THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Apple, Ella Park.814 
— Fatn ease..93 
— Jonathan. 93 
— Magug Red Streak.65 
— Maidens Blush. 93 
— Mann.422 
— Mountain Tulip.199 
— Mote’s Sweet.ST'S 
— one best.410 
— Peck's Pleasant.99 
— Porter.98 
— Ram bo...-.93 
— ltawle'8 Janet.98 
— lied Astracban. 93 
— Red June. 93 
— Simon’* lied.519 
— Stuart'* Golden...265 
— Saoet. Bough.93 
— Telman’* Sweet . 93 
— Willow Twill.93 
— wincsnp.. 
Apple Crop, exportation of.076 
— Paradise as stock. 245 
— tree branches, planting. 9 
— trees, dwarf.245 
Apples, be*t for Europe.103 
— hardy extra.... . 
— toreign shipment.103 
— In English market.766 
— In Michigan.798 
— list of.. .W4 
— preservation Of.784 
— select list for Neb.93 
— small. ...519 
— Winter. 892 
— — keeping...........734 
Apple, Famous© or Snotv.834 
Blight, pear.... .754 
— — salt for. 8.50 
— — Iron fur... 23 
Cherries In Mich....798 
Codling moth, trapping.70 
Evaporating fruit, devices for .1*1 
Fig culture at l•>© North.135 
Fig*, growing.. ..702 
— Mtirseliaii'c.............519 
— Southern.587 
Fruit at Midi. H. Fair.670 
— tiecs injuring.634 
— bygirdllng......552 
— evaporating................... 7 
— — device* for.,...161 
— farm* In Wc*tern N. T.042 
— Interest Oil l.ake Michigan.. 7 
— or timber—whichV.390 
— premium*, objectionable . .530 
— progress. 1}'} 
— treeB. kerosene on.-...134 
— — for I awns.327 
— — planting. 93 
— — pruning.22,680 
Fruiting, artitlclftl.409 
— first vear.310 
Fruits, evaporating methods... 2 
— for Kansas.302 
— in Minnesota...,....,.327 
Girdling, fruit by.552 
Graft, effect on the roots.600 
— influence of stock upon.....583 
Insecir. injurious to nurseries..*22 
Gabel, home-made.686 
Mulberry, white.670 
Orohatd dlst*.. commercial.765 
Orchard, apple, Iowa.802 
— great, a.705 
— preparing for a.... 
— profitable....,..,..689 
— farm..706 
— in Illinois... . i 
— smoking. job 
— young, planting..-140 
Paradise apple as stock, trench 246 
Poach, Alexander.519. 814 
— Auisden.519,814 
— Beatrice .511), 814 
— Bitgga’Red May.814 
— extra early seedling....637 
— Cooledse’s favorite.. hh 
— Craw ford, early.750 
— Foster...103 
— George the Fourth.814 
— Halo’* curly.814 
— Honeywell ......501 
— Howell.....66 
— Jarrell’s I.ate White.622 
— r.eatherbury’s late.622 
— Louise, early...Sit 
— Rivers.. 8|4 
— Schumaker.5i9 
— Seedling, extra early.537 
— Serrate. Early York.. ,.814 
— Bleeper * Dwarf...632 
— Sweet Water.,,...6i9 
— Tillul'son. Early.814 
— Troth’s. Ear y.814 
— TuckaliOe, Late.822 
— Waterloo... 662 
— Weeping.024 
— Wilde. ..818 
— crop of .Hi. and Mo.5Cj 
— trees, worms in.346 
— yellows.215,389 
— — the Imltufor.42« 
Peaches.814 
— at the North.215 
— early,...,.«19 
Pear Crop, Failure ot... . .818 
— Beurre Oiairgeau.412 
— — o’Anjou.* <2 
— Chinese sand, blighting of.. 70 
— O airgvau on quince.92 
— Clapp's favorite cu Moun¬ 
tain Ash.156 
— Dana's llovey...<818 
— Duchesse d’Angouleme..fi7, 734 
— D'lhaiuci dc Monceau.24t; 
— Fulton. 7ft) 
— Housio.'Mo 
— Iron’s favorite....358 
— Japan....454 
— Jones's Seedling.1U2 
— Kteffer.l>7, 7o, 76. 108, 135, J40 
— Le Conte....215, 410 
— Petite Marguerite.847 
— Puroarton Duchesse.246 
— Kousselet Stuttgart.. ...540 
— S 'uveuirdu Emigres...182, 199 
Pours, Chinese and crosses... .215 
— Dwart.642 
— — cultivation.»U)2 
— for Michigan.251 
— Small lor market.510 
— Standard, us they should bo..->39 
— - list.674 
Pear, Beurre d'Atijou.834 
Persimmon, Japan..108 
— Americana.....622 
— Japan, Enobotrya Japonl- 
CA ..... ■ 569 
— Langsdon..""022 
— Miner.488 
— Newman. 622 
— Wild Goose.586 
Plums.,...313 
— best fox market.H3 
. — in Michigan...798 
— Pomological imp. in Mtob.. 
