1889 
859 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PAGE 
— steaming. 71 
Bordeaux mixture.(MS 
-for acre of grapevines... 265 
-wbat Is the.414 
Brail, buckwheat for milch 
cows ..197 
— composition of.232 
— is all alike.744 
— wheat for milch rows.197 
Brazilian Flour corn.159 
Breeds, different of poultry.... 161 
Broilers, raising and shipping..If0 
— — in Winter.160 
Buckwheat as stock feed.71 
— experience .53 
— feeding to horses.71 
— Japanese.22, 107 
— — flouring qualify.22 
— maturing in Oregon.160 
Buhaeh and Persian Insect Pow¬ 
der, same. 461 
Bull, sterility in a .626 
Bulls, crossbied, breeding 
from .414 
Bunches on heifer’s leg.593 
Butter, brine for, quantity of 
salt.429 
— brining, pacange best for_429 
— business, big. 90 
— color from annattoand grass.561 
— colorb g.851, ' 77 
— — against .414 
— color of whence comes ... .644 
— feeding for .282, 606 
— from centrifugal cream.6ow 
— good .’63 
— granulate u of. 510,560 
— m milk, proportion as affect- 
e by feed .106 
— makers, br.wn Sw ss cows 
as . 6 
— making . 595 
— not coming, remedy. 3b6 
— number of pounds of milk to 
make a noun of.296 
— packing in brine. 42V 
— pounds «f milk t » make a 
pound of.296 
— test .124 
— ihe color of.....461 
— to muse come.134 
— white caps in.t-05 
Cabbage anil cauliflower, fer¬ 
tilizer i or .381 
-mixing . 71 
— maggot . 123 
-lime f* r . .. .181 
— root worm, lime for. 249 
Call, death of from indigestion 331 
feeder, patent.’2< 
Calves, hr g dressed veal. 69 
— scorn sin. so 
— twin. .414 
— with tumors on the brain... 477 
California lands.821 
Can ad an on protection.678 
Canary, fo d for. 261 
Capouizing ioo;s.461 
Capons bloating.742 
Carnations keeping over Win¬ 
ter ... .725 
Carp culture, practical work 
on.197 
— fungus on.248 
— ke- plug In a pond . 89 
Carrot crop, Rurdl’o. 3 
catalpa about the . ..282 
— Japanese hybrid. 125 
— Japan hybild hardy In N. H.IUI 
Caterpillar common, to ge' rid 
of.283 
Caterpillars, killing.491 
cattle, dehorning. .7 5 
— fattening water for. 19< 
— from 111 s, protecting....460, 479 
— growing, teed lor.. .106 
— Guerns-y breeders In N. Y. 
State. 107 
— on a Vei mont farm.519 
— Bed Po led i-cinpared with 
Short-horns. ..39 
— sheddii g their horns.291 
— to protect from flies.46", 479 
— with lice, remedy. .2s3 
— — warbles.124 
Cauliflower culm re.525 
— maggot, preventive . 673 
Cedar oil. process oi making... .725 
Ce.ery grown with artificial fer 
illizers . ..141 
— keeping in Winter.461 
— parsnip-flavored. 107 
— storing.398 
Cellar for bees, sub-earth ven¬ 
tilation .265 
— side-hill, sub-earth ventila¬ 
tion .265 
Charcoal bone and wood as 
puriners.. 53 
— making .677 
Cheese, co-operative system —7-3 
Chemical analysis for farmers. .393 
Cherry trees from setd, graft¬ 
ing, when ...234 
— — eerdllngs not bearing.107 
Chestnut Paragon where to 
buy. 233 
Chickens, artificial heat for.594 
— best breeds.85 1 
— forcing, a mistake.165 
— holding heads on one side—158 
Chicks with gapes .897 
Child life of on farm.446 
Children inking iutirest in par 
ent’s business. 22 
Chimney, br ck, how to build...461 
Chinch-bug disease . 198, 573 
— — gas 1 me for.298 
Churn contest. 398 
— Davis swing.526 
— -not Bianchard .742 
— — rs. Blanchard.882 
— favorite.4iP 
Churns, about. .2o3 
— more about. 593 
Cinnamon vine. 44« 
Cistern filter.897 
— water, pollution of. 397 
City and country.366 
Clematis Juckmannit.461 
Clover, While, growth of. I 9 
Cold storage for potatoes.29. 
