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HOW THEY CRY. 
The glazier’s cry Is one of pane. 
The driver’s one of whoa; 
But happy farmers ne’er complain, 
They only cry hoe! hoe '. 
—Binghamton Republican. 
VAN Duder (indignantly): “I am not 
quite a fool, Miss Amy ! ” Amy : “ No— 
not quite.”— Veto York Herald. 
Caller: “Where’s your father?” Ur¬ 
chin: “He’s shinglin’.” Caller: “The 
barn?” Urchin: “No, Tommy.”— Life. 
Customer : “ That sugar of yours was 
dreadfully adulterated.” Grocer: “But, 
my dear sir, it grew that way—sandy soil) 
you know .”—Pittsburgh Dispatch. 
It is hij* to satisfy everybody. Con¬ 
sumers ct^ ;tlain of short weight in de¬ 
livering c<-£ and dealers complain of long 
wait in pn ^ lg bills .—Somerville Journal. 
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Consists t: “That Sallie Harkins is 
the great<: girl for getting bargains at 
second ha; &” “ Isn’t she ? I understand 
she’s goim' to marry a widower .”—New 
York Sui ; ■ 
DuringI^S examination in history, one of 
the pupils is asked: “Did Martin Luther 
die a natural death?” “ No,” was the reply, 
“ he was excommunicated by a papal bull.” 
Credit Lost. 
His Winter Method. — Bunting: 
“Young Hunker is a regular ladykiller.” 
Larkin : “ Ah ! How does he dispatch his 
victims?” Bunting: “Just now he 
sleighs them.”— N. Y. Sun. 
Jones : “ That’s all nonsense about eat¬ 
ing meat being injurious to health. My 
ancestors for hundreds of years ate meat.” 
Vegetarian: “ Yes, and where are they 
now ?”—Baltimore American. 
Country Resident (to peddler): “ Get 
away out of here now, or I’ll whistle for 
my dog.” Peddler: “ All right, sir ; but 
first, won’t you allow me to sell you a good 
whistle ?”—Fllegende Blatter. 
Mr. Bingo: “Well, Tommy, what did you 
learn at Sunday-school to-day? ” Tommy : 
“ I learned how to say grace.” Mr. Bingo: 
“ Let’s hear it.” Tommy (meekly): “ It 
only goes with two piecesof cake .”—Credit 
Lost. 
First Britisher : “There goes the Duke 
of Muddy Water. He’s an absolutely worth- 
lessfellow.” Second Ditto: “Worthless? 
Oh, I don’t know.” First Britisher : “ Yes, 
he is. He has been refused by three Amer¬ 
ican heiresses.” Second Ditto: “You 
don’t say so. Well, he must be worthless. ” 
—Life. 
Said When She Was Listening.— 
Bobby : “Is every word in this dictionary, 
pa ? ” Peckley: “ I guess not. Every 
little while a new word comes into the 
language.” Bobby: “What’s the last 
word, pa ?” Peckley : “Your mother will 
tell you, my son. She always has it.”— 
Munsey's Weekly. 
A Great Advantage —“I am afraid, 
madam,” said a gentleman who was look¬ 
ing for apartments, “ that the house is too 
near the station to be pleasant.” “ It is a 
UNTIL 
.“400” is thelargestand 
heaviest Tomato known. 
^ ■ i - -'I solid a- 
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oi r CATALOGUE of 
NORTHERN 
, SEEDS FOR 1SQ1 
Contains over 650 illustrations 
and 2 colored plates. The only 
one published illustrating j;v- 
ERYTHING in SEEDS. 
I»UL ISSantl PLANTS.TRUK 
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you Mill say In what paper you saw this advertisement, 
THE BEST 
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Illustrated, Descriptive and Priced 
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Containing all the Novelties of the Season, both in Vegetable and Flower Seeds 
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forallsoils kill fem Pr nC 
AND CLI MES. Em W 
My White Ronanza Oatstookthe American Af/ricuLj 
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G 0.000 bushels potatoes cheap. 
Our Catalogue is the finest ever published. Send 4 cts. 
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Plants of Bast anility. Warranted true to name. Lowest 
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JOHN A. SALZER, LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN. 
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CONTENTS 
Rural New-Yorker. January 24,1891. 
LIVE 8TOCK AND DAIRY. 
Irish Dairy Questions. 
Live Stock Notes. 
Poultry Notes. .. 
Cost of Improving a Flock of Poultry;..'.’.’.’.’.'.'’.’"'.’ 
FARM TOPICS. 
Slave Farming in S. C. 
A Problem forGrain Farmer)... . 
Hogs in the Clover.[. 
Salt as a Fertilizer.”. 
2 000 Bushels of Onions Per Acre . 
Pasturingt>*. Soiling.. 
Japanese Buckwheat. . . 
Celery Growing at Tecumseh. Mich . " ’.. 
Ca-h Business of a Vermont Farm . 
A. N. Y, Farm Statement .'.. 
Reduci"gB<me8.. 
Prices for Canning Stock.. 
A New Cultivator. ... 
Wire Stretching Machines. 
HORTICULTURAL 
Good Barn for a Fruit Grower. 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.. 
Raising Fine Cauliflowers.. 
Fruit and Flower Notes... 
The Gardens of Kiel, Germany ... 
All About Nut Culture . 
Small FruR Queries.. . 
Raspberries in an Orchard.. 
