,300 IN STERLING PRESENTS, 
ONLY. 
A $500 JERSEY BULL, 
Son of Exile of St. Lambert, and carrying 37 I -2 per cent, of the blood of Mary Ann of St- Lambert, 
the famous 36-pound 12 1-2 ounce butter cow. 
A $200 BUGGY, WORTH THE MONEY. 
A -SlOO Short-horn Bull; a $100 Empire Grain Drill; a $90 Wind. Engine; a $90 Eureka M:>wer. Note this! a $67 Mystic Range and Furniture; a 365 Steam Generator 
and Cooker; a $60 Sewing Machine; made on a new principle, the best one made; a 360 Wilson Bros.’Farm Mill; a 360 Quaker City Mill; a $55 Excelsior Range; a 350 
Syracuse Sulky Plow; a 350 Fertilizer Spreader; a $50'Incubator, etc , etc., etc. 
This is no Broadway Toy Shop, but every present is of solid worth, and is to pay for doing good by extending the circulation of the Rural New-Yorker. 
A Cordial Invitation to all our Subscribers to Compete. 
EVERY GIFT ABSOLUTE, AND WILL GO TO SOIVZE ONE. 
THE PERSON SENDING THE LARGEST CLUB, IF IT BE ONLY A DOZEN, WILL RECEIVE THE BULL; THE SENDER OF THE NEXT LARGEST CLUB, THE SECOND 
PRESENT, AND SO ON TO THE END OF THE LIST. 
xuey are amines muse iaraiers nsea. 
These presents are precisely as represented. They are made by the be3L manufaciurers in the country. 
When, the contest is oven, our Subscribers may be surprised to see how small successful Clubs may prose 'to be, and will wish they had joined in tlte contest. 
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Should you strive for oue of these presents and tail, OUR REGULAR PREMIUM LIST will be AVAILABLE all the same, aud you cannot fail to secure good pay for your efforts. 
All Subscriptions sent before May 1st, for 18S6, will count upon these clubs. Ve will send the RURAL a full year for 32.00, and every Subscriber will be entitled, as mentione l 
elsewhere, to 
SAMPLE COPIES AND POSTERS ALWAYS GLADLY 
SENT TO AID IN THE GOOD WORK. 
Send the names and money as received, mentioning that they are for Clubs, aud we will keep an accurate record, and on May first will award the presents as they shall belong. 
The one sending the largest number, whether many or few, as we have said, shall have the magnificent first gift, and so of the next, and the next, through the whole list,~ 
we notifying each successful subscriber at once. Those persons competing must be actual subscribers and must secure the names sent, by actual canvLs, and not by 
advertising or by aid of sub-agents, it being the express understanding and wish of the donors, that the presents shall go to actual workers for their own use and 
not for sale; for this reason actual workers liave a capital ohauce to get ample pay f or little work. We don’t think a choicer or more valuable lot of gifts was 
ever beforo offered, and offered on such fair terms. 
THERE IS OXE OF THEM FOR YOU, WITH A FAIR EFFORT. 
Now, Fnencfs, shall we not all take hold and double the circulation of the best Farm and Home paper in the world? What say you? 
N. B. The various presents in this list 
can in no sense be considered premiums; 
♦hey are absolute gifts, and are intend¬ 
ed to pay for extending the circulation of 
the Rural by good hard work. They 
will go only to actual subscribers, for sub¬ 
scriptions taken by themselves individual¬ 
ly, and not by sub agents, or by adver¬ 
tising outside of their respective counties. 
Regular agents will be provided for in 
our very liberal Premium List, issued and 
sent free to all applicants. Any subscri¬ 
ber can engage in the good work. Old 
or new subscribers count, and may be 
from different post-offices. Send the sub¬ 
scription with the cxa«t amount ($2.00) for 
each subscriber as last as taken. When 
subscribers want the seeds, say 3 o dis¬ 
tinctly, sending two cents for each sub¬ 
scribe; or the subscribers may apply for 
themselves. Please mention with each 
letter that the names included are for the 
Gift Distribution. This will enable us 
to keep a correct record. Send the 
money by draft, express, or postal money 
order, always payable to the Rural Nkw- 
Yokkeb, or the money may be sent in 
postal notes, obtaining more than one 
when the sum is over $5.00, as they arc 
not issued for sums exceeding 31 99. 
