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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
May 27, 1899 
Humorous. 
Of Bong birds the nightingale is un¬ 
questionably the sweetest. But the com¬ 
mon or garden hen is the one that pleases 
us most with its lay.— Tit-Bits. 
Mrs. McLubberty: “ Murty, whin do 
a couple sillybrate dher tin weddin’?” 
McLubberty: “Hear thot now! Whin 
dhey hov been married tin years, av 
course ! ”—Family Herald 
“I hardly know,” said the cornfed 
philosopher, “ whether it be better for a 
man to remain single and disappoint 
several women for a time or marry and 
disappoint one woman for life.”— In¬ 
dianapolis Journal. 
Little Willie (stubbing his toe): 
“Darn it!” Willie's Nurse: “Why, 
Willie ! What would papa say ?” Little 
Willie: “Papa? Oh, he’d say somefin 
worse ’n ’at ."‘—Credit Lost. 
Father : “ Look here, Tommy, what 
do you think of the new baby the doctor 
has just brought?” Tommy: “Why, 
he’s got no hair ! 0b.! and he’s got no 
teeth ! You’ve been took in, Father—he’s 
brought you an old ’un.”— Tit-Bits. 
Doctor: “So you feel no better, 
Patrick ? Did you apply the prescrip¬ 
tion I gave you to your back ? ” Patrick: 
“ Yis, sor ; but the durn thing wouldn’t 
sthick till me woife glued it an, and 
thin'it wore aff in wan day.”— Harper's 
Weekly. 
Of No Utility. —“Here,” said Mrs. 
Snaggs, who was reading some health 
hints in the newspaper, “ here is an 
article entitled ‘Save Doctors’ Bills.’’’ 
“ It is of no use to save them if they are 
not receipted,” added Mr. Snaggs gloom¬ 
ily- — Pliila. Record. 
“ How the dickens do you keep your 
lawn so free from dandelions, Jones ? ” 
“ Patent scheme. I found when I tried 
to raise grass I got nothing but dande¬ 
lions, so I made a change and tried to 
raise dandelions.” “ Wbat good does 
that do ? ” “I get nothing but grass.”— 
Harper's Bazar. 
Little Boy (pointing to window of 
India-rubber shop): “What are those?” 
Mamma: “ Those are diving su’ts, made 
all of India-rubber so that the diver 
won’t get wet.” Little Boy : “ I wish I 
had one.” Mamma: “What for, my 
dear?” Little Boy: “To wear when 
you wash me .”—Chicago News. 
“ What appears to be the matter with 
your father ? ” inquired the doctor, as he 
hastily put his clothes on. “ He’s got 
the plumbago,” replied the boy. “ I 
think that’s what maw says it is.” 
“Pain in the small of the back, I pre¬ 
sume,” said the doctor. “ No, sir, he 
hain’t got no small of the back. My 
paw weighs 284 pounds .”—Chicago Daily 
Tribune. 
“Why haven’t I a 600-acre farm as 
well as that man riding by in his car¬ 
riage ? ” yelled a red-nosed anarchist 
orator as he glanced at the crowd 
“ Because he saved $600 and bought his 
farm when it cost him $1 an acre, and 
you poured your $600 down your throat,” 
responded a man on the back seat, an I 
the orator asked no more conundrums.— 
Chicago Tribune. 
“ It’s jest like this,” said the carping 
critic, in the interior. “ Them three 
Samoan commissioners go out there an’ 
they git big salaries,—leastways, Is’pose 
they do,—an’ they hold their job till 
they all agree unanimously. Now, what’s 
the prospect of them agreein’ unanim¬ 
ously?” “ Well,” said the other man, 
“ I dunno what sort of men them com¬ 
missioners are, but if you an’ me was 
gettin’ a big salary until we could agree 
unanimously, it’d be a pesky long time 
afore we’d be out of a job .”—Puck 
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The Rubal New-Yokkeb, May 27, 1899. 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Story of the Farm.397 
Sugar Beets in New York.398 
An English Potato Crop.398, 399 
How to Manure Cow Peas.400 
Some Fertilizer Chemical Terms.400 
Potash in Ashes; Hen Manure.400 
A Fertilizer for Corn. 400 
Nebraska Corn Culture.401 
Selected Plant Food.401 
Studying Diseases.401 
The Farmers’ Institutes.402 
Hope Farm Notes.403 
Loss of the Clover Crop.409 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Ex periments with Tuberculous Cows.398 
The Carriage Horse Sire.399 
A Pasture for Hens.400 
Hickory Hill Farm Notes.410 
Red Polled Cattle.410 
Sweeny in a Horse.411 
Beware of “ Stock Company ” Horses.411 
Brief Veterinary Notes.411 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Scions.399 
Crimson Clover in a Vineyard.400 
Black Aphis; Cutting Back Trees.400 
The Lower Hudson Valley.408 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 406 
The Scrub Woman.407 
Farm Run by Daughter Power. Part III.407 
The Aftermath.407 
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