MOORE’S RURAL HEW-YORKER 
Apple, cureless.253 
— cross.77 
— Duchess of Oidenburgh.266 
— Edwards'Early...397 
— Fnmeuso.266 
Golden Dixie. 17 
in Illinois, Ben Davis..316 
— In Wisconsin,rednstructian.189 
— Irish peach....206 
— Kentish til I basket...,.260 
— Lady llennekcr. 155 
— Dong worth's red winter.77 
— Mathews'. 77 
tfcllntosh red. 236 
— McKinney. 77 
— 
Menoehci"* no-core_ 
_ 
Northern spy. 
.206 
— 
sweet. 
— 
Northlteld beautv. 
— 
Oskutoosa. 
— 
Pringle’s sweet. 
— 
red As! radian. 
.266 
— 
Southern porter. 
— 
Starkey. 
..... 77 
— 
Kura li. 
.77 
__ 
2oo 
— 
summer liagloe. 
.266 
— 
summer Harvey. 
.266 
— 
sweet moMicr. 
.77 
— 
Taiwan sweet. 
.26« 
■— Tetofsky.265 
— Wngener.285 
— Williams' favorite.265 
— Wylie’s favorite. 77 
— Wythe, or Illinois greening. 77 
— yellow bolleflower.266 
— Zacliery pippin.77 
— California..285 
— Downing's, best of new. 77 
flavor of California.316 
— for family supply.12 
— Kentucky.189 
— market orchard.12 
— Northern rillnols.173 
— the South. 12 
— Vermont.265 
— Wisconsin,... .236 
— packed in piaster.266 
— Siberian crab.266 
— morning.62 
Berries, about.105 
— Klltwtinny.105 
— wintering.142 
— Starr#’ prolific.189 
Cherries, about.236 
— moat profitable.105 
Fruit, flavoring...285 
— information wanted.221 
— list for Wisconsin.157 
— on Iho cracking of.349 
— discussion upon.105 
Fruits for a ten-acre field, 
small. 12 
— for Kansas.,.157 
— for the South. 12,221 
— Southwest.... 44 
— In Franco, new.285 
— lu Vermont.173 
— report on foreign.106 
— selection of small.142 
— that crack.397 
Owning up.. 173 
Peach, Early Beatrice. 28,189 
-River’s.285 
— Picquet.....,212 
— snow orange...12 
Peaches, early market.. 12 
— for family supply.12 
roar, Baron lie du Mello.,349 
— Bartlett.285 
Doyenne da Cornice.349 
— Favorite Morel.397 
— Ennes.836 
— Flemish Beauty.285 
— Lucy Grieve. 44 
— Mary.189 
— Maurice Desportes. 28 
— Rutter, for ctinning.367 
Pears, Washington.367 
— cracking.236 
— cracking or.349 
— from Atlanta. Ga.105 
— Eastern Ohio.106 
— keeping winter.332 
— most profitable.105 
Pours not good for canning.367 
— packing... 367 
— succession of. 106 
Plum, origin of the name of 
Green Gage.332 
Wild Goose.295 
Raspberries, most profitable... .105 
Raspberry, Miami.105 
Strawberries in Iridlunu.236 
Strawberry list. New .Jersey....189 
I he species of...349 
POULTRY-YARD. 
