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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
December 30 
TBK 
Rural New-Yorker 
Cor. Chambers a/nd Pearl Sis., New York. 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban Homei, 
ELBERT S. CARMAN, Kdltor-ln-Chlef. 
HERBERT W. COLLINGWOOD, Managing Editor 
ERWIN G. FOWLER, Associate Editor 
JOHN J. DILLON, Business Manager. 
Copyrighted 1S93. 
Address all business communications and make all orders pay¬ 
able to THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Be sure that the name and address of Bender, with name of Post- 
office and State, and what the remittance Is for, appear in every letter. 
Money orders and bank drafts on New York are the safest means of 
transmitting money. 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1893. 
ANOTHER GOOD NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT. 
The R N.-Y. has, once or twice, expressed the hope 
that it would be able to send a fair-sized specimen of 
Carman No. 3 potato to all applicant-subscribers next 
fall. 
The stock in the hands of those who will introduce 
it in 1895 is now found to be ample to justify us in 
announcing that we shall be prepared next fall to mail 
to all applicant-subscribers a fair-sized tuber—not less 
than four ounges in weight. 
AGAIN. 
We shall also be in a position to send next fall to all 
subscribers who apply, a fair-sized tuber of the No. 1, 
the crop of which, last season, owing to excessive 
drought, was not over one-fifth the average yield of 
the farm where it was grown. 
We are enabled to make this promise owing to the 
liberality of the introducers who, appreciating the 
situation, have kindly 6et aside enough seed from their 
scanty supply to insure an ample quantity for The 
Rural distribution. The fact that we were unable to 
secure an adequate supply of the No. 1 caused us 
great annoyance, and we are now more than glad that 
we can satisfy all calls for it. 
Due and repeated notices will be given when our friends 
may apply for these two remarkable varieties of potatoes — 
the best second early and lute kinds, it is believed, that have 
ever been introduced. 
NOW remember. 
1. That both these potatoes will be sent out October 
next—not before. 
2. Applications for them will be received October 
next—not before. 
3. Notice will be given in this column the first and 
second weeks in October, so that all will be reminded 
when to apply. 
4. The 1893 subscribers who did not receive a potato 
this year will be entitled to the Carman No. 1 potato 
next October whether they become subscribers for 
1894 or not. 
5. Any one who fails with the No. 1 this year may 
apply again in October. 
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We think Mr. Hart’s experience with feeding an or¬ 
chard on the manure from a dairy farm is very inter¬ 
esting. We shall see, next week, how the use of 
fertilizers has changed his methods, and also his 
crops. Some of the agricultural changes in the last 
10 years are almost bewildering. 
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In the notes on preparing a ration for a cow with¬ 
out ensilage, we think Mr. Talcott comes nearest the 
mark by advocating a substitute for the silo. Wiiile 
we doubt if it pays to buy an expensive steaming out¬ 
fit to prepare the food for a small herd of cows, this 
plan of pouring hot water over the cut stalks and hay 
costs but little and certainly does soften up the rough 
forage. To this extent we believe the hot box pays. 
Ensilage undoubtedly has value as a cattle food. If 
one cannot have that, why not get a cheap substitute? 
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Our Western friends may well brag about their fer¬ 
tile corn fields and great yields of golden grain. 
There is evidently more gold in that Connecticut crop 
described on page 8(53. How does that come ? Look 
at the expense of that crop ! Look at the yield and 
the price too ! Do you realize why that corn sold at 
$1.35 a bushel? It was seed corn—every kernel con¬ 
taining a portion of the care and skill spent on the 
crop. It was corn with a pedigree—with blood and 
breeding. Sell that corn for its feeding value only 
and the farmer would surely cry “ hard times sold 
at its seeding value and the “hard” becomes soft. It 
is true that all the corn grown in the country cannot 
be used for seed, but is that any reason why you as an 
individual should sit down and say there is no use to 
put blood and pedigree into what you produce ? 
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The Anti-option Bi 1 is coming up again. This time 
it has been changed into a revenue measure—that is to 
say, the chief argument put forward for it is that it 
will raise funds for Government expenses. The old 
bill proposed to drive illegal dealers in produce out of 
the business by levying a tax so high that few could 
pay it. The new bill will put this tax down so low 
that many persons will take out licenses and thus pro¬ 
vide considerable revenue. In effect it will make the 
bulls and bears of Wall Street register and pay taxes. 
We always did believe in registration for bulls, and 
see no reason why the breed of bears cannot be im¬ 
proved by a like system. But, will the new bill carry 
out the design of the old one and prohibit grain 
gambling ? We think not, but in these times of 
“ revenue only” everything must be bent towards 
helping out the deficiency created by the Wilson Bill. 
