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TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 9, 1904. 
HUMOROUS 
There was a young man named Tate 
Who dined with his girl at 8 :08. 
At this very late date 
’Twould be hard to relate 
What Tate ate tete-a-tete at 8 :08. 
—Albany Journal. 
“Some folks is always prayin’ ter de 
Lawd ter give ’em charity, w’en a better 
idee would be be fer ter surprise de angels 
by havin’ some er it befo’ han.’.”—Atlanta 
Constitution. 
Mrs. Jawworker: “So you are going 
to leave me, Bridget; haven’t I treated 
you like one of the family?” Bridget: 
“Indade ye have, mum, an’ Oi’ve shtood 
it as long as Oi’m going to !”•—Smart Set. 
IIyker (reading) : “A physiognomist 
says that men who are impulsive and ag¬ 
gressive usually have black eyes.” Piker: 
“That’s right. They are reasonably sure 
to get ’em sooner or later.”—Chicago 
News. 
Doctor: You seem to need exercise. 
What do you do for a living?” Patient: 
“I am a cannonball tosser at the music 
halls.” Doctor: “I see. Tell the man 
who makes ’em to put a little more paper 
inside.”—Pick-Me-Up. 
The young man wired home from col¬ 
lege : “Dear Pop: I want to give my 
classmates a farewell supper. How can I 
raise the dust?” In two hours the re¬ 
turn message arrived: “Beat a carpet.— 
Pop.”—Chicago News. 
“I stand squarely upon my record,” said 
the political candidate. “Well,” yelled 
the little man at the rear end of the hall, 
“you can hardly be blamed for wantin’ to 
keep the blamed thing from bobbin’ up.” 
—Chicago Record-Herald. 
“A-mer-i-cur !” grandiloquentlyscreech- 
ed the youthful graduate in the midst 
of his oration on “Our Country and Its 
Destinies,” the while his gestures were 
very like those of an inebriated wind¬ 
mill. “A-mer-i-cur, founded on the solid 
rock of the Constitution, that mighty 
document of which shall never pass away 
one tot or jittle—I mean, one jit or tottle— 
er-h’m! one tit or jottle—that is, as I was 
about to sav, never shall pass one jol or 
little—er-r—lol or jottle—h’m ! h’m!— 
jil or lottle—ar-r-r-r!—till or jittle—lol, 
tol—lil, jil—tat, tot, tut—lil, Ial, lol, lul. 
Oh, dear me! Water! water!” “Hod- 
durn!” chuckled conscienceless old Uncle 
Timrod Tarpy to himself. “This is the 
first time in a good while that I have 
really enjoyed one of these ’ere com¬ 
mencements !”—Puck. 
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GAINED 500 LBS. 8 MONTHS 
International Stock Food Co. Bennington, Kansas. * 
Dear Sirs:— Eight months ago I bought the scrubbiest pig I 
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little runt was eight months old and weighed ten pounds, and 
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55 per cent, of the aver? ^ of feeds. “International Stork Food” will causo them to digest 70 to 75 per Cent. Wo paid the government $40,000.01) war tax bccauto 
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CONTENTS. 
Tub Rural New Yorker, July 9, 1904. 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Kansas Clover Crop.....521, 522 
Listing Corn in Kansas.522 
How to Kill Canada Thistles.522 
Iiow to Kill Quack Grass.522 
Farming from Another View.523 
A Farm Day's Work.523 
Blue Grass; Red Clover and Alfalfa.524 
Water Supply from Spring.524 
How to Handle Muck.525 
Hope Farm Notes.527 
Alfalfa Notes from Kansas.529 
Potatoes Left Over Winter in Ground ... .529 
Fruit and Crop Prospects.529 
Texas Cnanges .529 
Canada Thistles .533 
Mustard Seed .533 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Arguments for Toy Horses.521 
The Cow for New York.529 
Cider and Milk Cellars.533 
Experience With Incubators.534 
Notes from a Hen Man. 534 
Ilampshires for Lambs.534 
Sensible Farm and Dairy Notes.534 
Raising Early Lambs.534 
Eggs in Water Glass.534 
Questions About Cow Peas.534 
HORTICULTURE. 
A Porcupine and Raspberries. 
An Old Asparagus Bed. 
Raising Onion Sets. 
Snails in the Garden. 
Hardy Roses for Ohio. 
Golden Russet Pear; Triumph Gooseberry. 
Everybody’s Garden . 
Robins and Fruit Growers. 
Propagating Hawthorn . 
Notes from the Rural Grounds. 
523 
524 
524 
524 
524 
524 
525 
525 
525 
526 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 
How We Became Farmers. 
Charity Sweetheart’s Letters. 
The “Strenuous Day” Again. 
Suggestions in Furnishings. 
The Rural Patterns. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
How to Treat Consumptives. 
Cold Storage Arrangements. 
Editorials . 
Events of the Week. 
Business Bits . 
The Warfare on Mosquitoes. 
Markets . 
Market News . 
The Prize Clippings. 
Talks With a Lawyer. 
Painting Metal Roofs. 
539 
530 
539 
531 
531 
531 
522 
523 
528 
529 
529 
532 
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