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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 31, 1900 
Humorous. 
We once Interviewed a young octopus— 
In a cave by the seashore he blocked up us; 
“I’ll show you,” said he, 
"How loving I’ll be,”— 
And with all his eight tentacles locked up 
us.—Puck. 
“Don’t hide yoh light under a bushel,” 
said Uncle Eben; “an’ at de same time 
don’t go roun’ sposin’ dat, you is de 
whole electric power house an’ dat de 
town ’ud be dahk if you wus ter quit.”— 
Washington Star. 
Mother: “Georgie, I told you to say 
‘No’ if they offered you cake a third 
time.” Georgie: “So I did, mamma. 
Only they offered it me the fourth 
time, and you didn’t say anything about 
the fourth time!”—Punch. 
“Here’s a correspondent,” said the 
new household editor, “who wants to 
know how to keep lamps irom smoking." 
“That’s easy,” replied the snake editor; 
“just keep tobacco and cigars out of 
their reach.”—Credit Lost. 
“Yes,” said Farmer Corntossel, “let 
Josh go right ahead playin’ golf. I 
reckon it’ll do nim good.” “You said 
you thought it was a waste of time yes¬ 
terday,” said his wife. “I’ve changed 
my mind. If he keeps on practicin’ 
with them sticks a few years mebbe 
there won’t be so mucn danger of cuttin’ 
hisself when he tries to handle a 
s ythe.”—Washington Star. 
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profits. In use 5 8 yearn. Officially Endorsed by the 
0ranee. Low prices will surprise you. Write for Samples. 
0. W. INGERSOLL, 246 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Corn Can Be Made a Renovating Crop 
IP PROPERLY MANURED. 
For large successful crops of corn grown on poor land with the MAPES 
CORN MANURE, see ad. last page of last week’s Rural New-Yorker. 
[From the American Agriculturist.] 
Fertilizing a Run-Out Farm. 
B. L. S. has just purchased a run-out farm in Jersey that formerly produced large fruit crops. It 
will doubtless produce good yields of all crops if properly manured. The Mapes corn manure alone 
was used on the large crops recently described in American Agriculturist, hut such yields are possible 
only by an exceptional combination of season, sunshine, moisture, soil, texture and fertilization, and 
by the use of seed that will produce two or more ears per stalk. Corn is a comparatively sure crop, 
and Prof. Mapes says that with judicious fertilization, it can be made a renovating crop and not an 
exhausting crop as is generally supposed, bringing up the land to good condition for grass or general 
crops, besides making money from the start, and having the field left clean and free of weeds. He 
advocates applying fertilizers broadcast for corn, as by reason of its wide-spreading roots the crop 
will be much more vigorous and stand the drouth better. For corn, use 3 bags of Mapes or some other 
high grade corn manure (broadcast), oats 1 to 2 bags, potatoes 3 bags and upwards, cabbage and beets 
8 or 10 bags, turnips 3 or 4 bags. All the small fruits can be fertilized to advantage. If your stable 
manure is used on corn land, half the quantity of fertilizer named would be sufficient. 
The Mapes Potato Manure May Be Used also on all Vegetables, Fruit Trees and Small Fruits 
Eight Years on Apple and Pear Orchards, Crass, Potatoes, Corn, Strawberries, Etc. 
Wilmer Atkinson, under the heading “ Orchards,” in the Farm Journal, writes : 
“ We are often asked what kind of fertilizers to use in the orchard, and perhaps as good an answer 
we can give is, use Mapes Manures, for this is the kind and only kind we have used in our young thirty- 
acre orchard since it was planted eight years ago. The trees are vigorous and healthy, are now coming 
into bearing, and the past season we cut three tons of Timothy hay per acre off a part of the orchard, 
and we have not used a ton of stable manure from the beginning. We have found these manures equally 
good for grass, potatoes and corn as for orchard trees.” 
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Dept. B. P. O. Box 290, New York, N. Y. 
O NE THOUSAND EASY OFKNEK KNUES 
To be Given Away to boys under 18 yeais of 
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blades of razor steel and warranted. Boys, we want 
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these knives with very little effort. Send postal for 
1UOO Seed Catalogue giving full particulars. BOSS 
BROTHERS, No. 150 Front 8t , Worcester, Mast. 
