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RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 30, 1898 
Humorous. 
Corn and oats are splendid 
Grand crop of wheat; 
Summer crop of islands 
Can’t be beat. 
—Chicago Record. 
Spain uses smokeless powder ex¬ 
clusively in her hitless guns.— Denver 
Post. 
No; a field is not regarded as a patch 
because it was sowed that way.— Adams 
Freeman. 
en’s Work 
Tremendous sales of Hallock's “Success Gilt Edge” Potato Digger in the last year, 
show it is a marvel of economy, efficiency, and money-making. Does the work ten 
men would do with forks. It’s a money-maker to work with, to hire out, orto sell by 
taking an agency. Nothing ever offered to farmers ever had such a boom. Every 
one sold sells from one to a dozen others. Thousands of users testify: “lUa the Beat 
Potato Digger in the World.” Send for testimonials from those who have used it 
all over the world. It has no rivals. All the old-style, high-priced Diggers are thrown 
in the junk pile when Hallock’s “Success Gilt Edge” comes along. Write at once for 
descriptive matter, prices and full information. AGENTS WANTED. 
Gkacik : “ What does ‘ bovine ’ mean ?” 
Her Brother: “I think it’s a nickname 
for a cow.”— Puck. 
“ What do you think of the future of 
the Philippines?” “I think they will 
keep on being islands.”— Chicago Record. 
“ I thought you said this chicken was 
young ! ” “ ’Deed, sah ! It am bin most 
in its secon’ chilehood.”— Harvard Lam¬ 
poon. 
That that is is that that is not is not. 
Readers are requested to make sense of 
the above by punctuation only; no change 
of words or position. 
A mother of six declares that those 
who say that boys know nothing about 
economy never saw them when they 
were using soap.— Tit-Bits. 
“ Bliffkin’s boy has been made a 
major.” “ I didn’t know that he ever 
saw any service.” “He didn't; he saw 
the President.”— Cleveland Plain Dealer. 
“ How much feeling Tenor puts in his 
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•‘I sold your digger to Mr. R. S. Post, and he used it last Friday and Saturday in very hard stony ground, and on 
A side hill at that, and it did its w ork well. I saw it this morning myself, and I must say that I can sell a good rnsny 
of them next season, and I would like to be sure of the agency for ’98." Yours truly, 
Newark, N. Y., October 18, 1897. W. H. H. Stebbius. 
“The digger arrived all right, although it was a long time on the way. I have given it a thorough trial, and tms la 
the result. It digs all the potatoes, leaves them all in sight, and the ground in splendid shape. I just about saved tha 
_ • price of the digger this year in digging my seven 
acres of potatoes. I think there will be no troubln 
in selling them another year. For a starter thren 
of my neighbors say they want one uext year." 
Yours truly, M. D. Pickett. 
Okemos, Mich., November 13, 1897. 
“The season Is now about over, and we are very 
much pleased with our success with your Gilt Edge 
potato digger for thi6 our first season with it. We have sold 28 
of them and they are all giving excellent satisfaction. We have 
two left, but have them hired out at 25 cents per acre. 
With one of these machines we have dug over 70 acres and 
not one cent for repairs.” Yours truly, 
Prairie City, Iowa, Oct. 18, 1897. Prairie City Produce Co. 
“Inclosed find check to cover sample digger shipped to me 
recently. I put the digger out for trial this A . M. It works 
entirely satisfactory, and I immediately wired you for five 
more. Trust you shipped them at once. Please send me 
contract covering two counties. I expect to have a ’arge 
trade on your digger.” Yours truly, Henry Walters. 
Sherrnsville, Ill., August 19, 1897. 
Mr. Walters had been handling a high priced digger for 
several years. Was very skeptical about the Gilt Edge, but 
the above shows the result of his giving it a trial, nc sold 
during the season of ’97, 33 diggers, every one of *hich 
gave entire satisfaction. 
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“You have an immense quantity of 
hay,” observed the visitor at the Clover 
Meadow Farm. “ Yes,” said the farmer, 
“ hut there ain’t a thing t’ feed it to but 
bicycles.”— Credit Lost. 
To Be Remembered. — Mrs. Watts : 
“What is on that button?” Watts: 
“ ‘ Remember the Maine.’ ” Mrs. Watts: 
“ It would do more immediate good if 
you would get a button with ‘Don’t For¬ 
get the Groceries’ on it.”— Indianapolis 
Journal. 
American: “You're a fine lot, any¬ 
way. You did a great deal of talking 
before the fighting, hut what else have 
you done?” Cuban: “ Caramba, senor, 
haven't we given your people a chance 
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land Leader. 
Baptist Clergyman : “ I don’t see how 
you Methodist ministers can ever be con¬ 
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Baptist Clergyman: “ You aren't used to 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker. July 30, 1898. 
FARM TOPICS. 
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medicine I sent her by you seems to 
have benefited her greatly.” Dumley: 
“Sent her? Why, doctor, I thought 
you said that was for me, and I was in 
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4cts. 
Cutter Follows Thrasher.526 
Traveling Fodder Cutters.526 
Hay Caps.526 
A Lesson for Farmers.526 
Queer Hay Making.526 
Fertilizer for Wheat.526 
Potato Beetles and Tubers.526 
Rockland Farm Economy.527 
Rape as Ensilage. 529 
Home Notes from Indiana.531 
Hope Farm Notes.531 
A Five-Ton Grass Crop.533 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A Practical Duck Man.525, 526 
The Polled Head.526 
Balanced” Ensilage Ration.528 
ne Care of the Ram.538 
Torse Shoe Farm Notes.539 
C? The Merino Sheep.539 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Fitting the Strawberry Bed.526 
Fall-dug Peach Trees.526 
Some Profit in Bagging Grapes.526, 527 
The Gladstone; A Strawberry of Great 
Promise.527 
An Unfruitful Apple Orchard.528, 529 
Kieffer and Garber Pears.529 
Preserving Fruits for Exhibition.529 
Decorative Plants and Pelargoniums.529 
An Old Strawberry Bed . 1.531 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.534 
Housework in Hot Weather.534 
Home Study.534 
On Gems.534, 535 
A Swing Seat.535 
Little Conveniences.535 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Death Without a StiDg.526 
A Trap for Hornets.526 
Uncle Sam’s New Territory.528 
Roads on Long Island Shores.529 
Meat Killed in Warm Weather.529 
Ruraiisms.530, 531 
Editorials.532 
Brevities.532 
Among the Marketmen.533 
Impressions and Expressions.535 
Markets.536 
The War.537 
News from the Front......... 537 
Humorous..... 540 
