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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 17, 1896 
Humorous. 
What are the wild waves saying 
As over the sands they sigh ? 
Why do they groan and grumble? 
Is it ’cause they’re tied so high ? 
My child the wild waves murmur, 
And angry passions show, 
Because Borne careless wader 
Has stepped on their under-toe. 
—Lawrence Hutton, in Harper's. 
Never disturb a brooding hen. You 
may break the set.— Boston Transcript. 
“Mr. Insight, give the class your idea 
of optimist and pessimist.” “ Yes, sir. 
An optimist is a man who is happy 
when he’s miserable, and a pessimist is 
a man who is miserable when he’s 
happy.”— Chicago Record. 
She: “ And do you tell me your every 
thought, dearest?” He (enthusiastic¬ 
ally) : “ Yes, darling, and more, too. 
Why, there isn’t a day passes that I 
don’t tell you lots of things that I never 
think at all.”— Cleveland Leader. 
Mrs. Jones was certain she’d heard 
burglars. “ Then you may be sure my 
watch is gone,” said Jones, when he 
had lit the candle. “ It’s not gone, but 
going.” Then they both chuckled, 
turned over and went to sleep again.— 
Ally Slopcr. 
Dobbs : “ Do you notice any difference 
in your wife now from the days of your 
courtship?” Nobbs: “ Y'es, I do. In 
those days she would be content to sit 
on my knee ; now she sits on me alto¬ 
gether whenever she gets an oppor 
tunity.”— Tit-Bits. 
“ So you have got a wife,” said Gibbs, 
to a newly-manied man. “I don’t 
know—don’t know,” replied the man, 
with evident hesitation. “Sometimes 1 
think I’ve got her and sometimes I think 
she’s got me. You see I’ve only been 
married a few months, and I can’t tell 
just yet how the combination is going 
to turn out.”— Modes and Fabrics. 
Question: “What is a politician?” 
Answer: “A politician is a man who 
understands politics.” Q : “ What is pol¬ 
itics ? ” A. : “ Politics is the art of get¬ 
ting a $700 man a $3 000 job.” Q : “Is 
that all there is to politics ? ” A.: “ No. ” 
Q.: “What else?” A.: “ The man has 
to study out a way to get re-elected to 
his $3 000 job without spending $2,900 
with the boys.”— Chicago Journal. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rubal New-Yobkeb. October 17, 1896. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Feeding Habits of Various Plants.685, 686 
A Corn Shocker.687 
Preparing baud for Winter.687, 688 
A Good Shaving Horse.. .688 
“Blooded Potatoes’’and How They Stuck.... 6»8 
Successful Experiment with Cow Peas.688 
Swamp Lands and Their Reclamation. Part I. 688 
Cold Storage in a Cold Country.689 
Va'ues of Tannerv Refuse.6E9 
Northern-Grown Seed Potatoes.6f6 
Shredded Corn Fodder.696 
Corn Fodder in Iowa.696 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Apples for Cows.687 
A Ration for Dairy Cows.689 
Horse Breeding in Illinois.691 
Dairy Stock in Orange County, N. Y.691 
Kansas Horse Breeding.69(3 
jersey Grades in Delaware County, N. Y.696 
Horse Breeding in New York.696 
Turkeys as Hatchers.698 
Disinfection for Tuberculosis.699 
Self-Sustaining Cows.699 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Orchard Fruits for Family and Market_686, 687 
The Russian Plums in Uliuois.687 
Propagating the Soaffer Raspberry.688 
Habits of the Strawberry Root-worm.689 
The Grape Vine Leaf-Hopper.689 
An Attack of Canker Worms.689 
The McIntosh Red Apple.691 
Keiffer Pears for the English Market.693 
Reading, Pa., Chrysanthemum Show. 696 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Editorials .694 
The Farmer’s Social Duties.694 
Shoes for the Baby.694 
Leavened by Tact.694 
Christmas Gifts.. .694 
Renovating Black Goods.694, 695 
Patterns for R. N.-Y. Readers.695 
Pen Potpourri .695 
Variety in Rag Rugs.695 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
A Grasshopper’s Snake Story.687 
A Talk About “Boils”.689 
Ruralisms.690 
Editorials.692 
Brevities.692 
Among tbe Marketmen.693 
The Great Interstate Fair.693 
Business Bits.693 
A Country Fair...696, 697 
Farmers’ Institutes in New Jersey.696 
Markets. 697 
Humorous.... 700 
