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fHE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October'19 
“A HOT DAY." 
Down in Georgia last July I found the 
weather hot! I could well believe the 
story I heard of the girl who fried an 
egg in a tin pan by just leaving the pan 
out in the sun. I didn’t try that, because 
1 didn’t stay in the sun long enough. I 
was fully satisfied to sit in the shade and 
hear the “ oldest inhabitant” tell about 
the weather. In this way, I heard an 
expression that I never heard before and 
which is good enough to go here as our 
text. 
By way of introduction to one man I 
fell back on that safe, old-time question, 
“Is this hot enough for you?” He 
glanced slowly around at the blistering 
trees and crackling grass, held out his 
hand as though to feel the heat at its 
worst, took a long breath of the parched 
air as though to test the lowest ther¬ 
mometer inside his lungs and said : 
“ Well, sar ! If I owed a man a hot day 
and he wouldn't take this one , I'd never 
pay that debt. I'd repudiate it sar !" 
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Now I don’t know just how one man 
can owe another a hot day, but there is 
force in that statement. I have heard of 
people who threatened to “make it hot” 
for others, but the “others” seldom come 
around to collect the heat, so it can 
hardly be said to be a genuine debt. 
Here was a genuinely hot day. It satis¬ 
fied any equivalent of heat any previous 
day had given. If a creditor wouldn’t 
accept it as par value for his debt he had 
no business to expect payment. That’s 
right and fair and there are several 
lessons that may be drawn from it for 
our edification. For example, before we 
go any further let’s read this note : 
On page 634 of The R. N.-Y., H. C. R., Bridge- 
water, Vt., gives a report of a crop raised from 
one small Carman No. 1 potato. I also received 
one small Carman No. 1 potato last spring. I do 
not know its weight, but it made 10 pieces, one 
eye each, one of which failed to grow. From the 
nine hills which grew, I dug, October 4, 58 pota¬ 
toes weighing 36J4 pounds. There were only two 
small unmarketable potatoes and but one ill¬ 
shaped one. The largest one weighed 1 pound 9 
ounces; 5 of them weighed 6 pounds 11 ounces 
and the best 10 weighed 12 pounds 4 ounces. As 
near as I can calculate, this would be a little 
over 500 bushels per acre, which would pay fairly 
well even at 20 cents per bushel. I used about 
one pound of fertilizer, or at the rate of about 800 
pounds per acre. I would not sell my crop for 
the cost of The R. N.-Y r . two years. So you see I 
shall get my paper two years for less than noth¬ 
ing, and I wouldn’t be without the paper if it cost 
$2 per year. F. e. v. e. 
Ontario County, N. Y. 
You see that wise man is satisfied with 
his equivalent. This “hot day” was 
very satisfactory. He got his paper and 
potatoes enough to pay for it two years 
more at his own valuation. There’s no 
repudiation about it. He’s satisfied with 
that “ hot day.” 
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“ Oh, well ! ” some man may say, “ I 
don’t care anything about potatoes—I 
don’t raise any—buy ’em all. Your paper 
isn’t hot enough to warm my prospects 
up ! You can’t give me any equivalent!” 
Now, see here, my friend ! But, first, 
read this note from a hay farmer : 
I don’t see how any farmer can do without The 
R. N.-Y. I took it a few years ago for one year, 
and followed its advice in regard to hay, and 
made $75 by doing so. The next year I did not 
take it, and so did not know the condition of the 
hay market, and lost $90 by not selling. I have 
taken The R. N.-Y. since, and you can put me 
down for a life number. I cannot afford to do 
without it. I will try to send some more names 
in a day or two. B. G. 
Cayuga County, N. Y. 
If we had space enough, we would go 
ahead and print similar notes from those 
whose hearts are tied up in henhouses 
or pigpens or stables, according as their 
hobbies are poultry, pigs, or other live 
stock. We have just as much confidence 
in The R. N.-\ t . as that man had in that 
Georgia day. If we can't warm up your 
ideas of farming so as to put a little 
more steam into your business, we’ll 
make you a present. 
Do you hear that ? 
Why, suppose either this potato farmer 
or the hay farmer were to come up and 
say : 
“ This R. N.-Y. has saved me all the 
way from $10 up to $90, but it’s no good 
—I don’t like it, and I want my money 
back ! ” 
Do you know what we would do ? 
We’d send that man’s dollar back so 
quickly that Uncle Sam would sprain his 
foot carrying it. Just like that man 
down in Georgia. If The R. N.-Y. isn’t 
hot enough to warm up any man to the 
value of 100 cents, we don’t want a 
single penny for the labor spent in find¬ 
ing it out. Of course our private opinion 
would be that the hay man is a singular 
person not to be satisfied with $75 worth 
of value, but he would get his dollar, all 
the same, the day he called for it. 
