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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 22, 1898 
Humorous. 
Jack Bass would raise garden sass, 
His wife would raise chickens; 
Betwixt the two, ere they got through, 
They simply raised the dickens. 
—Indianapolis Journal. 
Maud : “ Did you not call for help 
when he kissed you ?” Marie: “ No. He 
didn’t need any.” — Life. 
Freshe : “You bet, I boss the house.” 
Brine: “What does your wife do?” 
Freshe : “ She bosses me.”— Credit Lost. 
IIe (before the wedding) : “ You are 
sure you won’t be nervous at the altar ?” 
She (four times a widow) : “ I’ve never 
been yet.”— Credit Lost. 
“ Katharine, you will always find me 
an indulgent husband.” “ Do you mean 
indulgent to me or indulgent to your¬ 
self ? ”— Chicago Record. 
“ When a man asserts that he is just 
as good as anybody else, do you think he 
really believes it ? ” “ Certainly not. He 
believes he is better.” — Indianapolis 
Journal. 
An old Scotswoman, when advised by 
her minister to take snuff to keep her¬ 
self awake during the sermon, replied, 
“ Why dinna ye put the snuff in the ser¬ 
mon, mon ? ”— Credit Lost. 
Skidmore : “So Mullins has married 
a wife.” Kilduff : “ That is not the way 
in which I understand it.” “ How do you 
understand it?” “My information is 
that a widow has married Mullins.”— 
Life. 
“ This is the parlor, eh ? ” tentatively 
remarked the agent, who was looking 
over the house. “ Yes,” replied old man 
Kidder ; “ but I usually call it the court¬ 
room—I’ve got seven daughters, you 
know. ”— Credit Lost. 
Then creaked and labored yet again 
The wheels within his head, 
To devise, for city garden plots, 
A folding onion bed. — Detroit Journal. 
• •• 
Good Stories for I #99 
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For Life and Liberty, 
A Boy’s Fox-Yard, 
Police Spies in Russia, 
How I Went to the Mines, 
An Esoteric Pig, 
Henry M. Stanley. 
John B. Dunn. 
Poultney Bigelow. 
Bret Harte. 
Florence Converse. 
A Pocketful of Money, 
The Russian Crusoes, 
Fifty Years with a Menagerie, 
In the South, 
A Night in a Box Car, 
W. D. Howells. 
Gen. A. W. Greely. 
Dan Rice. 
T. Nelson Page. 
Hayden Carruth. 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, Oct. 22, 1898. 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Farm Paper.718 
Crimson Clover Chaff.718 
An Onion Farm.719 
Insects in Grain.719 
Another Year with-Corn Harvesters.719 
Printer Potato Planters.720, 721 
Hope Farm Notes.722 
Crimson Clover in Pennsylvania.722 
Onions and Tobacco in Florida.729 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Revenge in a Horse.717, 
Hog Feeding on a Large Scale. 
Some Skim-milk Jerseys. 
Kerosene Spray for Flies. 
A Gape-ridden House. 
Does Washing Injure Eggs?. 
Short-horn Cattle to the Front. 
Forkfuls of Facts. 
The New Calf Law. 
Chronic Cough in a Mare. 
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Black-Quarter or Black-Leg in Calves. 
Skin Eruption on Young Mare. 
Cow Gives Bloody Milk. 
Pu’ -ed or Thoroughbred ?. 
,Oy 
718 
7 8 
718 
718 
719 
721 
730 
730 
730 
731 
731 
731 
731 
731 
731 
731 
HORTICULTURAL. 
<8 
th of Roots in Arid Soil. 
(jj- rebound” Apple Trees. 
•c? an Fruits and Vegetables.719, 
<b istions About Rhubarb Culture. 
^ >w to Grade Nursery Stock. 
.ore About Long-Shipping Berries. 
Jabbage Seed on Long Island. 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
718 
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720 
721 
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725 
727 
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A Hornet Trap. 718 
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Paper from Corn Stalks.719 
Mr. S. R. Divine.719 
A Yankee and His Wind.720 
How to Treat a Cow’s Hide.721 
The Freezing Point.721 
Ruralisms. 723 
Editorials.724 
Brevities.724 
Among the Marketmen.725 
A Yankee in Ohio.725 
Business Bits.725 
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The Danbury Fair.729 
The American Institute Fair.729 
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