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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 26, 1898 
Humorous. 
The chrysanthemum is glorious, 
But before you rashly buy 
Bear in mind the pumpkin blossom 
Has a future as a pie. 
—Chicago Record. 
Persons who have bitten off more than 
they can chew, simply advertise their 
embarrassment by trying to talk.— Puck. 
“ I hear the Colonel has got over that 
difficulty in his breathing.” “ Yes, he 
uses liquid air, with a dash of bitters.” 
Life. 
“ Some men,” said Uncle Eben, “ is so 
busy blowin’ dah own horns dat dey 
can’t hear de fact’ry whistle cSaxin’ ’em 
to come to work .”—Washington Star. 
“ IIow do you pronounce the last sylla¬ 
ble of that word ‘ butterine ’ ? ” asked the 
customer. “ The last syllable is silent,” 
stiffly replied the tradesman.— Tlt-Tiits. 
“ And to whom do the Philippines be¬ 
long ? ” asked the teacher when the 
geography class had reached the subject 
of the Pacific islands. “Dewey!” shouted 
the whole class in unison .—Chicago Post. 
Mr. J.: “What would you suggest, 
doctor, for insomnia ? ” Dr. Pillsbury : 
“I would suggest that you attempt to 
sit up with a sick man and give him his 
medicine every hour for a few nights.”— 
New York Times. 
In Extremis.—H usband: “ My darling, 
when I am gone, how will you ever he 
able to pay the doctor’s bill?” Wife: 
“ Don’t worry about that, dear. If the 
worst comes to the worst, I will marry 
the doctor .”—Medical Record. 
Mrs. Greymair: “Well! In Austria 
they do not allow a man to go up in a 
balloon without the consent of his wife.” 
Greymair : “ Put what if that is the only 
way he can escape ? ”—Cincinnati En¬ 
quirer. 
Doctor : “ I hope your husband fol¬ 
lowed my prescription.” Mrs. Chubbs : 
“ No, indeed ! If he bad he would have 
broken his neck.” Doctor : “ Broken his 
neck?” Mrs. Chubbs : “Yes. He threw 
it out of the fourth-story window .”—The 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, Nov. 26 1898. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Farming in Massachusetts.798 
Second-Crop Clover.798 
Prices and Sales of Hay.798, 799 
Some Condensed Farm Notes.799 
Notes from Ohio.799 
A Talk About Potash.801 
How to Grow Crimson Clover.801 
Hope Farm Notes.803 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Passing of the Ox.797, 798 
“ Rejected ” Meat.798 
Bisulphide of Carbon for Lice.798 
Hogs or Sheep in Apple Orchards.800 
Piping Milk from a Creamery.800 
The Gravity Cream Separators.801 
The Great Horse Show.809 
Fattening Horses.809 
The Business Dairy Cow.8’0 
Future of American Sheep.810 
Indigestion in a Horse.811 
The Hollow Horns of Dishorned Cattle.811 
Skin Eruption and Cancerous Wart on a Horse 811 
Verminous Bronchitis or Chronic Cough iu 
Calves.811 
Forkfuls of Facts.811 
A Tuberculin-Tested Cow.811 
Warts on Cattle.811 
WhiJ Indian Games.811 
Catf Ox eed at Elgin.811 
An> Kicking Cow.811 
G>' c^fseys and Jerseys. 
' ^ HORTICULTURAL. 
/ j^ispberries in Kansas. 
peeping Apples in Cold Storage. 
e^louthern Treatment for Pear Blight. 
A? A Batch of Fruit Problems.800 
American Blush Apple.802,803 
Forciug Pieplant in the Dark.803 
Glass Gardening in the Bay State.807 
/veanr 
811 
798 
799 
800 
801 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 
Extemporizing a Double Boiler. 
Two Holiday Dinners. 
806 
806 
806 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Advice About Using Dynamite.801 
The Bulk of a Ton of Ice.801 
Another Mole Trap—The Best of All.802 
Editorials.804 
Brevities.804 
Among the Marketmen.805 
A Yankee in Ohio. Part VI.805 
Business Bits.805 
Markets.808 
Diary of the Week . 809 
Humorous .812 
