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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 12, 1899 
Humorous. 
If I should choose a Summer tour 
Packed full of zest that would endure, 
I’d flee the city’s sultry charms 
And peddle tinware ’round the farms. 
—Chicago Record. 
Mr. Henpeckke: “Remember, my 
dear, the worm will turn.” Mrs. Hen- 
peckke: “Yes; but when it does, it gen¬ 
erally gets stepped on.”— Credit Lost. 
“Did you know our horse balked yes¬ 
terday?” “Gracious! What did you do?” 
“Hitched an automobile to him and 
dragged him home.”— Indianapolis Jour¬ 
nal. 
“Why do the young men all treat Jane 
so rudely?” “The story got out that 
Jane said that the first man who suited 
her she’d propose to him on the spot.”— 
Cleveland Plain Dealer. 
“Why do you call yours a parlor?” 
said the patient to the dentist. “What 
would you call it?” “Well, I should 
fancy drawing-room would be more ap¬ 
propriate.”— Credit Lost. 
Fond Parent (wishing to console his 
widowed daughter): “No wonder you 
grieve for him, my child; you will never 
find his equal.” Afflicted One: “I doubt 
if 1—I can, but I’ll do my best.”— Tit-Bits. 
Fbiendman: “Don’t go away from 
home with any such feelings as you have 
just expressed toward your wife; some 
day she may join the silent majority, 
and then you will be sorry for what you 
have said.” Harrier: “What! My wife 
join a silent majority? She couldn’t 
stand it; it’d kill her if she had to be 
silent for just one minute.”— Richmond 
Dispatch. 
Johnny: “I wanted to go fishin’ to-day, 
but me father made me come to Sunday 
school instead.” Teacher: “Ah! that’s 
a father to be proud of. Did he explain 
why you shouldn’t fish to-day?” “Yes’m; 
he said he hadn’t time to dig bait for 
two.’ ’— Philadclphia Record. 
“Yotjr hair is getting thin, sir,” said 
the local barber to a customer. “Yes,” 
replied the gentleman addressed. “I’ve 
been treating it with anti-fat. I never 
liked stout hair.” “But you really should 
put something on it,” persisted the ton- 
sorial artist, in a most earnest manner. 
“I do, every morning,” returned the cus¬ 
tomer. “May I ask what?” inquired the 
harber. “My hat,” said the patron. 
Thereafter was silence.— Freeport Jour¬ 
nal. 
Success Ed,, Potato Harvester 
One Question 
Only: 
Are you interested in 
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If so, we can please 
you. 
Write for information 
D.Y. HALLOCK&SONS, 
Box 805, York, Pa. 
DON'T BE 
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Mlunband the fertility of your farm 
and every time yon plant seed 
you tcill 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 Double 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¬ 
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Kemp & Burpee Mfg. Co., Box 38, Syracuse, N. Y. 
flndiesfThiwfrfeFarm 
“ handling potatoes, onions, all vegetables* 
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ASHTABULA TOOL CO., ASHTABULA, Ohio. 
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P. O. Box 390 (Dept. B), New York, N. Y\ 
NEVER CLOGS 
T HINK of Seeding Time! You want 
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Made with and without Fertilizer 
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THE SUPERIOR DRILL CO., 
Springfield, Ohio, 
UPERIOR 
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Admitted the Best in the World. 
Digging Potatoes 
by hand costs too much and is a back breaking job besides. You can reduce 
the cost of digging them to one cent a bushel by use of the New Improved 
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Will dig perfectly on any kind or condition of soil and where others 
will not work at all. Two horses can dig five acres in ten hours. We 
want you to try it before you buy. Send for free catalogue and prices. 
THE STANDARD HARROW CO., io Hickory St., Utica, N. Y, 
rnm POTATOES 
DID YOU PLANT? 
If you have an acre you 
cannot afford to dig 
them by hand. The 
DOWDEN 
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„ i potatoes better, cleaner and 
than can be done by hand. 
...c. are strong, duruble and 
easily operated. Sold under full guarantee. Don’t 
buy until you get our FREE, 83 page catalogue. 
DOWDEN M’F’G CO., Box 22, Prairie City, Iowa. 
til“HOOVER” digger 
digs 
POTATOES 
Rapid Clean 
and Cheap. 
By mentioning this 
paper you can get 
Illustrated book free. 
___ 
HOOVER, PROUT & CO. Avery, Ohio. 
"KAgfOT GRAIN 
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nunoc ruvvcnoy and cleaners 
One* two-horse Thrashing Outfits. Level pilTTCpe 
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. For 1.2 £ 3 horses.^ 
ENSILAGE AND DRY FODDER CUTTER 
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GEM wBaler 
Warranted the ngntest, strong 
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CEORCE ERTEL CO., QUINCY, ILL. 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, August 12, 1899. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Northern-Grown Wheat for Seed.571 
A Barn Out of Driftwood.575 
Living Trees for Fence Posts.575 
Value of a Fertilizer. 577 
A Cover Crop for New Hampshire.577 
Hope Farm Notes. 579 
Corn Harvesting Machinery.5SI 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Experimenting with the Hen.573 
Sound Butter Bowls; Plums.577 
Making Pure Milk.579 
The White Farm.579 
Skim-Milk for Cows.586 
How to Thicken Cream.586 
“Oak-Grub Butter”.586 
Beef the Non-Breeder.587 
Cow Leaks Her Milk.587 
Chronic Bronchitis in a Colt.587 
Ophthalmia in Cattle.587 
Serous Cyst on Cow’s Knee.587 
HORTICULTURA L. 
Setting Potted Strawberry Plants.574 
Notes on Early Maturing Fruit.o74 
White Imperial Currant.575 
Pruning a Neglected Idaho Orchard.576 
Treatment of Young Apple Orchard.576 
Pollinizer for Bubach Strawberries.576 
Peaches for Pennsylvania.576 
Apples and Plums for Northern Indiana..576 
Potted Strawberry Plants.576 
Rhubarb in the Dark.577 
Ants and Apple Trees. 
Two Japan Plums. 
The Rutter Pear.... 
Anthracnose in Raspberries. 
Currants and Gooseberries. 
Weakness of Japan Plums. 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 
Women Gold Miners. 
The Neatness of Mrs. Plummer. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
“Centralized District Schools” in 
York . 
Exporting Criminals. 
The Source of Mica. 
Turning Cider to Vinegar. 
\n Angleworm Farm. 
A Human Xylophone. 
Slick Swindlers. 
Ruralisms . 
Human and Plant Cancer. 
Editorials . 
Brevities . 
Events of the Week. 
Old Days on the Farm. Part IV... 
Markets . 
Business Bits. 
Among the Marketmen. 
Here and There... 
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