RECENT APPRECIATIVE WORDS 
OF THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
FROM GOOD PEOPLE. 
I. P. Roberts, Professor of Agriculture in 
Cornell University, writes us; “I cannot af¬ 
ford to farm without the Rural.” 
• Win. W. Warner & Co., of Jackson, Mich., 
say: “We notice that the Rural conies out 
as bright, fresh and sparkling as ever, not¬ 
withstanding the dull season and exceedingly 
hard times, and we do not understand how 
any intelligent, thrifty and progressive farm¬ 
er can afford to do without its cheery weekly 
visits. The Rural stands at the bead of the 
list of papers which may be taken home for 
family reading, without the slightest fear of 
obnoxious articles appearing therein. We 
can always say a “good word” for the dear 
old Rural New-Yorker, and trust that it 
will continue to grow better and better in 
future, as it has steadily done in the past.” 
Prof. J. W. Sanborn, of the Missouri Ag. 
College, says: “Your Free Seed Distribution 
just received. The anchoring of your paper 
to a farm and an experiment station com¬ 
bined, is a unique and most valuable feature 
in journaltsuL To thus wed the book, tbe 
plow and the scale is just the thing to develop 
a good and sound farm writer and editor,” 
Matthew Crawford, tbe horticulturist 
of Cuyahoga Falls. O., says: “I think every 
tiller of the soil ought te have the Rural 
New-Yorker, and 1 will work in my own 
way towards bringing this about. To show 
you how we rely on your paper, I will quote 
a single seuteuee from E. H. Cushman, of 
Euclid, O , one of the most intelligent fruit 
growers of this State: “Wouldn’t we feel 
cheap if we should some time find out that the 
Rural New-Yorker is being run in the in¬ 
terest of some concern C 1 like the Rural 
for its reliability. I expect the editor to tell 
the truth, let it hit where it will. I like the 
paper because the best talent is employed on 
it. These professional dollar a column agri¬ 
cultural writers are too often blind leaders of 
the blind. And the worst of it is, the average 
farmer is uuable to discriminate between such 
men and those who are competent. It is some¬ 
times amusing and sometimes disgusting and 
discouraging to see wbat brings Bucb meu into 
notoriety. I could name several prominent 
meu in this State whose articles are at a prem¬ 
ium, whoare noted in their own neighborhoods 
for their general inefficiency. Last year I paid 
for IS agricultural papers, and had some seut 
to me, and £ consider the Rural much the 
best of them all. I hope I may never chauge 
my opinion of it.” 
P. H Donlon, of Ruthven, Iowa, says: “I 
consider it the duty ofall engaged in farming, 
gardening, or stock-raising, to help support 
the paper which does so much to help them iu 
so many ways. May its subscription list in¬ 
crease iu length until it embraces the good 
men of every calling J v 
Chas. L. Youno, of Suffolk Co., N. Y., 
says: “I am .taking the Rural for the third 
year and would not bB without it at uuy price. 
The ‘Farmers' Club’and ‘Eye-Opener’depart¬ 
ments are worth #10 each. I mean to try and 
save all the numbers this year aud have them 
bound.” 
Geo. S. Nyk, of Kalamazoo, Co., Mich., 
says: “/ for one appreciate the good work you 
are doiug for us farmers of America. May 
you long be spared to contiuue in elevating 
the standard aud dignity of the noble occu¬ 
pation of farmer!” 
W. R. Duncan, Oiter-tail Co., Minn., says: 
“lu sending you a new subscriber, I wish to 
express, in a measure, the esteem iu which the 
Rural is held Loth by my wife aud myself. 
We have taken it nearly four years, and iu 
that time have come to regard it as a safe 
guide and counselor mall things pertaining to 
the farm aud garden, and also in the house. 
My wile suys we can't keep house without it 
1 raised 50 bushels of White Elephant Pota¬ 
toes from less then oue-tourtb of an acre, and 
sold 20 bushels for 85 cents per bushel, when 
other potatoes were selling for only 2U ami 25 
cents. 1 wish the Rural abundant success 1” 
Stuart T. Terry, of Suffolk Co., L, I , 
says: "Haviug been a constant reader of the 
Rural lor uearly a third of a century, I have 
become strongly attached to it. 1 learned 
years ago that the money paid for the Rural 
was well aud safely Invested.” 
