136 
Publisher s Desk. 
From Little Acts Great Deeds Arise. 
WHAT’S IN A NAME? 
A name may represent a progressive 
farmer of your acquaintance. 
That name may not be of a man who 
reads The Rural New-Yorker. 
Write that name (or tens, or scores of 
like names) on a postal card or sheet of 
paper and send it to us. 
To that name or set of names we will 
send one or more copies of The Rural 
New-Yorker. 
To each of such names we will send a 
postal card saying that the paper is sent 
at your request and asking the party to 
call on you about a subscription. 
Then you may be helping a lot of men 
and women to happier lives, helping the 
community by a better agriculture, and 
helping The Rural New-Yorker. 
See ? There’s really much in a name 
when you use it right. Now, isn’t there ? 
OUR BOOK CLUB. 
Have you noticed what a lot of money 
may be saved on your reading matter by 
means of our Book Club ? We propose to 
make The Rural Publishing Company 
office the headquarters for everything in 
the field of good literature wanted by our 
readers, and that, too, at moderate cost 
to our friends in the Rural Family. 
SOME VALUABLE BOOKS FOR CLUB 
RAISERS, PAST, PRESENT AND 
PROSPECTIVE. 
No, friends, it’s not all generosity that 
prompts us to give you these books in 
addition to the exceptional terms of that 
“Confidential Letter.” We make the 
liberal offer in order to stir you up to 
even greater efforts in securing clubs of 
new subscribers to The Rural New- 
Yorker. 
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. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
FEB. 14 
6-POINTS-6. 
ADDING TO “CLUBS.” 
Please Remember (> 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, you 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 
The R. N.-Y. 
6. —That the books now given to club 
raisers who ask for them are well worth 
working for, even if you don’t care to 
“help” anybody, as per the “Confidential 
Letter.” 
A $2 MAGAZINE 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. 
THE SEED DISTRIBUTION. 
Better Save Express Charges. 
The requests for the seeds are coming by 
hundreds and thousands. Well and good. 
But we notice that many in distant States 
say: “Send by express” and fall to Inclose 
the ten cents required to prepay the ex¬ 
press charges. This is only to warn you 
that the low price for expressage on seeds is 
only when charges are paid in advance. 
The express companies will surely charge 
you the ordinary high rates if goods are not 
sent prepaid. 
Live Stock Notes. 
A WRITER in the London Live Stock 
Journal quotes the following from a 
Canadian importer: “This McKinley tariff, 
which has become law in the U.S.A., is 
going to effect us very materially, for al¬ 
though pedigreed animals for stock pur¬ 
poses are allowed to enter duty free, still, 
the number of pedigreed animals we send 
to them is small, and our great trade from 
this country was in work horses, and that 
is practically put a stop to for the pres¬ 
ent.” The writer then says that the proper 
thing for English Clydesdale breeders to do 
Is to “pray that the rule of McKinley may 
be short,” as Canadians will not want 
breeding stock. 
A Profitable Jersey Test.— I notice in 
The R. N.-Y. of January 24, the statement 
that the Jersey Cow Pogis May 29950, owned 
by Ayer & McKinney, gave in seven days 
219 pounds 12 ounces of milk making 18 
pounds 2 ounces of butter. This certainly 
shows her to be a great butter cow. I have 
just closed a seven-day trial of Lena Vail 
2nd 25613, which I got a year ago last Novem¬ 
ber, her breeder having disposed of her 
because she had formed the habit of hold¬ 
ing up her milk, so he considerd her of but 
very little value. She gave 172 % pounds 
milk in the seven days, making 9 pounds 5 
ounces of butter before salting—not a great 
yield as compared with that of Pogis May- 
18 pounds 2 ounces. However, taking into 
consideration that Lena Vail 2nd has eaten 
no grain since last April, and that Pogis 
May ate during the seven days’ trial 198 
pounds of corn meal, crushed oats, pea meal 
and oil meal, I think she made as much 
profit. The 198 pounds of grain would cost 
here $2 87; the 18 pounds 2 ounces of butter, 
at 25 cents per pound, would bring $4 53% : 
deduct the cost of grain—$2 87—and there is 
left net $1 66%, outside of coarse feed, for 
Pogis May’s yield. Now Lena Vail 2nd’s 
yield of 9 pounds 5 ounces of butter with 
no grain to be paid for, gives a net return 
of $2.32 13-16, outside of coarse feed, consist¬ 
ing of hay and corn stalks. The owner of 
the dam of Lena Vail 2nd claimed that 
she made 16 pounds 12 ounces on grass 
alone. H. F. s. 
Benson, Vermont. 
How long can a hog live on corn stalks ? 
Nebraska farmers write of hogs that run 
at large, “ eating stalks like cattle, with¬ 
out other grain.” 
A Nebraska correspondent of the Breed¬ 
er’s Gazette reports a novel experiment. 
He shells his corn and grinds it and then 
crushes the cob alone and feeds three parts 
of cob meal and one part of corn meal, with 
plenty of good hay. Prof. Henry says he 
never before knew of feeding such a large 
proportion of cob with the grain. 
John Swengel, in the same paper, 
speaks of the curious tastes hogs often 
acquire for gravel, sand, rocks, etc. Two 
years ago he made sorghum molasses. His 
furnace was built of soft bricks. After 
finishing with the sorghum, the hogs were 
turned in. They ate all they could find, 
including the bricks that fell from the 
furnace. This brick diet did them good. 
They will still root where the furnace was 
after pieces of brick. 
A VALUABLE dray horse in San Francisco 
has a glass eye. A cancer had grown over 
the eye and it had to be cut out. The glass 
eye is put in for appearance’s sake. 
