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THE RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
MARCH 45 
THE 
RURAt NEW-YORKER. 
Conducted by 
KLBKRT B. CARMAN. 
Address 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
No. 34 Park Row. New York 
SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1884. 
RURAL PRIZES AWARDED. 
Class I. 
“How shall we educate our children agri¬ 
culturally?” 
Prize $50. 
Offered by Mr. Lawson Valentine, of Hough¬ 
ton Farm, Mountainville, N. Y. 
AWARDED TO 
C. E. THORNE, 
Springfield, Ohio. 
Class IT. 
“ For one column of short paragraphs 
which shall give the pithiest, soundest advice 
and instruction to the general farmer as to 
any or all departments of his occupation.” 
Prize §50. 
Offered by the Rural New-Yorker. 
AWARDED TO 
JOHN M. STAHL, 
St. Louis, Mo. 
Class III. 
“ Butter Making.” 
Prize, §50 in Cash, or jn Fertilizers, as 
PREFERRED. 
Offered by the Mapes’s Formula and Peru¬ 
vian Guano Co., of New York. 
AWARDED TO 
R. FERRIS, 
Keene Valley, Essex Co., N. Y. 
Class IV. 
“The best cattle for the dairy and the 
shambles. ” 
Prize, A Weed Full Cabinet Sewing 
Machine, Price §50, 
Offered by the Rural New-Yorker. 
Awarded to 
J. N. MUNCEY, 
Ames, la. 
Class V. 
‘ Swiue.”—The best breeds and how best to 
care for them. 
Prize, A Victor Sewing Machine, Price 
§37.50. 
Offered by the Rural New-Yorker, 
awarded to 
F. A. DEEKENS, 
Federalsburgh, Mo. 
Class VI. 
“Horses.”—Farm and road. The best for 
the farmer’s use. 
Prize, One American Fruit-Dryer, Price 
§75. 
Offered by the American Manufacturing 
Company, Waynesboro, 1 a. 
(The award has not been made in this class; 
but will be announced next week.— Eds.) 
Class VII. 
“Sheep.”—The best breeds and how best to 
feed and care for them, 
Prize, Farmer’s Favorite Mill and Press 
Combined. Price §75. 
Offered by the Higganum Manufacturing 
Company, Higganum. Conn. 
AWARDED TO 
ELIAS HAND, 
Houghton Farm, Mountainville, 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
Class VIII. 
“Plans of the best general-purpose barns, 
corn-cribs, farm labor-saving contrivances of 
any description.” 
Prize, A Silver Hunting Case Watch. 
Price $30. 
Offered by the Rural New-Yorker, 
awarded to 
THOMAS J. LINDLEY, 
Westfield, Hamilton Co., Ind. 
Class IX. 
“ Rye.—Its value as a grain, for its straw; 
as a green manure, for soiling, etc., etc ” 
Prize, Twenty Cuttings of the Genuine 
Victoria Grape, 
awarded to 
. J. J. M., 
No address. 
Class X. 
“ How to produce a maximum yield of 
potatoes.” 
Prize, Five Two-Year-Old Vines of a 
New Seedling Grape, 
originating with Mr. D. S, Marvin, of Water- 
town, N. Y., and named by him the “ Rural 
New-Yorker.” 
awarded to 
A. C. BARROWS, 
Kent, O. 
SPECIAL NOTICE. 
We have now filled all applications for 
seeds received up to last Saturday. All 
those who, having applied previous to that 
date, have not yet received them, will 
please notify us by postal card at once, 
and another packet will be sent at once. 
All whose names are upon our subscrip¬ 
tion lists are entitled to apply for these 
seeds, no matter when the subscription ex¬ 
pires or whether it is the intention or not 
of the subscriber to renew. They are not 
premiums. 
Our object in charging a part of the 
postage to subscribers is that we may not 
have applications from those who are not 
interested in farm or garden pursuits. 
