THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 29, 1896 
15 2 
Humorous. 
“ My lips are sore, but camphor ice 
I will not have,” said May. 
“ Of course, ’twould cure them, but, you see, 
’Twould keep the chaps away.” — Bazar. 
“ I am no prize fighter,” said the laun- 
drym»n, “ but if any one gives me cuffs, 
I’ll proceed to do ’em up .”—Rochester 
Democrat. 
“ IIow do you pronounce the last syl¬ 
lable of that word, ‘ butterine ’ ? ” asked 
the customer. “ The last syllable is 
silent,” stiffly replied the grocer’s clerk. 
— Household. 
Ethel had formed the very unbecom¬ 
ing habit of saying “ H’m ? ” when she 
did not quite understand, and her aunt 
had been teaching her to say, “ Beg par¬ 
don,” instead. The following day, she 
was overheard talking with some of her 
little playmates. “ My auntie says you 
mustn’tsay, ‘H’m.,”’ she explained. “You 
must say, ‘Baking powder.’” — Credit 
Lost. 
In an old-fashioned home of New Or¬ 
leans there was company at dinner, and 
the ladies were discussing the woman 
question. A gentleman present, after 
hearing all the pros and cons, facetiously 
remarked that two preachers were dis¬ 
cussing the same problem, recently, in 
his hearing, and they both agreed that 
it portended evil and “that women were 
responsible for most of the evil in the 
world—in fact, that women were worse 
than men.” One of the ladies indignantly 
retorted : “Indeed, they are not; women 
are the salt of the earth.” “ Dat’s so, 
honey,” put in old Aunt Susan from the 
kitchen ; “dat’s de Bible truf, for shore. 
Women is the salt ob de earth. Just 
think ob Lot’s wife !” And everybody 
laughed at the sudden and unexpected 
application of the old Bible story.— 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorkkr, February 29, 1896. 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Discussion on Swill Barrels. 134 
Time Lost Over Harness.134, 135 
Hay That Wouldn’t Make. 135 
A Simple and Easily-Made Brush Hake. 136 
When to Use Hen Manure.136 
Vegetables for Overflowed Laud. 137 
Costly Straw, for Bedding. 137 
To Make Good Kentucky Soil Belter. 137 
What Is Ammoniated Bone. 138 
Building Cement Floors. 143 
Value of Kaffir Corn. 143 
A Substitute for Ensilage. 143 
Are Potatoes Injured by Soaking ?. 143 
Some Notes from Iowa.143 
The Knack in Farming. 1:8 
Crimson Clover in Wisconsin. 151 
Some Potato Points. 151 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Feeding Dried Brewers’ Grains. 135 
Breed, Feed and Care.135 
Feeding liens with Hotel Offal.1?5, 136 
Ailing Animals.136 
Building a “ Low-Down ’’ Poultry House... 136, 137 
Bitter Taste to Milk.143 
Feeding a Hen. Part III. 148 
A Friend to the Farm.148, 149 
A Calving. Cow. 149 
Hogs at Straw Stacks.149 
Hens in Large Flocks.150, 151 
Shall Poultrymen Stamp Eggs ?. 151 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Cold Facts About Hothouse Lettuce.133, 134 
Acid Phosphate vs. Bone for Fruit. 134 
How I Grew a Big Crop of Tomatoes. 134 
Random Notes on Horticultural Novelties_ 135 
Irrigation of Fruit in Ohio. 137 
How to Give the Curculio a Jar. 137 
Grafting Japan Chestnuts ou 15-Year-Old 
Wood. 139 
Quality of Early Richmond Cherry. 140 
Some Questions About Celery. 140 
A List of Fruits for Virginia. 140 
Planting Five-Year-Old Apple Trees. 143 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Editorials.144 
The Farm Child’s Vacation.144, 145 
From the Kitchen Window. 145 
Improved Buckwheats,. 145 
Spring Blossoms.145 
Printed Patchwork. 145 
MISCELLANEOUS 
A Colony of “Spring-tails” in Water.138, 139 
Seedsmen and Poor Seeds. 139 
A New House that Keeps Damp. 139 
Ruralisms...140, 141 
Editorials. 142 
Brevities. 142 
Business Bits.143 
As We Go to Press. 146 
Markets.. 147 
Crop and Market Notes.147 
Market Hunter Worse than Pot Hunter.150 
Humorous. 152 
