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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 26, 1897 
Humorous. 
A COURTIN’ CALL. 
Him ! 
He dressed hisself from top ter toe 
Ter beat the lates’ fashion. 
He pave his boots an extra glow, 
His dickey glistened like the snow, 
He slicked his hair exactly so, 
An’ all ter indicate “ bis passion.” 
He tried his hull three ties afore 
He kept the one on that he wore. 
Her ! 
All afternoon she laid abed 
Ter make her features brighter. 
She tried on every geoun she bed, 
She rasped her nails until they bled ; 
A dozen times she fuzzed her bed, 
An’ put on stuff ter make her whiter, 
An’ fussed till she’d a-cried, she said, 
But tbat’d make her eyes so red. 
****** 
Them ! 
They sot together in the dark 
’Itbout light, excep’ their spark. 
An’ neither could have told or guessed 
Which way the other un was dressed ! 
—Lewiston Journal. 
“Wouldn’t it be terrible, Robbie,” 
said little Mabel, as they drank their 
morning’s milk, “if there wasn’t no 
cows.” “Yeth,” said Robbie. “We’d 
have to dwink condenthed milk then, 
and it’s horrid .”—Credit Lost. 
“ I think there are other ways of cor¬ 
recting children than by whipping 
them,” observed Bobby’s mother, sweet¬ 
ly, to her guest. “ Yes’m ! You kin 
pinch ther legs till they holler, can’t 
you ? ” put in Bobby from his supposedly 
silent corner .—Chicago Record. 
Walker : “ Er—when you run into a 
man, the rider is as likely to get the 
worst of it as the pedestrian, isn’t he ? ” 
Wheeler: “You bet he is! The last fel¬ 
low I ran into only lost a front tooth, 
while I had four spokes broken and my 
sprocket wrenched all out of true ! ”— 
Cincinnati Enquirer. 
Here is a drought story told by a 
traveling man : I was driving across the 
country to a little town in western Kan¬ 
sas the other day when I met a farmer 
hauliEg a wagon load of water. “Where 
do you get water?” said I. “Up the 
road about seven miles,” he replied. 
“And you haul water seven miles for 
your family and stock ? ” “Yep.” “Why 
in the name of sense don’t you dig a 
well?” “Because it’s jest as far one 
way as the other,stranger .”—Kansas City 
Journal. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, June 26, 1897. 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Big Crop of Grass. 
Another Homemade Roller. 
Fire-drving Sweet Corn. 
To Kill Out Wild On ions. 
Why Do We Use Lime?. 
Rye Fodder for Hay. 
Sowing Clover Alone. 
Dried Fish or Cotton-seed Meal — 
Withstood Frost and Disk Harrow 
Quantity vs. Quality.. . 
LIVE STOCK AND D URY, 
Rape as Pasture for Hogs. 
Food and Quality of Milk. 
Wood-cbewing Cows; Old of the Moon... 
.418, 419 
.421 
.421 
.421 
Colt with Swelling on Knee. 
Warty Growth on Cow’s Foot. 
.421 
.421 
Rye for T Horses; Thoroughpln, Galls 
and 
.421 
. .. . 430 
430, 431 
.431 
.431 
.431 
Chronic Indigestion in a Mare. 
.431 
.431 
Something About Guinea Fowls. 
417, 418 
. .. 419 
.... 420 
.... 421 
.421 
....421 
.... 422 
.... 422 
_422 
.... 422 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Mulching Fruit with Live Rye. 
An Experience with Cold Storage.... 
Shrinkage of Apples in Cold Storage 
Blackcap Raspberries for Home Use 
Making the Orange Groves Over. 
The Grape-vine Flea Beetle. 
Lice on Plum and Apple Trees. 
Plum Curculio and Its Eggs. 
Protection for Fig Bushes. 
Cold Storage Rooms in the Barn. 
Root Pruning; Crimson Clover. 
Strawberries for Nearby Markets... 
Azalea Mollis. 
Ornamental Nut Tree. 
Climbing Greenhouse Roses. 
Seasonable Notes. 
Two Celery Bulletins. 
Early Southern Peaches. 
419 
419 
419 
419 
420 
420 
420 
420 
420 
421 
422 
425 
427 
427 
427 
427 
428 
428 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.426 
Some Ideas in Fancy Work.426 
Suggestions for Home Teaching.426 
Canning Green Peas—..426 
The Dictionary as an Educator.426 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Charcoal for a Refrigerator; Cob Meal for 
Horses. 
Soda for Catarrh. 
Ruralisms. 
Editorials. 
Brevities. 
Among the Marketmen. 
Business Bits.. 
Seasonable Scraps... 
Markets... 
Humorous.,,.... 
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424 
424 
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