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yPFLEMEIST T© THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
THE MAPES 
For POTATOES, CABBAGES, 
TOP-DRESSING GRASS IN SPRING, WHEAT, Etc. 
Prepared Specially for FRUITS and FRUIT TREES, 
STRAWRERRIES, RASPBERRIES, and all Small Fruits, 
APPLE, PEAR, PEACH ORCHARDS. 
For Fruit Trees, apply in early Spring. Send postal for Descriptive Circular and Prices. 
THE MAPES FORMULA AND PERUVIAN GUANO COMPANY, 
158 FRONT STREET, NEW YORK. 
THE ESTIMATION IN WHICH THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER IS 
HELD. 
I am much pleased with the R. N.-Y, Its 
special uutubcrs and reports upon fruits—es¬ 
pecially small fruits, in the cultivation of 
which I am engaged for market, give your 
paper value with me. R. M. Welles. 
Towanda, Pa. 
i have taken the Rural 19 years, and shall 
c ntintie to take it as long ns 1 can raise two 
dollars. I am takiug two other agricultural 
papers, and I like the Rural the best. Shall 
continue to speak a good word for it, and am 
m holies to get some to subscribe. 
Hudson, Ohio. E. A. Season. 
Wishing a good farm journal I have sent 
for a good many sample copies of different 
ones, among the rest the Rural New-Yorker, 
and after examining them all thoroughly, I 
find your paper stands head and shoulders 
above the rest, and I work on the maxim— 
“ Try all things and hold fast that which is 
good.' 1 Please put my name down for the 
Rural. F. H. Bates. 
Dudley, Wis. 
I like the Rural better each year. I take 
it because it gets right, down to hard-pan, and 
tells what practical men are doing, and how 
they art* doing it, instead of indulging in fine¬ 
spun theories of some dreamer, who never did 
a hard day’s work on a farm in Ins life. 
Whitewater, Wis. Jay D. Standard. 
At the annual meeting of the Kentucky 
Horticultural Society iu Glasgow, Ky., on the 
2d, 8d and 4th of December, 1885, the subject 
of horticultural literature was presented in a 
paper read by J. B. Nall, editor of the Farm¬ 
ers’ Home Journal, and the following dis¬ 
cussion was had : 
A. D. Webb, of Warren County: *'I take 
probably a half dozen papers, and consider 
them all good. The Rural New-Yorker is 
a good paper.” „ , , 
Judge Dulaney, of Warren: “I think the 
Rural New-Yorker is by far the best horti¬ 
cultural paper I take, and 1 take a oozen.” 
1 can truly say I would much rather live on 
one meal a day less through the Winter than 
give up the Rural. Thismay bethought un¬ 
true by some, but it is time. 
I can truly suy that: if the Rural cost 
double its present price I would uot deprive 
myself of its weekly visits—to say nothing of 
its valuable Heed Distribution. You are doing 
a grand and noble work and I sincerely hope 
your life "ill be spared to make the Rural 
all that it can be*. 
Portage Co., Wis. Rev. Charles Smith, 
Wo have taken your excellent paper many 
years, and although we take a good many 
other papers, wo cannot give up the good old 
Rural, and want to increase its circulation. 
Orient, L. I. A. J. Beebe. 
In my estimation the R. N.-Y.. stands at 
the head of the list of Agricultural papers of 
the country and is deserving of the widest cir- 
culatiou. 
Moorton, Del. R. M. Cooper. 
Believing it would bo n great National bene¬ 
fit if you could double your list for the year 
188(5, I wish you the largest success. 
Canon City, Col. Rev. L. J. Templin. 
The premium spoons came to hand all right 
yesterday, aud iu good order. They look very 
nicely. Many thanks to the Rural for so fine 
a present for so little work, and my prayer is 
that, the Rural may go on to perfection, ex- 
awing all of the frauds that may como in its 
ine of advertising. Yours respectfully. 
Binghamton, N. Y. E. Potter. 
Many thanks for free seeds received. They 
are worth the 1 cannot give vent to my 
feelings of respect, aud thankfulness for the 
reliability and general superiority of the 
Rural New-Yorker. Hoping you will always 
be as original au*l impartial in your publica¬ 
tion. I remain. F. W. Wilson. 
Chatham, Canada. 
