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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 11, 1904 
HUMOROUS 
When first the marriage knot was tied 
Between my wife and me, 
My age was to that of my bride 
As three times three to three. 
But now, when ten and half-ten years 
We man and wife have been, 
Her age to mine exactly bears 
As eight is to sixteen. 
Now tell, 1 pray, from what I've said, 
What were our ages when we wed? 
—The Scholar’s Arithmetic. 
“Did you get along without being pun¬ 
ished in school to-day?” “Yep; the teach¬ 
er didn’t catch me once.”—Harper’s Ba¬ 
zar. 
His Wife: “I hear that your new pa¬ 
tient is very rich.” Physician: “Sh! He 
is so rich that I gave the mustard plaster 
I placed on his back a Latin name.”—Chi¬ 
cago News. 
“And it’s a law-abiding settlement, is 
it?” “You bet! Ain’t been a lynchin* 
roun’ here since a harricane blowed the 
trees down an’ rope riz in price.”—At¬ 
lanta Constitution. 
“Say, pa, what’s poetic justice?” “I 
have an idea that it is to be found in the 
fact that the people who have the fewest 
children must pay most of the school 
taxes.”—Chicago Record-Herald. 
“Dickey, if you had twelve marbles, 
and Tommy should take half of them, how 
many would he have?” “He’d have six 
of ’em, ma’am, an’ de wust lickin’ he ever 
got in his life, t’rowed in.”—Chicago 
Tribune. 
“Your husband,” said the physician, 
“has a serious attack of gastric fever.” 
“You don’t say!” exclaimed Mrs. Oat¬ 
cake. “How in th’ name of goodness did 
he ever get it when there’s no gas in 
th’ house?”—Chicago Daily News. 
The Housewife: “It seems strange that 
all that new maple sugar you sold me 
has such an old flavor.” The Grocer: 
“Indeed. Well, I s'pose that’s easily ex¬ 
plained by the fact that it’s made from the 
same old trees.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, June 11, 1904. 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Market Gardener's Day.457, 458 
Experience with Cabbage Maggots.458 
Uncle John’s Boys.458 
Alfalfa in Sweet Corn.460 
Fitting Potato Ground...460 
Principles of Barn Ventilation.460 
Farming on a Business Basis from a Man¬ 
ager’s View.461 
Fertilizers in Missouri.461 
Vetch or Rye.462 
Hope Farm Notes.463 
Fruit and Crop Prospects.465 
HORTICULTURE. 
More About Thinning Fruit.458 
The Lime and Sulphur Wash.459 
A Bud Barometer.460 
Everybody's Garden.461 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.462 
Striped Melon Beetles.462 
A Nursery Case in Iowa.465 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY’. 
A Change in Milk Standards.459 
Notes on Breeuing Bantams.459 
Poultry Dealers on Squab Market.465 
Sale of Jerseys.465 
Milk Notes.469 
Manchester’s Dairy Notes.470 
Volunteer Rye and Clover for Sheep 
Pasture .470 
Three Feeuing Problems.471 
How to Keep Hawks Off.471 
Hens That Eat Eggs.471 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.466 
The Rural Patterns.46b 
A Word About Greens.466 
Mattings, Rugs and Floor Edges.467 
Rural Recipes.467 
The Bookshelf. 407 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Protecting Main Water Pipe.459 
The Prize Clippings.400 
Why I Take The R. N.-Y.460 
Editorials .464 
Events of the Week.46o 
Business Bits.4bo 
Market News.40g 
Markets .’68 
Dogs and Robins. 
Publisher’s Desk.469 
Humorous . 
