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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 27 
$300 Cash Prizes $300 
Last Subscription Contest 
1896-97. 
Our last subscription contest for the 
season 1896-7 will begin March 1, and 
end May 1. There will be 25 sweep- 
stakes cash premiums given May 1 for 
the largest 25 clubs. There will be $100, 
$50, $25, $15, $10, and 20 premiums of $5 
each. No matter whether the clubs are 
large or small, the largest five clubs will 
get the first five premiums, amounting 
to $ 200 . One of the $5 premiums will 
be sent to every agent who has sent 20 
or more names during this contest. This 
assures a $5 premium to every club of 
20 , besides commissions and weekly 
premiums. 
uThen the six agents who send the 
largest six clubs during the week will 
receive $2 eve ry Saturday night, but no 
week’s premium will be sent to any 
agent who sends less than five yearly 
subscriptions during that week. There 
will be weeks when less than six agents 
will send five names each, so any agent 
who sends five names in a week will be 
practically sure of the $ 2 . In addition 
to the 25 sweepstakes premiums, and 
the weekly premiums, the regular com¬ 
mission will be allowed on all subscrip¬ 
tions as sent in. Any agent may send 
in four names with $4 and get his own 
renewal free, and these names will 
count for the premiums if he send more 
names. Renewals count the same as 
new names, four three-months or two 
six-months count the same as one yearly. 
Subscriptions may be taken for the rest 
of this year for 75 cents, and each one 
will count as three-quarters of a yearly 
for commission and premiums. Here is 
a nice lay-out of cash. Do you want a 
share of it ? 
The Rural New-Yorker, New York. 
bed with me. I have to thank you lor a very 
great amount of help during the past year, and I 
have started on some new lines through what I 
have found in The R. N.-Y. I have five acres 
seeded to grass on Mr. Clark’s system, or as near 
it as I could manage. I have also started a 
bottled-milk route, and the prospects of a paying 
trade are good; all I know about it to start with, 
I owe to The R. N.-Y., besides a great many other 
things. One I must mention: I saw what was 
said of Breed’s weeder in one issue, and ordered 
one; last year, I never had a hoe in my potatoes, 
and never had a cleaner patch. When the tops 
died down, I had nothing but clean ground. Then 
from an ad in The R. N.-Y. X ordered a potato 
digger, and hustled out the tubers by horse 
power, so that I had the cleanest and cheapest 
lot of potatoes I ever grew. There, you have 
more of a letter than I intended to write you, but 
I think it’s only justice to you that subscribers 
should tell you how much they are helped by your 
valuable paper. a. m. k. 
Nyack, N. Y. 
That’s all for this week ! You can see 
now why these men belong to The R. 
N.-Y. family. They learn what other 
people are up to. Some hint or thought 
starts them on a new track. Now, then, 
my friend, during the coming year, we 
shall continue our policy of hunting for 
the best and most useful ways of doing 
things. If you want to sit at table with 
the men who are investigating and try¬ 
ing to get ahead—come with The R. 
N.-Y.! That is all this week—more 
later ! 
The annual meeting of the Illinois Stock Breed¬ 
ers’ Association will be held in the Capitol, 
Springfield, February 26, at 10 a. m. Presidents 
of the cattle breeders’, horse breeders’, sheep 
breeders’, swine breeders’ and poultry breeders’ 
associations will each deliver addresses. 
The 12th annual meeting of the Holstein-Fries- 
ian Association of America will be held at the 
Iroquois Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., March 17, at 10 
o'clock, a. m., for the election of officers and the 
transaction of other business. A number of 
amendments to the by-laws will be proposed. F. 
L. Houghton, secretary, Brattleboro, Yt. 
At the recent annual meeting of the National 
Dairy Association, Ex-Governor Hoard, of Wis¬ 
consin was elected president; W. K. Boardman, 
of Iowa, vice-president; H. B. Gurler, of Illinois, 
treasurer; Chas. Y. Knight, Chicago, secretary, 
and a vice-president for each State. Resolutions 
were adopted relative to the death of the late 
president, Congressman Hatch, of Missouri. Re¬ 
solutions were also adopted, asking the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture to cooperate with the Dairy 
Association in the fight against dairy substitutes. 
AS WE GO TO PRESS. 
"HELP." 
Owing to a pressure of more pressing 
matters, we have not been able to “ Go 
To Press” of late. Our department of 
space is not very spacious at best this 
week—therefore, it will be necessary 
for us to be brief. Without further 
hem or haw, we will introduce the fol¬ 
lowing testimony: 
Saved by the Dairy. 
Please extend my subscription to 1897, as it 
would be like hauling a two-horse load with one 
horse for me to get along without The R. N.-Y. 
I cannot tell you how much I am obliged to you 
for the paper, for I think that if I had not had the 
encouragement of it, I would not be able to send 
you the money to-day. I was in debt, so bad that 
I did not know whereto look; my little farm was 
mortgaged for all it was worth, and I had some big 
store debts. I read about Mr. Francisco starting 
in the dairy, so I started into the dairy business 
with one cow of my own and one that I bought, 
to pay $4 per month; the first day I sold one pint 
of milk, the first month 88 worth, and now I have 
14 cows and sell from $150 to 8180 worth per 
month. Besides my cows, I have seven heifers 
from four months old to yearlings. I have but 30 
acres of land, and keep three horses and the cows 
in rough feed, buying my grain feed. These cows 
have bought and paid for themselves, paid part 
of the mortgage and stumped 10 acres, at a cost 
of $110 for powder alone, built a barn costing 
$300 for material, paid for pump and pipe to 
bring water 300 feet to house and barn, and all 
old store debts and several other things too num¬ 
erous to mention. So you see why it is that I can’t 
do without The R. N.-Y. I don’t know whether 
you will call this success or not, but if I suc¬ 
ceed in making a success and getting out of debt, 
I shall try to write you a history of my farming. 
I have not had one cent of money from outside 
of my farm to do what I have done, but made 
every cent on the farm. Hoping you a big sub¬ 
scription list for the year, and thanking you for 
your kindness, I remain, c. F. K. 
Pennsylvania. 
There are always some folks who 
want more than one witness. All right 
—here you are again : 
Helped by Reading. 
I lost the Carman potato I got from you, but 
will save Sir Walter, even if I have to take him to 
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