r 
Darwinian Theory Confirmed.368 
Death of Col. J. M. Sherwood.352 
Deodorizer. The best...301 
Deitz, Geo. A.173 
Dogs and Legislatures.96 
Downing. Charles.400 
Driving potato bugs.400 
Duo Credit.144 
Egg Contracts. Failure to fill.400 
— report—Reasons.128 
Eggs, Rotten.336 
Ellwanger & Banry eo route to 
Florida. 96 
Emperor William.96 
EngligtiGraln Markets......80 
— Sparrows...160 
Entomological Department.16 
Entomologists, Women.400 
— Young.400 
Excursions West.368 
Experimental farm.III. Industrial.320 
Exports and Imports....... ..128 
Family Jar. The Rural causes. 16 
Farmers’ Club Reports...288 
— Inquiries for......368 
— Ficnics....400 
Ferrets. 176 
Floriculture in France.240 
Foot and mouth disease in Maine.. 96 
“ For sale ”.... 32 
Franking privilege....32. 240 
Frigid request. 32 
Frost in Ohio..336 
— — the West.........304 
Fruits, Uow to Improve flavor. ....352 
Garland, A. M. 35 
Gathering the Mosses,.40€ 
Gcddes, George.....288 
Germania Sugar Beet Co...128 
Girls and horses.240 
Glass for Harmonica....272 
Going South for laud.90 
Golden Sirup swindle. 48 
Grain Transportation.....320 
Great inducements to work and 
Win. 64 
Hall. A. H. 384 
llarkncss, J. W., Cor. See. Minn. 
State Ilort. Soc.320 
Has the Rural come. 16 
Hay Press, The best.192 
Help the French farmers.160 
Highway Laws of New York, 
Amendment of.......384 
"^tory of the late War...16 
Hogs packed In the West.256 
Hop crop disposed of. How the— 32 
Homestead Law.160 
Horticulturist in Florida, Promi¬ 
nent...192 
Horses, Clipping.32 
How an Englishman Blesses ns. ...384 
Howard, Death of Sanford.224 
Illinois Industrial University.48 
— -Appropriations for.320 
Illustrations, About.353 
Imports and exports.324 
Income Tax, The...96 
Indiana Fish Law. 20S 
Indian outrages. 256 
Indirect advertising...160 
Iniiuence of Agricultural Soci¬ 
eties..28S 
Inquiries for Dairymen.3S4 
Irrigation. 368 
— In Jeff. Co., N. Y.3S1 
Is he a Stamp Thief.,....304 
— man an Animal.,.272 
Italian Unity.61 
Japanese Silkworm Eggs in Cali¬ 
fornia.384 
John Johnston Address.320 
Kansas Farmer... 96 
Kingsbury. J. G..384 
Koelruteria paniculate.400 
Knox Fruit Farm and Nurseries... 16 
Knox. J.400 
Land Sales.368 
— for the location of Colonies....224 
— Public. 112 
— sales......368 
— sales in Missouri.128 
Law. Question of...368 
Lending and Borrowing.138 
Live Stook Trade of Cliioago.48 
Letters from Rural People.80 
Machine for threshing beans.80 
Manures, Patent right on.868 
March on..... 144 
Martin, Geo. A...384 
Massachusetts Ag. College.400 
McAree, H. H.100 
Mcchi, English abuse of.384 
Men and capital.......64 
— wanted..,.,...,. 12S 
Mink culture. 336 
Mlnkery, A...128 
Missouri grape crop. 336 
Mob law at school...96 
Money and trade nffalrs.240 
— In the garden.208 
New Hampshire Farmers’ Conven¬ 
tion..... 96 
New Orleans fair.240 
Newspapers, Forwarding.368 
New quarter.20S 
— York .State Ag. Soc.112 
No more mayoralty. 96 
Norway oat swindlers. 176 
Notes of travel...352 
Ohio, Outlook from. 16 
Only five or six cents per week.... 48 
Opium tmports...256 
Our new corresponding editor.16 
— premiums satisfactory.112 
— Pilgrim fathers.160 
— southern friends.224 
— twenty-second year. 16 
Over and over aguin.....400 
Oven for drying fruit.128 
Pactfi c railroad... 12 $ 
Parallel spittle insect....... ,400 
Patrons of husbandry.240 
Peace In Europe.. . 176 
Peaches In Southern Illinois.400 
Pensions for women..... ...144 
People’s Practical Poultry Book.. 80 
Perspective drawing. 368 
Pills to prevent abortion in cows.144 
Places wanted....192 
Politicians In Congress.....224 
Pork statistics.. 
