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To our friends who hnvo nol nlready received it, we ore ready to nin i 
our NEW CATALOGUE of 
HIGH-CLASS SEEDS 
FOR 1801, 
Containing all the Novelties of the Season, both in Vegetable and Flower Seeds. 
\ J.M. Thorburn & Co..15JohnS:NewYork. / 
Advertising. 
Always name The R. N.-Y. in writing to 
advertisers. 
Ilf • I I DADCD of attractive styles, at ex- 
■TALL r Hr Ell tremely low prices. For 8e. post¬ 
age we will send to any address samples with borders 
to match, of papers ranging In price from tic. to 50c. 
a roll. A. L. DIAMENT & CO., 1*06 Market Street, 
Phlladelph'a Pa. 
fftCIDER 
MACHINERY 
ISfflDHKg Knuckle Joint A Screw Praams, Ore ten 
VvSN^Si^^^KlsTstcrs, Pomps, etc. Send for Ostaioffni 
Soomsr * Boschert Frets Os, llSW.WsWrBt. Syrecus.H 1 
Whv Injure your stock with Barb 
Fence when you can buy a 
PIANOS. 
UNEQUALLED IN 
lone, Touch, Workmanship and Dnrabilitv. 
Baltimore, *2 and 24 East Baltimore Street. 
New York, 148 Fifth ave. Washington 817 Market Space 
WHY PAY RETAIL PRICES 
When you can buy hand-made oak leath¬ 
er Harness, single *7 to $30. Double 
S 18.50 to $40. Illustrated catalogue free, 
rder one. KING & CO., Mfrs. Owego, N,Y. 
[LANE’S PATENT STEEL DOOR HANGERI 
ANTI-FRICTION. 
The most perfect 
article of its kin d 
made. No more break¬ 
age; ease of move-1 
mentand satisfaction 
guaranteed. Lane's 
PATENT STEEL TRACk| 
No Wood work. 
. . Simple and durable.! 
[LANE BROS., Poughkeepsie, N. 
Send for Cir¬ 
cular 
Hanufact’d by 
THE PERKINS' 
Wind Mill**- 
Is the Strongest and Best Self- “—— 
Regulating Wind Mill made. 
Full instructions for erecting sent with 
the first mill. All Wind Itllllt, war¬ 
ranted. For Circulars and Prices 
address 
THE FEJK1M8-WIND Mi LL 
Agents Wanted. Mishawaka Ind. 
Mention Rural New-Yorker. 
JAN. 17 
Humorous. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Angeline : “ I will not marry him 1 He 
is old and ugly.” Mamma: “Angeline, 
did I not marry your father 1 ”— Harper’s 
Weekly. 
The Little Diplomatist.— “ Carl, it is 
not very good of you to say bad things of 
your friend behind his back.” “ Yes, but 
father, when I say them to his face he 
licks me.”—Fliegende Blatter. 
Young Lady : “ Don’t you think fox 
hunting cruel sport?” Escort: “Ya-as, 
it is; It’s regular torture, ba Jove. I 
haven’t been able to sit down for a week.”— 
Oood News. 
A Fellow Feeling.— Mrs. Grumps: 
“ If that stranger you were talking to said 
nothing about his wife, how do £3 i know 
he is married ?” Mr. Grumps ‘ Oh, he 
looked so sort o’ sympathetic w^- n I told 
him I was.”— Oood News. 
His Name Cheap. —Miss Prep ygirl (so¬ 
liciting subscriptions for som<" charity): 
“ Dear Mr. Simpson, could I get our name 
for $5?” Jack Simpson (with ec atic grin): 
“ Well, I should say so I You in get my 
name for nothing, and I’ll pay x e parson.” 
N. Y. Herald. 
Always Kicking.— Mrs. Battersley (com¬ 
plaining spinster): “ I will be obliged to 
go there soon ; what sort of a country is it 
—wretched, I suppose ?” Mr. Fatterson : 
“ Why, it’s a land flowing with milk and 
honey.” Miss Battersley: “How dread¬ 
fully bad the flies must be there 1”— Credit 
lost. 
A Miserable Mistake —“ There,” said 
Browne, triumphantly, putting his basket 
down before his wife, “there is the day’s 
catch.” “ Why, John,” said Mrs. Browne, 
opening the basket, “ there is nothing but 
a string of sausages and a steak here.” 
“ Hang that butcher fora fool I” said John. 
