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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 27, 1901 
Humorous. 
There was a young lady of Gloucester 
Whose name was Penelope Foucester; 
It is proper to say, 
Had she spelt it this way 
We should not have known how to ac- 
couster. —Puck. 
“1 cAJf tell you,” said he, “how much 
water runs over Niagara Falls to a 
quart.” “How much?” asked she. “Two 
pints.”—Chicago Journal. 
Mrs. Fussy: “John, you’re the most 
unreasonable man I ever met in my 
life.” Mr. Fussy: “I don’t doubt it. I'm 
the only one that ever married you.”— 
Pick-Me-Up. 
“Here’s a story of a dog that hatched 
out a nest of eggs which had been de¬ 
serted by the hen.” “Does it say what 
sort of a dog it was?” “No, but it must 
have been a setter.”—Judge. 
A wEix-KNOwN medical journal offers 
this advice: “If the child does not 
thrive on fresh milk, boil it.” Why not 
begin by merely spanking it? It may 
learn to like it after awhile.—Atlanta 
Journal. 
“A WOMAN,” said Mr. Plattitood, “can’t 
keep a secret.” “Huh!” said little 
Johnny, “teacher kep’ me workin’ an 
hour on a ole example, wnen she might 
have told me the answer any time.”— 
Indianapolis Press. 
Parson Arthur Dox: “I wonder why 
we received so many pennies in our 
Easter collection?” Deacon Hickory 
Crick: “Wall, I s’pose it's ’cause they 
don’t make no smaller coins in the 
mint.”—Brooklyn Eagle. 
Twynn: “Up in Minneapolis the oppo¬ 
nents of women’s activities never quote 
what St. Paul said about women’s sub¬ 
jection.” Triplett: “Why not?” Twynn: 
“They don’t think much of St. Paul at 
Minneapolis.”—Leslie’s Weekly. 
I KNEW he could never keep his head 
above water,” said Jimson. “He started 
in business three years ago, and he’s 
been going down ever since.” “What 
did you say he was?” asked Johnson. 
“A diver,” replied Jimson.—^Marine 
Jouimal. 
O. K. Potato 
DIGGER 
{Patent Applied for.) 
Guaranteed 
to do as good work in 
the same field as any 
four-horse elevator 
digger on the market. Price one-half. Draft one-half. Cost per year for repairs, one- 
fifth. Guaranteed to dig as clean as a man can with a fork. Will make digging potatoes 
as easy, simple and inexpensive as cutting grass. Would such a digger please you ? Will 
Vou buy such a digger ? WE TAKE ALL THE RISK—unsatisfactory work in your field 
means no sale. Every farmer who grows five acres or more of potatoes is interested. We 
wish to hear from all such, q y hALLOCK & SONS, Box D 805, York, Pa. 
(Please mention box number.) 
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TheBELLEVUEAniiii^ Disc Harrow 
The Bellevue Di.sc Harrow is con¬ 
structed with Anti-Friction bear¬ 
ings and boxe.s and Anti-Friction 
heads on the inside of each gang, 
relieving strain and w'ear on 
parts and lightening the draft 
on horses. Separate levers govern 
each gang of discs. Built and bal¬ 
anced to overcome any .side draft 
or neck weight on the houses. 
Send for catalogue describing full line of 
farm implements. 
The Ohio 
Cultivator Company. 
Bellevue, 
Ohio. 
Built in all sizes and 
furnished with either 2 , 
3 or 4 horse eveners. 
Awarded first prize 
at World’s Fair. 
Hiscs made in 
all sizes, both 
solid and 
cutaway. 
Twelve 16 in. Round 
Discs and 3 Horse At¬ 
tachments. Adjustable 
Heavy Steel Frame. 
a^PLAHTER 
should plant all kinds of field seeds, 
Field, Ensilage and Sweet Corn, Peas, 
Beans, Sugar Beets, Stock Beets,etc. 
It should plantln hills, drills or check ntthe will of 
the operator. It should at the same time drop or 
drill all kinds of commercial fertilizers, wet, dry 
or iiimpy, pulverized hen manure and other 
homo made IcrtlUzers, evenly in any quantity 
The Eclipse 
Corn Planter and 
Fertilizer Distributer 
does all this In the moat perfect manner. Drops 
seed from 6 to 45 Inches apart. Will distribute from 
60 to 450 lbs. of fertilizer per acre. They are strongly 
built of good material and will last Indefinitely. 
Write for fi-ee catalogue, ciroulai-s, etc. 
THE BELCHER & TAYLOR A. T. CO. 
Box 75, Chicopee Falls, Mass. 
Returned Colonist: “There is a most 
remarkable cave in the Blue Mountains, 
not far from Sydney, in New South 
Wales.” Innocent Stay-at-home: “What 
is there remarkable about it?” Returned 
Colonist: “If you call out ‘Halloa, 
Smith!’ the echo says, ‘What Smith do 
you mean?’ no fewer than 14 distinct 
times.”—Tit-Bits. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you will ret a quick reply and 
‘‘a square deal.” Bee our (uarantee 
BUY DIRECT FROM FACTORY, BEST 
MIXED PAINTS 
At\VlIOL,l?SAI.F. PKIOES, Delivered FREE 
For Houses, Barns, Roofs, all colors, and SAVE Dealers 
profits. In use .5 8 years. Officially Endorsed by the 
- - • -— Write for Samples. 
