SUPPLEMENT TO THE RURAL M£W-YORK£R. 
BOO K. 3? B E 3Vt X XT 3VE S 
In literature, as in everything else, we seek 
to give our friends the latest and best that 
can be obtained. We have, therefore, select¬ 
ed from the catalogues of our leading pub¬ 
lishers the latest and most desirable books. 
Remember, they are not cheap reprints by ob 
soure publishers, but the newest and best 
books by the most popular authors from the 
leading publishers. If you want any of the 
following books, get the requisite number of 
subscribers, or send direct to the publishers 
or their agents. 
Nature's Serial Story, By Edward P Roe, 
Mr. Roe is, in many respects, the most popu¬ 
lar of our American authors, He describes 
Nature with a loving hand, and from the most 
intimate familiarity with her moods. The il 
lustrations are full of the charm of out door 
life and are exquisitely rendered.. . . Though 
thestory is but a thread on which to hang the 
delightful uature-lore of the author, it is yet 
E ure, sweet, delicate and artistic. It is a most 
eautiful parlor ornament. Our young lady 
readers ought not to miss this opportunity of 
getting the book. Price $5.00. Given for 10 
subscribers. 
Flcmie Studies in Nature. By Mary Treat. 
Mrs. Treat is a delightful writer.. . . She is 
essentially thorough in all that she undertakes, 
and love of nature amounts with her to a pas¬ 
sion. . .. The book is profusely and beauti 
fully illustrated, and ought to find a place in 
every home. Price $1.50. Given for three 
subscribers. 
Wallace's Ben Hur. Beu Hur. A Tale of the 
Christ. By Lew. Wallace. 
It is really Scripture history of Christ’s 
time, clothed gracefully aud delicately in the 
flowing and loose drapery of modern fiction. 
. . . Pew late works of fiction excel it in gen¬ 
uine ability and interest It is having an en¬ 
ormous sale. Price $1 50. Given for three 
subscribers. 
American Political Ideas, Viewed from the 
Standpoint of Universal History. By John 
Fiske. 
These essays belong to a class of thoughtful 
literature with which young Americans should 
be familiar, but, unfortunateiy, are not. 
Price $1. Given for two subscribers. 
Boots and Saddles: Life in Dakota with 
General Custer. By Mrs. Elizabeth B. Cus¬ 
ter. 
The book is breezy with the open air. and 
cheery with horse and hound. Price $1.50. 
Given for three subscribers. 
The above books are published by Harper 
Bros., New York. 
Uncle Toni's Cabin; or. Life among the Low¬ 
ly. A story of Slavery. By Harriet Beech¬ 
er Stowe. 
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin ” should never be per¬ 
mitted to go out of print. A copy of it 
should be kept in every family library, that 
succeeding generations of American children 
may read it, and weep over Uncle Tom as 
their mothers and grandmothers wept; yes, 
and their fathers, too. Our younger readers 
who have heard of, but never read this re 
markable book, and older readers who have 
read it and would like to read it again, will 
thank us for putting it in their way. Price 
$1, Given for two subscribers. 
Fruit Culture, and the laying out and man¬ 
agement of a country home. By W. C. 
Strong. 
A book devoted to the culture and propa¬ 
gation of the various fruits. It is a con¬ 
densed, simple band-book, which the author 
has made so plain that any cultivator of or¬ 
dinary intelligence may find it a guide. Price 
$1. Given for two subscribers. 
Bailey's 7'alks Afield. 
This little volume was written as the author 
says, for those who desire a concise and pop¬ 
ular account of some of the leading external 
features of common plants. The author has 
the true love for the beautiful in nature, and 
he has succeeded admirably in transferring 
his enthusiasm to paper. Price $1. Given 
for two subscribers. 
Published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. 
How to Paint. A complete Compendium 
of the Art. 
This is just the work needed by every per¬ 
son, who has anything to paint. It is very 
complete, and will make “every man his own 
painter.” Price $1 Given for two subscrib¬ 
ers. 
For Mothers and Daughters. A manual of 
Hygiene for Women aud the Household. 
Price $1.50. Given for th^ee subscribers. 
The Man Wonderful in the House Beautiful. 
An Allegory. Teaching the Principles of 
Physiology and Hygiene, and the effects of 
Stimulants and Narcotics. 
Price $1 50. Given for three subscribers. 
The above books are supplied to us by 
Fowler & Welts, 753 Broadway. New York. 
The American Boy's Handy Book : 
Or What to Do and How to Dj It. 
A new edition just published at $8, will be 
given for five subscribers. Charles Scrib¬ 
ner’s Sons, Publishers, 743 and 746 Broadway, 
New York. 
Low Cost Houses. 
Including Designs, with plans, etc. 
Price $1. Given for two subscribers. Pub¬ 
lished by W. J. Comstock, 6 Astor Place, N. Y. 
