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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 8 
i 
On occult sciences she dwelt-this learned Boatjn 
Explained' the Nowness Of the Then and the Tbat- 
nes* of the This. 
“And do you not at times,” she asked, in fervor 
long to grasp 
The Near though Unattainable-the Just Beyond 
Your Grasp!” 
The sweet Chicago girl to whom her question was 
addressed 
hooked In her far-off. soulful eyes and candidly 
confessed: ... „ 
“Indeed 1 do; just lots of times!” Oh, Concord, 
calm thy shades! 
" It's when I have an itching just between my shoul¬ 
der blades.” — Peck’s Sun. 
“ Why do you call your new cook 
Misery?” “Because she loves com¬ 
pany.”— Life. 
“ I can't see how the Rev. Mr. Long- 
wind manages to wade through his ser¬ 
mons.” “ Oh, they are not deep.”— Town 
Topics. 
Grace Ingle : “You ask me to marry 
you. Can you not read your answer in 
my face ? ” Ned Never (cruelly): “Yes ; 
it is very plain.”— Puck. 
“Captain, why do they distribute liq¬ 
uor to sailors on shipboard?” “Well, 
you know, every Jack should have his 
gill.”— Philadelphia Record. 
A .Tolly Honeymoon. —She: “This 
horrid article implies that you married 
me for money.” He : “ Well, don't con¬ 
tradict it. I don’t care to be taken for a 
fool.”— Life. 
Mr. Figg : “ You should remember, 
my son, that there is nothing attained 
without labor. You need not expect to 
get something for nothing.” Tommy : 
“ I get lots of lickin’s for nothin’, any¬ 
how.”— Judge. 
She : “Charlie, if you were to die, and 
I should marry again, you aren’t afraid 
I wouldn’t marry somebody just like 
you, are you?” He: “Yes.” She: 
“Why, darling?” He: “I’m afraid he 
wouldn’t propose.”— Life. 
“ Howdy do ?” said the traveler to the 
Kansas farmer. “Howdy do?” “ How’s 
pork ?” “ Pork’s gone up. ” “You don’t 
say so ! ” “ Yep. Ef ye’d bin ’round 
here in time for the cyclone, ye’d have 
seen it go.”— Washington Star. 
“ You must let the baby have one 
cow's milk to drink every day,” said the 
doctor. “ Very well, if you say so, doc¬ 
tor,” said the perplexed young mother; 
“ but I really don’t see how he is going 
to hold it all.”— Indianapolis Journal. 
The 
Labor 
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NATURE’S OWN FERTILIZER. 
From the 
Farmer’s 
Standpoint. 
The chief expense in plowing, sowing, and harvesting 
a field of wheat, oats or barley is labor, and the cost of the 
labor, therefore, is the important factor. A poor crop re¬ 
quires as much labor as a good one. 
It is, therefore, easily demonstrated that the farmer who 
raises 35 bushels of wheat per acre, instead of the average 
18 or 20 bushels, is not only securing nearly double the 
amount of grain, but that the extra 15 to 17 bushels har¬ 
vested costs him but very little to raise. The land, the 
team, and the labor of sowing cost the same in either case. 
The way to increase the farmer’s profit is not, there¬ 
fore, through growing more acres of grain, but by growing 
more grain per acre, and how to do this is the question. 
Here are the answers, they speak for themselves. 
Last fall I used 1,000 pounds of Bradley’s Fertilizer on eight acres of wheat on 
sandy loam. The wheat was good, yielding thirty-two bushels per acre. I have used 
fertilizers for years, but I never used a fertilizer which gave me the results Bradley’s 
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Bradley’s Fertilizers not only make more grain but more straw, a better quality of 
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I have used Bradley’s Standard Fertilizers for several years with good results. I 
would not think of getting along without phosphate. Some farmers think by using 
50 pounds per acre they ought to get a heavy crop. It is all folly. They should not 
use less than 200 pounds for wheat, and never use a poor brand. If I were going to 
buy a farm, and run in debt, the first thing I would do would be to raise money and 
buy phosphate. Without the use of it you cannot raise much grain. 
WM. DALTON, Lima, N. Y. 
I have used fertilizers for many years. I think the Bradley Fertilizers increase the 
yield one half, besides making a grand good setting of clover. 
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FRUIT CULTURE, 
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Boston A dvertiser. 
“In no branch of Intelligence has there been so 
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new problems insoluble before, and with new Ideas 
new books follow. It Is In just this line (In the 
endeavor to elucidate fundamental principles) that 
Mr. Strong believes he finds an unoccupied field, 
and this book Is the result.”— Thomas Meehan, in 
Gardener's Monthly. 
“The author has shown excellent Judgment In 
giving the particular Information which small fruit 
raisers wish to know.”—Boston Transcript. 
“ The directions are specific enough to be under¬ 
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to experienced fruit growers.”—Home and Farm 
(Louisville). 
Price, in one volume, 16mo., cloth, $1. 
THE RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, July 8, 1893. 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Mammoth Clover Farmer.4110 
Questions About Manure. 
Sport In the Potato Field. 
Farming with “ Yaps ” to Help. 
The Good Roads Question. 
Pine Shavings for Manure. 
Potatoes as Bed Fellows.. 
Clover Saves a Southern Plantation. 
A Late Crop. 
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LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Guernsey Is a Guernsey. . 458, 459 
Baker on the Silo. •••••• . — 459> j 1 ; 9 
Making a Laying Strain of Leghorns. 4b0 
Grain for Pastured Cows. 4bl 
Big Knee In Cows. .. 4W 
Strained Muscles In a Horse.4bi 
An Itchy Mare.4bl 
What About Wool 7. ^ 
Hog Feed. 
A Hog Record. 
A Camel Boom. 4U 
Tuberculosis In England. 471 
Sheep as Lawn Mowers. . 471 
Against Dishorning Cattle. 4 ‘ 1 
UORTICULTURA L. 
With a Foundation of Water.457, 458 
Fruit Men Who Want “Empties ” Back. 462 
Sheet-Iron Mulch. 462 
Double Crops In Orchards. . 4bd 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
The Leading Essayists. 468 
A Chinese Solution of Our Domestic Problems—I. 46b 
Concerning Several Things. 416 
Three Novel Rice Recipes. 4bb 
A Cheap Seal. 
A New Lease of Life. 467 
Un ucky Thirteen. 4b7 
A Trade Secret. 4b7 
CustaTd Toast. 4b< 
Evaporating Sweet Corn. 4bi 
To Wash a Silk Handkerchief. 4b7 
Rainy Day Exercise. 
Foresight In the Nursery. 4b( 
Test with Caution... 
Buttons One Would as Soon not Have. 4b7 
Washing Lamp Chimneys. 4b7 
A Suggestion. 
Farewell Eulalia. 4b7 
Evanston's Housekeeping Woes. 467 
Some Open Eyes. ‘01 
With a Retrousse Nose. 401 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Science In the District School. 462 463 
Uncle Sam Not a Book Agent. 463 
Editorials. 4 ” 4 . 
Brevities. 
The Prospect. 
Business Bits— . 
Insecticides and Fungicides.• ■ 4 ”° 
Crop and Market Notes . 4fa8 j" 9 
We Want to Know. . 
Condensed Correspondence. 4 ”" 
Markets. 4 .!; 
On a Colorado Ranch. JJjJ 
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