FBEMIVI LIST 
OF THU 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Most Popular Rural Journal 
in America. 
The only paper that Owns and 
Operates an Experiment Farm 
and Horticultural Grounds 
in the interest of its 
Subscribers. 
31st year of its age—4th year of its 
present Management 
Valuable Premiums offered to 
all who assist in increas¬ 
ing its Circulation 
for 1880-81. 
THE MOST LIBERAL PREMIUM 
LIST YET OFFERED. 
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All Readers and Agents are So¬ 
licited to examine it carefully. 
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on application, for Canvassing purposes. 
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paid (53 weeks), $3.00; half-yearly (26 weeks), 
$1.10. Payments invariably with the subscrip¬ 
tion. This Premium List holds good until July 
1 st, 1881. 
PREMBUMS. 
So. t—Walter A, Wood’s Mower. 
In this machine, simplicity in construction, 
lightness in weight, symmetry in form and ele¬ 
gance in finish, are combined with strength, 
durability and efficient working qualities. 
Needless machinery traps are avoided. It is 
less complicated, easier to repair, and less 
liable to get out of order than any other 
mower. The one represented by the above il¬ 
lustration has a 4 ft. 8 in. cut, and ia fully war* 
ranted. The maonfacturero of this machine 
have received a great many medals of honor, 
both in this and foreign countries and all are 
well deserved and honestly won. Price of the 
above mower $85. Given for a club of 100 
subscribers at $3 each. 
No. Z —Walter A. Wood's Junior Swoep-Rnke 
Reaper. 
This machine waa brought out in Europe 
in 1872, und in this country in 1875. Since its 
introduction its success has been rapid aud 
uninterrupted, Its sales in that period having 
reached a very large number, both here and 
abroad. The steady increase in sales from 
year to year, and the victory it has won in 
field contests, demonstrate its merits beyond 
any encomiums of ourB. Taught by practical 
experience in the field, the manufacturers have 
strengthened this machine from year to year— 
the most important improvements having been 
made in 1878, by adding the fifth rake, and the 
automatic device for completely contr< lling 
the rakes. There are many valuable points of 
No. 3. — Waller A. Wood’s Automatic Twine 
Heir-Rinding Harvester. 
This machine is put upon the market for 1880 
to meet a growing demand for a self-binder that 
uses twine as a material for binding, instead of 
wire. It has been thoroughly tested on differ¬ 
ent kinds of grain aDd has proven itself a ma¬ 
chine with superior qualities sb a harvesting 
and binding machine; and the manufacturers, 
confident of their suuerior merits and the de¬ 
mand already for them, have taxed the capa¬ 
city of their large manufactory in meeting the 
demand. 4,000 of these machines are already in 
successful operation and the sales are still in¬ 
creasing. It certainly would 6eem that perfec- 
THE WHITE ELEPHANT i OTATO FROM LIFE. — FIG. 305. 
excellence about this machine, which space at 
this time will not permit ns to mention ; but 
we confidently believe that whoever is fortu¬ 
nate enough to secure one of these machines 
will feel entirely satisfied with it. We give 
the Junior with 5 ft. cut; price, $125 for 160 
subscribers, at $2 eaeh. 
tion was finally reached in this harvester, and 
in offering it to our friends we feel fully con¬ 
fident that whoever may secure this premium 
will be fully and entirely satisfied with the 
prize. Price $800. Given for 300 subscribers. 
The above machines (Nos. 1,2 and 3) are rup- 
plied to us by the .Walter A. Wood Mower 
and Reaper Co., JToosick Falls, N. Y., a firm 
established in 1853, and to-day one of the larg¬ 
est manufacturers in this country. They have 
steadily increased in business every year since 
they started, and have made, and sold over 350,- 
000 machines during the past quarter of a cen¬ 
tury. This fact ia sufficient guaranty that we 
are using nothing but the best machines in the 
market for onr premium list. 
Jfo. 4.—Farmers’ Krie.nl and Fertilizer Drill. 
Made by the Farmers’ Frieud Manufacturing 
Co., Dayton, O. For 13 years this drill has 
been before the public, and its essential fea¬ 
tures remain to-day as when it was introdneed. 
The manufacturers, after years of careful 
study, put this drill upon the market, and so 
nearly perfect was it that the principles of its 
construction first adopted have been adhered 
to. The iliuslratiou shows the seed-cup and 
its force-feed principle, which, with the patent 
cone gearing, enables one to sow any kind of 
grain in any condition.with perfect regularity. 
We offer one of these excellent drills, com¬ 
plete ; that is, a nine-hoe, eight*inch dnil, 
with Bpring hoes, fertilizer and grass-seed at¬ 
tachments, rear hoe-shifter, and land-measur¬ 
er, for 140 subscribers. Price $115. 
IVo. 5.—Acme Harrow. 
Manufactured by Nash Brother, 23 College 
Place, New York, and Harrisburg, Pa. This 
excellent implement, the invention of a man 
who is himself a practical farmer as well as 
mechanic, who had previously invented the 
revolving disk or wheel harrow, seems destined 
to win a wide popularity. Its sale during the 
present season has grown rapidly, and testi¬ 
monials, unsolicited, come from every source, 
highly commending it and praising the work¬ 
ings of this implement. 
It is one that combines a elod-crusher, leveier 
and harrow all in one. It is invaluable for all 
purposes where a harrow is needed, and is 
particularly adapted to fiord, inverted sod, and 
to ground which has become packed and 
baked after plowing, as well as to leveling 
rough laud. We have tried one of them on the 
Rural Farm, and can fully indorse all the 
manufacturers claim for it. Price $23. Given 
for a club of 40 subscribers, at $2. 
No. 6 .— Noyes' Hay Carrier. 
Our farmer friends, we are sure, will be de¬ 
lighted with the offer hero made. This earner 
has stood the test of maDy 
years and has given entire 
satisfaction. It has been ex¬ 
hibited at a great many fairs 
and has received many first 
premiums. It can be used for 
unloading either within or 
without the barn, and for re¬ 
moving hay from, as well as 
putting it into, the barn. It can be used 
equally as well for stacking in the open 
field, with a very little expense for the stack¬ 
ing frame. A very useful and practical ma¬ 
chine. Price $10. Given for a club of 20 
subscribers at $2 each. Made by the U. S. 
Wind Engine and Pump Go., Batavia, Ill. 
No. 7 .—Dickey Fanning Mill. 
We could hardly have chosen a more useful 
or practical premium than the one here offered. 
This mill is noted 
for its simplicity 
of make, groat ca¬ 
pacity lor separa¬ 
ting aud cleaning 
grain, ease of op¬ 
eration aud man¬ 
agement, its grad¬ 
ing and saving 
qualities, and great durability. In separating 
oats, wheat, barley, or other grains it haa 
no superior, doing the work both rapidly and 
