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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 18, 1901 
Humorous. 
Let us then be up and doing. 
All becoming money kings; 
Some day we may be endowing 
Universities and things. 
Lives of billionaires remind us 
That we’ve got to own the stock 
If we want to leave behind us 
Libraries on every block. 
—Chicago Record-Herald. 
Johnny: “Why do they say that the 
pen is mightier than the sword?” His 
Father: “Because you can’t sign checks 
with a sword.”—Tit-Bits. 
“You say you shook him because he 
was a had egg. How did you find it 
out?” “Oh! why, he showed it the mo¬ 
ment he was broke.”—Illustrated Bits. 
“Youngchai*: “How does it happen 
that your nair is so much grayer than 
your whiskers?” Oldboy: “My hair is 
ever so much older, you know.”—Tit- 
Bits. 
Lawyeh: “As your husband died in¬ 
testate yoii will, of course, get a third.” 
Widow: “Oh, I hope to get my fourth. 
He was my third, you know.”—Brook¬ 
lyn Life. 
“O.K.” Potato 
The O. K. Potato 
Harvester can be 
seen at the Pan- 
American Expo¬ 
sition. 
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 fork. Will make digging potatoes as easy, simple and inex¬ 
pensive as cutting grass. Would such a digger please you ? Will you 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. 
D. Y. HALLOCK & SONS, Box D805, York, Pa. 
(Please mention box number.) 
Tommy: “Father, didn’t you say we 
had a new baby?” Father: “Yes, my 
son, why?” Tommy (in a tone of con¬ 
viction) : “Well, you’ve been regularly 
taken in. It’s as old as anything—quite 
bald, and not a tooth in its head.”— 
Pick-Me-Up. 
Ma: “Gracious! What’s the matter 
with the baby?” Pa: “Oh, he bumped 
his head against one of the pedals of the 
piano.” Ma: “Poor little dear! Per¬ 
haps he’s seriously hurt.” Pa: “Non- 
scnce! It was the soft pedal he struck.” 
—Philadelphia Press. 
Teacher: “Now, Tommy, suppose 
you had two apples, and you gave an- 
olhcr boy his choice of them, you would 
toll him to take the bigger one, wouldn’t 
you?” Tommy: “No, mum.’’ Teacher: 
"Why?” Tommy; "Cos ’twouldn’t be 
necessary.”—Tit-Bits. 
Mrs. Stuhr: “John, the kangaroo has 
pockets in which her young conceal 
themselves at the first scent of danger.” 
Mr. Stubb: “Well, Maria, if they are as 
difficult to find as those of the majority 
of her sex, I can’t see how the young 
ones find them.”—Illustrated Bits. 
Edward: “What do you think I carry 
in my watch-case, darling? It is always 
the stamp of your last letter. Your lips 
have touched it, and mine often kiss the 
place where your lips have been.” An¬ 
gelina: "Oh! Edward, I am awf’ly sorry, 
but I always use Fido’s damp nose!”— 
Gaiety. 
“Aren’t you afraid of that man who 
keeps making incendiary speeches?” in¬ 
quired the close friend. “Not a bit,” 
answered Senator Sorghum. “The only 
kind of incendiary M'^ho stands any show 
of making an impression in my baili¬ 
wick is a man who has money to burn.” 
—Washington Star. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R N.-Y. and you will get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See our guarantee Sth page. 
BUY DIRECT FROM FACTORY, BEST 
MIXED PAINTS 
At WHOLESALE PRICES, Delivered FREE 
For Houses, Barns, Roofs, all colors, and S A VE Dealers 
profits. In use .5 8 years. Officially Endorsed by the 
Qranee. Low prices will surprise you. Write for Samples. 
0. W. INQERSOLL, »46 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
New and Extra 
Inducements 
to sell onr celebrated Teas, 
Coffees, Spices, Extracts and 
Baking Powder. 20 and 2,’; 
per cent to agents. Freight 
paid. For specia 1 terms ad¬ 
dress THE GREAT AMERl 
CAN TEA COMPANY, 
31 & 33 Vesey St., New York. 
