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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 18 
“9,503.” 
As you would uever guess what these figures 
represent, we will proceed without delay to in¬ 
form you. From the opening of the regular sub¬ 
scription season on September 1, 1894, to May 1, 
1895, there were placed on the mailing list of The 
R. N.-Y. the addresses of just 
E2T 9,503 NEW SUBSCRIBERS.^ 
We have gone over our list with great care, and 
find by actual count that the above statement is 
correct. Now, mind you, these were new sub¬ 
scribers, and they are not deadheads. Every one 
of them paid for the paper, and not one was on the 
list last year at this time. Of course, most of 
our old subscribers renewed, and are still with 
us. Tue R. N.-Y. takes pleasure in stating 
that it has made a solid and very satisfactory 
gain in circulation. In spite of the prevailing 
hard times, 9,503 new people have become sub¬ 
scribers this year. They are, so far as we can 
judge, intelligent and conservative folks, who sub¬ 
scribe as a business investment—not from any 
benevolent or senseless motive. 
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Let us first view this agreeable fact from an 
editorial standpoint. From the best statistics we 
can gather, we believe that each copy of The R. 
N.-Y. averages six readers. We are, therefore, to 
have 57,018 new readers for 1895 ! That necessi¬ 
tates a greater care and accuracy—if 114,036 
sharp new eyes are to watch our figures and 
statements. It also calls for a more varied paper 
—a wider range of topics, and a clear and liberal 
way of dealing with methods and events. Need¬ 
less to say, we shall try to rise to the occasion, for 
we fully realize that the only way to keep 
up our success is to prepare a paper that the 
business farmers of the country seek and pay for 
because of its real usefulness and value to them. 
We are often told by newspaper men—who know 
the cost of 'publishing a paper—that they don’t 
see how we can possibly print such a paper as 
The R. N.-Y. for $1 a year. Now we have no busi¬ 
ness secrets, and we do not hesitate to give our 
own reasons for this thing. The It. N.-Y. family 
of readers is like a great cooperative society or¬ 
ganized for business purposes. We never give 
our readers any “taffy,” and don’t go around hat 
in hand begging them to drop in a dollar out of 
charity. There is a fair, business-like under¬ 
standing all around. We work hard to obtain 
reliable information, and to dress it up in attrac¬ 
tive shape and make it soluble, so that any mind 
can take it in. We try to get it printed in time to 
help somebody. Above all, do we try to make 
things so clear that the men who have not been 
able to obtain a college education, can understand 
something of science. Our readers all know that 
we will cheerfully try to make any tough point 
clearer if we are only asked to do so. 
Now we have a class of readers who seem to 
appreciate such work. Their appreciation takes 
a practical turn, for they go out and get their 
neighbors and friends to take the paper. Not 
only that, they help us out with notices and 
accounts of new things, and give their experience 
with new methods. Thus it is that The R. N.-Y. 
can be bright and fresh—because its editors have 
such help from the readers. The R. N.-Y. is proud 
of its subscribers. They cooperate with us in 
every honest way, and we are very glad to testify 
to the fact that our success is largely due to their 
loyalty and good feeling. 
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And we may take this cooperative spirit right 
into the advertising side of the matter. We try to 
help here by printing only the “ ads.” of reliable 
people. Of course we make mistakes now and then, 
and put in an “ad.” that we afterwards reject; but 
notoften, and we never knowingly run the “ad.” of 
an irresponsible house. When we find an un¬ 
deniable humbug and fraud, we expose it openly 
and boldly. This policy has given The R. N.-Y. a 
great value as an advertising medium, because 
our readers have confidence in our advertisers, 
and cooperate with us in buying goods at first 
hands. To advertisers, we suggest that these 
9,503 new people (saying nothing about our old 
readers), will want thousands of dollars worth of 
goods before January 1, 1896. During the past 
three “hard ” years, farmers have been brushing 
and patching up the old things as best they 
could. They are now about at the end of “ patch¬ 
ing,” and at the first return of anything like good 
times, they will stock up with new goods. It be¬ 
hooves you as a business man, to keep your name 
before our readers. Make their acquaintance 
now, and be ready for them when the money be¬ 
gins to reach their farms. 
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And the same thought works out in the sub¬ 
scription department. Though our agents worked 
hard, they got only a very small proportion of 
those new subscriptions. They come in ones, 
twos and threes from all classes of people—doc¬ 
tors, lawyers, merchants, mechanics, carpenters, 
miners, as well as farmers—sent by those who 
state that The R. N.-Y. has been of so much ser¬ 
vice to them that they can’t feel fully satisfied 
without making some return. They are practical 
men, too, and seem to realize that they are part 
of a great corporation, and that their efforts in 
this direction will help to make a better paper. 
Then, too, they know that they have received 
benefit from Tue R. N.-Y., and, being charitable 
men, they wish their neighbors to share in the in¬ 
creased benefits of a still larger and broader co¬ 
operation of editors and readers. You can imagine 
that this is very pleasing to us. It shows still 
further the beauties of cooperation, and it is good 
evidence that an energetic and determined man 
can obtain subscriptions without a great deal of 
work. Just now this point is worth considering, 
because no one has yet started to win that mowing 
machine which will be given away June 16. There 
is a chance for some one to save some money. 
That Buckeye machine will not be won by any 
one who goes around with a “ stuck ” eye—but by 
some one who keeps his eyes open. And now, 
thanking you all for the help that has enabled us 
to book these 9,503 new names, we hope to.make 
it an even 10,000 before the next season opens. 
