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fMOOBE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Chronotype.304 
City clerkships. 80 
City’s baDe, but country’s bles¬ 
sing. 16 
Cleaning and bleaching pea¬ 
nuts.304 
Clean the «c Mars..... .308 
Colfax. Schuyler.,.211 
j Vice-President.148,164 
( Ol. Harris nnd Ohio Farmer...132 
Colliers of South Wales. 68 
Coming right along. 10 
Commissioner of Agriculture.. 
96, 160, ITS, 192 
— -and the Agricultural 
Convention...112 
Commissioners to Vienna.224 
Company of the bay of Samaria 08 
Condition of Kansas farmers.. ,266 
— — Sonntnr Sumner..100 
Co-operiiLton nmong farmers.. .128 
Cornell University.888 
— — president's mansion.258 
Couldn’t do without.304 
Cousin Johnnie's good example 18 
Count Pierrefonds..100 
Credit Mobilier investigation.. 
20,100 
— -In the House..164 
— — scandal. 36 
— -in Congress.68 
Cuba lias sympathizers.20 
Dairy business.272 
Deadheads dead...,....384 
Delay In sending engraving_96 
Department of Agriculture.208 
Devon herd-book.224 
Dodge, J. It.144, 288. 306 
— for Commissioner of Agri¬ 
culture.............240 
Dollars and cents...... 32 
Don’t bo persuaded....64 
Downing, Charles. 240 
Dried fruits for France.336 
Economy In children’s shoes...384 
Eight-quart milk cans.224 
Electing President by direct 
vote,. 68 
Electros, wood cuts, etc.....352 
Elliott. F. K.80 
Ellwanger A Barry’s nursery.. .170 
Emily, Faithful. 84 
Encouraging homo Industry..,. 16 
English farmers and farm la¬ 
borers ......208 
— manufacturers of agricultu¬ 
ral machinery,,,,,,.288 
— paying tribute to American 
products...224 
Englishmen In Kansas.288 
Entomologist of N. Y. State Ag. 
8oc. 352 
Equal before the law.288 
Eugenie as regent.52 
Eureka concerto organ.,...304 
European salmon eggs for 
American waters. 32 
Evil of impatience.256 
Exhibitors at the Vienna Ex¬ 
position, to...... 128 
Ex-emperor Napoleon.36 
Ex-king ol Spain.211 
Faille, Thomas Hall. 96 
Failure of the Arctic expedi¬ 
tion. 324 
Farmers and grooery bills.......336 
— combine...114 
— conventions and railroads.. 96 
— freights and commissions.. .224 
— in the Minnesota legisla¬ 
ture.96 
— saving by purchasing agents. 112 
— state conventions.2SS 
Farm house design....16 
Fate of manufactures in Illi¬ 
nois. 336 
File and preserve all business 
pa piers.400 
Fine chromes.30-1 
Five hundred dollars better off 
for reading the Rural.359 
Floggings of criminals in En¬ 
gland.164 
Flowing spring poultry foun¬ 
tain. 224 
Flying machines. 64 
B’oster easo, the.... .196 
Four hundred acre sugar beet 
field.25f 
Franking privilege.. 84 
Free trade In land...336 
F. R. Elliott's untruthful state¬ 
ments....,. ..—..320 
French and the death of Napo¬ 
leon.52 
French's patent cultivator.2S8 
Fruits of advertising.304 
Garden snails..400 
Garrison’s autobiography.228 
Gen. Butler and the seed law.. 16 
Gen. Garfield and farmers.4t*0 
Geneva award in the British 
Parliament..,.164 
Geo. Francis Train insane.196 
German losses, the..196 
Get books on specialties.288 
Giving away shade trees.20S 
Good boohs for rurallsts.128 
Good words for the Rural.208 
Going a Maying.288 
Governmoni seed store.48 
Grain in Chicago. .272 
— movements the piut year... 80 
— trade in England.384 
Grand duke Alexis.100 
Granges of Patrons of Hus¬ 
bandry ..400 
Great Britlan vs. United States.3l)8 
— storm...20 
Greeley, printers’statue of.48 
Gross cruelty to a horse.352 
Gypsum unulyses. 240 
Hadn’t made up his mind.176 
Have a specialty.176 
Hearty appreciation Of the Ru¬ 
ral. 16 
Helping elect senators.68 
Hexamer, Dr. F. M.80 
Hints for the season.400 
Home manufactures for farm¬ 
