INDEX TO PEACTICAL DEPABTMENTS 
APIARIAN 
Trees, Japanese laws regarding 
planting...; 
— plant In waste places on tho 
farm.5 
— protected from rats, mice. 
Half skimming, shrinkage 
from,..... 27 
Lactometer, the. 91 
J/eul feeding and animal diges¬ 
tion. 75 
— wintered cows. Miller’s. 11 
Microscope, advantages of the. 91 
— for dairymen. 75 
Milk, a new device for testing.363 
— as an economical article of 
food.. ..2gg 
— coat Oil lamps injurious to..370 
— experiments In deep and 
shallow setting of. 110 
— Jersey and native cows'.235 
— keeping each cow's, sepn 
rate.235 
— mixed.395 
— — sound during thunder 
“tOrms. 235 
— scalding..,,.,...385 
— secretion...107 
— setting in deep puns.283 
— pan, the enameled iron ,...305 
— parasites in...347 
— yield of. from a Dutch heif¬ 
er.. 
Milkers, rearing stock to make 
KOOd.395 
Pennsylvania dairymen In coun- 
r ". 
Rancidity, cause of.107 
Refrigerator dairy room, Wil¬ 
kinson’s gulf .'dream.2<i5 
llennat. how it is prepared.123 
Rennets, hogs'...235 
Roll butter packing, for mark¬ 
et.123 
Salt weigher, the. 50 
Saltpeter for removing bud 
odor from milk.187 
Selling milk and making butter 
and cheese.219 
Skim cheese, is the improving 
a fraud?.. 
Skirnmod cliueso, making. 27 
Skimming, the effect of. 27 
Special feeding again.219 
"Top” prices, why western 
dairymen do not get.107 
Udder, caked.171 
Willard’s address, X. A.171 
Grave vines, prud^ 
Hnirs turning to smy. Ga< . 
Have we moved nort\ ? ’ ' 'jo.,’ 
Hodge, form or. 
Hedges, ovorgreen thoi\. ls 
— common flowering shfy, B 3 | 3 
— prunirigoruumont.nl.'" 31 g 
Herbaceous plants, some who" m 
Horticultural circle, tho.. 0711 
Tlulless oats once more.190 
Lawn, attending to the.238 
Undent Benzoin.251 
Magnolias, ubout. 28 
Melons, planting.388 
Naatui till me as bedding plants.382 
Oat, the Routelle....286 
Pansies.. 
Perplexing blunders. .206 
Plants by mail, sending.. 11 
— from seed.....112 
shading In greenhouses.251 
Pleasure of anticipation. 126 
PIuiiib on peach storks.208 
Pomegranate, dwarf...288 
Potato beetles, exporting Col¬ 
orado.... 44 
Raising new varieties of plants 77 
Raspberries, pluntlog.318 
Roses, pruning...,.,...238 
Shrubs for house culture, neat.288 
— some excellent.254 
— the earliest flowering,...... ,318 
Snow, the flrst. 14 
Spring, preparing for.t08 
Stuartla pentagynia.251 
The flrst blink of spring.238 
Things getting mixed.382 
Tree peddlers about. 93 
Vines V why do we prune.125 
Wild shrubs, some handsome..174 
Wistaria buds killed.386 
Yum, the Chinese.302 
Chicken, how to fry. 79 
Coal ashes.207 
Codtlsh, how to cook salt.303 
Coffee, how to uniko. 127 
— to settle without eggs.. ,239, 319 
Clothing, economy in preparing ill 
Coldsluw.207 
Cookery, artistic....287 
Cookies. . 
— molasses...in, 
Copper in pickles and green tea, 
detecting. 63 
<ra :kuols, oat area I und cocou- 
dut.351 
Cream 
Bee damage fruit, does the.204,271 
— forage, shout. 46 
— hives, north and south.261 
— keeping in Russia.159 
moth, the...,..139 
Bees and the king bird.284 
— catnip for.204 
— do they sleep.171 
— feed rye and oatmeal in 
March.204 
— flour for....,.318 
— how Hn Iowan winters.12 
— liow to Italianise your.410 
— Italian. 204 
— something about.171 
— sunflowers for.76 
— the enemlos of.*.366 
— the senses of .139.223 
Brood, too much.251 
Drones.189 
Frames for hives, size of.93 
Hints, seasonable.348 
Hive, the best.271 
Honey, adulterating.12 
— bee, American varieties of,284 
— candied vs. adulterated.159 
— experiments with.159 
— home market for.271 
— product by a single bee¬ 
keeper...,. 76 
Joining swarms.410 
MelUott or sweet clover.224 
8warmlng, about.348 
Potato pone.. 
