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Miss Caustic, and could do wonderful 
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he loves the ground I walk on. ” Papa : 
“No doubt, my daughter. Young Hunker 
knows this is a fine, large farm .”—Little 
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Fond Mother: “I notice, Fraulein, 
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fallen off the last few days.” German 
Governess: “ Ach, so! Zat is because 
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Agent: “See here, my little man, what 
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I’m selling bicycles. Ask your father if 
he doesn’t want to get one for you.” 
Farmer’s Boy : “ What’s the price ? ” 
Agent: “ Fifty dollars.” Boy: “ Phew ! 
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A Big Horse Farm, The Model Creamery of An Oregon Hop Yard, 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, December 26, 1891 
is used by thousands of 
PHYSICIANS 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A Row of French Coach Stallions. 893 
The Best Vermin Dogs. 894 
Feeding Idle Horses. 895 
The Best Milkers Make the Best Beef. 895 
Why I Chose Guernseys. 895 
High Stepping Horses.895 
Importance of Good Ewes. 895 
Eating Horse Flesh. 895 
The Outcome of Oleomargarine Laws.890 
My Chickens.89fi 
Were the Cows Milked too Long ?.897 
Hen House Floors. 897 
Ensilage for Ewes and Horses. 897 
Clover Hay as an Exclusive Feed for Ewes. 897 
Cut Straw with Ensilage.897 
Clover for Butter.897 
Barefooted Horses. 899 
FARM TOPICS 
The Cost of Making Stable Manure.893 
Blood and Tankage as a Fertilizer.897 
Reducing Bones. 897 
Cow Peas for Forage.897 
Apple Pomace for Manure.897 
Broadcasted Fertilizers.897 
New England Wood Lots All Right. 898 
Sweet Potatoes.898 
Some Canadian Onions. 899 
The Farmer and H1 b Chances of 50 Years Ago.... 90(1 
HORTICULTURAL 
A New Radish Insect. 897 
Japanese Quince Propagation. 897 
Spraying Bellows.897 
Hybrid Grapes in Kentucky.898 
Wood Ashes for Peach Trees. 898 
Lindens for Shade. 898 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
A Chance to Begin Again.902 
Good Resolutions. 902 
A New Year’s Greeting. 902 
The Law of Compensation. 902 
Some Correspondence Regarding Women’s Clubs. 902 
Our New Year’s Dinner. 902 
Prudence Primrose’s Diary.903 
The World of Women. 903 
An Attractive Man. 903 
in their practice, and many 
What Practical Men Are Doing, and How They Are Doing It! 
We go for facts to plain every-day men, who have made a success of some branch 
of agriculture and are able and willing to tell how success was realized. Their 
views are printed together in the form of a symposium, thus giving in a clear, brief 
way all obtainable facts. 
The Rural New-Yorker aims to give the earliest reports and descriptions of new 
and important varieties, implements, methods, or agricultural changes. Among the 
topics already in hand for the coming year are the following : 
Handling the Potato Crop.—How our best potato A Suit of Clothes Complete.—I llustrated story of 
growers handle this bulky crop to the best advan- a good suit from the sheep’s back to the farmer’s 
tage. body. 
Irrigating the Strawberry.— The dry season lias Thk Hudson River Grape Region.—A n expert’s 
driven hundreds of berry growers to a system of report of a visit to this noted locality, 
artificial watering. Men like J. M Smith, C. W. Wyoming! the Baby State.— History of Uncle 
Garfield, etc., will tell how and when t<. use the Sam’s baby, with an account of Its possibilities 
watcr ’ and impossibilities. 
Substitutes for Buffalo robes.—a discussion of war on Oleomargarine.—S tartling disclosures 
the hide values of cattle. and facts regarding the traffic In this compound. 
What is “Free Coinage ?”—Leading politicians Cape Cod Farming.— -Account of curious farm prac- 
and financiers will answer this question. tices on this sandy land, with pictures of old 
tools and buildings. 
The Child Crop !—Some of our best educators will Breeding for Meat.— Review by leading cattle 
talk about home influences and our public schools. men of the famous feeding tests at the Michigan 
Agricultural College, with pictures of the cattle 
and meat. 
Indian Farming. —This was announced last year, 
but our reporter was driven out by the Sioux war. 
Negro agricultural College.— Much has been 
written about the white agricultural college stu¬ 
dents—It is proposed now to show what the black 
boys are doing. 
Chemicals and clover. —Accurate accounts of Results of Experiments at the Rural Experimen- 
farins where clover sod and chemicals make tal Grounds in the use of fertilizers; in hybridl- 
cheaper manure than clover liay and grain. zation, and crossing frultB, flowers and grain 
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