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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May'28/ 1898 
Humorous. 
Uncle : “ Well, Fritz, do you like your 
new teacher?” Fritz : “ Oh! very much. 
He is ill one day out of three.”— Selfen- 
blazen. 
“ Say, my good fellow, why do you 
sailors call a rope a sheet?” “Same 
reason, I suppose, you landlubbers call 
a sheet a rope.”— Brooklyn IAfe. 
“ But, Mr. Blossom, you wouldn’t run 
away if the enemy were ten to one, 
would you ? ” “ Not if there was a handy 
hole to creep into, Miss Dolly.”— Pick-Me- 
Up. 
“ He : “Was the Suddenlys’ elopement 
a success ? ” She : “ Hardly; her father 
telegraphed them out West to stay where 
they were, and all would be forgiven.”— 
Harlem Life. 
Mistress : “ Get dinner to-day on the 
gasoline stove, Bridget.” Bridget: “Plaze, 
mum, I did thry, but th’ stove wint out.” 
Mistress: “ Try again, then.” Bridget: 
“ Yis, mum, but it’s not come back yit. 
It wint out t’rough th’ roof.”— Credit Lout. 
“ It all came about,” the father-in-law 
explained to the policeman, “by some 
of dese fresh young niggahs th’owin’ 
shoes at de bride, sah.” “ Well,” said 
the policeman, “that’scustomary.” “Not 
hoss shoes, it ain’t.” — Indianapolis 
Journal. 
Ike Stubbles: “Hi, what was yer 
objick in buyin’ that ’er patch o’ sterile 
land down to Stony Corners ? ” Hiram 
Oatbin : “ One of my schemes, Ike. I’m 
goin’ to pastur’ the cows on that ’er land 
an’ give them city folks that new-fangled 
sterilized milk right from the cow.”— 
Up to Date. 
Observation by an Expert: “I don't 
wonder January wheat is high,” re¬ 
marked the professor in the agricultural 
college, glancing at the headlines in the 
commercial column; “it must be ex¬ 
ceedingly scarce. My observation is 
that there is very little wheat raised in 
this country in January.” — Chicago 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, May 28, 1898. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Canada Wood Ashes.382 
Chemicals for Weeds.382, 383 
Wood Ashes and Potato Scab.383 
Machinery Trials at Fairs.383 
The Farm Value of the Crow.384 
Plowing »«. Surface Cultivation.384 
Clearing Land in Virginia; Hedge on River.384,385 
Heavy Yields of Corn and Wheat.385 
Some Questions About Tiles.385 
Killing Dock.885 
Cow Manure for Corn.385 
Ensilage of Whole Stalks.385 
Hope Farm Notes.387 
The Price of Wheat.389 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Characteristic Form of the Dairy Cow.381 
Standard of Quality in Herd Milk.381, 382 
05 jig Horns Useful.382 
- - * .382 
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Diluted Milk for Creaming.385 
Position of Eggs in Incubator.385 
Milch Cows and Dairy Book.385 
Does Ensilage Taint Milk.394, 395 
A Low Fence for Hens.395 
Forkfuls of Facts.395 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Hibebound Trees; Brahmas.382 
Regulating the San Jose Scale by Law ....383, 384 
Varieties of Asparagus.384 
How to Fight the Apple Borer.385 
Selling Flowers in New York City.385 
Boston Fern.386 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.390 
Improvements in the Working Dress.390, 391 
Putting up Fruit for Sale.391 
Substitutes for Wbeaten Bread.391 
A Cemetery Society.391 
A Friend in Need.391 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Phosphates as Medicine.382 
Yellow Fever in Cuba.. 385 
Ruralisms.386 
Editorials.388 
Brevities.388 
Among the Marketmen.389 
Business Bits.389 
Markets..392 
The War.393 
An Ambulance Ship.393 
Humorous.....396 
