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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
861 
PAGE 
— protecting from flies.523 
— separating for feeding.540 
Straw as bedding.713 
Warts on heifer's teats. 9 
Water heated for animals at 
Cornell .727 
— hot for stock.727 
HORSEMAN. 
Apple-pomace, feeding.266 
Bran cakes for cavalry horses .495 
— compressing for feed.495 
— feeding to horses .495 
Clover, best quality good asoats.3*2 
— hay for horses .fiS 
— -— Mr. Terry's plan.Sfi2 
-must be cut early. «9 
— poor worse than straw.___302 
Colt first year of his life .490 
Colts, about raising.490 
Draft horses, raising.668 
Fanny Fern.753 
Feed, apple-pomace as.264 
— concentrated for.266 
French Coach stalll >n.621 
German cross-bred mares.803 
(train, not feeding.68 
Haekney horses.413 
— mare.413 
Bead of an abused horse.315 
-well-bred horse.809 
Hor.-e for saddle and harness . 479 
— raising profitable .545 
Horses, draft, raising.663 
— vs. beef .545 
Hunter brood-mare.707 
Itodes. remedy ... 230 
Mare. Hunter brood .707 
Mares, German cross-bred.803 
Percheron stallion .729 
Ponies. Western, ticks on.229 
Pony, the Shetland.621 
Racing.#>2 
Shoe, nail-less .459 
Shoes should be measured and 
fitted.463 
Stallion. English Shire.33 
— French, Coach.62i 
— Percheron . 229 
— Thoroughbred.158,492 
Tall, cutting oft. 063 
Tandem team, English.279 
Ticks, Itodes, on Western 
oonles .229 
Walking record.662 
Work horses, keeping without 
grain . 68 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Asparagus beetle grubs.383 
— hunching, reduce expense..481 
Bananas, tariff on.474 
Bean-rust.660 
— weevil, destroying.663 
Blackberry. Agawam.176. 563 
— Ancient Briton.148 
— Early Harvest.177 
— Erie.563 
-the Lawton.235 
— growing intheWest.127 
— Lawtob .56.8 
-and Erie same.55 
— Mlnnewaskl. 2 
— — hardy In N. E.91 
Blackberries, newer varieties, 
how regarded by prominent 
authorities.605 
— In Canada .980 
— Overbearing.474 
— Shaffer's Colossal. 2 
— Snvder.178 
— Taylor...148 
Blltura. eapltatum.914 
Bordeaux Mixture for rose bugs.463 
— — recipe.511 
Botanical nomenclature. Latin, 
ridiculed.219 
Buhneh, Pyrethrum elnerarae- 
follum. 38 
Castor-oil plants, sexes In the..573 
Cold-frame", cloth for.643 
Cross-fertilization.201 
-first year's effects. .201 
Currant Mack, new.178 
— Crandall.178 
— Fav’s. 2, 1 76 
— worm, remedy.25 
— worms. White Hellebore, 
poisonous effects of.648 
Dewberrv. Lucretla.149, 17 G, 269 
Fig -n'ture and marketing.2’9 
— White Adriatic. .... 285 
Fruit garden of T. B. Terrv.785 
Fruits. Improved, discussion . .176 
new. 
— — any improvement?.176 
— small. Canadian notes 
— — farmers’ garden 
— Crystal . 
— Cuthbert. 
.181 
..176 
— F.arharr . 
.17ft 
— Golden Queen. . 
.2,176 
— llnnsell. 
.176 
— TTIIhorn . 
.176 
— Hopkins. 
— Nemaha. 
