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THE RURAL NEW-YORKEL 
APRIL 26 
Publishers Desk. 
/*\tt a t ttv ' First, last, 
QUALITY /anda ’ uthe 
time* 
—Lauson Valentine. 
INTERESTING TO WHEAT 
GROWERS. 
Six of the R. N.-Y. hybrid 
wheats were last year put on the 
market in very small quantities 
at very high prices, viz.: 25 cents 
for 25 seeds. We are in hopes to 
he able to send trial quantities 
next fall to all of our subscribers 
who apply, without any charge, 
except, it may be, for postage; 
we cannot promise yet. From 
the present appearance of the 
fields the outlook is favorable. 
QUALITY. 
The motto at the head of this column is 
to be a guiding principle in the re-organized 
Rural Publishing Company, and we have 
thus far endeavored to live up to it in the 
organization of our working force; in the 
selection and arrangement of our new 
work-room—ordinarily called an “ office ” 
in the city; in recent changes in the make¬ 
up of our paper; in the continuation of Mr. 
Carman’s unequaled experimental work, 
and in keeping up and enforcing when 
possible the splendid reputation that the 
paper has achieved as the leading American 
rural journal. 
EXTENSIONS. 
We desire all readers of the R. N.-Y. to 
remember that our recent movements are 
largely in the direction of business exten¬ 
sion. The Rural Publishing Company 
now embraces not only the Rural New- 
Yorker, the foremost agricultural weekly, 
but also The American Garden which is 
now recognized as the leading American 
horticultural journal and out-door maga¬ 
zine. Furthermore, the Rural Publishing 
Company succeeds to the growing book 
business of The American Garden and is 
preparing to supply its readers with books 
about farming, gardening, stock and coun¬ 
try life and work of every degree. 
The Rural New-Yorker has been sold 
to Messrs. Lawson Valentine and E. H. 
Libby. We know that'Mr. E. S. Carman, 
whose genius has pushed the Rural to the 
front ."rank, and made it one of the most 
successful, popular and influential agricul¬ 
tural periodicals ever published, was 
anxious to be relieved of the arduous duties 
of its business management, and we con¬ 
gratulate him on having secured the object 
of his wish, but we must also express our 
satisfaction on learning that Mr. Carman 
is to retain editorial control of the paper, 
and will be assisted, as heretofore, by Mr. 
H. W. Collingwood. While the editorial 
department is thus taken care of, and the 
active business management in good (Mr. 
Libby’s) hands, the continued success and 
prosperity of the Rural is put beyond 
doubt .—Popular Gardening, April, 1890. 
The Horticulturists’ Rule Book has 
just been received and we are delighted 
with it. My father is a “ peachologist " 
and welcomes all information in the way 
of fruit raising. He enjoys the American 
Garden thoroughly. 8. A. L. 
Clyde, N. Y. 
In the ten weeks during which I have re¬ 
ceived the R. N.-Y. it has imparted to me 
more information in regard to farming 
than I could have learned in five years by 
my own study and experiments. The com¬ 
ing summer I will try to profit by what I 
have learned, and by the looks of some of 
my neighbors’ farms and the way they 
farm. I think a subscription to the R. 
N.-Y. would do them good. G. N. D. 
Shelbyville, Mich. 
OUR Western farmers think that such 
papers as the R. N. Y. are too far east for 
them. A friend of mine, who, by the way, 
is a college graduate, speaking of agricul¬ 
tural journals, made the remark that, in 
most of them, there is very little of value, 
but, said he: “1 can read the Rural by 
the hour.” D. w. v. 
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 : 
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 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. 
A Sudden Change of Weather 
Will often bring on a cough. The irrita¬ 
tion which induces coughing is quickly 
subdcied by Brown’s Bronchial Troches. 
Price, 25 cents per box.— Adv. 
The News. 
DOMESTIC. 
SATURDAY. April 19, 1890. 
A RAILROAD is being built to the Amer¬ 
ican socialist colony of Topolobamo, Mex¬ 
ico, aod it is likely that another attempt 
will be made to boom the place. 
