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THE RURAL WEW-Y0RK1R. 
The Great National Weekly Journal of Rural Enterprise. 
Thousands of congratulatory letters from the best farmers, gardeners and agricultural students of Amer¬ 
ica. Real worth, originality, candor, devotion to the real interests of the rural people of the country may 
be demonstrated as being the chief objects which inspire the Rural/s management. Inquire of those who 
read the RURAL NEW-YORKER. Examine it carefully for yourselves and then judge. The R. N-Y. has no 
need to exaggerate its merits and has no desire to do so. It desires only to state the truth. Its pecuniary 
standing is secondl to that of no other paper. Its writers are the ablest in the world. Its engravings 
are by the best artists, from nature. It is the first to have established experiment grounds—the first to 
have inaugurated the Free Seed Distributions which have disseminated over the land the most valuable 
seeds and plants now cultivated. 
The White Elephant, Beauty of Hebron and Blush Potatoes—the Cuthbert Rasphm ry — Blount's White Pi oil fie and the Rural Thoroughbred Flint coins—the Rural Branching Sor- 
ghum, and 100 others might he mentioned. These have been sent to subscribers without charge. An account of its Free Seed Distribution for 1883 will he forwarded upon application. 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER costs more in its make-up than any other farm or garden journal published. It k a weekly and a daily farmers' paper combined. It is a conscientious, 
sparkling paper—a household paper—a complete Practical paper of Rural affairs. It is for the North, South, East and- West. It is original throughout. It is the Leading Horticultural 
and Agricultural Weekly of America. Here is a partial list of its contributors, the ablest ever collected together by any journal of any kind whatever. 
Sir J. B. I.iiwcs,Burl. . ..tiothamuted, England. 
Prof. J. P. Sheldon. Hants & Wills, Apl Col. 
William Robinson, K H.S., Editor and Foun¬ 
der of llie p tulon Garden. ... “ 
Prof. S. W. Johnson, Sheffield Scientific 
School, Yule Colic^e.. Conn. 
Gen. W. H Noble... “ 
Prof F. II Stoier. Hussey Institute.Mass. 
Levi Stoekbrldge, Ex Pffefl. Aarl. Col. “ 
Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, Boston. ... “ 
William Falconer, Cambridge University.. *• 
Richard Goodman, Prca. J. C. C. “ 
Hon. Ben l'erley Poore. “ 
Richard Goodman, Jr... " 
James R. Nichols, M D... “ 
Dr. Geo B, boring, r. s. Com. Ag. “ 
Prof. W. /. Beal, Agl. College. Mich. 
Pres. T. T. Eyou, Pom. Society. " 
Secretary C. A. Garlleld. “ 
S. B. Peck. “ 
C. E. Thorne, Farm Man. State Agl Col.Ohio. 
Among the enterprising 
Dr, John A. Warder . Ohio. 
W. I. Uhamherlalu... “ 
Waldo P Brown. “ 
H. F Johnson. Illinois. 
Prof. G. K. Morrow, State Agl. Col. “ 
Prof. Cyrus Thomas...... “ 
Prof. G. VV. French..... “ 
Prof E. M. Shelton. Agricultural College. .Kan. 
Prof. Thomas Meehan, Author of Native 
F.owersand Ferns.Pa. 
Mrs. Marr Wager-Fisher. “ 
W. G. Luring, Sr. “ 
Henry '■tewurt.N. J. 
K, Williams. “ 
Col. M. C. Weld. “ 
tra J. Blackwell . * 
Mrs J K. MuCouaughty. “ 
Ex-Gov. Robert W. Furnas.Neb. 
Gen. W. G LeDuc, Ex-U. S. Com. Ag.Minn. 
Prof. C. C. Georgesou, Agr. Col.Texas. 
Charles Shinn.Cal. 
J. B. Armstrong. 
Lnthcr Burbank... . 
“Maud Meredith”. 
Mrs. B. C. Dunlap. 
Prof. G C. Ca’dwell. Cornell University 
Prof. 1. P Roberts, Farm Manager “... . 
Prof. 1,. B Arnold.. 
Dr. A. R Ledonx. 
W. C. Barry. 
Charles Downing.. 
Samuel B Parsons. 
Samuel Par-ons, Jr. 
A. B Allen. 
Prof. K W. Stewart. 
Cob K D. Curtis. 
Peter B. Mead. 
Rev. E 1*. Roe. 
James Hogg. 
Forrest K. Moreland. . 
•Jonathan Talcott. 
Lorenzo Rouse. 
Nelson Ritter. 
Cal. 
Iowa. 
.Wig. 
N. Y. 
L A. Roberts... 
D. S. Marvin. 
a. M. Doolittle.. 
Mrs. W. V. Asplowall. 
u. E. Salmon, D.V.M. 
M. JB. Prince . . 
Mrs. Annie L. Jack . 
Prof. S. M Tracy. 
...N. Y. 
M 
• i’.X.C. 
