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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
DEC 2 
Remarks which ail should Read. 
The Rural New-Yorker has never in any 
case sold seeds or plants to subscribers. This 
being well known, our reports of the results 
of our tests are fully accepted as trustworthy, 
and the true value of hundreds of new and 
high-priced seeds and plants is made known. 
"When, by such tests, we find that a given 
plant is more valuable than others of its kind 
which have been generally cultivated, we, at 
once, if practicable, place it in our next Dis¬ 
tribution, and send it without charge to all 
of our subscribers who apply. These distri¬ 
butions are 
ABSOLUTELY FREE, 
and their primary object has always been, 
and is, to promote the interests of agriculture 
and horticulture. 
POSTAGE. 
As all our readers know, we have hereto¬ 
fore borne a part of even the postal expenses 
of the seeds and plants we have sent out. Our 
object in not charging the entire postage to 
those who apply is to prevent the possibility 
of a suspicion that we receive in any fotm 
the slightest compensation for our labor or 
for the heavy cost of these distributions. Be¬ 
sides, as these offerings are not premiums, as 
they are sometimes made without requiring 
either an application or any payment of 
postage, we hold the right to continue them 
or to discontinue them as we may determine. 
The postal cost of our present distribution 
will be about (we cannot determine it posi¬ 
tively at this date) EIGHT CENTS PER 
COLLECTION. Of this we shall charge those 
who apply six cents only, as heretofore. 
Those who subscribe through us, however, for 
the " Inter-Ocean,” “ Detroit Free Press,” 
and “New York World,” or other papers 
clubbing with the Rural New-Yorker, are 
not required either to send any postage or to 
make any application, as this has been pro¬ 
vided for in the clubbing price with the pub¬ 
lishers of those journals. 
trench upon its reading matter. 8, The 
value of its 
FREE SEED DISTRIBUTIONS 
is now well and widely known. Only seeds 
or plants which have originated at the Ru¬ 
ral’s Experiment Grounds, or which are 
new, or the best of their kinds, arc distributed. 
9, We have introduced or disseminated dur¬ 
ing the past five years not less than 100 dif¬ 
ferent species or varieties among our sub¬ 
scribers without cost to them. Among the 
most popular may be mentioned the Beauty 
of Hebron and White Elephant potatoes; 
Blount’s White Prolific corn, the Rural 
Branching Sorghum, the Cuthbert Raspberry, 
Clawson, Fultzo-Clawson. 8bumafeer and 
Surprise wheats, Mold’s Ennobled oats, the 
Rural Thoroughbred and Heavy Dent corn, 
the Telephone pea, with garden and flower 
seeds innumerable. Upon our Regular Free 
Seed Distribution of 1831-2, $2,000 worth of 
gifts were offered for the best yields. Atten¬ 
tion is respectfully called to the announce¬ 
ment of our Free Seed Distribution for 1S83 
on another page. 10, Truth, progress, the 
real interests of the land and those who culti¬ 
vate it, the dissemination of improved seeds 
and plants and of the knowledge how bpst to 
cultivate them; and so to conduct the journal 
that it may have a just claim upon all who 
tested at once, end reported upon according 
to their worth, so that subscribers have be¬ 
fore them a trustworthy guide as to what 
novelties are worthy of trial. The past sea¬ 
son, for example, we tested 50 different kinds 
of new potatoes, 15 different kinds of corn, 
80 different kinds of wheat, 20 of beets and 
mangels, 27 of beans, 29 of cabbages, 2L of 
lettuce, 12 of onions, 60 of grapes, 160 of 
strawberries, all of the different kinds of 
raspberries, blackberries, currants, besides a 
rare collection of the most hardy shrubs, 
trees and herbaceous plants. 
We ask all progressive farmers and horti¬ 
culturists to examine the Rural New- 
Yorker before subscribing for any family 
journal another year. For this purpose, as 
wq have said, specimen copies will be cheer¬ 
fully sent to any address. We wish to make 
the truth appear and to show that those who 
would meet with success in land-culture can¬ 
not afford to do without the journal, and that 
it should be subscribed for as a measure of 
economy. 
The price is $2 per year, and there is no 
club or second price. Those who would aid 
in getting up clubB should send for our Pre¬ 
mium Lists and posters, which will be 
promptly forwarded. A postal card ad¬ 
dressed to the Rural New-Yorker, 34 Park 
nate as to be the lucky planter, and who suc¬ 
ceeds in getting a grape superior in every way 
to the Niagara, will have something better 
than a gold mine, and will be remembered 
much longer and more favorably than he 
who conquers a kingdom. 
