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Bair, New York State, Brief notes on 
the. 594 
Farm bookkeeping.408 
Connecticut, Notes from a. 82 
Keeping hunters oil the. 708 
Labor in the South. 489 
Labor in western Pennsylvania... 390 
Help. American.35f>, 380 
Notes, Horse Shoe. 820 
Notes. Various.651 
Rotation, A Kentucky. 877 
Run-clown, The story of a303, 817, 838 
Tenants In Canada. .9 
Farmers, Free mall for. 3 
Institute managers. 748 
Institute, The. 811 
Institutes, New ideas for.. 547 
Institutes, The Interest in. 159 
Organization, A new. 804 
Reputation, A . 678 
Some talks with. 2 
Feed, Dry vs. pasture grass. 403 
Feeders In Indiana, Buying. 169 
Fence machine cheaper than wire.... 439 
Portable. 82. 98 
Portable, Another. 114 
Fern, Blrd's-nest. 795 
Case, The . 27 
Ferns and palms from seed . 199 
For the house... 667 
Fertility In grain? llow much. 152 
B’ortillzer, A low grade. 725 
Analysis of a. 192 
Black residuum as a. 224 
Burning bones for. 277 
Farming. Returns from . 596 
How to figure a. 389 
Mixture, A fake. 243 
Scraps for. 276 
The cheapest.531 
Tobacco stems and dust as a. 243 
Values, New way of figuring. 192 
Fertilizers, Buying ready mixed.566 
For grain and grass. 357 
For grapes and garden. 116 
On Long Island, Use of....515, 535, 564 
Mg bushes, Protection for.420, 491 
Filbert, English, in America, The. 789 
Filler. Don’t pay for a. 565 
Fire, Another mysterious. 644 
Fires, barn, The mysterious origin of 
,. 599 
Mysterious barn. 535,759 
Fish and fish commissioners. Experi¬ 
ence with. 635 
Artificial culture of. 724 
Breeding on the farm.497, 545 
Dried, or cotton-seed meal.422 
Farm, Starting a. 680 
For the pond ? What. 100 
Flies from stock, Keeping.527 
Flood, Some makeshifts of the. 452 
Floor, Plank or cement. 341 
Floors, Cement. 454 
Flora! novelties, Notes on. 141 
Flower seeds and peas. 153 
Flowers, fertilizers for, Concentrated. 260 
Three autumn. . 742 
Fodder crops, Florida. 502 
Crops, Late-sown. 515 
Cutting, by hand. 98 
For a dairy farm ? What dry. 453 
Food and Dairy Commissioner. Penn¬ 
sylvania. 564 
Foods and human rations. 732 
Forestry Association, New Jersey 
State, In session. 77 
Forget-me-nots. 181 
Fountain, A simple. 299 
Fowls, Business vs. fancy. 686 
Indian Game: why I breed them.. 3 
P. Rock, Good points of.254 
Roup In. 164 
Sick. 41 
White P. Rock . 354 
White Wyandotte, Good points of 
„ the . 659 
Bree-martins breed ? Will. 73 
B’ringe bush, White. 411 
Fruit arbors. A novelty In. 240 
At New York State Fair. 605 
Cold storage for. 36 I 
Crops, Value of.241 
Exchange, The New Jersev. 681 
Farming, What slope for. 633 
B’or Blastern New York... .216 
Growers, The Hudson River Val- 
, 'ey-. 41 
In cold storage. 374 
Notes from Beaver Co., Pa...!!! ” 301 
Notes from central Illinois. 610 
Notes from Maine. 540 
Notes, Some Maty land.. 477 
Notes, Various. 348 
Patch clean, Keeping the_]... 836 
Pledge, That. 549 
Preparing laud for. 175 
Questions. Various. 453 
Sales, Keeping account of. 25 
Some new varieties of. 727 
Storage building, A. 18 
Varieties, Adaptability 01 . 610 
B’ruits and flowers at fairs. 742 
A valuable list of. 705 
B'lrst, best of all ? Are. ” 627 
In Columbia Co., N. Y. 624 
New, for a small place. 116 
Non-blighting. 549 
Notes on new.660 
Russian tree.294 
Small, Rye among.. 499 
Some new, A talk about. 6 
Special, for special locations.. 695 
Under glass in England. 774 
Wild bush, for cultivation. 357 
B'uchsla for a bedding plant. 379 
Plants, Starting. 699 
Red spider on .) 597 
B'ungiclde, Any better, than Bordeaux 
Mixture?. 661 
B'urnace. cheap, More about that.... 4 
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Game. The farmer and his. 787 
Garden, Aquatic. 539 
B'ertilizers for a. 20 !) 