— — houses, Information.07 
Cockroaches, to destroy .583 
Colorado, cost of living In.74: 
Colt ailing. 709 
— eut on a wire fence .21 
— dislocating knee-cap.772 
— feed cow’s milk to.509 
1 — feed for. 282 
— lame iu hind leg .89 
— lameness in.71 
— patel'a of, partial luxation..296 
— pu ITs ou. 626 
— 16 mouths olo, breeding... ..429 
— troubled with worms.525 
— with bloody tumors. 831 
-ringbone.772 
— — splints.626 
— _ — io remove.398 
-sweeny or shoulder slip... 71 
-weak iinkles.180 
Colts limbs of, growth of bones.331 
— ueek, lump on.397 
Commercial bulletin, where 
published iu N. Y. 648 
Conin tsslou house lu N. \ r . that 
hauulcs veal calves.22 
— men in N. Y. who sell fruit.. .233 
— merchants in N. Y. uud Phil-_ 
adeiphla.742 
Consular reports, where to gei.,233 
Copjieras. 414 
Coru-auil-cob meal. 89 
— Augel of Midnight.107 
— Brazilian Flour.1!9 
— bushels In a crib, to find.197 
— erop. manure for.297 
— culture, disputed points Iu. . 37 
— earllness of, effect of lati¬ 
tude.868, 627 
— expi rimeuis in Illinois.742 
— feeding for eggs.662 
— Held, seeding. 56u 
— fodder... ..789 
— for soiling.265 
— — the largest yield.160 
— — — silo.107 
— green, machine to cut from 
cob... .124 
— - lu winter.51 
— hen m inure for.88. 
— husking by miiclilnery.196 
PAGE 
— — machine.494 
— — — who makes.,.16' 
— Kaffir.159, 2V2 
— 100 bushels of ears to acre—75i 
— on poor land.89 
— planter with pumpkin-seed 
attachment.161 
— planting .38' 
-how far apart.331 
— Pond......107 
•— pop. mixing with other va¬ 
rieties .. .125 
— — raising. 165 
— root pruning not favorable..107 
— roots, trouble not cutting— 72 
— Rural Thoroughbred for en¬ 
silage in Maine .161 
— seed. Northern for the South.293 
— shelled 100 bushels to the 
acre, how raised. S 
— sweet for successoti.232 
— worms.725 
— yellow, early to mature. 5 
— yield average.Sg 
— — for the largest .16u 
Cotton seed and cotton-seed 
meal, which-.283 
— — meal for milch cows . 6 
— —-pigs.757 
— — — Injuring cows .124 
Cough, chronic In steer.297 
Country schools.610 
Cow after calving. 243 
— general purpose.481 
— in calf bloating.158 
— kicking, remedy for. 579 
— -pea bay.158. 249. 33 1 
— letainlng aft*-r-blrth.477 
— sui king herself, to prevent. .318 
to get wli h calf.2-2 
— weak-eyed . 18U 
— with a cakfd bag.296 
— — — cough.296 
— — abscess in navel. 282 
— — lun> u on jaw.297 
-obstruction In throat... .477 
-polypus or tumor. 477 
— — rbeu- atlsm 446 
-swelling on knee.87 
— — leal obstruction.124 
Cows, better.560 
— Brown swlssasbutter makers 6 
— butter profits, good.165 
— dairy soiling. 88 
— drying off. 626, 806 
— farrow vs. tresh. .‘>09 
fastenings for In stables.2-3 
— good.65 
indigestion and Impaction In.211 
— large and small, ct mparative 
profits.774 
— making pay. why not?.so 
— milch, fecu for. 106 
-- or sheep, which will pay bet¬ 
ter.380 
— feat no milk from.898 
-swollen.3sl 
— teats with warts.381 
— that gnaw wed. 1 * I 
— udder hardening.742 
Crab, wbat fruit to graft on_161 
Cranbury. farming at.542 
Cream ail alike.. 494 
— centrlfug-1, butter from—6o» 
— Is it cream.494, 5 0 
— not raising. 610 
— raising by Cooley System_542 
— to churn .188 
-ral-e thick and solid.5i.O 
separator, band best. 742 
Creamery building for 260 cows.231 
— machinery for.231 
— Occident .593 
— small, starling.248 
— satisfactory oasis.231 
Creameries about.231 
— in favor of.648 
Crib-biung, remedy.296 
Crops for feed. 299 
-soiling. 265 
Cucumber flea beetle... ..lbll 
Cul lvatkn or mulch. which..725 
Cultivator, best for potatoes....85" 
