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APIARIAN 
Pears, a freak among.316 
Pino forest In Switzerland.361 
Plum treos, coal ashes about. ...411 
Pruning a necessary evil.60 
— fruit trees. 25 
— in summer, torch.201 
Richmond cherry on ! Morel Iq 
stocks.,..,,.76 
Sassafras tree, a large.200 
Stealing timber from UncloSam.269 
Tamaracks, transplanting.125 
Tea culture in Georgia.411 
Transfer of disease from cion to 
stock.. . 7(1 
Transplanting much mu.172 
Tree moa-uror, self adjusting.. 76 
— planting in Michigan,streot.30l 
Trees as htstorlansof the past. ,361 
— grafting weeping.236 
— in grass.221 
— — Japan, dwarfing. 45 
— grow, how.221 
— management of orchard.201 
— poisoned with gne., 25 
— transplanting.361 
— unfruitful vs. fruitful apple.201 
Weeping willow . 45 
White pine, mountain.316 
— thorn In Northwestern Iowa 60 
Yew poisonous.230 
Dairy notes on Colorado.171, 
219. 251, 267 
— -Utah.....299 
— products at the Central Now 
York fair.315 
— soilB, an old notion concern¬ 
ing. ...171 
Dairying in Illinois.*17 
Scotland and New York 
compared. ..123 
Utah, co-operative. .209 
Dairymen, convention of Ver¬ 
mont.363 
Duirymon's Ass'n, transactions 
of the Vermont.107 
Dipping the curds. 235 
Disease contracted from un¬ 
healthy milk. 27 
Drawing She whey. 236 
Exploits with cattle thieves.267 
F’laky rinds. V 
Goo. F. Packard’s farm. 210 
— Yates’farm.219 
Gominelost.. ., so 
Grass and dairy lands of Colo¬ 
rado.267 
Hay, yield of.219 
How the curd saved over affects 
the cheese. .235 
Influence of food on milch stock 91 
Irrigated pastures. ....219 
Irrigating gram crops.210 
— waters In Utah, how regu¬ 
lated—..290 
Irrigation in Colorado.219 
Jewett pans. 75 
Leaks in the dairy. .379 
Milch stock, Influence of food on 91 
Milk and curds, manipulating, ..139 
— appreciated. 395 
— detecting watered. ... 13 
— for transport, management 
of.43, 208 
— in Texas, marketing.136 
— making good. 283 
— of diseased cows.379 
— once a day, delivering.235 
— poisons.107 
— F skimming. ..“.139 
— vegetable. 91 
— working bnd. v .331 
Milking, about.379 
Mr. Everett's place.219 
— Rand’s farm. 219 
N. Y. Dairymen’s Ass’n.331 
Nutritive value of native grass¬ 
es .171 
Parks of Colorado.26C 
Pasturage per cow.219 
People of Colorado and their 
tastes. 219 
Pultkase. .. 50 
Rains in Colorado. . .251 
Reclamation of alkali lands.299 
Red-top, curious facts about....171 
8 age brush.... 231 
Sheep, wintering... ,.219 
Steamer for cooking cow fndder.347 
Utilizing water on grass lands. .351 
Water, its purity, convenience, 
uses and abuses In Lhe 
dairy.395 
Wheat lands without rest. ......319 
Wintering stock in Colorado....219 
Work on dairying.315 
At St. Louis. 91 
— Staunton, Va. 94 
— White Sulphur Springs.94 
Bark lice from Minnesota. 14 
Barrier to progress...125 
Beetles from Northern N. Y.... 62 
Bergen Park......156 
Bolling potatoes and beans.156 
Boulder City, Col.187 
Breakfast at Grand Island.22* 
Bridge gone.. . .174 
Cabbage butterfly...318 
Camping out,...,..142 
Canadian beetle hunter.238 
Caterpillar from Georgia.25i 
Cheyenne Canon...142 
— Wyoming Territory .187 
Choice, tender plants, a few.370 
Chrysalis on a grape.270 
Climbing the mountains.158 
Coleus chameleon.270 
Colorado flour......366 
Cuttings, exchanging. .382 
Daphne Indica odorata.398 
Davenport to Chicago.222 
Deep vs. shallow culture.142 
Denniston, Texas.110 
Denver, at.125 
returning to.187 
to Colorado Springs. ..142 
Dos Moines Valley.. .222 
Dinastes tetyrus. 91 
Dinner at a mountain hotel.174 
— In Indian Ter.110 
Dobson Is, what. 30 
Do fish bear ?.318 
Drying ofT bulbs ahd tabors.302 
Entomology a disgusting study.398 
Evanston, .. 187 
Fighting grasshoppers....187 
First buffalo. ...... 125 
— night camping out.158 
Flowers and insects.110 
Gardens on tho plains .125 
Giant water bug. 350 
Golden city,.!, drive to.123 
Gooseberries, mildew on.30 
Grape vine pests. 14 
Grapbalium lanatum.270 
Grey’s Peak, ascending.158 