PAGE 
Seeds, warranted.194 
Stachvs cflluls.193 
Strawberry. Alpha.176 
— — for early. 176 
— Arnold's Seedlings.176 
— Augur’s No. 70 . 522 
— Belmont. .521 
— Bomba.521, 526, 540 
— Bubach .2,250,521, 606 
->0.5....521 
— Burt .521, 606 
— Cardinal.522 
— Cloud .521,526 
— Cloud’s Seedling.178 
— Crawford.5'6. 540 
— Crescent. 2, 176, 606 
— Daisy.526 
— Dew.521 
— does Infeenndity of the seed 
affect the berry.385 
— Gandy .. ...591 
— Gandy’s Prize.2*0, 606 
— Gold.621.526 
— Haverland ...52', 526 
— Hilton.181 
— I van hoe.522 
— Jessie ... _9. 176. 230, 521, 606 
-winner of $25 prize.23 
— Jewell .522 
— .Tiicundn.'77 
— Lida .521 
— Little’s Vo. 5.532 
— Loudon’s No. 15. 522 
— Louise.5° 6 
— Mammoth .52' 
— Manchester..280.604 
— Alary at "R. G.”.523 
— May King.606 
— Miami .526 
— Mlddlefleld.522 
— Monmouth.527,606 
— Moore's Prolific.521 
— Mount Vernon.176 
— Ohio.521. 527 
— Ontario. t"6 
— Osceola .526 
— Pearl .181,521 
— Parker Earle.473. 5°I 
— Plne-aople. 269,522,526 
— Prince . 521 
— — of Berries.175 
— «eneca Queen.2*0 
— Sharpless. 606 
-on L. 1. 476 
— Snmm't .176, svi 
— Warfield . .. 521,526 
— Wonderful .521 
— Yale.522 
Strawberries, deep covering ... 55 
— chemical fertilizers for.819 
— excellent .176 
— Fall planting. 527 
— fertilizers, chemical for .819 
— four good varieties.175 
— how to care for . 5in 
— In Canada .280 
-Pennsylvania.280 
— manuring .79' 
— newer at “ R G.”. 523 
— new varieties most prom Islng521 
— notes . 540 
— on L I .. .476 
— perfect Paved .529 
Sulphur. Rowers of, price.-U9 
Tobacco dust, price of.479 
HYGIENIC. 
Babies, feeding, care .199 
Doctor, great, how he won his 
wav . 759 
Earth-closet a sanitary device 621 
Potato"*, poisonous .4''1 
— rotten, danger in .5t3 
Typhoid fever, polluted water 
as a source of.54 
INDUSTRIAL IMPLE¬ 
MENTS. 
....980 
.785 
— — for family use.148 
-in Pa .280 
Gooseberry. Industry.176. 269 
— Orange'.. 189 
— Triumph.698 
Gooseberries In Canada.2S0 
Grafting, Japanese mode, effec¬ 
tive....122 
Honev-dew, cause.68' 
Horticulture for women.383 
Hort'eulturlsts at Ex. Sta.213 
Hvperlcnm kalmlanum. 7 
Kerosene emulsion .399 
Labels. Imperishable.791 
Peanut, Faust’s Improved.UIS 
Plants, protective coverings 
among. —364 
Pyrethrum and rose bugs.4*3 
Raspberry and blackberry hy- 
.176,607 
Shaffers 607 
— — for canning. 176 
_ — general approval of.55 
— Souhegan.607 
Raspberries. Black-caps. 176 
— in Canada. 980 
Rose-bugs and pyrethrum 463 
_Dr. Hexanier would not 
use Bubach.543 
_ _ pyrethrum for. Prof. C. V. 
Riley’s reply .542 
_remedy for.899 
Seed dealer*, fraudulent.69 
— trade mysteries.69, 218 
Corn-drill.157 
— planter. Eclipse.899 
Cultivator, Tower Surface.3'3 
Drill, corn . 157 
Ensilage, machinery for.312 
Furrower. Darnell’s patent ....298 
Harrow A of double a . 36 
— Child’s spring tooth. 86 
— Cutaway .39,86, 293 
-a bead. 497 
Hay loader .379 
— press, reversible...3:1 
— tedder .379 
Hoe. souffle. 863 
Implement needed for potato 
growing .. 754 
Implements, farm of Mr Terry 637 
Machinery for ensilage.312 
— for Faying and harvesting.. .5*9 
— In the hay-field. 979 
Manure spreaders.251 
Plow, potash. 67 
Potato diggers. 590 
— Implement needed.751 
— plows.590 
— separator .. 9 
Road machine, Vulcan .. 9 
Seed "butters, skipping.591 
Separator, potato .67 
Strawsonlzer In England .. ....415 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIE¬ 
TIES. 