That’s a fact and the guarantee is 
printed on every receipt that is given for 
The R. N.-Y. We’re going to give you 
the best paper we know how. We have 
1,000 learned or practical men located 
all over the country to help us give facts 
and helpful advice. That’s what we 
promise and in order to show that we 
mean business we guarantee to give you 
back your dollar the moment you will 
honestly say you do not get your money’s 
worth out of the paper. In addition to 
that think what the agents are obtain¬ 
ing. Every day we pay one dollar for the 
largest club. Here’s what one man says 
about that: 
I received the dollar for club of three; it was just 
like finding it. j. g. t. 
Indiana. 
Certainly it was a good find and we are 
glad you got it. Then at the end of 
October we shall distribute $170 in the 
hardest kind of cash to the seven agents 
who have obtained the largest clubs for 
the month ! 
To take it all through, we don’t think 
it requires a vast amount of cheek for us 
to come forward and say that -ve have 
the equivalent of any man's dollar. We 
feel just as independent about this thing 
as live bacon in cold storage, for we feel 
that the proposition we now make ab¬ 
solutely relieves the would-be subscriber 
of any risk or personal obligation. 
Again, there are many of our readers 
who feel that they would like to spread 
The R. N.-Y.’s circulation—in fact it 
comes to them sometimes in the form of 
a duty that they owe to their neighbors. 
We wish to make such an offer that these 
people may feel as the Georgia man did 
about the day—so confident of its value 
that there is no excuse for not taking it. 
Why here, now, read this note from one 
of the six agents who received the 
extra $5 : 
Dear Rural: 
Yours containing check received. Thank you. 
This kindness was wholly unexpected. I did not 
work for The Rural expecting a money reward ; 
but knowing The Rural’s value, and wishing my 
friends and neighbors to have and enjoy a good 
thing, I presented the claims of The Rural to 
them, and sent you their names. This community 
is not a good one in which to canvas for an agri¬ 
cultural paper. Many farmers believe that they 
know enough about farming, etc., now. I was 
urging one of these people to take The R. N.-Y.: 
He remarked: “The paper would do me no good; 
I farm out of my own head ! ” I shall look up 
some yearly subscribers if my health will permit. 
Now you see there is no excuse even 
for that /imd-farmer. If The R. N.-Y. 
doesn't help his head, all he has to do 
is to say so and back comes his dollar. 
All he would lose would be six cents or 
less of interest and we will pay that tco, 
if desired. So, you see, it has reached a 
point now where your friend or neighbor 
has no way of escape. Y T ou’ve got him 
cornered at all points. How about the 
borrower ? you ask ! When he comes to 
borrow the paper why don’t you offer to 
lend him $1 so he can have it himself 
every week? Nine chances in ten he 
will pull out the money himself and you 
will get the commission. 
The dollar winners for the past week 
are : 
Oct. 7.—P. E. Terry, Suffolk Co., N. Y. 
8 . —Benj. Gould, Cayuga Co., N. Y. 
9. —Geo. K. Pettis, Fulton Co., Ga. 
10. —Allen R. Yale, New Haven Co., Conn. 
11. —Walter Johnson, Middlesex Co., Conn. 
12. —Harvey Jewett, Cheshire Co., N. H. 
One more thought. Don’t be afraid that 
The R. N.-Y. is going to play out. Oh 
no ! We’re not playing, we’re working. 
See what this man says : 
I am not much given to flattery, but say honestly 
that a steady improvement is visible with each 
number of The R. N.-Y. A. L. wales. 
Pennsylvania. 
We are on record as saying that flattery 
is pure fat. There are no muscle-makers 
in it, and we don’t want any. We know 
that Mr. Wales means what he says. 
Anyway that improvement is what we 
are after. 
CANADA 
UNLEACHED 
HARDWOOD 
ASHES 
Supplied in carload lots, in bulk, sacks, or 
barrels, direct from Canadian storehouses. 
BoneMeal, Bone and Blood, etc., shipped 
direct from the immense slaughter houses 
of Armour <fc Co., Chicago. For prices, pam¬ 
phlets, etc., address MUSROE, LABOR «fc 
CO., 3a Arcade Bnlldlng, OSWEGO, N.Y. 
General Eastern Agents for Armour & Co., 
of Chicago, 
BONE FERTILIZERS. 
