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TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 5, 1902 
HUMOROUS 
The moth, it seems a careless thing; 
It flutters by on gaudy wing; 
And yet this treacherous beast, alack, 
Will eat the clothes right off your back! 
—Washington Star. 
Bei.i.a: “He said his ears burned aw¬ 
fully last night.” Stella: “Well, I’m sure 
lie’s got ears to burn.”—Yonkers States¬ 
man. 
“What makes the price of beef so 
high?” “Critters can’t get anything to 
eat; pastures are all cut up into golf 
links.”—Boston Commercial Bulletin. 
DooiiAN: “Fitzgerald says he’s dis- 
cinded from some of the greatest houses 
in Ireland.” Mulcahy: “Musha! So he 
did, many’s a toime—on a laddher!”— 
Tit-Bits. 
Prof. Moiiandmose: “The books of 
the Chaldeans were written on bricks 
—” Sporter (in a still small voice): 
“They must have made hard reading.”— 
Harvard Lampoon. 
He: “I love you, darling. I swear it 
by those lofty elms in yonder park.” 
She: “Don’t swear by those, Reginald.” 
He: “Why not?” She: “Because those 
trees are slippery elms.”—Detroit Free 
Press. 
“You admit you stole the melons?” 
said the judge. “Oh, yes, suh—I stoled 
urn!” “And yet you ask for mercy?” 
“Yes, suh—kase de white man kotched 
me fo’ I had a chance ter eat um!”—At¬ 
lanta Constitution. 
Instructor: “In what respect did the 
fourteenth and nineteenth centuries re¬ 
semble each other?” De Grees: “The 
nineteenth century resembled the four¬ 
teenth in that both were a hundred years 
long.”—Harvard Lampoon. 
“You had clams on the half-shell,” ex¬ 
plained the restaurant proprietor, “and 
your bill is $1.” “But,” explained the 
patron, “it seems to me you ought to 
make a reduction for the shells; I didn’t 
eat them.”—Columbus Journal. 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker. July 5. 1902. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Early and Late-Cut Hay Compared.462 
The Chinaman as a “Hired Man’’.462 
Seed Potatoes in Boxes.462 
Help in the Hay Mow.462 
The Hay Crop.462 
A Successful Wind Power.463 
Farming in the Red River Valley; 
Part VIII.463 
Prof. Roberts on Potato Fertilizers.461 
Hay Grass for Connecticut.461 
What is “Reverted” Phosphoric Acid?..46,i 
Hope Farm Notes.467 
A Thrashermen’s Association .46D 
Government Crop Report.469 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Horse Beats a Hired Man.462 
Mapes, the Hen Man.463 
Northern Cattle and Texas Fever.474 
Value of Cotton-Seed Meal.474 
Width of a Horse Stall.475 
A One-Man Dairy Farmer.475 
Cutting Down the Grain Bill.475 
Cost of a Cow.475 
HORTICULTURE. 
An Orchard from Root-Grafts.461 
A Nursery Rogue Abroad.464 
Apple Curculio Attacking Pears.464 
Fruit Questions .464 
Fruits for Ontario.464 
Locust Sprouts; Market Gardening 
Queries .464 
Everybody’s Garden .465 
Tomatoes Under Glass.465 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.466 
Strawberries in Rochester.467 
Fruit Grown in Western New York; 
Part II. 
Fruit in the Hudson Valley.473 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 
The Rural Patterns. 
Dishwashing Time Saver. 
Keeping Ham in Summer . 
Hard Laundry Soap . 
An Australian Christmas . 
A Housekeeper's Invention . 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Lightning SLrikes .. 
Editorials . 
Events of the Week . 
Markets . 
Business Bits . 
Market Notes . 
Humorous . 
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470 
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