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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 6, 1896 
Humorous. 
Wonderful Efficiency 
The storage hen is full of eggs, 
She’ll lay them later on; 
And we shall have supplies galore 
When new-laid eggs are done. 
—New York Produce Review. 
Pat had been digging a well and was 
being slowly hoisted out. “ Pull me up 
quicker,” he yelled, “ or, be jabers, I’ll 
cut the rope.”— Credit Lost. 
She Wanted to Know. —The City Girl 
(summering in the country): “ Oh, dear ! 
what a cunning little animal.” The 
Farmer : “ Yessutn ; it’s a yearling.” The 
City Girl (with interest): “Indeed ! And 
—er—how old is it ? ”— Chicago Record. 
Dawkins: “I wonder why it is that 
when a woman throws a stone at any¬ 
thing, she is apt to hit something in an 
entirely different direction.” Jawkins : 
“ That’s because she is brought up with¬ 
out any aim in life.”— Harper's Bazar. 
“ I don’t think that dog of yours is 
very polite,” said the tramp. “ Why ? ” 
asked the dog’s owner. “ Because he 
made me get off the grass, and then took 
my seat,” answered the tramp, adjust¬ 
ing his coat-tails to make them cover as 
much space as possible.— Puck. 
Speculative Boarder: “And now 
that horseless carriages are an assured 
fact, I wonder what will come next.” 
Philosophical Boarder : “ Let us hope 
that we will have dogless sausages, hair¬ 
less butter, soundless pianos, voiceless 
elocutionists, and acheless backs.”— 
Modes and Fabrics. 
“Uncle” Peter Bates was a local 
celebrity who kept the tavern in Ran¬ 
dolph, Vt., in the old staging days. He 
was noted for his dry humor, and was 
never at a loss for a retort or for a 
method of expressing his ideas. One 
morning, after breakfast, as a stranger 
was about to depart without paying his 
bill, Uncle Peter walked up to him and 
blandly said: “Mister, if you should 
lose your pocketbook between here and 
Montpelier, remember you didn’t take it 
out here.”— Youth's Companion. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, June 6, 1896. 
farm TOPICS. 
Farm Notes from Pennsylvania.382, 383 
Steam Power in Spraying.383 
A Tub Silo.383 
Horse Shoe Farm Notes.384 
Late Sowing of Clover.384 
Southern Vegetable Growing.384, 385 
Kainit and Sorrel.385 
Boring for Maple Sugar.385 
Cow Peas or Canada Peas.385 
Bad Weed in Vermont.386 
Use of Roofing Paper. 386 
Summer Seeding; Sunday Separating.386 
More “ Good Roads ” Talk.386 
Seal the Packages.386 
Rye for Green Manure; Clover.386 
The Best Roofing for a Barn.386, 387 
WhatCrimson Clover Has Done.387 
Wholesale Corn Growing in the East.389 
What Crop for Small Farm ?.389 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Ensilage and Cows’ Teeth.389 
A Western Duck Farm.394 
Files in Stable.394 
Lightning and Hog Cholera.394 
Cats aDd Rats.395 
Black Teeth in Hogs.395 
The Sicilian Breed of Poultry.395 
Raw Potatoes for Cows.395 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Strawberries by the Car-Load.381 
Two Fruit Notes from Grundy.382 
Some Useful Native Ferns.383 
Hardiness of Japan Plums.383 
About Evaporating Tomatoes.383, 384 
Questions about Apricots and Plums.385 
Root Gall in Peach Trees.385 
Hardiness of the Loudon Raspberry.386 
The Strawberry in New York.389 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Editorials .390 
Uncle Silas’s Opinion of the New Woman 
(Concluded).390 
BendiDg the Twig.390 
Why Housework is Distasteful.390, 391 
Canning Notes.391 
Patterns for R. N.-Y. Readers.391 
Sense and Sentiment. 391 
Dark Sleeping Rooms.391 
Cover for Sofa Pillows.391 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Civil Engineering for Boys on the Farm— 
Part II.382 
Propagating the Lady-bird Beetle.385 
Editorials.388 
Brevities.388 
Business Bits.389 
As We Go To Press.392 
Condensed Correspondence.392 
Markets.393 
Crop and Market Notes...393 
Humorous ... ..... 396 