ers. ..256 
— markets.208 
Honeybees by mail.384 
Hop biisiuess.320 
— culture the present season .144 
— market.368 
— prospects.272, 400 
— roots.301 
— — death Of.240 
Hops from abroad. 80 
Horse epizootic came from, 
whoro...- -208 
— trots at agricultural fairs.... 48 
Howard, death of Caroline A... 48 
How the farmeraof Iowa do....400 
— agents cun help us.48 
— people afford it. 32 
— the Rural saves money.352 
— to circulate the Rural.302 
— work Is done ut Vienna.308 
“ 1 don’t want none of ycr pa- 
pen/’..192 
If you don’t like it., don’t take it.240 
Illinois Industrial University..224 
Importing horses from Canada.25C 
— largely. 64 
Imports and exports.384 
Independent farmers.192 
Indian troubles..... 292 
Indiana State Board of Ag......!28 
Industrial books received. .....176 
Insanity among farmers....112 
Interesting to Inventors.32 
International boot - making 
match. 208 
Inter-state Industrial Exhibi¬ 
tion at Chicago.240 
Introducing Improved stock In 
Canada.368 
Iowa Ag. College. 80 
It depends upon whose ox Is 
gored. 352 
Japan College of Engineers_320 
Japanese chronology.. 08 
Kansas senutorsliip.100 
King and queen of Sandwich 
Islands. 100 
Labor revolution.330 
Life subscriber. . 10 
Look out tor nmnougs....112 
Lotteries and State fairs. 64 
Lottery t ickets. 128 
Lon riiina election. 148 
— senators, the two.08 
— trouble....,.104 
— wrangle.......100 
Low prices In Iowa.240 
Lunar farming.852 
Man tn the M loeene period... .250 
Manufactures and,agriculture..272 
Market Taira.272 
— — ill Kansas.400 
Massachusetts Ag. College.. • • -304 
Maury, death of Commander... 96 
Mechanics ut Cornell I nivorsl- 
ty.176 
M edtum for advertising. 80 
Mexican frontier. 292 
Michigan State Ag. College.304 
Microscopes and barometers...224 
Migration of English farmers to 
America.40(1 
Mill, late John fjtuart.400 
Milk and cream revival in New 
York......S68 
— tubes and teat, openers.384 
Mill, death of John Stuart... ...324 
Mississippi"’* views........ ...208 
Missouri stool: law.301 
More testimony.12S 
Mutual Life Insurance Co.112 
Narrow gauge railroad for farm¬ 
ers . 04 
National Agricultural Congress 
256, 336,868, 884 
— Cheap Transportat'n Ass'n.820 
— Exhibition of short-horns. .240 
— railway exclusively for 
freight... 144 
— Workingmen’s University..256 
Natural Bridge of Virginia in 
danger. ........228 
Nepotism in the Department of 
Ag. 48 
New Ag. College bill. 96 
— dress, delay In. 16 
— England Farmers’ Club.208 
— — tobacco growers and mid¬ 
dlemen....240 
— Jersey commissioners to Vi¬ 
enna.384 
— postal law...256 
— society suggested.304 
— way of breaking up gamb¬ 
ling.....100 
— way of distributing seed_381 
— York State Ag. Soc. 48 
— — Commissioner of Fisher¬ 
ies.48 
— — Farmers' Club.80, 208 
— life insurance.160 
— — State Dairymen’s Ass'n.. 48 
— — Stale Editorial Ass’n.384 
— — usury law..292 
— — without a State Entomol¬ 
ogist.,,..192 
No class monopolizes honesty. .352 
Northern Pacific R. R. gold 
loan.352 
Notable southern men.384 
Officers accepting free passes.. .128 
Oh I how mad he was.400 
Oh! If .368 
Ohio Agricultural College.48 
— —Convention. 16 
— change of weight of grain.. .304 
Our European letter....208 
— premium engraving.170,304 
— — sent promptly...32 
Oyster, an artificial...224 
Paris Chamber of Commerce 
for manure...804 
Parsons, S. B.138 
Passports for those going 
abroad.400 
Patrons of Husbandry and wo¬ 
men. 80 
— -in Maine.. 48 
Peace making gun.240 
Peaches In Indiana..—192 
Pennsylvania Ag. College. 301 
Petlengetl’s advertis rg agency.368 
Philadelphia Centennial...384 
Pbln, Prof. John. 80 
Political demagogues.288 
