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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
August 31, 1901 
HUMOROUS 
“You low and low the livelong day!” 
Exclaimed the lamb. “Now, why?” 
“Alas!” replied the homeless calf, 
“I have no place to hie.” —Puck. 
Kellar, the magician, is going to try 
farming. When he needs mo .^d he 
will probably turn a cow int 5.0-acre 
lot.—Chicago News. . 5 
“Blinks is a confirmed o’ '"chelor.” 
“I bet if you’d shove a ct ^feit 50- 
cent piece on him he woi ^arieK for 
a better half.”—Baltimore Ar^ish Com- 
ment. 
“I wouldn’t a-minded bilking over 
my hand,” sobbed the boy, who 
had been stung by the bumble-bee, “if 
it hadn’t sat down so hard.”—Baltimore 
World. 
Willie came from the shed where 
Uncle Rufus was picking a chicken. 
“Aunt Sue!” he exclaimed, “what do 
you think? Uncle Rufus is in the shed 
husking a hen—honest true!”—Leslie’s 
Weekly. 
“Yes,” she sighed, “for many years 
I’ve suffered from dyspepsia.” “And 
don’t you take anything for it?” her 
friend asked. “You look healthy 
enough.” “Oh,” she replied, “it’s my 
husband that has it.”—'Tit-Bits. 
Citizen: “I’d give a clean thousand to 
find some way to exterminate these 
sparrows.” Sporting Friend: “I’m your 
man. I’ve got just the thing.” “Out 
with it.” “Get the Legislature to pass 
a game law protecting them.”—Life. 
Urban: “Why, old man, those chick¬ 
ens of. yours are regular game cocks. 
What makes them such fighters?” “Su¬ 
burban: “I’m sure I don’t know, unless 
it comes from feeding them scraps.”— 
Detroit Free Press. 
Employer (meeting clerk at the ball 
game): “Why, Mr. Jones, when you 
asked leave of absence, you said you 
would like to attend your mother-in- 
law’s funeral.” Jones: “Yes, sir. So 1 
would, immensely, but she won’t die.”— 
Baltimore World. 
“Yes,” said the old inhabitant, “a 
mule kicked him ’crost a 10-acre field, 
an’ when he landed a bull tossed him 
into a pine saplin’, an’ when he got thar 
a cyclone blowed the saplin’ down, an’ 
then he give up farmin’ forever!”—At¬ 
lanta Constitution. 
“Why,” inquired the New York girl, 
“do you Philadelphia people never eat 
snails?” “Oh!” answered the Philadel¬ 
phia girl, with the air of one who had 
heard something like it before; “I pre¬ 
sume it is because snails are so hard 
to catch.”—^Washington Star. 
“So you rode the hair restorer agent 
out of town on a rail?” ventured the 
man on the coach. “Yes, stranger,” 
drawled Amber Pete; “the cuss was a 
fraud. I poured three bottles of the stuff 
on my b’arskin breeches, an’ it didn’t 
make the hair grow at all.”—Credit 
IX)St. 
Mrs. Noozy: “I think it’s the most 
ridiculous thing to call that man in the 
bank a ‘teller.’ ” Mrs. Chumm: “Why?” 
Mrs. Noozy: “Because they simply won’t 
tell at all. I asked one to-day how 
much my husband had on deposit there, 
and he just laughed.”—Philadelphia 
Press. 
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BeqniresOnly TWO- 
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Good Coffees 12o. and . 60 . 
Good Teas 80a and 8 ta 
For speetalterms address 
The Great American Tea Co. 
U &88 Vesey St., New York. 
F.O.Bozm 
Capacity 17 
to 25 tons of 
ensilage per hour. 
Seif feed, In¬ 
creases capacity 
and saves labor, 
which means dollars. 
A New 
19 inch 
Self Feed EnsilagelCutter and 
Direct Blast Blower Elevator, 
designed and constructed with special refer¬ 
ence to heavy duty, cutting ensilage and delivering it into silos. 
THE cutter is larger, stronger and has greater capacity than machines formerly 
made for this work. The knife shaft is heavier and the shaft bearings are longer and 
stronger. The knife cylinder is larger diameter, which better enables the cut ensfiage to 
clear the cylinder. 
BLOWER ELEVATOR. A large capacity, properly and substantially constructed 
steel fan case with agitator and conveyor at the inlet which make sure that the cut ensilage 
will get into it, and a swivel joint for the steel pipe at the outlet. The combined fly wheel 
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‘OHIO IP MONARCH Ensilage Cutter 
ENSILAQE 
is prepared quickly and 
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Cutters 
with or without 
, self feed table, 
r with swivel fod- 
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Simplest in Coxstrcotion, Easiest to 
Operate. Most ErPEcrryg in 
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larWe make also acomplete line of Grind¬ 
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Wind Mills, Tanks, Sweep and Tread Horse 
Powers, etc. 
1&6 PAGE CATALOGUE FREE. 
