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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Peas, to cook dry Held — 
Exchange information. 
..320 
Photograph frame........ 
.113 
— visit* of inspection. 
.. 41 
Pickled cabbage.. 
Kx-editor in the lecture Held 
..224 
Pickles, alcohol. 
Fallacies or lire insurance. I. 
..224 
. ..to, 
— — — — H . 
. .240 
.RIO 
- — — — JIT . 
. .256 
— how to manage encumbers 
- - — — IV . 
..272 
_Hfil 
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..2*8 
— wanted, recipes for alcohol.803 
- — - — VI . 
. .-7)4 
.. 15 
- — — — vii. 
. .320 
. fW 
— — — — VIII. 
..336 
— — — — TV. 
1 Y ... 
. 127 
_ _ — — xi . 
.. 38 1 
— pork apple............. 
- XII. 
...100 
— potato... 
— XIII. 
...412 
— potato starch...351 
Pies, cream.191 
— mince.95 
Plums for winter, preserving...319 
Pudding, a gond broad.287 
— Oataklll apple.399 
— cheap..355 
— corn m oa I...355 
—, corn mush, or......HU 
— dried apple.127 
— minute...399 
Profit of feeding help well..'Ml 
Purple or lilac, to color.399 
Hag carpets.....271 
— — something about..159 
Recipes front Mrs. Brown.207 
lied on cotton.287 
Renovating halt-worn clothes..159 
Uico boiled slowly.256 
Roaches, to exterminate red —137 
Rustic frames...,..HU 
Salad, corn.255 
Salads for winter.: . 15 
Silver, cleaning.271 
Soap, hard.207 
— recipe for hard.861 
Soldoring.335 
Soup, good family.335 
— table ornament.351 
Talk front Ruth l.eo.223 
"The wife’s co-operation ”.207 
Time wasted In the house 
Turkey, to cook h. 
Vinegar. 
Washing, about Our,... 
Whitewash, talk about.. 17 
Wife’s 00 * ope ration, the.79 
Worcestershire sauce. 
Yeast. Ivy... 
63 
79 
255 
239 
.303 
.137 
Yellow, to color yarn.127 
Yes and no 
.307 
EDITORIAL. 
Adaptation in farming.3(18 
Advertisers' Manual.100 
Agenciesl’orthe Ri’kat..32 
Agricultural colleges, for schol¬ 
arships In,........368 
— — lnvesfigutlng.48 
— Implements.272 
— presidents, making..112 
— press...,.48 
Agriculture In Ireland. 61 
Agronomic stations In France. .160 
Aldino, tiie.112 
"All right”. 33 
American agricultural machin¬ 
ery In Germany.7104 
— institute.7..128 
— pisclculturo. 80 
— short-horn herd-book.352 
An efficient agent.240 
— original Idea.100 
Another rival branch.352 
Anti-socrot society party.384 
Arbitration growing.112 
Are we going to ruin......80 
— — to have a (amine..330 
A summer-y outlook.320 
Books vs. experience....144 
British grain markets.301 
Buffalo slaughter. 48 
Beet-sugar industry of France..171 
" By their li ults ". 48 
“ California roses ”.176 
Canadian government, farm.272 
Capital advice for hoys, men 
and women,,,,. .. 48 
Castor-oil bean from Texas.256 
Cattle freights. .12s 
Center ol wheat production— 18 
Chance for potato-digger in¬ 
ventors... .152 
Chinese yam in Canada.144 
Civil engineering...04 
College of invention wanted....400 
Commencement at Cornell Uni¬ 
versity..... ,....,409 
Congressional printer and elec¬ 
trotypes. -.141 
Consumers’ Importing Tea Co.. 48 
Co-operative farming in Louisi¬ 
ana ..288 
— store at Sod alia, Mo.128 
Cornel) University barn.32 
(iorrespondents, to.112 
Colton in Arizona.288 
Country board wanted .501 
Crops, ilguros for 1873. —112 
Cow, the 846,600... 16 
Curtis, death ol Mrs.Col. F. D..128 
Current opinion..176 
Daily rural life .....208 
Dairy' business..... . 210 
Dem(ration day.......... ........338 
Department el "grleulturu re¬ 
port. hi 
Don’t leave the farm .240 
Droer, death of llonry A.48 
Electrotypes of engravings...61, 96 
England alarmed, Importing po¬ 
tatoes from America.272 
