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THE RURAL NEW-Y0RKE1 
APRIL 5 
Publishers’ Desk. 
HOW THEY TAKE IT. 
The proprietors of that admirable gar¬ 
den and floral monthly, The American 
Garden, Messrs. Lawson Valentine and E. 
H. Libby, have purchased The Rural New- 
Yorker. a standard agricultural weekly, 
and assume proprietorship of the latter at 
once. It is understood that the purchase 
price was $100,000. Mr. Valentine is presi¬ 
dent of the Christian Union Company, a 
member of the book publishing firm of 
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., and has made a 
fortune in the manufacture and sale of 
Valentine’s varnish, a good varnish, too. 
Mr. Libby has brought the American Gar¬ 
den from a low estate to a high degree of 
excellence and perfection, giving promise 
that the new deal will be eminently success¬ 
ful. Here’s hoping it may!— Paper World. 
One of the oldest and best known agri¬ 
cultural journals in America is the Rural 
New-Yorker, which has been owned and 
managed by Mr. E. S. Carman for several 
years. Under his management it has 
gained a reputation for reliability and 
sterling worth second to none. We are 
personally acquainted with Mr. Carman, 
and have long thought that if he would in 
some way shift the business management 
on to other shoulders and give his entire 
time and attention to editorial work, for 
which he is so well fitted, even greater suc¬ 
cess would follow. He has long felt that 
he was being taxed beyond his powers in 
trying to manage all the departments of 
his journal (which no man can do on such 
a journal and make a success of them), but 
he disliked the idea of parting with such 
valuable property. The pressure at last be¬ 
came too great; business complications, 
editorial and experiment work, etc., left no 
time for social or home enjoyments, and he 
finally concluded to accept the tempting 
offer of Mr. Valentine, and sold out. He 
is retained as editor-in-chief and the paper 
will still receive the benefit of his labors, 
and we believe it will be better edited than 
ever before. We congratulate all parties 
concerned, and wish them abundant suc¬ 
cess ; with Mr. Carman as editor and Mr. 
Libby as business manager, we predict in¬ 
creased prosperity for our worthy contem¬ 
porary.— Ohio Farmer. 
Two of the oldest and most valued of 
American periodicals relating to rural 
matters are the RURAL NEW-\ORKER 
and The American Garden (the latter 
founded in 1846 as the Horticulturist). The 
first named is an independent agricultural 
weekly, illustrated, varied in contents, and 
with departments dealing with many 
branches of agriculture. The American 
Garden is a monthly, is profusely and 
tastefully illustrated, and is to-day the 
only journal of its kind in this country.— 
Christian Union. 
There is probably not another man in 
America who has spent money more liber¬ 
ally in the interests of improved agricul¬ 
ture than Mr. Valentine. Mr. Libby, 
whose experience in popularizing The 
American Garden well fits him for the 
work, is now the active business manager 
of the RURAL New-Yorker. Mr. Carman 
who for 16 years has been the editor and 
proprietor will continue in editorial and ex¬ 
perimental work on the Rural Grounds.— 
Indiana Farmer. 
We wish for the Rural in its new hands 
all the success possible. It is an excellent 
journal and worthy of widest patronage. 
Orange County Farmer. 
Mr. Carman has sold the Rural New- 
Yorker to Lawson Valentine and E. H 
Libby, proprietors of the American Gar¬ 
den. We are glad to learn that Mr. Car¬ 
man is to remain as editor. We remember 
well when the Rural New-Yorker was 
started in Rochester, by D. D. T. Moore, in 
1850 .—American Rural Home. 
The Rural New-Yorker, which lias 
been owned and conducted with marked 
ability by Mr. Carman for 16 years, has 
been purchased by Messrs. Valentine and 
Libby, the controllers of the American 
Garden Publishing Co. Mr. Libby is a 
person of excellent parts and immense 
push ; good as the New-Yorker has been 
in times past he will even paint the lily.— 
New England Farmer. 
The Rural New-Yorker has been pur¬ 
chased by Lawson Valentine and E. H. 
Libby of The American Garden. With 
this change we predict a monthly and 
weekly that the world will acknowledge as 
leaders.— Union Farm. 
The American Garden is by far the best 
of our horticultural magazines for the 
greater part of our country people. It has 
not got a nursery or seed store behind it to 
color its articles and it is well worth read¬ 
ing by all who have any interest in either 
the fruit, vegetable or flower garden.— 
Courier and Farmer, ( Md.) 
of the Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. March 29,1890. 
