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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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IIRPEE’Q farm annual 
handsomely illustrated with colored 
I ■ ■ ■■ IB ww plates painted from natare, tells all al 
■ plates painted from natare, tells all about the 
nrOT OCCnC includill 8 RARE NOVELTIES of sterling merit, 
Kh \ I X H"! ■ which cannot be obtained elsewhere. It is mailed FREE 
■ VbbllW to all who want really first-class Warranted Seeds. 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO.. Philadelphia, Pa.I 
THE DINGEE & CONARD CO S 
ROSES m Seeds 
W e offer postpaid at your door, 
the LARGEST STOCK of 
ROSES in Americana// va¬ 
rieties,sizes and prices. New 
CLEMATIS and CLIMB- 
SES, New MOON FLOWERS, New and Rare FLOWER & VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
n GRAPES. Satisfaction guaranteed. OUR N E W GUIDE, x*C pp., handsomely illustrated. 
Write /or it FREE. It will pay you to see it before buying. Goods sent everywhere by mail or express. 
THE DINGEE & CONARD CO. “ * * ~ ' — - 
Rose Growers and Seedsmen West Grove. Pa. 
is®* The Choice Novelties of 1890. sr 
HERE.IS A LIST THAT WILL GIVE SATISFACTION:— Red Cross Tomato-Resembles 
Livingston m form, solidity, color, etc., but is decidedly earlier, lgnotum 'Tomato —Round, solid and 
productive; both Rural. New Yorker and Prof. Taft have a special good word for lgnotum. Gragg 
Watermelon —A distinct variety, flesh salmon-color, quality and flavor peculiarly rich and sweet. 
Marblehead Early Marrowfat— A remarkably strong grower, a tremendous cropper, and bears 
several, pickings. Early Prize Tea— Cross between .Tom Thumb and Advancer; dwarf, early, and a 
splendid cropper. The Favorite —A better Pea than either Abundance or Everbearing. Ford-Hook 
Squash— Dry, fine grained, sweet, hardy, prolific. White Prolific Marrow— A new English dwarf, 
wrinkled Pea. a wonderful cropper. Giant Tascal Celery— Stalks extra large,, solid, and a better 
keeperthan other self-blanching varieties. Cylinder Wax Bean— The rust and blight-proof Wax Bean 
so long sought for. Corn'. Bern Pepper —With its hundreds of brilliant red pods, it is as brilliant as 
a gem. Blonde Bloca*Head Lettuce —A rich, golden-headed Cabbage, cnsp and fine. 
15 cts. pi package: Ten for SSLOO. An extra package to all naming this paper. Seed Catalogue 
free. JAM ^S J. H. GEE GOBY, Marblehead, Mass. 8 
J5 SEED DRILLS 
WHEEL- HOES 
HORSE HOES 
The PLANET JR. 
The “PLACET JR.” No. 2 GARDEN DRILL is beyond question the best; sows the most difficult 
seeds • opens, covers, rolls down and marks the next row with the greatest regularity. 
The COMBINED DRILL and HOE, &c. The greatest favorite ever produced. Perfection as a Seen 
Drill or as a Plow, Hoe. Garden Rake, Cultivator or Marker. Saves labor and seed and soon saves cost. 
The DOUBLE WHEEL HOE. A money maker for farmers and gardeners. Works both sides of arowat 
once Plows to or from, opens furrows, covers, cultivates, hoes, rakes and has leaf guards. 
DOUBLE WHEEL HOE PLAIN. Same as last, but has one pair of hoes only. 
The SINGLE WHEEL HOE is a treasure. Beats the double in some crops; is lighter. Has a Large Plow, 
two Long Hoes, two Rakes, three Cultivator Teeth, and a Leaf Guard. 
The FIRE-FLY SINGLE WHEEL HOE. Equals the last, except has no rakes nor leaf guard. i 
The FIRE-FLY GARDEN PLOW. Worth its price yearly in a garden 20x40 feet. 
