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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
" RUST.” 
A bio and sudden flood of advertising this week 
has crowded us into a corner. Small type and 
crowded space is the idea this week. However, if 
we can’t have our usual say, we can always fall 
hack on the advertisements. Our advice to you is 
to look them over carefully and send for all such 
circulars and catalogues as you think will be of 
service to you in your business. It will be a favor 
to us if you say in your letter that The R. N.-Y. 
suggested this correspondence. It’s a good thing 
to keep posted as to all improvements and changes 
in farming. Some time last summer, a man was 
sending milk to a certain creamery, when all at 
once complaints began to come in that the milk was 
poor. The Babcock test gave a good report, the 
cows were clean and healthy, the food was pure. 
The farmer’s wife knew by the pain in her back, 
that the cans were scoured and scrubbed and 
scalded and sunned, but still that milk was bad. By 
and by, some “ scientist ” came along and located 
the trouble right in those tin cans. What is “tin” ? 
It’s a thin sheet of metal dipped into melted tin. The 
outside metal gives the finish and fine surface, 
but the metal underneath gives the strength. Th 
trouble was that some of that tin coating inside 
the cans had been rusted off, and the milk came 
right in contact with large patches of iron rust. 
No matter how much that can was scoured and 
sunned, the rust on the metal stole the virtuejout of 
that milk l 
* 
Now the great enemy of progress in this world is 
rust. There is not only rust of the can, but of the 
mind, the soul, the heart and the joints. Rust 
rhymes with “bust,” which is an expressive, but 
not particularly elegant word used to designate a 
failure. When we get along far enough in Primer 
Science, we expect to tell you just what rust is. 
Now we have only space to tell you that the 
“anti-toxine” for it is energy—movement of some 
sort. If you are a member of a church and think 
that fact makes you good enough without follow¬ 
ing up the observances and attendance of that 
church, the first thing you know your religion 
will get rusty and you will catch youi'self doing 
something that will shame the whole society. 
The same with farming—if you don’t try to keep 
yourself informed as to what is going on, and 
study away at the great problems of production, 
transportation, selling and soil feeding that are 
working out right around you, the wheels that 
carry you and your family will get rusty, and all 
the neighbors will hear them yell “Farming don’t 
pay !” We trust you see that point as clear as 
a bell, and now as this space is not made of rub¬ 
ber, we must make one more reference to another 
sort of rust—and stop. There is no rust on this 
letter: 
“ I received the telescope, and have tested it to 
my utmost satisfaction. To all readers, espec¬ 
ially farmers’ sons, I take pleasure in saying that 
canvassing for The R. N.-Y. is easy and profitable 
employment. Wishing you every success I am,” 
Applegate, N. Y. H. c. s. 
The point about it is that possibly you have let a 
little rust grow over your willingness and desire 
to add a few names to The R. N.-Y’s list. This 
man finds it easy work because he let no rust 
grow over his doings. If he had, that letter would 
have read: “Times are awful hard, and I can’t 
get any subscriptions.” Scour off the rust by 
keeping at the neighbors. One man says that his 
neighbors borrow the paper before he has a 
chance to read it. That shows there is no rust on 
their “ cheek.” We trust that such borrowers will 
read this little talk and get the paper for them¬ 
selves. __ 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Onions are arriving from Havana. 
A calf under three weeks of age is considered a 
bob. 
Cold snaps check the trade in fruits and vege¬ 
tables. 
A fruit exchange is in process of formation at 
New Orleans. 
Foreign potatoes continue to arrive in consider¬ 
able quantities. 
Gros Colman grapes from the hothouses retail 
at $8 to $2.50 per pound. 
In vegetables and fruits, as in most else, the 
highest priced sells the most quickly. 
The oleo man now claims that the Western 
creamery butter is adulterated with lard. 
Some small lots of California cauliflower in by 
express, sold for $4 per case, holding nearly a 
barrel. 
Indian figs from the West Indies, commonly 
known as prickly pears, sell in the fancy fruit 
stores at 50 cents per dozen. 
A farm of 420 acres, having 12,000 fruit 
trees—apples, pears, peaches, cherries 
planted five years ago, can he bought this 
winter at a low price. The farm nearly 
adjoins the city of Chillicotlie, O., lies on 
fine rolling land well adapted to fruit 
culture and stock raising. The owner 
died and the land came into the hands of 
a corporation whose business is not farm¬ 
ing or fruit growing. It is a fine oppor¬ 
tunity for the right man. For full in¬ 
formation address A. C. Houghton, G1 
Wheeler Building, Columbus, O.— Adv. 
English papers now claim that clover seed from 
this country, which is an important article of ex¬ 
port, is badly infested with weed seeds. 
An attempt will be made in New Jersey to have 
passed a general game and fish protective law, to 
take the place of the numerous conflicting laws 
now in force. 
One of the tid-bits found in the markets, is pork 
tenderloins, which come from the great pork pack¬ 
ing houses, and sell for about 50 per cent more 
than pork chops. 