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The present Administration has just declared that 
free rural delivery of the mails is impracticable, and 
advises against further trial of it. Almost at the same 
breath comes Secretary Morton with his wish that a 
daily paper might be placed in every farmer’s family. 
Without some scheme for an extension of the mail 
service, how is the daily paper to reach the farm home? 
There are, indeed, many places near the railroads 
where daily delivery is possible, but the farmers back 
among the hills are the ones that most need inter¬ 
course with the town and city. How are they to get 
it ? Speaking of Secretary Morton and his speech, we 
can say that our request for comments has called out 
nearly 50 letters, not one of which sustains the position 
taken by Mr. Morton. Apparently those who think 
with him do not read the agricultural papers—prob¬ 
ably they take city dailies ! 
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It is not generally remembered that the last Con¬ 
gress appropriated $10,000 for investigating road mak¬ 
ing in the United States. This is called to mind by 
the fact that Secretary Morton asks for $10,000 more 
“to continue the investigation.” About all that can 
be expected from this investigation is a “ report ” tell¬ 
ing us how bad our roads are and what we would 
better do in order to secure better ones. The $20,000 
will be spent in securing “evidence” that we need 
good roads. Seems to us we have evidence enough. 
We now want a verdict of guilty and an execution of 
the bad roads. Mention has been made of the efforts 
of Colonel Pope, the bicycle maker, to work up an in¬ 
terest in favor of a Road Department at Washington. 
Last Wednesday a singular petition was presented to 
the United States Senate. It was 1,400 yards long and 
wound around two wheels of a bicycle and carried 
150.000 signatures,including governors of 17 States, and 
other notables, all of whom desire a Road Department. 
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The Eastern grain grower found some years ago 
that he could not compete with Western grain fields 
at growing grain to be used as food. Fertility is too 
cheap at the West. Many farmers in New Jersey and 
New York are satisfied to raise wheat without profit 
for the sake of its value in a rotation fo.' nursing a sod 
to be used for corn and potatoes. As is shown in this 
issue the growing of seed crops of grain often pays 
because buyers pay for blood or pedigree in the seed. 
In fact, Eastern farmers have often been urged to aim 
to produce only blood and pedigree in animal and 
vegetable products, as in these they are sure to have a 
monopoly. Is that true ? We have recently been told 
of some four-year old carriage horses of magnificent 
breeding that were raised on the cheap lands of 
Wyoming at a cost of $42 each. They sell readily at 
$400 or $500. Now let us ask what will it cost an 
Eastern farmer to raise a good colt to that age ? This 
would make an interesting comparison. 
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In New York there is a large number of firms 
which do an extensive exporting business, especially 
to South America. They deal largely in agricultural 
implements and various kinds of manufactured goods. 
These firms often receive orders from their corres¬ 
pondents for pure-bred live stock of different kinds. 
A prominent exporter and breeder recently told the 
writer that he had received an order from one of these 
firms, for an animal of his particular breed which he 
could sell cheap. It didn’t make any difference about 
the quality, or whether it had a pedigree attached, 
that could be manufactured to order. The exporters 
had no interest at stake, other than the money t-o be 
made out of this particular transaction. They had 
no reputation to lose. The prices paid for such 
animals, which are of course wanted to improve the 
stock of the country to which they are sent, are such 
as should secure the best. This sort of business can 
but work injury to honest breeders, and the better 
class of exporters. These countries are good custom¬ 
ers of the United States, especially in the line of 
improved stock and implements. But such business as 
this will kill the trade. The breeder referred to re¬ 
fused to fill any such order, saying that he had no 
such stock. This is just what every breeder should do. 
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The editors of The Rural New-Yorker, the busi¬ 
ness manager and every one of the 25 office employees 
heartily unite in sending kindly greeting to our sub¬ 
scribers. There is, or ought to be a bond of union 
between us—the producers and consumers, as we may 
fitly put it. We trust that we may, through 1894, pro¬ 
duce a better weekly spread and one that may please 
them far better than the presentations of any other 
year. We heartily wish teem the happiest New Year 
of their lives—by far the happiest. Whether these 
wishes may be, by them, realized will, no doubt, 
depend largely upon our readers themselves. The 
most earnest wishes of our best friends will prove of 
little avail to those who would both eat their pie and 
keep it too. What we hope is that our New Year 
wishes may prove an incentive to a more studious, 
liberal, unselfih, industrious life during 1894 than dur¬ 
ing any preceding year. We may feel assured that 
our happiness will be in the proportion of our efforts. 
