874 
THE RURAL WEW-YORSCER. 
DEC 28 
Apple pomace for cattle.630 
Beef at fairs, judging . 495 
— breeding for quality.19, 71 
— dressed carcass, Judging. ...495 
— early forcing, evils of. 71 
— Judging. 541 
— rearing, feeding.71 
Blood will tell .476 
Breeding for manure. 36 
-quality, in beef. 19 
-set. 2 S 4 
— new.611 
Buffalo, crossing on the cow....749 
Bull, Jersey . 775 
Bulls in Switzerland. 633 
— tread power for. 201 
Calf raising, points in.4T1 
Calves, dressed. 429 
— food for. 201 
— Holsteto, largest gain. 112 
— rearing. Important things...481 
— sweet or sour milk for.694 
— thrifty, to make .697 
— when to care for.697 
Carding stock. 3 
Cattle, Apple pomace for.630 
— Brown Schwytzer.8:33 
— dehorned In Chicago market713 
— dehorning.7, 55,109,365, 368 
.573 
— Dutch Belted.491 
— exposed to cold, food lost_821 
— feeding in Penn . 692 
— in Eastern Colorado.813 
-stanchions not comfort¬ 
able.337 
— raisers, American, advan¬ 
tages. 71 
— raising In Brazil.480 
— two meals only a day. 200 
— watering .675 
Corn-and-cob meal for cattle_573 
Cotton seed, feeding.710 
Cow ‘•Common”.765 
— ‘‘perfect”.491 
— general-purpose,delusion_597 
-humbug. 20 
— good in hands of stingy 
feeder. 77 
— as a machine.492 
— general purpose for AmerlcafiU 
—starved when young.449 
— that perfect.540 
Cows drinking warmed water... 7 
— feeding to the largest profit..497 
— feed, investigate value of_635 
— give charcoal.449 
— poor, feeding good food to..492 
— proper exercise for.512 
— scrubs vs. pure bred.77 
— spaying.749 
Dehorned cattle in Chicago 
market. 713 
Dehorning,_7, 55, 109,365, 868 . 573 
— a dangerous craze.148 
— against.895 
— age of animal.365 
— at the University of Tenn...368 
— condemning.449 
— danger from colds .305 
— disinfectant for stub.542 
— early, In favor of .197 
— fastening animal.368 
— Haaff on. 412 
— In favor. 20 
— mode. 186 
— not cruel.55 
— not successful.799 
— practical experience. 71 
— results.....369 
— season for.365 
— sections of horns cut off.71 
— success in.. .320 
— lools essential.368 
Dutch belted cattle.491 
Feed box, new.630 
Feeding, economical,.412 
— gdbd.578 
— manure.627 
— notes .710 
— oatmeal to store cattle.320 
— old andnewmethodsofusing 
poor fodder.645 
— rack, movable.385 
— .aliens...836 
— rye .627 
— seasonable hint..645 
— stock on fruit farms .760 
— twice a day only. 200 
Fish refuse as fodder.464 
Free-martlns.144 
— — breeding.77 
Grades for beef.112 
— never surpass pure breeds. .112 
Grain rations mixed with cut 
hay .305 
Guernsey cow.645 
Hayrack, separable.885 
Holstein beef .336 
— better milkers than Jerseys.. 77 
— Krieslans .597 
Horns must go. 20 
-— why?.365 
— sections of. 71 
Jersey Bull.775 
— best for Vt.109 
— cattle at Cornell .691 
Lice on cattle, remedy. 77 
Linseed cake, how it should ap¬ 
pear .765 
Live-stock, wintering, about_756 
Meal, corn-and-cob.573 
— cotton seed, feeding.710 
— linseed-oil, feeding.710 
Meat, frozen, British Imports.. .512 
Milk, sweet or sour for calves....694 
Oatmeal, feeding store cattle.. 320 
Ranching country, Northwest 
of Canada.74 
Rye, feeding.627 
Scrub, good word for the.586 
Scrubs vs pure-bred cows_77 
— where does the extra food go 
to.536 
Sex, breeding for.284 
— -ridicule. 833 
Silage, feeding to animals being 
fattened.216 
Steer, feeding, whole corn.833 
— scrub, raising . ..697 
Steers, feeding for beef.691 
-In N. Y.State.... .691 
Stock barn for the prairie.413 
— feeding with fruit growing..709 
— how much can I winter..611 
— Importations, no more re¬ 
quired ..476 
— in Kansas, shelter.72 
— interests in III .212 
— live In the South.524 
— must pump their water.715 
— Notions and Ideas. Brown’s. .476 
— preparing for market.429 
— prime, only should be regis¬ 
tered .764 
— proportion to the field. 611 
— raising in connection with 
fruit.....760 
— sales, Improved.412 
— water for .597 
— — warming for.751 
— wintering .756 
Schwytzer, Brown, In Switzer¬ 
land .833 
Water for stock.597 
— warming for stock.751 
Watering cattle.675 
— troughs, self-operating.429 
HORSEMAN. 