The course of the Rural in sendingout new 
and valuable seeds free, has already added to 
the wealth of this country many hundred 
times all that has ever been paid for the paper 
in subscriptions and to-day thousands and 
thousands of families, all over the land, are 
enjoying fine fruits and growing improved 
vegetables and grains, that would have noth¬ 
ing of the kind were it not for the liberality 
and enterprise of the Rural. 
Let all, and especially the younger readers 
of the noble Rural, take a lively interest in 
this great enterprise, being assured that not 
only much profit, but the gratitude of suc¬ 
ceeding years awaits him who shall be suc¬ 
cessful. J. S. Woodward, Sec’y. 
Thousands of Testimonials, 
“You are doing splendid work with your 
journal.” P. Barry. 
Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 30,1882. 
“I fully agree with you as to the necessity 
of elevating the tone and style of our periodical 
agricultural literature. In this respect you 
are doing the best work I know of anywhere. 
Cheapness is certainly incompatible with 
quality. It may secure quantity. Such 
journals as yours are well worth their 
pi ice and I believe they are gradua lly 
developing and educating a class of agri¬ 
cultural readers who appreciate this fact 
and who will be willing in the near future to 
pay a first class price for a ttrsLclass paper. 
Professor of Agriculture ) J. M. McBrydb 
in the S. C. College. ) 
“You are, I think, publishing the best agri¬ 
cultural paper in America, and I most heartily 
congratulate you on your success.” 
Ex. Com. Agr’L, Minn. Gen. W. G. Le Due. 
“I like the spirit and vigor with which you 
conduct the Rural New-Yorker. It is a 
varied, animated and interesting sheet, and 
its columns of agricultural information are the 
best I know of. The courage of your con¬ 
victions and opinions is admirable, both in 
respect to what you think yourself and what 
you suffer others to say.” B. F. Johnson. 
Champaign, 111. 
“I am glad to report that several of the 
most intelligent agriculturists of the country 
have told me of late that they thought there 
was no better paper in the country of the 
kind than the Rural New Yorker. I am 
glad to say that 1 am of the same opinion. 
Agr’l. Col, Lansing, Mich Prof. A. J. Cook. 
“The Rural New-Yorker has more influ¬ 
ence and is more quoted that all the rest put 
together.” Prof. E. M. Shelton. 
Kansas Ag. College, 
“The Rural New-Yorker is now the best 
paper.” Prof. W. J. Beal. 
Michigan Agricultural College. 
“My visit to your farm yesterday was a 
most instructive one, and I do not know 
where a man could go in this country to get 
more valuable information on general agri¬ 
culture. 1 feel that you are doing a great and 
good work, and its results must he of vast 
benefit to the whole country. I hope your 
health will be spared until your fondest hopes 
are realized In the work you seem to have so 
much at heart. J. H. Reall, 
Sec. of the Am. Agricultural Association and 
Editor of its Journal. 
“The Rural is decidedly, and in every 
way, the best agricultural paper in America. 
Last year we said ‘one of the best,’ but now 
it has shot out clearly ahead of even the 
leading contestants in the race.” 
Ed. Vermont State Journal. T. H. Hoskins. 
“You are right in reporting things just as 
they are and it could be recommended that 
some other journals follow the example.” 
Concord, Mass. John. B. Moore & Son. 
“The Seed Distribution is a grand Institu¬ 
tion. It may r pay in the end, but no one but 
a philanthropist would expend his money in 
that way and look for his reward. It does 
good. In another inclosure I have renewed 
my subscription and asked for seeds.” 
U. S. Internal Revenue I C. W. Kkifer. 
Office, Dis. of Kansas. f 
The Vermont Watchman, in its ably con¬ 
ducted Agricultural Department,acknowledg¬ 
ing the receipt of the Fair Number of the 
Rural New-Yorker, says: “This wonder¬ 
fully able and successful journal now confess¬ 
edly stands at the bead of the agricultural 
newspapers of the world No other approaches 
it in the value of its articles, the abundance, 
variety and excellence of its engravings, or in 
the relative cheapness of its twice.” 
In renewing my subscription I take occas¬ 
ion to say that I cuuuot well do without the 
Rural. 1 regard it as the best of the agricul* 
tural press. The Experiment Farm is or value 
to all and I look with interest to Its results. 
Vigo Co., Iudianu. J. A. Foote. 
The Rural has been a great help to me in 
farming under many severe difficulties—up¬ 
hill work. One year it saved me $50 through 
the information given in the crop reports. 
New Haven Co., Conn. N. H. Williams. 
I cannot do without the Rural; it has been 
of such great value to me. Following its 
advice on one subject alone was worth many 
times the subscription price to me. 