All persons who subscribe for the 
Rural New-Yorker in connection with 
other journals which publish the combi¬ 
nation advertisement offering the seeds, 
need not make application. The seeds 
will be sent to them without application 
except in case of oversight or miscarriage. 
For example: The Inter-Ocean and the 
Rural New-Yorker (with its seed dixtri- 
bution) are offered for $2.75. Whether 
the Inter-Ocean is subscribed for through 
the Rural, or the Rural is subscribed 
for through the Inter-Ocean, the sub¬ 
scriber to both papers is entitled to the 
seeds without application. The same may 
be said of the Detroit Free Press, New 
York Times, Tribune, Sun, Mail (Canada), 
etc., etc. 
Some of our seed packages require six 
cents for postage—but most of them five 
cents—except to Canada, where the 
postage is 10 cents. But our subscribers 
are desired to send us but three cents. The 
Rural New-Yorker pays the rest. 
If you wish to send 10, 50, or 100 
specimen copies of the Rural New- 
Yorker to friends interested in farming, 
you have only to send us a list of the 
names. Specimens will he promptly for¬ 
warded. Who will send us the longest 
list ? 
How do you feed when your Bartlett 
Pear trees, that you ordered eight years 
ago of a tree peddler, bear choke pears ? 
Can you afford to patronize another tree 
peddler, and wait another eight years to 
see if they prove true to name? Oh, the 
injudiciousness of trusting untrustworthy 
people ! 
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Buy one grape-vine of each of the fol¬ 
lowing, and take good care of them: 
Worden, Moore's Early, and Jefferson. 
The three will cost you one dollar, and 
they will do you one hundred dollars’ 
worth of good in less than five years, if 
you live where these varieties thrive. The 
Jefferson is perhaps a little late north of 
hicago and New York, but it is a splen- 
Cd grape. 
Speaking of commercial fertilizers, it 
does not pay to buy low 1 grades. Here is 
a fertilizer that is worth $40 a ton. Here 
is another that is worth $20. It is cheap¬ 
er for the fanner to buy the first because 
he gets twice the value of the second, and 
has no more freight to pay, while it can 
he spread on the land in half the time. 
The difference is considerable, and far¬ 
mers should make an underscored note of 
this. 
We often have money sent to us re¬ 
questing us to send books, seeds or some¬ 
thing else in return. For the benefit of 
our new friends, let us repeat that we do 
not sell anything whatever, except the 
Rural New-Yorker, and that, consider¬ 
ing its value, is given away! Generally 
speaking, our advertising columns will 
inform readers where any desired article 
mav be purchased. If not, we are always 
glad to inform them by letter or through 
the Querist. 
Henry Ward Beecher writes us as 
follows: ‘‘The Primate is mentioned in 
all good catalogues of apples. It is a spe¬ 
cial favorite with me. It ripens gradually, 
through many weeks, is very tender in sub¬ 
stance, mild subacii; but its full glory is 
known only when it is roasted or baked. 
Then one thinks of Celestial Apples! The 
Porter is a good apple, hut its peculiar 
merit is not generally known; viz., for 
jelly. Of all apples this is the one fore¬ 
ordained to be used for apple jelly.” In 
a postscript Mr. Beecher adds that the 
above may serve as a start in framing a 
list of apples which have some one pecuniar 
quality distinguishing them from all 
others. 
Will not Mr. Downing, Mr. Barry, Mr, 
Wilder, Mr. Hovey, Gov. Furnas, Dr. 
Hoskins, Mr. Berekmans, Mr. Lyon, and 
other pomologists mention other apples 
or pears which have peculiar distinguish¬ 
ing qualities. We would mention the 
Kieffer Pear which, though of poor qual¬ 
ity, as grown north of Pennsylvania, is 
perhaps the best pear for canning. 
BOGUS BUTTER AGAIN. 
