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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
January  9 
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PREMIUM  WINNERS. 
The  weekly  gifts  for  the  largest  clubs 
have  so  far  gone  for  small  ones,  but  the 
offers  will  hold  good  for  a  while  longer,  to 
give  all  a  chance.  The  winners  are,  for 
the  week  ending  December  19: 
John  Day,  Suffolk  Co.,  Mass .  8  names. 
Allen  C.  Jones,  Yates  Co.,  N.  Y . 8  “ 
Mrs.  II.  J.  Down,  Dutchess  Co.,  N.  Y.  4  “ 
For  the  Week  ending  December  26: 
Klmer  Sharp,  Wyoming  Co.,  N.  Y...  11  names. 
Jno.  W.  Smith,  Yates  Co.,  N.  Y .  11  “ 
Chas.  C.  Dimon,  Suffolk  Co.,  N.  Y....  11  “ 
One  of  the  gentlemen  sent  in  the  full 
$2  for  each  subscription,  with  his  list  of 
names,  as  in  fact  many  subscribers  do, 
saying  that  the  paper  is  cheap  at  that 
price.  Of  course  we  appreciate  this 
spirit  and  seek  to  live  up  to  it,  but  we 
are  perfectly  willing  to  accept  the  club 
rates  as  announced,  and  are  doubly  glad 
of  every  club  of  new  names  that  comes  to 
our  desk.  We  continue  the  offers  of  a 
“  gift  every  week,”  trusting  that  here¬ 
after  they  will  go  for  much  larger  clubs. 
Sending  Money. — We  guarantee  that  all  money 
sent  by  postal  or  express  money  order,  registered  let¬ 
ter,  or  bank  draft  on  New  York,  shall  be  at  our  risk. 
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sponds  with  the  number  under  the  title  on  the  first 
page  of  this  issue  and  means  that  the  subscription  ex¬ 
pires  this  week.  By  examining  these  numbers  from 
time  to  time  the  date  for  renewal  is  easily  deter¬ 
mined. 
Acknowledgments  of  money  received  for  sub¬ 
scriptions  are  made  by  the  change  in  the  address  labels 
as  above  indicated.  A  full  week  must  always  be 
allowed  for  changes  in  the  labels,  and  often  two  or 
three  weeks  in  the  busy  season. 
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A  GIFT  EVERY  WEEK. 
TO  THE 
TO  THE 
TO  THE 
TO  THE 
A  present 
WOMEN 
MEN 
BOYS 
GIRLS 
every  week. 
To 
Subsct'ibers 
Only 
How  does  this 
*  *  * 
to  Growers  of  the  r.  n.  y.  □ 
NO.  2  POTATOES. 
The  R.  N.-Y.  has  no  seed  of  any  sort 
for  sale,  but  we  have  numerous  inquiries 
for  seed  stocks  of  The  R.  N.-Y.  No.  2 
Potato,  particularly  from  points  far 
distant  from  centers  of  supply.  If  sub¬ 
scribers  in  Florida,  southern  Georgia, 
British  Columbia,  Washington  and  Ore¬ 
gon,  who  have  surplus  stocks  of  this 
potato  for  sale,  will  send  us  their  names, 
we  will  publish  them  in  this  column 
gratis,  for  the  benefit  of  the  inquirers 
who  want  to  plant  this  grand  variety. 
*  *-  * 
AGRICULTURAL  NEWS. 
Within  the  past  week  dandelions  and  snakes  have 
been  found  in  Connecticut  and  Vermont,  and  many 
farmers  have  been  plowing  in  Maine. 
A  railway  transfer  float  carrying  12  car-loads  of 
cattle,  upset  in  the  East  River  here  the  other  day.  and 
142  head  of  cattle,  valued  at  $10,000,  were  drowned. 
A  Dong  Island  dog  had  been  trained  by  his  owner,  a 
worthless  character,  to  steal  chickens,  and  got  away 
with  a  large  number  without  detection  before  he  was 
caught  in  a  trap. 
It  has  been  discovered  in  St.  Petersburg  that  some 
flour  of  which  the  municipality  made  large  purchases 
at  an  exorbitant  rate,  has  been  adulterated  so  as 
to  be  unlit  for  use. 
