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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Publisher s Desk . 
Sir Prompt Wins the Battles of Life. 
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the cost of registry may be deducted from 
any remittance amounting to not less than 
one dollar. 
AN INTERESTING POINT 
Is that many of the most progressive farm¬ 
ers in their respective communities are 
organizing clubs of subscriptions for The 
Rural New - Yorker. No better or 
stronger assurance of indorsement of, and 
sympathy with our work is possible. We 
would like to print the letters that come 
from these men, but it would take pages 
of space. If every subscriber would 
emulate their acts, our Rural Family 
might soon number a million people. 
What a power for good would be such 
a family I 
A LITTLE “PRESENT” FOR EACH 
CLUB RAISER. 
We desire to still further show our ap¬ 
preciation of public-spirited men who have 
been and are now organizing clubs of sub¬ 
scriptions for The Rural New-Yorker 
and The American Garden. So we pro¬ 
pose to send, prepaid, to every old sub¬ 
scriber who sends us a club of 3 under the 
terms of our “Confidential Letter,” any 
one of the following books : 
For a club of 5 any two of the books. For 
a club of 10 any 5 of the books named. 
The parties entitled to them will please 
write us their choice of the books, giving, 
as nearly as possible, the dates when the 
clubs were sent. The list of books follows : 
Horticulturists’ Rule Book. By L. H. 
Bailey. 
Every Man His Own Lawyer. 
Winter Care of Horses and Cattle. By T. 
B. Terry. 
Annals of Horticulture, 1889. By L. H 
Bailey. 
Mrs. Parker’s Complete Cook Book. 
My Handkerchief Garden. 
Set of Charles Dickens’s Works, (paper 
covers.) 
Cooper’s Leather-Stocking Tales, (paper 
covers.) 
The Silo. By A. J. Cook. 
A B C of Potato Culture. By T. B. 
Terry. 
A B C of Carp Culture. By T. B. Terry. 
How to Grow Strawberries. Knapp. 
Scribner’s Lumber and Log Book. 
Art of Propagation. Jenkins. 
Azalea Culture. Halliday. 
Camellia Culture. Halliday. 
These books are priced all the way from 
25 cents to $2 each. But the price is of 
little consequence, as in each case the sub¬ 
ject is quite fully treated. 
At the recent Smithfield (London) great 
annual fat-stock show, the Prince of Wales 
won a prize on a “royal pen of South 
Down wethers.” The three sheep at 21 
months old weighed 684 pounds. 
Live Stock Notes. 
Miller & Sibley write:—“ Twenty one 
head of our choice animals were purchased 
by the Log Cabin Stock Farm of Detroit, 
Mich., of which Senator T. W. Palmer is 
proprietor. The bull to head the herd is 
June Pogis 19872 by Stoke Pogis 5th, 5987, 
out of May Dee 18058. He is a full brother 
to the cow May Dee Pogis, who tested for 
us as a four-year old 20 pounds five ounces 
of butter in a week. His dam on her sire’s 
side is a descendant of Eurotas through 
Duke of Darlington and Eupidee. On the 
dam’s side she has much of the blood found 
in Jersey Belle of Scituate, which gave 
705 pounds of butter in one year. The 
cows are mostly daughters of Ida’s Rioter 
of St. Lambert 13656 and Stoke Pogis 5th, 
5987. Among them are Ida Twinkle which 
has tested 23 pounds 2% ounces ; May Dee 
Pogis, 20 pounds 5% ounces ; Princess Au- 
rea Pogis, 17 pounds 7% ounces, and Rho 
A Pogip, 14 pounds 15 ounces.” 
The London Live Stock Journal shows a 
picture of “ Tommy Titmouse,” the small¬ 
est bullock ever seen for his weight. He 
weighed 1,288 pounds when two years 
seven months old, and was only 48 inches 
high, with “ a girth ” of eight feet two in¬ 
ches. His sire was a polled Angus and his 
dam a Kerry. The Journal says there is 
an increasing demand for small, well-fed 
animals to supply those who desire small 
joints of beef. 
A National American Hackney Horse 
Society has been formed. It will institute 
and publish a stud book. The officers have 
not yet been elected. 
Mr. Geo. T. Powell feeds a pint of 
cotton-seed meal, with bran, to his horses 
each day. It agrees with them. 
Hogs make a profit out of coal ashes. 
Colonel Curtis on feeding buckwheat: 
“ Buckwheat will make poor butter. It 
should be mixed with yellow corn meal— 
with some bran to make the food healthier, 
or to make the required waste material. 
Buckwheat canaille is good food for all 
oung animals if mixed half and half with 
ran—a little linseed meal added will im¬ 
prove the ration. For fattening a grown 
animal add corn meal.” 