— for lime stone loam. 107 
— Hudson Bicycle. 89, 462 
— Little Diamond. 462 
— Planet Jr.197 
— wheel and seed drill. 1*7 
Cultivators, walking, best. 462 
Ci.reulio, fighting the. 677 
Currant, Ciandall.591 
— cuttings, best lengths.265 
— Fay's, all that Is claimed for 
it . 23, 
-who the originator.481 
— tree, .71, 125 
— worms, ashes for.399 
Cut-worms.429 
-protecting plants.351 
Dairy cows, soiling... —881 
— fallacious tests .509 
— herd, building up.478 
— paper, best. 21 
- record.. . 430 
— World, address of.541 
Dairyman, American, address 
of ..541 
Dam for keeplngcarp in.89 
Datura arborea . 832 
Debt, running lu. sometimes 
good. -’I* 
Denorning.296 
Dewberry , Lucretia. ... 6 
Diarrhoea chronic lu a mare_281 
Dlst-mper, effects of treat¬ 
ment .626 
Ditching, tile, machines.509 
Dogs, Scotch Tertier, who sells.741 
Dorking chicks, where to buy. 662 
Draining, uuotr, a garden.397 
Drill, Empire.709 
Ducks. Aylesbury, maturing.... 5 
Duties <n foreign wools. 21 
Earth-closet deposits as mauure.478 
Egg-eater. remedy for.72 
— plants making grow, fertiliz¬ 
er.264 
— rations, Southern.67s 
— temperature to hatch.2 is 
Eggs, corn for......662 
— feeding for.491 
Electricity on street railroads..642 
supplanting horses. 191 
Elm-bark beetle . 612 
— Cork.709 
— Leaf curl Plant-louse.461 
Ensilage, in defence of .822 
— system, Mr. Coleoru’s.742 
Entomology. Introduction to by 
Prof. Comstock. 87 
Ewes, feed fi r.233 
Ex. S ation, N. J. bulletin L. of 191 
Eye of hir.-e, "hooks” In.159 
-inflamed.843 
Eyes, watery in a horse.2*2 
Farm, cost of living on. 
.773. 789, 8115, 322 
— fence, new. 7. 
— help.162 
— living, cost of.578 
— mortgages Western.283 
— produce, dealer, reliable In 
N Y. 6 
-Phil. 6 
— wet. reclaiming a.321 
Farmers,chemical analysis for 898 
Farmer's to opcrai Ion, need ot 
more. .415 
— Intelligent, pica for.790 
— Institutes, arc they above 
criticism.820 
Farming ut Cranbury.510, 542 
— doeseu’t pay. 6 
— does It pay ?. 72 
— why doesu’t pay.526 
Feed, fattening for pigs.121 
— for cows for butter.232 
-sheep.„. 5 
— good aucl cheap for milch 
cows. 53 
Feeding, fall.of mowing lauds..627 
— f< r butter. 2.V2 
— German Millet seed.831 
— grain, ground or unground . 233 
— onions —..2 h6 
— — to stock. 8ti6 
Feeds, analyses of and cost for 
milch cows.158 
Fence, combination. 58 
— farm, new. 72 
— for keeping rabbits out of 
orchard .5 8 
Fertility, increasing by means 
PAGE 
of chemical fertilizers . . . .K6 
Fertilizer. Alkali salts for.235 
—, ashes as a. 5 
— bone as a. 398 
— for apple trees.698 
— — asparagus.....6h2 
— plaster as a, value of.758 
— soda ash as a.197 
Fertilizers, chemical for mea¬ 
dows. economically used....339 
— chemical in Ohio.813 
-In the West.3S2 
— com. alone to keep up fertil¬ 
ity of soli .53 
— for flowers. 162 
-fruit trees.662 
-grass and oats.238 
— — meadows.331) 
-top dressing.107 
— odor of .79u 
Filter for cistern water.397 
Fish < ommissloners for IU.850 
— culture work on.560 
Fistulous withers.5u9 
Flat scale.—350 
Flea-beetle, cucumber. 16u 
— — fighting.3s2 
Flea-beetles, ashes and soot tor.447 
— — chickens against.3-2 
— — more about.447 
— — soot for.382 
— — toads for.415 
Flies black on house plants ...161 
Flowers for a window garden.. 89 
Fodder, corn . ... 789 
Food stuffs, are they adultera¬ 
ted?. 642 
Force pump, hand.350 
Founder In an ox .180 
Fowls. Black Orpington.662 
— HoU'lan, points, color ... . soft 
Froe culture, work on.5Jl 
Frost, effects of.•.430 
Fruit blossoms. 429 
— culture, potash In .495 
— ladder.788 