The window.”” 59 
Gardening business, Brain tools for.. . 206 
Glass, Starting at.837 
Garget from teat obstruction. 319 
Gas engines In the dairy. 660 
Gas-lime, The value of. 69 
Gladioli, Digging.".!! 651 
Gladioli from seed. Growing. 261 
Gladiolus. 75 i 97 
Bulbs for early flowering...’ 843 
Gloxinias. 43 1 
DrylrgofT.651 
Gluten meal, How to feed. 218 
Meal ? What is. 287 
Gold region. The Klondyke. 521 
Gooseberries, Are Columbus and Tri¬ 
umph, the same ?. 646 
At the Rural Grouncs. 455 
B’rom cuttings. 225 
Hybrid. 4 gg 
In Virginia. 469 
Plant lice on. 242 
Spineless. The. .226 
Gooseberry, An English.646 
Auburn.. 
Columbus..!!.'!!!!!!!.'." mg 
Dominion. . 646 
Gracilla .646 
Hale's Golden. . 646 
Keepsake. 503 , 644, 646 
grange. .646 
Pearl. 646 
Smith’s Improved. 677 
stein..gj 
Talk, A. 646 
The: from bud to fruit.' 259 
Triumph. 646 
Gourd. Nest-egg. 
Grafting, Whole or piece-root . 241 
Grafts, Protecting young. ..." 244 
Grain and a grass crop. A.. _.209 
Supply, Handling New York’s..’.'..' 819 
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Grape, Alice. 679 
Best Early, The. 565 
Brilliant . 743 
Campbell’s Earlv.662, 679 
Carman.262, 694 
Diamond. 614 
Early Ohio. 630 
Ester.662 
Niagara, seedlings ? What success 
with.242 
Vine liea-beetle. 420 
Vine, How to girdle a. 757 
Vines for ornamentation. 50 
Vines, Galls on. 453 
Grapes at the Rural Ground*. 822 
Burbank’s seedlings. 662 
California in Delaware. 308 
Carman, from Virginia. 631 
Girdling; Is it advisable ?. 595 
Grafting; too close together.565 
Keep well, Why New Yoik State.. 676 
Ritual's choice of.503 
Spraying, The cost of. 277 
Wyoming Red. notprofitab.e...... 501 
Grass, A big crop of.417 
A brief talk about. 516 
And a nurse crop.227 
And clover notes. 340 
And clover, Seeding 10 . 358 
Awnless Brome .582 
Crab, In lawns. 603 
Crop for 1897, Mr. Clark’s. 676 
B’all seeding to .173, 406 
B’or dry places . 343 
B’or a sandy hill. 308 
Hungarian.224 
Hungarian Brome. 662 
in a wood, Starting. 452 
Lawn, Bromus Inermis as a. 631 
On muck land . 405 
Quack, in Nebraska. 486 
Quack, How to kill.437, 502 
Seed, When to sow. 84 
Seeding, Notes on.297, 310 
Seeding to, in Wisconsin. 69 
Timber lands turned to . 484 
Without grain, Seeding. 775 
Grasses. Best lawn. .. 597 
B’or California ? What. 325 
B’or Tennessee. 103 
Greenhouse, A small. 699 
Cool, Vines fora. 181 
Enlarging small. 768 
Sldehlll. 443 
Grindstone, How to mount a.. . 772 
Ground rest, Let the.163 
Grounds, Plan for lay lug out. 763 
Grundy, Fred, picture of. A. 547 
Guernsey breeders In annual meeting 825 
Barm, A western New York.. 306 
Guinea fowls, Something about.431 
H 
Hams and bacon, Curing. . 145 
Keeping, In warm weather. 277 
Hares, Belgian, Breeding and selling. 788 
