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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 19 
When money gets tight it is locked up. 
-Elmira Gazette. 
SELECT FOR YOUR WHEAT 
I. P. THOMAS & SON COMPANY. 
“ Can nothing be done for the prisoner, 
Mr. Brief?” “I fear not, sir.” “The 
legal expedients are all exhausted, are 
they ? ” “ No. but the prisoner’s money 
is.”— Vermont Watchman. 
“ Has my boy been a Little Defender 
and been kind to dumb animals to-day ?” 
“Yes, grandma. I let your canary out 
of the cage, and when my cat caught it, 
I set Towser on her.”— Life. 
“ Satan seems to be about the best 
friend the workingman has,” said the de¬ 
moralizer. “ What a dreadful senti¬ 
ment ! ” said the moralizer. “ Why, I’ve 
heard you say that he always finds work 
for idle hands to do,” said the demora¬ 
lizer.— Judge. 
Mrs La Smith : “ I wonder why my 
husband don't arrive. The Teutonic was 
sighted early this morning.” Browne: 
“ He is probably detained at the bar.” 
Mrs. La Smith : “ What ! after all his 
promises to stop drinking ! I’ll see about 
this.”— Little Peddlington Qheewltz. 
St Peter: “Well, sir. what claim ha ve 
you on a celestial abode ?” Applicant: 
“ I never tried to show an editor how to 
run his paner-” St Peter (calling) : 
“Front! Ooe solid gold halo for the 
gentleman! Step right up to your place, 
my dear sir.”— Atlanta Constitution. 
PijsrcUanmtss 
In writing to advertisers please always mention 
The rural. 
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At WHOLESALE PRICES.Delivered FREE, 
For Houses, Barns, Roofs, all colors, A SAVE Middlemen’s 
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Cargo prices iu any Quantity. 
Dinner, Tea and 1 diet Sets, 
Watches, Clocks. Music Boxes, 
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orders for our celebrated goods. 
For full parti ulars address 
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POT-GROWN 
STRAWBERRIES 
n ™ " Timbrell the best Strawberry 
inexistence. Be sure and get plants direct. Ed. 
Oaejun of Rural 1 ‘TI Hll Of D C I ■ 
New Yorker, says: I IIV1 ES la t La La 
is the best berry all things considered, I ever tried.” A 
full assortment of all varieties of pot-grown and layer 
plants, and all kinds of Nursery Stock, l'riee List Free. 
o. ARE NOW READY. 
Cornell 
University. 
Four Courses in Agriculture: 
.egular, Special, Dairy and Short Win- 
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nd January 3, 1894. 
For particulars address 
[. P. ROBERTS, Director, IIHACA, N. Y. 
pish brn^ 
This Trade Mark is on the best 
WATERPROOF COAT 
Illustrated j n the World ! 
Catalogue 
*' ree - A. J. TOWER. BOSTON, MASS. 
CHEAPER THAN WINDMILLS. 
Always Ready ! No Fire ! No Engineer ! No 
Danger / For all farm and dairy work 
Send stamp for catalogue. 
Safety Vapor Engine Co., 16 Mwnv SV Nclf 
The continued increasing 
tale of their STANDARD 
BRANDS is convincing 
proof of their meri'. Your 
wheat needs a good High- 
tirade Fertilizer to carry 
it through the season and 
help the coming grass. 
Our goods have had 
twenty-two years’ suc¬ 
cessful trial. In buying 
our fertilizers for your 
pvheat, you make no ex¬ 
periment, but use goods 
that have proven them¬ 
selves gcod and reliable. 
WE RECOMMEND 
Tip Top Raw Bone Super-Phosphate, 
Farmers’ Choice Bone Phosphate, Normal Bone Phosphate 
For general soils and use. They will grow you good crops and improve your ground. 
THE SPECIAL, GOODS: Improved Super-Pliosphate, Pure Ground Bone, S. C. Phosphate supply 
special plant food, and are adapted to special soils and particular crons. Write the manufacturers for a Circular, giving 
Guaranteed Analyses and Testimonials. AGENTS WANTED IN SECTIONS UNOCCUPIED. 
I. P. THOMAS & SOW CO., 2 S. Delaware Ave., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
BOOMER & BOSCHERT 
PRESS CO.. 
118 W. Water St.. SYRACUSE, N.Y 
CONTENTS. 
BATCBK’8 OWN FERTILIZER. 
P resent Low Prices sh f °;“ Z 
fall. Raise all you can and get the benefit of better prices next harvest, 
se BONE SUPER-PHOSPHATES, made by THE CLEVELAND DRYER 
OMPANY, the old reliable pioneers. Their FERTILIZERS, chemically and 
lechanically perfect, dry and drillable, produce BIGGEST CROPS, and perma- 
ently improve the soil, insuring good profits in Wheat, and perv.cy* ntly improve 
leadows. They are the cheapest in the end, and most satis fact- 
tEgr Brands a apted to all requirements. ess 
PTTTn CLEVELAND OO., 
Fertilizer Exchange, 130 Summit Stree J eveland, Ohio. 
