92 
Feb. 11 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
OUR SEED AND PLANT GIFTS. 
A large number of the Carman grape 
vines have already been sent to sub¬ 
scribers. The rest of those called for 
will be forwarded in the spring. Uni¬ 
versal satisfaction is expressed by all 
who have received them, on account of 
their splendid thrift. If T. V. Munson 
needed, in the minds of our readers, any 
further proof of conscientious work, these 
vines would be ample. 
The tomatoes and bean seeds will be 
forwarded soon to all who have applied 
for them under the terms of our offer : 
that is, to yearly subscribers sending 
two and three cents respectively for 
their mailing (beans three cents, toma¬ 
toes two cents.) 
The roses are now being propagated 
(slowly we are sorry to say, as they do 
not increase readily from either layers 
or cuttings, and require grafting.) As 
fast as they can be grown, they will be 
sent out, from spring on, to those entitled 
to them in the order of time in which 
applications were made. 
We have several hundred bulbs of Chi¬ 
nese narcissus, of which we will send two 
large, strong specimens to any yearly 
subscriber who will send within a week 
(or till the supply is exhausted) six cents 
for the mailing. These usually sell at 
The managers of the Distilling and Cattle Feeding 
Company (the Whisky Trust) have been detected in 
using millions of the organization’s funds in Illegiti¬ 
mately speculating In the products and securities of 
the company, by which, If successful, they alone 
were to be the gainers. The deal failed and the Trust 
loses. During the early part of the week there was 
on the 8 tock Exchange here a “Black Friday” ex¬ 
citement In the stocks of the concern, which slumped 
alarmingly. 
In reviewing the condition of British Industries 
during 1892 there Is a general agreement among 
British newspapers that “ the year 1892 Is the worst 
the farmer has ever known. ’ In her speech from the 
throne on the opening of Parliament the other day, 
the Queen referred to the matter, and asked her 
“ Lords and Commons ” to devise and pass remedial 
legislation. 
Is Cincinnati once more to be world-renowned as 
Porkopolls ? Cudahy of Chicago and other pluto¬ 
crats In pork are straightway to build two mam¬ 
moth $ 2 , 000,000 stockyards and a $ 1 , 000,000 hotel 
there, and. In spite of the Big Four who are to oppose 
them by a $ 2 , 000,000 Investment there, the newcomers 
Intend to drive dealings In hogs and other live stock 
with the vim and vastness characteristic of the 
Queen of the Ohio before the Lady of the Lake 
plucked from her her porcine preeminence. Then 
God-speed to Old Porkopolls, her glories bore no 
stains of option-trading trickeries or trusts’rapacious 
gains. 
Nearly three years ago Gov. Hogg of Texas vetoed 
a bill In which the State Legislature proposed to ac¬ 
cept the government’s bounty of two cents per pound 
on sugar, and the growers have since lost $ 120,000 by 
his action. TIiIb was based on the ground that boun¬ 
ties are un-Democratlc and also that It would be 
undignified for the State to tolerate the govern¬ 
mental Investigation and Inspection of the sugar 
crop and product. Indispensable as a preliminary 
to the receipt of the grant. There’s a strong agita¬ 
tion now In the legislature to secure the bounty for 
the next crop, the chief opposing argument being 
that, as the bounty law Is pretty certain to be soon 
repealed, It’s hardly worth while to go back on the 
State’s former action by knuckling down to Uncle 
8 am. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
^ a the best is cheapest. Strictly Pure White 
I J -* i. Lead is best; properly applied it will not 
| CAjLLL L scale > c hip, chalk, or rub off; it firmly adheres 
to the wood and forms a permanent base for 
repainting. Paints which peel or scale have to be removed by scraping or 
burning before satisfactory repainting can be done. When buying it is im¬ 
portant to obtain 
Strictly Pure AYhite Lead 
properly made. Time has proven that white lead made by the “ Old Dutch” 
process of slow corrosion possesses qualities that cannot be obtained by any 
other method of manufacture. This process consumes four to six months time 
and produces the brands that have given White Lead its character as the 
standard paint. 
“ANCHOR” (Cincinnati) 
“ARMSTRONG & McKELVY” (Pittsb’gh) 
“ ATLANTIC ” (New York) 
“ BEYMER-BAUMAN ” (Pittsburgh) 
“ BRADLEY ” (New York) 
“ BROOKLYN ” (New York) 
“ COLLIER ” (St. Louis) 
“ CORNELL ” (Buffalo) 
“ DAVIS-CHAMBERS ” (Pittsburgh) 
“ ECKSTEIN ” (Cincinnati) 
“ JEWETT ” (New York) 
“ KENTUCKY ” (Louisville) 
“FAHNESTOCK” (Pittsburgh) 
“LEWIS” (Philadelphia) 
“ MORLEY ” (Cleveland) 
“RED SEAL ” (St. Louis) 
“ SALEM ” (Salem, Mass.) 