Some  of  the  English  pomologists  are  clamoring  for 
the  restriction  of  the  importation  of  American  ap¬ 
ples  on  the  ground  that  the  poisons  used  in  spraying 
make  the  fruit  unwholesome. 
strike  you?  We  want  to  make  it  to  the 
interest  of  every  reader  to  help  increase 
our  list.  So,  in  addition  to  any  and  all 
other  premium  offers,  we  shall,  until  fur¬ 
ther  notice,  each  week  present  to  the 
woman  who  shall  send  us  during  that 
week  the  largest  club  of  yearly  subscrip¬ 
tions,  the  handsome  decorated  china  tea 
set  described  among  our  premium  offers; 
or,  if  preferred,  $5  worth  of  any  Ameri¬ 
can  books  (not  held  as  “specials”  by  pub¬ 
lishers)  . 
To  the  man  who  shall  send  in  the 
largest  club  in  any  week  will  be  given 
his  choice  of  $5  worth  of  books,  as  above, 
or  the  United  States  Cook  Stove  Fruit 
Drier,  or  $5  worth  of  any  American  farm 
implements,  or  $5  worth  of  packet  seeds 
or  plants,  selected  from  the  catalogue  of 
any  advertiser  m  these  columns. 
To  the  boy  or  girl,  on  the  same  condi¬ 
tions,  we  will  present  a  pair  of  fine  club 
skates,  worth  $2.75,  or  his  or  her  choice 
from  our  premium  offers  of  any  other  ar¬ 
ticles  of  equal  value. 
Remember,  each  and  every  iveek,  until 
further  notice,  and  IN  ADDITION  to 
any  and  all  other  premium  offers  (bar¬ 
ring  only  the  cash  commission  workers.) 
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New-Yorker  will  be  sent  to  any 
lists  of  names  that  may  be  forwarded  by 
our  readers,  provided  the  senders  will  en¬ 
deavor  to  get  the  parties  as  subscribers. 
A  Dehigli  Valley  train  smashed  a  wagon-load  of 
live  fowls,  killed  the  horses,  Injured  the  driver,  and 
frightened  the  fowls  that  were  not  killed  so  badly 
that  they  scattered  all  over  the  country. 
Robert  Bonner  says  that  when  he  first  began  to  own 
and  drive  trotting  horses,  35  years  ago,  there  were 
only  19  horses  living  and  dead  that  had  trotted  2:30  or 
better.  In  1890  the  2:30  horses  numbered  4,074. 
The  National  Cordage  Company,  popularly  known 
as  the  Twine  Trust,  has  gobbled  another  concern, 
which  gives  it  control  of  every  twine  manufactory 
of  importance  in  this  country  but  one,  and  it  is  stated 
that  the  agreement  with  this  is  such  that  there  is  no 
need  of  purchasing. 
An  Italian  newspaper  says  that  strict  instructions 
have  been  issued  by  the  government  to  the  effect  that 
pork  imported  into  the  country  from  the  United  States 
must  henceforth  be  carefully  inspected,  owing  to  the 
fact  that  some  of  the  meat  has  been  found  to  be  In¬ 
fected  with  trichinas. 
The  growers  of  Sea  Island  cotton  have  for  some 
time  been  agitating  the  question  of  asking  the  gov¬ 
ernment  to  put  a  protective  duty  on  Egyptian  cotton. 
In  connection  with  this  agitation  it  is  interesting  to 
note  that  the  British  steamer  Southgate,  which  ar¬ 
rived  in  port  Monday,  brought  4,300  bales  of  Egyptian 
cotton.  This  is  the  first  large  importation. 
The  New  Jersey  State  Agricultural  College  has  es¬ 
tablished  a  six  weeks’  lecture  course  in  agriculture, 
which  is  designed  to  teach  those  general  principles 
which  underlie  reasonable  farm  practice,  and  their 
adaptation  to  the  various  lines  of  farming.  The 
course,  while  primarily  intended  for  farmers'  sons, 
•will  be  open  to  such  farmers  of  the  State  as  may  de¬ 
sire  to  attend.  The  instruction  will  be  scientific,  but 
of  such  a  nature  as  to  be  directly  applicable  to  the 
work  of  the  farm.  The  course  will  embrace  lectures 
on  agriculture,  botany  and  horticulture,  entomology, 
biology,  physics,  mechanics  and  chemistry.  No  en¬ 
trance  examination  will  be  required.  All  applicants 
should  be  at  least  1(1  years  of  age  and  have  a  common- 
school  education.  A  few  text  books  may  be  desir¬ 
able,  but  none  will  be  required.  The  course  will 
open  Monday,  January  11,  1892,  and  close  Friday,  Feb¬ 
ruary  19.  The  lectures  will  be  given  during  afternoon 
hours’  beginning  at  2  P.  M.  Further  particulars  of 
Irving  S.  Upson,  Registrar,  New  Brunswick. 
Condensed  Correspondence. 
