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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, Aug. l, 1891. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Butter-Making Competitions. . 559 
A Girl’s Chicken Business . 571 
Fighting Chicken Thieves.. ’571 
FARM TOPICS 
Sunlight or Shade for Soil. SCO 
Prof. Plumb on Small Plots.’ 562 
In Favor of Small Plots."" 562 
Does Cultivation Save Moisture?.562 
The Trouble with those Potatoes .. .* 553 
Another Mole Nostrum. 563 
Is It a Dark Outlook?.... 553 
Some Sweet Potato Tools.. 565 
A City Man Talks Farm Business . 555 
Small Engines fur Farmers. . !!.. 565 
The R. N.-Y.-’s Fertilizer Experiments.’’’ 570 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Hot Water as an Insecticide . 558 
Notes from the Rural Grounds. YYYYYYYY' 558 
hose Bugs In the Soil. ...'.Y 561 
Chinese Tea Culture. 557 
Growir g Peaches in the Cold North.561 
Lamp Traps for Insects . 551 
A Small Asparagus Patch.561 
Black Walnuts In New York..”" 551 
WOMAN AND THE HOME 
Your Daughter’s Resources; What are They ?.566 
Our Economy Column . 566 
In Defense of Pussy.566 
Visitingthe Sick. 557 
A Successful Canner’s Methods.. . 567 
Home-Made Picture Frames .567 
Cooking Spinach. 567 
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Injurious Insects, with preventives and remedies. 
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Waxes and washes for grafting and for wounds, 
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Stocks used for fruits. 
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