Shortly before nine o’clock Thursday 
evening a tornado from the southwest 
struck the western part, of Louisville, Ky., 
and in a minute and a half over 200 dwel¬ 
ling houses, warehouses, work-shops and 
stores, frame, brick and solid stone, were 
prostrated and over 250 persons were killed, 
and from 1,500 to 2,500 wounded, many of 
whom will die. Money loss from $2,000,000 
to $3,000,000. Fire broke out in many 
places and the buried persons were cre¬ 
mated. Across the Ohio, at Jeffersonville, 
Ind., immense havoc was wrought, though 
no lives were lost. Bowling Green, Ky., 
was “wiped out,” and there was “great 
loss of life” at Marion. Ky. Marion, Ill., 
was nearly destroyed and “several hun¬ 
dred ” people were killed and wounded. 
The storm started from the Rocky Moun¬ 
tains and swept eastward to the Atlantic. 
Telegraph wires still down to a great ex¬ 
tent. Particulars meager and uncertain_ 
By a vote of 202 against 49 the Lower 
House of Congress has decided that Chi¬ 
cago is to have the Big Fair and that it is to 
be held in 1893. There are grave doubts 
about the Windy City’s guarantee fund, 
but pledges have been given that $10,000, 
000 will be raised. The Congressional action 
on this “ Fair ” question has all along 
shown emphatically that the control of na¬ 
tional legislation has passed from the East 
to the West.The Iowa legislature 
has passed a joint resolution favoring the 
B lacing of jute and sisal grass on the free 
st. Western cattlemen are taking vigor¬ 
ous action in favor of the tax on hides in or¬ 
der to counteract the agitation among New 
England tanners and shoe manufacturers 
against such tax.State Treasurer 
Archer of Maryland, honored and trusted 
as few men have been, has turned out a de¬ 
faulter of the State funds to the estimated 
amount of $300,000 or more. Surprise and 
consternation among friends and the pub¬ 
lic. of course. 
In the hist 10 years $26,786,374 have been 
spent in repairing, maintaining and im¬ 
proving the New York canals. Farmers 
away from the “canal counties,” which 
are benefited by the outlay, complain that 
the tax-payers have paid this enormous 
sum almost entirely for the benefit of West¬ 
ern producers who, owing to the low trans¬ 
portation rates on the canals and their 
competition with the trunk railroad lines, 
can compete all the more disastrously with 
Eastern farmers. Of course, the great re¬ 
ceiving and forwarding centers, New York 
and Buffalo, are also greatly benefited by 
the canal traffic ; but farmers object to be 
taxed for their advantage.From 
present indications it appears likely that 
when the question of chartering the Louisi¬ 
ana Lottery comes before the Louisiana 
legislature two years hence, enough of the 
law-makers will have been bribed to insure 
the passage of the measure.Farmers 
around Kingston, Ont., Canada, and in 
several other parts of the Dominion, dis¬ 
couraged by heavy debts and hard pros¬ 
pects ahead, are selling or mortgaging their 
farms and flocking into the United States, 
leaving disheartened creditors behind. 
Many mortgages have been foreclosed and 
capitalists have much idle farm lands on 
their hands. Should the McKinley tariff 
bill pass Congress, distress among Cana¬ 
dian farmers must be greatly intensified... 
The Standard Oil Company has just paid 
$1,000,000 for the property of the Lima Oil 
Company, its strongest competitor in the 
Ohio oil fields. Amid the loud warfare 
against trusts, this, the first and exemplar 
of all, goes quietly and steadily on 
strengthening its monopoly by gobbling 
up all rivals.A religious crank 
named Erickson, has found a lot of cred¬ 
ulous believers in Oakland, Cal. He proph¬ 
esies that on April 14. San Francisco, 
Oakland, Chicago and New York will be 
simultaneously inundated and destroyed. 
His deluded followers are selling their 
property for “a song” or even giving it 
away and fleeing to the mountains. 
The Government appears determined to 
exclude and remove boomers from the 
Cherokee Strip. Troops are scattered 
through the territory busily expelling all 
the intruders who have not “taken to the 
woods.” There is little likelihood that the 
land will be opened to settlement at least 
for months yet, and it may take a year or 
two to “ quiet” the Indians’ claims. 
Rooks, Lincoln, Sedgwick and Kingman 
Counties, Kansas, have just been swept by 
prairie fires, which destroyed 52 farms and 
ranches, besides large numbers of live 
stock and a great deal of farm produce. 
Estimated loss at least $350,000. 
A bill before the New York legislature im¬ 
poses a tax of five per cent, on the gross 
receipts of racing associations, instead of 
five per cent, on the admission receipts 
under the Ives law of 1887. The proceeds 
are distributed among various agricultural 
associations for the encouragement of 
stock-breeding. 
The cordage manufacturers from all parts 
of the country, but especially from Boston, 
Philadelphia and Cincinnati, are strongly 
protesting against any reduction in the 
duty on their goods. They especially ob¬ 
ject to any reduction in the duty on bind¬ 
ing twine which the new tariff bill has cut 
down to half a cent per pound.The 
proposed increase in the tax on Sumatra 
tobacco—used only for wrappers—has ex¬ 
cited a storm of protest among tobacco 
manufacturers.A report to tne 
Dominion Parliament says that last year 
31,000 persons who had for a time settled in 
the United States returned to Canada. 
