INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME XXXII 
Lamb knitting machine, the—381 
Pianos, Mnckie & Co.'s bell_ 
treble.•.333 
Randall pulverizing harrow.. ..343 
Watches, N. V. Watch Co.’s (4 
Ills.). • ••.333 
Weed sewing machine.397 
Residence of Or. H. A. Tucker 
at Oak Bluffs. 
SHKEP HUSBANDRY. 
Portraits of first prize sheep... .1 
Fanners’ favorite grain drill — 
Heebner’s level-tread horse 
power. 
— patent governor. 
Milehill wagon, the. 
Mohawk Valley clipper steel 
plow. 
Phillips’ patent spiral corn 
busker...... 
Dionroa Musclpula.• 
Draccnu llendersoni.1 
Krvtlirina Paxceli.■ 
Geranium seedling, bronze leaf 
or.. 
maculate .. 
Ornamental pot for plants...... 
Pelargonium fern Holt uni. 
- lent. 
Primula Japonic*. 
Ricinus. castor oil plant. 
Tritoma..... 
Tropicolum speclosutu.. 
Poetry and prices.•.3 
Progress of women’s rights.—J 
“ Protection ”. 
Self-interest." 
Shoddy book buyer, the. ‘ 
State Fair Incident.* 
Sunlight and Shadow . 
The )uonn war Jones played It 
on hi« triend Snoozer. 
The Reverse of It................ 
True Motherly solicitude...! 
The way wc livu now...! 
Wants toeipoilment.1 
DAIRY HUSBANDRY. 
Butter and cheese factory. 
- making, something new in. J 
Boxes for cooling with.1 
interior of a cheese factory in 
Switzerland. — ! 
* ENTOMOLOGICA L. 
Pei III ns. one of our friends. 
KLOKICULTUKAL. 
Arbor vital, common. 
A mods Dotiux..... 
Christmas Rose..... 
Cockscomb. 
Cypripedlum Japonicum. 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
ARBOIUCULTUUE. 
Angelica tree .3 
Apple tree, prolificacy 01 .3 
Birch, the European weeping...2 
Raroli. the iCuropoait. '2 
Piggery (2 III*.)... ..3 
Pruning, olijeots of. 3 
Hock work fountain, artificial.. 
Solarium macranthom. the-1 
Smoke house*. cheap (2 Ills.).. .1 
The clove tree.• 
View in Royal Botanical Gar¬ 
dens, Edinburgh.J 
COMIC. 
A little knowledge.1 
A lovely seaside scene. 
An Inducement... 
A sad case.* 
A slight misunderstanding. 
Black diamonds .. 
Desperate rases need dosporatc 
remedies.. 
Huy field Bkttchos.1 
How to catch II *h .. 
Never too lain to mend. . 
On Hio road to the fair.! 
Paddling her own canoe. 
Patent for boarding schools.... 
STOUY-TELMK. 
An autumn scone...,..193 
At the seaside. 49 
Baby Frank and his black boy 
nurse. 65 
Home from the country.289 
Jncko wlih poor Pussy's bone..305 
Kilty’s mission. 81 
1,11 tie Mary nod her pets........Alb 
Luuly's thanksgiving .8.VI 
Nantucket from the church_ 
tower.177 
— wharf... ...ITT 
Sagacity of u dog.H5 
Say good night all ”.IT 
Tne near and the souls.97 
— bridal wine cup.....129 
— first lesson.337 
— lathered chin.113 
— old out-door oron.267 
Omaha high school.273 
Washed ashore.2UU 
premium articles. 
PORTRAITS. 
Anderson. Hans Christian.145 
Sankey, Ira D.33 
POULTRY KEEPER. 
Feather of cuckoo fowls.314 
— of Hamburghs...220 
— — pencilled Hamburghs....285 
— — Polands. 16# 
French hen's nest.314 
The Rural's candidates for 
Thanksgiving, Nov. 25.1875..313 
Wild Turkey, the.384 
tub SPORTSMAN. 
A prize Newfoundland dog.... 3i5 
TBK VINEYARD. 
Grapes prepared forexhibltion.188 
View of Hammond's Fort, N.Y.lQo 
Monster bunch of white grapes.3Co 
MODES AND MANNXK8. 
Children’s garments. (10 Ills.) 
