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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 28, 1900 
Humorous. 
Sunday - school Teacher: “Now 
Johnny, you may tell me who was 
Noaa’s wife.” Johnny: “Er—er—Joan 
of Ark.”—Australasian. 
Johnny: “Did you go fishin’ yester¬ 
day?” “Freddy: “Yes.” Johnny: “Wojjer 
catch?” Freddy: “Five fish and a licken’ 
from dad.”—Boston Traveler. 
Clerk: “I’ve—er—had an addition to 
my family, sir.” Employer (at>senV 
minded): “Addition? Well, if it’s cor¬ 
rect, enter it in the ledgek^ Jones.”—Tit- 
Bits. * 
Caller: “I should like to see your 
mother, if she isn’t engaged.” Flossie 
(aged five): “Engaged! Why, mamma’s 
-been married ever since I knew her.”— 
Credit Lost. 
“Say,” he asked, entering the laundry 
hurriedly, “how long does it take you to 
do up a shirt?” “Oh, about two or three 
washings,” replied the girl behind the 
desk.—The Smart Set. 
Hoax: “I’ve heard of trained fleas, but 
here’s an item tin the paper about a 
man who has a mathematical ant.” 
Joax: “Well, it’s the little things that 
count.”—Philadelphia Record. 
Mamma (at the breakfast-table): “You 
always ought to use your napkin. 
Georgie.” Georgie: “I am using it, 
Mamma. I’ve got the dog tied to the 
leg of the table with it.”—People’s 
Friend. 
“I hear your husband is very sick, 
Aunt Dinah.” “Yes’m.” “Nothing seri¬ 
ous, I hope. His condition is not crit¬ 
ical?” “Critical! I should say he wuz! 
He ain’t satisfied with miffin'.”—’The 
Christian Register. 
Teacher (to pupil): “If you don’t tell 
me the name of the boy who put the pin 
on my chair, I’ll give you a whipping.’ 
Pupil: “Whip ahead, sir. It won’t be 
nothin’ to what that boy’ll give me if I 
tell on him.”—Harper’s Bazar. 
“Are you doing much gardening, Miss 
Struckore?” “No, not much. You see I 
have not got the proper stockings for 
such work.” “Got what?” The proper 
stockings—the rubber garden hose I see 
advertised in the papers.”— Baltimore 
Sun. 
Emaciated Invalid (just arrived at 
the springs): “Is it true that drinking 
these waters produces fat?” Native 
(weight 250): “Produces fat? Why, 
stranger, when I came here I only 
weighed eight pounds, and look at me 
now.”—What to Eat. 
“I HYUH de white young lady say dat 
she was gwineter cut de yuthuh young 
lady dat made huh so mad,” said Miss 
Miami Brown. “It’s scan’lous de way 
dese white folks is actin’,” answered Mr. 
Erastus Pinkley. “Fust dey sings coon 
songs, den dey does cake-walks, an’ now 
dey’s gwine in foh carryin’ razzers.”— 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, Jult 28, 1900. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Arranging a Grind Windmill .510 
Tight or Open Barns.511 
Wheat Harvesting .511 
Farmers and License Laws.511 
A Grass and a Weed.512 
The Use of Phosphate in Fertilizing....512 
Killing the Cabbage Worm.513 
How to Kill Hedgerows.513 
Hope Farm Notes.515 
Hay and Fodder .515 
Long Island Potatoes.521 
Connecticut Farm Hands.521 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
‘Brain Work” in the Lower Animals, 
Part 1.522 
My Friend, the Dairy Cow, Part 11.522 
The Muscovy Duck .522 
Chenango Valley Notes .523 
Feeding Horses for Market.523 
Soft-Shelled Eggs....523 
Various Questions .523 
Mongaup Valley Creamery.523 
Rye Hay .523 
HORTICULTURE. 
The Southern Peach Crop.509, 510 
The Question of Orchard Cultivation ....510 
Sweet Clover; Slicing a Tree.510 
The Staymar . *mle .510 
The Cherry /'o* Considered.511 
Plowing an /^Orchard.512 
Summer P ** .512 
Ants in t C? njbhard.513 
Cultivate v Asparagus Bed.513 
Notes fr. ie Rural Grounds.511 
The Rr ^ rial Grounds.514 
Cumbe Raspberry; Rough Rider 
Stra y .514 
A Yf«T7 .Seedling Blackcap.514 
Tom <b on Stakes.515 
To . ft 5 Growers.515 
Tb <** i York Apple Crop.517 
WOMAN AND HOME,. 
From Day to Day.518 
Some Vegetarian Dishes.513 
An Emergency Cupboard .518 
Careful Housekeeping .518 
In Old Manomet Village. m* 
With the Procession.51J 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Editorials .516 
Events of the Week.fl. 
Markets .520 
Business Bits . 5-0 
Market Briefs .521 
New England Huckleberry Crop.521 
l Humorous .524 
