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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
JAN. 3i 
Publisher s Desk. 
To-day Is A Great Day. 
THE WORK OF TO DAY. 
If we always do to day's work well, we 
are sure to make a success of life, no matter 
what field of work we may strive in. We 
know of one class of earnest workers who 
have done well during the past few months. 
We refer to those who have been getting 
up clubs of subscriptions for The Rural 
New Yorker. We have met them “ half 
way ” with low prices for clubs and with 
liberal cash commissions and premiums as 
compensation for their work, aside from 
the good they have surely done in promot¬ 
ing good farming in their neighborhoods. 
The Rural Publishing Company will make 
no money whatsoever out of its subscrib¬ 
ers this year, but the large increase in our 
subscription list will make our columns 
more valuable to advertisers, and so we 
hope to be repaid for the several thousand 
dollars of loss entailed In this effort. 
lifPAnd we are willing to lose more, in 
the same way. So our friends, the club 
raisers, may have no fear of hurting our 
feelings or our pockets by rolling up the 
big clubs , as many of them are doing <^5 
OUR BOOK “ PRESENTS ” FOR CLUB 
RAISERS. 
Our offer of books to club raisers, in ad¬ 
dition to the very liberal terms of our 
“Confidential Letter,” seems to surprise our 
friends. We are glad they are so well 
pleased. The books are here and they had 
better send for ’em, and then—why, then ! 
let each send us another club if he can ! 
See ? 
We propose to send, prepaid, to every 
old subscriber who has sent or will send 
us a club of 3 under the terms of our 
“Confidential Letter,” any one of the 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. (1889). By L. 
H. Bailey. 
Every Man His Own Lawyer. 
Winter Care of Horses and Cattle. By T. 
B. Terry. 
Annals of Horticulture, 1889. Bailey. 
Mrs. Parker’s Complete Cook Book. 
My Handkerchief Garden. Barnard. 
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. Terry. 
A B C of Carp Culture. 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. 
WE GUARANTEE 
That all moneys proven to have been actu¬ 
ally mailed to us for subscriptions shall 
reach us. That is, we shall fill all orders 
for subscriptions for which money is actu¬ 
ally mailed. We only ask that proper pre¬ 
cautions be taken for safe carriage. Send 
money by bank draft onNewYork,by express 
money order, by postal money order, or by 
registered letter. Do not send local checks, 
postal notes or loose currency. When bank 
drafts or money orders cannotbe obtained, 
the cost of registry may be deducted from 
any remittance amounting to not less than 
one dollar. 
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. 
THE GARDEN FOR $1.10. 
Subscribers to The Rural New-Yorker 
who have already paid their subscriptions 
for 1891, may have The American Garden 
also for $1.10 additional. The regular price 
for the two taken together is $3 00. The 
extra 10 cents is for the additional cost of 
handling the subscriptions when received 
separately. 
5-POINTS-5. 
ADDING TO “CLUBS.” 
l*lease Remember 5 Things. 
1. —That the terms of the “ Confidential 
Letter” hold good throughout the sub 
scription season. 
2. —That if you send or have sent 3 sub¬ 
scriptions at the price named, yon can 
forward 2 more, sending enough more 
money to make up the amount required for 
the 5 names just as if sent together. Like 
wise, if the total reaches 10 or more, the 
total money sent may be the same as if 
sent at one time. 
3. —That “ Trial ” subscribers may join 
the club. 
4. —That clubs may be of any size above 
10, at the rates named for 10 in the “Letter.” 
5. —That subscriptions for The Ameri 
can Garden count the same as those for 
TheR. N Y. 
Ail Extended Popularity.—Brown’s 
Bronchial Troches have been before the 
public many years. For relieving Coughs, 
Colds, and Throat Diseases they have been 
proved reliable. Sold only in boxes. Price 
25 cents.— Adv. 
Live Stock Notes. 
Who have fed buckwheat to sheep? 
Palo Alto will take the place of Elec¬ 
tioneer as chief stallion on Senator Stan¬ 
ford’s farm. 
