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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
Dec.  17 
$200  WILL  BE  PAID 
In  premiums  for  the  best  products 
from  the 
Carman  Grape  Vines, 
The  New  Roses, 
The  New  Potato  and 
The  New  Tomatoes, 
Being  sent  and  to  he  sent  out  in  due 
season  to  our  subscribers.  The  con¬ 
ditions  will  be  made  known  in  due  time. 
A  GOOD  20  HOURS'  WORK. 
I  have  secured  a  list  of  50  names  and  remit  you 
accordingly.  Am  I  In  time  to  receive  the  . . 
as  a  "special”  premium?  Please  let  me  know  Imme¬ 
diately.  I  have  put  In  about  20  hours’  time.  I  Intend 
to  keep  on  If  all  Is  well.  My  own  subscription  Is 
noted  at  bottom  of  the  list  and  the  amount  Included 
In  the  draft.  C.  W.  FLANSBURGH. 
Ingham  County,  Mich. 
#  *  * 
IRREGULAR  RECEIPT  of  The  R.  N.-Y. 
by  subscribers  has  been  complained  of  in 
the  past  few  weeks.  This  has  been  due 
to  changes  in  the  mailing  department, 
which  have  now  been  remedied,  and  we 
trust  that  there  will  be  little,  if  any,  fur- 
thur  cause  for  complaint. 
*  *  * 
AFTER  THE  “  SPECIALS." 
We  get  many  letters  from  wide-awake 
farmers  who  want  those  big  “special” 
premiums,  and  we  know  that  many  of 
them  are  working  for  these  “big  wages.” 
Yet  the  largest  “special”  called  for  to 
date  has  been  the  disk  harrow.  So,  you 
see,  the  field  is  still  open  !  December 
and  J anuary  ought  to  see  all  the  best  of 
them  won  by  willing  workers. 
*  *  * 
THE  R.  N.-Y.  PAID  THE  MORTGAGE. 
I  siiall,  continue  to  work  for  the  liberal  premiums 
and  for  the  Introduction  of  the  best  farm  paper  In 
the  Union  among  my  neighbors  and  friends.  A 
neighbor  of  mine  told  me  the  other  day  that  he  could 
never  have  lifted  the  mortgage  off  his  farm  had  it 
not  been  for  the  Inspiration  and  actual  help  given  by 
The  Rural.  Long  may  It  continue  to  lift  the  farmer 
above  the  dirt  in  which  he  digs  1— Pliny  A.  Hub¬ 
bard,  Van  Buren  County,  Mich. 
The  Carman  vines  reached  me  to-day  In  splendid 
condition.  They  have  line  roots  that  must  push  them 
forward  If  duly  cared  for. — Neal  Hambleton.  Lan¬ 
caster  County,  Pa. 
The  Carman  grape  came  to  hand  In  good  shape.  It 
is  finely  rooted,  and  strong  and  healthy  In  appear¬ 
ance.  The  watch  received  is  perfectly  satisfactory. 
Many  thanks  for  your  promptness.  We  could  not 
run  our  business  without  The  Rural, — R.  B.  Van 
Orman,  Cass  County,  Iowa. 
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T  T~j^  your  subscription  has  expired  it 
A  will  be  indicated  by  the  date  on  the 
address  label.  For  example,  a  label  as 
follows : 
John  Smith,  31J92, 
means  that  Mr.  John  Smith’s  subscrip¬ 
tion  is  paid  to  the  end  of  December,  and 
that  his  renewal  subscription  for  the 
year  to  come  should  be  forwarded  soon. 
If  the  label  reads, 
John  Smith,  5|92, 
it  indicates  that  the  time  his  subscription 
has  been  paid  for  expired  on  November  5, 
and  the  renewal  is  past  due. 