English ag. laborers' lockout,. .304 
— seed catalogue...96 
Entomological division of the 
dep't of agriculture..144 
European travel and study.4S 
Farm accounts, and making 
farming pay...... 96 
Farmers are monopolists .144 
clubs, constitution fur. 16 
— library.160 
— political movement in Illi¬ 
nois.352 
Festina lento..176 
Flood in Louisiana.400 
Foreign grain markets ..96, 208 
Free distribution of public doc¬ 
uments.144 
— papers to reading-rooms.256 
French farmers overtaxed.357 
Frog culture .112 
Came law wanted in Ohio. .10) 
Gelldlum for food.(-0 
Give the boys and girls a cha.tme.320 
Grain iti Chicago.336 
Gypsum iu Kansas...356 
Hayden geological survey....... 48 
Hay-seed In the hair...288 
High la of Adirondack moun¬ 
tains.... .304 
Homestead lands.-.368 
Home markets.240 
Hop-growers' convention.370 
— — want protection.336 
How agents can help. 1(1 
lee Crop...80 
If seeds, why not Coffee, grecu-Rf 
banks, \c.. 160 
Illinois farmers' movement.48 
Importation of English labor¬ 
ers.. 48 
Influence of agricultural coi- 
legos on education... 
Influencing legislation.... 
.64 
Joint stock farming. 
. 96 
Joseph Arch’s representations 
to English laborers... 
Kansas hay In Michigan... 
Labor saving Implements. 
.100 
Legal apple, potato and 
pear 
Imrrols.256 
Level-headed Mr. Ford.224 
Life and accident insurance... 32 
— Insurance...128 
Look where the lirst patch is 
put.96 
Lucerne culture.368 
M;u'li in ,tv lor boring ponl-holcB 8U 
Mayliew’s horse management... 6! 
Making farming n business.256 
MaiHifartiinng prospects. .368 
Massachusetts Ag.College.176 
Miller, Mark. 288 
Mure capital and less land.272 
Much valuable time lost. 61 
Naming reliable commission 
houses.3SS 
National forester.272, 368 
— — again.4.. : .. 32U 
— Forestry Association.192 
— Grange or Patrons of Hus¬ 
bandry. 113 
— home-racing. . —7484 
New cabinet officer.176 
— Jersey Cranberry Ass’n.352 
— — stock yards and abbatoir. 96 
i\. V. State Editorial Ass'n.2us 
— — — fair for 1874.112 
No premiums hi agricultural 
immigrants.386 
Northwestern plmv-makcrs.568 
No traveling agents. 16 
nf whom lo order seeds.160 
Old reerniiing officers on duty.. 32 
Oleomargarine.336 
tin its merits alone.64, 144 
Older of Progressive Farmers..336 
Original or of the order Of Pa¬ 
trons of Husbandry.64 
Our Christmas story. 32 
— enemies.384 
— premiums pay agents.224 
— Rochester office.192 
summer campaign.3S4 
Outlook for ruralists. 256 
— —spring,,.144 
Pampered to death.192 
Patent gates.272 
” Patrons and sovereigns ”.160 
— minding their own business.363 
— of husbandry.320 
industry.48 
People and the press.80 
Permanent horttcult rut gar¬ 
den in Philadelphia.176 
Pertinent inquiry for women 
natrons of husbandry..... .128 
Peter Cooper reception... .128 
Philadelphia centennial in con¬ 
gress.80 
Planting trees.368 
-- —In Nebraska.240 
Platform of the Grangers.128 
Plow-mnkera striking.48 
Political aspirations of men 
prominent In the farmers’ 
movement.272 
Poultry for profit.224 
— men ludicrously by the ours.30l 
Practical education wanted.208 
Premium- fur children.192 
Preparatory for 1874. 16 
Preparing for the purchase of 
implements. 48 
Press and people. 16 
Protit rif hired labor on the 
farm...80 
Progress and Improvement. 16 
Prospect a head.48 
— of growing crops.384 
Public uncial life...176 
Pulling each other down. 48 
Rabbit, fever In Japan.114 
Rain at wilt. 32 
lli-dueiInn of advertising rates. 99 
Removed and all right.1411 
Remuneration for inventors ..336 
Report of Kansas State Board 
of A grictiltnre.256 
of New Jersey State Ag. 
