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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
OCT. 31 
Publisher s Desk. 
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S EVERAL hundred good friends of The 
R. N.-Y. have already promised to 
especially exert themselves to raise clubs 
of subscribers in their neighborhoods this 
season, and the kindly offers of coopera¬ 
tion come in by every mail. All this is 
highly encouraging, and for two reasons 
it shows that the recent growth and im¬ 
provement of The Rural New-Yorker 
are valued and appreciated by our readers 
as real growth and improvement, and also 
because we have found that the only effec¬ 
tive recruiting of the rank and file of our 
army of readers is done by the readers 
themselves. * * * 
T HERE is no advertisement circular 
or letter that we can write in the 
office or in the editor’s “ den ” at home on 
the farm, that will bear any comparison 
with the results accruing from the friendly 
efforts of our older readers who have 
worked and read with us for years and 
learned to love the “ good old Rural ” 
just as do we ourselves. We do not mean 
to belittle our own efforts : it is a matter of 
course that we must labor early and late, 
and with every resource of body and brain, 
and spend money lavishly to make a paper 
that shall be worthy of the bright regard 
in which The R. N.-Y. is held by its 
thousands upon thousands of readers all 
over this broad land. 
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P ERSONAL effort, earnestness, energy, 
honesty of purpose, wisdom: all these, 
backed by labor and the accumulations of 
labor—money—are the powers that move 
the world. And yet, in any movement it is 
really astonishing how much one may ac¬ 
complish at times with slight effort, and 
again, how little even with urgent applica¬ 
tion. This matter of influencing subscrip¬ 
tions is no exception and both extremes are 
met not less within 100 miles of New York 
than in Kansas and Wisconsin. Our field 
is the continent. We do nob expect many 
of our friends to make a business of this 
and take much valuable time in organiz¬ 
ing clubs of new subscribers. We ask only 
that any spare hours and minutes may be 
given to it as opportunity may warrant. 
As you meet at work, on the road, at mar¬ 
ket, at social gatherings, at the club and 
grange meetings, or election day—these are 
the times and occasions for saying the effec¬ 
tive word. A word to produce good results 
for all concerned: for yourself in cash com¬ 
missions or valuable premiums; for your 
neighbor in “a full measure running over” 
of the latest and best for making the farm 
pay, and for us in a new reader gained. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Rival rainmakers are quarreling. 
Ten car-loads of wine were recently 
shipped from Napa, Cal., to France. 
A Cortland County, N. Y., farmer has 
been buncoed out of $8,000 by a bogus land 
deal. 
Large quantities of harvested beans were 
lost by field fires in Ventura County, Cal., 
recently. 
The Treasury Department has decided 
that wool washed on the pelt is dutiable as 
scoured wool. 
English papers condemn the ocean ship¬ 
ment of Canadian cattle in stormy weather 
owing to the recent heavy losses. 
A 24-year-old Kansas girl with the aid of 
another woman does all the work on her 
140 acre farm which she owns free from 
debt. 
The first two contracts for pork products 
for the German trade were each for 100 
packages of short-clear bacon at and 6% 
cents respectively. 
The manufacture of starch is assuming 
important proportions in California. There 
are now four factories in the southern 
part of the State. 
A prominent Californian apiarist has 
utilized a young vineyard in which to place 
his stands of bees with scarcely any injury 
to the crop, so he claims. 
The Suffolk Horse Association will meet 
at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, No¬ 
vember 20 at 7:30 P. M. A. R. Galbraith, 
secretary, Janesville, Wis. 
The Polled Durham Association will 
meet at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, 
November 17, at 2 p. M. Wm. W. Crane, 
Tippecanoe City, O., president. 
Florida has asked for three acres of space 
on the grounds of the Columbian Exposi¬ 
tion to make a display of fruit and in 
which to plant an orange grove. 
The crop bulletin which has been issued 
weekly by the Central Office of the Meteor¬ 
ological Bureau at Cornell University has 
been discontinued for the season. 
The American Shropshire Association 
meets at the Iroquois Hotel, Buffalo, No¬ 
vember 5 at 10 A. M., instead of on November 
3. Mortimer Levering, secretary, LaFay- 
ette, Ind. 
