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Luscious Strawberries. 
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saves all waste. Send for descriptive 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, June 17, 1893, 
FARM TOP1C8. 
The Farmer’s Best Friend, Clover. ill 
Stone Windmill Tanks.112 
Tneory and Practice of a Stone Ditch. 413 
When to Cut Rye Straw. 412 
What Will Kill Grass?. 4.3 
A Long Island Farm Community. 414 
Eternal Vigilance the Price of Hired Men.414 
Our New Ulghways; How Should They Be Made? 422 
Corn After Corn. 423 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A 1,000-Duck Power Duckery. 409 410, 411 
Feeding Mango.ds In Germany. 411 
Making Granular Butter. 413 
Cutting Off a Born. 413 
Sheep That Eat Wool. 418 
To Condition a Horse Out of Condition. 418 
Cause and Treatment of Lampas . 418 
Dog V8. Dog. 422 
A Rabbit Drive. 422 
England vs EngllsU Sparrows.422 
Cured Scours. 423 
Udder Needs Kneading. 423 
Tumors on Cow. 423 
A Lame Horse.....423 
A Poultry Dog. 423 
An Experience with Lumpy Jaw. 423 
Soiling Cattle. 423 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Double Cropping In theOrchard.412. 413 
Bordeaux Mixture Too Strong. 413 
Potash for a Western Orcnard. 413 
Does Water Aid Frost ?. 414 
The Free Package Must Come. 414 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Mr. and Mrs. Clever Watch the Trend of the 
T .. 4’f 
Cheap and Simple Wall Pockets. 411 
Delightful Strawberry Salac ; and Some Others.. 4lt 
Devoted to Poultry. 411 
Those Votes. 41! 
Kitchen Kindlings. 41! 
More Appropriate . 41! 
Salt for Spasms. 41! 
Pulls of Fish and Potato. 41! 
The Beet Professions. .... 41! 
Fancy Table. 41! 
One Opinion. 41! 
Wbi this Settle Anything?. 41! 
Woman’s Opportunity. 41! 
CommencementGowns. 41! 
Ruskln on Woman’s Influence. 41! 
One Housewife’s Way. 4 l! 
Lemons Ready for Use. 4 P 
Curfew Rings Every Night. 41! 
Things Stationary . 41’ 
The Spanish Infanta. 41’ 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
That Folding Saw Again. 41 
Substitute for Coffee. 41 
Rurallsms. 41 
Editorials. 41 
Brevities. 41 
The Prospect. 41 
Business Bits ... 41 
Crop and Market Notes . 42 
We Want to Know. 42 
Markets.42 
How They Came Out. 4- 
Shear Nonsense. 42 
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you to take a slice” of ours 
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Price $12.00. Address, 
j D.Y.Hallock & Son, 
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r GREAT SUCCESS” POTATO DIGGER 
is very light draft, weight 80 lbs., a boy 
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