S. e. for 1S73 .192 
Representatives vs. specialists.HI 
Resolve to plant, evergreens_48 
Retrenchment with legislators.176 
Right to buy when one can buy 
cheap.384 
Itllcy receives a medal.192 
Rural brevities. 16, 64. 80. 112, V28, 
HI, 192. 170, 204. 224. 240, 256, 
272, 2K8, 304, 320, 336, 352 
Roll your new-seeded lawns_256 
Rural Club of New York.l'Kt 
— — — — — dinner .352 
— New Yorker as a present_82 
— pays its readers.240 
purchasing agency. .288, 830, 368 
— reports progress.*.«: 
Russian Monnonltcs.160 
Sassafras as a subslitute for 
coffee.............224 
Send us season items.......320 
Shipping to distant marko(s...<288 
Silk growers in Mississippi.256 
Something for Americans to 
win. 192 
Snails eating cotton..,...857 
Society in the country..04 
Some timely thought*...240 
Sporting by spiritualism.336 
State entomologist of Mo.160 
fair is not to be in Utica.352 
Statistical bureau.192 
Stealing from Unto - ponds on 
Long Island.176 
Steam tire engines. 32 
Strong appreciation of the Ru¬ 
ral. 32 
Struggle betweep English farm 
laborers and their employ¬ 
ers.320 
Sunday repose.176 
Tare on butter packages.352 
Taylor battery gun.128 
Thanks to the press. 82 
■’The pomp of knowledge”.. . 32 
Rural vs. humbug.320 
— skies are bright.. . .. 16 
Tobacco in Win...368 
Transportation nf live stock.. .224 
Traveling agents. ..272 
Trichina spiralis in Indiana. ...DO 
Uniformity in weights and 
measures.224 
United Centennial (’ommisston.352 
Vftsoy, Dr. George.272 
Vermont. Ag. College...192 
— farmer.368 
Vo), XXX. of Moore’s Rural....460 
Wants information about Kan¬ 
sas.......)92 
— our opinion........192 
— to know whore to settle.....266 
— — learn farming,.240 
Warren. J.Q. A.320 
Watertown, Wis.. Board of 
Trade.868 
What is farming.80 
Whnt'a In a name.224 
Who wants to educate young • 
farmers.176 
Wives are usually sensible. 96 
Women interested in industrial 
pursuits.210 
wanting farms.192 
who want to learn horticul¬ 
ture ..,.,...,,.,..176 
Young men compelled to give 
up a trade............301 
— mun in trouble.,.400 
ENTOMOLOGICAL. 
Ants ejecting formic acid, 
wood. 252 
— killing. .......,205 
Borers in apple trees... .237 
— — peach trees, to kill. 14 
Bugs on roses and squashes... .252 
Butterflies.205 
Cabbage worm parasite.HO 
Cocorpbt moth cocoon.302 
Check-list of enleoptcni of 
North America.205 
Chinch bugs, heading off..205 
Codling moth. 14 
Colorado potato beetle...398 
— -exterminating....237 
Cotton worm, turpentine and 
tobacco for.................. 94 
CurcuUn and sweetened cobs...252 
and coal tar.398 
— lime for.'.....302 
— protecting fruit from.205 
Green fly. destroying the.252 
Humming bird moths...94 
Insects hear? do.(77 
— tri i ublesome.,..205 
Jumping beans.205 
Mealy bug. destruction of. 14 
Osier-bark steep a cure for ants 94 
Puptllo Ajux .286 
Pteromulus puparum.140 
Roses, bugs on.252 
Squashes, bugs on.252 
Wire worms, battle with.14 
Wood lice. 62 
FARM ECONOMY. 