New York will not have an inspector of 
slaughtered hogs here owing to the insuffi¬ 
ciency of the appropriation. Arrangements 
will be made, however, for the repacking of 
meats here. 
A National Duroc Jersey Record Associa¬ 
tion has been organized at Peoria, Ill., with 
J. M. Stonebraker, Panola, Ill., president, 
and G. W. Phillipps, Geneseo, Ill., secre¬ 
tary and treasurer. 
Pennsylvania dairymen are making it 
lively for Philadelphia milk dealers who 
retain their cans. The penalty is $10 for 
each can retained. One dealer had 98 cans 
around his premises. 
On account of the lateness of the season, 
the chrysanthemum show of the Massachu¬ 
setts Horticultural Society has been post¬ 
poned one week, and will be held from 
November 10 to 13 inclusive. 
The statement of farm mortgages record¬ 
ed and released in Kansas during Septem¬ 
ber just published shows that the excess of 
release, is over $2,000,000. There are only 
20 counties in the State showing an excess 
of mortgages recorded. 
At the last meeting of the New Jersey 
Agricultural Society, the treasurer’s report 
showed that the gross receipts of the Wav- 
erly fair were $38,586.68, and the disburse¬ 
ments $27,622.45, leaving a balance of $10,- 
964 23. A dividend of six per cent was de¬ 
clared. 
The State government of Maranham, 
Brazil, has named special commissioners to 
the Columbian Exposition, and will send a 
most interesting and valuable exhibit of 
the resources of the State in the hope of at¬ 
tracting the attention of capitalists to their 
wonderful richness. 
The new Canadian regulations for the 
shipment of live stock, will go into opera¬ 
tion on November 1. They provide for the 
appointment of two inspectors, to be sta¬ 
tioned at Montreal, whose duty it will be 
to supervise thoroughly the shipment of 
cattle at that port. 
Official notifications have been given to 
the Bureau of American Republics that in 
Venezuela the duties on corn, beans, peas 
and rice, the free admission of which had 
been permitted since April 20, have been 
restored, to take effect October 20. The rate 
on corn and rice is about two-thirds of a 
cent a pound, and on beans and peas about 
1 % cent a pound. 
A Chrysanthemum Show, under the 
auspices of the New York Florists’ Club, 
will be held in Madison Square Garden, 
New York City, November 2 to 8. A mag¬ 
nificent horticultural display will be made, 
including conservatory and greenhouse 
fixtures, with heating and ventilating ap¬ 
paratus. This will be, without doubt, the 
greatest floral exhibition ever held in 
America. 
The University of Illinois has about 535 
students in attendance, the largest number 
in its history. A considerable majority 
take the engineering or the natural science 
courses. The number of distinctively agri¬ 
cultural students remains small. A few 
have entered for the new two-years’ course. 
It is hoped a considerable number may 
come for a special three months’ course in 
the winter. 
A gigantic irrigation scheme is proposed 
in Colorado, it being nothing less than to 
tunnel the range of mountains east of the 
Grand River, tap that stream and divert its 
waters through the tunnel to a vast natural 
reservoir on the eastern slope, from which 
the waters can be used as wanted. Natur¬ 
ally the people of western Colorado threaten 
legal proceedings, as the Grand is their 
chief source of water supply. 
The Interstate Commerce Commission in 
an opinion by Commissioner Veazey, an¬ 
nounced its decision in the case of Daniel 
Buchanan against the Northern Pacific 
Railroad Company. It states that rates on 
wheat and barley of 50 and 56 cents per 
hundredweight respectively, charged by 
the defendant from Fitzville, Wash., to 
St. Paul, Minn., a distance of 1,576 miles, 
in view of the circumstances and conditions 
surrounding the traffic, are not unreason¬ 
able. 
The following places and dates for New 
York State Institutes the coming winter 
have been decided upon: 
Place. 
County. 
Date. 
Plattsburg. 
... Clinton. 
. Oct. 23-29 
Willsborough. 
... Essex. 
