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THE RURAL 
NEW-YORKER 
MAY 2 
Humorous. 
Ingalls’s first crop as a farmer appears 
to be a huge yield of chaff. — Washington 
Critic. 
When a woman wants to drive anything 
out of the house she “ shoos ” it. A man 
usually boots it.— Yonkers Statesman. 
Mb. Snopps : “Snipps, your chickens 
come over into my yard.” Mr. Snipps: 
“ Yes, and they do not come back.”— Life. 
Lord Algernon: “I really consider it 
my duty to marry some American girl.” 
E hel: ‘‘A duty for revenue only, is it 
not ? ’’—Life. 
“ The government ought to coin half 
cents,” growled Mr. Myser. Would you 
go to church then ? ” asked his wife.— 
Vermont Watchman. 
“ It strikes me that Russian authors have 
a remarkably venerable and careworn 
look.” “Yes; but then look at the lan¬ 
guage they have to do their thinking in.”— 
Washington Post. 
Unexpected Sympathy.— “ Waiter, I’ve 
been here a full hour,” said Chappie, im¬ 
patiently. “I’ve been here since 7A.M.,” 
returned the waiter. “ It’s tiresome, ain’t 
it I ’’—New York Sun. 
He (facetiously): “So you are going 
abroad. Do you expect to marry a count 
or a baron ? ” She (seriously): “ It depends 
on their relative value. Papa has limited 
me to a certain sum you know.”— Munsey's 
Weekly. 
Old Scroggs : “ What did you carve on 
that tombstone I ordered a while ago ? ” 
Monument Man: “Augustus Scroggs, R. 
I. P.” Old Scroggs: “ That’s all right; but 
if I am not better by to morrow just make 
it ‘ G. R. I. IV ’’—New York Sun. 
“ Fo’ de Lawd, Missus, but dat chile hab 
got a flue voice.” “You think so?” “I 
do fo’ suab, ef it, was only plowed.” 
“Plowed, Uncle Ned! I guess jou mean 
cultivated.” “ Yes, dat’s it. I knowed it 
had something to do with a farm.”— Epoch. 
“ What, my angel,” exclaims the young 
husband, bursting into the kitchen, “ doing 
the cooking yourself ? What is it ? ” 
“Why, Edgar, how foolish of you! How 
in the world can you expect me to tell until 
I see what it turns out ? ’’—Philadelphia 
Times. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, May 2,1891. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Wild Bees in Central America. 
From Barn to Grass. 
From a California Dairy Hanch. 
Live Stock Notes... .. 
Large White Yorkshire Boars. 
How to Make Feeding Pay. 
Brown Swiss Cattle. 
Training Jersey Cows for Pasture. 
An Old Poison Story. 
What Ails the Chlskens ?. 
The Story of Tom. 
About Bats. 
Barley as Feed .. . 
342 
343 
343 
3 6 
357 
357 
857 
357 
358 
359 
359 
859 
FARM TOPICS 
Rich Soil a Safe Foundation. 343 
Summer Saving of Manure. 345 
Equivalent of Stable Manure In Chemicals .345 
Value of Pure Animal Bone. 345 
Wire-wo-ms : Ashes and Bone. 345 
Potash with Hen Manure. 345 
Cotton-Seed Meal.. 845 
Composition of Sorghum Seed. 345 
Ensilage and Corn Fodder. 315 
Subsoil Plow a Failure.846 
That Sweet Com Succession.... 346 
Mortgaged Farmers at Institutes. 346 
Let Us Slick Up. . 346 
Ensilage t>«. Roots.846 
The Cost of Canadian Beets.. 347 
Kerosene Extract of Pyrethrum. 347 
The Cost of the Turn . 853 
Some More Farm Figures.853 
Chemical Fertilizers vs. Weeds and Insects. 3 3 
HORTICULTURAL. 
A Path and Borders. 811 
Enemies of the Pear. 341 
A Biautiful Tree—the Sassafras. S41 
Improvements Needed in Small Fruits.341 
The Russell Apple. 3i2 
Cranberry Growing . 315 
Squash Bugs; Blackberries. 345 
Ahout Various Apples . 345 
Clovers for Orchard Manuring. ... 845 
Slaked Lime for Orchards. 345 
Manure for Big Fruit Farms. 345 
New Berries. 315 
A Word for the Catalogue Men . 346 
Germination of Tomalo Seeds. 346 
Summer Treatment or Lilies.347 
Seeds from Early Ripening Varieties.347 
Paper Berry Baskets. 3 ! 3 
Spraying Ft uit Trees.853 
'they Like Sweet Apples. 359 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Novel Decorations. 354 
How She Earned It. 854 
Celery Salt and Other Relishes. 354 
Faults in the < astle. 854 
Dried Apple Pies . 354 
Sharpening Scissors.354 
A Short Cut to Early Vegetable i. 355 
A Batch of Cookies. 855 
The Woman Question ?. 355 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Can 1 Keep the Farm ?. 342 
A Financial Fact and Speculative Suggestion.344 
Special Privileges to None. 844 
Farmers’ Needs.. 844 
The Illinois School Issue. 344 
Legislate with a Broad Tire. . 347 
What Others Say. 347 
Timely Topics.851 
Governor Tillman Talks. 3-2 
Divided Screen Doors. 353 
Humorous. 860 
Editoki al. . 846 
Brkvities.348 
Trade Winds.349 
Agricultural News . 349 
Condensed Correspondence. 84 
Crop and Market Note3,. 84 
Markets. 85 
Almanac..... 9 
