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January 11, 1992 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
HUMOROUS 
There were three young women of Birm¬ 
ingham, 
Ami 1 know a sad story concerning them; 
They stuck needles and pins 
In the right reverend shins 
Of the Bishop engaged in confirming ’em. 
—Credit Lost. 
Student: “Say, waiter, this water is 
warm.” Waiter: “I let it run quite 
awhile, sir.” Student: “Perhaps it ran 
so long it got overheated.”—Cornell 
Widow. 
Bacon: “That fellow Lipton is like all 
the rest of us.” Egbert: “How’s that?” 
“He’ll be happy some day, but he’s wait¬ 
ing for his ship t® come in first.”— 
Yonkers Statesman. 
“Wiiat did you find the most difficult 
thing about getting into society after 
you made your fortune?” “Getting rid 
of the folks we had known and liked 
when we were poor.”—Credit Lost. 
“I don’t like our doctor,” said Willie. 
“I went and caught a cold bad enough 
to keep me at home from school for two 
weeks, and the mean old doctor cured 
me in less than two days.”—Tit-Bits. 
In the angry cluck of the old hen 
whose eggs had 'been taken from her to 
complete a setting for another hen there 
was a note of defiance. “I won’t stand 
that!” she said. “That’s taxation with¬ 
out representation.”—Chicago Trilbune. 
“Did yez show Casey, the conthractor, 
the Wash’n’t’n monnymint?” asked Mr. 
Rafferty. “I did,” answered Mr. Dolan, 
“an’ he wor deeply imprissed.” “What 
did he say?” “He said it wor the tallest 
one-story buildin’ he iver saw!”—Wash¬ 
ington Star. 
“How can you plow straight furrows 
over such an enormous cornfield as 
this?” asked the Englishman, who had 
never been in Kansas before. “That’s 
easy,” said the native. “We follow the 
parallels of latitude and the meridians 
of longitude.”—Chicago Tribune. 
“Your climate doesn’t agree with me 
very well,” remarked the . passenger 
with the cough. “Well, to tell the truth,” 
responded the chance acquaintance in 
the next seat, “there are times when it 
disagrees with me too, in the most pro¬ 
voking and ridiculous manner. I’m the 
man who makes the official weather pre¬ 
dictions.”—Credit Lost. 
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The Rural New-Yorker, Jan. 11, 1902. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Winter Barley vs. Wheat. 
Natural Gas on u.e Farm. Part III. 
Tomato Prices at Canning Factories. 
Future Price of Potatoes. 
Sound Sense About Cow Peas. 
Crimson Clover .... 
What About Beardless Barley?. 
Hope Farm Notes. 
Western Dealers on Grain Prices. 
New York State agricultural Depart¬ 
ment . 
Crop Notes ... 
Down in Maine. 
Odds and Ends. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A Satisfactory Dairy Barn. 1!) 
Cotton-Seed Feed for Dairymen.20 
Notes from Milk Producers.25 
Watery Silage; Rough Cows.30 
Is Morning’s Milk Richest?. 30 
Bad Taste in Milk. 30 
Happy Cows . 30 
Stalk Silage is No Good. 31 
Stock Notes from Canada. 31 
Roughage from a Small Farm. 31 
Rye Bran for Horses. 31 
Dry Stalk Silage. 31 
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HORTICULTURE. 
Great Value of the Native Plums.17, 18 
Competition in Western Apples. 18 
The Ohio Horticultural Society. Part Ill.. 2b 
Everybody’s Garden . 23 
Notes from the Rural Grounds. 22 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 2C 
The Rural Patterns. 2P 
A Trek to the South. Part IV. 27 
Rural Recipes . 27 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Self-Cleaning Rain-Water Cistern. 18 
Lost Dynamite Under a Stump. 2b 
Editorials . 24 
Events of the Week. 25 
Markets . 28 
Business Bits . 28 
Market Notes . 29 
Things to Let Alone. 29 
Humorous . 32 
