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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
4 National Journal for Country ami Suburban llo.uu 
nductcd by 
K. S. CARMAN, 
J. S. WOOD-WARI,, 
Associate. 
Address 
THE RURAL -SEW-VORKER, 
No, 34 Park Row, New V rk. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1885. 
A valuable cyclopedia of almost every de¬ 
partment of knowledge —800 pages, l',2<>0 
engravings—for one new subscriber. The 
offer to Rural subscribers only. 
Ip the number on your address label is 
1827, your subscription term will expire 
next week; if 1828, the week after, and 
so on. Please look to this. 
We are right glad that so many of our 
readers say they intend to give the 
Rural’s method of raising potatoes a fair, 
thorough test. Do it in a small way. 
Rural friends, we would not have you 
disappointed—though wehave great faith 
in the method. 
Read the Rural's offer (on page 72) of a 
one dollar cyclopaedia of universal knowledge 
(80(1 pages, 1200 illustrations) to all of bur 
present subscribers who will send us one i ew 
subscriber and $2.15 —the fifteen cents for 
postage. The offer will last until March 15. 
Three different posters; the full ac¬ 
count of our Free-Seed Distribution; the 
offer of 82.800 in presents to subscribers 
for the largest dubs; our regular premium 
list and specimen copies will be sent to 
all,post-paid,on application. We will also 
gladly send specimens to any list of names 
which our readers may send us in order 
to aid them in obtaining new subscribers. 
There are hundreds among our readers 
who,wheD pumping an insufficient supply 
of water for their stock, next Summer, 
standing in the broiling sun, will regret 
that they had not put forth the little ef¬ 
fort in canvassing for the Rdrat., that 
would have secured one of those splendid 
wind engines; and well they may, for 
one-tenth of the time they will spend in 
pumping water would have secured the 
prize. “A word to the wise is sufficient.” 
Frtends, we would ask you, in renew¬ 
ing you subscriptions, to write us on a 
separate slip of paper what departments 
of the Ri UAL you like beat and what 
least. If you will do this we will try and 
profit by it. Of course, there are many 
engaged in special farming that wou<d 
like us to devote more space to their 
specialties; but the Rcral can never 
be a spec>al farm paper. It aims to deal 
with every rural topic, and to give space 
thereto according to its importance. 
A vert foolish man is he who robs 
himself of the comforts of life that he 
may accumulate a great fortune for his 
heirs. More foolish is the farmer's family 
who lire uncomfortably in the kitchen, 
usually the dingiest and most uninviting 
room in the house, keeping the best rooms 
darkened, waiting for company. Better, 
a hundred times better, live in those cozy, 
comfortable rooms all the time. They 
will seem all the more c^zy when the 
company comes. The wise man is he 
who extracts all the comfort and happi¬ 
ness out of every day as it passes. The 
great secret of a happy iife is to learn to 
be happy, and make others happy, every¬ 
day. 
-- 
Mr. Peter Henderson, in the course 
of a friendly correspondence with the 
editors, remarks:—“You are taking the 
right method in acquiring a practical 
working knowledge of what you are talk¬ 
ing about. We veteran sons of the soil 
have but little respect for the opinions 
of writers on the products of old mutber 
earth, when giveu by meu who have 
never worked therein, or even seen the 
working done. We have many such, as 
you are aware, but I flatter myself I can 
detect the false ring in their writings 
even when nothing of their antecedents 
is known. You have undoubtedly 
greatly elevated the Rural since you 
have been able to give the results of your 
experiments at River Edge, your growing 
practical knowledge enabling you to dis¬ 
criminate and sift the grain from the 
chaff that always must come in the multi¬ 
tude of your correspondence.” 
READERS OF THE RURAL. 
We shall he pleased to send specimen 
copies to any of your friends. Please send 
us your lists of names, and the Rural 
will be mailed to every name at once—no 
matter how long the list. We have now 
three posters in different colors, printed 
upon good paper. These will also be lor- 
waided to any desired address. Those 
who have already received posters may 
wish to use more. Our supply is abundant. 
SPECIAL NOTICE. 