Postage on seeds and plants—240 
— — transient papers......256 
— stamps for Government of¬ 
ficers . 292 
Postal cars.336 I 
— cards.....292 
— telegraphy...20 
Post-office department, instruc¬ 
tions. . 192 
Pound of butter from a pint of 
milk...240 
President Grant’s horses.368 
Prices of farm lands.. .,.,......256 
Pride In one's vocation.368 
, Prize to offer farmers.128 
Prize* at county fairs.128 
Producers' nnd Consumers’ 
Convention.304 
Prohibiting watering milk.20S 
Quin, P. T.80 
Railroads, a war against.224 
Rates of postage. 68 
Raw sugar full of atari sac- 
ehuri.144 
Rend nnd circulate...208 
Recent railway disasters.292 
Relative nut rition of beans and 
peas. .144 
Remarkntilc coincidence........ 84 
Rotten fruit from Mississippi. .400 
Rural brevities..10. 32. 48. 64, 112. 
144,160, 176,192. 203, 224, 240, 
250. 272, 304, 320. 336. 352. 30V 
348, 384 ,'400 
— hooks for Japan...952 
— club of New York... .64, ICO, 352 
— Club's second anniversary 
dinner...,..,.,. 112 
— for 1873. 112 
Indispensable.368 
pays its subscribers. 48 
Sail picture. 80 
Salt cake In bone dust.352 
Sandwich Islands. 30 
— — farming.256 
Scientists vs. pract i 'itl men.272 
Secretary Houtwe'l has re¬ 
signed. ............ .132 
— of American Pomo]ogicnl 
Soc. 38* 
— — the Maine State Hoard of 
Agriculture.224 
Selling grass seed in Maine.336 
Send for seed and other cata¬ 
logues. 144 
Sending dressed beef from the 
west.—112 
Shall 1 go Into sheep.128 
— we go wort,.352 
Sheep shears, patent.192 
Sildny’s donation to Cornell 
University..400 
Situation in the west.352 
Smith, J, Hcnly.128 
Soil eultiivlsts. spring campaign.224 
Something that is true. 48 
— to sell.208 
— we sa w the other day.288 
Something’s the matter.240 
Spain a republic.132 
— Culm and the United States. 52 
Spanish steamer Mlrello.100 
Special scientific studies for 
women. .400 
Speech from the British throne.116 
Spoiling a match..— 64 
Spritig business among seeds¬ 
men...112 
Stagnation in the hop trade.160 
Stamp tax on medicines.144 
State conundrums.288 
— election biennial,. 86 
— Entomologist of Missouri’s 
report... 336 
Steam pi ow ing abroad. —......336 
— plows..112 
— reaper and mower....,.192 
Stokes, the murderer, Edward 
S...,...8, 36 
— trial. 20 
Strike among Ohio coal miners. 110 
— but hear.112 
Strikes, about.224 
Study the homo market. KO 
Sugar plantations In Louisiana.256 
Tax on cats.. ,.,.304 
— — raw cotton.64 , 400 
Tea in Iowa...,... 48 
Terrible accident at Dixon. 111.303 
Thanks and a reference.....32 
The country safe.104 
— New Year. 1873. 16 
Things in North Carolina.272 
Threatening the judiciary.292 
To a young farmer...32 
Too many farmers..64 
— good. 96 
— much advertising........112 
Torrey. Prof. John.172 
Transportation of fruits. 48 
Tree of debt.352 
Trees on western plains.80 
True principle in marketingpro- 
duce.SO 
Truth about the Vienna Expo- ’ 
sit Ion. .224 
Tucker, death of Luther.SO 
— the late Luther,.96 
Tunnel under Detroit river —192 
Tweed; disagreement of the 
"7 jury.100 
Use of commercial fertilizers. ..304 
Utah in ferment.132 
Vienna and the Exposition.352 
— Exposition.20. 272, 308 
-bill....64 
— — scandal.368 
Warder, Dr. John A. .224 
Washington Agricultural Con¬ 
vention of 1873.304 
Western horses for the east—272 
What, will you leave behind.128 
Wisconsin geological survey—830 
Wise action of California farm-* 3 
ES "or* ....304 
When to sell wheat.192 
Why are taxes so high.9C 
Woolen mills exempt from '' 
taxation in Georgia.128 
Women In the Granges. 272 
— should attend agricultural 
meetings.. 32 
Work of the Flsli Commission¬ 
ers.384 
— -Joint Commission.. 84 
ENTOMOLOGICAL. 
