THE BUBAL NEW-YORKER, 
Cucumbers lertllzed In a green¬ 
house. 186 
— fertilizers for.3S9 
Cultivator for corn and potatoes292 
— hand, best.118,218 
Currants, bi st .172, 1*6 
— borer...870 
— bushes, moss on, soap suds for815 
— English, est .514 
— seeds, treatment of.581, 547 
Currants and gooseberries from 
cuttings ....118 
-blighting.224 
— for home use and market. 7U 
Curcullo, lighting.. .46? 
Curl-leaf In peaeli trees.419 
Curry-comb, use nf.lta 
Cuttings of Cottonwood. 767 
Cut-worm, climbing.. .6.39 
Cut-worms, to exterminate.371 
Cyucrus rotunrtus.....870 
Datum tubers, time to plant_254 
men in N< 4 ■ .847 
Dairying or Sheep husbandry. .-482 
— paper .ns 
Dairy and iet* room.402 
— cows, feed for...ii*3 
— — Prof. Arnold's rations_523 
— farm, rotation.170 
— produe a. Imitation.l?2 
— queries .450 
Dakota soil, climate etc ...783 
Dandelion', to start .119 
Darnell's furrower and iuarker.371 
Days and nights, how long when 
the sun crosses the Equator.837 
Dealer in roots, etc .«07 
"Degree” and "rod” synonym¬ 
ous terms ? .547 
De’t of Agriculture, report.451 
Pewberrb-B. planting.515 
Dewberry, whut is the.223 
Devon cattle, breeder of uear 
Syracuse . 
Distemper in horse, after e(T-'Cts655 
Ditching machine, manufac¬ 
turer of. 86 
Dog with distemper, remedy...591 
Dogs, beat, for stock.292 
— sd- Bernard in Florida.371 
poura, how to cultivate_4,y 
Drainage, farm book on. .113 
(lie, proportioning.171, 486 
Drain, bad. . 4U2 
Draining a sandy swamp. 7 
Dr,>nc bees, getting rid of.854 
Duck eggs, Aylesbury.*232 
Ducks, food for. be t. .339 
— Pekin whereto buy.,.*238 
suffering front indigestion...889 
Eggs number lien has laid in 
year...186, 515 
preserving . —.354 
Encyclopedia Brltuuniru.530 
Eggs price of. 847 
who sells on commission . ...817 
English seed firms. 71 
— synonyms, work on .186 
Ensilage .. '...319 
weighing.419 
Eplcan ta atruta....ti*23 
Ethjuette and letter writing, 
book on . 292 
Evergreen trees for Ind. 7o9 
Evergreens from seed, growing.*270 
Ewes.food lor .. .9 
Eye, him over, to remove.623 
of horse Inflamed.150 
Farcy 
Farming, book on 
— lands in Tennessee, 
169 
..224 
.... *23S 
mlxe l in W. state's.451 
— Southern, book 011 . 23 
Farm accounts, book for.671 
— labor in the West .45', 5>5 
— manure, management.*2*21 
Feat her-eat log poultry.S70 
Feed for young calf .*234 
— — cows 1 u stables. 6 
— — —vegetable .....233 
— — dairy cows .HI2 
— — farm horses...S69 
Feeding chaff...102 
— rations, best . sll 
— stuffs, relative value of..'tin 
Fence, burbed wire, legal. 955 
portable .3-4 
— — cheap . 7 
— posts, wood for. .291 
— wire-mesh cloth for. 323 
— to fasten to trees.*221 
Fencl ng wire .. 29*2 
Fenugreek In IT. 8...290 
Fertilizer, a complete..2*24 
— bean, best . ... **•*.639 
— ground or dissolved, which?. .221 
— bones for. preparing. 2*22 
— charcoal dust as u . ..*238 
— equal to superphosphate _ 222 
— boats or phosphide for corn.. 7 
— for broken sod.118 
— —gravelly clay..i;i 
— — sweet potato*.... 113 
— formula . 
...222 
a humbug .. 
— home-made ..... 
ingredients . 
... 
...170 
- lobster. . ....... . 
. ...... 
