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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 29 , 1898 
Humorous. 
“ Don't you think Parson Pray is a 
broad preacher ? ” “ Well, I don’t know; 
—he’s certainly an awful long one.”— 
Puck. 
Lady Visitor : “ What a pretty baby. 
How old is he ?” Mamie (aged five): “ I 
aint quite sure, mum ; we’ve had him 
about a year .”—Brooklyn Life. 
Sympathetic Visitor: “We must all 
die once.” Sick Murphy : “ Yus ; that’s 
just what worries me. If I couM die six 
or seven times, I shouldn’t mind peggin’ 
out just once .”—Credit Lost. 
44 No,” said the positive girl, “ 1 will 
never tie myself down to one man ” 
“ Perhaps,” he replied, sarcastically, “ if 
I organize a syndicate you will consider 
our offer .”—Philadelphia North A merican. 
“ Geraldine is writing a book. She 
calls it 4 How to Win a Man.’ ” “ That 
would not do any good in the world. 
The mystery is how to hold on to him 
after you have won him .”—Detroit Free 
Press. 
“ And you wouldn’t begin a journey on 
Friday V ” 44 Not me ! ” “I can’t under¬ 
stand how you can have any faith in 
such a silly superstition.” “No super¬ 
stition about it—Saturday’s pay-day.”— 
TU-Bits. 
“What you want to do,” said the 
druggist, as he handed the old darky the 
patent medicine, “ is to take a dose of 
this after each meal.” 44 Yes, suli,” was 
the reply, “an’ now, will you please, 
suh, tell me wliar I’m gwine ter git de 
meals ?”—Atlanta ConstitutUm. 
44 Dear Harry,” wrote his chum, who 
was in camp at Key West, 44 1 have had 
only one letter from my girl since I came 
down here. Are you looking after her 
as you promised ? ” 44 Dear Jerry,” wrote 
his friend in response, 44 I am—six even¬ 
ings in the week .”—Chicago Tribune. 
oj My Do|>s 
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Anxious Wife r “Know where my 
husband is, sir ? ” Klondike Karl : “Th’ 
last time I seen your husband, mum, he 
was goin’ over th’ mountain.” Anxious 
wife: 44 In what direction?” Klondike 
Karl (sadly): “In all directions, mum. 
You see. he got a can of dynamite mixed 
in with the canned corned beef he was 
thawing out, poor man.”— Judye. 
A Texas judge was robbed of a horse 
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44 the Court will go outside and bend a 
rope and pick out a good tree .”—The 
Green Bay. 
Abk: “Ole Bile narrower may be a 
hayseed, but he’s jest cute 'nough to 
skin them city sportsmen who was 
shootin’ round his place yesterday.” Ike: 
44 How’d he do it ? ” 44 He seed them fel¬ 
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fellers left the ducks behind, too.” “Shoo, 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, Oct. 29, 1898. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Cutting and Hauling Corn in Kansas.73-1 
Nitrogen and Wheat.736 
All About Peanut Culture.737 
Hope Farm Notes.738, 739 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Western Stock Feeders and Grain.734 
A Dairy Barn Built of Steel.735 
A Group of Jersey Calves.736 
The Use of Tuberculin.746 
Praise for tlie Short-horn Cow.747 
Forkfuls of Facts.747 
Cure for a Kicking Cow.747 
Grain for Fattening Steers.747 
Another Drunken Cow.747 
Selling Milk In Bottles.747 
HORTICULTURAL. 
A Successful Raspberry Grower.733 
Strawberry Growing in Maryland.733, 734 
Early Spraying for the Apple Scab.735, 736 
The Longlield Apple.736 
Pieplant in the Dark.736 
Fruit Notes from Wisconsin.736 
Thinning Peach Trees in Autumn.737 
Preparing Sod Lands for Fruit.737 
A Starving Apple Orchard.737 
Storing Celery.737 
Grafting the Hickories, Chestnuts and Oaks.. 739 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.742 
The Children’s Teeth.742, 743 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Postscripts.734 , 736 
Rural isms.738 
Editorials.740 
Brevities.740 
Among the Marketmen.. .741 
A Yankee in Ohio. Part II.741 
Busiuess Bits.741 
The World in Wax.743 
Markets. 744 
Diary of the Week. . •• 745 
Notes’from the Trans Mississippi Exposition. 745 
Short.Stories.745 
Humorous.748 
