THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 11 
174 
As to the value of these 
plant and seed gifts, our sub¬ 
scribers in talking with their 
friends about them will please 
remember that the Carman 
Grape Vine is worth at least $i 
as a new sort of great merit. 
New roses sell at not less than 
50 cents per plant, and from 
that up to many dollars. These 
are new hybrids, an entirely 
new race of roses, whose future 
is full of great interest to flori¬ 
culture. New beans and toma¬ 
toes nearly always sell at 25 
cents per packet. These 
tomato seeds are sure to con¬ 
tain many new sorts of interest 
and money value. Every plant 
grown should be carefully nur¬ 
tured and encouraged to pro¬ 
duce its fruit in perfection. 
The $200 cash prizes for best products 
from the above named will be announced 
within a few weeks. 
THE SEED AND PLANT GIFTS. 
We are now mailing to subscribers 
whose subscriptions are paid for 1893 and 
who send stamps for the cost of mailing: 
The Carman Grape Vine, direct from 
the originator, T. V. Munson, Denison, 
Tex. Cost of mailing, eight cents. 
Tomato Seeds, selections from 200 
cross-bred varieties by Mr Carman. Cost 
of mailing, two cents. 
Burpee’s Black Dwarf Lima Bean 
(contributed by W. Atlee Burpee & Co.) 
Cost of mailing, three cents. 
Six Pearl Tuberose Bulbs, not prom¬ 
ised, but now added to the list. Cost of 
mailing, eight cents. 
The Narcissus Bulbs are ex v austed, 
but the tuberoses may be substituted if 
desired, as previously announced. 
These are now being sent out as rap¬ 
idly as possible. If any subscriber who 
has at this date made due application, 
shall not have received them 10 days 
hence, then a complaint will be in order. 
But 10 to 15 days should be allowed from 
the time of mailing your application, for 
the things to reach you. 
The potatoes will be sent out in the 
fall, and the roses and gooseberries as 
soon as they can be propagated. 
Please always write applications for the 
seeds, etc., on a piece of paper separate 
from any other order or communication, 
to facilitate our work. 
ONLY SEVEN WEEKS. 
There are left only 42 working days 
from this date to May 1, when the $2,000 
cash will be divided among all those who 
send clubs of five or more new subscrip¬ 
tions to The Rural New-Yorker or 
American Gardening. Likewise as to 
the “ special ” premiums, many of which 
are of great value, far exceeding the cost 
of any efforts that would be required to 
win them, and many of the best of them 
still remain to be called for. Just as in 
the competition for the $200 cash divided 
January 1, so in this case the $2,000 and 
the “specials” will go to a compara¬ 
tively few earnest workers, simply be¬ 
cause the rest of you think that you might 
not win. But every club raisers must win 
a handsome compensation under the con¬ 
ditions of our offers. • There is no lot¬ 
tery or chance about it. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Dried fruits show practically no change. 
Onions are strong—In more senses than one. 
New butter begins to crowd hard on the old. 
Spring wheat seeding has begun In Nebraska. 
Farmers south of the Ohio River are sowing oats. 
Cheese Is extremely quiet, stocks being very low. 
Hog-dressed veals come In large numbers these 
days. 
Bananas sell at wholesale for 60 cents to $1.25 per 
bunch. 
Light receipts of apples tend to strengthen the 
market. 
Greenings sell for the highest prices of any apples 
In market. 
8prlng lambs are lower, but still current prices can¬ 
not be unprofitable. 
Florida oranges are plentiful, but fancy grades 
bring good prices. 
Freshly packed Catawba grapes sell for 15 to 20 
cents per five-pound basket. 
Choice seed potatoes, especially those from north¬ 
ern localities, are In good demand. 
Southern vegetables are arriving more freely, but 
the market Is firm, and prices are good for all kinds 
In good condition. 
Florida strawberries are becoming a little more 
plentiful, though not yet so cheap as to bring them 
Into general use. 
Western farmers are attaching more and more Im¬ 
portance to the oat crop, and a larger area than ever 
will probably be sown this spring. 