...239 
— potato Mapes' special..639 
— quer es.639 ,.931 
— tannery refuse as a.117 
— tankage a good .*2o2 
— tobacco oleins, use of .*202 
— value of.839 
Fertilizers. .622 
— best ..*291 
— — to apply. 3117 
eheiu tabulated analyses... 172 
— commercial In Mo.,,.,..,450 
— for potatoes, best....113 
— how to use.233 
— lime or bone ... . 54 
— phosphoric acid and nl 
trate of soda.*289 
Fever, swine.. .756 
Fig, creeping, where to get.*2 *2 
trees in Kansas. .854 
Filter, home-uiude. 386 
Fish pond . 54 
Flax, fertilizers for.831 
— raising .... 510 
Flesh, dried, price Of..1 8 
Floats as a fertilizer. . 7 
Floor of box stall, made to save 
the liquid .577 
— — horse stable ..783 
Floriculture, book on .637 
Flower gardening, window .118 
Food for milch cows .251 
— — — — cheapest.*251 
— — stock,flaxseed or oil-cake 547 
Fodder, Canada Held peas or cow 
peas. 134 
— corn.. ....‘Mi 
— — cutting and curing.191 
— — held or sweet .. 671 
Force pump for nursery. 23 
Forestry, good work on.651 
Foot of colt, crack In. 7 U 
rot in cows .63s 
Fowls, it. s,, where to buy.136 
— Lungshun, about. . 799 
Founder In horse's feet .622 
Frame lights for hot boils.*272 
Fruit boxes, natter . 118 
— cellar, underground.169 
— dried, worms in. . 54 ? 
— evaporating devices, list.86 
— fraudulent list .339 
— room and ice house .573 
— small, queries. 170 
— work on .. 292 
— the originator controlling_r*2S 
trees on rocky soil . .591 
— — to Save from frost effects 413 
— — wash.to prevent mice,etc..224 
Fruitsfor Kansas .117, 224 
— - Manitoba . 6?J 
— in New Mexico... 4 US 
— small, honk on . 51 
— for homo use . 591 
— — — Minn . 654 
— — — Sioux City. 118 
— — manuring . 169 
— mulching.169 
— — quarts tier acre ......547 
— succession of .. 172 
Fuchsias, six best .87U 
Fungus and galls uu plants.t,*w 
Furs, raw, who buy*?. ... _ 39 
Balled, shoulder,remedy.. 547 
Dads and fungus oa plains.683 
Banders aud geese, to tell. 169 
— from a goose, to, tell.169 
Papes in chickens.L.370, 419 
Garden tools, who keeps?.419 
Garget.169, 354 
— in a cow.515 
— treatment of...403 
German millet. ..499 
Geranium leaves turning white 517 
Geraniums, six good.0»? 
— soil for . 270 
Geese, Chinese.'223 
— China, where to buy.238 
— eggs, sterility of...172 
— silting, care of.251 
— Toulouse, eggs of.307 
Gestation, period of farm ani¬ 
mals.. 222 
Ginseng where grown. .387 
Girdled trees.mamire bound on 291 
Gladioli bulbs, winter care.639 
Glanders In horses.655 
Goats. Angora and sheep cross¬ 
ing .5(7 
Goll re In boll. ,. .547 
■ • nr.. 54 
— lambs. ;J37 
Gombaulfs Caustic Balsam .. .51*: 
Godi’bolus blrsuUiB....847 
Gooseberries,currants, mosson 371 
— cultivation, propagation.406 
— Kllwanger and Barry’s.767 
Gooseberry bushes, pruning. . 655 
tiers . 339 
— seeds treatment of.,581, P4J 
Gophers, to pot-on .291 
Government londs, leasing.639 
Grafting wax, making.389 
Brain drill .169 
— Improving and hybridizing. .186 
— seed, olrd- eating, to prevent 483 
— small, to drill or broadcast . 224 
Ground too dry to plow.623 
Grape .berries, diseased.546 
— best at "K. D.".291 
— Centennial ..54 
— Cottage. 102 
— culture, book on. 23. 735 
— ruttings.how to keep.170 
— Dataware overbearing.6s? 
— early for Delaware.118 
— Florence ...100 
— hybridizing. 766 
— Jefferson as hardv as Con¬ 
cord . 21.12 
— Jessica at "K. G.”.136 
— mildew.639 
— Moore's Early and Hartford 
Prolific— .655 
— — — — Jefferson.233 
— Niagara, to sow the seeds.. . .224 
— Pockllnuton . . 637 
— producing largest bunehes..3S9 
— seeds, to start.136 
— queries...1189 
— trellis, fastening wires on. ..412 
— Victoria. ..697 
— — as compared with Con¬ 
cord.339 
— — where to buy.371 
— vine loaves dying, to prevent (755 
q fieri- -■ . . 
— Vines, foreign, how far apart 186 
— — frosted, treatment.4t3 
— — graf tins, not using wax. .224 
— — in Manitoba.467 
— — manuring.2'U 
— — to increase.221 
— white, best. 547 
— bagging .... .223 
— desirable —„.799 
— for a small garden..224 
— - Ark .134 
— Northern N. J.637 
— — Vu . - .*71 
— — winter.keeplc.g.136,224 
— grafting in Ark. . 36 
— March !, K. G.”. 119 
— growth of our trellises . .ns 
— In Connecticut Valley. 270 
— not doing wel l.224 
— on hill side sloping west.516 
— soil for. ..639 
Grass and clover, reseeding to .671 
— Blue. 6 
— — extirpating . 498 
— for a cow ami norse.. .218 
— — mucky land. Ml 
— — an orchard . 
