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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 1, 1903 
HUMOROUS 
The hens are In the garden, 
It makes me smile with glee. 
It’s Johnson’s garden they are in 
And the hens belong to me. 
—New York Sun’. 
“Pop, what is an assassin band?” “An 
assassin band, my son, is one which 
murders good music.”—Yonkers States¬ 
man. 
Pleasant Old Gentleman: “Have 
you lived here all your life, my little 
man?” Arthur (aged six): “Not yet.”— 
Lippincott’s Magazine. 
“I SEE in the paper that a widower 
with nine children out in Nebraska has 
married a widow with seven children.” 
"That was no marriage. That was a 
merger.”—Puck. 
Emplover: “Yes, I advertised for a 
strong boy. Think you will fill the bill?” 
Applicant: “Well, I just finished lickin’ 
19 other applicants out in de hall.”— 
Philadelphia Inquirer. 
“Now, Willie, what will you say if 1 
give you a piece of cake?” “Please, 
ma’am, I don’t know what to say, ’cause 
ma told me I wasn’t to ask fer a second 
helping.”—New York Journal. 
“Do you suppose old Pscadds has any 
idea how much he is really worth?” 
“No. If he had he wouldn’t give him¬ 
self so many airs on account of the 
money he happens to possess.”—Chicago 
Tribune. 
“Is this a good place for trout?” in¬ 
quired the angler, who had just arrived. 
“It seems to be,” replied the other, who 
had been fishing there patiently for 
hours; “they don’t appear to be disposed 
to leave it.”—Philadelphia Ledger. 
“You say that man’s relations won’t 
speak to him?” said the surveyor who 
had stopped at the log cabin. “Yes. An’ 
it serves him right. Jes’ as soon as he 
comes into a little property he bought 
hisself a glass eye an’ a set o’ false 
teeth, an’ his kin reckoned it was mighty 
ill-mannered to come around puttin’ on 
style an’ wearin’ all that jewelry.”— 
Washington Star. 
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For 30 days to the readers of The 
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WATER. 
If yon want water only when the wind blows a windmill will do your work 
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^ This 
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Farmers’ Favorite 
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. VI 
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with elevating and carrying devices t hat work 
right are the main 
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THE BELCHER & TAYLOR A. T. CO., 
Box Chicopoe Falls* Mass. 
THE KING OF HARROWS 
CLARK’S cutaway 
BIG HAY 
CROP 
GRAIN DRILL 
The YORK FORCE FEED DRILL com- 
bines lightness with strength. Most completeonU 
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made. No complex gearing to get out of order. Boxes 
are close to ground. Fully I 
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Makes plant food quick of toughest sod. Perfect 
connection with subsoil water. May 23, 1903. In the 
drought, no rain for forty days, cold, bad every way. 
Clark’s grass field will now cut two tons to the acre; 
July 1 will surely cut 11 ve. If you doubt It come and see 
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C UTAWAY HARROW CO., Higganuni. Conn. 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Torker, Aug. 1, 1903. 
FARM TOPICS 
Clark Grass Culture.-. 
Three Farmers Solve the Help Problem..847 
’The Hygrometer in Hay Making.548 
Crimson Clover and Cow-Horn Turnips...')4R 
Reports About Potato Beetles.550 
Chinch Bug Fungus.550 
Hope Farm Notes.551 
Crop Prospects .553 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Small Farmers and Pedigreed Stock.558 
A Woman Parmer’s Notes.5.58 
Oil of Tar for a Horse.5.58 
The Trade in Silos..559 
Abandoned Farms in New England.559 
“Another Pig Heard Prom”.559 
HORTICULTURE. 
Famous Orchards.545, 646 
A Monument to Prof. E. G. Goff.546 
The Asiatic Ladybird in America.547 
Propagating from Bearing or Nursery 
Trees .647 
Winter Vegetables in Cloth-covered 
Houses .648 
How White Varieties Originate.648 
Budding Apple Trees in the North.548 
How to Handle Potato Balls.548 
Grafting Japan Plums.548 
Everybe-dy’s Garden .549 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.5o9 
Farm Fruit .551 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
Prom Day to Day. 
Canning Green Corn.^ 
A Nebraska Sod Church.. 
Suggestions for Pickles. 
Rural Recipes . 
The Rural Patterns.””,”1.lew 
New Uses for an Old Shirt Waist.*>oo 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Vegetable Caterpillar In New Zea¬ 
land . 'e,a 
Are the Scientific Men Asleep?.5 
Discussion of Agricultural Papers. 
Editorials . 
EJvents of the Week. ^ 
Farmers vs. Canal Appropriation.^ 
Business Bits . 
Farmer and Electric Road. 
Market Notes . 
That Canal Appropriation. 
Humorous . 