Irish pig breeders claim that a combina¬ 
tion of “ bacon curers ” has decided to put 
down prices of pork below a living limit. 
New York State Shropshire Breeders 
have formed an Association. Frank D. 
Ward, South Byron, New York, is secre¬ 
tary. 
The annual shearing ef the American 
Merino Sheep Breeders will be held at 
Canandaigua, N. Y., the second week in 
April. 
Smuggler, the great trotting stallion re¬ 
cently dead, was a horse of good breeding 
and fine track performance, but a failure 
as a sire. . 
A STORY is going the rounds of a Jersey 
cow in Ohio that gives black milk. The 
story is lively, but we understand the cow 
has not been found. 
Professor E. W. Stewart says that 
corn meal and oats are too high now for 
horse feed. For wintering horses without 
work, he recommends a daily ration of two 
pouuds of oil meal mixed with two pounds 
of cut hay and all the long hay they want. 
Mutton Merinos Wanted —The follow¬ 
ing note from a Michigan subscrioer de¬ 
scribes a sheep much desired by many 
breeders: “ Can The Rural refer me to 
parties who raise a grade of purebred De¬ 
laine Merino sheep nearly free from 
wrinkles, of large frame and clean yolkless 
wool ?” 
Drought in Illinois.— Our friend B. F. 
Johnson, sends the Country Gentlemen 
this note illustrating the severe drought 
in Illinois: “ Mr. A. is the owner 
of a bunch of first class one and 
two - year - old Short-horn steers that 
at maturity would have averaged 1,600 
pounds. These he was carrying over win 
ter in a corn-stubble field, but having no 
water he had to drive them daily two miles 
to the nearest creek. Seeing they were not 
doing well with so much exercise, and an¬ 
ticipating severe weather and deep snows, 
in which it would be very difficult to get 
them to water, and with want of water a 
great danger of dry murrain, he concluded 
to send them to Chicago, and realized less 
than two cents a pound live weight. What 
makes severe drought and scarcity of water 
so much to be dreaded in Illinois and other 
corn-crop regions, is that the cattle are 
wintered on the corn-stalk fields, and to do 
well and avoid fatal disease they must have 
all the water they care to drink, at least 
twice in 24 hours. 
Continued on next page. 
lUistfcUaneoutf 
In writing to advertisers please always 
mention The Rural New-Yorker. 
LINSEED OIL MEAL 
As produced by the 
DETROIT LINSEED OIL WORKS, 
DETROIT. MICHIGAN, 
Is the Best Feed for 
DAIRY COWS, HORSES, PIGS, SHEKI* 
-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 n the Rural Nkw-Yorker. 
PROF. THOMPSON’S CONCENTRATE!, 
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. 
Ptmo AltIi scarce when 
ECCS ARE HICH. 
Mother an<l I made almost a dollar every day last year^ 
from our HENS. Any gir ; or boy, man or woman can 
s well or better. I will send auy one a box of our 1 
CAPSI EGG MAKER and tell how to make it at borne J 
cheaply in a few minutes, for only TWO DIMES in 
_ Silver. Address KI TH E. MILLS, 
Dox 143, Hinsdale. N. II. a 
I O S wee f )sta ^ es 
w tust&msdy/ 
Premiums taken atOniO 
recent tairs in luipr’Y(1 
i Pa. & W.Va-^^chester hogs. 
Ty the Recent shipments 
1 mous several foreign coun¬ 
tries. Send for description 
'to L. B. Silver Co. Cleveland. O. 
TIER'S tli at JaAY are HEXS 
what PAY, Capsi Egg Maker MakeH 
liens Lay. I will mail you a box and 
tell how to make it cheaply at home for two 
silver dimes. Address 
RUTH MILLS, Hinsdale, N. H. 
3 cts. 
a Hen 
a Month 
Trial bag for 
lO hens 
3 mos. $1. 