Hatching oven revived. The Egyptian 207 
The egg for. 478 
Haw, Iter. H 6 
Hawthorn, Winter, The. 11 
Hay caps and clover. 468 
Caps, A talk about. 373 
Caps, B’ertillzer bags for. 439 
Caps, More about. 439 
Caps, Use of. 434 
Caps, Waterproof. 468 
Crop. George M. Clark’s. 417 
Cutting, With the binder. 404 
Grain, In Oregon. 290 
Mangels and grain.202 
Of a ration. The.. ” 126 
Shall we chop up the.!. 68 
Timothy, Substitutes for. 341 
Heaths, Greenhouse. 571 
Heaves, No sure cure for. 469 
Hedge. Arbor-vltat road. An. 137 
Plants . 101 
Heifer, Abortion in a.” 166 
A sucking. 253 
Short-born, Blngllsh.834 
Sucking herself. 591 
Too much grain for a. 99 
Heifers, Milking, before first calving. 392 
Teat, Two openings in.319 
Teats grown together. 184 
Hemp, Bowstring. 539 
Hen, American, Earning capacity of 
the.254 
An injured. 218 
Business. What breed is the. 35 
B’or breeoing, A good.202 
Helpful. The. 399 
House, Plan fora. 223 
Manure and lime ashes. 137 
Mother, A youthful. 676 
Roosts in Texas. 493 
Sitting, eating eggs.309 
The robber. 462 
Wooden, What alls the..” 510 
Hens are fed at Cornell. How. 37 
Blood for.260 
Breeding, Balanced ration for. 334 
Did, What 20 Albany. 31 
How many In a breeding pen. 446 
How much house room for. 53 
In narrow quarters . 450 
Laying, Feeding experiments with 163 
Leghorn, that lay.830 
Meat for. 739 
Oilmeal or vegetables for ........ . . 21 
100 , In one house. 325 
Some gluttons of. 253 
Twenty-five business. 63 
Hickories, How to graft. 773 
Hides, A tariff on. [ 543 
Tanning.225 
Hired help. Thirteen months without. 66 
Hog cholera. 41 
Cholera, The prevention of. 73 
Cholera and swine plague. I 64 
Cholera, Serum Therapy in. 620 
B’ails to breed right. 144 
B’eeding, A problem in.. 741 
Pasture In Virginia. 144 
Sheds his skin, A. 85 
The lean-meat.” 79 
Hogs and coal. 271 
And pumpkins. 759 
Artichokes for.203 
Cut bones for. 276 
B’or rooters ? Which. . . . . . 47 
Pasture for 25.” 100 
Rape as pasture for. ’’ 418 
Those sick. 102 
Holly.199 
Hollyhocks. 507 
Holstein-B’riesla n breed ers.Meeting of 268 
Honeysuckles.. 
Honey. Wax and comb. ” 241 
Hope B’arui notes..382, 414, 446 , 478, 494 
518. 626, 542, 558, £90, 622, 638. 670, 
_ ."02. 718, 750. 766, 783, 814, 830 
Hornet, Paper, and its nest, The. 498 
Hornets'- nest. Destroying a. 711 
Horns be bred off, Let the.” 788 
How to kill. 43 j 
Horse, A knee-sprung. 301 
A lame. 606 
Asthma and heaves In a. . 500 
Breeding the. 406 
Can salt Injure a.’’ 343 
Chronic cough In.’ 383 ’ 527 
Chronic indigestion in a. 591 
Clip the. 203 
Clipped, The. 34 
Colic from worms. 437 
Colic in a. 734 
Contracted foot in.''' “ 439 
Curb on a.” 799 
Diabetes and skin disease in a ... 542 
Diabetes in a.. 
