DEC 29 
872 
THE RURAL WEW-YCRICIR. 
-Dutchess Co.527 
-Orleans Co .4*5 
-Queens Co.797 
-Tioga Co.491 
-U'ster Co.527 
-Washington Co. 76 
-Wayne Co.. .289.647 
North Carolina.Iredell Co.885,465,663 
-Macon Co.289 
-Perquimans Co.252 
— — Vance Co.6*8 
-Wedell Co .821 
Oregon. Jackson Co.4.85 
— Josephine Co.112 
— Putnam Co .167 
Penn., Bedford Co.369 
— Butler Co.40 
— Cameron Co.496 
— Cumberland Co.489 
— Daunhln Co. 40 
— Fayette Co.76,805,435 
— Indiana Co. .465 
— Lebanon Co.151 543 
— McKane Co.321, 401,559 
— Merc°rCo.112 
— Susquehanna Co.831 
— Westmoreland Co. 76 
— Wyoming Co . 435 
Tenn. Bedford Co.815 
— MeMinn Co .401 
Texas. Gonzales Co.129 
— Williamson Co.837 
Vermont. Possibilities of.289 
— Rutland Co.353 
— Windsor Co.779 
Virgin la. Bedford Co. 252.715 
— West, Ohio Co.679 
Washington Territory, Chehalis 
Co .779 
— — Lincoln Co.797 
Wls., Adams Co.2’7 
— Buffalo Co.337 
— Kenosha Co .63 
FARMERS’ CLUB. 
Actinomycosis of lower jaw of 
cow.448 
Agrleu'tural Experiment Sta¬ 
tions.511 
Agriculture, Com., the next.816 
Ailanthus. the.793 
Alabama, book on.58 
Alfalfa, value. 182 
Alkekengi. purrde.216 
Almonds on L 1.145 
Amelanehier. dwarf.238 
Angus-Ab'-rdeen. Polled, who 
keeps.237 
Animals Imported for breeding, 
dutv on .190 
Anthrax. .165 
Ants, to vet rid of.488 
Apple. Aretlc.Ill 
— Black where to get.319 
— gall graoe-vlne.595 
— Gllliflower, where to get.200 
— orchard crops in.146 
— — pruning.483 
— pomace, manurial value. 6 
— Red Canada .2®7 
-Russet, about:.696 
— seeds, orchard from. 816 
— — who will buy? .7*4 
— tree borer , remedy, bogus_283 
-root or stem grafted, 
better fruit? . 93 
— trees, fungi on.528 
— — knots on .319 
-protec'ing from borer.353 
-spraying, pumn for .787 
— sweet, best long-keeping_528 
Apples, assorting.798 
— for an orchard In N. Y.215 
-Central Ill. .214 
— — Dakota.528 
-Del. 367 
— — New Jersey .867 
— — the year round . ... 93 
— late keening for N.V.146 
— on Paradise stock, advis- 
ahllltv. 93 
— Russian .58 
— — for Ohio.58 
waste, what to do with.416 
— winter for Northern Indiana.832 
Apricot origin of.38 
Apricots for Indiana. 88 
Aquarium, wooden-framed, ce¬ 
ment to hold.. ..182 
Arsenic, pure white, solu’ion as 
an insecticide.388 
Ashes charcoal In, value.711 
— on an orchard.146 
— or fertlizer on upland loamy 
soil.711 
— with guano, mixing.560 
— wood, applying to straw¬ 
berries.270 
— — containing all elements... Ill 
— _ how to use. 68 
— — steam-boat. 181 
— — value. ....Ill 
Asparagus, Barr’s Mammoth... 2°0 
— best.182, 628 
— dividing.816 
— going to seed, harm.38 
— manure for. 543 
— shipping to a distance.200 
— to put land In order for. 39 
— wood ashes, good for. 38 
Bananas, how they grow ... .200 
Barley smooth-headed, where 
to" buy .II 1 
Bass bark for buds .367 
Bean Lima, dwarf who has .764 
— pods drv, feeding value of.. .598 
— thrasher. ....496 
Beans for seed, how to save.216 
Beech nuts, where to buy. 93 
Beer, root . 463 
Bellows best.560 
Bereh. Henry, address of.1 9 3 
Bermuda grass .182 
— — cuttings of .93 
-seed or sods, where to get 75 
Rinding grain .712 780 
Blackberry. Erie. .... 632 
— — compared with Wilson_544 
— plants, where to get.238 
— Snyder not bearing. 664 
Blackberries, Erie and Mlnne 
waski.632 
— fall or spring time to plant...595 
Black-leg In calves.815 
Blacksmith’s shop, sweepings, 
value. 899 
Blood, dried, etc.664 
Boar, meat not good. 24 
- nig, castrating. 24 
Bog spavin ....447 
Bone alkaline, what is .528 
— dust as a fertilizer, value —181 
— mill, where to get..146 
— treating with acid.595 
— worth per ton.595 
Bones, breaking.181 
— ground, u°ing.181 
— reducing with acid and ashes.770 
Rots in horses .367 
Bran and whole rye for feed, 
value.'29 
— value of for feed.129 
Brazilian flour corn .4°8 
Broom corn, what it needs .200 
Bucephalus’s notions criticised.433 
Buckwheat .712 
— asa remedv for cut-worms..544 
— as stock feed.798 
— discussion .816 
