THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
DEC 27 
Horse for the farm... .609 
— medium sized. 620 
— Shire. 268 
Horses, best for the farm and 
road, prize essay.517 
— — — — farmer’s use.137 
Strawberry, Crawford No. 1....429 
— Crescent . 99 
— crown girdler.494 
— Culture .322 
— Daisy .495 
— expert, visit to. 463 
— English prize winners.882 
— form ami road.241,kH. 752 
— influence of pollen on the 
— prize essay.-‘'73 
— Jewel 1. .145, 446 
— gram choked..352 
— Jumbo...148 
— heavy, best.717 
— Ladles’ Pine.4)5 
— raising, profits. 
Norman-iiurses, too small bon¬ 
ed .197 
— Perelieriib stallion.SKI 
Ra.'c-burse, Thoroughbred..449 
Sbtre horse.268 
Sila&P tor horse. 
— Manchester.165 
— native, taste. 20 
— plants. 795 
— Parr> T .400 
— at R. G.445 
— Prlmo.558 
Stalfton, Norman Porcheron Or- 
— tests at R. G.495 
Water the work hurse*.620 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Tomato tests at R. G. 50 
— King Humbert.828 
Water, us- and abuse of iu hor- 
Akeblu qulnata, excellent climb 
er.26 7 
— — in fruit. 4 
AmpelooMs Velu hil.804 
— — good climb' r...26? 
Asparagus, practice vs. theory .,899 
— 9cx th . 2 Sj 
Berries frost among the .416 
Berry nates from Mich.f@d 
Blackberries at R. G.2)4 
— early and laie.353 
— in Colorado,.......851 
— — Missouri .41U3 
Blackberry, Karly Cluster..463 5 h7 
— — Harvest .463. .53 
— — — audBrunton.58? 
— Mlnuewaska. Dew.559 
— Tyler . 698 
— SVilsuu Jr.463 
Blackcaps, culled thirable-bcr- 
rles.164 
Buliaoa and cabbage worm.538 
Celery , early, late .. .18 
Celery culture fur farmers.SIS , 
ClcnmrtsFintnmula..286 1 
— Jackmuuli . 286,801 
— flowering . 801 
Coul ashes Tor insect pests.461 
Cross fertilization of varie¬ 
ties . ..198,768 
Currant Louis, sparrows eating.301 
— bushes ishi ~ for. 18 
— cnttlnBS. 8.8 
— white, new,sweet..58s 
— worm remedy.....216 
Cut worm noitb . ..583 
Diroor ban thus Manscburleus..7i5 
rruit growers, intelligence of...318 
— names. Improper, ete..216 
— notes, small. 2i6 
— prospects -.361* 
— reports value of. .G16 
Fruits, small, for Arkansan.288 
— —uardinessof, in Canada...303 
— — In New Jersey .,,,.4B8 
— — talk on ..545 
Forsytbia or Holden Bell.570 
— suspeusa.5al 
Gardeutng, specialties in. I 
Gooseberries at K. G .281 
— new sorts.251 
— rained by pruning..i ts 
— seedling. . 35. 73>J 
—.standard .4lfi 
Goes-berry, Bengali's.200 
— new .LSI 
— Smith.,.,..251 
Grart hybrids .581 
Grounds, ex., of the R. X. V., 162, 
182, 2 o. 415, ITT, 6H2, 716,728, 761 
Honeysuckle, rartartan .4u] 
Hydrangea, Blue, Great-pan 
ieled..018 
— puulculata.793 
Insecticide . 283,545 
Ivy, Japan.301 
Kerosene emulsion..217. 4IS,4 0,5.2 
— >u8D emulsion. ..512 
Label problem solved..... 2 
Labels, kine . ..190 
Lawns, e re of.137 
Lilac, princess Alexnn fra,.199 
Alien Ian •-grabbing, legislation 
agalusl .813 
“Mixing” of varieties.138 
Mole tru . Uule’s.162, 252 
-laheU. . . .,62 
— traps .... .162. 477 
Muleliing. Fall.....635 
Mushroom cellars, Hies in. 4 
— growing, soli for. I 
Peas, mix fug if crown side by 
side .fiflO 
Peppermint.717 
Plants, new ..,.199 
— protecting. I 
Priinns PLsardli.5‘2S 
Pyretbrum powder for rose- 
tiugs.445 
Raspberries at R G.284,793 
— earliest . 477 
— for home use...738 
— hardy. 147 
— in Colorado.361 
— — Missouri ..8di 
— new and rare..389, 793 
Raspberry, Caroline.511. 534 
— Chesterfield seedling. 99 
— Crimson Beauty...544, GIH 
— — — and Uansell...631 
— earliest...570 
— Gregg..318 
— Hausell ...................—.477 
— — In Canada . 652 
— Highland Hardy .B09 
— Hooster Mammoth.. ,...5t4 
— large . .. ..5it) 
— cost Rubles, same as Naomi.417 
— Marlboro,445, 4c, 417, 587, 763, 719 
— — at home .544 
— — g^ou opinion of..543 
— — — qualities of .558 
— — in New r Jersey.609 
— - not crumbling.636 
— — on Jersey soli.58? 