Arabian horses, Importation of .284 
Arsenite of strychnine as a 
tonic . 8 
Baikv horses.143 
Boys and horses.561 
Carriage and coach horses.248 
Colt, early training.599 
— Fall, best ... 28 
Colts, early maturity.366 
— raising.331 
— suckling.574 
Docking, luhumane.765 
Draft horse business.681 
-ideal. 521 
— horses.248 
— — best.521 
— — breeding.574 
-most money in breeding..248 
-rather than roadsters.574 
Drivers.248 
Driving, care of horse on the 
road .428 
Farm horses.331 
— team, care of. ..3,427 
French Coach Stallion.247 
Frog, preserving the.542 
Gardener’s learn, feed, care,etc. .495 
General-purpose animals.271 
Grain for horses, how much....661 
Hackney horse.631 
Horse breeding, common-sense 
in. 23 
-In central Ill.247 
-the West. Increase of. .536 
— driving, care of on road.428 
— notes. Western.734 
— selecting for the farm.428 
— shoeing contest in England. .444 
Horses, cheap. . 795 
— crippled car for farms .317 
— ensilage for.366 
— how to keep well. 317 
— on the farm.573 
— raising.861 
— vs., bullocks. 635 
— work at Cornell.619 
Hunter, English.483 
Norfolk trotter.885 
Oats, cracked, feeding. 25 
Percheron colt. 35 
—•stallion .143,331,760 
Percherons.85,56’ 
Roadsters and draft horses.112 
Stallion, French Coach.247 
— Percheron.331,760 
Stallions, care of breeding.428 
— no hardier than geldings_536 
Tonic for strengthening. 3 
Torture by checks. 59 
Trotter, Norfolk • • • • .£35 
Watering after feeding oats ... 3 
— before feeding. 54 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Akebia qulnata .2V2 
Berry notes, Michigan.511 
Blackberry, Ancient Briton.649 
— and raspberry hybrids.108 
— Bangor .609 
— Bonanza.678 
— culture In Mich.511 
— Early Cluster.673 
— Erie .678 
— Kittatinny.678 
— Nevada.678 
— Minnewaski.678 
— Taylor. 676 
— Wilson, Jr.678 
Blackberries at Geneva, Ex. 
Station. 149 
— In Michigan.678 
— list of. 2 
Cabbage, turnip-rooted.501 
— worms and the English spar 
row.835 
-shears to kill.599 
Celery, keeping .245 
Climax spraying nozzle. 166 
Currant borer.334 
— bushes mulched with coal 
ashes. ..ii...836 
— cherry.576 
— Kay’s....558 
— worm remedy.334 
— worms, hellebore for.401 
Dewberry, Lucrctla.649 
Fertilizers for small fruits.212 
Fruit growing in the South.524 
— small, report from Ohio Ag. 
Ex. Sta .868 
— for Illinois. 56 
Fruits for northwestern N. 
