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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 16, 1904 
HUMOROUS 
IIow, says Mary, with many sighs, 
Shall I prevent those nasty flighs 
From spoiling this, the best of pighs? 
A welcome step is heard—“Arighs! 
Sighing will never win the prighs; 
Success is hers who only trighs— 
Poison the crust, and each one dighs!” 
Now Mary turns, and with surprlghs 
Reflected in her wondrous eighs, 
Before her sees her Cousin Liglis. 
—New York Sun. 
“Bedad, the nixt automobobolist who 
runs over me will be sorry for it, Oi’ll bet 
yez .” “Why?” “Oi’ve a can av nitro¬ 
glycerin in ivery pocket.”—Life. 
“It’s mighty queer about families. 
There’s Mrs. O’Shaughnessy—she has no 
children, an’ if I raymimber corrictly, it 
was the same with her mother.”—Life. 
“So Silas was charged with havin’ seven 
wives. Was th’ judge severe on him?” 
“Awful! He discharged him with all 
seven of his wives waitin’ fer him in th’ 
corri dor.”—J udge. 
Butcher: “We have some very nice 
sugar-cured hams.” Mrs. Newlywed: “I’m 
afraid they won’t do. You see, my hus¬ 
band doesn’t believe in homeopathy.”— 
Philadelphia Record. 
Mrs. Backlotz : “So your servant girl 
has left you again?” Mrs. Subbubs.: 
“Yes.” Mrs. Backlotz: “What was the 
matter?” Mrs. Subbubs: “She didn’t 
like the way I did her work.”—Philadel¬ 
phia Press. 
“Don’t you feel kind of lonesome since 
the Legislature adjourned?” “Well,” an¬ 
swered the business man, “it’s a good deal 
with me as it was with a man who had a 
pet lion that got lost. I feel a little lone¬ 
some, but not near so scared.”—Washing¬ 
ton Star. 
“Your husband doesn’t seem to like 
work very much,” said the Summer 
boarder. "That’s where you are wrong,” 
said the woman with the sunbonnet on. 
“He likes work fine. Only he always 
wants it done by me or one of the girls.”— 
Washington Star. 
Huggins: “What are you doing now?” 
Muggins: “Running a photograph gallery 
on the West Side.” Huggins: “Meeting 
with success?” Muggins: “Sure thing. The 
first day I hung out a sign, ‘Babies taken 
free this week,’ and the next morning I 
found seven on my doorstep.”—Credit 
Lost. 
The editor of a certain paper recently 
received a fine chicken, which he, sup¬ 
posing it to be a token of appreciation 
from a discriminating reader, took home 
and enjoyed for dinner. The following 
day he received this letter: “Dear Editor: 
Yesterday I sent you a chicken in order 
to settle a dispute which has arisen here. 
Can you tell us what the chicken died of?” 
London Feathered Life. 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, July 10, 1904. 
FARM TOriCS. 
Build Good Silos.538 
Growing Corn in Missouri.539 
Cotton Insect and Texas Farmers.539 
IIow to Grow Winter Onions.539 
Scarcity of Potato Beetles.541 
Another Three-Horse Evener.541 
Repairing a Barn Wall..541 
Fertilizers for Grass.541 
Hope Farm .*,otes.543 
Worms in Field Beans.548 
Outlook for the Potato Crop.549 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Essential Principles in Poultry Houses. . .538 
How Milk Affects Infants and Invalids. ..538 
Dorking Fowls.548 
Prizes for Grade Animals at the Fairs. . ..549 
Manchester's Dairy Notes.550 
Talks About Hens' Nests.550 
Silo Talk.550 
Why Salt? .550 
Epizootic or Infectious Abortion in Cattle.551 
A Trap Nest for Hens.551 
HORTICULTURE. 
What the Florists are Doing.537, 538 
Using Fungiroid .540 
Cutworms in Cucumbers.540 
Rape and Crimson Clover for Fruit.540 
Golden Russet Pear ; Triumph Gooseberry. 540 
Murdy Plum; Diamond Peach.540 
Winesap Not Bearing.540 
The Same Old Fraud.540 
Golden Beurre of Bilboa Tear.540 
Birds and Mulberries.541 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.542 
Jonathan and Ben Davis.548 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day...546 
What a Little Girl Did.546 
Three Tested Recipes.546 
The Rural Patterns.547 
Programmes of Grange Work.547 
Ideas for Canning Time.547 
The Bookshelf.547 
Spice .547 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
How to Fight Ants.538 
Who Will Explain?.540 
Cement Questions .540 
Editorials .544 
Events of the Week.545 
Business Bits .545 
Markets .548 
The Prize Clippings.549 
Humorous .552 