Yuan. 
...Mo. 
Adeline Story. 
Hon. Cassius M. Clay... 
H. W, Ravenel . 
. .Ky. 
. ..s c. 
Prof. J. M. McBryde. 
Prof. W. V. BeUamv. 
...Va. 
...Ala. 
M. B. HUlyaru. 
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Prof. A. E. Btount. Farm Manager AgrT.Col..Col. 
T. H. Hoskins, JI. D.Vt. 
O S. Bliss. “ 
Mrs. Sarah H. Rowell. “ 
Prof. F. A. Gulley, Farm Manager Agr’l Col.,Mlsa. 
And not less than 600 others among our subscr lbers. 
FEATURES OF THE RURAL NEW-YORKER FOR 1883, 
we have to announce a series of ably written articles, the publication of which will be begun in a few weeks: 
By Hon. C. M. Clay. Subject: “Sheep Husbandry.” By Sir J, B. Lawks. Subject not yet determined. By Geo. B. Loring. Subject not yet determined. By Hon. Ben Perley 
Poore. Subject: “ Making Homes Hapx>v.” By Pres. Levi Stockbrioge. Subject: “ The Agricultural Needs of Dakota and Montana.” By Prof. G. E. Morrow. Subject: 1st. " The Ped¬ 
igree Question.” 2d. “ Lessons from the Fat Stock Shows.” By Rev. E P. Roe. “How to Secure the Best Returns in Strawberry Culture.” By James R Nichols, M. D. “ Facts Learned 
from 25 years experience in Conducting an Experiment Farm.” By Prof. J. M. McBryde. Subject: “Farm Seeds, their Parity aud Vitality,” By Prof. W. J. Beal. Subject: “Should all 
Students be compelled to Labor at an Agricultural College i” By H W. Ravenel. Subject: “ The Introduction of Japan Clover into this Country.” By W. A. Armstrong. Subject: “The 
Means of Agricultural Improvement.” 
The Most Valuable Series of Articles ever Presented, 
to assist the Farmer whose means are limited or whose farm is not paying him will begin early in the New Year, written by farmers who commenced in poverty and are now successful. The 
title of these essays will be _ _ 
Profitable Farming for a Poor Man. 
This series of articles, which will extend through 1883, were secured by the offer of Premiums iast Summer by the Rural New-Yorker. The wish was expressed that those farmers who 
had passed the trying ordeal from poverty to comfortable circumstances by the sweat of their brows would heartily enter the contest and TELL HOW THEY DID IT. The response was most 
gratifying, and, ms we have said, the series promise to be of inestimable value to the stugglino farmers of the country. 
Besides its Experiment Farm—the first to ha, e been established ui connection witn Farm Journalism—the Rukai. owus Hort. Experiment Grounds wherein all new Grapes, Strawberries, 
Raspberries, Currants and Blackberries, as well as ornamental shrubs, trees and hardy herbaceous plants are tested. Reports are made Btrictly m accordance with the results of such tests, 
without the least favoritism to the originator, introducer or advertiser. At the farm all new grains, grasses, forage plants, roots, etc., are tested in the same way. Hence the Rural New- 
Yorkek has become the accepted medium for the introduction of all new plants, seeds, agricultural implements, u nits, large and small. It presents accurate portraits of farm animals, as well 
as of ail new grains and fruit, so that, divested of the exaggerations so common ill many publications, the reader is enabled to form a crrect idea of the novelty presented. Th» Rural New- 
Yorker is conducted by real farmers whose first aim it is. irrespective of advertising and merely pecuniary or personal interests, to tell the whole truth in so far as they know it. Hence it is 
that it combines the True Interests of the Farm, Garden, Orchard and Country home with the Editorial Laoors of a Weekly Rural Home periodical 
in our last Free Seed Distribution for the best yields of the Indian Corn and Wheats therein offered. Those for Corn yields are now being awarded, and the awards will be printed in a few’ 
weeks. Those on Wheat will be awarded next September (18S3). In the Present Free Seed Distribution it is proposed to offer a large amount for the best seedlings raised from the Great 
Niagara Grape, 700,000 seeds of which will be distributed amoog Rural subscribers. It is presumed that the 
ARMY OF RURAL NEW-YORKER SEEDLING GRAPE GROWERS 
will create an enthusiasm beside which all other fruit enthusiasms pale, and which will be worth millions upon millions to the Grape Industry of our favored country. 
All good, progressive farmers are solicited to subscribe for the Rural New-Yorker. They will find that the above statements, though apparently ‘vainglorious,” are absolute 
facts, and the old friends of the paper will heartily indorse them. The lowest price tor the R. N. Y. is and will be $2,00 par year. Those woo subscribe for it in connection with the 
Chicago Inter-Ocean, Detroit Free Press and Household, or other journals clubbing with us will be furnished the Seed Distribution with either of the above for respectively $2.75 and $3.00 a 
“year. Those who subscribe for the Rural separately are required to send two three-cent stamps in p trt-pay ment of the postage on the next Free Distribution. 