Agricultural Association Cor¬ 
nell . 771 
— Show at Windsor Park.503 
— Society Dutchess Co.6«7 
-Mass .702 
— — Moorostown.422 
— — Queen’s Co. 454 
Congress of American nations..719 
eonn. fair.66.5 
Dalrv conferences.591 
Danbury Conn , fair.718 
Dairymen’s Convention. N. Y.. 3 
— - Vermont. 68 
Farmers’ Institute, Albany_70 *7 
-In V y . Bos 
— — history of.. 35 
-our first.. . 
.290. SOS. 822, ,910, 359 
— institutes, more popular.7n 
Florists at Buffalo. 629 
Grange Pier le exhibition, Venn.sis 
Horticultural Society, N. J. 2 
-OMo. •> 
— — Western N. Y.'48 
5'ew England fair. .629 
N. J. Horticultural Society. 2 
Ohio fair. 647 
— Horticultural Society. 2 
PAGE 
Pomologlcal Society, American 
.. .183, 201, 219, 230. 258. 269,285 
Wool-growers Ass. National— 72 
World’s fair.775 
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS. 
Sugar, beei, D. S. Industry. 51 
— bounty and glucose .162 
— from beets In this country . .383 
— maple, making .289 
— sorghum In Kansas, success .285 
LAW. 
Animals, liability of possessor.439 
Assignee must give full account 99 
Child, posthumous. Inheritance 
of. 207 
Deed of real estate, married 
woman’s. . 258 
Deeds must be recorded .207 
Deposit on contract for pur¬ 
chase of farm.734 
Docks private.207 
Dog law in N. Y. State.454 
Dogs trespassing.359 
Drainage ditch, cleaning, law 
as to.;.502 
— of upper to lower lands.207 
Fxecutors, fees of .31 
Farmers and hired help, laws 
relating to . 63 
Father, to support.99 
Fee Simple, meaning of ... . 31 
Fence, wire, legal In N. V. State 31 
Fences, boundary. .*35 
— railroad In Connecticut— 686 
Fi°h in a non-navlgable stream 307 
Fowls trespassing, law with re¬ 
gard. .359 
Game laws, N. Y . 734 
Highway, defects In, responsi¬ 
bility . —274 t 
— defective injuries from_ 635 
Insurance on wagons left in 
shop.. .274 
Intoxicants, selling at Ohio 
fairs, penalty.274 
Judgments, renewal of -635 
Land, buying, precautions In... 31 
— fix i ure* on.587 
— Incorporations, title of.291 
— lease.99 
— titles liens against .. ... .635 
Law 3i, 63. 99. 207.912. 258, 274, 291, 
607, 959, 375, 42-2. 489. 454. 487. 
51.2. 551, 587. 60S, 635, 68«, 703. 
718,734,782, SSI 
Laws relating to farmers and 
hired help . 63 
Leases, long in Ohio.782 
Legal frauds In sales .. 603 
Legacies when payable In N. Y.'Sl 
Manure, ownership of, on rent¬ 
ed land.242 
Mortgaged farm, collecting a 
judgment.831 
Mortgages mus' be recorded... .207 
— Western held In Connecticut, 
taxability of.31 
Nuisance, private, remedy 
against .487 
Oalli of alleg'ance to U. S. 
