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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
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$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  be  sent  out  in  due 
season  to  our  subscribers.  The  con¬ 
ditions  will  be  made  known  in  due  time. 
STILL  ABOUT  THE  “  SPECIALS." 
It  seems  a  pity  that  so  few  of  the  big 
“  specials’*  are  being  called  for  by  club 
raisers,  but  we  suppose  it  is  due  to  the 
fact  that  on  account  of  the  “open”  fall, 
active  out-door  farm  work  has  been  kept 
up  later  than  usual,  so  that  the  work  of 
club  raising  could  not  be  vigorously  pros¬ 
ecuted.  Numerous  small  clubs  are  com¬ 
ing  in,  more  than  ever  before,  and  we 
expect  that  many  of  the  clubs  thus  started 
will  be  only  the  beginnings  of  larger 
ones  to  be  added  to  rapidly  by  their 
senders  as  the  days  go  by.  All  the 
evidence  of  these  workers  for  the  $2,000 
in  cash  and  $3,000  in  “special”  premiums  is 
to  the  effect  that  they  will  earn  big  wages 
all  through  the  winter  if  they  keep  at  it 
perseveringly. 
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has  been  paid  for  expired  on  November  5, 
and  the  renewal  is  past  due. 
IRREGULAR  RECEIPT  of  The  R.  N.-Y. 
by  subscribers  was  last  week  wholly 
credited  to  our  mailing  department.  On 
further  investigation,  we  find  that  many 
other  New  York  papers  have  suffered  in 
the  same  way,  and  that  the  fault  is 
largely  in  the  post-office,  probably  due 
lately  to  the  overloading  of  the  mails 
with  campaign  documents  and  now  to 
the  rush  of  extra  editions  by  all  periodi¬ 
cals.  It  is  hoped  that  more  prompt  de¬ 
liveries  may  be  expected  henceforth. 
#  *  * 
The  $200  for  “Trial"  Clubs  will  be 
divided  on  January  1  among  all  those 
who  up  to  that  date  have  sent  in  clubs  of 
10  or  more  trial  subscriptions  at  25  cents 
each,  in  addition  to  the  other  premiums 
offered  ;  so  the  coming  week  is  all  the 
time  there  is  left  for  this  work. 
SOME  OF  THE  PREMIUMS  “TALK." 
X  received  the  telescope  and  have  fully  tested 
It.  To  say  we  are  pleased  with  It  doesn’t  say  enough. 
I  don’t  think  there  Is  anythin*  The  Rukal  offers  as 
a  premium  that  affords  more  amusement  and  pleas¬ 
ure.  while  It  is  also,  at  the  same  time,  an  article 
of  much  use,  especially  to  those  living  on  or  among 
the  hills.  We  can  see  the  stand  pipe  of  the  Salem 
water-works,  10  or  11  miles  away,  and  can  easily 
count  the  tree  trunks  on  Hound  Knob,  distant  from 
10  to  12  miles,  and  while  looking  at  a  dead  tree  dis¬ 
tant  at  least  two  miles,  I  saw  a  woodpecker  fly  up  In 
the  air  and  return  to  the  tree.  Many  thanks— E.  M. 
Cuowet.l,  Columbiana  County,  Ohio. 
1  received  the  watch  and  am  well  pleased  with  it. 
It  Is  very  handsome  and  an  excellent  time-keeper, 
and  altogether  satisfactory.— David  Yeck,  Osage 
County,  Kansas. 
The  grape  vine  came  in  fine  condition.— Mrs.  J.  W. 
T.,  Kockland.  Me. 
The  set  of  dishes  arrived  this  P.  M.  In  good  order, 
and  I  am  well  pleased  with  them.— W.  C.  Bryant, 
Livingston  County,  N.  Y. 
WE  were  much  pleased  with  the  china  set;  also 
the  watches.  They  are  all  you  represented  them  to 
bo.  Among  the  china  the  jug  alone  was  missing; 
and  nothing  was  broken  or  cracked. — John  F.  Pitt, 
Allamakee  County,  Iowa. 
I  received  the  Carman  grape  vine,  and  am  very 
much  pleased  with  it.  It  is  as  nice  a  cutting  as  I 
ever  saw.  1  shall  take  great  pains  to  have  It  do  well, 
and  am  very  much  obliged  to  you  for  it. — A.  B.  Pitkin 
Active  farmers  recommended  by  R. 
N.-Y.  subscribers  will  each  receive  a  copy 
of  The  R.  N.-Y.  No  matter  whether 
they  be  far  or  near,  we  shall  send  a  copy 
to  every  address. 
AGRICULTURAL  NEWS. 
The  Grangers  In  Pennsylvania  now  number  40,000. 
In  the  Vermont  Legislature  the  House  has  reported 
a  bill  enacting  that  a  dozen  hen  eggs  must  weigh  1% 
pound. 
Frank  Fordyce  will  soon  attempt  to  drive  his  flock 
of  45,000  sheep  from  the  center  of  Idaho  to  Ogallala, 
Neb.,  a  distance  of  more  than  1,000  miles. 
Is  the  corner  in  broom  corn  and  brooms  due  to  the 
approaching  general  Introduction  of  “  new  brooms  ” 
into  the  123,000  government  offices  throughout  the 
country  ? 
The  sale  of  American  oleomargarine  as  butter  and 
cotton-seed  oil  as  lard  has  been  prohibited  in  Vene¬ 
zuela.  Flour  Is  selling  at  wholesale  for  $30  a  barrel 
In  Caracas,  the  capital. 