— pacer In Hudson valley.. . 805 
— picker. how» long will work 
well. . 788 
— tree blight remedy.261 
— trees, fertilizer for. 662 
-'ungous disease, affeetlng .626 
— young wnere old were_74' 
— tropical, Imported taxing...446 
Fruits and fruit catalogue.314 
— crystallized and glaeed.577 
— diseases of f 1 uit trees.626 
— small for Minn. 598 
— to plant.778 
Gapes in chicks.397 
Garden, draining, under.897 
— window, flowers for a ... k 9 
Geraniums under shade trees.. .265 
German bares.62 > 
Glanders in a horse. 477 
Gluten meal. 197 
-feeding value of. ....642 
Goats. Angora .. . 741 
-as protectors of sheep .297 
-who has. .805 
Goitre, horse with.5t'9 
— in a heifer..’24 
Gooseberry, ueefrom.125 
Grafting apple trees.37 
Grafts, apple, time to cut__ 180 
Grain drills, address of manu¬ 
facturer. 87 
— groun 1 and unground as feed.288 
— — feeding dry or wet.16i 
— hny, about .249 
Grap- , Amber Queen, parentage 
of.381, 610 
— Arnold’s Hybrids, parentage 
Of..610 
— August Giant, about.S81, 541 
— Concord.16 i 
— Cuttings, time to make. 22 
— Duchess .821 
— Eldorado.595 
— Gaertner (Rogers No. it).158 
— Geneva . 165 
— growing in Canada. 89 
-under glass in Canada .... 89 
— Moyer. 821 
— Niagara hardy In Iowa. 107 
— Norwood, parentage of.610 
— Rochester, parentage of. 881 
— -seeds, to plaut . 677 
— vine bark louse.429 
— vines, eggs of tree cricket on.322 
-girdling...850 
-to winter.578 
-young, to protect through 
winter.709 
— White's Northern Muscat_161 
— Woodruff Red, parentage 
of.381,726 
— Worden . 165 
Grapes best for New Jersey.22 
-three early for Mass.22 
-new kinds.22 
-old kinds..22 
— cross fei tilizatlon of.803 
— giroling.446 
— keeiiug.662 
— late, good. . >9 
— on light black drift soils.577 
— while, the best.282 
— weight of largest bunch 
raised.866 
— Worden and Moore's com 
1 ai ed with Concord.107 
Grass for moist situutio's.4t6 
— permanent pasture.197 
— Johnson, in Ohio.180 
— land li festtd with wire 
worms, crop for.265 
-top-dressing for.283 
— late grown, composition_788 
— seeding to .7 1 , 1* 6 
— — on old Held..197 
— sowing In Spring or Fall... 725 
— sown with rye.709 
Grasses for a lawn.. .525 
— — Eastern Oregon . 1 60 
— — permant nt pasture.661 
— permanent for hay .2S2 
Grub, white, history cf.772 
Grubs or warbles..124 
Gypsum in the stable, value of. 725 
Hackneys, who in England.525 
Hamburg fowls w here to buy..161 
Hammond’s slug shot. 383 
Hares, German. 625 
Harrow, Cutaway,labor-saving 
implement. 266 
— new level, who nianufaet 
ures . 161 
— Thomas Smoothing, whereto 
buy.. . 107 
— use in cultivating crops.382 
Hanows about.. .. .162 
— what they do and do not_382 
Hay, ccw-pea.2>9, 331 
— crop, clover and Timothy 
seed for...297 
— curing.414 
— from cow-peas.158 
— — different soils.710 
— “ grain ”.ISO 
-about.249 
— grasses, permanent for.282 
— lu a stack, weight of. . 62 b 
— — the mow, over-heated, 
spontaneous combustion... .477 
— Is bay hay'?...j.....710 
— loader.414 
— measuring In sine 1 - —. 821 
— only, preparing fiel s for....525 
— pea vine.381 
— “perfumed ’. 382 
— press for <25.197 
— — how to make.. . S3t> 
Heat artificial for cl icks. ,.594 
Heaves. 805 
— in a liors“ .—397 
Hedge, Austrian pine or.159 
— for beauty.165 
— plants, ornamenta .......... 71 
Heels, cracked... 626 
Heifer coming In. fee;I for .233 
— ll-moutlis old wttji bag of 
milk. 593 
— lame In fore-quart-rs.. 5 
— neglect cause of si ,'kneaa_283 
— sterility in a .. 
..282 
— with bunches ou 1 -gs....’98 
-goitre 
.124 
Hen biisitn s 
— house, f ur 
ou mlilej . 