The G R ASS EDG ER. The newest, neatest, cheapest and best machine known for edging paths and flower beds 
The 1890 HORSEHOE. The finest tool and most costly to make that we have ever offered. Yettheresnlt 
justifies our care, as every one who sees the tool will admit. The first grand improvement is our new patent Lever 
Expander, one all farmers admire and which they will pay 83.00 tor, to put on old machines. The next feature 
is our patent Handle Shifter, enabling one to walk to one side of his work; worth 83.00 a day for some 
crons. Yet we ask but a small additional price for both these fine features. Why not send for full descriptive 
catalogue of these and all our other Q I * R I I CM 0 Pfl Patentees and Sole Manufacturers, /- 
useful improvements f Free to all. 0. L. ALLtll fit LU. 1107 Market St. PH IL AD ELPHI A, P A.) 
P BUCKEYE SUNBEAM CULTIVATOR 
' — Manufactured b y P.P. MAST & CO. 
SPRINGFIELD, O. 
ESTABLISHED 
1854 . 
WHEELS and 
SPRINGS at 
Ends of Beams. 
This Cultivator has the rear ends of the beams pivoted to a Cross-head to which the 
Shovel Standard" are attached and a secondary beam or rod pivoted to the coupling in 
front and to the Cross-head in the rear, by which the Shovels are carried parallel with the axle, 
whatever may be the position of them in being moved sidewise. The spring at the front end of the 
beams supports them when in use, and enables the operator to move them easily from side to side and 
assists in raising when he wishes to hook them up while turning at the end of the row. We attach 
these Beams also to our Riding; and Tongueleu Cultivator*. This Cultivator has no equal in 
the market, and can not fail to be appreciated bv any farmer who sees it. We also manufacture the 
„ BUCKEYE DRILL. BUCKEYE SEEDER, BUCKEYE CIDER MILLS AND HAY RAKES _ 
Branch Houses :— Philadelphia. Pa.: Peoria, III*.: St- Paul. Minn.: Kaniuu City, Mo.; and 
San Francisco, Cal. «®T Write for Circular to either of the above firm s or to 
P.P. MAST <Sc CO. SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. 
WE DO MAKE 
EVERYTHING that the Farmer wants fot 
AND 
SELL 
EVERYTHING that the Farmer wants for his Dairy. 
Outfits Complete for Cheese Factory or Creamerv. Estimates and Plans Free. 
ONE RECTANGULAR CH URN and LEVER BUTTER WORK¬ 
ER at wholesale, where we have no agents. Write for circulars or anything 
pertaining to Butter “ 
and Cheese making. 
[ CORNISH, CURTIS & GREENE, Fort Atkinson, Wis. 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Iowa. 
Des Moines, Polk County April 21.—April 
has been cool and dry, so the grass has made 
a slow growth and the trees are to-day put¬ 
ting forth their leaves; while fruit trees will 
be late in blooming. Onr farmers got a late 
start; but as the past few weeks have been 
favorable for work, most of the small grains 
have been put in in fine condition. Our gar¬ 
dens will be late. All young fruit trees 
look unusually well. About the usua 
amount of fruit is being planted this 
spring. 
There is quite a big falling off in the acre¬ 
age of potatoes. Our farmers are quite dis¬ 
gusted with the potato business. There is 
a large supply of the tubers in the country 
yet. Shippers have been paying 20 to 25 
cents per bushel for choice lots, but a great 
many will be left on the hands of the farm¬ 
ers. About the usual area of oats has been 
sown, and but little wheat or rye. A large 
acreage of corn will be planted and more 
hogs than usual will be raised. There has 
been a good trade in grass, clover and gar¬ 
den seeds. Some are predicting a dry 
season; but we need rain now and a few 
April showers would make grass plentiful 
for stock. Pasturage is poor yet. There is 
stock water in most places; but I hear of 
some sections where water is hard to get, 
and unless we have good spring rains to 
fill our wells, water will be scarce as soon 
as summer comes. Wells are generally low 
for this season of the year. F. s. w. 
