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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 9 
As We Go To Press. 
“POINTERS.” 
Thk asparagus presents a singular les¬ 
son in plant life. The tender shoots 
that dart up in the spring grow when 
the ground is too cold to force other 
plants along. People often wonder at 
this, but the wonder grows less when we 
understand how and why this growth 
was made. The slender shoot springs 
from a big fat root which spent last 
summer storing nutriment and getting 
ready for its spring work. The time to 
manure it was last summer. It then 
could store up the plant food and hold 
it ready to dart out its shoots at the first 
touch of spring. Little use pouring on 
the soluble food in March or April. Peed 
it six months ahead for best results. 
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Wk are led to speak of this by noticing 
that some of our esteemed contempor¬ 
aries are following their usual plan of 
slacking up a little during the summer 
season. They begin to use a lighter 
paper, poorer ink and cheaper matter— 
and show a general disposition to slacken 
up during the dull season. Their theory 
seems to be that about September 1 they 
can plunge in again and make a great 
showing for the purpose of pleasing 
those who are strangers to the paper. 
This may be good policy for some kinds 
of business, but we regard an agricul¬ 
tural paper as more like an asparagus 
root. We don't propose to try to brighten 
things up for the short subscription sea¬ 
son, and then go to sleep for the rest of 
the year. Our ideal is to try to make 
each paper as good as we know how. 
Really, we would prefer to put in our 
best work in the summer, both because 
that is the Lime readers need most help 
and because we are after good friends 
and agents. If we can dll a man up now 
with a feeling of obligation to Thk R. 
N.-Y., we feel confident that obligation 
will sprout out in the form of a new sub¬ 
scription. Ihe rest of the year for 50 cents. 
That is our hint. We shall make no 
“kick” if you take it. 
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Wk do not think the following cor¬ 
respondence needs much introduction. 
It is but one of many : 
Answering yours of May 16, we are glad that you 
wrote us before shipping any goods to the commis¬ 
sion merchant of whom you speak, lie is one of a 
nest of the worst rascals in the commission business 
In this city. You do well to Inquire before shlppltg 
goods to any such parties. We do not think It any 
trouble, but shall always be glad to advise you In 
regard to any such matters and feel that we are well 
paid when we keep a reader of The li. N.-Y. out of 
the clutches of such scoundrels as this one whom 
you mention. Y'ours very truly. 
The kdkal New-Yorker. 
Gentlemen : Accept my sincere thanks for the 
timely warning above. I wish it were In my power 
to put The R. N.-Y. In the hands of every farmer In 
the country, as a true guide and a sale guard. May 
It ever “ flourish like a green bay tree." G. w. u. 
Kentucky. 
We shall be satisfied with the fiourish of 
a healthy ‘‘ green bay tree,” and we are 
prepared to risk the experiment of re¬ 
ceiving a dollar from every farmer in the 
country I 
§ I § 
The articles on Crimson clover are 
calling out many letters from farmers 
who desire to buy seed. These articles 
are not written for the benefit of seed 
growers by any means, but at the same 
time the seeds are necessary if one is to 
experiment with this plant. Let farmer 
deal with farmer with this just as well 
as with other products Now is the time 
to let folks know you have Crimson 
clover seed to sell. Maybe you think 
you cannot find customers through The 
R. N.-Y. Here are a few reports for 
your consideration: 
The K. N.-Y. has done so well for me that 1 shall 
give It the most of my advertising next year. I can¬ 
not get the same returns from double the cost In 
other papers. M. f. wkhster. 
I have received over 50 orders from the advertise¬ 
ment and still they come. m. Crawford. 
Among several farm papers The R. N.-Y. tells 
most that 1 want to know. 1 am well pleased with 
the result of a single insertion of my ad. In The 
R. N.-Y. G. A. PAKCELL. 
These are all farmers, mind you. 
To give you an idea how well our half- 
year offer works, we print the following: 
I see bv the sample copy of The R. N -Y. which 
you mailed to me, that 60 cents pays for the rest of 
the year, or 31 papers for 50 cents, which Is almost 
like getting " something for nothing.” I want to help 
you print a good paper at reasonable rates; and I 
want to help you win your battle against "Imitation” 
butter. Keep at It until no food adulteration Is 
profitable. B. S F. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
A single 50 cents may seem like a small 
thing, but 10,000 of them would mean 
that many new subscribers to The R. 
N.-Y., and increased power for good all 
around. We ought to have a much larger 
list, and we would soon have it if each 
reader would realize that 10 words spoken 
just at the right time would fasten his 
neighbor to The R. N.-Y. 
