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INDEX TO PRACTICAL DEPARTMENTS 
OF THE RURAL NEW-YORKER FROM JULY TO, JANUARY, «87«, 
APIARIAN. 
Bee farming in Broome Co., N. 
Y.221 
— In ves, about. 45 
— — ventilation of.180 
— keeping not easy for women 
and children...361 
— successful. 14 
— or wasp stings.284 
— plants.840 
Bees, a fifty-year-old swarm of. 137 
— by mull, sending queen......187 
— changing nature of.301 
— cross, Italian.,...310 
— communicating ideas.137 
— destroying fruit. n 
— eating grapes.,... 45 
— In Onondaga Co., X. V.284 
wintering.,.285 
Catnip for bees.390 
Frames, long ami short.310 
Honey adulteration. H 
dew.340 
— granulated .284 
how to get surplus.390 
t.ho most box....285 
— III New York State.281 
— the comb vs. adulterated. 4:. 
— ru-Nwul|owlng.02 
Hops from breweries, refuse...284 
Insect stings, remedy......310 
Pruning broods.301 
Queen at swarming.. v .31G 
Standard frames.348 
Trave I i ng apiari es.810 
ARBORICULTURE. 
Plnus cembru. 77 Cheeseroom. m 
~ mugho.77 -• sago.......283 
Planting cuttings.209 — Wiltshire... 235 
Plants for winter, heeling-in...253 Churning. ^7 
Abieft alba. 
— — gluuca. 
-- 
.. 77 
— canadensis aana.. 
.. 77 
— excelsa conica..,,.. 
.. 77 
— pendula. 
.. 77 
— — purviformis. 
.. 77 
— — pnnicla. 
.. 77 
— — pyramidulis. 
.. 77 
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Apple trees, cracking the bark. 57 
— — pruning.....393 
Apples vs. eider.348 
Allunthus again...45 
lifi-eh, weeping.393 
Bit' ll blood-leaved. 6? 
— purple-leaved.108 
Boies for cuttings.269 
Cranberry tree.393 
Outalpu for posts.205 
CatorpiIiars on fruit trees, de¬ 
stroying. 253 
Ciona, when to uut...221 
Currant* from utittings..188 
Cult! ng buds.,...209 
Eucalyptus, the.157 
Em >nymua lutitollu....393 
Evergreen, a tiew... 89 
Evergreens from cuttings.269 
— novelties and dwarfs..77 
heeding roots at the surface...310 
1 lowering sbruVs, native hardy 81 
Forests and rainfall.310 
Fruit shrubs us ornamental 
Plants. 89 
Hodges, honey locust for.57 
— time to prune arbor vitas. ...ill 
Honey locust for hedges...57 
Junlperus Japenlca uurea. 77 
— sabina varlegata...77 
— sinensis..77 
— — vurlegata.... ..77 
— virglniana gluuca...77 
— — pendula.77 
Lawn trees.57,157 
Lilac Ur. Lind ley..,.108 
Mulch the trees. . 31 
Oaks, great old.221 
Orange trees, rust on.348 
Orchards, cultivation of_....205 
— replanting.30i 
Peach trees,diseased...31 
— yellows in. 188,285 
Pear seed lings.301 
Pearson apples,grafting.316 
— to plant,, what.2S6 
Plcea lludsonlca.77 
~ Pectinata pendula. 77 j 
— piebtu..., . 77 ■ 
Plants for winter, heeling-in...253 
— with water, supplying.188 
Pruning on heavy soil, against 
hard.... 31 
Raspberries be cut away? 
should the old canes of...305 
— fall planting...209 
— transplanting.. .257 
— flowering. 77 
Kotlnlsporn obtusa.89 
Rhododendron,u mammoth.... 57 
Strawberry tree.393 
Taxus adpressa strieta.77 
buoeuta. 57 
camidonsls varlegata. 77 
— Wushlngtonll. 77 
Thuja cristata. 77 
— diimosa.,...77 
— nana.. 
peudula. 77 
pyrntnidalis. 77 
— vervantieana...77 
Timber may he mutilated, how,141 
— planting, law on.310 
Tree correspondence, refresh- 
l»g... 13 
Trees, hniised.253 
— apparatus for transplanting 89 
— lawn. 57 
— staking.. 
