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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 19, 1899 
Humorous. 
Now doth the busy little bee 
Improve each shining chance 
That comes along, to penetrate 
The small boy’s picnic pants. 
- Philadelphia Record. 
“Wiiat happens when a man’s tem¬ 
perature goes down as far as it can go?” 
Smart Scholar: “He has cold feet, 
Ma’am.”— Credit Lost. 
Trader: “Don’t you want to sell that 
horse?” Farmer: “Naw. I keep him 
extra, to haul broken-down automobiles 
back to town.”— Indianapolis Journal. 
Great Employer: “I always employ 
married men if possible.” His Friend: 
“Good idea. Helps conserve that sacred 
institution, the home.” “I hadn’t given 
that a thought, but I guess it is so. I 
employ married men because they are 
more tractable.”— Indianapolis Journal. 
Mr. Henpeckt: “I wish sometimes I 
had the knowledge of the ancient Egypt¬ 
ians.” Friend: “In regard to what, old 
man?” “Perhaps you’ve seen some of 
their mummies. They understood how 
to make a woman dry up and remain 
so.”— Life. 
At the close of the forenoon session of 
a ministerial conference, in announcing 
the opening subject for the afternoon, 
the presiding officer said: “Elder H. will 
present a paper on ‘The Devil.' ” Then 
he added earnestly, “Please be prompt 
in attendance, for Brother H. has a care¬ 
fully prepared paper and is full of bis 
subject.” And the Homiletic Review 
says that it was some minutes before the 
presiding officer understood the laughter 
which followed his remark. 
Isaac M. Gregory, for many years the 
editor of Judge, once made a severe re¬ 
ply to a statement made by Mr. Le Due, 
who was once our Commissioner of Ag¬ 
riculture. Le Due had quarreled with the 
press, and some one asked him why he 
did not reply in kind. “Nonsense,” he 
returned; “I shall wear no jackass’s 
scalp at my belt.” To this Mr. Gregory 
promptly retorted: “Oh, no, old fellow; 
you’ll wear it where it grew.” This end¬ 
ed the controversy.— Boston Beacon. 
An Irish priest had labored hard with 
one of his flock, to induce him to give 
up whisky. “I tell you, Michael,” said 
the priest, “whisky is your worst ene¬ 
my, and you should keep as far away 
from it as you can.” “Me enemy, is it, 
Father?” responded Michael; “and it 
was Your Riverence’s self that was tell- 
in’ us in the pulpit only last Sunday to 
love our enemies.” “So I was, Michael,” 
rejoined the priest, “but 1 didn’t tell you 
to swallow them.”— Sacred Heart Review. 
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operator. 
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Costs lit¬ 
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Saves 
more 
lirst 
season. 
Cuts corn at 
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either in hills or drills. 
Being strong and well made of good material it will last. 
Eevery farmer can atford one. Send for catalogue : 1£. 
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ENSILAGE CUTTER 
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No pushing to get feed 
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F. L. MAINE, General Agent, Willet, N. Y. 
F. II. BENEDICT. General Agent. McLean, N.Y. 
CORN FODDER 
Is equal in feeding value toi 
the best hay when prepared by 
The Ross 
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Cuts ensilage, corn fodder, 
hay. &c., for feed, and straw for 
baling and bedding. Send for 
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P- O. Box 80, Middletown Springs, Vt. 
l 
HflndiestT^^rarn, 
For handling potatoes, onions, all vegetables, 
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Success Z Potato Harvester 
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D.Y. HALL0GK&SONS, 
. Box 805, York, Pa. 
YOU ARE SHUT OUT 
of the hay market unless your hay 
Is haled. Baled hay finds a market 
nt every little 
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In the country. 
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CEORCE ERTEL CO., QUINCY, ILL. 
Why do you break your back 
Cutting Corn? 
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THE STANDARD HARROW CO., Utica, N. Y. 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, August 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Journey in a Potato Field. 
False Oats. 
Living Trees for Fence Posts. 
Hard Wheat Needed. 
Crimson Clover in Corn. 
New Hampshire Cover Crop. 
Summer Seeding to Grass. 
Northern Seed Wheat. 
Hope Farm Notes.. 
Grain to Follow Potatoes. 
A Farmer’s Outing. 
19, 1899. 
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590, 59?, 
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595 
601 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Selling Small Quantities of Wool.591 
Rape for Poultry Food.592 
Stealings of the Robber Cow.602 
Buying a Horse.608 
Abortion in a Cow.603 
How the Lapps Milk Reindeer..603 
Scraps .693 
Sheep Stories.603 
Free-Martins .603 
The Belgian Hare Business.603 
HORTICULTURA L. 
Rocky Ford Melons.590 
Fall Planting for Fruit Trees.590 
“Short” Barrels in N. Y. State.590 
Kainit on Pear Trees.591 
Swedish Fruit Shows.*..591 
The Saimonberry.592 
Fall Transplanting of Raspberries.592 
The Pear Blister-Mite.592 
Apples and Plums for Northern Indiana..592 
Georgia Peach Orchards.593 
The Pot-Grown Strawberry.5B3 
The Rathbun Blackberry.594 
Blue Roses.594 
Fruit Notes.594 
The Tennessee Strawberry.594 
The Columbian Raspberry.594 
Thinning Burbank Plums.591 
The Carman Peach.594 
A Good Shipping Strawberry.594 
Notes on Early Maturing Fruit. Part T 1.595 
The San Jos6 Scale at Home.:597 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.59S 
A German Kitchen.598 
A Vegetable Symposium.599 
Good Sense in Marriage.599 
With the Procession.599 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
“Old Home Week” in New Hampshire—591 
Painting Shingles; Repairing Rat Hole... 592 
Bevel and Splice for Silo Staves.592 
Bees and Sponges.593 
A Flight of Fancy.593 
Ruralisms .594 
Editorials .596 
Brevities . 596 
Events of the Week.597 
Camping Out at the Indiana State Fair..597 
Markets .690 
Among the Marketmen.601 
As We Go to Press.601 
Humorous .604 
