keltle with stones in it. The purchasers of 
sucli instruments are badly victimized, no 
matter what the price paid. The inventor 
of the Steck Piano early determined this 
should not be said ofhis instruments. Com¬ 
mencing some fifteen years ago, in the small¬ 
est way, be lias steadily gone on manufac¬ 
turing thoroughly good instruments, watch¬ 
ing every opportunity for improvement, until 
to-day the Steck Piano is second to none in 
all the requisites of a good instrument; is 
known and largely bought all over this coun¬ 
try, as well as in Mexico, South America 
and Europe. The small shop has become 
an enormous manufactory, still always need¬ 
ing enlargement, so rapidly does the de¬ 
Industrial ijtacltmcs 
Industrial (Erposttion 
seven feet, were shown. A Platte Valley 
ranch man gave his experience as follows : 
Wheat, Bough ton Rappahannock, seed 1 
bushel, yield 30 bushels per acre; Siberian 
Spring, seed 1 bushel, yield 40 bushels per 
acre; Winter Rye, average yield 25 bushels 
per acre* English Excelsior Oats, yield 50 
bushels per acre; Russian White Oats, yield 
45 bushels per aero; Spring Barky,yield 45 
bushels per acre. 
The exhibition of cattle, sheep and horses 
was good, and an improvement on those at 
any previous fair, showing that Colorado 
stockmen are gaining ground. 
It is thought by competent judges that 
the crops iu Colorado this year will about 
STEAM HOUSE HEATER. 
COLORADO AGRICULTURAL FAIR. 
HOVEY A CO’S., CATALOGUE 
Tiie readers of the Rural New-Yorker 
Jiave noticed for some weeks the advertise¬ 
ment of P. P- Mast & Co. of Springfield, 
Ohio, in which they set forth the merits of 
an agricultural feed steamer. We present, 
herewith an illustration of the same principle 
as adapted and applied to the heating of 
private dwellings, stores, churches,conserva¬ 
tories, etc. This is the Anderson Low 
P ressure Sleam Heating Apparatus, as made 
liy P. P Mast A Co. Every person who 
lias seen a Base Burner stove will appreciate 
Hu* convenience and reliability of that prin¬ 
ciple when applied to a, steamer like this, 
which is a complete base burner, using either 
hard or soft coal, and so constructed that nil 
Uic smoke and gnss are consumed. The 
d:aft is automatic, being operated by a dia¬ 
phragm connected with the draft door by a 
chain; so that a given pressure will close 
the door, and when it, diminishes the door 
will again open. 
The boiler is made of wrought iron, as 
ilioroiighly riveted and finished as the best, 
high pressure steam engine boilers; has a 
reliable automatic or self-acting water-feed¬ 
ing apparatus, safety valve, vacuum valve, 
strain and water gauge cocks, complete, 
making it perfectly secure against, explo¬ 
sion. The boiler is peculiar iu construction, 
king one complete double boiler within 
another, the two communicating one with 
the other. The lire space is inside these 
l"'iters, thus giving an extraordinary amount 
of fire surface in proportion to size of boiler. 
Hiving so large a fire surface, it, requires 
In i little fuel, and all that is necessary is to 
Jo p itic tank supplied with water, and to 
lill the drum or magazine with coal two or 
three times in twenty-four hours. For house 
healing purposes the condense is returned 
I t llie boiler from the radiators, so that it 
lines not require more Hum five or six gal¬ 
lons of water per day. 
The radiators are composed of a series of 
double drums placed one inside another with 
space between for the passage of fresh air 
fioiii lhe Cold air box ; these drums are filled 
with steaui and the air passing around and 
The sixth annual exhibition of Colorado 
Agricultural and Mineral products began in 
this place on Tuesday, the 101 li, and closed 
Saturday, the 23d. The fact that the past 
season in Colorado has been thedryesl since 
1863 lias led Lo the general belief thatwc 
had light crops and dwarfed products; and 
the most of those not acquainted with the 
results of farming in this Territory looked 
for a poor show at the annual fair. But the 
?£'U EHEK on application. Address IIOVEY & CO 
North Market St.. Boston, Muss. 
rontiitntin* seventy-two minus and 
TWO IIICA UTII'l L Clll.lllJ El) I'l.ATES. 
nicely Illustrated, giving pin i n il 1 rest Ions for nearly it 
THOUSAND VARIETIES 
of flowers anil Vegetables f ull bound with your 
name in gilt, post paid, in NovimuImt. A (I con!?. 
