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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
May 5 
Rurallsms— Continued. 
No. 3 for introduction. We have told our 
readers, according' to the best of our 
knowledge and belief, just what they may 
look for in the No. 1. It is an early in¬ 
termediate and, because of its good shape 
and large size, may be dug as an early 
potato, though, we dare say, if this were 
followed up, the result would be an early 
deterioration of the variety. In quality 
it is perfect. The flesh is exceptionally 
white and it is a heavy yielder of tubers 
of large size with, practically, no small 
ones. That is good enough. Thousands 
of trials of this potato will be made this 
season, and next fall, the verdict will be 
rendered for or against Thp: R. N.-Y.’s 
claims. 
The modest claim for the No. 3 is made 
that it will outyield any other potato 
whatever ; that it will yield the smallest 
proportion of small tubers of any variety 
and, finally, that, for a variety that 
yields so heavily, it approaches more 
nearly to a perfect form than any variety 
now in the market. 
The R. N.-Y. has nothing whatever to 
make by setting forth such claims except 
—glory ; since it has no money interest 
in either the No. 1 or No. 3. Should our 
claims not be supported by a popular 
corroboration, the “glory” will not be 
such as will help Tue R. N.-Y.’s circula¬ 
tion or its reputation. 
A FRIEND living in Arlington, Md., 
asks a question: 
will you please give me your opinion In regard to 
the amount of fertilizer that can be used on new 
ground ? I had It In corn last year for the first time, 
and propose planting potatoes this spring, using only 
fertilizer. If I use 800 pounds per acre (Mapes po¬ 
tato manure) do you think there Is any danger of the 
crop becoming fired In case of dry weather'/ 
Not the least danger is there that 800 
pounds of potato fertilizer of high grade 
will injure the crop, no matter what the 
weather may be. The question as to how 
much fertilizer may be profitably used 
on potatoes is one The R. N.-Y. feels it 
has a right to answer with authority. 
For many years—as The New Potato 
Culture records—we have tried experi¬ 
ments to throw light upon this question. 
We have used all the way from 200 to 
2,250 pounds to the acre, and -em¬ 
phatic result has been that up to 1,750 
pounds, the largest amount has been 
profitable. If we were trying to win a 
prize for the largest yield, we would not 
use less than 2,000 pounds to the acre, 
1,000 just before the potatoes were 
planted, 1,000 so soon as the sprouts ap¬ 
peared above ground—this upon poor 
soil. 
Richness of land is a relative term. 
Just what it means and how much fer¬ 
tilizer would best be used must be deter¬ 
mined by experiments. What we mean 
by a “ high-grade potato fertilizer,” 
should contain about four per cent nitro¬ 
gen, eight per cent phosphoric acid and 
6 per cent potash. 
Glen Mary is the pretty name of a 
new strawberry that will be introduced 
in due time. 
The Minnesota Station sowed on one 
plot oats weighing 37 pounds to the 
bushel, and on another oats weighing 21 
pounds. The result was that the heavy 
seed yielded at the rate of G4 bushels to 
the acre, the light 541^. Oats sown April 
18 yielded 473^ bushels to the acre; sown 
April 29, 373^; sown May 11, 2514. 
Direct. 
- Emerson : “ Every act of the man 
inscribes itself in the memory of his fel¬ 
lows, and in his own manners and face. 
The air is full of sounds; the sky of 
tokens; the ground is all memoranda 
and signatures ; and every object covered 
over with hints, which speak to the in¬ 
telligent.” 
“ Goethe suggested the leading idea of 
modern botany, that a leaf, or the eye of 
a leaf, is the unit of botany, and that 
every part of the plant is only a trans¬ 
formed leaf to meet a new condition ; 
and, by varying the conditions, a leaf 
“FOI?. THE BLOOE IS THE LIPE." 
People become tliiu, pale, puny and “ nervous,” when their blood is impoverished, or poor. All the tissues 
are fed from the blood. When the vital fluid becomes impaired, impoverished and ])oor, the nerves, no less 
than the muscles, suffer, and sleeplessness, neuralgia, nervous prostration, debility, twitchings, spasms and other 
distressing derangements follow. Thin, watery, weak, impoverished and impure blood also predisposes to all 
manner of scrofulous, scalp and skin diseases, and even consumption, or lung-scrofula, is among the common 
consequences which follow such a condition. 
The best remedy is to be found, not in anodyne nerve medicines, so loudly recommended, which only 
“j)ut the nerves to sleep,” and, in the long run, “make a bad matter worse,” but in a medicine which “ strikes 
at the root ” of the evil by ])urifying, enriching and vitalizing the blood. 
For this purpose Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is the remedy par excellence. Unlike nasty cod 
liver oil and its filthy “Emulsions,” it does not make Jdt, but builds up solid wholesome flesh and increases the 
strength, nerve force and vigor of all who use it. 
For building up delicate, thin, puny, pale people, both children and adults, it has no equal. It does not 
render fat people more corpulent, for it does not make fat but wholesome flesh, thereby rounding out the face 
and figure of those who, from any cause, have become reduced in flesh below the healthy standard. 
For Weak Lungs, Bleeding from Lungs, all Lingering Coughs, Bronchitis, Laryngitis, Catarrh in the 
Head, Asthma and Consumption, or Lung-ScroLla, in its earlier stages, Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery 
is the most positive remedy known to Medical Science. 
We have a Cloud of Witnesses to the above facts, but, for lack of space, can here introduce only the 
few following : 
BLEEDING FROM LUNGS, 
CONSUMPTION. 
