44o 
HURRAH! 
Every man and boy, and woman, too, 
who is a true American, loves that good 
old flag as the emblem of what is best in 
government. The principles for which it 
stands can riot be too early instilled into 
the minds and hearts of newcomers on the 
field of action, be they youths of our own 
blood, or men of other lands come newly 
to these shores. That flag should ever 
wave in sight of Americans. 
Every school house, 
Every town hall, 
Every Grange Hall, 
Every assembly place, 
Every farm home, 
should have its flag staff, and every flag 
staff should of course bear its flag. 
BUT, a flag of cheap and poor stuff 
is a disgrace to the flag itself, and the regu¬ 
lar bunting is very expensive. What is 
known as “ cotton bunting ” makes a flag 
that is creditable to any man who owns it, 
and which cannot be distinguished from 
the expensive bunting flags except on close 
examination. The colors are guaranteed 
absolutely fast. We have arranged to fur¬ 
nish “cotton bunting” flags, not mounted, 
to our subscribers at moderate cost, sent 
prepaid, as follows: 
THREE feet long, for two trial sub¬ 
scriptions at 25 cents each. Price, 40 cents. 
FOUR feet long, for four trial subscrip¬ 
tions at 25 cents. Or 75 cents for the flag 
alone. 
FIVE feet long, for six trial subscrip¬ 
tions at 25 cents. Or the flag alone for $1. 
SIX feet long, for one new subscription 
at $2, or for eight trials at 25 cents. Or 
the flag alone for $1.25. 
SEVEN feet long, for one new subscrip¬ 
tion at $2, and two trials at 25 cents. Or 
alone for $1 65 in cash. 
NINE feet long, for two new subscrip¬ 
tions at $2. Or for sale at $2.75. 
The Seven and Nine feet flags make a 
very handsome appearance on flag staffs of 
moderate height and on buildings. The 
Five and Six feet flags are suitable for 
hand flags, or for hanging at low eleva¬ 
tions. 
These flags are good. 
You are or ought to be patriotic. 
Fourth of July is coming. 
Your neighbors, every one, ought to have 
THE R. N.-Y. 
Who will be the first in every town 
where The Rural New-Yorker is taken 
to unfurl one of these flags to the breeze ? 
We are willing, of course, to sell these 
flags for cash simply to accommodate sub¬ 
scribers who have no time to get up clubs, 
but our special object in making this and 
all other premium offers, is to extend our 
subscription lists. 
THE RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
Times Building, N. Y. 
The French Government has reduced the 
duty on wheat to three francs and on flour 
to six francs per hectolitre. An amend¬ 
ment in favor of the complete abolition of 
the duty on these articles was rejected by 
a vote of 358 to 131. This reduction is to be 
enforced only from August 1, 1891 to June 
1,1S92. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
JUNE 6 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Sweet potatoes are scarce. 
Evaporated apples are lower. 
Apples are nearly a back number. 
Receipts of butter are more moderate. 
Evaporated raspberries sell for 18 to 20 
cents. 
Cheese exporters are anxious for best 
white. 
White cheese sells for more than colored 
at present. 
The Pacific coast reports wheat pros¬ 
pects good. 
California is planting large quantities of 
Lima beans. 
The trade in hops is quiet but with a 
firm feeling. 
There was frost in New Jersey the morn¬ 
ing of the 28th of May. 
Green pease must be strictly fresh to sell 
for outside quotations. 
The best evaporated California peeled 
peaches are worth 20 to 25 cents. 
The lighter receipts of dairy butter have 
put prices of that grade a trifle ahead of 
creamery. 
Great damage to crops resulted from 
severe rainstorms throughout Kansas and 
Nebraska early last week. 
Later reports indicate more of a fruit crop 
than many had anticipated. Probably 
there will be more than for several years 
past. 
The Cuban sugar crop is estimated at 
650,000 at 750,000 tons, the latter figure be¬ 
ing none too high if the cane can all be 
ground. 
The first shipment of apricots is on the 
way from California. These are the most 
unsatisfactory shippers of all fruits sent 
here, as they do not carry well. 
