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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 3 , 1897 
Humorous. 
Customer : “ These apples are so very 
small.” Grocer: “ Yes’m. That’s the 
style in apples this year. How many 
did you say ? ”—Chicago Tribune. 
Woman of the World (to youthful ad¬ 
mirer): “You seem to know a great 
deal about married life. Are you mar¬ 
ried ? ” Youthful Admirer (with a blas6 
air): “No, but my father is.”— Fun. 
Mu. Cari.ots: “Those arctic nights are 
sometimes six months long.” Little 
Clyde: “Yes, and I’ll bet the old folks 
sit up three or four weeks after they 
send the boys to bed .—Credit Lost. 
Excited Wife: “Oh, professor, the 
cook has fallen and broken her collar¬ 
bone ! ” Professor: “Discharge her at 
once! You told her what to expect if 
she broke anything more .”—Detroit Free 
Press. 
“ I wish I were an ostrich,” said Hicks, 
angrily, as he tried to eat one of his 
wife’s cakes and couldn’t. “ I wish you 
were,” returned Mrs. Hicks. “I’d get 
a few feathers for my hat then.”— Pick- 
Me-Up. 
“ See here. That horse you sold me 
runs away, bites, strikes and tries to tear 
down the stable at night. You told me 
that if I got him once I wouldn’t part 
with him for $1,000.” “ Well, you won’t.” 
—Detroit Free Press. 
“ I sent a dollar last week,” said the 
Good Thing, “in answer to that adver¬ 
tisement offering a method of saving one- 
half my gas bills.” ‘ ‘ And you got-?” 
“ A printed slip directing me to paste 
them in a scrap-book .”—American Drug¬ 
gist. 
“ Have you had all you can eat, 
Johnny ? ” asked the good lady who was 
waiting on one of the tables at the 
church festival. “ Do you mean sittin’ 
down or standin’ up, ma’am ? ” returned 
little Johnny Stauffer. “ Why, what 
difference does that make ? ” “A good 
deal, ma’am. I’ve eaten all I can hold 
sittin’ down, but I guess if I stand up I 
can hold a couple more pieces o’ pie.”— 
The World. 
“I reckon if I wus to ketch my 
daughter kissin’ of a man I’d just natch- 
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tured a Dover youth with spectacles. 
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his specs. “ But—ah, you know, some 
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and ”— The old man looked at him real 
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while the farm products hanging in the 
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A 16-page pamphletfree 
Mention this paper. 
CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yobkeb, July 3, 1897. 
FARM TOPICS. 
The “ Mysterious Origin ” of Barn Fires . .433, 434 
Use of Hay Caps.434 
A Manure Shed for a Bank Barn.434, 435 
From Barn to Pasture; Green Rye.435 
Cement Floors for Stables.435, 436 
How to Kill Quack Grass.437 
Rye or Buckwheat Before Wheat.437 
Late Planting of Potatoes in Vermont. . 437 
Draft of a Sulky Plow.437 
Farm Labor in the South.439 
Fertilizer Bags for Hay Caps.439 
More About Hay Caps.439 
Some Costly Oats.439 
Crimson Clover in Indiana.439 
Crimson Clover and Grass Seeding.439 
Fence Machine Cheaper Than Wire.439 
Hope Farm Notes.446 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Horse Colic from Worms.437 
Diabetes in Horse; Breeding a Cow.437 
The Breeding Pen.446, 447 
HORTICULTURAL. 
A Strawberry Barrel.434 
Keeping Ahead of Cut Worms.436 
Those Sweet-and-Sour Apples Again.436 
The Plum and Its Seedlings.436 
What Soil for Chestnut Culture ?.436 
“Bitter Rot” in Australia.437 
“Fire Blight” on Apple Trees.437 
Do 17-Year Locusts Damage Fruit Trees ?_437 
The Waters’s Success Raspberry.437 
Carpeting Plant Under Shrubs.443 
Oriental Poppy.443 
Sidehill Greenhouse.443 
Matrimony Vine for a Hedge Plant.443 
Seasonable Notes.443 
The York State Apple Crop.444 
A Horticultural School.445 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.442 
Jelly-making Conveniences.442 
The Farmer’s Vacation.442 
An Experiment in Education.443 
Kitchen Drudgery.443 
Odds and Ends.443 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Useful and Busy Toad. 435 
Bordeaux Mixture Ruins Zinc Labels.436 
Salicylic Acid in Vinegar.437 
Ruralisms.438 
Cellars for Apple Storage.439 
Editorials. 440 
Brevities.440 
Among the Marketmen.441 
Business Bits.441 
As We Go To Press.444 
Markets.445 
Humorous. 448 
