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OCT. 4 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Humorous. 
The Sugar Trust is trying to reorganize. 
So far its efforts have not crystallized.— 
Philadelphia Press. 
Just So— Fond wife : “ What causes you 
to borrow trouble so much.” John : “ The 
inability to borrow anything else.”— Buf¬ 
falo Express. 
“ Pat, you must be older than you look 
to be. How long have you been votiug ? ” 
“ Iver since the polls opened this morning, 
be gobs! ”— Epoch. 
Willie : “ Why do they cut up the ground 
so with the plow ? ” Farmer : *' That’s so 
we can sow the seed.” Willie: “Then do 
you sew up the holes again?”— Harpers' 
Young People. 
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and me I think we have only one.” 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, October 4,1890. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Two Australian Merinos. 662 
Oxford Down Ram "Progress” .. . 662 
The Needs of American Sheep Husbandry. 662 
Milk In a Well.-68 
Taints in Milk. 60) 
Measurements of Ormonde. 664 
Suppuration Within the Hoof Wall; Qulttor.665 
Bulls on a Mare. 665 
Ster-lized Milk ..665 
Partial Paralysis of Hind Legs In a Mare.*65 
Apples for Cows. 670 
’ lve Stock Notes . 672 
A Winter Hen House . 674 
Justice for the ’Barn-Yard Fowl”.674 
The Geneva Butter School.675 
FARM TOPICS. 
Baling Manure. 665 
Muriate of Potash for wheat. 665 
Swivel Plow for Level Land. 665 
Do Varieties -unOut?. 666 
Wheat Growing on a College Farm. 666 
Potato Leaves and Blight. 666 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Notes from the Rural Grounds. 660 
Fruits for a Small Garden Patch. 665 
Are Currants Profitable ?. 665 
Diseased Potato Tops .665 
Most Produ- live Winter Apple. 6t-5 
Varieties of Small Fruit* to Plant. 665 
Marlboro Raspberry... . 665 
staking Raspberries . 665 
Mice In a Bulb Bed.... 665 
Unproductive Duche.-s Pear Trees . 665 
Spraying Fruit Trees.6 6 
Thinning Giupes; New Varieties.666 
WOMAN’S WORK 
Championing the Children.670 
Weeds Within Dorrs : Somo Bad Habits. 671 
Women's Work In Canada. 671 
For Better, For Worse. 671 
Is It Funny ?. 671 
Canning Green Tomatoes.671 
Tomato Catsup .: .671 
More About Pickles. 671 
MISCELLANEOUS 
If I Could Be Young Again .662 
Some Recent Agricultural Patents. 668 
The History of a Prairie . 663 
The Ideal Farmers’ Institute. 664 
Correspondents' Views. . 66 1 
Ag-leultural Depression Again. 666 
What Others Say. .666, 667 
The Geneva Experiment Station. 669 
Defending Mr. Cannon. 674 
Epitokial. 666 
Rukviti-s.668 
Publisher's Desk. 672 
Auhicui tural News .... . . 672 
Crop and Market Notes . 673 
Mxhkkts. 673 
Almanac. •74 