760, 798 
Pruning fruit trees.22, 686 
Quince. Japan, cooking,.j»2 
baelter tor fruits.567 
Stock, condition of..........—422 
— effect Of uu sciun .....422 
— ell rets, various.......422 
— iiiffuerice on grafts .......8, ini 
— Paradise. French us..........24a 
— quantity and quality.422 
Tinnier or fruit—which t .390 
Tree peddlers.422 
Trees bearing fruit drst year. ..316 
Y'ellow* in peach trees.315,889 
— knife fur......426 
POULTRY-YARD. 
Brahmas. Lght..536 
Chickens, leedin.g. .801) 
— for market, raising.687 
Chicks, hatched artificially .. ..783 
Cholera, chicken.360 
Dorking breed. 652 
Dorkings for eggs and meat....i(,7 
— on trial. 280 
Ducks.767 
— Pekin.72,120, up 
Ducks, how to raise....,.833 
Dust, road In hen-houses.._737 
Eggs, hens eating.487 
— now many per annum,.,... .345 
— preserving. 73 
— six thousand million.220 
— Winter, fowls for. 56 
Feathers, lowls picking.I/O 
Food, soft.249 
Gee«o.....154 
— China..054, 8tn 
— Kmclen.6:4 
— Toulouse. 654 
Goose, jealous.313 
Guinea fowls.487 
IlHmburgB vs. crows moat.345 
Hens for Winter laying.707 
— having good range...393 
— laying in Winter, flow to 
make.26 
— old, kill.761 
— Houdan.315 
Incubation, artincial.il, 119.521,652 
Incubator, a big.IDS 
— managing....•.751,800 
— selecting.730 
Incubators. 722, 733 
Incubator. 832 
Lime, tor laying, lions.783 
Pigeons, fancy.187 
Plymouth Rocks... 536 
Plymouth Rocks.847 
Poultry account, profitable.182 
71.137 
— constitutions ot. tl 
— tor market, Boston. ...314 
— — preparing. 11. 767 
— keeping-good luck’’lu .... 41 
— — in Winter...26 
— on the turui.249 
— raising.530 
— shows.767 
— soiling.185 
— unhealthy. £6 
Turkeys.171 
Rhode Island Black,... . .,.,316 
Roup, remedy for.833 
RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 
Burn, convenient.133 
— general purpose.293 
Country dwelling, a£1,600. 315 
— villa. *3,000....784 
Farm-house, drat-class.469 
Green-house, a cheap.41)5 
Hone, country, fSBuil.. _ 781 
lcc-housos.86. 133,768,784,816 
Rural New-Yorker office A3 
Bummer-house, scientific..406 
SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL. 
