REMITTANCES ARE ACKNOWLEDGED, 
THE $200 CASH PRIZES AWARDED. for subscriptions, by change of the date 
As we have stated all along, the $200 labels on the paper. At this season, 
cash offered for clubs of 10 or more trial however, it is often impossible to get the 
subscriptions at 25 cents each, sent in be- changes made under two or three weeks, 
fore January 1st, has almost gone beg- because of the many hundreds coming in 
ging. Only 37 persons have fulfilled the daily. Remittances for clubs are also 
conditions, and in every case they have acknowledged to the sender by postal 
not only received the books or other pre- card in the return mail. 
miums, but also have had returned to - 
them more cash than they sent to us for The Index of the 
the clubs, as follows : Rural New-Yorker 1 
Name and Address. 
T. J. Sutton, Lenawee Co., Mich . 85 
C. K. Chapman, Tompkins Co., N. Y- 34 
Irving W. Crandall, Orleans Co.. N. Y.. 31 
K. B. Miller, Henr epln Co., Minn. 28 
C. D. Carpenter, Chautauqua Co., N. Y. 28 
Jas. L. Brush, Somerset Co.. N. J. 21 
C. E. Canfield, Cattaraugus Co., NY.. 23 
Ezra Wood, .Jefferson Co., Ind. 21 
Mrs. .J. M. Miller, Clearfield Co., Pa.... 20 
.las. J. McNamara, Ontario Co., N. Y .. 20 
G. A. Smith, Ionia Co., Mich. 18 
A. L. Gray, Erie Co., Pa. 18 
M. C. Hughes, Pierce Co., Wash. 17 
John Camblln, Grant Co , Ind. 17 
A. G. Davis, Clinton Co . Mo. 10 
Geo. E. House, Ulster Co., N. Y. 15 
J. O. Wadsworth, Wayne Co., N. Y. 12 
Henry Judd, British Columbia. 12 
G. G. Gibbs, Warren Co., N. J. 11 
Warren Vreeland, Essex Co., N. J. 11 
Edwin Wright, Bradford Co., Pa. 11 
John C. McMillan, Marlon Co., Ind. 11 
G. E. Kephart, Wyandot Co , 0. 11 
C. C. Prentiss, Steuben Co., N. Y. 10 
M. Speer, Ingham Co., Mich. 10 
A. Van Arsdale, Warren Co , Pa. 10 
Jas. Frazier, Butler Co., I’a. 10 
E. C. May, Windham Co., Conn. 10 
W. S. Moore, King Co., Wash. 10 
A. F. Ames, Rea Co , Tenn. 10 
Hiram A. Blodgett, Schoharie Co., N. Y. 10 
Paul H. Monroe, Will Co., Ill. 
H. Walrath, Montgomery Co., N. Y.... 
F. Harmer, Manistee Co., Mich. 
R. It. Hunter, Ontario, Can. 
Samuel F. Duffield, Mercer Co., N. J... 
Sadie F. Howard, Weld Co., Col. 
These workers sent us 25 cents each 
for the subscriptions. We sent them 34 
cents for each. Of course we lose thus 
where we hoped to secure numerous trial 
subscriptions. We presume that the 
reason of the failure lies in the fact that 
the reduction of the price to $1 a year, 
and the great reputation of The R. N.-Y. 
induced many to subscribe at once for a 
whole year, who might otherwise have 
become “ trial ” subscribers instead. 
At any rate, the record shows that the 
TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS cash pre¬ 
miums to be awarded May 1st for clubs 
of five or more new yearly subscriptions, 
will go to a comparatively few earnest 
workers. These and the “ special” pre¬ 
miums will insure liberal pay for any 
energetic farmer of good reputation in 
his town or county. 
HAS YOUR SUBSCRIPTION EXPIRED ? 
T your subscription expires this 
A Jl week it will be indicated by the 
date on the address label as follows : 
John Smith, 14193, 
and an early renewal is in order. If it 
reads with any previous date, the renewal 
is past due and we hope you are delay¬ 
ing your renewal in order to send it in 
with a club of new names. 
$200 WILL BE PAID 
In premiums for the best products 
from the 
Carman Grape Vines, 
The New Roses, 
The New Potato and 
The New Tomatoes, 
Reing sent and to be sent out in due 
season to our subscribers. The con¬ 
ditions will be made known in due time. 
YOU CAN BUY ANY PREMIUM mentioned 
in the issue of December 17, at any time, 
even if your subscription for 1893 has 
already been paid. For example: in 
case of an article that you want which 
calls for “ a renewal and a new subscrip¬ 
tion ” and a certain amount of money, if 
your renewal has already been sent in, 
you have only to substitute a new sub¬ 
scription for your own ; that is, send in 
two new subscriptions and the amount 
of money named, to secure the premium 
Our 92ND ANNUAL CATALOGUE is now ready, and will be 
mailed FREE on application. 
