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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 2 
As We Go To Press. 
“ EXCHANGE.” 
“ I can raise oats and potatoes in the 
same hill!” we heard a farmer say re¬ 
cently. 
“ I don’t believe it,” broke in another. 
“ It can’t be done !” 
“But I can, and I’ll show you how I I 
dig my potatoes and sort them carefully. 
The large ones I market and the little 
ones I carry to a place in New York 
where they give me a hag of oats for 
every barrel of small potatoes. If that 
is not the same as raising oats and po¬ 
tatoes together—what is it?” 
Then they had a long argument as to 
whether the statement was really cor¬ 
rect. We need not follow them in this. 
Certainly the man planted only potatoes 
and obtained oats with the proceeds of 
the crop. Many farmers might have fed 
the small potatoes directly to stock in¬ 
stead of exchanging them for oats. The 
lesson for all this is that there is profit 
in exchange. One farmer is so situated 
that potatoes yield him better returns for 
his labor than any other crop, while an¬ 
other farmer does better with grain. 
When these men exchange the products 
of their labor each one may be better off 
for availing himself of the special ad¬ 
vantages of the other. 
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Now that is the underlying principle 
of a good Premium List such as we have 
prepared this week. You may be one of 
30,000 persons scattered all over this 
country. You have a dozen or more 
neighbors and friends with whom you 
are on intimate terms. You could go to 
them without offense and say: “ See here 
now, The It. N.-Y. is a good paper. At 
$1 per year you get your money’s worth, 
and more too. I am getting up a club 
and I want your name on my list!” 
The chances are that if you went at it 
in a business-like way you would get 
them all. Now, you see, that is a sort 
of work you can do better than we can, 
you know these parties and can meet 
them personally while we cannot. You 
Lave the advantage of us there, but we 
have the advantage of you in another 
way. We can buy goods much cheaper 
than you can to save your life. We pro¬ 
pose an exchange of work. You go out 
and manufacture subscriptions for us and 
we will give you full benefit of all our 
facilities for buying. We thus give you 
cash for winter work in the sense that 
we save you money that you would other¬ 
wise have to pay for some needed article. 
That’s all there is in this Premium List 
business ! Will you exchange work with 
UB? { { ! 
so doing you give The R. N.-Y. a vote 
for the office of middleman. We solicit 
your votes for that office. This advertis¬ 
ing is paying others ; why will it not pay 
you ? W. A. Seward, who advertised 
Berkshire pigs, says: “ The R. N.-Y. is 
a nuisance—it has brought me so many 
letters I can hardly answer them ! ” 
That is a pleasant nuisance, too, for a 
man who has stuff to sell. Eugene Wil¬ 
lett, who sells grape vines and small 
fruits, says: “The R. N.-Y. is the only 
paper I can afford to advertise in these 
times. As for reading the paper—it 
suits me to a ‘T.’” A “t” is a good 
enough suit for us. Webster & Hannum 
write: “ We have placed The R. N.-Y. 
No. 1 on our list for advertising returns.” 
“ No. 1 ” is very good, and now we pro¬ 
pose to put the “ A ” before it. 
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These two notes are worth thinking 
over : 
The Rural New-Yorker No. 2 potato which you sent 
me some four years ago has been, In actual money, 
worth more than the cost of my 11 years’subscrip¬ 
tion. M. P. CARTER. 
Pennsylvania. 
That is good, and the Carman potato- 
just sent out—will be worth as much 
more. 
I like The R. N.-Y. very much. I have obtained 
many dollars’ worth of Information from It. I have 
been much Interested in the treatment of potato 
scab, and shall certainly soak my seed next spring. 
Every farmer ought to take The Rural. No live 
farmer can read It without being benefited. 
New York w. f. jagger. 
Thank you, sir, and we like the club of 
new subscriptions you sent along with 
the letter. Live farmers make The R. 
N.-Y.’s list lively and the memory of 
dead ones, too, will help us out for often 
have we heard men say : “ What ? The 
Rural New-Yorker ? 