— - praise of ..512 
— — tilt for.512 
— Mereatth Queen . 793 
— Nemaha. 541 
— Ohio .511 
— long canes ..721 
— Shaffer's Colossal.177.523 
— Souhogan ..417 
— Superb......477, 544 
— Turner..147 
Reproductive organs of plants. .319 
Rhododendrons.»st 
Rosa polyantha .531 
Rose, Andre Schwartz, hum¬ 
bug .. .,.581 
— bug exterminator found.445 
— — remedy.806 
— list .838 
— Queen’s Scarlet. 2 s« 
Roses, climbing ...... ......132 
— holt uordy, grooving.267 
Seed Lilsi libation cil the R.X. Y.737 
Seeds, cleaning .,,,..819 
Shrubs, cuttings Of.8i3 
— liaro v at 11. d.384 
— — Irum seed... .......733 
Soil, silted, results...584 
Squash bugs .177 
— — and chickens.auj 
Strawberries at it. G.............284 
— and birds .416 
— fertilizing... 368, 587 
— influence of pollen upon.MO 
— In uid .527 
— — Missouri ... .3U3 
— nuiduicailon of by surround¬ 
ings.463 
— new.429 
— on poor land. ilk 
— pistillate va., changeselTect 
cd by fertilization.303 
— - what are . ..527 
— potting. .449 
— policnizati.m of pistillate....7i5 
— Miamiuateand pistillate.589 
StiMwnerry, Amateur. ..495 
— Allan He ..429, 5s7 
— Banquet ..635 
dig Bob,... .. 
— blight remedy......337 
— Burr’s New Pine.216 
— Cornelia.544 
— Cowing's Seedling.528 
tlculture.416 
Weeds, proper and improper_543 
Wlegela naDa var.296 
HYGIENIC. 
Asthma cure.637 
Brimstone, a disinfectant.52 
Chills and fever.37 
Diphtheria cure....,.385, 780 
Fruit, how to eat.S53, 114 
Grape seeds, fatal. 5 
Hydrophobia remedy..417 
Liniment, soap .285 
Medicine chest for the farm _385 
Mullein plant for eonauioption.337 
Plants not unhealthy.496 
Sore-throat remedy.813 
IMPLEMENTS. 
Ditching machine, trial of.349 
Farm truck, a post puller. 5 
Feed mill, Shiver’s ireared. 4 
Harrows, spring tooth ... 4 
Hay presses, advance In.588 
— stacker.337 
Hoe and tree planter.337 
Ladder and derrick.588 
Post puller farm truck, a..._ 5 
Potato digger.447 
— planter.837 
Rake, hay, cheap.4-17 
— stalk ....883 
Windmills ..184 
— competitive trial of.447 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES. 
American Institute Farmers’ 
Club.844 
Canadian, Western, fair..673 
Connecticut, meeting of Board 
of Agriculture. 20 
Fairs, list of State aud indepen¬ 
dent for 1384 .469, 59 
Fruit growers’ Ass. Outarlo.121 
111. State fair.642 
Iud. State fair.090 
Long Island, Queen’s Co. fair.. .454 
Maine State fair.... 674 
Mlchlgau Horticultural Society .453 
— State fair.657 
— Western, fair.......673 
Mississippi Valley Hart. Society. 105 
ML Holly fair.7U1 
New England Ag'l fair.625 
— York State fair.,...625 
— — Western, Hort. Society...105 
Nurserymen’s and Florists' Con¬ 
vention . 432 
North Carolina Exposition. .721,797 
Ohio fair managers,.812 
— state fair.625 
Queen's Co. ralr.454 
St. Louis Lair. 71)1 
-Cattlemen’s Convention, 
the Great.829 
Stock, fat, show at Chicago. .25, 785 
Toledo fair, great.657 
— Tri-State fair.611 
Vermont State fair... .642 
Wisconsin State fair.690, 701 
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS. 
