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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
DEC 2i 
“THE WOMEN’S NATIONAL POTATO CONTEST.” 
The Rural New-Yorker is prepared to 
offer very liberal terms to good, responsi¬ 
ble permanent agents. Correspondence 
solicited. 
SMALL POTATOES. 
At last, the time.has come. 
Woman’s skill to test; 
To rival brother man, 
She did her level best. 
The season falr.began, 
But alas ! rain-rotted rows 
Have blighted many hopes; 
And cries echo—“small potatoes ” 
—E. A. C. 
Perhaps if the potato didn’t have any 
eyes, it would not be so often mashed.— 
The Orange Grove. 
Why are lovers like turnips, potatoes, 
apples and sech ? Because they are usually 
paired.— Agricultural Epitomist. 
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“ And Smithkins plays in the band! 
Why, he couldn’t blow a hot potato.” 
“That’s what he does ; he blows the tuba.” 
-Tid-bits. 
You see a good deal of advice in the 
papers now about raising small fruit, but 
none about raising small potatoes.—0?t- 
tario Free Press. 
Lady : “ I thought I told you I wanted 
curried potatoes for dinner.” Bridget: 
“The hostler was busy, mum, and I’m no 
tr ■>om.”- Lowell Citizen. 
• Why, what’s the matter?” “Well, 
sorr, I swallowed a pertater bug, and, sorr, 
though I took some Parrus green wid- 
in five minutes after tor kill the baste, 
shtill he’s just raisin th’ devil inside o’ me.” 
—Life. 
They were a newly-married Irish couple, 
and the “better-half” being ill, the hus¬ 
band did the cooking. Said Barney : “ Och, 
Biddy, dear, I’ve boiled a nice pot of prat¬ 
ies ! But I’m afeerd there’s something the 
matter wid ’im ! Whin I put them into 
the watther they had beautiful whoite 
eyes, an’ now that they’re out they’re black 
ones!” Said Biddy in bed, enjoying Bar¬ 
ney’s dilemma: “Barney, Barney, ye 
havn’t put enough salt in the watther to kill 
’man’ they’ve been fightin’ one another.”— 
Home and Farm. 
“ Kitchen.”— “ Kitchen,”.in the {Scotch 
use of the word, means anything eaten 
with an article of food to give it a relish, 
such as butter with bread, or milk with 
potatoes, or cheese with crackers. A 
Scotchman once asked a poor Irish neigh¬ 
bor what food he gave to his children. 
“Potatoes,” answered Pat. “Ay; but 
what kitchens the potatoes?” said the 
Scot. “ Och ! ” replied the Irishman, when 
the meaning of the word was made clear, 
“ they make the little praties kitchen the 
big ones ."—Youth’s Companion. 
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“The Best Periodicals for Family Reading.” 
Harper’s Magazine, 
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SEED POTATOES. RURAL NEW-YORKER NO. 2. 
We offer a limited quantity of this valuable new potato at the following prices, 
free on board at Leominster, packing includea : 
We raised this lot of potatoes in A DAACTAAIf ^ r\ 
Nil A I IM F and were award- B l\ V/ L/ O I V/ IV V* U.j 
Iwl I li EL , ed Flrsi Premium at Maine state Fair. They are the hand- ■ 
sotnest lot of potatoes ever put in my cellar Address 
WM. B. WHITNEY, Leominster, Mass. 
Send stamp when questions are asked. 
Per Barrel, jfS.tlO. 
Per Bushel. 83.00. 
Per 4-lb. Package, Post¬ 
paid, 75c. 
Terms Cash with order. 
Reference: F. J. I.otnrop. 
Teller, Leominster Nation¬ 
al Bank. Leominster. Mass. 
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