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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 11, 1896 
WANTED 
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KEMP’S MANURE SPREADER 
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S^ t e°rs ATTENTION! 
Schwingel’s 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, April 11, 1896 
FARM TOPICS. 
Seeding to Crimson Clover.254 
Booms Crimson Clover.255 
Millet on That Pond Bottom.255 
Tar on Corn. 255 
Without a Plow.256 
Some Facts About Fertilizers.256 
Sulphur for Potato Scab.256 
Waste as a Fertilizer.256 
Mixing Hen Manure with Fertilizer.257 
The Silo Conquers Drought.259 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A Milk Shelf.255 
Will a Silo Pay 1 .255 
Silo for a Small Herd.256 
Barley for Hog Feed.257 
Ailing Animals.266 
Profit in Hens.266 
Wild Blood in Turkeys.267 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Come, Let Us Plant the Strawberry.253, 254 
“ The New Strawberry Culture’’.254 
Summer Roses for the Garden.254 
Two Ways of Growing Tomatoes.254, 255 
Planting Old Trees.255 
The Best Transplanting Machine.255, 256 
Spraying to Prevent Apple and Pear Scab.... 256 
Fertilizing and Pruning the Apple Trees.256 
Japan Plums for Profit.257 
.Tune-Budded Trees.257 
Feeding the Asparagus Bed.257 
What Seedlings for Chestnut Grafting?.257 
Salt and Lime for Onion Maggots.257 
Catalogue Reviews.258, 259 
Persimmons for Market.259 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Editorials .262 
Summer Care of Furs.262 
The Point of View. 262 
“ Out of the Cradle into the World”. 262 
Words for Women.26 
Patterns for R. N.-Y. Readers.263 
Brighten the Prospect.263 
The Baby’s Bed.263 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
How Can We Can ?.256 
Good Roads in North Carolina.256 
Editorials. 260 
Brevities.260 
Business Bits .;.261 
Crop and Market Notes.264 
Condensed Correspondence.264 
Markets.265 