Carp culture.21 
Colton Centennial Exposition at 
New Orleans,...... .461 
Meat trade with foreign coun¬ 
tries .796 
Molasses making. 6 
Silk culture.353 
Sugar aud sirup making.494 
— beet.... .44t> 
— industry, Sorgliurn.322 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Advertisements, fraudulent..69, 417 
Agricultural Intormation imbib- 
“ ed by Theudwinkle Brown485, 
502 
Bleaching process, new.512 
But Fly on Horses....844 
Carp culture. 21 
Catalogues etc. received. .58,100, 
134, 146, 164, 199, 218, 235, 252, 
269. 2j 6, 306, 325, 341, 352, 873, 
3s5. 400, 416, 133, 4J8, 497, 512, 
544, 609, 6il, 036, 691, 722. 704, 812 
Cemetery, country, pieu tor.6</J 
Changes of a quarter of a cen¬ 
tury .778 
Chinamen In California.699 
Experimental station, K.Y, visit 
to. ... 21 
Fraud, shall It be condoned ?352,418 
irrigation.19 
I1L Dairy men’s Association.333 
Kansas it. it. Commission.218 
ee.. 22 
Monopoly, mischievous, end of.lW 
Kalu, pow er of.....732 
Science, shall wo ignore?.399 
Scientists In Montreal.636 
Wells, artesian, expensive.2o8 
NATURALIST. 
Crow, the farmer's friend.:.718 
Gophers, lutormutiou wuutcd 
about..700 
Rohm, food of young birds.448 
POMOLOGICAL. 
Apple, abnormal growth as a re- 
buIi of cross-fertilization... .761 
— Alexander.715,791 
— Ainer. Gulden Russet 322, 350,368 
— Baldwlu, black spots on.b81 
— Ben Davis.303 
— Borsdorf.843 
— — Fetfer.l.k) 
— blight in Kansas ..116 
— Bourassa...811 
— Cellini.... .795 
— crab us hedge plunt.219 
— Clyde Beauty......i95 
— lir. Uowsley..130 
— Duchess of Oldenburg.729 
— Golden White .....sil 
— Greenings, red-clieeked.6)1 
— Grimes o Golden.411 
— King Sweeting....Osl 
— Louglleld. 843 
— Marne. 681 
— McIntosh Red.MI 
— Nelson.130 
— Ra sle's Janet.322, S50, 368 
— #- — mvzlug.368 
— Red lileilghelmer ..717 
— Scott’s winter.-13 
— Stay man's YVlockup.130 
— Strawberry, pear-shuped.. ..764 
— -tree buck lice.618 
— trees, dwarf training.731 
— - mulching..... .714 
— — pruning. 217 
— worm moui,. 5 
— Yellow Transparent.650 
Apples covered with chaff.798 
— dwarf.731 
— tavorite ill Maine.635 
— for L. 1.69s 
— iron-dads.729 
— grown lu Northern Ontario. .799 
— hardy.?9-> 
— - lu Iowa.lio 
— in Canada.....249 
— list of good....24. 
Apples, moist climate not good 
for.794 
— on high lands.162 
— — lowlands.162 
— Russets, red-cheeked.681 
— Russian.652 
— — new.217 
— original Importation ..794 
— wanted coreless.826 
Ashes, coal, for fruit trees.293 
Black-knot in Michigan.- 73 
— — killing plum trees __445 
— — oil cherry trees, destroy¬ 
ing.587 
Card rest, premium. 53 
Cherry, culture for farmers.318 
— Downer’s Late.693 
— Early Richmond...266 
— notes on the.842 
— trees on wet land.764 
— Windsor..,.,.6o3 
Cherries, line wild stocks for...635 
— for the North-west.146 
Codllug moths. 5 
Crab apple as a hedge plant.249 
Curculio to destroy.798 
Fruit culture in Colorado..328 
— growing, successful, water 
supply essential .336 
— liana ling.563 
— ladder...416 
— notes from Indiana.721 
— on high or low lands.(215 
— reports, value of...619 
— sweatlug. 
