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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
September 24, 1898 
Humorous. 
“ She refused him, as she thought that 
he would propose again.” “And did he?” 
“ Oh, yes. But it was to another girl.”— 
Life. 
Housewife : “ It seems to me that your 
pint of milk is very small.” Milkman : 
“ My cows are of the small kind, mum ! ” 
— Til-Bits. 
“ Maud says she is madly in love with 
her new wheel.” “Huh! Another case 
where man is displaced by machinery.” 
—Indianapolis Journal. 
Masculine: “ She has a masculine 
mouth, don’t you think?” “Very. I 
fancy she couldn't hold more than a 
dozen pins in it to save her life.”— Detroit 
Journal. 
“ I loaned a grateful soldier boy $7 
when he went away.” “Yes?” “And 
he has just sent to me from Florida a 
live alligator, a Cuban land crab and two 
tarantulas.”— Chicago Record. 
Lady : “ Are these eggs really fresh?” 
Shop Assistant : “ Madam, if you will 
kindly step to the telephone and call up 
our farm, you can hear the hens that 
laid those eggs still cackling.”— Credit 
Lost. 
“ You don’t mean to tell me you can be 
interested in baseball while the war is 
going on ?” “ Why, of course. It was in 
playin' baseball that the Americans learn¬ 
ed how to send in a ball so straight.”— 
—Indianapolis Journal. 
Professor: “So, then, by the term 
reptile, we mean a creature which does 
not stand on feet, but moves by crawl¬ 
ing on the ground. Will one of you 
name for me such a reptile ?” Freddy : 
“ Baby brother.”— Credit Lost. 
A Natural Query : Grandpa invited 
Dorothy to go with him to feed the chick¬ 
ens the morning after her arrival at the 
farm. On her return to the house she in¬ 
quired, shyly: “Grandpa, do all hens 
eat with their noses ? ”— Credit Lost. 
“ I can’t blame the young women for 
falling in love with the soldiers,” re¬ 
marked the neighbor who had dropped 
in for a few minutes. “ Neither do I,” 
answered the other, who always had a 
tired expression. “A few months of 
Government rations ought to keep a man 
from complaining of home cooking for 
the rest of his life.”— Washington Star. 
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STAR 
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MANUFACTURERS, 
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20,000 
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Uuri vailed in capacity andqual 
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STEVENS MFG. CO. Box 29, Joliet, III. 
Use horse power. 
Digging potatoes by hand is like threshing with a flail 
—too expensive. It i. easy work for two horses with a 
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That's what every bushel of corn is worth after 
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Here's something entirely ncwi a 2 to 4 
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11 
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This Is the machine that has revolutionized the harvesting of corn. It 
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CORN 
FODDER 
Green or dry, will 
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far,- but will do two 
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GOOD if cut or 
shredded with a 
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The Smalley 
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THE A . W. STRAUB CO., 
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- 
MANY A MAN 
has been detered from buying an Ensilage nnd 
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Cuts 4 
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THE; 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, Sept. 24, 1898. 
FARM TOPIC8. 
Cross Drilling Wheat.654 
Shade Trees and Crops.654 
A Farmer’s Telephone.654 
English College Farm.654 
When to Plow Under Cow Peas.654 
Potatoes in Minnesota.654 
Grinding Grain at Home.654, 655 
The Life of Stone Drains.655 
Farming Among Westchester Hills. Part III. 
.655, 656 
How to Handle the Harlequin Bug.656 
Killing Elder and Hazel Bushes.656 
Smtit in Wheat and Corn.657 
Cow Peas in Westchester County, N. Y.657 
The Value of a Cover Crop.657 
A Talk About Tile Drainage.657 
Weevils in the Granary.657 
Smut in Wheat.657 
Hope Farm Notes.659 
Clover, Cow Peas and Chemicals. Part III— 661 
LIVE 8TOCK AND DAIRY. 
“ Chickens Fed on Sunflowers ”!.657 
Handling the Bull.666 
Corn-and-Cob Meal.666 
“ Spontaneous Combustion ” in Hay.666 
A Dutch Cow.667 
Forkfuls of Facts.667 
Meal in Hot Weather.667 
Hogs and Cob Meal.667 
Hens That Lay Figures.667 
Care of the Bull. 667 
Colt Cut on Barb Wire.667 
Skin Eruption on a Cow.667 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Luther Burbank and His Work.653 
Maine Canned Apples.654 
What Varieties of Apples?.654 
Rot in Plums.654 
How the Curculio Mounts Plum Trees.656 
Peaches from Natural Pits.656, 657 
As to Spraying Japan Plums.657 
Varieties of Fruits and Flowers.657 
Cuthbert Raspberries in a Vermont Winter... 657 
Sawdust for Potting Soil.657 
Plants Stored in the Dark.657 
Varieties of Blackberries.657 
Setting Cedar Trees.657 
Covering Grape Seedlings.657 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.662 
Every-Day Wisdom.662 
Made-Over Dishes.662, 663 
How a Man Cans Tomatoes.663 
Putting Away Summer Clothing.663 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Putting out Fires.654 
Prohibition in Canada.656 
Ruralisms. 658, 659 
Editorials.660 
Brevities. 
Among the Marketmen.6b 1 
New York County Fairs.661 
Business Bits.96' 
Afloat With the Babies.663 
Markets . 664 
Diary of the Week..66 a 
After the War.66 o 
Humorous. 668 
