*m RURAL WEW-YORSCIR 
(Continued f rom, page 236.) 
mixed lawn grass seeds sold at high prices show 
they consist of from 40 to 50 per cent, of Rye 
Grass. Not a single seed should be included 
iu any mixture for producing a lawn.” 
Dr. Beal strongly advises, as does the R. 
N.-Y., against purchasing the mixtures ad¬ 
vertised in seed catalogues, as it will he both 
cheaper and safer to buy each sort separately, 
and only one, two or three sorts are desirable. 
Sow the seeds before May without any 
“sprinkling” of oats, and as soon as the grasses 
get up a little and the straggling weeds get up 
higher still, mow them aud keep mowing 
every week or two all Summer. 
Tuk rarer grasses are mostly imported and 
generally possess low vitality, besides con¬ 
taining bad foreign weeds. 
Keep the heads of peach trees low—the 
trunks ought not to exceed three feet in hight. 
Cut back weak shoots and shorten the strong 
ones. Sickly shoots should be cut cleau off... 
E. & B. consider it of the first importance 
in planting peach trees to cut them back 
severely. Reduce the stem one-third and the 
side branches to one bud. 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Canada. 
St. Catherines, Ontario, March 29.—The 
Rural seeds did exceedingly well. The corn 
is the best I have ever grown or seen. Flageo¬ 
let Beans did well. The two kind of Peas were 
very good and productive. Tomatoes good 
to very good. The flower seeds did not do quite 
so well. Success to the Rural, 1 think it is the 
liest paper of its class published in Amer¬ 
ica. I consider the Free Seed Distribution 
worth the price of the paper. w. s. 
Delaware. 
Dover, Kent Co., March 23.—Some little 
plowing done; some oats sown. Peach buds 
are making some show for blossoms where 
two weeks ago it was thought all were killed, 
and we hope for a few after all. Iu some 
sections it is claimed that there will be a fair 
crop. Oats. 4D cents: clover seed, lflVj cents 
to 14 cents per pound; Timothy, £2.75 per 
bushel; potatoes, 40 cents to 50 cents; sweet 
potatoes, 50 cents to 00 cents; butter, 20 cents 
to 85 cents; eggs, 12 cents; chickens, 10 cents; 
pork, £5 to $0 per 100; lard, nine cents; r resh 
beef retails at eight to sixteen cents per 
pound. s. T. . 
Iowa. 
Bloomfield, Davis Co., March 26.— Almost 
all the Rural’s see l proved a success. They 
were worth the price of the Rural. The 
White Elephant is the llncst potato I have 
ever ate—so say all who have oaten them. 
Rural Heavy Dent Corn too late for this cli¬ 
mate, R. N.-Y. Peas fine aud very early. We 
have already made most of our gardens, hav¬ 
ing planted onions, lettuce, radishes, [xtas and 
early potatoes. The Rural is the best and 
most trustworthy agricultural paper it has 
l>een my lot to examine. Cannot do without 
it. w. T. G. 
Kansan, 
Jewell Citv, Jewell Co., March 14.— The 
past Winter was the most severe of the last 
five; still stock is in fair condition. It is es¬ 
timated that this county alone lost $50,000 
worth of hogs within the past six months 
from various diseases grouped together under 
the name of “hog cholera,” aud $10,000 worth 
more in January through lack of proper 
shelter from the blizzards. Fall wheat has 
been badly killed in the eastern part of the 
State—according to the papers—still it is in 
flue condition now hereabouts; hut the ground 
is very wet and it is hardly likely to be able 
to withstand the freezings and thawings yet 
ahead of it. On thousands of acres, last 
year's crop is still on the' ground where it 
grew, and is consequently badly damaged. 
The Rural cross-bred corn was a failure 
through neglect. Beans fine; rye nothing ex¬ 
tra. In spite of the chinch bugs’ depredat ions 
1 got a quart of D. M. Wheat, and am confi¬ 
dent it will do well. From the R. F. S. D. I now 
have three varieties of wheat, three of pota¬ 
toes, one of tomato, two of beans, one of jx-as, 
one of watermelon, and a iiue lot of flowers. 
The immigration to this section is becoming 
immense. i. n. p. 
Minnesota. 
Vivian, Waseca Co., March 15.—Spring 
cold; Summer aud Fall dry. Tomato seeds 
did not,nil come up. King Humberts bora well, 
but in flavor are not desirable. Prince of 
Walea’Poa* did well, aud are of fair quality, 
not quite so sweet as Horsford’s Market 
Gordon. Stratagem the largest and best 
dwarf pea l over grew. Garden Treasures 
fine, Wheat averaged about 12 bushels per 
gore; pats about 30; corn .about 20, Tops.of 
early potatoes died of what was called “mil¬ 
dew” before the advent of the potato rot, and 
consequently the crop was light. I could not 
do without the Rural. s. k. o. 
