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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 11, 1902 
HUMOROUS 
There once was an old man at Wemyss, 
Used to dream such remarkable dremyss, 
The folks stared aghast 
At the things he’d forecast, 
And give vent to their terror in scremyss. 
—London Globe. 
Butcher: “Would you like some nice 
canvasbaclt duck this morning, ma’am?” 
Mrs. Newed: “Really, I uon’t know. How 
much a yard is it?”—Chicago Daily 
News. 
“What is a synonym?” asked a teach¬ 
er. “Please, sir,” said a lad, “it’s a word 
you can use in place of another if you 
don’t know how to spell it.”—Sacred 
Heart Review. 
“When a man of 20 considers a wo¬ 
man, he thinks of her beauty, but at 30 
he thinks of her loquacity.” “What 
does he thing at 40?” “Oh, he thinks 
only of himself by that time.”—Indiana¬ 
polis News. 
The Minister’s Wife: “I’m afraid 
Mr. Skinflint does not realize that the 
Lord loves a cheerful giver.” The Min¬ 
ister: “Oh, I don’t know. The less he 
gives, the more cheerfully he gives it.”— 
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Town and Country. 
“It’s a good thing for man that wo¬ 
man is not a logical being.” “What 
now?” “If she were he could never get 
her to tackle the job of keeping up ap¬ 
pearances and keeping down expenses.” 
—Indianapolis News. 
Biggs: “Instinct and reason are one 
and the same thing.” Diggs: “Indeed 
they are not. Instinct enables a wo¬ 
man to know what is right, ana reason 
makes a man fight for what is wrong.” 
—Chicago Daily News. 
Mr. Weighhigg: “Doctor, your anti- 
fat remedies are doing me a great deal 
of good. I’m losing flesh right along. 
But, seems to me, your charges are ruin¬ 
ously high.” Doctor (calmly): “That’s: 
part of the treatment.”—New York 
Weekly. 
“Why,” remarked Stoopid, putting 
down his paper, “why will people take 
such terrible things as carbolic acid and 
rough-on-rodents when they commit 
suicide?” “I’m sure,” replied Simple- 
muss, “I’m sure, I don’t know, unless it 
is that they want to kill themselves.”— 
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. 
“My dear,” said the young husband, 
“did you speak to the milkman about 
there being no cream on the milk?” 
“Yes, I told him about it this morning, 
and he has explained it satisfactorily; 
and I think it is quite a credit to him, 
too.” “What did he say?” “He said 
that he always filled the bottles so full 
that there is no room on the top for th^ 
cream.”—Indianapolis News. 
The candidate, in the course of a 
speech just previous to election, had oc¬ 
casion to refer to the flogging of chil¬ 
dren. “Some folks,” he said, “object to 
beating youngsters, but I agree with the 
truth conveyed in that saying of the 
wise man, ‘Spare the rod and spoil the 
child.’ I suppose I was no worse than 
other boys,” he went on to say, “but I 
know I had some flogging myself, and 
I believe it did me good, L one occa¬ 
sion I was flogged for telling the truth.” 
“It cured you, sir!” cried a ,r oice from 
the back.—London Answers. 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, Oct. 11, 1902. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Cob Ashes for Corn. 6 S 8 
Hope Farm Notes.691 
The Hay Crop.693 
Crop Prospects .693 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Mapes, the Hen Man...696 
A Plain Talk to Horse Owners About 
Horses’ Teeth; Part 1.696 
Shredded Corn Fodder for Sheep.698 
Interesting Hen Notes.698 
The Value of Silage.698 
Facts About Corn Fodder.698 
Sheep and Dogs.698 
Silage for Hogs.698 
How tie Built Up the Dairy Herd.699 
Poultry Prospects .699 
HORTICULTURE. 
The Hitchings Apple Orchard; Part III..685 
Questions About Nursery Stock.696 
Strawberries in Close Quarters.687 
How a Texas Grower Prevents Rot in 
Pph phpsi 687 
Rules for Grading Fruit.687 
Sterile Miner Plum Trees. 688 
Treatment of Budded Peach. 688 
Mammoth Black-Twig, Stayman and 
Gano Apple. 688 
How to Kill Apple Borers. 688 
Cornstalks for Mulching Strawberries.. .688 
The Arctic Peach. 688 
Everybody’s Garden .6S9 
Notes from the Rural Gounds.690 
Fruit Prospects .693 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.694 
The Rural Patterns.694 
Bleaching Compounds in Laundry Work694 
The High-School Girl.695 
Small Cucumber Pickles.695 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Plant Breeders’ Conference.689 
Queens-Nassau, N. Y., Fair.689 
Editorials .692 
Events of the Week.693 
Markets .696 
Market Notes.697 
Humorous .700 
