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rilE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 20 
E. D. R., Allegany, N. Y.—Remember 
that the ordinary hoe head bends in too 
much. Heat the shank a little and bend it 
out till the blade is almost at right angles 
with the handle. Remember to sharpen 
it well and then place your hands on it 
as if it were a rake. Stand up straight 
and hoe with ease. Remember, if you 
have one or many cabbages to pull, not to 
do it by main strength and awkwardness, 
but use your potato fork, and with that 
you can tumble them out easily. Re¬ 
member that your first motion is to 
thrust the prongs of the fork under the 
cabbage close to the head, then lift up 
the handle and the prongs will hit the 
ground forming a lever. By the time the 
handle is perpendicular, the cabbage will 
be out. 
Homemade Spraylae: Outfit. 
E. n. CuRRiKR, Wisconsin. —My spray¬ 
ing outfit is simply a tank or barrel hold¬ 
ing 150 gallons, mounted on wagon 
wheels. To one wagon wheel I fastened 
a large sprocket wheel. On top of the 
barrel I bolted a common force pump. I 
run the pump with a sprocket chain by 
using a three-fourths inch shaft about 
two feet long, with an eight-inch 
sprocket on the outside end and a six- 
inch smooth wheel on the end next the 
pump. A pitman 10 inches long connects 
the pump with the wheel on the shaft. I 
use a three-fourths inch hose fastened 
firmly to the pump, with a Vermorel noz¬ 
zle attached for making the spray. I 
fasten the end of the hose at the back of 
the barrel down near the bottom, and 
with this arrangement the spray can be 
thrown over a strip 20 feet wide as fast 
as the team can walk. I have a strainer 
over the opening in the top of the barrel, 
so that nothing can get into the pump 
and clog it. 
With this outfit one man can do 25 
acres a day, and kill all the bugs with 
13^ pound of Paris-green per acre. If the 
right kind of sprockets cannot be found, 
a 24-inch grooved wooden wheel for the 
drive wheel and an eight-inch grooved 
wheel for the shaft wheel run with a 
half-inch rope for a belt will work just 
as well. 
Another Potato Planter Man. 
P. B. V. 0., Lewis, Iowa. —I like the 
Aspinwall potato planter because it opens 
the furrow, drops the seed and covers at 
one operation, thus placing the seed in 
moist earth. It drops at a uniform depth 
and in a perfectly straight line, making 
cultivation easier as they cover up more 
quickly and evenly than by hand, and 
make a more uniform growth. It drops 
the seed more uniformly than any man 
I can hire. Will drop from one small 
piece to a whole potato and seldom miss. 
I never had a poor stand from its use. 
My only objection is that when I have 
very high priced or rare seed, it takes too 
much, as when the potatoes are cut to 
single eyes, it picks up and drops two to 
three pieces. When I handle this kind 
of seed, I simply take off the pickers, 
fasten a tube from the shoe to level of 
lap while on seat and drop by hand 
through this. I can raise as good crops 
by machine planting as by hand if not 
planted too thick. 
Advantafi^es of Machine Flantinsr. 
L. J. P., Lowell, Mich. —I have raised 
from 20 to 40 acres of potatoes per year 
for the past 15 years, and have carefully 
tested both hand and machine work. I 
think there is a great difference in favor 
of machine planting, especially on soil 
recently turned. Our best growers here 
prefer clover turned in the spring, and 
it is almost impossible to furrow out 
a freshly-turned sod. Much of the land 
in potato-growing sections is more 
or less hilly; the machine leaves a 
ridge on the row of potatoes, and 
they are not liable to wash. In 
planting by hand the potatoes are 
more or less zig-zagged in the row 
unless more than ordinary care be given, 
while the machine leaves them in line, 
which is an important point in close cul¬ 
tivation. The potatoes can be put at a 
more uniform depth, and one reason, not 
among the least, is that where one stops 
the machine at night the work is finished, 
while many times just as a field is marked 
and furrowed, a heavy storm comes, and 
the whole has to be done over. My ex¬ 
perience is that with just as good prepar¬ 
ation of soil and the same amount of good 
cultivation, as large crops can be raised 
with machine as hand planting, and 
much cheaper. 
Knows About Hollow-Hearted Potatoes. 
R. B., (Address Mislaid.)— Prof. Mas¬ 
sey hit the nail on the head in regard to 
hollow potatoes. Rich, moist ground is 
the main cause. If such soil be dry the 
fore part of the season, and plenty of 
rain come later, this, too, makes the 
potato start to grow rapidly and become 
hollow. I planted a few very large hol¬ 
low potatoes on other ground from where 
they were grown. They all grew large 
and solid and only three and four to a 
hill. 
