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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 15, 1899 
IIUUEvV Edge rill 
One Question Only 
Are you interested in a potato digger 
If so, we can please you! 
Write for information. 
■uy "diheot crou faotory,” »est 
MIXED PAINTS 
M WHOLESALE PRICKS, Dtllvered PRKK 
Par Houses, Burns, Roofs, all colors, and SAVB1 Dealers 
aroflts. In use f>* years. Endorsed by Orange * Farmers 
Alliance. Low prices will surprise yoa. Write for Samples. 
0 W. INQERSOLL, 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 goods sell themselves. 
It yon don’t want commissions 
we will give you Premiums: Lace 
Curtains, Tea Sets. Toilet Sets, 
Watcnes, Ciooks, Dinner Sets, &c. 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 & 33 Vesev St.. New York.N.Y. P.O.Box 289,Rural. 
Humorous. 
“Henry, why do you smoke contin¬ 
ually from morning until night?” “It’s 
the only time I get. I sleep from night 
till morning.”— Tit-Bits. 
“That hard-boiled egg gave me a 
headache.” “You shouldn’t eat hard- 
boiled eggs.” “I didn’t eat it. A fellow 
hit me with it behind the ear.”— Cleve¬ 
land Plain Dealer. 
Young Mistress: “This isn’t a clean 
knife, Jane.” New Servant: “Isn’t it, 
mum? I don’t know how that is. I’m 
sure it ought to be. The last thing it cut 
was soap!”— London Punch. 
“I,” said an orator, “come of a good 
old stock, rooted deep in the soil—” 
“The only stock I ever heard of that 
rooted deep in the soil,” a farmer in the 
audience interposed, “was hogs!”— The 
Australasian. 
“Tommy,” said a father to his pre¬ 
cocious five-year-old son and heir, “your 
mother tells me she gives you pennies to 
be good. Do you think that is right?” 
“Of course it is,” replied Tommy. "You 
certainly don’t want m< to grow up and 
be good for nothing, o you?''— Credit 
Lost. 
“Johnnie,” said the father, sternly, 
“your school teacher writes me that you 
do not behave yourself.” “Yasser,” re¬ 
plied the boy. “She says I’m as bad as 
you were, Pop.” Whereupon the parent 
went upstairs to enjoy alone the laugh 
over old times.— Philadelphia North 
American. 
“What a stingy fellow old Hardrocks 
is! By George, I’d hate to be built that 
way.” “What makes you think he is 
stingy?” “I don’t think it. He proves 
it every day! Do you know that old 
curmudgeon is so stingy that he goes 
out to lunch early, before his appetite 
comes on, so he can save money? It’s a 
fact. I’ve been watching him.”— Chicago 
Times-Herald. 
DON ' 
A ROBBER ! 
Ilunhatui the fertility of your farm 
atul every time you plant seed 
you trill get a paying crop. 
Strange how a man 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 Ooublm and Treble the Value of the Manure Heap. 
It 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, Com, Box 38, Syracuse, N. Y • 
- For handling potatoes, onions, all vegetables* 
without bruising. Lightest* strongest, inost 
durable scoop ever sold. Made of one solid piece 
best quality steel. Save time and work by using a 
DIAMOND SCOOP FORK 
for handling fine manure, lime, etc. We also make the ap¬ 
proved Diamond fleet Kork with 7 ball-end tines. Ask 
dealers for them. Farm and Garden Tool Catalogue Iree. 
ASHTABULA TOOL CO., ASHTABULA* Ohio. 
the “HOOVER” DIGGER 
DIGS 
POTATOES 
Rapid Clean 
ia Cheap. 
By mentioning this 
paper you can get 
Illustrated book free. 
and 
HOOVER, PROUT & CO. Avery, Ohio. 
THEM ALL! 
Why go to the trouble of raising a 
crop of potatoes and 
leave a lot of them In 
ground because of 
poor digging. 
DOWDEN 
POTATO 
DIGGERS 
ALL THE POTATOES, 
no matter how deep or how 
shallow. They are fast, 
strong, durable, and require the minimum or power. 
