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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
December 18, 1897 
Humorous. 
Sistke: “Willie, your pa is calling 
you.” Willie: “Yes, I know; but I 
don’t go until he calls William.”— Brook¬ 
lyn Life. 
“ Charmed to meet you again, Miss 
Green.” “ You forget, I think, my 
name’s Brown.” “Awfully sorry, but 
I’m a bit color blind.”— Sloper’s. 
Teacher: “ Can you tell me, Johnny, 
which travels faster, heat or cold ? ” 
Johnny : “ Heat, of course. Anybody 
kin ketch cold.”— New York Herald. 
Just Like Them : “Oh, Clarence,” ex¬ 
claimed Mrs. McBride as her brother 
entered the house, “ baby’s cut a tooth !” 
“ Why do you let her play with knives?” 
asked the bachelor brother. — Boston 
Traveled. 
“ I hope they don’t give my little boy 
any naughty nicknames in school ? ” 
“Yes, ma, they call me ‘ Corns “ How 
dreadful 1 And why do they call you 
that ? ” “ ’Cause in our class, you know, 
I’m always at the foot.”— Cleveland 
Plaindealer. 
“When death shall be no more,” ex¬ 
claimed the fiery orator, waving his 
hand aloft; “ I say, when death shall be 
no more”- “Death’s no mower al¬ 
ready 1” yelled a voice from the back 
part of the house; “ he’s a reaper.”— 
Chicago Tribune. 
Teacher : “ What is the meaning of 
one twenty-fifth?” Little Boy: “I 
don’t remember.” Teacher: “If you 
had 25 children visiting you, and only 
one apple for them, what would you 
do?” Little Boy: “I’d wait till they 
went, an’ then eat it myself.”— Spare 
Moments. 
“I’m glad to see that they’ve invented 
a chainless wheel.” “ Why, I didn’t 
think you rode at all.” “ I don’t; you 
see I’m glad because now when I’m run 
over by a wheel there’ll be no danger of 
the chain catching in my ear and rip¬ 
ping it off.”— Philadelphia Record. 
“ Why,” he exclaimed, “ I thought you 
said the last time you had the dress¬ 
maker that you wouldn’t need another 
gown for three months I ” “I know I 
did, dear,” she replied, “ but in going 
through my trunk to-day I found a piece 
of ribbon that will make a lovely sash, 
and I haven’t anything to go with it.”— 
Chicago News. 
A man started in the livery-stable 
business the other week, and the first 
thing he did was to have a big sign 
painted representing himself holding a 
mule by the bridle. “Is that a good 
likeness of me?” he asked of an inquir¬ 
ing friend. “ Yes—it is a perfect picture 
of you; but who is the fellow holding 
ridle ? ”— Credit Lost. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rubal New-Yobkkb, December 18, 1897. 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Story of a Run-Down Farm.817, 818 
Handling New York’s Grain Supply.819, 820 
Horse. Shoe Farm Notes.820 
The Velvet Bean—Nitrogen Gatherer.820, 821 
Rotation for Sugar-Beet Growing.821 
Hope Farm Notes.830 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Quality of Milk and Food.. 821 
Guernsey Breeders in Annual Meeting.825 
Leghorn Hens Tnat Pay.830, 831 
Abortion and Foot Rot.831 
Horse with Colic and Indigestion.831 
A Colt with Worms.831 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Hurrying the Asparagus Season.818 
Strawberries in the House.821 
When to Pick Mushrooms; Milk Testing.821 
The Pomegranate in Texas.823 
Disbudded Carnations.827 
Varieties of Euonymus.827 
Growing Tulips from Seed.827 
Seasonable Notes. 827 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.826 
A Modest Money-Making Scheme for Women 
(Concluded).826 
“Nextto Godliness”.826 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Work of Angleworms. .818, 819 
Harvesting Ice in Southern Latitudes.820 
Property Rights of Tenant.821 
Cedar or Pine for Posts. 821 
Rural; sms.822, 823 
Editorials. 824 
Brevities...824 
Among the Marketmen.825 
Points in the President’s Message.825 
Business Bits.825 
The R. N.-Y.’s Last Potato.828 
Hindsight.... 829 
Markets.... .....829 
Humorous • »«................ ....*■.............. 832 
