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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 21, 1898 
Humorous. 
He loved a pretty dairymaid, 
And often used to say, 
She was the brightest star of all 
Upon the milky way. 
—Philadelphia Bulletin . 
Tommy (who has just had a scolding-): 
“Father, don’t you wish we had never 
married mother ? ”—Glasgow Mail. 
“ How did Grassfield do with his book, 
‘Success in Farming’?” “Splendidly. 
The book paid for all he lost on the 
farm .”—Credit Lost. 
“ I’m awful glad, mamma, that I’ve 
begun to go to school.” “ Why, dear ?” 
“ Because we have a holiday every Satur¬ 
day .”—Fliegcnde Blatter. 
“Every man is the architect of his 
own fortunes.” “ Yes, and nine times 
out of ten he doesn’t get paid for his 
work.”— Chicago Record. 
When her husband complained that 
the turkey he had eaten for dinner did 
not set well, his wife explained that it 
was not a hen turkey.— What to Eat. 
“ Podgen’s dairy is having great vogue 
just now.” “What started it?” “He 
has placarded his milk-wagons : ‘We 
Boil All the Water We Use.’ ”— Puck. 
“ Look here, Guggenheimer, that bicy¬ 
cle suit you sold me ripped the first time 
I straddled a bicycle.” “ Sthraddled it ? 
Vy, mine vrient, dot sood vas made vor 
a lady’s vheel! ” — Life. 
Nbwly-madk Widow : “ Ah ! No one 
can take John’s place. I loved him from 
the bottom of my heart.” Friend 
(brightly): “But y u know what they 
say—there is always room at the top.” 
— Punk. 
Hotel Clerk : “ Your bundle has come 
apart. May I ask what that queer thing 
is ? ” Guest : “ This is a new patent fire 
escape. 1 always carry it, so, in case of 
fire, I can let myself down from the 
hotel window. See?” Clerk, thought¬ 
fully : “ I see. Our terms for guests with 
fire escapes, oir, are in. ,ably cash in 
advance .”—Credit Lost. 
“ Why,” she asked, “ do so many of the 
poets write about goldenrod ? It seems 
as if every one of them had tried to 
glorify it.” “Well,” replied the man 
who had worked on a farm, “ the only 
explanation I can give is that the poets 
probably never tried to raise potatoes in 
a field where goldenrod had got a good 
start .”—Cleveland Leader. 
“ Now,” said the fussy old gentleman, 
putting one of the biggest berries in his 
mouth and picking up another, “ what 
is the sense of having that sign read 
‘ Fresh strawberries for sale ? ’ Don’t 
you see that ‘ Fresh strawberries’ would 
be enough? Don’t you suppose that 
everybody knows they are for sale?” 
“ I dunno,” answered the grocer; “ some 
folks seem to think I’m givin’ them 
away.” And the old gentleman put the 
berry back in the box .—Boston Herald. 
A father was lecturing his son on the 
evil of staying out late at night and ris¬ 
ing late in the morning. “You will 
never succeed,” he said, “unless you 
mend your ways. Remember, the early 
bird catches the worm.” “ And what 
about the worm, father ? ” said the young 
man sneeringly. “Wasn’t he rather 
foolish in getting up so early?” “My 
son,” said the old man, “ that worm 
hadn’t been to bed at all; he was only 
getting home.” The young man coughed. 
—Pittsburg Dispatch. 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker. May 21, 1898. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Almost a Cure-all.366, 367 
The Importance of Thorough Soil Preparation 367 
What They Say.367, 368 
Lime Used with Superphosphate. 369 
Irrigation by Windmill Power.369 
Maturing Potatoes....369 
Killing Daisies and Wild Carrot.369 
Testing a Soil.369 
“ Sludge ” Acid in Phosphates. 369 
Hope Farm Notes.371 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A Practical Hen Man.366 
Exportation of Creamery Butter.366 
Trade in Condemned Cow s.368, 369 
A Remarkable Guernsey Cow.378 
The Sheep Tick.378 
Sunflower Seeds for Poultry.378 
The Moldy Butter Tub.379 
Chronic Cough in a Mare.379 
Brittle Hoofs on a Horse. Pi.379 
Shoe Bolls; Horse Linim ^—.379 
Horse with Shrunken H! consoles.379 
Chronic Cough in a Hot- c\,.379 
Cerebro-Spinal Mening to in Calves. 379 
Sterilized Butter. ■ ..379 
Scours in Calves. ^.379 
Louisiana Live Stock o>.379 
HOR7j£>JLTURAL. 
The Small Fruit Ma tman.368 
Steel Filings for Fi °.369 
Regulating the Sa £* >s6 Scale by Law.373 
Treatment of Gen 0 .375 
A Few Good Carf*; J.375 
Seasonable Notes. .375 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
The Home Grubbing Machine.. 
From Day to Day. 
Cuban Housekeeping. 
Bags and their Uses. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Fads of Business Men.368 
The Ruskin Cooperative Association.369 
Ruralisms.370 
“Paddy’s Market”.370,371 
Editorials.372 
Brevities.372 
Among the Marketmen.373 
Business Bits..373 
Markets.376 
The War.377 
Wheat and War in Engiand.377 
Humorous.380 
365, 366 
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