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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
“STONES.” 
Short stories again this week for obvious rea¬ 
sons. Luckily, our small type is new and clear. 
Read the “ads,” and get the catalogues that seem 
suited to your business. 
There was once a green young clerk in a Ver¬ 
mont country store. He was not quite up to all 
the Yankee tricks of trade, as his eye teeth were 
still in the rough. One day a man came in with a 
big ball of fine-looking butter. The young man 
bought it. Soon after, some one came in to buy 
butter, and the clerk cut into that big ball for a 
sample. In the center of the ball was a stone 
weighing several pounds. Of course, the clerk 
felt bad to think he had paid cash for a stone. The 
boss only smiled and said: “ Take that stone and 
clean it up well, and keep it out of sight. When 
that man comes in to buy coffee, slip the stone 
into his bag and sell it back to him. He’ll recog¬ 
nize it, and you won’t hear any more from him.” 
In a few days, back came the farmer to buy his 
coffee, and he walked off with that same stone in 
his basket. He never came back with it, because 
he recognized the condition of affairs. He didn’t 
make much money selling a stone at 15 cents and 
buying it back at 35 cents! To bring the stone 
back and make trouble about it, was to publish 
his own meanness and fraud. He, therefore, kept 
quiet. 
I VE WANT TO KNOW, YOU KNOW! 
IF YOU DON’T SEE WHAT YOU WANT, ASK FOB IT ! 
Onion Sets for a Field Crop.— Why does The 
R. N.-Y. think that onion sets are not good for a 
field crop, page 831 ? Some here will try them this 
season. L. H. c. 
Alger, O. 
Ans.—The R. N.-Y. doesn’t think so, and hasn’t 
said so. What it did say was that onions could 
not profitably be grown from sets in field culture, 
that is, where they are grown as a market crop. 
The sets are altogether too expensive as compared 
with seed. There is no law, however, to prevent 
people using them for that purpose, even though 
they lose money by so doing. 
Onions from Sets. —1. Will very small onions 
make large ones if put out like sets in the spring? 
2. Would it be good policy to sow the Prizetaker 
late for small onions to set out the next spring for 
a crop, instead of raising plants under glass, as 
in the New Onion Culture during the winter ? 
Bedford, Mass. j. h. c. 
Ans.— 1. Yes, very small ones will. If they are 
too large, however, they are likely to go to seed. 
2. It would probably be all right so far as securing 
a crop is concerned, but the sets would be later in 
starting than the plants from the greenhouse. 
Fenster Pappe. —Is the fenster pappe, the new 
German substitute for covering cold frames, etc., 
superior to cloth ? Does it let through more light 
and heat than cloth, and will it keep out the cold 
as well as glass ? d. c. h. 
Ans.—W e have had no experience with the sub¬ 
stance, but would judge from its appearance that 
it would not admit light so readily as cloth, and 
would radiate less heat at night than glass. It 
appears to be more durable and superior to cloth 
—the claim made by its introducers. One person 
reports using it to cover a glass palm house, when 
tne heat was insufficient, and it worked admirably. 
From its appearance, we would say that the new 
substance is worth trying for cold frames and hot¬ 
beds. A sample roll costs but $1. 
Now the sermon part of this is that it never 
pays to be mean or tricky. You may take advant¬ 
age of a friend in a trade by making him think 
you mean what you say, when you know you are 
deceiving him. but you are just like the man with 
the stone in his butter—taking pay for a bogus 
article. You’ll get that stone back again some 
day, never fear, and it will serve you just right if 
you have to pay dearly for it. There will be no 
sympathy for you then, for that stone will bear 
your own trade mark of deceit and “smartness.” 
Keep the stones out of your goods if you don’t 
want them rolled on to your spirits later in life. 
And now here is what comes by keeping the stones 
out of your enterprise and energy. Nothing bogus 
about this : 
“ I this day received the Kalamazoo cutter. I 
think it is well made, I know it is very handsome, 
beautifully finished, the eeat wide enough for 
three. I am exceedingly well pleased. Many 
thanks for the same. May the good R. N.-Y. have 
a very prosperous, happy future.” jos. morris. 
