THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
ROSES 
Our stock of both Old and New 
varieties for Spring Planting 
is very large, and plants are 
unusually line. We invite all 
who contemplate planting Hoses this Spring to send 
for our New Descriptive Calalof/ue, which contains ac¬ 
curate descriptions of all the best varieties in cultiva¬ 
tion, and is the most complete Catalogue of the kind 
published. It will be mailed FREE on application. 
ELLWANGER& BARRY, 
Established over 50 Yenrs. 
Rochester, S.Y. 
[Mention this paper."] 
KRAUS SULKY CULTIVATOR. 
New, Novel and Radically Different 
Irom any other Cultivator. 
moved by a simple touch of the foot lev r. No 
strnining of limbs nml hack to work the shovels. 
Any hoy can do it. You touch the lever, the 
machine does the rest. The only perfect side- 
hill worker. Don't buy a Cultivator until you have 
seen the K rails. Ask your dealer for It or write to 
THE A lv RON TOO l, CO., 
Sole Manufacturers, Akron, Ohio. 
Some Arkansas Apples. 
SPRING PLANTING. 
I have decided to reduce the prices on all of the 
new sorts for this spring only. I have several sorts 
not shown at “American Institute” in October last, 
which I regard as superior for the planter to any 
shown there. One in particular, a seedling of the Ben 
Davis and which will grow anywhere that variety 
will, and first in quality. I have also decided to fur¬ 
nish scions of all the varieties, to those who wish to 
top work their orchards. Send for catalogue and cir¬ 
cular. Cut this out, it will not appear again. Men¬ 
tion Rural New-Yorker. 
E. F. BABCOCK, 
Lock Box 165, LITTLE ROCK. ARK. 
For Sale at a Bargain. 
About 125 Horse Chestnut Trees. Address 
II. 11. ENGLE dk SON, Marietta, Pa. 
^EVERGREENS™ 
Seedlings, Root-pruned and Transplanted. 
Price List Free. Write for it. Address 
EDWARD 1IOYT, Scotch Grove, Jones Co., Ia. 
W I. CHAMBER I, AIN’S 
• PURE MAPLE SYRUP. 
Made under my supervision guaranteed absolutely 
pure, wholly from sugar-maple sap of 1891, and of 
highest quality. A real luxury; try some. Send draft 
or money order with order, and say whether to ship 
by express or freight. Price In gallon cans, sealed to 
keep, f. o. b. here—3 gallons, *3.75; 5 gallons, $0 ; 10 
gallons, $11; 20 gallons $21. “ First come, first served.” 
Mention The Rural New-Vohker. Address 
W. I.- CHAMBERLAIN, Hudson, Ohio. 
BUY YOUR SEED OATS 
OF THE GROWER 
And save money. Hundreds of bushels heavy weight 
White Maine Oats, *1 per bushel: four bushels or 
over 90 cents per bushel, sacks included. These are 
the best oats that I have ever grown. 
KIIWAIU) P. 1)1 HULK, Lima N. Y. 
The New Botany. 
A lecture on the Bent Method 
of Teaching the Science. By W. 
J. Beal (M. Sc., Ph. D.), Professor 
of Botany, Agricultural College, 
Michigan. Third edition, enlarged 
and revised. Price, 25 cents. 
THE RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
Times Building, New York. 
FARMS. 
Write for FREE Catalogue and Map of Virginia. 
1». II. LYNCH CO., Richmond, Virginia. 
We have received from Mr. Lum Smith, Publisher 
of the Agents Herald, Philadelphia, Pa., a copy of 
the first edition of the Guaranteed Agents’ Directory. 
Each agents address therein occupies a space % x 
in., boldly printed on paper gummed on one side. 
Firms wishing to circularize agents are thus saved 
considerable expense in advertising and addressing. 
Book and other agents should send their permanent 
addrtsses and state their business for publication to 
Mr. Smith. The Directory is published every week, 
and will prove Invaluable to all agents, and to every 
firm wanting agents. Mr. Smith also wants the 
permanent addresses of men, women and youths in 
all parts of the country to distribute circulars at $ 2.00 
per thousand. 
“THE FLORIDA REAL RESTATE JOUR¬ 
NAL,” *1.00 a year. Arcadia, Florida. Cheap homes, 
cash or time. Samply copy, with State map, 10 cents. 
New York StandardWatch. Nos. 3-4. 
IVA TCHES 
FOR OUR SUBSCRIBERS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, gratified by 
the flattering responses to its offers of 
watches to its subscribers, has made a thor¬ 
ough revision of its watch offer, and pro¬ 
poses to supply its subscribers with the best 
watches In the world at prices from 25 to 
50 per cent less than those usually charged 
by retail jewelers. The Rural New- 
Yorker wishes to have it thoroughly un¬ 
derstood that, since the watch companies 
have come to their senses and are no longer 
trying to boycott the newspapers, it is no 
longer making war upon them, but, on the 
contrary, by new arrangements it can offer 
watches to its subscribers at rates fully as 
favorable as those formerly advertised. 