Some of the transportation companies have 
agreed to make a half rate on Florida oranges in 
order to help the orange growers realize as much 
as possible from their crop. 
The Pittsburgh Poultry and Pet Stock Associa¬ 
tion was recently organized at Pittsburgh, Pa., 
and will hold a show February 11 to 16. A. P. Rob¬ 
inson, secretary, Pittsburgh. 
The North Bend Beet Sugar Company has been 
incorporated at Fremont, Nebraska, with a 
capital stock of $500,000, to raise and sell sugar 
beets and manufacture beet sugar. 
In Salem County, N. J., canners are offering 
only $5 per ton for tomatoes for next season’s 
pack, against $7 paid last season. The market 
is glutted with canned goods, and prices are low, 
are the reasons given for the reduction. 
Some shippers send in late spring lambs which 
have made but a small growth, and think to have 
them sold for hothouse lambs, which are often 
about as large. Experienced dealers are not de¬ 
ceived, however, for such lack the good qualities 
made by the quick growth of the latter. 
The potatoes coming to New York last year 
footed up to 2,256,929 barrels and sacks, divided as 
follows : Domestic, 1,610,681 barrels ; European, 
616,150 sacks ; Nova Scotia, Prince Edward’s 
Island, Bermuda and Havana, 30,098 barrels. The 
receipts during 1893 were larger by nearly 200,000 
barrels, the increase being due to heavy arrivals 
from Europe, as the domestic receipts were 
lighter than during the year just closed. 
Reports from the South are to the effect that 
never before has there been such a favorable 
sugar making season. There have been seasons 
in which the cane yielded better, but none in 
which the work has been done more cheaply. The 
bounty previously paid has enabled planters to 
make many improvements, and with future com¬ 
petition with free sugar removed, the outlook for 
the future seems bright. 
Pis'crtianroutf §Umti,oin<k 
IN writing to advertisers, please always mention 
The Ruhal, New-Yobker. 
SEEDS! SEEDS! 
My 71st Annual Priced Catalogue of 
Vegetabls, Farm anil Flower Seeds, 
is now ready, and mailed free to all 
applicants. 
ALFRED BRIDGEMAN, 
37 East 19tli Street, New York City. 
VINES 
Largest Stock in the 
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Address COLE’S Seed Store, Pella, Iowa 
SEEDS” 
IS WHATS WANTED. 
We make a business of growing them—farm 
seeds only. We select true to name, grow in the 
North, clean, and sort all under personal man¬ 
agement 
Potatoes, Oats, Corn, Beans 
and all kinds of FARM SEEDS, fully de¬ 
scribed and illustrated in our handsome Farm 
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EDWARD F DIBBLE SEED CO. 
Honeyove Falls, N. Y. 
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NEW, EXTRA EARLY 
POTATO 
VICK’S EXCELSIOR. 
A STERLING NOVELTY. 
Send 10 cents for sample tuber and my 
Illustrated Catalogue of choice new and 
3,555,000 XT 
on nnn June-Budded 
ZU.UUU Peach Trees. 
555,000 *Roots. 
20,000 Trees. 
Send Postal for Catalog. Berlin Nurseries Berlin, Md. 
[GLOVER SEED j 
5 ! Largest growers of Crass and Clover Seeds in I, 
, I America. 50(H) acres. Our Grass Mixtures last a I , 
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1 1 crop in July. Prices dirt, cheap. Mammoth farm seed | * 
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Standard varieties of potatoes. 
E. H. VICK, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
CRIMSON CLOVER 
—The largest handler 
grown Crimson Clover Seed in the United States, 
is JOSEPH E. HOLLAND, Grower and Jobber, Mil¬ 
ford, Del. Write for prices. 
CARMAN No. 3, 
00 cents per pound, $40 per barrel, prepaid; Carman 
No. 1, $1.25 per peck, $13 per barrel; Ohio Jr., Chicago 
Market, Kverett, American Beauty, Vick's Early Ad¬ 
vance, Vick’s Perfection, Rochester Rose, Early Pride, 
Irish Daisy, Orphan, Dutton, Favorite, $4 per barrel; 
Maggie Murphy, Freeman, Early Puritan, New Queen, 
Sunrise, Early and Late Ilebrons, Rochester Peach- 
blow, Monroe Seedling, American Wonder, White 
Elephant, St. Patrick, White Rose, $3.25 per barrel; 
Rural New-Yorker No. 2, Green Mountain, White Star, 
$2.50 per barrel. Correspondence solicited. For any 
of the above varieties remit with order. 
C. E. KELLEY. Newark, N. Y. 
30 Thirty Days. 30 
Will sell Rural New-Yorker No. 2, Rural Blush, 
American Wonder, Monroe County Prize, at $2 per 
barrel, f. o. b. A. T. LANE, Victor, N. Y., dealer in 
choice western New York Seed Potatoes. 
The largest and best raspberry 
ever introduced. Grows 11 feet 
high, and has yielded more 
than 8,000 quarts per acre. 