Montana. 
Fridley. Gallatin Co., March 18.—I came 
from Chenango County, N. Y., three years 
ago, and found upon living here that 
the country had been grossly misrepresented. 
I had supposed it was almost out of the world 
and that the climate was somewhat like that 
of Greenland; but T have fouud it very differ¬ 
ent. The real truth has been misstated by 
parties here who own large herds of cattle 
and horses; for if they had told the truth their 
profits would have been cut down, as people 
wishing to go into cattle raising would have 
come here instead of going to Texas, Colora¬ 
do, Kansas, etc. The Winters are never over 
six weeks’ duration. I speak of the valley 
and vicinity of the Yellowstone—Madison, 
Gallatin and Jefferson Counties. We have the 
finest of grasses, pure water and shelter for 
stock, aud since I have been here the losses 
have heeu a mere nothing. I have for the 
past Winter not heard of the loss of even one 
animal from exposure, in the whole circle of 
my acquaintance, and in my vicinity are over 
8,000 head, The cattle owners don’t want 
settlers to come in, as every man that locates 
1(M) or more acres they look upon as robbing 
them of so much pasture. For grain raising 
this section can't, be beat: for instance, the 
wheat crop of Gallatin Co., for 1885, averaged 
over 40 bushels to the acre, and oats and 
barley were splendid crops. Vegetables of 
all kinds were a success last year ami the year 
before, for in both years there was no frost 
from May till into September. People here 
have not tried fruit culture to any extent. 
Wild cherries, currants, strawlxsrries and 
gooseberries are abundant, and I see no rea¬ 
son why cultivated kinds won't do well. 
Fruit ripened last year on a Catawba grape¬ 
vine in a garden here. Some of the old resi- 
'Continued on page 238.) 
and g?ouItnj. 
KUOS from W. Leghorns, P Rocks, or Black-Red 
Games, $1 50 for IS. Eyys from Oh o0v fowls only. 
Mention this paper. C K. KICK, Fairvikw, Pa. 
WYANDOTTE EGGS, *3 per IS; $5 per26. P. 
Rock Egg*. $2 per 13; $3.50 per 2n. Nicely pocked In 
baskets. Emm birds scoring mi to !M points. Older 
early. Address 
E. B. Thompson, 
A men in, X, Y. 
IV. T. L A T T I N , 
Originator and Breeder of 
BLACK AND MOTTLED JAVA FOWLS, 
GAINES. ORLEANS CO., N. Y. 
Fowls. $5.00 each. Eggs. $3.00 per 15; $5.00 per 80. 
KIS<’o MOUNTAIN Strain of tine Wyandotts 
Send for descriptive Catalogue and price list before 
purchasing either eggs or fowls. Address 
KISCO MOUNTAIN POULTRY YARDS-’ 
Mount Kiaco, New York. 
Extra Wyandotte Eggs. 
Fresh laid from first class birds. Paeked In alee bas¬ 
kets at $2 for 13; 30 for $5. 
VF.RY LIMITED NUMBER OF 
IRISH SETTER DOGS. 
All yard broke, tine blood. Price given on application. 
E. T. DAILY. MOUNT KlSCO. NEW YORK. 
F. W. ( 1 AYLOR, Nassau. N. Y. 
GrAME BANTAMS 
OF THE MOST FASHIONABLE STRAINS. 
Ducks, PckitiH. Rouen*. $L50 for 11 Eggs. 
Wyandot ten, $2.01,1 for 13 Eggs. P. Rucks and 
White Leghorns, $1.50. «e have a very large 
stock raised artlflclal for practical use. the best Brood¬ 
er known for $8.00. . 1 . QUIN It V, 
White Plitiu*. N. Y. 
TOIT LOl’SF. GEESE per trio, $10. Kggs $2 for 6 
Or $3 pet dozen. R. C. W hlte t.eghorn and X. C. Brown 
Leghorn chickens, $1 each; eggs, *1.50 for 15. For sale 
by TIIRO. DA 1111, 
Box I II, Gt-ent Bend, Kaunas. 
High Class Plymouth Pocks and Wyandottes. 
All high scoring birds. None better, and full satis¬ 
faction guaranteed. Kggs for setting of IS, carefully 
paeked In baskets. Plymouth Rocks. *1; Wyandottes, $2. 
W. I.. LUNDY, Mbitcites, New Jersey. 
Game*: Wyandottes: Houdans. 
Kxhlb. Games. Atuialuslans, Jap. Bants., Malays, 
B. S. Polish. Kggs. $3; Brahmas. Cochins. Pit Games, 
etc.: 13 Kggs, $2. Entbdeu Gander* for sale. 
