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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 20, 1898 
Humorous. 
Ned : “ He married the girl I was 
engagedto.” Fred: “ Well, don’t worry, 
you’ll get over it before be does.”— Tid- 
Bits. 
Mamma: “I’m surprised at you,Johnny!” 
Johnny (thoughtfully): “I wonder if 
you’ll ever get used to me,Mamma? You're 
always surprised at me.”— Puck. 
“ I used to wonder why the world was 
made one-fourth land and three-fourths 
water.” “ Well—why is it ? ” “ So that 
battleships can have a place to chase 
each other around.”— Puck. 
Miss Boarder: “Your milk isn’t as 
rich as it used to be.” Farmer Pumper: 
“ Wall, mum, yew see the weather’s bin 
so hot lately thet th’ cows drinks more 
water than usual.”— Life. 
Tourist : “ Can you tell me where Mr. 
Greencorn's cottage is?” Small Native : 
“I can for a nickel.” Tourist: “Here 
is the nickel; now where is it ?” Small 
Native: “It’s burnt down.”— Bicycling 
World. 
Mrs. Ferry : “ Did you behave your¬ 
self at Mrs. Wallace’s and not ask the 
second time for pie ?” Bobby : “ Yes’m, 
I didn’t have to ask onty once. I got the 
first piece without asking.”— Cincinnati 
Enquirer. 
The provident man lays up a store of 
bread for the morrow, which molds in 
the night. Next day he worketh and 
fasteth. But he who buys to-day’s bread 
with to-morrow’s wages, can lay off the 
rest of the week and eat bread pudding. 
Such is life !— Puck. 
Johnny : “ Goin’ in swimmin’ to-day, 
Tommy?” Tommy: “I don’t want t’ 
much, but I guess I will.” Johnny: 
“ What fer, if y’ don't care about it?” 
Tommy: “ ’Cuz me mother says she don’t 
want me t\”— Roxbury Gazette. 
Griggs : “ You know that they say 
Mumbler has a skeleton in the closet at 
his house?” Briggs: “So I’ve heard.” 
Griggs: “ It isn’t a skeleton at all. It 
is just a spirit. I smelled his breath the 
other evening as he was coming out of 
the closet.”— Boston Transcript. 
Mr. Dakota: “It actually gets so 
cold up in our country that the flames 
freeze to the back of the grate and have 
to be chopped off with an ax.” Mr. 
Mexico : “ That’s nothing to our heat ; 
why, we have to feed our hens on 
chopped ice to keep them from laying 
boiled eggs.”— Credit Lost. 
“What was the sermon about, this 
morning, Robby ? ” “It was all about 
a circus wagon, papa.” “ Robby, my 
hoy, you are wrong; they don’t talk 
about circus wagons at church.” “In¬ 
deed they do, papa; the sermon to-day 
was all about a man what went to heaven 
in one of those chariots!”— Yonkers 
Statesman. 
“ No, sir,” said the Congressman with 
the laydown collar and the large feet, 
“the idea of taking charge of these 
tropical islands is utterly impractical.” 
“ But it would add to our wealth and 
power, and be the means of broadening 
the influence of our institutions.” “I 
don’t care. The Agricultural Depart¬ 
ment is having trouble enough now 
keepin’ the farmers posted on weevils 
and Canada thistles. I don't know where 
we’d be if they had to go to work and 
educate the masses in raisin’ mangoes 
an’ bread-fruit trees an' things like 
them.”— Washington Star. 
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AGENTS 
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TLEASE MENTION THIS PAPER. 
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Box 38 Syracuse, AT. Y, 
REMEMBER 
the MAIN question is, 
ITow can I utilize my 
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Send for Catalogue and Sample of TORNADO’S work on 
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W. R. HARRISON & CO., MASSILLON, OHIO. 
The Farmer 
Wagon.... 
If any man needs a reliable wagon 
more than another it is the farmer. He does not use a wagon every day, but when he 
does use it he wants its use badly. At such times it is a great misfortune to have a tire 
come off, a hub split, a felloe break and the wheel “go to spokes”—a general break down. 
The disuse of a wagon for a few days may mean the loss of a crop. THE REMEDY? 
Buy a wagon that won’t break down. The wheel is the vital part of a wagon. 
THE ELECTRIC HANDY WAGON 
with its broad faced, stagger spoke. low, steel wheels is clearly the safe 
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!i BUCKEYE 
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STEEL FRAME 
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In buying a Drill you should seek 
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HAS A 
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which always insures a Uni¬ 
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so that the draft may be light; 
a Steel Frame which is light¬ 
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having a Lifter Bar that will 
RAISE THE HOES EASILY; 
a racket device which will 
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All ground may be sown in turning either way. 
All these good qualities are embodied in the BUCKEYE 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, Aug. 20, 1898. 
farm TOPICS. 
Wheat in the Central West.574 
Potato Bugs and Tubers. 574 
Smut in Oats.574 
Down Come Fences.575 
Value of Crimson Clover.575 
Painting a Barn Roof.577 
Tarred Paper in the Silo.577 
Seeding to Clover and Cow Peas.577 
Lime and Subsoiling.577 
Seedling Potatoes.577 
Hope Farm Notes.579 
A Five-Ton Grass Crop. Part IV.581 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Morgan Horse.573 
Can a Hen Reason?.574,575 
The Standing of “Oleo”.575 
The California Leghorn Hen.575, 576 
A Short Talk on Bitter Cream.577 
‘•The White Farm ”.586, 587 
Milk and Dairy Notes. 587 
Forkfuls of Facts. <y, .'.587 
HORTICU hvURAL. 
oc 
CM- 
0 C . 
CZ. 
05. 
’.•e. 
574 
574 
575 
576 
„,ttings.576, 577 
3s ?.577 
.577 
Kirtlaud Hickorynut- 
Solid Ground for Berries 
Introduction of Lima Be, 
Strawberries Retarded b 
Propagating Pears from 
What Ailed the Blackbei 
New Varieties of Cherrit co 
Treatment for Pear Blig S.577 
Training the Fay Currat .577 
Vines on Trees. ^.577 
WOMAN ANI £HE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 582 
Domestic Science at the io State University 582 
Our Native Plums.582, 583 
A Puzzle. 583 
Dill Pickles.583 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
On the Road to Klondike.574 
Government Seed Tests.574 
A Paper for Stammerers.574 
Protection for a Water Tank.577 
Ruralisms. 578 
Editorials.580 
Brevities.580 
Among the Marketmen.581 
Business Bits. 581 
Some Features at Cornell. 583 
Markets.584 
The War.585 
Humorous.:.588 
