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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July ”25,o 1806 
Humorous. 
Most of us know a good thing when 
some one else has it.— Life. 
“ With all thy faults, I love thee still,” 
as the husband said to his scolding 
wife.—.7. D. F. W. 
“ An’ so O’Flannigan was sint up fer 
loife, ye sez ? ” “ Yis, but his friends do 
be thryin’ to get his sintence redooced 
tin years.”— Life. 
A newspaper published in an Okla¬ 
homa town, where the women recently 
carried the election, sent the following 
order to a supply house: “ Please send 
us one small cut of a hen. Women 
carried the election here, and I suppose 
we will have to swing out a hen instead 
of a rooster .”—New York Tribune. 
Mbs. Yeast: “ I wish I could think of 
something to keep my husband home 
nights.” Mrs. Crimsonbeak : “Gethim a 
bicycle.” Mrs. Yeast: “ That would take 
him out more than ever.” Mrs. Crimson- 
beak : “Oh, no, it would not. My hus¬ 
band got one day before yesterday and 
the doctors say he won’t be out for a 
month .”—Yonkers Statesman. 
They were at an afternoon tea, and 
each held in her delicately gloved hand 
a cup of amber fluid, which she sipped 
daintily with a souvenir spoon, but their 
technical knowledge of tea would have 
made a tea expert’s hair stand on end. 
“ I like Fedora best,” one of them was 
saying, sweetly. “ Do you ? ” said the 
other. “ Now, I prefer Solong, because 
there is no nicotine in it.” “ Talking of 
tea brands ? ” asked a society bride, 
flutteringly. “I just adore Boohoo. 
It’s made in China, you know.” “Well, 
afternoon tea is good enough for me,” 
warbled a society bud who didn’t know 
anything but real knowledge and 
wouldn’t bother her wavy head with 
tea kinks. But the hostess who had 
served Formosa and Souchong and 
Boliea sighed to think of the ignorance 
that sometimes existed in social circles 
—Detroit Free Press. 
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--SEPARATOR TESTS. 
The Improved United States Separator is thoroughly practical, not only in Experiment 
Stations, but in Dairies and Creameries. 
At Cornell University Experiment Station in nineteen tests, running through two 
months (see bulletin 105, page 609) the average tests were only - .05 
At Vermont Experiment Station, - .03 
At Pennsylvania Dairy School, - - .04 
At Indiana Dairy School, - trace. 
Fine Skimming sit 2,370 lbs. per Hour. 
The details of the three days’ test that we have recently given the Improved United States 
Cream Separator, feeding it at the rate of 2.370 lbs. of milk per hour, are as follows : 
On Nov. 7. 
TEST NO. 
. 1 . 
o 
TEST. 
. 0 05 “ 
II 
. 3 . 
. O OG “ 
.. 4 . 
. 004 “ 
On Nov. 8 . 
..o? i . 
. O 05 *• 
4! 
. .. V, , 2 . 
. 0.05 “ 
14 
.8 . 
. 0.03 “ 
On Nov. 9. 
.^ ... 1 . 
. 0.04 “ 
44 
. 2 . 
. 0.04 “ “ 
U 
.3 . 
... 0.03 “ “ 
These analyses of the skim-mi)' Are made and read by myself, and I wish to say that the work 
the machine is doing is satisfacto 1 A. W. CARR, 
Somonauk, Ill. ^ Palace Car Creamery. 
Alter G ir fills’ use 2,4GO lbs. per Hour. Test, 0.05. 
After giving your Imprc A? United States Separator a trial of two weeks in our creamery at 
Evansville, beside two diffe . makes of Separators, and finding it did satisfactory skimming from 
2.500 to 3,000 lbs. milk per Ik > ; skim milk testing from .04 to .08 of one per cent, of oil fat, we then 
put the Separator in our station at < ooksville. May 2d, where it has been in operation ever since. Wc 
find it to do as good work as any of several different makes of separators in our different creameries. 
As for expense, there has been none for the six and a half months it has been run, except the price 
of one new belt. 
The machine skims closely, gives as good a gain from oil test to churn as any machine we run. 
We have just made a two days’ test of skim milk, feeding at 2,100 lbs. per hour, and find but .05 
of one per cent, oil fat. We are very well satisfied with the record of the machine so far. 
Evansville, Wis. D. E. WOOD & CO. 
Our competitors are continually comparing their latest improved styles with the old 
style U. S., and it is rarely if ever they compare with the Improved U. S., which is a con¬ 
fession that they cannot compare with the Improved U. S. and gain credit for themselves, 
and an acknowledgment that the Improved U. S. is a better separator than they have. 
Send for new Catalogue No. 139, 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE COBellows Falls , Vt. 
CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, July 25, 1896 
FARM TOPICS. 
Down on Saglialin.494 
Blast the Woodchucks.494 
Substitutes for Hay.494 
Comparison of Old and New Bordeaux Mix¬ 
tures.494, 495 
Grindstone, Flowers and White Grubs.495 
“Chemicals and Clover ” Hold Out. Part II... 496 
Machinery for Hulling Cow Peas.496 
Questions About Crimson Clover. 497 
Ice Tray for Shipping Berries.497 
Nitrogen in Dead Clover Plants.497 
A One-Horse Lawn Mower.. ..497 
Three Farm Questions.501 
Killing Woodchucks.507 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Swelling Over Cow’s Foot.497 
Tuberculosis in Cattle.497 
Hoven or Bloat in Cows.506, 507 
Run-down Mare; Mule that Coughs.507 
What Kills the Rabbits ?.507 
Pekin Ducks; New Feeding.507 
What About Gapes ?.507 
Hen and Pig Questions.507 
Cutting Out Horns. 507 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Strawberries on Heavy Soil..493, 494 
Long Island Flower Notes.494 
How to Plant Chestnuts. 494 
The Loganberry.495 
The Oyster-Shell Bark-Louse.496, 497 
Trimming Elm Trees ; Willows Dyinsr.497 
The R. N.-Y. Strawberry Report for 1896. 498 
Oh ! The Crimson Rambler ! !.499 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Editorials .502 
A Jar of Jelly—Part III.502 
Kitchen Notes.502 
John’s Boys.502 
An Appeal to Mothers.503, 503 
Patterns for R. N.-Y. Readers.503 
Wearing Flannel.503 
For Mind and Heart.503 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Army Worm Does Battle.495 
A Worm that Picks Blueberries.497 
Ruralisms.499 
Editorials.500 
Brevities. 500 
A Hunt for a Mileage Book.501 
Business Bits.501 
As We Go To Press.504 
Condensed Correspondence.501 
Crop and Market Notes. 505 
Markets.505 
Simple Scientific Terms.506 
Humorous. 508 