It contains the choicest collection in the world of 
Vegetable, Flower and Farm Seeds, 
including every standard variety and every novelty of established 
merit. Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of cuts and a 
splendid full-page colored plate. 
or* We Mail it FREE. 
■ anMr 
Sr 
The Index of the volume of The 
Rural New-Yorker for 1892 is now 
ready, having been printed separately. 
Copies of it will be supplied to subscribers 
gratis, on application. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
What apathy among cattle growers ! 
The oil of black birch brings $80 per gallon. 
Kremlin, the trotter, strides 19J4 feet at speed. 
Manitoba farmers are going largely Into mutton 
sheep raising. 
A Connecticut man paints his “ads” on cows along 
the highways and railroads. 
California has put 275 trotters In the 2:30 list the 
past season, and 54 in the 2:20 list. 
The real estate brokers In New York city sold prop¬ 
erty worth In the aggregate $45,000,000 last year. 
The upper Mississippi River Is shallowerthan since 
185(1. and the river Is frozen tight opposite St. Louts 
and above 
Governor Hogg, of Texas, Is 39 years of age, and 
weighs only 375 pounds—must belong to a breed of 
slow growth. 
At Allerton, Ill., the other day 450 Shropshires be¬ 
longing to the estate of the late George Allen, aver¬ 
aged $40 apiece. 
The Hackney stallion, Danegelt, has been sold for 
5,000 guineas, the highest price ever paid for an 
animal of that breed. 
Mrs. B. Nutting, of Parkman, Me., who is 77 years 
old, made 1,200 pounds of butter In 1892, and did all 
the household work for a family of five. 
At Gainesville, Tex., a hog in course of preparation 
for the World's Fair already weighs 1,000 pounds, and 
is expected to reach 1,400 pounds by spring. 
Mrs. Lease has withdrawn from the Senatorial 
race in Kansas in favor of Briedenthal, a Populist, 
whom she will support ns against any other can¬ 
didate. 
On New Year's eve Thomas Itvan, aged 40, of New¬ 
ark, N. J., fell on the frozen stump of a sunflower 
stalk. His hand was gashed, lockjaw ensued, and he 
died In awful agony. 
A prize of $100 offered at the Marshfield, WIs., in¬ 
stitute for the cow showing the highest butter test 
went to a Jersey which produced 5.0 pounds of butter 
fat to 100 pounds milk. 
St. Simon leads the winning sires of England In 
1892, with $200,295 to his credit. Bend Or comes 
second, with $89,400, and Ormonde, now an Ameri¬ 
can horse, third, with $80,245. 
The Illinois laws provide a penalty of one year in 
the county jail for docking horses’ tails, and the 
Humane Society threatens to prosecute with the 
utmost rigor all violators of the law. 
It now appears proved, unless figures lie, that the 
Republicans lost the last National election because 
over 1.000,000 disgruntled Republican farmers, chiefly 
In the West, staid at home on election day. 
The farmer isn’t the only one who Is swindled by 
card and bunco sharpers. T’other day Jacob B. 
Crowell, of Greencastle, Pa., president of the Crowell 
Works, was bamboozled out of $5,000 by the old, old 
three card monte trick. 
At Virginia, Ill., the other dav, a grand wolf drive 
was participated in by 250 farmers and hundreds of 
others. It covered a territory of eight miles square. 
At the wind-up two wolves were in the circle, but in 
the hurly-burly both escaped I 
On January 4, the New York State Forest Commis 
sion disposed of nine lots of State lands, aggregating 
4,450 acres, lying outside the Adirondack Park in 
Franklin County. Bids were rejected on 21 lots. The 
land sold brought $24,401.50, an average of $5.48 per 
acre 
It Is reported from Odessa, Russia, that several 
large cargoes of Russian cotton are about to be 
shipped from Dantzlc and other ports, and that there 
are already 10,000 bales of Russian cotton In north 
Germany ready for shipment. A new rival for the 
cotton States. 
The tax on whisky Is now 90 cents a gallon, Its cost 
is only 15 cents a gallon. Wouldn't an Increase of 
the tax to $1 25 as proposed, be an Invincible tempta¬ 
tion to illicit distillation? Whisky making affords a 
large market for corn, but away with it If it takes the 
abomination along! 
A Broadway florist tells of a fashionable woman 
who, every week or two, has an extravagant bunch 
of flowers sent to herself, and directs the florist to 
write on one of his business cards : “Gentleman left 
no name.” Then she revels In the delight of receiv¬ 
ing an anonymous gift. 
Prune culture has assumed considerable import¬ 
ance as a profitable industry in the Pacific States. In 
some parts of Oregon it is reported as one of the 
most profitable crops in the past year or so, and many 
farmers have lifted heavy mortgages from their 
farms by the profits from their prune orchards. 