Our object in making these offers is to 
give our subscribers good watches at low 
prices, to advertise The Rural New- 
Yorker, and to get new subscribers as per 
special offers at the foot of this column. 
Q3F* We believe that there is not a 
poor watch in the list . . £F1H 
SPECIAL OFFERS: MENS’ SIZE. 
No. 1.—A genuine New York Standard move 
ment; 7 Jewels, safety pinion, com¬ 
pensation balance, st*-.m wind and set; 
in a solid nickel sliver case, open face; 
a really excellent watch and far su¬ 
perior to any other cheap watch 
we have seen.$ 6.50 
No. 2.—Same movement as No. 1, in gold-filled 
case. 15-year guarantee, open face.... 12.00 
No 3.—Same as No. 2, hunting case (see cut 
above) .. 15.00 
No 4.—Same movement as No. 1, In a solid gold 
14k. hunting case, weighing 40 dwt.... 37.50 
RURAL SPECIAL BARGAINS. 
No. 5.—A genulneWaltham movement; 7 Jewels. 
compensation balance, safety pinion, 
stem wind and set; In a solid nienel- 
silver case, open face. 7.25 
No. 6.—Same movement as No. 5, In gold filled 
case, guaranteed to wear 15 years, 
open faca. 14.00 
No. 7.—Same movement as No. 5, In hunting case 
same as No. 6. 16.00 
No. 8.-Same movement as No. 5, In solid 14k. 
gold hunting case, weighing 40 dwt... 38.00 
No 9.-A genuine Waltham full Jewel move¬ 
ment, compensation balance, safety 
pinion, stem wind and set, patent reg¬ 
ulator, Breguet hair spring, hardened 
and tempered In form, In open face, 
nickel sliver case. ... 11.00 
No. 10.-Same movement as No. 9, In gold filled 
case, guaranteed for 15 years, open 
face. 16.25 
No 11—Same as No. 10, hunting case. 19.25 
No. 12.—Same movement as No. 9, In solid 14k 
gold hunting case weighing 40 dwt. 
A very handsome watch. 41.00 
ladies’ size. 
No. 13.—A genuine Waltham ladles’ watch with 
Jewels, compensation balance and 
safety pinion, stem wind and set; In a 
solid coin silver case. 11 50 
No. 14.—Same move¬ 
ment as No. 13, In 
a 15 year guaran¬ 
teed g o 1 d- fl lied 
hunting case $15.29 
o. 15.—A beautiful 
11 Jewel move¬ 
ment, full nickel, 
in a handsomely 
engraved hunting 
case made of 14k- 
U. 8. Assay solid 
gold, usual retail 
price from $50 to 
$75. One of the 
prettiest watches 
for a lady that we 
have ever seen. 
The illustration 
shows the case in 
exact size and 
style.$25.00 
The watches we sent to our subscribers 
on our previous offers have surprised us 
greatly. 1, As to the high-grade demanded 
in most cases; cheap watches were not 
wanted. 2, On account of the great num¬ 
ber called for. Only one or two complaints 
have reached us, and many have expressed 
great satisfaction with the watches re¬ 
ceived. 
The watches will be sent in connection 
with subscriptions on the following terms : 
In each case either a renewal or new sub¬ 
scription may be included. If you have 
already paid for 1891, the paper may be 
sent to the address of a new subscriber. 
Any watch in the list will be sent in con¬ 
nection with a subscription (on the same 
order) for $1.25 in addition to the amounts 
above named for the watches. 
We send the watches pre-paid by regis¬ 
tered mail to any part of the United States. 
Watches sent to Canada are subject, of 
course, to Custom House restrictions. 
THE RURAL PUBLISHING CO , 
Times Building, New York. 
Common-Sense Chairs. 
We have had such complete satisfaction 
for 14 years past in the use of Sinclair’s 
chairs, that we heartily recommend them 
to our readers, and 
have made arrange¬ 
ments to offer them 
as premiums. For 
descriptive catalogne 
address F. A. Sin¬ 
clair, Mottville, N. 
Y. We give the 
Centennial Rocker 
(maple frame, double 
cane back and seat, 
natural color or ma¬ 
hogany stain, price $5) in return for five 
new subscriptions at $ 2 , or nine new sub¬ 
scriptions at $1.50 each. With a year’s sub¬ 
scription for only $5.50. Any other chairs 
in the catalogue furnished on a similar 
basis. OST Tf your own subscription is 
paid for 1891, you can sell the subscrip¬ 
tion to your neighbor. 