Pekin Duck Eggs, 
hi fly First and Noctal Prizes last Winter. 
THOMAS W. LI I)LOW, Yonkers, N. Y. 
EG OS ! SEEDS ! 
ECJ«S! SEEDS! 
For each $1 worth of Plymouth kook eggs 1 sell this 
year, I give 25 eta. worth ot Garden seeds. Kggs, $1 per 
15. Over 9,li()ll shipped for setting In four years. Send 
for circular. If. G. FRIST, New Market, Ind. 
Purdue’s Light Brahmas. 
My Birds won FIRST PRIZE on Chicks and SPECIAL 
on Cockerel, at New York, 1886. also four FIRST PRIZES 
at Philadelphia, the past season. 
Eggs per setting, *5. 
A few choice Cockerels aud Pullets for sale. 
GEO. PURDUE, Hast Grunge, N. J. 
Excelsior, P. Rock, l. Brahmas, 31 Wyandottes. 
A SPECIALTY UK FOWLS FOR FARMERS. 
We exhibited a pen of Five Plymouth hooks, aver¬ 
aging ten poumis rucli, at N Y. Fiuiolorr- Club Show, 
where we won First Prize on P. Roek Breeding Pen. 
Birds for sale at all times. Eggs, $5 for 13. 
rMTl>DVUt vV 
TOWNSEND, 
Glen Head, 
N. Y, 
POULTRY-CHOLERA AND GAPES 
CURED EVERY TIME BY USING 
HAVENS’ CLIMAX CONDITION POWDER. 
Five Years in Use and No Failures. 
“It never falls to cure Poultry-Choleraand Gapes.''— Ana. Gunther, Harlingen. N. J. 
I know It will cure Gapes. I never lost a single chlek after I began to use it.”—J. Wesley Stillwell, Free¬ 
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“I cannot raise turkeys profitably without It."—L iscomb B. Beep, Princeton Junction., N. J. 
“These men are reliable."—W. S. SrtioNO, Mayor, New Brunswick, N. J. fOlty Seal.] 
11 ounce packages, 25o. of Dealers; by Mall, 10c. "Our Successful Farmers,” a pamphlet, free by mall. 
Wm. Rust & Sons. P. O. Box 1201. New Brunswick. N, J. 
Agents wanti“d. Ask your dealer, and show him this advertisement. 
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the best practical authority on the snhjeot. For the psist 30 yearn 
he lias been engaged in growing thousands of chicks and ducks 
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A FEW OF 1TH VALU ABLE FEATURES-. Early Experi¬ 
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of Incubator*. How to distinguish between fertile and Infertile eggs, 
with Illustration* never before made showing the development—^ 
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Y. A. Hanaford, Chicopee. Mass. 
Price Postpaid, Only 25 Cents. Postage Stamps Taken. 5 Copies $1. 
fition this Paper. THE PHELPS PUBLISHING CO., Publishers, Springfield, Mass. 
MILL BROOK 
K. EINTTSTELS! 
10 breeding pens of selected Wyandottes, Langshan*, W. and Br. Leghorns. P. Rocks, Lt. Brahmas. R. C. W 
Leghorns. B. 8. R. Games Pekin Ducks. Eggs, *3 for 13. $5 for 26. $? for39. Duck eggs, $2 for 11, $3 for22. Nine 
hens and one male to each pen. X guarantee a yood hatch. Try me. 
Champion!? Bernard Dogs, Champion Scotch Collie Dogs. Young stock for sale at reasonable prices. Cham¬ 
pion smool ► <• -v? eroue. In the stud. Send for Catalogue. 
WM. MONTGOMER Y, Jr., Bergenfleld, Bergen County, N. J. 
FETElt REFER LEIN, 
BNTBRPBIZ2 POULTRY FARM, 
Newtown, Long Gland. New York. 
Breeder of Prize-winning single Comb White Leg¬ 
horns. My score ut Great Notional Show, at Madison 
Square Garden, —06‘.t on Pullet, the only one on 
exhibition with perfect comb, Eggs, .$2 for 13. 
My Imported Brown Leghorn Coek, 
„ PRINiJK GARIBALDI. Trutn Italy. 
Judges and breeders at above Show pronounce him 
the richest plumed bird on exhibition. Eggs from 
this strain, $3 for 13; *1 for 26. Also Breeder of R. C.. 
B. and W. Lughorn-. Wyandotte*., Plymouth Rocks, 
Light Brahmas, and Fokin Ducks: Kggs. $2 per setting. 
Send for 111. circular. Egxs nicely packed und shipped. 
J. H. THOMPSON, Jr., 
PATTERSON, NEW YORK. 