301. 349 
Garden hat. 13 
Lady’s costume.321 
— faucy bag purse..,.367 
— riding habit.29 
Overskiit* and walking jackets, 
(8 Ills.).209 
HERDSMAN. 
American short-horn cattle for 
Europe...... 
ChUlInghann wild cattle. 
idle in Colorado. 
ModelJersey bull.. 
HOUSEMAN. 
American Girl, the celebrated 
trotting mare.' 
Bits and bearing reins. 
Premium English horses. 
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 
George Woods tc Co.’s parlor 
organs.1 
348 ] industrial implements. 
305 
204 1 Belgian threshing machine.329 
. 25 Cider press. 14 
INDEX TO PRACTICAL DEPARTMENTS 
Barrel corn sheller, the.160 
Barrels made of paper./•••‘S’ 
Beginning of better times. the..33t> 
Bleached barley.208 
Booksellers’ exchange .60 
— organizing.1£* 
Buffalo Fertilizer Co.—. 
Business failures and the crops.288 
Canal contractor* in Jail.30 
rare In feeding milch cows.2.2 
Cal tin disease..4UU 
('11 use of the notatoe rot.240 
Centennial, the.•«* 
( hanging a desert to a sea.„48 
Pantry windows.191 
Pickles, cucumber. 31 
Pickling, more about.16J 
Pie crust. ,-•31 
— making.., ....•!•» 
Potato salad.. 15 
Preparing small fish.—ID 
Pudding, apple and cocoanut.. SI 
— excellent...1}} 
— Kate’s.. .. 
— shorts........IJJ 
Pumpkin pics, Aunt Lizzie s... 47 
to dry...239, 388 
Rag carpets. He 
Raspberry cream.95 
Rhubarb, to bake. 3* 
Uhl men for the kitchen.2.1.1 
Rolls, delicious.175 
Russian cream.— ,,'•> 
Sandwiches,now wayuf making 176 
summer. 
Having work. .eoj 
Selected recipes—159,223, 303, Jol 
Sliced tomato pickles.Ill 
Smoked meats, to preserve.1U 
Fiona cuke.7" 
Soft ginger bread. o' 
Soup, a nice white.HI 
Sijuash, baked.. ...-30* 
— pie.303 
Stains, to remove from clulh’g. 47 
Steam power vs. housework. ...191 
Tapioca Judy. 1,1 
Tomatoes, canning, preserving, 
etc.-<>7 
— baked.7J 
— broiled. ‘9 
— to CuQ»*f.. 
To make knitted moss.387 
— sernove fly specks. 1J5 
— soul preserves.L‘ 
— wash linens.127 
Transferring foutliers.Aw 
Useful recipes.-2oo 
— suggestions.23J 
Use ol Kerosene.3o5 
Vegetables, pickling and pre¬ 
serving .14> 
Vinegar ana cider........Ill 
— from rhubarb.95 
Washing made easy.3H 
— woolens.. 
Swiss cheese, its manufacture.377 
Vermont dairy, new associa-_ 
ticn.267, 389 
Walk among dairies and fac¬ 
toring...297 
Camelias, care and culture of. ,366 
Cheney, the dye house. 62 
Chinese, yam tubers.110 
Chickens in gardens.9} 
Comical sight, a.158 
Curciillo and disease • proof 
plums . 94 
Cut worms to keep away.142 
Currant, a new Mormon.78 
Ciircullo remedy.. 114 
Disease among the lilies.... . 382 
among grape vinos.JJ4 
Evergreen tree grub.398 
- thorn .334 
Favors which arc annoying. 168 
Ferns for mattresses....2§jj 
Fruit-growing for profit.288 
Frost, a lute...14 
Gathering up the leaves.. .3 j0 
Gravel walk*.261 
Glowing horse radish.. 222 
Hardy plants for window cul¬ 
ture. -.222 
— evergreens for house cul¬ 
ture. 222 
1 tuliving baskets, plants for.... 14 
Heeling la trees slid shrubs....384 
How 1 manage my poullry.206 
Keep the turnips cool ..382 
Large arohl bulb. .350 
Laurel-Icaved Willow, the.158 
Laying out flower beds..270 
More evergreen cuttings.398 
Mulching bedded geraniums. ..HO 
Neluinb'um, more about....254 
Nuphur’s....128 
Nymphetts, lliO.126 
Order tor poluto beetles.3.x) 
Reas, early and late.. 190 
Phylloxera on sandy soils..,. 190 
l»tn-ouk as 1111 ornamental tree.318 
Plants for names.78, 8,j 
Potato, deterioration of the....302 
— beetle, one mure....238 
— best late keeping. 14 
Potaloes, the best of Hie.318 
Pond lilies,about.126 
Prelecting half liurdy plaids.. .238 
Propagating shrubs from green 