I sper oover and one colored plate, A eentn. 
Cuts 11,,,’Mo of Hardy Ruins and Seed for tall plant¬ 
ing. now ready and sent free lo nil applicant • 
Address, M. <*. REYNOLDS, 
It ndienter. N. V. 
NURSERIES, 
f Prices, per do*., pel 
I. Choice Till lien, 
growl ll 
f Hie Air. Vernon. 
lo all. 
i, Rochester, N, V. 
100, per I .mil). \ ill ii mu of | S J 
Non mol Old. I Hue. Ihrlllv i 
A nil,mi ED PLATE ,o 
(host new Winter Pour.i fee., i 
Address, Will, S. LITTLE 
F > l, o o !Y| I jy t; I 
> I LLINOIS. 40 
HRFKN-llul SES ! I 
Si nek. I ,im I'rirew. 
Seeds, Stocks. Hi al ls, 
Cninloune, IO fen 
login).*, nil for 111 cents 
Send for these before 
SWEET CHESTNUT 
TREES. 
One-hulf million, besides a large general nursery 
stock. A sixteen-page circular free. Also, a trade- 
list for nurserymen and dealers. Address 
STOlilts, HARRISON A CO., 
l'ainesvillo, Lako Co.. Ohio. 
K ’ s a- is a. jst d y q i j n k i> t 
facts were otherwise. Probably two-thirds 
of the grain, vegetables and fruit this year 
have been raised by irrigation ; gradually 
our farming is turning wholly to that meth¬ 
od, even along l lm good bottom lands of the 
Souili Platte, Big Tompson, Kowit, Saint, 
Vrain, Boulder, Bear and Clear Creeks, so 
that, a dry season such as this, in the general 
aggregate, has been no serious drawback. 
Some ranches, or farms, have suffered, but 
Ihe new areas irrigated and farmed this year 
for the first, time have shown wonderful re¬ 
sults. Some 3,000 acres belonging to the 
Greeley Colonists, say 800 in the vicinity of 
Longmont, cultivated by the Chicago Colo¬ 
rado Colony, a large area at Green City and 
Evans farmed by Ihe South western and St, 
Louis Western Colonies respectively have 
borne “good fruit.” 
I give for the benefit of your renders the 
weight and size of some of Hie vegetables on 
exhibition at the fair, as they came to my 
notice. Frank Card, from his ranch near 
the base of Pike’s Peak, sixty-five miles 
south of Denver, exhibited four varieties 
of potatoes, the Early Rose, California, 
Early Goodrich and King of the Earlies, 
A sample of the latter weighed 6 pounds, 
and the “patch” ran from \% to 5 
pounds. The Wolfe Brothers of Clear 
Creek county, exhibited some samples of 
Brcestfs Peerless potatoes, grown on their 
ranch in the mining regions over 8,000 feel 
above sea level. The largest weighed 3 
pounds, and their average yield was 641 
bushels to the acre. 
Mr. Perrin, from his ranch on Clear 
Creek, near Denver, exhibited an egg plant 
weighing H pounds, u blood beet neighing 
22 pounds, and Early Rose potatoes that 
yield 315 bushels per acre. As results of 
V N O . 
supply the home demand. They were short 
last year, and we have a third greater popu¬ 
lation now; so with the dry season and 
everything, the fact, becomes apparent, that 
the farmers in the Territory have done well. 
The prices of products rule much lower than 
last.year at this lime. Potatoes, by the sack, 
are two cents per pound ; onions, beets, tur¬ 
nips, cabbages, retail at two cents per pound. 
