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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
DEC. 20 
Humorous. 
The duck takes to both water and land 
for divers and sun dry reasons .—Dallas 
News. 
"Snelley writes a good deal better than 
he talks.” “ Oh, immensely.” “Then you 
have read some of his writings?” “No, 
but I have heard him talk .”—Boston 
Transcript. 
The Same Old Excuse.--“How did you 
come here ? ” asked the visitor of the 
prisoner on the Island. “The McKinley 
Bill sent me up,” returned the facetious 
convict.— N. Y. Sun. 
Mother : “ What makes you cry that 
way ? ” Johnnie : “ Our poor teacher has 
been sick so long, and—and ”— “ What! Did 
he die ? ” “ No, no. he is getting well—boo 
hoo .”—Texas Siftings. 
“Can your little brother talk now?” 
“ Yes. He can say some words real well.” 
“What are they?” “I don’t know. 
They’re words I never heard before.”— 
Harper's Young People. 
“ I AM sorry to learn your mother is ill,” 
paid the sympathizing teacher to the little 
girl who had come in late. “Is she sick 
abed ? ” “ Not quite,” replied the truthful 
child. “She’s just sick a sofa .”—Chicago 
Tribune. 
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Send 6 cents in stamps for samples on wood and 
illustrated < atalogue of creosoted houses. 
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ARABIAN 
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For 
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and CATTLE 
The best preparation on earth to give your horse 
an appetite, rid him of worms, make his coat 
sleek, give him new life and ambition, — in short, 
make him LOOK BETTER and FEEL BETTER 
than he ever did before. Is the best food ever 
discovered for CATTLE and SWINE. It will 
MAKE HENS LAY. 
The Arabian Food is put up in 10 lb. bags, $1, 
25 lb. $2, 50 lb. $3.50. Agents wanted every¬ 
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A 10 lb. bag express paid to any address for $1. 
Address THE ARABIAN FOOD CO., LEE,MASS. 
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RIFLES <2.00 
PISTOLS 75c 
GUNS 
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of The Rural. For particulars and sample address 
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ARKANSAS SEEDLING APPLES, 
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J^EA DS THEM A LL for Ease & 
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Work 
m v. Bands 
.th closed 
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v,g press, 
f 200 lbs. made 
ee minutes; 24 
s w and in general 
: within 8 miles of 
Kstory. Operated 
fasler and faster 
than any ot her horse 
, power press. Patent- 
rdricks, Kingston, N. Y. 
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THE PERKINS’ 
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la the Strongest and Best Self- 
Regulating Wind Mill made. 
FuTl instructions for erecting 
-- -—sent with 
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address 
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from four inches upwards; 
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IST" Send to us for Special Circulars which illustrate all the points of this great 
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MILKING TUBES. 
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\ R hampion E vaporator. 
For MAPLE, SORGHUM, cTdeR, ' “ 
«> and FRUIT JELLIES. 
Corrugated pan over firebox, doubling, 
boiling capacity. Small interchange/ 
able syrup nans (connected by si¬ 
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ing and storing, and a I’erfee* ' 
Automatic Regulator. , 
The Champion is as great a, ' 
an improvement over the ‘ 
Cook Pan as the latter 
was over the old iron ket¬ 
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thit papor. 
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This Trade 
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Tie Best 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, December 20,1890. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
About Poultry Houses. 873 
Two Hens for New England. s 75 
Making an Ayrshire Herd. 875 
Alderney Cattle. 877 
Sterilizing Milk and Cream .sss 
Paper Horse Shoe. 885 
Corn Harvester. 88 . 
A Floating Harrow.w .5 
Live Stock Notes ..J. am 
Catching Guinea Hens.gyti 
Brown Leghorn Record.. . m 0 
Lime for Poultry. 8 <«) 
Management of Young Chicks. 891 
FARM TOPICS. 
Home-Mixed Fertilizers. s-71 
Hillside Farming. 875 
Growing Crops at Fall's.8i7 
About Sorghum. 877 
Difference in Fertilizer Effects. s 77 
White Grubs. 877 
Wire-Worms in Potatoes. 877 
Potato Queries. 877 
The Rot of Potatoes. 878 
Wagon Brakes. .... . 885 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Some Arkansas Apples. 878 
A Few Flowei Notes . 875 
Same Name. Different Squashes.877 
Raspberries for Market. 877 
Abundance Plum. 877 
Another Grape Report. 87s 
Smoking Out Apple Scab. 879 
WOMAN’S WORK 
What Our Girlie Saw. 8?6 
Bugs—Useful and Ornamental. 8*7 
Tree, or Stocking i . s81 
Sweet Potatoes New Every Day.. 887 
Chocilate Pudding. 887 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Hints for Home Reading. 874 
From Wisconsin to Alabama.. 875 
Something to Think About. 876 
The Masses Are on Trial. 876 
Individualism .876 
Two Views of thoTobacro Tariff. 876 
Some Sense from Ohio . 876 
Banks Sustaining Farmers .876 
Patent Extortion.s 7 « 
The Patent Is a Tax. 878 
What Others Say. 87!) 
Marching to Atlanta”. s8'j 
Farmers’ AUlatice Thoughts..ssi 
Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations ... 881 
Societlesaud Organizations. ssi 
The Farmers’ Alliance Convention. 8-4 
Renner's Notes.884 
Society Meetings to Como . bki 
BoyR, Save Your Wages.S8"i 
Mexican l’ateut Laws.8-5 
On a Colorado Rauch .. ss. 
Our Fences. kk«i 
Camp Life In a Farm House.sm 
Humorous. 892 
Editorial. . ..... 
Bhrvitiks. 
Outlook . 
Crop and Markkt Notes . 
AGRICULTURAL N KWS. . 
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