— high praise for.816 
— Japanese .748, 798 
— — and other seeds."98 
— — in Florida .544 
— more about.764 
— shorts ns feed —.319 
Buffalo moths, to exterminate..6l2 
— or carpet beetle .. .527 
Building, to carry up.2°0 
Bull calf, 'eed fo' . 747 
— with soft swelling on knee... .239 
— work the . 368 
Butter. Imitation, patents on... .270 
— worker, home-made.270 
Butter-mllk, value for hog feed.387 
Cabbage, how to grow .6<\3 
— keeping through the winter.182 
— lice, to destroy.416 
— on sandy soil . 58 
— ■pvrothrum for.how to apply.336 
— worm, to destroy.712 
Calf, raising.464 
— sucking, with cough .319 
— troubled with indigestion—200 
Calla lilies.287 
Calves with black-leg.815 
i Canada thistles, meadow over¬ 
run with.145 
Canary grass .488 
— s»ed, raising .511 
Cantaloupes, raising.763 
Canonize, why? .780 
Capons.not fighting.182 
Caro culture .798 
— defence of.816 
Carpet bugs of.496 
— — benzine for.528 
— or Buffalo beetle .527 
Carrots or bran for horses.630 
Castrating hogs....6*9 
Castration not properly done...820 
Catsup, porcelain kettle for.544 
Cattle, ailing.181 
— dehorning, book on.58 
-in winter. 39 
-the Rusal and .Ill 
— Galloways, breeders of.58 
— licking the ground.819 
— watering .. 319 
— with grub in back.239 
— — skin diseases .495 
Gauliflower, howto grow.663 
Cedar trees, fungi on.528 
Celerv compete fertilizer for.. .239 
— culture .238 
— Golden Relf-blanohing. 39 
— plants for shipping, packing.182 
— seed, pink, whereto buy.2no 
Cellar for a «ilo, .578 
— making water-tight.632 
— water bugs in ... ...146 
Cement for embedding small 
stones.287 
Cereal crops, to strengthen.252 
Cereals, repo"t,s of 1887 .433 
Cherries for Ohio.251 
Cherrv and plum hybrid .544 
— tree, imperfect flowers.399 
Chestnut, Japan on L I.Ill 
— Paragon .747 
Chestruts. Japan where to buy.111 
Chickens stiff In the legs.145 
Chicks with hard covering on 
tongue.200 
Chilblains, remedy .Ill 
Churn ‘American Wonder”.... 93 
— Gifford, shape of.5*0 
Cider,sweet, who handles in N.Y.832 
— to turn to vinegar.416 
Clematises. English and Ameri¬ 
can, to propagate .632 
Clover hav, time to cut.416 
Cloth, substitute for glass .129 
— thrashed on wh»a’ thrasher. .416 
Coal ashes on a clay soli.24 
— tar for roofs .832 
Cockere's, whv caponlze .780 
Coddling moth, arsenical spray 
for, origin of.398 
Coins, old, dealer in.367 
Colic remedy .367 
Collar galls In horses.367 
Colt ailing.560 
— badly bloated.3'9 
— glands of throat enlarged—680 
— lame In fore feet. 88 
— troubled with nervous itch¬ 
ing .215 
— with diarrhea.632 
— — only one testicle.251 
— — pin worms.367 
— — swelling in knee.447 
— -on neck. .367 
— — tumor on testicle cord ...251 
Corn after com.780 
— and beans, fertilizer for.287 
— B. and W., where to buy.764 
— best variety for grain and 
fodder .215 
— Brazilian flour.94,488 
— cultivator made by S. Terry ,2'1 
— cut with a reaper.712 
— cutting, machine for.614 
— — with a reaper.560,*48 
— Ens'lage. Reo-cob.764 
— fodder and hay .comparative 
feeding value of .747 
— — frosted, chemistry of.832 
— busker, Phillip’s Spiral.632 
— Kaffir Rural depreciates ... 94 
— Longfel'ow. whereto buy . 287 
— Meal with s’arch taken out 696 
— raising in Michigan different 
from raising in Ky.239 
— removing the tassel of every 
altern o te corn plant ...165 
— Rural Thoroughbred Flint, 
whereto buy.39 
— seed from the butt, tip or 
middle.215 
— sent to Rural, how it turned 
out.110 
— sheep manure for. to apply..319 
— sweet, crossing.632 
— — evaoora'ed . 93,496 
— — evanorating.what variety. 93 
— — varieties to plant at same 
time . • • .182 
— Thoroughbred for fodder—HI 
— white field in Va . 93 
Corns on horses’ feet, remedy..129 
-mare’s foot.287 
Cottonseed as feed, value of...146 
-meal as a fertilizer .... 58 
— _ — ill eff°cts of feeding....7 s n 
Coueh, chronic in cow.632 
-horse . 352 
Counterfeits patents for.1®3 
Cow with lump on bag.367 
— — tuberculosis.86? 