— N. Y. Sun. 
Transmigration.— Mrs. Hashly: “How 
absurd the ancients were! They believed 
that the souls of the dead entered birds 
and animals.” Mr. Newboarder : “ Noth¬ 
ing absurd about that. Take this chicken 
we are eating, for instance. It was prob¬ 
ably inhabited by the sole of a shoe.”— N. 
Y. Herald. 
Had Seen It.— Western Senator (en¬ 
thusiastically) : “ Gen. Greeley’s official 
report on the climate of our State is the 
biggest thing yet. Glorious! He proves 
by official records that we enjoy one of the 
finest, mildest, and most equable climates 
in the world, sir. Bound to boom this sec¬ 
tion, sir ; can’t help it. Have you seen the 
report?” Western Coroner: “Yes; I 
found a copy of it in the pocket of a 
stranger who froze to death at the Semi- 
tropical Hotel last nigbt .’’—New York 
Weekly. 
Addreis A. It. FARQUHAR A NON, York. Pfc. 
LANSiNG FENCE MACHINE. 
* -. FARMEM ATTENTION! 
P’ 
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rod, not io- 
b' Circular 
.ichlgan. 
‘Planet Jr.* 
Improved Farm and Carden i 1 1 > JCr&Z' 
Tools for 1891. 
BETTER, Hotli Horse & Hand, THAN EVER; S 
better and more money saving. We cannot describe them a- /f 
here, but our new and handsome catalogue is free and in- 
teresting. A goodly number of new tools will meetyoureye /\ Vni 1 jf iS --- 
there. Among these, Gardener’s Harrow. Oultiva- —/{L- 17 Y7 _ ■ ajv-cA 
tar A- PlllverlTer^nilll.ilioH nHjimI.bin tn.Mi ; Vj7y , r V / I ff -— T 
Gardener’s df Beet Grower’s Special Horse Hoe __~ r ■ 
with Pulverizer; Special Furrower, Marker and Ridger, adjustable wings; Sweet Rofatoe Horse 
Hoe.fourtooth with vine turner; Heavy Grass Edger and Path Cleaner;new Nine Tooth Cultivator 
and Horse Hoe combined; Special Steel Leveler and Pulverizer combined ; all interesting, nothing we have 
;ver made so practical or perfect. Some improved things too are grafted upon ourolder favorites. A capital LEVER 
VvHEEL, instantly adjustable for depth, is a great feature; put on all ’91 goods unlessorderea otherwise. Nor 
have our Hand Seed Drills been forgotten in the march of improvement, norour Double and Single Wheel Hoes, Gar¬ 
den Plows, Grass Edgers, Etc. Some of them are greatly altered for the better; yet do not forget that no novelties are 
adopted hp us without artxuil and exhaustive tests in the.field. We therefore guar- Q T A T T U V DA 1107 Market 8t. 
antee everything exactly as represented Send for Catalogues now. (J, L. nLLufl Cl LU., Philadelphia, r». 
Philadelphia, Pa, 
VttXATo 
DISTRIBUTES 
FERTILIZERS 
The Triumph of tfElfe 
Modern In mention. 
Illustrated Circular sent free. TO 
ASPINWALL MFG CO., ' 
“ASPINWALL” 
O- P 
i ANTER 
* CORN, BEANS, 
ENSILAGE, ETC. 
Mention this paper. 
Three Rivers, Michigan. 
CONTENTS 
Rural New-Yorker, January 17. 1891. 
L EADS THEM A Ti b for Ease & Rapid Work 
iu Bailing Hay, Loose or Bundled Straw. Bands 
^_— ___ hooked with closed 
jf," Bales of 2M0lLs.ma(lo 
&cash-r J and ^faster 
SWlllthan any other horse 
power press. Patent¬ 
ed and man’frd by D. B. Hendricks. Kingston. N. Y. 
Pike’s Yeneer Wrappers 
FOR 1 * 
PRINT BUTTER. 
AROOSTOOK VALLEY 
SEED POTATOES. 
FOURTEEN VARIETIES. 
The effort of the young 
man in the picture to find 
2r* vV out how crops grow is com¬ 
mendable in many ways. 
Learning Agriculture. * llGTC IS much to fc)C ICcimcd 
in this direction, and in the 
long run those who keep posted and up with the times 
are the most successful. Take the one subject of 
fertilizers. Something new is always turning up, new 
things being found out by scientific and practical men 
everywhere. 