....4-16 
as. 
.197 
PAGE 
— manure, fertilizing value 
per bu t hel. ....365 J 
-value of.366 
-suffering from a cold... 5 
Hens, ailing.2:33 
— can they smell or taste .757 
— eating eggs, to prevent. 126 
— number to a rooster.398 
— with scales on legs.197 I 
Hickory nuts, propagating.7t8 
— tree, common grafted with 
Shell-bark. 6 
Hired help. 5*0 
— man, the Montana. .162 
Hog, cost of keeping.773 
- pasture. S" ampy ground ...778 
Hogs feeding hotel slops 
... 477.542. 594 
— killing in Oregon.162 
— over-feeding.124 
— pastured In orchard after 
sprayl g.773 
— register* d, where to buy_789 
- rheumatl-m among. 248 
— scalding, ashes In water 
why?. 71 
Hollyhocks, proper time to di¬ 
vide. 642 
Horse breeders in England, 
names of.89 
— flesh, consumption of.37 
— injuring fetlock joint. 477 
— jerking his head.265 
— lame In front leg.296 
-loins..233 
-the foot.ISO 
— navicular disease in a.22 
— nelt e. to get rid of..U>7 
— pay to Import cne?. 89 
— pulse of. 265 
— ruptured.>98 
— slavering. 124 
— temoerature of. regular... 265 
— that cribs, remt dy.296 
— - Is ruD’ured, remedy.282 
— with a bad cold. 381 
-Anasareous swelling.331 
-Azoturla.179 
-chronic nasal discharge..477 
-enlargement on leg.106 
-goitre.509 
-heaves.97 
— — “hooks”. 159 
— — inflammation in eye. 248 
— — inflamed e}es.159 
— — influenza . . 1 1 
— — scratches. 774 
— — shoe gall. .525 
— — skin disease.381 
— — stifle lameness.593. 7?< 
— — watery eyes. 2*2 
Horses and mules.book incare,789 
— best work on. 158 
— dli d from eating loco plants 123 
— fast walkers.758, 566 
— “loe-ed” .123 
— paper devoted to. 180 
— three abreast. ..494 
— when to water.331 
Hot-bed-for lettuce .. 248 
Hotel 8will, feeding to hogs.477,-44 
— — good for swine. 594 
Houdan fowls, points and 
color.....805 
House ror farmers . 694 
Hunga-lan Grsss for horses... 429 
Ice-makii.g machine, small, 
cheap. 162 
— plows, who makes.626 
Impaction, cows di ing from... 231 
Incubator, cheap but good.381 
Indigestion and impaction, 
eowsdylng.231 
— calf died from. SSI 
Influenza, horse suffering from 15(1 
Insect pests, tobacco water for 52 
Insecticides. 265, 398, f6i 
Iron pyrites.478 
Jellies bogus.627 
Jersey cow without horns. lt-'u 
— grade, test. .447 
— polled. 160 
Jerseys, Increasing size and 
vigor of.493 
— prices of.429 
— pure bred, reliable dealers... 2> 
— registering.89 
Johnson grass in Ohio.180 
Kaffir corn. .282 
Kerosene emulsion... .559 
Labor, hired In the Piedmont 
Belt of ' orth Carolina.725 
I,adder, trult ..-.788 
Lambs, feed for. 283 
— substitute for roots for feed¬ 
ing. 693 
— weakness In.282 
Lameness, hock. In mare.S97 
— In colt. 71 
— shoulder in mare.397 
Stifle.598 
Land, preparing for an orchard. 37 
— — - Fall seeding.233 
Lands, mowing, fall feeding of .687 
Langshan-Coehln cross.250 
Lawn grass seed for.2 ,) 4 
— grasses for.525 
— how to make a. 677 
— to Improve.350 
Laws, statute of various States. 125 
Leaves, oak, to convert Into 
manure.. 789 
Lecantnum hesperldum.S50 
Lettuce in a hot-bed.248 
Lice ou catttle, remedy.283 
— plant, remedy.881 
Lime as a fertilizer.124, 197 
— — — manure...249 
-— soli Improver. 90 
— for cabbage root worm.249 
— — the cabbage maggot.181 
— slaked or unslaked, which... 123 
— use of. 124 
Liming effects upon grass, pota¬ 
toes, etc.3 m 
— land.610 
— — about.165 
Linseed-meal for pigs.757 
Liquid manures.659 
‘•Ltveforever,’’ diseased root...774 
— sure death to.7 11 
— to get rid of.541 
Living, cost of. 611 
Lucerne, growing.285 
Mangel-wurzels, raising.196 
Maugels,ridges for.298 
Manure, barn-vard on potatoes. 
