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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 17 
AS WE GO TO PRESS. 
" QUALITY ." 
When we moved out to the farm this 
spring * 1 * * * * 6 , we had all hands get on to the 
scales so that we might see how much 
we gained during the summer. We 
were all weighed except the Madame. 
She had not stepped on a pair of scales 
in several years, and we find it pretty 
hard to get her to talk about weight. 
Being troubled with what you may call 
a “ forced coinage of weight,” she does 
not care to know how fast the increase 
is made. The children, however, were 
very glad to get on the scales, and they 
are now doing all they can to put on 
several pounds of good hard flesh. They 
are brown as berries in the hot sun, and 
sometimes when they run around bare¬ 
footed all day in the dirt, it is hard to 
tell where the tan begins and the dirt 
ends. But a few minutes in the tub 
soon tell the story, and they are all 
ready for a good sleep and another run. 
When they stood on the scales the 
little girl weighed 30 pounds, while the 
little boy weighed 35, and we observe a 
very singular thing with regard to their 
•‘feeding habits,” if you might put it 
that way. They both stuff all the milk, 
oatmeal, vegetables, fruit and bread 
and butter that they possibly can get 
past their teeth. Yet, while the girl 
grows plump and hard, we can no more 
put flesh on the ribs of the little boy 
than you can fatten a Jersey cow. Every 
one of those ribs will be as plain as day, 
and his little legs and arms are just 
about the shape of pipe stems. Yet, he 
could not by any human possibility, eat 
more than he does, and he seems as well 
and hearty as it is possible for any boy 
to be. The little girl puts on flash that 
is as hard as pork. Her face and neck 
are as brown as a berry, and both the 
children are perfect pictures of health, 
although there is a great difference, as 
I have said, in the way they grow. I 
have seen children eat plenty of good 
food, and turn out soft and flabby flesh 
that has no spring or firmness about it. 
That is the sort of growth that I have 
no use for in my family. I would rather 
have one pound of the hard, sunburnt 
meat that the little girl is making, than 
10 pounds of soft flab that would dry out 
into nothing in 10 days’ sickness. One 
ounce of the little boy’s hard muscle is 
worth five pounds of the pale and color¬ 
less flesh that some children are obliged 
to carry around with them every day. 
Y r ou see it is a question of quality, 
and this same thing holds true to other 
farm products. You take strawberries, 
melons, sweet corn, eggs, live stock, in 
fact any farm product that you may 
mention, and the firm, fine grained, 
solid meat is always worth more than 
the flab and fat. This matter of quality 
runs all through every living thing, and 
my experience has been that nothing in 
life pays so well as does the habit of 
breeding and feeding out the flab and 
producing a hard, firm, fine-grained 
product, whether it be boys and girls, 
strawberries and what not. The same 
thing exactly is true of reading matter. 
Of course you have been expecting 
that this article would take this turn 
before we got done with it. Take farm 
papers if you wish to do so. You under¬ 
stand that it is against our principles to 
talk about The JR. N.-Y. ourselves. But 
just see what this man far off in Australia 
has to say : 
Having been a subscriber to The R. N.-Y. fox- 
several months now, I consider it one of the best 
farmers’papers that I have ever seen, and all 
those to whom I have lent it are equally as em¬ 
phatic as I am. I would not be without it for 
double the price. I received many a worthless 
sa nple of farmers’ papers from America before 
I dropped on to your address. I would like to 
subscribe to another Yankee agricultural paper, 
one from the southern or hot States, d. j. mca. 
Now there is a man who does not believe 
in flab. Good, sound, hard, mental 
muscle is what he is after ; sunburnt by 
exposure on the farm, and fine-grained, 
solid and wholesome food. 
And here is another friend in Minne¬ 
sota. See what he says : 
I do not want to go without The R. N.-Y., as it 
is a part of my balanced ration. 
Now you know just as well as I do that 
in buying our stock foods to make up 
balanced ration, we are obliged to buy 
mostly the muscle-makers or nitrogenous 
parts. We can raise the fat and flab at 
home on the farm, but we buy the 
muscle-makers from some other farm, 
and when this man says that The R. 
N.-Y. balances up his ration, he just the 
same as says that The R. N.-Y. supplies 
the mental muscle to help him out. 
And now let us take this note from a 
friend in New York State : 
I have taken The R. N.-Y. a long time, and I 
think a great deal of it. That is where I got my 
Crimson-clover “ fever.” I plowed under 22 acres 
this year. A 10-acre field makes a nice bouquet, 
that is, it suits my eye. r. c. 
He says that The R. N.-Y. gave him the 
Crimson-clover fever and that nobody 
can tell how much good that fever will 
do him before he gets over it. It is the 
love for warm milk right straight from 
the cow that is doing so much for the 
boy and girl up on the farm, and just 
in the same way, this Crimson-clover 
fever will put new life into this man’s 
soil, and not only save him money, but 
give him more of an eye for the beauti¬ 
ful things that are all around him. 
And here is another man, again from 
New York State : 
We esteem it a pleasure to get your breezy, 
wide-awake paper into the bands of our neigh¬ 
bors, for they cannot have ours unless they will 
return it. n. c. v. 
