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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
JUNE 20 
Humorous. 
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RICHMOND, VA. 
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—Life. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, June 20,1891. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A Tested Jersey. 463 
Stimulants for Horses. 463 
A Khode Island Butter Maker . 463 
Yields of Different Breeds. 463 
Don’t Feed Cotton-Seed Meal to Hogs. 468 
Booting for Cheap Stock Food.464 
Siring with a Saw. 465 
How to Feed a Horse and Cow. 465 
Dishorning Shears ; “ De” or “ Dls ”. 455 
Am I Feeding Properly?.465 
Feeding Turnips to Milch Cows. 466 
Is There any Calf Medicine in an Egg ?.466 
The Color of the Yolk.475 
Kale as Stock Feed.475 
Bantams on Limited Areas.475 
When to Sell Minnesota Hens.475 
A Crate of Plymouth Rocks.475 
FARM TOPICS. 
Raising and Harvesting Corn and Ensilage. 461 
Special Farming Still Pays Best. 462 
Keel for Fence Wire .462 
A Dirt Wheel-Barrel. 462 
Winter Wheat in Dakota. 462 
Feeding Cactus. 462 
June Planted Potatoes . 462 
Stock Food at the South.463 
Earliness of a Late Potato. 463 
Live, Healthy Bugs are Needed.468 
Fighiing Grasshoppers. 463 
The Hybrid Wheats. 463 
Irrigation Makes Value.463 
Green Clover for Potatoes. 463 
Grass for Marsh Land.465 
Frost on Tiled Land. 465 
Fighting Frost; Seedling Potatoes. 466 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Notes on Tree and Vine Planting. 462 
Shrubbery Notes. 468 
Blackberry Rust. 465 
Raspberry Rust.465 
Peach Leaf Curl. 466 
WOMAN AND THE HOME 
Note and Comment. 471 
Money Making at Home. 471 
Bee Culture. 471 
Tennis and Yachting Gowns.471 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Bimetallism. 464 
Beauties of the Proposed Land Loan.465 
Tax Reform Association.465 
“ Insect Life” and Its Inaccuracies. 466 
What Others Say. 466, 467 
Editorial. 463 
Brevities. 468 
A Celebrated Case. 469, 4t0 
Agricultural News.472 
Condeused Correspondence. 472 
Crop and Market Notes. 473 
Markets.473 
Sullivan Co., N. Y., Council. 474 
A Summer Exhibition.474 
Summer Sprouts. 475 
Humorous.. 476 
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