That is in accordance with God’s just laws. 
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BREVITIES. 
New York may be a lively place, but I will guarantee 
Tnat there Is more true happiness on this old farm for me 
1 spent a week down in New York and took the whole place In. 
I saw the grandeur and the wealth, the misery and sin; 
Great pa aces and churches, too. proud in their wealth and fame. 
And rignt within their shadow stood foul dens of want and shame. 
Proud people, rich beyoed your dreams, played through their idle part, 
While right across the street crept folks with hunger at the heart 
I stood and watched the human tide tlow up and down Broadway. 
White faces with hard marks of care and young heads early gray, 
Told of the fight with poverty—the battle fierce and long, 
That saps the wisdom of the wise, the courage of the strong. 
There's too much shadow In New York, the gulf is all too wide 
Between the poor folks lu their want- the rich folks in their pride; 
And every dollar of the wealth that made that city grand 
Is made up of commissions on the product of our land ! 
I ilke the common farmer lolks - no more New York for me. 
Whene'er I shut my eyes, each hard and care worn face I see. 
We may not put on half the style up here on this old farm. 
But we are happy and content and free from want aud harm. 
They never care down in New' York who grieves or dies next door. 
1 like the kindlier folks who reach a hand out to the poor. 
The debtor has debt awe. 
Why pay taxes on a half-run farm ? 
Nothing hack kneed about the Hackney. 
May your Sew Year be happier than yourold! 
The buy ways of wheat are low ways just now. 
Bear something In mind or else be bare in mind. 
OTraditional fertilizer is what they call stable manure. 
Ever green- those who notice “green goods ’’ circulars. 
Can you stop the circulation of a failure by adve>tlsicg it ? 
When you cut a child’s feelings, don’t let the wound cal! us. 
Who can play his honest part with discouragement et heart ? 
Like Mr. Crosby, put an “ if ” In every “ make” of your mind. 
There may be more profit lu a five-oent than in a $1,00J business. 
A curry' comb is the thing with which to curry favor with a cow. 
Dirt and disorder always make a fuss-your Ignoramus will ignore a 
mu'ts. 
Don’t keep vour eyes ” In your head”—keep them on your work— 
and play ! 
Here Is the way some farmers lose their clover—they sow not till 
the sowing season’s over. 
“ Organization” is the watchword. The first thing to organize Is a 
club of subscriptions for The R N.-Y. 
Mr. Wells states that corn to be right for the silo should also be 
ripe enough for seed. Is that your Idea ? 
So cut dry stalks are as Indigestible as clothes pins—page 8(14. They 
won’t hold a cow’s butter record on the line 1 
Winter Is the time for study and thought. Don’t take your head 
into next season’s campaign without ammunition. 
It Is a helpful slga, In our opinion, when a question about cream and 
churning can call out such a discussion as Is now going on In The 
R N.-Y. 
IT is said to take 15 bales of Texas cotton to buy one car-load of 
Western potatoes. Texas is a big State, out It can’t stand 10 acres 
against one. 
Which would be the easier way to cheat your wife—to sell her in¬ 
ferior flour or a poor loaf of bread ? Tne point for you to remember Is 
that you mlghi be cheated in buying the cnemlcals with which to mix 
your own fertilizers as well as in buying the mixed goods. 
Fifteen years agy a bushel of wheat would buy a certain amount 
of any substance. We ask you now to name a substance of which the 
bushel of wheat will buy as much as it wo .Id then. There is hut ote 
—The Rural New-Yorker. The price of that has gone down with 
wheat, and the bushel buys as many numbers as ever. 
WE do hate to see a farmer’s barn or fence turned into a sign board 
to display tne me r its of somecody’s “Blt.ers,” liniment or tobaoco. It 
does seem as though a farmer should have more pride about him than 
that! This nuisance is so bad In Eng.and that there is a bill Defore 
Parliament to prohibit the erection of these signs In pretty rural 
places. 
American Gardening will, In our opinion be a more instructive 
paper in the future than it has been in the past, thouga less handsome 
in appearance. But It Is a semt-monthy now. It Is In the hands of 
men wno knowhow to supply the practical matter that readers wa t, 
aud that, we are free to say, cannot fairly be said of Its past. The 
R. N.-Y. and American Gardening will be sent one year from any date 
for $1.75. 
Mr. G. W. Drew, of Connecticut sends us the following poetical 
“ discussion:” 
“ ‘Things are not what they seem, 
When we pick out our butter cows by cream.’ ”—r. n.-y. 
"If the truth you wish to utter, 
You must select her by her butter. 
Her ration study day by day. 
And you can bet she’ll surely pay.” 