Don’t  hold  orders  for  trial  subscrip¬ 
tions,  but  send  them  along  as  fast  as  re¬ 
ceived,  so  that  we  may  send  the  paper 
promptly  to  the  subscribers.  It  looks  now 
as  if  that  $200  January  1,  is  going  to  he  di¬ 
vided  up  among  a  very  small  number  of 
club  raisers.  *  *  * 
Active  farmers  recommended  by  R. 
N.-Y.  subscribers  will  each  receive  a  copy 
of  Tiie  R.  N.-Y.  No  matter  whether 
they  be  far  or  near,  we  shall  send  a  copy 
to  every  address. 
tiW~For  6  cts.  postage  and  addresses  of  ten  friends,  the 
Housekeeper's  Weekly,  U  N.  9th,  Phila.,  sends  Free  a 
supply  of  safety  cases  for  mailing  coins,  and  one  num¬ 
ber  of  that  charming  magazine.  MARION  HaRLAND 
is  chief  contributor. 
AGRICULTURAL  NEWS. 
A  country  road  convention  at  St.  Paul  early  next 
month. 
There  are  3,5C0,000  acres  of  Irrigated  land  In  Cali¬ 
fornia. 
All  subscribers  for  1893  receive  their  choice  of  any  or  all  of  17  new  Roses,  Mr. 
Carman’s  Rosa  rugosa  hybrids;  a  Carman  Grape  vine;  a  new  early  Potato,  originated 
by  Mr.  Carman,  and  seeds  of  200  cross-bred  Tomatoes,  sure  to  contain  valuable  new 
varieties.  Subscribers  pay  for  the  mailing  only,  amounting  to  only  two  to  eight 
cents  per  item. 
Two  ships  recently  Imported  8,700  sheep  from  Ice¬ 
land  to  Liverpool. 
On  the  Colorado  ranges  there  are  2,000,000  sheep, 
mostly  In  flocks  of  from  1,000  to  2,000. 
The  Mediterranean  moth  has  appeared  In  the 
flour  mills  of  California  causing  heavy  losses. 
Over  1,300  trotting  associations  gave  over  $3,000,000 
In  stakes  and  purses  In  this  country  the  past  season. 
English  experiments,  like  our  own,  recommended 
the  Bordeaux  mixture  as  a  remedy  for  the  potato 
blight. 
Jack  the  Cow  Killer  has  maliciously  or  insanely 
been  killing  cows  about  Columbus,  O.,  for  a  year.  He 
never  steals  a  steak ' 
During  the  past  two  years,  according  to  the  Man¬ 
chester  Guardian,  the  price  of  cattle  In  England  has 
fallen  about  50  per  cent. 
Prof.  Llntner  knows  of  the  presence  of  the  horn 
fly  In  28  counties  In  New  York,  and  believes  It  has 
spread  all  over  the  State. 
White  Caps  are  driving  the  negroes  from  planta¬ 
tions  owned  by  Hebrews  In  Amite,  Lincoln  and 
Franklin  Parishes,  Louisiana. 
Henry  B.  White,  of  Kansas  City,  has  bought  1,000 
acres  near  that  place,  on  which  he  proposes  to  colon¬ 
ize  the  unemployed  negroes  of  the  city. 
Jacob  Shopp,  a  farmer  of  Rhlnebeck.  N.  Y.,  was 
swindled  out  of  $2,500  the  other  day  by  three  sharp¬ 
ers,  who  sold  him  a  brick  of  solder  for  silver. 
James  Massey,  a  farmer  living  10  miles  from 
Bloxom,  Va.,  was  found  dead  In  his  hog  pen  the  other 
night.  His  body  had  been  almost  devoured  by  the 
hogs. 
Queen  Victoria  was  awarded  a  number  of  prizes  at 
the  Smitbfleld  Fat  Stock  Show  the  other  day.  The 
Prince  of  Wales  received  the  first  prize  for  exhibit 
of  sheep. 
