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TUNE 28 
Humorous 
Chairman of Committee: “We want a 
watch worth $100 to offer as a prize in an 
amateur athletic contest.” Jeweler: “ One 
that will cost about $30, I suppose.”— Life. 
First Anarchist: “Have a beer?” 
Second Anarchist: “No.” First Anar¬ 
chist: “You’re not sick, are you?” Sec¬ 
ond Anarchist: “No, but they tell me that 
beer works.”— New York Sun. 
Missing.— Census Taker: “How old are 
you, madam ? ” Madam : " I’ve seen twen¬ 
ty-five summers.” Census Taker: “How 
did you come to miss the other fifteen or 
twenty ?”— Binghamton Leader. 
Too Persistent :—“ I wonder why Fogg 
and Giles don’t speak now. They used to 
be great friends.” “The reason is that 
Fogg persisted in telling Giles how to lay 
out his flower garden.”— Boston Herald. 
A Home Industry.—F ather': “Clara,what 
game was that you were playing when I 
looked in the parlor last night? ” Clara: 
“ Hide and seek.” Father: “ What was the 
kissing for?” Clara: “Oh, that was the duty 
on the hides.”— Boston Herald. 
Lawyer: “Do you understand the na¬ 
ture of an oath ?” Colored Witness: “Sah ?” 
Lawyer : “ Do you understand the nature 
of an oath, I say ?” Colored Witness (im¬ 
pressively) : “ Sah, I have druv mules in 
Louisianny for nigh onto forty year.”— 
Somerville Journal. 
Living Issues.— “ So you have eighteen 
children? And you used to insist that a 
small family was the proper thing.” “Yes, 
I did think so till I moved to St. Paul and 
heard the arrogant boasts of Minneapolis 
about her population. But, say, we’re 
going to down that town yet.”— Chicago 
Post. 
He Knew Himself.— “I| don’t thinfi you 
give yourself credit for the merits you 
really possess,” said a young woman to 
Willie Washington. “ I have been told that 
you are quite a hard thinker.” “Yaa-s,” 
said Willie, “it has stwuck me that I think 
with a great deal of difficulty.”— Washing¬ 
ton Post. 
The Two Evils.—A married couple from 
the other side of the water, who were tem¬ 
porarily stopping at a Broadway hotel, 
asked the clerk about summer resorts, and | 
he replied that they would be pleased with 
the Catskill neighborhood. “Lor’ save 
hus, but hi don’t want to go there !” ex¬ 
claimed the woman. “But w’y not. my 
love!” queried he. “Because hi’ve a 
’orror of cats.” “Hi, well, the next best 
place his probably the Dogskill, hand you 
know hive never ’ad a dog about me, hand 
wouldn’t for no money. Perhaps we’l lmeet 
fewer hanimals if we stay right ’ere.”— 
N. Y. Sun. 
IttisreUancou.s gulmti.sing. 
Advertisers treat all correspondents 
well if they mention the Rural New- 
Yorker. 
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Mention this paper. 
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AGENTS LANSING WHEKLIt MtKOYV CO., 
WANTED. Lansing. Michigan. 
The SPANGLER Grain Drill 
the best in the market. Has 
ad van 1 ages not found in any 
other drill. Also the Spang¬ 
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Corn Flauters Corn-Sheliers, 
Straw and Fodoer cutlers, 
cand Rollers, &<•. Fend for 
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THE SPANGLER MFG. CO.. York, Pa, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
HITORMISSIT. 
H ITORMISSIT is a word used to designate the principles 
upon which many of the manufacturers of cheap fertilizers 
base their productions. Knowing little or nothing of the 
science of so combining needed elements as to produce the 
best results, they purchase at the cheapest price the crudest 
materials, and upon the MIT-OR-MISS-IT principle compound a 
Hitormissit Fertilizer , which, if yon let them tell it, will grow 
enormous crops, even when used upon a ledge. 
The shrewd farmer, however, demands something besides 
“ Analyses” and “Prize Offers,” and looks to the maker of 
the fertilizer which is to cause his crop to be a success or 
failure. He asks for character, reputation, experience, 
facilities: knowing that all these things are necessary to 
produce the best fertilizers. A difference in price of a few 
dollars a ton doesn’t disturb him, for he has no use for the 
HITORMISSIT Fertilizers at any price. 
On the other hand, he patronizes the Bradley Fertilizer Co., 
who for twenty-nine years, with ample capital, unequaled facilities, 
and unimpeachable character, have been producing their “Standard 
Fertilizers/' which are conceded by every one to he unequaled for 
producing the best results. Not being a Hitormissit man he has no 
use for Hitormissit Fertilizers, hut relies upon those time-tested, 
trial-proved productions, “Bradley’s Fertilizers," whose sales 
upon their merits alone exceed those of any other manufacturer in 
the world. If you wish to learn more about the best fertilizer this 
world has ever seen, send a postal-card to the Bradley Fertilizer 
Co., 27 Kilby Street, Boston, for their beautiful almanac. 
ROSES-ROSES. 
Superb Plants from four-inch pots of Catharine Mermet, Niphetos, Bride, Safrano. 
Papa Gontier, &c. f &c. Price, #10 per 100. 