. Oct. 30-31 
Gouverneur . 
... St. Lawrence... 
. Nov. 19-20 
Lowville. 
... Lewis. 
. Nov. 24—25 
Sodus. 
... Wayne. 
. Dec. 2— 3 
Honeoye Falls. 
... Monroe. 
. Dec. 4- 5 
Gowanda. 
... Cattaraugus. 
. Dec. 14-15 
Perry. 
... Wyoming. 
. Dec. 21-22 
Geneseo. 
... Livingston. 
. Dec. 23-24 
Albion. 
... Orleans. 
. Dec. 30—31 
FortSPlain. 
... Montgomery. 
. Jan. 4— 5 
Hamilton. 
... Madison. 
. Jan. 8— 9 
New Berlin. 
... Chenango. 
. Jan. 11—12 
Marathon. 
... Cortland. 
, Jan. 15—16 
Condensed Correspondence. 
Bureau County, III.—Potatoes have 
done well this year. The tops of Rural No. 
2 are green yet, but I have never seen such 
firm, handsome potatoes. I took out of one 
hill six that weighed nearly five pounds. 
They are beauties—the finest I have seen. 
In my 100 kinds I have only about three or 
four which I will compare with Rural No. 
2—People’s, Snow Queen, Wisconsin and 
Mammoth White Chief are fine; Poten¬ 
tate is one of the very best and finest. 
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. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
It is reported that Kansas farmers refuse 
to sell corn at present prices. 
Oats advanced in London on rumors that 
the prohibition of the export of oats from 
Russia was imminent. 
Large areas of wheat in Pennsylvania 
have been resown because of the drought 
which destroyed the first sowing. 
The United States Consul at Santiago de 
Cuba, reports that the Cuban sugar crop 
this year amounts to 827,000 tons against 
560,000 tons last year. 
Again we say do not export anything 
but choice apples, well packed in new, clean 
barrels, well headed and nailed. It will 
not pay to ship any others. 
Messrs. Otto G. Mayer & Co., wish their 
friends to bear in mind that it is necessary 
when they wish their apples insured, to 
give timely notice with each parcel. They 
do not insure unless expressly so instructed 
with every shipment. 
Messrs. J. C. Houghton & Co., and 
Messrs. James Lindsay & Son, while not 
expecting any disastrous break in prices, 
anticipate somewhat lower prices as a result 
of the increased number of barrels of apples 
now being exported. 
Messrs. J. C. Houghton & Co., Liverpool, 
quote the following prices for American 
apples in their market October, 19. Kings, 
$2.90 to $4.37 ; Baldwins, $2.67 to $4.85 ; 
Greenings, $170 to $2.90 ; Spys, $2.42 to 
$2.90. The demand for good sound fruit 
continues active, although the market is 
lower in consequence of heavy arrivals. 
The shipments of apples from the port of 
New York for the week ending October 17, 
were as follows: To Liverpool, 21,000, to 
Glasgow, 9,700, to London, 300 barrels. 
Total, 31,000 barrels. The total exports for 
the week from the United States and 
Canada amounted to 90,000 barrels, includ¬ 
ing 45,000 from Montreal and 8,500 from 
Nova Scotia. 
According to complete official estimates of 
the harvest in Germany, wheat is 18 per 
cent below the average yield, and rye 20 per 
cent below, while barley is five per cent 
above the average, and oats 12 per cent 
above. The deficiency in rye is greatest in 
East Prussia, Saxony and Hanover. The 
officials hold that the general result does 
not warrant fears of widespread distress. 
Chief Grain Inspector Clausen, after In¬ 
specting various Red River points, says 
of the wheat that 25 per cent is thrashed, 
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Breast Collar.— Single strap, fancy creased, 
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Hame8.—Z}4 pounds japanned body, with 
1 % inch single strap traces attached. Col¬ 
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Price, $1.50, in excess of the above named. 
Weight, boxed, 29 pounds. 
No. 501—Top Buggy. 
Elliptic spring, Corning body, regular 
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three years’ subscription included. 
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A three years’ subscription to either The 
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A five years’ subscription as above will 
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