1889 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
857 
4INDEX i TOS« 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
VOLUME XLVIII. 1889. 
^ILLUSTRATIONS.^ 
PACK 
ARBORICrLlI’RAL 
Ash, European weeping, sum¬ 
mer view . 
-- winter view .51 
Beech, weeping. ..293 
— - in winter .294 
Chestnut, Paragon, fruit .i<< 
Oilental Spruce.103 
Spruce, Oriental.103 
ARCHITECTURE. 
Barn and silo, ground plan....346 
— or stable room, Increasing, 
cheap method.*8i 
— sheep'.SI* 
— the Queen’s .363 
-plan. 283 
_ — end of main structure. 362 
— Virginia, convenient.443 
Karin house.501 
-an Ohio .. 261 
_Hr t floor.2b2 
-foundation plan.282 
-second floor. 262 
House. Compact..3i-2 
-plait. .ob< 
-second floor.362 
— for farmer . 591 
-second floor..... 591 
Poultry hou*e . . . 
-Dakota.379 
Residence of James NImon....4i3 
Sheep barn . 311 
Silo.34. 
BIOGRAPHICAL, 
Column. Mii-tuan J.230 
Nlraon. James ..4 
Husk, Jeremiah Me Lain.Ol 
Secretary of Agriculture.2*1 
Wllllts. Edwin.2,. 
dairy husbandry. 
Butter churned just enough. ...675 
-too much • •.5.J 
Cream raiser. Speedwell.45 
-—skimmer. 
Dairy in Marin County. Cal... .623 
Dairyman's home. Vt.-J}' 
Mllk'recordsof different cows..379 
Salt boxes tor cows...591 
DOMESTIC ECOSOMY. 
Binding the Burals... ...........118 
-Cork, to remove from bottle—5.b 
Gourd, powder horn. 
-rose Jar. JJ! 
Gourds for decorative purposes, .46 
Refrigerator, substitute for ....7U7 
rural. binning the.41’ 
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EDITORIAt. 
Potato, R. N.-Y. No 2, flowers 
of 
.528 
ENTOMOLOGICAL. 
Chinch bugs, life-size. 86 
Ctiloropstamispus .2t6 
-destroying grain.246 
Inseetar.v at Cornell.69 
Potato stems, eaten by wire- 
worms.443 
Rye and barley pest from 
Sweden... 246 
Wire-Worm, Injury to potato 
stem.443 
FARMERS’ CLUB. 
Carp keeping in a pond.89 
Chimney, brick.461 
Dam, for keeping carp in .89 
Pump, air-chamber In.805 
Silo, single thickness boards on.805 
FARM ECONOMY. 
Barn or stable room, increas¬ 
ing. cheap method.7S7 
Brush, device for gathering.68 
Farm implements, rack for .. . 23', 
Pole, tbree-horse.35, 158 
Potato separator,.67 
Back for farm implements.231 
Silo . 347 
Silage weights ..802 
Three-horse Dole.35, lo8 
FARM TOPICS. 
Cork, to remove from bottle....558 
Corn-fod’er, crushed in West 
ern bam.687 
Farm Implements, raek for,—231 
Grindstone, trimming. 362 
Harrow, home-made.556 
Hitches rope, handy.311 
Hoe, scuffle .36' 
Planter, potato, home maoe....295 
Pole, three horses.85,158 
Potato plow.68 
Silo.847 
— chute.841 
— lining for .34. 
Silage weights.. • . 
Thrashing scene. Michigan..39 
Three-horse rig for hauling.15.8 
Tools farm, rack for.231 
— group of used on T. B. Terry’s 
farm.637 
Wagon for hauling fodder corn 
.34’, 410 
— truck, cross-pieces for.411 
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-rack for...411 
-used at Cornell .410 
— Wheels, soaking in linseed..640 
FIELD CROPS. 
Corn, cross-fertilized.....491 
— drill...158 
— fodder, crushed In Western 
barn.687 
— is king.209 
Potato barrel experiments ....7-1 
— Biownell's Winner.101 
— experiments in barrels.721 
— Implement for pulverizing 
tie soil.754 
— Mrs. Foraker. 722 
— planter, home-made.... .295 
— plow .68 
— R. N.-Y. No. 2, product of one 
ounee.723 
Potatoes, R. N.-Y.’s acre, dig 
ging . 817 
— separator ..67 
— stems injured by wire-worms. U8 
Silage weignts .803 
Wheat field showing effect of 
fertilizer. 589 
FLORICULTURAL. 