Ag’l EX. Station, N. J...472, 553, 
658, 754 
Ammonia, waste of in coke¬ 
making..120 
Clothing, adulterated.72 
Diatoms...770 
Electric fight and plants....265,297 
— — upon vegetation.284 
Fertilizer Bulletin, Conn. Ag'l 
Exp. Station.136, 155, 688 
Glucose from rugs..........251 
Lightning rods.....553 
— truth about...... ..625 
Meteorology and Agriculture..235 
Nitrogen for grain, significance 
of active.073 
Phosphates in the Boil, behav¬ 
ior ol.199 
Phosphoric acid, valuation of 
reverted ’’.5S6 
Plants and fruits, preserving 
specimens........ .124 
Theory, anew.846 
Vlnvgnr, testing of.361 
SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
Australian wools, cheap.428 
Carpet wools, sheep required..152 
Cotawolds in England.43 
— — in Kentucky.,..,.767 
Dorset,.. . ..72U 
Downs for mutton.752 
Ewe, profitable.210 
Ewes for early lambs.639 
Goats. Angora.296,782 
— breeding <>f, advantage.472 
— in England...........704 
— varieties of....720 
Grass vs. Weeds.107 
Herd Wicks....588, 671, 752 
Lambs, early....'.752 
— young, barley for.....107 
Leicesters.153 
Lincoln sheep, origin of,. 71 
Linseed oil meal...,...786 
Liver fluke in sheep..... 720 
Merino Rams.815 
— Sneep breed ng.290, 816 
Merinos, American..038, 668 
— keep. 816 
Mountain sheep.... .752 
Mutton for England.220 
— sheep.752 
— English. .472 
— Welch.752 
— what breed produces best ..194 
Oxford Down rams, sale or.... 572 
Pasture*, rocky and barren 
lands.704 
Rum, pure-bred, advantages of. 26 
Sheep Account, proamble. 11 
— mid wool,.520 
— - international Ex.6*8 
— best for the West.... ...312.345 
— business, boom in the..360 
— Olosecofitini iuontm Winter 671 
— destroyed by gras* seed.220 
— does it pay to raise......87 
— JingllMh Mountain.671 
— exhibition, International...056 
— tine, importation of.038 
— fur domestic use.071 
— future of... .. 56 
— heavy returns..042 
— husbandry, investigation...o80 
— — starting In...,.782 
— importation, tine.....638 
— Lincoln, origin ol'.71 
— uu black xotl of 111.024 
— pasture, cheap.781 
— profitable production.680 
— — which most.......... ....370 
— raising in III.024 
— salt for.345 
— Spring management.,.'216 
— Summer management of .,..488 
— ticks.671 
— vs. cow*... 59 
— washing. 34a 
— Winter management.130 
South Downs.15)3 
Wool. 750 
— clip in Great Britian.348 
— fine quality of .520 
Woolen goods.lncrease in m'f’g.772 
SWINE-HERD, 
BerkBbires.197 
— food for.210 
— red.......550 
Cheshire or Jefferson Co. pigs. .730 
Chester Whitea, origin of.345 
Cholera, hog. .: —72, 639 
Essex pigs, origin, etc.24 
Kssexa,.... 140 
Hog crop, outlook.750 
killing in Chicago.722 
Hogs and bacon.647 
Hogs, device for hauling up... .831 
Hogs, shipping.884 
Pigs, care of,.425 
— feeding.87 . 248, *17 
— — economy in.783 
— — cob meal,.88 
— healthy...235 
— heavy, not wanted.638 
— not marketable, shall we 
grow'/...638 
Polnnd-Ohina.117 
Pork.Chicago corner in.5 6 
— tusking cheap and healthy..425 
— mu a dairy..465 
Pumpkin seeds for hogs.205 
Sows, breeding.182 
— wny ihey *’gocrBzy ". IS2 
Sparred Poors for pigs.235 
Suffolk*, black...2' 4 
— origin, points. ....312 
Swine, breeding, prolific.296 
— feeding.210 
— change In.008 
— Victoria 
— importance of possessing 
the best.197 
YorksUirc sow. pr.ze.72 
Yorkstiiies, origin, etc.72 
THE QUERIST, 
Acre, square feet In.....638 
/Ernil plants, origin of mineral 
constituent-.331 
After-birth of cow, to remove. 154 
Agricultural colleges, list of...723 
— reports.20 
Alfalfa. 267 
— sowing.863 
Amber-cane Juice,cleansing...675 
Auief. Book fCx., reliability of.655 
Anthrax, or black-lea.139 
Ants troubling flowers.564 
Apple. Ulue Ftsurmuin. 75 
— culture, bust work on.91 
Apples for Nova Scotia....669 
— Russian . 571 
Apple tr* es dropping fruit.250 
— — old, restoring.250 
Arhor-vlltes from cuttings.013 
Ashes, coal around fruit trees.106 
— piue and oak, value of.379 
— wood.43 
Asparagus bed, to remove.41L 
— culture. 395 
Asthma reoniay........554 
Audiphono. the. 43 
Azaleas, how to raise.250 
Bug. 0 ke<1 In cow.427 
Balm of Gilead...isl 
Barley, value of for cows.91 
Barn, convenient......707 
Bee-Olves. patent.723 
— Journal.1 b7 
— queries....77* 
Bee-keeping,authorities on..,.835 
Rees, moths lrom........416 
merle for nmuo.43 
— striped buster.tlil 
Beets vs. turnips for sheep.90 
Bella on turkeys, loxe* catch¬ 
ing. ....475 
Blhygoatawny...723 
Blackberries, best . do? 