Tropical vegetation.89 
Viburnum opulus..393 
Victoria and Columbia.Ill 
When to cut cions.231 
Yellows in pencil trees.188 
English yew.57, 157 
— — and other trees.393 
DAIRY HUBBANDRY. 
Abortion lu cows, hemp seed... 11 
Ball’s bluff...123 
Big spring, the.123 
Brown farm. 107 
Burthen of 1874. 395 
Rutter and eggs, essays on.283 
— — substitutes. 75 
— advancing abroad, price of.395 
— Central N. Y. fair.283 
— consumption, rate of.391 
— Convention, address of 
President Hake. 27 
— — at ftidltuiapoiis...,,..27 
— crop, American.804 
— number of coo s req aired for 
the.395 
— cows and extra feeding.. ...395 
— factory, Meadow Brook.9t 
— for market, preparing ...... 91 
—■ In milk be increased by spe¬ 
cial feeding? can.139 
— makers' report, Western N. 
V.. 
— making... 27 
— milk, new use for.331 
— packages.363 
— pucklngund marketing.155 
— restoring.123 
— salting.... 
— salt to a pound.123 
— to avoid greasy.123 
— Vermont....155 
Canadian dairy products.,.303 
Carroll Manor. .303 
— — house.203 
Cheese and English quotations, 
Mgnriug the price of.267 
— at Central X. Y. Fair.2S3 
— — country markets, auction 
sales of. 11 
— — at Peterhoro factory.203 
— criticisms and.219 
— exhibition, Canada.187 
— exports, our.......363 
— factory. Old Dominion. 59 
— -Fairlield.378 
— from goat’s milk.123 
— making, new system.....331 
— — process.233 
— new process of curing.219 
— not made In Ibis country, 
Stilton.219 
— Oleomargarine.363 
— presses... 75 
1 Churning.. Soiling for butter. 
Climate of Virginia. 43 J Spaying cows. 
Consumption increases us qual- I Spring houses.. 
tty improves.395 Stabler furm.. . . . . . ". . . 
Course of culture. 91 Stock for the shambles. 
Cow yields bad milk, a fright- Sweet corn for market. 
unt -'d..... 11 Thom us* dairy farm . 
Cows and their feed.17t Tyoliold fever germs comm 
— spaying... 91 oatod through milk... 
Creamery, .Madison Co.347 Walkers’ farm. 
— setting milk in...347 What a blind man can di 
Dairy Interest, progross of the.394 farming. 
— management, now depart- Why farming does not pity 
ure -...310 Willard’s address, X. A.. 
— matters, results and rate of — — at Indianapolis. 
Profit.234 
— notes on Maryland, No. 1.. ..155 
-No.2.171 DIARY OF A RURAL 
— -No. 3.187 
~. No- * . m Acknowledgment of favors 
- Virginia, No. 1. 43 Afraid to try. 
.59 Alcohol for scale Insects.... 
“ —No.3.,....91 Always going to do. .. 
No ’ *.1"7 A nswers to correspondents. 
— No. 6....123 Arbor vitins, massing. 
Dairying in Wiltshire.235 Asparagus, now variety wan 
— near Elgin, III.303 A Winter Out-Look. 
Dairymen’s Convention, N. y. Boo, nest of a solitary. 
State..394 , 410 Beetles, tortoise. 
Ellicott farm,.187 Borers,poplar treo.. 
Expenses and profits. 171 Bright spots In the garden.. 
Experiments, need of..^395 “''*-hunters’ harvest. 
Farm buildings. ,3 _ and tubers, taking up.,.. 
Fear of over-production.394 _ planting and protecting. 
Feeding and fattening stock.... 187 By the evening lamp, . 
" 8t, mk.155 Caterpillars, look out for.... 
Fertilizers, application of.155 — on grape vinos. 
— manufacturing....155 Catocalas..... ,] 
Floating curds, vinegar tor.219 Ohoup Information.... 
Folly, the...,,..203 Chestnut qrop. 
Grass in Virginia. 59 Chinese yam for ornament., 
Gould, death of J. Stanton.395 Clearing up rubbish.. 
Hallowed farm...I87 Collecting near home. 