— thinning.353 
— tree, bow to trim.350 
— — wash .132 
— trees, high or low lands.698 
— — in Iowa, effects of the 
Winter.415 
— — mulched with sand.230 
Grafting coins..217 
Handling fruit.563 
Ladder, fruit.38-1 
Mice girdling trees.239 
Mulberry, Downing's liv. lbear- 
ing.296. 321 
Orauges, Florida.214 
Orchard, cross-fertilization In..763 
— English, large.200 
— Iowa notes. 826 
— Northern.Sit 
-notes In a.826 
Orchards, future, our.162 
— in Illinois...162, 266 
— on low lauds in Illinois.385 
— site.217 
Peach buds, loss of, how to pre¬ 
vent.... ..381 
— cultivation.26,36 
— Peeu-to of China.431 
— seed. 90 
— trees, wood of healthy and 
diseased.286 
— yellows.. 86,650 
— potash for.,.252 
Peaches, blight in.700 
— gathering.36 
— grafting.385 
— in Connecticut.....337 
— picking.698 
Pear, Bartlett, iuBt on.6S4 
— Bose.714 
— Chinese, The.825 
— Comet ..690 
— Congress.79.5 
— Clapp’s Favorite.563 
— Kietler.80, 53, 161, 401, Hll 
— — and Mikado.793 
— — Dr. llexamor’8 opinion ...116 
— — Kura 'u . 67 
— Mikado.761 
— Flemish Beauty.795 
— Le Coute.... .691,729 
— Lawson, new.651 
— orchard of Kteffers, Bartlett 
among.763 
— trees, dwarf, objection to_652 
— Sand.37 
— Seek el, when to guther.714 
— Sheldon. 52 
— Vt, seedling Macomber. 73 
— wall..IIS 
Pears In Canada.249 
— cult urn in South Carolina. ...MI 
— new and rare..146 
— — three from California.... 6 
— standard, plant.162 
Plunt. Bassett.416 
— Goldi i 1 . uty. 
— Jemile Lucas.... ... ... 53 
— Moore's Arctic.715 
— — — fraudulent picture..,.651 
— trees ruined by black-knot...445 
— w,ver . . .. 
— weevil.385 
Plums, seedling tine.778 
Prunes from I’aMfornln... .165 
Quince, Chinese.267 
— Missouri Mammoth.146 
Stocks, congenial. 36 
Trees glrilled by mice...236 
Vigor Ill fruits.281 
— greatest tu fruits.291 
Yefluws In peaches.36, 650 
POULTRY YARD. 
Buntums. 698 
Black Spanish v. hlte-faced.265 
Brahmas, Light at K. G. 97 
— — record.153 
— — scale of points . 18 
Breeds and ttiotr characteristics 
.250 , 866, 562, 
Chickens, artificially hutched, to 
raise .517 
— food for.&>? 
— winter care . 697 
— without u mother.266 
— young, care of.Si 9 
— — food for .DJ6 
Cholera cure.250 
Cochins Black.562 
Dominiques. 319 
Drinkiug dish, handy.517 
Egg, large.,320 
Eggs, Imported. 36 
— iu winter, how to have.Ill 
— weight of.806 
Fancy fowls.637 
r ceding experiments. 18 
— trough ... .320, 517 
Fowls, raising for the table.173 
— which ts the best?... DO 
Game fowls ....l. 205 
Hen bouse, killing insects.130 
Hens bruooy, b< ops for..798 
incubator fraud,,,...101 
— homo-made.....«<i 2 
Light Brahmas.. is, 97, 153,687 
Perches, arrangement ox_ 4, 6;5 
Phoenix cock of Japan...335 
— fowls ,.. 129 
Plymouth Rocks.132 
Polish fowls. 266 
Poultry experience.302,544 
— full work with.731 
— house.250, 399 
— — convenient.233 
— — white washing ,,....,,,,.,684 
— in Winter..941 
— prutlt from.153, 399 
— raising tu Louisiana.411 
Roosts, poultry" .353 
Salt for poultry.ill 
Scaly legs .306 
Stock Wintering Icittug run 
down. 
Turkey as au incubator.252 
\Vliter, running supply.414 
Wyandotte*. . 637 
QUERIST. 