“ SHIPMAN ” (Chicago) 
“ SOUTHERN ” (St. Louis and Chicago) 
“ ULSTER ” (New York) 
“ UNION ” (New York) 
are standard brands of strictly pure Lead made by the “ Old Dutch” process. 
You get the best in buying them. You can produce any desired color bv 
tinting these brands of white lead with National Lead Co.’s Pure White 
Lead Tinting Colors. 
For sale by the most reliable dealers in Paints everywhere. 
If you are going to paint, it will pay you to send to us for a book containing informa¬ 
tion that may save you many a dollar ; it will only cost you a postal card to do so. 
NATIONAL LEAD CO., 
i Broadway, New York. 
BARDEN CABINET CREAMERY, 
DIAMOND BALANCE CHURN, 
make dairying a pleasure. BUITERWORKERS, RAILROAD AND 
CHEESE MILK CANS, and general DAIRY SUPPLIES. 
Send for Illustrated Catalogue. 
Barden Automatic Cream Separator Co., 
Agents Wanted. rtlDDLE GRANVILLE, N. Y. 
15 to 25 cents each, and are beautiful 
and interesting winter-flowering bulbs. 
They only require to be set in a shallow 
dish of water in any living room of 
moderate temperature, the water to be 
changed two or three times a week. 
The potato, as previously announced, 
will he ready for distribution in the fall, 
and the gooseberry as soon as it can he 
propagated by the parties now having it 
in possession. 
Bean prices have climbed up a peg or two. 
There Is little change In prices of fruit either fresh 
or dried. 
Beeswax Is worth from 25 to 2(1)6 cents for a prime 
article. 
Potatoes are a little dull, under liberal receipts of 
domestic and Imported. 
Fowls, chickens and turkeys are lower under a 
light demand, and fair receipts. 
The egg market Is firm, and prices are well main¬ 
tained. Any general warm weather, however, would 
reduce prices somewhat. 
Not In a great, many years before have limed eggs 
sold for as high as 32 cents per dozen wholesale, the 
price reached during the recent cold wave. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Last year Great Britain received 3,310,022 carcasses 
of froz,en mutton, mostly from Australia, Iilver 
Platte and New Zealand. Exports from the latter 
oolony show a decrease of about 850,000 carcasses, 
while those from the other two show a considerable 
increase. 
Dr. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal In¬ 
dustry, has Just returned from Chicago, where ho 
has concluded the experiments which have been In 
progress In that city to test the effect of treatment 
of lumpy jaw In cattle. Ktghty-ilve cattle were 
slaughtered, all of which had been affected with this 
disease, and 68 were found to be completely cured. 
A bill before the New York Legislature provides 
for the appointment of live Road Commissioners at 
an annual salary of $2,500 each, to Improve the 
highways by convict labor. Gov. Flower Is preparing 
another road bill; and other bills make a reduction 
from highway taxes for those using broad-tired 
wagons; legalize the slaughter of sheop-kllllng 
dogs; forbid the hunting of skunks, minks and rac¬ 
coons. or selling their skins between March 1 and 
November 1; and the killing of quail In Otsego County 
for five years; make the season for deer hunting 
without dogs from September 1 to November 1, and 
with dogs from September 10 to October 15. 
The opponents of the Anti-Option Bill still Insist 
that It can never become a law during the present 
Congress, and even If It did they declare they would 
evade Its provisions as they have those of every 
other law obnoxious to them. The bill defines the 
word " option” to mean a contract or agreement for 
the right or privilege to deliver at a future time or 
within a designated period a specified quantity of 
raw or unmanufactured cotton, hops, wheat, corn, 
oats, rye, barley, pork, lard and bacon, to which pro¬ 
ducts alone the bill Is applicable. It defines "futures” 
to mean a contract or agreement to sell and deliver 
at a future time or within a designated period any of 
such articles when the party so contracting was not 
the owner of such articles or had not agreed for a 
right of their future possession. The act, however, 
Is not to apply to contracts to supply National, State 
or municipal governments with any of such articles, 
nor to contracts by farmers or planters for future 
delivery; nor to agreements to pay or deliver a part 
of the product of land as compensation for Its use or 
as compensation for work or labor done orto be done 
on the same; nor to agreements with farmers or 
planters to furnish such articles for use or consump¬ 
tion-provided that such contracts or agreements 
shall not be made or settled for on any Board of 
Trade or Exchange. Dealers In “options” or “futures” 
pay $ 1,000 a year license fee and five cents a pound on 
ootton, hops, pork, lard or bacon, and 20 cents a 
bushel on grain handled by them. Vest of Missouri 
and Mills of Texas, made bitter speeches against the 
bill and voted as they spoke, although the legisla¬ 
tures of their respective States strongly supported 
the measure and Instructed them to do likewise. 