Michigan Holstein Breeders, W. K. Sex¬ 
ton, Howell, president; C. L. Seeley, Lans¬ 
ing, secretary. 
Who have fed ensilage to horses ? At 
the Poughkeepsie farmers’ institute W. F. 
Tabor attributed the death of four horses 
to eating it. At the bottom of his silo a 
quantity of millet (whole) was put, with 
corn above it He attributes the trouble to 
the millet. Geo. T. Powell said that he 
had been feeding ensilage every day to his 
horses and gave other instances of such 
feeding with good results. Other evidence 
supporting Mr. Tabor’s position was given. 
“It is possible that ensilage has killed 
horses,” but of what and how was such 
ensilage made ? 
Under “Live Stock Notes,” in The 
Rural of January 31, we are asked: “Who 
have fed buckwheat to sheep ?” A neigh¬ 
bor in the winter of 1889 and 1890 fed his 
sheep on buckwheat and oats, half and 
half, and they never did better, although it 
was a bad winter for sheep. E. C. 
Hoosick Falls, N. Y. 
If you name The R. N.-Y. to our adver 
tisersyou may be pretty sure of prompt 
replies and right treatment. 
LINSEED OIL MEAL 
As produced by the 
DETROIT LINSEED OIL WORKS, 
DETROIT. MICHIGAN, 
Is the Best Feed for 
DAIRY COWS, HORSES. PIGS, SHEEP 
-AND ALU- 
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 mall application, fully sustain the above state¬ 
ment. 
Write for further particulars, referring to this 
notice found n the Rural New-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 C0„ LEE, MASS. 
3 cts. 
a Hen 
a Month. 
Trial bag for 
lO hens 
3 mos. $1. 
The richest part of the egg is 
the albumen. 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 per 
cent, water, whilescraps contain 20 to 
30, and tresh meat 75 to 80 per cent. 
It will therefore go f urther .and being 
thoroughly cooked, is more easilv di¬ 
gested. It is a true egg-producing, 
flesh and bone-forming food, 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 hone 
and oyster shells. 11 is not a medi¬ 
cine. It is fed with other foods. 
Every poultry-keeper should have 
our little book. “The Egg.” sent free 
to any address. The liowker Co.. 
43 Chatham St., Boston, >1 ass. 
PRAIRIE STATE 1NCU- 
HATORS nnd BROODERS 
Are being used all over the 
World. 
— 30 First Premiums 30 — 
40 page Catalogue of Incuba¬ 
tors, Brocd-Houses, etc., free. 
Address 
PRAIRIE STATE INCUBA¬ 
TOR CO., Homer City, Pa. 
Mention The Rural. ' 
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 
anything else. Write for particulars. 
J. K. PURINTON <fc CO., 
Des Moines, Iowa. 
STALLIONS ! 
_ , 1 00 Imported Regls- 
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. 
CjT. IIERNVRD PUPPIES for sale. Registered 
stock. Prices low. SWISS MOUNTAIN KEN¬ 
NELS, Germantown, Philadelphia. 
Feeding Animals. 
This Is a pract leal work of 560 pages, by Professor 
E. W. STEWART, upon the science of feeding In all 
its detai’s, giving practical rations for all farm ani¬ 
mals. Its accuracy Is proved by its adoption as a text 
book in nearly all Agricultural Colleges and Experi¬ 
ment Stations in America. It will pay anybody hav¬ 
ing a horse or a cow, or who feeds a few pigs or 
sheep to buy and study it carefully. Price, #2,00. 
Address THE RURAL PUBLISHING COM 
PANY, Times Building, New York. 
10 Sweepstakes^ 
Premiums taken at unto 
recent fairs in Impr Td ' 
, Pa. & W.Va^^^UheBler hogs, 
hy the Recent shipments 
] mous several foreign coun- 
tries. Send for description 
*to L. B. Silver Co. Cleveland. O. 
% 
WHY PAY RETAIL PRICES 
When you can buy hand-made oak leatb. 
er Harness, single *7 to $80. Double 
$18.50 to $40. Illustrated catalogue free. 
Order one. KING & CO., Mfrs. Owego, N.Y. 
CLOVER STOCK FARM HERD 
Of Improved Chester White Swine, headed by Sweep- 
stages Animals, won at the largest Fairs In America. 
Stock for sale. C. H. GREGG, 
Krumroy, Summit County, Ohio. 
HORSES 
AT 
Lakeside Stock Farm, 
SMITHS, POWELL & LAMB, Syracuse, n. y. 
FRENCH COACH.-The evenest, b -st colored, finest bred of any importation yet. 
TROTTING BRED HORSES. -Fine r preseutatives of several of the most noted trotting strains, 
including descendants of “ Electioneer,” ‘ George Wilkes.” " Alcazar, ’ “ Whips,” •* Administrator, etc. 
CLYDESDALES. -The largest and most noted stud in the Eastern States. 
PERCHERONS. -A tine stock of the various ages. 
Also the Celebrated Herd of Milk and Butter Producing Holstein-Friesians. 
BERKSHIRE AND CHESHIRE SWINE. 
SeparatelCatalogues of HoRSES-and Cattle sent on application, Memion this paper when writing. 
FRENCH 
COACHERS, 
HARll OTAUTV, 
LABflS, STTUSH, FAST. 
Our price* have bean put at the lowest notch consistent 
vttk tbe gnelltr at the (lock ottere d, 
terms to suit purchaser 
Elmwood Stott: 
PERCHERON 
STALLIONS AND MARES 
American-bred as well at 
imported animals 
BEST PRIZE-WINNING STRAINS* 
Visitor* welcome, send for Illustrated catalogue. 
JOHN. W. AKIN. SCIPIQ, N Y. 
j 
