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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 25, 1896 
Humorous. 
Siik : “Why does a woman take a 
man’s name when she gets married?” 
He: “Why does she take everything 
else he’s got ? ”— Truth. 
“My dear boy, observe the postage 
stamp; its usefulness depends upon its 
ability to stick to one thing until it gets 
there.”— Life Savers’ Record. 
George : “ You would marry the big¬ 
gest fool in the world if he asked you, 
wouldn’t you?” Ethel: “Oh, George, 
that is so sudden.”— Modes and Fabrics. 
Teacher : “ What was Washington’s 
object in making the perilous trip across 
the Delaware?” Dick Hicks: “He 
wanted to see if the peach crop was a 
failure. ” — Puck. 
Sunday School Teacher : “ What are 
we to understand by this passage: l Yh 
ask and receive not, because ye ask 
amiss’?” Precocious Hoy: “Ought to 
ask a widow.”— Credit Lost. 
“ I’m goin’ to tell my pa on you,” said 
Johnny Smithers, as the blacksmith 
pared some of the horn away from the 
horse’s hoof. “Why? What have I 
done?” asked the blacksmith. “You 
’ain’t got shoes to fit Dobbin, an’ you’re 
whittlin’ off his feet to suit those you 
have got.”—Harper’s Round Table. 
“1 hope it isn’t heresy,” remarked the 
Rev. Fourthly, sampling some of the 
fruit he had just purchased, and throw¬ 
ing it away, “ to express the opinion 
that when the Lord looked on every¬ 
thing he had made and pronounced it 
very good, he hadn’t yet made the Hen 
Davis apple. ”— Chicago Tribune. 
Ferrari, the celebrated composer, re¬ 
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in a little village in the Tyrol opened 
the window and stood in front of it, 
with hardly any clothing to his back. 
“ Peter,” shouted a neighbor, who was 
passing, ‘ ‘ what are you doing there ? ” 
“I’m catching cold.” “What for?” 
“ So I can sing bass to-morrow at church.” 
—Household Words. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, January 25, 1896. 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Transformation of a Mud hole.50 
Tar for Tin Roofs.50 
To Kill Rats.50, 51 
What Colorado Potatoes Cost.51 
Will It Pay to Steam Fodder ?.53 
Another Chapter on Lime.53 
The Five Varieties of Crimson Clover.53 
Best Crops for Swamps.53 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Mapes Talks “ Hens by the Acre.” (Concluded). 49 
How to Dishorn.51 
Horse Shoe Farm Notes.51 
Fattening Pigs on Potatoes.52, 53 
A Ration for Fattening Lambs.53 
Feeding Value of Dried Brewers’ Grains.57 
A Catechism on Shoddy.62 
To Fatten the Old Cow.62 
The Guernseys Again.62, 63 
Curing Self-sucking Cows.63 
Value of Pine Tar.63 
Bone Meal for Cows.63 
Value of Tuberculin.63 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Plums Grafted on Peach Stocks.50 
Virginia Winesap Apples.51 
How They Study Horticulture.51 
Setting Fruits on Leased Land.52 
Get Ready to Fight Celery Blight.53 
Tijk R. N.-Y. Seedling Potatoes.54 
How Hothouse Produce is Selling.57 
“Tested Seeds”. 57 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Editorials.58 
Learn How to Shirk.58 
Help the School Teachers.58 
Using Dry Bread.58 
The Little One’s Bed.58, 59 
Cutting Over Stockings.59 
Wall Hangings.59 
Patterns for R. N.-Y. Readers.59 
Printed Patchwork.59 
MISCELLANEOUS 
What is Spontaneous Combustion?.52 
The Apple Crop and 17-Year Locusts.53 
Ruralisms.55 
Editorials.56 
Brevities. 56 
Business Bits. 57 
As We Go to Press.60 
Markets.61 
Crop and Market Notes.61 
Humorous. 64 