Postage on Canadian monthlies,.. 64 
Potato bug remedy....368 
Poultry convention... 352 
— importations.. 
Preserve and refer to the Rural...288 
Prof, Squelch In the country.400 
Professional schools.80 
Professors of Agriculture in Cor¬ 
nell University. 384 
Promissory notes to peddlers ,.....304 
Provincial exhibition, A Canada 
editor on,..,. 3 ^ 
Pueblo, Colnrndo. From,.,.....,,,, i6 
Rabbit culture. ...2i0 
Ramsdell A Co.!! .384 
Reaper and mower trial. 384 
Rennets vs. fish.. 384 
Removal.256 
Regenerating Virginia soils.384 
Residences of horticulturists 
burned...........112 
Riley, Charles V....«00 
Robinson. Rev. Dr. E. G......381 
Rose bugs. Something about.400 
Rural “ at home ”.336 
— Club of New York.176 
— Reprinting the.80 
Sait from Kansas.....266 
Sanctum Personals...368,384, 400 
Sao Domingo. 64.256 
— — Commission.....128 
— - For.192 
Sap spile. 208 
Schools. Professional. 80 
Scrnntom, Marriage of Bertha R. .384 
Season and crop*. ..384 
Seed for French peasant *;.........160 
Seedsman elerted Mayor.192 
Selling by weight. .144 
Short-Horn ITerd Book.368 
— Stock for Kansas.301 
Silk worm eggs in California.256 
Sirup from sweet potatoes.384 
Something for nothing....,.352 
Spring advertising.100 
— Campaign of soil cultivators...272 
— Catalogues. 90 
— work...208 
Steam plow wonted.320 
St. Joseph ami Denver City It. R. 
Co s bonds. 112 
Stock that may he imported free of 
duty...224 
Stories of big crops. Publishing.. .176 
Southern affairs.272,320 
Sumac, Dealers In.368 
SwearlDg in court. 381 
Swine exhibition.96 
Swindle, Latest on farm era...... .368 
Texan groceries. 64 
Teachers. Inquiries for. ,354 
Testimony of an agent friend.... 64 
Texa«8tote fair.400 
That black list.160 
Thomas. J. J.Ml 
Tobacco in Wisconsin...400 
— vs. Newspapers.112 
Unanswered Inquiry. 96 
Vagrant children.208 
Van Wlnklo, Isaac.,..,..400 
Vick, Ja mes...336 
Wants to be Instructed.304 
War In France and Floriculture.. .210 
Washing Machine,Continental..,.320 
Weights, Standard In Pa......208 
What docs it mean.368 
Whitewash needed. 96 
Wilder. Marshall P... 288 
Winter grain, Conditions of....320 
Woman’s Medical College Com¬ 
mencement. .240 
Women Entomologists.,...400 
— in the Mich. Ag. College.,224 
Wood paper.381 
Wool business.241) 
Young editor happy.240 
Plum Curcullo, Remedies’.330 
— — Natural history of.330 
— — Time of appearance.330 
Potato bug, Colorado.284 
— — eating cabbages.303 
Quince corcuUo.... . 268 
— — Transformation and habits .268 
Root borers. 10 
— louse.10 
Rose loaf roller. 10 
— slugs. Remedy for.336 
Saperda blvlttata.284 
Salt to prevent borers.281 
Sigalphiis.154 
— curcullo parasite. 139 
Snapping beetle*.10 
Snout beetles. 78.108,139.154,191,206, 
220, 268, 330 
— — Injurious to fruit and vege¬ 
tables .10, 20, 59 
Squash bugs and ... 
