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THE RURAI 
NEW-YORKER. 
December 2G 
The Riiral Publishing Company 
Times Building, New York 
PUBLISHERS OP 
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or the United States 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 columns. 
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tions, we will present a pair of fine club 
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from our premium offers of any other ar¬ 
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further notice, and IN ADDITION to 
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S PECIMEN COPIES of The Rural 
New-Yorker will be sent to any 
lists of names that may be forwarded by 
our readers, provided the senders will en¬ 
deavor to get the parties as subscribers. 
Agricultural news. 
A Missouri man raises rattlesnakes for 
the oil. 
A movement is on foot to establish a 
beet-sugar factory at Decatur, Ill. 
Incoming steamers last week reported 
hundreds of cotton bales afloat at sea. 
The New York State Beekeepers’ Asso¬ 
ciation held a meeting in Albany last 
week. 
California fruit growers will endeavor 
to introduce their fruits and other horti¬ 
cultural products into foreign markets. 
The West Shore Railroad refuses to re¬ 
ceive grain for shipment over its road un¬ 
less agents are appointed to dispose of it 
promptly on arrival. 
A British steamer is loading oats at 
Philadelphia for foreign markets. This 
is the first shipment of this cereal from 
that port in six years. 
A New York syndicate has decided 
to erect a system of beet-sugar fac¬ 
tories throughout Nebraska and adjacent 
States, with headquarters in Omaha. 
The Iowa Short-horn Breeders’ Asso¬ 
ciation adopted resolutions protesting 
against the indiscriminate slaughter of 
“lump-jawed” cattle in the Chicago 
markets. 
G. S. Palmer, the well-known commis¬ 
sion merchant, so often referred to in 
these columns, and one of the best in¬ 
formed men in the city in his branch of 
trade, died on Wednesday, 
The stallion Laureate, imported from 
England by the Hon. Stephen Sanford, 
reached Amsterdam, N. Y., Thursday, 
and was immediately taken to Mr. San¬ 
ford’s stock farm. He cost him $30,000. 
Gov. Pattison, of Pennsylvania, has 
refused to remit the fine of $100 and 
costs imposed upon each of twenty-three 
grocers in Washington County who plead¬ 
ed guilty to selling oleomargarine con¬ 
trary to law. 
The University of Wisconsin offers 
prizes to the students pursuing the Short 
Course in Agriculture. They are for pa¬ 
pers upon different agricultural topics, 
for skill shown in handling and judging 
farm animals, making butter, grafting, 
transplanting, etc. 
The Iowa Swine-Breeders’ Association 
adopted resolutions favoring liberal ap¬ 
propriations for the exhibit of Iowa stock 
at the Columbian Exposition, also asking 
that inoculation to prevent hog cholera 
be experimented with by the State Vet¬ 
erinarian, and that, if successful, virus be 
furnished farmers free. 
A train left Canada for Boston Thurs¬ 
day which consisted of 12 car loads of 
poultry, the value of which, at the fron¬ 
tier, amoupted to nearly $26,000. The 
duty amounted to $8,750. This is the an¬ 
nual Christmas poultry train for the 
American market, but is somewhat 
smaller than in previous years. 
The Farmers’ Alliance is waging a 
fierce war against the Chicago Live Stock 
Exchange. It charges that the Exchange 
enacts laws to control commission rates 
at the stock yards, and forces its mem¬ 
bers to live up to them on penalty of ex¬ 
pulsion, and even forbids them to deal 
with shippers who do not conform to 
these laws. 
The exports of barley from Toronto by 
boat this season amount to only 297,162 
bushels. The reason for the smallness 
of the water exports of barley is that 
Canadian barley has been directed to 
other channels. Local dealers this season 
have been buying barley at outside points 
for shipment by rail to Montreal and 
thence to Great Britain. 
Among the measures urged upon Con¬ 
gress by the Nebraska Farmers’ Alliance 
are these. To declare illegal all syndicates, 
trusts and combinations preventing com¬ 
petition and to impose such penalties as 
will suppress them. For an increase of 
circulation by the free coinage of silver. 
For postal savings banks. For govern¬ 
ment ownership of postal telegraphs. 
For loans to the people at such security 
and rate of interest as Congress may 
determine. For legislation providing an 
amendment to the Constitution requiring 
the election of United States Senators by 
a vote of the people. 
The Chamber of Commerce of Rome, 
Italy, tendered a vote of thanks to the 
home government for its action in ad¬ 
mitting American pork, and the Italian 
Chamber of Commerce of New York, 
warmly seconded the action. 
Another “ hold your wheat” circular 
has been issued. It holds that Russia is 
EUREKA PLACE, 
— THE HOME OF THE — 
Shropshires! 
entirely out of the race and India prac¬ 
tically so, and that present and future 
deliveries from farmers will fill but a 
small portion of the requirements. It 
does not advise the farmer to create an 
unnecessary scarcity or to repudiate his 
debts, but to sell only what he is obliged 
to when the receipts are large and in¬ 
creasing, and when they are on the de¬ 
cline to sell only a certain portion each 
month. The exporting capacity of the 
United States is figured at 145,000,000 
bushels more than last year, which falls 
40,000,000 short of supplying the world’s 
deficit. These 140,000,000 bushels would 
supply Europe with bread for 19% days 
only. Taking all this into account, the 
author of the circular claims that if the 
farmer does not get twice what he is now 
offered for his wheat it is his own fault. 