I wish to add my mite of appreciation to 
the sterling worth of the Rural. It is a com¬ 
mon sense, able, scientific exponent of ad¬ 
vanced agricultural thought, ana progress. Its 
influence and teachings must make every in¬ 
dividual reader a more thorough, painstaking 
aud business-l-ike farmer, auu its value as 
such a teacher is but poorly expressed by its 
extremely low price of subscription. 1 am a 
Rural subscriber, and shall continue to be as 
long as I can appreciate a good investment. 
Troy, N. Y. Marvin E. Stow. 
It affords me great pleasure to read the 
R. N.-Y. Some things that it contains, it, is 
true, attract my attention more than others 
because 1 am more especially interested iu 
them. The various topics of agriculture are 
treated in a plain and practical manner. The 
methods suggested arc in the main suitable for 
the farmer. The brief explanations and kind 
criticisms by the editors, inserted when neces¬ 
sary in t he various themes pertaining to agri¬ 
culture by your intelligent w riters, correct 
many misleading statements and prevent, no 
doubt, numbers from engaging in unwarrant¬ 
able experiments, where money, time ami 
labor would be lost. The torso and direct an¬ 
swers to inquiries in the ‘'Farmers’ Club” 
give much valuable information in a con¬ 
densed form. The exposure of swindlers, 
frauds aud fraudulent concerns in the “Eye 
Opener” forewarns the reader if he but hoed 
the advice. In the '‘Women's” and “Do¬ 
mestic Economy Departments ” there are 
many important, things. The editorials, the 
summary of the home and foreign crop 
reports, the markets, aud bonus foreign aud 
agricultural news arc of special interest. All 
efforts to secure the latest, and most reliable 
Crop reports, both at, home aud abroad, so as 
to be able to prognosticate with some certain 
ty in regard to future prospects, arc highly 
appreciated by the farming community. 
Your positive, "clear, concise and conservative 
views ill dealing with subjects of general in¬ 
terest, as well as your earnest endeavors to 
elevate and ennoble agricultural pursuits, aie 
highly commendable. Samuel G. Encke. 
Albion, Mich. 
I do honestly believe the Rural New- 
Yorker to lie the best agricultural paper m 
the world. There is nothing I can say against 
it, hut a great deal that l can say for it . 
Lewis B. Avery. 
Lenawee Co., Mich. 
Your old friends are not, going to leave you. 
For me to know you once is to keep up that 
acquaintance for life. You come so neur my 
ideal of the right man in the right place, that, 
it would take more ttiau #2,00 a year to drive 
me off. You arc enthusiastic iu the dissemin¬ 
ation of new fruits, Which pleases me, aud yet 
so careful not, to commend until you have 
proof, that, I am saved from disappointment 
and expense. 1 have always believed a straight 
honest course tu business of any kind would 
bring lasting success. 
Leavenworth, Kansas. C. W. Keifeu. 
I am very well pleased with the Rural al¬ 
though I differ with some of the writers and 
correspondents and sometimes with the edito¬ 
rials, vet I consider it honrst in it-s suggestions, 
practical iu its views and fearless in its editor¬ 
ials and a paper that does not try to please 
everybody. It, is just the paper that the pruo* 
tical and experienced farmer or fruit grower 
wants and tliose just, beginning cannot afford 
to b© without it. 1 [uviug nothing to sell and 
no humbugs to impose upon people it fearlessly 
exposes frauds aud aims to keep the eyes of the 
people open. L. M. Loofe. 
Cortlaudt, N. Y. 
We think the Ritual the best agricultural 
journal published and would not try to farm 
without it. Yours Respectfully, 
Parsons, Kansas, M. Walker. 
As long as the Rural continues as good as 
it now is vou may lx* sure of our continued 
support. It undoubtedly takes the lead of all 
the agricultural papers 1 have seen. 
W. A. Bishop. 
Father died on the 20th of December after 
a lingering illness, but he told me before he 
died not to give up the Rural. So you will 
find enclosed 82.00 for renewal for another 
year. 
Nanticoke, Ont. John Lindsay. 
I regard your paper as one of the best two, if 
not the best, weekly published and you will 
find, that 1 not only renewed my subscription 
but sent, three new ones. 
Boston, Mass. C. B. Faxon. 
There is not, a paper in this Country that, 
fills the bill in every respect (to my notion of 
a paper) like the tlUBAt. New-Yorker. I 
have taken it at, different times ever since it 
was published by D. D. T. Moore at. Roches¬ 
ter arid I think there is a steady change for 
the 1 tetter every year. God bless the old 
Rural and long may it live to muke the life 
of the farmer brighter. 
Oakland, Mich. D. P. Tucker. 
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