Colorado flour brings $5 per sack ; States’ 
Hour (clinics Illinois or Missouri), $3.50. No 
fruit of any account is yet, raised in Colo¬ 
rado. Until this year the supply has been 
wholly fiom California. Now it, is about 
divided between California and Kansas. 
About one car load per week from each 
source are the average receipts at, Denver, 
from July 1 st to November 1 st, chiefly 
peaches, pears, apples and grapes. It. has 
been found that grapes, apples and nears 
Hyacinths, Tulips, 
(Tonis Lilies, 
unit all other Ruths for plum¬ 
ing in l In* A mu mo . also. 
Hill It Glasses, Kiiin;y Flower 
Tots, Wivmi Fl.nW MIIMi 
Plants, lln>1 inr'nm tr Zfnsp- 
herri i’#, Ac . the hugest unit 
IInest ii mkoi'I ment in I lie I'min. 
iry. /Vires tmidmili 1 . cata¬ 
logues now ready amt mulled 
to all applicants fin 1 , 
IIICM It A A. DKEER, 
711 CIm-*!uiii Si., 
Phllndetiililn. I’n, 
ny using me instrument. 1 lie outer casing 
should he handsome, hut this is less import¬ 
ant.—the strings and action are the piano, 
ami a good one deserves a handsome case. 
To all these points, and many others that 
only the sharp eye of a maker who knows 
and likes his business can perceive, Mr. 
Steck gives his personal and tmremiujug 
attention. He examines ami tests every 
part, himself—hence, no had, even indiffer¬ 
ent, instrument ever leaves his factory. We 
tested several of his Instruments recently, 
and were surprised at the resonance, purity 
and volume of the tone;—we do not recoi¬ 
led ever to have heard one where Ihe “sing¬ 
ing” quality was so well developed. It. was 
as if some very delicate, sweet-tolled wind 
instrument was playing in unison. In rapid 
passages, the action moved with certainty 
and silence, ami the instruments seemed to 
us to he all that could he desired. 
But there is still another point in which 
care is needed, or the best instrument will 
soon fail. The piauo must he so made that, 
it will stay iu tune. Well-seasoned wood is 
indispensable, and each maker lias done 
what, he could with rest-plank and pins to 
guard this weak spot. Of course Mr. Hteck 
1 ms not overlooked Ibis, and he claims that 
the improvements lie has patented ensure a 
durability, and a capacity of keeping in time, 
unattainable by other means. The Steck 
Piano is cheap, quality being considered, 
and our Rural friends in need of an instru¬ 
ment can order one of these with certainty 
ihat it will be good when it arrives, and for 
many years after. The warerooms of Geo. 
8tkck & Co. are located at 25 East Four¬ 
teenth street, New York city- 
A IUERH AN FOREST TREES. 
wnnil, Asti, Elm, llm!till, Maple, <lies! 
lock, .to. Prten, $2 per thousand, mol 
Some varieties !>y mill I, 50c. P lOo. Semi 
circular. Interests nil. A. 11 A’l'TLKB. Hi 
APPLE SEEDLINGS 
LA1M.K MIT «f Apple Hi-rilllug* fur wile 
very cheap hv Hie HKI M. 
I>. W. KAUFFMAN. He» Moines, Iowa. 
Dug and heeled In at our own Nursery In St. Louis, 
ut $80 per M„ (! to 8 toot high. 
HOLMAN (i SANDERS. 
VHNKKUK MILITARY INSTITUTE; 
For umklng I my a intelligent, healthy, Christ Ian M EX, 
Re-open* So atom her Iltli. 
BENJAMIN MASON, Box 156 Yonkers, New York 
:tc (bai-imur 
THE TROPHY TOMATO, 
acclkh, reaches, Plums, and a 
Full Line of Nursery Stork. 
The following Catalogues will be sent on application 
No. 1.—Descriptive Catalogue of Fruit Peparliuint. 
No, 2.— " •* of Ornamental Dcp’t. 
