THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MARCHES 
1 78 
Rough on Rogues .” 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
march. 
Monday kook out for that “ Preserving 
I ^ Solution ” made out West. You 
■ will not preserve your health by us¬ 
ing it. Look out for sharpers who try to 
sell an interest in patent fire kindlers. 
A our signature will be apt to turu up at 
the end of the note. Look out for the man 
who wants to leave some tools in your barn 
and take your receipt for their safe keep¬ 
ing. 
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Tuesday Look out for cheap “electrical” 
| o appliances, said to cure various 
1 diseases. Your health will be 
better if you generate your own electricity 
over some useful work. Look out for that 
fraud in Western New York who claims to 
breed Shetland ponies and fancy poultry. 
He moves to Canada every now and then. 
Pugsley is the name he uses most fre¬ 
quently. 
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Wednesday Befcter lo ° k out for b. k. 
I q Brant who offers a free town 
lot in Midland County, Texas. 
Land offered for nothing is worth just that. 
After you get your deed, tax and “ record¬ 
ing” charges will follow till the bill foots 
up to £37.50 per acre worth fifty cents. 
Thursday N.-Y. day again. Look out 
2 q that the paper is filed away after 
reading, 
read Proverbs 19: 8. 
Look out that you 
Friday Book out t^at y° u cure y° urse if 
ry | of the idea that this is an “un- 
^ ' ■ lucky day.” Look out that you 
shoot that thief in your barnyard. He is 
a drain that sucks the best part of your 
manure away. Look out that your black¬ 
smith does not cripple your horse. Too 
many of them do just that business. 
subjects treated, from the contents as pre¬ 
sented on pages 1 to 6: 
“ Injurious Insects, with Remedies and 
Preventives, Plant Diseases with Preven¬ 
tives and Remedies, Weeds in General, 
Seed Tables, Weight and Size of Garden 
Seeds, Longevity of Garden Seeds, Proper 
Kinds and Quantities of Seeds for a Model 
Kitchen Garden, Planting Tables, Dates 
of Sowing or Selling Kitchen Garden Veg¬ 
etables in Different Latitudes, Number of 
Plants Required to Set an Acre of Ground 
at Given Distances, What Constitutes 
Wholesale Quantities, Dates at which Va¬ 
rious Fruits and Nuts Appear in Northern 
Markets, Standard and Legal Measures 
and Sizes, Analyses of Animal Excrements, 
Analyses of Various Materials which are 
Used for Fertilizers, Trade Values for 1889 
of Fertilizing Ingredients in Raw Materials 
and Chemicals, Ways of Grafting and 
Budding, Particular Methods by which 
Various Fruits are Multiplied, etc., etc.” 
The book is 6)^x4)^ inches, 236 pages. 
The price is only £1. Address the Garden 
Publishing Company, 10 Spruce Street, 
N. Y. 
■-- 
T he practical horse-shoer is 
a compilation of articles by practi¬ 
cal horse-shoers in different parts of the 
country and treats of every branch of this 
intricate subject. The illustrations are 
numerous and help to elucidate the text 
very clearly. Among other branches of 
this subject treated are several special 
styles of tools, devices for shoeing vicious 
horses and mules, on the proper treatment 
of contracted feet, corns, quarter-cracks, 
split hoofs, knee sprung, fiat-footed or 
club-footed horses, and interfering and 
overreachiug. Horse owners, and especial¬ 
ly farmers, know too little of the science 
and practice of horse-shoeing and trust too 
much to horse-shoers who oftentimes know 
as little as themselves of the structure of a 
horse’s foot. Many valuable horses are 
ruined evers' year, which might be saved 
by a little easily-acquired knowledge on 
this subject. This book imparts this infor¬ 
mation. One feature of it cannot be too 
strongly condemned. A chapter is added as 
an argument for docking, one of the most 
senseless, barbarous atrocities ever perpe¬ 
trated upon the horse. We regret that an 
otherwise valuable and commendable book 
should support such an objectionable prac¬ 
tice. It contains about, 280 pages, is bound 
in cloth and sells for $1.00. M. T. Richard¬ 
son, publisher, New York. 
Saturday 
Look out for that “ old and re- 
rtn tired physician whose sands of 
life are nearly run out.” He 
wants to give you a cure for consumption. 
The “sands” were running 25 years ago. 
Let them run on. The “cure” that he 
sends you will cost more than it comes to. 
Look out for one Cavan of New York and 
Ontario. He claims to import Berkshire 
pigs for sale. When money is sent him he 
pockets it and delays shipment as long as 
possible. 
BOOK REVIEW. 
H ORTICULTURIST’S RULE BOOK. 
