DEC. 34 
Raspberry black, most prolific. 23 
— blight . "03 
Raspberries, drying, a pound.. .863 
— Marlboro, where ...._, ...735 
— red .. .S3 
• Revolver, C*ar.,.863 
Rice In Virginia..639 
Rice Corn.,.227 
Ringbone, Incipient.195 
Road dust, value of. ... 39 
Robbins' washer.175 
Roofing, felt or asbestos.307 
111 il* !r-.[SB 
Roup in poultry.863 
Root cutter, Clark's. 23 
Roosters, canonizing .519 
Roses, wintering out-of-doors 719 
Rotation of crops .195 
Rust on blackberries ..455 
yellOW, OU small fruits.155 
Rye. raJlBOWh.....353 
-- for green manure.211 
sowing hi corn.455 
Salt for manure.455 
— for wheat.55\ 
Sawdust manure.719 
Scab In sheep.175 
Scaly legs In poultry. ...........535 
Scott’s Suburban Home.275 
Sen tchlng machine...671 
Seeds of Osage Orange. 71 
Sewing machine, vertical feed..863 
Siphon, action of a.8122 
Sheep, Cotswold.55 
— — where to get.261 
Sheep, feed for, Winter.847 
— gestation In.583 
— now to soil. 455 
— Kentucky Improved.174 
— JUMcestt-r In Illinois.355 
— marking .211 
Merino, for sale.194 
— Oxford Down .. .,.. .227 
— shearing machines.855 
— with catarrh .23 
— — typhoid.fever. 195 
Shingles, to make durable. 847 
— to preserve. 195 
ShlpstulTs and shorts..885 
Shrubs, (lowering, very hardy.. 194 
Shumaker, where to buy.519 
Sickles of mowers, to grind.371 
Stir., building, Information 
wanted.....371 
Silver worms.785 
Slate roof*.815 
Slough*, leveling uneven. 55 
Sinut In wheat .. ... .583 
Snowball. Japan.196 
Soil-exhausters,corn and oatsasl75 
Soiling. 175 
Sorghum, bugs eating....,.735 
— halcpcnxc . 785 
— molasses, to purify.567 
— Rural Branching .55 
— sugar, works on. 23 
Spavin, blood. 503 
— bog. 175 
Specloea, meaning of.735 
Splrn-a, ulne-bark .799 
Splinter in horse 1 * foot. 71 
“ Spurry seed ".39 
Squash-vine, grub on.551 
Stable, home, float for.. 39 
Stock, car for transportation... 23 
— Doctor, Manning's.211 
— quarantining,. ,...243 
Strawberries, Bid well, cost of, 655 
— ground too rich.407 
— two sexes In .407 
without runners.503 
Strawberry, early for market. .,211 
— mulch. .323 
— plants, wild.439 
— sweetest, the.799 
Strlughalt.815 
Stumps, blowing up.439 
Sugar ft.on sorghum and corn¬ 
stalks ..... 23 
— sorghum, books on.23 
Sumach beetle, jumping ..407 
Summer and Winter, effects of .226 
Swallows, migration of.5i>S 
Tare seed.307 
Tea plant, soil for. .407 
Telegraphy, to learn..371 
Thistles. Canada..,.439 
Thorn and calico bush,,.261 
" Thorough-pin ”.175 
Ticks on sheep. .371 
Timber In Dakota .703 
Tobacco queries...119 
— White Burley.227 
— yellow..815 
Tomato vines, to make fruit... .355 
Trees barked uy hares.211 
Milkers, cow.508 
Milking quick or slow.227 
Millet for horses.307 
— grass and Hungarian.307 
— Pearl.227 
— _ cleaning. 195 
Moles, tar for ....371 
— to get rid of.407 
Money In the Bank of England..355 
Mower, Clipper.439 
Mulberry, Hungarian.307 
Mulberry trees, Where to get....751 
Night soil, queries about.194 
Oats, Mold’s and Norway. 847 
Oat straw, turnips, nutriment 
in ...195 
Oats, Norway 291 