Michigan, 
Big Rapids, Mecosta County.—The past 
winter was remarkably warm, there was 
but very little snow, and the ground was 
only slightly frozen. Our severest weather 
was during Thanksgiving week and the 
last week in March. Wheat looks well, but 
the acreage is smaller than last year’s, 
probably because of the great ruin wrought 
last year by the louse (Aphis avense.) The 
soil in the center of the lower peninsula 
varies—heavy clay, loam and sand—but 
the largest part is loam and this is generally 
good. Beech and maple lands sell for $4 to 
$12 per acre according to location, and im¬ 
proved lands are relatively lower. Along 
the larger streams there are considerable 
strips of pine lands, but much of the soil is 
clay, and it produces as well as the maple 
lands. Wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, pota¬ 
toes, rutabagas, etc., also all garden prod¬ 
ucts, potatoes especially, yield large crops 
of the best quality. H. c. P. 
Pennsylvania. 
Industry, Beaver County, April 25.—The 
prospect for wheat is good. Fruits will be 
scarce. There is very little bloom on ap¬ 
ples ; none on pears or peaches, while plums 
and cherries are moderately full of bloom. 
We have had two weeks of cool, dry 
weather followed by a good rain and every¬ 
thing is green again. Oat seeding is mostly 
done. E. E. 
Poultry In Wyoming. 
The writer, who has recently arrived in 
the East from a 12 years’ sojourn in Wyom¬ 
ing Territory, and who has been engaged 
in the poultry business more or less during 
that time, has frequently been asked how 
the business in the West compares with that 
of the East. There is a wrong idea of the 
Western country, many thinking it is noth¬ 
ing more than a barren waste; that the 
thermometer often goes as low as 30 and 40 
degrees below zero, and remains there for 
weeks at a time; that we have regular 
“blizzards” every morning for breakfast, 
and that the ground is covered with snow 
about eight months in the year. Now, this 
is entirely wrong, for the weather and the 
country are not nearly so bad as some are 
led to believe. Take Cheyenne, Wyoming, 
for instance, with a population of about 
9,000. It is one of the nicest and cleanest 
little cities that I have seen, and I chal¬ 
lenge any city of its size in the East to 
show larger and better stores, residences, 
schools, depots and hotels than those that 
grace that little city at the foot of the 
grand old Rockies. The people are more 
sociable, open-hearted, generous and polite, 
yes, sir, p-o-l-i-t-e, than the average Eastern 
farmer. When a man in Wyoming, be he 
merchant, ranchman or dude, meets a lady 
acquaintance, no matter whether she is 
walking, riding or swinging on a gate, he 
raises his hat in response to her bow, but 
in this section a man simply nods his head, 
the lady appearing perfectly satisfied with 
that, and she smiles for a week if she is 
fortunate enough to receive a “Howdy do, 
Mum 1” in addition to the regulation nod. 
The weather in Wyoming, it is true, is 
very cold at times, but one feels the cold 
more in New York at zero than he would 
in Wyoming at 20 degrees below. This 1 
attribute to the high altitude and the dry 
air. Snow-storms come up very suddenly, 
and occasionally last for two or three days 
at a time; but the wind either carries the 
snow off, or cuts it up in a day or two. It 
is a fact that one enjoys more sleighing 
in this State during any winter than in 
Wyoming. I have seen more mud, rain 
and slush right here in Orange County, 
New York during the past two months 
than I ever saw in any one year in the 
West. 
I claim that the West, and particularly 
Wyoming, will compare quite favorably 
with New York State, when it comes right 
down to the science and art of chicken 
raising, but the interest in the breeding of 
“ fancy stock ” is not do high there as it is 
here. Would yon believe that Nebraska, 
Kansas and Iowa are fast coming to the 
front as poultry-producing States, and that 
these States are shipping car-load after car¬ 
load of live poultry to the California mar¬ 
kets ? I have often noticed as many as six 
and eight flat cars per week, loaded to the 
top with coops, passing through Cheyenne 
en route to San Francisco. So many car¬ 
loads were shipped over such a long dis¬ 
tance that an Indianapolis genius designed 
and patented a car for carrying live poultry. 