Aberdeen Angus buU and na¬ 
tive cows, cross. 623 
Abortion lu cows..386 
Afterbirth, devout-lug.499 
—of cow, removing.270 
— retention of, poisoning from 499 
Ag. Commissioner of, report, to 
get. 118 
Agriculture, scientific works on 196 
Air sacks lu Turkeys.622 
Alderney'S and Jerseys.7s3 
Alfalfa iu N. Y.224 
— notes.............117 
— seed. 55 
— —to the acre.419 
— sowing In the Fall.887 
— — when to get seed.639 
Alkaline spots In field.483 
Alkekengl.254 
Alsike as beneficial as red 
clover .514 
Aluminum, what Is 1 . 607 
Amaryllis vlttata, howcared for 817 
Ammonia, cheapest source.499 
Ampelopsla, seeds of.119 
Anasarca in a nmre.670 
Angle-worms, are they injuri 
OU8. 871 
— — lu garden, cause.291 
Animals farm, period of gesta¬ 
tion . 222 
— fattening, feeding grain.130 
giving salt.186 
— marking, best way.337 
Anthrax In chickens.623 
Aphis, Cherry-tree...339 
Apple and poach tree borer.735 
— quince trees affected by 
the apple tree jiruner.499 
— changed from N. to 8..202 
— Clarke’s Prolific, grarts of.. .172 
— leaves with tnUUtw.578 
— Mann —.202 
— orchard to plow up. 7 
— pomace, use of.. 102 
— root borer.S31 
Salome, grafts of ..172 
— seeds from pomace, to save. ..637 
— —planting.767 
— — sowing. 167 
—tree blight. 859,418 
— grafted, sport ....671 
—trees, bark, splBtlng. 7 
— infested with ants.....450 
— —not bearing.>i 
— —sending up sprouts. 251 
— - sprouting.254 
— —time to wash. 292 
— trunks decoying .292 
— —young, covered with 
green lly.655 
— — Winter, best for Illinois,. .134 
Apples, for family use..134 
— —Maryland.7H» 
— — N. W. Ter.483 
— —the prairie.221 
— grafted on sour orub. 202 
— keeping. 222 
— on Paradise stock.289. 292 
— — — —long life . 134 
— peaches, etc book with plates -6 
— Russian.623 
— new... 171) 
-rose-bugs destroying.254 
— sweet, making good vinegar,.577 
Apricot, Russian. 202 
— — hardiness of...M7 
Arbutus raising. .. .593 
Architecture, work on.,.239 
Anna splnosa. 547 
Artichokes, raising.222 
— red Brazilian, where to buy. .186 
AsheB . 39 
— at 50 cts. per barrel...172 
— coal mulch for currants. 202 
— — to lighten the soil.172 
— from a cord of wood. 815 
— —cotton seed bulls.. 7 
— — pine aud ft r.224 
—leached for sorghum.224 
— or soot from coal.......291 
— pine and Ur value of.254 
— strong wood arouud pear 
tree*.307 
— wood aud muriate of potash ..221 
— — how much to the acre.671 
— — ou potatoes. 55 
— — or manure, stable.186 
— — value per bu . 815 
— — unlencbed mixed with 
manure —. 184 
— — - value of. 
Asparagus beds, preparing.238 
— from seed.7u2 
— plants removing.655 
— set In permanent bed.167 
— transplanting. 86 
when to cut.517 
Ayr-hire cow, weight butter 
yield .69 
Bacon, moldv taste In.323 
Barberries, two kinds.172 
Barberry, rur a hedge.223 
- seeds . 389 
Bariev, feeding value compared 
with oats__ 577 
— for fattening bogs.171 
— — hogs ana cattle.172 
— how much to the acre.29 1 
— Mnnshury .150, 172 
— —where to buy.... ..196 
Russian and black.224 
— to harvest as Winter feed for 
cows. 
— Winter, u profitable crop? .. 547 
Barn lloor.<9)6 
with easement, floor. bto 
Barn yard, treatment Of old.767 
Basket, widow Industry. Hi 
■ Bastard ’’ strangles In a horse.735 
Beau, Black Wnx. 202 
Beaus growing, yield.793 
— Marrowfat. toharve>t.655 
— marrow, yield.607 
— thrashing. 251 
Bee culture, book on . ..p -5 
perilidleala on . 1-0 
— good . 86 
— -hives, wbi 1 sells.—. 86 
— keeper, lady, address of.2ir> 
— keepers' Guide. Cook's.291 
keening, work on . 2112 
Bees, drones, getting rid of.364 
— dying In Spring .869 
— lu Dakota.109 
— Italian. 0061 of. 
