THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
ThrashC’-.R’Bsell & Co.’s .351 
— the InH roved Sweepstakes.377 
Thrash. J''* anti Bieatn Engines, 
M ssllion ... . ....IC8 
Thrashing Machines, Works Of 
J. 1. Case . 8SI 
Totil«. lO.Mt and handy.37* 
Truck, ilairih « Earn ■ -.or* 
VHle-.ncauiu. Teamster 8..... .344 
Vat. Oi*0<e- 23,185 
Wagon, the Conklin.£§ 
— Co a all lard 317 
Wheni-uairow. what is It?.118 
Wind-mill, Iron Turbine.MM 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES. 
Agency, Grange, Is it oxoen. 
tionai ?.. -314,8l« 
Alliance, address of the Farm- 
(*f s* . ...,. t>?>0 
— N. Y. State Farmers’....539 
Aiaocuiinii. American Dairy* 
men’s. 53 
Congr >«s, National Agricuitn- 
pnj.lotf* 
Exhibition of dairy products.. 193 
Fairs. Agricultural, ngainsiwou- 
Fair. Iutenuutonal Dairy,.criti¬ 
cism on .... . ? .*1)9 
Fair, get ready for the.ju’2 
— Iran at Grano Isle.030 
— horticultural exhib.tat Ne¬ 
braska state.v'8 
— Illinois Stato.--. . 
— International Dairy.... ; ^. 79fi 
— List, annual.425(4® 
— Manchester Vt., Town.b66 
— market, auctions, etc.fw 
— Minnesota State.poll 
— National Dairy.524 
— N. J. Statu . ... . W9 
— — Y. St.it,e. at Elmira.601 
— Peun. State....850 
— Queens Co., L. I .034 
— tiomorville. N. J. ■ •834 
— Texas il 0 ;„. and Fomolog- 
Ical. • .olo 
— th*i great ?.t, Louis.182 
— Tolland Co., Conn.fial 
— Wes etn N-Y. .--. --•84 
Institutes in Midi.. Farmers’ .160 
Meeting. Rochester Hortlcult- 
Ural. •314 
Paris Exposition ....197,842,87*, 
4<aly 
— opening.... .369 
Society, Hereford Herd Boolf..h-8 
— meeting of Western N. Y. 
I tore ... .... io 
— Mich. Slate Homological—844 
— Montreal Uort. Show..634 
— N. Y-Suite Here.13; 
— notes lit N. Y, Hurt..... .t_34 
— On ari" Entomologies].23a 
— Homological, and Willard C. 
Flagg .. — — —.890 
— Western N. Y. Hort. ex¬ 
tracts from.342 
[INDUSTRIAL TOPICS. 
Farm Products, Exportation to 
Europe.*09 
Labor, hand aud machinery—Msl 
Maunluery. labor-saving In 
France. —•798 
Manufactures. encouraging 
Home........,...-. -480 
Ostrich. The . *61 
Starch, Boffilo Patent Gloss...I j 9 
Sugar-Making. npw process tor.6.« 
Surreys. Statu Industrial.637 
Tea Culture. 833 
Tea Plant and Its Products.31J 
LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
Garden. Luxembourg, view In.. 21 
Garden, ornamental water spois 
In. <43 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Acknowledgments.299 
Acrl ulture, a Secretary of-3ui) 
Art and taste, setting examples 
of.604 
Axe-grinders —. 7 1 
catalogues and bu( ks received. 
11, 2,5. 40, 57, 74, 88. I’d, 12', 
' 7111.777,809 
Desert, the great American.8U2 
Fire, deatinCliVO.3U 
(ilru. give tnam » chance. -4 j'.i 
Grass-Humor, the Mennonite..'U2 
Ma.d times. 38 
Home,, to Uu»0 looking Inr ...619 
Indexes, about.4’6. 848 
Iastiiitnce Co. N. Y- Ltfe....-..,l3i 
July, Fourth „f, lino .412 
Lime, burntug.612 
Lumiorm."l's winter.186 
Merry t.'nri-tinas.813 
Morals. minor.....50® 
Observation the key to success.161 
l’iiiui brushes, binding.38» 
Papers, preserve your ....,...-.218 
Parisian correspondence. a'M 
Quesllon or »•>, A.812 
Headers, To Our.M2 
Rust. oluaoing from steel.uoo 
Sclonos and practice....391 
Bigus, foolish..........,.4 j6 
Social culture. 821) 
Stove, open unite...J2i) 
Suavity oragreeableness.wU 
Superstition*....o'*! 
