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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 10, 1899 
Humorous. 
She was a fair young Red Cross nurse, 
Down in Manila Bay. 
The soup was bad, the beef was worse 
(Oh, listen to my lay). 
One day she met a soldier boy; 
They both were looking lean-O! 
Then said the Red Cross maiden coy; 
“ Let’s eat a Filipino! ” 
—Philadelphia Record. 
Tommy : “ Mamina, why have you got 
papas hair in a locket ?” His Mother: 
“ To remind ms that he once had some, 
Tommy .”—The 'Traveler's Weekly. 
Mistrhss: “Did you manage to find 
the basket of eggs that was on the pantry 
floor, Kate?” Servant: “Oh, yes, mum, 
aisily. I shtepped in it.”— Tit-Bits. 
Maud (earnestly): “ I want to ask you 
a question, George.” George (also ear¬ 
nestly): “What is it, dearest?” Maud 
(still earnestly): “ If you had never mst 
me, would you have loved me just the 
same ?”—Credit Lost. 
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Professor : “ This eccentricity you 
speak of in your daughter, isn’t it, after 
all, a matter of heredity ? ” The Mother 
(severely): “No, sir, I’d have you to 
know, sir, there never was any heredity 
in our family.”— Tit-Bits 
“ Tommy,” said the teacher to a pupil 
in the juvenile class, “ what is syntax?” 
“ I guess it must be the tax on whisky,” 
replied Tommy. And the teacher thought 
he was entitled to a credit of 100 per 
cent — Ram's Horn. 
“ The Binkses must buy everything on 
the instalment plan.” “What makes 
you think so?” “ I heard Jimmy Binks 
ask his father whether their new baby 
would be taken away if they couldn’t 
keep up the payments.”— Tit Bits. 
Professor (examining subject): “Now, 
this bump bespeaks combativeness— 
combativeness unusually developed.” 
Subject: “You’ve struck it this time, 
Professor; that’s where my wife hit me 
la6t night with a bed-slat .”—Richmond 
Dispatch. 
“What bright eyes you have!” said 
the visitor to five-year-old Tommy. “You 
must get plenty of sleep.” “ Yes’m,” he 
answered. “ My mamma makes me go 
to bed every night at 8 o’clock.” “ That’s 
to keep you healthy,” said the visitor. 
“ No, it ain’t,” replied the youngster; 
“it’s so she can mend my clothes.”— 
Pittsburgh Bulletin. 
The End of a Romance.—“ Yes, I gave 
him up,” sighed the young woman 
“ Did he prove unworthy of your affec¬ 
tion?” inquired her sympathetic friend. 
“ He—he became a spelling reformer,” 
rejoined the other, with a shudder, “and 
signed his name ‘Jorj.’ It took all the 
poetry and romance out of the name. So 
we parted ”—Credit Lost. 
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An old proverb says: “He receives 
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them by the farmers of the world is never 
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Deering Binders, Reapers, Mowers, Rakes 
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return the favor of popularity by steady, reliable, satisfactory 
work in the harvest. Deering made the first successful 
application of ball and roller bearings to harvesting 
machinery, and the decided advantage in lightness of draft 
field by Deeriug machines today (over all other makes) shows 
conclusively that there is one right way of doing it—and that 
there are several wrong ways. 
The Deering; way is the common sense way. 
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Its use means air cured, not sun 
bleached hay. Itetter than a 
Sulky Rake and saves use of tedder. 
Takes up no trash, that means clean hay._ 
Rakes wide, 
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Loads the hay from the windrow 
or cock, or direct from the ground 
if the hay is heavy. Takes the 
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manure, rubbish, &c. It makesl 
haying quick and easy. In 
showery weather it often saves 
enough to pay for itself in one day. 
Loadsa wagon In 5 minutes. 
Made entirely of steel and 
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Write for our special circulars 
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Keystone Three Feed Hay Press. 
Horses move in a full circle. Each revo¬ 
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cnnlng these machines. 11 1 - —bevond comparison. 
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lightest draught; most 
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Have seats, foot brakes and 
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Breakage of 
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HAY TEDDER 
Air-cured bay must not be sun-burned. 
To increase the value of crop, hustle 
it; keep it moving; use the 
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,that does not kick the 
,hay about, leaving it in 
bunches, but it turns it, 
stirs it up and thor¬ 
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Forks are on a cylinder that is driven by 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, June 10, 1899. 
FARM TOPIC 8 . 
Helps in Handling Clover Hay.430 
Tne Nitrogen in Crimson Clover.431 
Potato Bug Talk.432 
A Sugar Beet Report.432 
Substitutes for Clover.432 
A Dakota Potato Planter.432 
Farm Life in England.432 
Lime and Manure.433 
Hope Farm Notes. 435 
Strange Behavior of Stable Manure.437 
Agricultural Conditions in South Dakota.441 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Hickory Hill Farm Notes.431 
The Business Short-horn Cattle.431 
Use for Oleo.432 
Jockey Dogs.432 
Manufacturing a Horse.442 
Prepotency in the Bull.442 
The New York Butter-Color Law.442 
Baby’s Milk.442 
Chronic Bronchitis in a Ewe.443 
Milkers’ Paralysis ; Scab on End of Cow’s 
Teat.443 
Tobacco Poisoning in Lambs from Dipping.. 443 
Veterinary Briefs.443 
Scraps. 443 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Grape Shoots After a Freeze.430 
Infertile Cherry; Strawberry Rust.430 
Raspberries that Winterkill.430 
SUttiDg the Bark of Fruit Trees. 43*1 
Lessons from Frost.432 
The Bose Pear.433 
Questions About Hazelnuts.433 
Uolleana and Lombardy Poplar.433 
The 8 trawberry Crown-Borer.433 
Hardiness of Plants.434 
Gleanings .435 
Shipping Florida Strawberries.435 
Long-Lived Strawberries. 435 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.438 
Wax in tne Ears.439 
The Aftermath. 439 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
“ I Wonder What’s in It! ”.429, 430 
An Omo Rural Telephone Line.431 
Faith and Poultice.432 
Rural Mail Delivery Wanted.432 
*• Doodle Bugs ” in California.432 
Lively Roadsters.432 
Ruralisms. 434 
Editorials... 436 
Brevities. 436 
Events of the Week.437 
Markets. 440 
Among the Marketmen... 441 
Humorous.444 
