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combinations with subscriptions will meet with quick favor. These watches, as before, 
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usually charged by retail jewelers. 
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. 
The subscriptions are given for the number of years mentioned In parentheses, thus 
(three years), which Indicates that for the price named you get the watch described and also 
a free subscription for the period named. Your own subscription can be continued for the 
time mentioned, or, if preferred, new subscriptions will be taken to correspond. That is, 
on a three years’ offer, your own subscription may be continued for one year, and we will 
also send the paper for a year (or from receipt of order to end of 1892) to two new names 
which you may send us, to whom you will have sold the subscriptions. 
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A LISTENER’S NOTES. 
Some Things that Are Talked About. 
English Potato Crop.— Many English 
and Scotch farmers have of recent years 
given up growing potatoes in their farm 
rotations because of repeated losses from 
blight or rot. It is reported that the French 
have been so successful in preventing potato 
blight with the use of the Bordeaux Mixt¬ 
ure that English farmers are again pre¬ 
paring to grow potatoes heavily. Experi¬ 
ence has taught them that potatoes well 
cultivated give the best possible seed bed 
for wheat, and this Is perhaps the strong¬ 
est Inducement for taking up the old rota¬ 
tion. These English farmers even claim 
that it will pay them to grow the large, 
coarse varieties of potatoes to feed to stock. 
The average English farmer seems to have 
an idea that sooner or later he will have 
American live stock to eat his potatoes. 
Baked or boiled potatoes are good food for 
man or beast. If one can grow 10 tons or 
330 bushels he will have as much food as is 
found In three tons of the best clover hay 
or 80 bushels of shelled corn. 
Insanity from Caterpillars. — Last 
June the following note appeared In the 
New York Sun—written from Beaver 
Falls, Pa.: “Walter Sanders, 13 years old 
and son of a farmer living about four miles 
east of here, has become insane. On Tues¬ 
day he was sent into the orchard to destroy 
the caterpillars and their nests Infesting 
the trees. He used paper, kerosene oil and 
matches. The boy kept at the work for 
honrs, and the caterpillars would frequent¬ 
ly fall upon him. In the course of the after¬ 
noon he was taken with violent nausea, 
and at night his parents were aroused by 
his moans. They found him tossing wildly, 
crying that the worms were eating him, 
and he begged them to take them off. A 
physician was hastily summoned, who, by 
a hypodermic injection succeeded in quiet¬ 
ing the lad, but other similar attacks fol¬ 
lowed, and the doctor says he will have to 
be sent to an Insane asylum.” 
Referring to this, Dr. C. V, Riley says he 
sees no reason to doubt Its accuracy. He 
has frequently met with people who have 
exhibited such a strong Idiosyncrasy 
against insects that similar results might 
follow were they forced to do the work 
which this boy was obliged to do. 
Whole volumes might be written on the 
curious antipathies held by individuals for 
certain animals. Most persons seem to 
have a distinct repugnance or disgust for 
one or more kinds of animals. Sometimes 
this feeling is so marked as to cause great 
discomfort. 
Seed Corn.—Now is the time to select 
seed corn. Better select it before it Is cut 
off from the stalks. A low stalk is prefer¬ 
able to avery high and heavy one, if the ear 
Is of the proper size. If It is set low on the 
stalk It is an advantage, as the produce 
from It will stand up better daring wet and 
stormy weather, which is a decided advan¬ 
tage when we come to cut it. Do not always 
select the largest ear unless it has other 
good points to recommend it. It should 
have a thin cob and long grains of uniform 
size. It should also conform to the general 
type or variety that you are raising. If 
you are raising a white flint, select that 
type; if a yellow dent, give preference to 
that type, or If you are trying to es¬ 
tablish a superior variety for your vi¬ 
cinity, select the type that is best in all 
respects, and continue to do so patiently, 
and you will be pleased with the results. 