P. O. Box 289. 
BALES 
15 Tons 
a Day 
The Gem Fnll-Circle VLUC^Baler, lightest, 
strongest.cheapest baler. Made of wrought steel. 
Operated by 1 or 2 horses. Bales 10 to 15 tons a day. 
Sold on 6 days trial. Catalogue free. Address 
CEO. ERTEL CO., Quincy, III. 
No wind mill has ever met with such unqualified 
endorsement or sprung so quickly In popular favor. 
The cause is not far to seek. It is due to superior mater¬ 
ial and con.struction and the introduction of an entirely 
new and improved system. The wonderful double 
gear, adding double strength, double power, etc. The 
long bearings with interchangeable boxes which may 
beeasily replaced without removing anypartof themill. 
Even distributed load. No overhanging strain or tor¬ 
sion. Stands the severest storms without bending or 
buckling. These are but a few of the leading features 
of the Samson. This is the last appearance of the Sam¬ 
son advertisement for this season. Do not fail therefore to 
send at once for our free Samson Art Catalogue and keep it 
for future reference. 
Stover Mfg. Co., 502 River St., Freeport, Ills. 
Hoover D?CCER 
Catalog 
free. 
HOOVER, PROUT * CO., Avery, Ohio, 
A perfect machine con¬ 
taining improvements 
found in no other. 
Separates potatoes 
from vines and 
weeds. Rapid, 
clean worker. 
Warranted. 
Dirt proof brass boxes, 
side hill spurs, special 
aVi/Wol "ud si(l6 
levers. 
THEcMIETZ & WEISS 
Kerosene Engines 
Cheapest and Safest Power 
Known. For pumping and 
electric lighting, grinding 
corn, separating cream, 
sawing wood, and all power 
purposes. Send for Catalog. 
A. MIETZ, 
128 Mott Street, New York. 
The Efficient Hiiier. 
Patented Jan. 30,1900, D. S., 
Feb. 5,1901, Canada, 
is a new implement for hilling 
Corn. Cotton, Potatoes.Tobacco 
or any kind of plant cultivated 
in rows. It can be ad¬ 
justed In width to plant 
rows from 20 up to 40 
inches apart. The pecu¬ 
liar formation of mold- 
boards with extensions 
insures the banking of 
the soil close to and over 
the roots of plants at each side of furrow. The ex¬ 
tensions brush the soil downward and outward, form¬ 
ing a uniform-shaped hill. The amount of soil desired 
over the roots Is regulated by adjusting the wheel. 
It need be drawn but once through between the 
rows, the earth having been previously cultivated. 
It is a labor-saving Implement, and insures a good 
crop by protecting the roots of plants from heat and 
drying winds. Manufactured and sold by 
VAN ALLEN WHITBECK, Aquetuck, N. T. 
Price #5. delivered at Ravena, West Shore R. R., 
Freight or Express Office, orCoyemans Landing. 
Draw P. O. Money Orders at Ravena, N. Y. 
Why Not 
Preserve Wheat and 
KyeStraw Straight 
Boand in 
Bandies ? 
Please your custom¬ 
ers by saving barnrooni and ease of handling straw. 
We make a machine that we guarantee to thrash 
wheat perfectly clean and not bruise or break the 
straw, that will bind it again in bundles. The same 
maebine thrashes rye and preserves the straw, 
straight, hound in bundles, and is also changed in 15 
minutes to a spike-tooth oat and wheat thrasher 
Send for Catalogue B. Free 
GBANT-FERRIS COMPANY, Troy, N. Y. 
UnDCC DnilfCDC thrashers 
nUlfdC rUVICIfOy and CLEANERS. 
WOOD SAWS. 
One & two-horse Thrashing Outfits. Level PMTTCDC 
Tread, Pat. Governor, Feed and Ensilage uU I I unO 
ELLIS KEYSTONE AGR’LWORKS, Pottstown, Pa 
F. L. MAINE, General Agent, Willet, N. Y. 
DRILLING 
Machines 
Over TO ilxet and stylet, for drilling either deep ei 
■hallow wells In any kind of soil or rock. Mounted 
on wheels or on sills. With engines or horse powers 
Strong, simple and durable. Any mechanio oar 
operate them easily. Send for catalog. 