Carolina . 56 
— small, fertilizers for .212 
-in time of drought.319 
-to help through drought. .819 
Gensing market.734 
Gooseberry, “Cape”.'.805 
— Champion.609 
— Dougal’s Hybrids No. 2.609 
-3. 609 
-7.609 
— Industry.609 
— mildew, remedy.499 
— Orange.609 
— Smith’s seedling.558 
— Triumph. .609, 695 
Grafting, crown. Rural’s meth¬ 
od.245 
— top, suggestions.480 
Grounds, Ex. of R. N. Y. 
.108, 195, 443, 460 
-—-Mr. Falconer’s 
visit to. 2 
Hellebore for currant worms.. .289 
Hot-bed frames, muslin for_199 
Huckleberries, home-grown_288 
Hybrids, blackberry and rasp¬ 
berry ..108 
— raspberry and blackberry. 
Rural’s . 627 
Kerosene and soap mixture... .482 
— emulsion .384 
Plants, packing for shipment...213 
— patenting of.478 
— patents for.478 
Raspberry and blackberry hy¬ 
brids, Rural’s .627 
— Butler.678 
— Carman.597,678 
-same as Souhegan.648 
— culture in Mich.511 
— Doolittle.814 
— Earhart.678 
— Eastern King.678 
— Golden Queen.597 
— Gregg.836 
— Hansel .649 
— Hllborn.609,678 
— Indiana .678 
— Johnson’s Sweet.678 
— Marlboro.749 
— Meredith.673 
— Nemaha.678 
— Rancocas.678 
— Red and yellow varieties.678 
— Scarlet Gem.678 
— Souhegan.811 
-and Tyler.649 
— Springfield.678 
— Thompson’s Early Prolific 
Red .649 
— Warren.609 
Raspberries and blackberries 
in Michigan.678 
— black-cap varieties.678 
— '1st of . 2 
— no trimming for.713 
Rosa Rugosa hybrids, first.475 
Rose-bug remedy.M3 
— — fighting.545 
— Special .229 
Ruhus odoratus, seedlings of.. .4a6 
Rural Grounds, view In.427 
Shrub propagation .216 
Strawberry, Alley, No. 1.460 
-3.460 
— Alpine, testing.499 
— Anna.460 
— Augur’s No. 70.460 
- 87.460 
— Belmont.504, 710 
— Besek.... .195 
-No. A. 87.430 
— Bomba.710 
— box. pasteboard.401 
— Bubach. ..195, 430. 460, 529, 579 710 
— Burt.710 
— Carllnal.195, 460 
-B.411, 431 
— Carmichael later than 
Gandy.545 
— Cohansoy.195 
— Clohanzleh.504, 710 
— Covllle.710 
— Crawford.195, 460 
-No. 6.460 
— Crimson Cluster. 195, 460 
— crop, 5,0<>0 quarts to the acre..216 
— culture in Western Mich.273 
— Cumberland.430 
— Davis.460 
— Dewey and Acme.710 
— Earle.-.710 
— Enhance.195, 460, 710 
— Essex Co.195 
— fertilization of, perfect.524 
— Gandy .710 
— Garibaldi.710 
— Gipsy.430 
— Gold.195, 430, 710 
— Gandy—.604 
— “Hautbols”.499 
— Haverland.529,7 0 
— Henderson.430 
— Hll'on.444,460 
— Hoffman.710 
— Indiana. 460 
Itftscft •• ••• • .,710 
— Jessie.7.7.!.'.'.’ ‘46(7 504’, 510,’649,’710 
— — at Farmers’Club.441 
— Jessie’s prize.511 
— Jersey Queen.430 
— Jewell.430 
— Kearns.195 
— "Lida”.430, 460, 529, 720 
— Logan .195,710 
— Louise.59, 460 
— Mammoth.504, 710 
— Martha.710 
— May-King .430,501 
— Monmouth.504, 710 
— not°s. .430 
— Ohio.460, 710 
— Ontario.430.504,710 
— Parker Earle .195 
— — — revocation.8*4 
— Parry.460 
— Pearl ...489, 710 
— plants, fall care.763 
— President .710 
— Prince.460 
— report from Ohio Ag. Ex. 