After selecting the corn, dry It perfectly, 
and keep it dry until you need it, and It will 
be worth a good many dollars more than 
would be paid by your careless neighbor 
who says “ Too much fuss ! I select my 
seed out of the crib, and it it does just as 
well.” “ Corn is king.” Let us increase 
the blue blood as much as possible. An 
aristocracy in our great cereal is very de¬ 
sirable, however detestable aristocracies 
among humans may be. L. w. lightY. 
York Co., Pa. 
Dangers From Leprosy.— A writer in 
the Scientific American gives an exhaustive 
review of leprosy, its characteristics and 
present prevalence in the civilized world. 
Speaking of the dangers that come through 
our trade with countries where the disease 
prevails, he says: “I have frequently stood 
on the wharves in Jamaica and noted pro¬ 
nounced cases of leprosy going by in cease¬ 
less rounds carrying bananas from the 
storehouse to the loading vessel. I have 
stood in a South Cuban port and watched 
a leper, with but three fingers left on the 
right hand, and those badly eaten with 
leprosy, rolling cigarettes for exportation. 
The researches of Dr. Armauer Hansen, of 
Norway, the discoverer of the leprous germ, 
Bacillus lepree, are quite sufficient to show 
that bananas or tobacco so handled are far 
from being safe articles of Importation. 
Unless special precautions are taken to 
avoid eating the exposed parts of the 
banana, not completely covered with the 
skiD, the risk, though It may b3 very, very 
slight, is nevertheless existent. The cigar¬ 
ettes should be entirely shunned. The 
American made article is sufficiently in¬ 
jurious In its effects. If the smoker must 
tempt fate, let him content himself with 
the domestic product.” If the French and 
Germans can justly refuse to take our pork 
until we guarantee It free from trichinosis, 
how much more are we j ustlfled in demand¬ 
ing that leper-handled products be excluded 
from this country. Leprosy is a slow dis¬ 
ease. It may lurk in the system for years 
before showing itself. It is none the less 
sure, and in the present light of science, in¬ 
curable. The health authorities owe It as 
a duty to humanity to take strict and 
prompt measures for stamping out this 
disease. 
Alien Land Laws.— Out in Arizona and 
New Mexico it is loudly charged that the 
national alien land laws, which forbid for¬ 
eign investments in mines in the Terri¬ 
tories, was pushed through Congress for 
the special interest of mine owners in Colo¬ 
rado, California and the other mining 
States. In such matters laws passed by 
Congress are applicable only to the Terri¬ 
tories, for In the States all legislation of 
the kind 13 within the jurisdiction solely of 
their own legislatures. Accordingly it is 
claimed that the removal of Territorial 
mining property from the foreign markets 
has greatly enhanced the value of similar 
property in the States, which are exempt 
from the operation of the national law and 
have been too shrewd to pass any laws of 
the kind themselves. In Texas the great 
bulk of the farmers are still bitterly hos¬ 
tile to any repeal of the alien land law of 
the State, and in spite of the constant 
clamor of the town and city papers In favor 
of such a measure, the agricultural influ¬ 
ence has been so powerful that Governor 
Hogg has decided to forego his original in¬ 
tention of calling an extra session of the leg¬ 
islature to repeal the law. There is no doubt 
about the necessity for legislation regulat¬ 
ing and restricting the foreign ownership 
of real estate In this country ; but there is 
a good deal of doubt about the wisdom of 
the sweeping nature of some of the laws 
already passed. 