The Light of New Days. 
We—wife and I—have been more than 
pleased with our Pittsburgh lamps. At 
first we only half believed the claims of the 
manufacturers. We did not know that 
any kerosene light could be so beautifully 
soft and strong—a powerful light without 
glare and flicker, 
easy and delight¬ 
ful for tired eyes. 
Now we are con¬ 
vinced and hearti¬ 
ly indorse all the 
claims so far test¬ 
ed. The lamp it¬ 
self is a thing of 
beauty. Here Is a 
picture of perhaps 
the handsomest of 
the series. They 
are finished in sil¬ 
ver, embossed and 
highly ornamen¬ 
tal. The “ Pitts¬ 
burgh ” is a prom¬ 
inent feature of our Premium Llso and we 
would be glad to send one to every home in 
the great Rural family, and we have ar¬ 
ranged to furnish our subscribers with any 
of these lamps at special rates. The silver 
lamp above figured, complete, with a year’s 
subscription, for $5.50; in brass, ditto, at 
$4.50. Retail prices for these lamps are con¬ 
siderably higher. For other styles see 
special circular, which will be sent on ap¬ 
plication. 
ISF"// your own subscription is already 
paid for 1891, you can sell the subscrip¬ 
tion to some other party. 
One cent will mail this paper to 
your friend in any part of the United 
States, Canada or Mexico, after 
you have read it and written your 
name on the corner. 
iii 
READY. 
“The New Potato Culiure.” 
By ELBERT S. CARMAN, Editor of The Rural New- 
Yorker. 
T~7QR the past fifteen years, during the 
-*• growing season, the author has given 
a part of his time to potato experimenta¬ 
tion, in the hopes that he might throw 
some additional light upon the various 
questions involved in the central problem, 
“ How to Increase the yield without pro¬ 
portionately increasing the cost of produc¬ 
tion.” It often happened that, In the soil 
of his home grounds, some hills would 
yield enormously, while others would yield 
little. What was this owing to? What 
kind of manure or culture—what prepara¬ 
tion of thesoil would insure the maximum 
crop ? Would stable or cow manure, hen 
manure, or a compost of the three ? Would 
lime, plaster, salt, muck, wood ashes, 
muriate or sulphate of potash, bone, phos- 
phatic rock, fish, flesh, blood, sulphate of 
ammonia, nitrate of soda, separately or in 
any combination, effect this ? Would it 
be possible so to fit the soil as materially 
to increase the yield ? What would be the 
best depth to plant the seed ? How much 
seed should be planted—single eyes, two, 
three, or four eyes; half potatoes, whole 
potatoes, stem-ends or seed-ends ? Should 
the manure or fertilizer be placed under 
or over, and how much shonld he used ? 
Should the soil be firmed or rendered as 
loose and friable as possible ? 
These were the individual questions sug¬ 
gesting themselves which made up the 
central problem, “ How can we increase 
the yield of potatoes without proportion¬ 
ately increasing the cost of production ?.” 
As experiments were carried on from 
year to year, it was found that the yield 
from the experiment plot was Increased at 
the rate of from 100 to 600 bushels to the 
acre; that portions yielded at the rate of 
over 1,000; that certain hills and certain 
varieties, treated apparently the same as 
the rest, yielded over 1,500 bushels to the 
acre. Would it be possible to ascertain 
what the exact conditions were which gave 
such yields ? Would it be possible to ap¬ 
proach them on acres instead of plots ? 
Would it be possible to furnish equiv¬ 
alent conditions to acres in an eco¬ 
nomical way 
The reader who has the patience to con¬ 
sider with some care THE NEW POTATO 
CULTURE, may judge for himself whether 
any approach to a positive answer has been 
made by the results of the work therein 
recorded. 
Its object will be to show all who raise 
potatoes, whether for home use solely or 
for market as well, that the yield may be 
increased threefold without a correspond¬ 
ing increase in the cost; to show that the 
little garden patch, of a fortieth of an acre 
perhaps, may just as well yield ten bushels 
as three bushels; to induce farmers and 
gardeners to experiment with fertilizers 
not only as to kind, that is to say, the con¬ 
stituents and their most effective propor¬ 
tions, but as to the most economical 
quantity to use. These are among the sub¬ 
jects considered, not in a theoretical way 
at all, hut as the outcome of fifteen years 
of experimentation earnestly made in the 
hope of advancing our knowledge of this 
mighty industry. It is respectfully sub¬ 
mitted that these experiments so long car¬ 
ried on at the Rural Ground, have, directly 
and indirectly, thrown more light upon the 
various problems involved in successful 
potato culture, than any other experiments 
which have been carried on in America. 
Price, Cloth, 75 cents ; Paper, 40 cents. 
THE RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
Times Building, New York. 
