856 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
DEU. 5 
Publisher s Desk. 
A “PERSONAL” circular has been 
mailed to every R. N.-Y. subscriber. 
We believe that all will read it with in¬ 
terest, as It contains a deal of truth and 
some bright and Important news items; 
that is, all will read it who are interested 
in The Rural New-Yorker. If any copies 
miscarry and do not reach subscribers, 
please notify us. What shall the answers 
b® ? * # * 
S PECIMEN copies of The R. N.-Y. will 
be mailed to any reader who will send 
us a postal card requesting the same for use 
in organizing clubs. 
* * * 
A FRIEND of The R. N.-Y. writes: 
“Some of my friends, former sub¬ 
scribers to The Rural, want to see the old 
household friend again,” and requests sam¬ 
ple copies for distribution. We are glad to 
send any reasonable number of copies for 
use in this way by persons interested in or¬ 
ganizing clubs. We will send bundles of 
copies to the organizer, or directly to any 
addresses that may be sent us for this pur¬ 
pose. * # * 
I F you want the premium article for pres¬ 
ent use and don’t care to wait till your 
club is organized, the money for the pre¬ 
mium and subscriptions may be sent in ad¬ 
vance, and the names may be forwarded as 
they are secured. We keep a careful ac¬ 
count with each party sending in clubs of 
subscriptions. Our offers of premiams for 
new subscriptions are only to subscribers 
whose names are already on our books. 
Every week we give special extra 
;premiums to the senders of the largest 
clubs of subscriptions received dur¬ 
ing the week. 
A WEEKLY GIFT 
TO WOMEN READERS 
AND ONE ALSO 
TO THE MEN WHO READ 
The Rural New-Yorker. Every week, 
till further notice, beginning next week, 
we shall present to the woman, herself a 
subscriber, who shall send us the largest 
club of yearly subscriptions, the handsome 
decorated china tea set described among 
our premium offers; or, if preferred, $5 
worth of any American books (not held as 
“specials” by publishers) at publishers’ 
prices. 
To the masculine subscriber who shall 
send in the largest club of yearly subscrip¬ 
tions In any week will be given his choice 
of $5 worth of books, as above, or the U. S. 
Cook Stove Fruit Drier, or $5 worth of any 
American farm implements, or $5 worth of 
packet seeds or plants, selected from the 
catalogue of any advertiser in these col¬ 
umns. 
These clubs are to be according to the 
terms of our “ special ” circular sent to sub¬ 
scribers only. 
These special prizes are in addition to 
any other premiums chosen by the senders 
of the names, and are to be given, until 
further notice, for the largest clubs sent in 
each week. 
We want 100,000 subscribers to The R. 
N. Y. Are the terms liberal enough to 
warrant you, reader, in helping us get 
them ? 
A CHRISTMAS PRESENT WORTH 
HAVING 
is a year’s subscription to The Rural New- 
Yorker. Such subscriptions will be re¬ 
ceived as parts of clubs at the “special 
reduced prices” given in the circular re¬ 
cently mailed to all subscribers. 
Likewise 
A subscription to The American Gar¬ 
den (Popular Gardening) at only $L for 
a veritable “magazine” of horticulture; 
fully 64 pages of copiously illustrated prac¬ 
tical matter on gardening every month. 
Likewise 
One of the valuable low-priced books pub¬ 
lished by The Rural Publishing Company, 
circulars of which will be sent on applica¬ 
tion. 
Or, perhaps 
some will prefer to choose for their friends 
from our profuse list of choice premiums, 
any of which may be had in return for a 
little labor, without money cost. 
What answer do you think should 
be sent in reply to the “ special-re¬ 
duced-prices circular recently sent 
to all subscribers ? 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
The mortgage indebtedness of 50 counties 
of eastern Kansas was reduced $302,207 dur¬ 
ing October. 
An Indiana farmer’s wife gave birth to 
four girls, his Jersey cow to twin calves 
and the family cat to seven kittens all in 
one night. 
Roseberry, the high-jumping horse, 
which fell in an attempt to beat the 
world’s record at the Fat Stock Show, Chi¬ 
cago, iDjaring his back, died of paralysis 
Sunday night. 