TnaaKsgivlnR...748 
Timber Culture Act. Ml 
Trade, leum a.248 
Tramps...444 
Weights and measures, remedy 
for unjust .loG 
White houses and green blinds.521 
Work, preparing for winter 
completion^.Ill 
NATURALIST. 
Apes, Anthropoid.597 
Bird and Fru.t Question. 6« 
— The Lyre. 
Bird*, Food Canary.2S4 
— Hu m in mg.... 264 
— Insectivorous. 25 
— Bailing Millet for Canary...102 
English Sparrows.22, 932, .85 
Poicuptne, The.5J1 
Starling (Black Bird) Bid- 
Wiuced .. .031 
Taguans. Species of Fiying- 
nqulrrei.2*9 
Tiger. Tne.33a 
POMOLOGICAL. 
Apple Trees, bearing year of... .821 
Ben Davis ill Neb.‘29 
Apple. Bourussa....7-i 
— Canada Baldwin..... 
— — Kemette.279 
— Cellini.•--•727 
— Oehaiib........*2, .Xi 
— Fanny.. 
— Fami uso Sucre.71,727 
— Grand Suit ..72? 
— Grimes’s Golden Pippin.lad 
— King of the pippins.co 
— Lady Elgin Crab...,.(27 
— Mat en’ ■ Blush..600 
— Mender's winter crab.72S 
— Mountain Beet. 72 
— North field Beauty. i2i 
— Poinuie dtfFer. ••• 72 
— popui.r varUtte* inN. >, _ 
market.426 
— Ha wie’g Genet.2?u 
— lliablii’tlku. 727 
— Rosetta...7* 
— Spitzenberg.774 
«** 6t. Peter’s.72$ 
Apple, Strawberry of Montreal. 72 
— Stump.727 
— Tctnfsky...279 
— Wealthy.279 
— why the most valuable frult.720 
— Winesan .781 
— Yellow Belleflenr.279 
Apples, a nurseryman's selec¬ 
tion..726 
— Cod Ing Moth an enemy.731 
— Dwarf. Par tdlse stock for..782 
— for home use...868 
— for Penn .. tsi 
— from Oneida CO,. N. Y.732 
— harcy.71 
— keeping.731 
— negleot Of some One varie¬ 
ties.726 
— new varieties... 
— Paradise stock for... 521 
— Russuin In America.423 
— selection and packing.342 
— shipping by canal, to N. Y...730 
— — ireea and fruit, diseases 
Of.70 
— — bearing alternate years .. <33 
— — grafting.759 
— — how far apart.....c6 
_ — proper distance for plant¬ 
ing.1“^ 
— — priming...i59 
— — to make boar......893 
— — and pear trees, pushing 
late bud *. ,•••••862 
— -what varieties plant.7fj 
Cherries, list of..v-§5? 
Cherrv trees, a 111 tie cure of ....191 
Fruit and bird question.66 
— belt of Michigan......... .-..3a9 
— best quality, creating a de¬ 
mand for.. • • • (28 
— can we have bettor.279, "245 
— crop of Mich...6J0 
— — in Nebraska..... —.. -.iJ3 
— culture end the Great 
Lukes,....27 
— family.568 
— growers in conr.cll. .3 
— in western N. Y.9} 
— keeping In sand.731 
— notes trorn Nebraska..... -.739 
— packing.620. 662 
— proUtablcnossof.7,6 
— prospects in Cal...138 
— trees and fruit on the farm.726 
— — care of.585 
— — low tops lor. .8BI 
— —• prot.ction against mice..>36 
— — slaked lime about.656 
KrulLfulnesa. promoting.731 
Fruits of 1817. new.-.. (jj 
Orange. Acapulco. 
— Bouquet...5o2 
— Citrus Aurantium......552 
— Coolie.552 
— ..|a2 
— Maltese... 5o2 
— Mandarin.*o2 
— Naval .“••552 
— Putiialo.55* 
—. Piiramata. ... 
— Seville. [ v ’2 
— St, Michael..532 
Orchard, a North River.633 
— an average farm.....735 
— apple, best soil and manage¬ 
ment... •■'Iff 
— oare of. J;* 
— how u should be planted—,35 
— In grass.534 
— Kansas.it» 
— lack of timely surgery.791 
— Mich, pi 1*0 Plum. 7 
— planting and management. .4io 
— requirements in planting...726 
— vtuue of .."•If? 
— straw mulch In.. 
— why a light soil for,.725 
Orchards, Treatment of.822 
Peach, ..823 
Peach, about...... 72 
— SalJio Worrell .. "'I*,? 
Peaches, danger to. Ji 
— in Neb. -••617 
— twelve good market varie¬ 
ties.729 
— under glass...... “‘"i?. 