alien’s .99 
Parent, compensation for ser¬ 
vices to. 603 
Poacher* of game, N. Y law .. *51 
Property, administration on...422 
— descent of in Arkansas.7*2 
— of minors.99 
— rights of married women In 
N. J .359 
Railroad fences in Conn.686 
Rpal estate, minors as holders *3t 
Riparian rlgh's .7*4 
Sheep-killing in Ohio, law.375 
Stall'on’s services in Maine—422 
Stolen pronerty. recovery of..7*2 
Taxation for railroad-building 
bonds..9f*7 
Taxes arrears of. ..207 
Trespassers Injury to,by vicious 
anlma'R. 31 
Water-course.991 
— from neighbor’s spring.359 
— privileges on another’s land.274 
— surface, flow or. regarding. 502 
Weeds a'ong highway, duty of 
cutting. 439 
Widow’s rights of Inheritance..'V-l 
-’• quarantine ”....782 
Wife’s property, descent of_274 
-mortgage of, husbaud’s 
nayment of...,. u 9 
— rights of inheritance.502 
Wine and elder,home produced 
sale of.60S 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Alcohol, consumption of In 
France.... 7 
Catalogues, etc , received . 15 
46, 81 99, 111, '47. 189. 295, 243, 
258, 275, 29', 307. 323, 840, 3'9, 
375. 391, 107 . 42.8, 439. 155 . 47'. 
487,508. 5’9. 534. 53% 5*1, 5*9, *87 
603, 619, 635 . 670, 687. 7i’3. 7'9, 
750, 767, 781. 799. 815, 831 
— fertilizers.112 
Henry George’s nlan. 1 T ‘* 
I .and a possible mouopoly.17.8 
— ownership. 178 
Money by mail, device for send¬ 
ing . 247 
Monopolies- eonoerniPg. new 
legislation needed . 179, 219 
.245,281, 301, 810 
Montana boom.679 
-syndicate. 679 
— — whv... . .711 
Nature, did she make a nilstnke.439 
Patents by Women . 7 
Post offlee and the rail-roads. 364 
Prohibition strengthened In 
Iowa . 169 
Rain Indications.438 
Business retrosoect. 38 
Town Insurance .624 
'65 
711 
PAGE 
— Babbitt.177 
— Bledsoe.177 
— Canfield. 2 
— Delaware Winter . 2 
— Duchess of Oldenburgb.775 
— culture suggestions .294 
— Fanieuse and Its seedlings 121 
— from oldest tree on Pacific 
coast.7'3 
— Gano ...•••*.177,181 
— G'deon’s Best of All.181 
— Granite Beau ty.791 
— Grimes’s Golden.. . 2 
— Hum’s Russet. ..72 
— Milling.791 
— Oldenburg, planting an or¬ 
chard of. 163 
— picker.148 
— Red Astrachan.177 
— — Bletlgheimer, Iron clad .. Tnl 
PAGE 
— Lawson...176, 543 
— LeConte.177 
— Lincoln, new seedling.754 
— Louise Bonne de Jersey. .589, 644 
— Lucrative. . 590 
— Manning’s Elizabeth.589 
—' Mount Vernon. .175 
— Osband’s Summer. 590 
— Oswego.589 
— Parsonage.590 
— Quinn . 2 
— Rostlezer.5‘9 
— Seckel...589 
— Sheldon.589. 644, 743 
-best table.55 
— Summer Doyenne . 51 
— trees, one-year-old best to 
plant. 73 
— Urbaniste.589,644 
— Washington .5-9 
_ U/I1/Iar Til 
— Roy . 177 
_ scab .505, 50ft 
Pear», cracking of.575 1 
— Seedling, new .739 
— Shiawassee Beauty.711 
— trees, sprayiug. 2 
— Wagner. 7 
— Wealthy .177 
-time of ripening_ . 698 
— Westfield Seek-no Further.72,472 
— Yellow Bellflower.72 
-Transparent.178 
— time of ripening .693 
Apples, best for home use.121 
— Mr. Williams’s experience... 644 
— Russian .177 
Persimmons. Japan.117,701 
Plum Abundance.181 
— Black Plum.449 
— Botan 177 
— Bradshaw.511 
— cureullo .315 
— Domestlca species.176 
— Early Bed.449 
— Forest Garden.177 
— GoldeD Beauty.177 
— handsomest known.790 
— Iron-dad. American.121 
— new. good......176 
— packed In leaves.695 
— Russian.181 
-best .191 
— to kPep.791 
— Western New York.178 
Apricots. Russian .176 
Borers, wash to prevent.298 
Cherry easy to graft.73 
— Montmorency, sou-.181 
— tree* netting to cover fruit..563 
— Windsor.181 
Cherries * Grlottes ”.177 
Cold-storage . . 148 
Cureullo. Paris-green for.367 
— plum, remedy .315 
Evaporating fruit..613 
Fig culture and market.219 
— White Adriatic.285 
Figs.177 
Fruit culture, lovers of the bus!-. 
