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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Aufrust 10, 1901 
Humorous. 
"Why do you talk so much?” Ma cried, 
Reproving little May, 
"I s’pose it's ’cause,” the child replied, 
“J’se got so much to say.” 
—Catholic Standard and Times. 
“Jabez don’t seem to get along, does 
he?” “No; but I think be could make 
farmin’ pay if he studiet as hard as 
he does checkers.”—Fuel ^ 
O 
Sunday Stuooi, Ti ’--aER: “Now, 
Tommy, you may give .r conception 
of ‘the future state.’ ” ' ^imy: “Please, 
ma’am, it’s a Territor ^^-Philadelphia 
Record. .. 
“Tins wireless teleg^' ally reminds me 
of a groundless quar-'^* “What pos¬ 
sible connection is there between the 
two?” “It’s practically having words 
over nothing.”—^Tit-Bits. 
Farmer Stackpole: “How many 
stops has that ’ere new organ that ye 
bought for your daughter got?” Parmer 
Hawbuck (grimly): “Three—breakfast, 
dinner and supper.”—Puck. 
“I WAS just reading here that they 
have discovered the grave of Hippo¬ 
crates.” “Who w^as he?” “Must be 
some fellow who’s dead, I guess.”— 
Cleveland Plain Dealer. 
“Your wife is very forgetful, isn’t 
she?” “Yes, but not nearly so forgetful 
as I’d like her to be. She’s forever re¬ 
membering that she’s still wearing her 
last Summer’s hat.”—Philadelphia Press. 
Mr. Benedict: “The new cook rides 
a bicycle, doesn’t she, my dear?” Mrs. 
Benedict: “What makes you think so?” 
Mr. Benedict: “Oh, her cooking. She 
seems to be an expert at scorching.”— 
Credit Lost. 
“Bridget, how long did you boil those 
eggs for my breakfast?” “Noine min¬ 
utes, mum.” “But I told you that 1 
wanted my eggs boiled three minutes.” 
“Thrue for you, mum; but there was 
three eggs, mum.”—Albany Telegram. 
Mother: “What! Have you been 
fighting again, Johnnie? Good little 
boys don’t fight.” Johnnie: “Yes, 1 
know that. I thought he was a good 
little boy, but after I hit him once 1 
found he wasn’t.”—Somerville Journal. 
“WiiAT verdict did the coroner’s jury 
bring in?” inquired a man who had seen 
the lynching. “Suicide,” answered 
Bronco Bob promptly. “He must have 
known perfectly well that stealin’ a hoss 
in Crimson Gulch was bound to prove 
fatal.”—Washington Star. 
Rube: “Yaas, Si is dead; went inter 
town ter get a tooth pulled; dentist fel¬ 
ler told him he’d better take gas fust 
an’—” Josh: “Dentist gev him too 
much, eh?” “Oh, no; after the dentist 
feller told him that, he went back to his 
hotel an’ took the gas hisself.”—Phila¬ 
delphia Press. 
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CONTENTS. 
Thk Rural, New-Yorker, Augu.st 10, 1901. 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Briarcliff Manor School.545 
Grass Seeded Without Grain. Part II. 
545, 54? 
No Returns from Spraying Potatoes....546 
Farming in a Wet Season.546 
Kxperience with “Clark” Grass.546 
When to Fertilize Asparagus.547 
The Farmers’ Mutual Telephone.547 
What to Do with a Small Farm.548 
Clipping the Alfalfa.548 
Spraying the Resin-Lime Mixture.548 
Disk Harrows; Brome Grass.548 
Drilling Fertilizer with Wheat.549 
Hope Farm Notes.551 
Crop Prospects .553 
Crop and Weather Report.553 
Wheat and Hessian Fly.553 
A Farmers’ Picnic.556 
Southern Canning Factories.557 
Alfalfa in Michigan.557 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Spraying and Poisoned Stock.546 
Flax Straw for Cattle.549 
Raising Dairy Calves in Winter.558 
Skim-milk Calves for Beef.558 
How Koumiss is Made.558 
Gray Head Lice and Poultry.558 
Dairy and Farm Notes.558 
To Milk a Kicking Cow.558 
HORTICULTURE. 
The Arctic Apple.5^* 
Pruning Questions .. 
An Orchard on Long Island.;—M3 
Lime or Wood Ashes for Strawberries..543 
Yields of Asparagus and Rhubarb. m3 
Everybody’s Garden .54J 
Notes from the Rural Grounds...ow 
Stringfellow’s Method of Planting.550 
Early Vegetables . 
The Manager’s Share.. 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.^ 
The Rural Patterns. 
Stackpole’s Stump Fence. 
Kitchen Mathematics . 
MISCELLANEOUS 
New Use for Fair-Ground Buildings....K1 
Noise in Water Pipes. 
Editorials . 
Events of the Week. 
Cut and Shredded.^ 
Markets .re,: 
Business Bits .. 
Market Notes ... 
Mosquitoes and Malaria.. 
Humorous .-. 
