MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Meat, to pickle.287 
Meat 4 , cooking...........808 
-- curing and preserving... ....367 
Mildew, troubled with...........ISO 
Mint chow-chow for roast lamb.271 
Mold in ink, pro venting......... 191 
— stains from books, to re¬ 
move......271 
Mrs. Hrownc's recipe*......287 
Mushrooms, how to cook.271 
how to distinguish edible,..223 
Mustard, Fronrh.,.H3 
Muclllago of gum arable....271 
Needle cushion...,.Ill 
uk«t. . 63 
Night clothes, about. 20 T 
ottawabeer....176 
Paste for a scrap-book.399 
Paper holders and bracket*....169 
Parsnip stew. Ill 
Paste that will stick.175 
Peaches, a new way to serve.... 96 
howto treat.... ....Ill 
I'cMi cooking......Ill 
Pickled flannels. 47 
Tickle, mixed...Ill 
Pickles, cucumber........175 
Pickling of meat, rapid.271 
Picture frames. 03 
Plums. 96 
— without skins, to preserve.. 
111,223 
Polish on furniture ......303 
Potato soup.......411 
Potatoes, warming cold boiled.Ill 
Preserves, melon.175 
— vs. canned fruit.....169 
Prickly pear to harden tallow,. 47 
Prunes a la russe.....176 
Pudding, green com....Ill 
rice. ..907 
Puddings, tomato...*.191 
Quinces, preserved....,,.263 
Hag carpets again.127 
— Aunt Lou and.143 
Kaspbcrrie*. their use.. 95 
Recipe for a good husband...... 31 
Koeipns from Mrs. llrowne.256 
Reply, to M.J. Smith.361 
Kings out of silk......271 
Rolls, recipe for.15,367 
Husk, to make good..............335 
Hast from clothing, how to re¬ 
move .Ill 
Sachets or scent bags.47 
Salad, a new...271 
Salmon cutlets with caper 
sauce.....159 
:->niicr krout, good.2ffl 
Sausage recipe. ...411 
Secret powder ..387 
Servants, In regard to.143 
Silver, to polish. 399 
Slumber roll with Venetian 
embroidery15 
Small fruits and the best way 
of using and preserving 
them. 95 
Snow-flake cream.287 
Soap, a useful...271 
— to make totlet.223 
Soft soap and vinegar for the 
hand -.355 
Soup, green pea....239 
Soups, wholesome........319 
Steaks and rousts fresh all win¬ 
ter, to preserve.255 
Suit for girl seven yenrs old....127 
Table sauce, a good. 271 
Tomato catsup.287 
— — how to make......265 
— chapter.....191 
— tigs, how to make......143 
— honey....191 
— puddings.J91 
— sauce....297 
Tomatoes, baked.191 
— for the table....143 I 
— pickled green..223 
— stowed. 191 
— stuffed.191 
Turkey, boned.383 
Vanilla beans.' **".399 
Veal carry. 287 
Vinegar, cucumber.175 
— cheap......271 
Visiting card stand.127 
Washing, a few words about...231) 
Wax for floors.271 
Whatnot, how to make a. 79 
Whortleberrlrs. 95 
Wine, blackberry..........223 
Work basket............111 
Yeast cake.159 
— good.207 
— hop../.143 
EDITORIAL. 
About facts... 80 
Advertising agents. 32 
Adulteration of bone dn*t.32 
Agricultural books...,384 
— college endowment bill.64 
— — plowgctlas,................ 64 
— colleges.128 
— schools failures.272 
A lady from the West. 64 
American beef cattle in Scot¬ 
land.192 
— Institute Farmers’ Club.4S 
-fair.272 
— jurors at the Vienna fair.... 32 
— Pomologieal Society.128,160,320 
— -officers.192 
— reapers and mowers at Vi¬ 
enna. 80 
— wheat in English markets...304 
Americans at Canada exhibi¬ 
tions.. . 320 
A new public conscience....... 368 
Arbitration again.320 
Arcb, Joseph.160, 224 
Article on Colorado.176 
Begin clubs at enee.251 
Beet root sugar crop of Europe.1U 
— syrup manufacture on 
farms.256 
— sugar in Wisconsin.304,368 
Be hopeful.320 
Betting on the price of cotton.. 64 
Board of ’Trustees of III. Indus. 