Prof.  N.  D.  Hopkins,  of  the  West  Virginia  Experi¬ 
ment  Station,  has  just  brought  from  Europe  a  bug 
which  he  thinks  will  destroy  the  pestiferous  pine- 
tree  beetle. 
Tremendously  heavy  snows  and  Intense  cold  pre¬ 
vail  through  Hungary,  Austria,  Germany  and  most 
other  parts  of  continental  Europe  away  from  the 
Mediterranean. 
The  Lustre  Is  a  lately-established  Australian  breed 
of  sheep  from  Merino  sports  bearing  unusually  lust¬ 
rous  wool  of  extremely  fine  liber,  very  highly  prized 
by  French  manufacturers. 
After  all,  the  famous  Ormonde,  the  great  English 
breeder  of  race-horses,  Is  not  to  come  to  this  coun¬ 
try,  negotiations  for  his  purchase  for  $150,000  having 
fallen  through  In  Buenos  Ayres. 
Nine  head  of  cattle  suffering  from  tuberculosis 
were  slaughtered  at  Camden,  N.  J.,  by  the  State 
Board  of  Health  the  other  day,  and  a  hunt  is  being 
made  for  more  throughout  the  State. 
Farm  laborers  on  the  Ghent  flax  fields  In  Belgium, 
who  are  on  their  bands  and  knees  from  sunrise  to  sun¬ 
set,  receive,  on  an  average,  19.3  American  cents  a  day, 
with  three  meals  of  coarse  brown  bread  and  poor 
beer. 
In  Germany  since  August  1,  Instead  of  the  pro¬ 
ducers  of  beet-sugar  receiving  a  bounty  from  the 
Government,  they  must  pay  it  a  tax  of  two  cents  a 
pound,  though  they  receive  a  trifle  of  15  cents  for 
every  100  pounds  exported. 
France  Is  claimed  to  be  the  greatest  egg  and  poul¬ 
try  producing  country  In  the  world,  the  value  of  the 
eggs  alone  amounting  to  $175,000,000  annually,  or 
nearly  half  as  much  as  the  largest  wheat  crop  ever 
produced  In  the  United  States. 
The  New  York  State  Forest  Commission  has  de¬ 
cided  to  purchase,  at  the  rate  of  $1.50  per  acre,  about 
8,000  acres  of  land  In  Essex  County  as  an  addition  to 
the  State  Park,  and  will  sell  0,000  acres  there  which 
are  outside  of  the  Park  boundaries. 
After  the  example  of  the  Austrian  and  German 
cavalrymen,  the  cow-boys  of  Nebraska  and  Dakota 
will  run  a  long-distance,  go-as-you-please  broncho 
race,  from  Chaldron,  Neb.,  to  the  Nebraska  Building 
at  the  World's  Fair,  to  begin  May  15. 
Charlie  and  Ethel,  children  of  Henry  Jackson,  liv¬ 
ing  near  Noblesvllle,  Ind.,  died  in  convulsions,  the 
other  day,  shortly  after  they  had  drunk  the  milk 
from  a  cow  suffering  from  hydrophobia,  having  been 
bitten  by  a  mad  dog  five  months  before. 
While  in  most  of  the  Western  States  the  grain 
blockade  has  been  relieved,  In  South  Dakota  It  Is 
growing  serious.  There  are  at  least  2,500,000  bushels 
of  grain  in  elevators  and  In  many  places  warehouses, 
vacant  stores  and  even  residences  are  tilled. 
The  London  Times  says  the  present  boom  In  cotton 
is  unprecedented  since  the  Civil  War  and  wholly 
speculative,  and  It  professes  to  have  private  informa¬ 
tion  that  this  year’s  cotton  crop  Is  larger  than  re¬ 
ported,  and  growls  a  caution  against  gambling. 
The  Russian  Government  intends  to  create  an  in¬ 
surance  against  losses  through  bad  harvests,  and 
will  also  send  officials  into  all  rural  districts  to  teach 
the  peasants  a  better  way  of  working  their  fields.  In 
all  big  inland  towns  grain  exchanges  will  be  created. 
