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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 4, 1897 
Humorous. 
“ My baby’s a peach,” said the happy young dad, 
As he prattled about his first heir. 
And the cynic remarked: “ I should think you’d 
be glad 
Of the fact that It isn't a pair.” 
—Philadelphia Record. 
She: “Isay, by the way, this ought 
to be a good year for the umbrella- 
makers.” He: “Why?” She: “Be¬ 
cause of the longest reign.”— lit-Bits. 
Jeweler (to burglar): “SoI’ve caught 
you neatly, haven’t I ? What do you 
want?” Burglar: “I reckon what I 
want now’s a good lawyer to get me 
off! ”— Tit-Bits. 
“It looks like rain,” said the milkman 
to the lady of the house. After examin¬ 
ing the milk, she came to the conclusion 
that it must be either rain or water from 
the pump .—Norristown Herald. 
Parke : “I have a joint account in the 
bank with my wife now.” Lane : “ Good ! 
You make an even thing of it, eh ?” 
Parke: “Yes; I put the money in and 
she draws it out .”—Detroit Free Press. 
“ On the whole,” said the aged weather 
prophet, “I have found that the safest 
course is to predict bad weather.” “ How 
so?” asked the neophyte. “Because 
people are much more ready to forgive 
you if the prediction does not come 
true.”— Puclt. 
“ Every farmer,” said the befrilled 
youDg lady boarder, pensively, “should 
be an artist. He should put a border of 
pinks around his potato patch.” “ Mebbe 
so,” returned the man in overalls. “ I’m 
doin’ mine in Paris-green. Pinks won’t 
keep off the bugs, and p’ison will.”— 
Washington Capital. 
Prospective Purchaser: “Yes; but 
the railroad that you say runs through 
the county isn’t marked on this map of 
yours.” Real Estate Agent: “My dear 
sir, they’ve got such a heavy corn crop 
out there that you can’t see even the cars 
on that railroad unless you are within 
four leet of the track.”— Puclt. 
I Judge: “You say you were born in 
town?” Witness: “ Yes, Your Honor.’ 
Judge : “ You mean, I suppose, that you 
have always heard that you were born 
here ? ” Witness : “ I have always heard 
so.” Judge: “But that is hearsay evi¬ 
dence, and it cannot be allowed.” Wit¬ 
ness : “ But I was there myself, your 
Honor .”—Boston Evening Transcript. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, September 4, 1897. 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Visit to Sir John B. Lawes.577, 578 
How Much Fertilizer on Potatoes.578 
Mr. Clark Discusses Sorrel.579 
A Practical Potato Bugger.580 
A Fertilizing Mixture for Wheat.581 
Northern Methods of Cutting Corn.581 
The Nitrogen in Cattle Urine.581 
Fall Planting of Potatoes in New York State. 581 
More About Alfalfa.583 
Fresh or Rotted Manure—Which?.583 
Hope Farm Notes.590 
Horse Shoe Farm Notes.590 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Wintering 75 Shropshire Ewes.578 
Feeding Beans to Live Stock.578, 579 
Barley as Food for Chickens.583 
Bar’ey and Peas for Soiling.583 
Heifer Sucking Herself.591 
Dropsical Swellings on a Mare.591 
Chronic Indigestion in a Horse.591 
‘‘Grub In the Head” in Sheep.591 
HORTICULTURAL. 
The Spring-Set Blackberry Patch.579 
Non-Blighting Varieties of Apples In Dela¬ 
ware.580 
What is “ Yellows” in the Peach.580, 581 
Nitrate of Soda for Strawberries.581 
California Violets In Frames.587 
Treatment of Peonies.587 
Wintering Chrysanthemum Plants.587 
Seasonable Notes.587 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 
A Homemade Table.. 
A Simple Photograph Frame. 
Occupations for Women. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Building Dams; Culture of Fish. 
Starting a Fish Farm. 
“ Water Lime” and Portland Cement. 
Ruralisms. 
Cheap Cookers Wanted.. 
Editorials.. 
Brevities. 
The “New Black Man.” 
Among the Marketmen. 
Business Bits. 
As We Go to Press .... 
City Sketches. No. 1.. 
Markets.. 
Humorous.. 
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