Acnvlna or mites.316 
Alaus melnniips. 221 
— ocnlatns... .221 
Amblyrh 11a eylhidriforints.156 
A mphicerus bienudatns.172 
Ant’s nests in Gardens.172 
Apple twig borers..172 
Ashes for wire-worms.... .. .316 
Attncus ceeropee...172 
— pnlyphermis...,....172 
Beetle, a large spring.221 
Beetles, how to mount small. ..382 
Black grub... .286 
Bos tr i cli us serrl oolll s.172 
— trunciitoollls....172 
Cabbage lice...398 
Canker worms and trees.286 
— destroying.108 
Cccropia moth.172 
Cut.worms to guard against—108 
“Daddy Long-legs" attacking 
lawns.280 
Greenish mealy louse.172 
rnseet eggs from New Mexico..156 
Inserts at fairs.l. r 6 
— destroying peaches.382 
— In rustle work. 62 
— look out for.....316 
— on cabbages.172 
K«ty-dld eggs.398 
New Vork State entomologist. .300 
— — without a State entomol¬ 
ogist.289 
Passalus cornatus.156 
Pea weevil. 398 
Potato beetle in Ohio,Colorado 286 
— — harrowing.286 
State entomologists and such..334 
Tobacco worm, enemy of.2SG 
Wire worm remedy.108 
— worms and ashes........316 
— -1,1 ipa beans......172 
Woman's gossip about bugs... .300 
Worms in grapes.221 
Works on entomology.382 
FARM ECONOMY. 
Apple pom see for manure. 45 
Ashes to potatoes, applying....234 
Bob-sleds with coupling.27 
Bringing up an old farm.. 320 
Buckwheat, enriching with_202 
Canada thistles.Ji9( 
— — to destroy.362 
Cellar, wants to know how to 
build an outside.394 
Charcoal a good farm medicine. 62 
Cisterns.jllters for.362 
City wastes, value of.123 
Coal ashes for sandy soil.75 
Cold chisels... 62 
Corn, artificial manures for.234 
— and oats for manure, rotted 123 
— cob moxl for stock.27, 75 
— husking. ..234 
Drain ur.der walk.330 
Early pasturing.302 
Exhausted lund. how to bring 
up the fertility of.394 
Fence posts, replenishing.4,, 
— — setting.330 
— — to preserve.123 
Filter., for cisterns.362 
Gn im, analysis of.170 
— us sold In New York.90,122 
Grain drill, essentials in a. 75 
Hogs, how to hang.234 
H orsu urine.-. .330 
Irrigation...158 
Lime and salt..202, 282 
Liquid excrement...158 
Manure for corn, artificial.202 
Man ures, treatuient of,,...394 
Meadows, close mowing.330 
Milkweed..330 
Mixed husbandry South.330 
Muck patch.... 170 
Nitrate of potash in 100 lbs. of 
tobacco .202 
Peruvian guano. .330 
Plast er deteriorate by age. does 330 
— on beech and maple lands..282 
— sowing......,.*.,..282 
— the ii Be of....330 
Plow, Michigan double. 45 
Plowing deep vs. shallow.362 
— without dead-furrows.378 
Plows, Collins & Co.’s steel.123 
Plows, polishing.123 
Potash for dissolving bones_202 
Rond making.378 
Roller and harrow wanted.237 
Salt as a fertilizer.394 
Sawdust for stables.2S2 
Sen fowl guano.330 
Shingles, durability of.362 
Shoals In a barn cellar. 75 
Sugar making in Vermont.122 
Superphosphate of lime.170 
—-durability of.302 
System In farming..302 
Timber, sawing. 45 
Tobacco stalks for manure.330 
Trench plowing prairie.362 
Urine from a cow.170 
Washes, slopping.234 
Watering trough... 75 
Wheat shorts as a fertilizer—282 
When to subsoil....,.330 
Wool waste for grass lands.330 
FARM IMPLEMENTS. 