ness only should engage In . 25 
— grafted on its own seedlings 706 
— green, to preserve color and 
beauty of . 611 
— grower, slovenly.118 
— growing In the South.201 
— tree quesrlons .706 
— trees girdling to hasten fruit 
Ing ...543 
-bight to permit branching. 25 
— — on t-ght and heavy soils 
growth .706 
-paint to protect from mice 706 
-pruning, time.967 
— — spraying.658 
— tropical .SOI 
Fruits. Improved. 176 
Fungi notes. fi 60 
Funeus that attacks pears....575 
Fusie'adlum dentrilleium ... . ,5n5 
Girdling to hasten fruiting . 543 
Grafting Japanese mode, effect¬ 
ive. ....... .122 
Guava. 901 
Lemon culture In Florida .253 
Nectarine, a new*.. 641 
— Idaho.629 
Orange culture in Florida.25.3 
— disease of the.201 
— Navel .'’"1 
Oranges, fertilizer for . 2«1 
— fore'gn markets for .219 
25 
of 
.791 
Trusts and farmers. . 
Wealth, concentration of .... 
Weather, how people foresee 
the .438 
— wise people ..433 
NATURALIST. 
Collies, two. .’21 
Deer, t" me . 7*6 
nogs Collie. 12 1 
Terriers. 247 
POMOLOGICAL. 
Apple Arkansas Black.177 
Orchard ground, to prepare 
— In unbroken sod, effects 
plowing. 
— pear, spading fork In.676 
— starting from aPPles .294 
Orchards, hilling around young 
trees .818 
— sod In .122 
Paris green for one’appie-tree. .266 
Peach Bonanza. ..177 
— budded on plum. 627 
— crop of Mr Hale.*45 
— F.lberta.177 
— Good.511 
— Honey.285 
— Lew. In 
— Lowell's White. ... . • 511 
— pit*, planting Southern- 
grown. 819 
— Old Mixon. 627 
— Peen-to.177,995 
— Topaz.177 
— trees, injury done by Lon 
don-purple.557 
-muriate of potash on.545 
— Wonderful. 181 
— Yellows ... . 3 
-dodging the... .818 
Peaches, discarding early. . .548 
Pear Anjou.55, 589 
— Bartlett.589 
— Belle Lucrative. 644 
— Bose. 644 
— Boussock . 589 
— Buffum .5S9 
— Catharine .589 
— Clairgeau.559 
— Clapp’s Favorite.... .589 
— D' Alencon.*90 
Dana’s Hovev.2. TSI. 641 
— Diel . . - 590 
— Duehrsse 589 
— earlv. popular.54 
— — Tyson. 55 
— Fitzwater . S 18 
—'Flemish Beauty. 590 
— *-in Canada .175 
— Frederick Clapp.54 
— fungus.575 
— Glffard.. 54 
— Golden Beurre.644 
—• Howell.55, MU) 
—‘ Idaho. 176, 269, 711,823 
—for sale. *11 
— ’Ktefter .2, '99 
_ _ to take place of quince., .sit 
— Klrthunl.589 
— Lawrence.644. 743 
PAGE 
— at the Royal Show. .. .529 
— barn. .311 
— husbandry, decadence of In 
Vermont ....510 
Shropshire.529 
— ewes..409 
Rams Saxonv and Silesian.55 
Romney Marsh .529 
Welsh Mountain.530 
Wool, feeding for.674 
— growers’ convention . . i 2 
Worms, lung, in sheep, remedy .732 
SWINEHERD. 