Dropsical swelling on.. . . 671 
Eats his manger, A ... 73 ' 439 
Breeding, Ensilage for. 350 
Grain food for . 724 
Grease in a.” 753 
Grease-heel and acclimation fever 
lna . 313 
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Horse, How to grow a new hoof on a.. 52 
Indigestion in a.114, 757 
Inflammation of parotid gland of. 549 
Inflammation of the eyelids of a.. 41 
Interfering, with cracked hoof.... 114 
Intestinal worms in the. 799 
Is a mule, My . 398 
Lice on a. To kill. 166 
Lumps on; in-and-in bree ding_381 
Navicular disease and founder in a 809 
Notes. Some. 79 
Occult spavin on a. 52 
Or mare ?.ill 
Out of condition...114, 184, 185, 252 
Pin worms In a. 85 
Scaly skin disease on. 234 
Scouring In a. 319 
Scratches In a. 252 
Sense.611 
Shoe boll on elbow of. 671 
Skin eruption on a. 99 
Splints on a. 185 
Sunstroke in a. 302 
Thick wind in a, Remedy for.398 
Thrush In a. 809 
Treatment for sweeny in a. 809 
Wart on a. 639 
With speed cracks and quarter 
cracks. 383 
Why feed hay before oats to the.. 751 
Wind-broken. A. 431 
With colic and Indigestion. 831 
With the heaves, A. 719 
With thoroughpln, galls and 
scratches. 421 
Work, Feeding the. 727 
Horses. Cheap wintering for. 171 
Cob meal for . 421 
Cotton-seed meal for. 126 
Curb on, Treatment for. 62 
Death of, from impaction of the 
large intestine. 110 
Do bots kill. 252 
Ensilage for. 187, 203 
B’ace the light ? Should. 186 
B’oot, Nall puncture of. 756 
Head, Steaming a. 501 
In this country. 315 
Iodide of potash for. 398 
Leg, Abscess on. 639 
Leg, Bony growth on. 185 
Legs. Stocking of a. 735 
New York’s annual show of.793 
No gall bladder in. 286 
Oat bay for. 224 
Periodic bllnduess In. 361 
Rye for . 421 
Sheath, Swelling of a. 500 
Shoulders. Watch the. 468 
Two western. 526 
Watering.21), 67 
Western, for eastern farms. 306 
Western, Lines. 406 
What killed the. 155 
Work, Best grain for. 702 
Horticultural Association, Pennsyl¬ 
vania . 92 
Meeting, New Jersey State. 50 
Problems, Various. 187 
School, A. 415 
Society, A Hudson River Valley.. 20 
8ocieiy, Eastern New York.’... 216 
Society, Missouri State. 12 
Society, Western New York_1 5, 121 
Horticulture for the children.345, 
.498,531,703, 772 
In Germany. 753 
Horticulturists, U. S. Senators as. 468 
Hothouse vegetables, Soils for. 725 
Huntere, tramp, Down with. 835 
Hunting season, The. 31 
Husking and shredding machines.807 
Hyacinth. Water.91, 635 
Hydrangea, Climbing.v. 459 
Large-panicled, Propagating. .571, 582 
Otaksa. 283 
Tree. 292 
Hydrangeas, tender. Bringing in. 699 
Hypericum Moserianum. 455 
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Ice, artificial, How, Is made. 721 
For cooling, The use of. 325 
Harvesting, in southern latitudes. 820 
House. How to build an.21, 103 
In Indiana. 19 , 1U3 
In the cellar. 661 
Pond, How to clean. 373 
Keeping. 70 
Paper over the. 155 
Illinois, All sorts from.323 
Incubator, questions, Some.399 
Ventilation In the. 699 
Incubators. A few points about. 63 
Experience with. 510 
Some failures with. 276 
India-rubber plant, Treatment of. 523 
Insecticide, The P. D. Q.391, 423 
Ipomoea pandurata. 231 
Pandurata from seed. 181 
Irises, German. 427 
Japan. 459 
Irrigation idea from Iowa, An.81 
On Cape Cod. 457 
Purposes, Earth reservoir for.805 
Ivy on a damp house . .725, 775, 827 
J 
Jadoo fiber.117,227, 295 
Jersey test, A. 351 
Jerseys, The English type of. 515 
K 
Kalnlt. 20 
Kale, Something about. 339 
Kansas. Live notes from.323 
