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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MAR 26 
THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AXational Journal for Countryand Suburban Homes 
Conducted by 
e. s. CAKMAX, 
Editor 
J. S. WOODWARD, 
Associate. 
Address 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
No. 34 Park Row, New York. 
SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1885. 
Our lists of the best grapes are partic¬ 
ularly valuable because they are selected 
by the most experienced vineyardists of 
America. Our next special will be the 
Best Varieties of Small Fruits. 
The Farmer’s Club begins on page 205 
and is carried to page 209 of the Supple¬ 
ment. 
Next week’s Rural will be specially 
devoted to the best varieties ot cabbages 
and their cultivation. 
If the number of your address label is 
1835, your subscription term will expire 
next week; if 1836, the week after, and 
so on. Please look to this. 
Our friends will kindly examine our 
announcement on page 214, since it is 
doubtful if we can again find space to 
present it. 
§2,800 worth of Rural presents going, 
going to subscribers for tbe largest clubs. 
There are more presents (321) offered than 
we shall receive clubs, so that all will 
positively receive presents for (heir efforts 
—and we can assure our Iriends the pres¬ 
ents will doubly repay their efforts. See 
page 214. 
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Of the 60 kinds of new potatoes tested 
at the Rural Grounds last season, Del- 
monico. Home Comfort, Late Hoosier or 
.McCormick, Montreal and Green Mountain 
are the best keepers. Of the older kinds, 
Early Mayflower is the best. Ot the still 
older kinds we should select the White 
Star as the best keeper. 
Soon every horse will be wanted to do 
bis utmost in order to get the crops into 
the ground promptly on time; a little extra 
care and feed now will put them in prime 
condition, and be money well invested. 
If there is no light work for them to do to 
toughen their necks and shoulders, a good 
rubbing every day with a corn-cob may 
save a bad collar-gall. 
Three different posters; the full account 
of our Free Seed Distribution; the offer 
of §2,800 in presents to subscxibers for the 
largest clubs; our premium list and speci¬ 
men 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. 
A friend from Leetes Island, Conn., 
writes us that be is not convinced that it 
would be any Jess work to dig potatoes 
under level than hill culture. No, what¬ 
ever may be said in favor of level culture, 
the labor of digging is increased, while 
we do not see that any of our present po¬ 
tato diggers can be U8ea. 
We don’t want our readers to forget 
that we were the first to find out that 
Buhach blown upon lose-bugs destroys 
them—a discovery that should be worth 
thousands of dollars to rose-growers and 
vineyardists. If we were not the discov¬ 
erers, let those who were prove it, that 
we may give them the credit, which at 
present the Rural appropriates. 
We want all of our friends to read the 
Rural’s catalogue notices. They will be 
continued next week. Few journals re¬ 
view catalogues as we do; few, indeed, 
are by experience as well enabled to do so 
with a just discrimination as to the value 
of the plants, implements or other farm 
or horticultural articles offered for sale. 
We never praise anything unless we know 
it to be praiseworthy. 
If Minnesota has a man who has done 
a noble act and of whom she should be 
justly proud, that man is Charles J. 
Wright, of Fergus Falls. He has ju 9 t 
sent us a list of 188 names of Minnesota 
farmers, and accompanied it with his check 
and asks us to send the Rural N ew- 
Yorker one year with its Free Seed Dis¬ 
tribution as a present to each. Such a 
man is an honor to any country aud de¬ 
serves this public commendation. The 
influence of such an act shall live for 
ever—God bless and prosper him I 
-- 
In hiring help on the farm look well to 
their habits; a smoker is liable to burn 
your buildings; a careless man will 
waste and destroy twice bis wages; a 
passionate man will spoil your horses and 
cows and break more than he earns; a 
drone will annoy you to death ; an 
immoral man will corrupt the nrnds of 
your children; a careful, high-minded, 
thinking man will make your labors light, 
will look after your interests and will 
earn his money, whatever you pay him. 
Those shun at any price; this seek early, 
and when you have found him, keep him 
as long as you can ! He is a jewel of the 
first water, und hard to replace. 