University-..-.288 
Brock. Joseph... 48 
Brighter prospect*.320 
Business organisation.362 
Cannot do without It..240 
Capitol Christmas story.384 
Catalogues, etc., received...32, 336 
Cuttle plague damages.04 
Cush and economy vs. credit... 96 
California silk-worm eggs and 
cocoon*.. ...336 
Centennial Hort. Society.208 
Cheap phrases. 32 
City v*. country...,...3(M 
Colton. Prof. H K.136 
Commissioner of Agriculture. 
another...208 
Complimentary tickets to fairs.176 
Combination of capital nnd co¬ 
operation among farmers.112 
Cornell University.32 
— — exhibits at Am. Jnst.Tftlr.301 
Cost of farm products,. ,288 
Counsellors for the granges.48.112 
Country vs. city. 80 
Cows, milking.96 
Cranberries from the Jersey 
swamps.336 
Credit In the South.352 
Hally Graphic balloon.240 
Danger abend... 32 
— to the farmers' movement . .224 
Dealers In adulterated guano..,728 
Department of agriculture.884 
Dignity of labor.240 
Diseased meat to market., send¬ 
ing.128 
Disgraceful to producer*.100 
Distribution of diplomas at Vi¬ 
enna.....304 
Dr. Moflosh on the reintion* of 
theState to education.128 
Drug* vs. fruit and bread.160 
Hating beef nt Vienna.. 04 
Economy of time and labor.96 
Editors as officers of granges.. .352 
— patrons of liuabnndry.. ..208 
Educating farmers to lend 
themselves.160 
Effect, of hard times.320 
Encouraging arbitration among 
farmers ....176 
Enemies of Chinese labor In 
California.144 
English laborer*. 64 
— lecturers.7...288 
— v*. American mutton.96 
European agriculture and sta¬ 
tistics.192 
Evergreen hedges at Spring- 
side . 16 
Ex-PreStdont Thiers’ table veg¬ 
etable* . ..80 
Factory butter In Canada. 48 
Fair of American Institute.M0 
Falls of Niagara.240 
Farm products, regulating the 
price of.301 
Farmers' declaration of Inde¬ 
pendence...61 
— gatherings...240 
— movement..144, UTS 
Farming don’t pay.272 
Fenn. George.....128 
Fertilizer gouging.. 32 
Fine penrs received.320 
Financial outlook.240 
Folding baby carriage...16 
French telegraphic inst rument.128 
Geo. Ayranlt’s farm nnd stock. 16 
Give men work -.228, 320 
Glenwood Institute.256 
Going too fast.320 
Good Investment. 96 
— security...32 
Go to the fairs......144 
Granges and politics.288 
— of patrons of husbandry in 
United State* and Canada.320 
Grape, Adirondack.256 
Grass culture. ..288 
Grasshoppers, to prevent the 
ravages of.... 16 
Greenhouse of artificial flowers. 32 
Greatest sale of Short-liorns on 
record.192 
Healthful ehnngo desired.80 
Helping English laborers to 
come hither.352 
Herd hooks. 16 
High priced horse.256 
Hog trade in the West.368 
Home industries. 384 
Hoosnc tunnel......128 
Hop crop...256 
— matters and prospects. 16 
— prospects.80, 96 
norse epizootic again.,,852 
— fovor a. 16 
How cattle are treated at Vi¬ 
enna..,.....—.......80 
— graded freights are to effect 
Western farmers. 32 
— the farmers of Illinois are 
doing... 96 
— things work...80 
— to keep boys al home.304 
— -selfish and ambitious 
men out of the granges....336 
Huntington, I,. I., mystery.212 
Illinois Industrial University... 
