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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER: 
January 20, 1900 
Humorous. 
Maud: “So you have accepted Tom?” 
Mabel: “Yes; he said he wouldn’t marry 
me if I didn’t.”—Moonshine. 
“Daddy, may I ask you a question in 
’rithmetic?” “Certainly, my boy!” 
“Well, Daddy, how many times what 
makes seven?”—Home Chat. 
Bess: “So Jeannette married a farmer. 
I thought she said sne would marry only 
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a man of culture?” Nell: “And so she 
did—a man of agriculture.”—Chicago 
News. 
“Oh, Ma; come up here, quick!” 
“What’s the matter, Tommy?” “Bobby's 
playin’ circus, an’ he’s tryin’ to make 
th’ baby dive off th’ mantel.”—Indian¬ 
apolis Journal. 
Grandfather (drilling Maudie for 
her first party): “And now, darling, 
what is a greedy girl?” Maudie: “A girl 
who wants everything I want.”—Illus¬ 
trated Bits. 
Jimmy: “Yes; I got a licking for swip¬ 
ing jam! But there’s one good thing 
about a licking!” Johnny: “What’s 
that?” Jimmy: “It makes you forget all 
about your conscience!”—Puck. 
Teacher: “Of course, you understand 
the difference between liking and lov¬ 
ing?” Pupil: “Yes, Marm; I like my 
father and mother, but I love pie.”— 
Collier’s Weekly. 
She: “Indeed, it’s not an easy thing 
for a girl to get a husband.” He: “Why, 
a pretty girl can make her choice of 
four out of every five she meets.” She: 
“But it’s the fifth man she wants.”— 
Judge. 
Green: “Congratulations, old chap! I 
hear you married a lady with an inde¬ 
pendent fortune.” Brown: “So I 
thought; but I find I’m married to a 
fortune with an independent lady.”— 
Chicago News. 
“The reason I can’t get along with my 
wife is that she wants to submit all our 
differences to arbitration.” “To arbi¬ 
tration?” “Yes. She always wants to 
refer disputes to her mother.”—Brook¬ 
lyn Life. 
“Are you sure this milk is free from 
germs?” inquired the cautious young 
housekeeper. “Yes, lady,” replied the 
milkman, unguardedly, “we boil every 
drop of water that goes into it.”—Phila¬ 
delphia Record. 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, Jan 20, 1900. 
FARM TOPICS. 
An Insect that Knows Beans.35 
Grass for Sheep Pasture.37 
The Brazilian Flour Corn.38 
Seed Potatoes .38 
Hope Farm Notes.39 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Rubbers on a Horse.35 
Making Prize Butter.46 
Feeding Steers .46 
The Belgian Draft Stallions.46 
Sheep on Shares .46 
Intestinal Worms in Pigs.47 
A Stiffened Horse.47 
Fleas on a Dog.47 
What About Rape?.47 
The Rose Comb Brown Leghorn.47 
Pigs’ Feet .47 
HORTICULTURAL. 
The Use of Hydrocyanic Acid Gas. 
Part II.33 
Keeping Apples ... ........... 33 
More About Knotty Fruit.34 
Storing Celery for Home Use.34 
Rhubarb Forcing .34 
Orchards in Sod.34 
The Bee, the Grape, the Fact.35 
How About the Sneed Peach?.35 
Apple Virginia Beauty.35 
Apples, Prunes and Raspberries.36 
Grafting Japan Plums and Cherries.36 
Fruits and Nuts in Northwestern Arkan¬ 
sas .36 
Peaches and Chestnuts for Massachusetts.38 
How to Grow Cyclamens.37 
Spray Pump with Compressed Air.37 
The Culture of Tarragon.37 
Pecan Trees in Missouri.37 
Shade Trees in Washington.37 
Poisonous Shrubs .38 
Acalypha Sanderi .38 
The Butterfly Oxalis.38 
Hardy Climbing Shrubs.38 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.12 
Rural Recipes . 42 
A Honeymoon with Three Bears.43 
A Crop of Boys and Girls.43 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
How Charcoal is Made.34 
Furnace for Burning Stumps.37 
Charcoal and Ashes.37 
Editorials .40 
Events of the Week.41 
A Letter to Your Congressman.41 
Preventives of Oat Smut.41 
Markets .44 
Business Bits .4-1 
Publisher’s Desk .45 
Market Briefs .45 
National League of Commission Mer¬ 
chants .45 
Eastern New York Horticultural Society..45 
Humorous .48 
HALLOCK’S SUCCESS 
ANTI¬ 
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Will be sold at the same 
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Not one cent advance. 
The prices of all other farm implements have advanced from 25 to 50 per cent. HALLOCK’S SUCCESS WEEDER will not only I 3 ® sold a/t the old 
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