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ILLUSTRATIONS. 
ARBICULTURAL. 
Spruce, Gregory’s.862 
DAIRY HUSBANDRY. 
Milk stool.846 
FARM TOPIC8., 
Hook, handy .85i 
Needle, home-made.84 6 
Garden 
Hook, handy .8M 
Squashes, “He” and “She”.843 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Hand, here’s ours.861 
New Year, hopes for the.863 
POULTRY-YARD 
Hen house, model.846 
THE SWINEHERD. 
Trough, cast-iron.846 
I’RACTICAL DEPARTMENT. 
ARBORICULTURAL 
Chestnut, Paragon.849 
Pecan, Moyer.867 
spruce, Gregory’s.863 
DAIRY HUSBANDRY 
Cow, dairy, profitable.867 
Cows, milch, miserable care ...862 
Creamery, what Is a?.862 
Dairy cows.feeding potatoes to.846 
— — food for.848 
Dairymen, hints to. 843 
Milch cows, feeding potatoes to, 
effects upon butter.846 
Milk, getting dirt into..849 
— how to handle.849 
Milking stool.846 
Potatoes feeding to milch cows 846 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Apple butter.853 
Apples, sweet, candled for fruit 
cake.853 
-how to use.853 
Baby, care of.853 
Boys, our.852 
Bread, brown.869 
— Graham.869 
— prize.869 
Chest nut dressing for ducks and 
geese.853 
Chestnuts and sprouts.853 
Dressing, chestnut.853 
Dutch rolls.853 
Ginger bread, best. 858 
Mittens, men’s, for rough work.853 
Potato puffs..'. 853 
— sou (fled.853 
Pudding, blizzard.853 
— bread.853 
Quince honey.853 
Rolls, cinnamon.869 
— common.853 
— Dutch.&58 
Roses, essence of.869 
Sprouts and chestnuts.858 
Sunday evening talks at “R. G”.852 
Sweeping caps.853 
Women,Surplus.869 
EDITORIAL. 
Cattle, Canadian, British agita¬ 
tion against.868 
Celery storing, avoid contact 
with leaves.850 
Cotton-seen hulls, use for.850 
Corn, young plants, transplant¬ 
ing.850 
Evergreens around the home in 
winter.868 
Experiment stations, Rural’s 
feelings.868 
Experiments, small plots.850 
Farm, more fun on the.850 
Feet covering in Winter.850 
Grape, Duchess..850 
Melon growers, convention of ..868 
New Year, for the. 868 
Oleomargarine and its tricky 
makers.850 
Paris Exposition, American corn 
at..868 
Potato contest. Women’s.863 
Potatoes, feeding to stock.850 
— propagating in green-houses.850 
Potatoes, raising after the 
Rural’s method.868 
Pork, about.850 
Squashes, ’ He” and “She”.650 
Vegetables, selling by weight 868 
Wheatand ryehybriasat “R.G”.868 
ENTOMOLOGICAL. 
Insect indications In Iowa.861 
EVERYWHERE 
Ills., To Daviess Co.854 
Kansas, Kingman Co .847 
Michigan, Oakland Co.847 
New York, Suffolk Co. 847 
Penn., Fayette Co. 847 
— Tioga Co. 847 
FARMERS’ CLUB. 
Apple-trees, dwarf.865 
-scale insects on.843 
Apples, feeding to milch cows..865 
— old and new.866 
Books, school in Kans.843 
Buckw heat bran compared with 
corn for feeding.847 
— Japan.866 
Celery culture.848 
— earl y and late for market...,848 
— fertilizer for.848 
Colts, feed for—.848 
Corn too diw for germination...848 
Cows, dry, feed for.848 
Evergreens for Kansas.865 
Farming or shop work?.865 
Feeding potatoes and apples.865,866 
Feed question.866 
Fence, farm.865 
Fruit stocks, care of. 865 
Hay from an orchard sprayed 
with Paris-green . 848 
Lands, alkali “correcting”.865 
Milch Cows, feed for.847 
Milk, fat in, to determine.848 
Nurseries in England.865 
Oats turning to rye.848 
Oil not a fertilizer.864 
— source of In plants.861 
Onion seed .865 
Pears, dwarf, six best.864 
Plants, small, tool for trans¬ 
planting .848 
Plowing fall or spring.866 
Potato scab, salt for_-.848 
Potatoes as stock feed. ..866 
— feeding to milch cows...865, 866 
■Potatoes sweet, T. S. for. 848 
Pumpkin culture.847 
Pumpkins, Mammoth, how to 
grow. 847 
Salt as an antidote for potato 
scab.848 
Sawdust as an absorbent.848 
School books in Kans.848 
Shop work or farming?.865 
Stocks seedling.865 
Tomatoes, good varieties.848 
FARM ECONOMY. 
Potatoes for feeding, value of. .846 
FARM TOPICS. 
Agricultural returns.849 
Agriculture, Com. of, our next.848 
Farmers don’t roll about.867 
Rural retrospects, readable... .861 
Hook, handy.846 
Needle, home-made.846 
FIELD CROPS. 
Buckwheat yields, good.862 
Clover alone with oats.863 
Grass.early cutting of,protttable862 
Potato contest. Woman’s, Rur¬ 
al’s view of.849 
Potato cultivator.863 
— digger, advantages .863 
-Newberry promising.863 
— growing, special tools for_863 
— No. 2. at N. Y. Ex. Sta.367 
— planter, Aspinwall.863 
— stubble,Cutaway harrow for.863 
Potatoes, bushel boxes for.863 
— harvesting.863 
— Washington Ter., way of 
planting.863 
FLORICULTURAL. 
Rose, Vick’s Caprice.866 
GARDEN. 
Hook, handy..846 
Squash, Boston Marrow, why 
favorite.843 
— culture on L. I,.843 
— Hubbard, the highest priced. 843 
Squashes. “He” and “She”.843 
HERDSMAN. 
Jersey cattle are hardy.849 
Stock wintering,making pay..862 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Mushroom bed duration.864 
— — making .864 
— — spawn for.864 
Mushrooms, all about.P64 
— gathering and marketing_864 
— varieties.8S4 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES. 
Forestry Congress. Amer.846 
Sorhum sugar ind. in Kansas..866 
LAW. 
Executor may sell his own In¬ 
terest In real estate.851 
Land, deeds of, for support.851 
Law. 851 
Water backed upon land.851 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Bird slaughter.848 
Lightning-rods, efficiency.867 
Toads, a tale of .861 
POMOLOGICAL. 
Apple orchard, planting.867 
Apples, shipping to British 
market. 866 
Cions, moderate-sized best.867 
Orchard, Apple, how to plant...867 
Pear trees, low branching of.. ..867 
POULTRY YARD. 
Hen, sitting to break.867 
Red-caps.866 
House, model.843 
SWINE HERD. 
Berkshires for hams.844 
Lard, to render out.844 
Pigs, no luck about securing....845 
— start right..845 
Pork, all about.844 
— how bred, fed and cured.844 
— side.845 
Trough, cast-iron.845 
VINEYARD. 
Jessica.849 
Roger’s No. 30.849 
Woodruff Red.849 
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