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MAKE MONEY 
Large and profitable crops can be 
■t grown by fertilizing with v 
i NITRATE OF SODA i 
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Nearly all fertilizers are ineffective because 
they contain too little nitrogen. Add a little 
nitrate of soda to these and the result will 
be astonishing. 
A Valuable Pamphlet telling bow 
to save $io to $15 per ton on fertilizers, and 
how to fertilize most economically and ef- A 
fectively, sent FREE. Address 
S. M. Harris, Moreton Farm (P. 0.), New York. " 
IF VOU WANT 
a good, safe, seven per cent 
investment, secured by first 
mortgage on an improved 
farm worth three times amount loaned, write to 
Willis A. White. 239 First Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn 
FunUflfER ««riu*n» eo. p 
m^- DU VVlvLll ■ostsn * new tone .^5 
FOn SALE, 
in Wolfboro. N. H., FARM, containing 90 acres—40 in 
cultivation, 30 in pasture, and 20 in wood and timber. 
The buildings consist of two-story frame house and 
L, containing 11 finished rooms; two barns, one 
70x38, the other, 50 x 36; sheds and shop; two wells 
of never-failing water. One mile from Post-office, 
School and Church; 2!^ miles from Ossipee Railroad 
Station. Sickness only reason for selling. 
JOHN S. VARNEY, North Wolfboro, N. H. 
Watches at Panic Prices. 
D URING the panic times of last year, the great watch-case factories cut the prices of their 
skilled labor, and correspondingly reduced their own margins of profit, so that we were 
able to contract for watches at prices not dreamed of before. In many cases, the skilled 
labor has been restored to its old price; and ultimately watches must recover something of 
their old-time prices. Yet our contract still holds good, and for the present we are able to send the 
watches described below- at the same prices as last year. We, of course, reserve the right to withdraw 
these prices at any time. Every w-atch is guaranteed, and money will be returned in any case of 
dissatisfaction. 
“ CRESCENT STREET.” 
Waltham Watch, Men’s Size. Pride of the Wal¬ 
tham Factory. 
The best full-sized Waltham watch is called “Cres¬ 
cent Street.” This watch is made from the very 
finest materials, each part being selected by expert 
workmen. Every wheel is perfect, every jewel is a 
precious stone, every pinion Is polished to the high¬ 
est degree. In fact, this watch is, as the Waltham 
Company guarantees, “ perfect in construction and 
finish.” The Company also says in its catalogue 
that this is “the finest full-plate movement in the 
world.” The full plate is a recent Improvement in 
watchmaking. It is a metal cap, covering all the 
mechanism, excepting the balance, thus saving many 
bills for cleaning. These celebrated works aro full 
jeweled with red ruby jewels in solid gold settings. 
They contain compensation expansion balance, safe¬ 
ty pinion, Btem winding and setting apparatus, pat¬ 
ent Breguet hair-spring, hardened and tempered in 
form, patent regulator and double sunk dial, made 
expressly for this watch. The dial is genuine. 
No. 101. Crescent Street, Solid 14k., 40 dwt. 
(Hunting case only.) . $52.90 
No. 102. Crescent Street. Gold filled, 20-year. 
Hunting or Open face case. 37.00 
No. 103. Crescent Street. Gold filled, 15-year. 
Hunting or Open Face case. 33.25 
No. 104. Crescent Street, 2-ounce Coin Silver. 
Hunting or Open face case. 27.85 
No. 105. Crescent Street, Solid Nickel Silver, 
Open face dust-proof case. 25.CO 
“APPLETON. TRACY & CO.” 
Waltham, Men’s Size. 
“Appleton, Tracy & Co.” is one of the cele- 
1 brated watches of the world. The works are full 
! jeweled, with 15 extra fine red ruby jewels in solid 
gold settings, compensation balance, safety pinion, 
; stem winding and setting, Breguet hair-spring, spe¬ 
cial adjustment to temperature, • lsochronism and 
position, and all the very latest improvements. This 
watch took the first prize at the World’s Exposition 
in Paris, against all competitors, both American and 
i foreign. We will deliver this watch to any address 
j in the United States: works as above in 
j No. 106, Solid 14k. gold, 40 dwt. Hunting case 
only.$40.00 
No. 107,14k. gold-filled, 20-year. Hunting case. 23.50 
No. 108,14k. gold-filled, 20-year. Open face... . 22.50 
No. 109, 2-ounce, Solid Coin Silver, Hunting or 
Open face. 17.50 
No. 110, Stiffened Silver, Open face only.15.50 
No. Ill, Solid Nickel Silver case, open face. 12.75 
OFFER No. 112. 
