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November 1, 1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
HUMOROUS 
He always boiled the water, 
As the health department begs; 
He pasteurized his coffee 
And his matutinal eggs. 
He filtered this and filtered that. 
And sterilized the rest; 
Did everything the board of health 
Thinks in its wisdom best. 
But he couldn’t boil the atmosphere, 
Four-fifths of which is germs; 
So death negotiated him 
Upon some easy terms. 
—Chicago Tribune. 
Photographer’s Assistant: “Mrs. 
Van Perkins complains that her portrait 
don’t look like her.” Photographer: 
“Complains, does she? She ought to be 
grateful.”—Tit-Bits. 
Young Wife: “That horrid tramp said 
my biscuits were like cement, and yet 
he ate them.” Young Husband: “Cement, 
eh? Well, perhaps he wanted to make 
himself solid.”—Philadelphia Record. 
“It must have been a good deal of a 
calamity when the water overflowed 
your cornfield that wet season.” “Not 
such a terrible calamity. When the 
water went away it left millions of fish 
behind. I let them stay there for ferti¬ 
lizers and raised the biggest crop of corn 
you ever heard of.”—Chicago Tribune. 
“You look happy,” ventured the tour¬ 
ist. “Couldn’t be more so, stranger,” 
replied the lanky native. “Didn’t the 
lightning strike your place?” “Yes, hit 
the woodpile an’ split up enough wood 
to last six weeks.” “How about the 
cloudburst?” “Oh, that saved the old 
woman a week’s washing. Just hung the 
clothes out, an’ the water did the rest.” 
“But the earthquake?” “Well, that 
saved some more work. Churned up all 
the milk aroun’ into butter. Nature is 
man’s greatest help, stranger.”—Jack¬ 
sonville Times-Union. 
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Clark’s 
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Clark’s Double-Action 
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THF If FI I V 
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CONTENTS. 
| The Rural New-Yorker, Nov. 1, 1902. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Plant Breeding for Farm Crops. 
Value of Cob Ashes. 
Hope Farm Notes . 
.733 
.736 
.739 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Mapes, the Hen Man.735 
Learning by Hard Knocks.746 
Corn Fodder Notes.746 
Steam in the Silo.747 
Keeping Shredded Fodder.747 
Milk Notes .747 
HORTICULTURE. 
Choice Fruits for Nearby Markets.733 
Early Bearing Trees .733. 734 
Remedy for Blight in Quince Trees.734 
Fruits for New York Market .734 
Tough on the Ben Davis Apple.734 
The Dr. Cummings Peach.734 
Starting Seeds of Plum and Cherry.734 
Mr. Stringfellow on the Plitchings Or¬ 
chard .735 
A Barked Kieffer .735 
Care of Fruit Seeds .736 
Lime for Greenhouse Soil .736 
Everybody’s Garden .737 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.738 
Giant Grafting .738 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.742 
The Rural Patterns .742 
Is this Accurate? .743 
Rural Recipes .743 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
A Newspaper “Bluff” Exploded. 
Cement for a Roof . 
Soft Coal and Sooty Chimneys. 
Steep Versus Level . 
Book Bulletin . 
Editorials ... 
Events of the Week. 
Business Bits . 
Shall We Divide Shipments. 
Crop Prospects . 
Markets . 
Market Notes . 
Experiment Station Men Meet. 
Humorous . 
.734 
.736 
.736 
.736 
.736 
.740 
,74i 
*741 
.741 
.741 
.744 
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