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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December, 24, 1910. 
HUMOROUS 
“Why don’t you start a literary so¬ 
ciety in your settlement?” “'Cause we’ve 
got all the eddication we wants. We 
know that rope is three cents a foot fer 
folks that won’t leave when they’re told 
to, an’ that twice 2 is ten when the other 
side is votin’ agin good gover’mentl”— 
Atlanta Constitution. 
It was moving day and the family 
was getting settled down in the new 
home. Little Meribah, age three, after 
watching her father put down the par¬ 
lor carpet, went to him and said: 
“Papa, won’t you give me the hammer 
when you get through with it, so’s I can 
spank some nails, too?”—The Delinea¬ 
tor. 
Returning from school a little girl 
proudly informed her mother that she 
had learned to “punchtate.” “Well, 
dear,” said mother, “and how is it 
done?” “You see, mother,” explained 
the child, “when you write ‘Hark 1’ 
you put a hatpin after it, and when you 
ask a question you put a buttonhook 1” 
—Credit Lost. 
“Do you suppose,” asked the stranger 
in Washington, “it would be possible for 
me to see the President?” “Easiest 
thing in the world,” replied the man 
who lived there. “Go over to the Union 
Depot and wait around a little while. 
He will either be starting away or get¬ 
ting back from somewhere.”—Chicago 
Record-Herald. 
“Can you,” he asked, “read one’s 
character in one’s palm?” “Yes,” re¬ 
plied the young lady in the fortune-tell¬ 
ing booth. “Will you let me look at 
your hand?” “I’d like about 75 cents’ 
worth.” “I’m sorry,” she said, after 
looking at the inquirer’s hand, “1 
can’t give you that much. I can only 
find about 15 cents’ worth.”—Chicago 
Record-Herald. 
In the absence of the pastor of the 
church a young preacher was called upon 
to officiate at a funeral. He knew it was 
customary for the minister to announce 
at the close of the service that those who 
wished should step forward to view the 
remains, but he thought this too hack¬ 
neyed and so substituted, “The congre¬ 
gation will now please pass around the 
bier.”—Credit Lost. 
In a time of distressing drought a 
harassed amateur agriculturist stepped 
into a shop to buy a barometer. The 
shopman was giving a few stereotyped 
instructions about indications and pres¬ 
sures, when the purchaser impatiently 
interrupted him. “Yes, yes,” said he, 
“that’s all right, but what I want to 
know is, how do you set the thing when 
you want it to rain?”—Yorkshire Daily 
Post. 
“What a beautiful sight it is, Mrs. 
Bates, to see your two little boys always 
together!” the Summer boarder ec- 
claimed, in an ecstasy, on the approach 
of Bobby and Tommy Bates, hand in 
hand. “Such brotherly love is as rare 
as it is exquisite.” Mrs. Bates nodded 
in pleasant assent. “I tell Ezry,” she 
said, “that they’re as insep’r’ble as a pair 
of pants.”—Youth’s Companion. 
HORSE OWNERS 
IT COSTS 
ONECENT 
(to try the“CLEAN” Curry 
Comb and save dollars 
in time, labor and ex¬ 
pense. Automatic 
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M The CLEAN #and always clean. Send 
action, durable, effec- 
==»tive, easy on the horse. 
__f address—stating number 
of horses owned,and we’ll send Comb postpaid. 1 
After Trial, send 85o or return comb at our expense. Valuable Horse Book 
««at free. Clean Comb Co., 76 Fifth St, Racine, Wis. 
( •HOT STOCK FEED. 
Keep your stock in the best of condition by cook 
ing your stock feed with the unsurpassed 
Farmers’ Favorite'' 
Feed Cooker and Boiler 
—- - — Valuable for many uses—such 
as cooking poultry feed, can¬ 
ning fruit, boiling sap, steril¬ 
izing milk cans, rendering lard 
and tallow, cooking scrapple 
and boiling spraying mixtures. 
Costs little, wears long. Write 
for special price-saving sale list. 