WHY, FATHER USED TO TAKE IT ! 
when I was a boy and I must have it 
again !” We respectfully submit that a 
paper good enough for father is plenty 
good enough for son, particularly since 
the paper has kept pace with every 
change that agriculture has gone through 
since father’s time. 
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Don’t forget our offer of Wallace’s 
“Prince of India” and one new sub¬ 
scription for $3. That is a great offer. 
Also bear in mind our other book offers. 
A new announcement is that we can 
send The R. N.-Y. and that great weekly, 
the New York World, both one year for 
only 
si. 60 . 
Hew does that strike you for a cheap 
combination? One word more about our 
watches. How about this no*e—every¬ 
body knows the writer: 
Gold watch received O. K. Accept thanks for 
same; It Is a beauty. Yours truly, 
something like 85 per cent, the second better still, 
and the third a complete success.” 
There Is money In hens, as may be seen by the 
reports made from time to time In The B. N.-Y.; but 
to get It the hens must have care. They will not lay 
eggs, or hatch chickens In a cold place. If your 
hennery Is not warm, send to F. W. Bird & Son., 
East Walpole, Mass., and get some of their Neponset 
water-proof paper, and make It warm. By the way, 
this Is a good thing to keep the cold out of the cow 
stables, and will be found cheaper than keeping any 
kind of stock warm with grain. 
To distrust a Trust Is getting to be a duty of pat¬ 
riotic Americans. That Is because the first principle 
of a Trust Is to stifle and kill all competition. With 
competition destroyed, the Trust Is left as sole judge 
of the quality of the good It makes and also Of the 
prices It sees fit to ask. The result Is that the public 
have nothing to say—nothing to do but accept the 
goods and prices that are offered them. One of the 
meanest Trusts of to-day Is the Ax Trust. This Is 
composed of 15 of the leading ax manufacturers of 
the country who have combined to stifle competition 
and thus control the market In their own way. The 
one stumbling-block In their path Is the Kelly Ax 
Co., of Louisville, Ky. This concern refused to go 
Into the .combination and in spite of the meanest 
efforts to compel them to do so, has kept out and Is 
now fighting single handed for fair dealing and fair 
prices. Well may the farmers of the country stand 
by their friends. In this case their duty Is clear. 
Use nothing but the Kelly axes! 
WE WANT TO KNOW, YOU KNOW ! 
If you don't see what you want , ask for it 
Time to 8hip Geese.—I see by The It N.-Y. that 
the best time to ship dressed turkeys, chickens and 
ducks, but not geese, Is at Thanksgiving. When Is the 
best time to ship geese dressed? Who are reliable 
dealers ? J. t. S. 
Hamden, N. Y. 
Ans.—G eese usually sell best at the Christmas 
holidays. There 1 b much more demand for them 
then, and after the weather becomes colder, than at 
Thanksgiving. Several commission-men advertise 
for shipments of poultry, In our columns. We don’t 
believe that you saw in The R. N-Y. that the best 
time to ship ducks Is st Thanksgiving. 
Cow-Tail Holder.—W here can I buy a tall 
holder for keeping a cow’s tall still while milking ? 
c. f. c. 
Ans.— We don’t know. We never saw one as we 
remember, or saw one advertised. Why is one 
needed? If there are no files to annoy the cows, 
there Is little need for tying their tails. If there are, 
they should have full use of their tails to protect 
themselves, and the man who would prevent It 
should be arrested for cruelty to animals. Better put 
the cows In a cool, darkened stable to milk, and for 
that matter, during hot days In summer, and then 
there will be no need of tall holders. 
Selling Pop-Corn.— What commission-merchant 
handies pop-corn? What Is the best way to pack? 
What are the prices? c. b a. 
Georgetown, N. Y. 
1. Write to John B. Page’s Son, 102 Park Place, New 
York. 2. In barrels. 3. Prices vary according to the 
variety and condition of the corn and the state of 
the market, from 1 or Utf cents up to 3 or 4 cents per 
pound. Pop-corn has been a drug on the market the 
past few years, the supply exceeding the demand. 
In consequence the price has been low, and the sale 
of anything but the best corn exceedingly difficult. 
