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T 2 -‘i we hnve every class of hardy Trees and Plants; Fruit, Orna- 
He«ry Ward lieecher Strawberries and 
jLovett s Rest Blackberry are among the most valuable novelties. In our catalogues named 
below ( Which are the most complete, comprehensive and elaborate published by any nursery 
establishment in the world) all are accurately described and offered at one-lLlf the 
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BOVETT^S GUIDE TO FRUIT CULTURE t-lls all about fruits, their merits and 
defects; how to plant, prune,cultivate, etc. Richly illustrated. Severalcolor.-d plates. Priceioc 
LOVETT’S MANUAL OF ORNAMENTAL TREES ANr> PLANTS is au horL 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
THE PROSPECT. 
Let not our Eastern gardeners think they have a 
monopoly of the “ Home Market I” How is this for a 
report from far off Texas ; 
We have a grand country here, and for vegetables grown In the fall, 
we have the very best of home markets. Dealers at Mexla are pay¬ 
ing us now two cents per pound for rnta bagas ; we had some of them 
that weighed as high as eight pounds apiece. Now just Imagine one 
turnip selling for 16 cents. Our cabbages were sold at five and cauli¬ 
flower at 10 cents per pound. There never being enough of the home 
growth, vegetables that are shipped in here from St. Louis and the 
Northwest in the fall and during winter regulate prices. Freight and 
express charges being very high, give us protection with a vengence. 
This friend is gardening by irrigation and doing well. 
There are plenty of small towns in every State where 
a man might do well at such a trade. You can’t 
always sell turnips at 16 cents apiece, but you can 
grow them cheap enough to sell at a much lower price. 
Fred Grundy’s new book is the best th'ng on supply¬ 
ing a small market town that has ever been written. 
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Eveby now and then we have to say a word about 
the doings of that dairy supply concern in Chicago. 
We see tney have begun advertising again, and our 
respected contemporaries are engaged in the profitable 
work of helping them on. As Tue R. N.-Y. is left to 
choose between their advertising and the privilege of 
printing such letters as the following, we choose the 
latter: 
We do not want to be without The R. N.-Y. while we farm. We are 
pretty certain that It saved us Jiro last year by the timely warning It 
gave about a certain creamery concern of Chicago. One of their olly- 
tongued agents worked this neighborhood last summer and succeeded 
In duping enough farmers to erect a 14,000 plant, and now It stands 
like a white elephant on their hands. The fellows that do not read 
Tub U. N -Y. and who have stock In It are sick. We were on our 
guard and did not bite, thanks to yoiir valuable paper. There must 
be money In It for those fellows who put In these creameries, for the 
agent worked about two months on this one, put up at the best hotel 
In town, and drove atwo-horse livery rig. We believe the firm and the 
agent will have all the profit there Is In the concern, w. p. K. 
Pansy, Pa. 
We promised to comment on this business when the 
firm began to advertise. There is your comment I 
“ A cursed immigration” is the correct name given 
to a scheme just exposed. During the past few years 
thousands of Russian Jews have been sent to America 
through the benevolent efforts of Baron Hirsch. Sev¬ 
eral colonies were established in South America, 
where each family was provided with land and tools 
and encouraged to become self-supporting. Very few 
ever became so, and in each of the colonies was de¬ 
veloped a “bad element”—the criminal and nopelessly 
lazy. It now appears that there has been a systematic 
effort to weed out this “ bad element,” and ship the 
lazy scamps to this country in the hope of thus getting 
rid of them. The time has gone by when this country 
makes a safe dumping ground for the filthy scum of 
European civilization. No free trade in crime and 
laziness I j ^ j 
Within the past few weeks we have had several dis¬ 
cussions of sub-irrigation or watering beneath the 
surface. It seems to be quite well settled that this 
system is excellent for greenhouse culture, but there 
has been some difference of opinion as to its value in 
the field. At the Utah Experiment Station a trial 
was made of the methods of irrigating—surface and 
sub. In this case the sub-irrigating was done by 
means of perforated cement pipes, placed 12 feet apart, 
about one foot deep. The results on grass and grain 
were all in favor of surface irrigating. The trouble 
was that the lateral movement of water was too slow 
to furnish the needed supply, except directly over the 
pipe?. While this difficulty might be obviated in a 
greenhouse where the soil could be easily loosened 
there was no way of increasing the flow of water in 
outdoor soil. For outdoor gardens or farms where 
water is to be supplied artificially it is evidently best 
to put it on the surface. 
