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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 10 
Catalogues for 1900. 
John Lewis Childs, Floral Park, New 
York.—Catalogue of seeds, ornamental 
and fruit plants, 156 pages, colored cov¬ 
er and six colored plates. One of the 
finest catalogues published. An im¬ 
mense selection of plants and seeds are 
described and offered. The great nov¬ 
elty of the year is the Giant-flowering 
Caladium, New Century, which we are 
not at all acquainted with. Twelve new 
geraniums are offered as the best of their 
respective colors. The Diadem tomato 
and Striped eggplant are pretty novel¬ 
ties, but do not possess much special 
value otherwise. Some new Gladioli of 
the highest excellence are first offered. 
We are glad to see some prominence 
given to the lovely little evergreen 
shrub, Daphne Oneorum. It is worthy of 
its popular name of Garland flower, and 
many think it possesses the most de¬ 
licious perfume of all cultivated plants. 
The Livingston Seed Co., Columbus, 
Ohio.—Seed annual for 1900; 106 pages, 
lithographed cover, showing the new 
Livingston’s Magnus tomato. Said to be 
entirely unequaled for staking up in the 
opeD field, and for forcing in the green¬ 
house. It is of the purplish crimson col¬ 
or of Beauty and Acme, but thicker 
heavier, and more solid than either. 
Unsurpassed in quality and productive¬ 
ness. Matures so quickly as to render it 
very early. The Livingston Company 
think the Magnus will add to their al¬ 
ready great reputation as introducers of 
new tomatoes. The New Exquisite 
parsley and Large Yellow Globe onion 
are strongly commended. Headquarters 
seed of the Asiatic Winter Pineapple 
muskmelon is listed on page 37. The 
Navy Blue, a sweet pea of “true blue” 
color, is a novelty we have not noticed 
elsewhere. The general selection of 
seeds is large and excellent. 
John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, 
Wis.—Catalogue of farm and garden 
seeds and supplies; 128 pages, litho¬ 
graphed cover and six colored plates of 
various specialties. A number of pages 
are also devoted to small fruits and a 
varied collection of mailing plants. The 
great novelty of the year is speltz, dis¬ 
cussed in The R. N.-Y. for February 24, 
which they say is the grandest and 
noblest cereal ever introduced, destined 
to rescue the farmer from bankruptcy, 
and make him laugh at trusts. It is 
neither wheat, rye, nor barley, but a 
combination of all, yielding 80 bushels 
per acre of richer cereal food than corn, 
and four tons of rich straw hay. Hogs 
yell for it, and cows jump a six-foot 
fence to get at the straw; everything 
goes wild over it, etc. We are not told 
what speltz really is, but from less in¬ 
spired sources we learn 'that it is Triti- 
cum spel'ta, a wheat-like grass which has 
been long grown in southern Europe. 
Its value in this country remains to be 
ascertained. Salzer’s Million Dollar po¬ 
tato, for beauty, healthfulness, vigor and 
yield, seeks an equal. No potato is so 
good, or will make so much money for 
the planter. A million dollars can be 
realized by planting it. and Salzer’s seeds 
for 13 years, as shown by the balance 
sheet attached to a fairy story of phe¬ 
nomenally successful farm life on page 
115 of this remarkable catalogue. Sal¬ 
zer’s Improved Red Wethersfield onion, 
as shown in the colored plate, is as big 
as a pie pumpkin, and yields 1,213 
bushels per acre. Salzer’s Big Four 
Oat Wonder yields 250 bushels per acre. 
Salzer’s Two-foot Long will be given 
away free, as they only yield 160 to 240 
bushels on the same area. Salzer’s All 
Gold, or $3,000 corn, tops the climax at 
363 bushels to the acre; and so it goes 
through hundreds of pages. The Salzer 
Seed Co. have a large trade, and thou¬ 
sands of satisfied customers, who seem 
perfectly able to discount such astonish¬ 
ing statements at their true value. 
Johnson & Stokes, Philadelphia, Pa. 
—Garden and Farm Manual for 1900, 92 
pages; handsome lithographed cover 
and colored plates of specialties in flow¬ 
ers and vegetables. This excellent cata¬ 
logue, as in previous years, is notable 
for having entirely discarded exag¬ 
gerated drawings for purposes of illus¬ 
tration, relying on photographic repro¬ 
duction. The result is most satisfactory, 
as a truthful and accurate idea is gained, 
which is far from being conveyed by the 
overdrawn cuts in many catalogues we 
have received. Quite a formidable list 
of new vegetables are offered, as well as 
all the foreign flower-seea novelties. 
