THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. 
last six weeks; a big bluster occasionally, but 
no tliaw ; lots of snow and that badly drifted. 
Times were very dull, but they have improved 
a little on the arrival of the Sleighing. A good 
many men are still out of work; wages 50c. 
per day and board. Prices are as follows: 
wheat, 70<©8Sc. per bushel; barley. 40<S>60c.; 
oats, 38c.,- peas, 50@60c.; corn, 50e.—not much 
grown;—hay. $8 per ton; beef, 4@5c. per 
pouud, live-weight; pork, dressed. $3@3.50; 
potatoes. 80c. per bag ; apples, 50@fi0e. per 
bag. We. think prices have touched bottom. 
G. K. 
Illinois, Hugo, Douglas Go.. Jan. 31.—It is 
hard to describe the straitened monetary condi¬ 
tion of our people hereabouts. Even among 
those considered our wealthiest citizens it is 
no easy matter to collect even small debts. 
“No motiey” or “ wait a little" is the usual 
answer to a request for payment. If the farm¬ 
ing community eonld only be induced to take 
the Rural, or even au inferior agricultural 
paper, and to act, upon its teachings, I feel 
confident that they would be in a fair way to 
better farming and easier times. Prices are: 
corn. 18e; potatoes. 50c; wheat, 75c; apples, 
none for sale; outs, 131c; hay 53.00 per 
ton (!!! ); hired hands. 510 to $15 per month; 
land, $30 to 530 per acre; hogs, 53.10 per 
100 pounds. Every thing is low, even our 
spirits. A. c. w. 
Laborers’ Wages at Memphis, Tenn.— 
With reference to this subject a friend—a busi¬ 
ness man of Memphis—writes to me as fol¬ 
lows:—“Wages arc low here. Negro men 
get from 58 to 513 a month. The best white 
labor—and people are cautious about hiring 
white labor on aeeouut of so many meu repre¬ 
senting themselves as laborers who have never 
done an honest clay’s work—commands from 
813 to 815 or $18 a mouth, with board. It 
takes the very best labor to bring the outside 
figures.” w. f. 
Kansas, Phillipsbnrgh, Phillips Co.. Jan. 
25.—The early sown fall wheat looks well, but 
the late sown is thin on the ground. The 
weather was so dry here in the fall t hat it did 
not all come up. Wheat is worth, in Pliillips- 
burgli, 30c. to 40c. per bushel; corn, 35c.; 
oats, 30c.; potatoes, 35c. to 30e. ; blitter, per 
lb., 15c.; eggs, 13c, per dozen ; cows, $30 to 
$85 each: horses, $75 to 8100; draft cattle, 
$100 per yoke. The Yucca (Uamentosa, or 
Soap Plant, grows well here, so do the Sensit¬ 
ive Rose aud many other nice flowers, v. b. 
Kansas, Oxford, Sumner Co., Feb. 3.—I do 
not think that meu who have homes and fami¬ 
lies should allow themselves to be overcome 
with the mania for coming West—as many do. 
We do not want maniacs. We have plenty of 
room, however, for those who readsueh papers 
as the Rural, and after fully investigating the 
matter, come hither as a matter of business. 
For such men there arc plenty of business 
openings here. G. t. w. 
Texas, McKouuy, Collin Co., Jan. 30th. — 
Weather warm and beautiful. Corn plowing 
and preparing for spring planting. 
w. m. n. w. 
IJoultnj garb. 
CARE OF POULTRY IN WINTER. 
Farmers often complain that poultry are 
nothiug but a bill of expense in the winter. 
