68 
Orange mince. 334 
— peel, preserved.238 
Oyster chapter, nn.222 
Oysters, recipe for making arti¬ 
ficial.126 
Paper moth...63 
— — to exterminate,.126 
Pears and grapes, to dry .233 
Pepper, protest against black... 47 
Peppers, pickled. , ...331 
Pickles, elder vinegar.207 
— how to have good Yankee..Ill 
— to make whisky.79, V6, 111 
Pie, vinegar. 47 
— whortleberry.159 
Pies, pumpkin.238 
- running over.318 
Pop-corn balls, to make.Ill, 126 
Pork, how to pkkto.190 
Potato fry.,. 63 
— salad.,..254, 334, 399 
— boiled and steamed...207 
toiry. ....95, lH, 141,207, 331 
— Saratoga. 95 
Pudding, boiled. 
.Ml 
— Quaker plum. 
.254 
— Rico and apple... 
.159 
Pumpkins, drying. 
.207 
Raisins, how to cook. 
Salad. 
— potato..... 
. 264 
Suur kraut from summer 
cab- 
buge. 
.79 
Scrap bag or basket .. 
Shells, fastening. 
.367! 
— On picture frames, to Listen .222 
Hhlrta that will tit, to cut.,318 
Skeletonising leaves.251 
Smoking griddles. 14 
Soap, how I make soft.302,300 
— silver. m 
— soft and hard. 30 
Starting In married life.159 
Stains or Iron mold, to remove..366 
Tarts, lemon butter fur....334 
To detect, sulphnik acid In vin¬ 
egar. 362 
Tomato catsup..,.it 
— — vinegar for.366 
— pie.47 
Washing compound .302 
Water soft, to make hard.47 
Yeast from grape leaves.ill 
Zinc box, to clean a.79 
EDITORIAL. 
About Pekin, China...68 
Acrimony of political debate... 81 
Accuracy of observation among 
farmers.112 
A duel at Atlanta, Ga.;.292 
Advice to a boy who asks bow 
to gut along. 48 
Advertising, where to go.273 
Africa. -Livingstone.143 
A great American city.63 
Agriculture and civilization....272 
— for 1871.112 
Agricultural colleges In Canada. 144 
— implement* In 1»70.352 
Alex. Hyde’s twelve lectures.. .160 
Alsace and Lorraine, depopula¬ 
tion of.276 
American exhibitors at tho Vi¬ 
cuna exposition.272 
— Industrial last, fair..32, U2, 
176,288, 386 
— Farmers’ Club...176, 192, 268, 
224, 256 
— PottiolOfileal Society...412 
— Short-Horn Herd-book, Vol. 
XII. .400 
— Steam plows. 96 
— University rowing...84 
Americans in Europe.160 
Among thu Ohio fairs.240 
An honest man.212 
Animals, naming.221 
An tusutferable nuisance.320 
Angora goats.192 
Annual stock sales.320 
Apple pomace as manure.256 
Apples grafted on white oak... .256 
— packing .266 
Arbitration among farmers.288 
Arizona diamond fields.338 
Arkansas Hep. convention.143 
Arraignment of the poojfie.228 
Ashes, lime and plaster for fall 
wheat.....192 
Assorting farm products.2-10 
August meteors.96 
Auroral display, tho recent....144 
Awards on live stock at fairs...384 
Buby shows at fairs. ..210 
Banishment of Jesuits frum- 
Germauy. 52 
Bar to Agricultural progress... 48 
Beacon stock farm.128 
Letter than described.......352 
Bl i torn! ngdalo asy 1 u m..104 
Born hay sgrlcu 1 tore............ ,304 
Lends of Cincinnati and Fort 
Wayne Railroad.192 
Boston burning..320 
Brigham Young on Gentile 
schools......260 
British Chauceior of the Ex¬ 
chequer compliments the 
United Htates.260 
— harvest.208 
Burning of Canterbury Cntho- 
drul. 180 
Butler merchant, death of an 
old.192 
Cabbage worms and cabbages as 
food. 192 
Catueuzy vs. Fish..,.68 
Catalogues received, 128, 160 ,176. 
193, 384 
Canada patent law..fi t 
Can a woman stand It.372 
Canker worms, destroying.208 
Canulug fruit at Benton Har¬ 
bor, Mich... sai} 
Capron in Japan...256 
Careless reports. 96 
Carl Hehurz and the Adminis¬ 
tration. 383 
Cartwright,(loath of Rev. l'etor.228 
Cat exhibitions.,.3S4 
Centennial speculations__ ,.35: 
Central Park. 160 
( buries FimaoIs Adams at Ge- 
. 
- Sumner's health.,... 244 
Chicago Jubilee.....244 
— one year after the fire. 260 
Chinese farming in Arkansas..336 
— labor. 48 
Col. Elmer Ellsworth's grave... 52 
Comity of nations.100 
Concussion Colonel.2C8 
Contents of the Confederate 
archives.,. 84 
Conventions at Indianapolis.., .288 
Corn, sowed or drilled.U2 
Cream oliuosein New Yoik mar¬ 
kets..,..160 
Grope of Europe and America..244 
Cost of establishing Granges of 
Patrons of Husbandry....320 
Cotton crop, damage to.96 
— direct from Wilmington, 
shipping.320 
Currency expansion doslred.. .292 
Dakota. 80 
Death of Dr. Francis Lleber.. ..244 
lion. Garret Davis.212 
- — the King of Sweden.212 
Department of Ag., report for 
1871.144 
—.- 1872.. 400 
Development of home con¬ 
sumption—....288 
Diamond sensation.-..244 
Disappearance of Cedar Creek 
beneath Natural Bridge...372 
Disturbances In Ireland.148 
Duties after election.304 
Editorial convention. 16 
Educating farmer’s children_224 
Education of farmers’ sons..... 48 
Effects of the horse disease.336 
Eight-hour strike...16 
Election day duties.272 
Emigrants as steerage passen¬ 
gers. .228 
Emigration of English lnborers.240 
Encouraging Vt. agriculture)....412 
English employers of farm la¬ 
borers.384 
— test case as to laborer’s time. 144 
— vs. American yachts. 52 
Entomological statistics. 96 
Escurial of Spain.244 
European observations.208 
Evergreens, Transplanting.208 