Items of interest, criticisms, or corres¬ 
pondence of any kind intended for, or sug¬ 
gested by, this column, should be addressd 
to Ruralisms. 
The Rural New-Yorker has abund¬ 
ant reason to feel thankful, and we are 
writing, with the utmost sincerity. Last 
year the circulation of the paper was— 
as has been stated—greater than it has 
been since The R. N.-Y. was founded 
upon the remains of Moore’s Rural New- 
Yorker, 17 years ago, and there was, at 
that time, little that remained of it be¬ 
yond a farm paper in name. 
The editors felt that, in consideration 
of che hard times, the circulation would 
fall off for 1894, and fall off materially— 
since the subscription season of 1893 was 
regarded as in the height of prosperous 
times. We have now reason to hope that 
The Rural will hold its 1893 circulation 
during the new year. 
To what extent this is owing to the 
reduction in price, we may not say. We 
are inclned to think that it is, in a great 
measure, owing to the kindly apprecia¬ 
tion of its old subscribers. We made the 
request—and we made it as forcible as 
we knew how—that those of our friends 
who were impressed that $1 is too low a 
price for The Rural, would send us a 
new subscription with their renewals. 
This request has been respected by a 
greater number than we dared to hope, 
and one of the gratifying results is that 
the mail of the second of January gave us 
a greater number of subscriptions than 
we have ever received on that day before. 
It is invariably the heaviest day of the 
year. 
Thank you, good friends. Thank you 
very, very much. The editors and owners 
are working together in full harmony 
and with a conscientious determination 
to do all that in them lies to make The 
Rural during the new year more impres¬ 
sive, more trustworty, more instructive 
than it has ever been during its 43 years 
of life. Watch the pledge! And, good 
friends, remember the one new subscriber 
with your renewal. 
“Charger,” a medium size white horse, 
was probably over 30 years old. It was 
the wish of the family to keep him and 
care for him until he died. He was 
groomed and well cared for in every way 
and was kept loose in a large box-stall 
with an upper door through which in 
pleasant weather his head and neck might 
be seen as he enjoyed the fresh air and 
sun or received a kindly word from the 
workmen or members of the family, for 
we seldom passed without patting him or 
greeting him in some way. He had not 
been harnessed or driven in several years. 
His eye was bright and his spirits always 
high. But Charger at length could not 
eat his food and became a mere dismal 
sight of skin and bones. Still the family 
shrank from having him killed. We 
could not endure to have this faithful 
old friend suffer from any harsh act. It 
was decided to give him chloroform. A 
pound was purchased, cotton was satur¬ 
ated, placed in a bag and the bag quietly 
fixed over his head. He made no resist¬ 
ance whatever. In a few moments he 
lay down as if to rest and without the 
slightest struggle he breathed his last 
as if he had sunk into a peaceful sleep. 
It is the way of some unthinking 
people to part with their old horses that 
have served them well for many years, 
it may be, knowing that they will be ill- 
treated and obliged to work under the 
goad of the lash until they cannot work 
any more. Then they are shot or knocked 
on the head. Perhaps the first shot or 
knock kills—perhaps not. Oh ! the suf¬ 
fering I Oh ! the cruelty ! If there is 
any reason why we should justify such 
cruelty to our faithful animals that have 
grown helpless in old age and while in 
our service, we do not see why the same 
justification might not be urged were we 
to treat our aged, helpless parents in the 
same manner. 
We have heartily wished our readers, 
one and all, a happy New Year—the 
happiest of their lives. If we were will¬ 
ing to moderate this wish towards any it 
would be towards those among the first 
who are needlessly unkind, wantonly 
cruel towards the poor, helpless, faithful 
animals under their charge, 
(Continued on next peuge.) 
IX writing to kdTertisors pleaM alwari mentloc 
THB BimAi,. 
Distress in tire Stomacl] 
Heartburn, Sick Head¬ 
ache, and other « 5 Tnp- 
tems of Dyapepaia 
iBeubled me for leveral 
yean. Since I hare been 
taking BOOD’S SAB. 
SAPARULKiA all this 
Is changed. Dyspe p ■ i a 
trouble no longer bothers 
me. I do not have heart- 
bum and I am free from 
headache. I have gained 
in flesh and feel better in 
every way." Mbs. J.H. Coox, MarttnsTllle, HI. 