What We So Much Like. — My 
subscription to the Rural expired last 
month with number 1827. I did not renew, 
from the fact that a friend sent me another 
weekly agricultural journal, (costing 
$2 50) with a year’s subscription paid up. 
I thought this would answer in place of 
the Rural; but it proved unsatisfactory, 
in that relation, both to my family and 
myself. It seems the Rural has made 
itself a necessity with us. I renew and 
also send you the money for two new sub¬ 
scribers whom I secured by giving the 
Rural such a high reputation which I 
think it deserves. j. p. b. 
Greencastle, Pa. 
A WORD TO SHEEP OWNERS. 
These are momentous days to the 
sheep keeper and he ill understands his 
business who does not prepare his ewes 
for successful parturition, unless, indeed, 
he has been wise enough to have so kept 
them all Winter. There are few flocks 
kept by average farmers, which do not 
suffer an annual loss of one-tenth, or more, 
of the lambs, and too often, of many of 
the mothers as well, and this mostly be¬ 
cause tbe ewes are too thin to produce a 
strong lamb, or to afford sufficient milk 
for his sustenance. This course is not 
only subversive of all profit from the 
flock; but it is an inhuman treatment of 
Ihe sheep. The sheep should have been 
so fed all Winter as to have maintained 
their autumnal condition ; but if they 
have not, they should at once receive ex¬ 
tra care. They should now receive a 
daily allowance of corn, and bran or oil 
meal, and a few roots of some kind. A 
few potatoes, if no other succulent food 
is accessible, are worth more than a dol¬ 
lar per bushel,to be fed to the ewes for a 
month before yeaning time. They loosen 
the bowels, cool the system, start a flow 
of milk and prevent any tendency to 
feverishness. Humanity, thrift, and a 
clear conscience demand, that good care be 
now taken of the sheep 1 
THE OKLAHOMA BOOMERS. 
The Oklahoma boomers, 1,100 strong, 
according to some reports, are still loiter¬ 
ing about Arkansas City, although many 
are said to have returned home, discour¬ 
aged both by President Cleveland's late 
proclamation forbidding an advance into 
the Indian Territory, and by the resolute 
attitude ot the United States troops that 
are prepared to resist their march to the 
coveted goal. The “colonists” are loud 
in their denunciations of the conduct of 
the Government, which they insist is fav¬ 
oring the large cattle companies to the 
injury of the ordinary settlers. Tbe best 
information shows that over 400.000 bead 
of cattle are grazed in the Indian Terri¬ 
tory and owned by large capitalists 
and syndicates, among whom are Berry 
Bros., Burke & Martin, Fitzgerald Bros., 
the McClellan Cattle Company, the Wy¬ 
eth Cattle Company, Hewma & Titus, 
Williams Bros., the- Standard Oil Com¬ 
pany. B. H. Campbell. J. Saunderson, 
tbe Belle Plain Cattle Company, the John 
Purcell Butter Company, and others. This 
baa been absolutely denied by the Depart¬ 
ment of the Interior; but there is now no 
doubt of the correctness of the statement. 
All parts of Oklahoma are occupied by 
the herds of some of these, which pasture 
gratis in the disputed region, while for 
the land occupied by those in the rest of 
the Territory a small rent is paid to the 
Indians. The privileges of these wealthy 
and highly influential parties would, of 
course, be curtailed by the settlement of 
the country by the boomers, aud it would 
almost seem that the action of the Gov¬ 
ernment in preventing the advance of the 
colonist by the use of United States troops, 
was for their protection more than for 
any other reason. The boomers insist that 
the syndicates shall be expelled from tbe 
Territory, and refuse to disperse till this 
demand shall be complied with. Is it 
unreasonable? 
LIFE, WHAT WE MAKE IT. 