cuttings.142 
— hlackbcrrrlcs and raspber¬ 
ries.251 
Protection against mice..238 
— for peach trees..288 
Preserving tender bulbs und2 
tubers. 22 
Raspberry plantation, breaking 
up a... ...302 
Raspberries, ripening of the... 64 
— without stakes.... <8 
Removing layers of plants......222 
Roses, about some old.80 
Rose beetles, diverting the.46 
Shading evergreens.382 
Rowing grass sued alone.1*2 
Squash vine borer. 142 
— vines, layorlng. .142 
Stupid farmers and potuto bee¬ 
tles.-62 
Sweet corn, thu best.208 
Taking Id the tender plants.222 
Ten-liners on tomatoes.174 
The flowergnrdeu in September*!* 
— hickory scaljtus.1>1 
To ilb picks and bouquet mak¬ 
ing.I 08 
Tomatoes, nhout.190 
Trick of a dry farmer.,.126 
Transplanting melons.JO 
— her biiocoiiH plants.190 
Tuberoses in winter. .......334 
Value Of rapid growing llmber.Bki 
Yu glint, the. at- a lawn tree.*> 
Vines and shrubs, layering.4t> 
What are solatium berries?.>34 
Wintering begonias.334 
Worm from Texas. 94 
Wonderful power of an insect.,318 
APIARIAN 
DAIRY HUSBANDRY 
Bee Keeping..61 
season 01 1875...140 
Bees, August management of. 140 
— experience with. 31 
— rules Tor llvlug. 31 
— transferring..71 
— plant destructive to.»2 
— preparing for winter.334 
— success with. ■ ■ .33* 
— wintering . . . 
Combs, .same the...... ..108 
Gold, milk and honey, land of.. 48 
lloncy. experiments with. .3(72 
— hive for bees, wilt go for.. ..187 
— principle source or.187 
— product of California.362 
— pruning hoes...0* 
surplus, and eare of bees.. 254 
Propolis or bee glue.187 
Quirnby, death of Mr. 61 
Swarming, prevention of.108 
Abortion, to prevent In cows... 184 
Butter, nduIterated detecting. .315 
— and cheese factory comb'ed 69 
— classification of. 27 
— directions for packingroll.. 91 
milking some points in .155 
— - something new In...331 
package, advantage of the_ 
new meiallle.251,299 
Canadian cheese fair.l'il 
Cheese,correcting short welg'ts 
in. --•• *2 
— making la a small way.59 
— Industry, is it in danger?.. .219 
— over production of.......817 
— requlron'iorits in..123 
— retail price pi In England... 75 
— sour tuilk and but tin milk. ..<75 
— vs. butter for profit.42 
Cows, what alls the. ..283 
Cream from milk at less tem- 
persture. philosophy of...315 
Creamery, Mcl.envy and Its 
goods... 363 
Dairy cows, good cure ful .251 
— fair, a Wisconsin...kH 
— hoard of trade in St. Iaiv- 
rence Co.171.378 
— questions answered.189 
— in Michigan.*,"™2 
— stock care of In curly wlnl) .378 
— Interest at the Centennial.. 203 
Dairies income of milk factory 42 
— — to Increase the..171 
— of Lako.Talioe.....189 
Dairying 111 Maine.2bi 
— In Broome Co..-..........381 
Deep setting in mineral walcrs.189 
Devons as huttci cows.283 
Gouts for churning.‘...2m 
Good nows.lit 
liei’klilUT, dairy note on.27 
llolsleiu or K ml method of but¬ 
ter making.139 
Imitation, English ebec.-e. ...*85 
Jersey's as butter yieldcrs.231 
Meal fed cows, and their record 91 
Milch cows, oil cake for. . -171 
Milk, bud effect of heating.203 
— composition of changed by 
feuding. , 107 
— docs seal ding of lessen yield 13 
of butter. .. •-»75 
— new appliances for cooling.283 
— preserving....... •299 
— preventing churning of in 
can.■••»••• »«..«* •••..»>* 
— SCii ldliiK the*... 283 
— selling direct to factories.. U 
— Atoole.• ♦.331 
— sugar........*......... d*D 
Nebraska dairy, notes on... 107,133 
Notes from our Dairy Editor on 
Minnesota.235 
New Y-.rkState Dairymen’s As-J 
ao’n and hoard of trade...39a 
Oleomargarine cheese and Prof 
Arnold.91 
— — question, the...I 09 
— - war, the.3Jc 
Rennets.,..... 