Mr. E. L. Goodsell has a new auction 
room for the sale of fruits on Pier 29, North 
River, foot of Vestry Street, which enables 
him to handle shipments much more expe¬ 
ditiously and with less labor. 
G reat excitement has existed in the West 
over the heavy purchases of wheat made 
by Charles A. Pillsbury, the head of the 
English syndicate mills. It is said that 
many of the men who have contracts for 
July delivery will have to purchase of Mr. 
Pillsbury to fulfill their contracts, as he has 
a large part of it cornered. Nearly a mil¬ 
lion bushels have been shipped from Min¬ 
neapolis to Duluth within the past three 
weeks. 
The first car-load of California fruit for 
the season, a car of cherries, was sold by E. 
L. Goodsell last Monday and brought 
$3,300. The fruit was shipped in a refriger¬ 
ator car attached to a regular passenger 
train. The cherries were Black Tartarians, 
Royal Anns, Bigarreaus, May Dukes and a 
few others, and arrived in fine order. They 
were packed in 10-pound boxes faced in 
regular rows in such a manner that not a 
single stem was visible. The Tartarians 
brought the best prices, selling for $2.75 to 
$4.15 per box. Some of the others sold as 
low as $1.50 per box. The amount of fruit 
which can be sold at such prices is limited, 
but sales at much lower prices should prove 
profitable. Another car-load was sold Wed¬ 
nesday and another is advertised for next 
Monday. After this sales will be more fre¬ 
quent. __ 
The Convenience of Solid Trains. 
The Erie is the only railway running 
solid trains over its own tracks between 
New York and Chicago. No change of cars 
for any class of passengers. Rates lower 
than via any other first-class line.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Canada has adopted new regulations for 
the grinding of wheat in bond. 
The National Butchers’ Association has 
been in session in Allegheny City during 
the week. 
The Central California Fruit Company 
has been incorporated with a capital stock 
of $96,000. 
A law has been drafted in Pennsylvania 
forbidding the docking of horses’ tails un¬ 
der fine and imprisonment. 
Bears are very numerous in some parts of 
West Virginia, having been driven out of 
the mountains, it is supposed, by forest 
fires. 
Large quantities of sugar cane are brought 
into California from China and command 
a ready sale to the Chinese. California 
should grow this. 
The White River J ersey Cattle Company’s 
annual sale was pronounced the most suc¬ 
cessful ever held In the State. Forty head 
of cattle brought nearly $10,000. 
The French Chamber of Deputies has 
adopted tariff duties of eight francs per 100 
kilograms on swine, 10 francs per head on 
cows and oxen, and 15X francs per head on 
sheep. 
The Department of Agriculture has been 
experimenting in the use of alcohol in the 
manufacture of sugar from sorghum, and 
claims to have arrived at extremely grati¬ 
fying results. 
A fatal disease appeared among the sheep 
of a farmer in Delaware County, N. Y., but 
the authorities promptly destroyed all In¬ 
fected animals and this checked the spread 
of the disease. 
Canadian cattle dealers are greatly ex¬ 
cited over the report that Great Britain will 
prohibit the carrying of cattle on the spar- 
decks of steamers. This would render 
shipments more expensive. 
Fourteen of the 36 large California can¬ 
neries are reported to have combined, and 
it Is expected the rest will join the combina¬ 
tion soon. It is to be known as the Cali¬ 
fornia Fruit Canneries Co., of San Fran¬ 
cisco, and has a capital stock of $2,000,000. 
Seeretary Rusk has received recently 
several requests from representatives of 
railroads and commission men that the 
order issued last week imposing 15 days’ 
quarantine on sheep and lambs from 
Canada be revoked, with the view of re¬ 
moving all grounds for restrictions by for¬ 
eign governments on American sheep ex¬ 
ports. On the other hand, the farmers are 
urging the Secretary by telegraph to enforce 
the order. The order will probably be main¬ 
tained until the Canadian regulations are 
made to conform with those of the country. 
(Continued on next page.) 
A MONEY SAVER FOR DAIRYMEN. 
In this age of competition, the butter maker must 
get as much as he can for his money when he buys, 
and also sell his product at the highest market price. 