Katydid didn’t do a thing to the twigs. 309 
Knotweeds on precipitous banks. 359 
Knows, B’ollow your. 238 
Labels, Zinc. 391 , 455 , 534 
Zinc, Bordeaux Mixture ruins. 436 
Zinc, Writing on. 387 
La Grippe. 157 
Lambs, A dry nurse for. 53 
Early, To breed. 302 
Motherless. 203 
Rheumatism in. 398 
Twin, come dead, Why. 302 
What alls the. 255 
Winter, B’ood and care for. 115 
Land, Improving worn, In Texas. 325 
New England sprout. Clearing_ 274 
Southern, Improving: bone meal. 645 
Landscape gardening, A book about.. 363 
Lawes, Sir John B.. A visit to. 577 
Lawn. A neglected. 363 
Dressing. 827 
Dying. 379 
List of shrubs for a. 309 
Seeding a. 395 
Weeping trees for. 795 
Grass seed for. 175 
Lice, How to kill.” 372 
Light Brahma, Some light on the...... 722 
Lightning, Hot and cold. 293 
Lilacs, Variety in. 315 
Lilies, Disease of. 571 
Diseased . 597 
Easter.” 475 
B’or Ohio.”, 75 
Propagation of.””” 597 
When to plant. 747, 555 
Lily bulbs, Bermuda. 555 
Of the Valley, B’orced. 11 
• Spider. 161 
Tawny Day . 597 
Lime and ashes, Value of. 405 
And liming. 921 
Different kinds of.” 834 
Gas, The use of. 154 
Has brought the soli to time. 452 
How to use. 23 
Kiln without stones, A. 597 
Lime on a stiff clay soil. 547 
On the winter wheat. 771 
On tobacco land. 192 
Phosphate and potash. 533 
Some facts about. What Is the 
best form to buy ?.629 
Water, and Portland cement. 581 
Why do we use. 421 
With green manuring. 549 
Lindens for shade trees 7 Wnat.260 
Little, Mr. John.813 
Locust, Honey. 423 
Seed, When to plant. 84 
Locusts. 17-year. Do, damage fruit 
trees ? . 437 
Loganberry, The. 371 
Lyon, T. T., an account of his life and 
work. 641 
M 
Magnolia hypoleuca. 438 
Stellata. 294 
Magnolias from seed. 343 
Mall delivery, B’ree rural...7(1, 599, 612, 
. 663, 695 
Maltsprouts, Stick to. 219 
Mangels for stock feeding .101, 167 
Manure, ashes and dry bones. . 100 
Damaged grain as. 677 
B’resh or rotted, which ?. 583 
B’rom ensilage, The value of. 693 
Green. Field beans for. 241 
Hen, How to keep. 373 
Hen, In home fertilizer mixtures.. 261 
Leaf or straw. 224 
Maltsprouts for.225 
Machine for drilling.224 
Sawdust. 6 
Sawdust, The use of. 39 
Sawdust, Weight of a cord of. 117 
8 hed built with leaky roof. 677 
Shed for a bank barn, A.434. 486 
Shed talk, More. 502 
Sheds.567 
Stable, Cotton-seed meal or. 789 
Under a shed.644 
Manuring, green, What crops for. 173 
Green, without chemicals. 192 
Maple, Acer Tricolor. 455 
Leaves turn red early, Why. 661 
Mare, barren, in milk, A. 286 
Breeding three-year-old. 234 
Cnronic Indigestion In a. 431 
Dropsical swellings on a.591 
Heaves or Indigestion in. 286 
Hock lameness In. 319 
Loses her foals. 719 
Pregnant, Lameness In. 252 
That loses milk, A . 50J 
Wltd the heaves, A. 351 
Mares, brood. Management of. 167 
Leg. Abscess on.324, 756 
Marker, wheel, A two-horse. 222 
Market, farmer’s home, 1’he. 340 
Price, The. 34 
Quality and reputation In. 69 
Maryland, A Montana man likes. 193 
The frost In.310 
Tree and nursery stock law. 29 
Matrimony vine for a hedge plant.... 443 
Mayberry, Golden. 694 
Japan Golden, and Loganberry ... 153 
Meadows, Rolling the.590 
Meat and bone, Value of. 517 
Medicine, A dose of. 57 
Melon and cucumber borers. Tne. 548 
Disease..405 
Vines, Pinching off. 468 
Melons mixing. lit; 
Milk and food. Quality of . 821 
Bloody . 5 
Bloody, A case of. 469 
Bottled, When to sell. (Mil 
Corporation, Producer and the.... 777 ^ 
Dealers’ combination, Tne New 