A Senate Committee of the New York 
Legislature is investigating the adultera¬ 
tions of food products in this city, and 
the disclosures with regard to the exten¬ 
sive use of oleomargarine and butterine 
are startling. Tt appears that there are 
very few retail dealers who do not sell 
one or both of these products as genuine 
butter, and even the few “honest” dealers 
who sell oleomargarine under its proper 
name, sell butterine as Orange County or 
Iowa butter. The Superintendent of the 
Mercantile Exchange testified that the 
receipts of butter in this city from the 
West in December last amounted to 104,- 
(133 packages, and in January to 87,475 
packages, from one-half to two-thirds of 
w hich, though billed as butter, was but¬ 
terine. This product can hardly be dis¬ 
tinguished from genuine butter, even by 
experts, and sells for a higher price than 
oleomargarine. 
Manufacturers of these concoctions here 
declare that, large as their sales are in this 
city and Brooklyn, their orders from 
country places, notably from Albany and 
Saratoga, are still larger. In this State 
there are several laws for the punishment 
of those dealers who fail to properly mark 
packages containing spurious butter; in 
many other States similar laws have been 
passed. In all cases these laws have been 
inoperative, owing to the neglect or re¬ 
missness of the officers whose duty it is to 
see that they are enforced. It is frequent¬ 
ly, financially and politically, to the in¬ 
terests of these to be blind to violations 
of the laws; why not make it to the in¬ 
terest of somebody to see to their enforce¬ 
ment by imposing a heavy fine for viola¬ 
tions of them, and giving half of it to the 
informer? 
THE AGITATION IN MANITOBA. 
The agitation among the inhabitants 
of Manitoba, especially the agricultural 
class, grows in vehemei ce. Last Wed¬ 
nesday the Farmers’ Convention met at 
Winnipeg, and continued in session until 
last evening. A s reported by telegraph this 
morning, resolutions were adopted favor¬ 
ing the establishment of a railway to Hud¬ 
son Bay, the improvement of the Red 
River of the North, a commercial union 
with the United States, the control of the 
public domain in the Province by the 
Provincial authorities, and an appeal to 
English Government ffi allow’ Manitoba 
to withdraw from the Confederation and 
become a British Province with a govern¬ 
ment of its own. By means of the rail¬ 
road to Hudson Bay, grain can be cheap¬ 
ly transported to Churchill or Port Nelson, 
600 milos from Winnipeg, where it can be 
shipped ou steamers to Liverpool at no 
greater expense than from Montreal. By 
the improvement of the Red River, con¬ 
nection will be made with our North¬ 
western railroad system, so that traffic 
can be continued 'when Hudson Bay is 
blocked with ice. By a. commercial 
union with this country, the Manitobans 
can buy agricultural implements and other 
goods much more cheaply than under the 
present tariff. By controlling the public 
lands, the local government can encourage 
immigration by liberal grants to actual 
settlers; w 7 hereas at present the Dominion 
Government sells for a triffc vast tracts 
to English and Scotch capitalists who will 
withhold the land from settlement for 
higher prices. By securing an independent 
government,the Province expects to escape 
the heavy taxation of the Dominion, and 
to manage its own affairs for its own in¬ 
terests, instead of, as at present, having 
these affairs managed for the interests of 
the Dominion at large, to the detriment 
of the interests of Manitoba. 
A telegram this morning from Ottawa, 
the capital of the Dominion, reports that 
Sir John Macdonald, Prime Minister, “ is 
indifferent to the demands of the people 
of the Northwest.” He is convinced that 
the whole agitation has been prompted by 
a few adventurers anxious to force the 
government to give them-places. In anti¬ 
cipation of the Farmer’s Convention, how¬ 
ever, he had already promised to aid the 
construction of the proposed railroad by a 
grant of 12,600 acres per mile; that a census 
should be taken every three years so as to 
regulate the federal subsidy by the growth 
of population; and to give to the Pro¬ 
vincial Government the odd-uumbered 
sections of lands remaining unsold in 
Manitoba. The Farmers’ Convention has 
adjourned to wait the action of the Legis¬ 
lature, and the Manitoban representatives 
at Ottawa arc urging the Government to 
concede the demands of the Province 
before it is too late. 
