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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 13, 1897 
Humorous. 
Mamma : “ What are you playing with, 
darling.” Darling : “ With a caterpillar 
and two little kittenpillars.”— Credit Lost. 
Unclk Fred: “What a good girl you 
were not to cry when you broke your 
dolly !” Good Little Girl; “ No, I didn’t 
cry; but I’se just as damp inside.”— 
Jruth. 
“ Bo&gs made his wife quit taking 
Dalsarte lessons ” “Couldn’t he afford 
it ? ” “ Yes ; but the teacher was giving 
her exercises that would keep her lower 
jaw limber.”— Chicago Record. 
Willie : “ Ma, can people leave parts 
of themselves in different places ? ” Ma : 
“No; don’t be ridiculous.” Willie: 
“ Well, Mr. Jiggs said he was going to 
Arizona for his lungs.”— Philadelphia 
Record. 
Mamma (severely): “ Daisy, you have 
been at my workbox again ! I’m afraid 
that everything I tell you goes in at one 
ear and out of the other.” Daisy (five 
years old): “ Well, mamma, why don’t 
you ’top one of zem up ? ”— Credit Lost. 
“ Now,” said the attorney for the de¬ 
fence, “ here is a skull. Can you tell us 
to what species it belongs ? ” “ It’s the 
skull of a lawyer,” said the expert wit¬ 
ness. “ How can you tell?” “By the 
cheekbones.”— Philadelphia North Amer¬ 
ican. 
Dissatisfied Customer : “ All these 
garments seem made for eight-year-old 
children, and this little girl is only six.” 
Affable Shopgirl: “ Yes’m. Eight-year- 
old girls are very much more in style 
this year than they are usually.”— Chi¬ 
cago Tribune. 
“ You are a nice little boy,” said the 
kindly old gentleman at the hotel. 
“ Thank you,” said Tommie. “ Have 
you any little brothers ? ” “ Yes,” said 
Tommie, “I’ve got brothers to burn; 
but I’m rather short on papas. We’ve 
only got one.”— Harper's Bazar. 
“I’ve got something nobody else has 
got,” said the wealthy New Yorker, 
who had been experimenting with rais¬ 
ing fancy fowls over in New Jersey. 
“What is it?” “I bought a $175 in¬ 
cubator, put $35 worth of eggs in it, and 
hatched out a blue-bottle fly. I’ve got 
the only $200 blue-bottle fly in this or 
any other country.”— Texas Siftings. 
Not an Absolute Necessity: “Only 
14 quarts of milk for a dollar hereafter ?” 
exclaimed Ardup. “ Well, we’ll simply 
have to quit taking it, that’s all. We 
can’t afford it. People can live without 
milk.” And Ardup's indignation was so 
great that he did not cool off thoroughly 
until after he had gone downtown and 
spent 50 cents playing billiards.— Chicago 
Tribune. 
Abner Appledby : “ What was the 
matter with that pale young city feller 
who had been boardin’ at your house, 
that made him leave so suddenly yester 
day?” Jay Green : “ Aw, he didn’t have 
sense enough to appreciate a convincin’ 
argument when it was given to him. He 
was a queer chap, and went around say- 
in’ that life was only a dream ; and when 
I couldn’t argue him out of it with 
words, I jest took and kicked him down 
stairs, and told him it was to wake him 
up—and blamed if he didn’t git so mad 
about it that he packed right up and lit 
out for the city ! ”— Harper's Bazar. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yobkeb, November 13 1897. 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Potato and the Carrot.738 
A Cotton Field in South Carolina.740 
Grass-Grown Asparagus Field.741 
Livingston Banner and Sir Walter Raleigh 
Potatoes.741 
Keeping Sweet Potatoes for Seed.743 
Hope Farm Notes.750, 751 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Little Red Cow of Denmark.738, 739 
Horse Shoe Farm Notes.739 
A Problem in Hog Feeding.741 
Butter Paper and Butter Boxes.741 
Are There Any Milking Machines ?.741 
The Fall Calf.743 
Bacteria and Their Relation to the Care of 
Milk and Cream. Part II.750 
Why Feed Hay Before Oats ?. 751 
HORTICULTURAL. 
The Apple Orchards of Lake Champlain. .737, 738 
Peach Trees with the Yeilows.738 
How to Treat a Baldwin Orchard.739 , 740 
Fight the San Jos6 Scale This Fall.740 
Mulching a Strawberry Bed.741 
Fruits and Flowers at Fairs.742, 743 
All Sorts of Notes.743 
Chrysanthemum Questions.747 
Seasonable Notes.....747 
WOMAN AND THK HOME. 
From Day to Day...746 
Electrical Cooking.746 
Combination Settle and Table.746 
A Periodical Club.746 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The New Chainless Bicycle.740 
Editorials.>.744 
Brevities.744 
Among the Marketmen.745 
Cut and Shredded.746 
Business Bits. 745 
Farmers’ Institute Managers.748 
A Little of Everything.748 
Hindsight.749 
Markets.• »». 749 
Humorous...... 752 
