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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
MARCH 2r 
Guaranteed as represented) 
or Money refunded. ... 
FOll MAN AM) 
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BRANCH 
OFFICES 
tCOOLEr CABINET CBEAMEBi 
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IWe sell more Lawn Fencing ^than all 
other manufacturers combined because it 
Is the handsomest and best fence made, 
and cheaper than wood. 
Our “Steel Picket” Gates, Tree and 
Flower Guards, and Flexible Steel Wire 
Door Mats are unequaled. A 40 page 
illustrated catalogue of “Hartman Spe¬ 
cialties ” mailed free. Mention this paper. 
HARTMAN M’F’G CO., 
WORKS: BEAVER FALLS, PA. 
BRANCHES 508 State Street, Chicago ; 1416 West 
Eleventh Street. Kansas City; 101 Chambers Street, 
New York ; 73 S. Forsyth Street, Atlanta. 
, PICKET MILLS, 
j£ Drag and Wood Saws, 
HORSE POWERS, 
MARSH STEAM PUMP. 
B. C. J11CHLNEKY CO., 24 Levi St., Buttle Creek, HJeh. 
a SCRIBNER’S 
LUMBER 
- 
LOG BOOK 
IHSifSll L0G B00K 
Over One Million Sold. —Most complete book of 
its kind ever published. Gives measurement of all 
kinds of lumber, logs, planks, timber ; hints to lum¬ 
ber dealers; wood measure, speed of circular saws, 
cord-wood tables, felling trees, growth of trees, land- 
measure, wages, rent, board, Interest, stave and head¬ 
ing bolts, etc. Standard book In the United States 
and Canada. Illustrated edition of 1882. Sent post¬ 
paid for 35 cents. 
G. W FISHER. Box 238, Rochester, New York. 
SEED POTATOES. 
Choice selected HoultOD, Aroostook Co., 
Maine ; Early Rose, Beauty of Hebron, and 
all other well known varieties. For sale by 
W. E. DURYEA’S SONS, 
PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 
119 Warren St., New York. 
Pure Seed Potatoes. 
Early Ohio, Puritan, Polaris and Chas. Down¬ 
ing, $2.00 per bushel. 
Rural New-Yorker No. 2, Burpee’s Extra 
Early and Potentate, $2.2ft per bushel. 
SPRINGDALE FARM, Trenton Falls, N. Y. 
Iiruf nnTATnrO Three new Minnesota 
Ntn rUIAIUto. saarjs*.*# 
the public. Do you Intend to buy Se-d Potatoes this 
smiug ? V\ hy not buy the best, with new and vigorous 
life. Large stock of Standard Varieties Price List 
free. S. EROGNER, Herman Minn. 
Rural New-Yorker No. 2 Potatoes. 
Onion Setts, Flat Duteh Cabbage Seed, Vegetable 
Plants, of Standard Sorts. 
M, GARRAHAN, 
KINGSTON, PA. 
Potato Rural New-Yorker No. 2 
North Michigan Grown Tubers at $2.25 per 
bushel. Stock limited. 
VAUGHAN’S SEED STORE, 
146 and 141 W. Washlngtt n Street, CHICAGO. ILL. 
FOR SALE. 
200 bushels Iturnl New-Yorker No. 2 Pota¬ 
toes. Merchantable size , noculls; any quantity. 
J. M. MEREDITH, Calcium .P. O.. Berks Co., Pa. 
BIG BERRIES E™! 
ton Strawberry. E. VAN ALLEN, Delmar, N. Y. 
¥ v-./-'I I/--v Send for cheapest list of Plants, 
I ./'"Illlf-'S Seeds and Cuttings in America 
X—<t_A VA lvUj lls ( frpe 
CHAS. W. BUTTERFIELD, Bellows Falls. Vermont. 
G ARDENER WANTED.-Married man. to 
live on the place. Must understand general 
gardening and greenhouse work. Address with ref¬ 
erences, J. H. F., care Rural New-Yoskhr, 
A N unmarried and sober young gardener, 21 years 
old, is looking for a place near New York. Ad¬ 
dress CONRAD SCHULZE, care H. SCHUTT, li8 
Greenwich Street, New York City. 
How pleasant you 
feel when cows get loose and make you a 
neighborly call. How attractive your 
Lawn afterwards ! Why don’t you protect 
without concealing it by erecting “ Hart¬ 
man’s” Steel Picket Fence? 
Humorous. 
It is a malodorous dollar that has only 
80 scents in it .—Washington Star. 
She : “ So you are engaged to one of the 
Musgrove twins ? How can you distinguish 
one from the other ?” He : “ I don’t try to.” 
—Life. 
The Angel: “What a fitting token of 
married life is the wedding ring 1 ” The 
Brute : “ It is. A ring has no end, and it 
has also no beginning. It is absolutely 
without variety; and is much easier put 
on than taken off.”— Life. 