Among other sincere compliments re¬ 
ceived this season, this one is well to 
the front: 
Notwithstanding money Is so scarce, I can’t do 
without The R. N.-Y. I’d rather do without my to¬ 
bacco than do without The R. N.-Y. J. O. m. 
Ohio. 
Any man who has ever used tobacco 
knows what a tyrant it is, and how it 
holds a man in chains that grow tighter 
with time. The R. N.-Y. is sound, in¬ 
deed, if it can beat tobacco in a fair con¬ 
test for the possession of a man’s dollar. 
In fact, that evidence of the value of 
The R. N.-Y. is so convincing that we 
will now leave the subject and ask you 
to consider the following little sermon : 
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Since the last great war, inventors 
have been at work trying to make war¬ 
fare as horrible as possible. New rifies 
and bullets, new powder that gives no 
smoke yet drives the ball with terrible 
force, are now in use. The next great 
war promised to be a horrible slaughter 
for the soldier in the ranks. But now 
comes an inventor with a defense for the 
common soldier—a uniform or coat that 
will turn these terrible bullets or keep 
them out of the body. This is like going 
back to the middle ages when a soldier 
could lock himself up in steel armor and 
run small risk of being hit in a vital 
part. Now the point we want to make 
about this is the way the inventor of this 
{Continued on next page.) 
If you name The Rural New-Yorker to our 
advertisers, you may be pretty sure of prompt 
replies and right treatment 
FERTILIZERS 
ARE UNPROFITABLE, 
Unless they Contain Sufficient Potash. 
Complete fertilizers should contain at least six per 
cent of Potash. Fertilizers for Potatoes, Tobacco, 
Fruits and Vegetables should contain from 10 to 15 
per cent of Potash. Farmers should use fertilizers 
containing enough potash or apply Potash salts, 
such as Muriate of Potash, Sulphate of Potash and 
Kalnlt. For information and pamphlets, address 
GERMAN KALI WORKS, 
93 Nassau Street, New York City. 
^11 
CROPS 
INCREASED 
AND QUALITY IMPROVED 
BY THE USE 
OF OUR 
Fertilizers. 
WE MANUFACTURE A 
FULL LINE OF 
Bone Super 
i Phosphates i 
. . and . . 
Special Fertilizers 
for different Crops and soils. It pays to i 
them on 
GRAIN, GRASS, 
VEGETABLES, FRUITS, 
TOBACCO, TREES 
AND VINES, 
in fact everything that grows in or out of the , 
ground. We keep in stock all fertilizing 
chemicals and materials. 
The Cleveland Dryer Co. 
Fertilizer Exchange, 130 SUMMIT STREEl, 
CLEVELAND, OHIO. 
best investment in real-estate is to 
I keep building.s well painted. Paint protects the house and 
saves repairs. You sometimes want to sell—many a good 
house has remained unsold for want of paint. The rule should 
be though, “the best paint or none.” That means 
Strictly Pure White Lead 
You cannot afford to use cheap paints. To be sure of getting 
Strictly Pure White Lead, look at the brand; any of these are safe: 
“A.^CHOR ” (Cincinnati). 
“ARMSTRONG & McKELVY” (Pittsburgh). 
“ ATLANTIC” (New York). 
“BEYMER-BAUMAN ” (Pittsburgh). 
“ BRADLEY ” (New York), 
“ BROOKLYN ” (New York), 
“COLLIER ”(St. Louis). 
“CORNELL ” (Buffalo), 
“DAVIS-CHAMBERS” (Pittsburgh). 
“ ECKSTEIN ” (Cincinnati). 
“FAHNESTOCK” (Pittsburgh). 
“JEWETT ” (New York). 
“ KENTUCKY ” (Louisville). 
“JOHN T.LEWIS & BROS. CO.” (Phila.) 
“ MORLEY ” (Cleveland). 
“MISSOURI ” (SL Louis). 
“ RED SEAL ” (St Louis), 
“SALEM ” (Salem, Mass.) 
“ SHIPMAN ” (Chicago). 
“ SOUTHERN ” (St.Louis and Chicago). 
“ ULSTER ” (New York). 
“ UNION ” (New York). 
For Colors. —National Lead Co.’s Pure White Lead Tinting Colors. 
These colors are sold in one-pound cans, each can being sufficient to tint 25 pounds of Strictly 
Pure White Lead the desired shade ; they are in no sense ready-mixed paints, but a combination of 
perfectly pure colors in the handiest form to tint Strictly Pure White Lead. 
