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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 9 
NEW THINGS. 
You haven’t heard much from us in this depart¬ 
ment lately, but we have been on deck all the 
same, accumulating material which will be fired 
at you when these big “ ads ” become weary 
of well-doing. We never permit a little thing like 
anad” to put us out of patience. One thing 
you put out of patience is p a. Add a y and you 
have the germ of an “ ad.” Pay is what makes 
the world’s wheels revolve. A man doesn’t have 
to pay inoi’der to air his opinions in our columns; 
but when a man comes along with goods to sell, 
of course he expects to pay for the chance to 
spread his wares before our readers. It pays the 
reader to have these announcements before him. 
No man can go through life without buying some¬ 
thing. If competition hurts him in what he has 
to sell, it must help him in what he has to buy. 
There are great big bargains in our advertising 
columns every w'eek. People may be more anxious 
to sell than you are to buy, and there is your 
chance for a bargain. How are you going to know 
about these new things unless you follow these 
ads up, and get the circulars and catalogues they 
represent ? New ideas are constantly being 
thought out. 
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Hebe is one now on that Aspinwall potato planter 
which we offer in our list of subscription pre¬ 
miums. This machine used to cover potatoes by 
just scraping the soil over them with a fixed hoe 
or scraper. Some folks wanted the potatoes hilled 
or ridged up, and others wanted to use the ma¬ 
chine for other purposes. The result was a 
pair of discs fixed behind like those shown in 
the picture. Now, you see, these discs revolve 
as the machine goes along, and the earth is thrown 
into a ridge over the potatoes. In one case, it was 
like a man with a paralyzed arm scraping earth 
with his hand, while now it is like the man with 
every joint suddenly made free. Of course, it does 
better work, and if you use the planter just to 
drop fertilizer, and scrape the earth over it, see 
what a fine ridge you leave for strawberries or 
cabbage ! The discs can be put on or taken off at 
will. 
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We admit that without hesitation. If a man 
can’t get his dollar’s worth out of 52 issues of The 
R. N.-Y., he can have his money right back ; yet 
we recognize the fact that it takes time to con¬ 
vince a conservative man that a new thing will 
return to him the purchasing power of 100 cents. 
Therefore we don’t expect our agents to work at 
flush-time rates, but as times get harder, we 
make the rates more liberal. Here we pay $2 in 
cash each day for the largest daily club, a very 
generous cash commission, and a chance to win 
one of these 31 fine premiums. Now we claim that 
is keeping right up with the spirit of the age. 
Here we have reduced the price of The R. N.-Y., 
and improved its quality, and now we give a man 
three chances to earn money by obtaining sub¬ 
scriptions. We think that we have done our share 
to put yeast under the great business depression. 
We are not going to say again that there are only 
half a dozen or so fair-sized clubs thus far in this 
premium contest. That wouldn’t be fair to the 
few faithful friends who have endured the “heat 
and burden” of these blizzard days, in marching 
on to that piano and buggy. We trust they will 
not fall by the wayside, but thus far there is but 
little contest for at least 20 of these prizes. Now, 
sir, why don’t you celebrate the end of this lazy 
and incompetent congress by making up a good 
club of subscriptions ? If you can give us a fair 
reason why you should not, we will give you a 
whole column to do it in. One man out in Wis¬ 
consin sent in a club of eight new ones. He says, 
“ Now that I’ve got the ‘stage fright’ off, I can do 
better !” Getting used to taking subscriptions 
was just like putting on these discs. It was what 
the man needed, and we’ll guarantee he will do 
better business to pay for it. It may be that you 
need just some such attachment to make a ridge 
on your capacity for trade. Try it. 
WE WANT TO KNOW, YOU KNOW! 
IF YOU DON’T SEE WHAT YOU WANT, ASK FOR IT 1 
Killing Smut in Wheat.— What is the best way 
to kill smut in wheat ? Will brine kill it ? a. s. 
Lyon County, la. 
Ans. —Dissolve one pound of sulphate of copper 
in a bucket of hot water. Add enough cold water 
in a larger vessel to dampen thoroughly seven or 
eight bushels of wheat; put in the wheat and stir 
thoroughly. Allow it to dry before sowing. We 
doubt whether the brine will kill the smut, though 
it may be of some benefit. 
New York State Barbed Wire Fence Law.— 
What is it? E. 8. k. 
Ans.—T his law, passed May 22, 1894, is as fol¬ 
lows: Barbed wire shall not be used in the con¬ 
struction of any division fence constructed or 
built after September 1, 1894, unless the person, 
association or corporation desiring to use such 
material shall first obtain the written consent of 
the owners of the adjoining property that it may 
be used. Any person, association or corporation 
who shall construct or build a division fence con¬ 
trary to the provisions of this act, or who shall 
The change in this planter well illustrates the pro¬ 
gress that is being made with machines, methods 
and men. The aim is to make them more useful, to 
make them cover a wider range of work, and per¬ 
form each operation in the best possible manner. 
This is the spirit of the age. You see that it costs 
no more in horseflesh, to make those discs form 
the ridge, than it did to have the scraper just 
cover the potatoes. We try to carry out this spirit 
in issuing The R. N.-Y. We hope to make every 
line of its reading matter serve some good pur¬ 
pose, and to have its policy broaden out and 
develop as the years grow older and wiser. 
Naturally we don’t object to a growth and de¬ 
velopment of our list of subscribers. And now we 
come to the true business application of the 
points in that new planter. Those discs came in 
response to a demand for better pay for a day’s 
work with a team. To meet competition, that ma¬ 
chine had to be made to accomplish more, and 
thus earn more. Now, when wheat was $1 a 
bushel, wool 40 cents a pound, and so on, The R. 
N.-Y.’s subscription increase simply made itself, 
because money was plenty, and farmers were 
easily paying their debts and feeling good gener¬ 
ally. Now this contraction of the values of farm 
products has fallen upon the land like a blight, 
and people have got to work to convince new men 
that The R. N.-Y. at $1 per year, is a good bar¬ 
gain to them. 
maintain such fence after so constructing or 
building the same, shall forfeit and pay to such 
adjoining property owner, or other person law¬ 
fully occupying such adjoining property, treble 
damages for all injuries occasioned to him 
thereby. 
Disposing of Large Fruit Crops. —1. How do 
large growers of small fruits dispose of their 
crops when they have but a small local market ? 
2. Do commission merchants in the cities have 
arrangements to keep each other informed as to 
the state of the market in their respective cities ? 
3. Will they make a contract to dispose of the 
, -whole product of the grower ? h. z. s. 
West Virginia. 
Ans. —I. Growers of blackcaps evaporate large 
quantities of their product. Other fruits are sold 
to canuers or shipped to the large city markets? 
2. Not unless they have dealings with each other, 
in which case they keep each other posted as to 
market conditions and requirements. Commercial 
papers are published for conveying market in¬ 
formation, and commission merchants send out 
price lists. 3. Yes, if you have what they want. 
Write to those advertising in The R. N.-Y. if you 
have anything to sell. Always before shipping 
anything to any market, learn what the market 
requires. Visit some growers and shippers in 
your vicinity, and learn all you can from them. 
Read what is said on this subject from time to 
time in The It. N.-Y. 
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