Blind atagaers In sheep.523 
Bone crusher, small.187 
dust, ammOulaied...........771 
— ground, applied to grass... .787 
— spavin...42 
Bones, broken. torgrape-vines^i’J 
— rendering a quick fertilizer.069 
Bone*, cows chewing......586 
Borer.apple and peach,remedy.260 
— peach ...-260 
Borers, killing.7oo 
Buoks on botany and bee-cul¬ 
ture....187 
— KvCund-naud, dealer ill.201 
Bot# killing horses......191 
Bouvardlii*. how to raise.25u 
Bran thrasher.,....,.. 43 
Buckwheat culture.491 
— Silver-hulled.771 
Budding, bud* didn’t start.643 
Ball, impotent young....264 
Bunker Hill Stunumeni.331 
Burdock, to get rid of....363 
Bushel, cubic measure of a.26 
Butter onlor, Perfected.........3l4 
coloring.282 
— keeping.170 
packing. 01 
Can huge, how toeavein Winter. ICO 
— on wet land.,2 3 
— worm. European.675 
— — remedy for.475 
Lamella hot blooming. ... .154 
Canary seed, lime to sow .. . ..507 
( a e. crashed, to keep.....i>23 
Carp, European.187 
Cartridges, giant powder.427 
Castrating lain os.305 
Caialpa seed, planting.771 
— *)>00l0*a. 75 
data I pus, pruning.7F7 
Cattle, c iseases ot, buok on.627 
Guernsey.314 
mauo-ln breeding. t8 
— rule for measuring.,206 
TeXhn. best breed for im¬ 
proving...42 
West Highland...771 
Checso-miiking, queries about. .6*8 
Chemist.*’material*.75 
Cherries, bird* from eating.331 
Cherry trees not bearing.2F» 
Chickens, marking..3.-9 
Chick* dying in the shell.3i4 
— eating corn.26! 
Cholera, chicken...298 
t burning unu butter, trouble 
w t.h. 69 
Cider from Slimmer apples.4il 
pros*, cost of.565 
Cistern, to build u stone.296 
Ciemat *, propagation of..723 
CluaauM, cauHit, remedy.523 
Ciovur, Aielke.........—..207 
— J.ipau... 691 
semi, i-xhaustlng »oii....633 
Collar galls, remedy for.843 
Colt and calf, teed for. 10 
— motherless, how to rear-3xu 
Comb inundation.213 
Compott neap, good.. 314 
Oumposting woolen...771 
Compost of ashes and cotton¬ 
seed_.,.723 
Congestion of lunu*, etc.3i4 
Corn, Blount’s White Prolific,. 
155, 613, 691, 767 
— broom.219 
— Ches er mammoth, to get. .739 
— crossing. 755 
— double ear. 91 
ears, shrinkage of.331 
earless . 91 
— Egyptian or rice.139 
— — to harvest.47u 
— lor seed,selecting.259 
harvester.558 
hCHkers, who makes.627 
— improved Dent.299 
— in hill* or drills. J55 
— — — fertilizer for.2aU 
— King Philip. .299 
— most productive variety_618 
— rice.298 
— seed, selecting....293 
— eheiier,*1... ..771 
Corn. Queen of Prairie.Si'J 
CornB on a horse’s foot.18/ 
Cow. going dry. .849 
Cow-peas.42.122, i37 
— — for eating. 475 
— where to buy.106 
Cow. Southern.723 
— sucking herself, to prevent.250 
— vomition in.723 
Cows, dairy, feeding.787 
— milch, roots for.267 
Crab-apu’es. specimens. ........755 
— wild, vinegar.314 
Cranberr* culture, book on ....691 
Cream, biitev .-..475 
— fresh and farrow.187 
Creamer*, centrifugal..,.. .250.4114 
Creamery, a good.187 
Cribbing.691 
Currant-worms, to destroy.475 
Cut-worms, remedy for.,.219 
Dairy cows and sheep...139 
— feeding. 787 
Demaphohe. 26 
— and audiphono... 91 
Donra.427 
— planting. .139 
— where to buy.59, 91 
Draining a flat.571 
Drains, under, stone. ..122 
Ducks, Muscovey. 91 
Weheverlas, treatment of.691 
Eggs, dealer in, address of.34? 