Adaptation of stock to land—235 
Agricultural philosophy.298 
— products, the country bare 
of. . .350 
Ants, h"W to destroy.298 
Ashes for tobacco.252 
lllond us n fertilizer.170 
Bogs, rolling.252 
Hone dust, coarse.3IR 
— — line.7"..31 h 
— — for tobacco, preparation 
nf.189 
— on gras* lands.189 
— sawings and turning*....318 
Bone*, preparing.35(1 
Buckwheat for green maniirlng.2f»5 
Buying fertility.252 
Calcined meal fora turnip ernp.350 
Commercial fertilizers, rcliablc.318 
Corn fodder, value of.109 
— to prevent ravages of cut¬ 
worms in...252 
Cow pea as a forMiteer for cot¬ 
ton . 380 
Cut-worms In corn.'52 
Draining springy land.235 
Drains and draining....170 
— depth and distance of.170 
Drilling vs. broadcast seeding..293 
Farm economy in Texas. 74 
— laborer*.170 
Farming, art of successful.218 
— on shares. 298 
Feed the soil well.205 
Fence supported by wire. '.*4 
Fertilizer, cheap and good.218 
— lor corn.350 
Fish In corn culture, dried.2.72 
German market fairs.170 
Grass, cultivating...235 
— to plow under. 94 
Guano, Manhattan phosphatic 
blood.350 
Gypsum a year old.380 
— in the stable.218 
Hay crop affects nutrition, 
amount of.235 
Hen manure and vegetables... .269 
— -- for onions.189, 350 
Hitching three horses abreast..150 
How the Ingredients of the soil 
can lie easily ascertained..109 
Landlord and tenant.285 
Lime, application of.2t7J 
— for low land*.94 
— injurious to flux.880 
— to land, applying.189 
Manuring, green..252 
— Willi brush.235 
Manure for corn, reasons for 
plowing under.350 
— manure in small heaps, leav¬ 
ing.189 
— saving liquid.25? 
— use of liquid...350 
— winter hauling.211 
Manures, vegetable.360 
— home made.262 
Maple sugar marketable.189 
Meadows, top-dressing.235 
Mixed husbandry true policy 
FIELD CROPS. 
Alfalfa.170 
— covering the seed. 26 
— effect of close grazing.26 
— for sheep.26 
— Hi California. 26 
— — Wisconsin. 10 
— or lucerne.-278 
— seed, yield of. 74 
Barley, Annat.186 
— chevalier.1*6 
— English.186 
Bean culture.13S. 234 
— — in Iowa.250 
— In Texas, castor oil.170 
Beans, a man who knows....... 90 
— growing.....186 
— knowing...138 
Buckwheat, drilling.10 
Castor beans in Illinois.170 
— oil bean in Texas.170 
Chufns or earth almonds.20 
Clover, Alfcike. 218 
— Helds, ruined.282 
— In Louisiana.298 
— Japan.346 
— seed. 74 
— Spanish or Japan.282 
— treatment of red.106 
- with Hungarian grass.138 
Corn and cut worms.314 
— culture in the West.394 
— crop for 1873, my. 90 
— — Mr. Dickey's.122 
— determining vitality seed...382 
— fodder for stock.202 
— for fodder, best kind.234 
— -raising and curing.42 
— -sowed...302 
Kingsbury's Excelsior.234 
— non-bearing stalks of.378 
— 169 bushels per acre..38, 106,728 
— v*. cotton.378 
— while seed.....218 
Cotton, area planted to.314 
— by Jute, protecting.74 
— wool. 74 
Cow pen* for plowing uniier.314,362 
Cranberry culture. 90 
Crop resume for Long Island... 42 
Crop*, watch growing.378 
Field crops In Ohio, rotation of.106 
Flux culture in Nebraska.330 
Grass.bluc. 122 
— exhaustive to the soil? Is..3l4 
— Hungarian.231, ‘782 
— Iu St. Lawrence Co., N. V., 
— of Northern Indiana, natu¬ 