— lame in hind legs.HO 
— milch, how often to feed.832 
— peas.eheap fertilizer for.76 
— perfect..560 
— poisoned with sugar of lead.747 
— scrub, yield of milk.75 
— slabbers over hay.815 
— with seed warts on.647 
-swalllngs on knees.215 
-swollen tongue.239 
Cows digesting their food. 92 
— food 'or before calving.145 
— fourth stomach of.92 
— milch, rations for.764 
— milking before and after 
calving. 447 
— not In heat in winter.215 
— testing for butter.238 
— with chronic cough.632 
Cranb°rrv culture.58 
Cream setMn r, deep or shallow 512 
Creamer without Ice. .. .496 
Creamery, best. 93 
— starting In Alabama. 89 
Crop for silage . 6 
Cron*, fertilizers to produce bet¬ 
ter .215 
— for green manuring.110 
— rotation, manuring for.251 
Cucumber pickles, preparing.. .453 
Currant, bu«hes. fertilizer for. .270 
— worms, hellebore for.40 
Currants. Long-Bunched Hol¬ 
land and victory. 39 
Cut-worm remedy.433 
— worms in pansy bed, to des¬ 
troy .399 
Dahlia bulbs .,.«82 
Dairy cartoon.'83, 270 
— conference. Cornell, about...5*0 
— Guernsey grades for.387 
— Ideas. 6*4 
— Jersey grades for.387 
— lectures, appropriation .496 
— thermoneters. where to buy. .696 
Dehorning, a dairymaid on;.544 
— Anti, blast.464 
— book on . 58 
— cattle in winter. 39 
— flimsy oblectlons to. .165 
— replv toHaaff.496 
— stall to hold cow .'82 
Delawa-eand Maryland, health¬ 
fulness of .299 
Dewberry. Lucret.la...59* 
Diarrhea In a colt..632 
Distemper or strangles in a 
mare.110 
Dog, ColHe . 496 
Dogs, boarding.488 
Dors°t sheep, who has.512 
Draepena terminal!*..145 
Draining bv means of wells _7°7 
Ducklings, death of.596 
Dust bath for poultry.278 
East Indian swine.696 
Egg tester, where to buy.336 
Eggs, new, rattling. 6 
Elms dying.447 
Ensilage in stacks.416 
— old and new process.388 
— on the increase.647 
— problem.8 : 7 
Esparsette or Sainfoin.Ill 
— value.182 
Evergreens for Northern New 
York.336 
— planting early.252 
— three choice.165 
Ewes, nursing feed for.93 
Eyes,«ore,eure for in hordes,etc.383 
Fair, county, good, how to get. .577 
— model Co.528 
Fairs, county more about ...—6’4 
Farm, a poor 60-acre. managing..200 
— condition 35 years hence .23 
—■ manure from crops all re¬ 
turned. 23 
— poor 60-acre, managing.200 
— that pays .399 
Farmer’s account book, where 
to get. 270 
— club or granges, incorporated 
at small expense.746 
— keening money in the house.. 24 
— in the Honn. river valley. ...544 
-— Northwest, objections..488 
Farming, partnership in.523 
— then and now .4 5 9 
Feed grinding, will it pay?.181 
Feeding buckwheat shorts.319 
— for making pork.270 
— stuff', analyses of .269 
— — values of various.145 
— wheat bran, etc., value of.. .269 
Fertilizer, bone as a .595 
— complete for wheat.632 
— cotton seed meal as a.58 
— for fruits .578 
-potatoes. 6 
-strawberries on deep 
sandy loam .ill 
— keening over a year..93 
— plots, experimental.146 
— slaughter-house refuse.1*2 
Fertilizers, bones of fish for.614 
— commercial fo” onions.Ill 
— — not stimulants.184 
— drilling in with wheat.596 
— for corn and beans.287 
— — wheats.528 
— what to use, trial.S'O 
Fillies, time to breed.28? 
