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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 12, 1898 
Humorous. 
The daughter of an editor was she; 
And when he kissed her (through Love’s impish 
pranks). 
Quite absent-mindedly she said to him : 
“ Your contribution is returned with thanks! ” 
—Puck. 
“ There's a lady pianist at the museum 
who plays with her toes.” “Umph! 
that’s nothing ; my baby does that! ”— 
Yonkers Statesman. 
“ How much drop has your wheel? ” 
asked the idle person. “ About 40 feet, 
I think,” answered the man who is learn¬ 
ing.— Cincinnati Enquirer. 
Aunt: “Whom does your new little 
sister most look like, your father or your 
mother?” Little Emma: “Both; she 
has no teeth—that’s like momtner. And 
she's hairless, like popper.”— Toronto 
World. 
This is the way a Middletown girl 
parses a “ kiss ”: “ Kiss is a noun though 
generally used as a conjunction. It is 
not very singular, and generally used in 
the plural number, and agrees with me.” 
—Credit Lost. 
A writer on dancing estimates that 18 
waltzes are equal to about 14 miles of 
heel-and-toe work. And yet many a girl 
who is too frail to walk down into the 
kitchen can cover about 16 miles of ball¬ 
room floor per evening.— Tit-Bits. 
Minnie : “Have you and Charlie agreed 
upon terms of peace yet ? ” Grace: “ No; 
we haven’t got any further than a pro¬ 
tocol. He brought a box of candy last 
night, and I told him he might come 
around Sunday for the purpose of dis¬ 
cussing the matter.”— Cleveland Leader. 
“ I suppose,” remarked Farmer Corn- 
tossel, “that when Christopher Colum¬ 
bus landed in this hemisphere one of the 
first things he did was to plant the 
Spanish flag.” “ I should say that ’ud 
seem the reg’lar thing to do.”. “ Well, 
speaking perfessionally, I should say 
that he managed to raise one of the 
poorest crops ever known.”— Washington 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, Nov. 12, 1898. 
farm TOPICS. 
Telephone Connection for Farmers.7(56 
Michigan Pine-Stripped Land.767 
Storing Vegetables.767 
A Garden Yield of Potatoes.768 
Handling Sweet-Corn Fodder.768, 769 
Fertilizers Regardless of Cost.769 
Fall Plowing; Fertilizers or Manure.769 
Will Rape Destroy Canada Thistle?.769 
Hope Farm Notes.771 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Law and the Hen.766 
A Pig Story.768 
Grain for Sheep Feeding.769 
Grain Ration for Dairy Cows.769 
Bisulphide of Carbon for Poultry Lice.769 
Actinomycosis or Lumpy Jaw in a Cow.778 
Swelling on Horse’s Leg.778 
Dropsical Swelling of Legs; “ Stocking” in a 
Mare.778 
Intestinal Worms in a Horse.778 
Lameness in a Mule.778 
Care of the Horse’s Teeth.778 
Horse Swappers’Convention.778 
The Improved Chester White Hog.779 
Cure for Kicking.779 
Another Kicking Cow.779 
Feeding Potatoes.779 
Quality of a Cow’s Milk.779 
Drunken Pigs.779 
Forkfuls of Facts.779 
HORTICULTURAL. 
The Home Fruit Garden.765, 766 
Clean the Land Before Planting Fruit.766 
Oyster-Scale Bark-Lice...7.67 
Second-Crop Raspberries.767 
Trees Brought from a Distance....767 
Gas Lime and Tomatoes.767 
Wine Making.767 
What Is a First-class Tree ?.767 
The San Jose Scale in Georgia.768 
Curl Leaf on Peach Trees.768 
Onions and Celery Under Glass. 769 
Favorite Plants of Rose Bugs.769 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.774 
A Plea for Recreation.774 
A Corridor Cupboard.774 
Two Conveniences.774 
A Pleasant Entertainment.774 
Every Day Wisdom.774 
A Convenient Kitchen Chest.775 
Brown Bread.775 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Postscripts.766, 767 
Road Improvement.767 
Teeth and Peaches.767 
Minister of Agriculture.767 
Taxing Entertainments.767 
An Iowa Subscription Agent.767 
The Story of a Stump Powder.768 
Ruralisms.770, 771 
Editorials.272 
Brevities.772 
Among the Marketmen.773 
A Yankee in Ohio. Part IV.773 
Business Bits.773 
Provident Hospital and Its Training School 
for Colored Nurses.775 
Markets. 776 
Diary of the Week. <77 
Science from the Stations.777 
Humorous. 780 