Toe gifts will be awarded May 1st, and 
will in all cases be packed aud delivered 
free, to the freight or express office in the 
town where manufactured, or where men¬ 
tioned in connection with the description, 
and the recipient will in all cases pay the 
freight or express charges. Now, friends, 
roll off your coats and 
SEND ON YOUR NAMES! 
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PRESENTS. 
No. 1. 
A $500 JERSEY BULL. 
A Hon ol Kxiln of Hr. I.ninb’-rt mid fon- 
laiiilutf 50 per ceut of Hi. Lumber! HI»od. 
That the Jersey is the Queeu of butter malt 
ers we have never doubted. That the infusion 
of Jersey blood, if from the best butter famil¬ 
ies, would greatly increase the value of u duiry 
herd, by increasing the yield, giving finer 
flavor and higher color to the butter, we have 
always believed aud taught. What the Ru¬ 
ral has ridiculed, and did more perhaps than 
any other paper to break up, was the senseless 
boom which caused every animal bearing the 
tiatne of Jersey to sell for an extravagant 
price; ofteu covering more hundreds, than 
the animal was worth dollars, and which boom 
every true friend must concede has done much 
to bring Jerseys into disrepute. We are glad 
of the change tnat has come about, and that 
hereafter Jerseys, like other breeds, wilt be 
valued according to their true worth,measur¬ 
ed by their production, and their power of 
transmitting this fco their offspring So Iona- 
as the butter qualities are maintained, we are 
glad to see them bred for more size, because, 
with American fanners, other things being 
in proportion,the larger animals are, the more- 
valuable they are. 
The fame of every breed, and the Jersey is 
no exceptiou. has resulted from the perform¬ 
ance of a few families of superior merit. And 
our opportunity lies in taking advantage of the 
potency of those families by a combina¬ 
tion of the good qualities of each through the 
wise mingling of their blood, and the intro¬ 
duction of this into our herds. 
In the St. Lambert family, which stands at 
the head of all Jerseys, we have the result 
of the mixture of the blood of such famous 
animals as Rioter, Victor Hugo, Lord Lisgar, 
Stoke Pogis, Stoke Pogis 3d, Pauliue and oth¬ 
ers which have developed most remarkable 
butter qualities. As an instance of the po¬ 
tency of certain of these animals: of the 29 
living daughters of Stoke Pogis 8d, 2283; 22 
have made, in seven days, over 14 pouuds 
of butter each: 12 have made over 17 
pouuds, six over 20 pounds, three over 25 
pounds, and the wonderful Mary Aim of St. 
Lambert has a record of SO pounds 12'.j 
ounces. Exile of St.Lambert, whose liketiess 
we recently gave, is remarkably rich in the 
bWxl of great butler makers. He carries 
87^pereentof the blood of IdaofSt. L..with a 
record of 80 pounds 2'* ounces. 75 per cent of 
that of Mary Ann of St. L.; 68*^ per cent of 
the blood of Mermaid of St. L . with a record 
of 25 pounds 13'^ ounces; 75 per oent of that 
of Nuiad cf St. L., with a record of 
22 pouuds 2 ounces; 87}* per cent of 
the blood of Niobe of St. L , with a record 
of 21 pounds 9# ounces, and 75 per cent of 
tbatof Houeyiuoou of St. L., with a record 
of 20 pounds ounces in seven days. He is 
full brother to Nell ot St. L., which gave 45 
pounds of very rich milk per day at two 
years; also of Fawn of 8t. L., which gave 40 
pounds of milk per day. 
