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July 21, 1900 
THE RURAL 
]srk 
W-YORKER. 
Humorous 
Now cometh the Summer with its joys 
And all it has in store; 
Likewise the youngster who Inquires: 
“Say, Mister, wot’s de score?” 
—Indianapolis News. 
Johnny: “Paw, what is backmail?” 
Paw: “Mourning envelopes.”—Baltimore 
American. 
“Johnnie, how would you divide 13 
apples equally among 14 hoys?” “Make 
’em into apple sauce, sir!”—Life. 
“Weren’t there a crowd of girls at 
that reception?” “Yes; a peach jam, I 
should call it.”—Harvard Lampoon. 
The Judge: “What kind of iron was 
thrown during the riot?” The Witness: 
“Scrap iron, Yer Honor.” — Chicago 
News. 
Tom: “That horse of Mrs. De Smyth’s 
seems to be very fond of her.” Jack: 
“Naturally. She’s a grass wlidow.”—Chi¬ 
cago Daily News. 
“Ef yo’ can’t keep a secret,” says 
Brother Watkins, “wha’ fo’ yo’ give de 
Oder feller credit fo’ mo’ sense by givin’ 
to him to keep?”—Philadelphia Record. 
First Officer: “So Cassidy got a set av 
silver-plate fer thryin’ to shtop Mister 
Astorbilt’s runaway automobile?” Sec¬ 
ond Officer: “Yis. The main piece was a 
coffin-plate, an’ the side-pieces was 
ha n d 1 es. ”—Judge. 
'Citizen: "See here, I’ll give you a six¬ 
pence, but I believe you asked me for 
money only yesterday. Why don’t you 
learn some good business?” Able-Bodied 
Beggar: “I have learned one, sir; I’m a 
retoucher.”—Melbourne Leader. 
“Johnny,” he whispered to her litt’.e 
brother, “did your sister get a note from 
me last night? It was written on pink 
paper.” “I think she must have got it,” 
said Johnny, “ ’cause when she came 
down to breakfast this morning her haiir 
was done up in pink curl-papers.”—Tit- 
Bits. 
Mistress: “Why, Jane, what in the 
world 'is the matter with the cream?” 
Jane: “I don’t see anything wrong with 
it. Ma’am.” Mistress: “But what makes 
it so pale?” Jane: “I reckon that’s be¬ 
cause I nearly beat the life out of it 
when you ordered it whipped, Ma’am.”— 
Chicago New®. 
“Perhaps you can tell me,” remarked 
the exchange editor, making another 
vicious lunge with his shears at 'the 
helpless paper he was dissecting, “per¬ 
haps you can tell me how the water gets 
into the melon.” “Blamed vine know,” 
replied the answers-to-correspondents 
man. “Wrong,” rejoined the exchange 
editor. “They plant the seeds in the 
Spring.”—Chicago Tribune. 
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CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, July 21, 1900. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Corn Harvesting. Part II.493 
Five Tons Per Acre.493, 494 
“Misdirected Efforts”; Oats and Peas...494 
Use of the Riding Cultivator.495 
Horse Shoe Farm Notes.495 
Second Hay Crop.495 
Potato Beetles Slow to Hatch.496 
To Get Rid of Caraway.496 
Tobacco Ashes; Nitrate of Soda.496 
Hope Farm Notes.499 
A Visit to Hope Farm.499 
Some Helpful Observations on England's 
Royal Show .501 
Fertilizer Wastes In the West.501 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Silage for Summer Feeding.495 
A Milk Meeting at Binghamton.505 
After the Milk Adulterators.506 
My Friend, the Cow.500 
Dorset Sheep and Dogs.506 
“Moon Blindness” .506 
A Tough Old Mare.501 
Diarrhea or Scours in Calves.507 
Some Silo Problems.507 
Hens that Lay Bad Eggs.507 
Holstein Cattle .507 
Cattle Prices .507 
Dog Protectors . 507 
HORTICl ^aRAL. 
Budding Made Plai /».*.494 
Fumigating Nurser^ Sees.495 
Kerosene for Inset'-w *\.496 
Tree Borers; Lime^4 he Garden.490 
When to Order F-^ Trees.490 
Nitrate of Soda f & “.rawberries.496 
Best Flue for G .louse.496 
A Talk About ^ vberries.497 
Notes from the-^ al Grounds.498 
Grafting Pear? <t> Thorn Apple.45s 
Rose Crimson/ 5, mbler.498 
Through Nev q k State. Part II. 
W ** .N AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 502 
Miss Prissy’s Remarks on Careering.602 
Wearing a bnirt Waist.502 
Three Simple Edgings.503 
Rural Recipes .503 
Kitchen Economy .503 
A Bit of the Millenium.503 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Costly Meat .497 
War Pensions .497 
Sorrows of a Borrower.497 
“O. K.” is Legal.497 
Old-Time Thoughts .497 
Scraps .497 
Editorials . 500 
Events of the Week.501 
Markets .504 
Business Bits .6(4 
Market Briefs .50a 
Humorous .508 