York. 761 W- 
B’at and cheese yield. 44 
B’ever. Keeping oti.543 
B’ood and quality of. 421 
How to Pasteurize. 253 
Maker, A leaking .313 
One hundred quarts of per dav.... 338 
Producers and the condenseries.. 804 
Producers' meeting. 12 
Ration with brewers' grains, A.... (Ml 
Skim, and buttermilk.324 
Skim, Separator. 623 
Orchard, Preparation for planting an. 189 
Tiling an. 83 
Virginia, Experiments in a. 150 
Young, What crops In a. 173 
Orchards, Cultivate the, earlv. 319 
Orcharding In Vermont and Maine.... 49 
Oregon. No'es from. 759 
Oxalis In a bed. 379 
Rosy-flowered. 427 
Oxen, Jersey. 835 
■8v 
Standard, A. 739 
Sweet, How to keep . 313 
Tainted. 52 
Testing. 821 
Testing at butter factories. 57 
The value of. 732 
Water more expensive than.338 
Milking machines ? Are there any.... 741 
Stool.’_ 82 
Milkman and florist. A Massachusetts 17 
Millet for hay and seed. 387 
Meal. 84 
Moontlower. 507 
Propagating the. 555 
Moths, Gypsy, In N. Y. State, 1 he. 499 
Moles, Poisoning. 683 
Mowing-machine knives, Grinding.... 402 
Muck, What to use with. 21 
Mulberry, Grafting the. 101 
Mulching fruit with live rye. 419 
Summer . 224 
Mulch, Green, for small fruits. 499 
Planer shavings for. 119 
Mule, Lame. 5 
Mules and horses. 655 
Muriate of potash ? What is. 565 
Mushrooms, Basket culture of.610 
How to grow. 572 
When to pick. 821 
Muskmelon, A desirable;. 70 
Winter Pineapple.231 
Tip-top. 226 
Mustard for winter salad. .. 11 
N 
Narcissus too crowded. 555 
Nettle, Horse, Eradicating. 693 
New Black Man, The..569. 585, 601, 617, 
.633, 649 
Nitrate of soda and potash. 69 
Of soda in manure liquor. 37 
Nitrogen in cattle urine. The. 581 
In cotton-seed meal.661 
Nose breathing. 655 
Notes and points.327 
Novelties, Hot shot for. 599 
Some novel.227 
Nursery stock, Preparing land for.... 240 
Nut trees for Michigan. 116 
Trees for Ohio ? What. 240 
O 
Oat crop, A successful. 179 
Smut. A new remedy for. 4 
Smut, Lime and salt for. 293 
Oats and peas.202, 209 
And peas for fodder. 36 
Barley and wheat for Iowa. 146 
Smut in, To kill.225 
Soaking, for Binut. 342 
Some costly. 439 
706 
295 
21 
535 
487 
353 
275 
309 
421, 468 
Ohio stock, Some young. 
Oil-cloth, A cheap. 
Offal, What to do with. 
Oleaster family, The. 
Sliver-leafed. 
Onion culture In Michigan. 
Smut ? What is. 
Thrips on Long Islands. 
Onions, wild, To kill out.. 
Without hand weeding. 403 
Orange groves, Making the, over.420 
Osage, hedge. 491 
Otahelte. 827 
Trees, Budding. 468 
Orchard culture In the West. 259 
Kansas, A neglected. 757 
Old, Young trees In. 208 
Planting, Plans for. 151, 172 
Paint, lime. A cheap.677 
Lime, for outbuildings. 293 
Some questions about . 173 
Paints. Cheap, for the farm buildings. 692 
For farm buildings.403 
Palms for the house. 731 
Pansies. 723 
B’or spring blooming.523 
Tufted. 699 
Parchment lining In butter tubs. 644 
Paper? What Is. 677 
Paris-green? pure. What Is. 373 
Parsnips and volunteer potatoes. 244 
Parturition, Symptom of. 165 
Pasture, Backing up the. 527 
Field, An old- Canadian. 37 
Permanent, Grass for. 209 
Seeding lowland for. 241 
Pea. Asparagus. 838 
Cow, Early Black. 678 
Cow. Value of the . 722 
Daisy. 758 
Everbloomlng. 507 
Gregory’s Surprise. 423 
Improved Tom Thumb. 222 
Sweet, Red Riding-hood. 503 
Peas, Canada field, for green manure. 153 
Cow, and Crimson clover. 373 
Cow, Best use for a crop of.222 
Cow, Culture of. 84 
Cow, Great value of. 636 
Cow, in Pennsylvania.224 
Cow. Insects in. 405 