128,352 
—'' matters. 384 
Illustrated annual register of 
rural affairs...368 
Implements in the field.272 
Industrial news...........,....,,368 
Irrigation in Colorado.48 
Italian laborers.....368 
Jessamine for pipe stems...... .366 
.1. .T. Mechi on emigration to 
America. 48 
John, a Halifax Indian.272 
Joseph Arcb...304 
— — and the Castle Garden 
Labor Bureau.....320 
— Arch’s English laborer*.336 
— — mission.304 
Kansas Agricultural Col lege.96,112 
— politicians and granges. 54 
Kirby homestead..-.256 
Less hours’ labor on the farm..272 
Libelling Illinois farmers.192 
Life Insurance.336 
Live nnd let live. 80 
Local markets for farmer*.224 
Long-time friend of the Rural.240 
Love of agriculture.862 
Make notes...MU 
Management of I tisane asyl ums.128 
Manufactures in the West.224 
Maas, State Board of Ag.336 
Mathew Vassal '* Sprlngsldc... 16 
Medals of merit at Viennn.144 
Members’tickets at fairs. 96 
Mon from the trades on the 
farm. .384 
Mercantile Prise Association... 64 
Michigan Agricultural College 
graduate.*.352 
Mtlllon-dollnr tclcseope.48. 352 
Mixed farming. 48 
Modes and manner*.368 
Moore’s Rural 6or 1874.368 
Mutual aid fund.400 
— transportation Co.208 
National Ag. Congress.. 16 
Neglectful patrons.352 
New agricultural conundrum. ..192 
Newark Industrial exhibition...240 
Now England fair.176 
New Jersey State fair.141. 208 
New York Ag. excursion. 49 
— — butter and cheese ex¬ 
change .192 
— — State fair.224 
— — — park ... 64 
No granges needed to secure! 
co-operation.16 
No premiums........224 
Notice to advertisers.384 
Ohio State Board of Ag...266 
Opium production.256 
Orchard, talking about the.176 
Orchards ns poultry yards.176 
Our great national school or ag,240 
— love of home...336 
Out of door notes... 16 
Parvin's steam plow.112,352 
Pntents on canned corn. .16 
Patrons of husbandry and co¬ 
operative stores.112 
— -objects.400 
— -politics...,.112 
— -how to start.128 
— -in New York State.272 
— -In the manufacturing 
business.288 
Pears In New England.28S 
Peddlers and their wonderful 
wares.266 
Pennsylvania Ag. College.......112 
— State Grange of Patrons of 
Husbandry.212 
Perkins and house - safety 
lamps.384 
Personal mention.176 
Plowing In politicians.320 
Polaris survivors......212 
Polities and patrons of hus¬ 
bandry In Minn...144 
Potatoes, Early Rose. 80 
Powers. Hiram. 32 
Preparing for fairs......160 
President Of the Department of 
Public Works.256 
Produce markets.384 
Railroad outrages.160 
Railway complications.128 
Rapid telegraphing. 32 
Relation of roan to other ani¬ 
mals .352 
Report of Commissioner of Ag. 
for 1872. 372 
Reports Of fairs.170 
Rowell, George P. 48 
Running corn stalks through a 
thresher...,..266 
Rural at lairs. 160 
— club of New York.351 
— brevities...16, 32. 48. 64,80, 96, 
112,128. 144, 160,176, 196. 208. 