To merely exist is not all of life; we 
were made for something more than mere 
food consumers. To be sure, we have a 
stomach, so has tbe oyster; we have a 
surface that must be clothed, so has the 
oyster; but God iti giving us attributes 
beyond and higher than those of the oys¬ 
ter, never intended we should, line the 
oyster, be content in merely filling our 
stomachs aud clothing our bodies. We 
have intellects to improve, and were made 
for happiness here and hereafter—an ag¬ 
gressive, progressive happiness, not a 
mere negative happiness, like that of the 
clam or oyster. In making the grains, 
fruits and vegetables to sustain our bodies, 
God put into them pleasant flavors, to af¬ 
ford us pleasure in satisfying our necessi¬ 
ties. But He so made us that we derive 
much more happiness through the senses 
of seeing and smelling, than through the 
mere alimentary organs, and He made tbe 
flowers as well as the fruits. It would 
have been as easy to have made the apple 
to grow without a bloom as to have made 
the apple blossom the most beautiful 
among floweis, and to have filled it with 
a fragrance inimitable, and He made this 
beaufy and this fragrance for a purpose as 
certainly as He made the fruit. He never 
works in vain, and, no doubt, clothed the 
flowers with beauty on purpose to afford 
happiness to man through the eye; and 
breathed into them the fragrance of His 
own breath to give us pleasure through 
the organs of smell. 
The man who neglects to surround his 
home with the beauty and the fragrance 
of the flowers does not properly appre 
ciate God’s goodness or his own high 
privileges, and is not doing his whole 
duty to his family. It is every man’s duty 
to provide those things that are within 
his means, which will make his home 
pleasant and conduce to the happiness of 
his wife and children, and he that does not 
is robbing them as effectually as though he 
withheld a portion of their needed food 
or raiment, and there is nothing so cheap, 
which adds so much to the pleasures and 
enjoyment of home as flowers. 
Dear friends, will you not carefully 
consider this matter and not let another 
year go by without an effort to surround 
your homes with these sweet messengers 
of God’s love. Remember, that when 
we are pleading for the home, we are 
pleading for what should be to every 
one, no matter how humble, the dearest 
spot this side of heaven. God pity the 
man, woman, or child who has not a 
pleasant, happy home. 
POPULAR GULLIBILITY. 
Faith in the inexhaustible gullibility of 
the masses is the capital of hundreds of 
swindlers and the foundation of tbe for¬ 
tunes of many of them. From the success 
that has attended many swindling 
schemes, it would seem that there is no 
project so wild or preposterous that will 
not secure dupes, if plausibly represented. 
Not long since an audacious adventurer 
advertised for subscriptions to an enter¬ 
prise, tbe nature of which was to be con¬ 
cealed for a certain time, aud actually 
made over §20,000 by the plan. The 
other day a fellow was arrested here for 
doing an extensive business by advertis¬ 
ing all maimer of enticing things to be 
sent free on receipt of postage stamps, to 
pay for packing, etc. Usually advertising 
imposters send something, however 
fraudulent in return, for the stamps; this 
genius, however, merely pocketed the 
stamps, and did not even answer the let¬ 
ters, and although so reckless a swindler 
ought to have come to grief in a short 
time, this fellow seeuos to have made con¬ 
siderable profits by bis audacity for sev¬ 
eral months. He never paid the newspa 
pers a cent for advertising; for with the 
advertisement he gave references to other 
aliases of his own, aod he himself an¬ 
swered all inquiries as to his character. 
Another rascal much of the same stripe, 
whom we have several times denounced 
under one or other of his aliases , has just 
been publicly exposed in Chicago, where 
he was doing a driving business under 
the names of The Call Publishing Com¬ 
pany, alias J, B. Gaylord, alias F. L. 
Stearns & Co,, alias E. It. Webber & Co., 
alias J. B, Gaylord & Co. The Post- 
Office authorities have refused to deliver 
to him the mail of the Publishing Com¬ 
pany until he is identified us its “repre¬ 
sentative;” but he still is, every day, get¬ 
ting bushels of letters with remittances, 
as the representative of the other bogus 
concerns. The Call P. Co. offered the 
R. M. & Co. Standard Cyclopedia, “worth 
§5 for 35 ceots,” got it advertised in sev¬ 
eral “reputable” papers to which it has not 
paid a cent, and obtained piles of orders 
from greedy nincompoops in all partsof the 
country. The mail it appears is received 
through a slit in the door of a dark, 
dirty little room which is used as a bed¬ 
room, and it is next to impossible to in¬ 
terview or find Gaylord in any of his char¬ 
acters. 