Oats, Washington, smut In 803 
— White Russian.355 
LEcodonu Me x leans . 639 
Oil-meal, “ new process ”..,,8H,885 
— — oil in. 671 
Oil-seed meal . 583 
Onions, cotton seed us manure..783 
— potato, rotting.508 
Orange culture, book on.291 
Orchard, renewing.639 
Orchards, grass In .370 
Ornithology. .211 
Osage ‘ 'range seeds.71 
Paris-green on turnips...751 
ParsnlpB. cultivation of.830 
Pasture, permanent, making...847 
Peach, Comet....815 
— Stead ly.... 815 
— Wager .815 
- Waterloo........815 
Peaches, budding kinds.487 
— what age.639 
— iron-clad.354 
late blooming.307 
Peach tree seedlings, budding. ,354 
Peach trees, budding ..535 
Pear, Dlrecteur Alphand.119 
— Kieffcr’* Hybrid.689 
— lron-cjad ......354 
— Marshall 767 
Pears, quinces ami plums for 
Wisconsin,... .. 275 
Peas. Canada.847 
Peas, green, to can. 55 
Pea-weevils, remedy for... .. 639 
Pennyroyal, to get rid of.551 
Persimmons, bearing fruit, to 
make .. ....... 87 
Persimmon tree, age of bearing 23 
Pigs, diseased ears . 503 
Pinks, wintering.735 
Bioscope. 862 
Phonography, work on.275 
Phylloxera. .. .174 
Placenta, retention of ..226 
Plants, “dampingoft ’’.291 
Pleuro pneumonia, contagious,194 
Plow, subsoil, good.,-.307 
Plum, Class...639 
Iron clad . 354 
— Weaver__535, 639 
Plymouth Rocks.196 
Plows, hlstorV.863 
Pork, salting.783 
Posts, maklug durable.195 
Potash, making.. 815 
Potash, muriate of,.243 
Potato diggers......275 
— legal standard.87 
— planters .275 
Potatoes, enrlv.119 
— from seed.323 
— house for. 370 
— keeping. 370 
— many kinds together.227 
— sweet, keeping.751 
— whole, to plant,...195 
Poultry disease. 135 
— fence, portable.655 
— house, nests .814 
— - plan of. 815 
— Plymouth Rocks...455 
— scaly legs In.535 
Powder, giant.439 
Prizes, Rural's corn.,881 
Puerperal fever In cow.747 
Vermin on animals, grease for.. 185 
VINEYARD. 
Adlrondac.. 705 
Agawam.705 
Amber.141 
Amber Queen.274 
Bolvldere.164 
Brighton..151 
Catawba.... 800 
Catawba* In January.88 
Champion .705 
('reveling.652 
Croton.705 
Delaware In Canada and Vt.151 
Duchess. .150, 152, 274 
Early Victor... .130 
Eldorado.151 
Elvira.151 
Elvira No. 4 and 5 .. 151 
Etta No. 3.151 
Eumelan. 162 
Grafting, caution. 240 
Grape culture.705 
— discussion at Boston Porno- 
logical Society.705 
Grape-vines, grafting.162,163 
— — ground for.152 
— — Indoors, planting.762 
— — In pots. 517,666 
— — plant....292 
— — training.452 
— — young, care of.152 
Grapes at Rural grounds.434 
— chapter on......163 
— Centennial..860 
— Corporal. ....-860 
— crossing ..-133 
— for raisins, .172 
— hybrid, saedllngs from.748 
— In Cullfurnia.,.162 
— — xN. C.164 
— — Vt. anil Canada.151 
— keeping .205, 437 
— Lady Washington, protect¬ 
ing.862 
— Laura.660 
— Mar vin’s new.779 
— Mr. xMarvln's at Boston.860 
— new.-.150 
— — testing.163 
— of the future, parentage of.. 33 
— paper bags on.862 
— preserving.749 
— Rutland.-860 
— seedling, raining.<42 
— Sharon.-..860 
— Watertown. .860 
— white. 130,664 
Green’s Golden No. 2.151 
Hamburgh, Black.434 
Hayes. . 38 
Herbert. 