— very early.*~4 
— yellows. 6uu 
Pear. Bartlett. 77a 
— Beurre d’ Anjou.3c4 
— — Superttn. *64 
— Bonne Du Puits Ansnult — i2t> 
— .. 364 
— culturein Neb... 
— Duchess® on sandy soil.i3i 
— — U’Angoulome.731 
— Louise Bonne.(31 
— Paul Ambre.......264 
— Seokel paying best In N.Y. 
market.'8* 
— trees, pruning...‘91 
— Tyson.-?4 
Pears, artldc al ripening.5o2 
— autumn and winter.726 
- choice varieties.7io 
— awaiis, which succeed best.732 
— marketing.552 
— must salable sorts.552 
— paoklng. *j53 
— prolltabie.279 
— a luring,....552 
— treuiweut of winter varie¬ 
ties. 552 
— when and how to gather.oo* 
— trees as oblique cordons.... 67 
— — sprouts, wnitewash for.. .343 
Persimmon, Jupan.se, faots 
ab lUttho.....759 
Plum, Bissetts’ American. .. . 39 
— culture in Ohio.*47 
— the Wild-GCOSe.680 
— n inter killing...34‘ 
Quince culture ..343 
— trees, blight of.....ol8 
Quinns..•.. 3 
Tree, how an old one was 
caved.79J 
Trees, fruit fur ornament.423 
POULTRY-YARD. 
Bantams eating potato beetles. 198 
— Golden Spangled Sebright...199 
Brahmas, light.43 
— — an error corrected.266 
— origin of....230 
— the native country of Iiglit..l8a 
Brooders, nests for.806 
(,'aponuilig.8'23 
Chickens and dog days.539 
— and eggs.443 
— letdlng......684 
— —young.•••••••ff? 
— frozen combs Of.......183 
— hatching.218, 7J‘2 
— neglect o:......486 
— spring.[go 
— ouups.**» 
Coups.8U7 
Cochins.8*» 
Dominique, the Amerioau.603 
Dorking, the.806 
Ducklings, feeding young.443 
— food for. ...47o 
— management of.358 
Ducks, Pekin,...*3. 476 
Eggs, now to get the moBt.607 
— to Hot duck■*.310 
Eggs, from different breeds.806 
Fowls, wUit kind shall be kept? 805 
Fowls tor eggs. 8*6 
Fowls, French .805 
Fowls, winter work for. . .8U8 
Foals, Ornamental..,...tOG 
Fowls, cross-breeds practical 
farm use .107 
— Brahinu... 136 
— for eggs table and hurdtness.260 
— new creeds of......102 
— Spangled Hamburg....87 
— Hie best ureedsof.742 
— ulcers on the feet of.........730 
Games, the.. .805 
Gape worms, uiude or extrud¬ 
ing. 539 
Gapes, asstetida for..631 
— a positive care for.40 
— remedy for..571 
— sour milk for.743 
— tobacco Bmoke for.......343,390 
Guinea, fowls eating pota’o 
beetles.-. 23,639 
— — guard against hawks.. 6 
Hen-house, ventilation for. ...803 
— lame, parasites the cause...262 
Hens. aD-slaked lime for lay¬ 
ing...653 
— cabbage as winter green 
food ........183 
— k'eafctng sitting....518 
— ne-ts for sitting.671 
— sitting, treatment of .571 
Incubators... 23 
Incubator, house and nursery..806 
Insects, kerosene and sulphur 
for...'84,603 
— remedy for...236 
Lcghornsand Plymouth Hocks.777 
— brown and while...19S 
— v*. Plymouth Rocks.681 
Perches.806 
Pigeon Show at N. Y\ Aqitari- 
n ..107 
Plymouth Rocks, breeding.H08 
Blymoutb Rocks. SOS 
Poultry Nonsense.808 
Poultry house* and yard, con¬ 
venience* for.806 
Poultry forproOl.80S 
Poultry, why sume does not 
pay...803 
Poultry Wintering In the North 807 
Poultry versus Pigs.805 
Poultry ace mot..*— 91 
— ut Klmlra State Fair.G’.il 
— doe* It pay?. 0 
— breeding..48o, 507, 5il 
— care of in winter.107 
— farm, a French.711 
— food. 54 
— how to feed before kdilng-.571 
— house, nebenp.120 
— houses......... 551 
— — care of.428 
— on a large scale.459 
— profitable.693 
— profit and losses of raising.. 64 
— record........684,613 
— shippers, caution to.1'6 
— show, the N. J....167 
— varieties of...63 
—proili combined with amuse¬ 
ment .634 
— winter treatment.54 
Roosts, coal-tar lor.....23 
— kerosene oil on.,.65" 
Troughs, feed and water.867 
Turkeys, buck wheat screenings 
polsouing.....;••?*§ 
Vermin, to rid a hen-house of..ole 
Vermin, gottlng rid of.807 
RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 
Barn, general purpose.231 
Contrast, a.... 695 
Cottage .343 
Cotinge. a modern Swiss.571 
— complete for $3.600.245 
— summer, Thousand Islands 
773, 775 
Crib, a rst-proof .....773 
Dwelling, the most economical 
form a cube.62U, 685 
Farm premises, model. 2i 
Home, a thousand dollar sub¬ 
urban.............613 
Hon*e,a cheap, convenient.... 169 
Ioa-House, plan fora...791 
Piggery, a model.10 j 
— Improve the.....199 
— That model.192,231 
Poultry Houses.551 
SCIENTIFIC AND U8EFUL. 
