492 
TIIK RURAL NEW-YORKER 
•Tuly 1, 1899 
Success 
One Question Only 
Are you interested in a 
potato 
If so, we can please you 
Write for information. 
■ UY “DIBIOT FROM FAOTORY,” BIST 
MIXED PAINT5 
At WHOLESALE PRICES, Delivered FREE 
For Houses, Barns, Roofs, all colors, and SA VB Dealers 
profits. In use 54 years. Endorsed by Oranye & Farmers 
Alliance. Low orlces will surprise you. Write for Samples. 
0. W. IN0F.RS0LL. 246 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, N. Y- 
GOOD INCOMES 
(20,25 and 30 per cent commission) 
made by getting orders for our 
celebrated Teas, Coffees, Spices, 
Ac. The (foods sell themselves. 
If you don’t want commissions 
we will Rive you Premiums: Lace 
Curtains, Tea Sets, Toilet Sets, 
Watches, Clocks, Dinner Sets, Ac. Send this ad. and 
15c., and we will mall you a sample of best Tea im¬ 
ported and catalogue. The Great American Tea Co., 
31 A 33 Vesey St.. New York.N.Y. P.O.Box 289, Hu UAL. 
Humorous. 
It was an automobile, 
Began to balk and rant, 
And when 'twas told to move on, said, 
"I auto, but I sha’n’t!” 
—Harper’* Hnstir 
This would be a better world if our 
consciences were worn a size too small, 
DON’T BE 
A ROBBER t 
Jlushatui the fertility of your farm 
anti every time you plant seetl 
you will get a paying crop. 
Strange how a tnan will take crop after crop off the farm, putting nothing back, and then expect 
to be prosperous. If you handled the manure you have on the farm properly, results 
would be different and you should not need to be be buying commercial fertilizer. 
The KEMP MANURE SPREADER 
Will Double and Treble the Value of the Manure Heap. 
Tt spreads all kinds of fine and coarse manure evenly; makes no “skips;” does not dump a great 
load in one spot, but covers the entire ground evenly. Tears up coarse and lumpy manure and 
makes it fine. Better than anybody can do it by hand. Spreads lime, wood ashes, salt, etc. , equally 
well. With the drill attachment it puts the manure direct into the open drill. Made in three con¬ 
venient sizes. Ask the opinion of anybody that uses one Write for illustrated catalogue. 
Kemp & Burpee Mfg. Co., Box 38, Syracuse, N. Y. 
foi 
•Sweat Dwcn 
write 
Direct to 
2 9 Bond St 
Cvsrwf f.,SiuwC»>rr5 0 ilSJJf‘ 
GEM 'ikBaler 
woo. VV arranted tho URJJIY/ lightext, niro,.g 
eia cheapest A fastest Full \JSJZT Circle Baler in the 
market. Made of wrought steel. Can he operated 
with one or two horses. Will bale 111 to 15 tons of hay 
a day. Write for description and prices. 
CEORCE ERTEL CO„ QUINCY, ILL, 
CONTENTS. 
like our shoes.— Chicago Record. 
“I wonder why some buildings are 
called fire traps,” said Mrs Snaggs. “Be¬ 
cause they catch fire,” replied Mr. 
Snaggs.— Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. 
Distinguished Amateur Artist (to 
old woman): “What a pretty cottage! 
May I paint it?” Old Woman: “Lor’, 
no; it’s just been whitewashed.”— Credit 
Lost. 
“Why must you and your good wife 
separate, Pat; can’t the trouble he 
patched up?” “No, sir. That’s joost it. 
She won’t patch up me pants.”— Phila¬ 
delphia North American. 
Deadbbokk: “Hello! Here’s a dime 
in my hash.” Landlady: “Well, don’t 
that satisfy you? Perhaps now you’ll 
stop kicking about never getting any 
change in your diet.”— Philadelphia 
Record. 
Mistress: “Bridget, 1 told you I want¬ 
ed all the eggs for breakfast soft, and 
several were quite hard." Bridget: 
“Sure, mum, they were all in to bile the 
same length of time, only some of them 
felt the heat more than others.”— Brook¬ 
lyn Life. 
th-efarn, 
hamilitiK potatoes, onions, all vepetaDleSi 
without bruising. Lightest, strongest, in out 
durable scoop ever sold. Made of one solid piece 
of best quality steel. Save time and work by using a 
DIAMOND SCOOP FORK 
for handling fine manure, lime, etc. Wo also make the ap¬ 
proved Diamond licet Fork with 7 hall end tinea. Ask 
dealers for them. Farm and Garden Tool Catalogue free. 