.By a vote of 53 to 47, the New York 
Assembly has decided to repeal the dema¬ 
gogic law allowing $2 a day to all the men 
at work on State labor. This law has cost 
the tax payers about $600,000 a year extra, 
mainly tor work on the canals. Moreover, 
the high price for labor on the public works 
has made the wages of farm help higher... 
. Maryland has just passed a law 
against pools and betting.The Do¬ 
minion Government has decided to spend 
$30,000 for seeds for the farmers of the 
Northwest. 
Last Thursday the House of Representa¬ 
tives at Washington, by a majority of 12 in 
a total vote of 260, decided to admit the 
Territory of Wyoming into the sisterhood 
of States, and the Senate is pretty certain 
to pass the bill without amendment. 
Under the present Congressional appor¬ 
tionment one Representative is allowed 
for a population of 151,912. In this State 
it requires an average of from 80,000 to 
40,000 votes to elect a Congressman. At the 
last election Wyoming cast 18.010 votes, 
4,000 of which were cast by women. Of 
course the two senators from the new 
State, representing 18,010 voters, will have 
the same power in the Senate as the two 
from New York representing 1,320,000 
voters. Woman suffrage in the new State 
is to extend to the election of Congressmen 
also. Of course Wyoming will be strongly 
Republican. 
A COUNTRY HOME. 
A farm of hills and valleys — of groves and wild 
patehps of small growth, 
CLOSE TO THE RURAL GROUNDS, 
But one farm between: one mile from the village of 
River Edge. 
A benuli'ul lake, with an unfailing supply of pure 
Bpring wuter. A frontage of 1.200 feet, overlooking 
the Paterson Mountains on the west, and the 
Palisades on the east. It will be 
SOLD FOR HALF ITS VALUE 
to any one who appreciates such natural beauties and 
ear s to develop them. Within 12 miles of New York 
as the crow (lles-17 miles by rail. For particulars, 
address 
BOX 3318. SEW YORK. 
CHOICE HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS FOR SALE. 
Young Bulls and Heifers: the best of breeding. 
Also a few young Imported Cows, fresh In Mnrrh and 
April. Berkshire Swine. Prices to suit the limes. 
J M H aM, Lynfeld Farm,Washington Hollow, N.Y. 
ISNOTUM TOMATO-^itt&SM 
says : “ It Is the b’ st of U0 tried.” Decidedly the best 
of'SO sorts grown by me UK) seeds. 15 cents. 
Polygonum nmplcxlcnule (Mountain Fleece), 
strong roots, 25c. Pyrelhrum uligiuoMiim vGlnnt 
Daisy) grows fi feet: has hundreds of flowers io a 
plant strong roots. 20 c ; the two for -lUe. 
Si. IIALLOCK. Creedinoor, IV. Y. 
Write to HUE neSUJLLKN WOVEN V. IRH FKNCK CO..CUICAUO. 
PiSccUuneouiai ^dvrrtij&'ittg. 
S END 10 Cu.m Con WIRll Produce Com mls- 
B.Ostampstot a U. TTSflU, slon Merchants, 
for circular about Hh ip plug Produce Also recipe 
for Preserving Eggs, Established 1845. 
Mo. '2TR Washington Hi .. New York I’ttv 
SEED POTATOES 
Choice selected Houlton, Aroostook Co.. 
Maine, Early Rose, Beauty of Hebron, and 
all other well known varieties. For sale by 
W. E. DURYEA’S SONS, 
Produce Commission Merchants, lit) Warren St. N Y 
oses. * 
ernes. 
We make a spcc.ui- 
tyof Roses lor out 
door culture and 
Small Fruits for the 
garden. Our stock 
and facilities are the 
most complete in 
the U. S. Also 
Fruit and Orna- 
cntal Trees of all kinds, of the finest quality 
id at lowest prices Lovett’s Guide to llor- 
:ulture, a profusely illustrated book of qo 
iges, gives instructions for purchasing, plant- 
g, culture, etc., and descriptions with both 
fleets and merits. It is mailed free or with 
Trees and Plants by Mail a Specialty. 
J. T. LOVETT CO., Little Silver, N.J. 
Why Not 
Question Your Soil 
AND THEN FERTILIZE 1NTELLIGEHTLV ? 
We will deliver on board of cars here, 
securely packed, each chemical in separate 
bag, with analysis attached, the following 
EXPERIMENTAL OUTFIT: 
25 lbs. Muriate of Potash, 12)^ lbs. Sul¬ 
phate of Potash, 12)^ lbs. Sulphate of 
Ammonia, 25 lbs. Nitrate of Soda, 25 
lbs. Blood, 50 lbs. Bone Black, and 50 
lbs. Dis. S. C. Boek. 