BREVITIES. 
The Best Prize.—E nterprise. 
Catalogue notices on page 194. 
Have you made any paper bags for bag¬ 
ging grapes next Summer? 
Is your grafting-wax ready? 
Graft the grape now for this climate, or as 
soon as the soil opens sufficiently. 
Two trees that are not half appreciated: the 
Norway Maple and the Liquidambar. 
Don’t linger. When you work, work! 
When you play, play! Why not do the one 
as well as the other, with a zest f 
Oh! You never accomplished anything of 
any account that was not done with a hearty 
good will. 
Pray, my friend, tell me: What do you 
consider to be the difference between good 
work and good plav? When you play you 
select your work; when you work your play 
is selected for you. Now why not make play 
of work? Answer that. 
What we want our readers to do is to enjoy 
their work as if it were play. 
Sixteen columns of questions and answers, 
and still we are behind! Our readers should 
lie lenient. 
Our experiment of last Spring would tend 
to show that the sap of the Yellow -Wood is 
richer in sugar than that of the Sugar Maple, 
and it runs more freely. We hope some of our 
readers will try it. 
Referring to our cut of Phoenix Fowls 
several weeks ago, we mav say that this breed 
was first referred to in this country by Mr. A. 
B. Allen in an article which we published 
three or four years ago. 
How do you like Mr, Bereknians’s looks? 
He has many friends, and he is not one. 
either, who adores adoration. We like to pre¬ 
sent the portraits of men who care more to do 
good thun they do for popular praise. 
Two evergreens that will lie appreciated 
someday: Abies polita and Sciadopitys ver- 
tieillata. Both at the Rural Grounds have 
proven, through five years, perfectly hardy. 
The latter is of very slow growth—at least 
while young. 
How very many of our good friends will be 
disappointed when they do not see their 
names among the successful competitors for 
the Rural Prize Essays The judges state 
that in several of the classes there were quite 
a number of essays of almost equal merit. 
Their publication will be commenced next 
week. 
The Rural New-Yorker said two years 
ago that the new Lnngshans were the same as 
the old Black Cochins, a little improved per¬ 
haps in the brightness of t he plumage. Many 
writers contradicted this furiously. But the 
Rural New-Yorker holds to its opinion as 
then expressed It has been waiting all this 
time for indisputable proof it was wrong. 
If you need instruction ingrafting, refer to 
our exhaustive article on grafting the grape 
in the RuRALof January.i. You haveonly to 
change the timu to adapt the method therein 
described to the plum, cherry, apple or pear. 
Graft cherries and plums first, then apples 
and pears. We have succeeded well in graft¬ 
ing apples even after the buds had pushed. 
Through planting poor seeds thousands of 
dollars are lost annually, iu order to guard 
against this loss, the Ohio Agricultural Ex¬ 
periment Station has arranged to test, free of 
charge, the vitality of all seeds sent to that 
place by the farmers of the Buckeye State. 
The Station also offers to answer all inquires 
regarding seeds, seed-tasting, and other 
points of importance. These testa will prove 
of great value to the farmers of Ohio and 
they should give the Station their earnest sup¬ 
port iu the work. 
Has the wide-awake agricultural (?) editor 
of the Now York Sun satisfied himself yet 
that the seed of Bermuda Grass is, or has 
been, offered for sale? We see it now offered 
in a catalogue issued by W. B. Jones, of 
Herndon. C4a. Some time ugo this editor iu- 
timated t hat the Japan Persimmon was hardy 
in this climate. Lately he disputed that the 
hickory could be grafted. The only fault we 
find with such people is that they are too nar¬ 
row-minded to “own up”wheu they find them 
selves iu the wrong. Such people ought never 
to be permitted to edit agricultural,, papers, 
because they do a deal of harm. 
