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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 26, 1896 
Humorous. 
She had been looking at herself in the 
glass. “ I suppose I’ll get used to it,” 
she said, “but, after what we’ve been 
through in the last few years, these tight 
sleeves actually make me feel immod¬ 
est.”— Chicago Post. 
Sister: “Stick out your tongue and 
take your powder like a good girl. You 
never heard me complaining about such 
a little thing.” Flossie : “ Neither would 
I if I could take it on my face like you 
do.”— Brooklyn Life. 
Sexton (to a Divine, who was spend¬ 
ing his holidays in the country, and who, 
on the sudden illness of the village par¬ 
son, volunteered to take the duties): “A 
worse preacher would have done for us, 
sir, but we couldn’t get one.”— Punch. 
He : “ How the thundering blazes did 
my shaving brush get full of sand, I 
want to know ? ” She : “ Oh ! Some must 
have accidentally got into it when I was 
using it to lather my bicycle tire to find 
out where the puncture was.”'— Indian¬ 
apolis Journal. 
Greene : “ They tell me you have got 
a wonder for a wife. You have a well- 
ordered house, they say.” Gray : “ Yes ; 
Clara is forever ordering somebody 
around. When it isn’t the girl or the 
dog, it’s your humble servant. Oh, yes ; 
our house is well ordered, and no mis¬ 
take ! ”— Boston Transcript. 
What Caused Her Woe: “lam in¬ 
expressibly sorry, Mr. Smithers,” she 
said, “ to learn that when you called the 
other day Tiger bit you.” “Oh, that’s 
all right,” he said, with a forced effort 
to be cheerful. “ No, it ain’t,” she sob¬ 
bed, “ the dear little fellow has been ill 
ever since.”— Chicago Times-Hcrald. 
Roberts : “ Hallo ! What’s wrong, old 
fellow?” Denson: “I’m almost crazy. 
I sent a letter to my broker, asking him 
whether he thought I was a fool, and 
another one to Miss Willets asking her 
to come for a drive with me, and I don’t 
Unov which of them this telegram is 
from.” Roberts; “ What does it say?” 
Benson : “ Simply, ‘ Yes’.”— London An¬ 
swers. 
Assistant (to house physician): “We 
have just received an aeronaut who fell 
2,000 feet, and a football player who got 
tangled up in a finish. I am the only 
doctor who is not engaged. Which shall 
I attend to first ? ” House Physician 
(impatiently): “ I have often told you 
that in a case like this you should first 
attend the man who is most seriously 
injured. Look after the football player, 
of course. The balloon man can wait.”— 
Life. 
Henry Hoecorn : “ So you got bun¬ 
coed when you went to the city, did you? 
Y 7 ou ought to have been on to the game, 
as much as the papers have said about 
it. All work it just the same. Pretend 
to be great friends of the farmer. That 
was the way in your case, wasn’t it ? ” 
Reuben Railfence : “ Yes, same way ; 
said they was great friends of the farmer. 
But, great stumps ! I supposed when 
they said that they was some of these 
here candidates for Congress.”— Truth. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yobkkb, December 26, 1896 
FARM TOPICS. 
Amount of Wheat to Sow Per Acre. 847. 
A Farm Record.847 
Some Wife Milking Machines.818 
Using Clay on Light Soil.849 
Estimating Weight of Ensilage.849 
A Plan for a Basement Barn.849 
Stone and Air-slaked Lime.849 
Notes from Rural Grounds—Potato Trials for 
1896. 850 
Short-lived Potato Wanted.850 
That Home Market—What Are You Going to 
Do About It ?.851 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Oats and Peas for Summer Ensilage.846 
Three “ Balanced Rations,” Short of Rough- 
age .849 
Early Lambs Again.851 
The New York Dairymen.857 
Ticks and Southern Cattle Fever.858 
Why I Breed Herefords.858 
Cheap Pork for the South.859 
Bringing a Heifer to Milk.859 
Ensilage and Grain.859 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Notes from the Florists.847 
Apples on Dwarf Stock.848 
Houses for Forcing Lettuce. .848 
The Best Soil for Onions.848 
The Annual Growth of Roots.848 
Club Root and Cabbage Seed.848 
Healing Wounds on Pruned Trees.848 
What About the Longfield Apple?...848 
The Growth of Apple Trees..849 
Only One King Apple..851 
More Colorado Second-crop Strawberries.851 
Mignonette in Winter.855 
Plants for a Cool Room.855 
General Notes..855 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.854 
Pressing Woolen Cloth.854 
Hygiene Boiled Down.854 
How to Treat the Kitchen Floor.854 
To the Newly Married.854 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Geneva Experiment Station.845, 846 
Next Season’s Crop of Army Worms.846 
Cash, Credit and Debts.847 
A Florida Family Affair.848 
Tin in New Orleans Molasses.849 
What Can he Done with Wire Worms?.849 
Legislate Against the English Sparrow.851 
Editorials.852 
Brevities.852 
Among the Marketmen...853 
Business Bits.853 
As We Go To Press.856 
Horse Shoe Farm Notes.856 
Markets.857 
Humorous.....860 
