THE RURAL NEW-YORKEl. 
MARCH 8 
160 
Publish tva’ Desk 
Don’t Try to Teach Me any New 
Tricks. 
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The R.K-Y. proposes to keep 
a representative “on the road 7 ’ 
writing up special points of in¬ 
terest for farmers. “ Among the 
Asparagus Growers”—see page 
163—is the first of a series of 
articles descriptive of actual farm 
practices. Other accounts of 
special farm industries will fol¬ 
low. 
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HINTS ON ADVERTISING. 
HOW SHREWD USERS OF PRINTER’S INK TEST 
MEDIUMS. 
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ing medium gives to the initiated and ex¬ 
perienced advertiser, proofs of such fact in 
every line of the paper and in every item of 
its management and equipment. Circu¬ 
lation is something that, nowadays, un¬ 
fortunately, is lightly claimed without 
truth or foundation, but the claim if true, 
is substantiated to the knowing ones by the 
paper itself. If, for instance, you find a 
newspaper that has lived and flourished on 
its own income for a great number of years, 
while all those about it have died or been 
swallowed by rival concerns; if it be pub¬ 
lished in a good territory, with excellent 
train facilities that enable it to reach, 
shortly after the hour of publiction, all 
points of that territory; if the general ap¬ 
pearance of the paper indicates prosperity ; 
if its news columns bristle with interesting 
matter that can only be obtained by the 
expenditure of money and the possession of 
enterprise. * * * If its space commands 
a good price and its advertisers display en¬ 
terprise and knowledge of advertising 
methods; if its press facilities are such as 
are demanded only by large circulation ; if 
it is never known to cut its advertising 
rates. * * * And, in fact, if it answers 
the thousand and one little tests that the 
shrewd advertiser so well knows how to 
apply, then does it become an easy matter 
for such a paper to maintain a reputation 
as an advertising medium without recourse 
to disreputable methods.— Sacramento 
Bee. 
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When I sent for a sample I did not believe 
that I would care to take any Eastern 
paper ; but I find that I cannot do without 
it; so I inclose $2 for a year’s subscription. 
I find everything in it worth recording, 
even in those lines that are foreign to my 
own special interests.—J. B. U., Rockford, 
Ill. 
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PLEASE WRITE A POSTAL CARD. 
T HE R. N.-Y. offers special low terms 
for short-time trial subscriptions, 
by which thousands, literally, are becom¬ 
ing acquainted with the paper. Any of 
our friends who would like to help in this 
good work, and also earn a few dollars in 
this dull season, will write us a postal card 
something like the following: 
Send terms for introduction. 
JOHN DEE, 
Deeville, N. Y. 
A prompt reply trom the Rural will tell 
the whole story in a few words. 
Readers will kindly bear in 
mind that the R. N. -Y. clubs with 
all respectable periodicals and 
will guarantee to them the low¬ 
est possible combination rates. 
We cannot afford the space 
which a standing list in detail 
would require. The following 
may serve as illustrations : 
J. M. Thorburn & Co., 
15 John Street, New York. 
SEEPS I SEEDS I SEEPS I 
In our New Catalogue for 1890 
Will be found everything In seeds worth having. The following are justly celebrated, and no one with a garden 
should be without them : 
R. N.-Y. and the New York Weekly 
World, $2.25. 
R. N.-Y. and the Chicago Inter-Ocean, 
$2.50. 
R. N.-Y. and the Chicago Weekly 
Tinros ^2 
R. N.-Y. and the Detroit Free Press, 
Thorburn’s Heart’s Content Celery: 
The Ideal Celery of the year. Per packet, 25 cents; per ounce, $2,00. 
Thorburn’s Ever-bearing Cucumber: 
This new continuously bearing Cucumber is now Introduced for the first time. Per packet, 15 cents. 
Thorburn’s Market Gardeners’ Private Stock Lettuce: 
The finest, large, solid head*. Per packet, 10 cents; per ounce, 80 cents: per pound, $3.00. 
$2.50. 
R. N.-Y. and Harper’s Magazine, $5. 
R. N.-Y. and The Century, $5.50. 
R. N.-Y. and American Garden, $3. 
R. N.-Y. and Christian Union, $4.50. 
Rural New-Yorker No. 2 Potato: 
Send for descriptive circular of this famous an 1 unique potato. By mall, per pound, 25 cents ; per 
barrel. $ 8 . 00 . 
Station Upright Tomato: 
A Tree Tomato, earliest of all, now Introduced for the first time. Per packet, 15 cents. 