— - swamp land..171 
— Italian Kye, when to bow _2s2 
— Johnson ......355 
— lands, reseeding. .. .671 
— lawn, best kind .S?7 
— ••Central Park”..-23 
— mixture for permanent mead¬ 
ow .....499 
— Orchard ..3ui 
— Quack .15U 
— - not seeding. st; 
— — to get rid of.224 
— Red Top . 6 
— Ry how far north.36 
— salt meadow, value of.547 
— Witch .... ».. 591 
Grass for permanent pasture 
.. .,.184, 546 
— a reclaimed swamp .. 493 
— wild on drained swamp, sub¬ 
duing . 792 
— work on ..... ...735 
Gravel in horse .ID, 671 
Gregg Raspberry... .846 
Grubs In cattle.290 
— — compost pile. 371 
— white to get ild of . 39 
Guano Chin .... 71 w 
Guinea fowls . 8s 
Gypsum on meadows.5>l 
Haekberry lumber, value of ... 223 
Hams, care of .>•■ 
Harrow, Acme.86, 291, 43. 
— Apex .172 
— spring-tooth . 234 
— Tuomas’ smoothing. 1:0 
— to buy, which?. 131 
Harrows . .855 
different . 
,— Rood, Lawrenoe ft Chapin's 
spring-toothed. 3*9 
Hny mv-nsurlug In the stack. .. 1 -V, 
— molding la mow, 10 prevent .155 
— Quack *33 
— salting, how much salt?. .... Alt’ 
— wild, to cut . ...ss; 
Hazel-nuts in Minn .171 
Heaves In horse .435 
Hedge, Arbur-Vlcte, to protect ...5|6 
— barberry.. 2,>3 
— Blackthorn plants. yy> 
— fancy .Su? 
— locust, growing.... 7 2 
— newly-planted, to mulch.37 1 
Heifer not with calf.62.1 
— With llUsk .498 
Hen. urllOvial, how to make.k)2 
— house, board tloor for,....... 1.33 
— —sky light In.30. 
— manure.nil 
— - for corn.292. 3S4 
— - lumpy.172 
Hens for eggs .*223 
— llnie for Taytng.767 
— without cocks .. 799 
Hickory nuts nnd chestnuts 
planted In Spring.223 
Hoofs split In horses . 117 
Hog breeders, trustworthy .224 
— cholera .Dg 
— pen plan . 324 
— with socn ’thing In nose.202 
— yard for strawberries.517 
Hog*, best, which matures first 222 
— eating pumpkin seeds. .799 
— fatteulng system .531,3.31 
— giving cooked sugar beets . . .135 
— now many on ID acres?.160 
— Jersey Red . .466 
— — — pork .113 
— pure breed, purchasing ......S71 
— rye for ..22*2 
— to fat ten . 292 
— with red patches oil skin. 766 
— rheumatism .*2.'3 
— worms la .... 290 
Hook- in cattle ..iso 
— horse .,. 6,5 
Holland cattle,records of. _7RI 
Hollow-horn, cause. . . 23.1 
RoMelu cuttle breeders.113 
— — dealer lu Ohio. 6 S 9 
— — 
Holstelns l.i Illinois. dealer In 172 
— or Ayrshire's for milk and 
butter.186 
Honeyeomb.artltielal.419 
Honeysuckles, layering.498 
Hop culture.702 
— roots, where to buy.702 
Horse and cattle disease, book 
on. 238 
— book on.815 
— care of. 418 
— chestnuts, planting. 70 
— distemper .482 
— dying from pericarditis.._514 
— crlb-bltlng. (*6 
— foundered. 514 
— having gravel.171 
— — worms...172 
— holding up feet.373 
— kicking In the stall, to pre¬ 
vent .186 
— p 11 st a lar eruption in a .846 
— radish on muck meadow.53(i 
— stable, floor of.783 
— stiff In the -lioulders .514 
— suffering from sweeny.291 
— suffering with disease of the 
bladder .. 450 
— Thief Ass. Anti.291 
— to- stand on the ground or 
floor .202 
— urinating too often.....291 
— with a poor appetite..450 
— — "bastard" strangles.7S.:> 
— — bunch on cheek.254 
— — eerebro-splnal meningitis 807 
