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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 3, 1897 
Humorous. 
A maid with a duster, 
Once made a great bluster, 
A-dusting a bust in the hall; 
And when it was dusted, 
The bust it was busted, 
And the bust now is dust 
That is all. —Princeton Tiger. 
“Pa,” said Willie; “I guess I know 
why matches are made in heaven. It 
wouldn’t be safe makin’ ’em in the other 
place.”— Harper’s Bazar. 
“ Do you succeed in picking up a liv¬ 
ing ? ” said the robin to the toad. “ Oh. 
yes,” replied the toad; “but it keeps 
me on the jump.”— Credit Lost. 
□ “Eggs cost $17 in Alaska.” “What 
makes them so high?” “Climate.” 
“Climate?” “Yes; the hens have to 
wear sealskin cloaks.”— Detroit Free 
Press. 
“Doctor, I snore dreadfully when I 
am asleep, and it annoys my husband 
very much. What will stop it ? ” “ Put 
cotton in his ears, madame. Five dol¬ 
lars, please.”— Chicago Tribune. 
Kansas Populist: “Why don’t you 
want to go and hear Colonel Gassaway 
speak? He is a good talker.” Second 
Kansas Populist: “Yes, he’s a good 
talker ; but he’s such a durn poor quit¬ 
ter.”— Pucli. 
“ Matilda, I wish you would ask that 
young Mr. Peters to have his cuff but¬ 
tons replated.” “Why, mamma, what 
do you mean?” “ They seem to leave 
black streaks on the back of your shirt 
waist every evening.”— Cleveland Plain 
Dealer. 
“Visitor: “What are you crying 
about, my little man ? ” Little Willie : 
“ All my brothers hez got a holiday, and 
I hain’t got none.” Visitor: “Why, 
that’s too bad ! How is that ? ” Little 
Willie (between sobs): “I don’t go to 
school yet! ”— Collier's Weekly. 
American Boy: “Papa, what’s an ab¬ 
solute monarchy ? ” Papa : “A country 
ruled by a king whose authority is un¬ 
limited. His word is law, and the people 
must do his bidding. Do you under¬ 
stand?” American Boy: “Ob, yes; a 
sort of political boss.”— New York Weekly 
A little fellow, who had his wits 
about him when the contribution plate 
was passed at church, administered a 
rebuke to his mother, who on the way 
home was finding fault with the sermon. 
“ Well, mother,” he said innocently, 
“ wbat could you expect for a cent ? ”— 
Credit Lost. 
Conversational Pitfalls. —Miss 
Meadowsweet: “Excuse my ignorance, 
but ought I to call you Mr. Squills or 
Dr. Squills?” The Doctor: “Oh, call 
me anything you like. Some of my 
friends call me an old fool!” Miss 
Meadowsweet: “Ah, but that’s only 
people who know you intimately.”— 
Punch. 
A Georgia farmer has a son who writes 
verse, but is too modest to submit it for 
publication. One day when the farmer 
was going to town he took a bundle of 
poems along with him and handed them 
to an editor. “ They’re pretty fair,” said 
the editor. “ His rhyme is all right, 
but there’s something wrong with his 
feet.” “Well,” said the farmer, “I 
won’t deny it. He has got corns.”— 
Atlanta Constitution 
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Send for catalogue 
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JJbest made. Marvin Smith Go . C 6 HicAGl), TON ST 
Clark’s Root Cutter. 
Used by all the leadirg 
STOCK-KAISERS, and 
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Time is Money. 
You can run all of your milk through 
a Safety Hand 
Separator, and 
have the machine 
cleaned up in less 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, October 2. 1897. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Manure Under a Shed.644 
Values of Sweet and Irish Potatoes.645 
Improving Southern Land ; Bone Meal.645 
Pure Alfalfa Seed.647 
Convention at Springfield, Ohio, September 15 to 22. 
The Home of the FAMOUS ROSS ENSILAGE and FODDER 
CUTTERS. Silver or Gold or a good note will buy a Ross Cutter, and a 
Ross Cutter will pay 20 to 1 on the investment. Remember, we guarantee 
full value or no sale. Send for our 1897 Catalogue. 
THE E. W. ROSS COMPANY, Springfield, Ohio. 
Smalley Feed Savers 
SPECIAL OFFER 
For 90 HAYS only—1000 Smalley ENSILAGE and FEED CUTTERS—500 
farm FEED MILLS and ear CORN GRINDERS—500 sweep and tread HORSE 
POWERS— 1000 Smalley and Battle Creek wood SAW MACHINES— 
atAMAZINGLY LOW PRICES, Every machine is brand new, 
1897 make, and has the broad guarantee that we have given all our 
goods for fifty years. Write for our Wonderful Offer to 
Farmers where xve have no agents. Special Introduc¬ 
tion Offer to Healers only—greatest ever known. 
Write to-day— to-morrow may be too late. 
QIM A I I rv manufacturing co., 
OlvlALkL I Manitowoc, Wis.,U.S-,A. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Parchment Lining in Butter Tubs'.644 
A Problem of the Churn.fc’45 
Ensilage for Sheep.654 
Potash, Ginger and Kerosene for Roup.654 
Cockerels with Pullets.654 
Nose Breathing.655 
Mules and Horses.655 
A Model Swedish Butter Factory.655 
Experience with Fish and Fish Commissioners 655 
HORTICULTURAL. 
The American Pomological Society.643, 644 
Celery Going to Seed.644 
The Keepsake Gooseberry.644 , 645 
The Champion Peach.645 
Lawrence and Keiffer Pears.645 
A Gooseberry Talk.646 
Are Columbus and Triumph Gooseberries the 
Same ?.646, 647 
A Book About Aquatic Plants.651 
Seasonable Notes.651 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.650 
Reason and Obedience.650 
Rural Recipes.650 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
T. T. Lyon.641 
Free Mail Delivery in Rural Districts.642 
White Roads in Black Soil.643 
Another “ Mysterious ” Fire.644 
Editorials...648 
Brevities. 648 
The “New Black Man.” Part VI.649 
Among the Marketmen.652 
Science from the Stations.652 
Hindsight. 653 
Delaware State Fair.653 
The Orange County (N. Y.) Fair. 653 
Markets... 653 
Humorous...... 656 