Now that brings us to the very point we 
are after. A man came to our farm the 
other day looking around to see what 
he could see. He was very much taken 
with a tool that has done good work for 
us this year, and saved us much time and 
labor. We are not agents for the tool, 
and we had no interest in its sale ; but 
we were very glad, indeed, to tell him 
all about it, and urge him to buy one 
himself, because we knew that that tool 
would help him, make money for him, 
and make farm life easier and pleasanter. 
Now here is our New York State friend 
saying that his neighbors cannot have 
his copy of The R. N.-Y., but that he 
will do all he can to get them to take it 
into their own families. That is the 
•point exactly. This paper has helped 
you in various ways. You know that it 
is a good thing, and you know that your 
neighbors would be better off if they 
could have it week after week going 
right into their homes. Now, can’t you 
put two and two together and make four 
out of it ? Why can’t you speak a good 
word when your neighbor comes around 
a little doubtful about the profit or pleas¬ 
ure in agriculture ? Suppose you come 
right straight in and say, “ My friend, if 
you will take The R. N.-Y. for the rest 
of this year, and read it carefully, I am 
just about as certain as I can be that you 
will find it a profitable piece of business. 
I think you will get something out of it 
that will pay you in a business way, and 
that you will get to thinking about some¬ 
thing that will make life a little pleas¬ 
anter and easier for you.” Now that is 
just what we would do about a tool or 
any other device for house or farm that 
pleases us, and we just come to you as 
a straightforward business farmer, and 
want to know why you cannot do the 
same thing now and then. Come now, 
let us get right down to business. We 
want your help and you want The R. 
N -Y. We are going to give you quality 
with the sun and air blown right straight 
into it. We are going to drive all the 
flab out of the paper that we can, and 
give you good, firm, fine-grained muscle. 
And now, just one more thing: We 
are in the book business. We want your 
book trade. We do not want to knock 
you down and say, “ Your book trade 
or your life ! ” because we can live with¬ 
out your book trade, if it is absolutely 
necessary, but we do think that there 
are some books on our shelves that would 
do good missionary work in your home. 
We want to tell you what they are, and 
want to give you the best advice we 
know how, as to what to pick out, and 
when you learn what you want in the 
way of books, we want a fair chance to 
sell them We call that a fair, plain 
business proposition, and we see no rea¬ 
son why you should not come right to 
the front with your good words about 
The R. N.-Y. and your good order for 
books. 
Crimson Clover in Indiana.— My Crimson clover 
Do you have trouble to get the boys or 
hired man up in the morning ? Perhaps 
you have the same trouble with your¬ 
self. The alarm goes off, but you lie 
just a minute longer, and go to sleep 
again and miss the train. What you 
want is this long-alarm clock. It will 
ring 15 or 20 minutes, and make life a 
burden to you until you get up and 
switch it off, which you can do, and stop 
the alarm at once. It is nine inches 
high, cast metal case finished in oxi- 
was sown on ground that had grown potatoes 
which were dug as soon as I could get them off. 
Then the ground was worked and cross-worked 
with a double-share plow, and the seed sown 
about August 24, 1896, with a good rain the same 
day that brought the clover up in three days, till 
it could be seen all over the piece. The soil was 
mostly clay and black land, in the central part 
of the State and about 65 miles east of the experi¬ 
ment station, where Mr. Troop says that it is a 
failure. If he will just come on this way, we will 
show him some mighty nice pieces of Crimson 
clover, and men that intend to sow it every year. 
I, for one. shall sow it wherever I can get it in in 
time to get a start, for I can plainly tell on the 
land where it stood, for there is as much again 
life in the gx-ound as where there is none. But I 
think the land needs to be in good shape before 
it is sown, for I sowed a second piece just one 
week after the first, that bad grown beans, and 
just harrowed it in, and it was a complete 
failure. As for chicken pasture, I don’t think 
it can be beaten, for my chickens would go out 
into the middle of the field all winter long to get 
to it. . c. w. s. 
Franklin, Ind. 
A man fears and 
abhors the high¬ 
wayman who at 
the point of the 
revolver robs him 
of his money. The 
mere thought of 
the ruffian who 
robs by violence 
makes a man 
shudder. There is 
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than the highway¬ 
man that robs men not only of their money, 
but of their ability to make it, and of their 
health and life. And yet men actually court 
the advances of this deadly enemy. Its 
name is consumption. Thousands of bright 
men and women are passive victims in its 
clutch. Its daily victims are numbered by 
thousands. 
A sure cure for this dread disease is found 
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will send you the clock, and the paper a 
year to the new subscriber. In this 
way, the clock will cost you only $1.65 
and express. We will send it for a club 
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it you wouldn’t take $4 for it. We are 
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time to get up, and sure to get up, you 
want this clock. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Corner Chambers and Pearl Streets, New York. 
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~ wooden boxes, weight 20 lbs. You 
neglect small breaks because you have 
no tools to mend them, and forget it 
when you go to town. Another stitch 
breaks, another rivet loosens, and the first 
thing you know the shoe is worthless, the 
tin pail is beyond repair, and the harness 
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This must be a new subscription, The 
price is less than it costs us, but we are 
willing to pay for the work in getting the 
new subscription. We cannot send it at 
this price with a renewal. We make this 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
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