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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
December 25, 189? 
Humorous. 
Elsie : “ My husband is very hard 
to please.” Louise : “ He must have 
changed considerably since he married 
you.”— Tit-Bits. 
Customer: “ Here, waiter, bring me 
some milk.” Waiter: “Condensed?” 
Customer: “No; the udder kind.”— 
Philadelphia Record. 
“ Yes, sir; I want to marry your niece ” 
“ Have you asked her mother ? ” “ No, 
sir; I prefer the younger woman.”— 
Cleveland Plain Dealer. 
Vinnie: “Minnie will never marry 
until she meets her ideal.” Vietta : 
“What is her ideal?” Vinnie: “A 
man who will propose.”— Tit-Bits. 
Teacher: “Sammy Sassafras, you 
may give a definition of the word 
‘ farm.’” Sammy : “ A farm is a body 
of land entirely covered by a mortgage.” 
— World. 
“How statuesque your daughter is, Mr. 
Scadds ! ” “Statuesque? Why, I have 
seen that girl sit for hours at a time, 
not moving a finger, while her mother 
worked.”— Chicago Record. 
“ Once a friend of mine and I agreed 
that it would be helpful for each of us 
to tell the other his faults.” “ How did 
t work ? ” “We haven’t spoken for 
nine years.” —Chicago Record. 
“ Why didn’t you help Johnny with 
his arithmetic examples instead of put¬ 
ting him off until to-morrow?” “I 
wanted to gain time enough to look up 
the rules.”— Cleveland Plain Dealer. 
Poetess : “ The poem I sent you, Mr. 
Editor, contains the deepest secrets of 
my soul.” Editor : “ I know it, madam, 
and no one shall ever find them out 
through me.”— Humoristische Deutsch¬ 
land. 
“ I cannot understand,” said the bach¬ 
elor clerk, “ why a man’s wife is called 
the * better half.’ ” “ You would,” said 
the married clerk, “ if you had to divide 
your salary with one.— Cincinnati In¬ 
quirer. 
A man who stuttered badly went to 
consult a specialist about his affliction. 
The expert asked : “ Do you stutter all 
the time?” “ N-n-n-no,” replied the 
sufferer,” “I s s-stutter only when I 
t-t-talk.”— Credit Lost. 
Miss Allington : “ How old do you 
think a man ought to be before he mar¬ 
ries ? ” Mr. Benham : “ Forty, at least.” 
Miss Allington : “ Oh, dear ! Why would 
you have him wait so long ? ” Mr. Ben¬ 
ham : “ Because he is pretty sure to 
know better by that time.”— Cleveland 
Leader. 
“Ah!” said the blustering lawyer, 
whose client had just been acquitted. 
“ Now that it’s all over, would you mind 
telling me how you reached your ver¬ 
dict ? ” “ Certainly,” replied the jury¬ 
man. “ We felt sure that if he had been 
guilty, he wouldn’t have hired you to de¬ 
fend him.”— Philadelphia North Ameri¬ 
can. 
TEA SET FREE 
or Watch, Clock, or Toilet Bet, 
with 20 pounds COCKATOO TEAS 
and a handsome present with 
every pound. Great inducements. 
Bend for our new illustrated 
premium and price list. 
THB GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY, 
31 and 33 Yesey St., New York. P. O. Box 289. 
CHAMPION 
EVAPORATOR 
For MAPLE, 
SORGHUM, 
CIDER, and FRUIT JELLIES. Has 
a corrugated pan over firebox, doubling 
boiling capacity; small interchange¬ 
able syrup pans (connected by 
siphons), easily handled 
for cleansing and 
storing; and a per¬ 
fect automatic 
regulator. The 
Chaitipiou is as 
great an improve- - ■_,, „ , 
ment over the Catalogue 
Cook pan as the AfcsrV—ft* Free, 
latter was over the 
old iron kettle hung on a fence 
CHAMPION EVAPORATOR GO., 
HUDSON , 0h/o,o and MONTREAL , Quebec. 
The columns of this paper are 
hardly long enough to print all the 
good words said about the Nepon- 
set Waterproof Red Rope Fabric. 
Neponsct should not be confounded 
with ordinary tarred paper or build¬ 
ing paper that quickly rots when 
exposed to the weather. 
Neponset is used for covering 
roofs, sides, and walls of houses, 
barns, hen-houses, green-houses, 
hotbeds, haystacks, wagon-covers, 
and numerous other purposes. 
It is very inexpensive: costs 
only $5.00 for 500 square feet at 
the factory, with the necessary 
nails and tin caps. Any one with 
a hammer and pocket knife can 
put it on. With this Fabric you 
can repair your outbuilding so that 
it can storm, blow, or freeze, and 
your stock will not mind it, for 
Neponset is wind-proof and frost¬ 
proof. 