Spark’s Earlyana tomato has been sent 
to Philadelphia market a full week 
ahead of any other kind, notwithstand¬ 
ing the keen competition among the 
growers of the “earliest” tomatoes in 
that vicinity. Less than 4,000 hills 
netted the originator $/25 from his first 
picking last Summer, on account of his 
practical monopoly of the early market. 
It is smooth, and of good size, bright 
red in color. A photograph of a plant 
shows surprising productiveness for an 
extra-early kind. Quicksure is another 
tomato of somewhat similar character. 
A bearing plant is shown in colors. The 
Ruby Dulcet beet is an English novelty 
said to combine extreme earliness with 
high quality and the most attractive 
form. The Shallcross Market Queen 
Lima is a new pole bean offered as the 
handsomest and most prolific of its class. 
The New Giant Valentine bean is con¬ 
sidered a vast improvement on the 
standard variety of that name, and has 
been offered for the last two years. Two 
wax beans, the New Round Pod Kidney 
Wax and Kenny’s Pencil Pod Black 
Wax, are highly extolled. If their 
merits correspond with the length of 
their respective names, they must be 
good indeed. The Golden Gate lettuce 
comes from California, and is said to 
produce large, crisped golden heads in 
the driest kind of weather. The Sweet 
Home muskmelon is recommended for 
its large size, sweetness and high qual¬ 
ity. It is a local sort grown for many 
years by a family of experts. The Nor¬ 
folk Button muskmelon is also offered 
for the first time as an improvement on 
the Jenny Lind type of small, extra- 
early, high-quality melons. Something 
of the kind is badly needed. The Mar¬ 
ket Master pea is introduced as an Eng¬ 
lish variety of the highest merit. One 
of the most interesting pictures is a 
photograph of Pearl millet taken in Au¬ 
gust from seed sown in May. The gen¬ 
eral collection of seeds is very full and 
complete. A few pages are given up to 
plants and small fruits. 
Miss C. H. Lippincott, Minneapolis, 
Minn.—Catalogue of flower seeds, 48 
pages, colored cover and plates of Cal¬ 
ceolarias and sweet-pea blooms. The 
usual dainty and original catalogue is¬ 
sued by this enterprising woman, who 
claims to be the pioneer seedswoman of 
America. Only nower seeds are sold, 
and the number of seeds in packets of 
each variety is plainly indicated. 
My father had A SKVKKK CASK OF PLEU¬ 
RISY, and was completely prostrated. His phy¬ 
sician treated him with all the skill at his com¬ 
mand, but the patient only appeared to grow 
worse. We finally resorted to the use of Jayne's 
Expectorant with the most happy results, for a 
few bottles of this medicine restored him to his 
usual health. —THEO. RICHARDS, Stewart, Min 
nesota, October 15, 1895. 
The Family Pill—Jayne’s Sanative.— Adv. 
A College Education 
is the best life equip¬ 
ment that can be pro¬ 
vided for a young- man 
or a young woman. 
Everybody can’t afford 
it, but every man who 
keeps a dozen or more 
cows may easily do so. 
A Sharpies Separ¬ 
ator of the Little 
Giant or Safety 
Hand pattern will,.in 
a short time, make ex¬ 
tra butter enough to 
pay for a college education for each 
member of your family. Send for Cata¬ 
logue No. 25. 
The Sharpies Co , P. M. SHARPLES, 
Canal <fc Washington Sts., West Chester, Pa., 
CHICAGO. U. S. A. 
EMPIRE 
CREAM SEPARATORS. 
Do you know 
them ? They are 
superior to all 
others in points 
that mean money. 
Being lightest 
running, they 
save work. They 
miss less than 
one-tenth of one 
per cent, of the 
butter fat. They 
increase quantity of butter. These 
are part of their advantages. 
Write to-day for illustrated free catalogue. You 
need it if you own three cows. It tells how to 
increase your butter output by 25%. 
U. S. BUTTER EXTRACTOR CO., 
212 High Street, Newark, N. J. 
THE BEST BUTTER 
and the most of it is made by using 
our improved patent 
AQUATIC CREAM SEPARATOR. 
Ittakesall thecream out of milk, expels all foul odors 
and impurities in two hour’s time. Better than any 
^creamery made and costs le*>8 than half as much. For 1 
II cow up to 40. Can’t get out of order. No experience 
necessary. Prices. $5. to $11. Free catalogue and tesii- 
* monials. Reliable Agents Wanted. 
Aquatic Cream Sep’ tor Co. 173FactorySq. Watertown,N.Y. 