— where to buy.1S6, 419 
— keeping, about............239 
— short of bee bread ..299 
Bellows for pyretlirum powder 202 
— Wooduston. manufacturer of 7 
Berries, preserving ...,,. 807 
Berry boxes, machine for cut¬ 
ting the thin siuff.783 
v. hi ■ in ■ Ice* In 1 lu West. „M 
Berkshire boar ailing .. 4161 
swine, color of .-.467 
Beets, sugar, cooking for hogs. .7 -5 
Big head . 546 
Binding twine..451 
Blackberries care of.578 
— bow far apai t .628 
new value of.224 
— plunted about stumps and 
logs .196 
wild. Improved.397 
Blackberry, bt st .202 
culture,best. ... 202 
— evergteen..371 
— Lawton....655 
— queries.623 
root cuttings.. 785 
— suckers from pluuts affected 
by rust .. 1 H 6 
— Wachusctt .202 
Black cap, earliest . ... 1 72 
Black knot .238, ill 
— — on cherry trees.254 
— - plum trees.296 
— leg In calves.........386 
Spanish eggs .. 307 
Bladder, disease of, tu horse....450 
lalne a temperance man, ,.467, 499 
Blight, apple-tree .869 
tire.418 
Blister beetle .(523 
IsiouUug, cattle. 85,450 
Blood disorder In a heifer...Bit 
poisoning lu a cow.435 
Bloody milk. 418 
Boar all lug .499 
Bog spavlil In colt . .150 
Bokhara clover...222 
Book stores In New York and 
Philadelphia, addresses of. .186 
Books, secoud-lmod dealers in. .292 
Bone, ground, for wheat.183 
— — or dissolved,which Is best 284 
— value of. 118 
— meal, to test Tor purity.515 
Bones, buffalo, for trees etc_2.3 
tor fertilizer, preparing.222 
value or . ... LSI 
Borer, apple and poach tree 735,831 
Bottles,ball’ mince .. 292 
Boxes, half-ounce paste -board. .292 
Bran,wheat or rye,feeding value 71) 
Brewers' grains for hogs .186 
Brewery refuse as food for u 
sow".238 
Briars, elderberries, time to cut 
to kill.515 
Bridge, Victoria.. 86 
Bronchitis, nmre with.171 
Bryobla mites.418 
Buckwhe t Injured by the sun. .202 
- straw Injurious.291 
wild, to kill out.451 
JBnds. trying.:«t7 
Buffalo bone applied to trees,ete V8Z 
Bubaeli, cost per pound.51*1 
Bull calf, cost of.418 
- feed for. 11 ° 
- treatment...»>7 
- worn out... 898 
Hulls, fractious. ,... 7 
Burdock and wild parsnip .9)7 
Bushel of apples, ele., cubic 
1 nebes In. 71 
Butter, artificial coloring. 1 is 
- cow, for best . 291 
different kinds.671 
fancy.*..169 
- food’for making.580 
- making, feed for. 7 
milk ns hog feed.239 
— packing... .651 
tests of milk. 69 
— tubs, to clean .70<S 
— worker. 23 
Cabbage and peas on low lauds ..208 
— — turnip ny.. .435 
— Aphis, to destroy.577 
— bug. harlequin..70 
— affected with mildew.4‘ty 
— fertilizer......419 
Olea. 
— Insects.703 
— keeping in winter .708 
— plants.—.70S 
— pests .485. C71 
— — hot water for.855 
— seed, early raising.954 
— — growing .467 
- In seed-bed.H8 
— — to sow for Winter.591 
— with club foot .307 
worms, hot water for.355 
— — remedy.290 
Cactus ns hedge plant. 719 
bush, good for hedge.—82S 
— — hardiness of..671 
— suffering from rust.,.88U 
Calla Lily, care of .202 
Calf aucl sheep dying from par¬ 
asitic worms. .322 
— insufficiently fed.517 
— skin, to tau .370 
— taught to drink.221.’ 
— with scouts.339, 855 
young, feed for.239 
Calves, ailing... ,.. ,322 
— diseased .. 578 
— dying when three days old.. .371 
— eating something poisonous 578 
fal*e or wild.466 
— raising on short milk rations 322 
— with scours . . 355 
— - swollen Joints.290 
Canada thistles to exterminate 
..._«11, 484 
Canadian postage on seeds.270 
Canary ‘bedding Its feather*., .so? 
Cannu not growing. .54? 
— roots, keeping .517 
Cunfcer on apple trees .451 
Cantaloupes for home and mar¬ 
ket_ __.703 
Carbon works, Mich. standing 
of.831 
Carp culture.70 
— escaping from a pond, to pre¬ 
vent . 196 
— German, price of..28 
— pond .170 
— where to gel. 
Carrots analyses..783 
fed to horses cause inllammn - 
tlon. r.S 
Castrating a stallion.622 
Catalpa hardy In Milwaukee... .2"4 
— in latitude of Milwaukee. ...224 
— roots, poisonous.499 
Catarrh of the alr-passuges . ..45*i 
cattle, black leg. . ,3S6 
bloating. 85 
— cure of in England and 
France.793 
— pasturing . in? 
