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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, November 28, 1891. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Beef Tvpe and Milk Type .829, s 30 
Live Stock Matters...831 
Apples for Stock Feed.881 
Feeding Quality into Milk.881 
Barefooted Horses. 881 
Dishorning Cattle.831,882 
Feeding Grain t-> Pastured Cows. 832 
Temperature and Care for Chicks.833 
Dorset Horned Sheep.833 
Best Dog to Kill Rats and Minks. 
Butter Accumulator.833 
Injections of flood.833 
Poultry Notes.8<2 
A Canadian Hen Stoiy . 842 
The Duck. 842 
FARM TOPICS 
Deadening Timber. 831 
Substitutes for Fences. 881 
Stock Warning Signs.. . 6 3l 
Potato Experiments at the Rural Grounds _ 832,s 33 
Bones, Tobacco and Tan-Bark Ashes. 83 t 
Roads and Highways.>88 
Scabby Potato Skins in Manure for Potato Land.. 833 
New Steel Wind Engine. >87 
Corn Harvesters. 837 
A Good Stone Drain. 837 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Grape Girdling on the Hudson River.830 
Spraying Solution. 830 
Tree Butchering.. gso 
Late Strawberry Planting.“ 831 
A Belgian Subscriber on the Bordeaux Mixture'. ! 832 
Meeting of the American Bornological Society.... 8:-3 
Fruit on Overflowed Land.833 
Fall Grafting Grape Vines . 833 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Editorial Briefs. . 888 
Contributed Hints and Recipes .’ S38 
Efficiency of Women as Postmasters. ... . . 838 
R-admg Habits.838 
Christmas Decorations. 838,889 
No Time ?. 839 
"Leprosy” in the Spare Room. 839 
A Novel Tdea. 839 
Some Ways to Try.839 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
What Others Say.834, 835 
Editorial. 836 
Brevities . 836 
Does Producing New Varietl* s Pay?. 83 ? 
Working on a Seed Farm. 837 
Agricultural News... . 640 
Crop and Market Notes. 84U 
Markets 841 
What About the People’s Party ?. 842 
Premiums.843 
Humorous. 844 