Mrs. Longwedde : “ Such a charming 
husband as Mrs. Yon Pickel has I So tender 
after 10 years of marriage.” Mr. Long¬ 
wedde : “ Quite natural. It would make a 
rhinoceros tender to b 9 kept in hot water 
for 10 years .”—Pittsburg Bulletin. 
A JINGO of jingoes owing to his recent 
victory, Sir John Macdonald thinks the 
title “Americans” should be reserved for 
Canadians, and that the people of the 
United States should be known as “ Yan¬ 
kees.” Does the tail now wag the dog In 
the Dominion ? 
Impatient Penitent: “Oh, dear I Will 
the 40 days of penitence from Mardi Gras 
to Easter ever pass in such wretched 
weather ?” Idiotic Rhymester: “ Oh, well ! 
Miss Gwendolens, you should know that 
While stolen time’s fleet, and squandered, cavorty, 
When It Is Lent, It lingers like forty.” 
g$ii0reHMW0U;9i 
In writing to advertisers please always 
mention The Rural New-Yorker. 
THt GARRETT PICKET AND 
WIRE FENCE MACHINE 
Weaves to the posts. A universal 
favorite. Thousands in use. Guar* 
auteed. Freight paid. Agent* 
are reporting big sales. Machines, 
Wire, etc., at wholesale direct 
from factory to Farmers. 
Catalogue free. Address the man¬ 
ufacturer. ft. If. (iARKETT, 
MANSFIELD, OHIO. 
CONTENTS 
Rural New-Yorker, March 21,1891. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The American Merino Sheep. 223 
Crude Petroleum for Sheep Scab. 223 
Balanced Rations In the Balance. 223 
Food for Fattening Sh ats. 224 
Live Stock Notes.226 
Feeding Gluton Meal .237 
Feeding Cotion-Seed Meal.23? 
Market for Fresn Eggs. .233 
Winter Layers : ournt and Crushed Bones.v38 
What Alls the Plymouth Rocks ?. 233 
A Little Egg Record. 239 
A Good Winter Hennery . 239 
More About That Model Hennery.2<9 
Poultry Notes.289 
FARM TOPICS 
From Wheat to Beans. .. .222 
Some Fertilizing Substances in British Columbia.. 224 
Fxperiments for an Illinois Reuter.224 
Chemical Fertilizers in Illinois..224 
Manure Under Potatoes: Nitrate of Soda.224 
Seeding Down a Door yard. 225 
Night Soil as a Fertilizer. 225 
Barley. 225 
Seeding to Permanent Pasture. ...225 
Line Fences. 25 
Chemicals for Cucumbers.225 
Growers’ Sales of ToDaeco. 225 
Pasturing afier Spraying.... 225 
Plaster of Paris from Land Plaster.225 
Prlcsley Comfrey.225 
Tbe Rural Flint Corn .. 225 
Buckwheat for Green Manure. .225 
Nitrog-n for Vlanure. 225 
Katnlt for Tobacco. 225 
Soaking Shingles . 226 
Lima Bean Experience. -226 
Early Planting and Good Potatoes. 2 6 
Terry on Tiles. We-ders a: d Diggers. 233 
A Concrete Potato Cellar.233 
A Western N. Y. Farm Lease on Farm Shares... . 233 
Implement Notes .2i3 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Three of Munson’s Hybrid Grapes.. 221 
A Michigan Grape Trellis.221 
Currants and Gooseberries Tested. 222 
Horticuleural Notes.222 
Manure for Trees: Borers: Winter Pears;. 224 
Apples for Cider.225 
A Dozen Roses. 225 
Black Rot in Vines . 225 
Apples and Pears.225 
1 bat Sweet Apple Ques'lon.226 
More About Tomato Blight . 2 6 
Stick to Tested Fruits. 216 
WOMAN AND THE HOME 
Easter Echoes. 234 
Choice Flowers That May be Raised From Seed... 234 
An Egg Party—. 234 
Some Flowers 1 Have Tried . . 234 
An Open Letter to Parny-Ann. 235 
Curry Powder. . 2 35 
Bread Sauce . 235 
Marriage With Drunkards. .. 235 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
A Woman’s Idea of Wills . 226 
Three Themes for Thought.227 
What Others Say.227 
Best Grapes for This Market.210 
Timely Topics. 231 
Becent Station Bulletins. 2:12 
We Know.232 
Novelties and Staples from The Catalogues.233 
Humorous.240 
Signed Note of Contract for Sale of Real Estate... 2;5 
War Volunteers and The Publl Lands . 2.5 
Settlers on Public Lands Living Together.225 
Can Vegetaoles Transmit Disease 1 . 225 
Grape Juice. 225 
Editorial . i28 
Brevitii-s. 228 
Trade Winds.229 
Agricultural News. 229 
Crop and Market Notes . 229 
Markets... 23 J 
Publisher's Desk... 236 
Almanac. 233 
Prices greatly r.duced. 
