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GRAPE VINES 
Humorous, 
—^ . . T " 1, 10 ^, Six days earllei than 
jT X any variety teaed at i he 
[■ guv’ll 1 Agrleuit'l Ex. Grounds 
%*> at U. neya, N. Y. Color 
/f2jjj^ttj[TaL^ -1 greenish white pulp 
figsC t lander, sweet and de 
S" « ’Cl tjSftS Helous. The only grape 
A (A V3T * I list ranks first i)Oih In 
; LJt ” Vp 1 earliness and quality. 
\ T* 1 _ . kjiv / 1 aeli vine sealed wlfh 
2 »jr r our registered trade- 
y-imctMAwk jr mark label. Send (or 
circulars giving further information. Agents wanted 
Address STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS, New c anaan, Cf- 
Ten thousand acres cheap and on easy terms and 
In lots to suit, Plenty of w’ater. Now producing 
good crops without cultivation. Also 50 000 acres of 
first-class farming and timber lands. Correspond 
with J. S. BAKER, Cushing Land Agency, 
St. Croix Falls, Wis. 
PIANOS. 
UNEQUALLED IN 
Tone, Touch, Workmanship and Dwabililt, 
JEHRflRD’S SEED POTATO CATALOGUE 
Baltimore, 22 and 24 East Baltimore Street. 
New York, (48 Fifth ave. Washington 817 MarRet Space 
oia CATALOGUE of 
NORTHERNS^ 
SEEDS FOR 1891 
Contains over 650 illustrationr- 
and 2 colored plates. The only 
one published illustrating EV¬ 
ERYTHING in SEEDS. 
BULKS atKlPLANTS.TRUE 
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OHNSON & STOKES 
U GARDEN AND r^lPQI 
FARM MANUAL-—— 10^1 
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BULBS FOR SUMMER FLOWERS. 
Nkwkst Garden Tools and Poulthy Supplies. 
mailed FREE to all who write forit. 
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du have a CtD rH P H O UR CATAL0GUE is the best Published. 
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THE BEST 
D. M. Ferry & Co’s 
Illustrated, Descriptive and Priced 
Seed Annual 
LEFFEL WATER WHEEL & ENGINE CO 
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For 1891 will be mailed FREE 
E all applicants, and to last season’s 
istomers. It is better than ever, i 
Every person using Garden, J 
Flower or Field Seeds, 1 
should send for it. Address M 
D. M . FERRY 4. CO. ■ 
DETROIT, MICH. ■ 
Largest Seedsmen in the world St 
SIDE-CRANK 
RETURN-FLUE BOILERS 
8, 12, 16, and 20 Horse Power. 
HIGH IN GRADE. LOW IN PRICE. STRICTLY 
FIRST CLASS. In DESIGN and CONSTRUC¬ 
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Write for Engine Pamphlet. State your wants and we 
know we can please you. Address us In full as follows: 
The Leffel Water Wheel &. Engine Co. 
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, U. S. A. 
Plants of Beat Quality. Warranted tmo to name. Lowost 
Prices. Largest Stock and Assortment of Old and Now 
Varieties. Send for Price List 
BUSH & SON & MEIBSm. Bnshterg. Mo. 
CONTENTS 
Rural New-Yorker, Janu try 10, 1891. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Brown Patagonian Hen, Princess . 
A Tame Jackdaw. . 
Head Scab In Sheep. 
Damaged Beans as Feed. 
Polled Jerseys... 
A New Business In South Dakota. 
Live Stock Notes. 
A Veteran Hen Dead. 
Curing a Crop-bound Hen. 
a Sensible Hen House . 
American Turkeys In Bohemia. 
Kill the Lazy Hens .. .... 
FARM TOPICS 
“Hybridized ’’ Potato Seed balls . 
Prickly Comfrey. . ... . 
Nitrate of Soda. 
Manure Queries. 
Fields for Potatoes and Oats.. 
Amber Cane . 
Nitrogen In Stable Manure ...-.. 
‘Bringing Forth a Hundredfold ” . 
Quick to Grow, Quick to Rot. 