— nest.171 
Electric pad. .....475 
Encyclopedias. 283 
Epi/.noticophtlialmin In cattle.427 
Escutcheon, work on.219 
Eucalyptus globules, where to 
get seeds.608 
Evergreen* for cemeteries.331 
— from seed. 91 
grifliuv.203 
— time to transplant. ..—,...250 
Experiment needed.571 
Feed, coarse or fine. 42 
— cutter, Lion.803 
table, nutritive ratio.. 91 
Fence law in N. .1 ...379 
- rustic ut •' H. G.”.43 
Fences, barbed wire.:... 5’5 
— French gray for.379 
— Hue. law id N Y... .... .282 
Fetlock-joint, inflammation... .395 
Ferns or brakes.to kill.787 
Fertilizer, Albemarle.8u3 
best and cheapest....260 
onlc tan-bark a* a. .008 
roud-duHl as a.675 
woolen waste as a compost¬ 
ing.. 771 
Fertilizers. 836 
Fertilizers, potato special.170 
— queries about..653 
— various.643 
Fish brooding, book on.MS 
Flux culture.139 
Flower Mission, N. Y.314 
Flowers and ferns of U. S.. na¬ 
tive. 10 
Fodder, corn, value of.317 
out .219 
Konls, early or lute.3(21 
Food, cooking for hog, etc.43 
Foo -rot in sheep.,.3 K 3 
Foul-in-t lie-foot...427 
Fowls, capon Ring.186 
Fruit lulture, small, works on.. 59 
drier.643 
— evaporators..267 
— bouses.723 
— trees, mice injuring.122 
Gad-fiy. cattle.266 
Galvanic battery, u humbug ... 42 
Unpc-s in lowis. remedies fur ...347 
Gladiolus, white.76 
Gladioli seed planted In a hot¬ 
bed. 26 
Glycerine, how made.331 
Goat*, Angora and Cash mere.. 186 
Uolnen rods, to kill...637 
Graftiug wax. recipe for.219 
Grafts, hearing.554 
Grape. Duchess.16, 26 , 431, 250 
— Jefferson . 787 
Lady Washington. 26 
Onondaga.139 
— rot.491 
seedling,graftiug.....-155 
swindling. 10 
GrtiDe8, new seedling.659 
Grape-vines, bearing.139 
— — girdling time.691 
— — lent rollers on.803 
Planting......707 
— — where to get.91 
Grass, Bermuda.43 
where to get.106 
blue.427 
sowing....122 
— for wet lands.283 
rye.283 
— seed for a grove.V87 
— — an orchard.26 
— velvet as redder.664 
Green home, to build.108 
’ GruU-m-tbe-head ” in sheep. .42/ 
Guano for corn.11 
Gypsum...54 
Harrow, Acme.62J 
Huy, Hungarian,t* it iujuriona. 59 
— sheds.554 
Heaves in a horse.202 
Hedge. Norway spruce.-,3)4 
— plants lor a.707 
He-1 stiffeners, Lyous.219 
Hickorynut*, keeping.171 
Hogs, alive and dressed. 74 
crippled.187 
— Jersey red.106 
— small Yorkshire .106 
Holstein*.......... ..74 
Hops, fertilizers for.2s3 
Horse-chestnuts, Six plant.739 
— leg bruised.... .1(6 
shoes, weighted. 10 
— troubled with worm*. .171 
with lumps ou back.202 
Horse;.disease* of, wurk on... 75 
— heave* in..,.202,299 
— throttle, lump in...314 
— white .707 
Horticulture, work ou..361 
H xt-bcd. to make.187 
incubator.2u3 
— where to gel.59 
Indigestion, nogs troubled with 26 
— in a horse. 10 
Insect* cm gmpe-vines.475 
June-barryTAmeliiucbier aim- 
folia. 10 
Knitting machine, best....691 
Lakes, artificial, to improve....555 
Land, barren, what to do with. .819 
jj»wu, laying out a. 90 
— mower,a good.679 
Lead ore, to detect. 43 
Leg of horse, bruoed,.165 
Lspidium Cmnpmtie .395 