Great memory, a.350 
Greeley, Col.187 
Hard ttines.334 
Harper’s Ferry. 94 
Health of the excursionists_110 
Hickory leaf galls.270 
Honesty of farmers and garden¬ 
ers.. 78 
Hummingbird moth.286 
Huntington, West Va. 9i 
Ichnemnou fly, a large.286 
Idaho springs......153 
Idlers in the streets.302 
Indian territory by daylight....110 
— -night.110 
Katydid eggs.270 
Lectures around the camp fire..174 
Little Boulder Canon.174 
Looking over one’s treasures. ..238 
Manltou, at.142 
Maple aphis....,.318 
Mignonette in houses.238 
More Insects for names. ....318 
Mormon welcome.1S7 
Mountain thunder storm.125 
Naturalist’s catalogues.46 
Nebraska, through.322 
Novel descent.158, 206 
Off on an excursion. 78 
— to the mountains. 112 
Omaha, at.222 
On the move....04 
Ornamental shrubs.3S2 
Pelargonium, Jean Sisley.270 
Photograph, a.142 
Pleasant nights for sleeping....142 
Prairie camp... 187 
Preparing for spring planting...386 
— the garden for winter.254 
Professional beggars. 14 
Raspberries, choice. 46 
Reception at Ivan nan City.110 
Retiring from business.,.333 
Ride on a cow catcher.110 
— over the plains........222 
Royal-horned caterpillar.238 
Saddlo-back caterpillar.238 
St. Louis to Dallas, Tex.110 
Seedling society. .398 
Seven kinds of cake. .366 
Sight*,vjeiog about Salt Lake 
City.206 
Sketches of oharacter.94 
Stage ride. 94 
Statuary and mountain shower.142 
Stealing timber from Uncle 
Satu. 302 
Sweeping for Insects..110 
Tea as grown In tho South.62 
Tent-worms. U 
Timber In Kansas......HO 
Tin cans add 4 >apor collars.108 
Titled gentlemen.94 
Toll gate.158 
Torpedoes. 94 
Town without Inhabitants.158 
TrtOxnplin and Mdmo. Lomoine.270 
Trouble with house plants.350 
Tuberoses, potting.238 
Utah, among tho farmers of. ...206 
Ute Pass, visit to.143 
Variety wedding.366 
Visiting tho reduction works... 174 
Walking sticks, a pair of.251 
Want of forest trees.222 
Watering plants in time of 
drouth. 30 
Wheat, Illinois crop.no 
Work in the garden.331 
Young men at tho front.94 
Yuccas as ornamental plants..,. 62 
Cake, gold and silver. 79 
— johnny.30S 
— loaf. 31 
— quickly made fruit.239 
— railroad. 255 
— Toast.159 
Cakes, buckwheat pan.319 
— excellent drop..... 17 
— fried .. 367 
— griddle... 351 
— molasses.Ill 
— nice griddle.207 
— yeast. . 
Can wo afford it .335 
Carpet question.17,159 
— to cloanse a. 47 
Carpets, washing rag.399 
— swooping..399 
Cauliflowers pickled.175 
— to cook. 79 
Cherries, canning and preserv¬ 
ing... 95 
— pickling. . 95 
Chestnuts, best way of roasting.175 
Chowder . 79 , 339 
Cltroil preserves. 255 
Cloth, making water-proof.159 
Coddled apples...281 
Coffee, substitute for.Ill 
Cookies.. ...Ill 
— creum.159 
— good,... 95 
— soft ginger.-.351 
— sugar. 47 
Cooking dried green corn.ill 
Corn, canning green.303 
— drying and cooking sweet... 63 
Cotton ulotb, to bleach.159 
Cousin Carrie’s advice asked....305 
Crullers..4T 
Cucumber salad.. 95 
— vinegar.175 
— to pickle.63, 111 
Currants. 95 
Dinner-table decorations_63, 
239, 287 
Domestic inquiries. 17 
Doughnuts.367 
Dress for farmers' wives... .319, 335 
Eggs, baked. 47 
— packing..Ill 
Faculty in the kitchen.255 
Faultfinding. 79 
Ffgs,drying.... 47 
Kish, baked rock..Ill 
Floating island. 15 
Flowors on the tablo.239 
F’reckles, lotion for.303 
Fritters, green pea...Ill 
Fruit, canned. 223 
— for canning.63 
— on the table.230 
— to pickle. 255 
Ginger snaps.265,303, 351 
Gherkins, to pickle.Ill 
Glycerine hair wash.191 
— plaster. 223 
Grease spots, removing.175 
Gum arable,to keep. ..399 
Hair coming out, to prevent_309 
Hama, to keep...47 
Hickory bark for coloring.207 
Home atmosphere.399 
Honey, keening.143 
Horse radish in pickle. 309 
Housekeeping, in regard to.31 
How they do things...367 
lued fruits. 47 
Jacket of mull....,. 95 
Jelly, apple.. . ..271 
— raspberry,.,.,...31 
Jumbles, soft...255 
Lard, refining. 411 
Lettuce Salad.191 
Meat, recipe for curing.255 
Agassiz and honey bees. 
Bee hive, an unpatented. 