— 1 aliening, cheepest feed . . 931 
— Holiund. butler records. .. ■ 7-3 
— PnUtkl Angus .703 
— Red Polled.dealer In ..._H8 
— Short horn,to get regl*ttwe<1...735 
— Buffer I iik from Indigestion . .284 
troubled with grubs.290 
— weight of by measure bleu 1 .. .222 
— with lice .. 223 
— — narosltc* on tongues_703 
Cauliflowers, seed growing.467 
Cellar, iiver grOhud, plan of . .239 
Celery, Golden Heuriweil. seed 
of . .. . 86 
growlrw to seed stalk* .194 
— ltiUCk for .007 
Cans us, the 
Chaff us supplementary feed....102 
wheat ns. food for animals...221 
Charcoal dust, ns a fertilizer.238 
— for horses .... . .703 
Chemistry, agricultural, books 
"II . 172. 09-7 
Cherries and pears for the prai¬ 
rie . 221 
— from the pits, raising...655 
— grafted on Mahaleb. 221 
— ground . 251 
— Muzznrd and Mahaleb.170 
— OU piOtn stock ..134 
Cherry for Kansas . .351 
- ilutiait b as so>ek . .. .815 
— pus. to plant .167 
- trees. upbU.339 
— — black knot on .2$% 254 
— weeping Napoleon. .2)2 
wild for graltlng.150 
Cheese, maggoty.687 
Cheese, skiai. turning sour...,. 7 
Chess or client, value of.499 
Cheater White pig* near Neb. ...2)4 
1 t»uy. 251 
Chestnut grafting . 2JI 
Chestnuts. Japan, where to buy 451 
Chicken pox in chickens. 8/0 
Chickens aud ducks, feed for.. ..483 
bone meal for.703 
— dying from anthrax..623 
— eating feathers.292 
— fur table aud eggs.’’71 
Plymouth Rocks, origin.897 
with chicken-pox.3<u 
— — napes....870 
- scours . .01 
Chicks doctored to death . 49 s 
Chicory roots for market..... 719 
Chimneys, cleaning.719. 799 
Chinesew«u* . kii 
Cholera, lion..,..,.,..498 
In poultry...169 
Cburas, keeping. b6 
where to buy.’22) 
Chum for one or two cows.214 
— for smnll dntry.ruu with pow¬ 
er .’292 
patent, bettor than old fash 
lotted .887 
rectangular. 86 
— or barrel, which?.11) 
Cider converting into vinegar. .2.-3 
— good for>wecl apples. .777 
turning into vinegar...... ksi 
— vinegar, to make..799 
Cions, treatment of.783 
cistern, concrete ...886 
CludrastlB tlnotorla.515 
Clairvoyants . .- ... -, 193 
Clematis Coeelt eu, when will U 
la...>m. 6# 
Clover, Alsike, crop first year... 86 
— — seeding lue second year. .2 8 
seed of . 86 
and grass seed, before or af¬ 
ter harrowing.254 
— Bokhara. 222 
- crimson.323 
— fertilizer for .689 
— for green manuring.,.,.150 
— —nog pasture.......577 
lu an orchard...591 
— Japan . .,.823 
— loaf beetle.434,467 
or gras* seed before or after 
harrowing.254 
— pasture, good for potatoes....623 
— —to sowto potatoes.........499 
— rabbit-foot...<....517 
Clover seed, unhulled.222 
— sowed with oats, rye or bar¬ 
ley.530 
— with turnips.171 
— yellow. .581 
Club-foot In euiilmge.307 
Coal ashes and soot.29 1 
— slack around fruit trees.735 
Coehlu eggs and fowl*, where?. 118 
Codling moth Infesting crab ap¬ 
ples . . .531 
Cold water dip.419 
Coleuses, soil for...419 
Colic lu horse.23,118 
— — sheep.102 
— oil Tor , . . 71 
- spasmodic lu colt . 223 
Colt, ailing.7i)3 
food for. supplementary.171 
having colie.223 
— neglected, breaking.221 
swelling nil leg.69 
that, was kicked .403 
to straighten leg.687 
— weak In pastern joint.623 
with bunch on leg.,.355 
— — Inflammatory disease_387 
— — lice . 291 
— - strangles.854 
Colt’s eye, inflammation of.291 
— leg, bunch on. .. . .355 
Colts, fatality among. .liu 
— with congestion of skin..._62.3 
Comfrr.v, Prickly.. : . 55 
Compost .>f tannery refuse—..451 
Compound 0.\ ygeu .172 
I'ongestlun of bruin In pigs.816 
Corn, Allen’s Improved crossed 
with Blount’s.655 
cultivating flat, what irnple- 
nien I - .. 
