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THE BUBAL KEW-YORKER. 
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Visitor: “I suppose you attended Sunday- 
school to-day, Bertie?” Bertie: “Yep.” 
Visitor: “What was the lesson about?” 
Bertie: “Oh, ’bout a fellow named Jonah 
who swallowed a whale.” Visitor: “When I 
went to Sunday-school it was the whale that 
swallowed Jonah.” Bertie: “Well, ’tain’t that 
way now. We’ve got the revised edition.”— 
.Judge. 
At the summer hotel.—Mrs. Livingston (to 
her sons, whose well-brushed hair and clothes 
contrast with their unwashed faces.): “Why, 
boys, why didn’t you take your baths this 
morning? Marie says your towels aren’t even 
unfolded, and your pitchers are full.” One of 
the boys: “Why, mamma, it said on our door, i 
‘No washing allowed in the rooms;’ so, of 
course, we couldn’t take a bath.”— Life. 
Little Mabel, five vears old, is not so 
young but that she has picked up some knowl¬ 
edge of the ways of the world. She said to 
her mother the other day, after a fit of deep 
musing: “Say, mamma, who was papa be¬ 
fore he married us, anyway?” “Who was 
papa? Why, he was the same man that he is 
now.” “Yes; but what was he to you? Was 
he just a man that you mashed?”— Chicago 
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“What sort of articles?” “Political. There 
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THE EFFECT OF GOOD SOCIETY UPON 
THE POTATO. 
The following humorous editorial appeared 
in the N. Y. Herald for Sept. 29 th, It has 
suggested the picture above and at the left 
of this. The little picture at the head of this 
column is supposed to represent the feelings 
of the potatoes when crowded into hills and 
deprived of all outside society. The large 
picture shows what results in the trench where 
a large family manufacture good nature and 
sociability. 
“ Well, we are likely to have plenty of pota¬ 
toes, anyway. That is a great comfort, for 
without this democratic esculent and succulent, 
breakfast would be a nightmare and dinner 
the delirium tremens. There are many people 
in the world who seem to get along passably 
without religion, but there is no one who does 
not yearn after the potato. Certain expert 
agriculturists have discovered, as reported 
elsewhere, a method by which the crops may 
be doubled, trebled, quadrupled. They assert 
that a potato is an extremely sociable vegeta¬ 
ble, and thrives best in large communities. 
That is to say, when planted a few in a hill, 
and the hills four feet apart, the potato grows 
sullen and soggy; makes no effort at multipli¬ 
cation aud is languidly satisfied with the re¬ 
production of three or four big fellows and 
six or eight no larger than your thumb. 
That is because their social instincts, their 
nobler ambitions are not appealed to. If, how¬ 
ever, they are planted (in trenches, so that 
they can have a chat with each other now and 
then, talk about the tariff, the latest thing in 
bonnets, one of Mayor Hewttt’s letters, or the 
yellow fever in Florida, they are happy and 
grow to the extent of six or eight hundred, or 
even a thousand bushels to the acre, The 
truth is the potato has a good deal of human 
nature in it and needs to have the higher as 
pirations carefully cultivated.” 
RURAL 
POTATO 
CONTEST. 
With Stockbridg-e Manure. 
The experiment on the “ Rural ” grounds, which most attracted the attention of the prac¬ 
tical farmers who were present at the digging, was an experiment that was tried, not to see if 
700 bushels could be produced to the acre, but to test the value of the trench system in a practi¬ 
cal way, in connection with fertilizer. Accordingly, one-half an acre of potatoes was planted 
on the “Rural” plan, while in the 700-bushel contest there was only one-fortieth of an acre 
planted, and that, too, on garden soil. 
“Jerseyman” writing to the “Rural” October 13th, speaks as follows concerning this 
practical experiment: “ I was interested in another.experiment the ‘Rural’ had started. This 
was a measured half-acre of potatoes put in on the trench system or as near to it as horse-power 
could get. The flea-beetle had evidently visited this field, and yet the judges measured the 
yield 878 bushels to the acre, aud it was a poor part of the field, too. On this field nothing but 
Stockbridge Potato Manure had been used. This was put both above and below the 
seed. It was evident to me from the weeds and eondition of the soil that this field had about 
the poorest kind of cultivation. * * * Yet, if, by applying a heavy dressing of Stockbridge 
fertilizer, cultivating the plants on this trench system, and giving no better cultivation than 
this field had, the “ Rural ” folks can get a measured yield of nearly 400 bushels per acre. It 
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