Men’s Size Solid Gold Waltham Watch, $29. 
No. 100. Is a Men’s Size Hunting or Open face 
Waltham solid gold Standard, U. S. Assay Case, 
handsomely engine turned. The works contain seven 
Jewels, and are made according to the celebrated 
Waltham Riverside Model, in which the two nickel 
winding wheels are plainly seen. The case Is the 
thinnest solid gold model ever made. Remember, 
we mean that the watch when closed in the pocket 
is thin. The lids of the case are the usual thickness, 
and form a perfect protection for the movement. 
This is just the watch for doctors, lawyers, clergy¬ 
men, and all others who wish a really first-class 
article. The works are jeweled in all Important 
parts with precious stones; the regulator is an im¬ 
proved pattern; the hair-spring is Logan'B patent 
Breguet Spring. We will send this watch, delivery 
guaranteed, to any address in the United States 
for $29 
OFFER No 113. 
Men's Size Gold Watch, Waltham or Elgin, $14.50 
No. 106. Is a Men’s size Hunting or Open face gold 
filled engraved case, guaranteed by the manufact¬ 
urers to wear 15 years. This watch contains the 
same movement as Offer No. 100. We will send this 
watch, delivery guaranteed, for $14.50. 
OFFER No. 114. 
Men's Size Silver Open Face Watch, $6.50. 
No. 107. Is a seven-jewel Waltham or Elgin, open 
face only, stiffened silver case. In other words, in 
order to give strength sufficient to make the case 
durable without making the metal thick and heavy, 
the silver is strengthened by a nickel plate, intro¬ 
duced In such a manner as to be entirely hidden, 
and were it not explained, the purchaser would not 
be able to tell It from a heavy solid coin silver case. 
This watch com»s In open face only, with a heavy 
beveled plate glass crystal, strong and durable. The 
dial is of white porcelain, either Roman or Arabic 
characters. In order to prevent the possibility of 
the bands catching, the dial upon which the second¬ 
hand Is mounted is sunk be’ow the level of the sur¬ 
rounding face. We will send this watch, delivery 
guaranteed, for $6.50. 
OFFER No. 115. 
Ladles’ Solid Gold Waltham or Elgin Watch, $12. 
No. 115. The works are manufactured at Waltham 
or Elgin. They are made of the finest materials, 
carefully selected. The jewels are all cut and pol¬ 
ished In Europe, where secret processes are handed 
down from generation to generation. The dial is 
made of the finest porcelain and the hands of blue 
tempered steel. The case is solid 14k. United States 
Assay, handsomely engraved. We will send this 
watch, delivery guaranteed, for $ 22 . 
OFFER No. 116. 
Ladles’ Solid Gold Waltham or Elgin Watch, $16. 
No. 116. Is a ladies’ solid gold hunting or open face 
case, very delicately engraved, and contains a Wal¬ 
tham or Elgin seven-jewel movement. We guarantee 
this watch as well as all other watches offered, to be 
perfect timekeepers. Postpaid, delivery guaran¬ 
teed, for $16. 
OFFER No. 117. 
Ladles’ Gold Filled Waltham or Elgin Watch, $13.50. 
No. 117. Is a 1 dies’ gold filled engraved watch, 
guaranteed by the manufacturer to wear 15 years. 
The works contain seven jewels, exposed pallets, 
safety pinion and all Improvements. Price, delivery 
guaranteed, $13.59. 
OFFER No. 118. 
Ladles’ Gold “Skylight” Watch, 112 
No. 118. Is a 14k. gold filled engraved “Skylight” 
Waltham or Elgin, guaranteed to wear 20 years. The 
case is made by placing two heavy sheets of 14k. 
gold, reinforced between with a thin sheet of stiff 
composition, which makes a perfect case for pro 
looting the works. The ring joint plugs, thumb- 
piece, hinges and every part subjected to constant 
wear, are solid gold, while the gold Is brought down 
over the edges of the composition metal and joined 
in such a way that even an expert is obliged to cut 
the case to find that it is not solid gold. We will de¬ 
liver this watch for $ 12 . 
OFFER No. 119. 
Ladles’ Solid Coin Silver “Skylight” Watch, $8 
No 119. Is a solid coin silver watch, Wbltham or 
Elgin, containing seven jewels and all improvements. 
We me»n by “Skylight" that the front case is cut 
and a heavy crystal is inserted so as to see the di- 1 
without opening the front case. We will deliver 
this watch, postpaid, for $ 8 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, Corner Chambers^and Pearl Streets, New York, 