- keepers, a western girl 
among. : 
— robbers, remedy.: 
sting, remedy....Ill,; 
Bees, Agassiz and.... 
— clipping the wings of. 
— and toads...... 
— feeding... 
— indoor wintering. 
injure fruit? do.143, 
instincts of honoy. 
— Italians the handsomest_ 
— queen... 
— salt water for. 
— water for. 
— wintering... 
— — in a clamp... 
Books for beginners in bee keep- 
• ing,. 
Celebrated health restorer. 
Combi bow to All empty. 
Combs straight, building. 
Hive, the Qutnby.. 
Hives, straw.. 
Hooey boxes, capacity of. 
what is.... 
Italian queens..... 
Kingbirds destroy bees. 
Sail wuter for bees. 
Jipiders and bees. 
Swarming nod liiviug... 
Toads and bees...,,,.... 
Tuppor, the bee culturist, Mrs. 
Ellen S........ 
Winter food for bees. 
DAIRY HUSBANDRY 
Americans as butter eaters.219 
Breeds of cattle for Colorado 
dairymen.267 
Butter, a talk about.155 
— coloring.......123 
— consumption of Colorado... .219 
— dairies most needed.219 
— dairying in Colorado.171 
— factories in Colorado.267 
— milkers, Chautauqua Co., 
N. Y.395 
— making, practical.139 
— new devices lor making.123 
— -for packing...123 
— productof Colorado in 1870..219 
— report.395 
— to keep cool.156 
— washing.251 
Cattlo by the mile. .267 
— price of.— .251 
Cheese and butter, effects of 
sour wliey upon.75 
— arc introduced, how f oreign 
varieties of.59 
— Cheddar and Sttlten.155 
— dairy In Colorado.267 
— fair. Canadian.....203 
— from old and new milk, mak¬ 
ing. 11 
— making, questions answered 11 
— range nud turner again.186 
— The first heating.235 
Churns and quick churning.283 
Clinton Co. dairying.235 
Colorado butter dairy., .251 
— climate.171 
— grasses...171 
— sol!. 171 
— topographical features of. ..171 
Cow, a remarkable.203 
— two acres to the.210 
Cows,renting.... ..251 
— The keep of.219 
Creamery, three years ill a.155 
Crops in Utah an dt.heir average 
yield. ....299 
— of Colorado.219 
Curd, cutting.235 
Dairy matters in Northern Ver¬ 
mont.283 
— middlemen.363 
— notes. 363 
ARBORICULTURE 
.F.sculus hippocastanum.201 
Ailatithus, perfume of.239 
Apple pomace.380 
— trees, budding. 60,316 
— — injured.316 
— — to make fruit stay on.25 
— — unfruitful.172 
— -vs. fruitful...,....201 
Arauicaria imbrieata.25 
Ash marched.221 
Barren flg trees.269 
Boxwood.201 
Bromo chloralum on irutt trees 93 
Buckeye (-Esc ulus pa via).25 
Burr oak for live fence posts... 45 
Cabob tree, or Algaroba bean... 45 
Cycas Clremalis...393 
Fall vs. spring pruning—.316 
Fig trees, barren.45 
Fruit trees in fall, manuring....239 
— — pruning... 25 
F"ruits, planting stone.201 
Hedge, osage orange.201 
Hedges, osage orange.125 
— and grass. 60 
— native thorns for.173 
— treatment, of young.125 
I lonoy locust for live fence posts 93 
Horse chestnut, origin of the 
name of.201 
Japanese conifer. 361 
Library of woods.361 
Manuring fruit trees In the fall.239 
Orchard, a good showing.. ..316 
Orchards, pasturing. 76 
Osage hedge, killing.380 
Ozone from plauts.386 
Palm areca.201 
Peach trees, budding two-year- 
old. 45 
Pear blight.284,301 
— — remedy.361 
— culture...............348 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY 
Ants, to exterminate.159 
— -largo.271 
Apple-butter. 175 
Artichokes, fried groen.271 
— iced green.......271 
With white sauce, green.271 
Bathing costumes. 17 
Bean porridge.287 
Beans in Maine, how they cook. 95 
Beautifying homes.’.. 15 
Beef salting.3S3 
Boer cream .175 
— ginger. .143 
— home-made.143 
— Ottawa. 175 
Blackberry cordial.175, 2*3 
— wine.223 
— — and brandy. -17 
Blackberries. 95 
Black, to color.150 
Blanc mange...Ill 
Borax and despising blankets. .27) 
Bread, exceUent brown.207 
— of brown or graham flour.. .255 
— salt.anil milk rising.207 
— — rising. 79 , say 
— to make rye.256. 
Buckwheat cakes.287, 399, 4JI 
Butter, gilt-edged.31 
Cabbage, stuffed.... . ©7 
Cake, a good loaf.47 
— clove.205 
— cream cup. 367 
— delicate.336 
— hard times molusseB..,.,.,,,255 
DIARY OF A RURALIST 
Among the Mormons. 
— silver mines.. 
Answers to correspondents. 
Arkansas Valley. 
Asparagus beds, exhausting 
At home..,..,.. 
