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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 23, 1906. 
HUMOROUS 
Mary had a little lamb, 
And when she saw it sicken. 
She shipped it off (o Paokingftown, 
And now it’s labelled chicken. 
—N. Y. Evening Post. 
“Now, Johnny,” asked the teacher, 
“what do we see in the country besides 
grass, trees and flowers?” “Patent medi¬ 
cine signs!” was the prompt reply.—Louis¬ 
ville Courier-Journal. 
Client : “Didn’t you make a mistake 
in going into law instead of the army?” 
Lawyer: “Why?” Client: “By the way 
you charge there would be little left of 
the enemy.”—Credit Lost. 
Physician (sympathetically) : “I re¬ 
gret to inform you that your little son’s 
mental weakness is incurable.” Mother: 
“How fortunate it is that we arc so rich. 
No one will ever notice it.”—American 
Spectator. 
Teacher: “What are marsupials?” 
Boy: “Animals which have pouches in 
their stomachs.” Teacher: “What do 
they have pouches for?” Boy: “To crawl 
into and conceal themselves in when they 
are pursued.”—Figaro. 
Budding Tenor: “If I take the room 
I suppose you won’t object to a little 
music?” Landlady: “Oh! no, sir. 
There’ll be a cornetist right under you, 
and my daughter practises the piano four 
hours a day.”—■•Illustrated Bits. 
“No, I can’t subscribe. I don’t believe 
in sending out foreign missionaries. There 
is quite sufficient distress in our own 
country.” “But it is our duty to feed the 
hungry.” “Then surely you can feed them 
on something cheaper than missionaries.” 
—Stray Stories. 
“Judge,” said Mrs. Starvem to the 
magistrate who had recently come to 
board with her, “I’m particularly anxious 
to have you try this chicken soup.” “I 
have tried it,” replied the magistrate, 
“and my decision is that the chicken has 
proved an alibi.”—Philadelphia Press. 
The story is told of a Congressman 
that he once declared in an address to 
the House, “As Daniel Webster says in 
his dictionary.” “It was Noah who wrote 
the dictionary,” whispered a colleague, 
who sat at the next desk. “Noah noth¬ 
ing,” replied the speaker. “Noah built the 
ark.”—Credit Lost. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
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Dam Manufacturing Co., 
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For satisfactory service the 
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The Dain Hay Loader is without a doubt the lightest draft loader on the market, 
because its principal working parts are hammock mounted and slow-driven. It 
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any bottom trash. Rakes are malleable and have a spring trip—when they 
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wagon without adjustment and is easily uncoupled by means of a rope extending 
to top of the loader within easy reach of the operator on the load. This loader is 
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Lightest 
Draft 
Loader 
On The 
Some Facts About Binder Twine. 
When the rush of the harvest season is full 
upon you it is too late to consider the merits 
of the various binder twines offered in the 
market. 
Experience has tausrht that there’s a whole 
lot of difference between good twine and inferi¬ 
or twine. It is not necessary to argue that 
question with a practical grain grower. 
Twine that breaks—twine that won’t work— 
is cne of the greatest troubles the farmer in 
the midst of harvest can encounter. '■ 
Breakage means delay, and delays are always 
expensive in harvest time. 
If you want to be sure of your twine in the 
harvest field, make sure of it while you have 
time to think of it now. 
Special machinery is necessary for accurate¬ 
ly testing the strength of binder twine. The 
grain grower, of course, has not this machin¬ 
ery. < 
15ut he can know to his own satisfaction and 
absolute certainty what the tests show at the 
factory. 
Fifty pounds is regarded as the standard of 
strength in all twines for which high grade is 
claimed. Any twine that breaks under this 
weight is pretty sure to cause trouble at har¬ 
vest time. 
The above illustration accurately displays 
the result of a series of tests of ten balls of 
standard twine. The International Harvester 
Company’s twine averaged 59 q-i o founds, 
while one competitor's twine barely reached 
the standard, and two fell below 2 7-/0 and 
4 &■> 4-10 lbs., respectively. 
These are not simply bald, unsupported 
claims. They ar & facts —that have been proved 
under absolutely fair and correct conditions. 
After quality comes the length of the twine— 
the amount you get when you buy a found. Of 
sisal and standard grades you should get prac¬ 
tically 500 feet to the pound. 
A pound of International Harvester Com 
pany’s twine was shown by tests to run nearly 
504 feet, while competitors’ twines averaged as 
low as 452.3. There’s a big difference here 
and it is against you. 
There is better twine and more twine in a ball 
of International Harvester Company’s twine 
than in any other—and foot for foot, a gooa 
deal less costly twine. 
Another thing: Some of the twines offered 
by other makers are very hard—twisted. Such 
twine, as grain growers know, is liable to kink 
and break on a binder and cause the ball to 
collapse at the last end. This means additional 
loss. 
You can figure it out for yourself. And now 
is the time. 
You will be absolutely safe however if you go 
to the International local dealer and ask for 
prices on either Champion, Deering, McCor¬ 
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f 1 Mr AD ana xrr nl - 
(INCORPORATED) 
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Largest Manufacturers of Ensilage Machinery In the World. 
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