THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
387 
■fi&igcellaiteous 
RURAL PREMIUMS AWARDED. 
According to announcement, the contest 
for our 321 free gifts closed on May 15. Though 
many names were sent after May 1, in no case 
was the relative 6tauding of any contestant 
changed. As we expected, and stated in the 
Supplement of November 8, 1884, the presents 
go for very small clubs, and the recipients 
cannot help being themselves greatly surpris¬ 
ed that they have secured such valuable pre¬ 
sents for so few subscribers and such little 
effort. Very many good friends have done 
▼alliant work and sent us finalist* of subscrib¬ 
ers, for which they refuse all compensation, 
doing what they have done out of pure love 
to the Rural, and a desire to extend its use¬ 
fulness. Many others, as compensation for 
their efforts made in obtaining subscribers, 
have selected premiums from our regular list, 
thus, as the result shows, receiving much less 
for their work than though they bad competed 
for the gifts. Only 74 have competed for the 
presents, and these are entitled to them as 
appears in the subjoined list. We purposely 
withhold the Post Cilice addresses to prevent 
tb6ir being annoyed by all sorts of schemars. 
Should any prefer any other gift to those to 
which they appear entitled, if they will so 
notify us at once, we will put them in com¬ 
munication with the person entitled to the 
present desired, to the and that if possible an 
exchange may be effected. Those entitled to 
the presents should at ouca sand us full and 
explicit directions for the shipment of their 
awards, telling us how to send them, whether 
by freight or express, the line of transporta¬ 
tion, their nearest freight office, etc., and we 
will order the gifts sent according to direc¬ 
tions. 
These presents are in all respects first-class, 
the best specimens of the articles made by the 
very responsible houses that so generously 
donated them, and while we should have 
gladly seen them bring us 10 times as many 
subscribers, we are uot disappointed, and can 
only congratulate the successful competitors 
on the good fortune that has rewarded 
them. 
Now that our readers realize that few 
names have secured the gifts, and that we 
send just what we offer, we shall expect much 
more from a greatly increased list of presents 
which we hope to offer next Fall. 
Our friends may keep right on, never miss¬ 
ing an opportunity of obtaining a subscriber, 
and all names sent in, from the date (May 15) 
of the award, will be counted in making the 
next distribution. We cannot refrain from 
sincerely thanking all who have so nobly stood 
by us, and, in spite of the very bard times, 
have enabled us to say truthfully that the 
Rural subscription list is now larger than 
ever before. 
By Wh*m Manufactured. 
To Whom Given. 
Resi¬ 
dence. 
Walter A. Wood Self Twine binding Reaper, 
Farm Feed Mill.. 
Champion Wind Mill,. 
The Crown Mower. 
Leffell’s Improved Iron Wind Engine, . 
Studebaker Farm Wagon,. 
Charter Oak Range. 
Mound City Feed Mill, No. 7,. 
The Gilpin Sulky Plow,. 
Syracuse Sulky Plow,. 
Zimmerman Fruit Drier, ...... 
Nonpareil Feed Mill,. 
Acme Riding Cultivator. 
The Albion Soring Tooth Sulky Harrow, Cultivator 
The Wilder Plow Sulky. 
Wheeler ft Melick Co.’s Two horse Riding Cultivate 
Stevens’ New Breech-loading rifle, No. 5, 
Victor One-horse Five-hoed Drill, .... 
The Racine Fanning Mill,. 
The Bradley Solf-Dumping Sulky Horse Rake, 
Farmers’ Friend Coru Drill with Fertilizer Attachn 
Albion Sulky Hay Rake, ...... 
The Thomas Hay' Rake,. 
American Farm Scales. 
Cooley Cabinet Creamer, No. 1, 
Hoosier One horse Drill,. 
Swiss Feed Cutter,. 
Pair Duroo Jersey Pigs,. 
Fowler’s Hay' Carrier and Fork, .... 
Farmer’s Farorite Cider Mill. 
The Scientific Forge, and a Combined Anvil and Vi 
Scotch Colley Dog,. 
Syracuse Chilled Plow,. 
F. Wilson’s Pateut Bone Mill, ..... 
Columbus Hay Tool Co’s Fork and Carrier, . 
The R B, Corn 8boiler. 
The “Matchless” Scraper,. 
Hussey’s Coulter Harcow,. 
A Good Single Harness,. 
(Hark Root Cutter. 
Niue Smith’s Adjustable Stanchions, 
Hussey’s Centennial Horse Hoe, .... 
Matthews’ New Reed Drill,. 
Clark’s Hay Carrier.. 
New York Seed Drill, .. 
Stricklor Hay Carrier,. 
Three Mscomber's Corn Planters, .... 
Three Macomber’s Corn Planters. 
Three Macouiber’s Corn Planters, .... 