Iona.705, 762, 827 
grafted on Isabella.844 
Jefferson.151 
Uidy. 151 
Lady Washington.150, 366, 564 
Linden.164, 668, 705 
Marvin’s new grapes. .779 
Mary.771 
Miner’s seedlings.668, 795 
Missouri, Rlesllug.....151 
Moore’s Early.,—115,150 
Muscat.... • • • • ••■-4W 
Niagara. .116, 146, 130, 161, 311, 469, 
•186, 515, 716, 736 
— reply to A. A. Bensel.668 
Noah.....150.151 
Paper bags for grapes.4,>2 
l’earl. 151 
Phylloxera, sulphide of carbon 
for. 720 
Poeklington.130, 274, 685, 716, 720 
Preut lss.. .21. 150, 274 
Raisin grape.out 
— muklng In Cal.694 
Ricketts’s seedlings....366 
Rlparla grain s, new.151 
Rogers’s Hybrid*.,164 
Sweetwater.151 
Taylor.15; 
U liland.151 
Victor. Early. 
Vines, pot-grown.38, 164, 2o5 
VltlK -fen,I v alla . 83,861 
— Arlzonlca. 564 
— CaUfomica.564 
— vinlfera.434 
Wines, foreign and American...<16 
Worden’s Seedling.150 
Grease heels ” in horses.583 
G en-house, heating with saw¬ 
dust. 328 
— starting. 455 
Ground nut .639 
Grub in-the head In sheep.277 
— on squash vines......551 
— worm, sulphur for...»>7 
Hair and Uine as fertilizers.194 
Harvester, the best.261 
Hay loader.847,863 
Hay, measuring, lti a mow..689,847 
Hay sllug. where to get.2rtl 
Heaves, arsenic for...175 
Hedge, bow to trim..... 23 
— plants . 261,567 
— Pyrneanttia.799 
— Osage Orange . 261 
Hemloek as good as pine. ..,..,175 
Hen manure .551 
Hens, best laving. 55 
Tree seeds, sowing.751 
Trees, forest, on the prairies_767 
Trees, watering.503 
Tuberoses, treatment of.799 
Turnips, time to sow.503 
Udder, caking.799 
U. S. Army, how to enlist In....371 
Veterinary periodical.863 
Walnuts, black, time to plant. .767 
black, planting.847 
Walnuts, English.195 
W’art from calf’* car.175 
Warts on eow's udder..... .815 
Water lilies, pink..,. .655 
Watermelon culture.871 
Water pipes. 
Water wheels, manufacturer...847 
Weeds, cutting. 439 
Wells, blasting . 261 
— gas. 194 
West, young man going.815 
Wheal, best for L. 1.195 
— Black bearded Centennial.. .OS? 
— Clawson.519 
— Egyptian.,....831 
— Golden gralus.277 
— hen manure for.639 
— lime for.639 
— Lost Nation, where to buy 535 
■ manured with superphos¬ 
phate.....719 
— Palestine Mammoth.227 
— Prizes, Rural's.831 
— Red and white.830 
— Russian White.455 
— salt for.551 
— — - when lo sow.23 
— seven headed.S8t 
Sliver Chafl ltj Wisconsin_ 28 
— smnt in. 407,583 
— white and red on I,. I.655 
— — Russian, trouble with_503 
Willow, laurel leaved .815 
Willow, oKler cuttings....847 
Wine, grape., making. 71.13 
Wire-worms, remedy for.407 
"Woir Teeth " lu horses.687 
Womb, inversion of lu cows....226 
Wool, doing up.814 
— sample. .119 
Worms lu horses.323,885 
Yellow-wood, price of.885 
RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 
Barn, Sheep. 304 
Barn, hay. 83 
Cottage, small convenient.334 
Shed, Bheep.304 
SCIENTIFIC and USEFUL. 