Level, Sibley, where to buy....155 
Lespedcz* striata.. ...691 
Lie; in sheep.151 
— on c Ives, remedies for.43 
— - cattle.219 
— — poultry, exterminating.331 
Lightning rods .363 
Lily of the Valley.165 
Lilac. pr"per nume of...fill 
Lime, air-slaked.....123 
— applying. 91 
— for strawberries.267 
— kuu backwoods./.n38 
— on laud, now to apply.475 
Locust hedge, honey. 7 4 
Locus’.*, honey...739 
Mange In swine. 643 
Mangle, ovoid ...... 739 
Manure, artificial for raspbe - 
ries.139 
— barnyard.,.,...154 
— cistern for.804 
— cow ana sheep.613 
Manure, farm.803 
— for peach orchard.155 
— — squash.....219 
— hen 139 
— Mapes’ potato. .314 
— used at Rural Farm.122 
— weight of.187 
Van.427 
Meal, linseed, feeding.74 
Meat, unwholesome, when . ...849 
Melon raising In Oregon .737 
Mildew on grapes, remedy.027 
Milch cows, f-ed for.26 
— - pumpkins for.819 
Milk, a quart, weight of.427 
— smir. analysis of—..<59 
— stock. Smith of Ky.218 
Mineral, sulphide of lead. 43 
Mon* on meadows.267 
Mower. Clipper. ........87'.) 
Mucilage...155 
Muck .10.74 
— for manure..155 
— swump. improving.379 
Mil In, lame. 171 
Nitric ferment. In soil .982 
North Carolina, soil and cli¬ 
mate Of.819 
Norway spruce, time to trim .. .139 
Oils. Ennobled.... .....91, 789 
— how much to tbe acre.-2I’0 
Oleomargarine, tests lor.G9U 
Olive culture . 395 
Ooinn culture—.170 
— tty.491 
— setts. 787 
— white and red.155 
— wild.299 
Opittui, work on. 75 
Orange stale. 819 
— trees, to cultivate............£0? 
— — transplanting.10 
Orchard, fruit In Md.Ill 
— in far West, howto make...186 
Osuue orange seed, to get out.. 69 
Oxalls and geranium In damp 
cellar..... 26 : 
Ox-gull, analysis of.803 
Paralysis in pig*.771 
— — sows.395 
Paris-green for potatoes.. .203 
— — ou melons. .299 
Parsnips how to grow.....219 
Peach borer.250 
— new seedling.523 
— tree yellows.659 
— trees,queries about. ...554.67.x 
— Wager.269 
Peaches, choice.72.3 
— for home use...627 
— hardiest, and most prolific...551 
— in succession.122 
Peanuts. growing.299 
— how to raise.. 507 
Pear, ct-pp's Favorite.154.2n<l 
— Burnett.266 
— DflChessse do Bordeaux.122 
— Kleffer..10,75 
Ptiurlush tud potash, ..139 
Pearl millet, ripening seed—.643 
Peas, weevil-eaten. .155 
— — preventing..1/2 
Peat, preparing tor fuel.fi9 
Prrlstoi la eluiu.7fi 
Phosphat es on sandy land.171 
Phosphoric h eld........411 
Pick to* for sale, putting up.....379 
— nisnufacturo of.187 
Pigeons raising.691 
Pigs, feeding.;.643 
— Jersey rod ....187 
— nuralyalB in. 171 
Pipes or spruce, time to trim— ,7</7 
Pinus SiMrteu, starting eeuds of 69 
Plaster, Nova bcoLlu.755 
— on meadow.250 
— sowing... ..,,,...266 
— Damson pits.....739 
— Weaver. 91 
Poll evil. hor*e affected.627 
Pork, cost of making.691 
Postage stamps. 29U 
Posts, round or split.206 
Potash.106 
— with bone dust.6511 
Potato. Beauty of Hebron.613 
— culture. Irish in 8. C.59 
— cutting. 331 
— DunraOre.139 
— Naosemorid.171 
— sweet, analysis of. ..26“> 
