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THE ABLEST 
FARM WEEKLY 
IN AMERICA. 
HONEST, LIBERAL PAY 
FOR THOSE WHO AID IN EXTENDING THE RURAL’S CIRCULATION FOR 1886. 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER never SELLS any of the articles which are presented as compensation to those who send us subscriptions either singly or in clubs. 
The articles offered are the best of their several kinds. They are just as represented, and we guarantee them to be such. They may be returned at our expense 
if unsatisfactory in anyway. If readers desire to purchase any of the articles offered in our premium-lists, which will be sent to all applicants, they 
must apply to the manufacturers, mentioning the R. N.-Y. The Run al is not a trade journal. 
AN $80 BRADLEY MOWER FOR 80 SUBSCRIBERS, 
A $60 dewing Machine for 40 subscribers. 
A $57 Mystic Range for 57 subscribers. 
A $4 Ideal Fountain Pen for 4 Subscribers 
A $50 Syracuse Sulky Plow for 50 subscribers. 
A $6 Field Force Pump for 6 subscribers. 
A $4 Enterprise Meat Chopper for 4 subscribers. 
For hundreds of other articles, which we offer for clubs, see our Regular premium-List, also our Special List, which offers $3,300 worth of sterling articles for the 
largest clubs sent by subscribers only, not by agents. These will be sent free to all who apply. 
IDEAL FOUNTAIN PEN. 
Every one who has any 
writing to do should have one 
of these delightful pens. It is 
not only w T orth its weight in 
gold, but is indispensable to 
every man who has occasion to 
write. For full description write 
to the Ideal Fountain Pen Co., 
155 Broadway N. Y., for a cir¬ 
cular. For a club of four sub¬ 
scribers we will give a No. 2, 
with a No. 5 pen, worth $4. 
For a club of live we mil give 
a No. 2, with a gold-banded 
holder, or a No. 3, with No. 6 
pen, either worth $5. 
Either of these pens will be 
sent in a substantial case, 
prepaid in registered letter, and 
warranted to fit your hand, or 
be exchanged for one that does. 
You may step in and ask your 
pen dealer to show one, and get 
his price for it, and thus see 
that the best way is to secure it 
by getting up a club for the 
Rural. 
Please do not get the idea 
that this is a cheap stylograpli- 
ic pen or the penograph, or any 
other of the inferior pens. It 
is not, but a first-class gold pen 
with a hard rubber fountain 
holder, and one which we have 
used with so much satisfaction 
that, after trying all the others, 
we would not part with it for 
any price. Farmers, Clergy¬ 
men, Boys, Girls, School-teach¬ 
ers, Everybody, here is a chance 
we wish you to embrace, for we 
know its value. No more use¬ 
ful or appropriate present can 
be found for a friend, and you 
can earn one with little effort. 
We should have calls for 500 
at least. We know it will 
please all. 
For Three New Subscribers. 
You may select an Enterprise Meat Chop¬ 
per No. 10, or two Knives, or a Knife and 
Pair of Shears, or a Pluming Knife, or a 
Pair of Folding Seissoi's, or a Pruning Sail', 
or a Wilson Whiffle tree, or any one of the fol¬ 
lowing books; Hume Studies in Nature, If al¬ 
lace's Ben Hur, Boots and Saddles, The Man 
Wonderful, Beecher's Life Thoughts The 
Bose., Successf ul Men , Talks to Farmers, 
The best sewing machine in the world, working upon an 
entirely new principle, will be given to agents for 40 subscri¬ 
bers—freight paid. Lowest retail price, $60. We guarantee 
it in every way. It must not be classed with the low-priced 
sewing machines offered hv other Journals. It is worth 860- 
See Premium List, which will he sent to all applicants. 
FOR TWO NEW SUBSCRIBERS. 
Any one sending two New subscribers, may 
select any three of the plants for one subscriber 
or a Niagara drape Vine, or a Louderback’s 
Combination Tool, or a Needle Hay Knife, or a 
Pearl Rug Maker, or a Dust-pan, or a Pair of 
Shears, or a Knife, or a Shot Flask, ora Watch 
Charm, or a Harmonica, or a Premium Drill, 
or “Stop Thief” Seale, or any one of the follow¬ 
ing books: American Political Ideas, Uncle 
Tom’s Cabin, Fruit Culture, Talks Afield, How 
to Paint, Low Cost Houses, Comforting 
Thoughts, Highways of Literature, Boy’s Use¬ 
ful Pastimes, What Girls can Do: Simple Ail¬ 
ments of Horses. 
THE SEED DISTRIBUTION 
of the RURAL NEW-YORKER is tent 
to aU. REGULAR subscribers who APPLY 
INCLOSING A STAMP. It is sent 
ONLY to REGULAR subscribers. 
Eighty subscribers wilt entitle the sender to 
a Lady's gold Chatelaine Watch, or Pieper 
breech-loading shot gun, or a Bradley Mower. 
What You Can Get. 
By sending One new Subscriber. 