The richest part of the egg is 
the albumi n. Laying hens and • 
growing chicks should he fed 
upon food rich in albumen, and 
easily digested. “ Animal Meal” 
contains a large amount of albu¬ 
men as well as material for the 
shell. It is a well-balanced ani¬ 
mal food, containing less than 5 rer 
cent, water, while scraps contain 20 to 
SO, and fresh meat 75 to 80 per cent. 
It will therefore go f urther.and being 
thoroughly cooked,is more easily di- 
gested. It is a true egg-producing, 
flesh and bone-forming rood, and 
supplies just what laying hens and 
growing chicks require, and com¬ 
pletely takes the place of all other 
animal food, as well as cracked bone 
and oyster shells. 11 is not a medi¬ 
cine. It is fed with other foods. 
Every poultry-keeper should have 
our little hook. “The Egg,” sent free 
to any address. The Bowker Co.. 
43 Chatham St., Boston, Mass. 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE 
DO YOU WANT THE BEST f 
Tnen send lor a Catalogue ot the only 
herd in which 100 Cows have averaged 
19 lbs. and 18 have averaged 24 lbs. ot 
butter per tveek. In which 96 Cows 
have averaged 16,019 lbs. ot milk per 
year. 
MORSES. 
Clydesdale, Pcrcheron, French Coach, 
American-bred Coach, Standard-bred 
Trotters, ot 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 mentlOD 
this paper J 
SMITHS, POWELL Sc LAMB 
SYRACUSE. N. Y. 
PRAIRIE STATE INCU- 
BATORSand BROODERS 
Are being used all over the 
World. 
— 30 First Premiums 30 — 
40 page Catalogue of Incuba¬ 
tors, Brood-Houses, etc., free. 
Address 
PRAIRIE STATE INCUBA¬ 
TOR CO., Hoir.er City, Pa 
Mention The Rural. 
PURINTON’S 
FARM BOILER 
FOR COOKING FEED FOR STOCK, 
HEATING WATER AND GENER¬ 
ATING STEAM FUR VARIOUS 
PURPOSES. Thousands in use. 
Simple, safe and cooks quicker than 
anything else. W rite for particulars. 
J. K. PURINTON <fc CO., 
Des Moines, Iowa. 
UasB, Comfort and Thrift t 
THE BEST CATTLE FASTENING! 
SMITH’S SELT-ADJUSTING SWING STANCHION. 
Xif~ The only practical Swing Stanchion Invented. 
Thousands In use. Illustrated Circular free. Men¬ 
tion Rural Nkw-Yorkkr. 
F. G. PARSON8& CO., Addison. Steuben Co.,N.Y. 
GLOVER STOCK FARM HERD 
Of Improved Chester White Swine, headed by Sweep 
stases Animals, won at the largest Fairs in America 
Sto k for sale. C H GREGG, 
Krumroy, Summit County, Ohio. 
575 SCRAP 
of cards,’ 2c. & a present for all FREE 
K. li. PARDEE, MONTOtt’ESE. CONN. , - 
STALLIONS ! 
1 OP Imported Regis- 
_ tered Clyde, Shire, 
and Trolling Stallions 
FOR SALK. 
Why buy your imported and 
regisierea stallions elsewhere, 
wi en we sell them for nearly 
half the price of other importers. 
Warranted sure breeders. Terms 
t>’ suit customers Visitors wel 
come Correspondence solicited. 
Send for catalogue Address, 
DR. VALERIUS & CO., 
Watertown, - Wisconsin. 
FRENCH 
COACHERS, 
RARE OTALI1Y, 
LARGE, STYLISH, FAST. 
Our prices have been pnt «t the lowest notch consist® 
with Hie qnaltty of the stock ottered, 
TERMS TO SUIT PURCHASERS., 
Elmwood Stock 
PERCHERON 
STALLIONS AND MARES 
American-bred as well at 
imported animals 
|BEST PRIZE-WINNING STRAINS, 
Visitors welcome, send for Illustrated catalogue. 
JOHN. W. AKIN. SGIP10. K Y. 