Three Mucotnber’s Corn Planters. 
Three Macomber’s Corn Planters, .... 
Three Macomber’s Corn Planters, .... 
Three Macombor’s Corn Planters. 
Three Macomber’s Corn Planters, .... 
Three Maoomher’s Corn Planters, .... 
Three Macomber’s Corn Planters. 
Three Macotuber’s Com Plautors. 
Three Macomber’s Com Planters, .... 
Three Maoomher’s Corn Planters, .... 
Excelsior < trass Seeder. 
Garden Seeds. 810 worth to be selected from thei; 
logue by the person entitled to receive them, b 
and delivered to the Express Co. free, 
Grupe-vines and Small Fruit Blunts Worth 810, . 
Genuine Welcome Out*, bug containing 2}£ bushels. 
Six Smith’s Adjustable Stanchions, 
Heges’ Diagonal Light Feed Cutter, 
No. 3 Rectangular Chum, . , 
"v>, Square I !n\ f 1mm,. 
Two Macomber’s Coni Planters, .... 
Two Macomber’s Corn Planters, .... 
Two Macomber’s Com Planters, .... 
Two Macomber's Coru Planters. 
Two Maco t bar's Com Planters, . 
Two Macomber’s Corn Planters. 
iir 1885 cata- 
to be packed 
. Price 810. 
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10 50 
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The Walter A. Wood Mowing and Reaping Machine Co., of Hoosic Falls, N. Y. 
The Nordyke & Marmon Co.. Indianapolis, Ind.,. 
Powell & Douglas, Waukegan, Ill.,. 
The Janesville Machine Co., Janesville, Wis. 
The Springfield Machine Co,, Springfield, Ohio.,. 
The Studebaker Brothers’ Manufacturing Co.. South Bend, Ind., . 
The Excelsior Manufacturing Co., St. Louis, Mo.,. 
J. A. Field & Co.. St. Louis. Mo., .. 
Deere ft Co„ Moline. HI.,. 
The Syracuse Chilled Plow Co., Syracuse, N. Y.,. 
The Zimmerman Manufacturing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio,. 
L. J. Miller, Cincinnati, Ohio, .. 
The Wilder Manufacturing Co., Monroe, Mich. 
The Albion Manufacturing Co., of Albion. Mich.,. 
The Wilder Manufacturing Co., Monroe. Mich. 
Tbo Wheeler ft Melick Co., Albany. N. Y.,. 
J. Stevens ft Co , Chicopee Falls, Mass., . 
Kwald Over, Indianapolis, Ind.,. 
Johnson & Field, Racine, Wis. 
Bradley & Co,. Syracuse, N. Y.,. 
The Farmers’Friend Manufacturing Co.. Dayton, Ohio, .... 
The Albion Manufacturing Co , Albion, Mich.,. 
J H. Thomas & Sons, Springfield, Ohio,. 
The American Farm Scale Co.. Chicago, Ill... 
The Vermont Farm Machine Co.. Bellows Falls, Vt.,. 
The Hoosier Drill Company, Richmond, Ind,. 
The Wilder Manufacturing Co.. Monroe. Mich.,. 
W. Atlee Burpee <fc Co.. Philadelphia. Pa.,. 
Fowler & Woodworth. Taughannook Falls. N. Y.,. 
The liigganum Mauufactiiring Corporation, Higganum, Conn., . 
The Foos Manufacturing Co , Springfield, Ohio,. 
W, Atlee Burpee ft Co.. Philadelphia, Pa. 
The Syracuse Chilled Plow Co,, Syracuse, N. Y.,. 
Wilson Bros., Easton, Pa., . . .. 
The Columbus Hay Tool Co., Columbus, Ohio.. 
The Higganum Manufacturing Corporation, Higganum, Conn., . 
S. Pennoek & Son's Co , Keunett Square, Pa., . . . . . 
T. B. Hussey, North Berwick, Me., . . .. 
King & Co , Owego, N. Y. f .. 
The Higgauum Manufacturing Corporation, Higganum, Conn., . 
Brooks & Parsons, Add'son, N. Y.,. 
T. B Hussey, North Berwick, Me ,. 
Small it Matthews, 21 South Market Street, BostOD, Mass., .... 
W, I. Scott, Bridgewater, N. Y... 
The Higganum Manufacturing Corporation, Higganum, Conn , . 
The Janesville Hay Tool Co , Janesville, Wis.,. 
