THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. 
727 
the Editor of the Rural New-Yorker is no 
uch man.” 
H. C. Warner, Forestburg, Dak.:— ‘‘Keep 
right hold of the handles, Bro. Carman, for 
you. are turning over the most practical and 
consequently the best agricultural paper pub¬ 
lished in thus country.” 
Frof. J. M. McBryde, 8. C. Agricultural 
College, Columbia:—“ I fully agree v> uh you 
as to the necessity of elevating the tone and 
style of our periodical agricultural literature. 
ress the real interests of the land and those 
who cultivate it, tho dissemination of improved 
seeds and plants and of the knowledge how 
best to cultivate them, and so to conduct tho 
journal that it may have a just claim upon all 
who love nature are among the aims of the 
Rural New-Yorker. 
Among its more Important departments are 
cattle, horses, sheep, poultry, swine, arboricul 
lure, dairy, domestic economy, farm economy, 
field crops, garden crops, floriculture, jjomolo- 
gy—especially grapes and all small fruits, 
farm implements, landscape 
gardening, veterinary, crop re¬ 
ports from all parts of the > 
country, industrial societies, yf&fA 
agricultural science, chemical 
fertilizers, news from all parts 
of the world, farm stories, ru- 
ral architecture, a department 
for women and also a depart- 
ment for children. All of these f <.\: 
departments are fairly (11ns- 
trated by first-class artists from 
original drawings. 
The Rural Experiment 
Grounds, conducted,as they are, 
purely in the interests of read- ^ tBbIP j 
ers, offer rare facilities for mak- 
ing tho paper valuable. All /:Mf 
new and Mgh-priccd seeds ore 
tested at once, and i-eported (MB 
upon according to their worth, /Jar 
so that subscribers have before Mt 
them a trustworthy guide as (Mf 
to what novelties are worthy of ram 
trial. The present season, for ex-'^ 
ample, wo have tested, or are testing 80 differ¬ 
ent kinds of new potatoes, Indifferent kinds of 
corn, 50 different kinds of wheat, 60 of grapes, 
100 of strawberries, all of the different kinds 
of raspberries, blackberries, currants, besides 
a rare collection of the most hardy shrubs, 
trees and herbaceous plants. 
Wo ask al 1 progressive farmers and horticul¬ 
turists to examine the Rural New-Yorker 
before subscribing for any family journal an¬ 
other year, For this purpose, as we have said, 
specimen copies, will be cheerfully sent to any 
addrn a. We wish to make the truth appear 
and to show that those who would meet with 
success in land-culture cannot afford to do 
without the journal, and that it should bo sub- 
scriliod for as a measure of economy. 
The price is $2 i>er year, and there is no club 
or second price. Those who would aid in get¬ 
ting up clubs should send for our new premium 
lists and posters, which will be promptly for¬ 
warded when ready. A postal card addressed 
to the Rural New-Yorker, .’14 Park Row, 
N.Y., requesting specimen copies, premium- 
lists or outfits, isall that is needed. 
nal reading matter from beginning to end by 
the best writers of America and England. 2, 
lb is printed upon fine, natural-colored paper. 
3, Tt contains yearly not less than 500 engrav¬ 
ings, mostly original, by our own artists. 4, 
it is conducted by practical farmers whose 
first aim it is, Irrespective of advertisers and 
all merely pecuniary or personal interests to 
tell tho wholo truth. 5, The Rural is the first 
newspaper to have established Experimental 
Grounds in connection with journalism. They 
comprise 82 acres. All new farm ttnd garden 
implements, seeds and plants are there tested 
and the results are impartially reported 
upon in its columns. 3, The Rural New 
Yorker is conscientious, progressive, ngres- 
sive, sparkling and original. It admits no am¬ 
biguous or fraudulent advertisements. It is 
pure in tone; it is a farm, garden, religious 
nows and literary paper all in one, and is, in 
short, the complete family rural journal of 
America. It is national in every department 
and toleratesjio sectional animosities. 8, The 
value of its 
FREE SEED DISTRIBUTIONS 
is now well and widely known. Only seed; 
and plants which have originated at the Ru- 
ral’s Experiment Grounds, or which are new, 
Imperfect, or illegibly written. We beg of our 
friends—every one—to write every letter plain 
ly and not to take for granted that the name 
or residence is familiar to us. 
In applying for seeds, meroly nay “Send 
Seeds” and inclose a threo-cent stamp, being 
careful not to stick it to the paper. 
LET IT BE UNDERSTOOD 
that the Rural New-Yorker has never in 
any case sold seeds or plants to its subscribers. 
Were this otherwise, tlio reports of the results 
of our tests and the descriptions of tho plants 
which we introduce, would not bo accepted as 
disinterested. But wo sell tbs Rural Nkw- 
Yoiikkr only, tho object of whose present ex¬ 
istence is to advance the true interests of agri¬ 
culture and horticvlture. The Seed or Riant 
Distributions of this journal are 
^•absolutely pree.^i 
When, by such tosts, wo find that a given plant 
promises to bo woro valuable than others of 
its kind which have been generally cultivate.!, 
we, at once, if practicable, placoit in our next 
Distribution, and send it,without charge, to all 
of our subscribers who apply. Besides, as 
Cleveland’s Rural New-Yorker Pa.— 
Fig. 617. 