In Flower Seeds 
Wftus of X\)t Wuk. 
Also 
Will be found the celebrated Chrysanthemum Multieaulc. Per packet, 25 cents. 
Crozy’s Celebrated Carina Seed. Per packet. 25 ecu s. 
Amaryllis “Empress of India” Seed. Per packet. 50 cents. 
Eckford’s Celebrated Sweet Peas. Per packet, 10 cents 
HOME NEWS. 
The ''ew Ja»nn Lilac Seed (foliage from 4 to 6 Inches long). Per packet. 25 cents ; per ounce, $2.00. 
The IVew Japan Shrub, Htyrax Jnponica. Per packet, 15 cents ; per ounce, 40 cents 
The Great Japan Climber, Actinidia Kokinva. rer packet 25 cents; per ounce, $3 00 . 
Japan Ginkgo Nuts, a beautiful ornamental tree. Per ounce, 20 cents, etc., etc. 
Saturday. March 1,1890. 
The Canadian-born population of the 
United States is reckoned at 2,500,000, to 
say nothing of the great numbers of Euro¬ 
pean immigrants to the Dominion who set¬ 
tled there for a while and then crossed the 
border, although the passage money of 
many of them was paid, in whole or part, by 
the Canadian Government. A motion is 
before Parliament, at Ottawa, looking to 
some means of stopping or at least check¬ 
ing the exodus. 
After all, the landing depot for immigrants 
at this port is to be on Bedlow’s Island un¬ 
der the Statue of Liberty. Recent surveys 
assign the island to N. J. The military 
authorities on Governor’s Island strongly 
objected to its location there. 
.There’s a rumor abroad that the com¬ 
mission of engineers appointed by the 
French Government to examine the Pana¬ 
ma Canal will make an adverse report. If 
so, the work will be abandoned to the ruin 
or great embarrassment of nearly a million 
investors. Perhaps American or other 
capitalists will buy the works up “fora 
song” and complete the canal. 
.The American Cotton Seed Oil Com¬ 
pany—the two-year-old rival of the Cotton 
Seed Oil Trust—is getting along famously. 
It has just increased its capital stock from 
$20,000,000 to $30,000,000.There’s a 
rumor of a Cotton Duck and Sheeting 
Trust or Syndicate.A Cigarette 
Trust is the latest. The American Tobac¬ 
co Company has made a contract with the 
Bonsack Cigarette Machine Company for 
the use of 100 of its machines for three 
years for $250,000 a year, and $2,500 apiece 
per annum for any more that may be 
wanted. The company had already nearly 
a monopoly of the business and the ma¬ 
chines will enable it to make cigarettes so 
cheaply as to force all rivals to join it or 
quit the business . 
Wyoming, very properly, wants to be a 
State. She has 97,883 square miles of area, 
vast resources, and, in 1888, polled 18,010 
votes. A bill admitting her has been re¬ 
ported favorably to the House. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Aspinwall 
POTAT 
PLANTER 
MFG. cn 
THREE RIVERS, MICH 
Write for illustrated circular. 
Mention this paper. ■— 
nRFFB’Q SEEDS, PLANTS, 
UTVCCrV O BULBS it REQUISITES. 
Have been sown, planted and used by many successful cultivators for over linlf 
a Century. Our liberal treatment of all in the past is sufficient assurance for 
the future. 1 F« avoid sensational and impassible novelties, so the beginner as well as 
the experienced grower may relv on descriptions of varieties and prices offered in 
DREER’S GARDEN CAllNDAR-^S^J»^™*&iaS: 
and should be in the hands of every one who has a garden. Mailed on receipt of 
postage! HENRY A DREER, 714 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. 
W GOLD MEDALS 
Besides SILVER MEDALS and FIRST PREMIUMS 
too numerous to mention, have been AWARDED the 
COOLEY CREAMER 
AND PRODUCTS 
REMEMBER that tlic Cooley Creamer 
has a patented process different from all 
other cream raisers or separators that 
gives it its WONDERFUL SUPERIOR¬ 
ITY in quantity undqiiality of product. Noothcrscan legally use it 
Send for Illustrated Pamphlet. Free to all. Manufactured by 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, Vt. 
PAPER 
THE U A.I>< YMtilIS'lS FHIWND 
The Cheapest. The Best. The Highest Quality. 
, . . ... Over 10 , 00(1 progressive cieamerles, dairymen, farmers and 
dealers indorse It In place of muslin or wax paper, for wrapping Butter, Cheese, Laro, Meat Sausage, Etc.. Etc. 