Hemp seed to prevent abortion 11 Colorado... 
Holstein and Short-Horn cows Coleuses, new,,.,.. 
as milkers.27 Downing, a day with Charles 
Hughes' farm...J07 Ilt‘up of blood, a.. 
Ice house above milk room.299 K 8Ua In one basket, too man 
— — and milk room uonuccted.267 Enlarge his shirt collars.. 
.Junney farm.203 Kntomologtcally fortunate .. 
Labor, price of... ......165 ^ ailing of the leaf. 
Smith’s farm.107 Saving the leaves.334 
„ , . Seeds, a thorn and.. 
.moke house...171 Scramble for a beetle.!si8 
Souvimt cows ^.io ® hr “ b * '»><1 herbaceous plants..302 
I q r ,rin 7 . . Smilnx ns a decorative plant.. ..382 
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Stock for the Shambles.203 stuurtia pentagyna 
Sweet corn for market.187 Too many suckers... 
I homo*' dairy farm.. .135 Treed newly planted 
lyuhoid fever germs communi Tuberoses, bloomin* 
catcd through milk.378 — show of 
Walkers’ farm.107 Vtrgllla, or yellow w. 
What a blind man can do at Walking-stick pest 
,umiin «. Weevil, whit* pine.. 
Why farming does not pay.395 Which is the most pi 
Willard’s address, X. A.394 White pine saw-fly 
- — at Indianapolis.27 Whortloborrles, cult 
Why don’t yon shoot 
DIARY OF A RURALIST. ' Vi " l,irluii - •“Faring.. 
Acknowledgment of favors....200 DOMESTIC ECl 
Afraid to try.302 Ants, red. 
Alcohol for scale Insects.398 — bow to destroy 
Always going to do...360 Apple broad. 
Answers to correspondents. 14 - dumplings... 
Arbor vit.i«s, massing.,.,860 — flap. . 
Asparagus, new variety wanted H — John.......”.....'. 
A, Wluter Out-Look.....Ill — puna. 
Meo, nest of a solitary. 10 Bedbug exterminator 
Beetles, tortoise.30 extermination of. 
1 .orers, poplar t reo.286 Boor clubs. 
Bright spots iu the garden.286 ,,. . 
Bug-hunters’ harvest.fl« 7 1 bott,ed "">*<*■ • 
Bulbs, About other.Blackberry ambrosia. 
— IMd LlibnrM. tiikln.y mi mi JHJ11.,,,..••••*. 
Dumplings.. 
~ "PPlo.111,176 
Economy of strength. 31 
- time.. 
K Kgs. 95 
- a la bounefemme............ 31 
.. 
- Salt for.142 baked. 
.Stuurtia pentugyna. 78 on toast. 
Too many suckers.318 - over winter, to 
Troek newly planted. 46 — vs. meat. 
Tuberoses, blooming.206 Fish, curing and c< 
— show of...238 Flannel, bleaching 
Vtrgllla, or yellow wood.120 Flics, to kill. 
Walking-stick pest...302 Food,,on healthful 
Weevil, white pine.158 French cream. 
Which Ih the most profitable.,. 190 Furniture, to take 
WhRe pine saw-fly.158 0unu{mU , lmde wa 
, . 0Ulr '‘ TMtin “-"- 1 ® Glue or cement, wli 
W ' i, " 1 f ou 8 ,oot lt? .D" ready for use... 
». layering.366 Guosohnrrv mimnni 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
and tubers, taking up 
Ants, red.. j6 
— bow to destroy.. 
Apple bread.239 
— dumplings...... 
flap,.....,. 'M*i 
j.::5 
~ pu,,s .. 
Bedbug exterminator wanted.. 95 
extermination of.M3 
Beef clubs..,,...223 
Boer, bottled ginger..(43 
Blackberry ambrosia. 79 
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”7 -I.—.... *. - nuddliiu ... ,,,,w icaciino nouse on lire. ..255 
- planting and protecting.331 _ . T9 Hygiene breakfast. m 
By the evening lamp.)9o „ . . Ink hlue-hi.icv TV. 