Cow, Questions about. 309 
Cow, When to plow. 595 
Cow. winter oats, Crimson clover. 486 
Netting for. 274 
Nott’s Excelsior. 342 
Sweet.,61, 283 
Tested at the Rural Grounds. 226 
Peach. A better than Alexander.406 
And plum pits, Starting.596 
Borer, Life changes of the. 805 
Borers. A city farmer's. 804 
Borers and cutworms. 6 
Borers, Killing. 35 
Budding; when and how to do it.. 469 
Carman.375, 487 
Champion, The.645 
Champion, More light upon the... 791 
Curl, Something about. 501 
Curl In Michigan, The. 493 
Everbearing. 630 
Grafting, A fake about. 709 
Klondyse, The.662 
New, from Texas. 375 
On plum stock. . 502 
Orchard, Apple trees in a. 19 
Orchard, Fertilizers for a. 208 
Orchard; What varieties ?. 116 
Orchards, Leaf curl In Michigan.. 467 
Potash for the. 693 
Roots, Root galls on. 37 
Rot, B’or. 84 
Sneed, tbe. 791 
Stocks, Southern. 240 
The. 29 
Trees, Girdling, to hasten ripening 116 
Trees, Protecting In winter. 684 
Trees. Root-gall in. 502 
Trees, Tne use of salt on. 163 
Trees with the yellows. 73 s 
Triumph. 598 
What is yellows In the. 580 
Yellows in Tennessee, Possibly.... 341 
Yellows, Supposed cases of. 775 
Peaches and plums in Connecticut.... 837 
California, Flavor of. 23 
Champion, Two. 726 
Early southern . 493 
B’or central Massachusetts, What . 661 
In central New York. 705 
Muriate and bone for. 172 
Pruning. 776 
Tar paper on. 779 
When to prune . 66 i 
With “ wilted black sides”. 100 
Pear, Anjou.806 
Blight, Calomel for.405, 454 
Blight, Medicines for. 551 
Dorset. 359 
B’ame.”” 679 
Garber Hybrid. 710 
Japan Russet. 326 
Keiffer, Quality of the. 791 
Lincoln. 277 
Lincoln Coreless. 279 
Orchard, Green crops in a. 565 
Rutter. 770 
Psylla and lice on mapies. 517 
Slug, Life and work of the.389 
Sudduth, in Iowa. 753 
Sweet-and-sour. A . 613 
Trees, blighted. Medicines for. 532 
Vermont Beauty, The. 153 
Pears and plums for Indiana. 789 
And other fruits. 84 
Dwarf: How far apart?. 136 
Dwarf, in Texas. 779 
Keiffer, baked.” 743 
Lawrence and Keiffer. 945 
Peat. A comtiost heap of. 737 
Moss for stable bedding. 719 
Pecans and hlckorynuts. 757 
In central Illinois. 724 
Peonies, Herbaceous. 377 
Treatment of. 587 
Perennials. Border. 555 
Pheasant farming In England. 797 
Phlox, Hardy... 
Phloxes, Early. 407 
Phosphoric acid for humans. 454 
Physalls B’rancheti.’ 329 
Pickle crop. Cost of a . 703 
Pickles, cheap, No money In. 53 
Pig, Hydrophobia from bite of. 319 
Retained testicle In a. 398 
Pigs, Berkshire, Weights of.253 
Bran and middlings for. 199 
Enlarged throat glands in.847 
Indigestion in. 437 
Inilammatlon of the skin in. 52 
Lungs, Ground food In . 99 
Middlings and bran for. 303 
Overfed. 185 
Pen-sore . 52 
Raising young on cows' milk. 671 
Shorts or middlings for. 745 
Throat. Tumor on. 319 
Unthrifty. 407 
What alls the. 286 
Young, Acute indigestion in. 41 
Pigeon ? male. Which Is the. 493 
Pineapple, The seed of the. 731 
Pine. Golden Variegated orSunray... 118 
Screw.. 
Pinus Ayacahuile. 55 
Pipes, Cement, not satisfactory. 53 
Plant, An anti-hair. 797 
Lice and ants.”, 577 
Plants, bedding, Useful. 43 
For a sunny bed. 475 
B’or cold frames.■. 999 
For cool room. 795 
B’or a shaded bed. 427 
B’or carpet bedding. 347 
B’or shady places.208 
From seed. 999 
H ar ?y... 683 
Herbaceous, for edging border.... 779 
House, A book about.. 491 
House. B’ertilizers for. 843 
In a shadv corner. 249 
In the cellar. 97 
Starting early: learn by mistakes. 53 
That are hired out.834 