Michigan. 
There’s no stone in that coffee ! Mr. Morris 
went ahead and got his club of subscriptions, and 
sent them in clear and straight. He gets the same 
straight goods in return and so will any one else 
who treats The R. N.-Y. in the same way. No 
stones in the coffee we send out, friends—these 31 
premiums now offered are all open for inspection. 
Can’t some of you get the stones out of the road 
that leads to a club of subscriptions ? 
The annual meeting of the New York State 
Agricultural Society, was held in Agricultural 
Hall, at Albany, on Wednesday, January 16. 
President Dutclier being absent on account of 
sickness, ex-President, James Wood of Dutchess, 
was called to the chair. The following officers 
were elected for the ensuing year: 
President. 
Prof. I. P. Roberts, Ithaca. 
Vice-Presidents. 
First District—Mr. Geo. Greene, New York City. 
Second District—Mr. Oakleigh Thorne, Millbrook. 
Third District—Hon. James Hilton, New Scotland. 
Fourth District—Mr. W. M. Weed, Potsdam. 
Fifth District—Mr. W. Carey Sangle, Waterville 
Sixth District—Mr. C. S. Barney, Milford. 
Seventh District—No election. 
Eight District—Col. H. Bowen, Medina. 
Corresponding Secretary. 
Mr. James B. Docharty, Albany. 
Recording Secretary. 
Hon. Seth Fenner, East Aurora 
Treasurer. 
Mr. A. C. Chase, Syracuse. 
Executive Committee. 
Mr. G. Howard Davison, Millbrook. 
Mr. A. W. Palmer, Syracuse. 
Mr. J. F. Converse, Woodville. 
Mr. S. D. Willard, Geneva 
Hon. F. O. Chamberlain, Canandaigua. 
Mr. J. Gerow Dutcher, Pawling. 
Mr. F. B. Redfield, Batavia. 
Mr. O. J. Lewis, Schodack Center. 
Consulting Veterinarian. 
Prof. James Law, F. R. V. C., Ithaca. 
Consulting Entomologist. 
Dr. J. A. Lintner, Albany. 
f Consulting Botanist. 
Prof. Charles H. Peck, Albany. 
A resolution was addressed to Speaker Crisp 
of the House of Representatives, requesting him 
to permit the Grout anti-oleo bill to come before 
the present House for vote before adjournment. 
$300 DOLLARS FOR A NAME. 
This is the sum we hear the Salzer Seed Co. offer 
for a suitable name for their wonderful new oats. 
The United States Department of Agriculture 
says Salzer’s oats are the best of 300 varieties 
tested. A great many farmers report a test yield 
of £00 bushels per acre last year, and are sure this 
caD be grown and even more during 1895. An¬ 
other farmer writes us he cropped 112 bushels of 
Salzer’s Marvel Spring wheat on 2!4 acres. At 
such yield wheat pays at 30 cents per bushel. 
One thing we know and that is that Salzer is the 
largest Farm Seed grower in the world and sells 
potatoes at $2.50 per barrel. 
If You w ill < ut T his Out and Send It 
with 10 cents postage to the John A. Salzer Seed 
Co., La Crosse, Wis., you get free his mammoth 
catalogue and a package of above $300 Prize 
Oats. — Adv. 
Bleaching Vinegar.—How can I remove the 
color from cider vinegar without destroying the 
strength, that is, in a practical manner? I wish to 
use the vinegar for pickling. H. w. 
Ans. —We don’t know, Why is it necessary to 
remove the color ? Tne white vinegar sold in the 
markets is not cider vinegar, but is usually called 
white wine vinegar, and is often a chemical com¬ 
pound. Has any one any light on the subject ? 
White Onion3.—I see that white onions are 
quoted at from $3 to $8 a barrel. Why is this? 