W I NTER B UTTK It. 
To meet with ready sale at good prices butter must 
not only be sweet but rich in flavor. 
To the dairyman and farmer a satisfactory color is 
an item of great importance, and there have been 
many preparations put on the market for this pur¬ 
pose. 
The Improved Butter Color, made by Wells, Rich¬ 
ardson & Co., Burlington, Vt., is far ahead of all 
other colors in shade, strength, and purity. It is 
free from taste or smell, absolutely without sedi¬ 
ment, and gives the natural shade produced by good 
June pasturage. The manufacturers offer to mail 
free enough of this preparation to color sixty pounds 
of butter on receipt of six cents in stamps. We hope 
all the butter-making readers of The Rural New- 
Yorker who do not use the Improved, will take ad¬ 
vantage of this generous offer.— Adv. 
TO DAIRYMEN AND CATTLE- 
OWNERS IN GENERAL! 
The Secret of Success! 
in cattle feeding, mailed free to any 
address. Address 
THE EMPIRE DAIRY FEED CO., 
OFFICE: 48 and 49, No. 170 Broadway, New York. 
WORKS : 645 to 651 West 46th Street, New York. 
For Sale—75 Poland Chinas! 
April, May and July Pigs of 1891. Pairs and trios 
not akin. Four stock boars from one to four years 
old, all eligible to record in O. P. C. R. For particu¬ 
lars and prices address E. S. GILLETT, Ravenna, O. 
B erkshire, ch««t« wmu. 
Jer«ey Red and Poland China 
PIGS. Jersey, Guernsey and 
Holstein Cattle. Thoroughbred 
Sheep. Fancy Poultry. Hunting 
____ and House Dogs. Catalogue, 
oehrsn vlUe, Cheater Co.. Penmi. 
Feeding Animals. 
This Is a pracl leal work of 560 pages, by Professor 
E. W. STEWART, upon the science of feeding in all 
its details, giving practical rations for all farm ani¬ 
mals. Its accuracy is proved by its adoption as a text 
book in nearly all Agricultural Colleges and Expert 
ment Stations in America. It will pay anybody hav 
lng a horse or a cow, or who feeds a few pigs or 
sheep to buy and study it carefully. Price, $2,00. 
Address THE RURAL PUBLISHING COM¬ 
PANY. Times Building, New York. 
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. 
COT8WOLD, 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., PhUadelphla, 
HATCH CHICKENS BY STEAM. 
I -the IMPROVED — ■ " 
EXCELSIOR INCUBATOR 
Will do it. Thousands in successful oper¬ 
ation. Simple, Perjeet and Self-Krgulalmg. 
Lowest-priced first-class Hatcher made. 
Guaranteed to hatch a larger percentage 
of fertile eggs at less cost than any other. 
mu* Catalog^ | GEO. H. STAHL, Quincy, III. 
Green Bone and Meat. 
Fresh Ground right from Butcher's Block 
Meat, Marrow, Muscle nnd all. Nothing can 
equal it for Winter Feed for Laying Hens. 
Send for Circular, for particulars and prices. 
Address C. A. BARTLETT, Worcester, Mass. 
P. S.—Also grind Beef Scraps, Oyster Shells, Bone 
and Fish. 
HORSE OWNERS! 
TRY GOMBAULT’S 
CAUSTIC BALSAM 
A Safe, Speedy an d Positive Cure 
for<’urb,Splint,S weeny 
Capped Hock,Strained 
Tendons, Founder, 
Find Pull's, Skin l>i.Hcas- 
, Thrush, Diphtheria, 
LameneM from Spavin, 
Ringbone or other Bony 
Tumors. Removes all 
Bunches or Blemishes from 
Horses and Cattle. 
SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY OR FIRING. 
Impossible to Produce SCAR or BLEMISH. 
Every bottle sold is warranted to give satisfac¬ 
tion. Price 81.50 per bottie. Sold by druggists, 
or sent by express, charges paid, with full di¬ 
rections for its use. Send for descriptive circulars. 
THE LAWRENCE, WILLIAMS CO. Cleveland, O. 
The Best Cattle Fastening! 
Smith’s Self-Adjusting: Swing: Stanchion ! 
tJg’"The only Prac'icat Swing Stanchion invented. 
Thousands in use. Illustrated circular free. * 
F. G. Parsons & to., Addison, Steuben Co., N. Y. 
CHIC CCI QUCI I C for Poultry Feed. One 100-lb. 
Milk OLA OrlkLLo Bag, 50c.; 20 Bags, $8. Sample 
5c. SEA SHELL COMPANY, Guilford, Conn. 
BEST HERD IN AMERICA 
Of DAIRY SHORT-HORNS. Never beaten In public 
tests, S. SPENCER & SON, Kiantone, N. Y. 
PATENTS 
FRANKLIN H. HOUGH, Washington 
D. O. No attorney’s fee until patent ii 
obtained. Write for Inventor' e Guide, 
CLEVELAND BAYS 
Our 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. 
ELLIOT’S PARCHMENT BUTTER PAPER. FREE 
To dairymen or others who will use It, we will send half a ream, 8x11, free, if they will I ■ » ■■ ■■ ■ 
forward 30 cents to pay postage. Why not try the Best Butter Wrapper ? 
A. G. ELLIOT dc CO., Paper Manufacturers, Philadelphia, Pa. 