F11II particulars and 
samples free. Write 
F. W. Bird <fc Son, 
Fast Walpole, Mass. 
For sale by Dealers 
in Hardware, Lum¬ 
ber, and Building 
Supplies. 
No.3 “PRIZE” FEED MILL 
OVER 30,000 IN USE. 
Alt Iron and Steel. Automatic 
Shake Feed. Perfect Ad¬ 
justable Feed Slide. 
Grinds as fine or coarse as 
desired. Will run by any 
power,one to five horse,sweep, 
tread, steam or wind. Will 
not choke down the smallest 
power. Sold at a low price to ___ __ 
advertise the fact that we are the largest manufao 
tnrerslnthe world of labor saving farm machinery 
for special offer on this r .iii and large illus¬ 
trated catalogue of “Hero” and “Amerlcnn”Grlndlr.g 
Mills, 26 sizes and styles. Feed Cutters, Peek’s 
Corn Threshers, Tread Powers, Sweep Powers, 
Goodhue Galvanized Steel and Wood Wind Mills foi 
power and pumping, W ood Saws, Corn Shellers. etc. 
APPLETON (VIFG. GO 27 hm fit.; BATAVIA, 1LU 
FOOD VALOE 
in any kind of grain is greatly in 
creased by grinding because it i.- 
thereby made more digestible 
This being true you have only to 
decide upon a mill. For durability 
fast work and small power werecom- 
,n ourKELLY DUPLEX 
— r -, 3 Has Duplex Grinders. Crushes 
and grinds corn cob and all just as coarse or fine as 
you want it. All about them in our “Hand Book for 
Farmers and Feeders.” It Is FREE write for it now. 
The O.S. KELLY CO 1 Springfield, Ohio. 
k DOLLAR SAVED 
is a dollar earned. You can both 
earn it and save it if you use the 
SCIENTIFIC 
CRINDINC MILLS. 
Savo it when you grind 
your own grain and earn 
it when you grind for 
your neighbors. Four sizes 
for steam power, others for 
horse power. Free catalogue. 
FOOS MFG. C0.Sprigfield,0. 
Peerless 
L Feed 
.Grinders 
increase your 
profit by im¬ 
proving what 
'you have not 
what you must 
buy. Turns half- 
digestible ear corn into wholly digest¬ 
ible meal. Grinds all grains singly 
or mixed. Makes grits, hominy or 
fine meal. Circulars and prices free. 
STEVENS MFC. CO., Joliet, III. 
Your Fodder and 
Sell Your Hay. 
llcreisa measure of economy and profit to all farmers. 
Every animal that eats hay will eat 
euded fodder ami do as well or 
better on it than on hay. 
oiiEjQTHE NEW 
OHIO 
PATENT PENDING. 
SHREDDER 
is t he best machine to em. 
ploy for the purpose be- 
I cause of the quality of its 
work and large capacity. Shredded fod- 
•der is a long fibre substance like hay— 
I indeed it is corn-hay. Free from sharp 
edges that make the mouth sore. New , 
(catalog and “Book on Silage” Free. 
SILVER MFC. CO. ~ 
Salem, Ohio. 
Best for sowing all Clovei’s, Alfalfa, all Grass Seeds, 
Flax & lied Top. Hopper for Wheat, Rye and Oats. Wet, 
dry or windy weather makes no difference. No staker to 
set—just follow the drill marks. If there is no man 
about to run it a boy will do j'ust as Well. Can’t sow 
too thick or too thin. Free catalogue and price list. 
0 E THOMPSON & SONS, 17RiverSt.Ypsilanti,Mich. 
STOP THAT! 
waste of grain by grind 
ing all your feed on a 
Buckeye 
Feed Mill & Power 
COMBIN 
onishes * grinds ear corn 
cob and all and all other 
grain single ormixed,fine or 
coarse as desired, supplies 
power for other purposes 
at the same time. Prices 
and machines both right. 
Illustrated catalogue free. 
Staver 
?Oth & W 
None 
Better 
Made. 
SIX 
sizes: 
from 
2 to 26 
H. P. 
FEED MILLS 
(Sold with or without Elevator.) 
For EVERY VARIETY Of WORK 
Have conical shaped grinders. Differ¬ 
ent from all other mills. Handiest to 
operate and Lightest Running. 
(Also make Sweep Feed Grinders.) 
P N ROWS HER CO. South Bend.InJ 
MORE BEER 
more milk and more butter,, 
more pork and mutton can be 
made from same amount of 
corn ff It is ground. 
STAR Feed Grinders 
grind all grains singly or 
mixed, ear corn dry, damp 
frozen. Can t choke. Circu¬ 
lars of sweep* steam mills 
free. STAR MFC CO.l3 
Depot St.,N ewLexington, u 
FULL VALUE 
Fast Crinding Portable Crist and 
ECCn IIII I C Vertical Burr Stones 
I LLU Nil LLo. in sizes from 16 to 30 
inches; capacity, more than any mill 
made of the same size, Make also 
Oat Clippers, Engines.Boilers, pumps 
Call for catalogue U. 
