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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 27, 1902 
HUMOROUS 
“Funny thing about missionaries.” 
“How’s that?” “Why, they usually go 
to the bad.”—Pennsylvania Punch Bowl. 
“Henpeck has given up smoking, eh? 
That takes a good deal of will power.’ 
“Yes, his wife has it.”—Puck. 
Teacher: “Years ago the kingdom of 
Spain ran clear around the world.” Tom¬ 
my: “Who chased it?”—Detroit Free 
Press. 
Editor: “Was Longwynde’s sermon 
exhaustive?” Reporter: “Exhaustive? 
You never saw an audience so nearly 
worn out in y£>ur life.”—Los Angeles 
Herald. 
Teacher: “Bessie, name one bird that 
is now extinct.” Little Bessie: “Dick!” 
Teacher: “Dick? What sort of a bird 
is that?” Little Bessie: “Our canary— 
the cat extincted him!”—Puck. 
“I noticed that there was a man 
named Overall on the Yale track team 
last Spring.” “Well, what of it?” “Oh, 
I was just wondering if he’s a jumper, 
that’s all.”—Philadelphia Ledger. 
Teacher: “And what is the color of 
the ocean?” Tommy: “Blue. Teacher: 
“Can you give a reason for this?” Tom¬ 
my: “I guess it’s ’cause the bluefish 
that’s in it ain’t fast color.”—Philadel¬ 
phia Press. 
Grocer: “Well, little girl, what can I 
do for you this morning?” Little Girl: 
“Mother sent me to get change for a 
dollar and said to tell you she would 
give you the dollar to-morrow.”—Chi¬ 
cago News. 
“So you don’t think well of Arctic ex¬ 
ploration?” “No,” answered Mr. Bliz- 
zins: “we know the north pole is there, 
and that nobody’s going to move it IM 
we found it we wouldn’t have any us 
for it anyhow.”—Washington Star. 
Mrs. Hornet and: “Mrs. Scroggins 
tells me that since that lit’ry son o’ 
theirn was throwed over by that Golds- 
by girl he’s been all broke up.” Farmer 
Hornihand: “Yes, I ben secin’ his pieces 
in th’ paper.”—Baltimore American. 
Teacher: “Now, Johnny, in this sen¬ 
tence, ‘John shoes the horse,’ what doe: 
the horse stand for?” Johnny: “Horse 
is a noun, masculine gender, and stand: 
for John.” Teacher: “Nonsense! How 
could that be?” Johnny: “So that Johr 
can shoe it, of course.”—Credit Lost. 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, Dec. 27, 1902. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Rural Mail Carriers and Snowdrifts.862 
Discussing a Pickle Crop...863 
Charcoal as a Fertilizer.863 
Lime for Soil, Plaster for Stable.863 
Hope Farm Notes.867 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
l'he Story of a Mammoth Creamery. .861, 862 
Hog-Scalding Trough .862 
Clover for Poultry.863 
\lfalfa for Hog Pasture.861 
Home-Stored Eggs .866 
l’he Outlook for Poultry.869 
New York Dairymen’s Association. Part 
II.873 
Milk Notes .873 
V Convenient Hog Trough.874 
low Long to Form an Egg?.874 
Care of the Boarding Horse.874 
Swelled Head in Hens.874 
Mapes, the Hen Man.875 
December Egg Production.875 
Some Good Pigs.875 
HORTICULTURE'. 
Pruning the Burbank Plum Tree. 862 
Variations in Kieffer Pears.862 
L’he Henry Pear. 863 
Pruning Grapevines .863 
lonathan Apjiles in West Virginia.863 
Why Celery is Pithy.864 
Budding Peach Trees.864 
Borers in Peach Trees.864 
Plums in a Chicken Yard.864 
Apple Questions from Maine.864 
Everybody’s Garden .865 
New Style Greenhouse.865 
Borers and Hunters.865 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.866 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.87b 
The Rural Patterns.870 
Cooking Hubbard Squash.870 
Prom Another Point of View.871 
A. Doll’s Bedstead.871 
Dressing Little Girls.871 
Cooking Game .871 
Cooking Apples .871 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Bicycles in California.863 
Uncle Sam’s “Free Seed” Contracts.863 
What is a “Bloodless ’ Operation?.861 
Cleaning a Kitchen Drain.8'65 
Editorials .868 
Events of the Week.869 
Business Bits .869 
Markets .872 
Market Notes .873 
Humorous .876 