Air! foul,to expel....535 
Clocks....”".122 
Composition and decomposl-.:** 
tion... 427 
Fertilizer*, experiments with 
commercial.. ...890 
G nin. Die chemical constltu- 
“ enta Of...758 
Hellotroplstu.553 
Manure, stable, what a ton con¬ 
tained. 44 
Milk, coagulation of.633 
Plants, influence of air on the 
growth.201 
Potatoes, now use for.4Tfl 
..491 
Silica.B64 
Soupsv lie as a lubricant.761 
Soil, Cultarn a« affecting .the 
iiinRlurc Of...758 
— Influence of color upon Its 
temperature.539 
— Moisture in the.774 
Soils, moisture retaining rower 
of.etil.75S.774. 790 
starch, manufacturing potato..22» 
Temperament, the unsclentitlo.TBU 
SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
Breeds, Improved, hardiness of.742 
Ewes, breeding.117 
— i r«.itment of.42a 
Feeding system, necessity for a 
full.742 
Gont raising in California.762 
Goal*, raping Angora.665 
Lambs, how much milk tofeed.246 
— price ol. ..874 
Mutton for exportation.11 
— growing.863 
Slieep, comparison ot breeds.. .823 
Sheep. Care iif..5 
— do not wash and shear e»rly.H8 
— fullucies about.. .5.3 
— farmers should keep more..664 
— fed on root* alone.7,7 
-- food for ..........6,65 
— for Kansas... 603 
— homed.117 
— Kansas and Nebraska adapt¬ 
ed to...166 
— profit In keeping.7JS 
— shelter for.742 
— small grain rutiontor.1 k9 
— straw for.....150 
— nnvtiso management of. 6 
— washing. 390 
— wintering lor their msnure.744 
Shepherd Dog. training of a... 363 
Ticks, ‘•Cresylio Sheep Dip" 
for.3'0 
Wool-growing and the tariff....263 
Woolen interests, the.327 
SPORTSMAN. 
Bench Show at Gilmore’s Gar¬ 
den.233 
Dog, management and diseases 
of the................760 
Setter, English.Sj 
SWINE-HERD. 
Berkshire*, somd notable.297 
Hog cholera and Government..328 
Hog cholera commission.7*4 
Hog* and pigs, winter food lor.730 
Hogs. Berkslilrn.246 
— pumpkins for.662 
— soap-suds to scrub....295 
— work for tiny.521 
Pig In agriculture, the.663 
Pigs, oust rating, gas cou! tarfur.662 
— cutting clover for.473 
— l*to.24 
— management of In summer. .393 
— -young...250 
— raangol-wurzols for.198 
— rye straw tor.294 
— warm pen* for...Hr* 
— well-bred easier to fatten...2tD 
Poland Chinas...4i B 
Pork, American.6.8 
Scurf, remedy for.166 
Sow*, food for breeding.133 
Swine, bone mo.il for.633 
— Duroo.476 
— Husbandry, book on.23 
— largo or small breeds.199 
— refuse milk for.553 
Swine, sulphur for.121 
— thoroughbred, Herd Books.313 
THE QUERIST. 
