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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 22, 1904. 
HUMOROUS 
“Father,” said the small boy, “what is 
an investigation. 1 '' “An investigation, my 
son, is usually an effort to locate the re¬ 
sponsibility for a disaster after it’s too late 
to make any difference.”—Washington 
Star. 
Gadsby —“Here’s a funny misprint in 
this paper. It speaks of ‘contributions’ 
to the champagne fund.’ How do you ac¬ 
count for it.” Bimbleyby—“Oh, the prin¬ 
ter who set it up has been in politics him¬ 
self.”—Boston Transcript. 
Godfrey: “I am sorry to hear that 
Squallop is in a bad way financially. What 
is the cause of it?” Scorjel: “As nearly 
as I can learn, he has been trying to main¬ 
tain an automobile position in society on a 
bicycle income.”—Chicago Tribune. 
“My boy,” said the benevolent parson, 
“I hope you do not hide your light under 
a bushel ?” “Light ?” echoed the lad, who 
was learning to smoke in the barn. “Why, 
when I hear dad coming I hide the whole 
cigar under a bushel.”—Chicago News. 
“I don’t know what to say to this man,” 
mused the agricultural editor. “He asks: 
What shall 1 do with my hens? Every 
morning I find several of them dead.’ ” 
“That’s easy,” replied the snake editor. 
“Tell him to bury them.”—Philadelphia 
Ledger. 
Green : “My wife sent $2 in answer to 
an advertisement of a sure method of get¬ 
ting rid of superfluous fat.” Brown: “And 
did she get the desired information?” 
Green: “Well, she got a reply telling her 
to sell it to the soap man.”—Chicago 
Daily News. 
A prisoner tried before a certain emi¬ 
nent judge for larceny had admitted his 
guilt when apprehended, but at the trial 
was defended with great obstinacy by his 
counsel. “Gentlemen,” said the judge sar¬ 
castically to the jury, “the prisoner says 
he is guilty. His counsel says he is not. 
You must decide between them.” Then, 
after a pause, he added: “There is just 
one thing to remember, gentlemen. The 
prisoner was there and his counsel 
wasn’t.”—Tit-Bits. 
A new guest arrived at a New Hamp¬ 
shire farmhouse where a Boston gentle¬ 
man happened to be holding forth on the 
piazza. The newcomer was much im¬ 
pressed by the speaker’s fluency. “I de¬ 
clare,” he remarked to the landlord, “that 
man has an extensive vocabulary, hasn’t 
he?“ The landlord was mightily pleased. 
“That’s so,” he said. “That’s what moun¬ 
tain air will do for a man. He ain’t been 
boardin’ with me but two weeks, and 1 
know he must have let his waistband out 
much as four times.”—Rochester Herald. 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, October 22, 1904. 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Benefits from Alfalfa. 
Plaster Does Not "Fix Ammonia” 
More Experience With Alfalfa... 
Water Supply for a Farmhouse.. 
Irrigation With Hydraulic Ram.. 
Chemicals for Alfalfa. 
Ditches for Drains. 
Notes on Indiana Farming. 
Hope Farm Notes. 
Notes from Southern New York.. 
Crop Notes . 
Cheap Farms in Lower Delaware.. 
Concrete for Barn Floor. 
761 
762 
762 
763 
764 
76 4 
7 64 
76.-, 
4 G 4 
769 
760 
760 
779 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Feeding a Baby Pig.760 
The Hothouse or Winter Lambs.763 
Mapes, the Hen Man.774 
Cosgrove’s Hen Notes for October.774 
A Woman's Farm Notes.775 
Blood Foods.775 
Fowl Cramming Machine.775 
HORTICULTURE. 
When to Pick IvielTer Pears.762 
Harvesting an Apple Crop. 4 62 
The Peck’s Pleasant Apple.764 
Southern Strawberries .764 
Northern Garden Notes.765 
Thick-Necked Onions.765 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.766 
The Honor Bright Tomato.766 
Coming Horticultural Meetings.769 
Late Grapes for North Carolina.772 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.779 
T’he Rural Patterns. 779 
Salmon Cans .770 
Where Nothing Ever Happens (continued), 
771 
The Bookshelf .771 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Editorials . 
Events of the Week. 
Notes on Wire Fencing. 
Business Bits . 
Markets . 
Market News . 
Publishers’ Desk . 
Talks with a Lawyer. 
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769 
769 
769 
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