Establish)'' 
1815. 
THE TOP-OVER CORN ,SW.t 
liable Yellow Flint variriy. A great Novelty. an abundant 
yieldin', small fob, iar stalk the * zn of a pipe-stem. Tbe term “Top- 
Over” fin tort, ami the illustration a true ^presentation. No trouble 
to lmsk it. Husking ma le eas> 
SEE WH »T OUR CUSTOMERS SAY: 
Onen an says. • It is joss to lmsk; in tact, it hnsks Itself.” An itber: 
•‘All the horrors of bus-mg are past. as we snail grow only the l'op- 
Over next season." This man says: "My imy does thp husking," Still 
another: "Kars fell utr berore I was ready to natch them." “The 
Top-over l'oril Is Boss,"—W. Eaton. Newburgh, N.Y. ' I shall without 
doubt plant alt Top river corn tlto coming >ear, if my seed will hohl 
out.”—H. C. Worker. New Jersey. "Every ear a true pipe-stem.’—5Vni. 
M. Cook. Oibh" vine, wis. "The Top-Over eoru cannot, be excelled.”— 
J. H. Barrett. Veruitmi. 
PRICES: Sample ears, postage prepaid, 12C; Sample packets, 
postage prepaid. 10c; one quart (If by mail add awe for postage). 2ur: 
Four quart'. She;Peck,75c: Bushel, j?" 50: Five bushels, per bushel, S2.2a. 
ORDER NOW, CATAI OGUE FREE. 
tor the most complete 
Catalogue published, to 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO. en.HDn.PHK pa 
SEED- 
'pATALOO'; 
ill i,‘it c Uaufou.s ^ il vcvti.si nn 
n a nPA 100 B, ’ st Kinds' 30th 
■ ■ Ljf n le L year. Catalogues free 
■ _aiU| Concords. *2 per llKI; 
■ ■■ini h\| an 8 per l,WU. 1 Empire 
MM State anil 1 Niagara for SI post paid. Hrigb- 
WflOT ton. Delaware, lve9, Elvira. Ladv, Catawba. 
Martha. Monro's Early, Worden. Pocklington, 
Diamond, Vergcnnes, Ac., at lowest rates. Raspber¬ 
ries, Gooseberries, Jessie Strawberry, l.ucretia Dew¬ 
berry, Ac. CEO. W. CAMPBELL. D«l»„»re, Ohio. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
KITCHEN FLOWERS. 
_ 0 
Yes; have some flowers iu or near the 
kitchen. A pot of geraniums, a box of cy¬ 
press, pansies or portulaca in the window will 
ward oir worry and cross words. Their gen¬ 
tle influence will soothe ruffled tempers, and 
thereby become tho unconscious means of 
sending tho family away from tho breakfast 
^dvevti0iafl. 
We take pleasure in introducing to the readers of the Rural New-Yorker. 
THE NEW HARDY JAPANESE HYDRANGEA. 
THE FINEST 
HARDY SHRUB \ 
'CULTIVATION. 
“HYDRANGEA PANICCLATA GKANDl FLORA.” 
This la a grand plant, exceedingly showy and attractive, 
months, li perfectly hardy 
S I of the l'. S., needs no pro- 
1 is the finest nardv shrub in 
'ows bushy and compact, 3 to 
It. blooms in July, and con- 
iloum :i month.-, remaining 
intll destroy'd by frost. Tho 
are pure white, afterwards 
g ti> pink, and are immense 
Ini clusters more Ilian afoot 
d nearly in- much in ditun- 
* Uli one otYltefio ^li^ereot 
l^k! Hi 
i owers; tbe second year. 
these- Plants ; it will 
^ prove the heat invest¬ 
ment you ever made. 
Price. 40c. each; :J for »1; 
12 for USB. Postage paid and 
safe arrival guaraiiiceu. Will 
bloom this season. 
npnpp AT nwpc Can be planted ns soon as frost ts out of ground: full instructions for cultivation sent 
UltULIl HI UI1UL with each order, also a copy of our large Illustrated Catalogue of all 
TUC DECT WCUy cccno AMfl Dl NMTQ It is verr complete, handsomely illustrated, artistic, of par- 
flfc DlOi NCYlf OLlLIo HIlU r Lnil I O ticular intere-t to ali lovers or ciioICCflowers. Sent free to 
all readers of the Rural New-Yorker, 'nclnslng stamps to pay postage. Our Importation of THE GOLDEN 
BANDED LILY OF JAPAN has just reached us. We offer tine strong bulbs of this, "The Queen of Lilies,'' 
(Hardy) 40 cts. each; J for $1., postpaid. Address, mentioning the Rural New-Yorker. 