Actinidia polygama.487 
Castor-oil plant, flowers of —575 
Rosa rugosa hybrid. R N.Y.613 
Rose. A La Marque in Cal. 137 
— bush in California.573 
— Francois Miehelon.34 
*• Rural Grounds.” Lakelet in..361 
-view in.157 
Sphteralcea Munroana.505 
Summer house. Inexpensive ... 5 
Sunset plant.’05 
Valerian.522 
Yuccas on a Cal. farm.523 
GARDEN. 
Beans, Lima battle of the.69o 
-dwarf, Burpee’s.690 
-Henderson's.691 
-— Kuinerle’s ....6s9 
— — without poles. 86 
Flint protector.295 
Plants to protect from cut¬ 
worms ...295 
Squash, Japanese.123 
-section.123 
Staebys afflnis .188 
HERDSMAN. 
Bull, Holstein.85.657,658 
Calf, head of..441 
Calves, one way of feeding.122 
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Cattle. Nevada, group of .657 
Cow, Holstein, general-purpose.395 
-typical dairy.39-4 
Choking cow, device for reliev¬ 
ing.379 
Devon beef, choice cuts from...195 
Galloway. 19.5 
Hereford...195 
Holstein bull .85,657, 658 
— cow, general-purpose.395 
-typical dairy.394 
Jersey beef, choice cuts from...195 
Jerseys, Grade, uroup of.555 
Salt boxes for stock.591 
Short-horn beef, choice cuts 
from. .. 195 
Steer. Devon.19.1 
— Galloway.193 
— Hereford. —191 
— Holstein.193 
Jersey.•.193 
Short-horn.193 
Steers, different breeds at Mich. 
Ag’l College. 798 
HORSEMAS. 
French Coach stallion.621 
German mares, cross-bred.803 
Haekmymare .411 
Horse, head of abused.345 
-well-bred.. ... 309 
— Shire.33 
Hunter brool mare .707 
Ma r e brood, Hunter.707 
— Hackneys.4 a 
— 51 organ.7'3 
Mares, German cross-bred .... S03 
Morgan mare, Fanny Fern.751 
Percheron stallion.229 
Pony, the Shetland.622 
Shetland pony .622 
Shire Horse, Agricola. 33 
Shoe, nailless. ..459 
-on horse . 459 
Stallion, English Shire. 33 
— French Coach.621 
— Percheron.229 
— Thoroughbred.159, 49,t 
Tandem team, English...279 
Thoroughbred stallion .159,490 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Actinidia polygama .4S9 
Blackberry ..Agawam.„. .557 
— Bagnard.609 
— Early King.607 
— Erie .,. 606 
— Gaynor.608 
— 5Ilnnewaski.,..605 
Grafting, Japanese mode of.122 
Raspberry and blackberry hy¬ 
brids. 769 
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Raspberry patch of T. B. Terry .785 
Strawberry 5Iary.521 
— — half-section. 522 
— Parker Earle .474, 476 
-home of originator.473 
Valerian.523 
IMPLEMENTS. 
Brush, implement for gather¬ 
ing . 63 
Corn-orlll. . _158 
Cultivator, Sunbeam walking. .311 
Harrow, home made.f56 
Hay press. Steel-case Reversi¬ 
ble .341 
Hoe. scuffle. 362 
Planter, home-made.295 
-potato box.295 
-role and chain.95 
Plow, potato. 68 
Pole, three horse..35, 158 
Potato Implement for pulveriz¬ 
ing the soil .751 
— planter, home made .295 
Thrashing scene In Michigan. ...739 
Tools used on T.B. Terry's farm.68? 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES. 
Industrial fair at Buffalo.569 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Cartoons. 
— Barn-yard memories.-P7 
— Corn is King. 209 
— Conflict, an Irrepressible .101 
— Farmer and politics.705 
— Farmer feeds the World. 7....425 
— "Farming don’t pay’’.65 
— Grasses, strike of the.815 
— How he loved her. i7 
— Pigs in the poeket-book.377 
— Profits . 553 
— Seed Catalogue Novelties....137 
Money by Mail,.246 
Soring.173 
POMOLOGICAL. 
Apple scab.507 
— — leaf.507 
-skin of apple.5 >7 
-stalks and spores.507 
— Ronk .279 
Nectarinenew ..640 
--cross-section.f40 
Pear, cracked.574 
-diseased leaf.574 
-spores.574 
— fungus.574 
— Lincoln.755 
-halfscetioa.755 
PAGE 
Pear. Fitzwater ..819 
-section.819 
Pears, cracking of.754 
Plum, Wavland.175 
POULTRY YARD. 
