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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 26 
POT-GROWN STRAWBERRIES HSH 
Handsome Catalogue of the Best varieties (old and new); also list ot Holland Bulhs and Specialties for 
Fall Planting, mailed £|^|_V^ANGER & BARRY -H?J^5L u ^S, e ^ C ®» 
Mount Hope Nurseries, 
ROCHESTER, N. Y 
P resent Low Prices “L ™Z 
fall. Raise all you can and get the benefit of better prices next harvest. 
Use BONE SUPER-PHOSPHATES, made by THE CLEVELAND DRYER 
COMPANY, the old reliable pioneers. Their FERTILIZERS, chemically and 
mechanically perfect, dry and drillable, produce BIGGEST CROPS, and perma¬ 
nently improve the soil, insuring good profits in Wheat, and permanently improve 
meadows. They are the cheapest in the end, and most satisfactory. 
Brands a apted to all requirements. Address 
THE CLEVELAND DRYER CO., 
Fprt.ili^fvr Exchane-e. 130 Summit Street, Cleveland, Ohio. 
resent Low Prices 
CRIMSON CLOVER. 
300 Kush, for Sale. Crop of 1893 will be ready 
for shipment by June 20. Seed guaranteed pure and 
first-class in every respect. Price $6.00 per busfiel, 
sacked. Send check with order. 
WYNKOOP BIt08.,Mllf jrd Del. 
I F set out In July. August or September, will produce a crop of 
berries In June next year. Our Midsummer price-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 
HENRY 1. DRIER, 714 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA, PI. 
Cornell 
■ — $ 
University. 
Four Courses in Agriculture: 
Regular, Special, Dairy and Short Win¬ 
ter. Terms begin September 25, 1893, 
and January 3, 1894. 
For particulars address 
I. P. ROBERTS, Director, IIHACA, N. Y. 
First Premiums at Every Contest, 
icludingr TWO at Madison Square 
arden, Feb. 9th, 1892. More 
ian 1800 ducks.chlcksand tur- 
eys from one machine in seven 
r eeks. Price reduced. Thousands 
i successful operation in U. S., 
anada and Europe. It is the 
niversal testimony of users that 
ley are far better than claimed. 
_r--r>!_I_ I DAWIHN Coetnn Mucc 
The Heller Riding Harrow 
Clean, sharp-cut. Fully pul¬ 
verizes the soil, and levels the 
ground ; is better, and has light¬ 
er draft at nine feet than any 
other harrow ever introduced. 
Teeth made of best agricul¬ 
tural steel. Frame of finest 
oak, soaked in oil, making it 
practically indestructible. 
No. 1. cu'sti to 9 feet width.$20.00 
No. 2. cuts She t • V/i teet width, . . 17J 0 
No. 3, cuts 4 to 6J* feet In width,. . . 15.00 
Special prices to introduce 
one only in each community : 
No. i, $15.00; No. 2, $13.00; 
No. 3, $12.00, packed and 
shipped, and your money re¬ 
funded if you don’t like the 
harrow. Better order quickly. 
FIeller Mfg. Co., Limited, 
Machine and Agricultural Works, 
Montclair, N. J. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, August 26, 1893. 
My son, don’t mistake your boon com¬ 
panions f r y r 'ur friends—friendships are 
not preserved in alcohol .—Elmira Gazette 
A man traveling one of the sawmill 
roads in Dooly Co., Ga., avers that the 
road was so crooked that he met himself 
coming back .—New York Sun. 
Foreigner: “Are the Z“>gnowskys 
among your landed gentry ? ” Ameri¬ 
can : “Well, among our recently-lauded 
gentry .”—Little Peddllngton Gheewitz. 
“ Miss Belle, I am 68 , but I have 
$1,000,000 in Government bonds. Do you 
think I am too old for you ? ” “ No, in¬ 
deed. You’re about 10 years too young !” 
—Life. 
Bloomfield : “ Which is the most for¬ 
giving ot all the products of nature ? ” 
Bellefield : “ Don’t know. Which is it ?” 
“Wheat.” “Explain, please!” “It 
feeds the man who thrashes it.”— Pitts¬ 
burg Chronicle. 
Wasted Sympathy. —“And that is 
your answer ?” “It is. But I hope my 
refusal will not cause you unhappiness, 
Mr. Perkins.” “ No, indeed. Smith said 
you’d snap up the first man that offered 
himself, and I bet him you wouldn’t. 
I’m in a box of cigars.”— Life. 
“ I think Benny will make a farmer,” 
said Mr. B.oobumper to her husband. 
