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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 11, 1896 
Humorous. 
Mistress (severely): “How did this fire 
happen to go out?” New Girl (inno¬ 
cently): “ I guess you forgot to tell me 
to put coal on.” —New York Weekly. 
Senator Peffer has discovered that 
the average cost of burying a United 
States Senator is something over 33,000. 
Let us call it 34,000 apiece and finish up 
the job.— Life. 
A father usually worries as much 
from fear that his daughter will marry 
the wrong man as her mother worries 
from fear that she will not marry at all. 
—Atchison Globe. 
“ You and your sister are about the 
same size, and you look exactly alike. 
Twins, aren’t you ? ” asked the visitor. 
“ Course not ! ” exclaimed Tommy, high¬ 
ly indignant. “ She’s a girl ! ”— Chicago 
'Prlbune. 
“ I’m so happy,” she said. “ Ever since 
my engagement to Charlie, the whole 
world seems different. I do not seem to 
be in dull, prosaic Eastbourne, but in—” 
“ Lapland,” suggested the small brother. 
— Tit-Bits. 
A Missouri farmer figured it out one 
rainy day that he had walked 300 miles 
in cultivating one acre of corn. He 
thereupon sold his farm and moved to 
town, where he walked 600 miles to find 
a job. —Arkansas Traveler. 
“ I can’t remember where I put my 
glasses,” said Duncombe. “ Have you 
looked for them ? ” asked Mrs. Dun¬ 
combe. “No; but I will as soon as I 
find them,” said Duncombe. “ I can’t 
see well enough without them to look 
now.”— Harper's Bazar. 
They were talking about the various 
methods of celebrating the passing of 
the old year and the coming of the new. 
“Did you ever dance the old year out 
and the new year in ? ” he asked. “ Yes, 
indeed, scores of times,” was the reply. 
And then she was sorry she spoke.— Tit- 
Bits. 
Boy: “Say, mom, I busted my ball.” 
Mother : “You shouldn’t say bust, John ; 
you should say burst.” Boy: “That’s 
what teacher said, but when the prin¬ 
cipal asked me who that was, I said it 
was a burst of Gen. Washington and he 
licked me, so I thought I would stick to 
bust! ”— Truth. 
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Little Johnny has been naughty, and 
has to be sent from the table without 
having any dessert. For an hour he has 
been sitting in the corner of the room 
crying. At last he thinks it time to stop. 
“ Well! I hope you have done crying 
now,” says his mother. “ Haven’t done,” 
says Johnny, in a passion; “I’m only 
resting .”—Modes and Fabrics. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, January 11, 1896. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Seed Potatoes Started Right.18, 19 
Painting Hams. 19 
Millet for New Jersey.19, 20 
Canadian Dump Wagon.20 
Lifting a Beef or Hog. 20 
Value of Phosphoric Acid in Bone.20, 21 
Some Facts About Using Lime.21 
Raw Cotton Seed for Fertilizer.21 
Corn Fertilizer from Hen Manure.21 
The Use of Lime on Wheat.21 
The Farmer as a Chemist.21 
“Stiif Gray ” Southern Soil for Potatoes.21 
Lime and Clover.22 
What Causes the “ Mix ” ?.22 
This Soil Is Sour.22 
Another Potato Estimate.23 
Light on the Pork Question.23 
Keep Your Business Secrets.23 
Dry Salted Pork.23 
The Other Side of Corn Hay.25 
Recuperative Forces in the Soil. VI.25 
LIVE STOCK AND DAI It Y. 
Is Milk a Substitute for Meat ?. 19 
Leather-chewing Habit.19 
To Fatten a Beef.20 
Cow Stall aud Coal Tar.20 
A Review of the Poultry Market.25 
A Dress Suit for “ Hothouse Lambs”.25 
The Horse is Going Blind.,.25 
Feedinir a Hen. Part II.30 
Fish for Hens.30 
Self-sucking Cows.30 
FeedingTwice a Day.30 
The “Milk Mirror”.30 
Killing Horns on Calves.30 
Clean Milkers Wanted.30, 31 
Obstructed Teat.31 
Feeding Potatoes.31 
A Dishorning Convert.31 
Two Big Pigs.31 
Are Dairy Short-horns Needed ?.31 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Where to Bud Peach Stocks. 19 
What Crop for a Mulch ?. 19 
Strawberries on Muck Soil. 19 
The Farmer’s Business Apple.20 
How to Start Celery Seeds.21 
Magnolia Grandiilora as a Pot Plant.21 
An Opinion About Keiffer Pears.22, 23 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Buds.'•.26 
Editorials.26 
The Southern Farmer’s Wife.26 
The Best of Life.26 
Teaching the Value of Money.26 
Mrs. Stanton’s Beginning.26 
A Neuralgia Preventer.26, 27 
How They Differ.27 
Patterns for R. N.-Y. Readers.27 
Pen Potpourri.27 
How to Make a Fan Bag. 27 
Bathroom Comfort.27 
Washing Made Easy.27 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Building a House Without Capital.17, 18 
How to Kill Rats. 19 
To Preserve Pine Timber.20 
Children that Breathe Through the Mouth.21 
Use of Carbon-bisulphide.21 
Ruralisms.23 
Editorials.24 
Brevities. 24 
Business Bits.25 
As We Go to Press.28 
Markets.29 
Crop and Market Notes. 29 
Humorous.32 