Sta.868 
— Richmond.710 
— Sharpless.504, 645 
— Shuster.195, 460 
— Summit.195.460, 710 
— Sunapee.504,710 
— Truitt.195, 460 
— Warfield.710 
— Yale.511 
Strawberries at R. G—195, 460, 710 
— fertilization of.610 
— how a woman grew.305 
— list of. 2 
— mulched with coal ashes_499 
— preserving for exhibition....364 
— recent.710 
— reform needed In reports....609 
Tea made In the U. S .184 
Top-grafting, suggestions on—430 
HYGIENIC. 
Fruit Instead of medicine.576 
Grape seeds, rejecting.615 
Malaria ..542 
Plumbing fixtures, Improved.. .659 
Throat trouble. Dr. Fauvel’s 
advice. 184 
INDUSTRIAL IMPLE¬ 
MENTS. 
Farm machines, American, In 
England.688 
Feed mills .627 
Harrow, Cutaway.. . .401 
Implements, farm, fairs a good 
place for buying. 812 
Machine, mowing, how to 
choose.. .612 
Machinery on the farm. 43 
— seen at the fairs.767,812 
Mowing machine, how to 
choose. 612 
Potato harvesters,faults with. .812 
— plows.812 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES. 
Agricultural shows in England .444 
Bay State fair.704 
Chicago Stock fair.806 
Conn. 8tate fair .640 
Dairymen’s convention, Ver¬ 
mont.....109 
Fairs, Judging at.541 
— — — Improvements.494 
— temperance drinks at.545 
Farmers’ club founded on new 
plan.109 
-plea for . 6 
-roses and berries at.444 
— Institute, Herkimer.819 
— Institutes, Syracuse.22 
— — What is the matter with?.767 
Fruit growers’ society, West 
Michigan.22, 43 
Mass. Grange meeting with the 
fair.704 
New Jersey State fair, Jersey- 
man at.661 
N. Y., Suffolk Co. fair.6«8 
R. I. State fair. 672 
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS. 
Silk moths.656 
— swindling .561 
Sorghum industry, Kansas.765 
— sugar making.851 
Sugar making sorghum.351 
— — profitable, a failure.596 
Tea made in the U, S.184 
LAW. 
Aliens and real estate.467 
— — road taxes . 467 
— cltizenlzing, who land under 
age.547 
— naturalization.164 
Anamals, dangerous qualities 
in.577 
— trespassing, damages.27 
—willful injury to.738 
Bequest, verbal. 27 
Canada thistles In N. Y.371 
Child, adopted as heir_ .288 
Cider held to be intoxicating. .547 
Codicils, law relating to.521 
Contracts.738 
Deed, fraud In obtaining .451 
Ditches, highway, draining pri¬ 
vate land.419 
Dog killing.419 
Estate, descent of intestate_79 
Express packages not delivered. 27 
Farm manure, ownership of....641 
Fence, hedge partition. 11 
— law.323 
Fences, divlson, Penn, laws_577 
— insufficient. ?7 
— In Vermont..773 
— law relating to.738 
— railroad.841 
■ removal of.219 
Fertilizers, contract for.547 
Fire, liability for damages caus¬ 
ed by.577 
Fixtures on land.164 
Fraud in a note.115 
Fruits on the boundary line....577 
Grantee, powers of, to convey 
real estate .547 
Hedge partition fence.11 
Highway laws.281 
Homestead, effect of absence.. .451 
Illegitimate children as heirs.. 61 
Implied warranty. 355 
Insurance companies, mutual...435 
— on mortgaged property.435 
— policy, assignment of.419 
Interest, legal rate in N. Y.164 
— usurious In N. C.547 
Invalid lease.164 
Land, license on. .841 
Landlord and tenant.451 
Landlord’s lien on crops.547 
Law.II, 27, 61,79, 115, 164, 203 
219,238, 281, 286.323,355, 371, 403, 
419, 435, 451,467, 521, 547. 563. 
