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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 18 
HUMOROUS 
A little bird sat on a telegraph wire, 
And said to his mates, “I declare, 
If wireless telegraphy comes into vogue 
We’ll all have to sit on the air.” 
—London Fishing Gazette. 
Lunicus: “The man in the moon is a 
good business man.” Punicus: “How 
so?” Lunicus: “He knows how to change 
a quarter for a half.”—New York Sun. 
Friend: “What’s the matter, old man? 
Doesn’t she return your love?” Jilted 
DOWDEN 
Prrtatn DStMOt^Wm neep or tli.illow, you get 
all, fast, dean and un- 
eut. Stftndftrd with nopfer. and It iMti. Ask for free Povdon book. 
DOWDEN MFC. CO., Box 22i PRAIRIE CITY, lA. 
THE 
POTATO CROP, 
large or small, is best 
harvested with 
the Improved 
HORSE POWERS 
Threshing Machines. Wood Saw Machines. 
GET THE BEST. Horse Powers for one, 
two, or three horses, for running Wood Sows, 
Threshing Muehincs, Ensilage Cutters, etc. 
All who areinterestedin Horse I’owers. 
Wood Saws, or Threshing Ma¬ 
chines and En¬ 
silage Cut¬ 
lers are in- 
vited to 
write for 
fifty-page 
pamphlet. 
IPs free. 
A. W. CRAY’S SONS, 
Pat. and Role llfra. 
P. O. Box 86 Middletown Springs, Vt- 
One: “That’s just the trouble. She re¬ 
turned it and told me to give it to some 
other girl.”—Princeton Tiger. 
First CiTi2rEN: “What do you think 
of this idea of an army of unemployed 
marching to Washington?” Second Citi¬ 
zen: “That’s nothing new. It happens 
every four years.”—New York Weekly. 
“How did you lose your arm, young 
man?” asked the interested gentleman 
in the car. “A girl once told me to re¬ 
move it,” answered the young man. “Got 
any cigarette papers?”—Indianapolis 
Sun. 
“Have you anything to say before we 
eat you?” said the King of the Cannibal 
Isles to a Boston missionary. “I have,” 
was the reply. “I want to talk to you 
awhile on the advantages of a vegetarian 
diet.”—Pick-Me-Up. 
“Why, Johnnie, how much you look 
like your father!” remarked a visitor to 
a small four-year-old. “Yes’m,” answer¬ 
ed Johnny with an air of resignation; 
“that’s what everybody says, hut I can’t 
help it.”—Bangor Commercial. 
“Mama,” said Dolly, after she had 
listened to a discussion of the day’s 
news, “doesn’t the Lord know how big 
this country it?” “Why, dear,” exclaim¬ 
ed mama, shocked, “what do you mean?” 
“Well,” replied Dolly, “the people in 
New York prayed for rain, and it landed 
way out in Kansas!”—Cincinnati Com¬ 
mercial-Tribune. 
SUY DIRECT FROM FACTORY, BEST 
MIXED PAINTS 
AtWHOl.ESAI.B: PRICES, Delivered FREE 
!Por Honses, Bams, Roofs, all colors, and SA VE Dealem 
S roflts. In use 6 8 years. Officially Endorsed by Iht 
ranie. Low prices will snrprise you. Write for Samples 
0. INQERSOLL, Plymouth St„ Brooklyn, N. \ 
For 30 days to the readers of The 
Rural New-Yorker. 
A Beautiful 13-piece 
TOILET SET 
or China Tea Set, or Parlor Lamp, or Clock, or 
Watch, and many other articles too numerous 
to mention, with an order of 20 lbs. of our New 
Crop, (JOc. Tea, any kind,or !40 lbs. liaking 
Powder, 4-6c. .i lb., or an assorted order Teas 
and B. P. This advertisement MUST aceom- 
paiiy order. 
THK CiKK.AT A3IERICAK TKA CO., 
P. O. Box 280. 81 & 83 Vesey Street, New York. 
BUSINESS INSTITUTE, 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
When you eomo to think nhoiit 
frolngr hwny to ttehool heiul for Cut»- 
logue of the Leading Rufiinesa and Hhorthand Sfhool. 
THE BOSS 
POmO DIGGER, 
Digs every row. Works v/here others can 
not. Thousands in use. \\ e want an agent 
in your section. Manufactured by E. R. 
ALLEN FOUNDRY CO., Manufac. 
ttirersof LAND ROLLKRS Sl GREY 
IRON CASTINGS, Corning, N. Y. 
Pin Your Faith 
BUCKEYE 
Combined Grain 
and Fertiiizer 
Hoe Driii. ^ 
A well-balanced, light-draft 
machine with no neck weight 
even when pressure is on. The 
_ strongest, most practical drill on 
the market. Fitted with the famous Buckeye non-corrosive glass fertilizer distributer, which 
will not rust. Has all the well-known Buckeye points of merit, strength to last for years, ease 
of draft to save the horses, perfected working parts for perfect planting and requiring least 
repairs. Double run force grain feed will not skip, choke or bunch; cone gear for change or 
quantity. Examine the Buckeye line of implements at your dealer s or write for full inf^- 
mation and circulars. P. P. MAST &. CO., 9 Canal St,, Springfield, O. 
to the 
FAIRBANKS 
Qasoline Engines 
They are the best and most economical power 
for all farm work—pump water, saw wood, 
run separator, ensilage cutter, feed mill or any 
farm machinery. “Fairbanks Junior” is de¬ 
signed especially for farm work—gives two 
applications of power: vertical with walking 
beam, and belt power with pulley attached. 
