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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 24, 1896 
Humorous. 
'Tis said that Little Cupid 
Sets the fires of Love aglow: 
But how does little Cupid 
Scratch a match, I’d like to know? 
—Life. 
Most persons who attend a horse race 
have chosen the better part .—Boston 
Transcript. 
A cvclist may ride with a tireless air 
but we have yet to hear of any one riding 
very far with an airless tire. —Bicycle 
IF arid. 
“ If you don’t give me a quarter,” said 
little Willie, “I’m going to tell about you 
kissing sister.” “ But I hadn't even 
thought of kissing your sister,” pro¬ 
tested the young man. “You ain’t ? ” 
said Willie, puzzled. “ Then I wonder 
what she told me to say that to you 
for ? ”—Indianapolis Journal. 
A little girl in Manchester recently 
drank a pint of paraffin oil. The doc¬ 
tor thought she would die until one of 
her relatives hit upon a happy expedi¬ 
ent. They slipped a yard of candle- 
wick down into the oil, lit the upper 
end and during the evening she lighted 
the room nicely and then went to bed 
all right .—Weekly Telegraph. 
“Ark you a single man?” asked a 
lawyer of a stolid-looking German on 
the witness-stand. “Now you look 
oud,” was the indignant reply, “ bud 
don'd you try to make no shoke mit me 
yoost because I vas green. Do I look 
like I vas a double man ? Do I look 
like I vas a Si’mese dwin ? Huh ! I vas 
no fool if I am not long in dis guntry ! ” 
— Harper's Bazar. 
“Yes,” said the old man, addressing 
his young visitor, “ I am proud of my 
girls, and would like to see them com¬ 
fortably married, and as I have made a 
little money, they will not go to their 
husbands penniless. There’s Mary, 25 
years old, and a real good girl. I shall 
give her $5,000 when she marries. Then 
comes Bet, who won't see 35 again, and 
I shall give her $10,000 ; and the man 
who takes Eliza, who is 40, will have 
$15,000 with her.” The young man re¬ 
flected a moment or so, and then in¬ 
quired : “You haven’t one about 50, 
have you ?”—Laportc Republican. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, October 24, 1896. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Grindstone for Grundy. 
Value of Millet for Hay. 
Roadmaking in Indiana. 
Single-Horse Steel Harness. 
Home Trade in Southern Towns. 
Plant “ Stimulants ”. 
Fall Top-dressing with Fish Compost.. 
Grinding Bones for Fertilizer. 
Unsifted Coal Ashes.. 
Poisoning Cut-worms. 
Working Roads in New York State.... 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
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The Jersey Grade at the South.701 
A Ration for Dairy Cows.705 
A “ Bad Taste ” in Butter.705 
Cheap Cattle Rations.712 ,713 
Turkeys as Hatchers. Part II.714. 715 
Selling Small Pigs.715 
Good Start for a Young Calf.715 
Hog Cholera in Indiana.715 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Orchard Fruits for Family and Market.—Part 
..703 
To Treat a Southern Peach Orchard.703 , 704 
Life History of the Grape Phylloxera.70-4, 705 
What Vegetation for Shaded Places?.705 
Decay of Quince; Strawberry-Raspberry.705 
The Age of Weed Seeds.705 
Tall Pickers for Columbian Raspberries.706 
The Loudon Red Raspberry.706 
Pears That Hold Leaves.706 
Pears and Plums for Western New York.706 
Fanny Apples in Illinois.706 
Keiffer Pears in England.706 
The Fanny Apple.707 
Apples in Western New York.709 
Export Apples.713 
Notes from “Luava”.714 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Tribute to the Mother. 
From the Kitchen Window. 
A Contented Life. 
Visiting Among Farmers. 
“Charge It”. 
Patterns for R. N.-Y. Readers. 
Tennis Racket Wall Pocket. 
Sewing Carpet. 
Porcelain Lined Kettles. 
Cooking Dried Plums. 
As We Teach Them. 
A Relic of Barbarism. 
Dressing the Little Man. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Jesse Kersey Sharpless. 
A Test for White Lead Paint. 
Cold Storage in a Tunnel. 
Weevil-Eaten Wheat as Food. 
Creosote Stains for Shingles. 
Bisulphide of Carbon for Grain Insects, 
“ Cow Dung for Paint”. 
Ruralisms... 
Editorials. 
Brevities. 
Among the Marketmen. 
All Sorts. 
Business Bits.. 
As We Go To Press. 
Markets.. 
Condensed Correspondence .. 
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