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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 29, 1501. 1 
HUMOROUS 
I would from the city’s rule and law, 
Its fashions and forms cut loose, 
And go where the strawberry grows on Its 
straw, 
And the gooseberry grows on Its goose; 
Where the catnip tree is climbed by the cat, 
As she reaches for her prey. 
The guileless and unsuspecting rat 
On the rattan bush at play; 
Where the cow on the fragrant cowslip feeds 
Where the dew on her dewlap lies, 
And the dog to the waving dogwood speeds, 
And the bull to the bullrush flies. 
—Credit Lost. 
Sunday-School. Teacher: “Can’t you 
bring a little boy to Sunday-school next 
Sabbath?” Jimmy: “No’m. All de boys 
up my way is bigger than me.”—Chicago 
Journal. 
Lady: “Very healthy place, is it? 
I lave you any idea what the death-rate 
is here?” Caretaker: “Well, mum, I 
can’t zactly say; but it’s about one apiece 
all round.”—Punch. 
Marker: “I see they are advertising 
automobiles that can climb mountains.” 
Barker: “That’s nothing. I had one that 
tried to run up the side of the house.”— 
Baltimore Herald. 
Wife: “I Jiopc you talked plainly 
to him.” Husband: “I did indeed. I told 
him he was a fool, a perfect fool!” Wife 
(approvingly) : “Dear John! How exactly 
like you !”—Punch. 
Schoolmistress: “Johnnie, who was it 
that prompted you, then? I heard some 
one whisper that date to you.” Johnnie: 
“Please, ma’am, I expect it was history 
repeatin’ itself again.”—The Australasian. 
“It is said.” remarked the remarker, 
“that intellectual women seldom make 
good mothers. I wonder why?” “That’s 
easy,” replied the home-grown philoso¬ 
pher. “They don’t often get a chance.” 
—Chicago News. 
Caller : “Kitty, is that your parrot” 
“Little Girl: “No, indeed, ma’am. The 
folks next door left him with us when 
they went away on their vacation. ’Fore 
he begins to talk I want to tell you that 
he doesn’t belong to our church.”—Chi¬ 
cago Tribune. 
“Children,” said the astonished mother, 
opening the door of the room and looking 
inside, “what are you making this un¬ 
earthly noise about?” “We’re playin’ 
strike,” answered Tommy. “I’m the 
striker, an’ Dick's the packer.” “But why 
have you got Johnny bound and gagged 
and tied to a chair?” “Oh, he’s playin’ 
he’s the consumer.”—Chicago Tribune. 
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one cold day his daughter found him 
warming his hands at a fire which he had 
kindled in suit of plate armor. “Oh, papa, 
what have you been doing?” “The feller 
that patented that stove,” replied the lord 
of the castle, “must have been crazy, but 
I’ve made the old thing heat up at last.— 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yoiikek, October 29, 190-1. 
FARM TOriCS. 
Water Power on the Farm.779 
Farm Produce Hauled by Trolley.779 
Making Over Vinegar.781 
How to Store Cabbage.781 
Hope Farm Notes.783 
Crop Prospects.785 
“Snakes” in the Cabbage.785 
Iu the Alleghanies.785 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
High Class Milk in New York.777, 778 
Mule Breeding in Vermont.778 
Sugar Beets for Hogs.780 
Outlook for Poultry.785 
Bicycle Pump and Milk Tube.790 
Milk Fever in Sows.790 
Join the Meat Trust.790 
Bees and Leghorns.790 
Breeding Milch Goats.791 
How to Make Butter.791 
Dairying in Arizona.791 
Balanced Ration Heavy With Corn.791 
HORTICULTURE. 
.778 
.778 
. 780 
.780 
.780 
.780 
.780 
.781 
,781 
.781 
.781 
.782 
.782 
, 785 
.785 
Plants Killed by Gas; Lawsuit. 
Notes on Fapaws. 
Stay man’s Winesap . 
A Southern Woman’s Garden. 
Apples for Michigan. 
White Grubs in Strawberries. 
Picking Ivieffer Pears. 
Root-Pruning Cherry Trees; Mulching.. 
Painting Trees . 
White Paint for Apple Trees. 
An Illinois Home Garden. 
Notes from the Rural Grounds... 
Bearing Apple Trees..'. 
Foreign Apple Markets. 
Selling Apples in Boxes. 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.t. 
The Rural Patterns. 
Where Nothing Ever Happens (Con 
eluded) . 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
786 
786 
787 
Icebox in a Cellar. 
Air in a Water Pipe. 
Brief Notes on Pipes and Cisterns. 
Iron Pipe for Posts. 
Talks With a Lawyer. 
Editorials ... 
Events of the Week. 
Abandoned Wells for Cesspools.... 
Curing a Cold. 
.779 
.779 
.780 
.780 
.781 
.78-1 
. 785 
.789 
.789 