Latest: Speaker Crisp has referred the bill to a 
Committee of the Whole, which Is probably equiva¬ 
lent to pigeon-holing it for this session. 
WE WANT TO KNOW, YOU KNOW! 
If you don't nee what you want, ask for it. 
What about the supply and demand of Red clover 
seed for this season ? Is there an abundant crop or 
Is It scarce In the States generally? I have nearlv 100 
bushels to sell Would It, be advisable to bold it 
until spring ? It Is about $7.50 per bushel In Toronto 
now. w. H. c. 
ANR.-Ws advise no one as to the disposition of 
anv crop. We get all the facts possible for our 
readers, and give them the benefit of our observa¬ 
tions. Thev must make the application for them¬ 
selves. So far as we can learn. tbPre Is perhaps not 
over two-thirds of a crop of clover seed the country 
over The demand is about as usual, percent that 
when seed is high. a« It. Is now. farmers are llkelv to 
seed a little lighter, and perhaps a less area. This 
would reduce the consumption of seed somewhat. 
Mr E. F. Randolph, of 64 Pearl street, this ettv. a 
lifelong handler of clover seed, savs thnt It Is im¬ 
possible to say anything deilnlfe about, future 
prices. The demand is good and prices are high 
now, but the latter may vary from dav to day 
He savs that he has no means of knowing what 
the crop of the country Is. but, from his man¬ 
ner of answering we Judge thnt he doesn’t anticipate 
a verv heavy shipment of seed, or very low prlcps. 
One thing Is certain: good clover seed will not he 
cheap this srrlng. 
What la the meaning of d. h. In the market quota¬ 
tions. when fruits, etc., are quoted at so much per 
d. h. barrel ? x. i„ 
Axs.—These letters mean slmplv that the barrels 
have two heads, as is commonly the case with most 
barreled fruit brought from a distance. From nearbv 
points, large quantities of fruits, vegetables, etc . 
come In barrels having no upper head, being some¬ 
times covered with canvas or burlap, sometimes 
with no covering The d h. distinguishes the double¬ 
headed barrels from these. 
Ip you name The R. N.-Y. to our advertisers you 
may be pretty sure of prompt replies and right treat¬ 
ment. 
NEW CATALOGUE. 
We have just published a SUPPLEMENTARY 
CATALOGUE of Rare and Choice Trees, 
Shrubs, Roses, etc., Including several valuable 
novelties and many specialties of superior merit. 
It also contains a handsome colored plate of three 
Superb Roses Mailed free on application. 
We would also state that our complete General 
Catalogue, published last year, Is still in print, and 
will be mailed free to all who have not received a 
copy. 
ELLWANGER & BARRY, 
Mount Hope Nurseries, 
Established over half a century. Rochester, N. Y. 
WE SEND FREE 
with this beautiful Organ an Instruction 
Rook and a handsome, upholstered Stool! 
The organ has 11 stops, 6 octaves, and is 
made of Solid Walnut. Warranted by us for 
15 years. We only charge (845 forthis beau¬ 
tiful instrument. Send to-da v for FREE illus¬ 
trated catalogue. OXFORD nro. CO Chicago. 
THE "GREAT SUCCESS"JR. 
POTATO DIGGER. 
The latest wonder of the 
19 th century. No MORE 
hand work ; no more high 
priced Diggers. We challenge the world to 
meet us in any field. Give Post Office and 
County address plainly. 
5.000 AGENTS WANTED. 
We also make the Best 
WKEDE ityoueversaw. Bet¬ 
ter than six ( 6 ) men with 
hoes. If you want the agency be 
quick, or you will get left. Send to¬ 
day for Circulars and terms. This is 
a Gold Mine for some man in your 
vicinity. 
D. Y. HALLOCK A SON. 
YORK, PA. 
WILLIS a 
SAPSPOUT. 
. la on® piece with hook. 
, 'Greatly improv’d this season. 
, J The bent ever mad*. More used every 
for year than all others combined. A1 m 
Circular. full line of other Maple Sugar Good* 
CHARLES MILLAR & SON. Utica. N.yT 
HARD-WOOD 
ASHES. 
If you were going to buy a team or any 
other valuable beasts by correspondence 
on the recommendation of the seller, 
about the first thing you would do is to 
find out what reputation the seller has. 
JUST SO 
My record of twenty years and over 
dealing in Hard-Wood Ashes with the 
farmers of the United States should con¬ 
vince you that I am no 11 Curb-stone ” 
dealer. If you intend to purchase any 
fertilizer for Spring use, 
WHY NOT 
write me for prices and pamphlet of my 
Unleached Hard-Wood Ashes delivered 
at your railway station ? Address 
CHAS. STEVENS, 
Drawer O,, Napanee, Ont., Canada. 