Adams Co.. Wts.. about.293 
Ageraium and Eupstorlum, are 
ilicv the sifoc?.....178 
AHer, getting rid of swamp or 
ppotted. IS 
Alfalfa....731 
— seel. 795.SU 
Ampelopsts var’esata.654 
Anglo-worm*.649 
Ant-swarms, to destroy.>AH5 
Apple tre-oe, reproductive 
knarls on.911 
Apples, barreling .313 
— dried, buying.5,4 
— for Virginia.779 
Arbnr-vits bt dge. making.79> 
Arkansas V dlr y, "bout tno —293 
Aitlchuko. Jerusalem, about. 635 
Asparagus cultu re.811 
Barometer, where to get a 
cheap, reliable ..64 
Beans....862 
— ’lulling.7.9 
Beaucornea remirvata.M4 
Beech, Weeping.18 
Bee s. how f.irNorth, with profit. 18 
— to transfer.554 
— without a queen. 18 
Beet culture,.178 
Beets and carrots on muck soil. 18 
Beetle, rhinoceros.442 
— the crane-vine flea ...474 
Bermuda grass. .160 
Birds, Canary, destroying In¬ 
sects on...,.ill 
— — where to buy.234 
— son... about. .699 
Black-iep in Cattle.824 
Blue stone, blue vitriol and 
copperas. *93 
Bone-dust aad barn-yard ma¬ 
nure...* 0 
— — In the orchard......... •••£11 
— ground, etc.tw 
Bones, about.699 
— cow* chewing.522 
— utilizing... BO 
Rook on Farming.'*.'8 
Borers, destroying...699 
Botanv. best work on.192, 426 
Brahmas, show potato of Llgbt.746 
B room-corn ■ to bleach ... .32 
Bulbs, Dahlia, wintering..862 
Butter, flavoring. S94 
— from new milch aud tarrow^ 
cows. ...391 
— hardening. .314 
BusiacssCollege. E2-stman’s...522 
Cabbage, club-root in.667 
— Insects, destroying. .683 
— raised from seed. .795 
Cabbugo Fly the.. .667 
Cabinet, a n ttuml history.314 
Cage ranker, name of a.234 
Calli lily...490 
Canary, wh«l ails the......266 
Candy, making hard-slick.... .683 
Cape Jessamine, treatment i f .310 
Capons, making.250 
Capon raising, book on.. .283 
Catalpa, seed9 Of..7 .1 
CaterplUers, larva of Oecropia 
..-.8 S 
— preparing by Inflation.3.'1 
Cattle. Ayrsn're.. SJ 
— black-lee in.....878,746 
— book on diseases ot. ..862 
— Jersev, where io procure ...ICO 
Celery, kesping in winter.763 
— Incomprehensible growth...795 
Cellar, u wet. .3>4 
Check, metal, for canning.-3i 
Chickens, ailing. 779 
— and osrg sof pure Dominique 
stock. 128 
Ch'Kkens, gopes in.330 
Chinese \am, where to procute 
seed-. 260, 78 
Cholera among poultry.4fio 
Christ plant, the. ..'.'02 
Chutas.814, 4*6 
— whore for sale.....218 
— — to get seed..33 
Clematis, cto., about ..1*8 
— feopiiii, propagation of.. ...570 
Clook. “ cricket”. .298 
Clover, Sowing.-.lfli) 
Clubs, to Fariunrs’.811 
Commission honse,a reliable ..282 
Coal ashes mixed with man are. 123 
Cockerels, caponlzlng.748 
Corn, cut-worms eating seed...263 
— Egyptian..667 
— fur field culture . 747 
— seed from tips, middle and 
hut’s of ears.£88 
Country life, Its beauties, books 
on......203 
Cultivating Fruii under glass...8*4 
Cow leaking her milk, to pre¬ 
vent...'. .830 
— Milker, Automatic.499 
— troubled with SUllffleS.420 
Cows, drying Of their milk......476 
— rat’on* for milk.795 
— spaying. 746 
— sucking themselves, to pre¬ 
vent .314 
Cow’s teat, holu in.795 
Cows, the best breed for milk, .458 
Crab-apple. Red Siberian.192 
Cranberries.426, 717 
i ratmgns Pyracnnlha.V34 
Cream, ohumlng. • .442 
Creamery, w hat. It Is.—33 
Currant buthes, whore to get 
black. .61 
Cyclamen, unhealthy.,231 
Jjutscorea, how to treat.. 48 
Diplalenia Williamsil.....161 
Dog, un ailing.346 
Drill, best seed.112 
Ducks. Poktn, about raising. ...282 
— Ruuen and Aylesbury...5 2 
Dvnamtte cartnagee.731 
— where to purenaso .667 
jEollan harp .....4H 
Egg food . .474 
Eggs. Bantam, Stiver Spangleo.3'.i4 
— destroying the fertility of ..176 
— soft-shelled. .112 
Engine, wind-mill, oulorlc or 
steam, which Is ch:npc8t 
for farm purposes_ 48 
E-ynglum Leavenwortlill..l44. 667 
Estates unclaimed in Europe, 
catalogue nf.8" 
Eulalia Japonlca.442, 785 
Euphorbia Cyparlsslas.731 
European larch. 64 