The  Plllsbury- Washburn  Flour  Mills  Company  at 
Minneapolis  produced  3,717,620  barrels  of  flour  In  the 
year  ending  August  31, 1892,  against  2,829,856  barrels 
the  previous  year,  and  ground  16,235,000  bushels  of 
wheat,  as  against  12,356,000  bushels  the  previous  year. 
The  “rustlers”  of  Wyoming,  resenting  the  Govern¬ 
ment’s  action  during  the  “Invasion”  of  the  cattle 
kings’  desperados  last  spring,  have  converted  a  Re¬ 
publican  majority  of  1,7C0  in  1890  to  a  Democratic  one 
of  2,000  out  of  a  total  vote  of  18,000.  More  will  be 
heard  of  the  “rustlers.” 
The  Pawnee  Indians  in  the  Indian  Territory  have 
ceded  to  the  United  States  233,026  acres,  after  they 
shall  have  taken  therefrom  their  allotments.  They 
number  about  800,  and  are  to  receive  $1.25  per  acre 
for  the  surplus  lands,  which  will  soon  be  opened  to 
“  homestead  ”  settlement. 
( Continued  on  next  page.) 
American  Gardening 
There  has  been  a  change  in  the  editorial  management,  by  which  Mr.  Long  is 
allowed  more  time  and  opportunity  to  devote  himself  to  his  landscape-gardening 
specialties  for  the  benefit  of  the  American  Gardening  family ;  and  the  active 
editorship  now  again  devolves  upon  Professor  L.  H.  Bailey. 
The  magazine  in  1893  will  engage  more  editorial,  contributorial  and  artistic 
talent  than  ever  before.  It  will  be  more  beautiful,  more  practical  and  more  valu¬ 
able.  Most  of  the  features  must  announce  themselves  as  they  appear.  Following 
is  an  outline  of  plans  for  the  year : 
The  periodical  will  be  just  what  its  name  indicates — an  American  magazine  of 
Gardening  or  Horticulture.  It  will  cover  the  whole  country  and  the  whole  sub¬ 
ject.  Its  province  is  Fruits,  Flowers,  Vegetables,  Ornamental  Gardening  and 
the  Beauties  of  Nature.  Our  special  contributors  for  the  coming  year  embrace 
FIFTY  CAREFULLY-SELECTED  NAMES 
in  all  parts  of  North  America.  These  men  and  women  are  accurate  observers,  good 
cultivators  and  careful  writers,  and  everything  of  general  interest  which  occurs  in 
their  respective  localities  will  be  given  to  our  readers. 
We  aim  at  everything  which  is  New,  Bright,  Inspiring  and  Useful.  The 
Horticultural  Interests  of  the  various  States  and  Provinces,  the  World’s  Fair,  the 
Homes  of  Prominent  Men,  the  Parks  and  Pleasure  Grounds,  the  Orchards,  the 
Amateur  Gardens,  the  Books,  the  Work  of  the  Experiment  Stations,  and  the 
Sciences  which  underlie  all  good  gardening — these  are  the  specialties  for  1893. 
They  will  be  discussed  by  such  men  as 
JOHN  BURROUGHS, 
EDWIN  LONSDALE, 
T.  GREINER, 
PROF.  VAN  DEMAN, 
P.  J.  BERCKMANS, 
CHARLES  HOWARD  SHINN, 
MICHAEL  BARKER, 
T.  T.  LYON, 
PARKER  EARLE, 
E.  J.  HILL, 
PROF.  RILEY, 
W.  C.  STRONG, 
and  many  others,  whose  names  will  appear  in  the  January  issue. 
Price,  $1.00  a  year.  There  are  in  a  year  over  800  pages,  G  x  8J^  inches  type 
measure,  and  about  900  choice  illustrations. 
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