It has been discovered that horse flesh 
has been sold for a long time at four Chicago 
restaurants and the only way the officers 
could tell the difference was by the bones. 
If this is all the difference, what’s the odds 
any way? 
The 13th annual meeting of the New 
York State American Merino Sheep Breed¬ 
ers’ Association will be held in Rochester, 
at the Whitcomb House, Tuesday and Wed¬ 
nesday, December 8 th and 9th, 1891, begin¬ 
ning at 3 p. m. J. H Earll, Secretary, Skan- 
eateles. 
It is reported that the National Cordage 
Company, or Binding Twine Trust, has 
purchased the entire binding twine plant 
of William Deering & Co., Chicago, for 
$250,000. This purchase, it is said, gives the 
Trust the entire control of the binding twine 
industry. 
“There is a wheat blockade in the North¬ 
west.” “There is no wheat blockade.” 
“There Is a famine of freight cars.” “There 
is only the usual shortage.” “Not half 
of the wheat crop is thrashed.” “Sales 
almost impossible.” These are only a 
few samples. We believe In variety. 
A Pennsylvania farmer who had been an¬ 
noyed by chicken thieves, ensconced him¬ 
self in a covered carriage facing his hennery, 
well wrapped in blankets and with a couple 
of horse pistols in his lap. He was much 
chagrined upon awakening in the morning, 
to find his pistols and a dozen fine chickens 
gone, taken by the thieves he expected to 
capture. 
The London Times publishes a final es¬ 
timate of the state of the crops in Great 
Britain and says that it anticipates a bad 
yield and of indifferent quality. Much of 
the grain stacked is in such a condition as 
to necessitate great delay before It can be 
thrashed. The real state of affairs there¬ 
fore will not be known for a month. It is 
possible the harvest, as a whole, may not 
be worse than of recent years, but in many 
districts the crops will be the worst in forty 
years, and the farmers will not be able, as 
they had hoped, to recoup themselves for 
recent losses by abundant crops and im¬ 
proved prices. 
Mr. Spreckels says that the Hawailans are 
a discouraged lot, and cannot see their way 
clear to prosperity in any other way than 
by annexation. With the removal of the 
tariff on sugar, and the offering of two 
cents per pound for all sugar produced in 
the United States, the islands lost the ad¬ 
vantage they had over producers here, in 
Cuba and in the Philippine Islands. This 
year’s crop of 140,000 tons, was the largest 
ever raised in Hawaii, although the coun¬ 
try ought to produce a great deal more 
than that. The advantage over other coun¬ 
tries, before the removal of the tariff and 
the offering of the bounty, was about two 
cents a pound in favor of the islands. The 
planters had no duty to pay, and in return 
the islands received Importations from only 
the United States. 
The statistical returns of the Department 
of Agriculture for November make the corn 
crop one of the largest In volume, with a 
rate of yield slightly above the average of 
26 bushels per acre. The eastern and west¬ 
ern ends of the corn belt, Ohio and Iowa 
and Nebraska, gave somewhat better yields 
than Indiana and Illinois or Missouri and 
Kansas, the lower levels of the great corn 
belt suffering more from threatened 
drought than the higher elevations. The 
highest rate of yield, as estimated, appears 
in New England, from 35 to 40 bushels per 
acre; in the South the range Is from 11 in 
Florida to 25 in Maryland, while in the sur¬ 
plus corn States the figures are as follows : 
Ohio, 33 7 ; Indiana, 32 0 ; Illinois, 81.2; 
Iowa, 36 7; Missouri, 29 9; Kansas, 26.7; 
Nebraska, 36 3. Frost in August wrought 
some inj ary in the North west; in Wisconsin 
the yield is 26.7 ; Minnesota, 26.5 ; North 
Dakota, 27.2. Both drought and frost re¬ 
duced the yield in South Dakota to 22 bush¬ 
els. Much of the crop is yet In the shock 
and its condition and rate of yield may be 
somewhat better known after garnering 
and marketing. Yet It is evident that the 
product will not be less than 2 , 000 , 000,000 or 
31 bushels per unit of population. 
In speaking of the Inspection of meat for 
exportation, Secretary Rusk says that up 
to October 1 there had been a total of 1,016,- 
614 animals inspected, both before and after 
slaughter; there were 63,662 carcasses of 
hogs examined microscopically, and the 
total number of animals condemned and 
sent to the fertilizing tanks was but 1,976. 