C}a ®?". l ! ir ’ , \ l00km,t tor ."i SI®* 1 ~.'“ r,or,nvB,M8 .Irish oatmeaurtsps":;:::;::;;;;;^ 
on toast. 34 
— over winter, to keep.!."475 
— vs, meat.........239 
Fish, curing and cooking,.399 
Flannel, bleaching. 443 
Flics, to kill .. 96 
Food, on healthful....349 
French cream.. 
Furniture, to take marks off_95 
Garments made water-proof. ..271 
Glue or cement, white . 34 
— ready for use..,...,...307 
Gooseberry compote.... 
Graham gems.. 
Grease spots on books or paper.239 
— removing.03.143 
Green, to color cotton.6i 
Greens, cooking.. 
n “*F0H.. 
Ham, to boll a.143, 383 
— - stuff a.31, 239,’867 
Hums, sugar-curing.297 
Hard soap.... 2 O 1 ; 
Healthful food....,.335 
Household ornament.95 
— measure*.,.. 
Housekeeping hints.383 
“ what I know of.239 
How to set the house on Ure, ..255 
Hygiene breakfast.437 
Large results and rale of profit.299 
Liming the land.107 
Loudon valley.. 
Milk and butter from a Jersey 
cow, yield of...139 
— on grape vinos......78 
Catocalas.. 
Ohoap Information.334 
Chostnut crop... 286 
Chinese yam for ornumont.112 
Clearing up rubbish..251 
Collecting near homo.190 
Colorado. ,,..2U(i 
Coleases, now,,.,..222 
Downing, a day with Charles... 62 
I Hop of blood, a. 40 
Eggs in one basket, too many..270 
Enlarge bis shirt collars. ,.142 
Kntomologtcally fortunate_382 
Falling of the leaf.280 
Farmers’ conventions.306 
Flight of time.,110 
Fruits for ornament.62 
Geraniums, scented leaf.398 
Gladioli, 12 good . 126 
Grape vines, caterpillars on_78 
liootA, WGt. 9(17 , 
Broad. . Z 
.207 
.239 
.239 
.319 
.191 
.399 
at its source, the crime of n. .1. . V 
poisoning T7 grapes. Seeking choice.650 
hlllll . ... " ’ .. ‘ Grass and a beetle for name.... 46 
- apple. Z 1,01 IFi currant.143 
- Corn batter. ... 
- Graham.” red oarrant. 95 
~ In (liar. * r “.. 
Rye and Indian..... .^PBiKmeala waiting.127,3% 
Breakfast rolls. . ,U>0Utburnin «.351 
Brown Be,,. 3,1', KBdhAiwoik again.Ill 
Bullock’s liver..194 t0 bloauh .. 
- stuffed.. " Lettuce dressing, superior.175 
Cake, delicate..',.'.'.,. ,3,, ~ for [ he ^Me, preparing.175 
- fruit.. .Linen, to stiffen.. 
-lemon... .Maccaronl with cheese.255 
poverty . \f 5 y.™" 1 ' 10 ,t : nko . . 
_ raisod ’ .„ Mine®meat, to make superior. J83 
, ...Mint, sauce.,.,,... «•> 
recipes, about.30 Model bill of fare"...3^ 
- . £ !2'T ,o c ;r u ro °“^ 
Bye and ludiun.303 
Breakfast rolls.. 
Brown Beil.... 
Bullock’s liver...194 
Butler for winter use, to keep.-103 
Cabbage salad... 
fruit.. ."I.: Linen, to stitfen.443 
lemon... .,6 A Mu ccaronl with cheese.255 
poverty.. £ ‘'jr 1,10 ,r ; ,lku . . 