Strawberry crown borer.315 
Tarantula. The.393 
Trochlllura exltosa.234 
Twig borer. 10 
Settlings in the steam tub of a 
paper mill. 26 
Shingles. Shall we paint...362 
Soils and salt..282 
— leachy. 218 
Steam box for food.330 
Stock on a 160 acre prairie farm. ...187 
Straw saving and managing.26 
Stump puller.58 
Sumac, Grinding. 11 
Superphosphate. Inquiry.187 
Tannery refuse Tor manure.314 
Tile. Collars for. 42 
Timber for market, Preserving... .109 
Wagon, How to load a...II, 75,139, 187 
Wagons, Greasing.235 
Well, A pump for a forty feet.187 
Wire cloth for corn cribs.....267 
- fence.91,202 
Wheat, Saving musty. 154 
When to kill hushes,.314 
White mar) and muck....267 
Wood nshes, How to apply.202 
Helianthus annuus. .250 
Hemp culture. . 99 
nop crop. How disposed of.32 
— growing. 10 
Hops In New York State.316 
Horse manure fur corn...219 
Lamium amplexicaule...53 
Manure for potatoes.298 
Meadow, How renovating an old .303 
Meadows, To keep weeds out of. ..346 
Moss In pastures.S52 
Mustard seed, Growing. 12 
Oat contracts in Iowa, Norway.74 
Oats In Iowa, Norway.187 
— Norway.283 
— — and white Canada.10 
— - by r>. V,' U. A Co.122 
— — unprofitable.314 
— per acre, Norway.250 
— Ramsdell’s Norway.234 
Winter in Illinois.316 
— Would grow Norway.202 
Opium culture.303 
— How gathered.363 
— How to cut.363 
— How to make incision.363 
Poach blow potato. Benton.266 
Peas for fertilizers .221 
Peanut crop.106 
Peanuts vs. Cotton. 58 
I'eppermint culture. 173 
Plaster for potatoes.154, 298 
Plowing, Deep vs. Shallow.151 
Potash and potatoes.314 
Potato bug remedy.395 
— Culture.330 
— Demlck. 283 
— Early Rose.138 
— experiments. 90 
— Mountain. 251 
— My new Seedling.234 
— Peerless.58,154 
— Substitute for.395 
— White Hose...... 167 
Potatoes, Artificial fertilizers for.298 
— Bresee’s No. 2.202 
— Early Goodrich. 314 
— Early Rose...202 
— Experience In the varieties.... 29 
— Firty distinct kinds.100 
— French method of raising.378 
— from Nebraska.......12 
— — potato sprouts.138 
— — seed balls. 10 
— Grafting.250 
— in Michigan.234 
— — North Carolina, Irish.378 
— Manure for.298 
— mix? Do.330 
— Plaster on.154,298 
— Seedling. 9o 
— Sprouting sweet.10.1 
— Storing sweet. 68 
— Three crops per season.363 
— To raise early.283 
— Will they rulx in the hill 1 .346 
Pumpkin, Big crop.,.202 
Pumpkins in Maine.90 
Roots for elieepand cattle...169 
— on the same soil, Different.58 
— from Long Island...205 
Rust In wheat, Cause of.. 56 
Itye, Montana. 42 
— winter. For spring forage.346 
Salt meadow, A weedy. 29 
Smut, Cause of.352 
— caused by insects. 10 
Sflanum Fendlcri.283 
— Montana..283 
— tuberosum.283 
Sorghum culture.138 
Sugar from California beets.68 
Sunflower, Mammoth... 250 
Sunflowers as a field crop.100 
Tobacco In Wisconsin. 90 
— seed.138 
Turnip culture.219 
— seed, Russia.109 
— Harvesting.234 
— in Michigan.234 
— Missouri.. 10 
— Swedish ... ..234 
Ycrmonter, A successful. 283 
Weed for name. £6 
Wheat, Arnold’s hybrid midge 
proof.. 394 
— becomes chess, How.74 
— cause of rust In.,.,. 58 
— Drilling... 90 
— does not grow, Why old.250 
— for pasturage. Spring.138 
— in Michigan. Winter.,...23t 
— Leached ashes in.141 
— Old sowing...202 
— Pasturing willi sheep.346 
— Sowing old. .250,266 
— Ton ncres of..29, 250 
— That ten acres.139 
— White Vunzelle.266 
— Wisconsin. 219 
White worm, Destroying.352 
Winter Grain, Harrowing.266 
Yam, Chinese. .231 
— culture, Chinese.296 
Yams, About... 298 
Dicentra spectabilis, How propa¬ 
gated. 236 
Diosma crenata. 201 