Fish hones for fertilizer.614 
Flea-beetle .596 
— — cucumber.578 
-tobacco for....-.614 
— — how to fight.648 
-In Mass .560, 561 
Fleas, to kill on a dog.7»0 
Floats. «. C. rock.816 
Flour, price of.712 
Fodder, corn, frosted, chem¬ 
istry of.832 
— crop, sorghum as .352 
Food, green In Win'er for 
poultry.816 
Force pump for spraying.528 
Founder, chronic.181 
Fowl. Wvandotte. what breeds 
were used to make .798 
Free trade and protection, more 
about.512 
Fruit, culture, work on. 75 
— growing with commercial 
fertilizers alone.578 
— ripening In electric light.75 
— select lists of. 58 
Fruits, evaporating and pre¬ 
serving.613 
— for Pa. 24 
- r Tenn.5*0 
— hybridized .336 
— in Wvomlng Ter.695 
— that are late blooming .560 
— trees potash in what form for 3 o 0 
— sending to S. Amer .—820 
Fungi on apple and cedar trees 528 
Fungus which attacks rasp¬ 
berries . .764 
Galloway eattle as milk pro¬ 
ducers.58 
— — breeders of.58 
-for farmers in la.58 
Garden of the Northwest.488 
Garget in a heifer.560 
Gosoline stove.614 
Geranium bed, circular, plants 
for ..165 
— White Clipper. ..145 
-Swan ..145 
Glanders and farcy, symptoms 
of.446 
Glass, substitute for.129 
Gluten meal feeding value of.. 463 
Gooseberry, Cape for Utah.Ill 
— what variety to plant.664 
— worms hellebore for.388 
Grafting root, apple and pear 
trees .*8 
Grain, binding.712.780 
— feed for mi'ch cows.388 
Grape. Amber Queen. Rural’s 
experience with.764 
— Berckmans.......747 
— Brighton.270 
— — not one of three best.320 
— Clinton .336 
— F. B. Hayes.632 
— Flea-b°etle .433 
— Niagara Co„ complaint 
against.680 
— trellis.764 
— Ulster Prolific..:. 747 
— Victoria more profitable than 
Niagara. 747 
— vine flea-beetle.387 
-louse . 447 
— vines, best manure for.216 
-checking the growth .52.3 
-how many buds at joint.. .367 
-pruning .24 
Grapes, bagging time.182 
— baggging. when.388 
— earliest .764 
— Jessica and Early Victor.6.32 
— three best.3°0 
Grass, Bermuda.187 
-cuttings of .93 
— — seed or sod, where to get.. 75 
— Canary.4®8 
— for pasture.146 
— Johnson.560 
— Meadow Fescue, seed of.496 
— on a hillside, to start .319 
— Poa trivialis where to buy . sss 
— Quack . 288.488 
— Red-top and Blue not valu¬ 
able in Kans.252 
— seeding to, treatment.181 
Grasses for permanent pasture 543 
— for rich, dry soil.'°2 
— in Kans . 287 
Green food for chickens in win¬ 
ter..816 
Greenhou«e sashes.7<6 
— soil full of grub-worms .661 
Green manuring, crops ror.110 
Grove to keep down under 
brush. 712 
Guinea fowls, to tell cocks and 
hens..647 
Haltlca cucumeris.sso 
Harrow. Acme, advantages.182 
-at “R. G.”.Ill 
— Thomas, about the .273 
Harrowing, young potatoes.595 
Hav crop to make profitable .145 
— cutting by hand power.632 
— Hungarian grass for.270 
— lime, not sal' on.335 
— Loader.Keystone whomakes.146 
— mow, lime and salt In .367 
— press, to make a cheap .712 
— stack weight.of.239 
— whentocut, .416 
Heaves in a horse . 1'0 
Hedge, Arbor-vitas, pruning....182 
— plant for turning stock.215 
— — succeeding In shade.21* 
Heifer, “free martin’ - .270 
— twin born with a bull.270 
— with garget.5*0 
— — loose bowels.1®2 
Hellebore for currant worms... 40 
— — near slugs... .92 
Hen ordinary, number of eggs. 75 
Hens feeding to lay. 6 
— 100, care of .. 463 
Hip lameness in mare. .448 
Hoes, cultivators, or plow hand, 
of any value.270 
Hog raising, marvelous.680 
— with abscess of urinary cyst. 75 
Hogs with lice, remedy.448 
Hoof, contracted in mare.88 
— wall, powdery degeneration 
of ..38 
Hop roots, chemical fertilizer 
for.146 
Horse breathing hard.215 
— feed on raw potatoes.798 
— knee-sprung..129 
— iam“ in fore leg .3'9 
—? radish cutter . 93 
— suffering from collar bolls.. .679 
— that is kicked, treatment....'45 
—'weak in the loins..182 
— what killed him?.746 
— with a new hoof .632 
— — chronic cough.352 
-colic.367 
-collar galls.367 
— — cough.446 
-corns . 129 
— — dropsy, sweeny..92 
-free cartilage in joint.647 
— — gravel.353 
— — heaves .110 
— — lame hind leg.560 
— — leg Injured.747 
— — megrims . • 399 
— — ne'vous disorder.75 
_ _ ruptured stomach .443 
_ — scratches.75 
_ — sore eves.S19 
_ — sprained ankle.446 
_shoulders.6R2 
_ — swelling caused by eollar.867 
_-on knee .560 
_tumor on shoulder.74? 