— puff.. 
Pudding.. 
— American Yorkshire.319 
~ corntnoal..223,271 
— crusted apple. 79 
— dried apple. 351 
favorite tapioca.271 
— fault. 47 
- geiaim.... 
— German nppio.239 
— grits we.ti apples.223 
— maize. 271 
— ruluute. ]59 
— orange. 308 
— sauce for. ...191 
— scrap.271 
— suet.. 
the children’s.175 
Puddings, queen of... ..383 
Puffs, apple..351 
" Putting things away”.175 
Recipes in season.319 
— original.303 
Rennet whey...271 
Rheumatism, remedy for.207 
Rice pudding with fruit. 63 
— — without eggs.207 
Ryo cooking, recipes for.383 
Sulud, cabbage.47 
Sully l.unn for tea.271 
Saratoga potatoes, to cook.Ill 
Sauce, apple.83 
Shortcake, strawberry.388 
Smoked meat, preservation of.223 
Soap, a useful. 47 
— about tho use of.239 
Stove polish.. .175 
Suggestions from a farmer’s 
wife. 79 
Sweetbreads, boiled.223 
Table, around the.255 
— tho hoad of the.239 
— housewife’s...175 
— lamps, how to clean.159 
Thoughts, a woman’s. 15 
Tin rusting, 40 prevent.271 
Toast, cheese. .143 
— German....,. 15 
Tomatoes, filed.319 
Turkey or chicken, stuffing for. 127 
VenlBun, roust baunuh of. 79 
— steaks....,.207 
Water-cresses, Btewed.383 
Yeast for warm weuther..,.,...351 
Young women, economical.411 
— scraping old orchard.!4 
— some of our valuable forest.350 
— sulphurin.234 
Willow for fence, white.267 
Willowsand willow ware.about.267 
Wood form from the bark, does 94 
DAIRY HUSBANDRY 
Bavarian. 
CucuraV-rs, fried . 
— piekh,g... 
— stewed,.. 
Custard, chocolate. 
Cutlets, lamb.... 
Domestic items.. 
Doughnuts, raise*. 
— Connecticut. 
Economy. 
Egg*, scrambled.. 
— plcklo. 
Fish cakos, how to make. 
Flies, about.. 
Fuwl, to broil a.' 
Fowls, fricassee of. 
Frosting, flavor for. 
Fritters, cheese. . 
Furs, howto keop,... 
Geese and feather ogds. 
Gems or iron-cluds..... 
German toast, to make. 
Gingerbread. 
— nice.j 
— grandmothur's. 
grandmother's, to make. 
Ginger crackers.. 
— snaps.. 
— Iowa. 
Glue for ready use.. 
Gooseberries, preserving.... 
Hair oil. . . 
Ham, to stuff u. 
llouey, candied. 
Horse-radish.. 
House cleaning, beauties of 
Household extra vaganceo f 
Indiscretions.. 
— matters. 
Housekeepers, professional, 
Housekeeping, about. 
Housework hints. 
I don't like It... 
Jolly, cabbage . 
— cider... 
— rolls... 
— tapioca. 
Johnny cake, good. 
Kettles, cleaniug.... 
Kitchen vs. something else,. 
Lamb stew. 
Lamp chimneys 
cracking..... 
Lettuce. 
Maple sirup, cunning. 
— — crystallised... 
Meat, cooking... 
— — in cold weather.. 
Mittens, cloth... 
M uffins, to make . 
Mutton, stewed shoulder of 
Oatmeal, all about cooking.. 
— bowtocook. ...... 
One week at our house. 
Onions. 
— peeling and slicing. 
— cooking. 
Oranges, eating politely. 
Oyster patties.. 
Oysters roasted.. 
Pancakes, rice. 
Pastry, good. 
