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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Marcli 30 
To Subscription 
Agents. 
Let us tell you something about sub¬ 
scription work this week. We think that 
the subscription agents who really work 
for the money there is in it, don’t under¬ 
stand the big money we are paying for the 
work this year, and especially between 
now and May 1. Let us give yon an idea 
of the way the work is progressing. In 
the first place, about three-fourths of all 
the subscriptions come in direct, and 
nearly one-half the new subscriptions 
come from subscribers direct, without 
any solicitation whatever. This simply 
shows that the business farmers are 
looking for a useful, helpful, reliable 
paper, and as soon as they find one, they 
want it. And there are many like Mr. O. 
F. Woodward, of LeRoy, N. Y., who says 
that the paper is so cheap at SI a year 
that he feels ashamed of himself every 
time he reads it. 
Now, we tell these things because we 
wish you to know that there are lots of 
farmers in almost every neighborhood 
who need Thk R. N.-Y., and who will 
have it year after year, as soon as they 
know it. This is of interest to the agent, 
because it makes easier work for him to 
take subscriptions. 
Rut how about the pay ? Well, we pay 
you three times over ! First, you get a 
liberal commission on every subscription 
that you send. Next, the agent who 
sends the largest club received for the 
day, has a $2 bill shot back at him that 
night. We told you recently who got 
them for a whole week, and showed you 
how small the clubs were. Here are 
some other easy winners : 
March 12.—J. F. Rose, Genesee County, N. Y., 
for three subscriptions. 
March 13.—A. Culbertson, Clarion County, Pa., 
five subscriptions. 
March 15.—Theo. Bond, Monroe County, N. Y., 
three subscriptions. 
Just think of that; they got three yearly 
subscriptions, kept out the commission, 
sent us the rest, and we mailed right 
back a $2 bill! They got practically 
the whole of it. Rut we promised to 
send back that $2 every day until May 
1 , and we’ll do it, no matter how small 
the club. 
Rut that’s not all; a credit mark is put 
opposite your name on the book for 
every name you send, and the 31 agents 
that have the most credit marks May 1, 
get one of those 31 premiums. We have 
told you about the $400 piano, and 
among the other valuable prizes, are 
two buggies. Above is a cut of one of 
them. There is no better buggy made. 
Rut you may have a buggy and don’t 
need it. Well you need a road cart. 
Here is a cut of the one offered. If you 
have no use for either, you can make a 
choice of one of the others. The cash 
prizes of $10 and $5 you can surely use, 
and these are the least. Resides any of 
these prizes will readily sell for cash. 
Finally we wish to say that a week or 
10 days of good, successful work, would 
carry off a choice of these premiums, and 
two or three days would secure one of 
the smaller ones. There is time enough 
yet; but no time to lose. Send for a 
bundle of samples, and start in at once. 
No doubt you wonder how we can give 
so much, just as some publishers of other 
papers wonder how we can print such a 
good and costly paper for $1 a year ; 
they know that our good paper, tine 
illustrations and high-priced contribu¬ 
tors, all cost lots of money, and they can't 
understand how we do it. It’s simple 
enough when you understand that the 
paper is nearly 50 years old, and has a 
reputation that brings thousands of sub¬ 
scriptions and thousands of dollars of 
patronage that other and cheaper papers 
cannot hope to get. Most of our clubs, 
too, come from old readers who refuse 
to take any pay at all. They wish the 
pleasure of doing a favor to their neigh¬ 
bors and to the paper that has helped 
them. 
Now we have told you a great deal 
about family matters this week. Let us 
say once more that there is a big chance 
to make money for the next six weeks, 
hustling for subscriptions for The R. 
N.-Y. T)o you wish some of it ? 
WE WANT TO KNOW, YOU KNOW! 
IF YOU DON’T SEE WHAT YOU WANT, ASK FOR IT ! 
Strawberry Pots and Horticultural School. 
—1. Where can I get pots, to pot some strawberry 
plants ? 2. Can I set the pots in the ground with¬ 
out removing the saucers ? 3. Are they made of 
paper, and will the paper rot in the ground ? 4. 
Where is there a good school in which a person 
can learn all about horticulture ? It must be 
cheap. h. l. 
Tennessee. 
Ans. —1. Of the Syracuse Pottery Co., Syracuse, 
N. Y., or the Whilldin Pottery Co., Philadelphia, 
Pa. 2. You don’t want pots with saucers for 
potting strawberries. 3. There are paper pots, 
and they will rot in the ground in time. One can 
make his own paper pots if he wishes to do so. 
They are not very expensive. 4. There is no such 
(Continued on next page.) 
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At Least 10% Actual Potash. 
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