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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 3, 1896 
Humorous. 
The words are all on fire 
The candidates orate; 
There’s a poet with a lyre, 
And a liar digging bait. 
The ancient mule is braying 
As the plowshare turns the clods, 
And through the fields with cattle straying 
Comes a man with lightning rods. 
—Atlanta Constitution. 
Johnny : “I think I know why corn 
grows on a cob instead of in a pod ” 
Papa: “Why?” Johnny: “Because a 
pod wouldn’t hold so much corn.”— 
Puck. 
By Actual Count.—“ Mamma, I saw a 
dog to-day that had only three legs.” 
‘Weren’t you awfully sorry for him?” 
“ No’m ; be had one more leg than 1 
had ."-Til-Bits. 
“ These bicycles are hurting business 
dreadfully,” said the liveryman. “ Busi¬ 
ness is not the only thing they are hurt¬ 
ing,” replied Wheeler, as he limped over 
and took a chair.— Yonkers Statesman. 
Physician : “ You say that lunatic is 
a married man. liow do you know ? ” 
Assistant : “ He was found roaming 
about in a dry goods store, mumbling : 
‘Yard of crepon, spool of silk, bathing 
suit.’”— Adams Freeman. 
A certain minister while preaching 
said that every blade of grass Was a ser¬ 
mon. The next day he was amusing 
himself by mowing his lawn, when a 
parishioner said, “That’s right, doc¬ 
tor; cut your sermons short.”— Harper's 
Bazar. 
The mother asked little Dot to go into 
the next room and see if the clock was 
running, for she had not heard it strike 
all the afternoon. Dot came running 
back, put her curly head into the door, 
and exclaimed : “ Why, no, mamma, de 
clock ain’t a-runnin’. It is des stannin’ 
still and a-waggin’ its tail.”— Ladies' 
Home Companion. 
Maud: “ Oh, Ethel, and what did you 
say to him when he proposed to you ? 
Did you say what you said you were 
going to the other day ? That was a 
noble speech, just suited to crush the 
boldest man. And did he slink away 
like a whipped dog?” Ethel: “Well, 
not exactly. You see, I did not say just 
that. I—l—well—er—er—well, you see, 
I said, yes ”— Harper's Bazar. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rubal New-Yokkeb, October 3, 1896. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Farm Notes from EUerslie.653, 654 
How We Killed the Grasshoppers.655 
J. S. Woodward on Tub Silos.655 
Two Ends of an Irrigating Pipe.655 
New England Pasture Lands.656 
Overhead Watering Device.656 
A Water-tight Stable Floor.657 
To Make a Dam Water-tight.657 
To D.-y an Old Cellar.657 
Is There Market for Shredded Stalks ? .661 
Potatoes and Millet In Kansas.665 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Some Nurseries for Tuberculosis.656 
Ringbone and Fistulous Withers.657 
A Case of Garget.657 
Lame Mare with Stocked Legs.657 
Tuberculous Lungs in Cattle.657 
Moles and Cats.658 
Apples for Milch Cows.659 
A Good Guernsey.661 
Some More Horse Notes.664, 665 
Selling Small Pigs in Kansas..666 
A Good Incubator.667 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Apple Growing on the Pacific Coast.654 
Packing and Handling Grapes.655 
McIntosh Red Apple...656 
Pears for Western New York.657 
Buying Apple Trees in the Fall.657 
A Mildew of the Peach.657 
Coal Ashes for Evergreens.659 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Editorials .662 
The Farmer’s Social Life.662 
For tbe Children. 662 
Why the Farm is Best for Boys.662, 663 
Patterns for R. N.-Y. Readers. 663 
Mother’s Cooking.663 
Rinse the Dishes.663 
In the Kitchen.663 
A Bicycle Ambulance.663 
Thoughts for Mind and Heart. 663 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
‘‘Straight Goods” by Crooked Men.656 
Makiog Apple Jelly.657 
Ruralisms.. 658 
Making a Market.659 
Ed itorials. 660 
Brevities. 660 
Seasonable Game in the New York Market... 661 
Business Bits.661 
As We Go To Press.664 
Markets.. 665 
Condensed Correspondence.665 
Humorous. 668 
