THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
OCT. 3 
Humorous. 
The last rows of summer can now be 
seen on the cool lakes and rivers.— Pitts¬ 
burg Dispatch. 
A western farmer recently thrashed 
1,200 bushels of wheat and two tramps In 
one day.— Boston Bulletin. 
“"Well, Nettle, are you a good little 
girl?” “ Oh, yes. sir. I must be 1 Father 
says I’m a holy terror.”— Life. 
Fresh Air Boy (looking at cows chew¬ 
ing cud): “ Mister Farmer, do you have to 
buy chewing gum for all those cows ? ”— 
Life. 
Affected the Milk.— “That cow is 
awfully cross ; don’t go near her.” “I had 
some of her milk this morning.” “ How 
do you know it was hers?” “It was 
sour.”— Epoch. 
Johnny (studying arithmetic): “Mamma, 
I wish I were an Australian rabbit.” 
Johnny’s ma : “Why, Johnny?” Johnny: 
“ Well, teacher told us to-day that rabbits 
multiply rapidly.”— Life. 
In the Line of Duty.— Smyth : “ I hear 
that Simpkins has just got a pension. He 
never saw any service, did he ?” Tomp¬ 
kins; “No; he lost his voice urging his 
neighbors to go to the front.”—New; York 
Sun. 
Of Human Interest.— Morris: “Has 
Dumley any rare coins in his numismatic 
collection ?” Norris: “ Yes. He has the 
first quarter ever saved by Russell Sage, 
and the only honest dollar ever made by 
Jay Gould.”— Life. 
“Isn’t it a wonderful lesson to man—the 
way a canary caged for life sings and sings 
and sings all the time ?” “ Lesson ? I think 
it is a bad example. If a man were as vin¬ 
dictive as that he’d be executed.”— Smith, 
Oray & Co.’s Monthly. 
“Your boss sent you home?” Inquired 
the boy’s father angrily. “ What happened? 
What did he say to you ?” “ He said I was 
a stupid ass.” “And so you are. And 
what else did he say ?” “ He said : ‘Like 
father, like son.’ ’’—Fliegende Blatter. 
“Well,” eaid father in-law, after 
mother-in-law had returned from a visit to 
the young couple: “ what sort of a fellow 
is John ?” “ I’m afraid he’s not good for 
much,” said mother-in law. “ He reminds 
me very much of you.”— Harper’s Bazar. 
Her Brilliant Reply.— “Your father 
is largely engaged in the pork trade, I be¬ 
lieve,” said Mr. Gotham to Miss Laker, of 
Chicago. “Yes, sir,” replied the latter 
with that bright repartee for which she is 
noted; “ paw is a regular pigmy.”—He 
troit Free Press. 
Visitor.— “Tommy, what are you going 
to be when you grow up ?” Tommy (aged 
ten): “A soldier.” Visitor: “But you 
will be in danger of getting killed.” 
Tommy : “ Who’ll kill me ?” Visitor : 
“ Why, the enemy.” Tommy : “ Then I’ll 
be the enemy.”— Harper’s Young People. 
He Was The Wrong Man.—P atient: 
“ What kept you away so loDg, doctor ? 
I’ve waited for you five hours.” Country 
Doctor: “ Why, the fact is my wife was 
busy curing hams and needed my assist¬ 
ance.” Patient: “She ought to have 
called other help if she wanted ’em cured, 
and I’ll tell her so.”— Pharmaceutical Era. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, October 3, 1891. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The History of a Scrub Cow. 
A Faithful Animal. 
The Live Stock «t Lakeside. 
A Danish Farmer's Pig Dairy. 
Chicken Lice on Horses . 
Breeding Coach Horses. 
Feeding Rark to Cattle. 
Feeding Boxes and Shed. 
Bloo-'j Milk from Vonni? Cow>. 
The Color of Pure Jersey Cattle. . 
Buckwheat for Sheep. 
Shropshire Sheep. 
FARM TOPICS 
Acidity of Corn Roots. 
Outlet for a Drain . 
Making a Farmer Out of Him. 
Chemicals and Clover. 
Drains from the Oul«i Sod .... 
Fertilizers In Indiana. 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Hay in an Oregon O-chard. 702 
Surface Drainage; That 8100 strawberry.703 
Setting Red Raspberry Sprouts.703 
A Grape Talk... . 703 
Botanical Side Issues. 703 
Green Mountain and wiuchell the Same.70s 
Gooseberries for Western New York.'05 
Keeping Canna and Caladium Roots Over Winter. 705 
Apple Trees on Roadsides . 7‘ fi 
The Long Keeper Tomato. 70B 
The Grape TraJe Knocked Out.709 
WOMAN AND THE HOME 
Editorial Items. 710 
Prudence Primrose’s Diary . 710 
Our Economy Column. 7 to 
Geraldine’s Gursts. 710 
Wayside Pictures.711 
Three Mottoes; A Lesson Lost. 711 
A Look at Discontent . 711 
Melons as Pickles or Preserves. 7U 
A Neatlronlug Trick. 711 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Wanted ! Hustlers for the Country. 703 
A Typical G* orgia Product.7i 3 
What Do We E»port?. 703 
More Diret t Dealing.7t 5 
Robin Redbreast: Robber and Rogue. 7t)6 
An Hour for Bird Killing. 70S 
Vt hat Others Say. 707 
Editorial. 7' 8 
Brevities .708 
Making Business in an Abandoned Town.7(9 
Business Bits.7(9 
implement Notes. 709 
Agricultural News . 712 
Condensed Correspondence.712 
Crop and Market Notes.712, 713 
Markets. 713 
Some Fair Notes.714, 715 
A Listener’s Notes. 715 
Humorous.. 716 