Influence of .643 
— earth-closet deposits as.478 
— tlre-fangtng, loss.788 
-— to prevent.123 
— fresh when not serviceable. .298 
— from annua s bedded with 
sawdust, etc.. .788 
— different animals, difference 
In. 162 
— harrow to bury. 234 
— hen. fertilizing value per 
bushel.S65 
— — in a hill of corn.297 
— horse, keeping from burnlug25l) 
— keeping, best method.232 
— lime ns a.249 
— liquid, absorbents, best.107 
— — how 10 save. 232 
— stable, adding fertilizer to 
improve.788 
— — fertilizing value per load.365 
Manures, liquid. 519 
Manurial values given by Prof. 
Roberts.197 
Mare aborting, treatment.24S 
— ailing.282 
— brood, feed and care.831 
— cribbing.297 
— iu foal rubbing root of tall. .158 
-swelling.179 
— — — with bind legs swollen. 158 
-poor condition.248 
— leucorrhcea lu a. 8 S 1 
— not breeding.7u9 
— of 20. to breed.478 
— sterility lu..248 
— wit h chronic dlarrhtea.281 
— — coll nearly blind.282 
— — dropsical swelling .179 
-hock lameness.89. 
-lameness. 897 
— stomach rupture . 8>1 
— tumor ou stifle Joint.446 
Ma-ts. small, breeding to large 
stall oi s . 397 
I>AGE 
— “ sore” for breeding.679 
May Beetle, larva of, history_772 
Meadows, fertilizers, chemical 
for. 330 
— pasturing.. .643 
— Western.610 
Meal, eorn-and eob, feeding... . 89 
— gluten . 197 
— — feeding value of. . 612 
Meat canning at home.234 
— food for poultry.725 
— frozen, keeping 10 Winter_767 
— smoking, com eobs for.165 
— syndicate collapse of.313 
Melon enlture. 106 
-- experience.3“2 
— Hackensack. .882 
Milch cow siandard ration for.. 71 
— cows, cotton *eed meal for.. 6 
— — feed for, analyses and cost.158 
— — rations for, good and 
cheap.53,159 
Mildew, killing... . 266 
Milk, bitter or salty.91 
— bloody.233 
-from heifer. 89 
-Inflamed udder.598 
— coo lng by aerating. 124 
— exchange.S26 
— for babies ... .430 
-chiloren....393 
-poultry. 609, 822 
— from farrow row . 33 
— law, New Jersey . 709 
— man against me silo.726 
— shrinkage In. 805 
— stoppage of .232 
— stringy.898 
— lest.126 
— testlDg at creameries.788 
Millet, German seed as stock 
feed.381 
“ Mlllo maize ” for forage.159 
Mining paper, reliable.741 
Money for ex-soldiers. 16U 
Montana boom, about. 662, 643 
— hired man.162 
Moon as a weather indicator. .478 
Mower, Champion.382 
Muck, black, value of. 788 
Mulberry, Downing, hardiness 
of. 71 
Mulching an orchard.772 
Mule shedding hair in spring. 478 
Mullein tea f( r hide-bound 
horses.525 
Muskmelcn for home use.'97 
Nasal discharge in a hors -....741 
Navicular disease in a horse.... 22 
Nettle, horse to get rid of.107 
Nitrate cf soda, uslngin spring 626 
Nitrogen with wood ashis, pro 
portion. 494 
Norway spruci s. when to plant 510 
Oak Live, trar splantlng.725 
Oat chaff as feed .197 
Oats, amour t to sow whi n seed¬ 
ing to grass.161 
— experience with.249 
— for the silo. 525 
— manure, best for.283 
— seed to the t ere.297 
— smu' In, to kill.8(5 
Oil-meal, old and new process. .124 
Oleomargarine unwholesome¬ 
ness of.. 446 
Onion, Burpee’s Greek Winter.250 
— maggot, remedy.265 
— seed,Cal. grown, good for the 
East.71 
— sets, how to raise.ICO 
Onions feeding to stock 
.296,350,366 41 
— raising .160 
Orchard irom s*ed, transplant¬ 
ing. ...626 
— land, preparing.87 
— mulching . ,.160, 772 
— olo negipeted. treatment....159 
— peach, site of.772 
— planting.677 
— plum...741 
— tap-roots vs, transplanting. .626 
— unproductive, tieatment ot. 232 
Organ. Cornish.744 
organs. Roller.7iS 
Ox that Is foundered. 160 