A FIRST-CLASS POTATO PLANTER 
and Digger Combined. Two Macbinesforone 
price. Every farmer can afford to buy it. Special 
introductory prices to farmers this year. 
SCHOFIELD & CO., Freeport, Ill. 
COLD 
Is made in using or selling the Nagley Automatic 
TRANSPLANTER. 
Used in transplanting Tobacco. Cabbage, Celery, 
Tomatoes. Sugar Beets, Sweet Potat oes, Straw ber¬ 
berries and other plants. Potato planting attachment 
extra. Absolutely guaranteed to do the work. Write 
for prices. NAG LEY MFG. CO., Lyons, N. Y. 
The Spangler Corn Planter. 
The Most Perfect Corn 
Dropper in the World. 
With or without Fertilizer Attachment. Write for 
circulars and prices of Planters and Grain Drills. 
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WnTNUi nluL i and much easier for you. 
works independent of the wheels. No jerk. No 
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for circular telling all about it and how to get one. 
ROSS BROTHERS, Front St., WORCESTER, MASS. 
Steel Frame. Reversible. 
DUTTON 
MOWER 
KNIEE 
GRINDER. 
OLARK’S CUTAWAY SULKY 
DISK 
PLOW 
Send for Catalogue and prices to 
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CLARKS 
DISK 
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OUR potato planter 
ALSO 
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SORTERS, 
BARREL CHURNS. 
POST-HOLE 
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WRITE FOR PARTICULARS. 
The ARLINGTON SWIVEL PLOW 
with Coulter, Jointer and Ground Wheel. 
They 
are made 
in five 
sizes, for 
1 and 2 horses. 
Light, and easy 
to handle. 
The best hill-aide plow made. Best for plowing back and 
forth without opening up lands. Specially constructed mold 
board makes it turn sod i>erf ectly. 
The jointer reverses with the mold board, 
and is so constructed that it can’t choke. 
Made with wood or steel beam. Take a 
furrow slice from 8 to 16 Inches wide and 4 to 8 
inches deep. Write for special plow circulars. 
THE BELCHER & TAYLOR A. T. CO. 
Box 75 Chicopee Fall., Mama. 
LVERIZING HARROW, CLOD CRUSHER AND LEVELED 
crushes, cuts, lifts, pulverizes, turns, aerates and levels all soils, for 
all purposes under all conditions. * Made entirely of cast 
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the cheapest and best riding harrows and pulverizers on 
^arth. Various sizes, for various uses, 3 to 13^ feet. We 
mail catalogue and booklet, “An Ideal Harrow, ” free. 
TO BE RETURNED AT MY EXPENSE IF HOT ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY. I deliver free on board at 
York, Chicago, Columbus, Louisville, Minneapolis, Kansas City, San Francisco, Ac. 
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THE TEN ACRE FARMER- 
or the successful fellow who does his farming with one horse will find nothing equal to the “Planet Jr.” Horse Hoesfor his 
purpose. They are capable of the greatest variety of work aud do it all perfectly. This one lias double levers—one con- 
trols depth and the other width. A great variety of attachments. Remember that th*» “Planet Jr.” was the original 
iron frame Horse Hoe. It was made the best at the start and has ever remained the best. Beware of imitations; insist 
on getting the genuine “Planet Jr.” for nothing is so good. 
Wo make a complete line of Seed Drills and Wheel Hoes, (25 styles). Pivot Wheel Cultivators, Sugar Beet Drills and Four RowSugar Beet 
Cultivators, Spring-tooth Orchard Cultivators, etc.,each with a'variety of attachments all of latest and most approved patterns. 
Our new 1 POO catalogue is a worthy successor of that of’99. It is handsomer in every way, and shows what is being used 
by the progressive farmer at home and abroad. Sixteen of the views are full page, made from actual photographs 
and reflect tliequaint garb and customs of peoples across the seas, We have printed aud are now mailing 350,000 
copies There’s one for you if you write for it. 
S. L. ALLEN & CO., Box \ 107-V Philadelphia, Pa. 