ASHTABULA TOOL CO., ASHTABULA. Ohio. 
Farmer 
to do good work and 
lots of it, if he has 
a Hench & 
Dromgold 
riding or 
walking 
SPRING 
TOOTH , . . 
wheel HARROW 
Write for our new illustrated catalog and find 
out all about the Vat harrows, cultivators, corn 
planters, grain drills, etc. Mulled tree. 
HENCH A DROMCOLD, York, Ra. 
now TO I) It A IN JjANI) TJtOl'TTA HLY. 
On every farm there is probably some land 
th<*t could be made more productive by under¬ 
drainage. Properly drained land can always 
be worked earlier, and more profitably. The 
best and most 
economical way 
to drain Is ex¬ 
plained in the 
book, “ Benefits of Drainage and How to Drain,” 
which Is seDt free bv 
JOHN H. JACKSON, Third Ave., Albany, N.Y. 
If you want to get the best Windmill 
made, g< t the 
“MAUD S.” 
It is time-tried and storm-tested. It is 
safe, and the price is right. For full par¬ 
ticulars address A. M. D. HOIOWAY, 
Philadelphia, I’a.. or “MAUI! S” 
WIND MILL AND PUMP CO., 
Lansing, Mich. 
The UuralNkw-Yorker, July 1, 1899. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Chemicals and Clover in Drought. 177, 478 
The Weeder in the Sweet-Potato Field.. 478 
Square-Cornered Silos. 17 s 
Quick Forage Crops. 47 s 
The Wonders of Alfalfa. 47:1 
What Wheat for Seed. 4 ,so 
The Russian Thistle. 482 
Hope Farm Notes. 4 x 3 
Right-Hand Binders. 483 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Feeding Soiling Crops for Cows. 481 
Kerosene for Flies. 490 
A Burned-Out Creamery. 4 !K) 
“Fixing” Fertile Eggs. 401 
The Old Jersey Blue Poultry. 491 
Vaccinating for Hog Cholera. 491 
Restaurant ice Cream.491 
.Scraps . 491 
horticultural. 
Cutting Back Raspberries. 478 
Color and Quality of Fruits. 478 
The Home of the Strawberry. (Continued) 480 
What Early Apples. 480 
Ripening the Bose Pear. 481 
Clover in a Young Orchard. 481 
Greenhouse and Boiler Questions. 481 
The Apple Crop in Western New York... 489 
WOMEN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.486 
Among the Children of Gibeon. 486 
Mother's Apple Pies.486, 487 
Everyday Happiness. 487 
With the Procession. 487 
“How did it happen that Miss Single- 
ton refused to marry the curate?” 
“Why, when lie proposed to her, she, 
being a little deaf, thought he was ask¬ 
ing her to subscribe to the organ fund. 
So she told him she had promised her 
money to a more deserving object.”— Tit- 
Hits. 
There was an old girl in New Guinea, 
Who though short was remarkably skuinea, 
In the season of drought 
She never went ought. 
Just stayed home and looked sweet and 
played shuinea. —Yale Record. 
LATEST IMPROVED 
HORSE POWER 
Machines for Threshing and Cleaning Grain. 
Also machines for SAWING WOOD, 
and crou-cut 
drag H a w H. 
Acknowledged 
by all to be 
tty and quantity of work. 
The Best 
regarding easy 
draft, durnbil- 
50 page pamphlet free. 
A. W. CRAY’S SONS, 
P.O. Box 80, Middletown Springs, Vt. 
mmL POTATOES 
DID YOU PLANT? 
If you have an acre you 
cannot afford to dig 
them by hand. The 
DOWDEN 
Potato Digger 
potatoes better, cleaner and 
than can be done by hand. 
are strong, durable and 
easily operated. Sold under full guarantee. Don’t 
buy until you get our FREE, 88 page catalogue. 
DOWDEN M’F’tl CO., Box 22, Prairie City, Iowa. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Spelling Reform. 478 
Music and Caterpillars. 479 
Some Points About Bees. 479 
Test for Vinegar. 481 
Ruralisms . 482 
Street Fairs. 483 
Editorials . 484 
Brevities . 484 
Old Times at Farmers’ Institutes. 485 
Events of the Week. 485 
Markets . 488 
Among the Marketmen.489 
Bulletins Boiled Down. 489 
Everywhere . 489 
Humorous . 492 