224, 240. 256, 272.288.304, 820, 
t 356, 3a?, 308,400 
Saw.fish outs a telegraph cable. 64 
Scientific education for farm¬ 
er's children.,.160 
Schools, magazines and papers.384 
Scotch prevarication.272 
Seeds of seed pcddlors.381 
Seedling society.400 
Seneca Lake and Its environs... 48 
Shall I go West.272 
— we abandon farming. ...320 
Sharpe, w. W. 16 
Sheep and pigs in orchards.....176 
Sitting on the fence.,272 
Spanish atrocity. 336 
Standard cranberry packages. .160 
Statistical stones.301 
Statue of Robert Fulton.224 
Story of an ear of corn.240 
Strike among Kansas wheat 
growers. 112 
“ Strike but hear”.........400 
Sugar planting In Louisiana.. . 362 
Suggestions for cotton planters.224 
Tea adulterations.352 
Tea frpm Georgia.208 
— In Iowa,,..,.,,...160 
Teams vs. railways.112 
Texas and Atlantic Refrigera¬ 
tor Co. and Texas beef_400 
Thanksgiving..,, .320 
The agricultural excursionists.H4 
— cash system. 330 
— farmer* 1 movement.80 
— first lesson. 256 
— 146.000 cow....368 
— good fairs do.256 
— great financial crisis.5)J2 
— the office should seek the 
man. .........288 
— I’atrou* of Husbandry.32 
— rlghttalk.400 
— Yellowstone navigable.48 
Things look hotter.336 
This visit home.288 
Tobacco, against.128 
Tomatoes, line cluster of.144 
To remove the burden of mo¬ 
nopolies.288 
• whom It may concern.384 
Training French agricultural 
pupils.128 
Transportation question........368 
Tree planting on government 
lands. 48 
Trees bearing human fruit.112 
Trying experiments.192 
Two years from the country_64 
Union Pacific U.U. lands........256 
Vacation letters.64,80..96, 112 
160,176,256. 288 
Value of ft home.-.288 
Very oucotirnglng.384 
Vienna awards.128 
Virginia wants labor.288 
Wading knee deep in blood....100 
Weekly crop reports.: 32 
Western New York fair.208 
What Is a capitalist. 48 
— — llie government.351 
— — your labor worth.384 
Wheat crop, the......240 
Which will win.-.144 
Who pays, Indeed.144 
William Hauudera for commis¬ 
sioner of agriculture.320 
Winter of 1871-72. 32 
Wool growers, interesting to.. 16 
Years of plenty.32 
ENTOMOLOGICAL. 
An unfortunate fly....172 
Apple tree borer*.351,398 
Bag or basket worm.158 
Bark lice, to exterminate.46 
Beetles on wild buckwheat....172 
BcloBtoroa grandis.187 
Borers, apple tree......62 
Butterflies, controlling sex In .398 
Cabbage butterfly nets......254 
— lice.46 
— worm, to destroy..286 
Canker worms, destruction of..832 
Carpenter bee. ...286 
Codling moth...398 , 
Colorado potato beetle, exter¬ 
minating.158 
Colosoma scrutator....... 187 
Corn meal and the curcullo.286 
Cotton worm may he destroyed. 30 
— — from Texas.187 
Dobson, or rorydall*. 0U 
Eggs upon a string....172 
Fire-spotted sphinx.187 
Frogs eatlug potato beetles.187 
- spittle bugs.-.62 
Insects from Minnesota.172 
LepldOpterp in the world.332 
T/Ocusts and tea plants.187 
Lucunus damn.187 
Maple leaf cutter.236 
Membracis punctata.254 
Molu crickets.172 
Muscular force of insects.187 
Orchard Insects.398 
Our common Insects.332 
Passalusand dosmooerus.62 
Parsley worms.. 172 
Peach and plum borer prevent¬ 
ive.254 
Phylloxera remedy.351 
Potato worm, chrysalis of.398 
Bed pepper for insects.158 
llogal walnut molh.172 
Seed corn maggot.,.. ,-.....80,187 
Spiders, mounting and preserv¬ 
ing... . 251 
Spittle from which horse flies 
come.236 
Strong alum water for Insects. 46 
Ten), caterpillar. 398 
Tree-hopper....254 
Turnus butterfly, larva of. 46 
Unhealthy maple leaves. 187 
Worms Infesting orange trees. 46 
— — grape leaves. 187 
Young entomologist. 187 
FARM ECONOMY. 