No. 3.— Wholesale " for Nurserymen and 
Dealer*. HOOPES, BRH. ,V THOMAS, 
Cherry Hill Nurseries. West Chester. Pa, 
Some cases having been wholly destroyed by 
ibis pest.—E. I). II., Freeport, III, 
I have seen, from time to time, unfavora¬ 
ble reports of file Trophy tomato in the Ru¬ 
ral New-Yorker and other papers. I have 
grown seven soils the past season, all of them 
good; hut the best of them all was the Tro¬ 
phy- I have found I lie Trophy large, round, 
smooth and very solid; ripens evenly and as 
early as any. It is a great bearer. I have 
seen tomatoes shown as Trophy at our coun¬ 
ty show, that were anything but Trophy, if 
I have got it. I got niy seed of Mr. War- 
inh.— (4. C., Whilinsville, Worcester Co., Mass. 
The Trophy Tomato is the best tomato I 
have ever seen. I can sulely say it, for I am 
a gardener and have bad experience in that 
line; I believe I have tried the different va¬ 
rieties of tomatoes [iretty thoroughly, and I 
have never seen any to equal the Trophy yet. 
I planted seed under glass the last of March ; 
when the plants were two inches high I trans¬ 
planted them into pots, and set them in the 
open ground the middle of May; they grew 
finely, coining into blossom at the same time 
with the Tilden, the vines being much more 
stocky. I expected a fine crop of Trophys; 
indeed I was trying my best to raise some 
large ones; I wanted a premium. But I was 
defeated in that, for on the 15th day of June 
we had a hail storm such as was never 
known here before; the hail cut down my 
plants lo within three or four inches of the 
ground, leaving not a single leal or bud. I 
let them si and, tor I could not get any more 
to replace them. Theysoon started up again 
and commenced hearing, and such tomatoes 
1 never have )uul before; they arc large, 
smooth and solid, heavy as a stone Some 
specimens weighed lj -4 pounds, and were as 
smooth as an apple; for me they have ripened 
before the Tilden some days. I have 110 
trouble about their ripening perfectly; 1 
think giving them the full benefit of the sun’s 
rays obviates the difficulty spoken of by your 
correspondents, C. of Danbury, and 1’. G. S. 
of East New York, L. I.—J. I3. Whittick, 
Dutchess Co., A, Y 
SI ltA it HLKKV PLANTS. >*••"-) 
President. Wilder. 56 cents per 12: $1 per 20; $2.50 
per Km. Agriculturist. liurncs Mum., Bnvden 20, 
C. Downing. .lueiindii, Nice nor, Ti loiuplic. Wilmn. 
50 cents per 12. $ I per 100; (by express-, $1 lo $5 per 
1 , 000 . 
tillill U I INKS. <•»yMnll.) 
Delaware- Iona, ('reveling, Tn-Knlnn, Concord, 
Hartford,I ilimit, Ruger*. I 5. Ill 25 rent h eunli. sulem. 
Marlh ii, 50 cunts. Euuieliiu, Walter, $1. (All Hio 
Hbove very low by the 100 mul 1,000. Order mn.-i i>o 
Dt $1 i«r more. Fur i ;il.iloyne* of Small Fruits, 
Grope Vines, l-rnit Trees on.I General Nursery Block, 
address ('. L. VAN DI'SF.N Mneeiti.ui, N. V. 
Mr Im purlnlines nee ex peeled early 111 September, 
direct trnm Hie most. eminent growers lo Holland, 
who hove supplied me Do nearly twenty veins. 
Theveun be relied upon jUMif me Very finest oualitv. 
RIVERS HELEnUATKD NEW EARLY t'KAi (IFS. 
Early lleiitneos, Knrly Rivers. Early Luimos, Ac., 
moeli earlier Mum Hales. 
Catalogues mailed on application. 
.JOHN HAUL, Washington Oily, D. (!, 
Wrought* Iron Window Blinds. 
At the American Industrial Fair we saw, 
the .other day, w rough t-iron window blinds, 
which we think deserve commendation. 
