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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
May 9, 1896 
Humorous. 
We have boiled the hydrant water; 
We have sterilized the milk; 
We have strained the prowling microbe, 
Through the finest kind of silk; 
We have bought and we have borrowed 
Every patent health device 
And at last the doctor tells us 
That we’ve got to boil the ice. 
—American Kitchen Magazine. 
He: “I will work day and night to 
make you happy.” “ She : “Nay, don’t 
do that. Work during the day and stay 
home at night.”— Philadelphia Times. 
Enfant Terrible : “ And did they go 
into the ark two by two ?” Mamma : 
“Yes, dearest.” Enfant Terrible : “Well, 
who went with auntie ?” — Pittsburgh 
Bulletin. 
“Well, Willy,” asked Grandma, “have 
you had all the dinner you want ?” 
“ Nome,” answered the truthful little 
boy ; “ but I have had all I can eat.”— 
Indianapolis Journal. 
Miss Dorothy W., of Winthrop, aged 
two years, and with a younger rival near 
the maternal throne, was found in silent 
and perilous intimacy with the parlor 
bric-a-brac. “ What are you doing, 
Dorothy?” demanded her mother. “ I’m 
all right,” responded the young woman, 
“you go and take care of your baby.”— 
Lewiston Journal. 
Rudyard Kipling took a great fancy 
to little Miss Dorothy Drew, the favorite 
grandchild of Mr. Gladstone, and en¬ 
deavored to win her friendship by tell¬ 
ing her stories. After some time Mrs. 
Drew, fearing Mr. Kipling might be 
tired, called to her and said, “ Now, 
Dorothy, I hope you have been good and 
not wearying Mr. Kipling.” “ Oh, no, 
mother, not a bit,” replied the child, 
adding with a sigh, “but you’ve no idea 
how Mr. Kipling has been wearying 
me !”— Credit Lost. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, May 9, 1896 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Modern Yankee Farm. Part II.317, 318 
Cheap Roof and Paint.318 
A Water Gate.318 
Mulching the Garden.318 
Kaffir Corn for Texas.319 
How to Make a Water Tank.319 
A Load of Colorado Cabbage.319 
How to Kill Cabbage Insects.320 
Acid Phosphates and Green Crops for Sourness 320 
The Squash and Its Enemies.320, 321 
Some Beans for Nova Scotia.321 
Building a Silo.321 
The Strength of Bordeaux Mixture.321 
Crimson Clover for 1896.322, 323 
Notes from Woodland Farm.323 
Abuses in the Seed Potato Trade.323 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Shipping Breeding Fowls’.318 
A Calf Bit.318 
Silo for Small Herd.318 
A Silo Pays.318 
Sunbhine for the Stock.318 
Ailing Animals.320 
The Yorkshire Breed of Swine.321 
Feeding a Hen. Part XVI.330,331 ‘ 
Eloquence for the Cow.331 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Some Desirable Hardy Perennials.319 
Horse Shoe Farm Notes.319, 320 
Crickets as Strawberry Pickers.320 
An Apple Orchard for Northern Ohio.321 
What About the Bismarck Apple ?.321 
Graft the Marianna Plums.321 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Editorials .326 
Mrs. Gannett’s Arbor Day (Concluded).326 
By the Kitchen XVindow.326 
That Sunburned Hat .326 
Patterns for R. N.-Y. Readers.327 
Sofa Cushions.327 
Good for Digestion.327 
Sense and Sentiment.327 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Editorials.324 
Brevities.324 
Business Bits.325 
An Invitation to Lady-Bird Beetles.325 
As We Go To Press.328 
Crop and Market Notes.328, 329 
Markets.329 
Humorous. 332 