Ag'l ex. station, N. J.209 
Atmospheric phenomenon.68 
Bulletin ag’l ex. station, N. J_351 
— — - - Conn.. 188, 170,257, 
309, 325, 352. 368, 405, 441, 453, 
485, 494 
Cattle feeding experiments In.. 85 
Disinfection vs. ventilation.241 
Infection, preventing of.....116 
Meuls. vegetables, etc. pre 
served by “Ozone”.828 
Metric system of weights and 
measures .133 
Plauts, food they require . 118 
Sap In plants, electric theory...441 
Sugar, cane and grape, differ¬ 
ence.797 
Tree trunks as water conduc¬ 
tors. 062 
Well, driven, trouble. 769 
Woodland, power of to hold 
water. 37 
xtriio. in taj j ut .... * - . i ... . , . . o.i 
— with liver enlarged.689 
Herd books.135 
Hip-bone, broken, In cow.355 
Hog feed, cooked and uucooked275 
— house, to build a. 275 
Hogs, Chester White .307 
lloose In cattle.226 
Horn, hollow.54 
Horse chewing lutchlng-strap. .291 
— cough.583 
— foundering.687 
— hides, tanning. ..135 
— kicking.687 
— pulling his halter.830 
— rolling In shafts .371 
Hogs, "weak back" In.847 
Horses, grain for, when to glve.371 
— spavin In.503 
Horse's knee, Injury to.195 
Hot-bed, bottom heat.227 
lee-house, milk-room..... 135 
— — packing for .687 
Implements, labor-saving in the 
garden.275 
Insect powder.439 
— — onvines.,..201 
Irish land legislation.,...767 
Iris Lievigata, to care for. 23 
Iron, paper on.243 
Jersey ami Alderney the same..175 
Jerseys, characteristics of ..... .671 
— color . 854 
— scale of points.55 
Kicking, anti device .671 
Knitting machine.175 
Lambs, early .519 
— twin feeding.307 
Lands, U. 8., Information about.3d7 
Larch, European.119 
Lawn, dressing fur a.307 
Leather as a fertilizer.87, 211 
Legal standard for potatoes, etc 87 
Llghtulug-rod as protection.135 
Black plague In hogs.72 
Boar, Essex. 365 
Breeders. 36 
Breeding.130 
— in and lu.305 
— — — bad effects.305 
Cheshire*. 582 
Chester-Whites.591 
Cholera scare, hog.192 
Coal for hogs.189 
Corn not good for pigs.8:58 
vs. mast tor hogs.85 
Diarrhea in pigs.. 50 
Essex. .582 
— Black Beauty-.582 
— boar.365 
Feed, cooking.795 
— experiments.854, 469 
Hog, Amer. Europe’s war on_260 
— crop, glance at.7«S 
Houses, hog.827 
Must vs. corn for hogs...85 
Meat, healthier.,...813 
Neapolitan.582 
Pig. young, heavy.858 
Bigs, experimenting.733, 764 
— healthier.818 
— in the orchard.33(1 
— little, care of...224 
— — feedlug.669 
— success with.350 
— young, care of.669 
— cheap production.532 
— experiment, to cheapen pro- *4 
auction or. .. 65 
Pork, retailing.8-16 
— An»., repeal of French em¬ 
bargo on.816 
Salt for pigs. 50 
Sows, breeding.669 
— — care of.130, 22-I 
Swine at Kirby Homesteud.669 
Trichina in pork.293 
Victorias.682, 868 
Wintering.716 
Yorkshires.224, 582 
VETERINARY. 
Abortion in cows.386 
— remedy.129 
— to prevent.185 
Black-teg.185 
- — to prevent. 288 
Black plague in hogs. 72 
Castrating lambs, •' signs".05 
< intarrli, hollow-horn.HU 
< attic, foreign, danger from_72 
cholera scare, hog.192 
Cow fever, puerperal .treatment.746 
Cow's teats,obstruction in.351 
Disease, how it spreads.736 
Diseases of animals ...: . 84 
Fever, puerperal, not.866 
Foot and mouth disease.72, 440 
Garget.150, 745 
Hollowdiorii,.811 
Idee on cattle. 186 
Parasites, Internal.288 
- Internal, of the bovine spe¬ 
cies.405 
Pleuro-pneumonla. 88 
— — Commissioner LeDuc’s 
action regarding.55 
— — inoculation. 22 
Ltgbtillug-rod as protection, 
Lilies, water, pink . 
Lime aud grouud limestone.,.,, j74 
Lime gas.. 175 
Limestone and lime ground.671 
Linseed.339 
° Listing," corn culture.519 
Livingston, A. W., address of., ,863 
Locust for hedge.211 
Ivocusts, 17-year.439 
Lollum perenne.243 
London-purple.370 
Magnolias, seedling . 655 
Mange in horse, ointment for.. 
