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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 2, 1898 
Humorous. 
Great Boston’s interest in this war 
Is knocked sky high; 
We’ve added cheese to the ration list, 
And checked off pie. —Chicago Record. 
Mb. Gabber: “There is a man in 
New York erecting a monument to Ana¬ 
nias.” Mrs. Gabber: “For the land’s 
sake ! And what material is he using ? ” 
Mr. Gabber: “ War extras.”— Puck. 
Teacher: “ How many parts of speech 
are there, Johnny ? ” Johnny: “In our 
house there ain’t any, ’cause when 
mammy gets her speech started it never 
parts ; it just keeps right on without a 
break. ”— Boston Courier. 
Mrs. Dix : “I was ashamed of you, 
Ephraim, to see you dust the chair you 
sat on at Mrs. Henshaw’s ! I saw her 
little boy watching you.” Dix : “I saw 
him, too. I’m too old a fish to be caught 
on a bent pin ! ”— Pearson's Weekly. 
“ Willie, how did you get along at 
school to-day ? ” “ Very well.” “ Now, 
Willie,” his mother went on severely, 
“ don’t tell stories. I heard you had to 
be punished.” “Yes, but it didn’t hurt 
as much as usual.”— Detroit Free Press. 
A visitor to the Hritisli Museum re¬ 
ports that he saw a countryman stand¬ 
ing before the bust of a woman in a col¬ 
lection of ttatuary. The woman was 
represented in the act of coiling her hair 
and, as the visitor came up, the country- 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker. July 2, 1898. 
FARM topics. • 
How to Force Sweet Corn.461, 462 
Notes on the Wheat Crop......462 
Notes from the Bean Country..462, 463 
What They Say.463, 464 
Cow Peas in Place of Stable Manure.464 
Irrigation by Gasoline Power.465 
Hope Farm Notes.466 
Farming in the Lower Hudson Valley.469 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Hereford Cattle.462 
Observed in Dairies and Creameries.463 
The Barred Plymouth Rock.463 
A Farm Bounded by Water.464, 465 
Dairying in Northern Iowa.474 
The Five-Per-Cent Cow.474 
Feeding Cattle in Missouri.474, 475 
Proxies and the Dorset Sheep Breeders.475 
Symptoms of Glanders and Farcy.475 
Inflammation of Eyelids in a Horse.475 
Forkfuls of Facts.475 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Pineapple Culture in Florida.461 
Peach Leaf-Curl and Pear Blister-Mite. 465 
When to Bud Cherries. 465 
Introduction of the Peruvian Pole Bean, Now 
Known as the Lima Bean.466 
Among the Grape Growers.471 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.470 
The Staff of Life.470 
Screen-Door Frames.470 
Scrap-Books in Variety...470 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Unfermented Wine.465 
Ruraiisms.467 
Editorials.468 
Brevities.468 
Among the Marketmen... 469 
Business Bits.469 
Odd Occupations and Opportunities.471 
Markets.472 
The War.-473 
Life in the Army. 473 
Humorous.476 
