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April 6, 1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Humorous. 
Tbe rain, though raining every day 
Upon the just and unjust feller, 
Falls chiefly on the just, because 
The unjust takes the just's umbrella. 
—Credit Lost. 
Teacher: “Now boys, who can tell 
jne which is the most diflacult thing to 
acquire in cycling?” Chorus of Yells: 
“The bicycle, sir.”—Motherhood. 
Clarence: “Did my proposal surprise 
you, Clarissa?” Clarissa: “Indeed it 
did, Clarence; honestly, I didn’t expect 
to get it without hinting for it.”—Credit 
liOSt. 
“A New York boy thawed out an old 
shotgun on the kitchen stove.” “What 
was the result?” “Funeral at conveni¬ 
ence of the family.”—Cleveland Plain 
Dealer. 
“Mrs. Penbee has suffered a great 
loss through the death of her husband.” 
“Yes; but, fortunately, the loss is fully 
covered by insurance.”—Philadelphia 
"(Jorth American. 
Contractor: “You won’t sell me a 
oarload of bricks on credit?” Dealer: 
“No. Me an’ my bricks are very much 
alike. We’re hard pressed for cash.”— 
Philadelphia Record. 
Schoolma’am (encouragingly): “Come 
now, Harold; spell chickens.” Harold: 
“Please, ma’am. I’m not old enough to 
spell chickens; but you can try me on 
eggs.”—Leslie’s Weekly. 
Wickler: “Beastly weather, isn’t it?” 
Stickler: “Why will you insist upon 
asing those idiotic expressions? How 
can the weather be beastly?” Wickler: 
•‘Well, it’s raining cats and dogs.”— 
Philadelphia Press. 
“Mamma,” called three-year-old Mar¬ 
gie from the top of the stairs, “won’t 
you please come up and sit with me till 
I go to sleep?” “No, darling; mamma’s 
busy now,” was the reply. “Run back 
to bed; the angels will watch over you 
HU you go to sleep.” “That’s what you 
aaid before, mamma,” answered the lit¬ 
tle miss, “but the angels didn’t show up, 
and I’m just awful lonesome.”—Mother¬ 
hood. _ 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, April 6 , 1901. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Harrowing or Weeding Grain Crops 
Poison for Cutworms. 
Plaster and Nitrate of Soda. 
Conditions for Broom Corn. 
Tomatoes for a Cannery. 
Stone or Tile Drains. 
Growing Cabbage After Cabbage.... 
What Summer Green Crops. 
Cement Wall for Bank Barn. 
Hope Farm Notes. 
Facts About Potato Scab. 
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249 
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DIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Woman’s Horse.. 
Pigs on Rape and Clover.^ 
Malt Sprouts .^ 
That “Billion-Dollar” Grass.^ 
Tunis Sheep .^ 
Some Characteristics of Fowls.^ 
A Connecticut Hen Record.^ 
Ailing Animals. ^ 
The Dargest and Smallest Cow.^ 
Some Illinois Dairy Problems. 
The Health Officer and the Dairyman....^ 
Dwarf Essex Rape. ^ 
A City Man Turns Farmer. Part IV. 
A Dost-Pedlgree Guernsey. 
HORTICUDTURE. 
An Experience With Pear Blight.245, 246 
Dwarf Pears . ole 
Weeding Strawberry Beds in Spring.246 
Essentials of Strawberry Culture. 
Italian Laborers on Fruit Farms.24b 
Garden and Orchard Notes. 
Starting a Pine Forest. 
Late Grafting of Plums^ . 
Winter Sunscald; Alfalfa in Orchard. 
A California Walnut Tree. 
Grafting Apples on Mulberry.^ 
The Oldenburg Apple.^ 
Grape Grafting and Grapes. 2 « 
Fruits for Connecticut.^ 
Scale Spraying Questions. 
Spraying, Blight, Bulbs.^.... ^ 
Killing Grass on Gravel Walks.^ 
Chestnut Culture in Alabama.........^ 
Oranges and Grape Fruits In Florida. 
Notes From the Mountains. 
Notes from the Rural Grounds. 2 a- 
The Markham Peach.. 
Three Quinces .. 
Japan Walnut in Indiana. 
Raspberry Root Gall. 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.^ 
The Rural Patterns.^ 
Household Accounts . 
An Incident of Prairie Life. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Editorials . 
Events of the Week. 
Cold Storage In Transportation 
Markets . 
Business Bits . 
Market Briefs ... 
The New York Rose Show. 
Work of the Wind. 
Humorous . 
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