Bacon, best, bow made.38 
Bedding .-.75 
Berksbires for palatable bams 
and bacon. •••385 
Cholera . 75, 644 
Corn-cobs for smoking bams.. 39 
Essex-Berkshire cross, a(lvan-_ 
tages of .713 
Feed, cooking for hogs.....622 
-It nays for hogs.....622 
Feeding.IIS 
— labor saving appliances.a58 
— to avoid disease.713 
Hams and bacon, choice lean..385 
— corn cobs for smoking. 39 
Head of hog .539 
Hog, head of..-5e9 
— intelligence of the.623 
— r*lsingln the South.713 
Market, local....713 
Milk, skim as feed.314 
Pigs. Dr. Learned’s.75 
Pork making.538 
— pointers. 538 
177 — products, prize.75 
. 177 — raising in the South. fi 23 
. 177 748 — successful . . .163 
. ’ — - —sweet potatoes and peanuts 
make tine.. 713 
Prices, future, diversity of 
opinion.108 
Rations . 75 
Skull and teeth of hogs.506 
— formation, feed . ? 06 
Sow breeding.399 
Sows, feed for......399 
Swine breeding . 87 
Tam worth bre°d.385 
Trough, a Massachusetts. 156 
— device.443 
VETERINARY. 
Bloat In calves. 88 
<*attle, diseases, destroying.98 
Hog cholera..644 
Liniment formula for wounds.. 23 
Liver-rot *n sheep .219. 253 
Lung plague, microbes, fight 
with.... 2' 9. 253 
Pleuro-pneumonia muddling 
policy of Gov.775 
Pulses of animals. 90 
Scours’. --... 557 
Veterinary delusions, old-time ,.3i9 
VINEYARD. 
Antoinette.807 
Bercbmans ..131,269 
Bordeaux Mixture on grapes, re¬ 
moving.613 
Delaware ......176 
— grafted on Concord root 3 _660 
Diamond.298 
— “ R. G.”.711 
Diseases, experience with. 3 
Downing.176 
Duchess In Canada.175 
Colorado.753 
Copper sulphate and lime solu¬ 
tion . 196 
Cuttlngs as a fertilizer.—117 
Eaton .641 
Earlv Victor.176 
Eclipse . 660 
El Dorado. ... 2SU, 543 
Empire State .•.176 
Eau Celeste for mildew.55 
Excelsior.. .177 
Geneva .49 
Girdling. 43’ 
Goethe at Dr Thurber’s.2*7 
Grafting, new method .738 
— wild vines.230 
Grape cutting* as a fertilizer ...'17 
Grapes, fine old.770 
— in Canada.. 280 
— for general eul'ure ... 3 
— Green Mountain, earltness 
of.823 
Grape vines, girdling.431 
— — wild In Cal.770 
Green Mountain.235,644 
Tdeal . 8*0 
Insecticide, copper sulphate 
— Kel«ey ..285 
— Lone Star. 
— Marianna- 
— Moore’s Arctic 
— Prince’s Imperial Gage.511 
— «atsuma.285 
— Simon's.807 
— Smith’s Orleans.511 
— Spaulding.181 
— trees, care of...143 
— Wavland.175 
— White Nicholas. 449 
— Wyant. 613 
Plums Russian, three.449 
Prune, wh>n to.25 
Prunus Slmonil, objection to 
calling . 193 
Quince, Champion .561 
Spraying fruit trees .148 
Tree Injuries, paint for.706 
Trep setiing. . 25 
Wa»h to prevent borers.298 
Yellows, peach. 3 
— — dodging the.818 
POULTRY-YARD. 