F. R. PIERSON y F SEEcfsk:AN, D Tarrytown, N. Y.'cP.O. Box R 
the highest importance. Agricultural col¬ 
leges should be established in every agricul¬ 
tural State, where tuition should be free, and 
where premiums should be given for atten¬ 
dance. Those should be open to men and wo¬ 
men on the same terms, for by the census of 
1880 there were over 5(5,8(10 women in the 
United 'States engaged iu agricultural pur¬ 
suits, besides over seven millions fanners’ 
wives now described as being employed in 
gainful labor. 
There should also be colleges of domestic 
economy for girls, where the proper prepara¬ 
tion of food, care of the health and dwelling, 
and household thrift should bo taught. Tho 
State should make attendance at these colleges 
profitable, compel it if necessary, and the 
money thus expended would return into its 
coffers tenfold from the fruitful fields and 
well-kept homes. The better educated the 
farmer is, the more likely will he he to recog¬ 
nize the rights of his wife—her right to as 
pleasant a home as his means will afford; her 
right to social intercourse; to a control over 
the bouse and personal expenditures; to an 
opportunity for improvement; to an under¬ 
standing of all matters of iuterest to himself, 
and to a share of his tune and affectionate 
consideration. The cultured man respects 
himself so highly that he considers nothing 
too good, that, is withiu his means to obtain, 
for the womau he has chosen to rule his home 
and to be the mother of bis children. The 
educated womau will recognize all the physi¬ 
cal and spiritual rights of her family. She 
will manage more economically, govern more 
wisely, and work more advantageously, lie- 
side having a better time in doing it. 
In every profession there is progress. 
Every class of society is looking toward the 
light, and this is especially noticeable among 
women. The signs of the times are hopeful, 
in that every where Ui the civilized world wo¬ 
men are evincing a desire for a better knowl¬ 
edge of their duties and capacities. The 
farmer's wife must not be left behind. She 
must be helped to help herself. Farmers’ 
wives should lie stimulated to iuterest them¬ 
selves iu tho county agricultural society, se¬ 
curing membership, and then striving t-o have 
such work done by the society as will tend to 
the uplifting of the social conditions. There 
should be agricultural societies worthy of the 
name, in which men and women, being equal¬ 
ly concerned, should he equal factors. Not 
only should the results he exhibited at the end 
of the year, hut the ways and means for pro¬ 
ducing those results should he discussed at 
times and places suitable for creating interest 
and disseminating information. The society 
should be a guild, looking after the welfare of 
its individual members; it should consider no 
home or educational interests unworthy of its 
supervision. The Grange might have been 
such a guild had it not undertaken to manage 
the polities and finances 6f the nation; yet 
even this has been a great educator to women 
in districts where it has been successfully es¬ 
tablished. 
There is no time to consider further means 
for benefiting this class. The work must be 
done largely by women, and plenty of ways 
will present themselves when it is begun. The 
interests are those of humanity, and it will 
sometimes be seen that all the forces of na¬ 
ture, science and religion are turning toward 
woman's development. Nor will the husbands 
of our farmers’ wives bo often found to hinder 
or oppose. Margaret Fuller said—aud it is 
truer now thau when she suul it—“Man is 
not willingly ungenerous. He wants faith 
and love, because he is not yet himself an ele¬ 
vated being. He cries with sneering scepti¬ 
cism, ‘ Give us a sign ’; but if the sign appears 
his eyes glisten, and he offers not merely ap¬ 
proval but homage.” 
As, according to Hindoo mythology, Maya 
is followed by Vishuu through all her trans¬ 
formations from the lower orders of animal 
life to the higher, he always being tho male of 
her species, until she becomes the womau god¬ 
dess aud he the god man—so womau iu her 
ascent, will take man and the race with her, 
until together they shall stand on the sublime 
hights of divine unity. 
When Baby was sick, wo nave her Castorla 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became .Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
When she bad Children, slid BSVP tkall) (•’iwrerl*. 
table with sunny faces. It is said that three 
fourths of the family quarrels originate before 
breakfast or at the morning meal, because it 
is late nr some dish is not perfect. Then, 
mothers and kitchen girls beware; use all the 
means you can to accomplish good results. 
My mother always had a bed of old-fashioned 
flowers in view of tbe kitchen window. The 
dish-water was an excellent fertilizer, and 
pinks, pansies, hollyhocks and snowy 
“feather few” flourished better there than in 
the choicest part of the flower gardun. My 
first thoughts of tbe old home bring to mem¬ 
ory’s view mother and her favorite work¬ 
room, the clean, sunny kitchen, the white 
work-table by the window and the beauty of 
those flowers which often beguiled us girls in¬ 
to thinking that dish-washing was not work, 
but play. EMMA c. STOUT. 
PANSY SEWING MACHINE. 
E. B. asks if those of our readers who have 
used the above machine can reeomineud it? 
