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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 15, 1897 
Humorous. 
“You can’t keep a secret to save your 
life, Florence.” “Yes, I can; but the 
women to whom I confide it can’t keep 
it .”—Chicago Record. 
A gentleman was riding- on the out¬ 
side of a coach in the West of England, 
when the driver said to him : “ I’ve had 
a coin guv’ me to-day 200 years old. Did 
you ever see a coin 200 years old ? ” “Oh, 
yes ; I had one myself 2,000 years old.” 
“ Ah ! ” said the driver, “ have ye ? ” and 
spoke no more during the rest of the 
journey. When the coach arrived at its 
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Holdfast Corn Binder 
Will last a century. Saves % labor in 
binding. Shock cannot fall or blow down. 
Shocks easily tightened for loading. 
Binder easily removed for husk¬ 
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binding. Ropes are strong 
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destination, the driver turned to the 
other with an intensely self-satisfied air 
and said : “ I told you as we druv’ along 
I had a coin 200 years old.” “Yes.” “And 
you said to me as you had one 2,000 years 
old.” “Yes, so I have.” “That’s not 
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true.” “ What do you mean by that ? ” 
“ What do I mean ? Why, it’s only 1897 
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“ If women just had a little tact and 
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when their husbands git to tearin’ 
’round, there’d be less trouble in 
fam’lies,” said Mrs. Grimm to a neigh¬ 
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neighbor. “ I know ’tis,” replied Mrs. 
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and my tongue and go all to pieces, and 
say things I’m sorry for afterwards, 
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trums? Well, I don’t. I just keep 
cool and calm him down.” “How do 
you calm him down?” “Well, some¬ 
times with a stick o’ stove-wood and 
ag’in with the broom handle, or mebbe 
I’ll grab up a pail o’ water and douse 
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all over him. There’s plenty of ways to 
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keep cool herself and try ’em .”—Credit 
Lost. 
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ST. JOHNSYILLE AGRICULTURAL WORKS, 
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The pine knot—the tallow 
■ candle—-the oil lamp —gas— 
these are stages in the evo¬ 
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nent in the electric light. 
Similar and no less striking has been the evolution of grain and 
grass cutting machinery. In J 831 the scythe and the cradle were superseded by 
the T <\ Cormick Reaper. The intervening years have seen many improvements, 
unk^iow we have that model Harvester and Binder, the McCormick Right 
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and in a little while you will have only a pile 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, May 15, 1897. 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Cheap Wagon Shed.321 
A Southern Cattle Barn.321,322 
Seeding Notes from Indiana.322, 323 
Live Notes from Kansas.323 
All Sorts from Illinois.323 
Improving Worn Land in Texas.325 
How to Soak Potato Seed.325 
Late-Crop Southern Potatoes.325 
What Grasses for California?.325 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Skim-milk and Buttermilk.324 
Abscess on Mare’s Leg.324 
One Hundred Hens in One House.325 
Duck Eggs Under Hens.325 
Balanced Ration for Breeding Hens.334, 335 
Kicking Cows.335 
“ Drying Off ’’ a Cow.335 
HORTICULTURAL. 
“Root Lice” on Apple Trees.323, 324 
Canker Worms In Kansas.324 
Roofing Paint for Painting Trees.324 
Starting Asparagus Roots.325 
Propagating the Smoke Tree .325 
Late Planting of Raspberries.336 
Notes and Points.827 
Propagating Tea Roses.,.-331 
Monthly ClimbiDg Rose.. 331 
Hardy Phlox.331 
Seasonable Notes.331 
Various Fruit Notes.332 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.330 
A Convenient Bookcase.330 
Collars and Cuffs.330 
Household Notes.330 
A Wash-day Apron.330 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
A Difference in Sales.322 
“A Roof of Third Pitch;” Winding Barbed 
Wire.324 
The Use of Ice for Cooling.325 
Ruralisms.326 
Editorials...328 
Brevities.328 
The New Tariff Bill.329 
Business Bits....329 
Book Trade Notes.332 
Markets.....333 
Humorous.336 