Poultry Is lower on nearly all kinds. Receipts, 
however, are only moderate, and stock Is cleaning 
up closely, so that the market Is In good shape. 
Throughout the Western grain growing States a 
soaking rain Is said to be needed to take out the 
frost, start the wheat and fit the ground for seeding. 
The Dominion Government has made a concession 
to the binding twine combine by reducing the duty 
on rove, the raw material, from 20 per cent to 10 per 
cent. 
Eggs continue their up-and-down antics. Fresh 
laid have sold down to 18 cents, but as we go to press 
are three cents higher. The lower price was extreme, 
considering the season, price of meats, etc. 
It has been decided to place the enforcement of 
the cattle quarantine regulations along the frontier 
northwest territory of Canada In the hands of 
mounted police to prevent smuggling of cattle from 
the United States. 
Potatoes are dull. Another steamer with 24,000 
sacks of Scotch potatoes arrived on Wednesday, and 
this added to upwards of 50,000 sacks previously 
on the market had a very depressing effect. Many 
of those arrived were In poor condition. 
The loose sales of leaf tobacco on the Danville 
market for February amounted to 0,077,700 pounds, 
being the largest sales ever made there in a single 
month. The sales for the first five months of the 
fiscal year have been 10,200,000 pounds, an Increase 
of 1,488,000 pounds over the same period of last year. 
The milk traffic was all upset during the severe 
storms of last week. On Thursday morning the sur¬ 
plus, If It may be so called, which has generally sold 
recently for $1.05 to $1.75 per can of 40 quarts, sold for 
$10 per can. The figures showing the receipts fall 
but little below those of other weeks, but the reason 
of this Is that the inllk trains, although much behind 
—some of them nearly a day—reached hero finally. 
Much of the milk delivered to customers was of ex¬ 
tremely poor quality. 
The announcement has been made that Michael 
Cudahy has taken steps to erect a large pork packing 
establishment at Los Angeles, Cal. He has secured 
permission to erect slaughtering houses, and has 
also bought two ranches about four miles from the 
city, which will De sown with Alfalfa, on which hogs 
thrive in that country as well as on corn In Nebraska. 
Cudahy sayB In three years he will have 40,000 head 
of hogs there. He expects to supply all the coast 
with Its own pork within a few years, and. as an 
earnest of his Intention, he has bought a residence 
In Los Angeles and will live there half the year. 
Buyers have been steadily forcing down the price 
of hops recently. As to the country market, the 
Cooperstown Journal says : As Is uniformly the 
case when the price of hops drops a little, several 
lots were offered for sale here during the past week 
and were taken at about 20 cents for the best. Two or 
three lots of poorer quality Bold at 18 to 19 cents. The 
local market is now quite dull. Not so many growers 
were willing to sell when choice were commanding 
24 to 25 cents. The largest holders are still confident 
In the belief that prices must go higher later In the 
season. The brewing business was never better In 
this country. _ 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Rural postmen In Norway are to be mounted on 
bicycles. 
Ireland sends annually 40,000 tons of eggs—some 
640,000,000 In round numbers—to England alone. 
It Is not unlikely that Dr. C. V. Riley, United States 
Entomologist, will succeed Dr. Wlllets as Assistant 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
Prof. C. S. Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum, Har¬ 
vard University, has recently returned from Japan, 
where he has been making a study of the botany. 
In California over $50,000 worth of coyote scalp 
claims, for the last quarter, have been received by 
the Controller. The amount to be paid out in 
bounties for the next two years is placed at a sum 
exceeding $500,000. 
People need not be surprised at the high prices 
which they are obliged to pay for pork, In view of 
the fact that there were 6.300,000 fewer hogs in the 
country on the 1st of January than at the same date 
In the previous year. 
The Cincinnati Price Current estimates that the 
total winter hog packing will fall short of last year’s 
packing by about 700,000,000 pounds grosB, or 500,000,- 
000 pounds product. This will be a decrease of 38 
per cent over the packing of last winter season. 