Ewes adopting lambs.169 
Experlmi'iit* with Commercial 
Fertilizers.378 
Eyes, diseases, In more.779 
Farming, book on.298 
— In the West, small capital .£86 
Farriery, works on.683 
Fence Tor overflowing land, a 
subst&miAl....48,64 
Fertilizer, blood r.s a.*34 
— bone.382 
— skit as a. 260 
— — on sandy soil us a.763 
— soot as a. 202 
— wheat bran as a.618 
Fertilizers, experiments with 
commercial. .378 
Fish for stagnant pond.795 
Fish poud.779 
Fistula...522 
Flaxseed boiled, how much to 
feed a yeaillhg...,..112 
Flowers, queries about.649 
— various, treatninnt.002, 795 
— various, wintering.795 
Kly. the cabbage...667 
Fruit, cultivating under glass. .811 
— culture, book on.835 
— dryer.. . ..314,699 
— queries about.092 
— small, work on. »J2I8 
— trees, information wanted.. 192 
Fuchsias.522 
Gapes In eh tokens, remedies 
for. 330 
Gas 11 mo. 86 
— —and barn-yard manure...250 
Gate-farm.2S2 
1 — plan for a.7.........192 
G' r.inium, apple.............468 
Geraniums, flowering of.266 
Geranium seed slow to germi¬ 
nate......... 64 
Gilllflowers’.... 428 
Gladioli and dahlias.570 
Glanders .361 
Glass factory.202 
Glanclurn Ulleum.. 126,144, 667, 778 
Goats. Angora.... 670 
— mlslng nnd keeping. 18 
Grafting, water sprouts for.234 
Grape culture ...12 h 
— cuttings, starting.234 
Grapes. Aphides on. 426 , 474 
— choice..618 
— early Chuinpion and Tol- 
nian’s...779 
Grape-vine*, chip manure for..649 
— - layering....412 
Grafting w.ix. 192 
Grass. Berm lid*.699 
— crab, to exterminate.692 
•— fowl meadow.554 
— meadow soil, (Holcus Lana- 
tus).;. 699 
— Mi'iifenbergia Mexicanu—699 
— >eed for name.-••••*•378 
— — Hungarian, largeyleld of.763 
— — where to get...113 
Grasses. .....4IKI 
— for a peiinunent pasture....683 
— for wet pasture.6*17 
Grcen-Hoiiim. a cheap.238 
_ — COBt. of B nice...878 
Gvpsum and lime, applying.....2'4 
— - plaster Of Paris.13S 
Half.coloring,recipe for....6HI 
Hand-Mill for flue flour.169 
Harrowing, about.192 
Heaves.••••-’. 
— In horses, remedy for.... ....160 
Hudgo. nonoy-Iocust.522. 570 
I lodges..2113 
Hens, best for winter laying—160 
— broody food for chicks. ....250 
Hessian fly.£J8 
Hog cholera.. 
H< g* affecied wiLhdeiuodex....l < i2 
— diseased.1®* 
— wluit ails the.;4G 
Horfps ng« by hi* teeth.........4iw 
Horse going blind...--,.80, H8 
Horses, heavy draught.639 
— Interfering...747 
Horticultural school in Iowa. 
about..........314 
House, ohenp and convenient.,442 
— plan for U ?203 or $3tKJ.314 
Reyns, treatmont, of.34) 
lee-mmse. .. 
Incubators.*66,442 
Indian meal for cows.5*2 
Inicct, S 1 ale.. . •••I?? 
Japan quince fiom cuttings....oo* 
Lambs—«*‘6S adopting.163 
Lands In Virginia....2IS 
Leghorn*, wo taey good )»y- „ 
ers..426 
Lion, how to get rid of .... .67b 
— plant, eto....283 
— on caulo and hogs, remedy 
for. 32.112.779 
Life • Insurance policies, bor- 
ro •• ing money on.795 
Lille?, wuter, wanted.670 
Lime, about, will it pay.192 
Uqutiiambur B'.yrac.fluH.1.6 
Loeu-ds mid barberries.. .878 
Machine fO' - clipping horses—‘*02 
Machines, turn* nng, the best..846 
— ingredients...409 
— liquid,applying ..•■•• T2 
Melon vines, cutting the end*. .*74 
Mice eating home**. .4 6 
— wliitu.*86 
Milk, carbonate of soda to 
— rations tor Cows.759 
sweeten... ..731 
— thick, ojw yte.ding.346 
— uniform flow for market.-..330 
Milker, automatic cow.. .49' 
MUl-pona. use of a.'*68 
Mo e exterminator, is there a..083 
Money at two per cent, per an- H 
Momlng-glury. klillDg In field..474 
Motn, lire beautiful VYocid- 
nvmph........474 
Mowers, lawn.. - -298 
Monlog machine, wanted a 
..234 
Mlicit, the. use of.654 
— what is.458 
Neptnla Flumlpns. spider.6stl 
Nut grove, ueatmeat of seedB 
for. ..795 
O Its, H nlle.tr..795 
Oil-cuke, whom to purchase,...OFT 
Oil-racal, feeding.795 
Oilsossqntlhl. yield of poracre.20. 
