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Publisher s Desk. 
Many a Mickle Makes a Muckle. 
ASK YOUR NEIGHBOR. 
Please tell your nelgbor that for 25 cents 
he can receive The R. N.-Y. for 10 weeks. 
Ask all your neighbors and sendjus the club 
of 25 centers, retaining 10 cents each for 
your trouble. The papers cost us more 
than we get for them on this basis, but we 
know that they will do some good, if 
read, and the trial subscribers may become 
regular yearly subscribers. 
We will send a few specimen copies to 
any of our readers who will undertake this 
little chore in their neighborhoods,and per¬ 
haps the leaven thus distributed may do 
some good to all concerned. 
Please try it. 
not, why not ? 
Please answer. A postal card will do the 
business as a starter. 
UNSOLICITED. 
From Appreciative Advertisers. 
Thus far the results from your paper 
for this spring’s business have been very 
satisfactory, The Rural New-Yorker 
taking the lead of the publications men¬ 
tioned by those who responded to our adver¬ 
tisement.—T he Wm. H. Moon Co., Morris- 
ville, Pa., March 9, 1891. 
We count The R. N.-Y. among our very 
best mediums for directly reaching the 
consumer.— Elkhart Carriage and Har¬ 
ness Mfg. Co., Elkhart, lnd., March 9, 
1891. ‘ 
We have had a goodly number of answers 
from our card in The R. N.-Y. concerning 
peach trees. Quite satisfactory. If we do 
not make sales it is not the paper’s fault.— 
I. J. Blackwell & Son, Titusville, N. J., 
March 11,1891. 
QUARTET OF PRAISE. 
The Rural cartoon, Farmer winning 
the school marm, is grand, and the poem 
the best I have ever read in this line.—F. S. 
White, Des Moines, Iowa. 
I am very much pleased with The Ameri¬ 
can Garden ; in fact, I think it one of the 
handsomest magazines I have ever seen. 
Having some little experience in art my¬ 
self, I am able to appreciate a good picture 
when I see it. and I think the cuts and en¬ 
gravings in the Garden better and more 
artistic than any I have ever beheld in any 
periodical, with the exception of the jour¬ 
nals devoted principally to art.— JOSEPH 
Smith, Roanoke, Va. 
City People Appreciate The R. N.-Y. 
—I see The Rur4.l New-Yorker at the 
Mercantile Library and notice that it is in 
great demand. In fact, it is hard to get 
hold of it.—Miss Anna Hinrichs, St. Louis. 
We highly prize the American Garden. 
Its pages are full of instruction to all who 
love nature. Money is scarce, but we 
fully intend to keep up our subscription to 
this valuable periodical. We have added 
to our nursery and fruit business that of 
market gardening or truck farming; so 
you see that your classical monthly is of 
the utmost importance to us. We do not 
want to miss a single number.—W. O. 
Sewell & Sons, Morgan Co., Ala. 
MONEY IN IT. 
The result of my experience with the 
Rural New-Yorker No. 2 Potato, which was 
sent to me in the spring of 1889, (two small 
tubers in a match box) was, for the first 
crop, a few ounces over 37 pounds; the 
second crop, 3>£ barrels, good measure and 
fine quality. If the increase is as great in 
1891, I’ll have seed to sell. 
Words fail me when I attempt to express 
how much I appreciate The Rural New- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
APRIL ix 
Yorker and the way it is ventilating the 
wrongs of the American people. It is 
equal to the task. Let it stand by its 
colors and it will have the support of 
every honest American citizen,— John D. 
Saunders, Westlmry, West Va. 
END OF THE SEED DISTRIBUTION. 
As previously announced, the calls for 
The R. N.-Y. seeds received after March 
31st cannot be honored. The original sup¬ 
ply ran out long ago, and to keep our prom¬ 
ise good we have been buying at a cost of 
several hundred dollars. Duenotice of the 
discontinuance having been given, we feel 
under no further obligation in the matter. 
The calls yet unfilled are being filled as rap¬ 
idly as possible, and will probably all have 
been attended to by the time this reaches 
the eyes of our readers. But if on April 
10 any one who has called for the seeds 
strictly according to the terms of our 
offer in The R.N.-Y. of February 7, page 
110, sending postage stamps if to go by 
mail, or instructing us to send them by 
express unpaid—if any subscriber who has 
fulfilled these conditions shall not have re 
ceived the seeds on April 10, and will then 
inform us, and if we have received his 
order, duplicate seeds will be sent. 
Some complaints have been received 
from parties who have apparently paid no 
attention to the terms of our offer. To 
all such we commend attention to the 
offer in The R. N.-Y. of February 7. 
THE LUCKY NUMBER. 
7—POINTS—7. 
ADDING TO “ CLUBS.” 
Please Remember 7 Things. 
1. —That the terms of the “ Confidential 
Letter ” continue through the subscription 
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. 