SPRAY YOUR TREES. 
$17 SPRAYING OUTFIT AC CA 
I Express paid, for )]>w.wV/ 
LEWIS' COMBINATION FORCE PUMP 
Makes 3 complete brass machines worth $12. 
Will Thoroughly Tac y re a Orchard per day. 
Endorsed by the leading Entomologlstsof theU.S. 
A valuable Illustrated hook (worth $5) on •* Our Insect 
Foes "given to each purchaser. My farmer agents are 
making from $5 to $2(1 per day. Send for Illustrated 
catalogue, price-list anil terms. Goons Goabantkko 
Remember, brass will not rust or corrode. Address 
I*. C. LEWIS, Lock Box 100 , Cnlskill. N. Y. 
SOUTH DAKOTA HOMES. 
government land and cheap deeded lands In this State, 
with tis great natural resources, agricultural and min¬ 
eral. Lands adapted to agricultural and grazing pur- 
SSL GREAT SIOUX RESERVATION, 
subject to homestead entry. Information about the re¬ 
sources. development,Industries.etc .furnished free,by 
F. H. Haqkrty, Com. of Immigration, Aberdeen, S. I) 
HAND-MADE HARNESS 
A spec'al bargain for one 
person at each post office to 
introduce them. Send 6 cents 
for Infoimatlon. 
UNION >1 VCHINK CO., 
Harness Dcparment No. t. r >. 
IMiilndrlphin, Pn. 
rn uiDICTICQ Land and Woter Fowls and Pets. 
aU VAult 1 ILoseml stamp for Beautiful l atalogue, 
Fgg List and Recipe for making Best Egg Food. 
8. 1’. PORTER. Mallet Creek, Ohio. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
New Prlve Varieties: also a rfioice selecUmt of 
New and Old kinds. Catat.oouk Hike. If you want 
only One plant send and get It. 
GKOKOK HOLLIH. South Weymouth, Mass. 
iTATIVE Evergreen Plants, Bab am Fir, Arbor 
S vita*. While l ine, Spruce and Hemlock. 6 'o 12 
ehfs high al «8 per i.000; '."ill for R'»>: 'D.im for 8 ) <.50. 
PRICE, ONLY $5.00. 
GARRISON & MINCH, 
Manufacturers of Fertilizers, 
bf?idgeton, n. j. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS FOR SALE. 
Eureka. *2 a 10), *15 a 1.0(10 ; Havcrtand, 50 c»8. a ’00 
*1 a 1,000 : Pineapple, -I” ets. a 100. $3 a 1.000 ; Gandy 
75 cts a 100, 85 a 1,000 ; Bubach No .5, 50 ets. a Hi'. $1 a 
1,000: Long John. *' a 100. by freight or express. 
JAMES LIPPINCOTT, ,lr.. Mount Holly, IV. .1. 
5 o<u.„eocn ooa month can bo made 
_to . — working for us. Personspre- 
od who can furnish a horse and give their whole 
j to the business. Spare moments may be profitably 
iloved also. A few vacancies In towns and cities. 
ploHNsnS & OQ. 1009 Main St.. Richmond. Vo. 
PLAYS 
Dialogues. Tableaux, Speakers, for 
Bchool,Club* Parlor. Best out. Cata¬ 
logue free. T. 8. Denison, Chicago,III. 
I ®F ARMS and MILLS SOLD 
1 1.111(1 oxohaiiKud. roo CiitaloKU®. 
■ IK B CHAFFIN A CO.. KlcXxniond.V^ 
iRAPES 
Immense stock and assort¬ 
ment client). Everything 
new and old reliable; also 
. _ Small Fruits. Everything 
uled to highest standard Send lOc. for 3 sample 
Illustrated catalogue free. Don’t buy until you 
FARMERS 
Nan andGrlst MAH. I B.P. 
and larger. Catalogue free. 
UeLUiCH MILL CO., Atlanta, ftk 
-w—vii no Instant relief. Final cure In 10 avsand 
LI ILtOa never returns. No purge, no salve, no 
XT suppository. A simple remedy mailed kkkk. Ad¬ 
dress Tuttmc* Co., 78 Nassau Street. New York City. 
ENSILAGE 
also valuable Treatise oil 
All of our lant year'* patrona 
indorse it utul report mom 
*ati*faotory re.vulU. Their 
letters printed in pamphlet, 
__ _ Kind luge and Plan for Silo, together 
with CatiioKUP orCuttlmt Machinery and Power*, mailed free. 
SILVER DEMAND MAN’F’G CO., SALEM, OHIO, 