— - colic. 28 
— — — remedy.118 
— — discharge at nose.815 
— — distemper, after effects...655 
— — galled shoulder.547 
— —"hooks" 655 
— — indigestion ..515 
— — mange . 735 
— — parotid gland, swollen_102 
— — "poll Evil".290 
_ — sea bby sores.169 
— — scours . . .150 
— — skin disease...354 
— — splint on leg.702 
— — sirlngnalt. 86 
— —spasm... 3(5 
— — swelling from kick..403 
— — sweeny#...304 
— — thrush . 354 
— — weak eyes..455 
— — wLmlgolU.687 
— —wound, treatment .355 
— Horse and cattle diseases, book 
on. .136, i38 
— Cleveland Bay. 719 
— dead, for manure....171 
— eve Inflamed .150 
— far ... feed for.. 369 
— feet hard from standing on 
floor.. 671 
— French, curly Importations. .48 1 
— frog cankered...170 
— hair rough, dandruffy, etc_291 
— hoofs, lo toughen .703 
— leg, swelling on . 122 
— pastern Joint sprained .l>8 
— Perclieron, importation.4‘5 
— shoes, taking off. .202 
— to teach to eat roots .6 6 
— with heaves.485 
— —scratches, remedy.186 
— —split hoofs.117 
— — wood-ticks..254 
— — wolf teeth. ..886 
— —worms. 70 
— Working, care nf.418 
— —feed for .2*9 
- — to cut hay for .-118 
Hot-bed covering, oiled calico, .b 2 
-beds, hulUrng .654 
— —frame lights for .222 
— house construction .651 
small, arrangement,.... ,433 
Hu*k In a heifer.... — 493 
Hydraulic ram . 670 
— — to drive water to house. ..307 
lco-bousc ami fruit room....... ,578 
— making machine .23 
—room, plan or.402 
-to ketp, substitute for saw¬ 
dust..........202 
Incubator, best......251 
— cheapest.531 
— to make.799 
Incubators.591, 687 
dealers..290 
large and small. 670 
Indigestion In a cow.499 
— — — horse.513 
Inflammation of the bowels 
in a mare . 577 
Insect Infest iQg roots - 221 
Insects in calve-, to destroy..,. 887 
-work on . 221 
Insecticide, kerosene as an. 7 
Insurance Co., good .*254 
lpnmzeu lopiophv I la In Canada. S99 
Irrigation, pond Tor .172 
Iron dust for young trees.172 
— to dissolve .. S”7 
Ivy, Japan . 387 
Japan Clover .828 
Jcrsev bull calf, Where to buy. ,513 
cow, marks of good. .703 
- Rod Boca . 
Jerseys ana Guernsey the sume?467 
Johnson Grass...355 
.Tuvlans preparturlcns ,.581 
Kuinlt. 338 
— a muriate of potash.855 
— and muriate of potash.413 
sample .719 
— used at **R. O.”.483 
— Whut Is?. . 835 
— with rlsh, plaster ashes etC...7t9 
Kansas and Nab., hot winds of, 
cause. . .... 238 
Kentucky, Information about 
Kerosen** as an insecticide. 7 
— emulsion . 450 
for trees 292 
— — Implement for.432 
Kerry cows ... 7 
to make a vood milker.23 
Kiln, draw, tlmo-stone and coal 
in .. 591 
Klndergarden, books of.753 
Koran, it here to buy . 118 
Labels, zinc for trees . 54 
— — how to write on .433 
Lactometer, where to liuy.419 
Lambs, early.. 39 
— heaff bit by a dog. .. 7 
— stiff in the legs 403 
— with swelled necks.S'? 
Land, black river flat. . 254 
grants forfeited h.v railroads.223 
Invaded with white grubs, to 
prepare for coru .738 
— made rich by chip dirt, etc. ..292 
plaster, Poor. 467 
— worn out, enriching .766 
Langshun fowls, about.799 
— — to get .113 
Lawn grans. "Central Park” 23 
for.2,2 
Leaf-mold, well rotted . 7 
Leghorn eggs, where to buy. . 1?’ 