The cost of the work has been within the 
anticipated limit and is being considerably 
reduced as the work proceeds. He is of the 
opinion that the Inspection of animals and 
their marking for identification may be ac¬ 
complished for a sum not exceeding three 
(Continued on next page ) 
It Should bb the Business of Every One having a 
Cold to treat It promptly and properly until It Is got¬ 
ten rid of—Intelligent experience fortunately pre¬ 
senting a curative in Dr. Jayne’s Expectorant, tho¬ 
roughly adapted to remove speedily all Coughs and 
Colds—allay any exciting Inflammation of the Throat 
or Lungs, and remove the distressing symptoms of 
Asthma or Pleurisy.— Adv. 
C!/' i/'A'TV ITT Collie Pups, fu 1 blooded, for 
ioV v/ JL V XT sale. Price, $5 for males: $2 
for females. They are beauties. Write for particu¬ 
lars. CHARLES LEPAGE, Barre, Vt. 
Sets A 
Dhen 
Send $1.00 for enough 
"Animal Meal ’’ to feed 
10 hens 8 months, or 4 
times as much for 82.26, 
delivered to any station in 
New England or Middle 
States. Book, "The Egg,” 
free. The liowker Com¬ 
pany, 48 Chatham Street, 
Boston, Mass. 
Laying hens and growing 
chicks should be fed upon 
food rich in albumen, and 
easily digested. The rich¬ 
est part of the egg is the 
albumen. "Animal Meal” 
contains a large amount of 
albumen, as well as mate¬ 
rial for the shell. It Is a 
well-balanced animal food 
easily digested. 
A 
MONTH 
CAPONS. 
Every farmer and poultryman should 
caponize his cockerels, whether for 
market or home use. Ton can add 81.00 
in value to every cockerel you caponize. 
Dow’s Caponizing Instruments 
Are Simple, Plain and Cheap. 
Full set. with Instructions, sent any¬ 
where for 82.50 (post-paid). Address 
2EO.Q. DOW& CO., North Epping,N.H 
Our book ‘‘Capons and Caponizing/* In eloth, 50c., paper, 25«. 
HENS 
■ A Y *^° an ^ hon ~ 
■ eat boy or 
D A Y P* r i, man or 
’ ^ 1 woman,! will 
id IT RKE and prepaid, one dozen boxes 
of my famous Cupal Kgg Muter. 
Keeps poultry healthy, cures diseases, makes henn lay* You 
can sell it easily at 10 cts. a box. Send me $1.20 ami 1 will mail you 
either a beautiful set of Silver Spoons or a fine three bladed knife, 
valued at $1.00. Every box returns $5 In epjrs to buver. Don’t 
delay. Address R. E. MILLS, Box q , HINSDALE, N. H. 
EUREKA PLACE, 
— THE HOME OF THE — 
Shropshires! 
SPECIAL PRICES on rams for the next thirty days 
to make room for a 
NEW IMPORTATION. 
A very fine stock still unbroken to select from. 
Send for 
75-PAGE CATALOGUE, 
also for prices. Ask for prices on ewes. 
F. M. COLLIN, Benton Center, N. Y., Is our Eastern 
representative. 
J. S. & W. C. CROSBY, 
GREENVILLE, MICH. 
mi if Donnunroo have need ° f hill’s 
IrllLIV rnUUUuLnij milk aerator. The 
Standard Mechanical Device for purifying milk 
fresh from the cow of animal or other odors, without 
use of Ice or Water. Mention this paper. Cata¬ 
logues on application to 
E. L. HILL, West Upton, Mass. 
Just Drive ’Em In and CLIHCH ’Em. 
THEY’LL DO THE REST. 
Rapid HARNESS A\ENDER5. 
WILL MEND 
Any Harness, Halter or Strap In less time, 
and do the work better than any Harness 
maker can, AND 
C05TS ONLY HALF A CENT 
Sold by Grocers and Hardware Dealers. Cost 
only 25c per box of one gross (three sizes.) 
ESI (jnl 
BUFFALO SPECIALTY MF6. CO., 
BUFFALO. N. Y. 
