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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
SEPT. 6 
Publisher s Desk. 
Many a Mickle makes a Muckle. 
THOSE WHEATS. 
We have been delayed in sending out the 
wheat-seeds as promised by reason of the 
seed-crop being detained in the grower’s 
hands to become thoroughly cured. We 
expect, however, that all applied for to 
date will have been sent out and received 
by the applicants by or before the date of 
receipt of this issue of The Rural New- 
Yorker. We find that we are able to 
send out only about 225 grains of each of 
the six varieties to each applicant, but this 
is ample to fairly test the varieties and 
secure stock seed, if properly treated. 
OUR WORK AT THE FAIRS. 
As we write this, the reports of our rep¬ 
resentatives are beginning to come in from 
the earlier fairs, and we are glad to say 
that they are highly encouraging, the num¬ 
ber of new names added to our subscrip¬ 
tion-list being much larger than at the 
corresponding time last year. A large 
number of our friends have promised to 
“ go to the fairs with us,” and we shall be 
pleased to have the little army of “intro¬ 
ducers” increased to any extent, for there 
is a long list of the fairs, and at many of 
them where the attendance is considerable, 
two, three or a half dozen good workers 
will have all they can do to introduce and 
describe “us” to those who ought to know 
“us.” Any energetic, reliable man among 
our readers, who desires to take up this 
work and earn a little money, should write 
us immediately, naming the fair or fairs 
he would like to attend and giving their 
dates. _ 
YOUR OWN SUBSCRIPTION FREE. 
$ 1 OO in cash given for 25-cent Trial 
Subscriptions this month. 
We repeat below our last week’s offer of 
cash prizes, and we also add to it that we 
will extend any subscriber’s subscription 
for one full year from the time of its expira¬ 
tion, who will send us 15 ten-weeks trial 
subscriptions for The R. N.-Y. at 25 cents 
each. 
The §100 ca3h offer is as follows: We 
will give $100 in 10 amounts of $35, $20, $10, 
$5, $5, $5, $5, $5, $5, $5, respectively, to the 
10 present yearly subscribers who will send 
us, before October 1, the 10 largest numbers 
of trial subscriptions (all new names), for 
The Rural New-Yorker for 10 weeks at 25 
eents each; or The American Garden, 
for three months—October, November and 
December—at 25 cents each. 
The senders of these competition clubs are also en¬ 
titled to any of the very liberal premiums offered In 
the Premium List, or a liberal cash commission will 
be given, if preferred,in lieu of the year’s subscrip¬ 
tion. 
Thus you will get well paid any way for 
your trouble, and may be doubly paid. 
The only way we can afford this is by 
hundreds taking up the offers and sending 
us in thousands of the trial subscriptions, 
many of which would become regular sub¬ 
scriptions. Sample copies for use in this 
work sent on application. 
A WHEAT LETTER. 
I wish to take advantage of the liberal 
offer of its new wheats The Rural has 
made to subscribers, as I want to test them 
in this locality. In the last five years I 
have tried all the varieties of winter wheat 
commonly sown here, viz., Red Mediter¬ 
ranean, Diehl, Velvet Chaff, Landreth’s 
White, Fultz, and Martin’s Amber, in 
comparison with a variety which is called 
Red Chaff or May, of which I make my 
main crop consisting of 100 to 150 acres per 
year, and I find none of them produces as 
good a quality, weight or yield. Since I 
began to sow the May or Red Chaff, five 
years ago, I have had a heavy yield of 
plump grain every year. Other kinds 
shrivel, rust, and are weak in straw on our 
strong, black ground, and most, if not all, 
seem to be a few days later in ripening. 
It pays to test different kinds and find 
what is best suited to one’s locality. I 
think, in fact, the failure of wheat in some 
places is partly due to the use of varieties 
not adapted to the soil. The Rural is not 
approached by any other farm paper com¬ 
ing under my observation, and I wish it 
all possible success. J. C. b. 
Springfield, Ill. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
SATURDAY. August 30, 1890. 
The National Farmers’ Congress has 
been in session at Council Bluffs, la., this 
week. 