In our new pamphlet for 1891 are many new things culled from various 
sources that we believe are worth knowing in every-day farming for profit. 
We will send it free to any address. 
BOWKER FERTILIZER CO., 
43 Chatham St., Boston, Mass. 
29 Beaver St., New York. 
The largest twenty crops in the Great Potato Contests for 
two years were raised on Stockbridge Potato Manure 
alone. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Rations for Butter. 
The Milk-Room Without a Spring. 
Consumptive Jersey Cows . 
Fertilizers and Jersey Cows. 
Live Stock Notes. 
Hens Can Talk. 
About Hens.. 
Individual CUaracterists of Hens . 
Cooking Poultry Food. 
FARM TOPICS 
The Farmer of the Future . 
A Nebraska Haymaker’s Outfit. 
Potash. 
Draining Black, Waxy Soil . 
Commercial Fertilizers in Wisconsin. 
Sulphur for Wire Worms. 
Sowing Nitrate of Soda. . . 
Bordeaux Mixture for Potato Blight. 
Second Crop of R. N.-Y. No. 2 Potatoes. 
Irrigation and Immigration. 
Defence of Japan Clover. 
Make Stable Manure—Don’t Buy It. 
Rolling Land in Oregon . 
a Bushy Vine Smothers Weeds. 
Raising Water for Irrigation . 
Stringing Hops In California. 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Raspberry Pests etc . 
Japan Pear Sto ks . 
Those Arkansas Apples. 
Some Notes on 1890. 
The German of It. 
The Origin of the Paragon Chestnut. 
Rooting Out an Orchard. 
New Celery Culture. 
Canadian Horticulture. 
WOMAN’S WORK. 
A Word to Awaken Our Girls. 
The Way to a Man’s Heart. 
Mush and Milk .. 
Over Anxious Care. 
-ome Cheap and Nutritious Soups. 
A Chapter on Gossip . 
English Plum Pudding . 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations... 
Societies and Organizations. 
Headers’Notes.— .. 
Society Meetings to Come. . 
An Electric Lighthouse. . 
Business in Old Coins. 
Makers of Binding Twine . 
Catalogues, Etc.. Received . 
Camp Life in a Farm House. 
\ Note from Way back. 
The Farmer in Polities. 
Humorous.. 
EDITORIAL... 
I’.RKVITIHS. 
Trade Winds . 
AGRICUITTJKAL NEWS... 
Crop and Market Notes .. . .... 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
Markets.. . 
News. 
Publisher’s Desk. .... 
Almanac .. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS and BEGONIAS. 
The Best in Cultivation. 
Choice Prize Chrysanthemum Seed.25 cents. 
Mammoth Begonia Seed.35 cen's. 
Send for Plant List. 
T. H. SPAULDING, Box 2007, Orange, N. J 
SEEDS 
COLE’S GARDEN 
VkkKfU ANNUAL FREE! 
Containing n complete list of Garden, Farm and Flower 
Seed*. Gardeners and Farmers should send for it before purchas¬ 
ing. Lowest price*. Stock pur,- and tented. Address, 
COLE’S SEED STORE, PELLA, IOWA. 
Three thousand barrels grown upon our own 
farms. Pure and true to name. Catalogue free. 
R. S. HARDISON & CO.. Caribou, Me. 
BOX OPEN. 
It ifl constructed of thin pieces of hard 
wood, for standard size prints. 
It saves freight and express charges. 
It keeps the butter in good shape. 
The Dealers like il. Tlieir customers 
insist on having their butter in it. 
It may be packed in the regular butter box or 
is furnished with crates. 
Give this Package a trial and you will use 
no other. WRITE FOR CIRCULAR 
VT/FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, VI. 
ALFALFA CLOVER SEED 
By the car-load or in any quantity. 
Write to W. A. HAWS, 
LasjAnlmas, Bent County,Colorado, U. S. A. 
One Way to 
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Ten thousand acres cheap and on easy terms and 
In lots to suit. Plenty of water. 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. 
CRANBERRY BOGS. 
Seld by Hardware Dealers Generally. 
Cook Your Feed and Save Half 
the Cost with the 
Profit Farm Boiler. 
With Pumping 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, llog Solders, Cal¬ 
drons, Etc. Send for circulars. 
D. R. SPERRY & CO., Batavia, III. 