Rules for milking..— ... ......251 
Kicbncss of milk uffected by 
— periods of milking........ -3-L 
Salt. Onondaga factory filled... 299 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY 
A dinner table decoration.319 
Apple puffs. 15 
Asparagus cooking. 15 
Aunt Ruth's economy.127 
Bakers'buns —.. 15 
Birds' nest pudding.175 
Breakfast cuke.335 
Brighton biscuit.175 
Brown trlcasseeol fowls.Ill 
Ca n nod food...95 
Canning frnlt.265 
— peas, best var...223 
Chops broiled. lo 
Chowder or piecalllty.Ill 
Cheap nice pudding... 79 
Coffee, to settle without eggs. ..Ill 
— cake. 96 
Common 6 ense vs. economy....287 
Cooking, encourage your daugh¬ 
ters.255 
— reform In...,.,.19} 
t orn drying.. 9o 
Crackers.176 
Cream cakes..— 31 
Cucumbers, pickles..79,14. 
— preparing for the table.Ill 
Dessert . 79 
Dinner and supper.....271 
Doing np men’s wear. —38} 
Dried apple cake. 
Dropped eggs.« 
Durable bedding...30- 
1 Eggs, boiling.83,'25i 
— preserving...3 
— scrambling. J* 
Fish, to freshen.... 3. 
— fresh to hake. 7. 
Fried potatoes, Saratoga. 3 ] 
Fri*neh cream cake. 9. 
— receipts for cooking pota¬ 
toes.19 
F'ruil cake.3. 
— skins .. -3A 
Ginger snaps.31,.. 
Good English recipes.•*> 
Gooseberry Jam. 12 
Graham crackers,good.22 
Green pea soup.7 
Green pnus without meat.......XT 
nome-mndo hair oil....30 
House cleaning, help In.3 
Household recipes.31 
llonsukuepiuu. co-operative— l 
— — in harvest time. 6 
}low Mrs. McGooclien did her 
work.. ..••35 
IIow to make good bread. 08 
Imperfect cookery.—28 
improved method of dyeing... .39 
Indian breakfast cakes.38 
— cakes without eggs. 1 
K itchen conveniences.28 
Ladies' fancy bag purse.38 
Lamb stew... ' 
Lemonade, how to make. -L 
Lemon extract. *9 
Mildew tu remove.|J 
Mixed pickles . }J 
Moths In carpels.L 
— preventing. ‘ 
Musk melon, how to eat. 2 i 
Necessity as Invention. 
New brooms. 
Omelette... ' 
Onion as food.Jj 
Palatable beeta.1- 
Pan dowdy. J 
\ nil» K ' " ► •* - -w : . not 
Clump postage aesirabio.i»4 
City Journals and tliudalryiuen.4(l() 
- wisdom about farming. u> 
Cmil anlios as manure.304 
Coal ashes us manure....• • • -304 
Complaints of deranged molls. .320 
Considerably mixed.248 
Cornell university.8* 
Cotton in Turkey.17 
Credits. klU 
Crop report. •••Js® 
Crops belter than expected. « 
— of IH75.400 
Dairy exhlhlMou In Germany....184 
— room.{$ 
Danger from malaira...if- 
— — surlucc uianuring....272 
*- Dead beating” by farmers...-1JW 
Death of Andrew Johnson.98 
_ _ Geo. H. Mumford.96 
— — lauus Cone.•*» 
— pioneer woman, a....3AJ 
Debt ut New York State....... l?8 
Decrease of crime In England. J52 
— — pensioner*. .‘,‘6 
Degree of matrimony, the.3» 
Deserved vacation.JfJ 
Deranged weather this seuson.141 
Doing without rain. *8 
Do nut work too hard.32 
Don’t come to N. Y . 16 
I freer G improved llmu beans.. .178 
Eastern N. V. fair..,1" 
English barley market.3fJ 
— harvest, the. . 