Comforting Thoughts. For those in bereave¬ 
ment, illness anl adversity. Selected from 
Printed Sermons, Funeral Addresses, aad 
Praverg of Henry Ward Beecher. Com¬ 
piled by Irene H. Qvington. 
“Mr. Beecher’s life has been largely devoted 
to lightening the burdens of his fellow men, 
and this judicious compilation of his words 
contains more comfort, more true, practical 
religion, tbanacaso full of boobs on theology.” 
Price 75 cents. Given for two subscribers. 
Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extem¬ 
poraneous Discourses of Henry Ward 
Beecher. By one of his congregation (Edua 
Dean Proctor). Thirty eighth Thousand. 
New Edition. 300 pp., 12 mo. Laid paper; 
attractive binding. 
Price $1.25. Given for three subscribers. 
Published by Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 27 
Park Place, New York. 
Rev. E. P. Roe's Works: Barriers Burned 
Away. The Opening of a Chestnut Burr. 
From Jest to Earnest. A Face Illumined. 
A Young Girl’s Wooing. An Original 
Belle. Driven Back to Eden 
These volumes have bad an enormous sale. 
25,000 copies of “An Original Bell*” were is¬ 
sued in the firet edition. Price $1 50 each. 
Given for four subscribers. 
The Rose, By H. B. Ellwanger. 
This is a beautiful little work of the greatest 
interest to every rose grower, either amateur 
or professional. Price $1 25. Given for three 
subscribers. 
Dodd, Mead & Co., publishers, 753 Broad¬ 
way, New York city. 
Successful Men of To-day and What They Say 
of Siicoms Based on Facts and opinions 
gathered from Five Hundred Prominent 
Men By Rev Wilbur F. Crafts. Price, 
$1 Given for three subscribers. 
Highways of Literature-, or, What to Read 
aad How to Read. 
The hints on the best books aud the best 
method of mastering them are valuable, and 
likely to prove of great practical use. Price 
75 cents. Given for two subscribers 
Talks to Fanners. By Rev. C. H. Spurgeon. 
12mo., 300 pp., cloth $ 1 00. Given for three 
subscribers. 
The above books are published hy Funk & 
Wagnails, 10 & 12 Dey Street, New York. 
Iu ordering book premiums write out the 
title and name of the publisher in full. If 
the books are to be sent by mail, postage at 
the rate of seveu cents, for each dollar’s worth 
of books, must accompany the order. 
RURAL 
COMBINATIONS 
NEW-YORKER 
FOR 1885 AND ’86. 
Wbat You Can Get 
By sending new subscribers. 
List 1.—Any present subscriber who will 
send us one new one may select any one of the 
following: 12 plants of the Marlboro Rasp¬ 
berry, or 12 plants of Rancocas Raspberry, or 
six plants of Golden Queen Raspberry, or 
eight plantsof the Jewell Strawberry, or three 
plants of the Earhart Everbearing Black-cap 
Raspberry, or one Poughkeepsie Red, or one 
Ulster Prolific Grape Vine, or a combination 
saw set, or a beautiful silver-plated butter 
knife, or eith< r “Needle Work” or “Knitting 
a ud Crochet,” by Jenny June, or any book of 
the “One Syllable Series.’’ 
2. Any one sending two new subscribers) 
may select any two of the above, or a Niagara 
White Grape Viue, or a Louderback’s com¬ 
bination tool, or a needle hay knife, or a pearl 
rug maker, or adust-pan, or a pair of shears, or 
a kuife, or a shot flask, or a watch charm, or 
a harmonica, or a Premium Drill, or “Stop 
Thief" Scale, or a farm bell, or any one of the 
following bookB: American Political Ideas, 
Uncle Tom’s Cabin,Fruit Culture,Talk9 Afield, 
How to Paint, Low Cost Houses, Comforting 
Thoughts, Highways of Literature. Boys’ Use¬ 
ful Pastimes, What Girls Can Do; Simple 
Ailments of Horses, Trajan. 
3. Any one sending three may select any 
three of the things in No. 1, or one of No. 2, 
and one of No. 1, or an Enterprise Meat Chop¬ 
per No. 10, or two knives, ora knife and pair of 
shears, or a pruning knife, or a pair of 
folding scissors, or a pruning saw, ora Wilson 
Whiffletree, or any one of the following books: 
Home Studies in Nature, Wallace’s Ben Hur, 
Boots and Saddles, The Man Wouderful, 
Beecher's Life Thoughts, The Rose, Successful 
Men, Talks to Farmers. 
4 The subscriber sending four may select 
auy four of the things mentioned in the first 
list, or two of the sscond. or one of the third 
and one of the first, or he may have a No 2 
Ideal Fountain Pen and Holder, with filler 
and case; warranted to fit his hand aud please 
him, or a No. 22 Enterprise Meat Chopper, 
or an Emerson Cross-cut Saw, or any of 
E P Roe’s Works, or a Farm Bell worth $5. 
or a Wheeden Toy Engine. 