ELLWANCER & BARRY, Mount Hope Nurseries, 
50th Year. ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
THE BOSS SPRINKLER. 
V Valuable mill Fconoiiiieiil Im¬ 
plement. The saving in Paris Green 
on three acres of potatoes by the use of 
this Sprinkler, will pay for It One eask 
of water will rover three acres, ami m e 
man can do the work In one-half a day. 
Price, £.-{ 50. Ask your dealer or 
s nd to 
OLIVER A. SMITH. Manufacturer. 
Clnrkstoii. Midi. 
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Manufacturers of 
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110 and 112 S. Jefferson Street, 
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THE NIW CUTAWAY SEEDER 
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UM MACHINE CO 
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| For 16 T,»r» w 
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CONTENTS 
Rural New-Yorker, June 28, 18M<). 
live stock and dairy. 
TWO DOgS, aae.. eaaaeaeea en» eeaa 41-1 
Holstein Dairy Cows In Kentucky. f 
Red Polled Heifer, Midget..-'ll 
Cream for City Trade. «'•; 
Grave i n. The Churn . . ..J:" 
Silage Notes from Wisconsin ..•*{» 
Shoeing Farm Horses and Mules.. .. ....4li> 
Colton Seed Hulls as Feed fi r Dairy Cows. 41i 
_ Y Feedi gSour Mi k to Cows. 41i 
Feed for Mare and Colt. 
Positive In Its action, and perfect In its seeding. YY HI 
sow all kinds of grass seeds aud graius. Send for new 
special Circular. 
The HICGAHUM MANF’G CORPORATION, 
N. V. Office, 189 ft 191 Water 8t. Hlggammi, Conn. 
CIDER 
MACHINERY 
? Knuckle Joint A Screw Presses. Graters, 
Elevators, Pumps, etc. Send for Catalogu. 
BoOBMT A Bo.ch.rtrr. a.Co. 118W.W»Ur St. Byracu*,,H.T 
PORTABLE TRACTION AND SKID 
ENGINES, Horse Power. 
CATALOGUES MAILED FREE. 
EMPIRE 
AGRICULTURAL 
WORKS. 
LATEST IMPROVED MACHINES 
It pays- 
to get our Illustrated — 
Catalogue and prices before purchasing ■ ^ 
any of the following implements: Tread and j-'weep Powers, 
Threshers, Separators, Cannon Corn Shelters with (-leaner and 
Banner. Hand Shelters, different si tea and styles, Feed Cutters 
with and without Crusher, Feed Mills, Steel Land Rollers, Key¬ 
stone Chilled Plows.Kmplre Unht-draft Mower*, Cross-cut Wood 
Saws, Vertical Boilers with Engine complete, either on base 
olate or on four wheel iron truck, from 3 to 15 horse power. 
S. S. ME 881 NUEB Ac SON. T»Uu>y, Nvrtbunptos l'o.,Fs, 
Hor-e Breeding 
Business In Bottled Milk.. 
Live Stock Notes 
Treatment for Roup 
Poultry Notes. 
417 
tn 
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425 
•127 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Story of an Asparagus Acre . 4> J 
Notes fiom the Rural Grounds. 4 j 
Newer S rawberries in Michigan .-it 
Wisconsin Strawberry Notes . J -J 
Bugging Grapes J J 
New Jersey Fruit Notes. i 
Buhach lor Rose-Chafers.■}}' 
Cleaning Asparagus Bed. * < 
Cross-Ker1111za 1 ion of Grapes.41S 
Exclusive Orcharding.- 4 im 
More about Moles. 
Hales’s l’eaeh Business. «t 
Boston Vegetable Market. 421 
FARM TOPICS 
Potash in Fertilizers.... •--••••••• .. 
Black or Yellow Locust for Dry Regions.. .. 
Preparing Cour.se Manure for Top-Dressing 
Roding* aud MulchingV Deep and Shallow Culti¬ 
vation...fv;. 
Applying Stable Manure . f . . 
Timothy with Wheat. / b* ... 
Womau’s harming. 03 . • 
DOMESTIC DEI? .’MENT. 
My Success in Summer Miill jr . 4'.» 
Tliouglus is They Occur.. ..M .4-8 
Cooking Tofigh Beefsteak, f .j-t 
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Oiling Up 
Doing Up Lace Curtains.. 
Keeping Pie-Crust. 
Husbands. 
MISCE1 NEOUS. 
Are "Rooflt gs ’DurabUS . 
Bovs on the Farm.... . 
Sport on the Farm ..... • .. 
Leaving the Farm ; V « YVest. 
Title to Farm. . 
St ■ awsoulzer.. .. 
Sewer Pipes for YVell.. .4 • 
Gophers Again. ]|3 
YVhat Others Say. us 
Busluesa Bits. ’-J 
Implement Notes.. 4- 1 
W oman’s Work.. • -• ..■***• 
Something About the Genesis of Trusts.427 
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Pt’Bi.tSHKK's Desk . 
AQHIorLTORAL NhWS. 
MARKETS ... 
Crop ami Market Notes 
Al.M\N*C . 
Rural Special Crop Reports . 427 
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