‘ What makes you think that ?” “I found 
him picking the seeds out of some seed¬ 
cake I had given him and he said he 
was going to plant them and raise all 
the cake he could eat.”— Puclt. 
“ If you go first,” murmured the wife 
of his bosom to the sick man, “ you will 
wait for me on the other shore, will you 
not, love?” “ I s’pose I’ll have to,” he 
grumbled. “I never went anywhere 
yet without having to wait for you at 
least half an hour.”—JVeu; York Times. 
Guest (in Arizona restaurant): “ How’s 
this? Twenty-five cents for that dish ? 
It’s marked 10 cents on the bill of fare.” 
Waiter: “Yes, sir. That’s for tomay- 
toes. You asked for tomahtoes. When 
you want style an’ luxury at this eatin’- 
bouse you pay fur it. See ? ”—Chicago 
Tribune. 
The “Young Idea.”— “ There’s one 
^curious thing about discovering places,” 
said Johnny, after be got through with 
THE ROSS 
Ensilage Cutters, 
Horse Powers, Grinding 
Mills, Wood Saws, 
Root Cutters 
And Acme Engines. 
New Patents, New Designs * 
and New Prices. 
DON’T BUY until you have heard from us. Illustrated Catalogue FREE. 
"The E. W. ROSS CO., 
Agricultural^ department Annoc, E. E. 6-88. SPRINGFIELD, OHIO- 
NATURE’S OWN FERTILIZER. 
CANADA m ■ ■ wm gy 
UNLEACL1ED HOR BD 
HARDWOOD Vr ■ ■ n 
The Forest City Wood Ash Co., of London, Canada, 
have perfect facilities for handling them In proper 
Bhape. Send for free Pamphlet and Guaranteed 
Analysis to 
THE FOREST CITY WOOD ASH CO., 
9 Merchants’ Row. Boston. Mass. 
A gentleman took a 10"g cruise, 
To cure an attack ot the bluise, 
He went on a 5 acnt 
He lately had Dacht, 
And now the wide ocean he vnlse 
—Boston Courier. 
FARM TOPICS. 
An Alfalfa Field. 
To Make Woodchuck Fertilizer. 
Some Hustling Potatoes... . 
Plow Coulter. 
Crimson Clover in Tennessee. 
Fail-^own Clover. 
Crimson Clover in Corn. 
With a Stone Drain. 
Merchantable Potatoes. 
Saving Beans. . 
Sowing Clover In a Western Orchard.... 
Fine Bone and Ashes. 
Whole Bones for Fertilizer. 
Simple Home-Mixed Fertilizers. 
Ice Factory Liquor for hertll.zer. 
Ashes or a Suoerphosphate. 
Crimson Clover In Canada. 
Some New Varieties < f Wheat. 
Where to Sell Apole Wood. 
To Make the Old New. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Certified Milk. 
Bogus Creamery Operators. 
Sheep farming. 
That Arkansas Pit Silo. 
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Company 
his study. “ Take Bermuda, for instance. 
It was discovered by a man named Ber¬ 
mudez. Ilow he happened to stumble on 
a place with a name just like his beats 
me.”— Harper's Bazar. 
The only machine that 
3 * will distribute fertilizers 
IVQ\ and ashe , ani give satts- 
A, faction every time Has 
i- , B ets of r. Us, one for 
_ ashes and one for fertll- 
y L& agtij lzers. Send for circulars, 
* giving prices, etc , to 
MEKENNEf, Rock, Mass. 
im.orcHnnmt.s gotetijsing. 
IN writing to advertisers please always mention 
Tub rural. 
WOODSIDE DORSET RAMS 
C\V hs ve the greatest confidence In the usefulness of 
j.Dorsets Aside from their superiority as lamo- 
producers, whlcn Is now everywhere conceded. 1 con¬ 
sider them an extremelv hardy, peaceaole. growthy 
and handsome sheep. It is my aim to keep our floca 
up to the highest standard. Rams of different ages 
for sale 
■UY ’“©IKKOT FSSQiRi FACT©#Y, 
MIXED PAINTS 
| The FISH BRAND SUCKER is warranted w 
.proof, and will keep you dry In the hardest storr 
new POMMEL SLICKER Is a perfect riding <$■ 
'covers the entire saddle. Bewareof imitsv,^®’ , 
buv a coat if the “Fish Brand” is not v -ilu 
tea Catalogue free. A. J. TOWER -a, Ma 
At WHOLESALE PRICES,Delivered FREE, 
For Houses, Barns, Roofs, all colors, & SAVE Middlemen’s 
profits. In use i>1 years. Endorsed by Grange & Farmers’ 
Alliance. Low prices wil surprise you. Write for samples. 