— latlfolia.201 
— serratifolia.201 
— unifolia. 201 
Dogwood, Dwarf.236 
Door-yard ornamentation.220 
Floral transparency.348 
flower, An early.220 
— for name.220 
— garden gossip. 349 
Flowers, About my...89 
— Among my....45 
— Changing color of.393 
— Howl grow.301 
— In clay soils.153 
Fuchsia. Best new.281 
Fuchsias, Cutting of.381 
Garden experience. 349 
Gardenia forlunei.267 
Geraniums.....301 
Geraolum leaves. What destroys. .365 
Gladiolus, A new English.267 
Gladioli...230 
— Something of. 172 
Gold of pleasure.,,,,,.,.,.,....301 
Goodyera pubescens.333 
Grass. Blue-eyed.....393 
Guaco. 140 
Heliotropes, Treatment.381 
Hedeoma pulcgoides.201 
Hollyhocks, New...267 
Honeysuckle leaves. What de¬ 
stroys. 365 
Hyacinths.331 
Hydrangea bortensis.393 
Hypericum kalmianum.313 
Ipomea limbuta elcgantisslmu.89 
— quatnoclit. 89 
Ivy for picture frames.333 
ivies. About.45 
Jlmson weed. 76 
Kerrla Japonica.365 
Lantanas, About.13 
Laurlstine, The.281 
Ltatrls elegaus.60 
— purnita.....GO 
— pycnostachya.,.00 
— squarrosa. 60 
Lilies in England, New...301 
— Water.301 
Lilium Busclitanum.393 
— canadonsc..........313 
— Puluhellum.393 
Lily, Another new.172 
— Double white. 89 
— Dwarf culln.301 
Lithosperiuum fruticosum.153 
Lophosperuium scandcns.89 
Lycopodium deudroldcum.89 
Mertensia Virglnicu.333 
Mignonette.281 
— Grant now crimson flower.172 
— Sweet.172 
Mikanla quaco.140 
Night blooming coreus. 13 
Oleanders. Pruning.220 
Fandanus Javanicus.313 
Pansies.. ..25 
— m mosses..220 
Partridge pea. 25 
Pelargoniums, Plunging.313 
Peperom la maculosa. 89 
I'hlladelpbus coronarlus.348 
Plants for name. 89 
— Hardy herbaceous.252 
House.153 
Names of.201 
— Tender......189 
— that will give a succession of 
bloom.252 
— Vitality of.313 
— wanted. Old.,.,.....,153 
— Wash for.893 
— without fire, To keep.,.60 
Polemonium repens.333 
Polygula seuega.140 
Polygouatum biflorutn.109 
— gigantium.109 
Primula, Mrs. John Saul.281 
Pulmonaria Virgintcu.333 
Quamoclit coccinea. 89 
Red cypress vine.89 
Reseda odornta.172 
Rose bushes. Lice on.393 
— The Christmas.189 
Roses In pots. Growing.109 
— Names of. 393 
— Transplanting..281 
— Two new English.252 
Raxifraga saramentosa. 89 
SlBTilnchium Bermudiana.393 
SiuiluclDa blfolia...109 
Solomon's seal, Two leaved.109 
Southorn flora.236 
Spocularia speculum.89 
Spiriea for name.236 
Spirsea prunifolia pleno.333 
Static® latlfolia. 313 
Stapella varlegata.153 
— asterlas...153 
— lentlglnosa.153 
— Propagation.153 
— Species.....153 
Stellaria borealis.220 
Stuartla Virgin lea...... 365 
Stump. Covering .220 
Syringa for name.348 
Summev house. Color for.381 
Tigrldius. To keep in winter.26 
Trellises, Rustic.349 
Tritlciun repens.393 
Trltomas and tuberoses.313 
Tropeolium peregrinura.349 
Tuberoses, To keep in winter...... 25 
Verbenas. Soil tor.153 
Veronica speciosa. 333 
Viburnum lentago. 281 
opulus...,...281 
— prunifolium..281 
— tlnus...281 
Vines for covering stump..........220 
— for a summer house... .381 
Wandering jew.89 
Wurdian cases.124 
Wash for plants...393 
Water lilies in Texas....140 
Weigela, New white...313 
Wistaria, New double .153 
Worms in flower pots.,.,..13 
— on house plants...89 
Zea Japotnca. 89 
Zinnias and balsams.,...313 
Cabbage, Bergen Drumhead.92 
— Clubrooted.... 12 
— Drumhead Savoy. 92 
— Flat Dutch... 92 
— History...76 
— Marblehead Mammoth. 92 
— plants in cold frames.,...124 
— plants. To raise.189 
— Red Dutch.92 
— seed, Amount of.189 
— — Number In a pound.189 
— — where cabbages are to grow. 