_ — worms.92 
Horses and cows, feeding cot¬ 
ton seed .146 
— ba’ky .129 
— *bots in. 367 
— 'carrots or bran.680 
— hoofs, splitting of outer- 
shell . 679 
— rubbing hair off.....319 
— salivation in.182 
_ nervousness.—352 
Hot-house glass, substitute for.129 
Huckleberry. White.596 
Hungarian grass for hay.270 
Huckleberry,White, that.578 
Hvacinths in glasses. 58 
Ice-house .6®0 
-building an .145 
Tncubating Thermometers .696 
Icubator after Mr Jacobs’ plan.“>51 
— which used at Hammonton. .514 
Incubators, good.544 
— artificial, is it a success—544 
— thermometers for.443 
Indigestion, chronic in calf.200 
Insecticide, admirable.. 287 
Insurance companies.Hve-stock.664 
Irrigation, from a ravine, how 
to dam up water .711 
Jack.sm-elv afflicted. 93 
Jersey Blue fowls, where to buy.. 75 
Jpwelrv dealer, re’iable .496 
Johnson grass, about .560 
Kaffir corn, how to plant .215 
— — Rural depreciates. 94 
Kerosene emulsion.596 
Labor, worth of. 24 
Lameness in a mare, compli¬ 
cated .....815 
— — pastern joints.320 
Lamtnltls, chronic .181 
Lamp chimney, good, who man¬ 
ufactures . 93 
Land, clayey, sowing to grass.. .181 
— worn-out. how to restore.711 
Lands, public in Kansas.764 
Lawn mower, which best.433 
— sowing with Red-top. 182 
— treatment of a.595 
I,emon trees, care.319 
Lice on cat'le.115 
-ewes and lambs. 93 
— — hogs.448 
Lilies, C«lla.287 
Lime, carbonate of. in sorghum 
sugar Taking .... . .578 
— not salt on hay...835 
— on a poor farm.144 
— — potatoes .816 
Live-stock insurance compa¬ 
nies .664 
Locust seeds, planting.747 
Locusts. Black and Yellow, dif- 
f eren ce between.'65 
— thriving on L. I .181 
London-purple for spraying 
fruit trees.200 
Lueern. value .182 
Lung fever In horse .367 
Magnolia for Northern v y .. .386 
Mail matter, annual quantity... 75 
Malaria in Northern Del. and 
Md. . 239 
Mangels on same land year after 
year. 181 
— sowing and fertilizing.181 
— what kind and how to plant 
for stock .2'5 
Manure, applying .6,797 
— fora new garden. 75 
— — asparagus . 543 
— fresh for potatoes not good. .146 
-stable, on potatoes.93 
— from crops returned to the 
soil..‘23 
— hen and ashes to potatoes ...251 
— horse, shavings in, value. ... 38 
— stable, hauling 2*4 miles, 
value —. 93 
— value from cattle feeds.780 
Manuring for a rotation of 
crops .251 
— green crops, for.. 110 
Maple san, swelling of the buds, 
effects. 251 
— sugar, patent for making—183 
Maples dying.447 
— hard or soft on low land.416 
— troubled with borers.712 
Mare in poor condition.215 
— lame .1®2 
— sterile. HO 
— with contracted hoofs. S3 
-corns.287 
-distemper .HO 
-foal injured . 39 
-hip lameless.448 
Mares, sterile .447 
Market gardening, book on.93 
Meadow grasses.182 
Meadows, water. R 15 
Melon, who gets the.747 
Memory system .75 
Milch cowl how often to feed..832 
— cows, feed'ng cotton-seed 
meal, ill effects.780 
— grain feed for.888 
— ration for.764, 815 
— bloody .815 
— feed for.2?0 
Milk fever.493 
— froth on.747 
— skim from a separator as 