— wheat deficiency, the........38* 
Editorial excursion to California*, 
Effects of superphosphate.3Z 
Epizootic disease, the.-•••** 
KpiZOOty VS epizootic....3C* 
Fallacy of over production.•»- 
Fans, etc... 
Farm that never W AS sold.m 
Fast mall service, the-. 
F'evcr tree, the, in Italy... 
Fighting the potato beetle.. 3- 
Flsh culture....... . ...-55 
Floral Insanity laudable.64 
Floods ni England...... 
Foreign demand for Americau_ 
produce.o 0 - 
Frosts in August.. -.-J™ 
F ruit at N. Y- Ntutis Fair.28s 
— prospect, flip... 0 ^ 
Give us your cornet address... .*» 
Good barley tn Western N. Y..19* 
— disinfectants... 
— prospects for Western far-,. fl 
— words f"r the Rural.3J8 
Govern merit, ecouomy.in. “ 
— and the farmer...^ 
Grango, the National. ^ 
(iruBSes in Nebraska— •.—•• ••• “ 
Great New England lair. the-.. 
Gull stream refrigerator.““ 
Uelglni! whew I ote. .••--•-•••■.‘Li 
IIow U 10 Rural may be helped--** 
— they missed it ■■■■■■;■■ 
Idleness not a remedy for hard 
times. 3® 
ARBORICULTURE 
A just rebuke.285 
Angelica tree.-. 
Apple blight .—.- -20 
Autumn.-aBl 
English clay, the... ..1;>7 
European weeping birch.2.11 
Evi-.rgreena coming into view..‘28.1 
— uround the farm house.396 
Fibrous plant, a valuable...... -201 
Fine oral mental tree. 201 
Fountain, artificial rack work 57 
Forest*, spare the.318 
Fru ll-troos, wash Tor.27} 
Garden. .• ..*’} 
G rut ting distantly minted trees )4] 
Gum true and vine post.141 
Hedge, the bust kind or. 93 
Lurch, the weeping.........201 
Magnolia, homo. —.. • ,265 
Minnesota, forest planting ln..27J 
Mountain neb in England.271 
Mulberry, of polygamoms... — 56 
Rear blight...220. 3L 
— twig blight, produced by_ 
cold. 220 
planting small ffuU*lnautumn«6l 
— trees In old age....361 
Roadside troll, trees.. .396 
Solatium macrantbum. 201 
.Street planting, about.. 
Sumac American. 
The clove tree . .•"'’ 
— weeping privet. •••201 
True planting clubs..— -6. 
Trees, purchasing in the tall...All 
— why sodded ground is In- 
jurl-iuu to.:j«2 
Valuable forest trees.*3} 
Varieties, too many.. .......• • -27} 
View in Royal Botamc Gardcn..«l 
EDITORIAL, 
A centenniul work.272 
Acknowledgment......180 
A corn crop......do* 
Address ut Minn. State fair. 16 
Advice to u young farmer.144 
Affairs in California....3* 
After election duties. 
A gain for the Pacific rural 
p re ss. ...- • • Aw 
Agent* repnrting favorably—*i6 
Agricultural lectures and dis¬ 
cussions. .338 
A long Hie in one place.144 
American Devon herd book—288 
— manufacturers tn Europe...336 
— mowers abroad. 32 
— peaches for Europe. -.80 
— powologicttl society meeiing-HH 
— shad In the Rhine... ........ 48 
A million of subscribers.... .. 266 
Anecdote of President Mudl»ou352 
An honest oftlcial.*8 
A people’s champion.13» 
A prosperous state...Do 
— Rural editor iu the West....—4 
— tested success. 112 
An unwise law. 
A Virginia paradise.........*8 
— welcome sanctum visitor.. .3jw 
Artichokes.•*** 
DIARY OF A RURALIST 
About specimens in general. 
Agave Virginia. ... 
American crab apple. 
Ants, camphor to drive away 
Autumn and winter berries. 
Begonias, bedding out. 
Blackberries, hardy. 
Botanist, queries of a young. 
Budding trees and shrubs ... 
Butman squash, the. 
Carrats, sowing. 
Caterpillar, common tree. 