Mr. C. E, Fxsiikr, of Outario, Canada, says: 
“Please allow me the privilege of attesting 
to the superior merits of the Rural New- 
Yorker. It is, without exception, the best 
rural paper uow published. 1 seut for sample 
copies over the whole United States . efore I 
concluded to subscribe for tbe Rural. 1 also 
take three or four other papers of it-s class, 
all being montblies. The Rural each week 
has more general information for the farmer 
and fruit grower tbau most of the monthlies 
«e h month I get the best. Some of them 
are almost entirely devoted to instruction on 
growing strawberries. They having a few 
plants to sell of course. For tbe fruit-grower, 
farmer aud gardener, the Rural is head and 
shoulders above all its competitors, without 
a possible doubt. Go on improving and I 
am satisfied you will receive the reward your 
enterprise deserves. ” 
G. W. Angel, of Schuylkill Co., Pa., says: 
“Of all the farm journals I ever had occasion 
to come in contact with, I think the Rural 
deserves the greatest praise, not only from 
its vast amount of solid information for the 
farmer; but also for its fearlessness in expos¬ 
ing quacks, lotteries and all classes of disreput¬ 
able persons. Had I subscribed for it a year 
ago it probably would have been the means 
of saving enough of my money to procure the 
paper for at least five years The infamous 
coucern I have reference to I saw exposed in 
your worthy paper. ” 
James Wirt, Meadville, Crawford Co., 
Pa., says: “i am now past seventy years of 
age, and eauuot think of giving up the ‘Good 
Old Rural ’ I have been a constaut reader 
of it for about thirty years, and think it is the 
best paper I know of for reliable information ” 
A. S. Black, Hancock Co., Iowa, says: “I 
propose to take the Rural right along. East¬ 
ern economy is what is needed on Western 
farms. 
F. Dye, of Mercer Co., N. J., says: “It is 
an old saying “He doesn’t know beans;" but 
this is not true of the Rural as many impos¬ 
ters who seek to advertise their humbugs iu 
its columns find out to their grief. Go on in 
the good work, not only in the interest of your 
readers, but as a rebuke, also, to manufact¬ 
urers and advertisers of worthless articles.” 
Cole & Brothers, of Pella, Iowa, say: 
“The Rural is the best paper of its class pub¬ 
lished. 
Geo. H. Mowry, of Yates Co , N. Y., says: 
“I think more of the Rural than of any 
other paper I take. 1 have learned more from 
it within the past year about gardening than 
I ever knew before. It is a big help.” 
E. F. Malian, of Baltimore, Md. says: “I 
cannot speak in too high praise of that most 
valuable agricultural paper, the Rural New 
Yorker. Every week it is a most welcome 
guest, in our home. It has saved me many 
dollars and it’s just the paper for parents to 
place before their children. When 1 feel dis¬ 
couraged I take up the Rural, a few' 
moments and find something so encouraging 
that I go to work again, with renewed 
strength. Great success is my earnest wish 
for the Rural New-Yorker." 
C. W. Chouse, Principal of the Schools at 
Barmony, Indiana. He writes us: “Not long 
ago I had the opportunity of comparing the 
leading agricultural papers of the United 
States, and chose the Rural New-Yorker 
because of its practical articles adapted tu the 
ordinary farmer. Many other farm periodi¬ 
cals have fine theories, but tbe average farmer 
becomes disgusted in their perusal, from the 
fact that they are not practical—heuce they 
are but of little help. The ‘Eye Opener’ is 
worth the price of the paper to tbe dweller iu 
the country.” 
Robert Stalker, Crawford Co., Kans: 
Reading the Rural has been of great value 
to me in brightening me up. It certainly is 
the best paper for a general farmer I have 
ever seen. It gives out no uncertain sound, 
aud is always reliable. I hardly kuow what 
part of your paper 1 admire most. The illus¬ 
tration on Budding aud Grafting in the issue 
of Feb. 17, is worth to me more than the sub 
seription price of the paper: besides, there is 
yet in store for me an entire year of such 
varied information, particularly iuterestiug 
and beneficial, so that 1 consider 1 have struck 
something very rich in the Rural. Success 
to it, aud my earnest hope is that I may al¬ 
ways be permitted to have two dollars to pay 
for it. 
