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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
Sept.  17 
The  Carman  Grape  Ready 
for  Subscribers. 
Last  winter  we  announced  the  Carman 
Grape  as  being'  the  new  variety  to  be  in¬ 
troduced  this  year  by  being  given  away 
to  all  yearly,  1892,  subscribers  to  The  R. 
N.-Y.  The  originator,  Mr.  T.  V.  Mun¬ 
son,  of  Denison,  Tex.,  writes  us  that  in 
spite  of  ruinous  storms  which  destroyed 
about  two-thirds  of  his  vines  and  cut¬ 
tings,  he  has  several  thousands  now 
ready  for  sending  out. 
Conditions  :  A  vine  will  be  sent  to 
any  yearly  subscriber  for  1892  who  (1) 
makes  due  application  for  it,  (2)  and 
sends  eight  cents  in  stamps  to  pay  for  the 
mailing  only.  (3)  Applications  re¬ 
ceived  after  the  present  supply  is  ex¬ 
hausted  will  be  supplied  next  spring. 
We  furnish  these  vines  at  large  ex¬ 
pense  to  ourselves  and  to  Mr.  Munson, 
but  only  to  those  subscribers  who  want 
them  enough  to  pay  for  the  carriage. 
Otherwise,  if  we  attempted  to  send  the 
vines  to  all  subscribers,  prepaid,  thou¬ 
sands  of  vines  and  hundreds  of  dollars 
would  be  wasted  by  sending  to  people 
who  might  not  care  for  them,  as  we  have 
learned  in  previous  years  with  other 
novelties  introduced  by  The  R.  N.-Y. 
The  price  of  the  vines  is  fixed  at  $5  each, 
in  order  that  only  subscribers  may  secure 
them.  We  recommend  that  only  sub- 
scri  bers  living  south  of  the  Ohio  and  Poto¬ 
mac  rivers  send  for  the  vines  this  fall, 
and  those  north  next  spring. 
We  will  Give  $2  00  for 
Trial  Subscriptions. 
We  have  told  you  that  we  are  deter¬ 
mined  that  The  Rural  New-Yorker 
shall  have  500,000  readers.  Many  old 
friends  every  year  do  what  they  can  to 
extend  its  circle  of  influence  by  sending 
us  clubs  of  new  subscriptions,  and  a  little 
later  we  shall  announce  some  new  feat¬ 
ures  and  premium  offers  that  wall  make 
every  reader’s  eyes  “dance  with  pleas¬ 
ure  ”  at  sight  of  the  goodly  array.  Just 
now  we  want  to  see  a  long  line  of  trial 
subscribers,  in  order  that  they,  too,  may 
reap  the  advantages  of  our  forthcoming 
offers.  Accordingly,  on  page  612,  we 
have  made  a  special  offer  of  valuable 
books  for  small  “  trial  ”  clubs,  and  now 
add  to  that  offer  the  following  :  On  Jan¬ 
uary  1  next  we  will  divide  up  the  sum 
of  $200  among  those  who  shall  send  us 
before  that  time  clubs  of  10  or  more  new 
trial  subscriptions  at  25  cents  each  ;  the 
largest  clubs  and  the  smallest  (above 
nine)  to  share  in  the  division  strictly 
lira  rata.  This  is  in  addition  to  any  other 
premium  offers.  The  trial  subscribers 
must  be  new ;  that  is,  parties  whose 
names  have  not  been  on  our  books  for 
two  years  past,  and  outside  the  family  of 
any  old  subscriber.  The  trial  subscrip¬ 
tion  term  is  for  three  months.  The 
sooner  the  trial  clubs  are  begun,  the 
bigger  they  are  likely  to  be.  When  you 
recall  the  fact  that  under  our  last  offer 
there  were  only  40  competitors,  it  looks 
as  if  all  “trial ’’club  raisers  this  time 
would  share  a  handsome  bonus.  Then 
the  smallest  club  to  share  in  the  division 
was  ten,  and  its  sender  received  $5, 
though  he  had  sent  us  only  $2.50!  Of 
course  we  want  that  number  greatly  in¬ 
creased  this  season.  Will  you  try  ? 