stock fed.780 
— skimmed,price per gallon....498 
— souree of qual'ty in breed.. .320 
Milking cows before and after 
calving .447 
Millet and sorghum for Ill.214 
— for seed, profit. 39 
— sowing late for fodder.433 
Missouri as a fruit and agricult¬ 
ural region .527 
Money kept, in farm houses.... 24 
Mortgage question .353 
Mowers, suggested improve¬ 
ments;) n .664 
Mowing machines,construction 
of.648 
Muckv land seedingtograss.,.815 
Mule with swelling on leg.145 
Mules breeding.287 
Muskmelons, raising.763 
Mu-lln. to make water-proof 6 
Mutton, Improvement needed.. .578 
— production with woo] as an 
acces’orv, is It, profitable?.. .433 
N. J. Agricultural Soc . 6:32 
Niagara Grape Co., complaint 
against ... .680 
Nitrate 0 f g oda, Guano, which 
best. • • 182 
Nitrogen as a simple element 
or combined with ammonia 595 
Notions, ridiculous.483 
Nut trees for Novia Scotia.287 
-on L. 1.181 
Oats and corn, ground, propor¬ 
tions.145 
— Bonanza.216 
— drilled or broadcast.215 
— grown in Ohio, weight.251 
— how long to remain in shock.528 
— new not surpassing old va—416 
— not binding."12 
— sowing..797 
— to the acre..215 
— when to cut for grain and 
fodder.433 
— White Belgian.are they profit 
able?.2.90 
Oil-meal, price of.448 
— test for milk or cream.238 
Onions and oyster plants, fertil¬ 
izer for.215 
— fertilizers for. quantity, etc 181 
Onobrychis. sativa.111,182 
Orchard, all about planting... 664 
— apple, crops In.146 
-planting, etc.664 
— crop in a .251 
— from apple seeds.816 
— queries.416 
Osage orange seed, preparing 
for use .449 
Paint, cheap for roof.528 
— for shingled roofs.712 
Paper Mill. 488 
Parturient apoplexy or col¬ 
lapse. ... .483 
Pasture.permanent.grasses for. 543 
— — seeding a hill side.663 
— Red Top, etc., for. .146 
Patents for counterfeits.18.8 
Pauper labor. .448 
-criticism.463 
Pea-nut culture.463 
— trellises, wire.338 
Peas, what to sow with for 
stock.388 
— w're for a trellis for.319 
Peach borer, wash for.2'2 
— curl. 252 
— Steven’s Rareripe for Pa— 24 
— trees budded the second year. 93 
— — fertilizer for.269 
— trimming, how.269 
Pear Anjou.146 
— Idaho.39 
— information about . 24 
— market for New Jersey. 6 
Pears, good for Mass.747 
— legal weight of a bushel.578 
Pecan on L. I .181 
Pecans on L. 1.145 
Petroleum and paint for a 
shingle roof .7*4 
— crude applied to colts.146 
-kHlingliee.146 
Petunias, double, giving satis¬ 
faction.165 
Phosnhate meal.816 
— salt .200 
Phosphoric acid in acid phos 
phstes .251 
-what worth per pound 251 
Photograph negatives, coating 
on . 6 
Phvlloxera. 447 
Pigeons, live, dealer in.488 
Pigs, ailing .632 
— in a manure pit.93 
— lame.. ..261 
Pine, Monterey.511 
Pinu8 inslgnis.5’1 
Plaster on a clay soil. 93 
— white and brown land, com¬ 
parative merits . 2 70 
Plow. Daniel Sulky, who 
makes. 6*0 
— shovel.853 
Plowing, steam.596 
Plum culture. 57 
— Mooney. 628 
— 'ree, insects on.238 
Plums and cherries, how far 
apart to plant.251 
— for Dak.698 
-Ohio.251 
Plymouth Rocks, Pea-combed. 