Will some one having had experience with the 
machine please reply ? 
POTATO SALAD. 
Boil six large potatoes, slice into a di-h, 
when cold, add one-lialf cup of good vinegar, 
one teaspoonful of mustard, one-half tenspoon- 
fu! of black pepper, three youug onions, sliced. 
Salt the potatoes when cooking, add a piece of 
butter the size of a walupt. This is a nice 
dish for supper, garnished with hard boiled 
eggs. 
A COOL DRINK. 
Two tablespoonfuls of cream-of-tartar to 
one pint of boiling water, the juice of one half 
lemon, sugar to taste. Let stand until cool: 
very nice for the sick. 
TO STOP VOMITING. 
Wet a cloth with essence of peppermint and 
apply to the stomach. Take a small pill of 
cayenne pepper._ e. c. s. 
ORANGE PUDDING. 
Peel and slice five or six large oranges, 
taking out all seeds. Put over them a coffee- 
cup of fine white sugar. Let a pint of milk 
get boiling hot; add the yelks of three eggs 
well beaten, one tablespoon of corn starch, 
make smooth in a little cold milk: stir all the 
time, and as soon as thickened pour it over 
the fruit. Beat the whites to a stiff froth, 
add a tablespoon of sugar, spread over the 
top and set in the oven to harden. 
EDITH. 
Very Wonderful 
Are the effects produced by the use of 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla* Sores, Scabs, 
Glandular Swellings, Boils, Carbuncles, 
and all kinds of Humors disappear, as if 
by magic, by the use of this 
Standard Blood-Purifier. 
F. C. .James, of Albany, Greene Co.. 
Teuu., writes: “Ayer’s Sarsaparilla 
saved the life of my only child. When 
three years old, her head wits covered 
with Scrofulous Sores. She became 
almost helpless. Skillful physicians did 
all they could to relieve her. but failed. 
At last 1 purchased a bottle of Ayer’s 
Sarsaparilla, gave it to Iter according 
to directions, and she immediately be¬ 
gan to improve. Encouraged by the 
result. I continued to give her this medi¬ 
cine until the cure was complete.” 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
Prepared bv Dr.Aver Sc Co., Lowell, Mass. 
Sold by all Druggists. Price $ 1 ; six bottles, $5. 
Oil W ill Not Fill(l “«^e'"seed.^- 
R. erable with years, 
HSkand greater travellers than Staaley; seed saved from tbe odds 
ends of various crops; seed raised from unsalable 
p'. SsQv, onions, headless cabbages, sptung'iTig carrots, or refuse 
beets. (/d«r jJways 'taffy to skew my teed stock.) But 
y you want Northern seed, honestly raised, home 
fcidHir grown (not more titan two other catalogues contain as 
l^ 2 ^many\ seed warranted (see the cover), valuable novelties, some 
of which are to be found in no other, send for my vegetable and 
^ flower-seed catalogue for 1887 , FREE to all. It contains 60 varie- 
V ties of Beans, 43 of Pea 5 . 41 of Cabbages, 53 of Melons, 44 of 
Corn, etc., etc., besides a large and choice variety of llower seed. 
JAMES J. 11. GBEliOBY, Marblehead, Mass. 
MAKE HENS LAY 
FljKG V NT L.A RG hZ 
UUU TUBKLMH HUGH 
Given iu 1 be l.-\l>IES of purchaser* of Sample 
Harness with a view of an agency (11 territory where 
we have no agent. Send tor full particulars. 
SHERWOOD HA It N ESS CO.. Syracuse. N. Y. 
( The NORTH-STAR Washboard is made 
I at ohm sol lit sheet, or mile, produc- 
b-- y-in,' u dt>uhle-fae#d boftivl ol the 
^ \ f__. / -Ti'iiti :.t durability The deep 
1 I 11 u water 
V y \W Uian any other boast, t bard- 
/Y -f wood fmme, (Inti)' Held to 
| f |lll|]|[||J - gellier with uii iron bolt, re- 
llllll!!ll I I IllMII .'iiresSliT-nirth. durability and 
" 'H A /V eoonomy. Tlivobjontiun raise 1 
■ngjSQ. S ig.ini.t Iti :i ho., I outlies from 
^ ySfa&T ilenlers. w liO' iv "the) lust too 
o ’Sr 32 s ' long." If your grocer refuses to 
r verneil' e tin - Hoard for vou.w I'ltulls. 
"l''A-N 8 CHMtl'T, IH>DUE A CO.. 
