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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 25, 1903 
HUMOROUS 
Willie fell In the molasses 
Barrel, In the shed, 
“Now I’ll lick you, Willie,’’ 
His angry mother said. 
—Cornell Widow. 
Mam.\ia: “Come, Willie, walk faster!” 
Little Willie: “Huh! You wouldn’t be in 
such a hurry to get to the dentist’s if it 
was your tooth wot was goin’ to be 
pulled!”—Harper’s Bazar. 
“WiiAT is the diffei’ence between hens 
and poultry, pop?” “Why, hens, my 
son, are things that belong to our neigh¬ 
bors; poultry is something a man owns 
himself.”—Yonkers Statesman. 
“Yot:i{ life preserver may be all right,” 
said the buyer for the steamship com¬ 
pany, “but it’s so flimsy. I don’t see 
how it can support anyone.” “Well,” 
replied the manufacturer, “it has sup¬ 
ported me and my family for the past 
year.”—Philadelphia Ledger. 
“I NEVER see the iceman stop before 
your house any more, Mrs. Flipper- 
leigh.” “No; since the Buxtons, next 
door, fell into their fortune they’ve been 
so cool to us that we don’t need any 
help from the refrigerator.”—Chicago 
Record-Herald. 
“I shouldn’t be surprised if Josh was 
goin’ to be a great inventor or some¬ 
thin’,” said Farmer Corntossel. “What 
signs has he shown?” inquired his wife. 
“I had a long talk with him last night. 
That boy kin make you believe more 
things that ain’t so than anybody I ever 
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Mountain Grove, Mo., December 7, 1902. 
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saw.”—Washington Star. 
“Are you troubled with cockroaches 
or other insects about your premises, 
ma’am?” inquired the man with the 
pack, who had succeeded in gaining an 
audience with the mistress of the man¬ 
sion. “No, sir!” she said glaring at him. 
“We are not troubled by cockroaches or 
other insects!” “Don’t mind ’em, hey?” 
he rejoined, cheerfully, shouldering his 
pack again. “Well, there’s nothing like 
getting used to one’s afflictions. Good 
day, ma’am.”—Chicago Tribune. 
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WATER. 
If you want water only when the wind blows a windmill will do your work 
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Rider-Ericsson Engine Company, 
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239 Franklin St., Boston. 
693 Craig St., Montreal. P. Q. 
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22 Pitt St., Sydney, N. S. W. 
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EACH LITTLE WIND 
that blows is turned into value for tlie 
man who pumps or generates 
power for grinding, sawing, etc., 
with the 
Freeman 
Steel Windmills. 
Mills wit li 
genius to 
work and 
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Racine, 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, July 25, 1903. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Manurial Crop.s in the South.529, 530 
Talks About Farm Machinery; Part 11.531 
“Shawiver” Barn in Sullivan Co., N. Y..531 
Life Cycle of Potato Beetles .532 
Nitrate of Soda on Grass .532 
Home Mixing of Chemicals .532 
Basic Slag .533 
Hope Farm Notes .535 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Silage-Fed Milk for Condensing. 
An Ohio Pig Breeder Talks . 
The Milk Contract . 
Mapes, the Hen Man . 
Sweet Cornstalks in Silos . 
Brief Poultry Notes .. 
Yorkshires and Their Meat . 
Was the Rape Responsible?. 
Room for an Incubator . 
A New York Dairy County . 
.530 
.535 
.541 
.542 
.542 
.542 
.543 
.543 
.543 
.543 
HORTICULTURE. 
Cold Storage for Nursery Trees .. 
Effects of the Drought . 
Nova Scotia Notes . 
Stra-wberry Leaf-Roller . 
Stem Rot of Clematis . 
The Angouleme Pear . 
Everybody’s Garden . 
The Camelia Peach . 
Notes from the Rural Grounds .. 
Straw'berries in Orange Co., N. Y 
530 
,531 
,531 
,532 
.532 
.532 
,533 
.533 
.534 
.534 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day . 
Rural Recipes . 
A Photographic Competition .538 
A Homemade System of Waterworks... .539 
The Rural Patterns .539 
A Bed of Ferns and Wild Flowers .539 
MISCBLlbANEOUS. 
Markets in Hagerstown, Md... 
Cistern Under the House . 
Editorials . 
Events of the Week . 
Business Bits . 
Markets . 
Market Notes . 
Humorous . 
,531 
,532 
.536 
.537 
.537 
.540 
.540 
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