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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 4, 1903 
HUMOROUS 
He could write a comic article that would 
make you fairly roar. 
And his after-dinner speeches were with 
humor brimming o'er; 
But when left to mind the baby his re¬ 
sources were dispelled. 
And the funnier he tried to be the more 
the baby yelled. 
—Modes and Fal>rics. 
Young Dorothy: “Oh, mamma! T.,ook 
at my doll! Why it is stuffed with 
breakfast food!”—Life. 
“There’s a young woman who makes 
little things count.” “How does she do 
it?” “Teaches arithmetic in a primary 
school.”—Tit-Bits. 
“Where’s your boy going after he 
leaves the model school?” “To some 
school that ain’t model, I guess, to learn 
reading, writing and figures.”—Denver 
News. 
“You don’t mean to tell me he’s a 
pugilist?” “Not at all. I said he was a 
lightweight boxer.” “Well?” “Well, 
he’s a packer of strawberries.”—Phila¬ 
delphia Press. 
New Boarder: “What’s the row up¬ 
stairs?” Landlady: “It’s that professor 
of hypnotism trying to get his wife’s 
permission to go out this evening.”— 
New York Weekly. 
Teacher: “If I had two apples and 
gave each of you half a one, how many 
would you have?” Pupil: “Pd have a 
whole one; I can lick the other feller.” 
—Philadelphia Public Ledger. 
First Officer: “Yes; we were 
marching over a plank bridge when it 
gave way, and the men fell in.” Second 
Ofiicer: “And what did you do?” First 
Officer: “Oh! I ordered them to fall 
out.”—Illustrated Bits. 
He: “I wonder why Miss Elderly 
never married?” She: “Oh, I suppose 
she was born in the wrong time of the 
moon.” He: “The wrong time of the 
moon?” She: “Yes; when there wasn’t 
any man in it.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. 
CiuEP Mileikin: “That lady in red 
going down the street is evidently a 
grass widow.” Inspector Casey: “Why 
do you think so?” Chief Millikin: 
“Every time she goes near a horse it 
tries to bite her.”—Cincinnati En¬ 
quirer. 
Tohmy: “Talking of riddles. Uncle, 
do you know the difference between an 
apple and an elephant?” Uncle (be¬ 
nignly): “No. my lad, I don’t.” 
Tommy: “You’d be a smart chap to 
send out to buy apples, wouldn’t you?” 
—Punch. 
“Did you say a chicken chews its food 
with its gizzard?” asked the little boy 
with the high forehead. “Yes; that is 
practically the process.” “If that is the 
case,” he queried, “how can a chicken 
tell whether it has the toothache or the 
stomachache?”—Washington Star. 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker. July 4, 1903. 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Use of Bone Alone. 
Potato Ferlllizer for Turnips and Millet.482 
Raw Bone or a Superphosphate.482 
Lime from Shells and I.imestone.482 
Cutting Hay from the Field .4 m 
Agricultural Education .4 m 
Ditching by Machinery . 
Cultivating Steep Hillsides .484 
Oat Hay and Its Value .481 
How to Kill Stumps .48 d 
Orleans Co.. N. Y., Notes...48 d 
A Tough’ Clay Soil .485 
Michigan Beet Sugar Notes .486 
Sugar Notes .486 
Seedsmen’s Samples .486 
Farm Labor .’86 
Hope Farm Notes . 4 m 
Cron Prospects .’gj 
Fertilizing for Second-Crop Grass.48J 
Spraying Potatoes .493 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Mapes. the Hen Man . 
Crimson Clover Hay for Cows . 
Result of Study . 
Good points of Short-Horns . 
Combining Sheep and Dairy . 
Green Clover in the Silo . 
Swelling In Cow’s Udder . 
Cows Falling Off in Milk . 
Horse with Cough . 
Back Talk About Ferrets . 
,482 
484 
486 
494 
,494 
,495 
,495 
.495 
,495 
,495 
HORTICULTURE. 
The President Strawberry at Home 
The Strawberry Field . 
Evergreen Blackberry at Home ... 
Value of a White Strawberry . 
Mr. Hitchings Answers Questions. 
Everybody’s Garden . 
The Lime and Sulphur Wash . 
Grape Insect Outlook . 
Notes from the Rural Grounds ... 
Boll-Worm on Tomatoes . 
.481 
481, 482 
.483 
.484 
.484 
.485 
.485 
.485 
.486 
.486 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day . 
Cupid and a Pig . 
The Rural Patterns . 
.490 
490, 491 
.491 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Market Notes from Connecticut 
Canning Corn at Home . 
Multiplication of Man Power .. 
Editorials . 
Events of the Week . 
Business Bits . 
Markets. 
Market Notes . 
The Hope Farm Man’s Tank ... 
• Humorous . 
.483 
.484 
.487 
.488 
.489 
.489 
.492 
.493 
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