Leghorns, scale of points. 70 
White, eggs of ..817 
teg of colt, to straighten..687 
Lettuce, host for hot bed. 7 
Lice ou calves, to destroy. 186 
cuttle, to kill....223 
— —colt . 291 
— -—poultry,.831 
Life Insurance company.234 
Lightning rods .606 
Lilac, Princess Alexandra.292 
Lilies, Chinese, treatment of... 202 
Llllum auriuum seeds of.799 
IJuie and leached wood ashes.. 70 
draw-kiln for burning.531 
— for laying boas.767 
— how to use. 711 
— mixed with cotton need ...577 
- oyster-shell for strawberries.!! 4 
— stone, ground, value of.607 
— to apply lu the Fall or Spring 7 
use of. 89 
water to rot straw . 73 s 
1.lining ©lay land. ...293 
Liniment, soup.172 
Linseed-cuke, old and new pro 
ces*... ....270 
— meal for breeding stock. 6 
— - ‘‘New orold-praW.71 
Liquid manure, applying.514 
Liv e stock paper.S15 
Living room, ventilating.171 
Lobster fertilizer.289 
Locust grave, start! ug. 793 
Locust hedge growing.702 
Los Angeles, population of.547 
Lumber market, ’argest.4s2 
Magnolia. Sonlauge’s seed of_689 
Magnolias from seed.118 
Maize, Mlllo. . .451 
Marl, value as a fertilizer. 607 
Malt sprouts.270 
Manna Grass, sweet exudation 
upon ... .671 
Mangel WnrtzeL best.291 
Mange in a horse. tx> 
Manitoba, fruits for.670 
Manure,nnd ashes, unleached..222 
— chip 322 
— composition at 50 cts. per 
load. 467 
— cow storing .450 
— — treatment of when heat¬ 
ing. 134 
— for asparagus bed. 347 
— farm, management ..221 
— from bran and oats. 270 
— green, clover for.150 
— hen.. .150 
— — for corn-.292. 354 
— —watermelon. 171 
— dead horses for--17 1 
— liquid, from hen .n2 
— _ to save from box stalls_577 
— of Unit* ami cotfon seed .577 
— pine leaves as . 577 
— special not In the bull . 2 -;s 
— spreading..... 29 
— — or in heaps.172 
— spreader. Kemp . 292 
— stutde nnd leaf to decompo8©.733 
— — value or . 671 
— tan bark as a, value of.239 
— treatmentof .767 
Manures, Mapes’ and lime.39 
Map of N. Y. City .419 
Ma pje, Oregon In Colorado.... 654 
— sugar making. ..15) 
— — value of.224 
Mare, aborting.762 
— ailing. 171 
— bearing a mule then horse 
colts.... .291 
— constantly voiding.. 171 
— having bronchitis . 171 
— holding lit’ feet..292 
— In foal, working.371 
— not getting in foal .3g7 
— poor, not eating . 515 
— suffering with inflammation 
or the bowels .577 
— teat, gland Inflamed..171 
— troubled with kldnpy trouble221 
— — — weak spine.290 
— with milk-leg . 7 
Mares, bred every year..,f47 
Malt sprout*, feeding value. TV) 
May beelle. 3* 4 
— — remedy . 307 
— —to destroy ..224 
Measures, size of .R21 
Medical Journals. 270 
Megrims ..855 
Melon vine-*, mulching... 371 
Melons, squashes, etc. mixing. . 337 
Merino sheep 222 
Mice girdling apple trees. 31 
MUch cows.cheapest food for..254 
— — feeding ration. 270 
— —potat es for. . ..?>» 
Mildew’ in cloth, to remove . . 547 
— — cabbage.fgg 
— — potato vines, cause.i'S 
Miller, "Evergreen"..150, 254 
— — what ts? . .254 
— fertilizer for. , 482 
— for stock, 111 effects of. 170 
— German iujored h.v over-heat- 
Jng, what to do with. 
— - 1 -eed value. 4*4 
— Pearl, how to sow. 2u2 
Milk and butter, Holstelns or 
Ayrshtres .tg, 
— — cream, bottles for deliver¬ 
ing . vm 
— —keeping clean. .. .. 2-9 
— at 3 cts per qt. and butter at 
25cts. alb... 8*1 
— blood v.«S. 1 vt 
— butter and fat in average .. , 271 .*’ 
.. 
— fever. .. a.C 
— — In sows.607 
— house. ... 171 
— Jars, self-sealing, who sells.. , 2 S< 
— leg In a mare. 7 
— or hotter, selling, which?_(SB 
— setting, ways of- . . 7 
— skimmed for calves and pigs 69 
— sour, value of. ..931 
lank of water-lime cement ..291 
— thickening when scalded. 354 
51 liking a eow before calving .855 
— tube. 3:4, 337 
which teats flrst. 131 
Mint dried, vul >eof. 831 
Mole trap, Isbell whereto buv. 419 
to buy.435 
Moles eating corn . . .. 54 : 
Moss on gooseberries, etc. 371 
Mother Goose. .. 117 
.Muck, about. ?0 
— for celery. 
— heap, gypsum and unleashed 
ashes »n . 283 
— land for quinces. 5 S 1 
— lime mixed with . 711 
— Utilizing.. 577 
Mulberry, Downing’s Everbear¬ 
ing. how hardy. 767 
hardy In Nebraska. . . 224 
— Russian as stock. 221 
— — for frnlt.*yii 
— — how valuable.767 
— seeds, Downing's.. it 9 
Mlllo stiff all over . 201 
— with frog ulcerated.tip 
— tumor . 499 
— ulcerated foot. 164 
Muriate of 001 ash . 
