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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Doing Is the Sum of Life. 
That number, 35, on your address 
label really means 2135, the last issue of 
1890. In the rush of the subscription 
season last year, the printer tried to save 
time in that way, but caused confusion 
by so doing. Hereafter all the labels will 
be complete; 2187 is the number of the 
paper of the last week in this year, 1891, 
and the appearance of that number on 
your label shows that the subscription for 
1891 is properly extended. 
2137 . 
If the number 2137 or a smaller one 
appears on your address label, your sub¬ 
scription has expired. Renewals and new 
subscriptions, clubs, large and small, are 
all coming in refreshing numbers by every 
mail, along with hosts of emphatic in¬ 
dorsements of Tiie Rural New Yorker. 
We would like to thank in person every 
otfe who is working so valiantly for what 
many so Kindly term “the good old 
Rural.” What we especially enjoy in all 
this is that our subscribers look upon the 
paper as “a family affair.” They praise 
or criticise it as freely as if a child of their 
own. This is as it should be. The Rural 
New-Yorker is of the farmers, by the 
farmers, for the farmers; first, last, and 
all the time. 
THE CASH PRIZES. 
The cash prizes of the second series for the 
largest clubs of trial subscriptions were 
won by the following named parties. The 
figures opposite each name tell the num¬ 
ber of subscriptions sent in by that person: 
1. A. Q. Davis, Clinton Co., Mo.100 
a. Wm. T. Galloway, Orange Co., N. Y. 51 
S. Jno. E. Tuttle, Chenango Co. N. Y. 34 
4. Jno. R. Wheaton, Steuben Co., N. Y. 2d 
5. R. R. Dawson, Montrose Co., Col. 20 
;6. J. C. Johnston. Allegan Co., Mleh. 13 
7. Chas. T. Sweet, Garrett Co., Md. 16 
8. A. A. Rice, Franklin Co., Mass. 16 
9. Frank Ward, Bergen Co., N. J. 13 
10. H. Harrison, Otsego Co., N. Y. 12 
11. L. H. Read, Jefferson Co., N. Y. . 12 
SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
The time for the term of the “ Confiden¬ 
tial Letter ” will hold good throughout this 
subscription season. Additions may be 
made to your club at any time this winter 
at the same prices. 
You can send 3 subscriptions (your own 
and 2 neto ones), at the price named, and 
later forward 2 more new ones, sending 
enough more money then to make up the 
amount required for the 5 names just as 
if sent together. Likewise, if the total 
reaches 10 or more, the money sent may 
aggregate the same as if sent at one time. 
Trial subscriptions may be consid¬ 
ered “ new ” in making up a club ; though 
we prefer that the “trial subscribers” 
themselves should get up small clubs. 
The clubs may be of any size above 10, at 
the rates named for the number, 10, in the 
*• Letter.” 
Subscriptions for The American Garden 
count the same in the clubs, as those for 
The R. N.-Y. 
WHAT A POSTAL CARD WILL DO. 
If you write our address on its face, the 
addresses of a half dozen or more of your 
friends on the other side, and drop it in the 
post office, it will cause a specimen copy of 
The R. N.-Y. to be sent to every one of 
such addresses. We will also send a postal 
card to each one, stating that the party is 
indebted to you for the copy sent. 
If the postal is not big enough, use as 
many'sheets of paper as will contain the 
names of all you want to receive the 
paper. _ 
HOW TO SEND MONEY. 
Please make all checks, drafts and money 
orders payable to the order of The Rural 
Publishing Co. 
Please do not make any checks or drafts, 
etc., payable to any individual member of 
The R. P. Co. 
Please send money by drafts on New 
York banks, or by express or post office 
money orders, or registered letter. If the 
drafts or money orders cannot be obtained, 
the cost of registry may be deducted from 
the amount remitted, at our expense, if 
the amount be $1.00 or more. 
Please do not send money by checks on 
local banks, as New York banks often 
charge 25 cents each for the handling and 
collection of such checks. 
TO THE PACIFIC COAST. 
Go to California via the through lines of 
the Burlington Route, from Chicago or St. 
Louis to Denver, and thence over the new 
broad gauge, through car lines of the Den¬ 
ver and Rio Grande or Colorado Midland 
Railways, via Leadville, Glenwood Springs 
and Salt Lake—through Interesting cities 
and unsurpassed scenery. Dining Cars all 
the way.— Adv. 