Write for free booklet, “FARM HELPS,” which 
gives _ full information regarding Fairbanks 
Gasoline Engines and Farm Scales. 
THE FAIRBANKS COMPANY, 
416-4214 Broome St., New York, N. Y. 
Baltimore, Md Buffalo, N.T. Philadelphia,Pa. Boston, Masft. 
New Orleans, La Albany, N.Y. Pittsburg, Pa. Montreal,P,Q. 
WATER. 
If you want water only when the wind blows a windmill will do your work 
and cost less money than our Rider and Ericsson Hot-Air Pumps, butlf you want 
water every day while your flowers are growing and do not want your pump blown 
down when the wind blows too hard, no pump In the world can equal ours. We 
have sold about 20,000 of them during the past twenty-live years, which is proof 
that we are uot making wild statements. 
Our Catalogue “C 4” will tell you all about them. Write to nearest store. 
Rider-Ericsson Engine Company, 
85 Warren St.. New York. 692 Craig St., Montreal. P. Q. 40 Dearborn St., Chicago. 
239 Franklin St.. BOSTON. Tenlente-Rey 71, Havana, Cuba. 40 N. 7th St., Philadelphia. 
22 Pitt St., Sydney, N . s. W ■ 
Freeman 
Ensilage 
Machinery 
represents the modern idea. Illustra¬ 
tion shows typical cutter with blower at¬ 
tachment. il sizes, hand cutting to belt 
power, with capacity ranging from 5 to 
24 tons per hour. Traveling force feed 
reduces labor of feeding. Each machine 
easily and quickly fitted with shredder 
attachment. 
Also make Wind Mills, Corn Shellers. Wood 
Saws, etc. Write for free catalugues 102. 
S. FREEMAN & SONS MFG. CO., Racine, WIs. 
HAVE YOU SEEN THE 
Jack of All Trades 
-A GASOLINE ENGINE 
of the most modem type for farm nse7 
Pumps Water—Saws Wood—Runs Separators 
Shells Corn—Grinds Feed—Churns Butler 
And Is adapted to many other jobs on the farm. 
Saves Labor—Earns Money 
Write forfree descriptive catalogue “V." 
Fairbanks, Morse & Company, 
NEW YORK. 
DOIM^T BUY GASOLINE ENGINES “TH e'^MaItER^WORKM AN,*'’ 
*1 liwoKiyiinder gaisoiine engine, superior to. aii one-cylinder engines. Costs less to buy and less to run. Quicker and easier started; has a wider sphere 
of usefulness Has no vibration; can be mounted on any light wagon as a portable. Weighs less than H of one-cylinder engines. Give size of engine 
required. Plesse mention this paper. Send for catalogue. ITRBi TBWCPLB iPUBEP CO., Sstablished 1868. Meagher and 16tb Street, CSXCAQO. 
This Is Another 
Superior device. It shows the Superior Disc 
and Shield, Chilled Spindle and Chilled Tapered 
Boxing. The Disc Shield and Removable Chill¬ 
ed Boxing never wear out. Over 800.000 now in 
use. Not one case of “wear out”. Just think 
of iti Wo agree to renew.thom at acost of only 
one dime. 
SUPERIOR 
Seeding Machines are used by the most prosper¬ 
ous farmers in all sections of the world. They 
do the work of seeding just right—never clog In 
trash. They successfully sow and cover the seed 
in any field where a disc harrow will run. A man 
or a boy can seed one-fourth to one-half more 
land in a day than with any other drill. Superior 
Seeding Machines are made solid and strong of 
the best materials. They are light draft. No neck 
weight. Easy on man and team. Our new Cat¬ 
alogue No. 18 Is free. Write for it today. 
SUPERIOR DIVISION, 
AMERICAN SEEDING MACHINECO., 
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. 
- ■ ■■ ■ ■■■ ') 
Potato 
Growers 
If you want yonr team to 
sift those potatoes out of 
the soil use Hallock's 
Potato Fork. Run by 
two horses. No cogs to 
wear or break—hnt it 
runs all the same. Just 
send us your name and 
address, and we will tell 
you all about it. 
D. Y. HALLOCK A, SONS, 
Box 805, York, Pa. 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, July 18, 1903. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Talks About Farm Machinery. Part I..514 
Fertilizer Needs of Crops.511 
Snails Destroying Tobacco Plants.516 
Crimson Clover for Northern New York.517 
Air Pressure for Water Tanks.517 
Hope Farm Notes.519 
Crop Prospects .521 
Work on Jersey Truck Farm.624 
Farmers’ Institute Workers Meet.525 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Some Young Farm Stock.513 
The Value of Corn-and-Cob Meal.515 
Condensed Milk Companies and Silos....516 
Mapes, the Hen Man.526 
Pasture the Hogs.526 
Gluten as Stock Food.526 
A Hand Separator.526 
Stories About Pigs.527 
Treatment of a Horse.527 
Cob and Corn.527 
Draft Horses .527 
HORTICUI TURE. 
Turf Culture of Orchards.513, 514 
The Best Wood for Grafting.514 
The Eucalyptus Tree.516 
Cultivation of Saffron.515 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.518 
Seedling Strawberry Notes.618 
Fruit Notes .524 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.522 
Something About Meat.522 
A Contented Cat.522 
A Dozen Country Eggs.522, 523 
June Garden Notes.523 
The Rural Patterns.523 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Sheet Zinc for Roofing.514 
The Agricultural College Spirit.515 
The New Professor of Horticulture at 
Cornell .515 
The Markets at Erie, Pa.515 
Editorials .520 
Events of the Week.521 
Business Bits .521 
Markets .524 
Market Notes .525 
Mountains of North Carolina.624 
Humorous .628 
