THE RURAL MEW-YORREB 
DEC 45 
OW many of the Cousins ever 
for i\jt Doimn,. 
KEMP’S MANURE SPREADER, 
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•nd CART COMBINED. 
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Sqo net cent, of labor. Ami 
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I manure. Spreads evenly 
all kinds of manure broad¬ 
cast or in drill, in onc-tr.iilh 
— _- the t ime required by hand. 
Send for Illustrated Catalogue and full particular! to . 
KKir A BCRPM *’ru m , Sjnnt* QmtmUf C*^ N. f 
UVliOK t. i mid 4 MOUSE TOWERS. 
^ | a ll kinds. Setirl for 
circulars to TAYLOR HORSE POWER CO . 2d S 
Caual St, Chicago, 111. 
PAYNES FARM ENGINES 
The boy in tho picture on the left is sawing up logs into 20-inch lengths, to bo split into stovewood 
for family use. This Is much the best and cheapest way to get out your firewood, because tho 20-inch 
blocks are very easily split up, a good deal easier and quicker than the old-fashioned way of cutting 
the logs into 4-feet lengths, splitting it into cordwood, and from that sawing it up with a buck saw into 
stovewood. We sell a large number of machines to farmers and others for just this purpose. A great 
many persons who had formerly burned coal have stopped that useless expense since getting our 
Machine. Most families have one or two boys, 16 years of age and up, who can employ their spare 
time in sawing up wood just us well as not. The 
MONARCH LIGHTNING SAWING MACHINE 
will save your paying money and board to one hired man and perhaps two men. 
The boy ut the right in ttie picture is sawing up cordwood In a buck frame. You can very easily 
use our machine in this way if you have cordwood ou hand that you wish to saw up into suitable lengths 
for firewood. 
A boy sixteen years old can work the machine all 
dnv and not gel any more tired than he would rak¬ 
ing hay The machine runs very easily. so easily, 
in fact, thut after giving Hie crank half a dozen 
turns, the operator may let go and the machine will 
run itself for three or four revolutions. Farmers 
owningstnutlit * limber cannot fail io see the many 
advantages of this great labor-saving and raoney- 
saving machine. If you prefer, you can easily go 
directly into the woods ami easily saw the logs into 
20-inch length* for your family use. nr you can saw 
them into 4-foot lengths, to be aid it Into cordwood, 
when it can hi- readily baulednrf to tin- village mar¬ 
ket. Many farmer- are making a good deal of 
money with this Machine in employing the dull 
mouths of Hit- year In selling cordwood. 
It maker a gn at difference in labor and money 
both in using our machine, because you get away 
with a second man. It. lakes two men to run tlie 
old fashioned cross-cut saw, and it makes two backs 
ache every dav they use it. Not so with our saw. 
We offer ftl.OOw for a sawing machine that is 
EASIER OPERATED and FASTER RUNNING 
than ours. Every farmer should own our machine. 
It will pay for itself in one season. Easily operated 
by a sixteen-year-old boy. 
Lumbermen and fanners should GET TRE BEST 
— GET THE CHEAPEST-GET THE MONARCH 
LIGHTNING SAWING MACHINE. 
E. DTTTTRR. lltoksvllln, O., writes: —It runs bo easy 
that It is JURY FUN to saw wood. 
C. A. COLE, Mexico, N.,Y., writes: —With this maehlna 
1 Hawed oft an elm log. twenty-one Inches In diameter, 
In one mtnuto, forty-three second*. 
Z. G. HEOK, wtnston. N. O., writes: —t have shown 
your machine to so’-end fanners, anti all pronounce it 
a PBumrr riccbsh. 
\VM. Dll.LENBACK, Payton, Tex., writes — I am 
WKl.L PLEASED with the MoSsaen Lightning Sawing 
hUcniKR. My boys can baw WITH ALL EASEL 
L. V TOST. Ron eon. Kan., writes ■ I will bot ISO that 
I can saw as much with tbit, machine oji any two men 
can with the old -fashioned croM outsaw. 
T. K. DUCK, Mt. Vernon, til., writes-— I have given 
the Monarch a rair trial, and eau truly say It la ALL 
YOU I'l.AtM FOR IT, a complete success, enabling a 
buiy to do tho work of two strong men, and Indeed, 
mors, 1 would not tuko lift for the Mow Alien and bo de¬ 
prived of tho privilege of having another like It. I 
sawed off a twenty-inch solid water oak log twelvo 
times yesterday in FoltTT-FtVR Minutes. 
J. M. CltAYVFOKD. Columbia. 8. O., writes: —I tried 
tho Monarch on an oak log today before twenty farm¬ 
ers. All said it WORKED PERFECTLY. 
