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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 30 
As We Qo To Press. 
“FORCES” 
There are three books of more than 
ordinary value just at this time. Here 
they are: 
Retail Price. 
Spraying: Crops, - - $0.25 
Insects and Insecticides, 1.25 
Canning and Preserving, .20 
The first two are by Prof. C. M. Weed. 
They deal with subjects that are of great 
interest just now. Canning and Preserv¬ 
ing gives in a concise and practical way 
the information that housewives need in 
preparing the winter’s supply of fruit. 
We sell these books with The R. N.-Y. 
Any one of ilie following prices includes 
The R. N.-Y. for the rest of this year : 
Spraying Crops, - - $0.65 
Insects and Insecticides, l 50 
Canning and Preserving, .go 
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Hebe is a note from a friend in Maine : 
win you please send me a few copies of your 
poetical advertisement of oleomargarine, to post T 
Many of tbe city papers contain reading advertise¬ 
ments of the stuIT, and give reasons why It Is purer 
and more healthful than store butter, and If I can 
circulate a contrary opinion X would like It. 
Certainly—we send the copies with pleas¬ 
ure ; we like to get them hung up in 
public places. Dairymen must under¬ 
stand that the fight against “ oleo” will 
not run itself. They must hit it in every 
possible way, and expose the fraudulent 
character of the stuff. This “Hoggerine” 
circular is an excellent gun to fire off at 
the enemy. Send for a dozen or more 
and stick them up ! 
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A MAN, to succeed in this world, must 
understand the power of the various 
forces with which he comes in contact. 
These forces are all about us, turning 
up in the most unexpected ways and 
often apparently contradicting one an¬ 
other. The writer of this once worked 
for a man who ran a buzz saw, with a 
small traction engine for power. Some¬ 
times when the boss was away the boys 
would test that engine by crowding on 
all the steam they could raise. It seemed 
as though we could not crack it, though 
at times we got it almost red hot. One 
night the boss forgot to let off the water, 
and the engine stood outdoors in very 
cold weather. In the morning we found 
a solid cake of ice and a cracked boiler. 
That seemed so strange to me at the 
time. The fierce roaring fire, the tear¬ 
ing and screaming steam, had not been 
able to crack the boiler, but here came 
this silent, mysterious power of the frost 
that cracked the iron as one might crack 
an egg shell. Here was this terrible 
force that we had not thought of, ruin¬ 
ing our business in a single night. We 
say that knowledge is power. That is 
true 1 What is knowledge but the abil¬ 
ity to circumvent these forces and make 
them serve us instead of mastering us ? 
Had we built a fixe under that boiler the 
ice would never have formed in it. We 
lost the boiler because we did not think 
and know. 5 2 S 
I HAVE since seen this great power of 
the frost utilized in cracking up great 
rocks. You see this force, like hundreds 
of others, can be made to serve those 
who understand its powers. Mental 
forces act very much in the same way. 
The R. N.-Y. is constantly making sug¬ 
gestions or relating experiences of others. 
We can conceive of a man using one of 
these ideas to spoil his happiness. We 
might say to a man needing a bath, “Use 
all the water you can ! ” Suppose he 
took this advice and jumped into the 
pond—jumped to his death. We would 
not be liable to arrest, though it might 
be said that he did just what we told 
him to do. The business of The R. N.-Y. is 
to try to set people to thinking, and then 
give them sound things to think about. 
A man will seldom crack his prospects 
in life if he thinks before he acts. It is 
the sudden shock to a dull, cold, un¬ 
thought-out scheme that does the mis¬ 
chief. We have found our readers gen¬ 
erally to be a set of reasoning and intelli¬ 
gent men with more business than boy’s 
play about their work. That is why The 
R. N.-Y. proves so successful as a middle¬ 
man. Our people are good buyers. 
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Going on to talk about forces we have 
to say that people do not understand 
them as well as they might. For in¬ 
stance take this letter from Cape Cod : 
The article on mowers by Mr. Macomber mlirbt 
easily be worth $10 to a man not knowlnK already 
those facts. But people will not read or comprehend 
what they read. I have lonK thoujcht that builders 
and sellers of farm machinery deserve a hot place. 
Why Is it better than stealing to take advantage of 
Ignorance ? But It seems Impossible to get a machine 
without some petty tlme-kllllDg Imperfection, and 
when yon write a maker or atrent In regard to any 
point he Ignores that and gives a general aflirmatlon 
of the excellence of bis machine. 
Now what are you going to say about a 
man who will go and buy the wrong ma¬ 
chine after Mr, Macomber made the mat¬ 
ter as plain as he did ? The papers, not 
long since, contained an account of a 
man who was, told to use carbolic acid 
for his corns. He put a little on with a 
brush and was relieved. At last the 
corns grew out again, and'he thought 
he would make a thorough job. So he 
got a quart of strong acid and put his 
feet right into it. They found him lying 
on the fioor fanning his feet trying to 
cool them off. It will be about a week 
before he can wear stockings. We trust 
he will spend part of the time convincing 
himself that it is dangerous to try to 
handle a big force on the same principle 
that he would handle a small one. You 
see the point—we may do fairly well 
with a little job or some small force ; 
but when we get hold of a big one, with¬ 
out experience in handling large affairs, 
we are swamped because the force is too 
big for us. That is why some farmers 
are not able to get any profit out of 
hired help. They would be better off to 
do simply the work that is possible in 
their own families, and let it go at that. 
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And now, in closing, permit us to call 
your attention to the following letter : 
While renewing my subscription for the year I take 
the opportunity of thanking you for the aid and help 
Thb Hural has been to me. It has been a welcome 
visitor to our family for over 2(5 years and we do not 
want to out the tie that binds us now. While I fully 
realize that newspapers are not published from 
solely philanthropic motives, but as a business 
enterprise, yet there Is such an earnest love of the 
work of the elevation of agriculture evinced by the 
editors, that the weekly visits of Thk B. N.-Y. are a 
constant Incentive and Inspiration to that more 
profitable farming and higher Intelligence so much 
needed by the rural population of this great country. 
Waverly, Tenn. j. w. s 
That is right. If you come right down 
to the business of the thing, you will 
find that what most farmers need more 
than anything else is a better under¬ 
standing of the principles that underlie 
their business. We need to know how 
to get more true pleasure on the farm 
rather than how to double our profit. 
Money is a very useful thing, but he who 
makes that the sole end of life, will find 
himself a slave to the hardest master the 
world ever knew. I 
In writing to advertisers please always mention 
The Rural New-Yorker. 
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If he raises only ordinary 
crops. 
If he doubles his present 
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SEND FOR CIRCULAR. 
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The Clarks Gove Fertilizers 
FOR Wheat, Rye and All Crops. 
Bring Bushels, Quality, Weight, Dollars. 
If you wish next year at harvest time to behold magnificent fields of waving yellow grain glistening In 
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BY THE USE 
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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. 
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CLEVELAND, OHIO. 
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A PE UNPROFITABLE, 
Unless they Contain Sufflclent Potash. 
Complete fertilizers should contain at least six per 
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