*  *  * 
Late  reports  from  the  West  and  Northwest  Bay 
that  corn  has  not  eared  out  well,  while  the  dry 
weather  has  more  or  less  prevented  its  filling.  Last 
year  It  was  what  Is  called  “  fat  and  heavy,”  but  this 
year  the  ears  will  be  lean  and  light,  judging  from  the 
result  of  the  matured  grain  so  far  during  this  crop 
year.  Excellent  progress  has  been  made  in  the  prep¬ 
aration  of  the  ground  for  fall  seeding.  Farmers, 
however,  are  not  over  anxious  to  Increase  their  acre¬ 
age  of  winter  wheat  this  fall  while  present  conditions 
exist.  Prices  have  cut  off  the  movement  of  winter 
wheat  very  materially  during  the  last  20  days  and 
there  is  little  in  the  situation  to  alter  the  case  for 
the  next  (JO  days  at  leaBt.  Millers  well  stocked  with 
wheat,  and  the  home  demand  for  flour  Is  not  large. 
AGRICULTURAL  NEWS. 
The  Jewish  congregation  of  Kalamazoo,  Mich.,  are 
to  purchase  land  near  that  place  and  establish  a 
colony  for  Russian  refugee  families. 
It  is  stated  by  a  Chicago  paper  that  the  Armour 
family  have  decided  to  unite  their  business  interests 
East  and  West,  with  a  capital  of  about  $50,000,000. 
The  smallest  representatives  of  the  sheep  species 
are  the  tiny  “  Bretons,”  natives  of  Breton,  France. 
When  fully  grown  they  are  not  much  larger  than  a 
rabbit. 
Online,  the  Nebraska  two-vear-old  pacing  wonder, 
has  lowered  the  world’s  record  for  his  age  on  a  half- 
mile  track  at  Omaha.  His  time  was  2:17,  beating  Ax- 
tell’s  mark  of  2:24. 
The  Association  of  Economic  Entomologists  at  its 
late  meeting  in  Rochester,  selected  for  President, 
Prof.  8.  A.  Forbes,  Champaign,  Ill.;  Secretary,  Henry 
Gurnan.  Lexington,  Ky. 
The  tenth  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Hortl 
cultural  Society  will  be  held  In  Chicago  September 
28.  Parker  Earle,  President;  E.  A.  Popenoe,  Secre¬ 
tary,  Manhattan,  Kan. 
Secretary  Rusk  has  received  from  Minister  Lincoln 
the  information  that  Great  Britain  has  removed  the 
prohibition  on  the  admission  of  live  sheep  from  the 
United  States  into  that  country. 
In  Is  estimaied  that  the  revenue  derived  from  pop¬ 
corn  at  the  Chicago  Exposition  will  amount  to  $217,- 
000.  The  gross  receipts  from  this  source  at  Phila¬ 
delphia  In  1870  were  about  $100,000. 
Kansas  will  make  at  the  World’s  Fair  a  notable 
exhibit  of  its  native  animals.  The  specimens  are 
being  prepared  by  Prof.  L.  L.  Dyche.  of  the  Kansas 
State  University,  a  skillful  taxidermist. 
So  heavy  have  been  the  losses  and  injuries  among 
cattle  and  especially  among  horses  from  the  use  of 
barbed  wire  fences  in  the  West,  that  there  is  serious 
discussion  about  substituting  unbarbed  wire. 
In  this  country  33,000,000  acres  of  land  are  being 
farmed  by  Irrigation.  France  owes  its  wonderful 
success  in  gardening  to  this  system,  and  in  late  years 
Italy  has  spent  over  $200,000,000  for  this  purpose. 
A  plant  for  a  beet-sugar  refinery  that  will  turn  out 
5,000,000  pounds  of  granulated  sugar  annually  is  be¬ 
ing  erected  at  Leavenworth,  Kan.  The  manufac¬ 
turers  will  pay  $4.50  per  ton  for  beets  delivered  at  the 
factory. 
Nancy  Hanks  has  again  lowered  the  trotting  record 
on  the  regular  trotting  track,  having  just  made  a 
mile  in  1:07  before  an  pneumatic-tired  sulky, 
beating  her  own  recent  record  of  1 :07jng  and  Sunol’s 
of  1 :08^. 
Up  to  and  including  the  31st  of  August,  the  Treas¬ 
ury  Department  at  Washington  had  shipped  to 
various  points  in  the  United  States  $7,000,000  in  small 
notes  for  the  purpose  of  facilitating  the  movement 
of  the  crops. 
The  Secretary  of  the  State  of  California  Viticul- 
tural  Commission  estimates  the  yield  of  dry  wine 
from  this  season’s  vintage  at  something  less  than 
13,000,000  gallons;  or,  say.  70  per  cent  of  a  normal 
yield  of  18,000,000  gallons. 
Texas  files,  which  arrived  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  about 
12  days  ago,  are,  we  are  told,  killing  off  horses  and 
cattle.  The  poison  kills  cattle  within  12  hours,  and 
one  cow  keeper  has  lost  nine  within  a  week.  A 
stableman  has  lost  five  horses. 