Incubator for ostrich eggs.._429 
Ostriches, Cape Ipwn. 426 
— California_T.427 
— Young, eggs and keeper's dog.428 
Poultry house.879 
— Dakota.379 
Pullet, shapely. 1 
SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
Ewes, Shroashlre, group of.409 
Goats, Angora.49 
Mutton-head, a wise.393 
Sheep barn. 311 
Shropshire ewes, group of.409 
SWtN K HERD. 
Head of hog.539 
Pork, section of, feeding for 
lean.32? 
—,-the ordinary way_328 
-, sections through loins.323 
Scoop for dipping slop from 
barrel ..556 
Skull of a primitive Texas boar.507 
-Yorkshire sow . 507 
Slop feed, truck for wheeling.. .556 
Trough, excellent .153, 443 
— for pouring food Into.113 
THE NATURALIST. 
Collies two.121 
Deer, tame.7 j6 
Doga.eollle.121 
Rat catchers .245 
Terrier. Common. 245 
— Russian..245 
— Seoteb.245 
Terriers. 245 
vineyard. 
Antoinette. Miner’s .- d 
Concord vine, treatment of for 
grafting....f i 
Eaton .b 9 
Geneva. V 
Grafting, new way of.738 
Grape, wild in Cal.771 
Niagara, three bunches.19 
Vine, Delaware grafted on Con¬ 
cord .. ,.l 50 
Vines burying In Wis.C45 
Vineyard trellises, wire to 
brace ..< il 
-^PRACTICAL * DEPARTMENT.!!- 
PAGE 
apiarian. 
tk-ulture, new works in...... 12i 
■es poisoned by spraytug or- 
>ney exhibit at Paris ’Expos!- 
jproduetion.a study in.4.. 
ARBORICULTURAL. 
ser glnuala. 
itiond Russian. 
dt. Weeping European .49 
ech, weeping . 
iragana arborescens.*>' 
test nut Numbo.ll’i 
Paragon. truir ..™ 
scarcity of In N. \. 
adrustls tlnetot la . 
eagnus angustifolia . 
..ju 
maeropbyUa.’ ‘ 
lougipes. . • • • • • ••'*■ 1 ‘ 
rergreons, dense growing, tie _ 
up in winter .. ‘ 
trustiest for lexas. 
Ickor.v wood .. 
Ippophtea Siberiea....... • • • •••■» 1 ' 
orse-chestnut. Double-flow - 
t > r ed. «*w 
ydrnngea querelfolia.®j 
Oelreuterla, new. •* 
ibcl, tree. new. .‘J’ 
•uses for teachers.JJ® 
lac, Marie Legrave.44 , 
riotlend rou t ull plfera.4-J; 
agnolla corduia......... • • • • • ■’ 
ulberry, Russian, fruit infer¬ 
ior. 
lit culture. . 
uts, planting. 
[ipaw, take front the woods..., 11 
■ean on hickory stock •■••••« 
.'cans growing wild in Illinois. ... 
two or three-year-old for 
transplanting. ii* 
rutting, summer .. 
ed cedars for pencil making. .463 
Rural Grounds," view- In.15| 
lade-trees and side-walks. o 
lepherdia argeutoa.41* 
t truce, Oriental .. !')? 
miter, leave around the home.365 
liuie a preservative or... ...299 
plantation, adds to selling 
nine. 
time. JjjA 
Within a tree.......... -34b 
deciduous, planting In 
eptember .... . •"•?!! 
Germany, value...196 
atle and side walks. o 
> tree. 
tw-wood. 49* 
ItingE. ash...'*» 
PAGE 
ARCHITECTURE. 
Barn or stable room, chpap meth¬ 
od of increasing .786 
— Sheep ... .3'f 
— the Queen s . M 
— Virginia, convenient.443 
Farm house .MJl 
— — an Ohio .26 1 
House, compact. 863 
Silo . •#? 
Tool-house, Blnkutn. ,13 
BIOGRAPHICAL. 
Coliran, Norntan J .289 
Davenport, Prof.743 
Rusk, Jeremiah Me Lain.211 
Secretary. Assistant of AgricuL 
ture.27J 
Wllliis, Edwin. ..27, 
DAIRY HUSBANDRY. 
Butter a»d cheese.627 
-milk qualities of Holstein 
Frieslaus . 894 
-"bogus”. 3b 
— buried.•••814 
— Burlington.117,129 
— churned just enough .674 
— - too much...674 
— coloring .129 
-in Winter .333 
— — why use.757 
— color o', whence comes.558 
— Comp my standard.756 
— .... 