Planting.268 
1 — Stone Mason.92 
Cabbages for market.92 
Cantaloupe, Arlington.396 
— Hunter...396 
Cnrthnmus tinctorius.316 
Cnstor Beans in Los Angelos Co... 106 
Cauliflowers..124 
— New..204 
Celery Culture.141,156 
Chinese Yarns in the South.333 
Chiswick Gardens.144 
Chou Chou.268 
Crocus satlviis...316 
Cucumber culture . .252 
Cucumbers profitable, Are.268 
— to die. What causes. 44 
— — obtain good crops.252 
— — raise successfully.....220 
Curious Vegetable, That..268 
Garden seeds degenerating. 12 
Gardens, Military Post.105 
Garltck..., . 348 
Greens, Pokeweed.301 
Hog manure, Squashes and.301 
Horse Radish Among Strawber¬ 
ries...348 
— radish culture. 333 
Hot-bed, A cheap.156 
Hot-beds. Howto prepare.76 
— Prepare your. 76 
Lettuce, Hanson head.396 
— in winter.140 
Lima Bean Culture.105,172 
— Beans.Ill 
Marl and onions....381 
Melon. Craft.396 
— culture.252 
— Florida sugar..396 
— Georgia mammoth.396 
— Mexican ..396 
— Orange....396 
Melons. How I raise.300 
Military post gardeus.105 
Moss for the gardener. 12 
Muakmclon, Carolina.396 
Oil on vegetables, Train or fish_2S1 
Onion Maggot.204 
Onions and inurl.381 
— Culture.204.381 
— Keeping.333 
— Maggot in..-.381 
— To get large. 41 
Peas. Alligator..301 
— Early.156 
— Green.188 
— Varieties......188 
Peru squash. 76 
Pcrsea gnitlsalma.301 
Phytolacca dccandra .301 
Pokeweed greens.301 
Potato culture, Sweet.268 
Pumpkin crop. 45 
Rake, A now.316 
Saffron culture.316 
Salt for asparagus. 12 
Scullions. About.204 
Sechlum Aaierietinum.203 
— edule.268 
— palmatum.... .268 
Seeds degenerating. Garden. 12 
Squash, A big... . 44 
— Pern....... ..76 
Squashes and hog manure.301 
Tomato plants, llow to grow.76 
— -raise.284 
-Staking.250 
— Red currant. 92 
— Trophy.150, 221 
— vines. Pinching.348 
Tomatoes from cuttings.220 
Truck dealers of New York.141 
Vegetable. A curious.220 
Vegetables, Early.105 
— for seed...92 
— gardenlngin South Carolina...269 
— Grain In.156 
— In Georgia. 236 
— New gulden.204 
Water Cress...284 
— — in Pennsylvania.381 
Watermelon asked for... 44 
Watermelons, About.189 
“Wine plant". 45 
Woman In the garden.140 
Yarns In the South, Chinese.333 
FARM IMPLEMENTS, 
FARM ECONOMY 
Agricultural steamer, Anderson's.395 
Buckeye Ag. Works. 347 
Curb art's two-horse cultivator.. ..299 
Cltpperinowcr and reapor.173 
— Work* of...173 
Continental washing machine.282 
Crowbar with joints.317 
Ditching machine. An Ohio.332 
Dodge reaper and mower.299 
Empire agricultural works.267 
Excelsior reaper and mower.219 
Grain drill. Buckeye,..347 
Grass seed sower.. .. 347 
Harder's endless railway tread 
power... 207 
Harrow, How to make a. 91 
Harrows, Trial of... 333 
Hay hoisting apparatus. 363 
— pitchforks. Horse. 267 
rake and tedder combined... . 317 
— tedder. 317 
noes, Changing from straight 
lines .. .347 
Horse rake. Ithaca steel tooth.363 
— power, A cheap.91 
— — Champion. 395 
Hull’s irrigating machine..,.,.395 
Irrigating machine. 395 
Mower and reaper, Clipper.173 
— Dodge.297 
— Excelsior.219 
Young warrior.363 
Plow, The Swivel.282 
Plows, Southern..122 
Reaper and mower, New-Yorker..347 
- podge. 