577, 599,641,656, 673, 788.773, 788,811 
Laws, highway.281 
— relating to fences.788 
Letters’ opening, another per¬ 
son’s.286 
License on land.841 
Livestock insurance company. 
liability.773 
-trespass In Mass .773 
Loan commissions.286 
Mortgage, condition not com¬ 
plied with.328 
Mortgaged property, insuring.. 61 
— second .451 
Note dated on Sunday.115 
N ulsance, to abate .371 
Oleomargarine, sale of.547 
Power of attorney.286 
Property, descent of In N. Y....371 
— married woman’s.547 
Railroad commissioners, law 
with regard.547 
— fences.841 
Real estate,descent .164 
— how taxed in N. Y. City ...238 
Right of way by proscription..577 
-of necessity.... .656 
Road, law of the.281 
— tax orders.27 
Roads, altering width iu Ohio. .161 
Roadside trees.286 
-, N. Y. law as to.641 
Seed and plants untrue to name, 
sale of.599 
Soldiers exempt from highway 
labor.577 
Stallion’s get for service, lien 
on. 656,673 
Tax assessors, duties of.673 
— inheritance, in N. Y ...115 
Taxes on mortgaged property .323 
Tobacco to minors, sale of in 
N H. 467 
Usury.286 
— in N. Y.355 
Weed-cu'ting In Ohio.419 
— — on farms.286 
Wife, necessaries for a .403 
Wife’s interest In husband’s 
mortgaged estate . fl 
— title to her separate estate.773 
Wills. 11 
— and bequests.841 
Working days of ahlred man. .467 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Aluminum age .765 
Best, doing one’s.599 
Books, exorbitant prices for....401 
Canada, reciprocity with.164 
Canned goods,poisoning by eat¬ 
ing.481 
Catalogues etc., received —6,81, 
97.128,166,237.255, ?69,521.5 C S,568, 
... 605,612,640,673,738,757,788,807,841 
— rose .•.287 
Climate, extremes In Iowa.130 
Collie dog.395 
Crime, punishment of.781 
Cur pest, losses due to.493 
Devil, giving him his due.745 
Dog, collie.395 
Dog pest, losses due to.493 
Europe’s burdens and losses_415 
Free trade, conditions of.164 
Middlemen’s profits.520 
Mortgage statistics, Ill’s.734 
Mosquito, good he does.3*5 
Politics, on tariff. 164 
Postage, reduction of.281 
Postal laws, about.151 
Press, bribing.25 
Railroads refunding fares on 
account of blizzard.255 
Responsibilities, our.415 
Rural, work of the.384 
“Saccharin” from coal tar.497 
Sparrows destroying corn.4’2 
Spontaneous combustion.431 
Tale of a tall.831 
Tariff for revenue .164 
Trade, the mystery of.635 
Trusts .779 
Weather reports, more about...413 
Working girls, privations of.... 76 
Zinc, dissolving..765 
NATURALIST. 
English sparrow and the cab¬ 
bage worm.835 
— sparrows, thin out.144 
POMOLOGICAL. 
