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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 22, 1911. 
HUMOROUS 
“Isn't 10 cents a quart for milk rather 
high?” “Waal, ma’am, we can't feed 
our cows on cold storage grass.”—Life. 
“He knows all the best people in 
town.” “Why doesn’t he associate with 
them, then?” “They know him.”—Cleve¬ 
land Leader. 
The New, Easy Way of 
WATERING STOCK! 
Engine Pumps 400 to 1,500 Gallons Per Hour 
Casey : “Phwat kind av a horse is a 
cob?” Mulligan: “It’s wan thot’s been 
raised intoirly on corn, ye ignoramus.” 
—Boston Transcript. 
Mother (at lunch) : “Yes, darling, 
these little sardines are sometimes eaten 
by the larger fish.” Mabel (aged five) : 
“But, mamma, how do they get the cans 
open?”—London Ideas. 
Mother (with newspaper) : “Willie, 
here’s a job for you: ‘Boy wanted about 
14 years.’ ” Willie: “Gee, ma ! I won't 
be a boy more’n half of 14 years. I'm 
13 now.”—Boston Transcript. 
“What’s the matter with your wife? 
She seems to be very irascible lately.” 
“Why, she was assisting at a rummage 
sale, and somebody sold her new hat for 
35 cents.”—Washington Herald. 
“Please contribute to. our fund to 
6end a missionary to the cannibals.” “I 
won’t—I’m a vegetarian and don’t be¬ 
lieve in it. But I’ll send them some 
cereals, if you wish.”—Toledo Blade. 
One of the Suffragettes: “I’ve lost 
me best hatpin, Lizzie.” Another: 
“Where did you leave it last?” The 
First: “Oh, I remember now! I left it 
sticking in that policeman.”—London 
Opinion. 
Teacher (to new pupil) : “Why did 
Hannibal cross the Alps, my little man?” 
My Little Man: “For the same reason 
as the ’en crossed th’ road. Yer don’t 
catch me with no puzzles.”—Sydney 
Bulletin. 
Ashley: “I know a man in Kansas 
who can walk on his ceiling just as 
well as a fly.” Seymour: “What gives 
him the power?” Ashley: “A cyclone 
that blew his house upside down.”— 
Chicago News. 
Benny was having his first night trip 
on a steamboat. Catching sight of the 
searchlight moving back and forth, he 
exclaimed, excitedly, “Daddy, daddy! 
Look! There must be a happy comet 
near here. See how he wags his tail!”— 
Chicago Tribune. 
Willie (who was traveling alone for 
the first time) to conductor: “What is 
the meaning of ‘W’ and ‘R’ on the sign 
posts along the road?” Conductor: 
“Ring and whistle.” Willie (after a 
pause) : “I can see how ‘W’ stands 
for wring but I can’t see how ‘R’ stands 
for whistle.”—Buffalo Commercial. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
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Paioit Bills 
By using INGERSOLL PAINT — proved 
best by 66 years’ use. It will please you. 
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0. W. Ingersoll, 246 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 
Fastest Hay Press 
2’/j Tons Per Hour 
Greater capacity is guaranteed in all Spencer 
Presses. The guarantee with, our Alligator 
Press says “22 tons in lOhours or no pay.” Large 
feed capacity—smooth and compact bales, uni¬ 
form in size. Load full weight into cars. AH 
Spencer Presses are biggest money makers be¬ 
cause they give greatest capacity at Buy 
smallest operating and repalrcost. Guaranteed 
Write today for Free illustrated /.{■% ' ‘ ; Capacity 
catalog B. B. describing full line. 
J. A. SPENCER 
X01 William St., Dwight, III. 
TO ESTABLISHED IMPLEMENT and 
HARDWARE DEALERS: 
If we have no representa¬ 
tive in your immediate lo¬ 
cality. write for our exclu¬ 
sive Agency Proposition, 
using your business station¬ 
ery. The fame of the Fuller 
& Johnson Farm Pump En¬ 
gine is spreading like wild- 
lire. Our advertising reaches 
every nook and corner of this 
country. The engine is the first 
real solution of the pumping 
problem ever offered the farm¬ 
ers. It is a tremendous success 
—the greatest ever known in 
the gasoline engine line. 
Dealers who have the agency 
are doing n wonderful business. 
We are rapidly completing our 
arrangements with new deal¬ 
ers. We want to hear from 
every established Implement 
or Hardware Dealer in new ter¬ 
ritory at once, so we can ar¬ 
range to huve the Farm Pump 
Engine on exhibition in ad¬ 
vance of the hot weather rush. 
Patented 
in theU. S.,' 
Canada and 
other foreign coun¬ 
tries. Other patents 
applied for. (209) 
This little engine takes the cake— it's the world's champion 
pumper . Pumps all the water the stock can drink, and all you can use 
for the house. Give the fly wheel a whirl and up comes the water! 
The boy can start or stop it. That’s all there is to do. 
