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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 25, 1896 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, April 25, 1896 
FARM TOPICS. 
By Their Sprouts Ye Know Them !.285 
A “ Starter ’’for Seed Potatoes.285, 286 
Disking Corn Ground.287 
Clover and Trees on Clay Soil.287, 288 
Rape and Crimson Clover with Oats.289 
Miss Red Clover and Tim Timothy.289 
Is Salt a Fertilizer ?.289 
Bone, Potash and Coal Ashes.289 
Sorghum as Fodder.291 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Room on the Roost; Cutting Fodder.289 
Quality and Quantity of Milk.289 
Color of Egg Shell and Flavor of Egg.289 
Silo for Eight Cows.293 
A Handy Hand Separator.293 
Feeding a Hen. Part XV.298 
Roots for Hogs.298 
Sex in Breeding.298 
Dealings in Thoroughbred Stock.299 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Notes on Horticultural Novelties. No. Ill_286 
Growing Peas on a Large Scale.286, 287 
A Dozen Good Common Shrubs.287 
What Ails the Newtown Pippin Apples?.287 
How to Fight the Canker Worm.288 
Value of the Pissardi Plum.288 
To Propagate Red Raspberries.288 
Early Vermont and Melrose Sweet Corns. 288- 
Peaches on a Hill; Japan Plums.288 
What About the Bismarck Apple?.288 
A Compost for Raspberries.288, 289 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Editorials .294 
The Hired Man in the Home.294 
The College Tea.294 
Scolding the Children.294 
A Batch of Don’ts.295 
Patterns for R. N.-Y. Readers.295 
Value of Education.295 
Printed Patchwork.295 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
“ The Stove Shark” Appears.287 
To Cleanse Maple Syrup.289 
Ruralisms.290, 291 
Editorials.292 
Brevities.292 
Business Bits .293 
As We Go To Press. 296 
Crop and Market Notes.296 
Markets.297 