The Item of color is an important one, and Wells, 
Richardson & Co.’s Improved Butter Color will save 
money for the dairyman. On account of its supei lor 
strength, he gets more color for his money and its 
unequaled shade, a regular June yellow, enables him 
to sell his butter at the top quotations. 
It you are using some other kind, give this a trial, 
and see for yourself how much stronger and more 
satisfactory it is. If you have never used coloring, 
and want to get better prices for your butter, try the 
Improved. It will be the best investment you ever 
made.— Adv. 
ALFALFA CLOVER SEED 
By the car-load or In any quantity. 
Write to \V. A. HAWS. 
Las Animas, Bent County, Colorado, U. 8. A. 
MWILLIHMS 
6rain Threshers, Horse Powers & Engines 
i-or full particulars address 
ST. JOHNS VII,IjK AGR’L. WORKS, 
b, InhniTills. Mont comer v Co.. New York. 
Htiampion Fvaporator. 
For MAPLE, SORGHUM, CIDER, 
AND FRUIT JELLIES. 
Corrugated pan over firebox, doubling 
boiling capacity. Small interchange* 
able syrup pans (connected by si-/ 
phons). easily handled for cleans^ 
ing and storing, and a Perfect/' 
Automatic Regulator. 
The Champion is as great \j 
an improvement over the 
Oook Pan as the latter 
was over the old iron ket - 
tie, hung on a fencp rail.] 
The C. H. CRIMM ^ 
MFC. CO. ___ 
Hudson. Ohio and Rutland. Vt. 
English Pedigree Stock. 
Messrs. Simmons & Sons, Agents for 50.000 acres In 
Midland Counties, and Secretaries to the Royal Coun¬ 
ties Agricultural Society, purehsse for transmission 
to any part of the world, Pedigree and Selected stock 
of every' kind. Offices : READING, ENGLAND. 
LINSEED OIL MEAL 
As produced by the 
DETROIT LINSEED OIL WORKS, 
DETROIT. MICHIGAN, 
Is the Best Feed for 
DAIRY COWS, HORSES. PIGS, SHEEP 
-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 in the Rural New-Yorker. 
HIGH-CLASS JERSEYS. 
17 
YOUNG DAUGHTERS of our bull 
STOKE POGIS 5th 5987 have made 
from 14 lbs. 114 oz. to 22 lbs. 12 oz. 
butter In 7 days. We refused $15,- „ _ 
(XX) for him. He Is the only living brother of the ac¬ 
knowledged champion dairy bull, Stoke Pogis 3d 
(now dead) whose 27 daughters 
17 
Average Over 20 Pounds. 
Ida’s Rioter of St. I*. 13656.—Son of Ida of St 
Lambert 21990, (cost $6,500 cash before she was 
tested), official butter test for 7 days.sU lbs. i.\4 oz.; 
milk record, 67 lbs. one day. 1891 lbs. one winter 
month. His four tested daughters average 20 lbs, 
1014 oz. butter in 7 days. Several give on ordinary 
feed from 40 to 49 lbs. milk per day. He weighs 
1705 lbs. Our Jerseys are big. Our heifers not 
bred till 2 year olds. 
RUlili CARVES, COWS IN CARP, A FEW 
HEIFERS BY ABOVE BURRS. 
Also Children’s PONIES and pure-bred ANGORA 
GOATS for Sale. No Bull Calf less than $100, very few 
less than $200. No heifer less than *200. No general 
Catalogue. Write for what you want. Superior 
Bulls to head Herds a specialty. Mention this paper. 
MILLER & SIBLEY, 
Franklin, Venango Co., Penn. 
CLOVER STOCK FARM HERD 
Of Improved Chester White Swine, headed by Sweep¬ 
stakes Animals, won at the largest Fairs In America. 
Stock for sale. C. H. GREGG, 
Krumroy, Summit County, Ohio. 
TI T A XrnPTT'TW'Ry 000,1 °rade Ewes, 
vV xA. 1 III J two to three years old. 
M. E. McMASTKR, Smitbville Flats, New York. 
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