— eighty cent, how made. 126 
— extractor.581 
— for the table. 67 
— from Jersey and low-grade 
cows.479 
— granular.*56 
— handling.756 
— — and sale of.591 
— held oaek.541 
— judging. 68 
— keeping.428 
— — for winter use .899 
— made by the Cooley process, 
will it keep. :< 61 
— makegood.55, 
— makers,best,leave the poorer 
cream in the milk.358 
— — tine, tliolr methods .447 
— Government can help . ...592 
— making and selling.87 
— - good . ..— 4 
— — receut improvements in. .581 
_ _ why farmers don’t make 
it pay.....537 
— Mr. Bowdtteh's eighty-ceut .126 
— new, growing public taste... 86 
— not made by rule.695 
— packed for winter use.399 
— poor, against.• •863 
— prla- how obtained —117,129 
— - made from "scrubs”. . 756 
— - milk of, bow cared top 117.129 
PAGE 
— quality affected by feeding 
different grains.738 
— rations, test.91 
— test, for.5-d 
— winners in Wis. their meth¬ 
ods . 674 
— worked by hand or the but¬ 
ter-worker .861 
Cheese, " bogus”. 36 
— Cheddar.492 
— handling.756 
— " lard ”.38 
-maker, largest. 6 S 
— making . 4 
-Canadian.771 
-cow for. best.192 
— -» five stages of.771 
-hints . 68 
— Oh : for better.811 
— trade. Ontario.23 
Churu. best, the.428 
— should it swing or revolve...743 
Churns, test of three different. .351 
Churning, butter.309 
— cream, about.492 
Cows, better and how to get 
them . .. 49.8 
— bow to dry up.785 
— feedlug Timothy, what gives 
more milk.511 
Cream, all, make same, amount 
of butter.442 
— before churning, treatment..492 
— buying by the ‘-gauge.’’.851 
— care of.72, 250, 492 
— from farrow cows.492 
— frozen ....492 
— how to treat.127 
— iu covered cans.....579 
— is it all alike? .442 
— management of_72,230. 192,591 
— of prize but tcr.liow Jtmi ftr :tj 
— .raiser, Speedwell. 
— raising...58 i 
— ripeness of, best oonultj,, 
— ripening . 179 
-by use of lactic f- 'uc 1 W? 
-from different in tlklm >. , 19.' 
— sep rators, efficiency . 161 
— sour i r sweet for , ill 
— “starter" for ripening- ... *•? 
— stir and stir. "o' 
— stirring bad practice. . 12 . 
— sweet, elmrntug, loss 
— temperature.. ,i92 
— to tell when ripe. ........ 7 
— thick anti thin .. 
Creameries in Clinton i',.un • -’■•-[ 
Creamery Owego. 
Dairy Association, trill I ,.iS3 
— breeding t-ver.v •ear 1 
in two years.t> 8 > 
— cows, cheapest, ... r.o .us 
to-.~. ...& 
— — feed for. ...M 2 
— degeneration..... ,.3 h 
— dots on the Ru-tti . 1 
— tanners. Brilisl.. 
— farm in Vermont , ,...M7 
PAGE 
— farms, increasing fertility of. 68 
— herd .759 
— — improving .624 
— — small, profitable results.. 86 
— ice house, cheap .5 ’4 
— in Marin Co , Cal.«24 
— make it pay . 4t7 
— notes from dairy ranch. 
