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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 6, 1897 
Humorous. 
Mother : “ Why, Johnnie, what on 
earth have you been doing ? ” Johnnie: 
“ Fight’n’ ! And you owe me half a 
erown for it. You know the tooth you 
was going to pay the dentist to draw ? ” 
“ Yes.” “ Well, Bill Bliffer knocked it 
out.”— Tid-Bits. 
“ See here,” howled the manager, 
“ does it take you four hours to carry a 
message three streets away and return?’’ 
“ W’y,” said the new office boy, “you 
told me to see how long it would take 
me to go there and back, and I done it.” 
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Bobby: “Pop, what does hereditary 
mean ?” Fond Parent : “It means, Bob¬ 
by, something that goes from parent to 
child. Now see if you can give me an 
example of something that is hered¬ 
itary.” Bobby : “ Measles, I got ’em 
from mother.”— Brooklyn Life. 
Tenderfoot Dentist ; “ Why, some¬ 
body has simply drilled your teeth with¬ 
out filling them !” Pizenwood Pete : 
“ That’s right, pard.” Tenderfoot Dent¬ 
ist : “ Wh—what—wa—was the mat¬ 
ter?” Pizenwood Pete: “ Yer see, I 
can’t keep f’um shootin’ ever’ time a 
nerve’s teched I”— Chicago Record. 
“ An, Henry,” she sighed, “ it is very 
kind of you to tell me that I am still 
beautiful and that I look as youthful as 
I did 10 years ago, but you are wrong. 
I have had proof of it?” “Why, my 
darling, what do you mean ?” he asked. 
“ To day when I got aboard the car,’’ 
she bitterly replied, “not a solitary man 
offered to give me his seat.”— Cleveland 
Leader. 
Fire Chief (shouting): “ Climb that 
ladder to the fifth story, crawl along 
the cornice to the third window, drop 
down two stories and catch that wooden 
sign, swing yourself along to the next 
window, break in the glass, and rescue 
the occupants—hurry up 1 What are you 
waiting for ?” Sloboy (lately appointed)- 
“ I’m waiting for pen and ink, sir ; I 
want to hand in my resignation.”— 
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CONTENTS. 
Bubal New-Yobkkb, March G, 1897 . 
FARM TOPICS. 
Steel That Conquers the Soil.150, 151 
How to “Reduce ” Bones. 152 
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How Much Fertility in Grain?.152 
Reducing Bones; Carrots, Etc. 153 
Some Varieties of Potatoes. If 3 
Canada Field Peas for Green Manure.153 
Potash Salts; What for a Vineyard ?. 153 
Don’t Draiu the Barnyard. 153 
Crimson Clover in Tndiana. 153 
Don’t Use Apple Pomace. 154 
The Use of Gas-Lime.154 
SeediDgtoRed Clover.156 
Second-crop Potatoes. 156 
Difference in Coal Ashes.157 
Potato Points from Huntington County, Pa... 163 
Let the Ground Rest.163 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Six Tons of Duck Per Acre.149, 150 
Not a Robber Cow. 150 
How Much Cheese in Milk?. 153 
What Killed the Horses ?. 155 
Hog Cholera and Swine Plague. 164 
Roup in Fowls.164, 165 
Symptoms of Parturition ; Clinical Ther¬ 
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The Capacity of a Cow’s Stomach.165 
Abortion in a Heifer. 166 
To Kill Lice on a Horse. 166 
Bran and Middlings for Pigs. 166 
The Ducks Don’t Lay Well.166 
Ration for Young Calves. 166 
Care of Brood Mares.. .167 
Mangels for Stock Feeding. 167 
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Experiments in a Virginia Orchard.150 
Plans for Orchard Planting.151, 152 
Starting Asparagus in Texas.153 
Japan Golden Mayberry and Loganberry.153 
The Vermont Beauty Pear. 153 
The Sudduth Pear in Iowa. 153 
Flower Seeds and Peas. 153 
The Use of Salt on Peach Trees. 153 
Mulch the Currants.153 
A Strawberry Barrel on Wheels. 154 
A Fault of Lima Beans. 154 
The Yellow Transparent Apple. 156 
TheOgon Plum. 157 
Gloxinias . .161 
Sweet Peas...161 
Spider Lily. 161 
Connecticut Poinologists Meet.163 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. ICO 
The Child’s Balanced Ration. 160 
Southern Plantation Recipes. 160 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Pure Water; Fill the Foul Well.152 
How to Learn the Canning Business. 153 
Who Gets the Profit?. 154 
Best Locust for Posts.155 
Wind or Gas?.155 
“La Grippe”. 157 
Editorials..... 158 
Brevities.158 
Among the Marketmen. 159 
The Interest in Farmers’ Institutes.159 
Nest-Egg Gourd and Stove Shark. 159 
Business Bits. 159 
The Experiment Stations.163 
Markets. 163 
