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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 22 , 1896 
Humorous. 
Microbes in a kiss, you say 
Right you are, my boy; 
Little germs of purest bliss. 
Bacilli of joy ! —Household. 
With regard to sparking over the 
front gate, a great deal can be said on 
both sides.— Texan Siftings. 
Old Lady : “ That parrot I bought 
of you uses dreadful language.” Bird 
Dealer : “Ah. mum, you should be very 
careful what you say afore it; It’s aston¬ 
ishing how quick them birds pick up 
an y thin g.”— Spare Monients. 
Uncle George : “ Got trusted for it ? 
Very bad ! When 1 was a young man 
I always paid cash for everything I 
bought.” Frivolous Nephew : “ You 
don’t mean to say that your credit was 
so bad as that!”— Boston Transcript. 
“I don’t believe whippings do children 
any good,” said Mrs. Wiggins. “Why, I 
whipped Johnny at the photographer’s 
three times because he wouldn’t look 
pleasant, and he still looked as cross and 
disagreeable as ever.”— Harper’s Bazar. 
The late Mr. Spurgeon, in an address 
at the marriage of a friend’s daughter, 
thus settled the question as to “the head 
The 
RIDING CULTIVATOR 
IRON AGE 
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of the family.” Said he to the bride ; 
“ Let him be the head, and do you be 
the neck, and turn him w’liich way you 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, February 22, 1896. 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Farm Bone Meal Factory.114 
Tar for Grubs.114 
810 Worth of Fertilizer. 114 
What Tools Needed ?.114 
Making a Hog Pasture.115 
Sub-irrigation from Windmill Tank.110 
Making a Pasture in Vermont.116 
What Can Be Done for Wireworms ?. 117 
Some Notes on Alfalfa.117 
Oats and Clover in West Virginia.117 
How to Seed Knolls. 117 
Early Corn and Peas; Muck for Manure.117 
Feathers and Shavings for Fertilizer.117 
How to Treat Blood for Fertilizer.117 
Value of Wood Ashes.117 
A Start for a Permanent Pasture. 117 
How to Use Hen and Hog Manures.118, 119 
When to Sow Millet.131 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Breeding for the Dairy.113, 114 
Rye for Cows.114 
Potatoes for Stock.114 
Brewers’Grains or Bran ; Milk. 116 
Dairy Cattle in Mexico.116 
Business Birds for Business Breeders.123 
Feeding a Hen. Part VII.128 
An Eye Cure.128 
Killing Horns.128 
What Cow ?.128 
Another Bone Cutter.128 
Bone Cutters.128 
A Good Cow Stall.128, 129 
Veal or “ Deacon ” ?.129 
Some Connecticut Jersey Blood.129 
Roots Save Grain.129 
*500 from 12 Hens.130 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Evergreens in Kansas. 114 
Simple Horticulture Worth Remembering.115 
17-Year Locusts and the Apple Crop.115 
The Sutton Beauty Apple.115 
Care of a Rural Cemetery.116 
Heating all “Outdoors” With Bricks.116 
How to Fight White Grubs.116, 117 
How to Treat Large Shoots.117 
Cut out the Dead Wood. 117 
Timbrell Strawberry and Japan Plums.117 
Setting Strawberry Plants by Machinery; a 
Hired Man With a Wooden Back. 118 
Some Notes on Celery Blight. 118 
Some Plums for Pennsylvania.119 
Best Early and Late Strawberry.119 
Value of Skill in Grafting. 119 
Wood Growth in Kansas. 130 
Rot in Plums. . 130 
Some Pacific Coast Apples.130, 131 
Don't Bud from Scrub Trees. 131 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
The Reason. 
Editorials. 
The Scolding Habit. 
Shall a Wife Earn Money 1 . 
What’s in a Name ?. 
For Mind and Heart. 
A Gentle Hint. 
.124 
.124 
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.124 
....124, 125 
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. 125 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Catalogue Reviews. 
Editorials. 
Brevities. 
As We Go to Press. 
Crop and Market Notes. 
Markets. 
Ways of Some Publishers. 
Humorous. 
119, 120, 121 
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