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Send for samples and testimonials to dealers in Dairy Supplies, or 
ELLIOT & CO., Paper Manufacturers, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Saturday, March 1,1890. 
The people of Queensland and New South 
Wales have built 887 miles of fencing 
against the rabbit pest. All exterminators 
have hitherto failed.Stories of 
horrible outrages on political prisoners in 
Russia are shocking the civilized world. 
Delicate and refined ladies are said to have 
been flogged to death, while others have 
committed suicide to escape unbearable 
brutality, and others have been driven in¬ 
sane by terrible tortures. Some of the 
Pi.srdliUHou.si gulmfiisittg. 
S END 10 Cts. In COO UflRII Produce Commls 
P.Ostampsto L. a U. TTMnU, sion Merchants, 
for circular about Hhipplng Produce Also recipe 
for Preserving Eggs, Established 1845. 
Mo. 27 8 Washington Hi., Mew York Cltv 
SEED POTATOES 
Choice selected Houlton, Aroostook Co., 
Maine, Early Rose, Beauty of Hebron, and 
all other well known varieties. For sale by 
W. E. DUItYEA’S SONS, 
Produce Commission Merchants, 119 Warren St. N. Y 
ClTOPTr FAT? AT For Sale. 180 ACRES. 
^ A/LvlA. T 2 A run 40 at . ro8 white oak timber. 
Soil first-class for wheat. Never-falling springs Orig¬ 
inally two farms. F. H. Honeywell. Meadville, Pa. 
MWILLIHMS 
For full particulars address 
ST. JOHNSVILLE AGR’L WORKS. 
St. Johuavillc, Montgomery Co., New York. 
999,999 FARMERS WANTED 
.from everv State and Territory to send foj 
free trial Maniple of STEWART'S CEEE- 
. -'BBATKIl CLARKE (OISTT CHAM- 
1 ION WHITE CORN. A very prolific Ninety Day Corn. I ‘25 Du. having been raised on a single 
aere. Send three two-eent stamps for sample to pav postage, and our Catalogue of Tested Flower, 
Held and Garden Seeds. THE J. D. STEWART SEED CO.. .SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. 
FARM ANNUAL 
handsomely illustrated with colored 
plates painted from nature, tells all aboutthe 
including RARE NOVELT IES of sterling merit, 
which cannot be obtained elsewhere. Itis mailed FREE 
to all who want really first-class Warranted Seeds. 
BEST SEEDS 
W^^^URPE^^ajPhiladelphia^a. 
PEERLESS CREAMERY 
Absolute Perfection 
for Best Quality Butter. 
R UTTER W ORKER 
AlaoCHURNS,POWER BUTTER WORK¬ 
ERS, PR INTERS. SHIPPINC BOXES. 
Send for my HIub. Catalogue of New and Valu¬ 
able CREAMERY PLAN and valuable in¬ 
formation for Creamery men and Butter Factories 
CREAMERY-SUPPLIES. 
• 30th and Market Streets, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
Hudson * •Bicycle’ Potato Cultivator. 
Easy. Vast Fine. No more of horse 
snatching, cart steering, and tram 
“-pling down crops. No more hold- 
. i ng plows wit h arms and legs al 1 
day. Half the labor. Any boy can 
‘boo’ potatoes,corn, cotton, truck, 
fast as team can walk. T. B. Terry 
-says * Perfect.’ Dr. Colyer’s lvpm’t 
•is “Nearest Ideal Cultivation.'’ 
Order Early. R. H. Agl. Works, RiverHead, M.Y 
F OR prices of the original YONKERS * CLIP¬ 
PER MOWERS, address Clipper Machine 
Works, Keene, N. II. Incorporated 1889. 
XTORtheun-grown seed potatoes. 
JJN 4n Varieties. My *1 collection (by mail) of Potato 
Eyes defies all compel It Ion. Price-list Free. Address 
S. FROGNKR, Herman, Minn. 
C7C OOf-COCfl OOA MONTH can be made 
S> I IU yZ0U,««—worklugforus. Persons pre¬ 
ferred who can furnish a horse and give their whole 
t i inie to the business. Spare moments may be profitably 
employed also. A few vacancies In towns and cities. 
B. F. JOHNSON & COt, 1009 Main St-, Richmond. V» 
PICKET FENCE MACHINE. 
d*7 
M No twisting of main wires; no sag to 
m fence; pickets easily removed and re¬ 
placed. Write for prices and circular to 
AGENTS LANSING WHEELBARROW CO., 
WANTED. ^_«, Lansing,. Michigan._ 