Though  the  French  are.  par  excellence,  poultry  rais¬ 
ers.  Southern  Russia  exports  10,000  fowls  weekly  io 
Marseilles,  and  the  agricultural  papers  of  Constan¬ 
tinople  are  urging  Turkish  farmers  to  raise  poultry 
after  the  manner  of  the  French. 
Reliable  returns  show  that  over  76  per  cent  of  all 
farm  mortgage  lndebtednets  has  been  incurred  for 
the  purchase  of  land,  stock  and  machl.  ery,  the  con¬ 
struction  of  dwelling  hou.es,  outbuildings,  fences 
and  other  permanent  improvements. 
oThe  last  bunch  of  cattle  in  the  Cherokee  Strip  was 
shipped  from  Enid  on  Sunday.  Since  the  troops 
have  been  in  the  field  50,000  head  of  cattle  have  been 
evicted.  Of  this  number  the  Rock  Island  Railroad 
has  taken  33,000  to  the  Chicago  market. 
B.  M.  Rlx,  one  of  the  best  known  fine  stock  breed¬ 
ers  in  Nebraska,  was  torn  to  pieces  by  a  bull  near 
Omaha  on  September  (!.  The  corpse  was  literally 
cut  to  pieces,  and  could  be  Identified  only  by  the 
fragments  of  clothing  scattered  around  the  scene  of 
the  struggle. 
The  Mexicans  calculate  that  $5,000,00  have  been 
sent  to  the  United  States  In  payment  for  grain  im¬ 
ported.  Mexican  merchants  who  have  refrained 
from  importing  owing  to  the  high  rate  of  exchange, 
find  their  stock  now  exhausted,  and  will  be  obliged 
to  import  soon. 
According  to  a  report  of  the  United  States  Minister 
at  Stockholm,  the  greatest  source  of  revenue  to  the 
Kingdom  of  Sweden  is  its  forests.  That  portion  of 
the  country  which  is  called  the  Norland  is  still,  for 
the  most  part,  covered  with  extensive  forests,  largely 
composed  of  pine  and  spruce. 
Some  towns  in  the  West  are  trying,  with  most  grat¬ 
ifying  results,  the  experiment  of  remitting  25  per 
cent  of  the  annual  road  tax  In  favor  of  farmers  who 
adopt  broad  tires  for  their  wagons.  Will  the  next 
step  be  the  use  of  pneumatic  tires  on  “  prairie 
schooners  ”  as  well  as  on  racing  sulkies  1 
The  Texas  fly  which  is  disastrous  to  cattle  in  sev¬ 
eral  parts  of  Connecticut  and  New  Jersey  comes  from 
Europe.  It  made  its  first  appearance  in  this  country 
near  Philadelphia  in  1837,  and  Is  believed  to  have 
been  imported  with  the  large  shipments  of  European 
cattle  in  1886.  From  Philadelphia  It  spread  in  all 
directions. 
The  heifer  which  knocked  down  Mr.  Gladstone  at 
Hawarden  last  week  acquired  a  high  market  value 
after  death.  Soon  after  she  was  shot  a  speculator 
procured  the  hide  for  £5,  and  he  has  been  offered  as 
high  as  £50  for  it.  A  man  who  has  the  heifer’s  head 
has  declined  £10  for  the  teeth,  which  find  a  ready 
market  at  £2  6s.  each. 
Nearly  a  1  the  mult  tude  of  hrashing  machl  es  in 
the  West  are  move  1  by  t- action  engine  .  which  are 
usually  id  e  for  the  greatest  |  a  t  of  10  months.  Why 
shoulcn’t  they  be  made  to  draw  load  scrapers  and 
graders  for  the  improvement  of  the  highways?  A 
late  experiment  at  Webster  City.  Iowa,  has  demon¬ 
strated  that  such  engines  easily  and  cheaply  operate 
all  the  improved  road  machines. 
United  States  Senator  McConnell,  of  Idaho,  began 
his  prosperous  career  by  starting  a  truck  patch  in  the 
then  Territory  and  selling  the  miners  cabbages  at  75 
cents  a  head,  and  turnips  at  45  cents  a  pound! 
A  new  law  permitting  women  who  own  homes  to 
vote  on  the  fence  question,  has  gone  Into  effect  in 
Mississippi.  The  limited  suffrage  that,  begins  at  the 
fence  may  yet  yet  overleap  all  barriers  and  take  the 
open  field. 
