The Prairie Farmer


ESTABLISHED IN 1841.
ENTIRE SERIES: Vol. 56—No. 5.

PRICE, $2.00 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE.

CHICAGO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1884.


[Transcriber’s Note: The Table of Contents was originally located on page 72 of the periodical. It has been moved here for ease of use.]

[THE CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER.]

Agriculture—Selection of a Site for a Park, Page [65]; Fresh Meat for the Farm, [65-66]; Farmers’ Communicative Society, [66]; Botany for Farm Boys, [66]; Diogenes in His Tub, [66]; How He Likes Dakota, [66]; The Use of Salt, [66-67]; Woven Paling Fences, [67]; Illinois State Fair, [67]; From Central Kansas, [67]; Field and Furrow Items, [67].

Horticulture—The Farmer’s Garden, Page [70]; Our Future Orchards, [70-71]; The Model Illinois Nursery, [71]; The Basket Willow, [71].

Poultry Notes—What Ails the Pullets? Page [74]; That Duck Farm, [74]; From New Hampshire, [74].

The Apiary—Corn-silk Protection, Page [74]; Feeding Back, [74]; Bee Pasturage, [74].

Literature—Logic, Poem, Page [78]; Don’t Wait, Poem, [78]; The Curfew Heroine, [78]; Items, [78].

Humorous—Old Shoes, Poem, Page [79]; An Obstinate Wife, [79]; Wanted Weather Strips, [79]; It’s a Telephone, [79]; An Emergency, [79]; Items, [79].

Scientific—The Brilliant Sunsets, Page [75].

Live Stock—Items, Page [68]; A Scare in Missouri, [68]; Public Sales of Stock, [68]; Remedy for Foot-and-Mouth Disease, [68].

The Dairy—The Wisconsin Dairymen, Page [68-69].

Editorial—Items, Page [72]; Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society, [72]; When It is Time to Resign, [72]; Locating the Minnesota State Fair, [72-73]; Wayside Notes, [73]; Letter from Champaign, [73]; An Eloquent Tribute, [73]; Selection of Site for a Park, [73].

Household—An Humble Confession (Poetry), Page [76]; Pyramidal Women, [76]; Give the Babies Water, [76]; Work for Little Fingers, [76].

Young Folks—The Legend of the Stork and the Babies (poetry), Page [77]; A Chat About Halifax, [77]; The Little Legislatures, [77]; Walking Canes, [77]; Items, [77].

News of the Week—Page [80].

Markets—Page [80].