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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
February 20, 1897 
Humorous. 
“Does your husband suffer from 
asthma. Mrs Widdleby?” “Well, be 
has it. but be makes the rest of us do 
the suffering .”—Chicago Record. 
“Wby is a naughty schoolboy like a 
typewriter?” "Um! I suppose because 
you’ve got to thump him to make him 
spell .”—Philadelphia North American. 
“I i.o vk to have you come to see 
sister. Mr. Tompkins.” “Why, D'ckie?” 
“’Cause she never likes that candy you 
bring her, an’ gives it to me.”— Chicago 
Record. 
“ I tfll you what’s wrong with your 
cow, Farmer Oatstraw ; you don’t feed 
her on sound principles ” “ llain’t got 
none, sir. They don’t do on our soil 
and I have to make shift with turmuts ! ” 
Farm and Home. 
He (telling a hair breadth adventure): 
“ And in the bright moonlight we could 
see the dark muzzles of the wolves.” 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, February 20, 1897. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Rock, Potash, and Crimson Clover.113 
Clover »Dd Permanent Pasture in Maryland. 115 
Peat Moss for Stable Bedding. 116 
What Price for Asbes?.117 
Value of Bone Charcoal. 117 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Cow Pox.114 
Horse Out of Condition. 114 
Ringworm on Cow; Indiget-tion in a Horse... 114 
Cow Fails to Come to Her Milk.114 
Interfering Horse with a Cracked Hoof.114 
Food and Care for Winter Lam bs.115 
Walnuts for Chickens. 117 
Beans for Stock Feed. 126 
The Hav of a Rat-on. 126 
Sugar Beets and Beet Pulp for Cattle.126 
Fattening Veal Calves.126 
Cream Separator; Balanced Ration. 126 
Cotton-seed Meal for Horses.126, 127 
Butter Fat and Butter. 127 
Remarkable Sheep Experience. 127 
Some Foul Platforms.127 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Notes on Plums.114 
The “Potomavo”.114 
Dwarf Pear-- in Texas; Red Haw.116 
A Peach Orchard: Wbat Varieties.116 
Hardinessot Walnuts and Chestnuts.116 
Some Fruits for Colorado. 116 
Nut Trees for Michigan. 116 
New Fru'ts for a Small Place.116 
Girdling Peach Trees to Hasten Ripening.116 
Apple Pomace ArouDd Trees. 116 
Fertilizers for Grapes and Garden. 116 
Early Potatoes; Melons Mixing.116 
Planer ShavlDgs for Mulch.119 
Western New York Horticultural Society.121 
Exposure forClematis. 123 
Treatment of Maidenhair Fern. 123 
Red Spider—Pansies.123 
Late Planted Roses.123 
WOMAN AND THK HOME. 
A Serviceable China Closet.122 
Some Laundry Conveniences. 122 
Fashionable Fabrics. 122 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Another Portable Fence.114 
Sulphate of Irou for Spraying.115 
Some Facts About the Codling Moth.115 
Jadoo Fiber. 117 
That Canadian Cold Storage House. 117 
Weight of a Cord of Sawdust Manure.117 
Ruralisms.118 
More Power to a Crank. 119 
Editorials........,. 120 