— Excelsior.219 
Roller with plaster and grass 
seeder...219 
Rubber on traction engines.332 
Sorgo and sugar caue mills.379 
— mill, croncher.379 
— — Samson.379 
Star lawn mower.251 
Steam power on the farm.332 
St. Johnsvllle Ag. works.395 
Taylor's steel tooth ruke.317 
Thresher and separator, Aultman 
&, Taylor’s. 379 
— of the period.379 
Walter A. Wood's Harvesting 51a- 
clilnes....261 
Washing uaaehlfco, Continental—282 
Westinghouse & Co.’s thresher 
and Cleaner.....282 
Wood's new Jolnted-bar mower...251 
Acorns and stock..... 
Agricultural cauldron and steam 
boiler. ...... 
Ammonia us a cattle medicine. 2 
Apples, Feeding.. 
Artichokes, To get rid of.4 
Ashes and bones.2 
— — hen manure....,. 2 
— Coal. 1 
— for sandy soli...... 3 
— on grass lands,... 3 ' 
Beans, How to thresh...II 
Board vs. tile dram.l; 
Bog ashes for upland. 3 ! 
Bone dust fertilizers... 3 ( 
— meal, Dissolving......1’ 
Bones and ashes.2 
— as fertilizers... 2 
Bushes, To kill.2 
Cane shucks for manure.2< 
Charcoal in the manure heap.2! 
Chemists agree. How .. 3 ' 
Chemistry and agriculture.3! 
Cider making, presses, etc. : 
Clod crusher.. 4 
Coal ashes.u 
Collars for tile.. 
Commercial fertilizers. 3 : 
Compost heap...... \ 
— - should It be sheltered. 3 < 
Cooking food for slock.205, 32 
Corn. Applying plaster.31 
— Hen manure for.R 
— grub. Salt for... 35 
— Phosphates for.3i 
— stalks, SteamlDg.,,.K 
Colton seed for manure.31 
— — — stock,... 5 
— — Value of... 4 
Cow manure for sandy soil. 3 ( 
Cut food, How much to steam.33 
Deep plowing again.35 
Drain cheaply, To. 4 
Drains, Tile on land that over¬ 
flows. 31 
Error In terms.28 
Excelsior manure. 14 
Farm, To kill rats on a.13 
Fence, Wire and picket.25 
Fences, Crooked.30 
— on Worth farm . 17' 
Fish culture.29 
Fleas in a barn-yard.26 
Food, Anti-cooking. .19 
— Steaming cut. 25< 
Gas lime as a fertilizer.42, 38 
— — Fresh.251 
Grass lands, Asnes on.37i 
— To destroy quack....14 
Harrow, A folding.15 
— A Western Pennsylvanian.15 
— Iowa. 25 
— The Goddes......4! 
Huy mow. Lime for the.411 
Horse manure burning, To pre¬ 
vent. 171 
— powers. Railway.20‘, 
Ice. Easy way to procure..,..13! 
— Gathering.121 
Iron as fertilizer. Old...261 
Kalulte. A new fertilizer.281 
Keeping farm accounts.131 
Linseed for manure.10! 
Lime as a fertilizer.... .17( 
— Effect of slaking upon the 
weight of... 2( 
— in a straw stack.... 2 ( 
— Use of. 2R 
— vs. plaster.....42 
— Shell. 45 
— to expel moss.381 
Machine for digging ditches.381 
Munure, Applying... .187 
— Ashes and hen.282 
— Cano shucks.202 
— Cotton seed for.314 
— from a ton of hay. 11 
— heaps, Burning.190 
— How to apply...58 
— leach...381 
— Wool water and ashes.75 
Maple sugar making....121 
— -Boiling the sap.121 
— -Gathering sap-.121 
— -Sugariugoff... 122 
— -Tapping the trees.121 
Millet for fodder.314 
Mineral Solutions in plants.282 
Mixed farming.411 
Muck marsh, Civilizing a.378 
— to sandy land, Applying.282 
— What Is...378 
Mulching, About.75 
Night soil.....171 
— — Deodorizing. 42 