Apple, Anlsovka.692 
— Beautiful Acad.692 
-- Berkoff.646 
— Bethel.249 
-Vermont.646 
— Blushed Calvllle.692 
— Breskovka.692 
— business In Western N. Y.591 
— Cross.692 
— Duchess of Oldenburg.646 
— Fameuse.249 
— Fameuse Sucree.646 
— Fourth of July. 646 
— Gravenstein. 718 
— Insects.833 
— jelly.555 
— Lemon Greening. 536 
— Longfleld.558 
— Maiden’s Blush..'.713 
— McIntosh Red . 553,646 
— McMahon’s White.646 
— Newtown......759 
— Northern Spy. 749 
— Ostrokoff.692 
— Peach of Montreal.249 
— Peek’s Pleasant.749 
— pomace, what is done with. .555 
— Porter.718 
— Primate .649 
— Princess Louise.2211 
— Prolific Sweeting.040 
— Red Bietlngheimer.046 
— — Summer Calville.662 
— Repka Aport.692 
— Richard’s Graft.759,811 
— root louse.334 
— Scott’s Winter.249,646 
— seed profitable as clover seed.751 
— Sops of Wine.662 
— Stump.692 
— Summer Rose.759,811 
— Switzer.558 
— Tetofsky. 249 
— tree borer, soap for.337 
— trees seedling raising.751 
— — spraying.832 
-wnen to spray for grub...271 
— Wagener.749 
— Wealthy.558.646 
-better top-worked.460 
— Winpsap.749 
— Yellow Bellflower.749 
-Transparent.460,646 
— Zolotoreff. 646 
Apples, Canadian in England..731 
— Fall, good .7’8 
— for market, the best.819 
— Iron-clad.692 
— — clads, former scarcity ....249 
— neglected, valuable.759 
— on Paradise stock.253 
-— — success.681 
— picking and sorting.594 
— Russian.679,760 
-numbers, regarding.3«7 
— Schroeder’s list .887 
— Summer list.2.20 
— Winter list.2,20 
Apricot, Siberian.460 
Arsenical solutions in orchards8S2 
Blight .760 
California for growing fruit .. .268 
Cherries, best sour and sweet..558 
Cider, best apple for .555 
— bottling .555 
— the whole story.555 
Codding moth, Paris-green for 
.332,333 
— orOodlin .112 
Curculio trap .334 
Drains in orchard. 317 
Fruit canning. California.679 
— growing and stock feeding. .709 
-in California .368 
— .. Salt River Valley.896 
— how to grow.819 
— Iron clad.760 
— packing, chemistry.557 
— trees, irrigation impractical 43 
-nints to planters.662 
-roots of.288 
— — seedling, in favor of.384 
Fruits for Northwestern Caro¬ 
lina . 56 
— Iron-clad, notes on.646 
Graftin g, crown, Rural’s meth¬ 
od.245 
Iron-clad fruits.249. 692 
-what is .760 
Orchard, cultivating most pro¬ 
fitable.148 
— land .317 
— planting experience.415 
Orchards, dialns, plant trees 
over .318 
— drains In .817 
— setting new, rules.579 
— sod an Injury to. 852 
— tiles for draining, plant trees 
over .. .818 
Peach Peen-to, popularity of_897 
— Golden Drop.131 
— Good. 692 
— leaf curl In the.166 
— Lemon .131 
— pits, planting.649 
— Salway. 529 
— yellows.350 
Peaches, list of 2,*. ..20 
— seedling. .52 
-for a new orchard. 4 
Pear. Anjou .148, 83 
— blight caused by bacteria-32' 
— Catillac. 883 
— crop of New Jersey.649 
— Idaho.699 
— Kieffer.536, 777 
— Leconte.579 
— List .148 
— Mikado.777 
— Sheldon . 838 
Pears, begging.166 
— Bartlett sprayed with Paris- 
green...649 
— Fall list . 220 
— kept in fruit rooms .681 
— Oriental, worthless if graft¬ 
ed. 665 
— Summer list . 2. 20 
Plum,Burbank’s.576 
— curculio, exterminating.148 
— — good news. 43 
— DeSoto.558 
— Saratoga. 718 
— Satsuma .576 
Plums, bagging .166 
— black-knot on. remedy ...253 
— covering with mosquito net¬ 
ting.166 
— list of.2. 20 
— Russian.558 
— two new Japan.576 
Pomace, save the.594, 751 
Russian apples.. 679, 760 
— — numbers, regarding.397 
Seedlings, parentage of ..760 
Trees, trimming of important .819 
Yellows, bone and potash pre¬ 
ventives.166 
— peach.350 
Quince, Champion.443, 767 
— culture.448 
— growing simple and sure_443 
POULTRY YARD. 
