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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
January 30, 1897 
Humorous. 
Dicky: “ They tell us you are living 
on the fat of the land at your new board¬ 
ing place.” Weefers : “ Yes, oleomar¬ 
garine and filled cheese.”— Cleveland 
Plain Dealer. 
“Father caught you smoking one of 
his cigars, did he ? And what did he 
do—lick you?” “No; wish he had.” 
“ What, then ? ” “ Made me smoke it— 
right through.”— Fun. 
Miss Eldebwun : “Only think of it, 
when I entered the room and lighted a 
match there was a man there ! ” Mr. 
Finegrass : “ Did you catch him ? or was 
he too quick for you?”— Boston Tran¬ 
script. 
Teacher : “ Billy, can you tell me the 
difference between caution and cow¬ 
ardice?” Billy: “Yes, ma’am. When 
you are afraid yourself, then that’s cau¬ 
tion. But when the other fellow’s afraid, 
that is cowardice.”— Golden Penny. 
“ I don’t like your milk,” said the mis¬ 
tress of the house. “ What’s wrong with 
it, mum?” “It’s dreadfully thin, and 
there’s no cream on it.” “ After you 
have lived in the town a while, mum,” 
said the milkman, encouragingly, “you’ll 
get over them rooral ideas of your’n.”— 
Twinkles. 
“ I hardly think,” said the lawyer, 
“ that you can get a separation from 
your wife on account of her making a 
practice of throwing things at the dog.” 
“But,” said the man with the haggard 
look and the black eye, “every time 
she throws at the dog she hits me ! ”— 
Twinkles. 
“ I am really delighted at the interest 
my boy Tommy is taking in his writ¬ 
ing,” said Mrs. Hickleby. “ He spends 
two hours a day at it.” “ Really ? How 
did you get him to do it.” “Oh, I told 
him to write me a list of everything he 
wanted for Christmas, and he’s still at 
it .”_Credit Lost. 
“ Here, take my seat, lady,” said the 
little boy on the car, as he sprang from 
his father’s knee and doffed his hat 
The lady looked like a blush rose, the 
women giggled, the father signaled the 
conductor to stop, and half a dozen men 
stood up while urging the lady to sit 
dowD. —Detroit Free Press. 
That story of a Caribou potato raiser 
who refused an offer of 48 cents a barrel 
for 11 barrels of potatoes, declaring that 
he would have @5 or nothing for the 
load, is matched by a yarn that comes 
from Grand Lake Stream of a man who 
recently went after a calf he had past 
ured out all summer and asked what he 
owed for the pasturing. “ Well,” says 
the farmer, “ I’ve got a bill of $7 against 
you, but I will take the calf and call 
it settled, providing you are willing ” 
“ No, sir,” was the answer. “ I will not 
do that, but I will tell you what I will 
do. Ycm keep the calf two weeks loDgi r 
and you can have her.”— Lewiston, Me , 
Journal. 
Special to Readers of The Rural New-Yorker! 
~ S nd this ad. and 10c. in 
stamps, and we will mail 
you M lb. of any kind ol 
Tea you may select. The 
best imported. Good Teas 
and Coffees, 25c. ^ lb. We 
will send5 lbs. of FINE 
FAMILY TEAS on re- 
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This is a special offer. 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA CO., 
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Maple Evaporators. 
MOST DURABLE, MOST ECONOMICAL , 
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WE HAVE 
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That the H-0 Dairy Feed produces more milk, richer in but¬ 
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That the H-0 Poultry Feed insures a greater yield of eggs, and 
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CONTENTS. 
Rubal New-Yobkkb, January 30, 1897 
FARM TOPICS. 
Clover Without a Nurse Crop.66 
Thirteen Months Without Hired Help. 66 
Irrigation for Potatoes.66 
Estimated Yield of Potatoes.68 
Sball We Chop Up the Hay ?.68 
What Fertilizer for Wheat and Corn ?.69 
SeediDg to Grass in Wisconsin.69 
Cutting Corn Fodder by Hand.69 
Ensilage from Uncut Cow Pea Vines.69 
Malting the Most of Potatoes.69 
Nitrate of Soda and Potash.69 
The Value of Gas-Lime.69 
Size of a Tub Silo.69 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Wintering Twenty Horses.67 
A 51 ilk Ration with Brewers’ Grains.68 
Ensilage for Sheep.68 
Cost of Making Butter; Caustic Potash.68 
A Few Poultry Questions.69 
Toe Prevention of Hog Cholera.73 
A Horse Eats His 5Ianger.73 
Will “ Free-Martins” Breed ?.73 
What Food for the Cow?.78 
Cows and Udders.78, 79 
The Lean-Meat Hog.79 
Some Horse Notes.79 
They Fail to Agree.79 
A Jersey Butter Record.79 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Ripe Strawberries in January.65 
The Strawberry’s W’inter Overcoat.66 
When to Kill the Codling 5Ioth.67 
Cucumbers Under Glass.68 
The Miller and Other Raspberries.68 
Cutting Out 5Iatted Rows of Strawberries.69 
A Succession of Vegetables.69 
Various Washes for Fruit Trees.69 
San Jos6 Scale in Ohio..69 
Forest Trees for a Creek Bottom.71 
A Desirable Muskmelon.71 
A Blue Rose.75 
Lilies for Ohio—Gladiolus.75 
Vine for Draping a Tree.75 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day .'7.74 
Amusements for a Child’s Party.74 
“Pinch-Time”.74 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Quality and Reputation in ilarket.69. 
Liquid from a Cesspool.69 
Ruralisms.70 
Wants Free Rural Delivery..71 
Keeping Ice.71 
Editorials.72 
Brevities.72 
Among the ilarketmen.73 
Business Bits. .73 
New Jersey Agriculture.70, 77 
N. J. State Forestry Association in Session_77 
5Iarkets.77 
Condensed Correspondence.77 
Humorous...80 