Are they hard to raise ? Are they White Globe or 
cracker varieties? Is the yield from this class 
light ? Are the barrels used, sugar barrels hold¬ 
ing some four bushels, or flour barrel size ? Are 
these white onions always quoted higher than 
others, or does there happen to be a scarcity now? 
Dartmouth, Mass. j. h. t. 
Ans.—C hoice white onions—those that bring the 
highest prices—are grown mostly, so the dealers 
tell us, in Connecticut. They are mostly of small 
or medium size. The Silverskin is one of the most 
popular varieties. Very small ones are used for 
pickling. Tne others are used largely by hotels 
and restaurants, for table use. A very large 
onion is not wanted, and will not sell for so much 
often, as good yellow onions. The yield is not 
necessarily materially less than that of the other 
colors, but they seem more difficult to bring to 
perfection, are, therefore, scarcer and conse¬ 
quently higher priced. The barrels are the ordin¬ 
ary flour barrels, holding about 2% bushels. 
Sometimes white onions are scarcer than at other 
times, and then the price is higher. 
lUigcjcUancou# %rtrntisiug. 
In writing to advertisers, please always mention 
The Rural New-Yorker. 
Lovely 
Flowers! 
Given 
Away 
I To introduce my ST'F.DS 
I and BULBS, I will mail 2 
New Excelsior Double 
Dwarf Pearl Tuberose 
Bulbs, sure to bloom early; 
4 Gladioli Bulbs-- fancy 
1 mixed, lovely spikes all colors, 
| nothing can equal these; 1 packet 
I Marguerite Carnation, — give 
j elegant flowers in 4 mos. from seed; 
I 1 pkt Pansy—The Alice, finest, 
mid., every color imaginable. I pkt. 
Poppy—Golden Gate, nothing 
makes a grander show; 1 packet .Sweet Pirns—FcU- 
I’ord’g Choice, mixed, over 31 sorts, simply grand ; I 
pkt. Phlox, f ncy mid., includ s many wonderful cols.; 
1 pkt. Chinese Pinks, all colors, and a flower everyone 
wants; I pkt. Mixed FIower Seeds for\A ild Gar¬ 
den-over MO kinds that will grow and bloom freely. 
The abo' e nre selling for j-l 00, but as I have grown 100,000 col¬ 
lections simply to introduce mv Seeds and Bulbs, will mail the 
complete lot. for only 25cents to pay postage, packing, etc. They 
will bloom this season aitd make a i r at disi lay. Order at 
once before nil a»*e taken. Catalogue of Vegetables and lovely 
Flowers FREE with each order. Full of Bargains. 
(rj* If you send silver or '»oney Order, a Floral Work of ah 
in ten colors a’id 50 cent certifi ate is sent free. Address 
F. B. MILLS, Box 147, ROSE 11ILL, N.Y, 
Bi j 11 |i the best market Red 
ITBIIId Raspberry known. 
Lady Thompson 
Maxwell and Eldorado ’ 
Circulars free. MYER & SON. Bridgeville, Del. 
JAPAN PLUM 8, 
STANDARD PEARS, 
AND APPLE TREES, 
growing on rented land: lease expires, trees must be 
sold. Fine stock, lowest prices. List mailed. 
WHITING NURSERY CO. 
Roxbury, Mass. 
(NurseriesatGeneva. N.Y. 
NEW PEACH 
Jfi>SEY PRIDE 
Largest,handsomest and 
finest-flavored Peach in 
cultivation. Originated and for sale only by The 
Newark Nursery. Newark. N. .1. Send for particulars. 
Japan Plums—Standard Pears, 
and Peach Trees. If you intend to plant, send for our 
list. It tells you what to plant for protit. and how to 
care for it. with price of trees. HENRY LUTTS. 
Niagara River Nurseries, Youngstown, N. Y. 
SAVE MONEY ON FRUIT PLANTS. 
Strawberries a specialty. 3 Farms. Immense stock. A 
No. 1 plants. 50 best varieties Strawberries loio. 