In an essay on horse breeding at the 
Cobleskill Institute, M. C. M. La Monte 
said: “When your old customers write ‘In¬ 
closed find draft, please fill blank with 
amount, and send me the best pair of horses 
{ r ou can find; ’ you will be prouder of that 
etter than of a nomination to Congress. 
Now, my venerable friend, when your son 
has got his colt or team, don’t you dare 
to sell them and appropriate the money. 
If you must steal, rob an express company, 
a bank, or even a neighbor’s hen roosts, 
rather than rob the boy.” 
The English breeders of sheep have held 
their annual meetings. The theme of 
greatest interest to them seemed to be the 
probable effect of the McKinley Bill on 
their industry. They look to the United 
States for their best market. The new 
tariff made an exception in favor of sheep 
that are registered, on the ground that 
they would be imported only for breeding 
purposes and thus be likely to improve the 
stock of the country, and it was thought 
that this fact would lead to a great in¬ 
crease in the English herd book register. 
Does the color of corn make any dif¬ 
ference in its feeding value ? 
The Mark Lane Express records the 
death of an English woman from anthrax 
—the technical name of the disease com¬ 
monly known as black leg, black quarter, 
etc., etc. She was employed at sorting 
cow hair and is supposed to have taken the 
disease from handling the hair of affected 
cattle. The M. L. E. states that this sick¬ 
ness is “commonly known” as “wool- 
sorters’ disease ! ” The entire carcasses and 
everything else immediately connected 
with animals affected by this disease 
should be burned or deeply buried, as it is 
highly infectious, and deaths due to it not 
infrequently occur among human beings, 
even at great distances from the places 
where the animals died and long af;er 
their death. The disease in such cases is 
generally conveyed in the hides, hair or 
wool. This is the plague against which 
Pasteur has lately discovered a preventive 
by inoculating animals with an attenu¬ 
ated preparation of the virus, which pro 
duces an effect like that produced by vac 
cination as a safeguard against smallpox. 
The work horses in Liverpool, England, 
have been dying from “ pinkeye.” 
Any difference in the feeding value of dif¬ 
ferent varieties of squashes or pumpkins ? 
Is oil meal good for pigs l 
Col. W. A. Harris, the great Kansas 
breeder of Short-horns, says of managing 
calves: “ I keep at hand always a salt box 
with the old reliable sulphur mixture 
(given several times) and laugh at black¬ 
leg. This compound is as follows: 10 
pounds of sulphur, six pounds of copperas, 
three pounds of saltpeter, three pounds of 
air-slaked lime ; mix with salt, one part to 
four of salt, and avoid impure, stagnant 
water.” 
Jonathan Talcott (Breeder’s Gazette) 
says: “ Some farmers in this section cut 
their oats for feeding before fully ripe and 
cure them as hay is cured and they feed the 
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same way hay is fed; others let them ripen, 
cut and bind them, then cut them and feed 
them with the straw, claiming there is 
more nutriment when thus fed than in 
those cut before ripening and cured as hay. 
My judgment would be that cows fed on 
the oat-hay cut before fully matured would 
give the most milk.” 
Michigan Merino sheep breeders are en¬ 
deavoring to effect arrangements for selling 
some of their sheep in Australia. Fifty 
copies of this flock register will be sent to 
Australia, and it was even proposed to 
form a “ pool” for making up a shipment 
of sheep. 
T. L. Miller insists that the trouble 
with the cattle market is overmarketing 
and not overproduction. The big dressed 
beef firms are, in one sense, at the mercy 
of the cattle men if the latter would com 
bine and hold their cattle back. The 
dressed beef meD, he says, can hold in their 
cold-storage rooms abont two weeks’ sup¬ 
ply, and with receipts at 50,000 a week it 
will take about four weeks to pinch them 
and to bring the market to a healthy and 
legitimate business. 
The great trouble in this case is that 
experience has shown that such cooper¬ 
ation on the part of so vast a body as the 
cattle men of the country is entirely imprac¬ 
ticable. There are always enough “ inde 
pendents,” “scabs,” pelf-seekers, etc., to 
break through any rule of the kind. More¬ 
over, if marketable stock were held back 
for a month or more it would generally be 
at a loss to the owners, and though the first 
that came to market after the shortage 
would doubtless fetch high prices, wouldn’t 
there soon be such an inrush that the 
market would be severely overstocked, and 
prices correspondingly depressed ? Talk of 
the possibilities of such widespread com¬ 
binations and cooperation is loud in the air 
in these dayp, and may hasten the day when 
they will be practicable. At any rate such 
talk tends to bring about cooperation with¬ 
in narrower limits, and is likely to do good, 
while it can’t do harm. Talk of the mil- 
lenium may not hasten it a day, but will 
hardly retard it an hour. 
§4mti0in0. 
In writing to advertisers please always 
mention The Rural New-Yorker. 