A RROWHF.AD HOT SPRINGS has saved 
A thousands of lives Physicians and others 
should address H. C. ROYER. Arrowhead Springs. Cal. 
ACENTS WANTED ON SALARY 
or commlslon, to handle the new Patent Chemical 
Irk Erasing Pencil. The quickest and greatest sel¬ 
ling novelty ever produced. Erases ink thoroughly 
In two seconds. No abrasion of paper. Wo ks like 
magic. 2<0 to 5C0 per cent profit. One 4gent’s sales 
amounted to $620 In six days Another $32 in two 
hours. Previous exp rlence not necessary. For terms 
and full particulars, address. The Monroe Eraser 
Mf g Co., La Crosse Wis., X 175. 
Hercules Wind Engine 
for sale, at less than half price. Size of Wheel 
Pxls feet, with all the gearing, countershaft, belt 
pulleys. This Is the only mill that will run heavy 
machinery successfully Address 
S. B. RKPLOGLE, Ridgely, Md. 
SPRING GURRY COMB 
Patented in United 
States, July 16, 1889, and 
in Ten Foreign Countries 
A comb that combines the strength of metal with the 
elasticity of a brush. Efficient, humane, convenient 
and durable. Descriptive circulars on application. 
Bend 50c for sample by mail, if not sold by your dealer. I 
8 PRING CURRY COMB CO. South Bend, tnd | 
BEST HERD IN AMERICA 
Of DAIRY SHORT-HORNS. Never beaten in public 
tests, S. SPENCER & SON, Kiantone, N. Y. 
Green Bone Cutter, BebtaLd 
Cheapest, only $10.00. 
Little Giant Clover Cutter, 
only $3.00. 
Buff Leghorns, Indian Games 
and leading varieties of fowls. 
Send Stamp for Circulars. 
WEBSTER dc H ANNUM, Cazenovia, N.Y..U.S A. 
(Members Buff Leghorn Club.) 
^cotswol'il OXFORD DOWN, 
SHROPSHIRE and MERINO SHEEP and 
LAMBS of the ry best blood obtainable. An extra 
good lot of Lambs of all breeds; also a few good 
Yearlings, some of which are prize winners, write 
at once for prices and full particulars. 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Dundee, III*, i° r Cat ‘ 
Mention this paper. 
Maple Brook Herd of Duroc-Jersey Swine. 
Our herd has been bred from the b“st strains of Ohio 
and Illinois. Herd headed by Red Cloud 2437, assisted 
by Hoosier Boy 28and other sires. Stoes in fine 
condition. Prices reasonabl ,. Write for wants. We 
can please you. (Will give a year's subscription to 
The Rural New-Yorker to each purchaser.) 
JAH. D. KIGER «fc SO.V 
Box 120, Charlestown, Ind. 
PIMP OPI OUpi I 0 for Poultry Feed. One 100-lb. 
rmu OLA OnLLLO Bag. 50C.; 20 Bags, $3. Sample, 
5c. SEA SHELL COMPANY, Guilford, Conn. 
FARMERS 
and larger. Catalogue free. 
DeLOACH HILL CO., Atlanta. 6$. 
CLEVELAND BAYS 
Oar 1891 importation gives us a large stable of the best Coach Horses, we can either 
Import or raise These are the best general purpose horses, and average best profits 
We guarantee every horse sound, reliable breeders. See our list of winnings at the 
great Shows. We have the best, 
Send for Catalogue and particular*. 
CLEVELAND BAY HORSE COMPANY, PAW PAW, MICH. 
HORSES Lakeside Stock Farm, 
SMITHS & POWELL. SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
FRENCH COACH.— The evenest, best colored, finest bred of any Importation yet. 
TROTTING BRED HORSES. —Fine representatives of several of the most noted trotting strains 
including descendants of “ Electioneer/' “ George Wilkes," “ Alcazar,” “ Wnips,” “ Administrator.” etc. 
CLYDESDALES .—The largest and most noted stud In the Eastern States. 
PERCHERONS.-A fine stock of the varloug ages. 
Also the Celebrated Herd of Milk and Butter Producing Holstein-Friesians. 
BERKSHIRE AND CHESHIRE SWINE. 
Separate Catalogues of Horses and Cattle sent on application. Mention this paper when writing 