Also best Raspberries and Blackberries. We ship 
plants by the 100,000 to all sections of the U.S. every 
year, and save many men m uch money. Nurseries buy 
by tne ton to sell again. Our ‘‘Jo catalogue tells why 
we can sell such choice stock so cheap. Write now. 
O. A. E. BALDWIN. V St., Bridgman, Mich. 
MY 
Catalogue of STRAWBERRY Plants [nrr 
100 varieties. E. J. HULL, Olyphant, Pa. IIIlL 
2 C|10 quarts from 1,200 plants. 
pUUU Our success and experience 
free to all who send for our catalogue. 
Tells all about the new fruit trees and 
plants, with prices. Sent free. 
T. C. KEVITT. Athenia. N. ,T. 
3,555,000 st , r "n b t 0 .! r ’ 
Ofl nnn June-Budded 
L U, U U U Peach Trees. 
555,000 A,| 1K,V" S 
20,000 ! ‘ v Tr e £„ ppl “ 
Send Postal for Catalog. Berlin Nurseries Berlin, Md. 
The largest and best raspberry 
ever introduced. Grows XI feet 
high, and has yielded more 
than 8,000 quarts per acre. 
CATALOGUE describing it and the best strawberries 
and other small fruits, including T It I U M P H 
GOOSEBERR Y. 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. 
Kansas Seed House. 
EVERYTHING IN THE SEED LINE. * 
Our ftpeclnltleit: Seed Corn. Tree Seeds,Onion 
Seeds and Sets, Alfalfa, Sacaline. Lathyrus. Sll- 
vestris, Sandvetches, Spurry. Kaffir, and Jerusalem 
Corn, and other new forage plants for dry and arid 
countries. NF.W CATALOGUE MAILED 
FREE ON APPLICATION. 
F. BARTELOES & CO.. Lawrence, Kansas. 
PDIRICnil PI flUCD -Th e largest handler 
ommaun uLUVullof American- 
grown Crimson Clover Seed In the United States, 
is JOSEPH E. HOLLAND, Grower and Jobber, Mil¬ 
ford, Del. Write for prices. 
H EADQUARTERS for the best Seed Potatoes. 
It will pay potato growers everywhere to plant 
Hall’s 2Dd-crop Seed. 1,000,000 Berry Plants, 
none finer, none truer. Asparagus Roots,Eggs,&c. 
Send for catalogue. J. W. Hall, Marion Sta., Md. 
PLANT OLDS’ POTATOES. 
Of late years a great many fanners have had poor potato 
crops. The seed makes a difference. Our potatoes are 
Cakefully Grown for Skrd Purposes, in the great 
potato Stare of Wisconsin, AVe have all the Best, New 
and Standard Sorts. Also, SEED OATS and SEED 
CORN, the best varieties. CATALOGUE FREE. 
L. L. OLDS, Clinton, Hock County, Wis. 
CARMAN No. 3, 
60 cents per pound, $40 per barrel, prepaid; Carman 
No. 1. $1.25 per peck. $13 per barrel; Ohio Jr., Chicago 
Market, Everett, 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 Hebrons, 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 AVonder, Monroe County Prize, at $2 per 
barrel, f. o. b. A. T. LANE, Victor, N. Y., dealer in 
choice western New York Seed Potatoes. 
PDR Q A I L 1,000 bushels of American Banner Seed 
lUn uHLl White Oats, $1 per bushel; luu bushels 
of Longfellow Corn, $1.50 per bushel, bags free. Seed 
Potatoes: Freeman, Early New Zealand, American 
Wonder, Rural New-Yorker No. 2, and Monroe Seed¬ 
ling. $1 per bushel. Send money order or New York 
draft. Orders will be promptly filled. Address 
WILLIAM ALBERTSON, Seed Grower, No. Rush, N. Y 
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 SANDtHSON, 
Importer and Dealer in Agricultural Chemicals, 
NEW HAVEN. CONN. 
