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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 27, 1904. 
HUMOROUS 
Sly Sam smoked a ton of Perique, 
And he didn’t feel right for a wique; 
If he’d smoked any more. 
There u be crape on our door— 
And the cause wouldn’t be far to sique! 
—Life. 
“Why is Harkins rushing around so ex¬ 
citedly?” “Why, he says his baby is finan¬ 
cially embarrassed.” “Get out! How 
could a baby be financially embarrassed?” 
“Oh, he swallowed a cent, you know.”— 
Chicago News. 
“Who is that insignificant looking in¬ 
dividual over there?” “My brother.” 
“Wh-wh-what! Well, you c-c-can’t al¬ 
ways tell by appearances. I-I-I dare say, 
foolish as he looks, he’s probably the most 
intelligent one in the family.”—Cleveland 
Plain-Dealer. 
“Stranger,” said Alkali Ike, towering 
above the little man and speaking in an 
awful voice, “I hev kilt my man—I hev 
kilt sixteen galoots durin’ me career.” 
The stranger bent a contemptuous look 
upon the ferocious bad man. “Sir,” he ex¬ 
claimed, “fade away. 1 am a New York 
Steamboat Inspector.”—Philadelphia Press. 
“There’s mighty few people,” said 
Farmer Corntossel, “that knows what to 
do with a farm after they get one.” “I 
have noticed that,” answered the girl with 
frizzes. “They always insist on filling the 
whole place up with corn and oats and 
things, when they might have such lovely 
tennis courts and golf links.”—Washing¬ 
ton Star. 
Quickpen (a bookkeeper): “Hello, 
Thompson, where are you off to ?” Thomp¬ 
son (a typist) : ‘I am going into the coun¬ 
try for a month’s holiday. I have just been 
sacked by Closefist to make room for a 
lady typist at a smaller screw; but I’ll be 
back at the office in a month.” Quickpen: 
“Think so ?” Thompson: “Sure of it. 
She’ll marry him by that time, and after 
that she’ll make him employ a man.”— 
Pick-Me-Up. 
Mrs. De Flat: “Have you anything 
new in folding beds?” Dealer: “Only 
this, madam, and it really is quite a suc¬ 
cess. On arising in the morning you 
touch a spring, and it turns into a wash- 
stand and bathtub. After your bath, you 
touch another spring, and it becomes a 
dressing case, with a French plate mir¬ 
ror. If you breakfast in your room, a 
slight pressure will transform it into an 
extension table. After breakfast, you 
press these three buttons at once, and 
you have an upright piano. That’s all 
It will do, except that when you die, it 
can be changed into a rosewood coffin.” 
—New York Weekly. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you will get a quick reply and 
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New York State Fair 
SYRACUSE, SEPTEMBER 5-10, 1904. 
$65,000 in Premiums and Purses. 
The agricultural display will exceed all former exhibitions In quality and variety. 
Live Stock Exhibit 
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Poultry, Pigeons and Pet Stock. 
New coops have been putin and more prizes than last year are offered. 
The Implement Display 
will exceed the unusual fine exhibit of last year. This department is receiving more attention each 
year from the farmers and manufacturers of agricultural implements. 
The Domestic Department 
will Interest the ladles as new classes have been added bringing the department up to date. 
Farm Produce. 
This display promises to belargerthaneverandwlllbeoneofthe most attractive features of the fair. 
Dairy Exhibit 
will be up to Its usual high standard and promises to be larger than ever. 
Fruit and Flowers 
will Interest all who attend the fair. The fruit designs will be an attractive feature In Itself. The 
Flower display will equal any exhibit ever given at the fair. Entries in the Live Stock Department 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, August 27, 1904. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Drainage and Tile Notes.635 
Round or Horseshoe Tile.635 
Tobacco Stems as Fertilizers.636 
Planting Onion Sets in Fall.636 
Potato Diggers that Pick Up.637 
Hope Farm Notes.639 
Florida Notes .641 
Notes on Seed Pea Growing.641 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Milk Pail Holder.. 635 
Manchester’s Dairy Notes.646 
A Precocious Heifer.646 
Growth on a Steer.647 
Trouble With Cows’ Udders.647 
A Woman Farmer's Farming.647 
HORTICULTURE. 
Stringfellow on Peaches.635 
Northern Garden Notes.636 
Everybody’s Garden .637 
Apples for Michigan.637 
Queries About Grapes.637 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.638 
Fruit in N. W. Massachusetts.638 
Outlook for the Apple Crop.641 
San Josd Scale in Maryland.641 
Holding Apples in Cold Storage.645 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.642 
Gathering Day.642 
Jams and Jellies.642 
Chemistry of Cottage Cheese.643 
A Novel Apple Cake.643 
The Rural Patterns.643 
Manufacture of Rose Water.643 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Hot Water System for House Heating, 
633, 634 
Keeping a Good Road Good.634 
Treatment of Posts.635 
Talks With a Lawyer.637 
Editorials .640 
Events of the Week.641 
Business Bits .641 
Markets .644 
Market News .644 
The Prize Clippings.645 
The Fence Wire Problem.645 
Humorous .648 