Faint for tre< s .279 
— “White House”.366 
Papaw wild. 61U 
Paraljsis, partial in brood 
mare.247 
Parasites on sheep, vitality of 
eggs.248 
Paris-green to 25 lbs of flour....5 9 
Parrots, where to > et.366 
Parsnips with many roots.69 
Pasture, permanent . 625 
— permanent, mixture of 
grasses for.681 
Pastures, u p-dressing for.407 
Pasturing )■ eadows.648 
Patella, dislocation of.‘93 
Peach culture, points In.560 
— Good. .542 
— orchard, site of.772 
-stable manure on ayoung.894 
— pits for planting..265 
— trees on land newly cleared-160 
— how old. 160 
— — strawbeiries planted 
with . 53 
— yellows affecting seedlings..741 
Peaches from seeds.46 1 
Pea-nut culture.165 
Pear. Bartlett, grafted on 
crab apple .. .. 161 
-sprouting of the roots_234 
— blight. 648 
— clacking of tne.613 
— fire-blight In, to prevent... 609 
— Idaho, who controls.>50 
— Kleffer. 644, 679 
-high praise. 753 
— Lawson for market.160 
— h af miner .642 
— l.e Conte for grafting.160 
— slugs, Paris-green mixture 
for.. 265 
— Wilder. 758 
Pears for Southwestern Mlcb.,265 
— grafted on apples. 677 
Peas for hog pasture.158 
— green canning.124,282 
Pea-vine hay.381 
Pecan trse. 52 
Petroleum as a wood preserver 7SS 
-crude, a fertilizer.J97 
Phlceotrtbus Umluaries. 642 
Phosphates S. C. floats, who 
sells. 381 
Pigeons, feeding and keeping.. 125 
Pigs, latteuing, feed for.124 
— feed for.662 
— improperly fed.iso 
— lame.799 
— start r ght.22 
— joungdytng—.593 
— — with indigestion.772 
-sore feet. .881 
Pine. Austrian for hedge. 159 
— Chill, whereto buy?.,.16i 
— Grosbeaks. 124 
— Scotch as an [orchard wind¬ 
break .709 
Plant lice, remedy for.381 
Plants In a cellar, keeping_265 
— protecting from cut worms.851 
Plaster as a fertilizer, value of .758 
— land, as a fertilizer.53 
— mixed with hen manure and 
ashes. 610 
Plow, Bigg’s.462 
Plum blooming and not fruit¬ 
ing.125 
— cions, how to tuaeage.231 
— eurculio destroyed by 
poison. .161 
-lighting the. 677 
— orchard...74i 
— tree fungus.413 
— trees with black-knot. 53 
— Wild Goose, seedllugs.283 
Plums, curculio-proot.160 
Poor, idle of the cities, what to 
do with .526 
Pop-corn, raising.165 
Pork growing n the South. 21 
— tough, cause and remedy_67? 
— yellow or jaundiced ... 3 ? 
Postage stamps, collection of 
cancel-.d. ISO 
PAGE 
>osts, White cak, seasoned or 
green.181 
Potash for peach orchard,other 
form than ashes. 161 
— In fruit mlture. 495 
— nitrogen.232 
Potato balls, why not seed.741 
— beetle, parasite of.381 
— blight, slaked lime to pre¬ 
vent. 53 
— boxes like Mr. Terry’s, where 
to get. 197 
— Brownel’s Winner, who has.161 
— content for a church.298 
— contest, National about....249 
-Women’s.160 
-— National. 72 
— culture, Rural’s advice. 107 
— diggers. 662 
-improvement in.710 
— early for field culture.725 
— Early Essex.479 
-Is It good ?. 725 
— Everiit, what about.161 
— experimentsm R.1.790 
— Green Mountain, about..161, 180 
— Maine Rose, about the.725 
— New Queen. 197 
— OK. Mammoth, what about 161 
— origin of.126 
— planting, cow to open the 
trenches.159 
— planter. Aspinwall.509 
-Rural Trench system.159 
— results, curious.7*8 
— ret.573 
-in the seed..843 
— Rural Blush. .... 1(0, 790 
— R. N.-Y. No. 2. 89 . 107 
---early or’ate..753 
— —--price of.758 
— —-— when to buy..125 
1 — —-— — who bought. .430 
I — scab and sawdust.3.M 
I — — salt for. 3 
-sulphate for .662 
— to seed exposed to svn and 
rain. 678 
— — pieces covered with lime. 53 
— — rot in.662 
— to get largest yield from one 159 