Pat, Fob. '47, 1»7T W >V TV. 1'ulk St., CUiv'UgV 
QHERIDAN 6 CONDITION COM '"'ER Is absolute 
O ly pure and Highly concentrated. It is strictly 
» medicine to be given with food. Nothing oil e^rth 
Wilt make hens lay like It. It euros chicken chol¬ 
era and all diseases of hens. Illustrated book by 
mall free. Hold ovorywhc.'o, or sent by mail for 
25 cte. In stamps 214-lb. tin cans. $1; by mall, 
$1.20. Six cans by express, prepaid, for $6. 
I. S. Johnsou is Co., P. O. Box 21 IB. Boston. Mass. 
WEAVER ORGANS 
Aru tb« Vlnwt In Tone, Style, Hb1s 5 »ud tx-ierd 
tnftXo op of suy rood* mailo. Gusthu trel for C yrr..‘.v 
Scad lor Catalogue, trotlmoaUle nud Urtua. tuv, Lj 
Weaver Orgun and 1'laun Co., 
l ucfcary, York, I*r,. 
NORTHERN GROWN Seed Potatoes 10 varieties. 
Prices Low. List free. Send for it. Address 
8 . FROGNElt, Herman. Tlinu. 
SMALL FRUIT f,ms m *’ E!c - 
UIIIMLL I IIUII All varieties, both New and 
Old, at reasonable rates. Catalogues tree. 
IRVING ALLEN, Spring Held, Mass. 
31IDDUSBURY. VT. 
BERRY BOXES 
Send for Illustrated cata¬ 
logue. X.B.H VU. .t C O. 
llentou Harbor, Mich. 
and all Linds of 
FRUIT BASKETS 
PACKAGES 
CATALOGUE & CALENDAR. 
Send your address 011 postal for one to 
W. I>. LINE, Florist. 
URPEE’S 
S FARM ANNUAL for 1887 
Will be sent FREE TO ALL who write for it It is a 
Handsome Kook of 128 Pages, with hundreds of 
illustrations, three Colored Plntes, and tells ah about 
THE BEST G ARDEN, FARM and FLOWER 
Dill DC Dl AUTO Thoroughbred wTOCK and 
DULDO* rLAn I Of Fancy POULTRY. It de¬ 
scribes Raee Novelties in Vegetables and Flower* Vr-a 
• *aiu«, which cannot be obtained elsewhere. Send vldr-— on 
FOR »ALE. 
EICIISH FIELD PEIS! 
FRESH IMP. MANGOLD SEED 
Of the best kinds. Lucent and other grass seeds for 
mixture. I find that all the big tests of Jersey cows are 
the result of feeling large quantities of pea* and onis. 
’or prices address 
\V >1. CRO/.IEK, 
N’orthport, L. I., N'. V. 
D 1 PDDV PLANTS. All kinds. Best quality. 
K (1, n li I Jensue. Jewell, and all other novel- 
11 ihai a ties. Pure ami reliable v WIN*i 
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THE DINGEE & CONARD CO’S 
BEAUTIFUL EVEU-BLOO.UING 
For IS Years our Grealt Specialty hAs beon 
E owing and diatnbnting ROSES. Wo have all t he 
ntent Novelties and 'in"! ttmidurdtori* in differ¬ 
ent si.M's and prices (o suit oIL We send S31105*. V 1 IIU- 
m s 11 .a.M s safely by mad or express to all point*. 
3 TO 12 PUNTS ft|. »8.°s ?? 
OurN'eW'GIliili .V- pp describes uesrl) oOf)finest 
\ iirietie* of Roses, the best llttrdv Shrubs, A 
4'limbing Vines, and New and Kure Flower 
Seeds, und tells bow to grow them—FREE 
Widrvss TIIE DINGKE & CONARD CO., 
Boat) Cimwwa, Weel Grow, VIicbU-T Co, l’a. 
1838- POMONA NURSERIES. 1887. 
-OgnjO -a SCP8KB SPCCk OK— 
/.utcjon . best Early- Market Pear; Kief 
£7 fee. best Late Market Pear; Lt 1 Conte 
iff K and other IViir Trees. TTVson Jr., Larg 
lEcst known BlackHerry; 1S8 bushels per 
L Vactv. tq; Inches around. Krie, the 
.-fc 'Kri I Largest vxk\ Hxrpv Blackberry: start 
:S- Urt j boro and tfo.’tfen V'lrcn Raspberries, 
' “y. • - . wi.1 i\>rri, and Lido, best Market straw 
^ ^, V berries: VtiHiUr 4, rmiiire State and 
other Grapefi In large supply. All the 
worthy old and promising new fruits. Catalogue free. 
\VM. PARRY, PARRY, N. J. 
ALBAN YSEED STORE 
ESTABLISHED 1831 
PRICE&KKICkTRBOCKER 
IMPORTERS, UROWERS AND DEALERS IN 
SEEDS! 
ALL VARIETIES OK 
Flower, Vegetable and Field Seed. 
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