‘ who breeds.39 
Poa 'rivialis whe r e to ger.3?6 
Pork barrel old to sweeten... .789 
— making feed.270 
Potash for scouring wool, 
where to get.l s 2 
Potato, best late.353 
— Bl'i»h, what sort.320 
— Cetewayo .58 
— conte t. Ladles discuss.832 
— crop, gathering.631 
— Dakota Red not Blush.416 
— digger, Hudson, where to 
buy. 69 
— — is any a success?.631 
-used by Mr Terry.689 
— Everitt. originator of... 182.353 
— flea-beetle.••••— 522 
— growing, uncertainties.(98 
— new manure on. 182 
— planting, Rural trench sys¬ 
tem . 75 
— Queen .696 
— seed, who has.<80 
— soil. etc., “hangingcolor-353 
— tons, killing of, lessens the 
yield .200 
Potatoes, anplving hen manure 
and ashes to. ... .251 
— Blush having hollows.512 
— eyes to a piece.820 
— fertilizer above or below.864 
-for . 6 
— fertilizing.<64 
— for early market.182 
— — seed from flea-beetle 
vines .696 
— in cold storage.288 
— keeping . 647 
— mvstery about. 696 
— nee" 1 a soluble manure.182 
— planted in clover sod, Mr. 
Terry’s reply .560 
— planting .• •• 58 
— prospective prices in the 
East.75,130 
— raising from seed-balls.798 
— raw. Injurious to a horse.798 
— scab, salt as an antidote.816 
— seed, buving.416, 633 
— — growing.633 
-knotty. 6 
— — standing in water.251 
— sweet. Trench svstem for—832 
— yields of at “R. G.”.110 
— ynung. h^rrowino:. 
Poultry at Exnerlmpnt Station. 
— Keeper, Wright’s Practical. .2S7 
— lung and throat trouble in.. 92 
— new br ft ed. 
— ventilation ...-.816,832 
— w. Wvandotte and Dorking 595 
Prlok'v Comfrey from seed or 
roots. 6 
Pruning an apple orchard.433 
— grape vines .••• • *4 
Pullets, buying In N. Y. market.764 
— not laying. ....-J” 
Pump, force, for spraying. 237 
— water, cylinder large or 
small.287 
— with cups. .596 
Pumpkinseeds. how they hurt 
cows. .. • • '”0 
Pure-breds and high grades for 
shambles and dairy.165 
Pyrethrum applied to cabbage 836 
— bellows, about.836 
— for n*ar slugs . .*•* 
Pyrus Mains Parkmanil. 416 
Quack grass .. ■ —... .488 
Quince trees, planting, how far 
apart., .696,6*4 
Quinces for New Jersey.696 
— on «pple trees. 2*1 
Rabbits eating pear grafts ... 39 
— extermination in Australia. 39 
Ram. castrating a full-grown .239 
Raspberry Doolittle, to take the 
nlace «f . 664 
— Earhart Everbearing. 5s 
— Hllborn, about.. ••••‘J® 
— Ohio a good market berry. .216 
— Springfield...632 
Reaners. suggested improve¬ 
ments in. 664 
Red Cap eggs, about.512 
_- where to buy.321) 
— Cedar, to propagate .319 
_Top sowing: as late as May... .182 
Rhubarb, best varieties of.528 
— Monarch.816 
Ringbone in a 16-year-old horse.ID 
— remedy.165 
Roofing paints.712 
Roofs, coal tar for.832 
Root-grafted pear and apple 
trees .68 
Rose- bugs, pyrethrum for.388 
— cuttings treatment .165 
-- sports.543 
Roses, Christmas, where to get.182 
— crossing.*43 
— pot-grown preferred.320 
— single and double.251 
Rust on block-can raspberries. .433 
Rye for Spring feed.663 
— one-year-old for seed.28? 