— cultivation.39 
— early...7,150 
— — Canada. 7 
— evaporating.57 7 
fertilizers for.419 
— fodder, cutting and curing...591 
— — field or sweet .671 
— forChemuug Valley.291 
— — Michigan .1.2 
— — Western X. Y.222 
hand planter . 134 
— bow f-r north of its latitude 
a success ... .54 
— — deep planted.........846 
— In crib, to calculate..224 
— lamhelay.to lime aud manure 292 
— Learning. .150,172 
— meal, analyses of.«3l 
— New T England eight rowed—735 
— old, as seed..169 
— on gravelly loam, marking 
deep or shallow.291 
— planting how deep.291 
— Pride or the North .254 
— — — — Early Canada..172 
rotten, good manure. . .183 
— Rural Blount.291 
— Rural TborVl Flint.291 
-Union.767 
-aud White Dent mixlng.387 
— seed. 54 
— —freezing...118 
— —good...118 
— —gophers eating.291 
— —selecting —..530 
— smut, cause . —171 
— spurrey...224 
— stalk borer .51a 
— sweet, Aldridge.419 
— — to prevent mice eating_291 
— to mature In IK* days.254 
— topping.. . ..581 
— to plant for foddor .2u2 
— what kind produced 136 bu—623 
— worm.514 
Cotton-seed hull ashes . 7 
— — tneui.......499 
— — — Analyses of..831 
— — — goocl fur cows,.419 
— — — price .134 
— — — why better than lln 
seed for cows...169 
— wood tree cutting* nf.767 
Oough, cow with .355 
Cow. Ayrshire or Holstein for 
butter and milk.223 
— barren . —.171 
I test for 1 ml L r .291 
— dying with milk fever.466 
teed experiment.719 
— tood before calving.223 
— in call. 172 
— —danger of milk fever care 
of. 514 
— — stable, teed for. 6 
— Jersey, mark* of good.708 
jumping fences .292 
— losing use of bor limbs.354 
— manure, storing...450 
— mlleli, food for, best.172 
— nillkiugalter calving..337 
— — before calving.355 
— not lu heat.,.t47 
— over-feeding for milk.846 
—peas, how far North. S6 
— — - 292 
— pox...435, 023 
— — tn cows .622 
— stable, Mr. Stew art's plan.402 
— - width.450 
to dry up .,499 
— — t Ml if with calf.799 
— troubled with bronchitis.70S 
— — — indigestion..499 
wheezing.403 
— with afterbirth, treatment,..102. 
27Q 
— — ball In stomach ......?<« 
— — blood poisoning...435 
— — eough .355 
— - diseased tall . 
— —garget...515 
— —goitre........654 
— — holo tn teal.. 887 
— — lump on shoulder...623 
— — worn-out.lit 
Cows, Abortion tn.386 
afterbirth, removing.270 
bloating.... 45ti 
— “coming In” how to tell.. 169, 799 
— eating too much corn.39 
fed on cotton seed meal.419 
fed on WBeat sereeu- 
m.. . 
— holding up milk....702 
feeding uuuoolted potatoes... l- S 
foot, sore on. 7 
going 36 hours without milk¬ 
ing.. 54 
- Jaw, sore ou. 7 
Kerry . 7 
— leg, sores on .499 
much feeding potatoes to—254 
- food for...854 
soiling, to provide for.577 
— Swiss, to buy..3D7 
— tent leaking.2)2 
— — obstrUpUou In. ...270,361, 655 
— throat, lumps ou.767 
to fasten them In stables—460 
— to teach to eat roots.6U6 
troubled with mange.547 
udder with lump.855,403 
vegetable feed for. What.228 
— with XoOl-rot ... 6-8 
— — malignant sore throat. ...4U6 
hollow horn .SS9, S»o 
— —sore eye .... ? 
Crab apples from cuttings.4871 
— — sweet.2**3 
Cranberries lu Ark...467 
Iowa. ,|ls 
— on side of n mountain.467 
Cranberry bed.. 1 I 8 
— culture . it' 
Cream, Uuudliug ..807 
— from * deep creamer...466 
— how much to make a lb. of 
butter..339 
— not churning right.703 
separator....118 
— manufactured In the West .'.'I 
Creamers, portable...238 
Crib biting m horse...so 
Crickets eating apple tree bark.63? 
twine bands.467 
Crop, best to bring laud Into 
grass. 292 
Cro>v». getting rid of..870 
Cucumber soads, saving.653 
— vlue bugs....291 
Cucumbers, artificially fertil¬ 
ized .134 