7. —That one subscription for two years 
counts in a club the same as two subscrip¬ 
tions for one year. 
Berry Growers ought to see the Detroit 
Paper Novelty Co.’s Berry Basket. Send 
for sample.— Adv. 
Live Stock Notes. 
At the annual sheep shearing to be held 
at Canandaigua, N. Y., April 9 and 10, 
papers on sheep husbandry will be read 
and an exhibit of agricultural implements 
given. 
Horse Shoes.—To test the relative value 
of hand and machine made shoes a number 
of English cavalry horses are to be shod 
fore and hind on the near side with machine- 
made shoes, and on the off-side with hand¬ 
made shoes, identical in pattern, weight, 
and dimensions. These horses are to be 
ridden on high roads 15 miles for 10 con¬ 
secutive days. Artillery horses will bsshod 
in the same way and careful tests will be 
made as to the wearing qualities of the 
shoes. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
ANSWERED BY DR. F. L. KILBORNE. 
Milk Fever In Cows: Milking Before 
Calving. 
H. II. De M., Eustis, Fla.—A valuable 
cow dropped a calf one day at 5 p. m. ; the 
next night at 8 P. M. she was dead. She 
did not show any signs of sickness until 
the morning after she had dropped the 
calf: then she would lift her hind feet 
often and change her weight from one to 
the other. Her eyes were fixed and staring, 
and her nose dry. She would not eat bran 
slop offered about 8 A. M. She laid down 
until dead. About one week before calving 
I milked her once a day, getting from two 
to three quarts each time. The bag was 
in good condition—soft and pliable. Did 
milking her before calving produce prema¬ 
ture birth and the death of the cow ? Is it 
advisable to milk before the calf is 
dropped ? 
Ans.— The cow died of parturient apo¬ 
plexy or milk fever, a disease for which 
there is no very satisfactory treatment, 
but which can usually be easily prevented 
by a little care before and at calving time. 
It is surprising how few dairymen will 
take the necessary precautions to prevent 
this disease until after they have lost one 
or two of their best cows. See Parturient 
Apoplexy in the Farmers’ Club of Septem¬ 
ber 20, 1890, for preventives and treatment. 
The milking before calving was not respon¬ 
sible for the disease. The calf was evi¬ 
dently born at the full term, otherwise the 
cow would not have had milk fever, which 
never follows premature birth or an abor¬ 
tion. It is not advisable to milk before 
calving, except in heavy milkers, where 
there is danger of inflammation and garget 
from overstocking of the udder. In such 
cases it is occasionally necessary to draw 
the milk for a few days before calving, 
and whenever begun the cow should be 
milked regularly and continued to the 
time of calving. The better plan, however, 
is to keep the secretion of milk in check by 
reducing the feed for one to four weeks 
before calving, and gently opening the 
bowels by small doses of salts. Thus, one 
not only avoids the danger of the over¬ 
stocking of the udder, but also lessens the 
danger of an attack of the milk fever. 
(Continued on next page.) 
If you name The R. N.-Y. to our adver¬ 
tisers you may be pretty sure of prompt 
replies and right treatment. 
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YOUNG DAUGHTERS of our bull 
STOKE POGIS 5th 5987 have made 
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_ _ butter in 7 days. We refused $15,- 
000 for him. He is the only living brother of the ac¬ 
knowledged champion dairy buil, Stoke Pools Sd 
(now dead) whose 27 daughters 
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Average Over 20 Pounds. 
Ida’s Rioter of St. L. 13656.-Son of Ida of St. 
Lambert 21990, (cost $k, 500 cash before she was 
tested), official butter test for 7 days.st) lbs. 2]4 oz.; 
milk record, 67 lbs. one day. 1891 lbs. one winter 
month, His four tested daughters average 20 lbs, 
10*<f oz butter In 7 days. Several give on ordinary 
feed from 4) to 49 lbs. milk per day. He weighs 
1705 lbs. Our Jerseys are big. Our heifers not 
bred till 2 year olds. 
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Crush the corn-husk cob and grain. 
Add oil-meal to skim-milk. 
The cattle market is rising. 
How much are eggs worth for calf food ? 
Don’t try to keep a sty pig in a clover 
field. 
Frozen wheat is worth half price for 
feeding. 
Do you get more food by growing big 
ensilage corn ? 
Don’t sell any more breeding cows for 
beef. There is a shortage of good beef cat¬ 
tle. 
Several cases of pleuro-pneumonia are 
reported from England. The men whose 
herds are affected “never bought an Irish 
or American beast.” 
It is announced that the dairy depart¬ 
ment of the World’s Fair in Chicago, will 
be given a building costing $75,000, and 
covering, with all its appointments, five 
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silos and all dairy appliances. The pro¬ 
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The large and Increasing trade the Detroit Linseed 
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(!m*ha* Is no new breed in England. 
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