— straw prices .336 
— Thousandfold, wnere to buys? 9 
— value of for feed .'29 
Salivation 'n a cow .*15 
Salt and lime on hay.635 
— in agriculture.399 
Sainfoin .182 
Scale, remedv.368 
Scissors for garden work .748 
Scratches In a horse. 75 
Seeder, Strowbrtdge broadcast.145 
Seeding mucky land to crass .815 
Seed-sower, Cahoon broad~a*t..93 
Settlers on public lands, hard¬ 
ships .544 
Sheep. Dorset who has .512 
— foot-rot, to guard against.. .789 
— keeping on shares . . .832 
— Shropshire, origin of. °3 
— ticks, remedy. 251 
— trouble with costiveness .. 200 
— “stretches”.269 
Sh'ngles dioped in pe'roleum. .816 
Short-hand, easv system.200 
Shorts mixed with corn meal..145 
Shropsh're sheep, origin of.93 
Silago, baled .832 
— crop 'or . 6 
— question.1 13 
Silo, changing a cellar into_578 
Skin desea«e of eattle.495 
Skunks, do they eat potato 
bugs? .665 
slaughter-house refuse.182 
Slobbers.182 
Slug-shot .270 
Sorghum as a fodder crop.352 
Sow breeding, how old.319 
-In-and In.35.3 
— death of.182 
Snavin. to treat .632 
Sphaerea Hendersonla.764 
Sona«h bugs, black. 287 
— Orange.270 
— Perfect Gem, origin of.320 
Stallions. lieenlng.287 
Sterility In a mare.HO 
Stifle laneness .446 
Stock feed, buckwheat as .799 
— feedl-g only twice a day—288 
— watering device. 747 
Stove Gasoline.614 
Strawberry cul'ure.797 
— — manure for .797 
— new to have tested.399 
Strawberries are they profit¬ 
able? . 319 
— good fertilizer for .251 
— growing on a light soil.664 
-- raised with com. fertilizers 
alone.215 
— three best.595 
— white .2*1 
Stump puller.512 
Sub-soiling on sandy soli.320 
Sugar, sorghum, carbonate of 
lime In making.578 
Sumac, Venetian.560 
Surgical Instruments, dealer 
Swamp, spring-fed, reclaiming 663 
Swelling on hind leg....238 
Swine, ea°tratlng.679 
East Ind'an .696 
Tankage.664 
Tariff, anent the.. 252 
— thoughts on. 399 
Telephone, home made. 6 
Thermometer for determining 
temp, of cream. 93.696 
— Incubating. 418.696 
Thermometers, dairy. 696 
— for incubators .448 
Thomas harrow, about the.578 
Thrashing machine, preparing 
to thrash corn.780 
— — to shell corn and break- 
stalks ••• .. ,,230 
Tobacco for the flea-beetle.614 
Tomato Strawberry, when to 
gather. 182 
— worm.parasites on.680 
Tomatoes not setting fruit.Ill 
— on over-rich land.543 
Trade Schools.488 
Trees for L. 1.145 
— thelargest. 58 
Tuberculosis In cows.632 
Tumor on cow’s neck.319 
-shoulder of horRe.747 
Vegetables In greenhouses.165 
Venetian Sumac.560 
Vertigo or megrims in a horse. .899 
Veterinarybook,Law’s Farmer’sl82 
Vinegar, cider, commercial- 
standard of.287 
— to made quick .416 
Virginia, settling In.319 
Walnuts, English on Long Is¬ 
land .145,181 
— planting. .747 
— — best time. • 75 
Warts on heifer’s teats, remedy 
.647,694 
— seed, ou a cow’s teats....647.694 
— to get rid of on a cow. 91 
Water raising In a 3-inch pipe. .165 
— bugs in a cellar .146 
Weeder, Universal.747 
Well, foul .780 
West.voung men going, advice..680 
Wi’low culture.448 
Wolf teeth In a colt.463 
Wood ashes, how to use. 58 
Woodasou bellows.528 
Wood lot clearing out brush. .182 
Wool ana woolen goods, tariff 
on...798 
Worms, intestinal in horse.818 
Wound* In horses.145 
Wheat and bran for feed, rela¬ 
tive value. ..200 
— bran, etc., value for stock- 
feed .269 
— oomnlete fertilizer for.632 
— Di“hl-5Ted. where to get ...560 
— fertilizers, drilling in with..596 
— frozen, feeding.•-••••■•••Ill 
— Landreth raised at R. G, ..664 
-where to get.®47 
— mulching, about .696 
— smut in. sulphate of copper..145 
— turning to “hess....,.680 
— Velvet Chaff.416 
FARM ECONOMY. 
Compost heap, making.90 
Droughts, past, lessons from ... 5 
Experiment stations. if Director _ 
what I would do.635,676 
— — suggestions from Direc¬ 
tors .50^ 
Farm machinery.198 
Fertilizers, chemical, special ..89 
Floors, cement.-318 
Bay loader, profitable. .*.4o 
Hogs, hanging, device for .286 
Husking corn by machinery ... 835 
Machinery on the farm.43 
Manure, liquid to collect.91 
— spreadlngon thesnow....... 187 
Manures, ex at Rothamsted... .798 
Road Special..265 
— country.2i>s 
Trenching by horse-power.<96 
FARM TOPICS. 
Agricultural College, Michigan.. 58 
— Dep’t aids .?17 
— outlook in Italy.......400 
— papers, are they of benefit to 
farmers.-$94 
— Diths. •••• .588 
— press, blessings of the.214 
Agriculture, Australian.648 