Hist 1.—Any I’ltESENT subscribers who 
will send n» ONE NEW one, may select auy 
one of the tollowiHtrs 13 iilauts of the Marl¬ 
boro Raspberry, or 13 plauts of tlie Rnneo- 
ens Raspberry, or six plants ol (.olden Queen 
Raspberry, or eight plants of the .Jewell 
Strawberry, or three plauts of the Earbart 
Everbearing Black-cap Raspberry, or one 
Poughkeepsie Red, or one Ulster Prolific 
Grupe Vine, or a combination Saw Set, or n 
beautiful Silver-Plated Butter Knife, or 
either “Needle Work” or Kuitiiutc nud 
Crochet,” by Jennie Jane, or auy book ot 
the “One Syllable Series.” See REGULAR 
Premium Hist. 
Twelve subscribers will entitle the 
sender to a Lewis Force Pump, or a 
Universal Scale. 
Five New Subscribers. 
Will entitle the sender to a Cole Plow, or a 
Keystone Washer, or a Syrup Pitcher, or a 
hall-dozen teaspoons or forks, or a game bag. 
Six New Subscribers. 
Will entitle the sender to the Field Force 
Pump, jif), and worth to any fruit grower or 
any house-holder, twice the money, or an 
Aceordeon, or a Perfect Milk Pail, or Key¬ 
stone Wringer. See regular Premium List 
for full descriptions. 
What You Can Get for Eight 
New Subscribers. 
Eight subscribers entitle the sender to u 
Shepherd Lawn Tennis Racket, or a violin 
with a 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 Aceordeon. 
W r hat Yon can get for Four New 
Subscribers. 
A No. 2 Ideal Fountain Pen and Holder, 
with filler and ease; warranted to fit the hand 
and please, or a No. 2:2 Enterprise Meat Chop¬ 
per, or an Emmersou Cross-cut Saw, or auy of 
E. P. Roe's Works, or a Form Bell worth §5. 
or a Wheeden Toy Engine. 
The Enterprise Meat-1 hopper. 
Every fam ily should have one. Size No. 
10 will thoroughly cut one pound in a min¬ 
ute. The meat is chopped — not. mashed. 
The machine is simple and durable. The 
price is $4.00, and we give it for three sub¬ 
scribers. The RURAL sells nothing except 
(he R. N. Y. The No. 22 cuts two pounds 
per minute. Price 4.00, Given for four 
subscribers. This is the size you should have. 
Address The Enterprise M'f'g Go., cor. 3 rd 
and Dauphin Streets, Philadelphia, Pa., 
for circulars. 
Thirty-two subscribers will entitle the sender 
to a Sun Typo writer. 
THE BEAUTIFUL POSTERS 
OF THE RURAL NEW-YORKER WILL 
GLADLY BE MAILED WITHOUT CHARGE 
TO ALL WHO APPLY FOR THEM. 
7. Fifty subscribers entitle the sender to a 
Syracuse Sulky Plow complete, with extras, 
and freight jmid, if not amounting to over £2.50. 
8. Fifty-seven entitle to £57 Mystic Range. 
Oun only Terms.—Y early subscription 
postpaid (52 weeks), *2.00; half yearly (20 
weeks), $1.10. Payment invariably with the 
subscription. This Premium List holds good 
uutil July 1st, 1880. 
These premiums are given by the Publishers 
j for procuring subscribers, not to subscribers. 
6. Forty subscribers entitle the sen¬ 
der to a No. 4 Avery Sewing Machine 
(see premium list), delivered, freight 
paid. For descriptive list, address the 
Company, 812 Broadway, N. Y. 
The Irish boil the potato “wltha bone in it;” 
that is, they boil the tuber so as to leave a small,, 
hard spot in the middle. Most people prefer 
to boil t he flavor out of the tulier.... 
Potatoes in New Countries.— Old settlers 
tell marvelous stories of the prices obtained 
for potatoes iu the days of the mining excite¬ 
ments in California and Colorado. The miners, 
iviug almost entirely upon salt meat and 
flour, were seriously troubled with land scurvy. 
Potatoes were fouud to be a corrective, nud 
often sold for enormous prices. Many farmers 
made moil' at digging potatoes than the 
miners made at digging gold. In most new 
countries at the present time, potatoes are 
found to be a very profitable crop. Iu the 
great wheat-growing regions of the West, 
where most farmers rush into the cultivation 
of the staple grain, a few acres of potatoes 
alivays find ready sale at good prices. The 
same is true of the corn-growing countries, or 
even iu the “eottou licit.” It is the “odd” 
crop—the one not generally raised by the 
; neighbors, that brings the most money. In 
the forests of Northern Michigan are fouud 
hundreds of small farmers who cultivate a few 
rough acres, that, they have hacked out of the 
forest. Those find the potato a most protit- 
able crop. The tubers are sold for use iu the 
lumber comps, where, on a ration composed 
' for the most part of bread, pork, beans and 
potatoes, men perform the roughest and hard¬ 
est labor known. 
SEND IN YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS. 
Address the RURAL NEW-YORKER, 34 PARK ROW, NEW YORK 
