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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 13, 1896 
Humorous. 
Thkke was a young- woman in Lynn 
Wbo oft on a bike took a spynn, 
But so lowly she bent 
On the bar as she went 
That it raised a big corn on her chynn. 
—Boston Courier. 
Fakmkk Wavback: “ Only think, Sa- 
manthy, thet rich Mr. Vanderbilt allows 
his wife $5,000 a month fer pin money 
alone.” Mrs. Wayback : “ Wa’al, Josh, 
I uffen think an' uster wonder where all 
th’ pins went to, an’ now I know.”— 
Judge. 
Papa: “I wonder why it is that when 
we drop a slice of bread it usually falls 
with the buttered side down ? ” His 
Little Hoy : “ I guess it is for the same 
reason that when we fall in winter we 
wonder why the ice freezes with the 
slippery side up.”— Harper's Round 
Table. 
The late Eugene Field, who wrote 
beautiful verses about childhood and 
domestic life, spent the greater part of 
his life in poverty—a fact which did not, 
however, weigh heavily upon him. He 
always spoke of his poverty as if it were 
a good and welcome thing. An ac¬ 
quaintance, Mr. John D. Barry, tells a 
story of meeting Field once at a very 
well-supplied table in a hospitable house 
where both were guests. Some delicious 
strawberries were passed around. They 
were out of season, and Field looked at 
them with admiration and paid his 
hostess a compliment about them, but 
declined to eat any. “ But, Mr. Field,” 
the lady asked, “don’t you like straw¬ 
berries?” ‘ Oh yes,” he answered. 
“Then why don’t you eat some?” 
“I’m afraid,” said the poet, “that 
they’d spoil my taste for prunes ! ” This 
remark indicates that he was a philoso¬ 
pher as well as a poet.— Youth’s Com¬ 
panion. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, June 13, 1896 
FARM TOPICS. 
A One-Man New Hampshire Farm.397, 398 
What Crop for a Small Farm ?.398 
Thoughts About Farm Implements.398 
Stick to Crimson Clover.400 
Baling Hay Direct from Meadows.400 
To Seed an Old Meadow.401 
Value of Fish and Kainit.401 
Red Paint on a Barn.401 
The Erect Brome Grass.401 
Winter Vetch for Green Manure.401 
Coarse and Fine Bone.401 
He Likes Iowa.402 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Why Sheep Lose Their Wool.400 
A Lame Mare.400 
Cow Dislocates Her Stifle.400 
Mare Always in Heat.400 
Blood and Bog Spavin on a Horse.400 
Sick Hens and Hogs; Veterinary Laws....400, 401 
Easily-made Pot Cheese.402 
Feeding a Hen. Part XVIII.410,411 
Killing Horns with Caustic Potash.411 
A Hen-Rooster.411 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Muskmelon Culture in South Jersey.399 
Something New About Canker Worms.400 
To Kill Willows and Woodchucks.401 
A New Destructive Insect on Pecans.401 
To Start an Asparagus Bed.401 
A Hardy Japan Walnut.402 
Japan Plums in the West.402 
Budding With New Varieties.402 
Stub-End Tree Planting.402 
Profits by Advice.402 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Editorials .406 
The Flower-Mission Basket.406 
Water-Lily Pincushion.406 
A Word about Floors.406, 407 
A Few Don’ts.407 
Patterns for R. N.-Y. Readers.407 
Cream Pie Crust.407 
Pen Potpourri.407 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Civil Engineering for Boys on the Farm— 
Part III...399, 400 
Ruralistns.403 
Editorials.404 
Brevities.404 
An Age of Electricity.405 
How Agricultural Commissioners are Made.. 405 
Business Bits.405 
As We Go To Press.408 
Condensed Correspondence.408 
Crop and Market Notes.409 
Markets.409 
Humorous.412 