Live Stock Notes. 
A Jersey Bull for Texas.— Miller & 
Sibley send the following note: “ The 
heifer calf Spanish Beauty 67126 by Ida’s 
Rioter of St. Lambert, 13656, out of a tested 
daughter of Stoke Pogis 5th, has been sold 
to Mr. Henry West, of McPherson, Orange 
County, Cal. This makes four Jerseys that 
we have shipped to the Pacific coast The 
yearling bull Ida’s Rioter Stoke Pogis 
36496 has been sold to Mr. Lothrop, Marshall, 
Texas. This bull is a magnificent fellow, 
very large for his age, and he closely re¬ 
sembles his sire, Ida’s Rioter of St. Lambert 
13656. His dam Sweet Blossom Pogis 
36995, who is by Stoke Pogis 5th, 5987, has 
a butter test of 16 pounds 1 ounce, as a 
four year old. On her maternal side she 
has the famous Lord Lisgar, Defiance, 
Lizette and Pride of Windsor. We shall 
expect that the use of this bull will be of 
great value to the dairy interests of the 
Lone Star State. Mr. E. B. Jones of Mount 
Pleasant, Ohio, secured the bull Manifold 
Rioter Pogis 26158 out of Pretty Patty 
44108 (a daughter of Stoke Pogis 5th, 5987). 
As a three-year-old, with this her first calf, 
in a test she gave 15 pounds ounces of 
butter in a week. On her dam’s side Pretty 
Patty is a descendant from Eurotas and 
Pansy 692, the famous Paran Stevens 
cow, which, in her prime, was supposed to 
be capable of a butter test of from 25 pounds 
to 30 pounds in seven days. She lived to be 
29 years old and did not die a natural death 
then. As is well known to old Jersey breed¬ 
ers, her daughter, Judy, 691, is reported to 
have made 19 pounds of butter in seven 
days on grass alone, which we believe is the 
second highest test without grain feed.” 
Improved Cow Stall Wanted.— The fol¬ 
lowing “tale of woe ” is sent us by a Mas¬ 
sachusetts subscriber : “ Some time ago a 
certain owner and breeder of so called 
blooded stock, sold what he claimed to be 
a superior cow. She proves to be the nasti 
est beast, I think, that ever lived. By cer¬ 
tain bo(w)vlne contortions she succeeds 
every time in depositing her filth very close 
to her front feet. Then she has the dear 
(deer) habit of scratching her neck, head 
and face with her hind feet. Soon these 
frequent motions of the hind feet spread for 
her a fragrant bed which is not of thyme. 
This whole proceeding evidently makes her 
“tired” (as it does every one concerned) 
and she is much given to lying down. 
When she rises up there is a sight which is 
seldom seen by mortal eyes—a Jump of ani¬ 
mated filth. Can The R. N.-Y. or any of 
its readers give directions for building a 
stall in which a cow must keep clean ?” 
R. N.-Y.—We have seen such cows. 
There is no more cure for them than there 
is for a hen that eats eggs. Stanchions 
would be the best place for her. With her 
head in a pair of stout stanchions she could 
not at least “scratch her head, neck and 
face with her hind fcjet.” Stanchions with 
an iron gate behind the cow will doubtless 
help matters. We shall be glad to hear 
from dairymen in reply to the above ques¬ 
tions. 
JAN. io 
As to cotton-seed meal for sheep Prof. 
Henry says, in the Breeder’s Gazette:— 
“ Cotton-seed meal can be fed to sheep with 
good success if supplied in reasonable 
quantity, and with other suitable foods. 
With roots, silage, or other feeds which 
tend to loosen the bowels, I think it would 
do excellent service, since it is somewhat 
constipating in effect. Watch the drop¬ 
pings carefully and if there is any ten¬ 
dency to costiveness give relief at once with 
bran or anything at hand that will produce 
the desired effect.” 
Prof. Henry also says that Mr. Theo. 
Louis, one of the most successful hog- 
raisers in Wisconsin, has for years fed his 
animals sandstone, and believes they should 
have it. No man is more careful to give 
his hogs a variety of food and to attend to 
their minor wants than Mr. Louis, and yet 
after all this is done his hogs still crave the 
sandstone. 
