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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 28, 1896 
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the FARQUHAR 
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Cornell University Bulletin No. 105, page 109, gives 19 tests of the Improved 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yobkeb, March 28, 1896. 
farm topics. 
The Use of Dry Bordeaux Mixture.214 
A Homemade Land Roller.214, 215 
Thrashing Machine for Mixing Fertilizers.215 
Tar on the Corn.215 
The Improved Plank Frame.215, 216 
Shall Potatoes Follow Potatoes ?.216 
Grain and Grass on a Swamp.216 
How to Treat Potato Ground.216 
Rural Thoroughbred Flint Corn for Ensilage. 217 
Using Potatoes to Fertilize Corn.217 
Some Questions About Barns.217 
Marl as a Stable Absorbent.217 
A “ Blind ” Fertilizer Aualys's.217 
Fertilizer for Grass and Garden.218 
Tornado-Struck Potatoes.230, 231 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Pumpkins for Dairy Cows.216, 217 
Variations in Cream Testing.217 
Milk from Ensilage Is All Right.223 
Early Cut Grass for Cows.223 
Feeding a Hen. Part XII.228 
Horns and Grubs on Cows.229 
HORTICULTURAL. 
A Living from Two Acres.213, 214 
Flavor in Celery. 214 
Failure of Parker Earle Strawberry.215 
Lime for Peach Yellows.215 
Potash for Borers.215 
Unfruitful Plum Trees ; Borers.216 
An Orchard of Rich Red Apples.216 
What Stock for Apple Grafting?.216 
Some Apples for New York.216 
Something About Mushroom Culture.216 
What About the Triumph Peach ?.216 
Paragon and Ridgeley Chestnuts Compared.. 216 
Some Fertilizers for Strawberries.216 
A Batch of Fruit Questions from Illinois.216 
Questions About Citron.217 
Mixed Colors in Flowers.217 
Why Young Tomato Plants Wilt.217 
Wanted Quick-Growing Shade Trees.217 
Glass-House Temperature for Different Flow¬ 
ers.218, 219 
Catalogue Reviews.219, 220, 221 
North or South for Strawberry Plants.223 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Editorials .224 
A Woman Trustee.224 
For Mind and Heart.225 
Linseed Oil for Healing Sores.225 
Bicycle Rights in England.225 
Educated Mothers.225 
Cure for Gossiping....225 