Ox yokes, To prevent gulling. 12 
Paint, Averlll chemical.250 
Phosphates for corn....378 
Picket, fence wire.202 
Plant food in the soil, Solution of.282 
— support, Knowledge of.*. 394 
Plaster, Applying to land. 366 
— for meadows.314 
— on clayey soils.314 
— Use of. ,234 
— vs. lime. 42 
Plowing. Deep vs. shallow.235, 298 
Pork market, The winter’s.91 
Potato planter. Is there a practi¬ 
cal.366 
Potatoes, To wash.154 
Practical farm science.282 
Railway horse-power, Govenors,. .202 
Rocks, Blasting and burning.362 
Roller and seeder.171 
Salt and soils.......283 
— fish as manure....157 
— for the corn grub. 378 
Sap, Gathering the.121 
— spile. 171 
Selling by weight.,,250 
ENTOMOLOGICAL, 
JJachtia constrlcta.268 
Agrostls tellfera.303.348 
American silkworm.....380 
Annlcis fragarlae.315 
Authonomus quadrlgibbus.101,206.220 
— prunicida.330 
Aphis and squash bugs. , .393 
Apple-bud moth. 10 
— curcullo.268 
— —Its history.191 
— leaf, Bueoulatrlx.380 
— midge.10 
— plant, house.10 
— worm, To destroy...........03 
— worms...... 69 
Arterlas butterfly, Chrysalis of....348 
Attucua eocropta, Cocoon.380 
Bark lice on rose bushes.393 
— -trees..,,...348 
Blister beetle, Margined...348 
Borer, Apple.281 
— — and quince.108 
— — twig. ..411 
— Peach....,.284 
Borers. 10 
— Apple and peach.364 
— Peach....231 
— Salt to prevent.284 
— To keep out...61 
Bucculatrlx pomifoliella. .380 
Bug* on vines.397 
Cullidrya* oubule......191 
Canker worms.221,393 
Carpocapsa pomonella .89 
Climbing out worms.364 
Codling moth. 89 
— — Vinegar for.....348 
— moths, To trap.303 
Colaspls Flavida.315 
Colorado potato bug.284 
— -and Paris green.397 
— -on cabbages.398 
— -Poisoning by.411 
Conotrachelus crataegl.268 
Curcullo, Apple.191,206 
— — damage It does. 206 
— catcher, W urd's. 108 
— catching.303 
— Four-humped. 191 
— Keeping it in check.106 
— parasites.....,.,..154 
— — of plum.108 
— Plum.78,220 
— — and apple. 10 
— Quince.268,315 
— Ransom chip process.78 
— How to catch. 78 
— Jarring by machinery.108 
— Remedies for.268 
Gurculionid®.26 
CuL-wonns, Climbing.303, 346 
— — Sawdust for.4U 
Diaspis ros®.393 
Egg destroying thrips.154 
Flat-headed borer. 10 
Flower beetles. 10 
Harlequin cabbage bug...139 
Horn worm. The tobacco...411 
Ichneumon flies.164 
Insects on oleanders...284 
Leal crumpler. 10 
Lecanlum rosie. 393 
Lloe on apple trees. 303 
Lyttu murginuta..346 
Oleanders. Insects on. 284 
Oyster shell bark lime. 348 
Pampilns formosus.393 
Pupilto asterlas.348 
Paris green Tor potato bug.397 
Peach bark lice.348 
— borers. 321 
Phrygama. 208 
— P. flnvlcQrnls... 268 
— P. rombia.268 
Plum curculio.26. 59 
— gouger....330 
FIELD CROPS, 
Alslke clover. 5 
Artichokes, Uow to get rid of.341 
— Jerusalem.157,39 
Beans In Michigan...23, 
Beet, Blood turnip.7' 
— culture In England, Sugar.26( 
— Planting sugar.261 
— sugar in California.5 
Beets for sugar In Iowa.21 
Buckwheat, Plowing In... ......... IK 
— to kill weeds... 12 , 
Carrots.31< 
— In fall, Sowing. 39! 
— Raising. 138 
Castor Oil beans.20! 