(ox run uaki »:w it. n.l 
Breeder of thoroughbred fowls and Pointer Dogs, 
From prize winning, registered ituok. 3 pen* or Ply¬ 
mouth Rocks. 2 for produetion of pullets and l for 
cockerels. Kggs *1,50 per Jit or $3 per 89. Also from 2 
liens of Wyandottes Eggs 92 per 13. or f‘- tier 3D. My 
stock Is from the best strains and mated ror best re¬ 
sults. I guarantee a fair hatch and safe delivery. A 
shun- of your pair, mage solicited, knowing Inin please 
you. 
LANCSHANS. 
EXCLUSIVELY. 
Champions at Wlnsted, Conn., 1886; at Meriden, 
Conn., 1885-6; also at the Great International Show In 
New York City, 1886. 
My stock Is pronounced tiv the most eompeteut 
judges The Champions of America. 
Eggs. $1 per 13; $7 jx-r 26; $9 per 89. Paeked iu has 
kets to carry any distance. Send for circular—free to 
all. Addr*ws, with stamp, 
ROBERT SEAMAN, Jericho, N. Y. 
Watnong Valley 
POULTRY YARDS. 
PLYMOUTH ROC KS. 
Five first-class Breeding Pens. Eggs. $3 for 18; $5 for 26. 
Imperial Pekin Duck. 
Eggs, $2 for 12. Nicely shipped in baskets. 
Send for circular. EUGENE HILL. 
Littleton, N. J. 
PRIZE WYANDOTTES 
Plymouth Rocks & Pekin Ducks. 
40 first and special prizes awarded my stock at 
the great New York shows." 
FOWLS AND ECCS FOR SALE. 
Catalogue aud price-list free. 
A. C. HAWKINS, Lancaster, Mass. 
SHELLB0NE for POULTRY. 
A mixture of Pure Bone and Ground Oyster Shells. 
Ail poultry need it. ‘ili Pounds, 81.00 : 50 Pounds, 
81,50, by freight. Samples, .05c. mail. 
T. II. BOCK, Frisflt'ld, Mwryl»ud, 
Franklin Ponltry lards 1 . 
ALL EGGS GUARANTE 
Partridge Cochins, Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, 
aud S. S. Ram burgs- Per Setting, S3; Two Settings, 
85- 
l.lght Brahmas- Eatigshnns, Brown Leghorns, and 
Pekin Ducks. Per Setting, sbj. 
Orders for Stock and Eggs may lie sent to 38 Dey St,, 
New York City, or direct to yards. 
CLARK A: BROWN, Proprietor*. 
Mention this paper.] Franklin, Essex Co., N. J. 
SUCCESS HATCHER. 
THE MOST SUCCESSFUL INCUBATOR. 
Send for circular. SUCCESS HATCHER CO., 
LANCASTER, PA. 
IV A. I* IvNOLL’S 
PROGRESSIVE POULTRY COOPS FOR 
HENS AND CHICKS. 
WITH BROODERS AND INCLOSED RUNS. 
2 he favorite Excelsior IVultry Coop and Nest combined 
'“'la and Bronze Medals were awarded at the Great 
Show of New York Fanciers - Club, February. 1881). 
Have you anywhere else In the world seen Chicken 
Brooders and Inclosed Runs that may at pleasure be 
either attached to or detachable from the coop? 
If you have not auv such coons or brooders, seud a 
two-cent stamp for one of the Ulustratcd Descriptive 
Catalogues, with terms and Price List, 
NAPKNOLL POULTRY COOP CO.. 
GOSHEN, ORANGE CO.. N. Y. 
_ AGENTS: 
NEW ELI, ACi i.. 127 Slate Street, Boston, Mass. 
L. N. CLARK & SON. SS Dey Slnvt, Nevr York. 
KEEP THE 
HENS 
OUT OF 
YOURGARDEN 
WITH GALVANIZED WIRE NETTING. 
The Handsomest and Most Durable FENCE made. 
Only One Cent per Square Foot. 
PETER UtJUYEE & CO., 
215 GREENWICH and 68 & 70 VE8EY STREET. 
Please mention this paper. NEW YORK. 
HARTFOUI> 
Wire Netting Co. 
MAXt-FACTCRER OF 
PO l TL TR V NETTING , 
HARTFORD, CT. 
Manufacture the best and sell 
the cheapest. Send stamp for 
prices. Mention this paper. 
CANT BE BEAT! 
THE “STANDARD” 
WIRE NETTING 
POULTRY FENCE. 
Only One Cent per Square Foot, for 2-inch 
Mesh, No. 19 Wire, 
IN BALKS OF 150 LINEAL FEET. 
Hatchers. Brooders. Poultry Houses, etc. Supplies 
of all kinds for the Poultry Yard, Dog Kennel, aud 
Garden. Write for Circular. 
Broc’kncr & Evans, 
(Formerly 422 West St,' -JN Vm*y Street, N, Y, 