A poplexy in fowls,.. .251 
Artificial Incubation...396 
Awards made by the Connecti¬ 
cut Valley Society. 26 
Beauty and utility...268 
Brahma cock's foot swollen.300 
Brahmas,breeding... 76 
— edible quality of.332 
— leg-weakness.300 
Bugs, worms and chicken chol¬ 
era,...348 
Canaries, breeding......251,283 
— to produce high-colored.42 
Canker in pigeons.106 
Catarrh In chickens.61 
— remedy for fowls.251 
Chicken cholera.26,171,217 
— — bugs and worms.348 
— wisdom..,.,.251 
Chickens, catarrh in. 61 
— do gophers eat... 76 
— food for. 261 
— for market, hatching.251 
— incubation of.188 
something wrong with the. .201 
— turnips for.,.300 
— wlmt ails the.188,217,251 
Cholera, chicken.26 
Cochin not degenerated.-..332 
Correct! On... 380 
Ducklings for market.188 
Ducks, Aylesbury... .Cl 
— Pekin"”......76 
— Rouen. fil 
Egg philosophers, a question 
for. .348 
Eggs, addled.106 
— by steamer and rail, ship¬ 
ping. 300 
— for setting, to keep.188 
— fresh, to keep....156, 236 
— have a sex...239 
— setting too many.316 
— sox of... 832 
England importing eggs.332 
Feathers, a fortune Dolii.318 
Feed-box for poultry .156 
Fowl again, the jungle.106 
Fowls, apoplexy In.251 
— black Cochin.171, 204 
— breeding Brail mi.76 
— brown Leghorns.....106 
— calomel for. ..76 
— catarrh remedy for.251 
— Ceylon Jungle...41.156 
— colored creeper#.171 
— croiwlng light Brahma with 
Cochin ..61 
— Derby. 42 
— — game...........21T 
— diseased liver in.300 
— experience with...,.348 
— funoy. 62 
— ground oats as food for.106 
— hatching and rearing black 
Hamburgh#.126 
— how l confined my.,158 
— lloudaus....,...,..,,.,316 
imported, Derby.171 
— marking... 76 
— management of. 13 
— origin of Black Hamburgh. .126 
— Partridge Cochin’s plu¬ 
mage. .. .,,,,,.251 
— prepared food for.76 
— raw Swede turnips for.261 
— rumplers.....26 
— sourly feet .. 76 
— Spangled Poland.332 
— throats, cheesy swelling in..251 
— vulture-hocked.156 
Gapes, tallow for. 76 
Geese.251 
— plucking.188 
Goslings, food for.348 
— what is the matter with.364 
Ground oats as food for fowls. .106 
Hennery, cleansing.76 
Hen, breaking up a setting.156 
Hens, crowing.. ..171,316 
— egg-eating and cock-pluck¬ 
ing. 251 
— experience with..23,332 
— in trouble. 42 
— — winter,..141 
— nest for egg-eating.141 
— pay In winter. 283 
— trouble with.316 
Incubator a successful.269 
— Crook’s improved. 13 
— Inexpensive. ..61 
Incubation, artificial.396 
Lady poulterer’s success. 42 
Nest for egg-eating hens.61 
Pepper feeding...300 
Partridge Cochin cock, scale of 
points...368 
Pigeons, canker in.106 
Pip, remedy for..332 
Poultry and pheasant feeder.. ..300 
— book.204 
— experience. 156, 236 
— feed-box Dir.156 
— from England.364 
— how hi pluck.42 
— In Connecticut. 76 
— Items about.364 
— keeper. No. 1.380 
— — No- 2.396 
— marker...160 
— on a large scale.396 
— — — — — breeding.217 
— statement for 1873 .316 
— vermin on.188 
Rabbits, diseased liver in.300 
—■ Inquiries about.141 
— treatment of.126 
Rearing apparatus, artificial— 13 
Reply to It. F. N s Inquiry.106 
Hoop remedies.268 
Sexes at will.316 
Single bird premiums. 26 
Sign of quality in the flesh.396 
Tamenoss and profit.204 
The Jungle tow) again.106 
Turkey eggs, impregnation of .251 
— how to dress,-.316 
Turkeys and small fruits.348 
— raising.,....332 
— treatment of young.300 
— wheat for.... 212 
- white Holland. 26 
Turnips for chickens. .. .300 
— for fowls.251 
Vulture-hocked fowls.156 
Yellow deposit on tongue and 
mouth.301 
RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 
Ash house, convenient.201 
Barn, dairy or farm,.....368 
— of Cornell University. 25 
Blinds, swindling in. .361 
Brick work, preserving.208 
Building, expression of purpose 
in.....301 
Cellar, building a.16 
Cheese factory, improved.201 
Color for homes ..2C8 
Cottage, a Gothic rural.169 
— an American. 329 
Dairy and farm barn.361 
Earth closets and cess pools.... 29 
Fruit house, plan of a,.10 
Hog pens, building.320 
House painting... .361 
Linseed oil in painting.329 
Oiling roofs.288 
Painting shingle roofs.....26 
Plan of a $1,000 house wanted. .329 
Roof, cotton cloth for a.169 
Roofing, patent.201 
— who hits used patent.169 
Roofs, Using slates on.169 
— painting shingle. 26 
Swindling in blinds.361 
Wire netting for plastering.25 
SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL. 