= ~ - - WRITE FOR PRICES AT ONCE. 
Special rates to Alliances and Farmers’ Clubs. 20000 in use. Indispeusiblc lor Farmers, 
Nurserymen, Orchnrdistsand Vinvardists. No trees barked—no vines torn down. Our greatly 
increased trade demands various distributing points. Address Home Office and Manufactory, 
; Sherwood Harness Co., Kansas City, Mo. 
Sherwood Harness Co., Chicago, Ill. 
Sherwood Harness Co., 
SrRACUSE. n. y. 
—GREAT REDUCTION IR PRICES.— 
ACME” II Pulverizing Harrow, 
CLOD CRUSHER AND LEVELER. 
j] The coulters cut right and left, thus working over the entire sur- 
I + face, which no other harrow does. 
J Not a special tool but, as now made is a general purpose Harrow 
^ '"»> 1 and the CHEAPEST RIDING HARROW on earth. 
AGENTS 
WANTED. 
SENT ON TRIAL 
to be returned at my expens 
if not satisfactory. 
reasonable prices. 
I Deliver Free on "board at convenient distributing depots "West and South. 
DUANE H. NASH, sole maxwactuser; Millington, New Jersey. 
Please mention The Rural New-Y'orker. 
EASE AND COMFORT 
Thorburn’s Long-Keeper Tomato. 
The greatest success of scientific selection, per packet, 25 cents. Full de¬ 
scription in our General Catalogue, which we mail free on application. 
N. H— THE RURAL NEW-YORKER No. 2 POTATOES are now 
selling at $5.00 per barrel, and soon cannot be had at any price. Order at once. 
\ i J.M. Thorburn & Co..15 JohnS*NewYork. j 
[AID YOU ever plant seeds and then wait sadly for the green 
^ leaves that never came ? Burpee’s Seeds are not that kind 
You plant them: they grow. That’s one reason why 
Burpee’s mail order seed business is the largest. 
The Five Finest Nov¬ 
elties of 1891 arc 
Crozy’s 
Carinas, 
that bear magnificent 
flowers all summer; 
New Fancy 
German 
Pansies, 
special selection of 
brightest and best; 
Golden Gate 
Poppies, 
gorgeous flowers of ev¬ 
ery conceivable shade; 
Fringed 
Star Phlox, 
elegantly fringed flow¬ 
ers of star-like form ; 
and 
Eckford’s 
N ewest 
Sweet Peas, 
decided novelties. 
Burpee’s 
Seeds 
Grow! 
To make new friends 
for Burpee’s Seeds, 
we will mail 
ALL FIVE 
of these novelties, 
Cannas, 
Pansies, 
Poppies, 
Ph lox, 
Peas, 
For 26 Cents— 
13 two-cent stamps. 
Full directions for cul¬ 
ture on each package. 
If you do not want all 
five, send us 16 cents 
for any thr--e. And 
remember that 
Burpee’sSeeds 
GROW I 
Don’t buy dead seeds 
at the store, but. order 
direct from Burpee. 
Let us mail you a copy of Burpee’s Farm Annual for 1891 . 168 pages, richly 
colored plates. Information about Rare Novelties and Premiums. Free to any 
I lower or Vegetable Grower who intends to buy Seeds, Bulbs or Plants. Write to-day. 
Name this 
paper. f 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & GO., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
The Sherwood Steel Harness the Wonder of Wonders. 
1,000 TREES* 
VARIETIES of | I I In %m W ■ 
BOTH FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL, 
SHRUBS, VINES, ROSES, &c. 
Send stamp for full Descriptive Catalogues, Illus¬ 
trated. Address W.s. LITTLE, 
Commercial Nurseries. RoCH ESTER, N.Y. 
COOLEY CREAMERS 
ARE THE MOST POPULAR AMONC DAIRYMEN. 
BECAUSE THEY MAKE MORE BUTTER. 
BECAUSE THEY MAKE BETTER BUTTER. 
BECAUSE THEY SAVE MOST LABOR. 
Because the process EXPELS the 
animal heat IMM EDIA'I’ELY, and PRE* — 
vents the development of BACTERIA, _ . - ET^ 
thus producing the PUREST FLAVOR, l il 
and accounting for the great number of Medals jW|Tl jfjjj 
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GOLD MEDALS 
and Silver Uledals and First Premiums too numerous to mentJon.fi 
Illustrated catalogue free. VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., bellows falls,vt. 
Manufacturers of and Dealers in Cliurm, Butter Workers. Butter! 
Printers and Carriers, Cheese Vats, Cream Vats, Engines,' 
Boilers, and all Dairy and Creamery supplies. 