Andalusian fowls at “ R. G.”— 7 
Black .lavas, new .211 
Brahmas not good fowls.39 
Capon* how they pay. 70 
— raising.540 
— will they pay . 70 
Chickens, a plea for.S61 
— killing. .807 
Chicks In the garden.676 
Cholera. 1 
Combs. 2 
Confinement, breeds favorable 
to.. . ..676 
Cotton-seed meal for hens— 39 
Croo bound. 2 
diseases of fowls. 1 
Dus'- hath. 1 
Egg eating ..1,465 
— producer, concentrated..266 
— within an egg. .198 
Eggs never keep hens for after 
molting. 380 
Fating eggs .. 1,465 
vxneriment. Interesting . 558 
Experiments at N. Y. Experi¬ 
ment Station..507 
Farm poultrv. 85 
Feather pulling. ’ 
Feed, change..465 
Feeding corn or wheat to poul¬ 
try .689 
Gapes . 1 
— food'o prevent.409 
— reined v...4*3 
Glass, not too much in house..823 
Grading up .540 
Hen eating eggs, to break of 
habit .1,9,465 
Hens, making lav ......86 
— more profitable than cows..820 
1 — never beep for eggs after 
molting . 380 
House. Dakota plan.... 379 
Incubators superior to bens ... 39 
Kaffir fowls, two eggs a day—495 
Milk, feeding to hens— .5'7 Ironclad 
Ostrich farming In America... .427 
Patagonians, Mr. Cooper likes 
. 266,314 
Plymouth Rooks.745 
Poultrv. Bucephalus Brown’s 
Notions and Ideas on.85 
— farm. Improving. 85 
-rations for. 6*9 
— notes.409 
— on the farm, profittn.211 
— packing same size In each 
barrel. ss 
— raising in Kansas.427 
Profit In poultry.465 
Pnl'et. shapely. 1 
Red-cans..........511 
-eggs of.211 
Rout).. 1 
sitting hens, to break .5H 
Turkeys and ducks on the farm. 86 
Water cause of contagion. 1 
Winter, preparing for.761 
SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
Angora fleece, create a market 
for .823 
— goats . .. 49 
Ewes. Shropshire.JQ9 
Eves, Inflammation of .787 
Feeding, regular of paramount 
Importance.5*9 
— winter.7S9 
Goa's. Angora ..49 
Golden-hoof.529 
Lambs, young, care of.608 
Mutton-liead. a wise.393 
Opthalmla In sheep.7«7 
Salt Indispensable .739 
Saxonv and S'leslan rams. . 55 
Sheen and dog legislation, ludi¬ 
crous.367 
and lime solution ... 
...196 
.”35 
.230 
..176, 181 
.660 
.269 
.181 
.421 
Ives seedling. 
Jessica .. .... .- 
John Burr’s latest grapes 
Jewell. 
Leader . 
Marv. 
Mildew, blue, Eau Celeste for... 55 
— remedies 230 
5tjner's seedlings.807 
Minnehaha... 57 
51 core’s Earlv.. . 2 
The earliest black . 127 
Moyer . 176 
Vative crapes. Improving.230 
Niagara. 177 
— estimate of experts of to-day 19 
-tb» R. N.-Y. in '71. ’8 
O-rc-hearlng.399 
Packing.230 
Paragon .*60 
Poeklington.280 
Potter . 17« 
Poughkeepsie.176 
Progress..?*9 
Pruning summer.’29 
Rommel. . .769 
Rot remedies against.2-30 
Seedlings .57 
— John Purr’s latest. 6«o 
— Miner’s .807 
Seiipiir. fronds in ....230 
Thin out the bunches....399 
Triumph.... ’77 
U1»ter.176 
Vines, burving lu Wls.645 
— girdling ......19* 
— uncovering .645 
Vinevard hints . 660 
vintage prospects in Furope_ 98 
*• Wood” a' a fertilizer. 177 
Woodruff Red. .55,176, 660 
4! A P P E N D I X . 5i* 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
BIOGRAPHICAL 
Cameron, Mrs. Agues C.‘33 
Ru*k. ft'lss Mary.8.34 
Smith. MIrs Sarah A .83.5 
Warren, Mrs. Mary E. ,83ft 
Five Representative Farmers..849 
INDUSTRIAL IMPLEMENTS 
Cultivator, Hudson's Bicycle—836 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Happy New Year.862 
PRACTICAL DEPARTMENT, 
BIOGRAPHICAL. 
Cameron. Mrs. Agues C.811 
Rusk, Miss Mary. 841 
Presley, Mrs. Mary A....841 
Smith. MWs Sarah A .841 
Wurreu. Mrs. Mary R. 8.11 
Fivo Representative Farmers..W8 
DAIRY HUSBANDRY. 