N. It. —We an- selling SIX TIMES as many Machines as any other firm, simply because our 
Machine gives perfect satisfaction. Our factory is running day and night to fill orders. Send in your 
order at once. The BEST’ is the CHEAPEST. Our agent sold four machines In one day. Another 
sold twenty-eight In his township. Another agent cleared $100 In one week. BE SURE AND MEN¬ 
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Testimonials. 
MONARCH MANUFACTURING CO. 
163 E. RANDOLPH STREET. CHICAGO. ILL. . 
gfltonMicott.si implement,$ and ^lachumy. ggmpUmtnt# and $tachincnj. 
Vifty-ll u saw a Jack Rabbit f 
They are very much larger 
than the common rabbit; their 
ears are often six inches in 
c3 length. These they have a way 
°f dropping on a level with their 
1 &V backs when they are chased or 
are in biding. It is said that 
1 they do not burrow in the ground 
u S but live in the grass and weeds; 
that they are not rabbits at- all, but hares. 
Did any of the Cousins go on an excursion 
the past summer. I dare say most of them 
did have either a short or long excursion. Mine 
was to Fort Riley, said to be the Geograpical 
center of the United States. At presentthere 
are two companies of colored cavalry stationed 
there, and a very intelligent, well-mannered 
lot of men our excursionists thought them. 
We boys, expected to have a look at some 
Apache and Ute Indians who had been sent 
there for safe keeping, but we learned that 
they had made off a few days before, without 
asking their guard's permission. Stone bar¬ 
racks, stone houses for the officers,stone stables, 
many and long and, Oh, how neatly kept! 
There was a stone school house for the children 
of the officers, which also served as a church. 
A stone magazine acts as a hospital, dead- 
house. guard-house. A stoue monument erect¬ 
ed to Maj. Ogden stands on the highest eleva¬ 
tion of ground, a point which commands a 
view of the country for miles around, and from 
which may be seen the junction of the Repub¬ 
lican aud Smoky Hill Rivers, as well as the 
city which takes its name from this coming 
together of the waters. 
I meant to tell the Cousins about the Sen¬ 
sitive Plant, which grows wild here, and is 
perfectly hardy, and about the wild sunflow¬ 
ers which are gorgeous and.far too numerous to 
suit us boys, who have to cut them out of the 
corn, weeks after the season for cultivating 
is past; but I fear Uncle Mark will think this 
letter ahead}' too long. I must thank him 
for the nice flower seeds he sent us, before I 
close. We had some beautiful blossoms from 
them, although the hitter part of the Summer 
Yvas very dry. Sometime, if Uncle Mark is 
willing, I will tell the Cousins of some of the 
ways of doing things here in Kansas, which 
are most- likely to strike the new comers from 
the East as very strange. Joseph e. s. 
Clay Center, Kan. 
[Such letters as this are never too long. We 
should be glad to hear about the Sensitive 
Plants aud wild sunflowers, as well as the 
“Kansiau ways” you refer to. UNCLE mark.] 
YOUNG QUERIST. 
P. B. C., Cantonsmlle, Md .—I intend to 
buy a few sheep to fatten this Winter. 1. 
What is the best feed for them? 2. What 
had I best do, to half-feed, or to feed them all 
they wish? 
Ans.— 1. An old and experienced sheep 
feeder fattens as follows: He puts bis sheep 
in the yards about December 1. For the last 
23 years he has fed straw the first two or two- 
and-one-half mouths, a pound of oil cake, 
meal or grain to each sheep. When he com¬ 
mences to feed hay, if it is good, early cut 
clover, he reduces the quantity of meal or 
grain one-half; but that depends upon the con¬ 
dition of the sheep. If they are not pretty 
fat, he continues the full feed of meal or 
grain with their clover. You will also find 
something relating to fattening sheep in the 
Querist Department of this number of the 
Rural. 2. An animal does not always know 
when it has enough. Do not half feed, but 
give pieuty, with discretion. 
C. O., Washington Depot, Conn .— 1. Is it 
necessary to bud lemon trees, that they may 
bear ? 2. Name two or three good crab- 
apples. Will they grow well if grafted on 
common apples ? 
Ans, 1—No, although it may take a number 
of years to produce fruit. To get specific 
varieties, budding is resorted to. 2. Trans¬ 
cendent, Hyslop and Lady Elgin. Yes, al¬ 
though it is better to graft on crab stock, con¬ 
sidering the relationship existing between the 
eiou and stock. 
K S. Bradgate, Iowa .— I wish to take 
some good story paper this year. What is a 
good one f 
Ank.— Harper’s Young People,is a most ex¬ 
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Cora Fox, Kno.r Co ., Neb .—I do not know 
the names of your flowers. 
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