LUCIEN SANDERSON, 
Importer and Dealer In 
SELLING DIRECT TO FARMERS. 
Send for circular giving valuable Information about 
fertilization. 
LUCIEN SANDERSON, 
87 Long Wharf, New Haven, Conn. 
Complete Fertilizers 
FOB 
CORN and VEGETABLES. 
Also Dissolved S. C. Phosphate and Fertiliz¬ 
ing Chemicals. 
WM. DAVISON & CO., Baltimore, Md. 
The GARRETT PICKET & 
WIRE FENCE MACHINE 
Weaves to the post*. Beat Id the 
' world. Thousands in use. Guar¬ 
anteed. Freight paid. Agent* 
* arc reporting big salen. Machines, 
Wire, etc., at wholesale direct to 
Farmers where I have no Agent. 
Catalogue free. Address the man¬ 
ufacturer. 8. If. irAKRETT. 
MANSFIELD, OHIO. 
jHIWILLIHMS 
Brain Threshers, Horse Powers & Engines 
For full particulars address 
ST. JOHNSVILLK AGR’I, WORKS, 
Johnaville, Montgomery Co., New York. 
CLAREMONT Land Association, 
Offers 600 choice farms; 3,000 handsome town lots 
on James Elver, with terms to suit purchasers. Fre* 
olroular 
Look Here! A Great Bargain! 
Do you want a good farm of 300 acres, In a healthy 
climate, free from malarial diseases, with pure air 
and water, high altitude, mountainous district, Btock- 
ralBlng locality, where small capital can produce 
great results ? Railroad to cross the mountains In 
progress; rich coal fields along the line; will have a 
station six miles from said farm. Twelve acres under 
cultivation—five acres In orchard, choicest fruit; 
small buildings; one large 8 -year old horse; light 
spring buggy; four sheep, nine goats, one cow, two 
heifers; some good household furniture. If sold soon 
will sell all for $1,800. Address A. P. BASS, Esq., 
Mount Gilead, Cumberland Co., Tenn. 
qon APRFQ eight miles from Blackstone, on 
aou Hunco, N. and W. R. II. House, 7 rooms, 
store room, well In yard, two henhouses, stabling for 
six horses and ten cows; barn, 42 by 24. Every con¬ 
venience regardless of cost. Correspondence solicited 
WM. HETHORN, McFarland’s. Va. 
D TAT F Q Several choice, early and 
■ I r* I E. O late varieties, Including 
the R. N.-Y. No. 2, American Wonder and E. Market. 
For Fine Stock and satisfactory prices o P 
write to M. F. Webster, Victor, N. Y. oLL U 
MONEY 
>865 High Arm “Kenwood” $25.50 
(855 High Arm “Kenwood” $22.50 
$50 High Arm “Arlington” $20.50 
$45 High Arm “Arlington” $18.50 
The “Kenwood” is the latest improv¬ 
ed and BEST sewing machine made. 
Light running. Noiseless. Self-setting 
needle. Self-threading shuttle. Auto¬ 
matic bobbin winder. Warranted ten 
years. All attachments free. We ship 
anywhere to anyone in any quantity 
_at wholesale prices and pay freight 
or give ten day s’tree trial in yourownhome. No money 
required in advance. We also sell Standard Singer ma¬ 
chines at $16.50, $14.00 and $9.50. Send at once 
for free catalogue. CASH BUYERS’ UNION, 
168-160 W. Van Buren St., B704, CHICAGO, ILL. 
STRAWBERRIES AND FINE FRUIT. 
Do you Intend Planting any 8 trawherry, Raspberry, 
Blackberry, or other small fruit, Plants, Roses, or 
Novelties ? Send for my 60-page Catalogue and report 
on strawberries, free. Address 
D. BRANDT, Box 300, Bremen, Ohio. 
OLD COINS 
tratedlist. Shows thef 
highest prices paid. W. 
YON BERGEN, 95 Scollay 
Square, Boston, Mass. 
PATENTS 
#13,388 Paid 
For 149 Old Coins. Save all 
you get, coined before 1878, 
A sen ^^^ta^^js^orllluB- 
WANTED. 
F lorida land for sale.— 1,520 
acres, best quality, Marlon County, Florida. 
TOM SLOAN Greenville. fj. Q. 
TRADE-MARKS, CAVEATS, 
OR NO FEB, 
Send model or sketch for free advice as to patent¬ 
ability. Full Information in my 50-page book, FREE. 
Address 8AML. C. FITZGERALD, Atty., 
1003 F Street, Washington, D. C. 