A good many thousand dollars have been saved property-owners by having our book on 
pa'nling and color-card. Send us a postal card and get both free. 
NATIONAL LEAD CO., New York. 
for your 
Wagons' 
Any size you 
want. 20 to56 
Inches high. 
Tires I to 8 
Inches wide— 
liubs to litany 
a.xle. Saves 
Cost many 
times in a sea¬ 
son to have set 
of low wheels 
to fit your wa¬ 
gon for hauling 
grain, fodder, 
manure, hogs. Ac. 
No resetting of t ires. 
Catl’g/ree. Address 
Empire Mfg. Co., 
aUINCYs ill 
WHIPPIaE’S 
8nPPLEMENTAKV-AD.TU8TABLE 
Wide Tire for Farm Wagons! 
This tire can be put 
on over the narrow 
tire, and can be at¬ 
tached or detached In 
a few minutes 1 will 
send a sample to any 
reliable farmer en 
trial, and will give a 
discount of 30 per cent 
on the first order 
from a neighborhood 
for introducing the 
tire. Write tor prices 
and particulars. Ad¬ 
dress 
E. E. WHIPPLE, 
St. Johns, Mich. 
BUY ANTI-TRUST 
Harrows and Cultivators, 
MADE BY THE 
Whipple Harrow Go., St. Johns, Mich. 
NATURE’S OWN FERTILIZER, 
CANADA m AUPO 
HARDWOOD I I 
The Forest City Wood Ash Co., of London, Canada 
have perfect facilities for handling them In propei 
shape. Bend for free Pamphlet and Guaranteed 
Analysis to 
THE FOREST CITY WOOD ASH CO., 
9 Merchants’ Bow, Boston, Mass. 
Can a Farmer 
make 
Money 
out of 
Cent 
to one res¬ 
ponsible far- 
If he raises only 
crops. 
If he doubles his present 
I CiZJ 1 yield. 
Fertilizers Free 
.TcV'wm.t. Freight Paid. 
full particulars ' 
Powell Fertil izer & Chemical Co. 
‘Powell’s Fertilizers,” 
BALTIMORE, MD. 
State Your Uis= 
trictand nearest 
Shipping Point. 
Wheat? 
Was Awarded 
the Highest Pre- 
mium at the 
WORLD’S FAIR. 
This barn Is divided 
Into three compart¬ 
ments, viz.: Ground 
Floor, Driveway and 
Mow. Send to the 
Pioneer" hay car¬ 
rier manufacturers for an illustrated description, giv¬ 
ing size and dimensions of the 
material need In Its construc- 
tlcn. with estimate of cost; also 
tor circulars describing Im¬ 
provements In hay csrrlers and 
track patected to us May 1,1894. 
.J.E PORTER COIHPANV 
Ottawa, Ill. 
DANDY STEEL 
Water unless pumped 
cold and fresh by a 
$30 
There is no necessity of y 
working all your life when ' 
You Can 
Have Power 
which will 
Pump, Grind, Saw, <fcc., 
without it costing you a 
cent to keep. Always In 
harness, and never gets tired, 
I,et us send you our handsomely 
illustrated Catalogue, and special 
Information regarding your par¬ 
ticular wants. All we want is your’ 
nameand address seiu to ournear- 
est office. SEND TO-DAY. 
S,^ITH& WINCHESTER CO., „ 
19-37 Wendell St. 2-12 Hartford St. oUol Un, maSS. 
Dandy. 
Branch Office: 174 Fulton St., New York City. 
New Angle Steel Post 
Plain Wire Fence. 
will not burn, blow or rot down, and the price has 
been put down from #1 to 66 cents per rod, 
complete with wire stay. Our tightener will tighten 
your old wire fences. Call on your dealer or order 
direct. Write for circulars. Agents wanted. 
HOMER STEEL FENCE CO., Homer, Micl. 
A CLOTHING MERCHANT. 
A “Page man” surprised a gang of Patent 
Right fencers worrying a group of farmers. 
He cried, “Clotliing of superior quality at 
lialf price.” ‘‘How do I do it?” “I furnlsli 
i!ihear!!> and a chart to cut by, tighteners on 
the corners for a misfit, durable cast iron 
buttons, all at a very low price, and a farm 
right for S5. You buy tlie cloth, your wife 
‘does tlie re.st’.” Here the Patent Right men 
slunk away and tlie I’age man took orders for 
fence some 40, some 00 and some 100 rods. 
PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., Adrian, Mich. 
