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fHE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October IS, 10i» .* 
HUMOROUS 
The tracks that great men leave hehiml 
Upon the sands of time 
Oft show they wabbled 'round a lot 
Before they got sublime. 
—Woman’s Home Companion. 
Small Boy: “I want to get a bale of 
hay?” Dealer: “What do you want with 
hay? Is it for your father?” Small 
Boy: “No, sir. It’s for our horse.”— 
Chicago Daily News. 
First Belgian Hark: “We aren’t in 
it these days. We’re forgotten. What 
can we do about it?” Second Belgian 
Hare: “We’d better try some good hare 
restorer.”—Chicago Daily News. 
“Prosperity has ruined many a man." 
“No doubt; but if I'm given any choice 
in the matter. I’d rather be ruined by 
prosperity than by adversity. The pro¬ 
cess is more enjoyable.”—Chicago Post. 
“Sometimes,” said Uncle Eben, “you 
meets a man that takes a heap o’ credit 
foh philanthropy because he’s willin’ to 
overlook his own faults an’ make other 
folks stan’ around.”—Washington Star. 
“Are your son’s literary efforts pro¬ 
ductive of returns?” asked the interested 
visitor. “Oh, yes, indeed,” replied the 
proud mother, “scarcely a day passes 
that something does not. come back.”— 
Indianapolis News. 
“So you are not going to Europe 
again?” “Not for a long time.” an¬ 
swered Mrs. Cumrox. “It is our inten¬ 
tion to live in America, thereby calling 
attention to the fact that we can afford 
to pay the highest prices for every¬ 
thing." -Washington Star. 
“Mv boy,” says the successful man, 
“if you get along at all you must learn 
to stick to things. Everlastingly stick¬ 
ing to it wins in the end.” “Oh, I don’t 
know,” retorts the youth. “Look at the 
postage stamp. It. sticks all right, but 
all it gets out of it is a smack across the 
face, and a place in the waste-basket.”— 
Baltimore American. 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, Oct. 18, l:»‘ ” 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Virginia Farm and Its Earn.792 
Hope Farm Notes .707 
The Potato Crop.709 
Massachusetts Corn .709 
California Notes .709 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Mapes, the Hen Man.711 
Dogs and Sheep .714 
: A Berkshire Man Talks.714 
j Sheep Prospects .714 
i A Plain Talk to Horse Owners About 
Horses’ Teeth; Part II.715 
Sheep in a Vermont Orchard .715 
HORTICULTURE. 
Stringfellow Trees .701 
Grading Apples .701 
Indiana Ben Davis .701 
The Yenshi Peach .701 
Hen-Fed Apples .701 
Short Talk About Peach Yellows.701 
The Hi tellings Apple Orchard; Part IV.. 702 
A Now One; Jelly Promoters.70S 
Wide Planted Peach Trees .703 
! Keeping Cannas Over Wintei.704 
j Circular Leaf-Cutter on Roses .701 
[ Peaches for Massachusetts....701 
Remarkable Case of Tree Life.701 
Fruit Questions from Maine.^...701 
Everybody’s Garden .705 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.70G 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
] From Day to Day.710 
The Rural Patterns .710 
j The Home Windows .711 
A Dishwasher Wanted .711 
Rural Recipes .711 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
“Why I Take the Rural New-Yorker” 
Defects in Rural Mail Delivery. 
Silk-Growing in America . 
i Cooperative Creamery Laundries. 
I "Moderate Drinking” . 
| Editorials . 
i Events of the Week . 
Business Bits . 
Markets . 
Market Notes . 
Humorous . 
.702 
.702 
.702 
703 
.708 
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