Chess from wheat.7) 
Chinese yam.173, 23) 
— — culture.29S 
Clover. Alslke..58,151,234 
— In Kansas, Red.1W 
— killing cattle. Red. 304 
— seed iD Niagara Co., N, Y.34t 
Corn, Cost of raising...9C 
— critique......... ..363 
— crops, More about....841 
— culture.......74,314 
— Cut-worms and.-. 206,33(1 
— 5,500 acres of.90 
— lor sale. No......151 
— growing, Premium. 10 
— Heu manure for.202 
— Horse manure for.—..219 
— How a New Hampshire farmer 
grows..234 
— in drills or hills.346 
— — Kentucky.340 
— — Michigan.234 
— — the South.58 
— late. Tend,...378 
— Manuring.363 
— Mure about.138 
— New Jersey vs. Pennsylvania..283 
— One hundred bushels per acre.304 
— planting. Preparations for.74 
— Plaster for.219 
— Sanford.169,187, 221,266, 298 
— shelling.314 
— To prevent worms in.221 
— Varieties of.314 
— When to plant.266 
— Yellow Dent.219 
Cotton seed as a manure for sugar 
cane.250 
— vs. peanuts...58 
Crops, Rotation of.190 
Cut-worms and corn.206, 330 
Early Rose, Demand for....,202 
— in Missouri.,.,..363 
Flax, New Zealand.250 
Ginseng culture. 61 
Gram, Shrinkage of.378 
Grass and woods, burning... 125 
— Foul meadow.109 
— Orchard.234, 266 
— Quack or Twitch.74,169 
— seed and clover...123 
— — in Minnesota, Sowing.266 
— — Pure orchard.125 
— — Red top.,.202 
— —When to sow blue. ..,.,122 
— To destroy quack.125,141 
— To exterminate couch.29 
Grasses for moving sand.250 
— in North Carolina...90 
HERDSMAN 
Afterbirth, Should cows eat.254 
Ayrsbirecow "Tibbie”.377 
— — “White Lily ”....377 
— cows...377 
Black leg in cattle.170 
Bloat or boven In cattle.. .187 
Bloody murrain. ...251 
Breeding domestic animals, Prin¬ 
ciples in. 58 
Buffalo beef from the plains.--93 
Bull jumping, To prevent.123 
Bulls. Working. .202 
Deacon skin, How to take off.Ill 
Dropsy, Death from.377 
Catarrh. Acute.377 
CalveB, Calomel to kill lice on.142 
— Kerosene oil for.218 
— Raising........218 
— Lice on.235 
— Sick. 9 
— Scours in. 41 
Cattle and corn 9inut. 41 
— Blackleg in.170 
— Cost of keeping.314 
— disease.-. 75 
— — in Michigan. 9 
— -New Hampshire.61 
— — not from Canada.94 
— — The new. 112 
— dying of apoplexy.336 
— eyes. Film on. .218 
— Feeding corn to. 90 
— — of beef.170 
— Foot-and-mouth disease—32,106 
— Filmfromeycs......311 
— Grubs in.......... 9 
— Hollow horn in. 12 
— Hoven In ..304 
— Is smut poisonous to...29 
— Jersey.122 
— law of New York.397 
— Lice on.94,106,123, 170 
— Pasturing... 90 
— prohibited, Exposition of Jer¬ 
sey .254 
— To relieve choked.266 
— Wens on..............254 
FLORICULTURE 
Adenandra.201 
Amaryllis belladoua.66 
— culture.;...6t 
— formosissimus. 6< 
— grandiflora.66 
— lutea....6C 
— viltata... 66 
Annuals, Choice liBt of.281 
Asters, Rose. 89 
Astragalus Tennesseensis.313 
Barosama.,.,.201 
Begonia Subpeltaie albornba.25 
Blguonia venusia.252 
Bouvardia Vreelandii. 89 
Box for edgiogs. 220 
Buchu. 201 
Bulbs, New use for old.365 
Culla ASthiopica naua....301 
— lily, Dwarf. 301 
Camelina sativa.301 
Campanula pyramidalis.220 
Candytufts, My. 76 
Canna sanguines chatei.89 
— Warscewiczli....89 
Capsella bursH pastnris.301 
Carnations, Barren.153 
Centranthus macrosyphon.89 
Chinese Primroses.301 
Chrysanthemums, Early flowering.381 
Cloche, The. 25 
Coboa Scan dens.89, 220 
— — vuriegata ....124 
— varlegata...220 
Colenses, Beddiogout.393 
Colutea arboresceus.89 
Cornus Canadensis .236 
— florida. 236 
Dahlias, Management of.365 
Datura stramonium. 76 
— — useful.140 
Deutzia gracilis.333 
GARDENER 
Anthomyia Ceparura. 
Asparagus Culture.2! 
plants from a pound of Beed 
— Salt for... 
— Transplanting. 
Beet, California..... 
Bean Culture, Lima.10 
Beans, String. 
Beet seed, Soaking. 
Beets in light soils. 
— on light soils. 
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