The cyclodpaedia which we now offer 
to our present subscribers as a compensa¬ 
tion to them for sending us one new sub¬ 
scriber (see p. 72) is a work of consider¬ 
able merit as a reference book to almost 
every branch of knowledge. It is illus¬ 
trated with 1,200 engravings and contains 
750 pages 12 mo. The price is one dollar 
at retail, and the book is worth it. To 
any of our present subscribers, who will 
send us one new subscriber and $2.15— 
the 15 cents for postage —we will send 
the cyclopaedia post-paid, and the Rural 
New-Yorker to the new subscriber for 
one year from the date the subscription 
is received. The offer, which is confined 
to subscribers, will continue until the 
15th of March. 
NOT UNDERSTOOD. 
Three hundred and twenty-one pres¬ 
ents— valued at nearly 83,000 for the 
largest clubs! Comparatively few of our 
subscribers are working for them. It now 
appears that articles fully worth from one 
to two hundred dollars will be given for 
clubs of from 20 to 40; that articles 
va ued at from twenty-five to fifty dollars 
will be given for clubs of from five to 
ten; that over 150 presents will be re¬ 
turned to those who kindly donated them 
to the Rural, for want of competitors. 
There are but 50 who have sent us clubs 
for these presents, and there are 321 
presents. The liberality of this offer and 
its pjesent. status surely cannot be under¬ 
stood or appreciated by our subscribers, 
to whom it is strictly confined. 
-» « «- 
THE RURAL'8 PRESENTS TO SUB¬ 
SCRIBERS. 
Several of our friends write that if 
the times were better and money more 
plentiful, they would enter the contest, 
and try and secure one of those valuable 
presents which we offer to subscribers 
only. In this, dear friends, we think, 
ye do greatly err. Toe same effort will 
accomplish the same comparative results 
now as then; you can, no doubt, secure 
the reaper, mower, wagon, farm mill and 
so on through he list, with such a trifling 
effort as to surprise even yourselves. Any 
man w ho in canvassing among bis neigh¬ 
bors will use one-tenth of the mus¬ 
cle which one of those sulky plows 
would save in a single Summer, is almost 
sure to receive one of these valuable tools. 
And, then, have we no young men and 
women in our family, who are expecting 
to marry and go to housekeeping in the 
Spring? How easy it would be for them 
to solicit subscribers among their friends 
and secure the range. Where is the girl 
that will secure it and get the $10 addi¬ 
tional to buy furniture? Can it be possi¬ 
ble, Rural fnepds, that you realize the 
value of these presents and make no more 
effort to secure them? Here are hundreds 
of valuable presents going a-begging: we 
can hardly believe you understand their 
value. 
A CONVENIENT MEMORY. 
Mr. C. P. Huntingdon, the Pacific 
Railroad king, has not met with his cus¬ 
tomary good fortune in some financial 
transactions of late, because the law 
which he and his fellow monarchs have so 
often defied, has in his case proved that 
even railroad kings are not always above 
it when its 6upiemacy depends on twelve 
men, honest aDd true, iu a jury box. A 
few weeks ago a jury here decided that 
several years, ago he had illegally appro¬ 
priated, by what, is, for euphemism, 
called a ‘"smart business trick,” over a 
million dollars belonging to another specu¬ 
lator, and this sum he will ultimately, 1 
most likely, be forced to disgorge, al- I 1 
though at present he proposes to appeal 
the case. Other parties are now suiDg 
him here for the money out. of which 
they were jockeyed by similar chicanery. 
On the witness-stand be showed that he 
has a very curious and convenient mem¬ 
ory, for it could recall or forget past 
transactions precisely as its owner’s inter¬ 
ests were likely to suggest. As a speci¬ 
men, for a long time he could not recollect 
within $20,000,000 what were his profits 
in the Central Pacific Railroad ; but finally 
Lawyer Choate’s cross examination drew 
from him the declaration that they were 
less than $5 000,000. His memory, how¬ 
ever, misled him in making this state¬ 
ment, for it is well known that Stanford 
Crocker, Hopkins and Huntingdon—the 
syndicate who built the road— put into it 
$1,000,000, and took out of it $105,000,- 
000, in dividends, stocks, bonds, and sim¬ 
ilar securities. In ease the division was, 
as is usually supposed, equal, Huntine- 
don’s share would have been $41,000,000. 
From other enterpiises of which the Cen¬ 
tral Pacific is the basis, the “co-parcen¬ 
ers” expect to realize another $105,000,- 
000 profits, a good share of which has 
already been bagged. Truly, Mr. C. P. 
Huntingdon is a lucky man with a curi¬ 
ous memory I 
THE RURAL WYANDOTTES. 