Hood’s Pills are purely vegetable. 26a 
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rACENTS CoTEJl 
Money selling lieveritige’s Au- 
, toinatic Cooker. Latest and E 
best cooking utensil ever invent- B 
ed. Sells at sight. One AgentB 
’ sold over 1 700 in one town. B 
One sample Cooker froe tol 
’ good agents. Advertising matter 1 
furnished. For full particulars ad- ■ 
dress W. E. BEVERIDGE,, n 
Baltimore, Md. H 
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Friendly Regard 
is never en¬ 
tertained by 
the children 
for a medi¬ 
cine that 
tastes bad. 
This explains 
the popular- 
i t y among 
little ones of 
Scott’s Eniulsion, 
a preparation of cod-liver 
oil almost as palatable as 
milk. Many mothers have 
grateful knowledge of its 
benefits to weak, sickly 
children. 
Prepared by Scott & Bowne. N. Y. All draggist.s. 
PAINTroofs 
eBXeN’8 QKAPHiTE PAIN^ 
yfst«rwlllni 2 fr(nKStpm?«aa£«lMn. ItooversdonbU 
the suTfaes vt taj other paint, and will hut four or/lvo 
tirnttlongtr. Equally nsefnl for any Iron work. Bend for 
olrcalam. Joa Dixox Cbucibl* Co.. Jersey Clty.N, J- 
Li)aii;f i sieei lanns. 
Entirely of Steel. No Castings to break. 
Strongest and simplest Lever Arrangement 
on the market. Write for Descriptive Circular. 
RODERICK LEAN MFC. CO. 
MANSFIELD, OHIO. 
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Also Steel Web Picket Fence and Steel Wire 
Fence Board. Write for circulars. 
DeKALB FENCE CO.. 17, Hiah St.. DeKalb. 111. 
THIS BlTsriii* 
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RACINE MALLEABLE IRON CO., 
XC Sample mailed Sl.< 
NIokei 
J. P. DAVIES, 
RACINE, WI8. I 
“ECONOMY IS WEALTH.” 
CanvaBeers wanted to sell the 
Improved Hall Typewriter. 
Writes all languages. 
Price, 8.30. Great induce- 
mentB to agents. Send for 
catalogue and terms. Address 
N. TYPEWEITEB CO.. 611 WasUmgtOll St., BOSTON, MASS. 
Farms for Sale.! ^ 
WIFE 
CANNOT SEE HOW YOU DO 
IT AND PAY FREIGHT. 
lagMAchine, with a complete set of at* 
tachmonta and piarantoed for 10 yeart Shipped any* 
where on SO day%* trioL No money required in 
vanee. 75.000 now in use. World's Fair MMal awarded. 
Buy from factory, save dealers' and agents' profit 
Write to-day for our LARGE FREE CATALOGUE. 
Oxford Mfg. Co., 342 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. 
Farms, both improved and unimproved, In well 
settled localities In Minnesota, wltbln from 25 
to lOU miles of Minneapolis and good markets, 
for sale for a small cash payment, and balance, 
principal and interest, may oe paid out of half 
the crop grown. Several of these farms are new 
land and In the heart of the best potato region 
in the Northwest. Address A. G. WILCOX, 
No. 130 Temple Court, Minneapolis, Minn. 
ELLIOTS PARCHMENT BUTTER PAPER. pOJSm 
To dairymen or others who will use It, we wlU send half a ream, 8x11, frea If they wlU ■ I m lai hw ■ 
forward SO cents to pay postage. Why not try the Best Butter Wrapper I 
A. Q. KLltlOT St CO., Paper Manufacturers, Philadelphia, Pa. 
'ACME" Pulverizing Harrow, Clod Crusher «®Leveler 
TS adapted to all soils and all work for which al 
Harrow is needed. 
Flat crushing spurs pulverize lumps, level and 
smooth the ground, while at thesame time curved 
coulters cultivate, lift and turn the entire surface 
of the soil. The backward slant of the coulters 
prevents tearing up rubbish and reduces the draft. 
Made entirely of cast steel and wrought iron 
and therefore practically indestructible. 
CHEAPEST RIDING HARROW ON 
EARTH—sells for about the same as an ordinary 
drag—eight dollars and upwards. 
N. B.—I deliver tree on board at distributing pointa. 
ON TRIM To responsible farmers, to be returned 
ULiltl vil llll/iL at my eipente ilnot satisfactory. 
DDANE H. NASH, Sole Mtr., S:To"&?c".;nai sCcitSSii: 
MENTION THIS PAPER. 
Variety 
suitable 
all work 