LINSEED OIL MEAL 
BLIZZARD HORSE SHOE. 
A perfect arrange¬ 
ment for Calking 
Horses. Easily and 
quickly put on or 
removed. 
Have given per¬ 
fect satisfaction 
when fairiy tried. 
Mr.Moseman of C. 
M. Moseman&Bros, 
N. Y., writes: “j 
can say from expe¬ 
rience, they are a 
good, grand good 
thing.” 
Scores of similar 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 8et. Send for descriptive circular. 
S. W. KENT MERIDEN, CONN. 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE 
DO YOU WANT THE BEST? 
Tnen send fora Catalogue of the only 
herd in which 1O0 Cows have averaged 
19 lbs. and 18 have averaged 24 lbs. of 
butter per week. In which 96 Cows 
have averaged 16,019 lbs. of milk per 
year. 
MORSES. 
Clydesdale, Percheron, French Coach, 
American-bred Coach, Standard-bred 
Trotters, of the best and most Popular 
Breeding. 
Also Berkshire and Cheshire Swine. 
Separate Catalogues of Horses and Cattle. Prices 
low for high quality of stock. (In writing mention 
this paper.) 
SMITHS, POWELL Sl LAMB 
SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
PRAIRIE STATE INCU¬ 
BATORS and HROODERS 
Are being used all over the 
World. 
— 30 First Premiums 30 — 
JO page Catalogue of Incuba¬ 
tors, Brocd-Houses, etc., free. 
Address 
PRAIRIE STATE INCUBA¬ 
TOR CO., Homer City, Pa. 
Mention The Rurai . 
As produced by the 
DETROIT LINSEED OIL WORKS, 
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, 
Is the Best Feed for 
DAIRY COWS, HORSES, PIGS, SHEEP 
-AND ALL- 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
The large and Increasing trade the Detroit Linseed 
Oil Works enjoy, without any personal solicitation 
whatever, together with other facts they can give 
upon mail application, fully sustain the above state¬ 
ment. 
Write for further particulars, referring to this 
notice found in the Rural New-Yorkkr. 
4 
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W ** 4Ust&21 2.1^7, 
Premiums taken at UlilO 
recent lairs in O.^^^impr’Td 
Pa. & W.Va-^^ehesterhogs. 
by the Recent shipments 
mous .^^to several foreign coun- 
tries. Send for description 
to L. B. Silver Co. Cleveland. O. 
PURINTON’S 
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 
any thing else. Write for particulars. 
J. K. PURINTON & CO., 
Des Moines, Iowa. 
T M. REVEAL, CLERMONT, IND., breeds best 
• strains Poland China recorded Swine all ages 
for Sale. Single rates by express. Extra shipping 
point Indianapolis, Ind. 15 Hailroads. 
The IM. MONITOR 
INCUBATOR 
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 addr ss 
A. F. Williams, "i 
P.ace St.. Bristol, Conn. 
CLOVER STOCK FARM HERD 
Of Improved Chester White Swine, headed by Sweep 
staves Animals, won at the largest Fairs In America 
StO k for sale. O. H. GREGG, 
Krumroy, Summit County, Ohio. 
I XSURE YOUR LIVE STOCK against death by 
Sickness or Accident. American Live Stock As¬ 
sociation affords protection at cheap rates. Circulars 
free. LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION, Spencer, N. Y 
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. 
Eaee, Comfort and Thrift I 
THE BEST CATTLE FASTENING 1 
SMITH’S SELF-ADJUSTING SWING STANCHION. 
l : if~ The only practical Swing Stanchion Invented. 
Thousands In use. Illustrated Circular free. Men¬ 
tion Rural Nkw-Yorkkr. 
F. G. PARSONS <fc GO.. Addison, Steuben Co.,N.Y. 
STALLIONS V loo Imported RegU- 
° 1 • tered Clyde, Shire, 
and Trotting Stallions 
FOR SALE. 
Why buy your imported and 
registered stallions elsewhere, 
when we sell them for nearly 
half the price of other importers. 
Warranted sure breeders. Terms 
to suit customers. Visitors wel 
come. Correspondence solicited. 
Send for catalogue. Address, 
DR. VALERIUS& CO., 
Watertown, - Wisconsin, 
FRENCH JtaPERCHERON 
COACHERS, 
BARE OUAXITY, 
large, stylish. east. 
Our prices haTe been pnt at the lowest notch consistent 
with the quality of the stock offered, 
TERMS TO SUIT PURCHASERS.^ 
Elmwood Stock 
MWtt 1 
STALLIONS AND MARES 
4T> American-bred as well at 
imported animals 
BEST PRIZE-WINKING STRAINS* 
Visitors welcome, send for illustrated catalogue. 
JOHN. W. AKIN. SGIPIO. M V. 