99 
1900 “ALPHA-BABY 
CREAM SEPARATORS 
Great as has been the previous superiority of the “Alpha” 
De Laval machines to other separators, the 20TH 
CENTURY “Alpha” developments place them still 
further above the possibilities of attempted competition 
from anything else in the shape of a cream separator. 
NEW STYLES, CAPACITIES AND PRICES. 
Old Style “Hollow-Bowl” Baby No. 1 
Old Style “Strap” Humming-Bird, 
Improved “Crank” Humming-Bird, 
Improved Iron-Stool Baby No. 1, - 
Improved Iron-Stool Baby No. 2, - 
Improved High-Frame Baby No. 2, 
Improved High-Frame Baby No. 3, 
Improved Dairy Steam-Turbine, 
Send for “20tli Century" catalogue. 
150 lbs., - 
$50.00 
175 lbs., - 
50.00 
225 lbs., - 
65.00 
325 lbs., - 
100 00 
450 lbs., - 
125.00 
450 lbs., - 
125.00 
850 lbs., - 
200.00 
850 lbs., - 
225.00 
The De Laval Separator Co. 
General Offices: 
74 CORTLANDT STREET, 
NEW YORK. 
Randolph & Canal Sts., 
Chicago. 
1102 Arch Street, 
PHILADELPHIA. 
103 &• 105 Mission St., 
San Francisco. 
327 Commissioners St 
Montreal. 
FIG. I 
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COMPETITORS HAVE FRANKLY ADMITTED THAT 
The Improved U. S. Separators 
ARE THE BEST SKIMMERS ON THE MARKET. 
We illustrate herewith our new corrugated bowl, which is 
giving such perfect satisfaction, and which does not require hot 
water to flush. A small quantity of skimmilk does the work thor¬ 
oughly—more so than competitors that have central tubes and a 
multiplicity of discs for the cream to stick to, as the U. S. has 
neither. Competitors, in their efforts to find something to check 
the 
Victorious Progress of the United States, 
have tried to make a big bugbear of using hot water to flush the 
FiG. 6 trf bowl, but now this, their last criticism, is overcome, and they are 
at loss to know what to harp on to prejudice purchasers against 
the Improved U. S. and reduce the constantly increasing sales. 
Write for our 1900 or “New Century’’ catalogue giving full 
particulars. 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, Vt. 
if skimmed with a National Hand 
Separator, is worth as much as live 
cows’ milk skimmed the old way. You 
can save enough cream with this sepa¬ 
rator to pay for it. It saves work and 
gains time. It’s the easiest running 
hand separator built. We’ll prove it 
by giving you the use of a 
National Separator 
for ten days free. We will send you 
one without charge, to test for ten days 
in competition with any other separa¬ 
tor. Then if it doesn’t prove to be all 
we claim, send it back at our expense. 
Full particulars free. 
National Dairy Machine Co., Newark, N. J. 
Profitable Cows 
will quickly be found by using our 
ADJUSTABLE DIAL 
HAND SCALE 
Weighs quickly and accurately in pounds 
and twentieths. Write for new catalogue. 
Everything for the Dairy. 
THE DAIRYMEN S SUPPLY CO., 
last Market St., Philadelphia. 
Fiitures, Door Frames, Doors, 
Eoops and Hoop Lags. 
WILLIAMS MFG. CO. 
KALAMA7TTQ, MICH. 
Howto Build, Operate,Repair 
Valuable and interesting Points 
on 8 eed and Feed. 
AMERICAN SILO-SEED CO., 
Buffalo, N Y 
If y... |lf!_ L to know how to raise CALVE 8 
lOU TVISI1 cheaply and successfully with¬ 
out milk, write to J. W. BARWKLL. Waukegan Ill 
SHOWS A PROFIT. 
The feeding of .stock governs the 
profits in keeping stock. Victor Corn 
and Oat Feed has never failed to 
yield a profit. It is safe, sure and 
successful. It is analyzed and pro¬ 
portioned in our own laboratories. 
Every bag is warranted to contain 
8.23 per cent, protein, and 3 per 
cent. fat. 
Every bag is warranted free from 
dirt. 
Every bag is sealed with our own 
seal. 
Never buy an unsealed bag. If you 
can find a dealer who doesn’t keep 
Victor Corn and Oat Feed write us. 
About our book. One man writes: 
“Send me another Victor Book quick. 
I loaned mine to a friend. He read 
it, and won’t give it back.’’ 
We sent him another. We’ll send 
you one also,— free, if you will send 
your name. 
Address Science Department, 
THE AMERICAN CEREAL CO., 
1339 Monadnock Bldg., Chicago, III. 