Andalusians.110,660 
Animal food, how to provide... 72 
-needed . .55 
Barley andbuekwheatfor hens.480 
Beef heads for hens.480 
Blood, change, fqr vigorous 
stock . 4 
Breeding fowls for. 56 
Breeds, new.315 
Broilers,feeding and marketing. 22 
— raising.55 
— sale of. 55 
Broodered chicks.211 
Brooder for early chicks.198 
Brooders.why they are failures.574 
Buff Cochin, typical.429 
Bumbl e-foot. 22 
Capons, demand.480 
— money in.734 
Care, Winter.37 
Chicken coop and protecting 
run.245 
— house, average.401 
Chickens, caution with.315 
— early pay best.273 
— Spring.429 
— young, feeding.366 
Cholera, rue for...574 
Cockerels, to many. 4 
— combs freezing. 4 
Coops, filth in, disease.366 
Cross-breeding, Rural’s ex- 
perlment. 
.661 
Disinfectants. 
Dominique fowls... 
Downles. 
Dorkings. 
— While, crossed with W.. 
Wyandotte. 
.273 
— yellow-legged. 
.462 
Dust bath. 
Eg* Impregnation.... 
— producing quarks 
. 56 
Eggs, assort before 
sending to 
market. 
— for a setting, number.480 
— how many can a hen lay?....283 
— In winter. 4 
— nest.418 
— sex of.480 
— standard yield and weight..648 
— yield by one hen.884 
Exercise in winter. 4 
Feather eating. 4 
Feeding for eggs or market... '57 
— In winter ,to make lay.Ill) 
Fifth toe. 22 
Flock, small, profit and loss 
in.540 
Game, Indian.656 
Gapes.866 
Grain,damaged,feeding to poul¬ 
try . 412 
Green feed In summer.568 
Guinea fowls .251 
Haslets, feeding. T2 
Her, a fat one a poor layer.757 
— American, what alls.7«7 
— hatching two broods.211 
— houses, ventilation of.767 
— setting, resetting.211 
— vs. the incubator.198,211,745 
Hens, number to the cock.149 
— old, eating.661 
— wants.529 
Houses In earth.180 
Incubator, Inquiries regarding. 86 
— neglect disastrous.198 
— temperature.55 
Incubators at Boston show. 72 
— worthless.451 
Indian Game.656 
Insecticides, care with.815 
Jersey Blues.110 
I aying In winter.110 
Lice In poultry houses . 4 
Light Brahmas .211 
Lime for egg shells.198 
22 
.180 
.563 
Market, home, creating. 
Marking poultry.. 
Meat feed in summer 
Minorcas, typical pair of .22 
New breed, Rural’s cross.660 
Nest eggs.413 
Nos's, keep clean.366 
Nutshells.711 
Parasites on poultry.110 
Patagonians .315 
Plymouth Rocks, Light .315 
Poultry accommodations.413 
— does it pay to raise?.480 
— exhibiting.563 
— fence, good.536 
— -houses, why ventilate?.678 
— killing and dressing.384 
— market.87,273 
— notes.721 
— risks in exhibition.495 
— silo, make a.681 
— show. Boston . 72 
— suggestions. 4 
— treatment of..831 
Preserve the best fowls.25o 
Pullets, are they laying?.739 
— buying.661 
Pure breeds most profitable.... 56 
Red Caps.110,250 
-in favor of.369 
Rue for cholera.574 
Rye for poultry.574 
Selection, forming a good strain 
by. 56 
Sunlight in the poultry yard....418 
Tameness of fowls.110 
Trees,plant in poultry yards...251 
Turkey raising.593 
— raising successful.563 
Turkeys, food f fattening.693 
— getting home at night..598 
— killed by eating potato bugs 512 
— reared In confinement.676 
— wild and domestic. 22 
— young, experience with.462 