Tlicmsands of Testimonials from the Best Men in the Country. 
“Allow me to congratulate you upon the success you have achieved in making the Rural 
one of the best journals 1 have over become acquainted with. For 15 years or more i have 
been a constant reader of the Rural, aud each succeeding year, while under its present man¬ 
agement, 1 have be^n pleased to see the sure and steady progress it has been making until it 
now stands pre-eminent, always doiug better than it has promised. What the Rural ad¬ 
vises I have no heeitancy in adopting; what it condemns 1 fiud it best to let alone. Its edi¬ 
torials are an outgrowth of careful thought regarding the present and future interests of 
agriculture. Its Free Seed Distributions, and the results of its experiments given to its 
readers and patrons, mark a step far in advance of any journal of my acquaintance. In a 
word, an investment in the Rural pays a better dividend than one in any other agricultural 
periodical in the land.” 
Logan Co., Ohio. Geo. A. Henry. 
“ I fully agree with you as to the necessity of elevating the tone and style of our peri¬ 
odical agricultural literature. In this respect you are doing the beet work I know of any¬ 
where. Cheapness is certainly incompatible with quality. It may secure quantity. Such 
journals as yours are well worth their price, and I believe they are gradually developing and 
educating a class of agricultural readers who appreciate this fact, and who will be willing in 
the near future to pav a first-class price for a first-class paper." 
J. M. McBride, 
Professor of Agriculture iu the S. C. College. 
“ My visit to your farm yesterday was a most instructive one, aud I do not know where 
a man could go in this country to get more valuable information ou general agriculture. I 
feel that you are doing a great and good work, aud its lesults must be of vast beutlit to the 
whole cotiutry. 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. Keall, 
Sec. of the Am. Agricultural Association and Editor of its Journal. 
The Vermont Watchman, in its ably conducted Agricultural Department, acknowledging 
the receipt of the Fair Number of the Rural New YORKER, says: “ This wonderfully able 
and successful journal now confessedly stands at the bead of the agricultural newspapers of 
the world. No other approaches it iu the value of its articles, the abundance, variety and 
excellence of its engravings, or in the relative cheapness of its price.” 
“ 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 convictions and opinions is admirable, both in respect 
to what you think yourself and what you suffer others to say.” B. F. Johnson. 
Champaign, 111. 
“The Seed Distribution is a grand institution. It may pay in the end, but no ooe but a 
philanthropist would expend his money in that way and look for his reward. Tt does good. 
In another inclosure 1 have renewed my subscription and asked for seeds.” 
U. 8. Internal Revenue Office, Diat. of Kansas. C. W. Keifer. 
“Tbe Rural New-Yorker is now the best paper,” Prof. W. J. Beal. 
Michigan Agricultural College. 
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. 1 am glad to say that l am of the same opinion.” 
Ag’i Col., Lansing, Mich. Prof. A. .T COOK. 
“ 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 lead¬ 
ing contestants in the race.” T. H, Hoskins, M.D , 
Ed. Vermont State Journal. 
How thankful we all should be that we have so pure-toned a paper to place in the hands 
of our loved ones. May God bless the editors aud the contributors of the Rural New- 
Yorker, David Ukusrkrkr. • 
Williams Co., Ohio. 
The“ Aunu.al Fair” edition of the Rural New-Yorker is simply immense, and fortunate 
indeed is the agriculturist into whose hands its interesting ana instructive pages fall.— 
Chatham Courier, Chatham, N. Y. 
The Rural New’ Yorker would be a great advautage to every farmer. I read no paper 
equal to it in agriculture, and I read many of them. Thomas P. Thomas. 
Ohio Co., W. Va. 
I spend fully fifty dollars annuallv for papers aud periodicals, and the Rural New- 
Yorker is the cheapest paper and the best, for the money, I have yet found. 
Clark Co., Wash Ter. J. J. Bliss. 
It is solid pleasure to have a visit weekly from the Rural New-Yorker, it has no peer 
iu this country. It keeps its readers abreast of the agricultural progress of the times. 
Dubuque Co , Iowa E. R Shankland 
The Rural h»s been a great help to me in farming under many severe difficulties—up¬ 
hill work. One vear it savi d to me $50 through the information given in the crop reports. 
New Haveu Co , Conn. N. H. Williams. 
“You are right in reporting things just as they are, and it could be recommended that 
some other journals follow the example.” John B. Moore & Son.. 
Concoru, Mass. 
I cannot do without the 1!URAL, it has been of such great value to me. Fallowing its 
adviee on one subject alone was worth many times tbe 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. 
Center Co., Pa. J. H. Woodward. 
The Rural is t,he best paper of the kind I ever read, and I am well satisfied with my 
investment. 8. M. Hunt. 
Spink Co., D. T. 
No progressive farmer can afford to do without It. 
Livingston Co«, N, Y. D. L. Belling** 