Oleander, time to cut back......779 
— when to bud.554 
— white scale* on...,.112 
Onion*, raising.......442 
Osage orange hedge, extermin¬ 
ating....795 
Feontes, grafting. ....54)6 
l’eony reed. Phlox and Culla 
Lily.779 
Paint, cheap.6*2 
Fulms. treatment of, growing 
from seed.378 
Paper fur bottoms ot ships.763 
Parls.gr- m, how to use.3:io 
Pasrloii vine............779 
Pasture*. 8 ill and wat er In.4341 
Peanut iitul sweet potato cnl- 
..426 
Pear blight. .654 
Pear orchard in giass or gar¬ 
den truck...48 
Peat marsh, reclaiming u.178 
Pelargonium seed, when to 
plant. 128 
Peppermint, spearmint and 
bergamot.346 
Petunia, double-fringed.314 
Petunias, cuttings of.570 
Phonography and stenograph v.176 
phosphate of lime aud super¬ 
phosphate.CG7 
Pine seeds, planting white.54)6 
Pink, Chirm.........293 
Pipe for liquid manure.218 
Pita-wood.394 
Plant*, different, when to pro¬ 
cure.29S 
Plants, effects of colored light 
on...348 
— names of...144,391,522 
— hedge. 234 
— house, propsgation of.192 
— sundry about.234 
Plaster Land.HO 
PI. wa.686 
Potato Digger.. .113 
Potato, Beauty of Hebron.176 
— Early Vermont...778 
— Havlequio. 426 
— Beed, raising 1U a green¬ 
house. 794 
Potatoes, experiments with 
seed... 378 
— Irish saving...278 
— SooiiUng.330 
Potato-digger of the Future..-824 
Po'keep>io.something about...314 
Poultry and Eggs for market..618 
— hook. 80,683 
Poultry-House for 103fowls.... 9o 
Prickly Omfrey.96,731 
privet Berries.779 
Puivcrmaohcr Cniiln Belts, aro 
they Humbugs?.,... 80 
Railroads, Elevated.. ....554 
Raspberries-, planting from cut¬ 
tings. .606 
— treutrniint of. 699 
Raspberry Hornet, where ob¬ 
tained. 123 
— Thwack.«85 
Reaper, belf-Blndlng.314 
Register, how to... t'67 
Roof, to cover with gravel.002 
Hairing cheap .670 
Haul (h ops, manure for.814 
Hose-Bugs.428 
Rose Hushes, trimming. *18 
Roses about.. 490 
Hoses, choice........835 
Roup in Poultry, remedles.for.394 
Rural, bound volumes of.779 
Savory. Summer.746 
Sea-Wrack...667 
Seed-Sower, Cahoon Broadcast 
Hand.?61 
Seeds, germination of.683 
— how to plant those of F. S. 