Binding attachment to reapers. 170 
Bob-sleds,coupling. 92 
— — with coupling. 92 
Cream still.250 
Garden scarifier...217 
Harrow, extra good.250 
— Thomas'..317 
Hay carrier. Louden.158 
Horse hoc. Victor. 170 
- power and thresher, Hard-'® 
nr’s... ...346 
— powers, advance in price....158 
Lawn mower, how to Stake care 
of a.....250 
Plow, Scotch steam.260 
Plowing by stenm..... 27 
Plows. Collins & Co.’s steel.170 
— Reversible.3S2 
Rights of purchasers of patent¬ 
ed articles...346 
Raws. Boynton’s lightning.170 
Swivel plow on farms.346 
FIELD CROPS. 
Potatoes, Late Bose.269 
— fertilizer for. 26 
— for market.218 
— for seed. 394 
— from a peck, sixty bushels of.299 
— in drills or hills.282, 314 
— in New Jersey.,,,,.170 
— in St. Lawrence Co,, N. Y.. ..106 
— keeping quality of.314 
— Late Rose*....,....... 26,90,218 
— sweet... 43 
— to plant, size of.250 
— turnips, &c. 58 
— under straw, planting.122 
salt for wheat.202 
Seeding, thin.283 
Seeds, natural dIsseminatlon of.394 
Soiling crops lit Boucon Kami.. 5S 
Sorrel farm.122 
Sugar cane, amber.282 
Tobacco culture.250 
— —guano In. .. 106 
— plants, preparing land for.. .122 
Trenching prairie for corn. 11 
Turnips and wheat... 58 
Wheat and oats together, sow¬ 
ing.346 
— and turnips...58 
— Eureka...202 
— fields, harrowing.170 
— French winter.186 
— Fultz winter...186 
— harrowing.. .218, 250, 299 
— in Neosho Co., Kan., spring.202 
— mulching Winter. 43 
— Odessa.202,282 
— Oran early spring.202 
— Pride of Butte.202 
— producing winter.106 
— Red Osaka.202 
— salt for.202 
— Scottish April.186 
— sowing ashes on. 43 
— vitality of. .106 
— white Michigan.186 
Alfalfa in California.282 
— not 11 grass. 202 
Beet sugar industry.863 
Beets, how 1 r, gTow sugar. 43 
Broom corn experiments.26 
Buckwheat, silver h 11 11.106,170, 186 
Carrots, how to grow.138 
Chufas for sheep pasture!! 