O. W. INGEKSOLL, %-iO Plymouth St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 
8 T. LAMBERT Bull Calves and Heifers of the 
best butter blood, in-and-ln-bred to Stoke 
Pofris III. (the sire of Mary Anne of St L., 8G7 lbs. of 
butter In one year) at very low prices. 
E. L. CLARKSON. Tivoli. New York. 
LADIES!! Why Drink Poor Teas? 
When you can get the Rest at 
IMlimt SKfeS! 
rnn CAI C ' r ° settle an estate, two river 
rUn oMLCa farms near the city of Bingham¬ 
ton, N Y. One 1.5 and one 195 acres, adjoining. 
Very productive, well watered. Address 
P. F. SHEAR, Binghamton, N. Y. 
NATIONAL 
Cider and Wine Mills. 
Watches. Clocks, Music Boxes, 
Cook Books and all kinds of premi- 
urns fflven to 1 lub A vents# 
(;od Income made by getting 
orders for our celebrated goods. 
For full parti ulars address 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA CO. 
31 and 33 Vesey St„ N. Y. 
CIDER 
Best qualities of both Crush¬ 
ing and Grating Mills. 
Small sizes for Family use. 
Large sizes for Farmers’ use. 
Fruit, Wine and Lard Presses. 
Hand and Power Grinders. 
AMES PLOW CO. 
Boston and New York. 
Send for Circulars, Catalogue. 
MACHINERY 
Sydraulio, Knuckle Joint and Screw 
PreaaM, Graters. Elevators, Pu mps. Er r s 
•to. Send for Catalogue. gk! 
BOOMER & BOSCHERT IjSS 
press co., 
118 W.WnterSt.. SYRACUSE, N.Y 
Luscious Strawberries. 
f A full crop next season from 
POT - GROWN PLANTS. 
Plant now. Our handsome descrip¬ 
tive Illustrated List of 50 varieties of 
Strawberries; 26 varieties Of Ceiery, 
mailed free. Address 
T. J. DWYER, 
Box 88. ; Cornwall 3 N. Y. 
DIBBLE’S SEED WHEAT 
Jones’ winter Fife, yield d 56 bushels per acre. 
Early Red Clawson, field of 25 acres, average 
yield, 41 bushels per acre. $1.25 per bushel, 10 bushels 
$1.00 per bushel. Cliculars and sample heads, free. 
EDWARD F. DIBBLE, Seed Grower, 
Hctoebye Falls, N. Y 
For Machine producing Best Results Ever Re¬ 
corded, address 1. Z. ME URIAH, Whitewater, Wls. 
Fat Four-Cent Milk for New York. 5.7 
Is the Heifer Too Young ?.583 
Soap Grease for liens. 5’3 
Leaves for Stock.583 
Feather Eating.5«3 
Texas Fever Without Ticks. 583 
HORTICULTURAL 
American Cranberries for Europe. 571 
A Few Garden Notes. 572 
No ’* Boiled Taste ” 1 Ju.ce. .572 
Lincoln Plum and Peacn Wash.573 
WU1 the Asparagus Whiten with Age?. 573 
Color of Young Peach Bark.573 
White-Top Onion. 573 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Relative Cost of Our Coileeiate Schools. 
The Demand for Genteel Occupations. 
Miss Parloa’s Demonstration Lecture on Ice 
Cream. 
Ants. 
Baking Fruit Cake. 
Remedy for Snake-bite.. 
Ironing Day Again. . 
Not New, But for Young Housekeepe-s. 
Reading Dialect. 
Mutton Stew. 
Special Starcnlngand Ironing. ,. 
A Sunday Dinner. 
Gin zhams that Snrink. 
Home Ingenuity. 
Elderberry Pies. 
As We Are. . 
A Good Bath Brick. 
Shan- Holders. 
Mola.-ses Not Molasses. 
Mrs Miller. 
Cheerfulness. 
Something New. 
Reading vs Fancy Work. 
A New Household Publishing Venture. 
Wasning .. 
Dress Reform. 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
Lost on the Road. 
How to Study Chemistry . £'•’ 
A Dralted Man Talks.574 
That South Carolina Dispensary Law Again. 57» 
Where the Farmer's Wife Stands...... 575 
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Editorials. 
Brevities. 
The Prospect... 
Business Bits. £77 
Crop and Market Notes. £80 
We Want to Know. ?°{ 
Markets. 
World's Fair Notes. 
The Jubilee atRothamsted.jg- 
SheaT Nonsense. 5 °* 