As managed by some fanners who make their 
lions roost on trees, it must be confessed that 
hens make little return, but this is not the fault 
of thelieus but of the owner of the Hock. If a 
man wants eggs, he must got a good breed, 
give tli^m comfortable quarters and suitable 
food. Ileus are egg-making machines, and 
they will turn out just, as many eggs in winter 
as in summer, if they have proper care. Eggs 
are worth twice us much in winter as in sum¬ 
mer, so it is worth while to take some pains to 
have the production as great as possible. Some 
persons feed their poultry pretty well, but they 
give them no egg-shell material. To furnish 
the raw material for manufacturing egg shell, 
I have never found anything better than bones, 
and clam or oyster shells pounded line. Hens 
should have a mixed loud -corn, oats, wheat, 
rye, buckwheat, etc. Thick sour milk with 
wheat bruu or boiled potatoes, fed warm, 
makes uti excellent food ou winter mornings, 
for laying liens. Six or eight years ago 1 kept 
Brahmas. Cochins, Il.imburgs, etc. One day 
my father said, “ Why don't you get the White- 
Crested Black Polish fowls? They wero the 
best I ever had.” I bought u trio, paying 513 
for them. Now, [ have live years’ experience 
with them, and I have found out that they 
have more good points than any other breed i 
have had. In the year 1877, I had twenty-five 
liens aud they laid 1.575 eggs -381 dozen, or 
183 eggs per hen. I n the year 1878 I had twen¬ 
ty-five head again, am! they laid 4,350 eggs - 
354 dozen, or I70 eggs pur hen or pullet. In 
the year 1877 1 had more pullets than in 1878. 
8 ome of my neighbors keep White Leghorns 
aud their hens averaged o*dy 150 eggs per hen. 
Mulngh oo.. Pa. D. N. Kern. 
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Professor E. M. Shelton of the Kansas Agricultural College says: 
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horticulture that they shall be recognized 
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“ For years I have taken the leading agricultural journals, and they all seem tame when 
compared with the Rural New-Yorker.” 
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2il YEAR OF ITS PRESENT MANAGEMENT. 30th YEAR OF ITS AGE. 
Professor Wm. J. Beal of the Michigan Agricultural College ■.—■•The Rural New-Yorker 
is note the best paper." 
Charles Downing says / am glad for the public as well as for yourselves that the 
Rural has so much improved." 
Thousands of plant cuttings and seeds have been distributed free to subscribers during 
tlie past year —and our present Free Distribution of Seeds will, we believe, when tliev 
shall have been tested, be regarded ns the most liberal offer of the hind ever before made. 
Pearl Millet and Defiance Spring Wheat (now selling at not less than $15 per bushel each)—the 
Beauty of Hebron Potato—Golden Rural Tomato, Bronze Rtelnus and sixteen varieties of seeds of 
our choicest hardy shrubs (most of which are not offered for sale), will he found In our present col¬ 
lection. (See page 113.) 
Pres. T. T. Lyon of Michigan says:— The Rural is the best paper I see." 
See'y C. W. Garfield of Michigan says:— 1 u I find that the Rural New-Yorker has more 
things in its columns that I want than any other paper T take." 
Ex-Gov. Furnas of Nebraska says:— The Rural is most welcome to my table- and family." 
Dr. E. Lewis Stuktf.vant of Boston says:—“ The Rural New-Yorker has the best list 
of contributors of any paper of its class in the country and is doing a noble work." 
S. Rufus MasOn of Nebraska says: " I feel that I do not flatter anybody when I say 
that it is the best journal of its kind, that I ever saw." 
TIE ACKNOWLEDGED HEAD OF THE RURAL PRESS. 
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$2 per year to all alike — No club price. 
The Cheapest, Largest and Best Family Journal in the 
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You ran not afford to do without the Rural New-Yorker for 1879. It 
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nest desire of the management that it shall in every way prove worthy of the 
uuHitalilied trust and respect of its readers. 
N. 15. our Farm and Experimental Grounds of sa acres are. devoted to experiments of all kinds 
appertaining to plant life and the best agricultural and horticultural methods. New plants of all 
kinds adapted to the climate are tested and reported upon according to their merits. We cordially 
Invite—Indeed solicit—our subscribers to communicate any facts which they may deem of interest 
to the general reader, 
.Vildi'CHs all column'ileal, loin RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
78 Duane St., New York. 