In it there are seven or eight decks arranged 
somewhat in the form of coops, with parti¬ 
tions of wire netting, and it has a capacity 
of 5,000 head. Grain of every kind is cheaper 
in the West to-day than it is in the East. 
During January last I purchased corn on 
the track in Nebraska for 15 and oats at 
16X cents per bushel. Eggs from Western 
States are shipped by the car-load every day 
to the St. Louis, Chicago and New York 
markets; but I admit that they are not 
quite so fresh as I would like for my own 
table. This Is due to the fact that the mer¬ 
chants in those States purchase the eggs in 
large quantities during the spring, and 
keep them in their cellars until prices ad¬ 
vance in the fall. They are known and 
sold as “ candled ” stock, and come in very 
handy for the hotels and restaurants when 
it is impossible to procure others. During 
the winter of 1885-6, I tried to purchase 
strictly fresh eggs from dealers in the 
States above mentioned, offering almost 
any price for guaranteed stock, but found 
it impossible to get what I wanted. I could 
get all the “candled” eggs I needed, but 
the dealers had no intention of parting 
with fresh eggs while they each had a cellar 
full of stale ones. I tried a number of them; 
they took my money; I received the eggs 
and the experience, and that ended the 
transaction, so far as I was concerned. 
Notwithstanding the severe winters,chick¬ 
ens can be raised In the West just as well as 
in the East, the only objection to the busi¬ 
ness being the strong winds that sweep 
across the prairies at the rate of 50 and 60 
miles an hour. Give me the kind of build¬ 
ings best suited for that climate, a flock of 
600 hens, and I will declare a larger divi¬ 
dend at the end of a year’s business than 
the average Orange - County farmer, with 
his 50 acres of land, and 20 cows fed on 
brewers’ grains. J. D. H. 
Ifti.oreUmuou.s gUtmtteing. 
Please mention R. N.-Y. to onr adver¬ 
tisers. 
[RAH* Tl£Hp A*iH] ^ ^ 
The soft, velvety coloring effect so desirable for 
thouse exteriors can only be produced and perma¬ 
nently held by the use of 
CABOT’S CREOSOTE SHINGLE STAINS. 
For Samples on Wood, with Circulars and full 
Information, apply to 
SAMUEL CABOT, 
70 Kilby Street, Boston, Mass. 
Mention Rural New-Yorker. 
ASl) PRICKS. MARION. OHIO. 
F ARMS FOB SALE.— Two of the Best Farms In 
the State; fine buildings and convenient to good 
market; good schools, well settled country; price low. 
Address owner, John H. Bergstrom, Benson, Minn. 
HIGH CLASS JERSEY CATTLE— All registered 
in American Jersty Cattle Club. Bulls now In service 
are STOKE POGIS 5th, 5937. sire of S young cows, test¬ 
ing from 14 lbs. Ha ozs. to 22 lbs. 12 ozs. of butter in 7 
days. Full and only living brother of Stoke Pogls 3d, 
now drad, sire of 27 cows averaging over 20 lbs. of 
butter apiece perwfek. IDA’S RIOTER OF ST. L., 
13656, lubred son of Ida of St. Lambert; official butter 
test 30 lbs, 2i$ ozs In 7 days. No bull calf sold for 
less than $’ 00 , nor heifer for less than * 200 . 
Also Pure Bred ANGORA GOATS and Children’s 
Ponies, state what you want. No general catalogue. 
Trotting Horse catalogue sent on application. Ten 
Sons of the great Electioneer. Mention this paper. 
MILLER «fc SIBLEY. Franklin, Venango Co., Pa. 
Bkkcham’s Pills cure bilious and nervous ills. 
A GOOD FARM FOR NOTHING. 
Reasons for the Decline of 
AGRICULTURE AND FARM VALUES 
IN NEW ENGLAND. 
By Judge Mott, ot tie U. S. Court ot Claims. 
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