Binding the Rural.349 
Black, to dye wood.238 
Boots and harness,dressing for.287 
Bread for alum, to test.,.238 
Bristles, substitute lor......., ..238 
Cement lor porcelain...238 
Coal dust, utilisation Of....124 
Coffee with milk Indigestible.. .334 
Colors to harmonise with ma¬ 
hogany. ..23S 
Crayon painting.255 
Kiltratluu, new method.334 
Glycerine for preserving fruit. .334 
Harness polish.93 
Invention for traveling moth¬ 
ers.287 
Lightning and lightning rods.. 93 
Meat, new method Of preserv¬ 
ing. 345 
Mounting leaves in moss.. .287 
Oil of mustard lit cow’s milk—287 
Painting rough buildings.93 
Patent laws, opinions abont—307 
Physiology of the Siamese 
twin#... 109 
Polishing paste for wood furni¬ 
ture... 238 
Poisoned by carbolic acid.334 
Ramin industry....,.334 
Bat poison...93 
Bats and mice from house walls, 
to drive. 124 
— to exterminate.238 
Soup, a useful.334 
— powdered.335 
Sketching drafting paper.23(1 
Table for fruit.109 
Varnish, elastic.93 
— hnw to.349 
Vinegar, cheap...397 
Watering pots, mending.397 
Waterproof paper. 238 
Why ice went.238 
SEASON. 
rr ~ r 
Alexander, N. Y .324 
Amherst, Mass,.....372 
Ann Arbor, Mich.356 
Appleton, Wis..,.,.52,292 
Atlanta, Ga.388 
Avoca. Steuben Co., N. Y.404 
Bayfield, Wis.308 
Brldgcvlllc, Sussex Co., Del....116 
Butlerville. Ind.324 
Caledonia, Livingston Co., N. Y. 
276,388 
Cole’s Station. 84 
Clark, Mercer Co., Pa.....372 
Cleveland, E. Tenn.192 
Condition Of winter wheat.308 
Corn crop Of 1873....,...., .... . 68 
Corvallis, Benton Co., Oregon..324 
Crop prospects.401 
Cuba. N. Y.132 
Essex Co.. Vu.116 
Forsyth, Seneca Co., N. Y.192 
Foil dii Lae, Wis.228 
Green Co., Mo..401 
Hull’s Corners, Ontario Co., N. 
..68,132 
Harlem Springs, O.216 
Hnsensuck, Lehigh Co., Pa.324 
Ice storms in Northern Ohio... 68 
Jefferson, Union Co.. D. T.84 
Jersey City, Wood Co., 0.372 
Joncsvlllc, Saratoga Co., N. Y. 
68,324 
Kenosha Co., Wis...372 
Lamartine, Carroll Co., 0.52 
Luvalle, Sauk Co., Wis.260 
Liberty. Ind.192 
Lymlonville, Vt.36,116, 228, 340 
Madison, Wis.,.,....388 
Maysvllle, Columbiana Co., 0...324 
Mechanlcstown, Carroll Co.,O..276 
Melvin, Ford Co., Ill.324 
.'It. Pleasant, Jeff. Co., O.356 
Nashville, Tenn. 36 
New London, 0.116 
Newport, N. Y .324 
Newton, Kan. 36 
Norfolk, Va.84 
Northern Ohio.260 
North Sutton, N. H.305 
Orient, Sumner Co., Tex.388 
Painesville, 0.308 
Perry City, Wood Co.. 0.132 
Princeton, Gibson Co., Ind....68 
324, 104 
Rising Sun, Ind...36 
Reedsburg, Sauk Co., Wis.52 
Rochester, N Y .30? 
Round Plains. Norfolk Co., Ont. 52 
Salem. Roanoke Co., Va.372 
San Antonio, Tex.388 
Sand Spring, Del. Co.. Iowa.372 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y.-.260 
Sharon Center, .llont. Co.,N. Y.308 
Skaneatclos, Onondaga Co., N. 