Five subscribers will entitle the sender to a 
Cole Plow, or a Small Calf-feeder, or a Key 
gtone washer, or a sirup pitcher, or a half doz 
en teaspoons or forks, or a game bag. 
5. Six new subscribers will entitle the send¬ 
er to select from any of the foregoing lists as 
he pleases, aggregating six. or be may have 
the Field Force Pump, $6, and worth to any 
fruit grower or householder, twice the money, 
or an accordeon, or a perfect milk pail, or 
Keystone Wringer. 
Eight subscribers entitle the sender to a 
Shepherd Lawn Tennis Racket or a violin 
with bow and case complete,or an Eclipse Post- 
Hole Digger. 
Ten subscribers will entitle the sender to 
Nature’s Serial Story by E. P. Roe, or a com¬ 
bined anvil and vise, or an accordeon. 
Twelve subscribers will entitle the sender to 
a Lewis Force Pump, or a Universal Scale. 
Thirty two subscribers will entitle the send¬ 
er to a Sun Type-writer. 
6 Forty subscribers entitle the sender to a 
No. 4 Avery Sewing Machine (see premium 
list), delivered freight paid. 
7. Fifty sibscribeis entitle the sender to a 
Syracuse Sulkv Plow complete, with extras, 
and freight paid if not amounting to over 
$2.50. 
8. Fifty-seven entitle to a $57 Mystic Range 
« Eighty subscribers will entitle the sender to 
aLadyVGold Chatelaine Watch or a Pieper 
breech-loading shot gun, or a Bradley Mower. 
REMEMBER! 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
clubs with ihe WEEKLY IN¬ 
TER-OCEAN, including our 
Free Seed Distribution, for 
$2.65 _ 
With the DETROIT FREE 
PRESS with its Household 
Supplement, including the 
Rural’s Free Seed Distribution, 
for $2.75. 
NOTICE ! 
Subscribe through the 
RURAL NEW-YORKER. Send 
to the above journals for 
free specimen copies. 
DO YOU 
Love Farming, Fruit-growing, Poultry¬ 
raising, Horticulture, Floriculture; are you ; 
interested in Dairying , Apiculture, in Liv e 
Stock, anti yet arc not sw-cecding very well | 
Subscribe for the Rural New- 
Yorker ! It will help you. 
The Ideal Fountain Pen 
is used in the Rural office and thought 
to be by far the best fountain pen made. 
We guarantee that it is as represented. 
Every farmer needs one as it may be used 
at all times. It carries ink which, with 
continuous writing, will last at least 12 
hours. The price is $4.00 and it can’t be 
bought for less. Given for four sub¬ 
scribers. Send for full descriptive cir¬ 
cular to the Ideal Fountain Pen Co., L. E. 
Waterman, Manager, 155 Broadway, N.Y. 
The Best Sewing* Machine in the 
World ! 
An entirely new principle. It is nearly 
noiseless and the easiest-running machine 
in the world. We guarantee it in every 
way. In case of dissatisfaction it may be 
returned at our expense. We would re¬ 
spectfully impress it upon our^ readers 
that this must not be confounded with old 
machines or with those offered by other 
journals. Price $60. Given for only 40 
subscribers. For descriptive circulars 
apply to the Avery Sewing Machine Co., 
812 Broadway, N. Y. 
Enterprise Meat-Chopper. 
Every family should have one. Size 
No. 10 will thoroughly cut one pound in 
a minute. The meat is chopped—not 
mashed. The machine is simple and 
durable. The price is $3.00, and we give 
it lor three subscribers. The Rural sells 
nothing except the R. N-Y. The No. 22 
cuts two pounds per minute. Price $4. 
Given for four subscribers. This is the size 
you should have. Address The Enterprise 
M’f’g Go., cor. 3d and Dauphin Streets, 
Pniladelphia, Pa., for circulars. 
Our friends should look this premium 
list carefully through, and then toll up 
their sleeves and begin the good work, 
remembering that the “early bird picks 
up the crumb.” There are useful prem¬ 
iums here that should be in every family, 
and they may be obtained by a little honest, 
hard work, and work for which the neigh¬ 
bors induced to subscribe, will never 
cease to thank you. Commeuce now. 
Send for as many specimen copies as you 
need, and never neglect an opportunity to 
bring the Rural to the notice of your 
friends. Send on the names and money 
as obtained, and by and by you can make 
your selection of premiums. 
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tributions have popularized many of the most valuable varieties in cultivation. It is 
original from beginning to end. It employs the best writers in the world. It is the 
first journal to have established Experiment Grounds; the first to present careful and 
original illustrations of plants of all kinds, of cattle, farm and garden helps, poultry, 
large and small fruits, grapes, and everything appertaining to rural life. Over 500 en¬ 
gravings yearly. Over 600 writers. It is edited by practical farmers. It combines the 
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est the rural home. It ooBts more to publish than any other weekly in America. It is 
for the North, South, East, West. The ablest farm and garden weekly in the land. It 
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