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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 18, 1904. 
HUMOROUS 
Twelve months are sufficient to learn how to 
talk 
With babyhood’s prattle and tears, 
And then to learn not to it commonly takes 
A trifle of seventy years. 
—New York Sun. 
“I wonder why people always speak of 
Earth as she?” “It’s natural enough. 
Nobody knows exactly what her age is.” 
—Philadelphia Ledger. 
“What do you like most about going to 
Sunday School, my little man?” asked the 
benevolent stranger. “Coming home,” 
promptly replied the little man.—Philadel¬ 
phia Record. 
He: “Yes; I loved a girl once, but 
didn’t marry her.” She: “Why not?” 
He: “Oh! she made a fool of me.” She: 
“It’s queer what lasting impressions some 
girls make.”—Illustrated Bits. 
Mrs. Newcomb: “I see that mosquet- 
aire gloves are not going to be worn this 
Summer.” Mrs. Subbubs: “Is that so? 
Well, that certainly shows that sprinkling 
crude oil did some good, after all.”— 
Judge. 
Mrs. Colls: “And when you told him 
I was married, did he seem to be sorry?” 
Friend: “Oh, yes; he said so quite frank¬ 
ly.” Mrs. Colls: “Did he really?” Friend: 
“Yes; indeed, he said he was extremely 
sorry, although he didn’t know the man 
personally !”■—Tit-Bits. 
Auntie (to little niece, aged seven, who 
has been left temporarily in charge of 
brother, aged three) : “Well, Effie, dear, 
I hope you have been quite a mother to 
him while mummy’s been away.” Effie: 
“Oh, yes, auntie dear, I have! I’ve smacked 
him three times.”—Melbourne Leader. 
Teacher: “Have you looked up the 
meaning of the word ‘imbibes,’ Fanny?” 
Fanny: “Yes, ma’am.” Teacher: “Well, 
what does it mean?” Fanny: “To take 
in.” Teacher: “Yes. Now give a sen¬ 
tence using the word.” “Fanny: “My 
aunt imbibes boarders.”—Woman’s Home 
Companion. 
“You have been fighting again, Tom¬ 
my 1” “I couldn’t help it, mamma. That 
Stapleford boy sassed me.” “That was no 
reason for fighting. You should have re¬ 
membered that ‘a soft answer turneth 
away wrath,’ and given him a soft an¬ 
swer.” “I did; I hit him with a chunk 
o’ mud.”—Chicago Tribune. 
“Among other things,” remarked the 
temperance man, “I consider water a good 
sleep producer.” “And so do I,” rejoined 
the suburbanite. “I empty a pitcher each 
evening before retiring and then I can 
sleep like a top.” “And you really drink 
a pitcher of water?” “No; I empty it on 
the dog that howls under my window.”-— 
Chicago News. 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, June 18, 1904. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Farming on a Paying Basis. 475 
A Typical Vermont Farm. 477 
A Letter Head that Talks.477 
An Octagonal Silo. 477 
A Three-Ilorse Evener. 477 
Soy Beans in Corn. 47 s 
Hope Farm Notes. 479 
Crop Prospects . 4 gi 
Silo and Corn Notes.481 
Discussion at a Pomona Grange.481 
LIVE STOCK AMI DAIRY. 
Talks with a Hen Man. Part 1.473, 474 
Mapes, the Hen Man. 474 
Watering Cows . 475 
Cannibal Chickens . 478 
The Cooper Sale. 4 S 4 
Milk Notes . 485 
Deficient Mnk Flow. 480 
How to Raise Chickens with liens.486 
Cow Apparently Poisoned.486 
The Moult of the Hen.486 
Sheep Notes .487 
Sore Mouth in Pigs.487 
Orphan Lambs are Woolly.487 
Imported Angora Goats.487 
Ailing Hens .487 
HORTICULTURE. 
Form Tree Culture.475 
Lime-Sulphur Wash and Curl-Leaf.476 
Garden Notes . 477 
Dog and Robin Notes.477 
Summer Spraying for Scale.477 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.478 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.482 
Coffee Bread .482 
A City Drying Ground.482 
A Woman’s Strenuous Day.482, 48b 
For the Stay-at-Home .483 
The Bookshelf .483 
The Rural Patterns.483 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Talks with a Lawyer.476 
Editorials .480 
Drunkenness vs. Prohibition.481 
Events of the Week.481 
Business Bits .481 
Markets .484 
Market News..484 
The Brize Clippings.485 
