5i2 
July 20 1901 
! 
THE RITRAL NEW-YORKER. 
Humorous. 
We have boiled the hydrant water, 
We have sterilized the milk, 
We have strained the prowling microbe 
Through the finest k**'d of silk. 
We have bought and, ^ have borrowed 
Every patent health ^ ice. 
And at last the doct'^'i cn is us 
That we’ve got to ' ice. 
-What To Eat. 
c:; 
“How did the ra' ^-me out?” asked 
the snail. “Oh,” r< Vi the caterpillar, 
“the centipede wotv^ about a hundred 
feet.”—Brooklyn ^ 
Teller: “The <2^ ilete list of this 
year’s Fourth of Jiu^ casualties is put 
at 2,800 persons.” Grimshaw: “When 
it comes to celebrating independence 
Day the United States truly has people 
to burn.”—Puck. 
“What is the remedy for poverty?” 
demanded the lecturer in thunder tones. 
He paused for a reply, and during the 
pause a man in the rear of the hall call¬ 
ed out; “You might try the gold cure.” 
—Detroit Free Press. 
“I SEE that it costs $82 to fire a single 
shot from a 16-inch rifled gun.” “Is 
that all? It cost me a cool $1,000 for a 
single shot from a four-inch revolver.” 
“What did you shoot?” “My neighbor’s 
fancy Jersey cow.”—^Cleveland Plain 
Dealer. 
Careful Housekeeper; “Bridget 
you may get all the preserves we canned 
last year, and boil them up again. I am 
afraid they have begun to work.” Brid¬ 
get: “Like enough, mum, like enough. 
Everything ’round this house has to.”— 
Harlem Life. 
“But you know, children,” said the 
Sunday school teacher, who had been 
talking of the soul’s immortality, “that 
when we die it is only our bodies that 
are buried.” “Please, sir,” queried a 
small pupil, “what do they do with our 
heads?”—Ohio State Journal. 
“Now, Ma, you know I’m anxious to 
make an impression on those New York 
people. Bring me the coal oil can. I 
want to perfume my clothes.” “With 
coal oil! Mercy, child, what do you 
mean?” “Why, I want ’em to think we 
own an automobile.”—Cleveland Plain 
Dealer. 
“This verse,” said the Sunday school 
teacher, “says ‘to him that hath shall 
be given.’ You must have noticed many 
instances of the operation of this prin¬ 
ciple. Will you mention one?” “Yes’m,” 
said one of the little girls. “When 
you’ve got a sore eye all the bugs and 
things fly into it.”-^hicago Tribune. 
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jOW^T DIG Potatoes b y Hand. 
33c. 
BEST and MOST 
ECONOMICAL 
COiTEE GROWN 
Requires Only TWO 
THIRDS the regular quan¬ 
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t ade-mark red bags. 
Good Coffees 12c. and 1.5c. 
Good Teas ;50c. and 8.5c. 
For specialternis address 
The Great American Tea Co., 
31 &33 Vesey St., New Y’ork, 
P. O. Box 289. 
It is a slow and expensive 
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USE THE IMPROVED 
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SEPARATORS and POWERS 
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Thin It no ncord 
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III 
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The “O. K.” 
Potato Harvester 
can 1x3 seen at the 
Pan .\nieriean 
Exposition. 
DIGGER 
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Please mention box number. 
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HORSE POWERS, 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, July 20, 1901. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Big Profits in Farming.497, 498 
Five Acres Enough! For Whom?.49s 
Chemicals, Clover, Cows and Lime. 
Part III.498 
The Agricultural Experiment Stations..498 
Horse Shoe Farm Notes.498 
Hard Conditions and Cowhorn Turnips..499 
Applying Paris-Green to Potatoes.499 
Using Paris-Green on Potatoes.500 
The “Deserted” Farms of New England.501 
Manuring Asparagus in the Fall.502 
Ijong Island Note.502 
Some Clark Grass.502 
Hope Farm Notes.503 
Some Household Notes.503 
Seeding Grass Alone.503 
Crop Prospects .505, 509 
Government Weekly Report.505 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
How to Make Butler.510 
Outwitting a Cow.511 
Congressman Wadsworth and the Grout 
Bill .511 
Clean the Milk Cans.511 
Pigs in a Peach Orchard.511 
Kicking Cows .511 
HORTICULTURE. 
Modern Cranberry Culture.499 
Raspberry Root Gall.500 
Driving Nails Into Apple Trees... fOO 
Chickens, Grass and Fruit.500 
How Much Growth for a Tree?.5M 
Diseased Lilac .501 
Raising Basswood from Seed.wl 
Cure for Peach Curl.501 
An Apple Orchard on Rock.501 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.502 
Starting and Growing Rose Cuttings....502 
The Western Apple Crop.505 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.5W 
When Phyllis Cans Peaches.^ 
The Rural Patterns.506 
With the Procession.^ 
Miss Jepson’s Tedder.^ 
Suggestions in Jelly Making.507 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Wood Acids in a Chimney.5M 
The Soap Fraud Once More. 
Editorials .. 
Events of the Week.505 
Markets .. 
Business Bits .^ 
Market Briefs . ^ 
Pan-American Exposition Notes.^ 
Humorous . 