ral.266 
Lucerne, or alfalfa.234, 830, 346 
— -in Maryland.266 
Mangel wurtzels.346 
— raising.314 
Meadows, permanent. 10 
— top-dressing. 138 
Millet for buy. 211 
Mixed crops, going luck to.250 
Oats a proHtuble crop ..154 
— in Canada, white Prob- 
steler.164 
Onion culture, report on.170 
Pastures, natural. 10 
Pen hay, life preserver.314 
Peas and oats.186 
— Held..,.,.2M 
Peppermint culture. 58 
Wheat, red chaff spring....311 
— — red Osaka spring.10.234 
Wool cotton.... *4 
FLORICULTURAL, 
Abutilon8, about.141 
Ants in greenhouses.206 
Apocynuin commute.7133 
Azaleas, thrips on.173 
Botanical knowledge,-exchange 28 
— riddles......206 
Climbers, support* for.216 
Dahlias, starting.301 
Daisy Queen Victoria.......381 
Earthworms in pots...317 
Eupatortum ugcratoides.28 
Ferns for hanging baskets.157 
Flower mania..........7)01 
— question, upon the. 12 
— seeds, selecting.269 
Flowers, drying.252 
— growing and transplanting..237 
— influence of....,.1*B 
— preserving cut.269 
— - natural.252 
— wi li reference to color, ar¬ 
rangement of.331 
Fuchsias. Improved.221 
Geraniums, about sporting.157,189 
— the best........... -.364 
lee plant, vat legated.189 
Japan primroses..,..252 
Kalmia latifolla..393 
Ladles' Slipper, stainless.381 
Leaf for name....206 
Lice on plants...77 
Lilies, pond...381 
— trouble with.44 
Lilium szorltzlainiin,.3374 
Lily blooms. Japan . 28 
Myososti* imperutrice Eliza¬ 
beth.7193 
Note from my garden window..189 
Oleander. 23 
Parsley for edgings .317 
Pelargoniums, Christine or rose 
colored section............. 60 
orchard. 
.154 
— 
Double Zonule. 
.218 
.12 
.122 
— No. 2.. 
.60 
Kentucky blue. 
.218, 234 
No. 3. 
.El 
land, real old. 
.... 298 
— 
— No. 4. 
.124 
orchard.218, 
830, :t?8 
— 
nosegay section. 
.60 
seed per acre, orchard.. 
.218 
— 
show and fancy. 
.124 
when to cut timothy.... 
.170 
— 
vs. geraniums. 
.206 
asses named. 
Perennial peas. 
tor farmers. 
.334 
_ 
Compton’s Surprise. 
. 42 
Mow more and line less. 
.235 
_ 
culture. 
.362 
Muck, treatment of. 
.156 
— 
Extra Early Vermont. 
. 42 
Night’ soil. . 
. 94 
— 
grafting..... 
.282 
Nutritive value Of feed. 
. 74 
— 
— of.... 
.122 
I’alnt for (armors. 
.252 
— 
planting. 
.250 
Pastoral ugc. 
.14! 
— 
— inquiry about. 
.138 
Peruvian guano. 
.318 
— 
prizes, Compton’s Surprise 
— — on farm crops. 
.169 
and.... 
. 74 
Plaster ns a fertilizer. 
.189 
— 
rot. to check...... 
.122 
.818 
.218 
.205 
— use of. 
.298 
Southern Queen sweet..218, 
Plowing, best time to do fall.. 
.176 
26S. 282 
— in green crops, testimony 
— 
Tliorburn’s Late Rose. 
.231 
against. 
.252 
Potatoes, an acre of. 
.250 
— subsoil. 
. 74 
— 
Compton's Surprise and 
Posts rotting, to prevent. 
.252 
other surprises. 
. 10 
Potash In dilierent kinds of ash 
- 
— 
diseased. 
.218 
es. 
.170 
— 
Dr. Ilexamer responds to 
— in Platte Valley soil. 
. 47 
Mr. Campbell. 
.154 
— or ashes. 
.205 
— 
doubts the large crop of 
— suits. . 
.318 
Peach Blow.. 
.268 
Rolling land In grain. 
.205 
— 
experiments with seedling. 
.282 
Sawdust as n feeding material.380 
— 
for seed,selecting.,. 
.138 
Sewage, effects of. 
