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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 29 , 1897 
Humorous. 
1 ‘ Violet Ray ? What a pretty name ! ” 
said the unpopular suitor. “ Yes,” re¬ 
plied Miss Ray, “too pretty to change.” 
—Pick Me-Up. 
Mb. Sappy : “ Has not my devotion 
aroused in you some sort of feeling for 
me ?” Miss Thorne : “ Yes : 1 that tired 
feeling’ ”.—Credit Lost. 
Teacheb: “We call a thing trans¬ 
parent when we can see through it. 
Who can name such a thing?” Peter: 
“ A ladder.”— FliegendeBlaetter. 
She : “ How do you account for the 
enormous increase of the English Bpar- 
row in America?” He: “ They’re too 
ugly to go on women’s hats ! ”—Chicago 
Record. 
An Irish groom applying for medical 
advice was told by the doctor that 
he needed more “animal food.” On 
meeting him sometime after, the doctor 
asked how he was getting along ; the 
reply was that he had managed the oats 
all right, but he had a terrible bother 
to get the chopped hay down. 
The milkman was plainly irritated. 
“ Here, just as times are so hard,” he 
exclaimed, “you think you must have a 
new silk dress !” “ Yes, dear,” said his 
wife, “ but this is to be only a watered 
silk, you know!” Feminine tact, it 
seemed, never did a thing but find man 
an easy mark —New York Press. 
Faemeb Jones : “ Well, Willie, what 
did you learn in college this year ? ” 
Willie (facetiously): “Oh, I learned to 
smoke, and to plow up a field with my 
golf clubs.” Farmer Jones : “ Well done. 
To-morrer, I’ll set you to work smokin’ 
a few hams, an’ next week I’ll let you 
take th’ golf clubs an’ plow up a ten-acre 
field .”—Credit Lost. 
“ Pay as you go, William,” said the 
grocery man to his assistant. “ It’s a 
good motto.” “Yes, sir.” “And, by 
the way, you needn’t bother so much 
about Mr. Jaykins. He always pays 
cash, and when he takes anything he 
knows he can’t get his money back. But 
be very careful about Mr. Faykins. See 
that he gets the best of everything, lie 
owes us $27 ”—Washington Star 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, May 29, 1897. 
farm TOPICS. 
Onion Culture in Michigan.353 
“• Some Pumpkins.354 
Growing and Feeding Pumpkins.355 
“ American Farm Help ”.355, 356 
The “ Fixing ” Power of Land Plaster.356 
Real Value of the Silo.357 
“ Pure Bone Meal ”: Fertilizer “ Fillers ”.357 
The Use of Salt on Wheat.357 
Alfalfa in the Silo.857 
Plaster or Kain it. 357 
Fertilizers for Grain and Grass.357 
“ That Potato Experiment ”.358 
Seeding to Grass and Clover.358 
Using Corrosive Sublimate.358 
Crimson Clover in New York.358 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
White Plymouth Rocks. 354 
Rape for Sheep.354. 355 
Hole in Cow’s Teat; Crimson Clover. 357 
Diarrhea in Sucking Calves.361 
A Knee-sprung Horae.361 
Periodic Blindness in Horses. 361 
Heaves in a Pony.361 
What Is a ScrubCow ?.366, 367 
Twin Bulls and Free-martins.367 
HORTICULTURAL. 
French Damson Plums in Maryland.357 
Wild Bush Fruits for Cultivation.357 
Ben Davis Apple In Colorado.357 
Saving and Starting Strawberry Seeds.357 
A Perfect Strawberry.358 
Wagener Apple in Vermont.359 
Cold Storage for Fruit.361 
Hardy Bordering Plant.363 
A Neglected Lawn.363 
Seasonable Work.363 
A Book about Landscape Garden.ng.363 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
A School Symposium.362 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Life History of the Plum Curculio.354 
Great Danger from San Jos6 Scale.356 
Draining a Wet Cellar.357 
Bad Smell in Water.357 
Ruralisms.359 
Editorials.360 
Brevities.360 
Business Bits. 361 
Among the Marketmen. 361 
Book Trade Notes. 364 
Seasonable Scraps.364 365 
Markets.865 
Humorous. 368 