Dlfferient Varieties of Asparagus. . . 
Profitable Grapes for a Market Vineyard.. 
Breed off the Briers.! 
WOMAN’S WORK. 
Cash Prizes for Household Articles. 
A Word to Awaken Our Girls ... 
The Tobacco Question for Girls . 
The Women’s Little Corner in the Paper 
Notes from Canada: Home Upholstery..’. 
Trying Out Land .. 
Home-made Seldlitz Powders. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
HRARD’S SEED POTATO CATALOGUE 
M Y SEED POTATOESare grown from the Choicest Stock, in the virgin lands 
of the cold North-East. I have the best New and Standard Sorts, and warrant 
hem superior to all others for seed. IraisemySEED CORN 160 mile* Farttjr 
North than the North lineot Vermont,and for Early Crops my CARDED SEEDS 
lave no equal. ( 
tw. l L 8C . 88 ,? n . *)T^ ARB,, i l 9 , ER POTATO, which I beUeve win be 
he Great Market Potato of the future. And my new EARLY BRYANT CORN 
i handsome yellow variety, the Earliest of All. I have Special Low Freight Kates’ 
a everywhere. My fine new Catalogue Mailed Free. tS-Name this Paper and address 
GEORGE W. P. JERRARD, Caribou, Maine. 
J OHNS O N & STOKES f 
FARM°MANUAL 1891 mailed FREE to all who write for it.* ^ 
-CHOICE NOVELTIES-1 ^ble CCCnCt 
„ BULBS FOR SUMMER FLOWERS. 
Newest Garden Toons and Poultry Sum 
JOHNSON A STOKES, 21f 
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field, Barker Earle, Lady 
Rusk, Yale. Walton, 
Great Pacific, Cameron- 
ian, Westbrook. Michel’s 
UlisrcllaniW 
Readers of The R. N.-Y. will please the 
advertisers and benefit the paper by always 
mentioning it when writing to advertisers. 
at G< neva, N. Y. Color 
greenish white pulp 
lender, sweet and de¬ 
licious. The only grape 
that ranks first Doth in 
earliness and quality. 
Each vine sealed with 
our registered trade- 
_ mark label. Send for 
_„..r information. Agents wanted 
’EPHKN HOYT’S SONS, New Canaan, Cf. 
circular; 
Address 
0% BOi ■■ ra GARDEN, FLOWER A FIELD 
LLI IV Seed POTATOES, Fruit TREES, 
r i B E i ¥ PLANTS & VINES, all best kinds. 
WhEbU^T Our FREE CATALOGUE 
is a Novelty, as it has No Rig Pl< ture« and gives Conelae, 
Accurate i>t‘ncrlpt Ion* and FairPrlce* for Hofit Goods. 
Don’t mlM seoinc: it before buying. Send address to*<lay to 
FRANK FORD & SON, Ravenna, Ohio. 
Early, etc. Raspberries : Cromwell, Gladstone, Loyett, Progress, Palmer, Early Prolific Black¬ 
berries: Erie. Mi.mewaski, etc. Grapes: Moyer. Diamond-White, Eaton, Green Mountain etc 
Pears: Wilder and Iduho. Gooseberries, Currants, Asparagus, etc. Everything in the Fruit line Cor 
respondence solicited. Price List Free. Send 10 cents for our beautiful new catalogue and 6 plants Mechel’s 
Early Strawberry. L. J. FARMER. Pulaski, Oswego Co., X. Y. 
Beautiful Evergreens. 
Rare and Choice Native and Foreign Varieties. 
Small stock for Nurserymen; larger sizes for orna-, 
ment, Hedges aud Screens. Prices low-. Cataloguer 
free. GEO. PIN’NE Y, Evergreen. VVis. 
ALFALFA CLOVER SEED 
By the car-load or in any quantity. 
Write to W. A. HAWS, 
LaslAnimas, Bent County, Colorado, U, S. A- 
275 ACRE FARM. 
Fertile, warm early soil. 
Good Grass Land. 
Good Butter Farm. 
Good Truck Farm. 
Good Fruit Farm. 
.. , „ . Good Poultry Farm. 
Deposit of Pink Granite. 
Deposit of Fine Molding Sand. 
Fam«us Spring oi Pure Water 
Twenty seven miles from Boston. Six good manu¬ 
facturing village markets wittiin seven miles; one 
mile from railroad station, post office, etc. 
E3- FOR SALE AT LOW PRICE 
May be divided into two farms. Two houses, 
barn. etc. 
Address “FARM,” care Trb Rur4L New- Yorker, 
A Hale Old Mass. Field . 
More About the Slnale Tax. . . 
Ministers and Politics.. . . 
No Favors Asked of any “Crat”... 
Combine in a Fight Against Railroads " "!... 
Getting Money to the People. 
Tide to Land by Adverse Possession 
Compensation for Brother’s Labor. 
Liability of Ex press Companies ... 
What Others Say. 
Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations’" 
Readers’ Notes. . 
Society Meetings to Come. . 
Catalogues, Etc.. Received . 
John Caldwell Calhoun. 
Camp Life in a Farm House. .. 
Thoroughbred ." 
Some Newspaper Opinions .. 
Humorous. 
Editorial... 
Brevities.... 
Trade Winds .. 
Agricultural News. 
Crop and Market Notes 
Condensed Correspondence. 
Markets.... 
News.. 
Publisher’s Desk. .... 
Almanac .. 
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