.141 
— 
G. W. Campbell’s compll 
- 
Sod as manure. 
.318 
ments to Dr. Ilexamer,.. 
.234 
Sound farm economy... . 
.285 
— 
In Ohio, the new. 
.106 
Sugar making. 
.156 
— 
new varieties. 
.298 
Superphosphate, homo made.. 
. 94 
— 
raising seedling. 
. 90 
— of lime...... 
.318 
— 
starting sweet.. 
.218 
Surface manuring. 
.189 
— 
That acre of.. 
.378 
Tannery refuse on land. 
.285 
Pumpkin, new.. 
.234 
Threshlrg machine by wire 
Klee In California. 
.346 
cable, running. 
.235 
Root crop, the. 
.170 
Timber, treating ax-handle.... 
.141 
Hoot* vs. hay. 
. 74 
Tsoaoco, ashes for... 
.252 
Staple crops? how shall wc In. 
— fertilizer, best... 
. 94 
croaso the yield of.. 
.202 
— manufacture.... 
.298 
Sunflowers as a crop.. 
.138 
Universal fertilizer. 
.318 
Tobacco as a preparatory crop. 
10 
Wheat, plaster on. 
.205 
— 
seed bed, to make. 
.106 
— stacks, *alting. 
. 94 
Turnip,<’ow-horn.. 
.122 
— what fertilizer for. 
.205 
— 
Golden Bull. 
ait 
Whiflletrees, length of. 
.268 
Wheat after outs. 
.170 
Wool wash for grass lands. 
.285 
— 
Boughton or Tappuhan- 
nock. 
138 
— Browick.....122 
— culture, winter —..266 
— Eureka. 250 
— for seed, improving.314 
— history of Clawson.....282 
— in Ohio.218 
— —spring, harrowing.234 
— Lost Nation.138,186 
— production, movement of 
the center of. 46 
Plant for bulb beds, border.28 
— — name.173 
— fumtgntor.317 
Plants for a Wurdian case.28 
— lice on. 77 
— setting out bedding .364 
— that hnvo prospered the past 
season.237 
— transplanting potted climb¬ 
ing.124 
— treatment of house.77 
Poppy. Oriental. 60 
Pot envorer.7481 
Primroses, Japan....252 
Oxails Bowlcl.269 
Red spider in greenhouse.7164 
Roses, budding.173 
— for ribbon beds.217 
— hybrid perpetual.205 
— in the cellar, keeping.269 
— — winter.,.,......62 
— Marshal Neil.393 
— petals.252 
— strange freak In grafting...209 
— those 45............Hi 
— trouble with,,.... 44 
— under glass.237 
Seed drill, hand.189 
Seeds affected b.v gas, vitality of.364 
Slugs, remedy for.......381 
Smilax, treatment of... 00 
Snow drops with moss.321 
Transplanting In winter.. 77 
Tube roses, culture of.28 
Verbena culture, soil for.28 
Verbenas, self-sown.............206 
Vick’s special floral premiums.252 
Weigolis, seedling.7193 
Wild plants from Penn.318 
GARDENER. 
Bean. “ Red Kidney”.185 
Beaus be bought? w'here cun 
Lima.142 
— Lima....169 
Beets in winter, storing.108 
Cabbage fleas, soot for. 61 
— manuring.168 
— to prevent club-root.93 
— without transplanting, rais¬ 
ing.........287 
Cabbages. 45 
— about...,.....,..,.,185 
— best winter... 287 
Cauliflowers, culture of.....287 
Cloth covers for cold frames...220 
Corn, Early Minnesota sweet. .332 
— Triumph sweet.169 
Cotton cloth for hot beds.. .382 
Cucumber Duke of Edinburgh.253 
Drain in u garden......168 
Gardening tor children...158 
Gardens cared for......382 
Hot-bed, u perpetual.253 
Lettuce, black-seeded Black 
. 
Melons from thieves, protect¬ 
ing.169 
— Read’s new scarlet-fleshed.. 45 
— trouble with.153 
Mushroom house and manage¬ 
ment.,...158 
Oats as a mulch for strawber¬ 
ries...... ....158 
Okra a substitute for coffee.382 