Ouu little flock of nine Wyandottcs 
(pullets hatched in April) are much talk¬ 
ed of about the quiet neighborhood of 
the Rural Grounds. Farmers about us, 
with flocks of 50 Leghorns, and over, have 
not received so many eggs as we have. 
The eggs do not average as large as the 
Leghorn eggs,and they are darker in col¬ 
or. The record since our Wyandottes 
began to lay. has been placed before our 
readers. During the last 10 days, which 
have been characterized by all sorts of 
extremes in weather, they have given us 
3!) eggs, or nearly four each day, eight of 
which weigh one pound. Tne Wyan¬ 
dottes are far from a fixed variety of 
birds, and different strains vary in their 
egg production, as well as in form, plum¬ 
age, comb, etc. Juuging from our own 
strain, however, we are greatly pleased 
with them, as well, indeed, as with any 
breed we have ever experimented with, 
and we are inclined to commend them to 
the favorable consideration of our readers. 
They mature very early. The body is 
stubby and well feathered; the legs yel¬ 
low and of medium length. They are 
quiet and peaceable, and seem to thrive 
in confinement. Our yard is about 25 
feet square. We feed them wheat and 
corn regularly, with changes to oats, po¬ 
tatoes and table scraps. Bone meal is 
kept before them constantly, and we have 
not as yet had a thin-shelled or soft egg. 
The house is kerosened once in two weeks. 
Fresh water (warm m freezing weather) 
is given daily. 
——- 
FRUIT GROWERS.—ATTENTION! 
The syndicate owning the stock of the 
Marlboro Raspberry have, very wisely ve 
think, reduced the price of plants to 35 
cents each. Since the reduction we have 
made a new arrangement with Messrs. A. 
J. Caywood & Sons, of Marlboro, N. Y., 
the originators, whereby we are enabled 
to make this new and very, very liberal 
offer, of which every reader of the Rural 
should hasten to avail himself before the 
stock of genuine plants becomes exhaust¬ 
ed :—To ariy subscriber who sends us a 
new subscriber for one year, and $2.00, 
we will have sent twelve plants of this 
fine berry. These will be well rooied, well 
packed, and delivered free of charge. 
To every farmer, farmer’s boy, wife or 
daughter, this is a rare chance to secure 
plants of this berry with only a little ef¬ 
fort. Suppose they secure only two sub¬ 
scribers each for these, each will receive 
24 plants, and alter giving to each of 
their subscribers, if they please, six 
plants, they will still have a doz.n for 
their own use. We think the neighbors 
would gladly avail themselves of so gen¬ 
erous an offer, and would be thankful for 
having their attention called to ihe Ru¬ 
ral. Every one of our subscribers, 
whether the owner of a city lot or large 
farm, should not tail to plant at least one 
dozen plants, and when they bear we are 
quite sure of the owners’ thanks for 
bringing this fine berry to their notice, 
and for opening so easy a way for them to 
obtain the plants, and we guarantee those 
ordered by us to be absolutely ge nuine. 
We have at least 10,000 subscribers who 
have go d places f<«r these plants, and 
who would be greatly the gainers by hav¬ 
ing them, and we Ihus offer them an easy 
way to secure them without money, while 
benefiting an equal number of neighbors 
by inducing them to take and read the 1 
Rural. Here is a chance for the bright 
Rural boys and girls, everyone of whom 
loves berries, to secure a dozen of these 
plants by a few hours’ plea-ant work. 
Will not. eviry one, old and young, put 
out at least a dozen of these plants? The 
hundreds who have already applied, and 
whose orders are booked, could fiud no 
fault if we send them plauts just as 
agreed; but the Rural aims to be first 
jU't and then generous, and so in making 
the new deal it looked alter its old friends, 
and without further notice, those persons 
booked for four plants shall receive a full 
dozen, and those booked for eight shall 
receive 24, and so on for a greater num¬ 
ber. We ask you, is not the Rui>al more 
than fair, and can you not always trust 
it? And will not every one of our read¬ 
ers send at least one subscriber and get 
the d'zen plants? We believe'it will 
please ihem, and we want every one to 
test this new raspberry. 
BREVITIES. 
The new subscription sent to us for the 
Rural in connection wish the cyclopedia will 
n»t, of course, count also for the $3,000 worth 
of presents to subscribers. 
