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THE RURAL-NEW-YORKER. 
January 4, 1896 
Humorous. 
11 W hat is the price of your canaries ? ” 
“ Five dollars.” “ That is too dear. But, 
if I take a box of seed, how long before 
a bird will grow ? ”—Credit Lout. 
“Youk father is entirely bald now, 
isn’t he ? ” said a man to the son of a 
millionaire. “Yes,” replied the youth 
sadly. “ I’m the only heir he has left.”— 
Spare Moments. 
Auntie : “ Will you have some oil 
with the salad, Tommy, like me ? ” 
Tommy (who is having a happy (?) day 
with auntie): “No, thanks, I don’t 
squeak .”—New Budget. 
Roy had been taught how to gargle. 
A few weeks after, while at grandma’s 
farm, he saw the chickens drinking. 
“ Oh, mamma,” he shouted, “come here 
and see the chickens gargle their 
throats! ”— Youth's Companion. 
The Ear of Corn : “ When I get down 
to 15c a bushel I’m worth something for 
fuel, and you ain’t.” The Potato : “ No, 
I’m only good for food. They burn you 
in one part of the stove in order to bake 
me in the other .”—Hay Trade Journal. 
Confidential Friend (to elderly but 
not unattractive spinster): “So, dear, 
you've given up advocating woman’s 
rights?” Elderly Spinster: “Yes; I 
now go in for women’s lefts.” “Women’s 
lefts ! What’s that ? ” “ Widowers, my 
dear .”—Modes and Fabrics. 
A story is told by a gentleman who is 
somewhat experienced in the training of 
children, of a little one who, on going 
home from church, was asked what was 
the text, and he said, “ Blessed are the 
Peacemakers.” “ But, Charley, do you 
know what a peacemaker is ? ” some one 
asked. “ No, I don’t,” he replied. “ I 
do,” said one of the little girls in the 
family. “ They’re seamstresses, and we 
are always awfully glad when they come 
to the house, because we can have plenty 
of bits to make dresses for our dollies.”— 
New York Ledgei'. 
lUijScdlanmis 
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TEN 
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tw Salesmen wanted everywhere. Write now. 
FRANK H. BATTLES, ROCHESTER, N. Y., Grower of Farm and Garden Seeds. 
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IMPROVEMENTS, 
PRICES. 
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SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. 
ASP1N WALL MFC. CO., 
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ONE=THIRD flORE BUTTER 
Is the gain reported by users of the 
Improved United States Cream Separator. 
We have used vour No. ■; United States Separator with great 
satisfaction, and from our records we find we are making fully 
a third more buiter than with our former process. 
We run a milk delivery route, and only the milk left undelivered 
is run through the Separator. This milk is more or less churned, 
and sometimes has particles of butter the size of a pea in it, and 
we consider it one of the most telling tests possible to make, to 
separate such milk as this. But your machine does its work in 
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C. W. STUART & CO. 
Newark, Wavne Co., N. Y., Nov. 25 , 1895 
Send for circulars of the U. S. Separator, the best machine for 
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VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., - - - Bellows Falls, Vermont. 
A FEED MILL GOLD MINE: 
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■ mu ui uiunuiui until IL* 
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: Clover* Timothy, 
5 Alfalfa, Red Top, 
: Flax, and 
I ALL KINDS OF 
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HOPPER for 
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UNION FENCE CO., DeKalb, III. 
SAVE YOUR FEED 
BY USING 
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RUNS EASY, GRINDS FINE AND FAST. 
Weight, 150 pounds. Price, $20. Can 
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An extra set of Burs furnished with 
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Box 274. LambertvUle, N. J. 
FEED MILLS 
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Hr 1 also mahe SWEEP MILLS that 
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FARMER’S 
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larger. Corn and Feed Mills 
Hay Presses & WaterWheels 
This is the 
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or CORN and COBS, 
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L. Improved for tsw. 
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Sent Free to Farmers! 
A new book on Agriculture. Horticulture, 
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THE CUTAWAY HARROW CO., 
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Would lease on shares. Box 290, Rochester, N. Y. 
CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, January 4, 1896. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Subsoiling; What It Is! What It Does !. 3 
A Storeroom in aSKlehill. 5 
Crimson Clover for Spring Pasture. 5 
Value of Fish for Fertilizer. 5 
Ragweed and Corn. 0 
A Florida Man Beats Chapman. 6 
When to Irrigate Potatoes. 7 
Horseshoe Farm Notes. 9 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Sugar Beets for Dairy Cows.2, 3 
A Southern Ohio Dairyman. ... 4 
Why Cream Does Not Churn. 5 
Dried Brewers’ Grains for Hens and Horses... 5 
How to Feed Canadian Steers. 5 
Feeding Twice a Day.6, 7 
Feeding a Hen. Parti. 14 
Holstein-Jersey Cross. 14 
Notes on Wintering Sheep.15 
Discharge Oil Heaters..— 15 
HORTICULTUR AL. 
Apples on the Delaware Peninsula.1, 2 
A Few Desirable House Plants. 2 
Fruit Notes from “Dale View”. 4 
Seedling Peach Trees. 4 
Some Fruits for Indiana. 4 
Value of the Lucretia Dewberry. 4 
Time to Prune Peach Trees . 4 
Peaches and Apples Together ; The Banana 
Apple. 4 
Winter Pears for Arkansas. 4 
How to Handle Peach Pits. 4 
The Celery Will Not Blanch.4, 5 
A List of Strawberries. 5 
Something About Celery Blight. 5 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
“ ’Specially Me”.10 
Editorials.10 
Cooking Meat.10, 11 
Easily Upset.11 
The Cook the Cornerstone.11 
Shall All Be Housekeepers ?. 11 
A Girl’s Best Chaperon. II 
Adaptable Denim. II 
The Gift of Tact.11 
Sense and Sentiment.11 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Some “Dung Worms” Examined.. 
What Ails the Boiled Cider ?. 
Down on the Robin. 
Insurance at Cost. 
Ruralisms. 
Editorials. 
Brevities. 
Caugbt in the Christmas Market.. 
Business Bits. 
As We Go to Press. 
Crop and Market Notes. 
Markets. 
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