They are entirely of iron, hence are fire¬ 
proof, and are so made as lo exclude, totally, 
light ami dust, are stronger and equally as 
light, as the wooden blinds, and of course do 
not sag, shrink and swell as wood is apt to 
do. Thcyco 9 t but little more, and, in our 
judgment, will prove cheaper than wood. 
They are sold nt $1.25 per linear foot per 
pair, 
Dlulug-Rooin Sets 
are another novelty we saw at the Fair. 
They consist of complete sets of dishes used 
by a person at table arranged in a hand¬ 
some black-w:i I nut frame, portable, of course. 
One object of the arrangement is to make 
each person wash his or her own dishes. It 
is to divide the labor of the housewife 
among the entire family, each person taking 
care of liis or her table set. It is an arrange¬ 
ment that will he likely to prove popular 
among the women folk — provided they can 
secure its adoption. 
CttlT«r’s Duelling ill no III nc. 
I am sorry to see the error of the printer, 
copied into your paper, in my testimony as 
to Carter’s Ditcher, (see Rural New-York¬ 
er, Sept. 23. page 189 ;) “ rods” should read 
“yards.” Two hundred rods is a manifest 
impossibility; yards it did, and well; and 1 
then considered ihe work of four horses ami 
two men, done in four hours, equaled that 
which fifteen men could dig in the same 
time,— Henry Landoh, London Asylum,Ont, 
lereisa great need of cheap, gaffe, liealth- 
ncl economical house-healing apparatus; 
•tiling that will remedy the evils of hot 
iniaces, and not he so expensive as the 
piessnre system, where banks of pipes 
all of which is ac- 
*n the Anderson Heater. By 
the rooms are cou- 
f’resh air, free from 
ug warmed by steam, 
-,.J avoiding 
1 > the health of tlie occupants, or to 
- In the house. 
Asiiy adjusted to any required tempera- 
an even distribution of heat. It 
Construction, durable, quick 
, economical in fuel and re- 
Vcr - v little attention, more than to 
—i coal morning and evening.— 
,c llse( -i lor radiators 
Nuplislicd 
is method of healing 
lll|, y supplied with 
Moke or gases, and bei 
st'ffaces, is not burned, thus 
[ ’ r .v to the health of the o 
. a o< h l work or furniture 
pisesj “ 
f ru ’ giving r 
8 sil >‘l>le in its 
■ its opeiiiiious 
p'lii'es v •• 
h»!>ly it with 
s -1). ii. 
Our Annunt Ciitalogiie of 
HYACINTHS, Ll LIES. TULIPS, CROCUS 
iinil nit other Hi, Him tor Full iiliinUng. ejilit-r in tin 
open hi)r<ler, the ConHerviHorv or Grri'iih"ii8c tlir 
most coioplcto of liny yot imblisln-d is now ready 
and will be mulled freu to nil upplirunts. 
Address 
C. I.. ALLEN A CO„ 
7ti Fulton Hi., Rrwolilvn, N. Y. 
l^UEK JFOR .1 M*ECUII 1 !N. 
-4 a full Oiitulogne of our Siiinderd, Miscelliinoons 
unci tllnstrutod Jiivenile Books, or >|>ei*lmen iiutu- 
bers ot Oliver Optic's MiiKntine. sent by mull free. 
LEE & SHEPARD, Publishers, Boston, 
I,ICE, SHEPARD A 1)1 Lt,INGHAM, 
No. •HI Green St., New York, 
where a complete stock of nil publications may bo 
found. 
FRANKLIN NURSERY 
100,000 Prinover’s Colossal Asparagus, very line, ono 
year strong *2 V J«0, $10 V I.KAI. 
80,0011 Silver Maple, one rear old, very flne-$3 9 
1,01 Ml. 
3,000 A inerlean Arbor vines, four feet to four and a- 
liHlf feel—$18 V (00, $150 f 1,000. 
1 (Jk)" 00 A -Roeks, two yours old, very One—$12 $1 
Correspondeueo solicited. Address 
J. IHCYKF.It, 
CliambershurR, Pu. 