The best way Is to send a fair sample of what one 
has, state the quantity, and ask for prices. Don t 
send pop-corn to a commission-merchant at random. 
Few of them have any facilities for handling It to 
advantage. 
CROP AND MARKET N0TBS 
Virginia sweet potatoes have been very dull and 
low. 
String beans came In from New Orleans during the 
week. 
We consider this little notj from Penn¬ 
sylvania a model in many respects : 
I Inclose $1 to continue my subscription, for fear 
It might run out when I was not thinking. I may 
rake up another subscriber shortly, as I consider 
The Rural the best agricultural paper I ever came 
across. Honest! 
That is the way to do business ! Be 
prompt and avoid the rush. Thousands 
of our friends wait until the nearest 10 
days to .lanuary 1, and then rush in 
with their subscriptions. They all come 
in a lump and give us a lively time keep¬ 
ing things straight. You will help us 
and yourself, too, by sending your re¬ 
newal now —at once. We are all ready 
for you! Ybu notice, too, that our 
friend is expecting to rake in a new sub¬ 
scriber. As a stump orator would say : 
“ That is an enterprise deserving of the 
very highest enconiums ! ” Let us hope 
he will take a fine-toothed rake and 
sweep the neighborhood—letting no nc an 
guilty of going without The R. N.-Y. 
escape. g g $ 
Don’t overlook the fact that lots of 
farmers are making their advertising 
wants known in this issue for the first 
time. Look them up. One man wants 
to buy pullets, another has a big load of 
carrots to sell, and so on with stock, 
machines, seeds, etc. Help us out on 
this, friends. Buy at first hands. By 
FRED GRUNDY. 
There are plenty more of these beau¬ 
ties. One of them might be doing duty 
in your pocket. 
BUSINESS BITS. 
That is a good stock of Chester Whites offered by 
Willis Whlnery, Winona, Ohio. Get his descriptions 
and prices If you want a good strain of this desirable 
breed. 
Farmers who want to buy teed by the car-load or 
In less quantities, may address Cutter & Bailey, 143 
Washington Street, Buffalo, N. Y. They report large 
quantities of cheap feed now on hand. 
Did any R. N.-Y. readers ever use Harris's Tree 
Healer? This Is a preparation Intended to cover and 
protect trees that have been cut or bruised. Geo. H. 
Harris, Long Branch, N. J., will tell all about it. 
F. E. Myers & Bro., Ashland, O., were among the 
lucky ones at Chicago. They received World’s Fair 
medals on farm force pumps, hay carriers, hay car¬ 
rier tracks. Cyclone tank pumps, spray pumps, and 
for novel and artistic device for showing goods. 
Among the newer seedsmen to come before the 
public Is Edwin F. Dibble of Honeoye Falls, N. Y. 
We have known Mr. Dibble a good many years. His 
seeds are grown on his own farm—under his own eye. 
Not only that, but his prices will suit farmers. 
The wires In the Robinson fence machine are In¬ 
dependent of each other, enabling the farmer to use 
rived pickets to best advantage The twist Is also 
neat and Is made without injuring the wire. This 
machine is made by the Safety Gate Co., Box Y., 
Richmond, Ind. They will send full description free. 
Messrs. Geo. M Elliott & Co., Round Pond, 
Me., write that they have hatched 95 per cent of the 
fertile eggs In the Victor hatcher, manufactured by 
Geo. Ertel & ..Co., Quincy, 111., and the chickens are 
all doing well. ’’The first hatch,” they say, "was 
A car-load of maple sugar last week was offered 
for eight cents per pound. 
The receipts of apples last week were 18,430 bar¬ 
rels, and for the same period last year 47,620 barrels 
arrived. 
Under the Influence of colder weather and an in¬ 
creased demand, cranberries are doing much better, 
though prices are not yet very high. 
Dressed calves In light demand owing to the plenti¬ 
ful supply and low price of poultry, but as the supply 
is also light, prices are well sustained. 
Receipts of foreign potatoes last week were 16,000 
sacks from Great Britain, and 1,612 sacks from the 
Continent. Previous to this week there had been 
received 1,017 bags from Great Britain and 5,133 from 
the Continent. 