WILLIAMS BROS.. Ithnea. N T. 
BesiPulley AMERICAN CORN AND FODDER 
OnEarth. ^ SHOCK COMPRESSOR 
HOL.DS while you tie. 
jy Does not out 
the rope. Strong, 
Simple, Durable. 
Write for Price Lbt, 
J. B. Bugheg, 
Clreeiuhnrg, Ind. 
Sample by 
mail, 15c. 
Ellwood Steel Wire Fences 
Six styles—18 to 58 inches—-best steel wires, 
heavily galvanized. Expansion and contrac¬ 
tion provided for. Every rod guaranteed. 
Sold by local agents. If no agent in your 
town write to the makers. 
American Steel & Wire Co., Chicago or New York. 
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Two Sheets saturatei 
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IRON PIPE in all sizes at 
a saving of 60 per cent. 
PREPARED FELT ROOFING. 
d felt, and between sheets water-proof 
cement, making a solid, flexible sheet, the layers of compo¬ 
sition thoroughly combined. It can be put on without re¬ 
moving the old roof. Can be applied without previous ex¬ 
perience, requiring no special tools. Each rolicontains 108 
- square feet. Comes complete with cement for two coats, 
■ caps and nails to lay. Price per roll.$1.05 
A million feet of Brand New and Second 
F?nd RUBBER, LEATHER and COTTON 
Switched belting, bought at various 
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50 per cent. We have a job in 
ENDLESS THRASHER BELTS. 
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WEST 351!! & IRON STS., CHICAGO. 
HALE’S 
ORCHARD 
TOOLS 
Clark’s Hay Tools, 
D. A. Harrow moves 
15,000 tons earth In 
day. These 5 tools 
cut a track 31 feet wide. 
IMPROVED 16-ln. Sulky 
SICKLE iCW®Plow: draft 
WATER 300 lbs. All made by 
GRINDER the Cutaway Harrow Company, 
of Higganum, Conn. 
Send for Circular. 
IDE 
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Water 
■TKAOU8E, 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, Mat 18, 1901. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Corn-Growing in the Central West.354 
Fai-ming in the Mountains.355 
An Acre of Tomatoes.355 
Late Seeding of Clover.355 
Cement Cistern for Manure.356 
Value of Sweet Clover.356 
Land Too Sour for Clover.356 
Seeding with Clover Expensive.357 
Two Connecticut Farm Hands.357 
Some Ohio Notes.357 
Hope Farm Notes.359 
General Crop Prospects.361 
Government Weekly Report.361 
Fighting Pea Louse.361 
The Eai’ly Potato Crop.36i 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
White Minorca Fowls.356 
The Milk Situation.361 
The Number of Pigs to the Litter.366 
The Care of Incubator Chicks.366 
The “Roots” on a Hog.366 
Brood Sow Notes.366 
Dairy and Farm Notes.367 
HORTICULTURE. 
An Old Illinois Orchard. 353, 354 
The Carpenter Apple.3M 
The Story of a “Moth Trap”.^4 
A One-Sided Orange. 
Everybody’s Garden .3 m 
Wide-Tired Wheel Hoe Wanted.356 
Injured Sugar Maple Trees.356 
Grape Queries . 357 
Apple Orchard; Choosing Varieties.35i 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.358 
What is Black Knot? Its Cure.359 
The Southern Strawberry Crop...361 
California Prune Growers’ Association..361 
Southern Fruit Crop Notes.361 
Hudson River Fruit Transportation.365 
A Good New Apple.36a 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 
The Rural Patterns. 
A Balsam Pillow. Part I. 
Rhubarb Recipes . 
With the Procession. 
,362 
362 
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363 
MISCEI.LANEOUS. 
Editorials . 
Events of the Week. 
Markets . 
Business Bits . 
Market Briefs . 
Humorous . 
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361 
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