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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
June 18 1898 
Humorous. . 
“ Why do you always give that blind 
man a nickel?” “He knows me, and 
he always winks at me.”— Chicago Record. 
A little girl is reported to have 
written in her examinat’on paper, “ The 
Arctic Ocean is chiefly used for purposes 
of exploration.”— Tid-Bits. 
“ We have cornbread all the time now.” 
“Why?” “My husband lost so much 
on wheat that it makes him weep to see 
a biscuit.”— Chicago Record. 
“ 0 is very skeptical. Unless he sees 
a thing he won't believe it exists.” C : 
“ He never ran into a rocking-chair in 
the dark, then.”— Credit Lost. 
“ Does Aunt Rebecca take any interest 
in the war ? ” “ Yes; she says she hopes 
the guns won’t be near enough to dis¬ 
turb her sitting hens.”— Chicago Record. 
She : “ I shall never marry again, but 
1 think I shall adopt some orphan in¬ 
stead.” The Rejected : “ Dear Lady, 
how fortunate. I am an orphan.”— Pick- 
Me-Up. 
“ Mamma, does ‘ Portuguese’ mean all 
the people of Portugal?” “The word 
may be used in that way.” “Well, 
mamma, if you mean only one of them 
do you say Portugoose ? ”— Comic Cuts. 
“ There’s one thing I’ve noted about 
the charity that begins at home,” sneered 
the crusty old bachelor. “ What’s that?” 
“ It becomes so extremely domestic that 
it never calls on the neighbors.”— Detroit 
Free Press. 
The Reason.— First Rurglar: “Why, 
what’s the matter ? Have you been in a 
railway accident ? ” Second Rurglar : 
“0, no, but I broke into a house where 
a woman was sitting up waiting for her 
husband, and she mistook me for him.”— 
Credit Lost. 
“ I hate to think of havin’ to buy 
bread fur our summer boarders,” said 
Mrs. Corntossel. “I never expected to 
see the day when wheat was up to $1.70.” 
“ I’ll be thankful,” replied her husband, 
gloomily, “ ef we don’t live to see the 
day when we look back with regret to 
the time when wheat was $2 a bushel.”— 
Washington Star. 
“I iiain’t a-goin’ to the war el I kin 
possibly keep puten hit.” “ That’s right, 
hit’s a heap safer at home. “I liain t 
oneasy about Spanish bullets an don t 
mind yaller fever no more than I mind 
eatin’ a baked 1 tater,’ but I don’t like 
the idy of keepin’ my hair cut close an’ 
havin’ to stand up so blamed straight. 
Hit makes me feel lonesome.’ ’^-Atlanta 
Journal. 
“ I hope that you fully appreciate the 
fact that when you are married it is for 
life, and that the obligations you assume 
are most solemn,” said the minister to a 
couple about to be married in his study. 
“ Yes, sir,” replied the bride cheerily, 
“we know all about it, for I’ve been 
married three times before, and him 
twice, and we know the ropes pretty 
well by this time.”— Harper's Bazar. 
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“The digger arrived all right, although it was a long time on the way. I have given it a thorough trial, and this la 
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FARM TOPICS. 
Testing Soils with Fertilizer.430 
Farm Help Wanted.430 
Courage with the Weeder.430 
No More Stable Manure.430 
Lime and Potato Scab.430 
Spring Wheat in New York.430, 431 
Rockland Farm Economy.431,432 
Make Hay While the Wind Blows.432 
Cultivating Potatoes Before Plants Are Up.432, 433 
A Pasture Crop in Sweet Corn.433 
Baling Green Hay.433 
Chance for Hay Farmers.434 
Killing Dock and Politicians.t.435 
Government Tests of Seeds.437 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A Living from Poultry.430 
Tobacco Dust for Chicken Lice.430 
A Farm Bounded by Water.431 
Flax Seed for Poultry.433 
Milk Trade. 442 
Evaporating Holstein Milk.442 
For the Milk Dealer.442 
Whey for the Calf.442 
Variation in Milk.442, 443 
Ailing Animals.443 
Dirty Milk Bottles.443 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Lehigh Greening Apple.430 
The Home of the Newtown Pippin.433 
The Morel Mushroom.433 
Pruning Shaffer’s Colossal Raspberry.433 
Wash for Peach Trees.433 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Prize House Plans.429, 
Loyal Canadians. 
Hope Farm Notes. 
Ruralisms. 
Editorials. 
Brevities. 
Among the Marketmen. 
Rural Free Delivery of Mail. 
Business Bits. 
Bits of Talk About Farmers. 
Markets. 
The Weather in Western New York. 
The War. 
The War Revenue Bill. 
Going to the Front. 
Humorous. 
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