We are behind with our answers to ques¬ 
tions, under the Fanners’ Club, for want of 
space. Our readers must bear with us. 
A Note —“Although I am onlv a black¬ 
smith. 1 think as much of the R. N.-Y asauy 
of vour Yankee farmers, and I intend doing 
all I can to help it along. I want to hang the 
posters in the shop and try to get every far¬ 
mer ro take it for one year, if t pay for it 
myself.—j. mc.lkod, Out., Can.” 
Read the Rural's offer I on page 721 of a one- 
<faltar cyclopaedia of universal knowledge (800 
pages. 1.300 illustrations i to alt of our present 
subscribers who will send us one new sub¬ 
scriber and *2. lb—the fifteen rents for post¬ 
age. The offer will last until March J5. 
Note.— The Rural New - Yorker is 
promptly discontinued at the end of the sub¬ 
scription term. Any numbers mailed after¬ 
wards are sent by mi-take or a« specimens 
and no charge is ever made. Recipients 
should refu»e to pay for papers sent after the 
term subscribed aud paid for has expired. 
Another special offer to our subscribers• 
Those who will send us one new name and 
$2, 15 —the 15 emtsforpost igc-will he entitled 
to the eyehrpa-dia of Si o pages ami engrav¬ 
ings -the price of which at retail is' one 
dollar. The offer lasts until March 15. 
koines thus sent to us can not count in clubs 
for the $3,0011 worth of presents offered a/so to 
Ru ral subscribers only. 
The veteran D S Marvin writes us as fol¬ 
lows: *• W bile at a friend's house in Northern 
Onio, I saw a copy of the Rural with a One 
cut of the new R. N -Y. Grape. I was going 
to say I was surprised, but w lion 1 came to 
think, it was just like you to do me this kmd- 
uess, and l am the more pleased to have it 
done in this quiet, unsolicited way, for the 
grape is going to make its way in the world 
aud do honor to its name.” 
The 1 2th annual meeting of the New Jersey 
State Board of Agriculture will he held in 
Trentou on Tuesday and Wednesday. Feb 
3rd aud I th Addresses will be delivered by 
leading agriculturists, aud there will be on 
exhibition fruits, gruLns, nuts and other farm 
products. All who are interested in these 
things should attend and tuke part in the dis¬ 
cussions. Excursion tickets will be sold on 
the West Jersey, Pr-nnsylyauia and Central 
Railroads. P. T. Quinn, Sec’y., Newark, 
N. J. 
The cyclopaedia offered, to our present sub¬ 
scribers for one new subscriber contains defi¬ 
nitions of technical terms in medicine.mechan¬ 
ics, architecture, chemistry, natural history 
botany, physiology, geography . agriculture' 
geology and of the arts and sciences in gener¬ 
al It is a book that every farmer shoidd 
have, and he can obtain if by sending us one 
new subscriber and |2 15 —the 15 rents for 
postage. The offer is to our present subscrib¬ 
ers alone and will continue until March 15. 
Seepage 72, 
The Board of Control of the New York 
State Agricultural Experiment Station con¬ 
vened iu the Executive Chamber at Albany, on 
Tuesday, Jan. 30. I8&5. Robert J. Swa i, of 
Geneva, was re-elected President, and Gen. 
N. M. Curtis, of Ogdousberg, Secretary. 
Their annual report was presented to the 
Legidaiure, and will in due tune be priuted, 
and can be obtained from the members of the 
Legislature. The Station, under the Direc¬ 
torship of Dr. Sturtevant and the control of 
the Board, is prospering finely and premises 
to be or great benefit to the agriculture, not 
only of the Empire State, but also of the 
country at large. 
Would you have your children love the 
farm und follow the same occupation as your¬ 
self; Then show that it is profitable, refining 
and conducive to happiness, by so closely 
studying and thoroughly learning the busi¬ 
ness that you can raise large crops at a good 
profit by keeping pace with tne world in 
thought, and intelligence. Muke refinement a 
rule of your life and do not lolerate anytning 
coarse and degrading, and last, but by no 
means l«ust, see to it that your home is made 
comfortable, supplied with good books and 
papers, aud constantly filled with the sun¬ 
shine of love, and surrounded with a pleosaut 
lawn, stocked with beautiful shrubs and 
flowers. Such a home is tne uatural habitat 
of contentment. It is a nobie life-work to 
make home the happiest and dearest place ou 
earth. How fewattempt itl __ 