Mr.  Bonner  has  just  had  a  pneumatic-tire,  ball¬ 
bearing  sulky  finished  for  experimental  use,  and  has 
ordered  another  with  36-inch  wheels.  He  says:  “My 
immediate  purpose  is  to  make  tests  and  experiments, 
with  the  view  of  putting  Sunol  in  front  of  the  best 
new  wheel  that  I  can  buy.” 
The  Portuguese  Government  has  imposed  a  high 
oleomargarine  tax  on  all  importations  of  Irish  but¬ 
ter  on  tbe  ground  that  analysis  proved  it  to  be  adul¬ 
terated,  though  the  Portuguese  consul  at  Cork  had 
certified  to  its  purity.  The  collection  of  this  tariff 
practically  stops  the  importation  of  Irish  butter  and 
allows  French  butter  to  flood  the  market.  The  ex¬ 
ports  of  Irish  butter  to  Portugal  formerly  amounted 
in  value  to  over  $500,006  a  year. 
The  number  of  margarine  factories  is  Increasing 
in  Denmark,  the  production  being  1,225,000  pounds  in 
1889,  and  5,000,000  pounds  in  1891.  The  farmers  of  the 
United  Kingdom  are  vigorously  protesting  against 
the  continuance  of  Importations  of  “oleo,”  and  even 
of  butter  from  the  Continent,  owing  to  the  great 
danger  from  the  use  of  these  products,  oleomargerlue 
being  especially  objectionable  on  this  account. 
Agricultural  depression  and  shrinkage  in  land 
values  have  of  late  years  been  greater  in  Great 
Britain  than  in  this  country.  At  a  recent  farmers' 
meeting  in  Maidstone,  Surrey,  Mr.  J.  Harbridge  re¬ 
ported  a  number  of  actual  sales  as  compared  with 
sales  and  offers  on  the  same  property  in  past  years. 
One  farm  that  was  sold  20  years  ago  for  $200,000,  sold 
within  the  last  four  months  for  $70,000.  Another 
owner  refused  an  offer  of  $20,000  20  years  ago,  and 
within  the  last  year  sold  for  $8,500. 
Baron  Hirsch’s  plans  for  the  colonization  of  Rus¬ 
sian  Hebrews  in  Brazil  and  the  Argentine  Republic 
have  failed,  for  the  reasons  that  the  men  will  not 
work  as  farmers  or  laborers,  are  not  skilled  mechan¬ 
ics,  and  cannot  find  opportunities  for  their  favorite 
pursuit,  trading.  It  is  reported  that  the  baron  has 
concluded  to  confine  his  colonization  work  to  the 
United  States,  and  that  he  will  visit  this  country  to 
determine  whether  there  are  room  and  employment 
for  3,500,000  who  are  to  be  expelled  from  Russia. 
Great  things  were  expected  from  the  fusion  of  the 
Republicans  and  tbe  People’s  party  in  Arkansas,  but 
the  Democrats  carried  the  State  by  an  increased 
majority  the  other  day,  the  People’s  party,  backed  up 
by  the  Farmers'  Alliance,  making  only  a  poor  show; 
but  as  usual  they  are  shouting  “fraud.”  The  Aus¬ 
tralian  ballot  system,  introduced  for  the'first  time,  so 
hampered  the  tickets  with  candidates’  names  and 
designedly  so  embarrassed  voting  as  to  practically 
prevent  the  colored  population  from  taking  part  in 
the  election. 
According  to  a  table  prepared  bv  the  Board  of 
Statistics,  at  Washington,  the  values  of  the  hog  pro- 
ducts  exported  from  the  United  States  to  the  Euro¬ 
pean  countries  which  have  recently  removed  the 
decrees  of  exclusion,  increased  during  the  month  of 
July  last  as  compared  with  the  corresponding  month 
of  1891  as  follows:  Denmark,  from  $29,061  to  $32,787; 
Germany,  from  $515,157  to  $867,649;  Italy,  from  $3,884 
to  $21,259;  Spain,  from  $3,686  to  $12,800.  In  the  case  of 
France  the  exports  decreased  from  $221,540  in  July, 
1891,  to  $70,090  In  1892. 
This  country  Is  away  behind  all  the  advanced  na¬ 
tions  in  Europe  in  the  absence  of  any  national  for¬ 
estry  law.  The  new  forestry  bill,  which,  it  is  to 
be  hoped,  will  be  adopted  at  th  next  se  slon  of  Con¬ 
gress,  provides  for  a  survey  of  all  public  forest  lands, 
to  ascertain  their  extent  and  location,  and  authorizes 
the  President  to  withdraw  from  sale  and  entry  all 
lands  that  are  specially  suited  for  forest  reserva¬ 
tions.  These  will  then  be  transferred  to  the  Depart¬ 
ment  of  Agriculture,  to  be  properly  managed  or  the 
public  good  by  the  Forestry  Division. 
