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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 22, 1903 
HUMOROUS 
Here’s still a good motto 
Not learned in a school— 
Take time by the forelock 
And also the mule! 
—Credit Lost. 
CusTOitER: “To what do you attribute 
the great cleansing power of your 
soap?” Dealer: “To judicious adver¬ 
tising.”—Chicago Daily News. 
Enraiged Reader: “I have come in to 
horsewhip the editor.” Office Boy: 
“youUl have to wait, sir; there are two 
others ahead of you.”—Life. 
“Which is correct—‘pants’ or ‘trous¬ 
ers’?” “Trousers.” “But it doesn’t 
seem right to say that ‘his breath came 
in short trousers.’ ”—New York Sun. 
“What prevents the ocean from over¬ 
flowing the land?” asked the teacher. 
“It’s tide,” came a shrill voice from the 
tail of the class.—Philadelphia Record. 
Botanicad Odd Gent (in Central 
Park): “Can you tell me if this plant 
belongs to the arbutus family?” Gar¬ 
dener (curtly): “No, sir; it don’t; it be¬ 
longs to the city.”—New Yorker. 
“Yoxjno man,” said the wealthy Mr. 
Pompus, “you ask for my daughter’s 
hand. What expectations have you?” 
“Why,” replied the young man, in a 
somewhat surprised tone, “I expect to 
get what I’m asking for.”—Philadelphia 
Press. 
“Have you brothers and sisters, little 
one?” “Yes, two.” “Are your father 
and mother alive?” “Yes, and we also 
have a grandfather.” “How old is your 
grandfather?” “That I don’t know, but 
we’ve had him a very long time.”— 
Fliegende Blaetter. 
“Well, there is one thing that can be 
said of Crawford. Although he went 
fishing himself on the Sabbath he didn’t 
let his little son fish.” “I am glad to 
hear that. Was the boy at Sunday 
school?” “No, baiting the hooks.”— 
Chicago Daily News. 
“Are you sure, Mr. Spoonamore,” she 
asked him, after a moment’s pause, “it 
isn’t my ?25,000 legacy, instead of me, 
that attracts you?” “I am. Miss Higgs¬ 
worthy,” he answered, with strong feel¬ 
ing. “I thought it was ten times as 
much as that!”—Chicago Tribune. 
“The house that is to stand,” said the 
wealthy young Sunday school superin¬ 
tendent, “must be founded on a rock.” 
“I know it,” said little Johnny, “that’s 
what pa says, too; but what grinds him 
is that a few other people have most of 
the rocks.”—Chicago Record-Herald. 
Tramp: “You has purty easy times— 
nothin’ to do but stand here sellin’ lead 
pencils.” Pencil Peddler: “Think it 
easy, do yeh? Don’t you know people 
won’t buy pencils of a feller on th’ 
street unless he looks starved an’ de¬ 
jected an’ despairin’?” “That’s easy.” 
“ ’Taint easy to look that way right 
along w’en y’r rakin’ in ?4 a day.”—New 
York Weekly. 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, August 22, 1903. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Trying to Cure Cow Peas.593 
Beardless Barley for Stock Feeding.593 
Soaking Clover Hay.593, 594 
Killing Out Wild Mustard.594 
Hairy Vetch in Maine.594 
The Clark Method of Grass Seeding.595 
What Form of Nitrogen to Buy.596 
The Value of Gas Lime.596 
Dried Blood and Nitrate of Soda..5P6 
Lime and Clover Seeding.597 
Kaffir and Common Corn.597 
Hope Farm Notes.599 
Crop Prospects .601 
Poor Onions . 601 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Incubator House of Logs; Hot Water...594 
A Cure for Garget.596 
Silage and Tainted Milk Notes.601 
Separator Notes .604 
Silage and Tainted Milk.604 
To Kill Roup Germs.606 
The Cheviot Sheep.606 
Cabbage and Syrup for Hogs.607 
The Lincoln Sheep.607 
Malt Sprouts for Hogs.607 
Mapes, the Hen Man.607 
Biltmore’s Imported Berk.shires.607 
Horse with Cold.607 
Horse with Indigestion.607 
Salivated Mare .607 
HORTICULTURE’. 
Luther Burbank on Root Pruning.593 
Mme and Sulphur Wash on Peaches.593 
The Miracle Plum.5^ 
A Traveling Sprayer Talks.59 d 
The Randolph Apple.595 
Persian Walnut in Texas.596 
Barren Plum and Pear.596 
Everybody’s Garden .59/ 
Pan-American Strawberry .597 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.50S 
Lime on a Lawn. 
A Strawberry Note.598 
Soda Bordeaux Mixture.'.59.8 
The Story of a Good Orchard.601 
Estimate of the Apple Crop.601 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day... 
The Rural Patterns.- 
Romance of a Water Trough.602, 603 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
A Working Auto.595 
Cleaning Kitchen Drain.595 
The Skunk and His Earnings.603 
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