At the approaching meeting of the Louis¬ 
iana legislature the Louisiana Lottery will 
submit a proposition to pay the State $12,- 
500,000 for a renewal of its charter for 25 
years from 1895, when its present charter 
expires. It will pay the bribe in yearly in¬ 
stallments of $500,000 for the whole quarter 
of a century. It will probably cost it at 
least $1,000,000 more to “grease the itching 
E alms” of legislators and others who can 
ring “influence ” to bear in order to secure 
a renewal of the infamous charter. The 
swindle now draws about $14,000,000 a year 
from the pockets of the gullible, and of 
this vast sum about $10,000,000 is clear pro¬ 
fit, according to the most trustworthy esti¬ 
mates.The Doom’s-Day Califor¬ 
nia cranks are returning to their former 
homes from the mountains and some of them 
are going to law in order to try to recover 
the property they sold for a song. 
On February 8, Gen. Sherman completed 
his three score and tenth year, ana last 
Thursday the Union League Club of this 
city gave him a grand reception in honor of 
the event.Messrs Saunders and 
Powers, the Republican Senators-elect for 
Montana, have been admitted to their 
seats in the U. S. Senate by a strict party 
vote—a foregone conclusion... . After 
a world of indecision and much party 
wrangling, and many alterations from the 
first published draft, the new tariff bill has 
been at last reported to the House of Rep¬ 
resentatives by the Committee of Ways and 
Means ; the Republican majority of which 
have hitherto been elaborating it; of course, 
the Democratic members had no voice in 
its formulation. The two most notable 
changes are that hides and sugar have 
been placed on the free list; but the home 
production of sugar will be encouraged by 
a bounty of two cents per pound on the 
domestic article. This is about an average 
of the import duty which has been abol¬ 
ished. Such a measure will either “ burst 
up ” the great “ Sugar Trust ” or put an 
end to its extortions.The great carpen¬ 
ters’ strike in Chicago has spread to other 
laboring classes, so that it is estimated 
that 25,000 men ordinarily industrious are 
now idle. Bricklayers, masons, plumbers, 
painters, plasterers and laborers have, 
for the most part, been compelled to knock 
off owing to the failure of the carpenters to 
do their share of work on the buildings 
going up. The packing and canning house 
employees also threaten to strike for eight 
hours a day ; and the agitation for shorter 
hours and larger proportionate wages is 
spreading everywhere.The carpenters 
at Indianapolis have already struck, and 
those here are preparing to do so unless their 
demands are gran ted. 
Samuel J. Randall, member of the Lower 
House of Congress from Philadelphia, ex- 
Speaker of the House and leader of the 
Protectionist wing of the Democratic Party, 
died at his home in Washington last Sun¬ 
day morning, at the age of 62. His death is 
a national loss which is widely lamented 
by all classes, sections and parties. 
Colonel Stanton commander of the recent 
exploring expedition in the Grand Canyon 
of the Colorado River, claims that his party 
has discovered a vast bonanza promising 
immense riches in the steep sides of the 
migbty gorge. The indications of great 
wealth extend for 400 miles, and one or 
more companies have been already organ¬ 
ized in the Far West to work the discovery.. 
. ..The other day the Italian street sweepers 
of Philadelphia struck for higher wages 
than $1.25 per night, but their places were 
promptly filled mostly by other foreigners, 
whereupon the “sisters, wives, sweet¬ 
hearts and aunts” of the displaced strikers 
swooped down on the new men and belab¬ 
ored them so vigorously that they would 
have been driven from the gutters had not 
the police interfered and incarcerated 36 of 
the bellicose daughters of Sunny Italy. 
There has been the wildest excitement in 
the Ohio oil market of late. In 45 days the 
Standard.Oil Company has raised the price 
from 15 to 82% cents per barrel in seven 
jumps, and the probability is that the price 
will be pushed up to 50 cents. Of course, 
the monopoly is trying to force out all com¬ 
petitors in that region.The official 
reports show that in the eight months 
ended February 28,1890, the total immigra¬ 
tion to the United States was 218,653—a de¬ 
cline of 7,253 from the total during the cor¬ 
responding period in the previous year. 