—We have never seen in any similar 
treatise a collection of facts so comprehen¬ 
sive, so practically instructive, so concisely 
and accurately stated. L. H. Bailey, the 
author, graduated at the Michigan Agricul¬ 
tural College in 1882. In 1885, he was ap¬ 
pointed Professor of Horticulture,which po¬ 
sition he filled for two years in a way that 
won for him a high reputation for careful, 
thorough, well-conceived and executed 
work. In 1887, he was induced to resign nis 
position in favor of Cornell, in which Uni¬ 
versity he has since continued his studies 
and investigations with unabated zeal, one 
of the many results of which is the little 
book.announced above. 
The Horticulturist’s Rule Book defines 
its contents as well as they can be defined by 
a single comprehensive word. While it is 
specifically intended for the gardener, the 
florist, the entomologist, the botanist, the 
pomologist, it is generically. if we may so 
say, no less valuable as a reference book for 
the farmer. It is so crammed with pithy 
facts which convey the latest and most 
trustworthy information on the subjects 
treated up to the close of 1889, that any 
idea of its contents can be conveyed in a 
brief review only in the most general way. 
We may select at random a few of the 
T HE enterprising firm of Lee & Shep 
ard are putting forth a Series oi 
Picturesque Geographical Readers, the 
first of which is now on our table. It 
would seem almost impossible to improve 
this book in any way. It is from the pen 
of Chas. F. King, Master of Dearborn 
Grammar School, Boston, and is based on 
the idea that a true conception of geogra 
phy can only be formed through travel or 
from pictures. In accordance with this 
idea, the book is fully illustrated with more 
than 125 pictures, to explain the text, and 
make it more interesting. It is as attrac¬ 
tive as a story book—indeed, it is a con¬ 
nected story in form, and it contains all 
the information that we of the last genera¬ 
tion struggled over in “ Monteith’s First 
Lessons,” sugar-coated so that the chil¬ 
dren will absorb it, and never know they 
are studying. An excellent work for sup¬ 
plementary reading, in schools where it can 
not be used in regular classes. The price 
is attractive too: 50 cents, or 60 cents by 
mail. Light cloth; by 8 inches; 226 
pages. 
PtercUnncous’ §Mvnti.$ing. 
THE PURINTON STEAM GENERATOR 
18 THE REST ARTICLE ON EARTH 
For cooking any kind of food for stock. Cooks, Lolls 
cams anything with economy and dispatch. 
Made of boiler-plate steel! 
Safe, durable and substantial! 
Nothing to get out of order! 
Freezing does not damage It I m 
Easy to manage as a stove ! 
We sell more than all others comb'n’d 
Has always given satisfaction! 
It will suit you. 
Investlgateand you wlllbuy noother 
i?r- we also make Tank Heaters 
and 2-4-6 Horse Boilers and Engines 
J. K. PURINTON & CO. 
lls.Mnlns.. 
IOWA. 
Hudson . ‘Bicycle’Potato Cultivator. 
pi Easy. Fast Fine. No more of horse 
Trail -.’ll snatching, cart steering, and tnim 
• filing down crops. No more hold- 
• ing plows with arms and legs all 
day. Half the labor. <Any boy can 
‘hoe’ potatoes, corn, cotton, truck, 
fast as team can walk. T. 15. Terry 
lays * Perfect.' Dr. Colyer's report 
____Fis "Nearest Ideal Cultivation." 
Order Early. R, H. Agl. Works, RiverHead, N.Y 
and Itlantsk 
ernes. 
We make a speciai- 
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L'OUO. ■T' jJqq,. cu it ur e and 
\ Small Fruits for the 
^ garden. Our stock 
and facilities are the 
most complete in 
the U. S. Also 
Fruit and Orna¬ 
mental Trees of all kinds, of the finest quality 
and at lowest prices Lovett’s Guide to Hor¬ 
ticulture, a profusely illustrated book of 90 
pages, gives instructions for purchasing, plant¬ 
ing, culture, etc., and descriptions with both 
defects and merits. It is mailed free or with 
colored plates for 10c. 
Trees and Plants by Mail a Specialty. 
J. T. LOVETT CO., Little Silver, N.J. 
JOHN SAUL’S 
WASHINGTON NURSERIES. 
Our Catalogue of \cw, Rare and Ileaiitiful 
Plftnts for 18110, will he ready in February. 
It eontatns list of all the most Beautiful and Hare 
Greenhouse and Hothouse Plants In cultivation, ns 
well as nil Novelties of merit, well grown and at very 
low- prices Every plant lover should have a copy. 
ORCHIDS.— A very large stock of choice East In¬ 
dian. American, etc. Also. Catalogues of Boses, 
Orchids, Seeds. Trees, ere. All free to applicants. 
JOHN SAUL. Washington. O. C. 
Evergreen Hedges. 
Arbor-vltae Seedlings, 50 cents per 1,000. 