The  large  business  done  In  Great  Britain  in  Ameri¬ 
can  canned  goods  is  likely  to  be  checked  by  the  alarm¬ 
ing  number  of  deaths  from  poisoning  alleged  to  have 
resulted  from  eating  canned  foods. 
In  Rhode  Island  the  State  officers  have  been  prose¬ 
cuting  many  dealers  in  swill  milk  under  a  recent  law; 
but  all  have  gone  scot-free  until  the  law  shall  be 
enacted  in  an  amended  form,  as  in  its  present  shape 
It  Is  found  to  be  defective. 
There  was  a  decrease  in  the  exports  of  cattle  and 
hogs  last  month,  but  an  increase  in  the  shipments  of 
beef,  hog  and  dairy  products;  and  the  aggregate  of 
all  items  was  valued  at  $12,996,028,  as  against 
$11,608,307  in  November,  1891. 
The  Hospital  Aid  Society  of  Amsterdam.  N.  Y., 
placed  barrels  in  the  various  school-houses,  and 
asked  for  potatoes,  apples,  etc.,  for  winter  use  in  the 
hospital.  Farmers’  children  filled  over  30  barrels— 
more  than  the  most  sanguine  expected. 
The  trouble  about  the  purchase  of  Ormonde,  the 
race-horse  sire,  has  been  settled,  and  he  has  been 
delivered  to  the  agent  of  his  new  California  owner, 
at  Buenos  Ayres.  He  will  serve  a  few  mareB  in  Eng¬ 
land  at  a  fee  of  $500  each  before  going  to  California. 
The  Society  for  the  Protection  of  Birds  of  Great 
Britain  has  increased  its  membership  during  the  past 
year  from  1,200  to  5,200.  Its  annual  report  says  the 
English  goldfinch  is  threatened  wiith  extinction, 
because  of  the  present  demand  for  its  feathers  for 
“  murderous  millinery.” 
An  improvement  on  the  pneumatic  tire— the  air- 
wheel— has  just  been  invented  in  England.  It  is  con¬ 
structed  without  the  usual  rim  or  spokes,  and  con¬ 
sists  of  a  single  rubber  and  canvas  chamber  of  com¬ 
pressed  air.  The  center  is  compressed  deeply  by  two 
metal  disks,  through  which  the  axle  is  passed. 
Tom  Jerrold,  the  youngest  son  of  Douglas  Jerrold, 
the  famous  English  writer,  is  about  to  publish  a  vol¬ 
ume  containing  an  account  of  his  agricultural  ob¬ 
servations  during  his  five  years  of  farming  in 
Canada.  Mr.  Jerrold  has  written  several  books  on 
gardening  matters,  and  is  recognized  as  a  horticul¬ 
tural  authority. 
Some  time  back  the  bull-wether  belonging  to  MIbs 
Agnes  Murray’s  flock  of  sheep  at  Bridgeport,  Conn., 
butted  Miss  Adella  W.  Hubbell  so  severely  as  to 
malm  her  for  life.  Although  the  beast  was  suffo¬ 
cated  to  death  in  the  voluminous  Hubbell  skirts,  its 
owner  has  been  condemned  to  pay  Miss  Adelia  $1,750 
damages.  Was  it  a  Dorset? 
While  advices  from  various  country  districts  tell 
us  of  unusually  heavy  sales  of  sheep  since  the  Presi¬ 
dential  election,  there  are  no  indications  of  an  in¬ 
crease  in  our  sheep  exports  though  the  restrictions 
against  American  sheep  in  Great  Britain  have  been 
recently  removed.  In  two  weeks  only  110  have  been 
exported  from  all  American  ports. 
Of  that  cargo  of  9,566  boxes  of  Florida  oranges 
lately  shipped  to  London,  4,000  boxes  were  put  up  for 
sale  the  other  day,  and  2,600  proved  sound  and 
brought  from  $2.45  to  $3.50  per  box.  It  is  expected 
that  not  less  than  100,000  boxes  will  be  shipped  next 
year  from  Florida  to  London  and  a  great  deal  of 
others  to  other  parts  of  the  United  Kingdom  and  the 
Continent. 
President  White,  of  the  State  College,  at  Athens. 
Ga.,  has  announced  that  on  Wednesday,  January  4, 
a  short  course  of  Instruction  will  begin,  especially 
arranged  for  young  men  engaged  or  desiring  to 
engage  In  farming.  It  will  continue  three  months, 
and  will  comprise  instruction  in  English,  mathe¬ 
matics,  history,  agricultural  chemistry,  farm  engin¬ 
eering  and  practical  agriculture,  with  exercises  in 
the  field,  barn,  dairy,  etc.  Tuition  is  free  and  no  fees 
are  charged.  Any  youth  over  15  years  of  age  can  be 
admitted  without  examination. 
Congressman  Hatch,  a  practical  farmer  and  stock- 
man,  member  of  the  Committee  on  Agriculture  dur¬ 
ing  many  Congresses,  and  chairman  of  it  for  two 
terms  under  Cleveland,  author  of  the  Hatch  Experi¬ 
ment  Station  law  and  of  several  others  beneficial  to 
farmers,  and  always  an  honest,  earnest  and  able 
advocate  of  measures  advantageous  to  agriculture, 
is  frequently  mentioned  for  the  position  of  Secretary 
of  Agriculture  in  the  new  Administration.  Major  H. 
E.  Alvord,  Director  of  the  Maryland  Experiment 
Station  and  a  valued  contributor  to  The  Rural,  is 
also  strongly  recommended  for  the  position  of  Under¬ 
secretary. 
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