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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
JUNE 4, 1804 
HUMOROUS 
A man tried to get a pink fuchsia 
To grow in St. Petersburg, Ruchsla, 
But always in vain, 
Till he cried, in much pain : 
“Will nothing, O fuchsia, induchsla?” 
—Puck. 
Charlie : “Papa, the Whites have a 
new nurse.” Papa: “What is she, son— 
French or German?” “I don’t know, papa. 
I think she’s broken English.”—Life. 
Uncle Si: “I see our delegation is to 
go uninstructed.” Aunt Maria: “For the 
land sakes! Won’t anybody teach the poor 
things to read an’ write an’ cipher?”—New 
York Sun. 
“Look out!” cried the mole, as he bur¬ 
rowed deeper, “there’s a man with a spade 
just overhead, who’s after angle worms.” 
“Angle worms?” replied the worm, with 
a self-satisfied wriggle, “that can’t affect 
me. Pm positively plumb.”—Philadelphia 
Ledger. 
“The trouble with that orator was that 
he mixed his metaphors.” “Well,” said 
Col. Stillwell, of Kentucky, after a rather 
awkward pause, “it’ll lay out the best of 
’em. The thing to do is to pick out your 
beverage an’ then stand by it.”'—Washing¬ 
ton Star. 
“Why don’t you try to drive that mule 
without profanity?” “It wouldn’t do 
any good,” answered the canal boatman. 
“It ain’t fair to the mule to ask it to 
start in at its time o’ life to learn a 
whole lot o’ polite synonymes.”—Wash¬ 
ington Star. 
Mamma: “My gracious! What on 
earth has happened to you, Willie?” Wil¬ 
lie: “Boo hoo! It’s all your fault. I’ve 
been playing with that new boy.” Mam¬ 
ma: “What, that little Quaker boy?” 
Willie: “Yes, and—boo hoo— you said 
Quakers never fight.”'—Credit Lost. 
“Yes, sir, I alius believed Providence 
does ever’thing fer the best!” “How 
’bout that March harricane?” “Split the 
trees to kindlin’ wood—stove length!” 
“Well, how ’bout the airthquake?” “Swal- 
lered the land 10 minutes ’fore the Sheriff 
come to levy on it—praise God!”—At¬ 
lanta Constitution. 
“This is the most uncertain worl’ that 
ever I wuz in!” said the-deacon. “You 
think so?” “I know it. Only the other 
day the parson sighted a harricane fur 
off an’ run ter a storm pit an’ pulled the 
lid on, and—what do you reckon hap¬ 
pened ?” “The Lord knows!” “Harricane 
changed its mind, turned into a airthquake 
an’ come mighty night swallerin’ him 
whole !”—Atlanta Constitution. 
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The increasing value of farm lands makes it imperative that every acre cultivated 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yokkeb, June 4, 1904. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Salt for Cabbage Maggots. 
A Silo Plastered With Concrete. 
Killing Witch Grass. 
Wireworms and Beans. 
Weed Killer for Road. 
How Farmers Differ. 
Reseeding a Side Hill. 
Hope Farm Notes. 
Fruit and Crop Prospects. 
A Farmer’s Notes.. 
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LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A Record of Horse Trades.443 
Protecting Chicks from Hawks.444 
Trouble With Little Chicks.444 
Milk Notes .453, 45o 
Driving Three Horses Abreast.453 
When to Wean Chicks.454 
Mule With Indigestion.454 
Mare Out of Condition.454 
Dislocation of Patella.454 
Manchester's Dairy Notes.455 
Chronic Garget .455 
Lameness in Shotes.455 
HORTICULTURE. 
The Home Market for Strawberries.. 441, 442 
IIow to Thin Fruit.442 
Mixing Bordeaux Mixture.442 
Value of Orchards.442 
Crops With Mulched Orchards.443 
Apple Trees in Dynamite Holes.443 
Peach Seedlings.444 
Wealthy Apple; Dwarf Pears.444 
Orchard Questions .•....444 
Shaded Strawberries . 444 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.446 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 
A Busy Day at Lime Rock Farm. 
Grange Notes . 
The Rural Patterns. 
Garden Notes . 
Some Don’ts for Cake Bakers. 
Indian Beadwork . 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Wants No Steel Roofing. 
The Prize Clippings. 
Power from Artesian Wells. 
Editorials . 
Events of the Week. 
Business Bits . 
Markets . 
Market Notes . 
The Use of a Spring. 
The Right of Way. 
Humorous .... 
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