J^WIS MFG.CO., Box C.Cortland.N.Y. 
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Rutty Country Roads 
Hills, Ditches and Streams 
Have No Terrors for This Car 
Here^s a car that simply “beats them all” when it comes to climbing the banks 
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Here s a car that simply “beats them all” when it comes to climbing the banks 
end fording streams. It was built for farm conditions, priced to suit the farmer’s 
ideas, and now farmers tell us we have hit the nail on the head. 
S Whyl any man can go crazy over an Abbott-Detroit. We never thouc-h* nf 
,600 car agamst the world’s famous high priced racers in event contests, fxut on the spur <§ 
s moment we sent one of our stock cars to the Vanderbilt Cup Races akd since then in 
Jf*}* ha r^ r °. Ug A h L h ° m ^ the . neatest record ever made by a motor ca’r. In the North 
electrifying autlmobilist. by^inninTin M th^Lt^T^td 
“The Car With a Pedigree” 
A bbott - r kfroif 
Standardized—Great Farmers’ Motor Car 
another reason for liking the Abbott-Detroit. 
Ihe price is $1,500, which includes com¬ 
plete electric light equipment, magneto and 
batteries—usually “extras” with other motor 
cars. At this price, no other motor car made 
can compete unless the purchaser simply don't 
know about this wonderful car, the greatest 
value in the world and the only genuine SirnoO 
pure, especially built farmers’ car that all the 
farmers take to like a duck takes to water." 
.. N °a. 7'“ r ta> n! y want to know all about 
the Abbott-Detroit and we’U send you tafe 
whole story and the catalog if you’ll deop us a 
postal for it double quick. 
Abbott Motor Co. 
126 Waterloo Street, Detroit. Mteh. 
(With that big bold swing that “gets you 
"’ng,” she sails along the highway! A beauty! 
ink of it —has most of the valuable features 
-- $4,000 cars, 24 painting operations and the 
lines, the luxury, the endurance. No other 
automobile can carry our gasoline tank; it has 
A double feed, giving an extra 25 miles. You 
J^n’t miss it—if you make up your mind to 
tvv what you are getting and then decide to 
just that. 
hen you consider that you buy the latest 
wtoen you. buy an Abbott-Detroit, that we do 
not save improvements for next year’s model 
bat use them as soon as we get them, you have 
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Pull Your Stumps 30 Days 
FREE 
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Risk- 
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Triple-Power—All-Steel 
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Pulls stumps out, roots and all. 400% 
stronger than any other puller made. Triple 
power attachment means one-third greater 
pull. The only stump puller guaranteed for 
3 years. Only one with Double Safety 
Ratchets. Only one with all bearings and 
working parts turned, finished and machined, 
reducing friction, increasing power, making 
it extremely light running. Hitch on to any 
stump and the stump is bound to come. 
Also pulls largest-sized green trees, hedge¬ 
rows, etc. Don’t risk dangerous and costly 
dynamite. It only shatters stump and 
leaves roots in ground. 
Special Price Offer 
We have a special price proposition to the 
first man we sell to in new sections. We 
are glad to make you a special price on the 
first Hercules sold in your community be¬ 
cause that will sell many more for us 
and save advertising. Write us at once 
to get this. 
HERCULES Puller 
Just write a postal for our special price—30 days’ Free Trial and all FREE BOOKS 
about the only All-Steel. Triple-Power Stump Puller—the Famous Hercules. 
HERCULES MANUFACTURING CO., 13017th St., Centerville, la. 
A Remarkable F 
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Farm Engine 15 I 
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When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply. and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee page 10. 
The Standard Farquhar 
SAWMILL 
Just tell us the kind of timber you 
have and we will advise you as to the best 
FEED EQUIPMENT. Farquhar mills have 
done away with all “fussing”— and "trou¬ 
ble.” They have just about Y 2 the parts of 
other mills — light running, safe, save time, 
save work—movable, easily set up—durable. 
We spent 54 years perfecting Farquhar 
mills. Now we are spending a large sum of 
money on a book that tells about FEED 
EQUIPMENTS and other saw mill and en¬ 
gine facts. These books can be had FREE. 
