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THE HOUSEWIFE FOR FEBRUARY 
CONTENTS 
Mary E. Wilkins will contribute to our February number the 
Story ot "A PROTRACTED MEETING.” Mrs. G. G. Atwood will 
relate the entertaining tale of “ ATI'•T JANE’S HIDDEN TREASURE;” 
and Annie DuBois McMahon will follow with the humorous story 
of “AUNT BETTY’S VALENTINE.” 
Mary Lowe Dickinson will talk with Ouu Girls. 
L E. Chittenden will have something to say to mothers about 
“ WINTER SEWING FOR THE CHILDREN.” 
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Rural New-Yorker. February 28, 1891. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
A Steuben County Sheep Rack. 1 
Some Pithy Stock Talk .. 1 
Canadiau Feeding Questions . ] 
Unchurn able Cream. I 
Variety of Feed for Stock. ] 
Live Stock Notes. .. .. .. i 
Ailing Animals—. 1 
The Original Eastern Dishorner. ] 
Poultry Show Echoes . 1 
Wyaudottes as Layers. 
Something About Roup. 
Some Iowa Poultry., .. 
Feeding for Flavor. . 
farm topics 
Making the Most of Barn Manure. ' 
Making a Fertilizer. . 
Fresh from the Farm. : 
Beans as a Field Crop. : 
Cotton Seed vs. Cotton-Seed Meal. 
Failure in Beans. ... 
Who Has Tried Nitrate of Soda in the West ?. 
White Swedish Oats . 
Damaged Corn and Oats as a Fertilizer. . 
Lime for New Land . 
Exterminating Wild Onions. 
Scab on Tomatoes ... 
Fertilizer for Wheat. 
Corn For Ensilage . 
Raising Seedling Potatoes.. 
Bermuda Potatoes. . 
Tabulated Analvses of Commercial Fertilizers_ 
Beaver County Weeds Don’t Smother.. ... 
Cash Sales from the Farm. 
Buying and Using Fertilizers. 
All About Iron Rooting. 
A Windmill for Irrigation. . 
Harrows. 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Crops for a Young Orchard. 
Fruits for N. C. 
Currant Cuttinss. 
Treatment of Azaleas and Lilies. 
Crossing Berries Etc. . 
Fertilizers for Pot Plants. 
Choice Hardy Flowers. . 
Lucretia Dewberry. 
Bree dngoff tne Thorns—... 
Covering for Hot-Beds .. . 
Beginning Fruit Growing. 
Sweet Apples. 
The Society of American Florists. 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Hints for Home Study. 
Country Schools. 
Notes on the Problem of the Age. 
A Man’s Mistake.. 
Suggestions for Amateur Dressmakers. 
Warming the Chamber Without a Stove. 
Baby’s Knit Shoes. 
Bavarian Cream.. 
A Supplementary Suggestion. 
Recipe for Fish. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Complete Fertilizers. 
The Nicaragua Canal. 
Eligibility of Canadians to the Presidency. 
Benjamin Franklin : The Term Yankee. 
Wife’s Signature to Deed. 
In 1915 : A Dark View. 
Water-oroof Canvas 1. 
What Others Say .. 
English Manufacturers in America. 
Novelties and Staples from the Catalogues. 
Humorous. 
Editorial... 
Brevities. 
Trade Winds. 
Agricultural News.... .. . 
From Costa Rica . 
Crop and Market Notes . 
Markets.. . . 
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