(Continued on next page,) 
builders use only the best materials—lumber, 
brick, lime, cement, sand—whatever goes into 
the construction of a building; they employ 
only the best workmen and pay the best 
wages; they get better prices for their work than their less careful competi¬ 
tors, and always get the best contracts; they paint their work with 
Strictly Pure AYhite Lead 
manufactured by the “Old Dutch” process of slow corrosion, and with one 
of the following standard brands: 
“ANCHOR” (Cincinnati) 
“ARMSTRONG & McKELVY ” (Pittsb’gh) 
“ ATLANTIC ” (New York) 
“ BEYMER-BAUMAN ” (Pittsburgh) 
“ BRADLEY ” (New York) 
“ BROOKLYN ” (New York) 
“ COLLIER ” (St. Louis) 
“CORNELL” (Buffalo) 
“ DA VIS-CH AMBERS ” (Pittsburgh) 
“ ECKSTEIN ” (Cincinnati) 
“JEW ETT ” (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) 
For colors they use the National Lead Company’s Pure White Lead Tinting 
Colors. These colors are sold in small cans, each being sufficient to tint 
twenty-five pounds of Strictly Pure White Lead the desired shade. 
These brands of Strictly Pure White Lead,and National Lead Co.’s Tinting Colors, are 
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. 
The fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, grape 
vines, small fruits, plants, roses, bulbs, seeds, etc., 
of the Storrs & Harrison Co., Patnesvllle, Ohio, stand 
at the head, acknowledging no superior. Every one 
of the extensive departments Is conducted under 
the Immediate supervision of one of the owners, in¬ 
suring accuracv, purity and quality unequalled. All 
things In mall sizes sent postpaid to every State and 
Territory In the Union, and to many foreign coun¬ 
tries; their experience is so great and packing so 
perfect that they guarantee safe arrival In good 
condition. During spring shipping the express and 
freight offices at Palnesvllle are crowded to their 
utmost capacity In forwarding their goods. If you 
have not their free catalogue, note address above 
and send for It at once; It contains 164 pages, valu¬ 
able Information, and abounds In Illustrations of new 
and rare things.— Adv. 
D KEEPERS 
CLEANINCS IN BEE CULTURE. 
u 
AHandsomely IllustratedQr*n CliDDI IPO 
Magazine and Catalog, of DLL OUl I LILO 
FREE. AMOS I. ROOT, Medina. O. 
I 
NCUBATORS. 
2c. stamp for Circulars. 
S. Howard Merryman, Bosley, Md. 
J ERSEY BULL for Sale.—A mature Jersey Bull, 
entitled to registry. Gentle; weight about 
1.250 pounds. Will sell at cents per pound live 
weight, delivered In York. Pa. To see Is to admire 
him. Address CHAS. H. NEFF, York, Pa. 
I NDIAN GAME, Lt. Brahma, B P. Rock, Red 
Cap, Leghorn and Pekin Duck Eggs, $2 per 13. 
Winners of 43 first prizes In 1892. 
MEAD BROS., Danbury, Conn. 
THE MOON 
Company 
( Trees, Shrubs, 
' Vines, and 
Small Fruits. 
Descriptive 
Illustrated Catalogue Free. 
THEWM. H. MOON CO 
Morrisville, Pa. 
THE MARSHALL' 
Received Ttvo First and Three 
Second Prize* from Mass. Horti¬ 
cultural Society in 1892. A new and 
distinct variety, large size, good form 
and quality, dark color, and very promising. 
3.000 ISoxch from 13 ofan Acre raised last 
year. A queen of berries. Send for Circular. 
JLiniilrd Anil. SI 0.00 per Do/.. Plants. 
M. L. EWELL, Marshfield Hill, Mass. 
SEED POTATOES. 
The “Empire State,” medium late, large, oblong 
and white, unexcelled for table and market. I have 
tested them at the rate of 500 bushels to the acre 
without muen extra tillage. You will find them 
entirely reliable. Address 
A. WOODWARD, Brown Hill, Pa. 
CflR CAI E —No. 1 Cornish Indian Games, $5 per 
run OHLLi pair; $7 a trio. Eggs In season, 
$2 for 13. Address MARCUS ANSLEY, 
P. O. BUlsboro, near Geneva, N. Y. 
TNO. I). SOUIIEK, Telford, Pa —Breeder of 
t) W. & Sllv. Laced Wyandotte, B. Ply. Rock. B. 