S. M. Maeomber & Co , Grand Isle, Vt,. 
8. M. Maeomber & Co., Grand Isle, Vt.,. 
S. M. Maeomber & Co , Grand Isle, Vt.,. 
S. M. Maeomber & Co., Grand Isle. Vt.,. 
S. M. Maeomber ft Co , Grand Isle, Vt.. 
8. M. Maeomber ft Co., Grand Isle, Vt.,. 
8. M. Maeomber & Co. t Grand Isle, Vt.,. 
S. M. Maeomber & Co., Grand Isle, Vt.,. 
S. M. Maeomber ft Co,, Qrand Isle, Vt.,. 
S. M. Maeomber & Co , Grand Isle, Vt.,. 
S. M. Maeomber & Co., Grand Isle, Vt.,. 
S. M. Maeomber <fc Co., Grand Isle, Vt., . .. 
S. M. Maeomber & Co., Grand Isle, Vt.,. 
W. J. Spalding, Lockport, N, Y.,. 
Conn., 
Conn., 
Conn , 
W. Atlee, Burpee & Co , Philadelphia, Pa., 
Joel Horuer & Sons, Merchantsville, N J., 
W. Atlee, Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 
Brooks ft Parsons, Addison, N. Y., . 
The Salem Iron Works, Salem, N. C., 
Cornish, Curtis <fc Greene, Fort Atkinson, Wis., 
Cornish, Curtis & Greene. Fort Atkinson, Wis , 
S. M. Maeomber & Co., Grand Isle, Vt, . 
,S. M. Maeomber it Co.. Grand Isle, Vt, . 
S. M. Maeomber & Co, Grand Isle, Vt., . 
8. M. Maeomber & Co., Grand Isle, Vt., . 
8. M. Maeomber & Co., Grund Isle, Vt., . 
S. M Maeomber & Co., Grand Isle, Vt, . 
W. S. Moore, . N. Y. 
A Good Friend, . N. Y. 
P. Miller, . . N.Y. 
Mrs F. D. Perkins, N.Y. 
E.F. Stroud, . Pa. - 
Jon. Miller, . N.Y. 
Jos. Morris, . Mich. 
J. H, Knapp, . N.Y. 
J. S. Eastmond, . N. J. 
Edmund Potter, . N. Y. 
Aug. Begerow, . Ont. 
Syl. Lehman, . N.Y. 
Rufus Smith, . N.J.' 
A. C Sabin, . Iowa. 
S A. Smith, . Kan. 
J.P. Boss, . N.Y. 
W. H, Soim. . Pa. 
E. A. Andrews, . Va. 
Theo. Bond, . N.Y. 
Mrs. J. E. Mathews, Ill. 
Jos. Bomberger, . Pa. 
Jas. Hornes, . Ont. 
J. H. Woodburn, N.Y. 
J. A Somerville, Dak. 
N. W. Lightner,. Ohio. 
R. S. Post, . . N. Y. 
J.E. Terry, . N.Y. 
W. G. Van Eps, . N.Y. 
W. G. Gregory, . Pa. 
W. H. Herbert, . Mich. 
Eli Johnson. . N.Y. 
D. R. Marvin, . N. Y. 
J. S. Wilcox, . R. I. 
T.A.Peffer, . Ind. 
W. W. Orr, . Ind. 
Sami. Arcbbold, Md. 
H.Beythan, . Mich. 
G.T. Breed, . N.Y. 
Mrs. F. Chase, . Pa. 
C. W. Phillips, . N. Y. 
F. Sanders, . . N.Y. 
R. Saltsman. . N. Y. 
C. A. Radford, , Kan. 
F. C. Weatherby, Ohio. 
P. Wadley, . . Pa. 
J. S. Fisher, . Mo. 
B. P. Greenleaf, . Del. 
G. H. Gilbert, . Ohio. 
W. H. Heyward, Pa. 
W. A. Jones, . Ohio. 
BrKlock. . . N.Y. 
J.D. Miller, . N.Y. 
Walter Powell . N. Y. 
Chas. Bennington, N.Y. 
T. K. Byrne, . N.Y. 
Robt. Chambers, Oreg. 
G. D. Cady, . Pa. 
H. W. Davis, . Mich. 
H. German, . Ohio. 
L. M. Hope, . N.J. 
Ill. 
Frank Miller, 
J. C. Levy, . . W.Va 
W.B. Kelley, . Va. 
W. E. Merchant, N.Y. 
J. F. Jones, . W.Va 
E. B. Miller, . Minn. 
E. P. Myers, . Mo. 
R. G. Smith, . Ore. 
F. Wallace, . . Pa. 
S. Weatberlow, . N.Y. 
G. Turner, . . N.Y. 
G. W. Wolford, . Va. 
A. J. Haughton, IU. 
Stttrusl’l Societies. 
HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION 
OF AMERICA. 
(RURAL EDITORIAL REPORT.) 
Pursuant to call, the Holstein Breeders’ 
and the Dutch Friesian Herd Book Associations 
met in separata conventions at the Genesee 
House. Buffalo, N. Y,, on Tuesday May 26th, 
1885, to consider and act upon the reports of 
committees which had been appointed by each 
to confer, and, if possible, to agree upon a 
satisfactory basis of union. 