- ■ Y. 
Granee. Low prices will surprise you. Write for Samp 
0. W. INQERSOLL, 240 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, N, 
New and Extra 
Inducements 
to sell onr celebrated Teas, 
Coffees, Spices, Extracts and 
Baking Powder. 20 and 26 
per cent to agents. Freight 
paid. For specla ] terms ad¬ 
dress THE GREAT AMBRI- 
CAN TEA COMPANY, 
81 & 33 Vesey St., New York. 
P. O. Box 289. 
Vnil rv o< OTary desorlptlon 
VUALLO BatUfactiongnaraateed. 
Writ* for prlMt. JHSBE MARDBN, 
m B. Charles St., BALTiifeui, Md. 
GRINDSTONES. 
Direct from maker to user. 75-lb stone, diameter 
20 inenes, $2.80. 100-lb. stone, diameter 24 inc^’es 
$3.30. Either sire stone mounted, $1.25 extra. The 
prices Include cost of delivery at nearest railroad 
station. Write for circular 
P. ii. COLE, Lock Box 381, Marietta, Ohio. 
ORNAMENTAL FENCE 
ii» designs, all steel. 
Handsome, durable.— 
Cheaper than a wood 
fence. Special induce¬ 
ments to church and 
cemelcrics. Catalogue fret, 
KOKOMO FENCE 
MACHINE CO., 
464 North St., 
Kokomo, IndiiuiB, 
GOOD INVES 
Here arefonr popular implements of the 
IRON AGE line. Don’t forget 
that we make many others with 
which it will pay yon to get ac¬ 
quainted. The Iron Age Pivot 
Wheel Riding Cultivator 
does good, steady work for years be¬ 
cause it’s built of good materials, and 
doesn’t wear shaky. Fine for hillsides 
or crooked rows. The Improvcd- 
RobbinN Potato Planter plants4 to 
Iron Age Pivot Wheel Cnltlvator. acres a day, better than hand work. 
Improved* 
ROe 6 
Iron 
Combined 
Doable Whool 
Hoe, HUl 
find Drill 
Boeder* 
TOAVT 1^17 Farm and Garden 
lit UN /xlrl!* Implements 
The No. 6 Iron Age Combined Rouble Wheel Hoe, Hill 
and Drill Kecder makes ten tools, each perfect. Easily and 
quickly changed so as to sow, rake, hoe, cultivate, plow, level, fur¬ 
row, cover or hill. With a No. 1 Iron Age Double Wheel 
Hoe a boy can hoe more than several men with hand hoes. 
Makes a perfect single wheel hoe. Write for the 
Iron Age Book for 1901 describing Seed Drills, 
Wheel Hoes, Riding Cultivators, 
Potato Planters, 
Horse Hoes and 
Cultivators. 
BATEMAN 
MFO. OO., 
Box 108, 
Grenloch, N. J. 
No. 1 
Iron Age 
Doable Wheel 
Hoe. 
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■ Farmers, Take Warning! 
Our patent, No. 600,782 of March 15, 1898, has been sustained by 
United States Circuit ^''urt. This gives us the sole right to manufacture 
weeders having teeth upper part and either round or substantially 
round in lower part .<^.^,^ 4 ereby notify farmers and dealers that any one 
using or selling th ‘uging goods are in danger of prosecution. We 
ask those selling our weeders 
to give us names of parties 
handling the infringing goods. 
HALLOCK 
Weeder 6c Cultivator 
Co., 
Box 805 York, Pa. 
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Transplanting 
Machines 
transplant all kinds of plants, such as cabbage 
tobacco, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, sugar beets, 
watering and fertilizing at the same time; also has 
potato planting attachment. Write for prices and 
territory. Made by 
THE NAQLKY MFG. CO., Lyons, N. Y. 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New Yorker, April 27, 1901. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Ohio Grass and Grain.305 
Essentials of Sugar-Beet Cutlure.305 
Advertising at Farmers’ Institutes.300 
Some Cow-Pea Facts.307 
Notes on Potato Growing.307 
The Mattltuck Cauliflower .307 
The Disk Hai-row on Alfalfa.309 
Hope Farm Notes .311 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Breed of Cows for a Dairy.318 
Short-horn and Aberdeen-Angus Cross..318 
Dishorning Jerseys .318 
A Talk About Pigs .319 
Holding a Switching Tall .319 
Milk Farmers Ahead .319 
HORTICULTURE. 
Shall We Thin Strawberries?.306 
Spraying Trees In February.306, 307 
The Stayman and Some Other Apples... 307 
The Stringfellow Method .307 
Orchard Management .308 
Fruit Varieties for Maine . 
Ives Peach . 
Pomelo vs. ‘‘Grape Fruit”.309 
Notes From the Rural Grounds.310 
How and When They Spray .313 
Trade In Evaporated Raspberries.317 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day . 
The Rural Patterns . 
Dr, Norton’s Prescription.314, 315 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Bedbugs and Their Kiling... 
Editorials . 
Events of the Week.. 
The Value of Quotations . 
Markets . 
Business Bits . 
Market Briefs . 
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