At the last meeting of the Michigan Short¬ 
horn Breeders’ Association, Mr. Wm. Ball 
said: “ Taking the matter as we find it 
to day it seems to me that the breeders of 
Short-horns, in order that they may dis¬ 
pose of their surplus, should castrate every 
bull calf which is not prime in color, form, 
and breeding, and put all such into the 
beef market at as early an age as possible 
if well finished off so far as desirable beef is 
concerned. I would also follow the same 
policy in regard to heifers, fattening all that 
would not make good dairy cows or were 
not of good form and good breeding. By 
the latter term I do not mean all known as 
nnfasbionable, for among them some of the 
best cattle are found.” 
Mr. T. L. Hecker is an earnest advocate 
of the theory that dairy cows possess a dis¬ 
tinct shape and form. He says: “As a 
rule the tapering and oblique shoulder and 
sharp, high withers are features peculiar to 
the dairy animal, and the sharper and more 
prominent these points are the more per¬ 
fect the dairy form. In such the withers 
rise above the back and neck, making what 
is termed a ewe neck and sway back: while 
in the beef breeds the line from the base of 
the herns to the croup is straight. Other 
things being equal, the broader the withers 
the more inclined is the animal to lay on 
flesh, In the most perfect examples of 
those highly-developed nervous organiza¬ 
tions we note the marked development of 
the spinal column—the great thoroughfare 
through which the entire nerve system 
leads to the brain, producing great delicacy 
and sensitiveness, being easily disturbed by 
unpleasant surroundings; yet they have 
grand constitutions and will endure a long 
life of hard dairy work if not subjected to 
extreme cold, hard treatment or forcing.” 
He would like to have some of our agricul¬ 
tural colleges and experiment stations se¬ 
cure the skeletons*of some of the great 
dairy animals and exhibit them by the side 
of “ beef skeletons.” 
(Continued on next page.) 
^rtvntiisiing. 
IN writing to advertisers please always 
mention The Rural New-Yorker. 
WHOSE MONEY IS LOST ? 
Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1888, 
1 ». <>50.— ‘ The losses which annually accrue to 
the agrlculturGts fiom the use of poor or nearly 
worthless seeds are greatly underestimated, and 
would, it aggregated, annually amount to many 
hundreds of thousands of dollars.” 
Report of 1889 p. 523.— ' In 148 sampl s of seeds 
of grass and forage pi ints sold In De aware, 44 
coniaim d plantain; 2i sheep sorrel; 25 rag weed , 
5 dodder; and one Canada thistle. Tw< nty six 
different species of weeds were found In the 
samples tested. This list tells Its own story as to 
how the majority of weed seeds get upon the 
farm.” 
We CLEAN grass and clover seeds, tak- 
weed seeds out by methods of which we 
have the exclusive use. If you want pure, 
fresh seeds, write us for free samples and 
particulars with prices. 
THE WHITNEY-NOYE8 SEED COMPANY, 
Dinghumton, V. Y. 
^ WHY PAY RETAIL PRICES 
^Q, When you can buy hand-made oak leath- 
llrfflf 1 ' 1. Harness, single 8! to $30. Double 
1 IW $18.50 to $40. Illustrated catalogue free. 
Order one. KING & CO., Mf rs. O wego, N .Y. 
PURINTON’S 
in in 
S r ■' "n r II 
FARM BOILER 
FOR COOKING FEED FOR STOCK, 
HEATING WATER AND GENER¬ 
ATING STEAM FOR VARIOUS 
PURPOSES. Thousands in use. 
Simple, safe and cooks quicker than 
anything else. Write for particulars. 
J. K. PURINTON & CO., 
Des Moines, Iowa. 
BLIZZARD HORSE SHOE. 
A perfect arrange¬ 
ment for Calking 
Horses. Easily ar-d 
quickly put ou or 
removed. 
Have given per¬ 
fect satisfaction 
when fairly tried. 
Mr.MosemanofC. 
Mosemar.&Eros, 
N. Y., writes: “f 
can say from expe¬ 
rience, they are a 
good, grand good 
thing.” 
Scores ofslmilar tes¬ 
timonials received. 
Sent by Ex. on receipt of price,$3.00 per Set of 4. 
Wrench and Hoof-cleaner and one extra Set of Calks 
sent with each Set. Send for descriptive circular. 