8. C. Leghorn, B. Mlnorcas & L. Brahmas, Eggs, $1 
per 15; $3 per 60. Catalogue free. 
pfi'puRpf. 
W B'*aCt WArkinj 
Paria,hear r Hose and YKKBOKKL *OC-R 
ILU. Oar GAKFI1LB KMiPIlCI u4a 
B •** laad all •there. T«a eaa mt«I 
hr dealt a c with aa. look ef laatraa-n 
ran, VOICE pump o*.,B 
ENGINES 
If you want to buy a strictly flrat- 
class outfit at low figures, addresa 
The W.C.LEFFEL CO. 
UrwmmoiiBUT.Si’UlNUFIKLIM) 
W ANTED.—Farm, within 30 miles of New York, 
and about half a mile from a railway station. 
10 to 30 acres-six or eight-roomed house, and farm 
buildings, young bearing orchards, stream of water 
the year round. House and farm buildings must be 
In fair condition. Address QUICK BUYER, 
Care Rural New Yorker, Times Building, N. Y. 
A 8ECONDYSAIi 8TUDENT MCGILL MEDICAL 
College Is looking for some position of trust to 
enable him to earn sufficient to complete his studies. 
Any honorable position will be accepted. Preferably 
on a large breeding establishment, as he was Fore¬ 
man for some years on a large farm where all kinds 
of purebred stock were bred. Best of references 
given. References required. Address Box 104. St. 
Catherine St. P. O.. Montreal, Canada. 
CLAREMONT Land Association, su£r™,vi., 
Offers 600 choice farms; 3,000 handsome town lots 
on James Elver, with terms to suit purchasers. Free 
circular 
WORLD’S FAIR TOMATO. 
CIDCT In earllness, quality and productiveness. 
■ 111 w l send dime for packet and circular of Read’s 
Early Pinkeye and Badger Belle Potatoes. 
L. H. READ, Grand Rapids, Wls. 
CANNING 
Farnham, N. Y 
MACHINERY and SUPPLIES. 
D. Q. Trench Co., Chicago, Ill., and 
Mention this paper. 
SAVE MONEY 
A good reputation. Brown’s 
Bronchial Troches are every¬ 
where acknowledged to be the 
best remedy for Coughs, Sore 
Throat, Hoarseness and Bron¬ 
chial Affections. 
OLD COINS 
*13,388 Paid 
For 149 Old Coins. Save all 
yon get, coined before 1878, 
& send 2 stamps for Ulus- 
trated list. Shows the 
highest prices paid. W. 
VOS BERGEN, 95 Scollay 
Square, Boston, Mass. 
WANTED. 
Sewing Machines $ 8 . 85 T,oSI 6 
Buys best & latest imn. hiirh arm Machines- Free trial 
und catalog. UNIVERSAL M FC.CO.,CHICACO 
IAN IDEAL FAMILY MEDICINE 
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RHEUMATISM. 
To any person 
suffering with 
J RHEUMATISM 
In any form, Lumbago, or Neuralgia, I will gladly 
give, without charge, Information that will lead to a 
complete cure, as lt lias In mv case, and hundreds of 
others. I have nothing to tell or give, only direct you 
to a cure. Address F. W. PARKUUR8T, Fraternity 
Publisher, Box 1501, Boston, Mass. 
nnun for our list of 1 
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^w4kUUll L) Musical Instr 
19 Cata< 
isic and 
_Instruments. 
W. Story. 26 Central St..Bostoa W 
OPIUM 
Morphine Habit Cured in 10 
to 20 days. No pay till cured. 
DR. J.STEPHENS, Lebanon,Ohio. 
PLAYSI 
Dialogues, Speakers, for School, 
Club and Parlor Catalogue free. 
”• DENISON, Publisher,Chicago. 