HAS. KAESTNER & CO. 
So. Jefferson St., Chicago, Ills. 
, DRY c 
FODDER 
CUTTING 
Nothing PAYS SO WELL 
on the Stock or Dairy farm. 
We make the largest line of 
Cutting Machinery on Barth. 
SMALLEY MFG. CO., 
Manitowoc, Wis. 
UNDOUBTEDLY 
The Best Cutter for HAY, 
STRAW, FODDER and 
ENSILAGE is the 
TORNADO. 
TORNADO 
Feed and Ensilage 
CUTTERS. 
ir Descriptive Catalogue and Sample o 
W. R. HARRISON & CO., Manufacturers, MaSSillOII, 0. 
\ Made in 10 sizes, from a small hand-power to a 
) large steam-power size. 
Write for Descriptive Catalogue and Sample of Corn Fodder cut and split up on the TORNADO. 
IF WE SAVE THEN AWAY, 
the effect could not be much more to your advantage, for, 
in theirtv ~oper use, such a saving is effected that the in¬ 
creased^ ofits soon pay for the Separator. We have nu- 
meroupv testimonials that prove the price of the machine is 
soon x? turned in the increase in product— to say nothing of 
the ^ provement in the QUALITY of the hutter. We 
wi'^ 'ladly send you copies of these endorsements if you 
re *^st them. 
L,£ IMPROVED 
UNITED STATES SEPARATOR 
effectually skims all the milk that is run through it, 
thereby saving ALL the cream, or fat. It is also the 
greatest of labor-saving devices. 
There are other machines called separators, BUT— 
the United States Separator IS THE BEST. It 
isn’t the best merely because we claim it to be— 
OUR CLAIMS ARE SUPPORTED IN EVERY 
COMPARATIVE TEST, proving conclusively that 
in actual use it is superior in every way to every 
other separator on the market. 
Why not send your address to us that we can 
mail you interesting particulars and catalogues? 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, Yt. 
Cider Machinery.—Send for oatalogne to Boomer A 
Bosohert Press Co., 118 West Water St.. Syracuse,N.Y 
FOR SALE. 
An eight acre fruit and truck farm, located In the 
largest and best town on the Halifax Kiver. Fla. 600 
Deach trees bearing, 500 orange and grape fruit trees 
will bear next season. 200 miscellaneous trees. Good 
two-story house, seven rooms large barn, fine flow¬ 
ing artesian well, poultry yards, etc. Rich black 
marl land. Present income SI 300 per year. For 
price and particulars address HEX, care Tub K N.-Y. 
CONTENTS. 
Rubal New-Yobkkb, December 25, 1897. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Different Kinds of Lime.834 
A Success with Crimson Clover.835 
How They Raise Potatoes in Wisconsin.835 
The Story of a Run-Down Farm.836 
From Wheat to Fruit.836 
What Crops Take from the Soil.837 
Wrong Idea of a Silo; Build a Tub.837 
A Fertilizer for a Light Soil.837 
LIVK STOCK AND DAIRY. 
New Thoughts About Tuberculosis.833, 834 
English Short-horn Heifer.834, 835 
Jersey Oxen.835 
Jersey Cattle in Chestnut Orchard.835 
Poultry House at Hope Farm.835 
New York State Dairymen’s Association. .846, 847 
Enlarged Throat Glands in Pigs.847 
Cow with Caked Udder. 847 
Lice on a Calf.847 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Plants That Are Hired Out.834 
Cement to Protect Trees.835 
Protection for Orchard Trees.835, 836 
Keeping the Fruit Patch Clean .836 
Winter Apples for Ohio.837 
Sutton Beauty and York Imperial Apples.837 
About Various Raspberries.837 
Starting at Glass Gardening.837 
Peaches and Plums in Connecticut.837 
Mice, Rabbits and Trees.839 
McIntosh and Shiawasse Apples.839 
Success With “ Stringfellowed ” Trees.839 
Planting Roses Under Glass.843 
Fertilizers for House Plants.843 
The Ginkgo Tree at St. Louis.843 
Seasonable Notes. 843 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.842 
A Handy Preserve Closet. 842 
Work for the Country Girl.842 
Care of Flannels.842 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
“ Water Glass” on a Cistern Wall.837 
Harnessing a Stream for Farm Uses.837 
Ruralisms.838, 8S9 
The Government Tobacco Bulletins.839 
Kditorials.,...840 
Brevities.840 
As We Go to Press.844 
Among the Marketmen.844 
Forkfuls of Facts. 844 
Hindsight... 845 
Markets • • a it* •••• •••• •-* * t-M • I in • • • • < .>845 
Humorous 1.848 