Bone dust, bricks.346 
Buying weed seed. 14 
Canada thistles, killing.26 
Chemistry of sandy land.218 
Charcoal as an absorbent....... 74 
Coal ashes a fertiliser...........298 
Composting manure. 74 
Cost of production ..238 
Cotton seed meal for cows and 
sows... 74 
Cow-halras manure.346 
Cut worms, destroying. 154 
Doubling the value of a farm. .201 
Fattening the soil.-252 
Fertilisers, their mechanical 
condition.284 
Flaxseed for stock.154 
Food for stock...317 
Gates, fancy wood.204 
— how to hang.154 
Guano, effects of.....317 
— frauds.410 
Gypsum or sulphate of lime....218 
Hand mill for crushing grain... 74 
Haystacks for winter, trim¬ 
ming.....316 
Hops, picking andfeurlng.204 
How time or clearing land 
effects crops.74 
Illegitimate agricultural crops.170 
Illinois, matter* and things in..381 
Indian meal as a fertiliser......410 
Irrigation without washing.14 
Letter* from towards sunset.. .346 
Lime on worn hind.........198 
— with manure.238 
— use nnd action of.26 
Liquid excrement of animals..252 
Live Icnce posts.124 
Manure, how to com post.74 
— In the hill. 252 
— under shelter, stable.151 
— vegetable.218 
Manures, about.HI 
— for sandy land...219 
Manuring tn the hill.317 
Mineral substances....218 
Northern vs. Southern ideas_HI 
Phosphates.218 
Plaster on wheat. ..298 
Plowing, deep vs. shallow. 90 
— rough....410 
Potatoes, how to keep sweet... 61 
Reclaimed land.284 
Renovation of land...61 
Salt, common.218 
— On wheat.317 
Sawdust, burning. 74 
— in the stable.394 
Silk culture in California..90 
Soli, economy in treatment of..394 
Soiling nnd howto start.252 
Subsoillng lands in Nebraska. .298 
— land .298 
Systematic farming.141,170,238 
Tan bark, spent.346 
Tile, about drain.124 
Tobacco, pole rotted.74 
Top dressings and salt..238 
Urine...298 
Vegetable manure.218 
Waste of plant food. 74 
Wire fence.61, 124 
— — to snake.154 
FIELD CROPS. 
Alfalfa hay. how to cure It.58 
— — in California.314, 346 
— seed per acre.....346 
Alsikc clover for meadow.366 
— - on sundy land....266 
Barley, cost of five ncres.330 
— good reason; for.394 
— In Canada.362 
— — Iowa. —.394 
Bono dust, experience with on 
potatoes.126 
Buck wbeift crop, cost nnd profit 
of a...394 
— lor stock.894 
Castor bean culture.......170 
Chess, origin of. 58.186 
Cbufa culture.266 
— or earth almonds.202.282,314, 346 
Clrsiuui lancoolatura..... 74 
Clover, alslke on sandy land—266 
— fields, late plowing of.26 
— tn Alabama, bush.298 
Coni, a crop of. 298 
— cost in eastern New York.. .330 
— cribbing.266 
— cutting and feeding.154 
— flour...410 
— fodder, value of. 10 
— for winter forage, sowed...,362 
— howto Improve.74 
— — save seed. 74 
— in hill, watering.350 
— — Ohio, cost of..380 
— — the west, working.106 
— prolitlo joint.346 
— suvlng seed.170 
— sowed.........106 
Cranberry culture.311 
Cotton can be transplanted....282 
— crop of 1873. 26 
— seed meal on tobacco land.. 42 
Grain, sowing mixed.10 
— when to sell... 106 
Gross, about orchard.282 
— best, early cut.330 
— blue....266 
— eradication of nut.26 
— esparto..,.. 26 
— for stopping wash, Ber¬ 
muda.202 
— for timber land... ..166 
— how to save orchard. 10 
— Hungarian.10 
— in Kansas, blue.26 
— — Virginia, orchard.218 
— orchard.266, 380 
— Fall meadow oat. 170 
— value of orchard.12 
— when to cut. 58 
Huy, selling..141 
Hemp, American vs. Russian.. 74 
Hops, picking and curing.154 
Indigo culture. 10 
Mangel wUriel... 26 
Meadows, treatment of.282 
Oats as a fertilizer.380 
— experiment with.186 