At the Cotton Exchange in New York the other 
day the highest price since the war was reached for 
a bale of cotton sold for the benefit bf the building 
fund of the New York Press Club. Vice-President 
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THEYI elds= 
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PER 
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r3y*85 FKG, EARLIEST VKGKTAlJLK NOVELTIES, sufficient for a family, Postpaid for $1.00. 
10 Farm Grain Samples. 8c; wth cata. 16c. 11 Grass & Clover Samples 10c; wiith cata. 18e 
8 Field Corn Samples 12c; with catalogue 20c. 
Our mammoth 8eod Catalogue costs over $o0.000. It i« mailed you upon receipt of 
8c postage. Its a valuable work, worth ten times its cost to you. 
9HN ASALZERSEEP C?L/\ CROSSLY 
Siedenberg, on behalf of the members of the Ex¬ 
change, bid it In at 77!4 cents per pound and then re¬ 
donated it to the club. 
Senator Sherman, who professes to have been 
neutral in the Anti-Opinion tight, lias finally decided 
to take the popular side in obedience to great pres¬ 
sure, be tells us, from farmers In his own State and 
all over the country. The farmers are aroused on 
the subject, and the prospects for the passage of the 
measure are getting brighter. 
The Cincinnati Price Current, a special authority 
on matters of the kind, figures It out that the prices 
at which hogs have been packed for some time past 
have averaged about $8.35 per cwt., a figure which is 
phenomenal as compared with packing prices of the 
average year. 
The Colorado Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial 
Union at its annual convention at Denver the other 
day. recommended that the State should own the 
coal mines and the Irrigation ditches, and also that 
convicts be employed In the construction of the 
latter. Woman suffrage was approved and the de¬ 
clarations of the Ocala and St. Louis platforms re¬ 
affirmed. 
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the 
Black Top Spanish Merino Sheep Breeders’ Publish¬ 
ing Association will be held at the Auld House, 
Washington, Pa., on Thursday, January 1.1, 1893, at 
10 o’clock A. m., for the purpose of electing seven 
directors and an auditing committee of three mem¬ 
bers, and for the transaction of any other business. 
W. G. Berry, Secretary. 
The $40,000 appropriated by the Illinois World's 
Fair Commissioners for the live stock exhibit of that 
State at the Columbian Exposition will be distributed 
as follows : First, the freight and express charges 
on all Illinois live stock and poultry exhibits will be 
paid, and the remainder of the funds will go as prem¬ 
iums on the following basis : Horses will receive 37 
per cent; cattle, 30 per cent; swine, 15 per cent; 
sheep, 12 per cent: poultry, six per cent. 
According to a report of the National Executive 
Committee of the American Forestry Association, 
there are at present six reservations of forests, rep¬ 
resenting a total of 3,252.260 acres, located in Col¬ 
orado, New Mexico, Oregon and Wyoming, and 26 
proposed forest reservations are under considera¬ 
tion, located in California, Colorado, Idaho, Minne¬ 
sota, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota. Oregon. 
Washington and Wyoming. A special meeting of the 
association Is to be held at Chicago during the 
World’s Fair. 
One of the most valuable publications ever issued 
by the Government Is a report upon the sheep Indus¬ 
try of the United States, prepared under the direc¬ 
tion of the Secretary of Agriculture. It treats of the 
history and conditions of the industry from the early 
settlement of the country down to the present day 
and is handsomely illustrated. It bids fair to rival In 
popularity the work on the diseases of the horse 
published by the Department some time since, and 
that on live stock diseases issued a few weeks ago. 
It is ready for distribution by the Secretary and 
through members of Congress. 
The raisin growers of California are forming a 
trust, to be known as the “ California State Raisin 
Growers’ Association.” It is said that packers and 
brokers are to be admitted to the organization, but 
will have to pay a higher entrance fee than growers, 
and that in the executive committee of 60, which is 
to be selected, 40 will be growers. According to the 
plan of the trust, it Is understood the packers 
and brokers will give a bond to maintain prices 
Raisins will be consigned to those who have given 
$10,000 and $20,000 bonds respectively not to sell at a 
figure under the set price. Whose ox is gored this 
time ? 
The twenty-third annual meeting of the American 
oeekeepers was held at Washington, D. C., the other 
day. A resolution was adopted that the Division of 
Entomology, in the Department of Agriculture, 
should be raised to an Independent position and tbat 
an experimental apiary should be established at 
Washington. The production of liquid honey was de¬ 
clared to be likely to be ruined by cheap sugar. Prof. 
Riley stated that he had gone into the open market 
and purchased 50 different preparations of honey, 
of which he made careful analyses and found that 
45 per cent were adulterated. The adulterations 
were not prejudicial to health, but operated against 
the beekeeper, who could not produce and sell pure 
honey as low as the spurious article. 
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