Nebraska  has  one-third  of  all  the  beet-sugar  fac¬ 
tories  in  the  United  States.  Here  is  the  list:  The 
Alvarado  Sugar  Company,  at  Alvarado,  Cal.,  was  the 
first,  built  in  1879,  and  is  still  operated  by  E.  H.  Dyer; 
the  second  is  that  of  Claus  Spreckels  at  Watsonville, 
Cal.,  built  In  1887;  the  third  was  built  by  Henry  T. 
Oxnard  at  Grand  Island,  Neb.,  and  worked  its  first 
crop  in  1890;  the  fourth  one  was  also  built  by  Mr. 
Oxnard  in  1891  at  Norfolk,  Neb,;  the  fifth  is  at  Chino, 
Cal.,  and  the  sixth  has  just  been  completed  this  year 
by  local  capitalists  at  Lehl,  Utah.  Thus  it  will  be 
seen  that  there  are  at  this  time  but  six  beet-sugar 
factories  in  the  United  States. 
(Continued  on  next  page. ) 
LOW  SPIRITS  and  the  “  ALL  GONE  ”  feeling  at 
the  pit  of  the  stomach,  are  best  relieved  by  Jayne’s 
Tonic  Vermifuge,  taken  perseveringly  an  hour 
after  meals.  It  is  particularly  nice  for  Ladles. 
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A  CUP  OF  COFFEE 
from  our  premium  coffee  pot  will  brighten 
the  good  wife  and  send  the  husband  to  the 
fields  in  a  cheerful  frame  of  mind. 
It  saves  40  per  cent  over  ordinary 
methods  of  coffee  making. 
It  is  no  more  trouble  than  the  ordinary 
coffee  pot  and  insures  delicious  coffee. 
It  allows  no 
aroma  or 
strength  t  o 
escape. 
It  filters  the 
coffee,  mak¬ 
ing  it  bright 
and  clear, 
and  allows 
no  sediment. 
It  keeps  the 
boiling  water 
in  contact 
with  the  cof- 
f  e  e  grounds 
the  proper 
time  for  extracting  all  the  aroma  and 
strength  and  none  of  the  bitterness. 
The  coffee  pot  is  handsomely  nickel- 
plated  and  has  a  wooden  handle.  Price 
$1.20,  by  express.  This  is  the  two-quart 
size,  holding  three  to  seven  cups.  With  a 
yearly  subscription  to  The  Rural  New- 
Yorker,  $2.25  ;  with  a  subscription  from 
receipt  of  order  to  Dec.  31,  only  $1.50. 
THE  HOLDFAST  CORN  TIE.— One 
that  will  last  a  lifetime  and  pay  its  cost 
in  labor  saved  every  year.  The  tie,  shown 
in  the  illustration,  consists  of  a  bit  of 
heavy  wire  so  arranged  as  to  make  the 
cord  fast  the  instant  it  is  slipped  into 
place,  which  is  done  with  one  quick,  for- 
ward-and-back  motion  of  the  hand.  Mr. 
W.  S.  Moore,  the  well-known  agent  of 
The  R.  N.-Y.,  says  of  it : 
The  1,000  Holdfast  fodder  ties  that  I 
used  last  fall  gave  entire  satisfaction. 
I  can  recommend  them  as  a  great  help  in 
harvesting  the  corn  crop.  The  shocks 
stood  up  well,  went  to  the  barn,  were 
husked  without  one  getting  untied. 
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COMBINATION  FRUIT,  WINE  AND 
JELLY  PRESS. 
This  press  is  not  intended  for  making 
cider,  but  for  pressing  fruits  like  grapes, 
strawberries,  currants,  pineapples, 
huckleberries,  etc.,  for  making  wine, 
fruit  syrups,  shrub,  jam,  jellies,  etc.  It 
may  be  used  as  a  lard  press,  and  also  in 
preparing  beef  tea  for  the  use  of  inva- 
lides.  It  is  an  excellent  machine,  strong, 
simple  and  cheap.  It  is  the  best  small 
fruit  press  on  the  market.  Price,  $3. 
Given  as  a  premium  for  four  new  sub¬ 
scriptions  to  The  Rural  New-Yorker 
from  receipt  of  order  to  January,  1893, 
accompanied  by  $4.00 
THE  RURAL  PUBLISHING  CO., 
Times  Building,  New  York. 