R C. C'randost, Hart Co., Ky: As the 
Rural has beeu corn mg to my house for the 
past two years, it now seems a member of the 
family, aud if it should stop coming regularly 
it would seem as if one of the family was 
away. I would not be without it now for 
#5 a year. 1 consider it oue of the cheapest 
farm journals published, considering the 
quulity of reading matter it contains, and the 
publisher’s work. I pronounce the Rural 
the boss of all the agricultural papers pub¬ 
lished. 
Mr. John Hurley, of Wetzel Co., W. Va. f 
says: 
“I have uow five volumes of the R. filed aud 
bound (home-bound) which cannot be bought 
of me for #20; uot oue number missing of the 
five volumes; for which you deserve credit for 
punctuality, and it speaks well for the mail de¬ 
livery also. Considering the vast store of 
practical aud common sense knowledge im¬ 
parted iu the columns of my five volumes on 
agriculture, horticulture, aud various other 
branches of culture, I can truly say that I 
have value received for my money.” 
ALL FREE TO SUBSCRIBERS!!! 
THE PUESEJYT 
Free Seed Distribution 
OF THE 
Seven Packets of Seeds—The Best of their kinds. 
Fifty different crosses of the best kinds of Indian Corn 
CARTER S STRATAGEM PEA, 
First tested by the R. N.-Y. The very best intermediate Pea in cultivation. Our 
seed is direct from the originator in England. 
SORGHUM HALAPEN8E. 
Found by tbe Rural to be hardy in its Experiment Grounds. As nutritious as Tim 
othy. It may be cut and still mature a large crop of seeds. The roots are 
stolomferous and fleshy. They take possession of the soil, aud are 
greatly relished by swine. 
It is the Johnson Grass of the South. It grows six feet high, and may then be cut to 
the ground for green food. The stumps will start at once, and attain a hight 
of six feet, and mature seeds before frost. 
THE KING HUMBERT TOMATO, 
Resembling a red pepper, and les3 acid than other kinds. 
THE PRINCE OF WALES PEA. 
A grand acquisition. The pods remain green longer than those of any other kind. 
A NEW VARIETY OF THE FLAGEOLET BEAN OF FRANCE. 
The Rural New-Yorker pays $25 per busbel for these beans. Richer than a Lima. 
Green when cooked. 
THE RURAL GARDEN TREASURES. 
A collection of the best sorts of flower seeds. Selected from the Rural Experiment 
Grounds, and imported from France and England. 
O UNTIE PACKET OF EACH 
of the above sent to all subscribers who apply. 
This Free Seed Distribution Closes May 1st. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Has through its celebrated Free Seed Distributions distributed many of the most val¬ 
uable plants, tubers and seeds now known. They are world-renowDed. The 
Beauty of Hebron, White Elephant and Rural Blush Potatoes were introduced 
by the Rural. The Cuthbert Raspberry, Rural Thoroughbred or Ensilage 
Corn; Blount's Prolific Coro; Clawson, Diehl-Mediterranean, De¬ 
fiance and Black-bearded Centennial Wheats; hundreds of flow¬ 
er aud shrub seeds, vegetable seeds, etc., have been dis¬ 
tributed all over the world by the Rural New-Yorker. 
Many new varieties originated at its Experiment Grounds are 
being propagated for the purpose of future distribution among its subscribers. 
The “RURAL” is a True Farm Journal. 
Its Editors and owners are practical aud successful farmers. By its experiments 
it has inaugurated a new era in farming. Its advocacy of level culture for 
corn and potatoes; of surface manuring and shallow culture has done 
great service to the farm interests of America. It has raised at the 
rate of 1,891K bushel ol potatoes to the acre, and has prepared 
a half acre of very poor soil to show, next season, how large a yield 
of potatoes can be produced by its trench method on large areas 
as well as on small plots. “All will be invited to the harvest.” 
Good Farmers; the Progressive Farmers of our 
Country can not afford to do without the 
RURAL. Subscribe NOW. 
Send for the Seed Supplement, which, with illustrations, explains all. It will be 
sent without charge to all applicants. 