In this respect you are doing tho best work I 
know of anywhere. Cheapness is certainly 
incompatible with quality—it may secure 
quantity. Such journals as yours are well 
worth their price, and I believe they are grad¬ 
ually developing and educating a class of agri¬ 
cultural readers who appreciate this fact, and 
who will be willing in r,ho near future to pay a 
first-class price for a first-class paper.” 
Prof. L. Dapsy, of Budapest, Hungary:— 
“ I have tho pleasure to renew my subscrip¬ 
tion to your precious paper. Inclosed, please 
find three dollars.” 
The E<litor of the N. E. Homestead : —“W Q 
aro delighted with the enterprising spirit of 
tho Rural and its general excellence.” 
F. Harrison, Allegauy Co., N. Y.:—“Where 
you find a good farmer, you find the Rural 
also.” 
Win. Wallace, Westmoreland Co., Pa.:—“I 
admire its high-toned character and entire 
absence of everything that would corrupt the 
miuds of its readers.” 
M. M. Lewis, of Indiana:—“Go on with your 
noble work, and rest assured that you have 
tho eutiro confidence and snpportof all intelli¬ 
gent farmers. I take nine monthlies and semi¬ 
monthlies and weekly papers, mostly agricul¬ 
tural, and the Rural New-Yorker stands at 
the head.” 
G. P. Hooker, Genessee Co., N. Y.-. —“I am 
now in my eighty-fifth year, decrepid, hard of 
hearing and dim of sight, but I cannot give up 
the Rural. I read every number and lay 
them away safely. I have ovory number to 
refer to. I would not willingly give up the 
Rural; it is a great comfort to me.” 
John B. Moore & Sou, Concord, Mass.:— 
“ You are rightubout reporting things just as 
they are, and it could bo recommended*that 
some other papers should follow the example.’ 
Nelson Slater. Ind.:—“The Rural shall 
grace our home as long as 1 till the soil. I do 
not-see how vou can improve it.” 
Mrs. L. Headley, of Illinois:—“Of all the 
papers we take (five in number, tho Rural is 
at tho head. Long may it live Li gladden the 
hearts of farmers, their wivet* sons and 
daughters I have read the Rurai for ah 
least 25 years.” 
Cole & Brother, of Iowa:—“ We send you 
our Ill Paso Potato to test, as we apwreeiate 
THE ESTIMATION IN WHICH THE EU- 
RAL NEW-YORKER IS HELD BY 
ALL GLASSES. 
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, of Peekskill, N. 
Y.:—“ The Rural will please renew my sub¬ 
scription. To have the paper once is to want 
it always.” 
Dr. D. E. Salmon, Veterinary Surgeon of 
the U. S. Dep’t. of Agriculture:—“Allow me 
to congratulate you on your continued aud 
brilliant success, aud to express the hope that 
a long and increasingly useful career is still 
before you." 
Rev. J. R, Garlick, -LSI., D.D. of King and 
Queen Co., Va.:—“Tho Rural grows upon 
me. I should try to get it if tho cost were 
doubled. Its suspension would in my judg¬ 
ment bo a great loss to tho country.” 
Prof. A. E. Blount, of tho Colorado Ag. 
College:— “I think the Rural New-Yorker 
tho best agricultural paper in the land.” 
H. B. Ellwanger, of Ellwjmger & Barry, 
Roe taster, N, Y.:—“ It gives mo sincere pleas¬ 
ure to note the very great improvement you 
have made in the character of the Rural 
New-Yorker. The illustratious alone aro 
worth the subscription price.” 
E. P. Roe, Cornwall-on-the-Hudsou, N. Y.: 
—“ I congratulate you on tho success you art' 
making of the Rural. I can understand it 
because I see the paper every week. The 
American people know a good thing when 
they see it” 
B. F. Johnson, Champaign, Ills.:—“Tho 
Rural New-Yorker is the first to introduce 
and maintain really good cuts of domestic ani¬ 
mals. The Rural’s columns of agricultural 
information are the best I know. The courage 
of your convictions and opinions is admirable 
both as to what you think yourself and what 
you suffer others to say.” 
Dr. T. H. Hoskins, of Vermont:—“Almost 
any editor would bo satisfied when his i>aper 
had been generally recognized by tho press anil 
people as the bestjof its class in the world. Bu 
Horsford’s Market Garden Rea.—Fig. 616. 
these offerings are not premiums, as they are 
sometimes made without requiring either an 
application or any puj'inout of postage, we 
hold the right to continue (hem or to discon¬ 
tinue them as we may determine. 
OF INTEREST TO ALL. 
We would respectfully state to those who 
read this specimen number of tho Rural New- 
Yorker who aro not sulwcriberH, that wo 
would be pleased to send them specimen* of 
any number free upou application. Those 
who are familiar with this journal will, as we 
believe, support us iu the following claims: 1. 
The Rural New-Yorker is filled with origi- 