Potatoes, a second crop or. 267 
— raising early in boxes.122 
— seed, keeping tdl Spring .669 
Primrose. Chinese.671 
Privy, constructing a.7 b7 
Pruning shears. 219 
Pumpkins for milch Cow9.819 
Punch and Judy origin of.43 
Pyrethtum a* Insect powder.. 849 
Quince culture.659 
Quince trees, how to treat.849 
Raspberries, best black.507 
Cnthbcrt, Wintering.. .. .,7 m 
for drying and marketing.... I' 4 
how far apart...379 
— pruning.,..,71)7 
— time to plant, Va.,...523 
Red spider. 26 
Red top. ....609 
Refuse, burning under earth...*19 
Kennel....,.. 638 
Hlfic, Chichester. 91 
Evan*, manufacturers of .. .171 
Roots for sheep.157 
Hose bugs destroying grapes.. ,47a 
remedy for.411 
— bush not blooming.Is7 
Rose* at. an English home.571 
Roup In fowls.787 
Rust on wheat, preventing. . 59 
Rye, to sow., .ML 
Sadx annularis.260 
bait, about.189 
— price of..... 75 
sowing ... .. .266 
Salvia leaves l'Slling .26 
SasHiitraa sprouts, to kill.21:6 
Sculy logs in fowls.59 
Bel I la Fiuseri.267 
Scours lu calves.283 
Seed, clover.835 
Seed*, freezing.139 
— of hurdy trees......418 
Settler*, early in U. S.298 
Sheet), spout worn.3*7 
— cotswold merino. ..427 
— feeding oat* to.803 
— foundered....267 
— husbandry in Australia...,.771 
— — work ob.659 
in-and-in breeding.139 
— Oxfordshire Down.187 
— raising, place for.723 
— skies, tnuoing.122 
Sheep's bag caking.......17 1 
Sbinglt-*, metallic...,.'60 
null is, treatment.7F7 
Short-horn cow, scale ot points 363 
Siiorl-horns. 74 
Silk worm, native. ...597 
Skiin-tnilfc vs. uorn or bran.707 
Skins.curing,,. 76 
binut iu wheat. ,491 
boap.hard, to drv..411 
Sod. time to plow for corn.>67 
Soiling.755 
Sod, sour—. 5J 
boro eyes in hogs.89 
Sorghum, ahem.....187 
Sorghum, donra and bntnching.849 
— how in cultivate.166 
— Rural branching.659 
Sows, brood.395 
Spavin.427 
— cure..91 
— remedy for.331 
Speedy cut.321 
Sohinx, fire spotted.819 
Sprain, swellings in horse*. 202 
Squ ish vines, to trim .475 
Stallion, progeny of.39* 
Stock, books on.202 
Stone crop.S48 
Stone plaster. 43 
Stringhult.3H 
Stump«, destroying.69 
— eradicating.299 
Stnwberi v Crescent..2St 
Strawberries, best.507 
— from seed ..554 
— not bearing.250 
Strawberry sucker* .123 
Sugar, beet, making at home...427 
— c.»ne cu'ture, Incom,.........659 
Sweet ootatops vs. corn for 
hogs.2u 
Tan-bark .154 
Tea plants, whereto get.171 
— — to enuvate.607 
Teeth black in swiue. . 43 
Telephone, Brook's.538.627 
Thumps In horses.187 
Ticks on sheep, rpmedy.643 
Timber, preserving.331.347 
Toad-flux, to get rid of.427 
Tobacco, cost of growing.283 
— culture...............75 
— — book on.250 
— ll y.819 
Tomato, best early.203 
Trees, torest, time to trans¬ 
plant..623 
Trust, deed of farm.,..,....,395 
Tulip tree in Midi..106 
Turkeys, lame. .1S7 
— Nnvragansett. 20 
— weak-levged..260 
white and bronze......139 
Twig-blight, apple.314. HUH 
— borer... 106 
llnder-druins, stone.122 
Vertigo in marc. 91 
Veterinary study.106 