A convention of the Governors of all the 
cotton States has been called by General 
Gordon to meet in AtlantaonSeptember 10. 
The convention was asked for by the Geor¬ 
gia State Alliance in session there last 
week. Each Governor is to appoint six 
delegates, making seven representatives 
from each cotton State. The convention 
will consider the matter of direct trade 
with Liverpool, also questions relating to 
weights, measures, freights, and the hand¬ 
ling of cotton. 
Colonel Victor Emile Piolett, a promi¬ 
nent farmer and capitalist of Northern 
Pennsylvania, and well-known at farmers’ 
gatherings in that vicinity, died at his na¬ 
tive place, Wysox, Bradford County, Wed¬ 
nesday, aged 78 years. He had been 
Worthy Master of the Pennsylvania State 
Grange. He was wealthy educated, gifted; 
he had the confidence of the people and has 
been a power for good among the farmers 
of the country. 
Senator Plumb has introduced an amend¬ 
ment to be proposed to the tariff bill to 
take hides, raw or uncured, whether dry, 
salted or pickled, off the free list and to 
make them dutiable at one cent a pound. 
Reports have been received to the effect 
that the cattlemen who were ordered out of 
the Indian Territory by President Harri¬ 
son’s proclamation, have virtually decided 
to disregard it and allow the stock to be re¬ 
moved by Federal authority. There are, 
probably, 100,000 head of stock on the 
ranges. 
The Dahlman Dressed Beef Company has 
been organized under the laws of New Jer¬ 
sey with a capital of $1,000,000, for the pur¬ 
pose of transporting dressed meat from the 
West to Europe. The company has pur¬ 
chased a plot of ground at Fort Worth, 
Texas, containing 15 acres of land, and has 
erected a large plant with facilities for kill¬ 
ing and storing 700 head of cattle daily. A 
contract has been made for two years with 
the Metropolitan Trading Association 
(Limited), of London, which provides for 
the fortnightly delivery of 600 tons of 
dressed beef to the steamers of the London 
association at New Orleans. By killing 
and dressing beef in Texas and shipping it 
directly to New Orleans, where the steam¬ 
ers will receive it, the company hopes to 
make a fortune for itself. It is not stated 
when shipments will begin. 
A convention of the Association of 
American Agricultural Colleges and Ex¬ 
periment Stations is to be held at Cham¬ 
paign, Ill., beginning at noon, Tuesday, 
November 12, next. Each college estab¬ 
lished under the Act of Congress approved 
July 2, 1862, and each Experiment Station 
established under State or Congressional 
authority, and the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, shall be entitled to one delegate, but 
no delegate shall cast more than one vote. 
Other institutions engaged in experimental 
work in the interest of agriculsure may be 
admitted to representation in this associa- 
ation by a majority vote at any regular 
meeting ofjthe Association The programme 
will be announced at an early day. H. P. 
Armsby, Secretary, State College, Pa. 
Beecham's Piixs euro Costlveness and Indigestion. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
The American Cranberry Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation held its 21st annual meeting at 
Philadelphia Tuesday. Representatives 
were present from Cape Cod, New Jersey, 
Wisconsin, and other places, some of whom 
market as many as 50,000 barrels annually. 
This year’s crop is estimated at 750,000 
bushels. Prices range from $2 at the begin¬ 
ning of the season, to $3 or $4 at its close. 
Last year the price ran up to $6, and this 
year, owing to the scarcity of other fruits, 
cranberries will probably start at $7 per 
barrel. The Cape Cod crop is later than 
usual this year, while that of New Jersey is 
in advance. Contrary to the usual custom, 
New Jersey berries will probably be the 
first in the market. Although there is no 
cranberry land in Pennsylvania, there are 
many Pennsylvania men who have interests 
in the New Jersey and Wisconsin planta¬ 
tions. Wherever there are lands suitable 
for the cultivation of the cranberry, the in¬ 
dustry is gradually increasing. This is 
especially the case on Cape Cod, where suit¬ 
able bogs abound, and where the cool nights 
favor early ripening. 