_ ry*— . . — 
resent Low Prices 
HORTICULTURAL 
Another Berry Ticket. 
Weak Bordeaux Mixture for Pear Scab. 
World’s Fair Fruit Notes. . 
How Save the Grapes ?. 
A Strawberry Bed. 
Some Fruit Questions... 
A Swindle If You Expect Paying Fruit.. 
Black Currant. 
A Cheap Spraying Machine. 
How 1 Spray the Bordeaux. 
Fighting Squash Bugs. 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Some Prominent Cooking Schools. 
Notes By a Canadian Reader. 
Incidents from R. N.-Y. Experience. 
Skirt Bindings. 
For the Shut-Ins or a Rainy Day. 
Sweet-flag for Hiccough. 
You Mlgnt Do Tots. 
Tomatoes Canned. 
To Boil Eggs. 
The Queen’s Bracelets. 
Baking Powder.. 
A Warning Incident.. 
Use Buttermilk Freely. 
Do N< t Scald Tomatoes. 
A Magic Oil. 
Sweet Vegetable Pieales. 
Where You Are... 
CANADA JR A ma m |j% 
UNLEACHED J| W 
HARDWOOD Y*SSF W. O WW 
The Forest City Wood Ash Co., of London, Canada, 
have perfect facilities for handling them in proper 
shape. 8end for free Pamphlet and Guaranteed 
Analysis to 
THE FOREST CITY WOOD ASH CO., 
9 Merchants' Row, Boston. Mass. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Sweet and Ripened Cream Butter In Cold Storage 
Horses Cannot Live on tree Lunch.t55, 
Late Hatcbed Chicks ana Broiler Pies. 
a New "Discovery ” in Churning. 
" Conservallne," Another Milk Humbug. 
What Proportion of Interior Pure-Bloods ?. 
Began .. 
Separate the Barns. 
Ensilage Experience. 
A Fine Holstein. 
Legality of Dlsnornlng. 
Thai Pork Record Again. 
Some Milking Thoughts. 
That Columbian Test. .. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
I F set out In July. August or September, will produce a crop of 
berries in June next year. Our Midsummer prise-list, mailed 
free, describes the best varieties, which we offer In strong rooted 
pot-grown plants now ready for delivery. Also Celery and Cabbage 
Plants, Vegetable and Flower Seeds, for Summer and Fall Sowing, 
and seasonable sundries for the garden 
HENRI t. DREER, 714 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA, Pi. 
Iturallsms. 
Editorials. 
Brevities. 
The Prospect. 
Business Bits. 
Arguments for Silver... 
Crop and Market Notes 
we Want to Know. 
Markets... 
Shear Nonsense.. 
nSi ROYAL CHURCH 
BETTER THIS YEAR THAN EVER. 
r,of. W. J. Oreeu. o, .he C.,„mb«. <00 Kx,„l- , <-£ 
rnent Station, says: ‘‘Royal Church Is large and ot R 0|ra i church is one of the most promising. It is 
line quality.” In his bulletin for 189’, he says: 
“ Plants vigorous and productive. Berries large. 
hardy to the Ups. I am well pleased with it.” 
Geneva (N. Y.) Experiment Station says: “It Is 
dark crimson, moderately firm, excellent quality. A earlier tnan Cuthbert, more productive, hardy. As 
very promising variety.” 
good as Brlnkle s Orange In quality.’ 
Over 150 berries have been counted on a single branch. The size of the berries is seven-eighths of an 
inch to an Inch In diameter. One hundred berries weigh 11 ounces. Sen l for Illustrated Catalogue. 
CREEN’S NURSERY CO., Rochester, N Y. 
NURSERY AGENTS PLEASE CORRESPOND. 
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FARMl TOPICS. 
What About Hay Prices ?. 
The State Of Farming In England. 
Three Suggestions for Farm Helps.... 
Questions About Fungicides. 
A Roller on Sod... 
Rats and Frost In Silo. 
A Tennesseean After Potash. 
Some Facts Acout Potash. 
Keep Lime Out of the Well. 
Crimson Clover at the Rural Grounds. 
Earth or Bank 81)0. 
Back Talk About Portable Fences. 
A Tale of Hired Help. 
Another Side of It. 
“ A Farmer” Talks Back. 
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Potted Strawberry Plants 
CIDER 
MACHINERY 
ffydrsulio, Knuckle Joint and Screw 
Preen** Graters. Elevators, Pumps, 