— trenches, how to make.1U7 
— vines, growth of. indication 
of yield of tubers. 445 
Potatoes, arsenic In.r59 
— cultivator flxea for shallow..627 
— earliest good.233 
— early. 297 
— Fall-planted.S66 
— leedmg to milch cows. 6 
— greatest yield. 180 
— how irlx in hill.•.741 
— in cold storage, keeping. 297 
— late, planting.297 
— Magnum Honum In Amer. 5 
— on meadow land...... .788 
— planted in drills, bow to cut .331 
— planting about. 5 
-for flat culture, seed to 
the acre. .159 
-Rural’s way.180 
-why I step on . ....S82 
— profitable to grow on light 
soil.71 
— raising from sprouts. 233 
— rotted, use of..7’0 
— scabby. 282 
-planting......183 
— seed, cutting'.313 
-off seed end.1(1 
-sprouting, vitality. 180 
— starch from.f42 
— sweet, disease of..162 
-fertilizer for. .821 
— tariff on.594 
— will they mix ?.ISO 
Poultry at experiment stat¬ 
ions.758 
— best breeds for laying, sitting 
and the iable . ....39) 
— exhaustion from moulting . 6-4 
— feedini meat. ..725 
-milk to .609, 692 
— killing ‘ best method”.771 
— management of, books and 
papers on.. .742 
— when to sell.510 
Products and prices.560 
Proud flesh fi om v\ ound, to re¬ 
move .265 
Pruning apple trees. —.179 
— saw.. 788 
— trees time of year.47S 
Pump, force hand.350 
— forsprajing.180 
— Perfection force.180 
Pumping from a distance.662 
Pumpkins of different sexes....1S7 
Pyr-i brum and t owde- guns . .446 
— for cabbage worn s.398 
Quinces, d-fference iu fruit .... .381 
Rabbitsdesiroylng orchard ....57S 
Raspberry canes, fungoid < n—741 
— Earhei t.89 
— Gollen Queen for market ....159 
— Souhegan and Doolittle.?3 
— Taylor. 694 
— vines infested 1 with tree 
cricket eggs.233 
Raspberries, when to take up ..560 
Rheumatism, among hogs.243 
— cow with.446 
Rhubarb plants, two-year-old.: 461 
— wine.5n 
Rice wild and Southern, cross 
between.429 
Ringbone on colt .772 
Rivets and burrs copper,uses..758 
Roadmaking. -.193 
— wisdom .. 314 
Rocks*, isolated, origin of.If0 
Root-grafts for apples.28S 
Roots, length of. 53 
— substitute tor lambs.693 
Rose, Monthly, how to treat-....7(H) 
— Souvenir de Wootton.250 
Roses, hardy and free bloomers 53 
— Hvbrid Perpetual.461 
-— and Monthlies, differ¬ 
ence between.’58 
— keeping over V* inter.725 
— Perpetual*.how propagated .158 
— tender to protect in Winter,.PS 
Rural’s new cuts. 610 
Rye as stock feed.S97 
Salt fi r potaio scab. 6 
Sand for bedding.4!, 
Sawdust for bedding.805 
— — — siables.479 
— well-rotted on clay soil.161 
Saw, pocket pruning.- - • 
Schlzoneura Americana, Elm 
leaf-curl. 461 
Schools, country. 6*0 
Scotch pine as an orchard wind¬ 
break. 709 
Scours In calves.. 
Scratches. 773 
— or grease-heel.741 
Seed from the 'Washington seed 
store.. 677 
-Northern-grown for the 
Middle States . .414 
— potatoes, cutting.—318 
— wearing out. 5 
Seeds, foul on the market. 
farmers not knowing.293 
— growing In the Soutn.297 
— Fall, preparing land for.293 
Seeding for a permanent pas¬ 
ture. 6.’5 
— to grass.71, 106, 709 
Sheep, ailing...217 
— buying, breeds, care of.622 
— eating beans. 75 
— fattening.123 
— feed for.5, 233 
— husbandry.541 
— parasites on, vitality of eggs.2iS 
— protected by Angora goats. 2“7 
— relative value of—. 97 
— shearing machines.610 
— ticks on. 414 
— thoroughbred, where to buy 
at reasonable prices.ius 
Shoe gall on horse.525 
Short-horns vs drart horsps... .107 
Shoulder lameness. 71 
Side-hill, gullied, leaehy, treat¬ 
ment of. 197 
Silage and supplementary teed. 
1 quantity. ... .413 