Russian Starvation.— Lamentable ac¬ 
counts of extreme distress, even thus 
early in the season, come from many parts 
of Russia, and it appears nearly impossible 
to prevent disastrous famine before next 
harvest. The scarcity of food Is compelling 
farmers in extensive provinces to sell their 
live stock for insignificant prices, while 
many of the horses are being killed for their 
skins. There are gruesome stories of par¬ 
ents who in the insanity of starvation have 
killed and eaten their children, while 
women are reported to have sold themselves 
by hundreds for the means of sustaining a 
wretched existence. The government has 
provided for the resowing of the land and 
for furnishing supplies of grain within ac¬ 
cessible areas until January, but after that 
starvation will stare hundreds of thousands 
or millions of people in the face. Even if 
supplies could be furnished, their timely 
distribution over the wide famine-stricken 
areas, with very imperfect transportation 
facilities, would be a difficult or impossible 
matter. The payment of taxes is already 
suspended, the maintenance of schools, hos¬ 
pitals and asylums is endangered; the stop¬ 
page of labor on public works must soon 
throw thousands out of employment, and 
in every way the outlook is gloomy. It 
would appear as if the mighty empire of the 
north would have enough to do during the 
next year in fighting the specter of famine 
among its own children instead of slaugh¬ 
tering Germans and Roumanians ; still its 
vast armies are converging steadily in large 
bodies towards the Western frontier. 
Famine among the people has always been 
a powerful incentive to rebellion against 
the government, and already mutterings of 
revolt among the moujiks are heard be¬ 
yond the Russian frontier even In spite of 
government censorship and repression. It 
may be that the Czar will precipitate a 
foreign war to distract the attention of his 
people from domestic wretchedness. 
Apples in Cold Storage.— At the Ar¬ 
kansas Experiment Station a fruit house 
15x17 feet, outside measurement, was built, 
with a height of 16 feet to the eaves. It 
was entirely above ground, with double 
walls of matched yellow pine. Each was 
lined with building paper and a six-inch 
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MEN’S SIZES. 
No. 1.—A genuine New York Standard move¬ 
ment: 7 jewels, safety pinion, com¬ 
pensation balance, stem wind and set; 
in a solid nickel silver case, open face; 
a really excellent watch and far su¬ 
perior to any other cheap watch 
we have seen (two years).$ 8.50 
No. 2.—Same movement as No. 1, in gold-tilled 
case, 15-year guarantee, open face 
(three years). 15 00 
No 3.—Same as No. 2, hunting case (three 
years). .... 17 00 
No 4.—Same movement as No. 1, In a solid gold 
14k. hunting case, weighing 40 dwt. 
(five years). 39.50 
RURAL SPECIAL BARGAINS. 
No 5.—A genuineWaltham movement; 7 jewels, 
compensation balance, safety pinion, 
stem wind and set; In a solid nicael- 
silver case, open face (two years). 9.50 
No. 6.—Same movement as No. 5, In gold filled 
case, guaranteed to wear 15 years, 
open faca (three years. 16.50 
No. 7.—Same movement as No. 5, In hunting case 
same as No. 6 (three years).18.50 
No. 8.-Same movement as No. 5, In solid 14k. 
gold hunting case, weighing 40 dwt. 
^flve years). . 42 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-silver case two years). 13.00 
No. 10.-Same movement as No. 9, In gold filled 
ease, guaranteed for 15 years, open 
face (two years).18.25 
No 11—Same as No. 10, hunting case (two years) 21.25 
No. 12.—Same movement as No. 9, In solid 14k 
gold hunting case weighing 40 dwt. 
A very handsome watch (five years).. 45.00 
LADIES’ SIZE. 
No. 13.—A genuine Waltham ladies’ watch with 
jewels, compensation balance and 
safety pinion, stem wind and set; in a 
solid coin silver case (four j ears). 14 50 
No. 14.—Same move 
ment as No. 13, in 
a 15 year guaran¬ 
teed gold-tilled 
hunting case (four 
years).$19.25 
No. 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 
$75. One of the 
prettiest watches 
for a lady that we 
have ever seen. 
The illustration 
shows the case in 
exact size and 
style (five years) 
Ladies’Watch. No. 15.$*9.oo 
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 number called for. Only one or two complaints have 
reached us, and many have expressed great satisfaction with the watches received. 
We send the watches prepaid by registered mall 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. 
