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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
September 20, 1902 
HUMOROUS 
Though rainy weather may be dismal. 
And clouds may hide the sun, 
And drabbled things depress our spirits 
Until they weigh a ton, 
It’s just the weather for the farmer; 
Though he may look forlorn. 
He’ll slosh around in mud and mutter, 
“This rain is makin’ corn.” 
—Indianapolis News. 
Harry: “Don’t you remember that 
when we were engaged last Summer we 
cut our initials on tnat tree?” Marjorie: 
“Oh, that’s a chestnut.”—New York 
Sun. 
Mistress: “Bridget, I told you five 
times to have muffins for breakfast. 
Haven’t you any intellect?” Bridget: 
"No, mum; there’s none in the house.” 
—New England Grocer. 
“Of all bodily ailments,” said the 
suburbanite, “I tuink ague is the most 
paradoxical.” “How paradoxical?” in¬ 
quired Citiman. “It gives you the 
shake, and sticks right to you.”—Phila¬ 
delphia Press. 
Old Lady (to boy who has fetched 
her a glass of water): “Thank you, my 
boy. You were very quick about it.” 
Boy: “That’s nothin’, ma’am. I’m used 
to it. I had a job carrying water to the 
elephants in a circus.”—Pick-Me-Up. 
“So you have at last settled on a name 
for the baby?” “Yes’m. First we named 
him Hobson, then changed it to Dewey, 
an’ afterward to Funston Schley John¬ 
son. But now we’ve named him jes’ 
plain Jim. Yo’ nevah finds you’ve made 
a mistake when you calls ’em jes’ noth¬ 
in’ but Jim.”—Life. 
“Wiiat is this leathery stuff?” the 
diner asked, when the second course of 
the dinner was served. “That is a fillet 
of sole, sir,” replied the waiter. “Take 
it away,” said the diner, after attack¬ 
ing it with his fork, “and see if you 
can’t get me a nice, tender piece of the 
upper, with the buttons removed.”— 
What to Eat. 
The small boy with red bumps dec¬ 
orating his arms and face came howling 
down the road. Inquisitive Johnny 
stopped him. “Gee!” he remarked, as 
he observed the lumps. “What you’ve 
got is hives. They come out”— 
“Hives!” howled the afflicted one. 
“Hives come out, nothin’! It was th’ 
bees themselves!”—Cincinnati Commer¬ 
cial Tribune. 
“Your husband is a floorwalker in a 
department store, isn’t he?” “Yes.” 
“Then, why don’t you have him get up 
and walk the floor with the baby when 
she cries?” “I can’t wake him up. 
When I shake him and tell him what’s 
the matter he mumbles something about 
soothing syrup in the drug department 
three aisles down, and then goes to 
snoring again.”—Chicago Tribune. 
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C. H. DANA, 74 Main St„ W. Lebanon, N. B. 
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The profit derived from the growing 
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DOLLARS 
BUYS 
AN 800 LB. SCALE. 
ON WHEELS. 
HARDENED PIVOTS. 
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VIEDERICK’S FULL CIRCLE PRESSES 
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Save Time, Labor and 
This No. 8 Pennsylvania Thresher and Cleaner 
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By Prof. F. W. WOLL 
f the University of Wisconsin. Revised and up-tCMlate, neat- 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, Sept. 20, 1902. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Clark Grass Seeding in Michigan.638 
Results from Fertilizing Wheat.63S 
A Talk About lame.639 
Second-Growth Clover in the Silo.639 
Wheat Growing in New Jersey. Part 11.639 
Hope Farm Notes.643 
Farming in the Red River Valley. Part 
XIII.649 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Mapes, the Hen Man.637, 638 
Farm Power .639 
A Frog Market.643 
Stock Food Notes.650 
Horse with Heaves.650 
A Lively Critic of Mapes.651 
Notes on Silo Filling.651 
Experience with Pigs.651 
HORTICULTURE. 
Old Rogues with New Stories.638 
Stringfellow Trees in Rhode Island.638 
Tardy Bearing Apple.640 
Crown Gall on Apple Trees.640 
Everybody’s Garden .641 
Pencillaria or Pearl Millet.641 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.642 
Is the Robin a Robber?.642 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.646 
The Rural Patterns.646 
Woman’s Work at the Fairs.646 
A Homemade Window Mop.647 
The Useful Cistern.647 
Buying a Range.647 
Old-Style Molasses Cake.647 
Boston Brown Bread...647 
With the Procession.647 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
A Dam Destroyed by Dynamite.638 
English Prices of American Goods.639 
Pump for a 300-foot Wall.640 
House Ventilation .640 
George E. Scott—a Whole-souled Farmer.641 
Editorials .644 
Events of the Week.645 
The New York State Fair.645 
Markets .648 
Business Bits .648 
Maiket Notes .649 
Humorous .652 