APPLETON MFG. GO., 
27 Fargo St., BATAVIA, ILL. 
“There is IVIoney in the 
CORN STilK” 
Our Booklet 
thus entitled, will 
show you how by 
using a. 
“St. Albans” Corn 
Stalk Shredder, 
you can double 
the value of your 
corn crop. 
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ST. ALBANS FOUNDRY AND IMPLEMENT CO., 
8T. ALBANS, VT. 
uTuLUNl ensu^ge uU 11 tn 
Fitted with COMPOUND SPIRAL 
CYLINDERH 
Choking Is im¬ 
possible. With 
and without 
traveling feed. 
For catalogue 
address 
FARMERS MFG. CO. 
Sebrlng, O. 
CHAMPION HAY PRESS 
FAMOUS MFG. CO.CHICAGO 
SILOS 
Round, of Any Size, and all 
Machinery Needed. 
Q. D. Harder, Cobleskill, N. Y. 
HORSE POWERS 
Threshing Machines. Wood Saw Machines. 
GET THE REST. Horse Poweni for one, 
two, or three horses, for running Wood Saws, 
^1^ ThreshiiiK JUachlnes, Ensllaice Cut- 
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'Tood 8aws.or 
Threshlne 
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are invited 
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F. L. MAINE, General Agent, Willet, N. Y. 
CHEAP FEED. 
Experience has demonstrated to a certainty 
that ensllai^e Is the 
cheapest stock food on 
earth. 
The 
very best 
and 
rheapest 
way to 
prepare 
it {8 with 
the 
- OAI_D\AAIIM 
and OAI-D\A4ll>l 
Ensilage and Dry Fodder Cutters. Wh, J Because 
they require less power than any similar machine 
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and outwear any other machine. They cuticonven- 
ient lengths .Can be equipped with any length of ele¬ 
vator. Has safety fly wheel and safety treddle lever. 
TME BELCHER & TAYLOR A. T. CO., 
Box 75, Chicopee Falls, Mass. 
WROUGHT IRON PIPE 
Good condition, used short time only; new thread 
and couplings; for Steam, Gas or Water; sizes from J 
to 12 inch diameter. Our price per foot on V inch I 
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CHICAGO HOUSE WRECKING CO., 
»’• S5th and Iron Sts.^ CHICAGO, 
WHEELS 
-FARM WAGONS 
any size wanted, any width of 
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No blackHmitlPs bills to pay. 
No tire, to reset. Fit yonr old wagon 
with low steel wheels with wide 
tires at low price. Our catalogue 
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EMPIRE MFG. CO., Quincy. III. 
THE SPANGLER Low Down 
^ is made with EITHER WOOD OR STEEL FRAME. Force 
feed as to grain, grass seed and fertilizer. Being low-down 
it is easy to flll, easy on the wheels and easy to handle. 
Sows all grain perfectly in any quantity desired. Stagger and lift 
lever. Raising hoes shuts off all feed. Land, grain, grass seed and 
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rThIa can best be done by grinding 1 
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SCIENTIFIC 
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F008 MANFC. CO. 
Springfield. O. 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, August 31, 1901. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Some Early History of the Grange.593 
Farms in the Shenandoah Valley....593, 594 
Farm Notes from New Jersey.594 
Sowed Corn for Fertilizer.594 
Wheat After Silage Corn.595 
A Talk About Ashes.595 
Nitrate of Soda on Grass.596 
Handling the Silo Crops.595 
Beet Tops in the Silo.596 
Rye to Follow Potatoes.596 
Pruning the Potato Vine.596 
Bordeaux on Potatoes.59S 
Hope Farm Notes.599 
The Short Potato Crop.599 
Odd Notes .601 
Crop Prospects .601 
Crop and Weather Report. 
Hay in New England.604 
Killing Witch Grass.605 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Dairy Notes from Connecticut.606 
Starting with Sheep.606 
Good Grain for Young Pigs.606 
Dairy and Farm Notes.607 
Clean vs. “Contaminated” Milk.607 
Some Indiana Fodder Crops.607 
HOR'PICULTURE. 
The Story of Plant Galls.594 
From Raspberries to Rape.596 
The Trade in Apple “Chops”.596 
Pollenizing the Northern Spy.597 
Setting Apple Trees.597 
Fruit Questions from Virginia.597 
Bing and Napoleon Cherries; Virgalieu 
Pear .597 
What Killed the Tree?.597 
Everybody’s Garden .597 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.5198 
Apples for Southern New Jersey.598 
Grape and Rose.598 
Strawberries and Lime.598 
Georgia Horticultural Society.605 
Wayne Co. (N. Y.) Fruit Growers.605 
Destroying Milk Weed.605 
Greenhouse Sub-irrigation .605 
Root-Knot Disease in Vegetables.605 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.602 
Rural Recipes .602 
The Cow Cure.603 
The Rural Patterns.603 
Preserving Corn .603 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
About a Rural Telephone Association....594 
Editorials .'.600 
Events of the Week.601 
Markets .604 
Business Bits .604 
Market Notes .605 
Humorous .608 