Y.356 
Springfield, Mo...,.132 
Starkey, N. Y. 148 
Sterling, Whiteside Co., Ill..292. 356 
Uppervllle. Fauquier Co., Va.,,.356 
Vineland, N. J.340 
Washington Co., Tenn.356 
Wellington Co., Out. .372 
Westport, Conn.118,260 
Willmottvlllc. Adair Co.. Mo...321 
Xenia, Green Co.. 0.36 
SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
Angora goat business.186 
Corn per acre. 169 bushels of_123 
Flail pomace for sheep'.11 
Grubln the head, to cure.267 
Lambs dying.347 
— green lea for.267 
— scouring anil dying..........205 
— what alls my.........313 
Lice from sheep, to remove.267 
Practical shepherd.,.313 
Ram, Oxfordshire down...92 
Scab in sheep. 205 
— — Colorado, treatment of. ..395 
Sheep, alfalfa for. 20 
— breeder, about an old. 29 
— Breeders’ Ass’n. 80 
— breeding, giving up.151 
— care of old. 45 
— Devon long wools.153 
— good pluee to keen.895 
— Engl lull method Of liurdling.313 
— farming in Nebraska.207 
— tor wool bearing, most prof¬ 
itable.186 
— fish pomace for. 14 
— husbandry tortheSouth....379 
— in England. 76 
— Infested with lice.205 
— in the United States. 43 
— losing their wool...186 
— management of.285 
— mistaken opinions about 
long-winded.123 
— of ticks, clearing.379 
— on an acre, number of.92 
— Pennsylvania.395 
— South Carolina plantations.220 
— Oxfordshire down.180 
— show, N. Y. State.:..833 
— sulphur and copperas, feed¬ 
ing.186 
— lungs, parasite* in .220 
— puorpeml lever in.347 
— stretches in.332,379 
— to remove lice from.267 
— twice a year, dipping.43 
— wanted, a now breed of..298, 
347, 395 
— washing.332 
Stretches in Sheep....,.332, 379 
Stock returned free from sheep 
lairs... 285 
Southdown, characteristics of.. 76 
Wool, advance of...14 
— Growers’ Ass’n of N. Y.139 
— scouring works.313 
SPORTSMAN. 
Cartridges for a Henry rifle.... 204 
Deadfall for mink.204 
Gun, how to keep a.204 
New Hampshire game law.204 
Shooting on Illinois farms.204 
Skunks, to trap.204 
Terrier, prick-eared Skye.204 
SWINE-HERD, 
Alfalfa hay for swine......299 
Berkshire, points of a.379 
Brewers' grains for breeding 
sows.155, 220 
Buttermilk and scurvy.345 
Carbon for hogs...St 5 
Carbonaceous matter forswine.iWO 
Cholera .187 
Cough In swine.315 
Deodorizing hog yards.395 
Figs for pigs....155 
Hogs diseased.379 
— In winter, fattening.155 
Hungarian pigs. 75 
Kidney worm paralysis.,_....315 
Lancaster swine. 91 
— worms.187 
Mange.187 
— in swine. 75 
Pigs, figs for.155 
— Hungarian.... . 75 
— ill.315 
— typhoid fever in.315 
Points of .1 Berkshire.379 
Pork raising unprofitable.91 
Scours in nigs and calves.315 
Sows citing pigs...345 
Swill cart.220 
Swine, breeding sexes at will. .235 
— breeds at the West...91 
— carbonaceous matter for_379 
— carbon for...345 
— Chester Whites. 27 
— diseased. 27 
— Lancaster.. 91 
— malformation of.395 
— mange in. 75 
Swineherd book.187 
— extraordinary opinion of... .299 
Typhoid fever in pigs.315 
VINEYARD. 