Otsego Co., N. Y. Henry Wood. 
Let me congratulate you on the manner in 
which you sustain the Rural. It grows bet¬ 
ter as it grows older. Its chief merit is that it 
is so eminently practical. J. H. Woodward. 
Center Co., Pa. 
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i-'fiW-VU-aS 
Special Notice to New Subscribers 
Only yearly subscribers are entitled to ap¬ 
ply for this Distribution. 
Two three cent stamps must be inclosed in 
the letter of application, or we cannot agree 
to fill the order except as above specified. 
It will save us trouble, and it ivill save our 
subscribers trouble and expense, if they ivill 
make their application for the seeds and 
plants in the same letter in which they renew 
their subscrqjtions. We would also thank 
them merely to say: “ send seeds.” Those 
two words will convey all the instructions 
we need. 
All questions appertaining thereto should 
be written on separate slips of paper, other¬ 
wise there is a chance of their being entirely 
overlooked, er, at least, of not being promptly 
answered, and upon each separate slip the 
name and address of the writer should be given. 
Finally, in order to provide against the 
possibility of mistakes, disappointment or 
any dissatisfaction, we agree to duplicate all 
orders that from any cause may have failed 
to reach their destination, at the close of the 
Distribution. The most careful details of in¬ 
struction as to the treatment of the seeds— 
which we shall begin to distribute early in the 
New Year—will be given in future numbers 
of the Rural New-Yorker. 
OF INTEREST TO ALL. 
We would respectfully state to those who 
read the present number of the Rural New- 
Yorker who are not subscribers, that we 
would be pleased to send them specimens of 
our other numbers free upon application. 
Those who are familiar with this journal will, 
as we believe, support us in the following 
claims: 1, The Rural New-Yorker is 
filled with original reading matter from be¬ 
ginning to end by the best writers of America 
and England. 2, It is prioted upon fine, 
natural-colored paper. 3, It contains yearly 
not less than 500 engravings, mostly original, 
by our own artists. 4, It is conducted by 
practical farmers, whose first aim it is, irre¬ 
spective of advertisers and all merely pecuni¬ 
ary or personal interests, to tell the whole 
truth. 5, The Rural is the first newspaper 
to have established Experimental Grounds in 
connection with journalism. They comprise 
82 acres. All new farm and garden imple 
ments, seeds and plants are there tested and 
the results are impartially reported upon in 
its columns. 6, The Rural New-Yorker is 
conscientious, progressive, aggressive, spark¬ 
ling and original It admits no ambiguous 
or fradulent advertisements. It is pure in 
tone; it is a farm, garden, religious, news and 
literary paper all in one, and is, in short, the 
complete family rural journal of America. 
It is national in every department and toler¬ 
ates no sectional prejudices. It contains 16 
pages weekly and four-page supplements are 
ssued whenever advertising would otherwise 
THE NIAGARA GRAPE 
AS GROWN AT TIIE RURAL EXPERIMENT GROUNDS. True To Nature.— Fio. 450. 
Row, requesting specimen copies, Premium 
Lists or outfits, is all that is required. 
love nature are among the aims of the Rural 
New-Yorker. 
Among its more important "departments 
are cattle, horses, sheep, poultry, Bwine, ar¬ 
boriculture, dairy, domestic economy, farm 
economy, field crops, garden crops, floricul¬ 
ture, pomology—especially grapes and all 
small fruits—farm implements, landscape 
gardening, veterinary, crop reports from all 
parts of the country, industrial societies, 
agricultural science, chemical fertilizers, 
news from all parts of the world, farm stor¬ 
ies, rural architecture, a department for 
women. All of these departments are fairly 
illustrated by first-class artists from original 
drawings. 
The Rural Experiment Grounds conducted, 
as they are, purely in the interests of readers, 
offer rare facilities for making the paper val¬ 
uable. All new and high-priced seeds are 
THE NIAGARA SEEDS. 
We received the following letter from tfce 
Niagara Grape Company last November: 
“ The Niagara seeds promised for the Free 
Seed Distribution of the Rural New-Yorker, 
are being now carefully saved from perfectly 
ripe, first-class Niagaras, and those receiving 
them may be perfectly sure they are getting 
nothing else. It will he a wonder if many 
who plant these seeds do not succeed in pro¬ 
ducing some grape much hotter than any we 
now have. It can hardly be possible that a 
parent so healthy, so hardy, so vigorous and 
productive, so beautiful and good as the Ni¬ 
agara has proven itself to be, can fail to pro¬ 
duce some child worthy of its parentage, and 
superior to all others; and he who is bo fortu- 