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It grows more and more apparent each year that 
the way for dairymen to make any profit is to cheapen 
the cost of producing a pound of butter or a quart of 
milk. If a man had a certain amount of wood to burn 
and a big fireplace to burn it in it would be a fair 
question for argument whether it would not pay him 
to buy a stove and close up the fireplace. Why ? 
Because the stove is the more economical of fuel and 
would furnish enough heat and still save enough wood 
to pay for its cost. The dairyman must go on much 
the same principle—that is, he must breed the animals 
that will get the moat milk and butter out of the food 
they eat. We do not know of a better illustration of 
the value of skillful breeding than the work of Smiths 
& Powell in breeding for a butter family of Holstein 
cattle. In testing their cows they found several that 
gave particularly rich milk. Investigation proved 
that certain families were far above the average in 
butter production. By breeding from the.se families 
and carefully selecting the best specimens they were 
able to produce very superior heifers and bulls that 
transmitted with certainty this butter producing qual¬ 
ity to their daughters. This was done with a breed 
that had been bred for generations for milk. The 
farmer, of course, cannot follow out such an exhaust¬ 
ive experiment as this, but he may take the principle 
of it for his own breeding. Always select for future 
milkers the most promising heifers from the best 
cows. Never use a bull that cannot show mother, 
grandmother, or sisters of superior butter quality. 
BUSINESS BITS. 
ANY one Interested In melons should write Mr. R, Morrill, Benton 
Harbor, Mich., about the True Osaice Prof. Bailey calls it delicious. 
Bone and brains are needed in this agricultural crisis. You fur Ish 
the brains and write to the Western Union Chemical Co , of Cleveland, 
O., for facts about bone. 
“ Linseed meal Is a tine cow tonic; why doesn’t some one tell where 
to buy It?" We refer this question to the dealers who don’t seem to 
care whether they sell their meal or not. 
The Eclipse corn planter Is one of those Implements that kill two 
birds with one stone; only it hits three or four at the same time- 
drops the corn, covers It, rolls the ground and checks OIT the ground 
and checks off the hills at desired distances, besides distributing fer¬ 
tilizers either wet or dry. It plants peas, beans, beets, etc., as well as 
corn. The Eclipse Corn Planter Co., EiiHeld, N. II., will ttll all about It. 
Tub groat lesson that farmers must learn Is the thorough prepara¬ 
tion and cultivation of the soil for crops. .Mechanics and manufac¬ 
turers of farm Implements understand the Importance of this and 
they seem to have vied with each other In producing machinery lor 
the purpose. The Imperial pulverizer, made by the Peterson Manu¬ 
facturing Co., Kent, Ohio, Is one of the valuable implements for this 
purpose. I’artloularg will be sent on application. 
Eveuv day wo get letters from Western farmers and gardeners who 
desire to use chemical fertilizers. Many of them want to buy near 
home. The demand for these fertilizers has created a new business 
at the West—that of utilizing the blood, bone and other waste mate¬ 
rials formerly sent East to be manufactured Into fertilizers. Among 
the Western houses engaged In this industry is the .lareckl Chemical 
Co., of Sandusky, O. Western fertilizer buyers may well write to this 
house for a descriptive pamphlet. They will And It to their advantage 
to do so. 
The fence question becomes more Important as timber gets scarce, 
and a higher state of cultlyallon Is required, making a demand for a 
cheap, durable and substantial fence. Barbed w.re Is unpopular on 
account of Its danger. Lumber Is expensive, and the picket fence 
does not exactly till the bill. Woven wire fencing Is accordingly com¬ 
ing Into favor, as It uses but little lumber and the expense of making 
Is the Important question. The Carter Wire Fence Machine Co.. Box 
39, Derby, O , are at present making a machine by which It Is claimed 
the farmer can weave his own fence at the exceedingly low price of 25 
cents per rod counting the wire and weaving. They will send descrip¬ 
tions free. 
Renders xt imperative that a Farmer's acres give him back the largest 
^possible returns for the labor he bestows upon them. This mea?is labor- 
saving tools, especially such as perform a variely of operalions lhat 
when done by hand are slow, tedious, and consequently costly ones. 
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saving, and therefore money-earning, tools. Our latest Catalogue will tell 
^yquajl about the whole family, and will give any Farmer valuable informa- 
I lion in the line of improved methods for cheapening his cost of production. 
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