Vine, hardy.. :538 
VlilegT from cider.. .259 
— testing urenulh ef..*.59 
“Wiirbles” In cattle .379 
Walks for rural grounds.202 
Walnut stain* for Inside wood.379 
Walnuts, budding... id 
— English, seed of..739 
Warta on horses.027 
Water cresses . 75 
Watermelon. Voorhts.73'< 
WellsUudcesspools. £8 
Wheat BluoSU-m. .654 
— Fall . 267 
— Golden Chaff. 691 
— l.ost Nation as Winter. 737 
Mediterranean, beurded_675 
— Hen-ca, origin...475 
— Soule’s. 218 
Walker. 0*3 
— about imtnnring. 43 
— fert'liznr . lor.659 
— in N. Ala .707 
— — Spring tre*tmetit.170 
— mii' i productive variety of..008 
— seed, year old.523 
- when toihrush...,..138 
Wheats, cro.,sing of. .707 
Whittcmore, U. A . trustwor¬ 
thiness of.771 
Willow, ring.250 
WindmHl.691 
Windmills ut sea. 69 
Wind-sucking.331 
Wire fences, address ot firm... .314 
Wool, coned.189 
— queries about..........347 
— waste for man lire. 139 
Woolen waste,composting.771 
Words, iiiounfitg nt .755 
Worms in steep, brain bladder.188 
— white iu flowerpot*.20,250 
— — email m horses.219 
VETERINARY. 
Abortion in oows.... .......216. 248 
Anthrax, inoculation to pre¬ 
vent .770 
Oholora, hog.72,539 
Dentistry in animals.425 
Fever. Texas cattle ..763.719 
Tuberculosis, duty of breeders 
in regurd to.585 
Corm* and thoughts germane. .660 
Llvei fluke In sheep.720 
Milk (ever In oows ..107 
— — — — to prevent.268 
I’leuro-pneutnoniu.312 
— — Chicago show discus¬ 
sion.815 
— — Inoculation for.739 
— — suppresjlou.......778 
Sheep ticks.671 
Shoulder-gulls, preventing.537 
— — remedy for...487 
Worms in horses,.392, r 25 
Wounds, treatment <«f.672 
VINEYARD. 
Bacchus...813 
Bees puncturing grapes.814 
Bela, new seen ling.670 
Bird pefits,..I 78 
Brighton... ....102 
I 'cntonniill,....?U3 
Champion. .23 
Early Victor.553 
Electricity applied to - rape cul¬ 
ture....... 6iB 
Eumeliui_8i, 115. 121,488, 703.893 
Girdling grape-vines.75, bii) 
Graf Hug lu ibe Pall. 44 
Hybrids for vineyard purposes.103 
JnUcrMin. 733 
Lady. . 588 
Lady Charlotte.. 755 
Lady Washington ..622,676,703,7.0 
Luidley.8U3 
Niiurul. .750 
Jk lug jra.688,134,814 
Grape culture. T 
— Vine, how It bears .814 
G ra pc. Lind ley..832 
Grapes. American.772 
— bers puncturing.814 
— in Mich.798 
— — Thermal belt. 332.502 
Minor’s seedlings .... . 140,'622 
— netting tor.4Uli 
— new in \V\ N. V.734 
— — varieties....,.7,519,622 
— on Hi N. Y. market. 
.628 
— protecting...533 
— seedling. 
....519 
— specimen.5.12 
— untRr g.ass.502 
— while, new.755 
Grape Jeffers u.846 
— Niagara. ....’•47 
Grapes, keeping.817 
Grupo-viMCfti atKi potatoes. 
— — pot-Krown.... 
— — training...... 
— — specific names. 
Phylloxera in France. 
Poekungtoii. ........ 
PrcnliKS. 
.032, 793 
.568 
......79/ 
.428 
.734 
Rote-bugs in grape-vines. 
.487 
.scupper OIUC**. 
.<86 
Secretary. 
. 022 
Vergennes. the... 
Vltis .E-tivalis. 
.797 
— Coriifolia. 
.797 
— VTuifera. 
.7’.iT 
— Vulpina.....797 
Wiue, French and the phylloxe- 
ra. 
.831 
Wine-making. 
Worden. 
.. 23.172 