322, 371 
Mangels aud hay, relative value 
of.275 
— frozen .175 
— transplanting .291 
Manure agalDst. humus....119 
— animal matter for.ns 
— bones for .86 
— cellars, healthfulness.550 
— cord of.291 
— hen.39. 55,195 
— — and lime applied to wnt*at039 
— — using.551 
— In Texas.194 
— Mapes'. ..'227 
sawdust as a. 719 
— stable. 39 
Manuring, green . 211 
- for poor land. 21 
— — — wheat.4.87 
Maples, Sugar.407 
Mare, brood, care of.638 
May beetle, grub of.551 
Milch cows, soiling.226 
Milk, leaking, remedy for.815 
— bitter, from farrow cow.195 
— cooling.243 
— of Holstein and Jersey.71 
— setting for cream.277 
SHEER HUSBANDRY. 
Barn for Sheep.301 
Cotswold-Merino.651 
Devons. 40 
English sheep In America. 119 
Ewes, care or.436 
Goats for cottagers. 21 
Goat's huir imported Into Eng.. 130 
Lambs, curly.436 
— — English. 40 
— loss of.436 
Mutton, Candahar. 40 
— in England. 88 
sheen, great demand for.672 
Merino, French.451 
— grades.287 
Metis- Merino.368 
Oxfordshire Down.746 
Ram, high-priced. 8 
ew$ oi tljc Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec. 24, 1881. 
Ex-Senator T. O. Ilowe, of Green Bay, 
Wis., was, on the 2Uth inst., appointed Post¬ 
master-General in place of Thomas L. James. 
Mr. Howe, it will be remembered, was ap¬ 
pointed early this year as one of the delegates 
to the Paris Monetary Conference. 
Judge Horace Gray, of Massachusetts, has 
been nominated and confirmed Associate Jus¬ 
tice of the Supreme Court. 
Congress adjourned on the 21st until Jan. 
5th. The President will pass the Christmas 
holidays in New York, and the members of 
the'Cabiuet will also visit their homes on that 
occasion, j 
Owing to the death of a wife of a juror the 
Guiteau trial was adjourned for two days. 
On the 21st inst,, it was resumed again, Dr. 
Allan McLane Hamilton, of New York, and 
Dr. Worcester, of Salem, Mass., giving testi¬ 
mony that went against the theory of the de¬ 
fence. Gniteau’s former wife was recalled to 
the witness-stand for a moment. The assassin 
apparently realized his growing danger of 
beiug hanged and threw the responsibility 
upon Mr. Seoville, whom he annoyed and hu¬ 
miliated by his abuse. He called his counsel a 
consummate idiot, said he had no sense and 
no wit, asserted that he was compromising the 
case, and ordered him to get out of it. He 
said: “ If I were indicted for manslaughter, 
and Seoville defended me, I would be hanged 
for murder;” and “I expect that the Almighty, 
notwithstanding Scoville’s asinine character, 
will see that I am protected." 
Newark N. J., is getting its name up for 
high-toned embezzlements. A few weeks 
ago a bank cashier absconded with a large 
sum of money which he had “ appropriated" 
and now comes Newark’s City Auditor who 
coufesses to the defalcation of about $1735,000, 
Frederick A. Palmer is the man and his pres¬ 
ent address is the Erie County Jail. 
The recent terrible disaster in a Vienna 
theater has set the authorities to thinking on 
the condition of theaters and their arrange¬ 
ments for exit in case of fire in this and other 
cities. The matter is being investigated by 
the personal inspection of officials of the 
Fire Department. The Mayor of Chicago 
and subcommittees of the Citizen’s Association 
are also inspecting Chicago’s theaters. A 
thorough investigation should be made by 
the proper authorities iu every city. 
Mi’, Blaine has verbally accepted the invi¬ 
tation of the Joint Committee of the two 
Houses to deliver the oration at the Garfield 
Memorial service. The invitation can only 
be formally given by the action of both Houses, 
aud no formal acceptance will be given until 
then. 
They had a pretty close contest for Mayor¬ 
alty in the election at Holyoke, Maas, recently. 
The Democratic candidate received 1,024 votes, 
and was elected by only three majority. 
