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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 9, 1902 
HUMOROUS 
Pikes: “How can a mountain know 
when to echo?” Sikes: “Perhaps it has 
mountain ears.”—Harvard Lampoon. 
She: “They say her father has spent 
$5,000 on her voice.” He: “It needed 
every cent of it.”—Indianapolis News. 
“Blinks asserts that he always tells 
the truth.” “So he does, but, unfortu¬ 
nately, he seldom stops there.”—In¬ 
dianapolis News. 
“Some er de loudes’ talkin’ reformers,” 
said Uncle Eben, “makes me think of a 
bald-headed man goin’ ’roun’ sellin’ hair 
restorer.”—Washington Star. 
Mrs. Foktysummers: “I told Mr. 
Beach I was 28, and he said I didn’t look 
it.” Her Loving Husband: “Well, you 
don’t; you haven’t looked it for 15 
years.”—Tit-Bits. 
It was the first time little Alfred had 
ever seen a shredded-wheat biscuit. 
Leaning over, be whispered in his moth¬ 
er’s ear: “Oh, mamma, what did they 
soak that Turkish wash-rag in milk 
for?”—Chicago News. 
“Did you ever see such wild flowers?” 
he exclaimed as he walked with her 
afield. “You’d be just as wild yourself,” 
protested a modest daisy indignantly, “if 
you had a lot of chumps picking at you, 
and walking all over you.”—Catholic 
Standard and Times. 
Slimson: “I hear you have been 
fighting that little boy next door, and 
that he whipped you. How did that 
happen?” Willie: “Well, he’s going to 
give a party next week, and I was afraid 
if I licked him he wouldn’t invite me.”— 
Illustrated Bits. 
“Is Mr. Fusse much afraid of mi¬ 
crobes?” “Well, I should say; he washes 
the antiseptic gauze gloves he wears in 
an antiseptic fluid before he even han¬ 
dles the sterilized glass that contains 
the boiled and filtered mineral water he 
intends to drink!”—Baltimore Herald. 
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ENSILAGE 
MACHINERY 
Before you spend 
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what we can do for you. 
Can furnish cither 
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Springfield, Ohio. 
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CO., Racine, Wis. Box 13 
rHE _ 
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J K. WILDER A SONS, 
3x20 Monroe 
GRAIN DRILL 
The YOKK FORCE FEFI> BRIM, com¬ 
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TORNADO 
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Embodies the latest and most up-to-date ideas. 
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THE BELCHER & TAYLOR A. T. CO., 
Box 7M, Chicopee Falls, Maas. 
PENCER’S 
ALLIGATOR BOX PRESS 
can bale 22 tons of hay In 10 hours or 
NO PAY. 
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J. A. SPENCER, 60 Williams Street, Dwight, Ills, 
BUZZARD” 
Feed and 
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Cutter 
everything, cuts hay, 
st raw.ensilage, shreds fodder 
and fills the silo to any height; 
all done by one machine. 
Sold on full guarantee. 
Write for catalogue. 
Joseph Dick 
Agricultural Works, 
Canton, Ohio. 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, Aug. 9, 1902. 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Land of the Sugar Beet.541 
“Knowing How”.541, 542 
A New Potato Harvester.542 
“Fertilizer Farming” to Date.543 
Farming in the Red River Valley; 
Part XI.543, 553 
Labor on a Fertilizer Farm.544 
Crimson Clover; Late Fodder Crops....544 
Cotton-Seed Meal and Ashes.545 
Hope Farm Notes.547 
“Save a Farm”; Part 1.549 
Crop Prospects .549 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Mapes, the Hen Man. 
Milk and Feeding Notes. 
Skim-Milk Calves . 
Silage and Shock-Corn Beef.. 
Weakly Chicks . 
The Law of Pasture . 
Handling Commercial Cream 
Milk Notes . 
Dogs and Clotted Milk .. 
512 
549 
551 
551 
521 
551 
KSR 
555 
The Universal Bean Harvester. 
The profit derived from the growing 
of beans depends largely upou quick 
and efficient methods of harvesting 
them. When beans are ripe, just right, 
and the weather favorable, harvesting 
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the bright and salable condition of the 
beans, depends upon that. All hand 
labor should be displaced with im¬ 
proved machinery. 
This Machine 
Harvests Beans 
in the most rapid and approved 
manner. The tempered stiel 
blades cut. off the stems of two 
rows of beans at one-passage 
and the steel rod cleaners sepa¬ 
rate all dirt, etc., and deliver 
the two rows of beans into one 
long continuous windrow. 
Tlie Harvester is made of best , 
material throughout, welt painted and varnished and will last indefinitely. Pole has a spceiul shilling 
lever which enables the machine to work on hillsides ns well as on the level. A long evener and neek- 
voke are furnished with each machine. We Guarantee the Harvester In every respect. Ask your local 
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ai e supplied. Write at once l or catalogue and prices, and be informed on the subject. 
WIARD PLOW COMPANY, BATAVIA, N. Y. 
HORTICULTURE. 
Birds, Cherries and Sentiment.. 
An Infertile Mulberry . 
Budding Peach Trees . 
Care of a Young Orchard . 
Cross-Fertilized Fruit Trees; 
Yellows . 
Poisons for Grass and Weeds .. 
Everybody’s Garden . 
Grafts on Wild Cherry . 
Notes from the Rural Grounds 
Work of 17-Year Locusts. 
A New Orchard Company . 
The Connecticut Peach Crop.... 
Peach 
,543 
.514 
54! 
51! 
,541 
,544 
,515 
.545 
.545 
.543 
546 
.549 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day . 
Theories and the Baby . 
A Traveling Bargain Counter .. 
Rural Recipes . 
Hints for Preserving Time. 
The Rural Patterns . 
A Pie-Maker’s Expedient. 
Planning One's Work . 
Utilizing Heat on Wash Day. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Electric Manure Fake. 
Editorials . 
Events of the Week . 
Markets . 
Business Bits . 
Market Notes . 
Humorous . 
.550 
.550 
.550 
.550 
.551 
.551 
.551 
.551 
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515 
.548 
519 
552 
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