Don’t buy until you get our Free, 8B page catalogue. 
DOWDEN M’F’G CO., Box 22 Prairie City, Iowa. 
30 c p e e „ r . Sav 
By taking advantage 
of our Special Offer. _ 
First order from locality where we have 
no agent secures agency for 
-OSGOOD SCALES 
OSGOOD SCALE CO., iu«* Central St., Kinghnraton, N. Y. 
LATEST IMPROVED 
HORSE POWER 
Machines for Threshing and Cleaning Grain. 
Also machines for SAWING WOOD, 
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drag saws. 
Acknowledged 
by all to be 
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A. W. CRAY’S sons, 
P. O. Box 80, Middletown Springs, Vt. 
UADCC DfltifCDC thrashers 
nUlfOC run Clio J and cleaners 
One* two-horse Thrashing Outfits. Level plITTCpC 
Tread, Pat.Governor, Feed and Ensilago 1 I L,1 d 
ELLIS KEYSTONEAGR'LWORKS.PottStown.Pa 
F. L. MAINE, General Agent, Willet, N. Y. 
F. H. BENEDICT. General Agent. McLean. N.Y. 
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'Cabot’s Creosote Farm and Fence PainP 
Hooks well, wears well, and preserves wood^ 
r better than any oil paint made. ’’Wood treated^ 
^with Creosote is not subject to dry-rot or other de-j 
■Century Dictionary. Price, 50 cents 
^gallon. Send for color-card. 
kSAMUEL CABOT, 8 /Kilby St., Boston, Mass.. 
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HENCH & DROMGOLD’S 
SAWMILL and ENGIN 
L wonderful improvement In Friction Feeds and 
31«-Back. Back motion of Carriage 3 times as fast 
* any other In the market. Friction Clutch Feed, 
•using all the feed gearing to stand still while back 
di; great savins In power and wear. Cata- 
ogue and prices free, k Also Spring Harrows, 
)altlvators, Coro Planters, Shelters, etc. 
Mention thU paper, w __ _ 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, July 15, 1899. 
FARM TOPICS. 
One-Horse Seeder Wanted.512 
Hope Farm Notes.515 
The Future Farmers’ Institute.517 
Long Island Potatoes.521 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Brood Mare and Foal.509, 510 
Plans for a Dairy Barn.510 
Where to Start the Silo.512 
The Hog; The Poor Man’s Stock.522 
The Guinea Fowl.522 
Thinking Animals.522 
Loss of a Foot on a Cow.523 
Foot Rot in a Cow.523 
Warts on Hens’ Legs; a Kicking IIorse.523 
Going to Beef Cattle.523 
Millet Hay or Stalks for Cattle.523 
No Gapes so Far.523 
Poultry Experiments.523 
HORTICULTURAL. 
“Friends of Ben Davis Meet Here”.511 
Japanese Plant Oddities.511 
An Irrigating Fixture.511 
Best Early Apples.511 
Big Strawberries.511 
When to Cut Back Fruits.512 
Cherries, Walnuts and Fertilizers.512 
How Nature Girdles Fruits.512 
Various Fruit Notes.512 
Why Yearling Grape Cuttings Bear.512 
How to Obtain Earliest Tomatoes.513 
Preparing Greenhouse Soil.513 
Canadian Spraying Schools.513 
Ailing Vines.513 
Dry Weather Strawberries.515 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.518 
Wage-Earning Women.518 
Everyday Wisdom.518 
Homemade Koumiss.518, 519 
The Well-Organized Home.519 
With the Procession.519 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Size of a Water Wheel.512 
What is Fame?. 513 
Horseless Carriages.513 
“Mysterious Ways”.513 
Free Rural Delivery.513 
Ruralisms .514 
Bulletins Boiled Down.514 
Four New Books.515 
Editorials . 516 
Brevities .516 
Events of the Week.517 
Markets .520 
Among the Marketmen. 521 
Business Bits.521 
Humorous .524 
