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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
AUG. 23 
Humorous . 
STUCK UP. 
A cruel wretch a beetle caught, 
And to the wall him pinned, O; 
Then said the beetle to the crowd, 
“ Though I’m stuck up, 1 am not proud, 
And his soul flew out of the window.” 
—The Old Knickerbocker Magazine. 
The Decline of Agriculture—A boy’s re¬ 
fusal to remain on his father’s farm.— 
■Texas Siftings. 
The man who goes to a seashore resort 
for change frequently comes back without 
any.— Boston Courier. 
The custom has prevailed within a certain 
church in California of presenting each 
member of the Sabbath-school with an egg 
during the exercises at the celebration of 
Easter. On one occasion of this kind, when 
the interesting ceremony was at hand, the 
assistant clergyman rose and made the an¬ 
nouncement : “ Hymn four hundred and 
nineteen, ‘Begin, my soul the exalted lay,’ 
after which the eggs will be distributed.”— 
Harper's Bazar. 
IttiSfcUaneoujji gutaiijsittfl. 
Always name The R. N.-Y. in writing to 
advertisers. 
Throwing a Switch 
is tough work in stormy weather, »nd the switch¬ 
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They are worth ten times their cost, and will save 
you many a sickness. No other article of clothing 
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Slicker ” delivered without extra cost. Particu lars 
and illustrated catalogue free. 
A. J. TOWER, - Boston, Mass. 
FARQUHAR VIBRATING SEPARATOR. 
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110 and 112 S. Jefferson Street, 
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THE NEW CUTAWAY SEEDER 
Positive In Us action, and perfect In Its seeding. Will 
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The HICG1NUM MANF’G CORPORATION, 
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F OR SALE —Whipple Spring-Tooth Wheel Harrow 
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Cost $38 ; price, $22. F. D. Snyder, B. 801, Ithaca, N. Y. 
P ERSONAL.—Wanted Information of Thos. Holme; 
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POTATO DIG 0 ERS.- w K 3 ?.“;.!*“ 
WA1. CLORE’S SONS, Rising Bun, IrnlJ I 
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planted now will produce a moderate crop next 
season. Price, $8.00 per 100. Catalogue containing 
planting and cultural directions FREE. 
T HE LARGEST CROP—season 1889—of each of the FOUR GREAT STAPLES 
grown with fertilizers, was raised with the MAPES MANURE EXCLUSIVELY. 
Corn, 213 bushels, shelled; Potatoes, 1,031 bushels; Oats, 133 bushels ; Wheat, 46 
bushels, per acre. THE LARGEST CROPS of Potatoes grown in season of 1889, in the 
Crop Contests, in each of the following States, were grown exclusively with the Mapes 
Potato Manure : Vermont (by winner of the State Agricultural Society Prize), Massachu¬ 
setts, Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Minnesota, Washington, Oregon ; also Pennsylvania, 
with exception of one instance, in which it was exceeded by eight bushels. 
CORN, WHEAT AND OATS, 1889. 
With these crops the Mapes Manures distanced all competitors. The Corn 
crop, 213 bushels, shelled, grown with the Mapes Corn Manure, cost LESS 
THAN TWENTY CENTS per bushel (shelled); also Corn crops, 119 and 05 
bushels, shelled. 
The Mapes Manures are shown by the official reports of the State Agricultural Ex. 
periment Stations for the past year, to contain twenty-five per cent, and upward 
more plant food than the average of other Special Crop Manures and to be 
the cheapest to the farmer. 
The only Prize WHEAT Crop grown with fertilizers in the American Agriculturist 
Prize Crop Contest, 1889, was raised by Mr. Bartholemew Gedney, Westchester County, 
N. Y., with 600 pounds of the Mapes Complete (wheat) Manure applied broadcast and 
harrowed in. Variety— White Beardless. Harvested July 2nd, 1880. Yield, 
46 bushels on one acre. Straw, 6,347 pounds. Grain, 2,750 pounds. One 
even or struck, bushel weighed 60 pounds. Dimensions of oontest acre, 200 
4-10x150 feet. Entire cost, $38.50. 
The other prize wheat crops were raised in Utah and the West with irrigation. 
Send for Circulars and Prices. Special attention given to securing low freight rates. 
Prompt shipment. Address 
The Mapes Formula and Peruvian Guano Company, 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, August 23,1890. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Live Stock Notes. 552 
Startling Figures on Chicks. 554 
Poultry Notes.554 
FARM TOPICS. 
Chemical Fertilizers and Stable Manures. 545 
Fungous Enemies of the Farmer. 545 
Commission Merchants; Winter Rye. 545 
Bliss’s Triumph Potato.. .. 548 
More About Fertilizers and Wheat. 546 
Delaware Beef-Making All Right.546 
Farming 9lKl Acres at a Prollt In Western N. Y.... 549 
Woman's Farming. 550 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Childs’s Great Japanese aeberry ..541 
Garden Notes. 545 
Great American Straw'S V. 545 
Remedy for Cabbage js . .. 545 
The Business of Celery ^wing. 549 
WOM 8 WORK. 
Our Cooks. B.556 
Good Plain Cake. u,. 551 
Filling Cracks In Finn . 5M 
Girl Bachelors’ Houi ^ eplng.551 
ForNeuralgla. «, ... 551 
Lemon Pudding.... ► . 551 
Bananas.£xj . 551 
M 1? ELLANEOUS. 
Injurious Insects. .*.. 543 
That District Schi ® .if Yours.543 
A Listener’s Notei . 544 
Dealers In Raw F ...it.545 
Time to Seed a Lawn.545 
Tree Agents. 546 
Samuel Wilson on German Hares. 546 
What Others Say. 546,54? 
Implement Notes. 549 
The Farmers’ Alliance and Supreme Court. 555 
Editorial. 548 
BREVITDS. 548 
Publisher's Desk.552 
Agricultural News. . 563 
MARKHT8. 558 
Crop and Market Notes. 658 
Almanac. 554 
Rural Special Crop Reports . 555 