— In the south, fall.2CfJ 
Opium culture In North Caro¬ 
lina.298 
Peanuts for seed.... 10 
Peas for stock...316 
— worm-eaten.,....*...'..394 
Peanuts grow In the night, do..106 
Potato, a white peach blow—282 
Potato crops after the vines 
have been denuded of foli¬ 
age. 42 
— Campbell's late rose.362 
— Compton’s surprise. ...298, 330, 
362, 394 
— correction. 410 
— King of the Kuriles..,.282 
— vines, lifting sweet.26 
Potatoes, arresting the decay of.26 
— diseases of...170 
— early rose......218 
— for seed, whole or cut........394 
— how to keep early rose in 
the south.,.—.......218 
— growing without eyes.58 
— in England, new American.314 
— Jonathan Taicott on... .410 
keeping sweet.186, 202 
— premium...394 
Prepared hands for sheaves_106 
Rape on fallow*... 74 
Rye. doc* It pay to grow.282 
Seeding on sod. 74 
Howpd corn for horses.410 
Sowing mixed grains.42 
Squashes a* New England crops. 74 
Tobacco culture.170 
— exhausting, why ta.90 
Turnip fly nnd turnip seed.170 
— the Gwede ..26 
Turnips, not too late to plnnt... 26 
Wheat at Baraboo. WIs., Fultz.170 
— crop, cost of a winter.380 
— drilling v*. broadcast sow¬ 
ing.266 
— fields, harrowing. 10 
— how to hybridise. 42 
— In Canada....186 
— — Ohio. coBt. of....380 
— — Illinois, cost of.298 
— — Indiana, Tappabannock,.266 
— — Marlon co., Kan.26 
— preparing seed.... ...........126 
— Pride of Butte.330 
— rolling. .314 
— Tappnhannock.186 
FLORICULTURAL. 
Abntilon. 381 
— a pure white. 12 
Acacia rlcennu. 60 
Alplnta vlttnta. 92 
Baskets of rose*. 29 
Begonia cbelsonl...188 
Begonias, soil for.236 
Botanical queries.301 
BouvardU, another new.396 
Buttercup monstrosity. 12 
Cactus, the.221 
— night blooming...140 
Cannus. how to keep.349 
Carnation*, propagutlng.236 
Chinese yum ns a climber. 44 
Chrysanthemum*, care of.29 
Collodion In horticulture.411 
Dahlias from cutting*.60 
Dahlia roots In winter, preserv¬ 
ing.286 
Davalllns.108 
Dlffenbachla noblll*.263 
Dimorphism, singular instance 
of.221 
Emission of light by flowers...236 
Krythnnn, herbaceous.253 
— seedling.........140 
Kupatorlum ngenitoides.801 
Ferns, hare's-foot.108 
Floral queries.285 
FlorlouRural queries. 60 
Floriculture, cause* of failure 
In.381 
Flower chut...205 
— talk, another.269 
Flowers, cheap shade for.......188 
— for the Shah, vase of. ..77 
— In the wlnter./resh blown .301 
— remove the.236 
— to freshen cut.381 
— to preserve cut flowers f resh.381 
Forget-me-not In the drawing¬ 
room.——. —...,.108 
Fuchsia seed, saving.285 
— the first. 12 
Fumigutor for plants.349 
Garrya elliptlca.236 
Gas tar in green-houses..44 
Geraniums, summer treatinent.205 
Hanging baskets.269,381 
House plants.270 
Hyacinth flowers a second sea¬ 
son.........301 
Hyacinths In glasses, supports 
for... 10 
Iron trellieos for vines. 29 
Ivy. culture of German. 12 
Lagerstrcemla indtea..365 
Lardizabala blternata.253 
Lily culture, pond..—381 
Lilies from Iowa, wild.301 
Macrozumia coralJlpea.173 
Madeira vine culture.29 
Maranta rnukoyanu.153 
Melastoma roatabathrica.60 
Mexican climber.381 
Mignonette In Franoo....188 
Myrtle, a sporting...29 
Night-blooming cactus.HO 
Palnsotta, double.396 
Pansies In Kansas. 44 
— how a. lady grows...,..236 
Pansy, blue king. 12 
— society, Scottish.92 
Pelargoniums, pot culture of...173 
Plant, pretty window.285 
Plants appreciated, neglected.. 12 
— about my. .....396 
— for name.236.301.396 
— house...-216 
— In rooms. 366 
— massing bulbous.... 13 
— the sleep of. ....411 
— watering bouse.....M3 