Maine Maple Molasses.. 
How Some • Special” and ‘ Mixed” Farmers are 
Getting Along. 
Machine for Cutting Cane. . 
HORTICULTURAL. 
White s Large Fruit Farm. ... 
Notes from the Rural Grounds. 
Peaches and Plums from Pits . 
Choice Hardy shrubs and Trees. 
Lime fora Garden. 
Strawberries for Washington. 
Blanching Celery. . 
The Stock Does not Change the Flavor of the Fruit 
Graft. 
Mr. Terry’s Strawberry Methods . 
Two Plums with but a Single Name. 
Cheap Orange Sorter.. 
Canadian Horticulture.. 
Horticultural Convention JottinRS. . 
WOMAN’S WORK 
Is the Bloom off the Peach. 
Women and the Ballot. .. 
Care of Side Pork and Hams. .. . 
Furs and Fur Animals. 
A Reminiscence; and a Question. 
Homely Hints. . 
MISCELLANEOUS 
The New South.. 
One Thing at a Time. 
No Stock in Class Legislation. ... 
Was It a Lesson in Political Eoonomy ?. 
Individualism vs Co operation. 
Bell Telephone Patents. 
That Patent Tax.. • .. 
Politics in Farmers' Institutes.. 
Those Immigration and Lard Bills. 
Trusts and the Tariff. 
More About the Tariff. .. .. 
Property Rights of Married Women in Ill. 
Farmers’ Wives. 
Down With the Fences. ... 
Comments. 
A FewPo-tscripts... . ••■ •••••• . 
Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations... 
Societies and Organizations. 
Readers’ Notes... 
Society Meetings to Come. 
New Bone Cutter. 
Transmitting Wave Power. 
Scientific Snow Shoveling. 
Camp Life in a Farm House . 
About Bank Currency. 
Some Financial Ideas. 
Humorous. 
Editorial.... 
Brevities. . 
Trade Winds . 
Agricultural News.. •• 
Crop and Market Notes .. — 
Condensed Correspondence. 
Markets. 
Publisher’s Desk. .. 
Almanac.*.»,.... 
'^UiMcnKtuiciutf Advertising. 
Readers of The R. N.- Y. will please the 
advertisers and benefit the paper by always 
mentioning it when writing to advertisers. 
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It will not break—will 
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UST* Send to us for Special Circulars which Illustrate all the points of this great 
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us $7, and we will send you the Hoe, express paid through. 
THE BEST TOOL 
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one man will do more work 
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SEED POTATOES WANTED 
Parties having the following varieties to offer wMIl 
write quoting prices: Rural No. 3, Summit, Badger 
or Empire State. 
THE STEELE BROS. CO., L t d, 
Toronto, Canada. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS and BEGONIAS 
The. Best in Cultivation. 
Choice Prize Chrysanthemum Seed.25 cents. 
Mammoth Begonia Seed.35 cenis. 
Send for Plant List. 
T. H. SPAULDING, Box 2007, Orange, N. J. 
Beautiful Evergreens, 
Rare and Choice Native and Foreign Varieties. 
Small Stock for Nurserymen; larger sizes for orna¬ 
ment, Hedges and Screens. Prices low. Catalogue 
free. GEO. PINNEY, Evergreen, Wis. 
ALFALFA CLOVER SEED 
For Milking Cows with Sore or Obstructed Teats. 
We make these Tubes in three sizes, of white metal, heavily silver-plated. Price of 
regular size, same as shown in cut, 25 cents each, or five for $1. Send for Circulars. 
By the car-load or In any quantity. 
Write to W. A. HAWS, 
Las Animas, Bent County, Colorado, U. S. A. 
Pike’s Veneer Wrappers 
FOR 1 1 
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BARTLETT & DOW, LOWELL, MASS 
UNIVERSAL WEEDER^CULTIVATOR 
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“ 1 regard Breed's Universal Weeder as one of the most valuable 
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W TBtow 4 We are usin g die Weeder to-day on a field of potatoes a foot high, 
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“ Your Weeder is about all that can be asked for as a weed killer 
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