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CONTENTS. 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., 
Bellows Falls, Vermont. 
Rural New-Yorker, May 18, 1895. 
FARM TOPICS. 
How Nature Improves the Soil.341, 342 
An Acre of Potatoes for $40 . 342 
Notes on the “ New Hay Culture ”.342, 343 
How to Grow “ Fancy Vineland Sweets ”.343 
An Illinois Ex-Renter Talks.343, 344 
A Barn Without Beams.344 
Crimson Clover for Corn.345 
What to Do with Cow Peas.345 
A Wisconsin Potato Fertilizer.345 
Telling Some New Things.346 
Value of a Manure Spreader.346 
Agricultural Science Made Easy.349 
The Soil. Part IV.354 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Hens for the South.344 
What Care for Breeding Animals?.344, 345 
A Cow with Rheumatism. 345 
“Lumpy Jaw” in a Cow.345 
Constipation Caused by Cotton-Seed Meal.345 
Old-Time Whey Butter.346 
Sulphur and Sheep.355 
Determining Sex.355 
Fatten This Pig.355 
A Close Poultry Ration.355 
My First Experience with Ducks. 355 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Peaches in Canada.343 
The Culture of Black Currants.343 
Honest Men Honored. 344 
Work of the Snowy Tree Cricket..345 
The Norfolk Island Pine Coccus or Bark Louse 345 
“ Dung Worms” are Wanted.345 
Hardiness of Japan Plums; Fay Currants.... 346 
Hardiness of Japan Plums.346 
A Vermonter Raises Peaches.346 
Improving Quality in Nuts.346 
Remedy for the San Jos6 Scale..349 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Prizes ! Prizes !.350 
In Medium is Safety.350 
A Wood Carrier.350 
Life is What W'e Make It.350 
Miss Willard and the Bicycle.350 
Learning to Think. 350 
Jeremiah’s Idea of Women.350 
Equal to the Occasion.351 
Keeping Company.351 
Children’s Garden Tools.351 
Teaching the Baby.351 
The Neighborhood Parliament.351 
Crumbs from Different Tables.351 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Insects in Stored Wool.34E 
Ruralisms. 347 
Editorials.348 
As We Go to Press. 355: 
Markets. 35- 
Crop and Market Notes.355 
If so a “ Baby ” Cream Separator will e«rn Its cost for 
you every year. Why continue an inferior system 
another year at so great a loss? Dairying is now the 
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r ear at so great a loss?^Dairying is now the 
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ELGIN. ILL 
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Manufacturer of and Dealer in Agricultural Drain Tile. Salt- 
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