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But hold on a moment—we can’t close this state¬ 
ment without showing some of our newer readers 
what people think of The R. N.-Y. after becoming 
fully acquainted with it. We have been at great 
pains to explain the fertilizer question, because 
farmers lose lots of money by not buying their 
fertilizers right. Here is what a Connecticut man 
says : 
“We very much enjoy The R.N.-Y. I have studied 
the fertilizer question much, especially this year, 
and have made up my own formula for corn and 
potatoes: 3.6 per cent nitrogen, 7.6 per cent phos¬ 
phoric acid, 8 per cent potash. The mixture con¬ 
sists of : 
Pounds. 
Nitrate of soda (90 to 95 per cent pure).. 100 
Muriate of potash.100 
High-grade sulphate potash.300 
Dissolved boneblack.800 
Cotton-seed meal.800 
The cost of the fertilizer delivered here is $28.75 
per ton. It would have cost me about $1 per ton 
less if we had not bought our cotton seed in the 
fall, paying then $22.20 per ton for it. In spite of 
our excellent station reports and analyses, many 
farmers hereabouts are being swindled by low- 
grade fertilizers—paying high prices for poor 
goods. Yet they won’t subscribe for The R. 
N.-Y.—they know (?) so much already. The aver¬ 
age farmer seems to delight in being gulled, fer¬ 
tilizers often being bought by their odor. The 
worse odor the better the fertilizer.” 
A Toledo firm has received reports from up¬ 
wards of 4,000 grain dealers covering the territory 
which produces two-thirds of the winter wheat. 
The present prospect for the growing crop is very 
favorable. Seven hundred and twelve dealers 
report prospect excellent, 1,523 good, 1,056 an aver¬ 
age crop, 428 trifle below average, 293 poor and 
280 for half a crop or less. Missouri and Illinois 
show the best. Ohio and Indiana promise over 
an average; Michigan a trifle below and Kansas 
a very poor crop. Interior flour mills and ware¬ 
houses have much less wheat than a year ago. 
Only 90 report more on hand now, 886 about the 
same, 630 quarter less, 222 third less, 1,260 half 
less, 206 two-thirds less and 763 none left. Farm¬ 
ers also have much less wheat thau a year ago. 
One hundred and sixty dealers say more, 648 
about the same, 638 quarter less, 222 third less, 
1,448 half less, 360 two-thirds less and 556 none 
left. 
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In writing to advertisers, please always mention 
The Rural New-Yorker. 
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The farmer who comes from the 
barn, from the field, from the stock- 
yard, can’t help making tracks, and 
his wife must make the best of it. 
The way to do this is to wash them 
away with 
COLDOOST | 
This famous preparation will make 
the steps, the porch, and the kitchen 
floor as white as it was when the 
house was built. It makes every¬ 
thing clean. The grocer will sell 
you a large package for 25 cents. 
Gold Dust Washing Powder has 
an additional value to the farmer for 
destroying insects. Send us your name 
and address, and we will mail you an 
important booklet containing recipes 
for making kerosene emulsions, for 
spraying crops and trees and live stock. | 
THE H. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, 
Chicago. St. Louis. New York. ^ 
Boston. Philadelphia. T 
Better Crops 
result from use of fertilizers rich in potash. Most fertilizers sold 
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 books. 
They are sent free. It will cost you nothing to read them, and they will save you 
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Acid—always on hand for those desiring to compound their own formulas. 
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too wide apart. These add nothing to the 
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cheap horizontal wires. No matter how 
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PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO.,Adrian, Mich. 
EVERY FARMER 
of Grapes 
remove from the soil 12.60 lbs. of nitro¬ 
gen, 10.62 lbs. of phosphoric acid, and 
25.48 lbs. of potash. 100 lbs. of 
Albert’s Vineyard Manure 
contains 13 lbs. of nitrogen, 11 lbs. of 
phosphoric acid, and 28 lbs. of potash. 
Send for free sample, and our literature on “ The 
Manuring of Vineyards and Orchards,” and “ The 
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ROBT. L. MERWIN & CO., 
Importers of Chemical Fertilizers, 88 Wall St., N. Y. 
I mi/Hon'o Perfection Wire and Picket Field Fence 
LUWUCil 0 Machine. Best in world. Fence costs25c. 
a rod. Agents wanted. L. C. Lowden, Indianapolis. Ind 
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I LULL SUPERIOR N 
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MFG. CO. Martinsville .0. 
p ^ J have about 20 barrels 
o@6u rOfeUOcS of choice Dutton's Seed¬ 
ling Seed Potatoes, grown on our clean State. Sullivan 
County, potato ridge land, that we offer for $3 per 
barrel', f. o. b., cash with order. They have been win¬ 
tered in blind pits, and are in best possible shape and 
vigor for seed. They are our heaviest yielder. We 
also have a few barrels of Kural New-Yorker No. 2 at 
same price. Address GKOTTO FARM. Mongaup 
Valley. N. Y., or order may be sent to The Rural 
New-Yorker, New York 
is more or less interested in fencing. Whether 
intending to purchase or not, drop us a card, and 
we will mail a copy of our 1895 catalogue. 
Keystone Woven Wire Fence Go., 
No. 49 Locust Street, TliKMONT, ILL. 
ABLED FIELD AND HOC FENCE: 
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Will not burn, blow or rot down, and the price has 
been put down from 8U to 65 cents per rod, 
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your old wire fences. Call on your dealer or order 
direct. Write for circulars. Agents wanted. 
HOMER STEEL FENCE C0„ HOMER, MICH. 