Just ask by postal. Now is the time to sell 
lumber—while prices are booming. 
A. B. FARQUHAR C0. t Box 304 York. P«-—i 
DAILY 
OUTPUT 
17,500 
8BLS. 
YEARLY 
OUTPUT 
OVER 
6 , 000,000 
ALPHA 
PORTLAND CEMENT 
is absolutely the best that can be made 
for all farm work. Largely used by 
U. S. Government and in State, Munici¬ 
pal and Railroad work—a reputation of 
20 years behind it. Ask your dealer for 
ALPHA 
Send for Booklet and learn why it is the best. 
ALPHA PORTLAND CEMENT GO., 
ADDRESS 
2 Center Square, EASTON, PA. 
I BEjBME 
The only thoroughly manufactured 
Silo on the market. Full length stave. 
Continuous door frame complete with 
ladder. Triple beveled iilo door with 
hinges. Equipped with extra heavy 
hoops at bottom. 
AIR TIGHT 
Hakes winter feed equal to June 
grass. THE KOSS will more than pay 
for itself in one season. Write to¬ 
day for catalog which gives facts that 
will save you money. Agents wanted. 
The E. W. Ross Co.(Est.l850) 
Box is sPKinemui. omo 
G ASOLINE 18 way up now, from 6 to 16 cents more than kerosene, and is still soaring 
The big automobile demand is responsible for it. Wbat will you do if your engine 
wont run on kerosene? Better be on the safe side. Better own an engine that 
will operate on either kerosene or gasoline. 
Record Breaking PERFECTION Kerosene Engine 
The PERFECTION does what no other engine can do. It vaporizes kerosene, drawing 
alight mist through the carbureter so that it has the same force as gasoline in the cylinder. 
The Perfection is light, portable, has only three moving parts, runs everything about 
tne place, operates on any engine fuel, is priced lower than others of the same size. 
\ 5 Days’ Froc Trial ^ ou can ^ ave one these engines for 15 days' free trial. 
„ , Call on your dealer, ask him to show you the ‘‘Perfec¬ 
tion. He 11 let you use one on your farm for 15 days and if you find that it is not as 
represented, we will refund cheerfully every dollar paid for it by you. Ask for our 
Free Engine Book or if your dealer does not carry the “Perfection” write to us direct. 
Caille Perfection Motor Co., 211 Second Ave., Detroit. Mich 
COOK YOUR FEED and SAVE 
Half the Cost—with the 
PROFIT FARM BOILER 
With Dumping Caldron. Empties 
its kettle in one minute. The simplest 
and best arrangement for cooking 
food forstock. Also make Dairy ana 
Laundry Stoves, Water and 
Steam Jacket Kettles, Hog 
Scalders, Caldrons.etc. IHfSend 
for particulars and ask for circulan J 
D. It. SFEKRY & OO.. Batavia, lit, 
Try My Chatham 
Fanning Mill 
30 Days Free 
Cleans and Grades all Seeds. I’ll Pay 
Freight no Matter Where You Live- 
Take a Year to Pay Mo if You Keep It. 
By that time this remarkable machine 
will pay for itself and keep on making 
Dig money for you every year. No money 
down—no note—no contract. Return at 
my expense if you wish. You’ll see what 
wonderful work it does. Don’t grow 
weeds or plant weak seeds and get only 
half a crop of grain or grasses. Clean 
and grade with a Chatham. 
Doubles Crop Values 
Send For Free Book No. 104 
Learn how thousands of farmers are making extra 
profits by planting and selling seeds cleaned and 
graded by a Chatham. Taxes are too high, land too 
valuable to go on in the old way. Experiment Sta¬ 
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endorse the Chatham. Get my freo book 
and liberal offer now. Address Hanson 
Campbell, President 
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The Manson Campbell Co. 
Detroit, 
Mich. 
Seattle, 
Wash. 
St. Paul, 
Mina. 
Kansas City, 
Mo. 
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