. 492, 624, 659 
— products, spurious. 36 
— prospects in England.878 
— qualities of Holstein-Frle- 
sians .394 
— schools. 4 
— utensils cleaned in hot water .645 
— wastes feeding to calves. ... 68 
Dairymen feeding silage.3t"2 
— should build silos.593 
— Vermont .68 
— who make money.199 
Dairying.431 
— all the year,.524 
— as a business.587 
— experiments of a woman....361 
— Winter ... 524 
Horns and milk. 78 
Ice-house for dairy.521 
.Milk and cream, handltng, 
proper. 7 
— but er and cheese in England, 
good prices .STS 
— cold setting. .3S8 
— cows, feeding potatoes to.54 
-potatoes for. 54 
— deepsetting. 4 
— from cows salted and not 
salted .383 
— increasing by doses of ehlo- 
rate of potash . .791 
— keeping records of different 
cows.....379 
— legal standard, below.743 
— men.combination among ..766 
1 — oil-test of. F. G Short.27: 
— quantity given by a good eow.3 5 
— records, keeping. ...379 , 524 
-object.524 
— saving the strippings. 379 
— sooner set more complete sep¬ 
aration of cream .383 
— submerged setting. 7 
— tainting of .825 
— testing for butter fat .. 301 
— what 10 women did with the.443 
Milker thorough, increase of 
milk ..315 
Milking stool.247 
Uietometer not good for testing 
milk.315 
Oil test of milk, F. G, Short’s....277 
Oleomargarine, law agaiust—681 
Separators, efficiency of ........771 
Soiling, beneilts.428 
— dairy cows.399 
Strippings, w hat l know about 379 
Thermometer in the dairy.362 
PAGE 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
1SS9. 10 
Afghans.77s 
Angel's food.667 
Apole, Charlotte.631 
— float ..-287 
Apples, baked .IS l 
Transcendents, cooking.649 
A? parugus, to cook .149 
Babies as travelers.203 
Baby, entertaining.73 1 
Bacon, best, how to make. 38 
Bag, scrap.811 
Bags.. an 
Bananas, fried.715 
Basket, sewing.826 
Bean-bags, the game of.811 
Beans, baked.—.254 
— Lima ..149 
Beds of husks.731 
Beef steak, how to cook .435 
Be-ts . 149 
Bird, baked .*31 
Blackberry juice for summer 
troubles.499 
Blunder box.731 
Boarding agents.583 
Boys.elotbuu, repairing.26 
Bread... .59 
— Boston brown.254 
— brown. 27 
— from entire grain.95 
-Roller-process flour.43 
— ginger.185 
— making. 27 
-made easy.531 
— rolls .43 
rye. 27 
Breakfast dishes . 254 
Brimstone fumigation.271 
Brown Betty.498 
Cake a batch .408 
— cocoauut .631 
— coffee or splee—.371 
— corn stareh. >aM( .867 
— custard layer.43 
— Eugenia .649 
— filling chocolate.649 
-cream .64J 
— fruit, Minnie's.667 
— giuger.649 
— imperial.631 
— lemon .631 
— marble. J 3 
— molasses.631 
— layer . 287 
— snow. ... 681 
— — flake. 167 
— si'lce fruit.649 
— — yellow .619 
— sponge, butter .649 
— — without baking powder..667 
— thick .1?5 
Cakes, fried. 27 
— — Mother’s . 185 
— sister Marcia’s.195 
Cabbage. 149 
— worms, remedy..... .o5>5 
PAGE 
Calf’s head terrapin style.77 
-w hat to do with .77 
Carpet, rag. 167 
Carrots .149 
Catsup cherry.419 
— tomato.631 
-as made at “ R. G. ”.583 
Cauliflower.149 
Celery. 149 
Chain iu Domestic Eeonomy.... 2S6 
Chamoisleather for presents. ...310 
Charity's crooked hyacinth.16’ 
Ch®rlotte, apple.631 
Cherries, iced. .419 
Chest development.42 
Chicken cooked in milk.615 
— croquettes.631 
— in jelly..419 
Children, breaking the will....167 
— frightening.76 
— on the farm . 93 
— play for stormy days.221 
Chili sauce. 631 
Chocolate to put between cake. ,6S1 
Chow-chow.631 
Christmas gifts .S2S 
-inexpensive.778, 794, 810 
loaf..793 
Cockroaches, to destroy. 0m 
< oeoauut drops. 
Coffee and tea, letting children 
drink .27 
Coffee, best. 435 
Coldslnw ..583 
Collars, old, to reuew .131 
Colored cotton goods, washing 
and ironing, special.317 
Complexion, beautifying the.... 43 
Cookies, caraway seed.203 
— eggless.287 
— giuger.185, 287 
Cork, to remove from bottle. ...558 
Corn .149 
— canned.631 
Cotton goods, colored to wash 
and iron.371 
Cough mixture, good .667 
Cranberries, as cooked at the 
"R. G.”.48 
Cream use the .467 
Croquettes, chicken.631 
— ham and potato... 95 
I Cucumbers.149 
Curran' shrub.599 
Currants, spiced.41? 
Custard, apple..27 
Dampness on walls, remedy for.779 
Diamonds iu the rough.49 
Dining about.S3 
Dinner^ picked up...49 
Dishes, cheap. 26 
Dish mop.536 
— washlug.25-1,351 
Doughnuts.205 
Dress.253,499 
— Hints ... . 435 
Dresses, making and re tttaking.Ttn 
— wash, for girls.is: 