Dairying, school of Wisconsin..841 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Sunday Evening Talks at the 
" R. G.".842 
Potatoes, cooking. .943 
Potatoes, boiled, R. N -Y.’s 
method. *43 
Potato rolls. 94.3 
Potatoes, snow.sis 
Potato puff. 843 
Potato soup.843 
Soup, potato.843 
EDITORIAL. 
Potatoes that take the prizes.. *40 
Sheep for multon .. 840 
Potato prizes, States that re¬ 
ceives .840 
Tobacco tax. repeal of ..840 
Farms, abandoned, abou’..... 840 
Sugar Co, liner., in Kansas . S 40 
Ashes, unleashed, Canada, 
analysis. 840 
Potnt * rot ceased when har¬ 
vested... 840 
Cash crops, which pay best.866 
Vermont Potato heavy ylelaer856 
Eating too much. ... 856 
Weighing milk, resolution at 
Dairymen’s Convention.856 
Pleuro pneumonia, extermina ¬ 
tion of. . 866 J 
It. N.-Y., the. in the future.8S6 
EDUCATIONAL. 
School of dairying. Wls.,..S41 
EVERYWHERE. 
North Car. Mis., summerouting 
in.836 
Indians. Hamilton County.852 
— Madison County.. .852 
Maine, Bridgton County—... 852 
Pennsylvania, Alleghany Coun¬ 
ty.852 
FARMERS’ CLUB. 
Blaek knot on apples.9*7 
Cheese syndicate.88# 
Plum lice. 987 
Rlaek-kuot of the plum.8*7 
Road improvement.8S3 
Kerosene emulsion.881 
Garlic, to eradicate.887 
Pears on heavy clay soil.937 
Mushroom, growing.., .837 
Nurserymen’s Ass. Secretary 
of.s37 
Ashes from Monroe, Judson & 
SlrouD.897 
Farms, small on L. I.838 
Horticulture in Iowa a senti¬ 
ment.8*8 
City man’s expenses.*39 
I Farm! deserted. S’S 
Ruts to de-troy.839 
West, a Vermont man goes... .854 
Cot ten-seed oil. about.8*4 
Alabama, Missouri man In... .854 
Le Conte Pears, value of acre. 854 
Thanksgiving for fruit.®54 
Cover and abandoned farms..854 
*tlo, against the.'••54 
Fotash about.864 
Cheese syndicates .854 
Ashes, coal.and clover.... .. 854 
Correspondents, worth noting 
by. . ■ .854 
Sheep, Dorset, who breed?.>58 
Swamp, seeding. 85.3 
Sink, digging near well. .853 
j Seeding oats aud grass...S52 
. Roses, growing from seed.S53 
Raspberry canes disease on ....8.53 
Berries, hardiness of.853 
Buckwheat a«feed.8 3 
Butter, feed for. .853 
Chestnuts, growing.S 5 S 
Land offices U. S.853 
Trees to plant.853 
P»ar, Ritson, blight proof.853 
Potato pi nter, Asplnwall .863 
Hen manure on light s U. — 853 
Fowls, Pea-combed Plymouth 
Rook.....858 
incubator, Monarch .853 
FARM TOPICS. 
Notes on 1889.850 
field CRors. 
Pota'o Contest, Women’s Na¬ 
tional, prize takers ... 833 
! Potato Contest. Womem’s Na¬ 
tional. Souvenir.’ awarded 833 
Potatoes, largest, R. N.-Y. 
prizes for.839 
Potato reports, R. N.-Y.’a.889 
1 Brussels-sprouts.839 
GARDEN 
Brussels sprouts.889 
Mushrooms, growing.889 
LAW. 
Law.846 
I Will, why one should make a..S4S 
Mortgage on real estate, wife 
signing..846 
Satisfaction piece.846 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Catalogues etc., received.847 
POMOLOG1CAL 
Peach culture In Penn.839 
Pear.Lineoln.889 
SHEEP UVSBANDRY. 
Sheep feeding.858 
VINEYARD, 
t Raising, California.S3J 