Grape and convict labor, Scup- 
pernong. 239 
— Cambridge.350 
— culture in Massachusetts... 30 
— -Onondaga Co., N. Y....253 
— curcultos, destroying.190 
— Empress...318 
— Flowers... 16 
— Gros Guillaume.U9 
— Hampton Court vine.46 
— inquiries..221 
— Lincoln.239 
— Louisiana.190 
— mildewing. CrotOn.393 
— new mode of training the 
Scuppernornr..2-’ 1 
— origin of the Delaware.3'.'3 
— pruning. 30 
— suppi'rt?. 0 
— the Delawarean American.380 
— tree training.381 
— wine from the Elvira.172 
— Worden.WO 
— Worden’s.. ....2*;i 
— on mulberry stocks, grafting 16 
— vines, summer pruning.393 
Grapes for a city garden, best 
12,159 
— — Florida.259 
— — planting in Illinois........221 
— — raisins and wines in Cali¬ 
fornia.190 
— — winter. 159 
— fresh the year round.193 
— fuller facts on three new.... 63 
— how to keep. . .159 
— hybridizing.—172 
— picking and maikctiug. 30 
— preserving. 46 
— to discover the quality of 
seedling.172 
— varieties, culture, &o.172 
— what kinds to plant.30 
Guano vs. phylloxera.381 
Phylloxera again. 62 
— in French vineyards.46 
— vustatrlx....190 
Sulphur in the vineyard, use of.381 
Vine, bleeding of the.381 
Vineyards, plowing.330 
BIOGRAPHICAL. 
Adams, Dudley W.249 
Borden, Gail. 25 
Cone of Michigan, LinuB.109 
Faraday's eloquence.109 
Sumner, death of Charles.196 
LADIES’ PORTFOLIO. 
About women.35.163 
A farewell... 87 
— few words to husbands.195 
Alice Mason Sumner.....339 
Another long-time Ruralist.387 
— Bural reminiscence..•••275 
Apart.83 
A polite and honorable woman. 99 
Around the hearth.291 
At the gate.339 
Baby sweet.179 
Be buoyant.275 
Borrowing newspapers.99 
Boys, the.83 
Brown hands.227 
California dairymaid.147 
Care and pleasure of house 
plants.227 
Children shonld not hear spook 
stories ..227 
Chinese proposals of marriage.115 
Cude of dress fur ladies. 83 
Cottage wooing. 51 
Crusaders, suffrage, etc.493 
Deoorotlons again. 19 
Divorced.397 
Dress of small girls in winter,.. 13 
Dress question.147 
Early influence.355 
Education of boys and girls.09 
English factor/ girls. 67 
Every-day Hie.35,115 
Exercises in articulation.99 
Ex-mayor Hall's daughters.99 
Facts for the rair.307 
Flowers.-. 99 
For an hour... 275 
Forsaken.19 
Frankness in love.355 
Female students.403 
Georgia heroine.387 
Gem from Whittier.147 
Gift gems.163 
Give him light..........387 
Good worker. ....387 
Greeting from the prairies.323 
Happy children. 83 
Hired girls.179 
Home.147 
— of taste. 67 
How one woman secured the 
Rural.307 
Husband and wife.131 
I am a woman. 99 
Ignorant and superstitious ser¬ 
vants. 227 
In the spring time.323 
I Indian chivalry.387 
Is this true?.275 
— it wicked to dance?.227 
Items for ladies..— 19 
! It ig the fashion.323 
I Keep the birth-days.179 
Kindergarten, the.371 
Leaf Horn Vine Cottage.67 
Learn to keep silence. 
Leaves from Vine Cottage ) ! 
Left his bed and board .. 
Letters, an admonition. , 
Little bon-bon.. 1 ; 
Lost women..... *t 
Love, honor ami • l><\ . .51 
— of the bcantilul... 2 !. 
Madame Loy-mi on Tempi.. 
ance. 32;: 
Making New Vein all# . • 
Manners ... - —. 
Marriage erigio- enients.131 
| — in a Grange..‘2J't 
Matches. ..163 
1 Mothers, speak kindly.6 
Mothers, take notice.1*9 
— teach your daughters ...243,307 
Mr. ami Mrs. Spriglitlcy's gar¬ 
It* ‘H 
m n • > 1 
1 iny garden. 
.3S7 
• III- Wl 
1 . 
.259 
W <??:»;•» 
v l» . 1 po \> ri\s. 
....273 
love marriage.193 
ni Lite miseries "f mar- 
1 iige.195 
mu .1 •.isclmlil#.355 
b«. ,'idiold gods. T'3 
i) well .1 . I remember.493 
Personal influence.103 
Picturesque.211 
Pleasant epistle...115 
Poor broken-hearted man.39? 