World’s Dispknsary Medical Associa¬ 
tion, nutTalo, N. Y.; 
Ocntlemen—l wisli to say to you that Dr. 
I’ierce’s Golden Medical Dis¬ 
covery saved my life and 
has made me a man; my 
home-physician says I am 
Kood for forty years yet. 
You will remember that my 
casewtis a csise just between 
life and death, and all of my 
friends were sure it was a 
case of death, until I com¬ 
menced takiiif? a second 
bottle of “Golden Medical 
Discovery,” when I was 
able to sit up and the coukIi 
was very much better, and 
the bleeding' from my lungs 
stoi)ped, and before I had 
taken si.Y bottles of the 
“Golden Medical Discov¬ 
ery ” my cough ceased and 
I was 
new 
man and ready for busi¬ 
ness. 
And now I feel that 
it is a duty that I owe 
to my fellow men to i-e- 
coniinend to them the 
“Golden Medical Discov¬ 
ery” and Dr. Sage’s Ca¬ 
tarrh Itemedy, which 
saved ray life when doc¬ 
tors and all other medi¬ 
cines failed to do me any 
good. 
I will send to you with 
this letter two or my jiho- 
tograpbs; one was taken 
a few weeks before I was 
taken down sick in bed, p ti 
and the other was taken dauris, esq 
after I was well. For references, address 
C. H. HAHHiS, 
No. 1622 2d Ave., Itock Island, 111. 
( Before.) 
C. II. Harris, Esq. 
( After.) 
Anton Kuatz, Esq. 
WEAK LUNGS, COUGH, CHRONIC 
NASAL CATARRH. 
Mr. Anton Kratz, Crawford, Dawes Co., 
Neb., had weak lungs, 
cough and catarrh, with 
profuse expectoration; 
ditlicult breathing, lasting 
from one to eight hours. 
He writes “I took sick 
and went to the doctors. 
They gave me medicine, 
but it did not hlep me, so I 
got two or three bottles of 
‘Golden Medical Discov¬ 
ery’ and some ‘Pellets.’ 
After a while I got better, 
until three wintei'S ago I 
got sick again so I could 
not do anything, and 1 
wrote to you giving my 
symptoms on one of your 
question blanks, and asked 
you about my case. You 
told me to take your‘Golden Medical Discov¬ 
ery.’ I took four bottles and got well and 
have been well ever since.” 
ASTHMA. 
Ten Doctors Failed to Cure! 
Mrs. Isaac Lotman, of 
T burlaw, Delaware Co., 
Pa., writes as follows: 
“ I wish to write you of 
my brother, Harry C. 
Troup, who has been sick 
for ten years with asth¬ 
ma. He has been treated 
by ten different physi¬ 
cians, who have said he 
could not be cured. He, 
had to sit up at night, he 
got so short of breath; 
he suffered with fearful 
headaches and had a bad 
cough. After taking Dr. 
Pierce’s Golden Medical 
Discovery and ‘ Pleasant 
Pellets,’ he did not get 
short of breath, and can sleep all night." 
Titoup. 
BAD 
COUGH, BILIOUSNESS, 
CONSTIPATION. 
George T 
ford, Vt., writes: “ 1 was feeling very miserab' 
all summer, was very 
Wilder, E.sq., of East tValtiti(i-^ 
bilious; sometimes my 
bowels would n ot 
move in sixty to sev¬ 
enty houi-s; I would 
take some bitters, 
which would help the 
matter, but as soon as 
the bitteis wei'C gone 
I had to buy more or I 
would be as bad as be¬ 
fore and sometimes 
worse. A druggist 
called my attention to 
your Dr. Pierce’sGold¬ 
en Medical Discovery, 
and before I had taken 
half a bottle of it 1 felt 
much better, and by 
the time 1 had taken 
all, I could cat three 
hearty meals per day, 
and had not felt so 
well for a long time. 
When I commenced taking the ‘Golden Mcnli- 
cal Discovery ’ I thought 1 was going into con¬ 
sumption, as I had a terrible cough for three 
yeai-sand my weight decreasing. My weight 
before taking the ‘ Golden Medical Discovery’ 
was 133 pounds; last March it was 147 pounds, 
and 1 give the credit to the ‘ Discovery.’ ” 
A Complete Treatise on any one of the above 
mentioned diseases will be sent to applicants 
on receipt of si.x cents (stamps) to pay postage. 
Each Treatise contains numerous testimonials 
and references to those whom we have cui-ed. 
Addi-ess, 
Geo. Wilder, Esq. 
WorU’s Disposary MeJieal Association 
INVALIDS’ HOTEL and SURGICAL INSTITUTE, 
BXJIHIP^XjO, N. Y. 
may be converted into any other organ 
and any other organ into a leaf.” 
“ He cannot hate anybody ; his time is 
worth too much.” 
-The Arena: “Man has never at¬ 
tempted to improve upon the work of 
God without creating suffering.” 
-Gov. Hoard : “ Millions of dollars 
are annually expended in the United 
States for agricultural colleges, while 
hardly a text book on agricultural 
science, even in its simplest form, can 
be found in any of our country schools.” 
-Gardening: “Sowinj^ grass seed may 
puzzle many a one, especially if there is 
a light breeze blowing. But we get 
over this very easily. When we are ready 
to sow, we sift a lot of common, light, 
moistish loam on the floor of a shed, and 
there mix the grass seed with it, turning 
and returning it so as to ^t it all evenly 
and thoroughly mixed. We sow the seed 
in this condition, and the wind has no 
effect on it. besides we can distribute it 
more evenly than we could if it weren’t 
mixed.” 
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