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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 23. 1904. 
HUMOROUS 
A volunteer down at Tsitsikar 
Was considered a very hihiker. 
He was seven feet tall, 
And to those who would fall 
He’d remark, “Why, this march is pi, 
piker.” 
A patriot living at Omsk 
Started out with the army to romsk: 
But he frosted his feet, 
And was heard to repeat, 
“Gee whizzki, I wish I was homsk.” 
—Council Bluffs Nonpariel. 
“Ark there any golf links around here?” 
“Nope; Reuben Dodd shot the last of 
them critters in the Spring o’ ’99.”—In¬ 
dianapolis Sentinel. 
Old Man (after watching the Squire’s 
daughter in one of the new automobile 
veils: Lor’, to think of her having been 
hiving bees on a Sunday!”—Punch. 
Dorothy: “But are you sure he is well 
connected?” Dolly: “Positively. He 
told me himself that the majority of his 
relatives wouldn’t notice him.”—Judge. 
“My son,” said Tommy’s kind papa, as 
he applied the slipper, “it pains me to 
punish you.’ “Mebbe it does,” sobbed 
the boy, “but not in the same place.”— 
Catholic Standard and Times. 
“Tommy,” asked the teacher, “what do 
you understand by the word ‘create?’” 
“To make out of nothing.” “Give me an 
example.” “My sister creates a pompa¬ 
dour every morning.”—Chicago Tribune. 
“Ma,” remonstrated Bobby, “when I 
was at grandma’s she let me have fruit 
tart twice.” “Well, she ought not to have 
done so, Bobby,” said his mother. “I 
think once is quite enough for little boys. 
The older you grow, Bobby, the more 
wisdom you will gain.” Bobby was silent, 
but only for a moment. “Well, ma,” he 
said, “grandma is a good deal older than 
you are.”—Tit-Bits. 
“John,” said Mrs. Makepeace, coming 
out on the back porch, where her hus¬ 
band sat tilted back in his chair, his feet 
on the railing, “didn't I hear you tell the 
minister when he was here that you were 
deeply interested in temperance move¬ 
ments?” “Yes,” Mr. Makepeace replied, 
rather stiffly. “I said so, and you know 
that I am.” “Well,” said Mrs. Make¬ 
peace, “suppose you go and make a -few of 
them on the pumphandle. I want a pail of 
water.”—Youth’s Companion. 
It was a pitiful mistake, an error sad 
and grim. I waited for the railway train, 
the light was low and dim. It came at 
last, and from a carriage stepped a dainty 
dame, and, looking up and down the 
place, she straight unto me came. “Oh, 
Jack!” she cried, “oh, dear old Jack!” and 
kissed me as she spake; then looked again, 
and, frightened, cried: “Oh, what a bad 
mistake!” I said, “Forgive me, maiden 
fair, for I am not your Jack; and as re¬ 
gards the kiss you gave, I’ll straightway 
give it back.” And since that night I’ve 
often stood upon the platform dim; but 
only once in a man’s whole life do such 
things come to him.—Tit-Bits. 
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The Rural New-Yorker, July 23, 1904. 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Western Man Starts East.554 
Building a Brick Silo.554 
L'he Essentials of Tile Drainage.555 
lvalue of Bat Manure.556 
Fertilizer for Corn.556 
Destroying Sorrel.556 
Wild Mustard and Club Root.556 
Fertility in Cotton-seed Hulls.556 
Hope Farm Notes.559 
Crop Notes .561 
Potato Prospects . 561 
Damage by Potato Stalk-Borer.561 
Potatoes Left in the Field.561 
Cabbage Notes.561 
Illinois Farming.561 
How to Harvest Vetch.565 
White Grubs in Stable Manure.565 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY'. 
Teaching a Man to Milk.555 
Method of Killing Poultry.557 
Boarding City Horses on Farms.566 
Cows Wanted in Dairy Counties.566 
The Cow for New York State.566 
Prices for Beef.566 
Alfalfa as a Milk Producer.566 
Demand for Horses.566 
Silo Notes .566 
Wild Turkey Crosses.566 
An Experience W'ith Ewes and Lambs... -567 
Injury to Cow’s Teat.567 
No Meat for Chicks.567 
Outlook for Carriage Horses.567 
HORTICULTURE. 
The Largest Strawberry Yet.553 
• Building up” Strawberry Beds.553 
Growing Melons With fertilizers.554 
American Apple Consumers’ League.555 
Sweet anu Sour Cherries. ...556 
Value of An Experiment Orchard.556 
A Sickly rear Tree.556 
Weeds In Strawberries.556 
An Orchard of Grafted Apples.550 
Carrying Strawberries to Third Season. . .557 
Northern Garden Notes.557 
Summer a runing for Grapes.557 
The Potato Beetle.557 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.558 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.562 
Pickles and Relishes.562 
The Bookshelf .562 
Midsummer Flower Notes.562 
The Rural Patterns.563 
Parson Bolton's Wedding Fee.563 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Protecting Main Water Pipes.553, 554 
Editorials .560 
Events of the Week.561 
Business Bits .561 
The Prize Clippings.565 
Talks with a Lawyer.565 
Humorous .568 