Peas, about cooking. 
Pickles, cucumber. 
— mixed. 
Pie crust...2 
Pie, lemon.....2 
— vinegar. 
Pies, cracker. 
— cracker or mock mince •.. 
— good mince.. 
Pork steak, fried. 
American dairymen's conven¬ 
tion.59,90,01, 107,123 
Butter adulteration.363 
— and cheese exchange, weigh¬ 
er at,.363 
— classification tho.331 
— curing.335 
— different kinds of.,.123 
— factory averages.266 
— from a given quantity of 
milk..... 59 
— globules and the butter pro¬ 
duct of cows.. 43 
— how it is sometimes tulntod.266 
— injured by mixing new and 
old cream.123 
— keeping for seven years.363 
— making and butter packages 91 
— farm dairy arrangement for.187 
— — prize essay en.266 
— nutritious, Is......139 
— package, another new.43 
— preservation of... 91 
— — the moc-moco plant for. .266 
— to obtain choice.331 
Canadian dairymen, conven¬ 
tion of.155,171.187 
Chadwick, address of C. IS.187 
Cheese dairying, Jersey grades 
for.. 879 
— factories with public hulls.,386 
— from sour milk, making.187 
— making, acidity and temper¬ 
ature in... .90, 91 
— and marketing,. ... 91 
— —experiments in.,..,.,.27 
— needed abroad.155 
— oleomargarine.107,313,314 
— show, the great Scotch. 11 
— size of, for English market.171 
Corn fodder question.171 
Cows calving.171 
— concerning the ear-marks 
ARBORICULTURE 
Almonds in California.94 
Apple seedlings.234 
— trees, care of.267 
— — disease of...29 
— — split by the cold.188 
— — treatment of young...188 
Arbor-Vit®, Siberian.94 
Crab apple...,.286 
Crataegus pyracantha alba.233 
Error, a blundering. 62 
Eucalyptus in California. 94 
— — New Orleans.234 
Evergreens from seed raising. .233 
— — the forests.382 
— In Colorado...286 
— to propagate hardy. 29 
— transplanting.62 
Fruit, to protect from birds... 234 
Garden praotioe in the olden 
time.. 
Green wood, propagating from.221 
Hedge plant, u good.233 
— — beech as a. 62 
Hedges in the west, honey lo¬ 
cust for. 62 
Hickory trees, queries about...221 
Honey loouat for hedges in the 
west. 62 
Horticulture, nature and art In.286 
“ It moves”... 78 
Lightning on trees, effector.... 29 
Llgustrum vulgare.204 
Orchard, a peep into our.334 
Orchards, maintaining the fer¬ 
tility of. 234 
Osage orange hedge.267 
Osiers or basket willow.6* 
Peach culture in Delaware.94 
— trees,baring the roots of.... 188 
— — iron for.... 62 
Pears oracking, root pruning to 
prevent.62 
Pear tree blight, positive rem¬ 
edies....,.188 
Plums On peach roots. 29 
Privet, a neglected shrul’.204 , 
Pruning in California . 
Raspberries, when to 
again. 
Shrubs and trees, natn 
teotlon Considered 
Soils and forest growth, 
ical condition of.,. 
Sumac culture and uses, 
lea plant in Delaware.. 
Thorn, white evergreen 
Tree, how Canadians me 
— planting in the east.. 
Trees, directions in purchasing 29 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
African.ggj 
Apple snow.47,351 
Apples, iced.. 
in imitation of ginger.14;. 
Artichokes, cooking Jorusa- 
>em.287 
Asparagus.. 
— and beans.,..351 
Baking powders.391J 
Beef, minced. ..175 
— pickling.....175 
— ... 
— — good.HI 
— stew.. 
Beets, palatable..303 
Biscuit, rye.. 
Bread, corn....191 
— new Graham.. 
Butter, lemon.287 
Cabbage, boiled. 63 
Cake, a good.207 
— breakfast. 15 
— Buffalo cream.127 
— chocolate.271,383 
— cider...287 
— clove..,.,. 31 
— corn starch.271 
— cream.03 
— cup.271 
— custard for.127 
— dripping.287 
— excellent tea.351 
— K u| d.. 