Montgomery  County,  Pa.— The  crops  in  our 
locality  during  the  past  season,  taking  them  all 
together,  have  been  up  to  the  average.  Corn  was 
a  very  full  crop,  somewhat  late  in  maturing,  but 
not  injured  by  frost.  Wheat  also  was  a  very  full 
crop;  oats,  rather  good;  not  much  raised.  I  think  our 
latitude  is  too  far  south  for  this  crop.  Rye  was  a  full 
crop  both  in  straw  and  grain;  much  rye  straw  is 
thrashed  with  the  flail  and  sold  straight  in  the  Phila¬ 
delphia  markets,  which  are  within  easy  hauling  dis¬ 
tance.  Hay  was  about  two-thirds  of  a  crop,  but  has 
brought  a  fair  price— from  75  cents  to  95  cents  per  100 
pounds,  according  to  quality. 
Fayette  County,  Pa.— The  weather  here  this 
autumn  has  been  very  dry  until  lately.  Growing 
wheat  is  very  short  and  thin — the  worst  prospect  for 
wheat  for  years.  sub. 
CROP  AND  MARKET  NOTES. 
Oregon  raspberries  are  ripening. 
Celery  is  abundant,  good  and  cheap. 
Dandelion  greens  from  Dong  Island  hothouses  are 
in  market. 
Cauliflowers  are  still  quite  plentiful  and  are  re¬ 
tailed  at  a  reasonable  price. 
If  all  the  “Orange  County  Sausage’’  that  is  sold 
here  comes  from  that  county,  a  large  number  of  the 
inhabitants  must  be  in  the  sausage  business. 
The  old-fashioned  black  Gilliflower  Apple  Is  popu¬ 
lar  in  this  market  and  usully  sells  at  good  prices. 
Darge  quantities  of  them  are  bought  for  the  Southern 
trade. 
The  Russian  Ministry  of  Finance  has  issued  a  re¬ 
port  regarding  the  condition  of  the  winter  wheat  crop 
recently  sown.  According  to  this  report  the  condi¬ 
tion  is  satisfactory  in  the  whole  of  the  Russian  prov¬ 
inces  in  central  Asia,  including  many  of  the  famine- 
stricken  districts.  In  northern  Russia  and  in  the 
Crimea  the  crop  is  in  a  medium  condition,  while  in 
southern  Russia,  below  the  latitude  of  52  degrees,  it 
is  unsatisfactory. 
A  meeting  was  held  in  the  Augusta,  Ga.,  Cotton 
Exchange,  the  other  day,  to  discuss  plans  for  reduc¬ 
ing  cotton  acreage.  Remarks  were  made  by  a  num¬ 
ber  of  cotton  factors  and  other  leading  business  men 
emphasizing  the  necessity  for  curtailing  next  sea¬ 
son’s  crop.  A  resolution  was  unanimously  adopted 
that  a  convention  of  cotton  planters,  Alliance  men, 
merchants,  cotton  factors,  the  presidents  of  the  sev¬ 
eral  agricultural  societies,  the  commissioners  of  ag¬ 
riculture  in  the  cotton  States,  and  members  of  the 
cotton  exchanges  in  Georgia,  Carolinas  and  other 
cotton  States  be  called  to  meet  at  Augusta  on  Janu¬ 
ary  27  for  the  purpose  of  cooperating  with  and  as¬ 
sisting  the  planters  and  Alliance  men  in  formulating 
some  effective  plan  to  curtail  the  cotton  acreage  and 
relieve  the  burden  now  resting  upon  the  agricultural 
interests  of  the  South. 
W - ,  N.  Y. — The  sight  of  the  quotations  of  Otto 
G.  Mayer  &  Co.,  in  The  R.  N.-Y.  led  me  to  make  them 
a  shipment  of  62  barrels  of  Newtown  Pippins.  They 
were  all  selected,  choice  apples,  well  packed  in  bright 
new  barrels,  pressed  down  with  a  screw  press.  1  had 
sent  hundreds  of  barrels  before,  so  that  I  was  not  a 
novice  at  the  business.  From  their  account  of  sales 
and  quotations,  my  apples  must  have  sold  for  less 
than  any  quotations  for  either  firsts  or  seconds.  I  sort¬ 
ed  out  only  46  barrels  from  70  so  one  can  judge  that 
they  were  nice  fruit,  and  16  were  very  fancy.  I  wish 
The  Rural  would  look  into  the  matter  and  see 
whether  they  are  a  reliable  firm,  as  this  is  the  first 
time  I  have  not  received  the  top  prices  and  generally 
more  for  my  fruit.  The  account  of  sales  shows  that 
they  could  not  have  sold  for  as  much  as  Greenings, 
which  I  cannot  account  for;  their  quotations  are 
very  misleading.  J.  S. 