Musk tats eating fish.. pr> 
Muslin, water proof. "172 
Names, how came so manv .? 3 
Navel rupture of colt. 6or, 
Navicular disease. s;n 
New Mexico, fruit lu.A93 
— York City, map of . 419 
Nitrate of soda . 289 
— — on fruit trees, etc .655 
Nurseries. Lake Shore, trust¬ 
worthy 1 S 6 
North Carolina is a stock coun¬ 
try .. 799 
Novelty htig machine, a patent ;-.7 
Nut ..rass, to exterminate. . . .374* 
pits planllhg.>.D 
Oat Ass. Bohemian, standing 1:2 
meal, hull* from for bedding 291 
Oats, Champion, rusting_ 224 
— are they for sale? . 84 ? 
— fattening value, different . in 
ground or whole for feeding 71 
— large yield. 55 
— mixing.172, 224 
— pons and rye together, how 
much seed . .... ,238 
— steamed, boiled or raw.value US 
— Welcome on White Mountain 150 
Oil, linseed on branches and 
trunks of trees . ... 2 *J 4 
— — to give a horse, how ......547 
- meal.analyses of . 831 
new and old-process . 118 
- paper, to make . 655 
Oleander, to cut back.S6,186 
Oleanders, scale, lice on....76? 
worms at roots . 419 
Onion seeds destroyed bv in¬ 
sects . .. ."._ -451 
Onions in Canada. 70 
— raising .5Sti 
Ophthalmia in pigs.546 
Orange culture. 270 
Orchard and small fruit culture 118 
— grass. -ill 
narrowing. Acme for.>24 
— how far to plant trees . 7 y 9 
— In clover. 443 
— - permanent grass.,,..;4s7 
— neglected, pruning,.,.?i 
— oa sleep hill side.293 
— planting an. 79y 
— plum .-.483 
OverfeOtyng pigs.102 
Ox suffering from Indigestion 234 
Oyster-shell lime for raspber¬ 
ries.... 
— shells, raw *r burnt... .,134 
Pall Westcott return . 118 
Paint, cheap for roof and barn 371) 
— for roofs. 311 
— wooden buildings.....766 
— mineral. ...370 
— of lime and roll k....' 467 
— petroleum, crude... ]655 
Pansies wintering In a bed .547 
Paradise stork for apples.*239 
Paralysis of facial nerve_st5 
— limbs of eow .354 
Parasite on potato beetle .435 
Parasites. Over and lung in 
sheep .. .60? 
— on tongue of cattle.7U8 
Paris-green on fruit trees, dan¬ 
ger—..S3! 
Pastern Joint, cut cm __623 
— - In horse, sprained . . ... 118 
Pasture, brush, seeding for.130 
— early....171 
— grasses .. 134 
— old. renewing.578 
— permanent, tor orchard.29i 
— —grasses for. .546 
— pig, early. 254 
Pea-fowls or eggs, to purchase. .118 
— weevil, death to .. 546 
— weevils killing..390 
Peas. Carter’s Stratagem. Tele¬ 
graph and Telephone, where 
to nuy... 55 
— how early to plant .. 847 
— English, to ' stick".. 371 
— for pigs.38.224 
— shelled In canning factories 134 
Peach culture. Rutter's work. .113 
— cuttings. 419 
— leaves curling. 450 
— pits from North or South. 418 
— Shumaker, where to buy.23) 
— stocks grafted in orchard 223 
— tree, how to propagate.389 
— trees, curl leaf in.418 
— — how far apart..58! 
— — in a strawberry field.467 
— — leaves curled up.371 
— — on poor land.TSS 
— — pruning.39 
— — to replant . 7 
Shumaker.134 
— Wager, hardiness of.517 
Peaches and plums for Ohio ... 387 
— in Iowa .. 70 
— — tubs.289 
— on plum stocks.170 
— Russian.Sll 
Peanut culture...270 
Peanuts, gathering . . g >5 
Pear, apple, and locust seeds. 
freezing . 233 
— Chinese Sand va.36 
— Conklin. 36 
— dwarf for Kansas.374 
— Kieffer succeeding in nilnois 233 
— orchard for home use.655 
— Souvenir da Cong res, will it 
thrive in Vermont .419 
— trees affected with rust. 639 
— — double working .224 
Peas affected with rust.645 
— and plums.55 
— dwarL for family use.. 102 
— falling from trees before ripe292 
— in Kansas . . 223 
— quinces, apricots, how low 
temperature . 172 
Pekin ducks, to buy ....is 4 
Peuslon claims, where to apply 413 
Persimmon, Japan, will it be 
hardy in Vermont—.419 
Petroleum, crude, as paint. .339, 655 
— — use of . 289 
— — where to buy.. .419 
— light crude.292 
Pe'unlas seed, producing the 
same .>. 517 
Pharyngeal anthrax. 408 
Pheasants, work on rearing._733 
Phosphoric acid.*289 
Pig feed .53 1 
— — sklm-rmlk as,....767 
— house floor.893 
— pasture, early.254 
— queries. .530 
Pigs ailing from Improperly fed 
sows ... 606 
— beddtng with oat meal hulls .241 
— breeding, same blood. 70 S 
— Chester White, to buy. 254 
— corn-meal and bran for.292 
— dying . 169 
— Essex, where to buy . 292 
— fed on malt sprouts.. ?,. 