. .1. Mince meat, to make superior..383 
recipes, about.30 Model bill of fare .. £ 
white AiKtncra . 1 ,n Birnlture. 15 
- brutal treatment of cows of. _ forimrae . m 
- caused by filthy atahie*B*, dla-'^ « ru »^ e,a ’ <^asites on.174 
o&tied.. . 'it? .. ... *j 0 
' How errors uro clIsaeinlnatGci... 04 
- changUjg composition of....296 tll 80a rch of variety. . . 9 
- erm f distributed, how the.391 Inaeol , „ n unwelco „ le . 4 
- death from impure. ...377 lltlerpretinKtb0 alKns ... " ““ 
' gunmy™ ? 3 thC ,., Kalm 1 i “ 8 nnrt hollios.transplant- 
frequrniiy, rkimniing.......267 l.arcli as an ornamental tree,...174 
- house for butler, plan of... .283 b , jU( , llct „ r the . m 
intluenceof msu fliciont food xMoth.lhumnung-bird. 30 
. onwumen ',.377 Nebraska. .,300 
1.Northern mole cricket.40, 206 
urge pans for setting.299 Not all for appearance sake... ,251 
- latest method of condens- oak, pin or swamp....126 
„ ““••’•••.•■•• •.378 Rears a failure, dwarf.350 
- poisoned by animalculm.378 _ presorvinv.238 
from violent emotions...378 _ rl pening of.331 
Po.son uncertain, nature of.37; when to gather.238 
. 15j * ln Rhloxes, perennial.... .126 
and ice house.171 j^ ants , t 4sr tiHzliiK .270 
Money In dairying.,71 _ from cuUlnBB< lmr(Jy .., ;ts 
Moon s farm Joseph T.171 _ niltlvo 01 . n . vmentlU „ J ., Tl 
Moriow n H(1dr68K iit Inilliiniin* , 
nlis4 p proMorvlug the foliugo of^.222 
Mutton making:::::::.4 _ pr,, r iBbtm * '*** .** 
N. Y. State Dairymen’s Ass’n .331 taking up.222 
Pasturing and watering stock.. 91 Queries from a farmer’s wife...no 
Pleasant Valley.423 Raspberries, native rod.318 
Resells of economy.395 — promising varieties.318 
Rotation and method of cul- - transplanting,,.. 
lure . 203 Roses for winter, potting.222 
- of crops.. — gome new,,. 22° 
Scofield place, the.174 _ without thorns...,.,,.300 
Size of farms In Virginia, ,.,, 59 Root crops, losses iu edible.270 
_ ...m,,,, . .Ncndles, be careful about.191 
- small sponge.287 - . 
Calf’s head boiled. . (Um 
Carpet Pe *t. ..^ Ornament, a pretty. 
rna»,^rtii . Oysters scalloped in a pun 
Castor oil, to disguise. 47 Paddies vs__ 
Catsup, tomato..,,.475 
C« a 11 flower omolette...355 
Choose, making Dutch.,.,. 207 
ChnrrUM, drying. 77 
Chill sauce...349, 335 
Cocoanut crisps. 47 
Coffee grounds, saving the... ...271 
— Hygienic.287 
Coldsluw...... 363 
Color blue on cotton. 223 
Colors, black. 
— blue... 63 
— brown. .,•! 
S'oen.63 
— " ur P 1 «. 63 
1- * !j . 63 
“ .. 33 
— of woven fabrics, testing... 03 
Cooking, reasons why In.191 
Cookies, cream. 223 
Cookies, nice.. 
Corn, curing sweet,,.113 
— how to eat. 207 
— to can sweet.427 
Cracker dessert.223 
Currant compote. 95 
Jelly.. 
Custard, earagne. 15 
Dish for breakfast....,...,.237 
Dessert, what shall we have for .191 
Hnmpllng, cljerry.. 03 
wuLiuoni crisps. 47 
— mash.. 
Orange sirup...354 
Ornament, a iiretty.399 
Oysters scalloped in a pun. 239 
Paddles vs. spoons.399 
Peach manxialudo.459 
Peaches dried.. 
— pickled.. 
Peas, green.......159 
— stewed.... 
Pie, cocoanut. 239 , 287 
— green corn.. 
— hygienic custard.HI 
— lemon.. 
Pickled pork.. 
Pickle, how 1 .. 
Pickles as made in Baltimore .. 47 
~ * re <-‘U.175,287 
— — tomato.::...,207 
— tomato,..,... 
— whisky.::::::: 63 
Pig. roust.,., .. 
Pineapple preserve.63 
Poor cooking.127 
Pork and heaiis. baked.287 
— another chapter on.287 
— broiling.287 
— chapter on ... 
— hash...287 
~ 8t0w .. 
Potato cakes.. 
Potatoes, fried..287 
— how to cook.. 
— to boll new. .459 
Puddings, apple.. 
— gelatine.. .. l73 
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