ANS.— The  cabled  quotations  on  Newtown  Pippins 
the  day  J.  H.'s  apples  were  sold  in  Diverpool,  were 
“$2.75 — $4  for  sound  fruit.”  The  gross  price  cabled 
hi  m  for  his  62  barrels  was  $91.39.  Cheated,  sure, 
wasn’t  he  ?  The  detailed,  printed  catalogue  of  sales 
on  that  day  on  file  in  the  office  of  Otto  G.  Mayer  &  Co. 
and  accessible  to  any  interested  party,  gives  the 
condition,  marks  and  price  of  every  barrel  of  apples 
sold  that  day.  Of  these  62  barrels  of  “  choice  se¬ 
lected  Newtown  Pippins,"  three  were  marked  “  G. 
Russet  5x”;  38  were  unmarked  in  any  way  to  show 
what  they  contained;  16  were  marked  “  Fancy  New¬ 
town”;  five  were  marked  “  N.  Pippin.”  Of  the  lot 
38  barrels,  including  the  Russets,  and  2U  of  the  un¬ 
marked  were  in  good  order,  11  were  “  slack  ’’—imper¬ 
fectly  packed— eight  were  "slightly  wet  ’’and  live 
were  “wet.”  J.  H.'s  “Fancy  Newtowns,”  which  were  in 
good  condition,  sold  for  14s.,  equivalent  to  about  $3.40. 
Prices  ranged  from  this  down  to  an  equivalent  of 
$1.76  for  some  that  were  in  bud  condition,  while  those 
marked  “G.  Russet  5x  "sold  for  $2.19.  Newtown 
Pippins  sold  that  day  for  as  much  as  $4.51  and  as  low 
as  $1.60,  the  latter  on  account  of  their  bad  condi¬ 
tion.  Published  quotations  are  for  “  sound  fruit.” 
Greenings  sold  as  low  as  $1.30,  while  some  lots  of 
apples  were  in  such  condition  that  not  enough  was 
realized  to  pay  the  charges.  Otto  G.  Mayer  &  Co. 
have  exported  this  year  75,000  barrels  of  apples,  and 
are  considered  to  be  a  reliable  firm.  The  following  is 
an  exact  copy  of  the  markings  of  the  lot  in  question 
as  they  appear  in  Messrs.  J.  C.  Houghton  &  Co.’s  cata¬ 
logue  printed  after  the  sale. 
•  >.  00  £ 
J  J  .  »  S  S 
r;  a  ~  > 
G  Russet  5x .  3 
No  description . 20 
Fancy  Newtown . 15 
No  description . 
N  Pippin . 
$2.19 
9  2.61 
6  2.06 
3.40 
9  2.12 
3  1.76 
6  2.31 
1.94 
Where  Thebe  is  a  Weakness  of  the  Throat 
or  Dungs,  a  Cold  neglected  may  be  all  that  is  re¬ 
quired  to  establish  a  lingering  and  generally  fatal 
disease.  Even  where  there  is  no  special  tendency  to 
Bronchial  or  Pulmonary  trouble,  a  severe  Cold,  left 
to  care  of  itself,  often  plants  the  seeds  of  a  serious 
complaint,  sure  to  be  developed  by  subsequent  indis¬ 
cretions.— Take  especial  care  of  your  health,  there¬ 
fore,  from  the  very  earliest  symptoms  of  a  Cough  or 
Cold,  by  prudently  resorting  to  Dr.  Jayne’s  Expecto¬ 
rant,  which  will  soothe  and  strengthen  the  bronchial 
tubes,  allay  inflammation,  and  cleanse  them  and  the 
lungs  of  all  Irritating  substances.  An  ounce  of  pre¬ 
vention  is  better  than  a  pound  of  cure.—  Adv. 
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concise  and  practical  discussion  of  the  all-im¬ 
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Ready  about  Januarv  20. 
Annals  of  Horticulture  for  1891. — By 
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As  a  work  of  reference  for  all  students  of  plants 
and  nature,  this  is  invaluable.  An  especial  feature 
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This  includes  ornamentals  and  esculents,  and  has 
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the  same  time  Increase  the  Fertility  of 
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The  contents  treat  exhaustively  of  renewing  run¬ 
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How  to  Plant  a  Place  ( lOthrevised  edition. ) 
— By  Edias  A.  Long. 
A  brief  treatise  illustrated  with  more  than  60  orig¬ 
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Landscape  Gardening. — By  E.  A.  Long. 
A  practical  treatise  comprising  32  diagrams  of  ac¬ 
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