Leaves the Best WindmaBI a Thousand Miles Behind! 
The Fuller & Johnson Farm Pump Engine is so far ahead of the windmill that 
comparisons are useless. This engine makes you independent of wind or weather. 
Runs right along, summer and winter—no storms can knock it out. 
Fuller& 
Johnson 
Farm Pump Engine 
Runs Your Separator, Churn, Fanning Mill, Grindstone, Etc., 
While Pumping to Beat the Band. Helps Everybody. 
The engine is built for pumping, but it has so much surplus power that it 
will run all kinds of hand-power or tread-power machines all at the same time. 
It has a special pulley for running light machinery. 
All Complete-No “Extras’* to Buy Don’t Wait for Hot Weather! 
Everything but the gasoline comes right along 
with the outfit. No “expert” needed to set it up. 
It’s as simple as A B C. Needs no belts, arms. 
Jacks or special platform. It is air-cooled. Self- 
oiling. Working parts in dust-proof crank case. 
Engine Absolutely Guaranteed 
Every Farm Pump Engine gets a thorough 
“work out” at the factory and is absolutely 
guaranteed. It is as high grade as best 
automobile engines. 
Do you remember tho hours of hard, hot work last 
summer, pumping water for stock until your back 
was lame? How windmills were idle for weeks when 
the country was burning up? Don’t bo caught in the 
same fix this summer. Order your engine NOW! 
Send Postal for FREE BOOKS 
Our new Farm Pump Engine catalog tells all about 
this pumping wonder. Tells how farmers all over the 
world are saving time, money and muscle by using 
this great labor-saving invention. Bond today. We 
will give you the name of nearest dealer who has the 
little engine on exhibition. 
The Farm Pump Engine Fits Any Pump and Makes It Hump 
Fuller & Johnson Mfg. Co. 
4 Rowley St., Madison, Wis. 
Established 1840 
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r Cow comfort and cow sanitation result in more” 
cow profits, and that alone should induce any 
farmer or dairyman to seek these conditions. 
Louden Sanitary Steel Stallsaml Slanch- 
ionsdoublethe lightandair in a barn and insure 
perfect ventilation, perfect sanitation—a result 
impossible with any wooden equipment. Yet 
LOUDEN STALLS AND STANCHIONS 
are actually cheaper. Louden stalls of heavy 
tubular steel, with malleable fittings, have no 
flat surfaces for dust to accumulate—easy to keep 
clean and almost indestructible, 
Louden stanchions give cows more comfort 
than other makes, yet keep them perfectly lined 
up. Throat chains prevent cows from lying 
down when milking. Simple and very durable. 
Latch easily opened or closed with gloved hand, 
but can’v be opened by animal. Send today 
for free catalogue of sanitary, money-saving 
barn equipment. 
LOUDEN MACHINERY CO., 601 Broadway, Fairfield, la. 
Ricker Ha y Carrier— 
Saves Labor and Lasts a Lifetime 
One season’s labor saved, pays its cost. Adapted for barn or stack, with fork or 
sling. Easy draft, no binding on track, and holds the load at any point. The 
result of 40 years’ experience—therefore it can’t be excelled. Many different 
styles for every requirement. 
SEIMT ON EX AM IN A TION AND APPROVAL 
We are specialists in labor-saving devices for the barn. Send for our booklet, show¬ 
ing hay and litter carriers, hay forks and slings, stanchions, etc. Agents wanted 
for barn specialties. 
THE RICKER MFG. CO., 250 No. Water Srteet, Rochester, N. Y. 
AMERICAN 
Steel Fence Post 
Cheaper Than Wood 
and More Durable 
Many years of experimenting 
with metal fence posts have 
developed this post. It is 
now thoroughly practical, fill¬ 
ing every requirement on the 
farm, in the town, for rail¬ 
roads and wherever fence posts 
are used. 
Made of tough steel, heavily 
zinc coated. Durability 
proven by us—ten years’ ac¬ 
tual use showing good as new. 
Means a big reduction in 
fence cost and maintenance. 
40-page catalog sent free, fully 
illustrating and describing. Send 
for it. 
psi Sold by dealers everywhere. Ask 
dealer to show samples and quote 
prices, or write us direct. 
American Steel 6 Wire Co. 
Chicago : 
115 Adams Street 
Denver: 
First Nat. Bank Bldg. 
New York: 
SO Church Street 
San Francisco: 
16th and Folsom Sts. 
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Elkhart Vehicles and Harness 
have a world wide reputation for high quality and our prices have made them famous. 
THIRTY FTF'HT YF A R experience selling to the consumer means success 
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Save 
p2u$15 
3/^xlO Skein and $0070 
4x54 Tire . . ““ 
Catalog shows all styles of pleasure vehicles 
and harness, pony vehicles and harness 
spring wagons, delivery wagons, farm 
wagons, and harness. 
May we send you large catalog? 
Elkhart Carriage and 
Harness Mfg. Co., 
Elkhart, Indiana 
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