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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 2, 1899 
Humorous. 
“Pop don’t ride a wheel,” said the 
small bad boy, rubbing the seat of his 
little bloomers after the interview, “but 
he’s a scorcher all right.” —Philadelphia 
Record. 
Startled Housewife: “Get away 
from here, you scarecrow!” Dismal 
Dawson: “I ain’t no scarecrow. I jist 
traded clothes with one, that’s all.”— 
Indianapolis Journal. 
“Will one in the class,” asked the 
teacher of rhetoric, “give a better form 
to the sentence, ‘John can ride the mule 
if he wants to’?” “John can ride the 
mule if the mule wants him to,” said 
the boy with the bad eye .—Chicago 
Tribune. 
“Do you appreciate poetry?” asked 
the serious young woman. “Yes, in¬ 
deed,” answered Mr. Cumrox. “There’s 
one piece of poetry that has done me a 
world of good. Old as I am, there are 
times when I couldn’t tell how to figure 
without saying ‘Thirty days hath Sep¬ 
tember, April, June and November.’ ”— 
Washington Star. 
“I can’t help feeling sorry for the 
farmer,” said the young man who owes 
for Summer board. “Why?” inquired 
Mr. Corntossel, abruptly. “Because— 
why—er—because his back is bent with 
toil.” “Mebbe you’re right. Mebbe it’s 
harder to bend your back with toil than 
it is to bend it ridinLa bicycle. Yet, I 
can’t see but what it amounts to the 
same thing in the end .”—Washington 
Star. 
Boys haven’t always a great imagina¬ 
tion, but most of them have a good deal 
of tenacity. A man wishing to make 
himself pleasant to the little brother of 
his betrothed told him to wish for 
something, and he would give it to him. 
“A box of chocolates,” said the boy. 
“What else?” asked the generous lover. 
“Another box of chocolates.” “Oh, but 
wish for something else. Your little 
stomach couldn’t hold all those choco¬ 
lates.” “Well, then,” answered the boy, 
“another stomach ."’—Household Words. 
A Hartford lawyer tells of a client in 
one of the adjoining towns who had a 
farm to sell. He had recently sunk a 
well on it, and the job cost quite a sum. 
Consequently, when he talked of dispos¬ 
ing of his property, the well caused him 
considerable anxiety. “How much do 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, Sept. 2, 1899. 
you ask for the farm?” the lawyer 
asked. “Wal, I’ll tell yer,” drawled the 
farmer. “I’ll sell the dern place for $700 
with the well, and I’ll let it go for $600 
without the well .”—Han Francisco Ex¬ 
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FARM TOPICS. 
“The Farmer Feeds the World”.621, 622 
Shredding the Corn Fodder.622 
Second-Crop Seed.622 
Illinois Melons.622 
Picking Cow Peas.622 
The Hay Stacker.623 
A Wholesale Weeder.623 
The Cheapest Barn Yet.623 
How to Preserve Fence Posts.623 
Growing a Big Pumpkin.624 
Notes from Tompkins County, N. Y.625 
Hope Farm Notes.627 
Intensive Grass Culture Boiled Down...629 
A Farmers’ Encampment.•.633 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Heating a Brooderhouse.624 
Dry Stalks in the Silo.634 
Sheep and Apples.634 
The Quitter Cow.634 
The Old Cow Outdone.635 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Tent Caterpillars in Traps.622 
A Talk About Lima Beans.622 
The Umbrella Apple Picker...623 
On a Delaware Fruit Farm.623 
Starting Cuttings.623 
Wintered-Over Cabbage and Celery.624 
What Ails the Tree?.624 
Where to Raise Fruit.624 
Ants and a Pear Tree.624 
Rocky Ford Melons in Ohio.626 
Freaks in Citrus Fruits.626 
A Tough Apple.626 
Illinois Notes.626 
Golden Queen Raspberry.626 
The Japan Plums.626 
Talks About Pears.626 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.630 
Rural Recipes.630 
A Crop of Hammocks.631 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Cleaning Chicago.623 
Killing Forest Caterpillars.624 
How to Kill Black Ants.624 
Big Agent Schemes.625 
A Homemade Germinator.625 
Ruralisms .626 
Bulletins Boiled Down.627 
Editorials .62S 
Brevities .628 
Events of the Week.629 
Markets .632 
As We Go to Press.633 
Among the Marketmen.633 
Business Bits.633 
Humorous .636 