Distribution...763, 795 
Solf-BIndir*.699 
Better*, training.. .128 
Slieep, beet crus* for mutton.. 806 
Sheep. Leicester and Cot*wo)d,550 
Sheep mi permanent pasture.. .280 
Shocp Raising. Book on......... 96 
Shell Marl.80 
Ship*, paper for bottoms of.703 
Short-Horns or Durham*.106 
Silk *k*dnr. Dying..635 
Smllnx, treatment of.,....714 
Snow-drop*, planting......112 
Solution,Iiiennimt tif.522 
Bonflium. feeding to horses.250 
Spruce. Norway, wind-breaks260 
— weeping, »ralght en'g leader. 635 
Sprain In coffin Joint...,.664 
Steamship Companies, N. Y-...362 
sieticll pinto* for marking 
clothing...6IS 
Stock, Paradise and Doucln....746 
Stomach stlruents ..863 
8tore-Hon*o. Potato....490 
Strawberries, when to pl»nt....683 
Strawberry and Gooseberry cul¬ 
ture book on.£4)2 
Strawberry Bed, A Novel.649 
Strawberry Mixing.298 
Stump Puller........442 
Stump*, blowing up with dyna¬ 
mite.266 
— naltpete.riDg ...458 
Subsoil Ing.160 
Sugar making, sorghum.635 
Sumach, shout. 232 
Swans and Turkey*, white.346 
Swine. Duroo..........522 
— nasal cnt-urrh In...746 
— to fatten.5J6 
Tanks, liquid manure.P0 
Thistle, dcstrovlngtho Canada. 458 
Thorn, white, propagation of..714 
Thoroughbreds amt Grades—70S 
Tobacco, hen manure for.814 
Tree Wash.192 
Trees, pruning pear.522 
Trumpet t 'rueper, Tecoma Ru- 
dtcana.570 
Turnip crop, nuts eating.667 
— - That.202 
— the best for stock.32 
Turkey, cook’s harem..522 
Turin;*, bronze.. ..,...346 
Vinegar, cisterns for..824 
Verbenas, treatment of.667 
Walk*, cement.699 
Warehouse, agrici Rural.846 
Wuier. Indications of, horizon¬ 
tal wells. 202 
Water l'lue*.48,160 
Weight nf Animals, live. 13 
Wells, fnnl air in.£06 
Wheat. Defiance and Lost Na¬ 
tion. 683 
— Diamond.... .. 523 
— grains not forming.394 
— Injects Injuring...394 
— a-R for.BIX 
— Spring, applying fertilizers 
to. 160 
WeDelns,about.....458 
— spines.*, etc., propagation 
of.298 
Wil l Thyme, eradicating.176 
Willow-. ‘Kilmarnock, when to 
bud. .654 
Wire-Worms. 202 
Wistaria, propagating the.468 
Wood Organ, the.192 
Worms in Flower Hots, remedy 
for. 32 
Yards, dry ..250 
VETERINARY. 
Abortion la cattle.198 
— — cows. .....64 
Anthrax in nhcop.2£3 
— malignant.295 
Anpetite. poor, In a horse.264 
Blindness In a horse, why?.... 608 
Hots . . ..538 
Castrating ylgs, gas coal tar 
for. C63 
Castration, enrboito noid in.166 
Choking, to relieve in cows.697 
Cow s death fiom unmasticated 
food. 28 
— —singular cause of....761 
Cuts, cas eo«i tar for.662 
Diseases, imaginary. Of ani¬ 
mals. 875,538 
Docking lamb* —..358 
— of intimitis.296 
Fever, parturition.426 
Fistula in horses.438 
Hog cholera.761 
Hollow horn.539 
Hooks, horses or cattle.376 
Issues, glands, on hog’s legs... 43 
Kin pox. 518 
Lutnpus.875 
Lock-Jaw In nornca.199 
Maladies In stock.457 
Furulysla in swine...436 
Red-water in cows.,.....,.426 
iiing-hono anil bone spavin ....457 
Scratches in horse*.86 
Shoeing horse*.328 
Sprain In hlfv. horse.426 
Sprained ankle in horse.....294 
stngsrers, blind, In horses.457 
Stock, ailing. 266 
Tender feet, horses’...598 
Udder, swollen. 633 
Veitlgo or megrims...669 
Veterinary college, Necessity 
for a national.796 
“ Woif-in-the-tall”.539 
Wolf teeth.875 
VINEYARD. 
Champion, early. 88 
Champion, the.164 
— what and where?......40 
Concord No. 1......677 
Gazelle.6*7 
Golden Gem...677 
Grape, culture or the.6)4 
— diseases, phylloxera, eto.... 40 
— grafting lor hybridizing....229 
— items.679 
— notes from N.C.677 
— problems lu Ohio.. 40 
— seedling.684 
Grapes, evils of selling unripe. .818 
— for Alabama.U'9 
— in Michigan, exp. with.678 
— In western N. Y.879 
— method of cultivating.078 
— of southeastern Texas.678 
— probabilities of Americau...408 
— B.iekelL’8 ...,677 
— T. R. Miner’s culture of 
seedling. . . 
— varieties of.677 
— wild species of.,.,.678 
Grapc-vuies, bone dust and 
ashes for. 672 
— — cuttings from.,,.,,....... 084 
— — effects of frost upon.318 
— — farmers failing with.39 
— — grafting.441,448 
— — Instead of cotton for 
northeastern Alabama....729 
— — manures for..89 
— — protection.24 
— — select heft varieties.173 
J.ady Grape In Europe...........810 
Lady Washington.656,712 
Mildew.6-4 
— sulphur for .411 
Muscadine.634 
— experiments with.678 
PreUwss, the.679 
Rogera’TTu. 16.,....712 
Bcupperiiong...634 
Bholburne .679 
Vitus Vulpiua, Southern Fox .621 
Waverly.677 