By the sudden opening of a drawbridge at 
Chicago on the 21st., a locomotive and tender 
plunged into the Chicago River. The con¬ 
ductor was crushed to death and the engineer 
had one of bis lower limbs cut off. 
The counsel of Sergeant Mason, who shot at 
Guiteau, states that he is ready and anxious 
for trial, and is awaiting the action of General 
Hancock. The defence is insanity. 
The Hudson River is free from ice as far 
north as Albany. Last year at this time it 
was filled with heavy masses of ice from shore 
to shore. 
A box weighing 96 pounds was recently re¬ 
ceived at the Post Office at Galveston, Texas, 
It was addressed to the postmaster at that 
place, with a letter requesting him to deliver 
it to a person in Gal veston. There was only 
a nominal amount of stamps affixed, and the 
proper postage would be over $90. 
A body of masked men, calling themselves 
“Regulators,”or “Knights of the Switch,” 
have beeu going about Cory don, Iud., at night 
switching such persons as they deemed de¬ 
serving of correction. They have operated in 
Harrison County. A few nights ago they 
whipped severely a Mr. Borden, aud on the 
following night returned to his house and 
took out his step-daughter, nineteen years 
old. Putting a rope around her neck, they 
led her to a tree and demanded that she should 
reveal certain secrets which they declared 
she knew. She refused, and they hanged her 
by the neck twice, until she was nearly dead. 
Not succeeding in getting a confession, they 
rode away and left her. The outrage ex¬ 
cites deep indignation. 
Another theater is burned, the Grand Opera 
House of Columbus, O. It took fire, probably, 
soon after midnight on the 16th from a fur¬ 
nace beneath the entrance door, A few horn's 
earlier the theatre was crowded. Apparently 
here was u narrow escape from a panic, if not 
a disaster of the Brooklyn and Vienna sort. 
The Mexican Kickapoos, semi-civilized In¬ 
dians in the Indian Territory, are on the point 
of starvation through the failure of crops aud 
the disappearance of game. 
Mr. J. C. Bancroft Davis, one of the most 
experienced and able of our few trained 
diplomatists, iB to be Assistant Secretary of 
State. Mr. Davis began his career in diplo¬ 
macy very early in life as Secretary of Lega¬ 
tion in London, where he served from 1849 to 
1852. He became Assistant Secretary of State 
in 1869, when Mr. Fish took control of the 
State Department. 
It is reported on good authority that the 
review of the Whittaker case confirms the 
former derision and finds him guilty of self 
mutilation. 
Our readers may be interested to know how 
the new Cabinet and the old compare: 
Under Pres. Uarfield. Under l'res. Arthur. 
See. of State. .J. G. Blaine, T. F. Fiolliighuyseu. 
Sec. of Trcu«..Wm. WluUom- Charles J. Folger, 
Sec. of War.. Bold. T. Lincoln. Hold, T. Lincoln. 
Sec. of Navy..Wm. II. Hunt. Will. H. Hunt. 
Sec. of Hit_8. J. Kirkwood. S. J. Kirkwood. 
Post’r lien, ...Thys. J nines. Timothy O. Howe, 
Att'y-Geii ....Wayne MaoVcvigl). BenJ. H. Brewster. 
The three remaining nominations to fill 
Lincoln’s, Hunt’s and Kirkwood’s places will 
probably be made soon after the holidays. 
R,ed Bank, N. J., was visited by a conflagra¬ 
tion last night wbicb swept through the busi¬ 
ness portion of the town and destroyed a large 
amount of property The loss, so far us could 
be ascertained, will reach nearly $109,090, 
Half u million emigrants are said to be al¬ 
ready booked by the steamship agents for 
passage to this country next year. 
Stewart, the notorious train robber, iucen- 
diary aud bank robber, has been arrested at 
Houston, Texas. It is said that he robbed a 
Chicago aud Alton traiu of $10,000, Detec¬ 
tives have been looking for Stewart for seven 
years. He has been taken to Kansas City, 
where ton indictments stand against him. 
Mayor Carleton, Chairman of the Port Hu¬ 
ron Executive Committee, estimates that 
$200,000 are needed for the Michigan sufferers 
by the fire last Fall. 