ODORLESS OIIANn (leli ' er 1 ed t a t t 1 y ° ur 
a, i urn a i UUAlVlj nearest station, for 
MINERAL •****'■'«' DK-go.oo per ton. 
Agents wanted in every farming town. Send fo> 
circulars to THE FOREST CITY WOOD ASH CO. 
No. 9 Merchants Row, Boston, Mass 
FERTILIZERS 
* HUBRAUD A- CO.. 10 LG 
1—Special brands for all 
crops. Dealers and con¬ 
sumers address 
HUBBARD & CO., 10 Light St.. Baltimore, Md. 
rnp C A I C— 800 bu. Improved Learning, and 600 bu. 
lUn OnLL Mastodon Seed Com. Price. $1.25 per 
bu. f.o.b. cars. Also, 15U Head Thoroughbred CHESTER 
WHITE PIQS, 2 to 3 mos. old at Farmers’ Prices. 
Address Howard Johnson, AVest Grove, Ches. Co.,Pa. 
APRF APPI FS tl AQQ Write NURSERIES and 
Aunt ArrLtO, ORCHARDS, Louisiana. 
Mo., for free sample copy telling about It. A prac¬ 
tical Fruit and Farm paper, published by Stark Bros.. 
40c. a year; circulation, 46U.000 copies. The “Cream 
of the Cream ’’ — gives the busy Fruit Grower or 
Farmer, who hasn't the time or the money to buy and 
read a great mass of papers, what is best from 
them all, what he wants to know. 
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE for 1895 . 
MANUFACTURED By 
R.T. PIERCE 8c CO. 
SOUTH HAVEN MIC H.j 
THE STANDARD "I 
BERRY PACK AGEOF THE WORLD 
Climax Baskets for Peaches, Grapes and Helons 
Thompson’s 
SOWS CLOVER, 
TIMOTHY, ALFALFA, 
RED TOP, FLAX, 
and all kinds of 
CRASS SEEDS 
Weight 40 lbs. 
Send for circulars. 
GRASS 
SEEDER 
Sows any Quantity. 
Evenly, Accurately, 
WET DRY 
AND WINDY 
WEATHER. 
20 to 40 
Acres Per Day. 
0. E. THOMPSON & SONS, 
17 River St., Ypsilanti, Mich. 
Purest highest grades Bcme 
1 Phosphates Potato Fertilizers 
.Catalogue, explaining how 
Ito grow 720 bush. Potatoes 
per acre; corn, 115; strawberries, 481: oats. 130, with 
Fertilizers. Samples sent for 10 cents postage. 
Bone Fertilizing Chemical AVorks, Janesville, Wis. 
We ship our best 
Screened Canada 
Unleached 
Hardwood 
at bottom prices. Analysis and Weight Guaranteed 
Address THIS FOREST CITY WOOD ASH CO., 
No. 9 Alerchants 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. M D. 
Leggett’s Paris Green or 
Dry' Powder Gun. 
For Orchard, Vineyard, Garden or 
Potato Field. Distributes Paris 
Green, Sulphur, “Fungiroid,” (a 
powdered Bordeaux Mixture) or any 
dry powder. 
Thousands In Use. 
Light, Swilt, Easy, Safe, Strong and Cheap. 
Illustrated Circular on application. 
LEGGETT & BROTHER, 301 Pearl St., New York. 
Better Crops 
result from use of fertilizers rich in potash. Most fertilizers do not contain 
Sufficient Potash to Insure the Best Results. 
The results of the latest investigations of the use and abuse of potash are told in our book*. 
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. 
TO ESCAPE THE INCOME TAX. 
We propose to sell the ‘ • Eclipse ” and “Eureka” spray 
pumps, together Avith a full line of spraying appliances 
at less profit than any other maker of similar goods. We 
also furnish better made and cleaner-Avorking imple¬ 
ments. Indorsed as the “ best” by the leading authori¬ 
ties in the United States. Liberal discount to first pur¬ 
chaser at any post-office. Send for catalogue. 
MORRILL & MORLEY, Benton Harbor, Mich. 