After organization and a call of the roll, 
both listened to a report which had been 
made bv the Committees acting jointly, and 
upon which they had agreed as & satisfactory 
basis on which the members of each would lie 
willing to disband the old organizations and 
unite in the formation of a new association that 
should include all breeders of Holland cattle 
in this country. The basis of the report was, 
substantially,that the new organization should 
be called the Holstein-Friesian Association of 
America; that it should be composed of the 
breeders.of Holland cuttle in North America; 
that on the perfection of its organization and 
election of officers, the old_ associations should 
each turn over to the secretary aud treasurer of 
the new,all money, books, papers and property 
of every name, aud disband; that all members 
in good standing in either existing association 
should be constituted members of the new 
oue; that the offspriug of all animals now re¬ 
corded in either the Holstein or Duteh-Frie- 
si m Herd Book should be eligible to registry 
in the Holstein Friesian Herd Book; that the 
principles in the existing charters, or in the 
rules of the two associations that aie essential¬ 
ly alike shall be incorporated in the new, and 
that where there was a material difference, 
the matter should be left for settlement to the 
Committee on Legislation; that the officers of 
the Holstein-Friesian Association should be a 
President, four vice Presidents, a Secretary 
and Editor, a Treasurer aud six directors, aud 
that the uew association should establish a 
system of advanced registration in a separate 
book provided for that purpose, iu which an¬ 
imals coming up to a certain standard to l>e 
established, may be recorded with a certificate 
of their performances. 
The fee of membership in the new associa¬ 
tion was tixed at 8100; the fee for registry of 
imported animals was fixed at $20, and no 
animal is to lie registered until inspected by 
inspectors to be appointed by the Association, 
and the fee for inspection was placed at $5 for 
each animal. 
After careful consideration and considerable 
good-natured discussion, the report was heart¬ 
ily approved, aud each association adjourned 
to meet at 2 o’clock p.m, in joint convention. 
The joint Committee, to facilitate a union and 
to suvo time, had procured from the State of 
New York, by special Act of the Legislature, 
a charter for the Holsteiu-Friesian Association 
of America, embodying the points of the mu¬ 
tual agreement. 
At 2.30 p. M. the members of both associa¬ 
tions met in joint convention to the number 
of about 100—a wide-awake, intelligent, and 
thoroughly earnest body of men. The meet¬ 
ing was called to order by Mr. T G. Yeoinaus, 
the President of the Holsteiu Breeders’ Asso¬ 
ciation, and on motion Dr. F. W. Patterson, 
of Baltimore, Md., was elected temporary 
chairman, and Messrs. T. B. Wales and S. 
Hoxie were made secretaries. The following 
permanent officers were then elected: Presi¬ 
dent—T. G Yeomans, Walworth, N. Y.; 1st 
Vice President—F. W. Patterson, Baltimore, 
Md.; 2d Vice President—W. M. gingerly, 
Philadelphia, Pa.; 3d Vie© President—G F. 
Jackson, Minneapolis, Mina.: 4th Vice Presi¬ 
dent—F. C. Stevens, Attica, N. Y.; Seo’y and 
Ed ot U. B.—T. B. Wales, of Iowa City, la.; 
Treasurer—W. C. Brayton, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Directors for two years—Gerrit S. Miller, 
Peterboro, N. Y.; C. W. Horr, Wellington, 
Ohio; C R. Payne, Hamilton, N. Y. Direc¬ 
tors for one year—Wing R. Smith, Syracuse, 
N.Y.; W. G. Powell, Springboro, Pa.; E. 
M. Washburn, Lenox Furnace, Mass. 
This completed the organization of the Hol¬ 
stein Friesian Association of America, and by 
provision of the charter, terminated the ex¬ 
istence of the rival associations. Dr. Patterson 
announced the death of the Holstein and 
Dutch Friesian Associations and said that in 
dyiug they bad given birth to one united, 
brotherly association, haviug the combined 
strength of both the others, and he predicted 
for it such a future as should be an honor to 
all members. The balance of the session will 
be devoted to the establishment of by-laws 
and rules for the government of the new as¬ 
sociation. Thus causes to exist the Holstein 
Breeders’ Association, which was organized 
in 1S7L, and hail at its demise a membership 
of over 200; and also the Dutch-Friesian 
Herd Book Association, which was organized 
in 1877, aud had a membership of about 80. 
Altogether, the meeting was very harmoni¬ 
ous and actuated by a spirit of extreme gen¬ 
erosity und a strong desire to see all breeders 
of Holland cattle united in one body, and we 
congratulate the Holstein-Friesiau Associa¬ 
tion upon its happy organization, its splendid 
membership and the bright future before it. 
Having shown such abundance of good_sense 
