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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 19, 1896 
Humorous. 
The theory that the more a man has 
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She : “ Now, George, wherever we go. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker. September 19,1896. 
farm TOPICS. 
Dried Grass or Hay ?.623, 624 
Some Homemade Corn Ties.624 
A Heavy Grass Seeding.624 
Value of Northern-Grown Seed. 625 
Small Farms on the Pacific Coast.625 
Notes on a Plank Frame Barn.625 
How to Use Wood Ashes.625 
Save the Coal.626 
The Melrose Sweet Corn.626 
Potato Bugs on Tomato Vines.626 
The Short Course in Agriculture. 629 
Cow Peas at the North.632, 633 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
“The Best Dairy Cow.”.621, 622 
An American Shetland Pony. Part II.623 
Is the Tuberculin Test Dangerous?. 623 
What Is Oleomargarine ? .625 
What Grain to Feed with Apples?.634 
“ Murrain ” in Southern Cattle......634 
Danger in Milk •* Preservatives”.634 
Pekin Ducks in Kansas.635 
A Good Record.635 
Don’t Need Ensilage.635 
Tuberculin and Cattle.635 
Fighting Flies.635 
What Heredity Represents.635 
HORTICULTURAL. 
A Great Orchard of Keiffer Pears.622 
Cauliflowers in the Strawberry Bed.622 
Plum and Apple Notes by S. D. Willard-622, 623 
Fruit Notes from Eastern Shore of Maryland. 624 
More About Columbian Raspberries.624 
Some Peach Notes.624 
The Russian Plums Fruited.624 
Growing Lettuce at the South.625 
Asparagus and Rhubarb Culture.625 
How My Carman Grape Acted.626 
Grafting Prune on Plum.626 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
The Fall o’ the Year...630 
Editorials .630 
A Little at a Time.630 
Women as Economists and Financiers. 630 
Cure for Hiccoughs.630. 631 
Patterns for R. N.-Y. Readers.631 
Hickory-Nut Macaroons.631 
Printed Patchwork.631 
Tomato Soup. .631 
Don’t Be Opinionated. 631 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Preserving Figs.625 
Water for Constipation.625 
Believes in the Weather Bureau.626 
Cow Dung for Paint.626 
Ruralisms.627 
Editorials. 628 
Brevities.628 
A Report from a Farmer’s Fair.629 
The New York State Fair.629 
As We Go To Press.632 
Markets. 633 
Condensed Correspondence ..633 
Hnmorous. 636 