— for W. Ter.,best for pork.7" 
— growing too fat ... ..,.. 169 
— linseed meal for ..*29*2 
— over-fed.102 
— peas for. 38 
— stunted ever grow large. tit 
— suffering from piles.45u 
— 511 together. 530 
— with blood out of order.3*23 
— — cough . 70S 
— — opthalmla .546 
— — parasites In head.. 54 
— — thumps . 870 
— young, feed for ,. .171, 2*2i 
— — too highly fed.2*23 
Pigeon tremeX . 654 
Pigeons and poultry, book on... 28 
Piles in pigs.45o 
Pine and Balsam trees from 
seed. 628 
— leaves as manure.577 
Pipe, Iron or lead.6d 
Pipes for conveying water.460 
— iron. cost, etc.P« 
Pitcher plant.... 467 
Planter, hand.134, 799 
Ptan’aius on a lawn. U> get rid 
of.607 
— plants for a window garden ..607 
— protecting by fires.239 
— w.nter collection, tempera¬ 
ture .767 
Piaster as a fertilizer...530 
— does it lose its strength.433 
— exposed to air...547 
— Us action. ..591 
— land, discussion—..6*23 
— — poor..467 
— no manurial value?.547 
— on potato vines during a 
drought...547 
— use of. . 39 
Plow, hand, to use... ..134 
— s nail Out strong..351 
— steel or iron for genaral use..547 
— swivel. 767 
Plowing Fall sandy soil.*2o*2 
— for potatoes .3S1 
— land early, effects. 84 
w'uu r for small grain.lit 
Plum, Blocker's Gage.223 
— Jefferson .172 
— Lombard........ ..172 
Miner in Canada..206 
— Mooney .371 
Moore’s Arctic . 515 
— orchard.... ......... 4.82 
Smith's Orleans .. 172 
1 ho blight . - .L5u 
tree , black knot on... .*»y 
— - lice on..._.292 
— Weaver.171.17 *, 8?i 
Wild Goose In Ontario . 71,, 
Plums, curcullo proof .30j 
- tor Indiaua.... . 13, 
— lice on . 45, 
on peach or plum. 
— rottiug. . 67j 
Plymouth Rock chicks, to buy. .1 -4 
— Rocks, origin of.387 
Po* cumpressa. extirpating_189 
Poke root for murrain . .466 
Poll Evil . . 702 
in horse, cause...290 
Poland Chlua hogs..*2*22 
Red, cattle stamlar 1 . 118 
Ponies, shetlaud, dealer in.23S 
Poppy, oriental.-. -.(‘>9 
Pork of Jersey Ueds and Poland- 
C tunas.. 418 
Potash and nitrate of soda for 
potatoes, coru, etc.799 
— crude, wnere t» buy..419 
— dissolved with acids.451 
Potash, how much equal to a 
bushel of ashes.799 
— wurlateof..,...S33 
— — — and ashes. v .22i 
— salts, Germau.221 
— sulphate of cost per ton.799 
— Blush, price.. 
— Corliss's Matchless. 