CATALOGUE describing it and the best strawberries 
and other small fruits, including TRIUMPH 
GOOSEBERRY. Also hardy fruit and ornamental 
trees, Shrubs and Vines. Immense stock, right prices. 
Send for one to-day. It’s free. Address 
COE & CONVERSE, No. 17 Fort Atkinson, Wis. 
GRAPE CULTURE. 
If you have planted, or intend to plant, a few vines 
or a vineyard, it will pay you to inclose 25 cents for 
my practical treatise on “GRAPE CULTURE.” 
Or $1.00 for 12 first-class vines, 4 each, choice of Niag¬ 
ara or Pocklington, Delaware or Brighton, Worden 
or Wilder, best White, Red and Black varieties, with 
the book free. Or 20 Concords and the book. Now is 
the time to order. I will mail the book at once, the 
vines in early spring, post-paid, safe arrival in good 
condition guaranteed. Vines for vineyard planting 
a specialty. Price list free. 
J. H. Tit YON, Willoughby, Ohio. 
NEW PEACH 
JERSEY PRIDE 
Largest,handsomest and 
finest-flavored Peach in 
cultivation. Originated and for sale only by The 
Newark Nursery, Newark, N. J. Send for particulars. 
Medium Red Clover Sted^SSU™ 
new crop seed, In new bags, at $7 per bu. Also care¬ 
fully selected Seed Oats and Seed Corn of the best 
varieties. J. E. WILLARD. Belvidere, Ill. 
O C C n C CLOVER, ALSIKE, 
O ECU Da TIMOTHY. 
We liUY. Send Samples for our bids. 
We SELL. Every quality. Our Samples free. 
The Whitney-Noyes Seed Ce.,«!3S!S„if. 
BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 
We ship our best 
Screened Canada 
Unleached 
Hardwood 
at bottom prices. Analysis and Weight Guaranteed 
Address THE FOREST CITY WOOD ASH CO., 
No. 9 Merchants Row, Boston. Mass 
Free 
fertilizers in the winter time- 
freight paid. Write for particulars, 
giving references and shipping point. 
POWELL FERTILIZER & CHEM. CO. 
Powell’s Fertilizers, 
BALTIMORE. MD. 
FERTILIZERS 
■ HUBBARD & CO.. 10 Lie 
I—Special brauds for all 
crops. Dealers and con¬ 
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HUBBARD & CO., 10 Light St.. Baltimore, Md. 
dorless finAMnr e rr S ta a uo^ o f u o r r 
MINERAL UURI 1 U *20.00 per ton. 
gents wanted in every farming town. Send for 
rculars to THE FOREST CITY WOOD ASH CO. - 
o. 9 Merchants Row, Boston, Mass 
|A TIMBRELL STRAWBERRY PLANTS, FREE, 
I £, with every order of $5 or more. All best varie¬ 
ties. Quality, count, packing and PRICES RIGHT. Satis¬ 
faction guaranteed. Book free. 
E. G. PACKARD, Dover, Del. 
STRAWBERRY Lady Thompson. The Rasp 
jerry for money— Miller. All Berry Plants described 
n our new Price List. Sent .free. Best Plants. Low- 
sst prices. SLAYMAKER & SON, Dover, Del. 
MURIATE of POTASH 
is by far the cheapest and most soluble form of pot¬ 
ash. Farmers who have orchards of peaches, apples 
or pears, should supply them with potash. 
Write for prices. 
LUCIEN SANDERSON, 
Importer and Dealer in Agricultural Chemicals, 
NEW HAVEN. CONN. 
Complete Fertilizers 
for potatoes, fruits, and all vegetables require (to secure the largest yield and best quality) 
At Least io °/ 0 Actual Potash. 
Results of experiments prove this conclusively. How and why, are told in our pamphlets. 
They are sent free. It will cost you nothing to read them, and they will save you 
dollars. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau Street, New York 
Matthews & New Universal Garden Tools 
Nine Styles. Thousands in Use. 
Ames Plow Company,frfflTTffi]) 
Boston and New York. 
Sole Makers. 
Send for Circu¬ 
lars and 
prices of 
full line. 
FRUIT PACKAGES kinds. 
Also Beekeepers’ Supplies. 
Write to us and inquire about 
our cheap Berry Baskets. 
Catalogue and price list free. 
BERLIN FRUIT BOX CO., 
Berlin Heights, Erie Co., Ohio. 
and 
Board 
How much does your farm help cost you? 
Wouldn’t it pay you to reduce this expense 
—say, one-half? You can do it with the 
PLANET JR. Labor Saving Farm Toots. 
Take for example the Planet Jr. Garden 
Drill. A machine that costs nothing to 
keep; that helps one man do three men’s 
work, and do it better. Figure out how 
much such a machine would save you in 
dollars and board? This and 20 other equ¬ 
ally wonderful machines are described and 
pictured in tlie Planet Jr. Book for 1895. 
Will you have it—it’s FREE. 
S. L. Allen &, Co., 1107 Market St., Pliila. 
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