Norway Spruce Seedlings. 81 “ “ 
By mail, 50 cents per l.iidO, additional. 
Write for prices on larger sizes and transplanted 
trees Cheapest in America. 
GEORGE IMWEY. K\ ergreen Door Co., Wis. 
IIVIN6ST0NS 
BETTER THAN EVER, 
Our 181*0 Catalogue is a complete Garden 
Guide full of practical idea, about all kludaof 
SEEDS 
V c»a:etnblc«, Flower*, ‘Bulb*, nro*, 
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all who mention thl* paper. With I 
price* lower, quality higher. better fuel 1-1 
Itien for filling onlcr* promptlv. cmeroua I 
treatment ami over 40 year* Seed Farm 1 
experience enable* uh to please vou. 
A.W. LIVINGSTON’S SONS, Box80i>COLCMBUS,0. 
KANSAS SEEDS. 
HEADQUARTERS forAlfalfu.KaflirCorn.MilloMuize, 
Cane, Millet, Johnson and Bermuda grass. Field, 
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Catalog mailed free. R. AXS.VSSEKIHIOIISK. 
F. IIARTEBDHS «fc CO., Lawrence, Kan. 
BERRY GROWERS. 
Improved Folding Paper Berry 
Basket for shipping & delivering. 
Heavier Paper. Square Bail and 
Cover. Send $2. lor 500 baskets 
or a cent stamp for sample 
Detroit Pnper Novelty ©0. 
Detroit* lUclu 
Mention this paper. 
FOREST TREES. 
Catalpa Speciosa, 
White Ash, European 
Larch, Pines, Spruces, 
Arbor Vita's, etc., etc, 
■' Catalpa Speciosa Seed. 
Forest and Evergreen 
Seeds. 
R.DOUGLAS & SON, 
Waukegan, IIL 
SEEDS. 
FLOWER 
AND 
VEGETABLE. 
Mu. Rawsox grows annu¬ 
ally 10 acres Beets, 10 acres 
Beans, 8 acres Cabbage, 10 
acres Cauliflower, 30 acres 
Celery, 6 acres Onions, 5 
acres Peas, 15 acres Spinach, 20 acres 
Squash, 15 acres Tomatoes, beside other 
vegetables in smaller quantites. Has 10 
acres of Ilot-bcds, II large Greenhouses. 
He uses only such seeds as he takes 
from our stock, many of which are of his 
own growing, and they are such as we 
supply to all our trade, is not this a 
guaranty of their excellence? 
Catalogue (nearly 100 pages) sent on 
application. Special list for market gar¬ 
deners and largj growers. 
W. W. RAWSON & CO; 
34 south market st., boston, mass. 
T> A XTClTTrC - 1 win nay 85.00 for the 
I lAl ioJLJLio, largest Pansy raised from 
my seed. Seeds, 25c. per package. Plants. 2c. each. 
FRANK RAY, Webster, .Mass. 
N ORTHERN-GROWN SEED POTATOES. 
•in Varieties. My 81 mall collection of Potatoes 
defv all competition. Price-list Free. Address 
8 . FROGNER, Herman, Minn. 
F * WILD * 
LOWERS 
Hardy ORNAMENTALS 
in PLANTS, SHRUBS, 
“IN ES, FERNS, 
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JillLLETT k lIOltSFOltl), Southnirk, Mass. 
Itti.o'rcUancoujs Advertising. 
BROAD-GUT 
Center-Draft 
SIZES: 
5,6 and 7 Feet 
Saves over 
half 
in labor, 
and pro¬ 
duces bet¬ 
ter quality 
of hay. An ordinary 
pair of horses will 
handle with ease. A 
niltEt'T I» It \ I T 
wliiil you want. 
EUREKA 
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VI OWE It is 
EUREKA 
SPRING TOOTH 
HHRR0W 
Channel Steel Frame 
which clears all obsta- 
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thusmakinglt the light¬ 
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Send for Circular and Price List. Address *. 
EUREKA MOWER CO. UTICA. N.Y. 
200 
, PEBCHEBONS 
AND 
FRENCH 
COACH HORSES. 
Send for 100 page illustrated 
catalogue. 
JOHN W. AKIN, Scipio, N. 
THE COMING HOG. 
Hot liable to Cholera. 
RAPID GROWTH. SPLENDID 
FOR EXHIBITION. MOST 
PORK FOR FOOD CONSUMED 
2 WEIGHED 2806 LBS 
SHINGLES. 
TIN PLATE 
STEEL PLATE 
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HOG CHOLERA AND SWINE PLAGUE 
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and 
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J. A. SPENCER, Dwight, Ill. 
i for Poultry, Granulated Hone 
and Crushed Oyster Shells, 
Caleite Ground Flint nnd Heel 
Scraps. Send for new price-list. 
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