So heavy was the business of the “Com¬ 
pany” that over 500 letters accumulated 
during the first three days after the stop¬ 
page of the mails, and this swindle was 
not advertised one-tenth so widely as 
several newspaper frauds not a whit 
less glaring. The “Cyclopedia” is a 
wretched catch-penny affair dear at ten 
cents. As Webber & Co., Gaylord scatters 
abroad gaudily illustrated circulars of 
cheap jewelry; as SteariiB & Co , he 
handles patents and is a general manu¬ 
facturer with unlimited capital; as Gay¬ 
lord & Co., he is a general agent or 
commission man, and in any character he 
is always ready to certify by mail to the 
high standing and exemplary nature of 
the other concerns he represents. He has 
been bamboozling the public, especially 
the agricultural part of it, for months 
under the above names; but he has been 
“operating” for years in Chicago under a 
long list of other aliases, which he sheds 
readily whenever his rascality has made 
any of them notorious. Shouldn’t some 
law be devised which would put an end 
to such outrageous practices? Or are the 
idiots who patronize such barefaced 
frauds unworthy of any consideration or 
protecrion? 
The rogues who engineer such schemes 
rely on the desire of a large percentage of 
the people to get much for little. They 
know that the greed of gain often obscures 
the judgment even of those who are not. 
naturally idiots, and that though all cool- 
headed business men suspect all offers of 
this kind, there are always plenty to spring 
at any bait,if it is only gaudy and glitter¬ 
ing enough. In the past the Rural has 
been careful to caution its readers against 
all humbugs and swindlers; in the future 
it will devote even more attention than 
heretofore to the exposure of rascality of 
this stripe. It should he borne in mind, 
however, that in exposing the modus oper- 
andi of one case, we wish to warn our 
friends against all schemes of the same 
Bort; for among all the6e different lines of 
swindling there is a strong family re¬ 
semblance. 
BKBJVITIEB. 
It is the foolishest kind of folly to skin the 
land that we may put a few more dollars at 
interest. 
American agriculture 20 years hence de¬ 
pends upon the training we now give our 
BOVS. 
There is one of them for you if you will 
send us a club; we mean odb of the 82,800.00 
worth of presents, 321 in unml>er. 
Is it policy to dwarf the intellects of the 
future fanners that we may squeeze a few 
more dollars out of their labor? Think of it, 
fathers. 
There is no necessity for any Rural sub¬ 
scribers having a borne without flowers, for 
the packet of “Garden Treasures" is sufficient 
to change the bleakest log hovel into a flower- 
embowered and vine dad cot. 
If you will plant a few evergreen trees 
about your homes, of the best kinds adapted 
to your climate, we are confident vou will 
never have cause to regret it. Evergreen 
trees cheer the Winter, aud are beauti¬ 
ful in Summer as welL 
One of our nine Wvnudotte hens broke her 
neck in jumping from a high nest. She was 
killed and eaten. The flesh is white, juicy 
and extremely tender—the bones small. In 
these respects the Wyaudottes are decidedly 
superior to tbe Plymouth Rocks. 
If ever the cows need extra care it is now, 
just before and at calving time They should 
daily have a little succulent, cooling food—a 
few potatoes if nothing else is provided, also 
a little bran or middlings. Their udders 
should lie also watched and milked, if too 
much distended It is much better to milk 
them than have them suffer. 
For the first time we have seen within a 
few days an advertisement—and a costly one 
too—of blackberries in English journals. It 
is of the new blackberry, the Wilson Junior. 
The illustration shows berries of immense size 
—SW inches in circumference. This Wilson 
Junior is much like the old Wilson and a seed¬ 
ling of it. In suitable places It produces im¬ 
mense crops of early berries, though, at the 
Rural Grounds, it is not hardy. 
On April'15, an Industrial Convention will 
be held at Richmond, under the auspices of 
the Virginia State Agricultural Society, to 
discuss the best and most practicable means of 
furthering the general prosperity of the State. 
Tbe Executive Committee of the Society, 
Messrs. R. V. Gaines, W C. Wickham aud A. 
S. Buford, in their address to the people of 
Virginia, call attention to the losses of the 
State by large emigration from it to other 
States. Good results uro likely to arise from 
tbe proposed convention. 