The probabilities are that the cotton-seed 
oil mills will not open for general opera¬ 
tions as early this season as usual, on ac¬ 
count of a strong fight which has already 
set in over the prices of seed. The Farmers’ 
Alliance and otners not connected with 
that organization are determined over ob¬ 
taining a better value for their cotton seed, 
while the mills cannot afford, unless prices 
of oil improve, to enter into new contracts 
for seed at the figures held. 
Reports received from San Francisco say 
that the curing of raisins and prunes will 
shortly oe in full blast, and already enough 
is known to be able to give a close forecast 
of the probable quantity of the product of 
these fruits. The prune crop will be very 
close to 15,000,000 pounds. The prices for 
dried fruit are steadily augmenting. Cali¬ 
fornia is having a big boom this year in the 
matter of fruits. 
Outlook for Onions.— From all that we 
can gather the onion crop of the country is 
below that of last year, and prospects are 
good for paying prices. The chief causes of 
the shortage were unfavorable weather at 
seeding time, drought in some localities and 
the ravages of the onion maggot in others. 
New York grows the largest proportion of 
the total crop, and this State suffered 
most severely from the unfavorable 
spring. The crop will be light. Orange 
County furnishes probably the largest 
share of the crop of the State and the crop 
there is irregular. Maggots destroyed many 
fields, while in others their depredations 
were said to have been checked by the use 
of lime and ashes. Other growers report 
a failure after using this remedv. Other 
parts of the State report short crops with 
a disposition on the part of growers to hold 
for higher prices. The crop is reported 
larger than that of last year, although the 
acreage is somewhat less. The growers are 
reported ready to sell if a fair price is offered. 
The quality is good. The Massachusetts 
crop is small and variable in quality. 
Connecticut furnishes a large quantity of 
onions to this market, but from present ap¬ 
pearances the amount will be something 
less than usual. Growers will mostly hold 
for good prices. Michigan will have a good 
crop ; Illinois probably not over half an 
average crop. On the whole, it would seem 
that prices ought to equal or exceed those 
of last year which were very satisfactory. 
The onions now in market are good in 
quality and sell readily at quotations. 
(Continued on next page.) 
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mentioning it when writing to advertisers. 
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C. E. MORRISON, 
Londonderry, Pa 
PURE BRED 
Suffolk Down Sheep. 
Three Buck Lambs, and two yearling Bucks (Im¬ 
ported) for sale. Read article In Rural of June 7. 
Price, $30 to $40 each. Will show at State Fair. 
M. B. STREETER, 113 Hooper St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 
A GENTLEMAN'S HOME AND STOCK FARM 
FOR SALE. 
C IOMPLETE in every detail: adjacent to the village 
j of Moravia, 18 miles south of Auburn, N. Y.; .00 
acres of the beautiful Moravia ' alley and about mu 
more of side hill and • imber. Stables and barns cost 
$13,000, aim everything is In keeping ; house lately re¬ 
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plied with water, fountain, &e. About 50 thorough 
bred registered Jerseys will be sold with farm if 
desired. Same manager employed by the late lira. J. 
Letch worth continues In charge: possession given 
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particulars address or call upon. 
A W. LAWTON, Auburn. N. Y. 
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KAUFMAN 111108, Bloomington, 111. 
AIT"ANTED.—On a farm, near Fortress Monroe, Vu., 
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A number of prize winners ready Tor shipment about 
the middle of October. 
YORKSHIRE PIGS. 
JF.RS-Y REDS. CHESTER WHITE. ROLAND 
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mediate shipment. Also several Rough Coated Scotcn 
Collie. Bitches, l to 2 years old. Write at once for 
prices. \V. Atlee Burpee «& Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Oxford Down Sheep. 
Some very line Buck Lambs and three imported 
yearling Bucks ; also a few Ewes tor sale. Purely 
iloek book bred. Price, $15 to $40 each. 
S.S. STREETER, Westbury, L. I., N. Y. 
P IGS, Chesters.Berkshires, Polands. Fox Hounds, 
Beagles, Collies, Setters VV. GIBBONS & CO., 
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