Exile of St. Lambert is owned by A. D. 
McBride and P. J. Cogswell, of Rochester. 
New York, who bought him in Canada when 
a calf for the sung sum of $3,000, but have 
since refused $5,000 for him, and would not 
part with him at any price, as by his use upon 
their own herd, aud by service fees from 
others he is paying a very satisfactory income. 
They have in their herd 40 cows, among which I 
is the blood of Coomassie, Welcome, St. 
Helier 45, Alphea, Jersey Belie of Scituate,and 
of Victor Hugo and Stoke Pogis 3d. One of 
their cows, old Cassey, nine years old, last 
Summer on grass alone gave 42 pouuds of 
milk per day, and made 20 pounds 10 '^ ounces 
of butter per week for three weeks in succes¬ 
sion. Exile of St. Lambert is two years old 
past, is the sire of 34 calves, of which 32 are 
solid color and 25 are heifers: all show a 
great development of udder, and fine escutch¬ 
eons. 
The ambition of Messrs. McBride & 
Cogswell is not so much in color or number as 
it is to breed size and great average butter 
yielders. They have in view a herd of ten 
cows that shall average 14 pounds of butter 
per week for the whole Summer without any 
of this forcing process. 
These gentlemen will donate to the Rural 
No. *2. A Brewster Cro»s-HprIng, Hide-bar, 
Leather-top \Va.*on. 
Manufactured by the Columbus Buggy Co. 
The Columbus Buggy Compauy of Colum¬ 
bus. Ohio, have, by many years-of honorable 
dealing, established a very enviable reputation. 
By refusing from the first to make any low- 
priced, cheap work, and always striving to 
see how good a wagon they could make, they 
have come to be known far aud wide as the 
I makers of the beet buggies, phaetons, surreys 
and carriages that can bo found. Their ve¬ 
hicles are throughout ot the best quality aud 
latest styles, and though not the lowest priced, 
are by far the cheapest when the quality is 
taken into consideration. They now manu¬ 
facture their own wheels, and in them use the 
bast second-growth hickory that can be fouud 
ou the Hickory-covered hills of Southern Ohio, 
to be usi-d as u premium, a bull calf, son of the 
Exile of St. Lambert, to be kept by them until 
of safe age to ship, and then properly crated 
and delivered at any R. R. or express office in 
Rochester, N. Y. Of course, '.t cannot now he 
told which of their cows will drop male calves, 
but we are assured by Messrs McBride & Cogs¬ 
well thatit shall be from a Registered cow and 
of 9ome superior strain, and thev would feel 
offended if offered less than foOO.OO for one no 
better. 
We have been often urged by our friends to 
put a Jersey bull among the presents offered, 
and we are now extremely happy to head our 
list with this magnificent autuial. We will 
give it to tho subscriber, or the Agricultural 
Society sending us the largest list of subscrib¬ 
ers previous to the first day of May It does 
seem as if here is au opportunity for some oue 
or some community to secure a sire that will 
add thousands of dollars to the value of the 
cows in their vicinity. 
famous everywhere as the second-growth 
hickory district After being sawed, the 
spokes are carefully selected and then thor¬ 
oughly air-seasoned. The entire gearing is 
also made of the best second-growth hickory. 
Toe bodies are made of ash and yellow pop¬ 
lar, thoroughly air seasoned, and every joint 
is screwed and glued. The corners arelapoed 
instead of mitered, which makes it impossible 
for the corners to open. The iron work is as 
good as can be mails. The axles are of the 
best steel, half patent, fau tailed. The springs 
uru oil-tempered and by the best makers 
The tires are steel, aul all other iron work is 
of -N or way irou. The dash is made of the best 
leather. With facilities and machinery un¬ 
surpassed, and with ample capital, they make 
only buggies and light carriage*; and by thus 
couoeutratmg their efforts u;-on one class of 
work, and by thorough system in business, 
and employing the best of skilled workmen, 
aud by the greatest care in the selection of 