Potato any earlier than Early 
Rose.307 
— B. of Hebron, color.233, 547 
— — — —early and late. 202 
— — — — the best?...254 
— beetles death to.371 
.270 
. 202 
— crop, how to raise large.719 
— early, best.2i/2, 831 
— ex Rural’s, Mapes’manure. .515 
— fertilizer for.339 
— Lady-finger. 20*2 
— largest tuber. 499 
— late, best. *202 
—Magnum Bounin . 671 
—manuring In the hill, how at 
"R G.’°.186 
— market earliest. 6 
— prolific wanted.223 
— raising out West .703 
—seed, to buy.,. 39 
— soli, black sandy or light clay 
loam . . 86 
— vines, mildew on .483 
- White Elephant..J202 
— — —an early. ..238 
— yield large .719 
Potatoes and oats as s'oek feed.254 
— ashes and soap factory, tank¬ 
age for.54 
— —applied to. 102 , 
— best rarletb-S..623 * 
— cultivation after new pota¬ 
toes have Bet. 102 
— cutting North-west »nd South- 
BOSt.. .-. 7 
— — seed end to single eye.291 
— early and late, difference,.451 
— best way to raise . .254 
— eyes next to seed end. 191 
— — to the piece. 202 
— fed to mllrh cows.254, 323 
— fercHlzers for. 55 
— ror low lands.254 
— growing.639 
— In ranada.70 
— Irish, to keep In the South.... 54 
— lan-i for .270 
— level culture of.172, 202 
— manure and leached ashes...291 
— —for..767 
— mixing.191, 355 530 
— most profitable..134 
— mulch, how thick...847 
— on new ground.....254 
— —same land rotting.171 
— planting, cnlttvation, etc_202 
— plowing tor. 831 
— ratsi' g from seed-balls.654 
— -scabby producing the sa m e. ...339 
— seed, now to cut....202 
— selling at 5o cts. per bu.671 
— small, as stock, feed, value_767 
— superphosphate lor, how 
nitich .238 
— sweet, stoat tubers..270 
— time to dig. 547 
— to dig and store. .. 292 
— — — in August for Winter. .450 
— — sell atNi cts. or nold.735 
— uncooked not good for cows. .403 
— under straw*.254 
— yields at “R. G.".815 
Poultry, book.89,172 
— breeders crustworthy. 224 
— eating their feathers.370 
— for eggs and meat.291 
— having cholera.169 
— Soudan.102 
— houses.. ,..310 
— — for 100 fowls.221 
— Journal. 39 
— keeping, about.370 
—llcoon . 
— paper.. . .799 
-and books on management224 
— raising for a living by a lady.222 
— raker*, attention .1.150 
— sick from overfeeding . 822 
Powder Giant, who makes.719 
Price of bees.846 
Prtcklj Comfrey, a good forage 
plant. 1 S 6 
— - propagating.655 
— —seen.591 
— — worthless.687 
Prune, German.799 
Pruning trulf trees, different....530 
— rose-bushes. .654 
Public documents, to get.418 
Pumpkin pests, killing.515 
Pumpkins, Cheese.270 
— feeding .6S6 
— for sheep .292 
— keeping... 687 
Purpura Iratnorrhagica.4S2 
Purslane, to get rid of.483 
Pyrus Japonic® for hedge.847 
189....150 
— hay.435 
Quince and apple seeds, plant¬ 
ing in Spring or EaU.202 
— Champion.,.,...307 
—culturo. ... 39 
— hardy In Milwaukee.254 
— in latitude of Milwaukee.254 
— orchard, starting.11S 
— trees, affected with rust.639 
— - how far apart.531 
Quinces in Mina..........171 
— — bow much land for........531 
— .Tapnn for hedge.S47 
Rabbits, lop-eared......531 
Radishes how thick to grow....371 
Ration Tor butter.-.....,..846 
Rat berries. Blackberries, etc. 
time to plant......655 
— cutting back tn Summer.169 
— for family use.283 
— killed with borer..887 
— planted In Spring or Fall..467 
— planted too near.292 
— plauttng. ....254 
— propagation of. 606 
— pruning.591 
— treatment or.418 
— troubled with borers.292 
— Turner and Brandywine, to 
distinguish... 186 
Raspberries,better thauHerstine224 
— Gregg.846 
— Hansell as large as Brandy¬ 
wine . 623 
— — or Culhbert.... .202 
— Marlboro. .671 
— — Rural'* opinion.419 
— Ohio Injured less with rust 
than Gregg..655 
— Tyler Cap...202 
— vines excrescence on, roots.. .118 
Rais, to get rid of...655 
Red. hogs... ... 466 
Redding ft Co., reliable? are.118 
Rheumatism, hogs with.223 
Rhododendrons. 60 ? 
— seeds of.419 
— standing the Winter. 547 
Rhubarb from seed .. . 702 
- Paragon, where to buy.224 
— ralsiug...703 
Rice, Wild for carp pond.118 
Ringworm In a horse.Sin 
River flais. crops cm what .254 
Roof flat. Cheap and durable_ 70 
Roofing, Fay's inanilla.2HS 
tar ran off, cause.223 
Roller, use of. 86 
Rose hugs, to destroy..254 
— bushes, arrangement of.767 
— — pruning .654 
— culture, book on.889 
— ever blooming...355 
Roses from slips...547 
— June white'.419 
— layering.498 
— Poly antha, out-of-doors.. 69 
- perpetual. K«t of.799 
— prorogating.498 
— tender, keeping in Ohio.-* !? 
Root cutter, home-made. 70 s 
Rocts, feeding to stock_.... .171 
— to teach stock to eat.606 
Ruiiber boots, mending. 86 
Rut <-ba/as. rotting.723 
— use of..48*2 
Rye, Fall, pasturage.*20*2 
— Cor bogs.2*23 
— — tor soiling, how early to 
sow... , .767 
— late sown, stable manure. 70 
— on a wet hill side.591 
— sown In July.581 
— — — September.488 
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