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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 31, 1904. 
HUMOROUS 
A millionaire up in St. Croix 
Bought an automobile for a tolx. 
lie ran down six men, 
Killed four cows and a hen, 
And then scorched home burning with joix. 
—Chicago Record-Herald. 
“I have been very much interested in 
these experiments with tetrahedral kites,” 
said the man with gold glasses. “Yes,” 
answered Mrs. Cumrox complacently, “but 
I have about concluded that the surest 
way to get rid of all such things is to 
boil the drinking water.”—Washington 
Star. 
“Well, I went to church this morning,” 
said the patent-churn man on a recent 
Sabbath. “Your pastor is a very dog¬ 
matic man, isn’t he?” “Just tollably so,” 
returned the landlord of the tavern at 
Polkville, Ark. “He owns only about ten 
or ’leven of ’em.”—Puck. 
An old lady took her little grandson to 
a museum, and when they came to a lion 
with gaping mouth the boy hung back. 
“Don’t be afraid, Harold,” the lady said— 
“that lion is stuffed.” “Yes,” said Harold, 
“but may be he isn’t stuffed so full that 
he couldn’t find room for a little boy like 
me!”—Melbourne Australasian. 
“I thought you told me,” she com¬ 
plained when he had taken her home to 
his people, “that your father was one of 
this town’s most prominent citizens.” 
“Well, that’s what he is. How could a 
man who stands six feet four in his socks 
and weighs 280 pounds be anything but 
prominent in a place containing less than 
5,000 inhabitants?”—'Chicago Record-Her¬ 
ald. 
Brown : “I say, old man, who’s that 
very plain elderly lady you were walking 
with—now sitting there?” Smith (the im¬ 
pecunious, who married money) : “Oh, 
that’s my wife.” Brown: “Your wife! 
But”—(lowering his voice) “she has only 
one eye and so awfully—I beg your par¬ 
don—but—” Smith (pleasantly) : “You 
needn’t whisper, old man. She’s deaf!” 
—Punch. 
“K’ck!” chuckled the Old Codger, in 
the midst of his perusal of the village 
newspaper. “I sh’u’d judge that here ’s 
mention of about the peculiarest critter 
ever born in captivity! A feller is ad¬ 
vertisin’ for sale a Jersey cow, givin’ 
’leven quarts of milk a day, couple of tons 
of hay, a jump-seat buggy, four hives of 
bees, and a good second-hand harrow. 
Pretty unusual sort of a cow I sh’u’d 
surmise. K’ck!”—Puck. 
“Say, I’ve got a scheme,” said the in¬ 
ventive genius, “that will make me in¬ 
dependent for life if I succeed in perfect¬ 
ing it.” “What is it?” asked his friend. 
“It has been estimated,” continued the in¬ 
ventive one, “that one ordinary female 
house-fly will lay 20,000 eggs in a season.” 
“Yes,” answered the friend, “but what’s 
the scheme?” “I propose,” replied the 
genius, “to graft the house-fly on the barn¬ 
yard hen.”—Pick-Me-Up. 
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CONTENTS. 
The Ritual New-Yorkeb, Dec. 31, 1904. 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Western Man and Eastern Farms.9 
Stone Walls.921, 9: 
A Storage House for Cabbage.9 
The Rise in New England Farming.9: 
Alfalfa Worth Working For.9: 
Refuse Beans.9: 
Land Plaster . 0 : 
Inoculating Soil .9 
Fish on New York Farms.9: 
Hauling Out Manure.....9: 
Cotton-Seed Meal for Fertilizer.9: 
Alfalfa on Meadow.9: 
Questions About. Onions.9 
'Hope Farm Notes.9 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Is Kainlt Injurious to Hogs?.922 
Kainit and Add Phosphate in the Stable. .922 
i lea i d on the Road.923 
New York State Dairymen Meet.929 
The Granite State Dairy Meeting.929 
Feed for Wool.934 
Poultry on Shares.934 
A Good Horse.934 
Sawdust and Shavings in Manure.934 
Use of the Hand Separator.935 
Outlook for Purebred Beef Cattle.935 
Pig Ready in Die.935 
HORTICULTURE. 
The Mulch Method in Apple Culture.921 
Moving a Grapevine .923 
What. Ailed the Rhubarb.924 
Spraying Clean Trees.924 
Ca re of S t r a wherry Plants.924 
Wealthy, McIntosh and Sutton Apples.. .-.925 
Peaches in Pennsylvania.925 
Injurious Insects from Turkey.925 
The Alexander Apple.925 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.920 
Seedless Apple . 920 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.930 
Saving the Children.930 
Charity Sweetheart's Letters.931 
The Rural Patterns.931 
Caterpillar Correspondence .931 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Windmill Power for Electricity.922 
Cement on Flat Tin Roof.924 
foal Tar on Metal Roof.925 
Events of the Week.929 
Business Bits .929 
Markets . 932 
Market News .932 
Publisher’s Desk .933 
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