S. W. KENT MERIDEN, CONN. 
Cook Your Feed and 8ave Half 
the Coat with the 
Profit Farm Boiler, 
With Dumping Caldron, empties 
Its kettle in one minute. The simplest 
and best arrangement for cooking 
food for stock. Also make Dairy and 
Laundry Stoves, Water and Steam 
Jacket Kettles, HogSealdcrs, Cal¬ 
drons, Etc. Send for circulars. 
D. R. SPERRY & C0. t Batavia. 111. 
PROF. THOMPSON’S CONCENTRATED 
ARABIAN 
FOOD 
For 
HORSES 
and CATTLE 
The best preparation on earth to give your horse 
an appetite, rid him of worms, make his coat 
sleek, give him new life and ambition, — in short, 
make him LOOK BETTER and FEEL BETTER 
than he ever did before. Is the best food ever 
discovered for CATTLE and SWINE. It will 
MAKE HENS LAY. 
The Arabian Food is put up in 10 lb. bags, $1, 
25 lb. $2, 50 lb. $3.50. Agents wanted every¬ 
where. Send for circular and testimonials. 
A 10 lb. bag express paid to any address for $1. 
Address THE ARABIAN FOOD CO., LEE,MASS. 
IMPROVED 
EXCELSIOR 
INCUBATOR 
I Hundreds In sue- H 
rest,I n I opernl ion.MJ 
Guaranteed to hatch |Jj 
a larger percentage m 
of fertile eggs at less ■ 
cost than any other hatcher. 
Send 6c. for Illus. Catalogue. 
GEO. H. STAHL, Quincy, III 
Simple, Perfect, 
Self-Regulating. 
Patenter nnd 
Sole 
Hanufaeturer. 
The IM. MONITOR 
IIVCUBATOR 
has not only taken nine 
priz s at leading shows 
last winter and has the 
largest Incubator Fac¬ 
tory In this country but 
will give evidence that 
the above machine is 
the leadin'* one to day. 
For circulars address 
A. F. Williams. '2 
Race St., Bristol, Conn. 
1 71KE8H BONE AND MEAT FOR POULTRY 
’ FOOD.— Having purchased one of F. W. Mann’s 
Bone Cutters, I am prepared to fill orders for Ground 
Bone and Meat (Fresh Bone and Meat from the 
Markets). The best animal food for laying hens. 
Also for Dogs’ Feed. The principal kennels are using 
it. Is packed In barrels, half-barrels and tubs, hold¬ 
ing from 20 to 250 pounds. I can send you any num¬ 
ber of pounds. Price per ’00 lbs. 2c. per lb.: less than 
100 lbs.. 2k(C. Also Beef Scraps, Oyster Shells, Granu¬ 
lated Bone, Animal Meal, etc. Send for special cir¬ 
cular. C. A. BARTLETT, Worcester, Mass. 
CLOVER STOCK FARM HERD 
Of Improved Chester White Swine, headed by Sweep- 
stages Animals, won at the largest Fairs in America. 
StO' k for sale. C. H. GREGG, 
Krumroy, Summit County, Ohio. 
J.l.C. 
nRIVINR The only hit made that can 
ULviviiiu p e used on a gentle horse or 
D I T the most vicious horse with 
D * I equal and entire success. 
30,000 sold in 1889. 
73,000 sold in 1890. 
THEY ARE KING. 
Sample mailed X O for a* | 
Nickel 81.50. w * 
stallion Bits Fifty cents extra. 
RACINE MALLEABLE IRON CO. "tfllAg"!*,: 
rp M. REVEAL, CLERMONT, IND., breeds best 
1 . strains Poland China recorded Swine all ages 
for Sale. Single rates by express. Extra shipping 
point Indianapolis, Ind. 15 Railroads. 
T iYSUBE YOUR LIVE STOCK against death by 
1 Sickness or Accident. American Live Slock As¬ 
sociation affords prolection at cheap rates. Circulars 
free. LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION, Spencer, N. Y. 
FRENCH aSvPERCHERON 
COACHERS, STALLIONS AND MARES 
rake ocax.ity, f ^ American-bred as well at 
xarge, stveisii. if AST. imported animals 
X^fq^^Ahr 6 L‘Votte 0 rei tn0tCl1 consWent 11 V^BEST PRIZE-WINKING STRAINS, 
TERMS TO SUIT PURCHASERS.dLWl laUiT-.-, 1 W •Visitors -welcome, send for Illustrated catalogue. 
Elmwood Stock JOHN. W. AKIN. SCIP10, N Y. 