The only noteworthy increase is from Italy, 
which contributed 18,015 to the country’s 
population in the eight months, against 
11,500 for the corresponding period in the 
former year. 
Fierce prairie fires have been raging be¬ 
tween the Cottonwood and Neosho Rivers 
in Southern Kansas, devastating farms and 
causing the loss of many cattle. 
Gov. Thayer, of Nebraska, says disastrous 
storms have done a world of mischief in 
Cheyenne, Banner and other western 
counties in his State_Considerable com¬ 
motion has been caused by an invitation 
sent from Richmond, Va., to the aristo¬ 
cratic New York Seventh Regiment of 
militia to attend the unveiling of Gen. 
Lee’s statue in that city on May 29. The 
invitation has been politely declined on the 
ground that the regiment had already 
made arrangements to participate in the 
parade here on May 30—Memorial or Deco¬ 
ration Day. 
Thursday the Lower House of the Ohio 
Legislature passed a ballot reform bill on 
the Australian plan by a non-partisan vote 
of 62 to 19.According to latest re¬ 
ports the McKinley tariff bill has created 
somewhat of a panic among our Canadian 
neighbors. It is estimated that in the 
last 20 years there has been an exodus 
of $3,500,000 native-born Canadians 
to the United States, to say nothing of the 
vast number of foreigners who merely pass¬ 
ed through the Dominion, or made it a tem¬ 
porary stopping-place. It is feared that the 
exodus of both classes will be greatly in¬ 
creased on account of the partial or entire 
exclusion of Canadian agricultural pro¬ 
ducts that will result from the proposed 
tariff. 
Of late the Western members of Congress 
have been pretty strongly opposed to all 
bills looking to the proposed great increase 
in the United States Navy, and especially 
to the large sums sought for the construc¬ 
tion of enormous line-of-battle ships on the 
model of the huge iron-clads of Europe. 
The House, however, has just provided in 
the Naval Appropriation Bill for the con¬ 
struction of tnree such formidable mon¬ 
sters.A majority of the United 
States Supreme Court—Chief Justice Fuller 
and Justice Lamar alone dissenting—has 
decided that the United States, not the 
State of California, has jurisdiction in the 
case of United States Deputy Sheriff 
Nagle, who killed ex-Judge Terry in de¬ 
fence of United States Justice Field. 
The majority of the Court upholds Federal 
jurisdiction on the broad principle that the 
Nation possesses an inherent power to pro¬ 
tect its own highest officers in the discharge 
of their official duties. There is no express 
statute providing for such protection as was 
exercised in the case of Justice Field. But 
the Court holds that in the absence of such 
statute, the authority rested in the ex¬ 
ecutive branch of the government, and that 
it was rightly exercised when the Depart¬ 
ment of justice arranged for a body-guard 
to accompany Justice Field. Thus a power 
is conceded to the nation to protect not only 
its highest judges, but all of its officers in 
the discharge of their duties. Such protec¬ 
tion may be provided either by Executive 
order oi; by act of Congress. 
PtaTcUHttfouiS 
Readers of R. N.-Y. will please the ad¬ 
vertisers and benefit the paper by always 
mentioning it when writing to advertisers. 
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SEED POTATOES 
Choice selected Houlton, Aroostook Co., 
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Shrubs, Treee, 
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Small Fruits, 
etc. 
Rarest new. Choicest old. 
Send ten cents for our Illustrated catalogue 
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NORTHERN SEED POTATOES. 
Per Bush. 
Per Bbl. 
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$7 00 
Early Ohio. 
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Early Albino. 
250 
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Special Price this season, P. 0. B. Cars, at ONLY $1.25 
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We offer the NEW JAPANECE BUCKWHEAT 
$1.25 per bushel, Backs Free. 
Rice’s well-known Vegetable and Flower Sec's 
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city and village. Give them a Trial. 
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Cambridge Valley Ceed Gardens, CAMBBIDGE, N. Y. 
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The Rest. 61 li year. Weaves both farm and lawn 
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