south.346 
Clover. Alslke...1*1,186,234 
experiments with Alslke.... 78 
— seed per acre...346 
— when sown.. .....202 
Corn and cut worms.234 
— Cooley.58,136,202 
— Egyptian Joint pop.202 
experiments, broom.26 
— fertilizer for. 26 
— fodder, storing. 78 
— for stock feeding.346 
— lien manure for.....186 
— in Illinois. 330 
— in Virginia, drilling.,,..250 
— Judson’s and Cooley’s..129 
— orange dent..... 202 
— replanting,,..».394 
— sowing.234,330 
— to keep crows from pulling.. 58 
— white Australian.106 
Cotton, ashes for.314 
Cutworms nnd corn.234 
Fiber plant, new.186 
Fibrous plant...314 
Grass, Bermuda.314 
— for an orchard.. . 202 
— Hungarian.250, 362 
— orchard.90.394 
— seeds for small lawn..282 
— seed on old meadows, sow 
ing....,....170 
Guano in tobacco culture.106 
Hop culture. -346 
— — prospects....,. 202 
— growing in Canada.26 
— — profits of.234 
— planting.170 
— roots in Wisconsin..314 
Hops, about. 250 
— English cluster.,,.394 
II u n ga r i a 11 grass.362 
Lucerne.299, 231 
— In Oneida Co., N. Y.282 
— mode of feeding.299 
— product per acre.299 
— quantity of seed per acre. ...299 
— suitable soils for.299 
Oats, animated. 78 
Parsnip culture....202 
Peanut culture. 78 
— — in Ohio.202 
Peas. Japan...26 
Plaster In tobacco, supplying.. .394 
Potato, Campbell’s Late Rose.. 
78,170, 234 
— Compton’s Surprise. 269 
— disease—preventive.... 202 
— experiments at Cornell Uni¬ 
versity..,.154 
— Extra Early Vermont.299 
— In Minnesota, Campbell’s 
Late Rose..314 
— Peerless... 43 
— Red Rock.,.394 
— sprouts before planting, re¬ 
moving.346 
— vines for stock, sweet. 100 
Potatoes, applying ashes to.186 
— Campbell’s J,ate Rose...138 
— changing seed.106 
— digging.... 58 
— exempt from disease. Eng¬ 
lish........ .106 
— exhausting soil.. 282 
FLORICULTURAL. 
Annuals, choice collection of. .174 
— our. . 61 
Antirrhinum.,.174 
Asters...........174 
Balsam......174 
Begonias and fuchsias.29 
Blue mountain tea. 61 
Bouquet for button-hole..'SOI 
— holder, basket.268 
Bulbs, long rest of.29 
Cacti, two.285 
Cactus, hot water for. 93 
Camellia, sporting.220 
Camellias. Importing Japan.61 
Candytuft. 174 
Carnations dlseuwed.188 
Ceuta urea ciimenti.316 
Oeplmlotns follicularls.....397 
Climber, a now conservatory... 13 
Colors on plunt life....188 
Conservatory climbers. 13 
Coral plant...2.1 
Crocuses of varied color.316 
Cypress vine.285 
Dahlias from seed.142 
— how to grow.25. 
Davallea Moor eon a.188 
Kcbinopsls valldn.285 
Erysimum.Cl 
Fall preparation for Bpring 
flowers ..252 
Fern case.361 
Flower for coat........348 
— of Eden.140 
— seeds for beginners.13 
— — from the catalogues, se¬ 
lection.....73 
— — hardiness of.361 
Flowers at the Vienna exposi¬ 
tion.. ..397 
— changing color of.361 
— for the button holes.348 
— in alcohol, preserving.140 
— — parks.......................252 
— saving. 93 
— talk about. ..140 
— too many. 233 
— to preserve cut,. ......233 
Fuchsias and begonias.29 
Geranium Jewell, new double. .268 
Geraniums, hybridizing.233 
— improving.61 
— seedling. ..285 
Gosnoria zebrina.93 
Giving away flowers.411 
Graphalium lanatura variega¬ 
te m.M0 
Greenhouses, shading for.220 
Hanging baskets.....268 
Hot w ater for cactus.93 
House plants wanted.220 
Hyacinths a second season.411 
— in glasses, support for.220 
— — water. 13 
— what alls the.188 
Japan pinks.174 
Ludy correspondents. .233 
Leaves for bouquets, ornamen¬ 
tal.140 
Lilinm auratiitti and house flies.316 
Lily, a black. 220 
— calla. 125 
— from Japan, a prolific. 13 
— of the valley, non-blooming, 283 
— White Mountain.188 
Lilies from seed, pond.153 
— Japan ..285 
Madeira vines.285 
Mum miliaria elepllentitles.285 
Mannre for plants.29 
Mamma veitebii . 93 
[ Meomordica vine.... 61 
| Mimic house and grounds.208 
Morning glory, double white... 61 
Muclna Prurelus... 73 
Nepenthes.....125 