Ventilation, counterblast In 
favor of.,....,783 
— scourge.678 
Ventilator tubes, abolish the...678 
Watering fowls. 4 
Wyandotte cockerel.283 
— Golden-laced.429 
— White.661 
Wyandottes, failure of.489 
— Golden.4 IS 
SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
Care. 40 
Castrating.462 
Corn-fodder versus clover-hay 
for lambs.197 
CulllDg, annual.462 
Docking.463 
Dorset horned sheep.579 
Downs the best.510 
Ewes, breeding.462 
— coupling.748 
Feeding.462 
Farmers should keep sheep.40 
Feed and wool.320 
Foot-rot.775 
GreasiDg sheep for winter pro¬ 
tection.817 
Hampshire as a sire.665 
Hampshlres as sires. 197 
Lambs, early.;.40, 57 
-raising.366 
— very early.196 
Lung thread-worm.775 
Merino ewe .545 
— sheep..40 
Mutton sheep, Amer.130 
Ram, care of.451 
Sheep crossing, Mr. Wood¬ 
ward’s . .665 
— do they degenerate?.40 
Shropshlres...814 
South Down cross the best.462 
— Downs.40 
Scab, Thymo-cresol dtp for.198 
Sheep, silage for. .. S66 
— Fall management of.775 
— feeding for fat and lean....539 
— raising in Australia.681 
— two leading races. 40 
— why not more?.... 5 
Wool, low price, depressing 
effect.400 
— production of the world.765 
— using at home.540 
THE SWINEHERD. 
Feeding for lean and fat.55 
Hog house, convenient.477 
Hog, Aristotle, mule-footed... .649 
— butchering, device for rais¬ 
ing.286,366 
— care to prevent cholera.512 
— do not feed just before kill¬ 
ing .799 
— health and vigor of.817 
— raising, device for.286,366 
— Southern.817 
Lard, American.512 
Milk as a pig nutrient. 50 
Mule footed swine. 630 
Pigs, how to feed lean.184 
— young, feeding.587 
Polaud-Cbina hogs, care.599 
Pork, diseased.513 
Ringing, cause of production of 
fat pork.271 
Scours, first Indications.515 
Sows, to prevent eating young..449 
Swine, mule-footed.630 
Tam worth boar Dick.87 
VETERINARY. 
Milk fever and garget.200 
THE VINEYARD. 
Alice and Catawba compared...161 
Bagging to prevent rot.166 
Berckmans.665 
— foliage of.748 
Bordeaux mixture.334,529,781 
Brighton in Central N. Y.430 
Bundy’s Colerain .759 
Catawba for red. 87 
Champion .545 
Cottage.695 
Empire State. 482 
Fertilizer for grape-vines.710 
Girdling grape-vines.614 
Grace-leaf hopper.334 
— line Northern.657 
— louse.334 
— notes from Lake Erie Islands.695 
— shoots broken by the wind. .779 
— vine Flea-beatle.831 
— vine, girdling.614 
-to strike root.599 
Grapes for Canada.529 
-Northern N. J.SOI 
-profit. 281 
— keeping.781 
-buried In stone pots.352 
— list of. 2 
— over-production not.665 
— varieties to plant. 37 
Green Mountain.675 
Insecticides, vineyard experi¬ 
ments.331 
Lady for white. 37 
List of grapes. 2 
Mills.144 
Moore’s Early.558 
-for early. 37 
Moyer...630 
Niagara.57,748 
Phylloxera, guarding vines 
against.765 
Rooting grape-vines.339 
Rose-bugs, fighting on grape¬ 
vines.545 
-In the vineyard.334 
Rot, black,Bordeaux mixture. .781 
Tolman.553 
Trimming grape vines, plain 
directions for.197 
Ulster Prolific. 88 
Vergennes. 38 
Vines, fertilizing.710 
— winter protection.765 
Woodruff Red. 38 
Worden and Concord for aver¬ 
age grower.. 