An Irritated Throat is soothingly treated by 
Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant, an old established 
curative for Coughs and Colds, and all Bronchial 
and Lung troubles.— Adv. 
MRG1NIA FARM FOR SALE 
GO Acres. Land lays well. Well watered. Large 
nount of hard wood timber; near railroad. Dwelling 
id outbuildings. Price only five thousand dollars, 
ood title. Write for free Catalogue. 
ROBINSON FENCE MACHIN 
FOR THE 
ORGAN. 
Parlor Organ Galaxy. Vol. 1. 
By W. F. SUDDS. A fine col¬ 
lection (vocal and Instrument¬ 
al) for the reed organ, coming 
within the ability of young per¬ 
formers Price, paper, 50c-; 
boards, 75c. 
Parlor Organ Galaxy. Yol. 2. 
By W. F. SUDDS. Recently 
Issued. Price same as Vol. 1. 
Whitney’s Organ Album. 
Compiled by S. B. WHITNEY, 
Organist, Church of the Ad 
vent, Boston. 
A new collection for pipe or¬ 
gan. For teachers and for 
organists generally: carefully 
edited with registration and 
pedaling. Every piece In the 
book can be played on a second 
or third manual organ. Price 
boards, #2; cloth, #2.50. 
Selected Gems of 
Modern Favorites. 
Edited by J. C. MACY. A better grade of organ 
pieces, for young organists. Especially desirable for 
those intending to take positions in churches. 
Boards, #1 50 
Barnett’s Selections and Organ Voluntaries. 
125 pages; nearly 250 approved selections; elegant 
tasteful, and appropriate music. #1.50. 
Organ at Church and in Concert. 
Compiled and arranged by J. W. Simpson. The 
pieces are of sufficient variety to satisfy exacting 
organists. No finer collection of organ pieces has 
been published for years. #2. 
Any book mailed postpaid on receipt of price. 
Oliver Ditson Company, 
453-463 Washington St., Boston. 
C. H. D.tson & Co., N. Y. J. E. Ditson & Co., Phlla. 
BOX 0’ BROWNIES 
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This box consists of a set of rubber stamps rep¬ 
resenting the well known “ Brownies ” in their 
comical attitudes, such as the Policeman, Dude, 
Chinaman, Clown, Animals, etc., and includes a 
pad of colored ink and a paper tablet upon which 
can be made many amusing pictures with these 
funny fellows. It is the most entertaining thing 
gotten up in years and was made to he sold for 50 
cents, but on account of the present hard “■“* 
times we will send the whole box, com- ' 
plete, with all the “Brownies,” 
Ink Pad, Paper Tablet, etc., post- , 
paid, for only 25 cents. Send 
, at once, as they go like hot cakes, i 
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Or sent free for one new yearly subscrip¬ 
tion. Let the boy earn the present for 
himself by securing a neighbor’s sub¬ 
scription. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Cor. Chambers and Pearl Sts., New York. 
Feed and Grain Dealers and Farmers 
Will find It to their Interest 
to call on or write 
CUTTER & BAILEY, 
No. 143 Washington Street, Buffalo, N. Y., 
Who have on hand 400 tons of Wheat Screenings, 
which makes the Cheapest and Best feed In the mar¬ 
ket for sheep, and when ground makes the best of 
feed for milch cows and cattle. A’so all grades of 
mill feed in car lots or less. Samples and prices 
sent by mail. 
Nonpareil Grinding Mills. 
THE BEST 
FEED MILL MADE. 
For Circular address 
L. J. MILLER, CINCINNATI, OHIO. 
JELLIFFE, WRIGHT Sc CO., 
284 Washington St., New York. Branch for 
Meats: 22. 24 and 26 Grace Ave. Branch for Live 
Stock: At Union Stock Yards, West 60th St. 
BANNER ROOT CUTTER. 
Best Machine ol its kind ever in¬ 
vented. Send for circulars and prices. 
O. B. THOMPSON SONS, 
Mo.17 River St.. YPSILANTI. Mich, 
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