— Jelly.....31,143 
— lemon.........127.207 
— light rye.271 
molasses.255 
— novel wuy of making jelly. .207 
— one egg.351 
— poor man’s molasses.303 
— silver.271 
— snow.191 
— — or bride’s.239 
— sponge.255,271 
— white...79,191 
Candy, vinegar...287 
Canned fruit, mold on. 63 
Carpets, ra*..191 
Cheese, chicken.271 
Chestnuts, the best way of 
roasting. 47 
Chicken, fricassee of. 11, 
DIARY OF A RURALIST 
Abutilons, wintering.334 
Andromeda florlbuuda.,...254 
— Mariana.254 
Artichoke, the Jerusalem.302 
Aucuba Japonica.286 
Azaleas,... 254 
Bedding plants, setting out.398 
Bectlo, big-eyed.398 
Beetles at hand, Colorado.398 
Berries, an inquiry ubout.334 
Birds, feodiuglthe.142 
Borers In grape vioes. 14 
Bulbs, looking over the. 77 
Butter, turnip-flavored.77 
Caterpillars, exterminating.142 
Chufa or earth almond.302 
City cows in the country. 93 
Clethra aimifolla,.,,.254 
Cuttings, a fow more.158 
Dioscorea batatas.302 
Dirca palustria.254 
Double rose mallow wanted.... 61 
Entomologist, a baby. 61 
EvergreeD. Euonymus.286 
Evergreens, among the fancy..350 
— prunlug.238 
— snow breaking down.286 
— the snow on..... H 
Ferns and dahlias.270 
Fine shrubs now in bloom.366 
Floriculture In Colorado.382 
— rotation In.....222 
Flower culture north and south.190 
— seed, sowiug early.125 
Flowers, long-lived...KB 
— more talk about. 61 
— something more about.142 
Food plants und the grusahop- 
Pers... T .302 
Fuchsias, bedding out..112 
Geraniums, trt-colored.,...142 
Grape vines, borers In. ll 
DOMESTIC PETS 
— feeding mlloli..,208 
— more concerning the exclu¬ 
sive milk diet for.299 
— working on small dairy 
farms. 265, 266 
Cream. 91 
— gauge, a convenient.203 
— waterlog milk to got the....266 
Creameries In Canada...187 
Creamery, Ridge Mills.313 
Dairy cows, feeding meal to.. .203 
— — treatment of....155 
— in Maine...235 
— farming, good milch cows 
an Important element in. .251 
— — profits of. 27 
— rooms, tu prevent the air 
becoming electrized.283 
— stock, the best.155 
— the future of the,.251 
— trade, South American. 11 
— utensils.. 
Dairying in the northwest...,..107 
— winter. 75 
Experience during 1873-74.75 
Factories, running manage¬ 
ment of.....,.,.., .171 
Factory butter churning.59 
— — plan of setting the milk,. 59 
— — the premium..59 
— operations for 1874......331 
Fat formation of, in milk and 
cheese.. 
Fats in butter and cheese mak¬ 
ing...107 
Fuller, address of President M. 
Birdcage, prize.285 
Canaries and cayenne pepper. .285 
Dogs, mange In. 10 
Mink culture In New York...... 74 
Tigeon show ut Crystal Palace, 
London.,,,... 9 
Pigeons at Doylestown, our 
contributor’s. . 10 
Pouter, English, No. 2.A-...9,10 
EDITORIAL. 
A better business outlook.176 
About removing West or any¬ 
where. ..272 
— woodlands.400 
A bushel an uncertain quantity .240 
— California seed farm.,.384 
— covert editorial.176 
— dog law in Ohio.272 
Advertisers’ magazine.192 
Advertising in the Rural pays..400 
Advice to Northerners going 
Bouth.336 
A good example. 16 
— — investment.64 
— gTange festival.336 
— great clothing establish¬ 
ment. 353 
— hearty and friendly greet¬ 
ing... 64 
— large amount of thinking...224 
All work—no play.224 
American cranberries in Lon¬ 
don, Kng. tu 
— Institute, trouble in the.112 
— iron und steel, tout of.112 
— short-born herd book.336 
A nation of investigators. 64 
to prevent 
prune 
cheat 
Grasses in Canada 
