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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 12, 1902 
HUMOROUS 
The shades of night had fallen flat, 
When up in bed the boarder sat. 
“This mattress can’t be stuffed with hair," 
Said he, “It feels as If It were 
‘Excelsior!’ ’’ 
—Philadelphia Record. 
“William, has the shad any teeth?” 
“No, ina’ain. It doesn’t need any. It 
uses its bones.”—Credit Lost. 
The Pessimist: “The longer I live in 
the world the worse it seems to get.” 
The Optimist: “Oh, well, don’t let a little 
thing like that worry you. Perhaps it 
will be better after you get out of it.”— 
Chicago News. 
Anxious Oj.d Lady: “I say, my good 
man, is this boat going up or down?” 
Surly Deck-hand: “Well, she’s a leaky 
old tub, mum, so I shouldn’t wonder if 
she was going down. Then, again, her 
b’ilers ain’t none too good, so she might 
go up!”—Tit-Bits. 
The caller had been descanting on the 
advantages of cork soles as a preventive 
of colds in wet weather, and the expres¬ 
sion had caught Kitty’s ear. “Mamma,” 
she said after the visitor had gone away, 
“how can anybody with a cork soul ever 
go to heaven?”—Chicago Tribune. 
Phof. Blinkers: “1 hope you did not 
find my lecture too technical, Miss 
Baynes.” Miss Baynes (with pride): 
“Oh, no, Professor. I was able to follow 
it all.” Prof. Blinkers: “I am glad of 
that, as I tried to make it intelligible to 
the meanest comprehension.”—Punch. 
“You, William!” exclaimed the old 
man, “what you doin’ on dat white man’s 
fence? Ain’t you ’fraid you’ll fall off?” 
Then, after a moment’s thought, the old 
man resumed: “But ef you does fall off 
you might ez well fall on de side whar 
de watermillions is. You hear me, don’t 
you?”—Atlanta Constitution. 
“Did any of the inhabitants escape 
with his life?” inquired the man who 
wants harrowing details. “I didn’t stop 
to ascertain,” answered the man who 
is harrowingly exact. "It struck me 
that if anybody escaped without his life 
there wasn't much use in his escaping, 
anyhow.”—Washington Star. 
“Mamma,” said the little girl, her eyes 
wide with excitement, “I do believe the 
minister told a story.” “Why, the idea!” 
said her mother; “you don’t know what 
you are saying.” “But I do, Mamma. I 
heard Papa ask him how long he had 
worn whiskers, and he said he had worn 
them all his life.”—Credit Lost. 
Martha, the colored washerwoman, 
was complaining of her husband’s health 
to one of her patrons. “He’s ve’y po’ly, 
ma’am, ve’y po’ly. He’s got dat exclam¬ 
atory rheumatism.” “You mean inflam¬ 
matory, Martha. Exclamatory is from 
exclaim, which means to cry out.” 
“Yes, miss,” answered Martha, with 
conviction, “dat’s what it is. He hollers 
all de time.”—Christian Register. 
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CHICAGO 
The house that tells the truth. 
11 
HALLOCK’S OK” 
Potato Digger 
Patented 
August 24, 1097, 
PRICE 
RONNERTON, N. C., June 19, 1002. 
1). A'. IIallocK <fc Sons, York, Fa. 
(tENTi.khkn: I have hist linislied toy potato digging with 
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works as fine as silk. You can just go down the row, turn the 
vines over, and the shaker does the 
11 rest, which is to shake them out sn 
_ t hey can all lie seen. You have noth- 
;'!« ing to do but pick up the potatoes. 
I tried to find some potatoes llmt 
»a the digger did not get out, but failed 
5L "f' to do so. I consider it a perfect suc- 
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it will do work entirely satis¬ 
factory to you, and to intro¬ 
duce them where we have no 
agents, we will send one on 
trial, freight paid, to any re¬ 
sponsible potato grower. 
D. Y. HALLOCK & SONS 
YORK, PA. 
GAS and tn TV# fT*' Y YV# TT* 
GASOLINE Hrf JX VJt X IX JEL jSy 
Sold on Trial—by Builder to User. 
ALKX. T. GIBSON, 6 Jefferson Avo., Utica, N. Y. 
Dutton’s 
Improved 
Knife and 
Tool 
Grinder 
$ 2.50 each 
SAMPSON 
TOBACCO PRESS. 
CLARK'S 
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ACTION 
Cutaway Harrow will easily move 
16,000 tons of earth one foot In 
a day. 
CLARK’S SULKY 
Gant; Dinb 
Plow, 
From 2 to 8 feet. 
For horse or 
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PATENT GROOVED 
Tire Wheels 
For Farm Wagons 
Any Size to tit any Skein. 
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Tread Powers, Lever Powers, Engines, 
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BOOMER & BOSCHERT 
PRESS CO., 
118 West Water 8t., 
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LIGHTNING WELL MACHY? 
IS THE STANDA 
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Does everything, culs hay, 
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Sold on full guarantee. 
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CONTENTS. 
The Ruiial New-Yorker. July 12, 1902. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Old Times In a New Country.478 
Farming In the Red River Valley; 
Part IX. 478 
“Good” Boys Wanted on the Farm.479 
Sowing Rye in Corn.479 
Training Boys for Farm Work.479 
Horses Spread the Manure .480 
Hope Farm Notes .483 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Mapes the lien Man. 
Calf Feeding .. 
Cows Failing to Breed . 
Fish Fed to Hogs . 
Scotch Collies Almost Human 
A Prolific Sow . 
The Oleo Business . 
Epidemic Abortion iri Cows_ 
Cow With Indigestion . 
Wants to Make Skim Cheese.. 
Silage for Hogs . 
Chances for Beef Cattle . 
Prize-Winning Ayrshires . 
HORTICULTURE. 
,478 
479 
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,490 
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490 
.491 
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,491 
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.491 
Fruit Prospects In Western New 
Birds and the Cherry Crop. 
Varieties of Blackberries . 
Vegetable Questions . 
Squash Vine-Borer . 
Grasshopper Poisons . 
Strawberries Tested . 
Everybody’s Garden . 
Notes from the Rural Grounds . 
Experiments in Grape Growing . 
The Gonzales Plum . 
The State Fruit Crop . 
Pruned Roots . 
York. 
477, 478 
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.488 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day . 
The Rural Patterns . 
A Word for the Workers . 
Household Notes . 
An Emergency Dinner . 
A Woman Mail Carrier . 
Advertising Philanthropists . 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Editorials . 
Events of the Week 
Nose Protectors . 
Markets . 
Business Bits . 
Market Notes . 
Humorous . 
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