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WE SINCERELY BELIEVE THAT NINETY-NINE 
PER CENT. OF 
Twenty Million Readers 
would derive more Profit, Pleasure, Health and real 
Happiness from their work and lives if they would read 
carefully THE RURAL NEW-YORKER and THE 
AMERICAN GARDEN. We should gain by it, too, 
but our motive is not wholly selfish. So we make these 
liberal offers to induce you to extend the influence of 
our work. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER has originated and 
sent out many most valuable varieties of field and 
garden plants. Mr. Carman's recent experiment work 
in hybridization and selection will enable us this season 
to distribute some more new varieties, which will be 
GIVEN AWAY 
to all of our yearly subscribers as per conditions to be 
announced later. If offered for sale their market 
value would be at least $2.00. 
TO ASSIST OUR FRIENDS IN GETTING SUB¬ 
SCRIPTIONS, we will send 
Specimen Numbers Free 
(of THE R. N.-Y. or THE GARDEN, state which) 
to any list of names of interested persons whom 
you will agree to call upon and solicit their sub¬ 
scriptions after they have received and read the 
paper. We will also write them that it is sent at 
your request. 
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18 N accordance with our usual custom we present herewith descriptions of a few standard articles believed to be first- 
| | class in all respects. In addition we also offer as premiums ANY AMERICAN ARTICLES wanted by our Sub¬ 
scribers for use in the field, garden, orchard, stable, house and workshop; or any article desired for use in pursuit of 
sport by man or boy, or for recreation and amusement of the wife and mother, girl, boy and baby. Anything from a Book to 
an Education; from a Sled to a Thresher; from a Plow to a Reaper; from a Fishing Rod to a Bicycle ; from a 
Glove to a Silk Dress; from a Pen to a Piano ; from a Chester Pig to a Norman Stallion, Jersey Cow or Aberdeen- 
Angus Bull — any American article will be supplied to any of our readers in return for clubs of new subscriptions. State 
what you want and we will name the terms. We do not seek profit in handling these goods. We simply A\ant 
to extend our Subscription Lists to the greatest possible extent. 
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SCRIBERS. Any person can, of course, take 
■ ■ advantage of these offers by himself becoming a 
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In soliciting your friends’ subscriptions, please 
tell them that we send the paper 
Three Months’ Free, 
or the rest of this year, from date of subscrip¬ 
tion, to all who subscribe now, paying $ 2.00 
for 1891 . This is only for new subscriptions. 
Please remember that all the offers and condi¬ 
tions in this list apply equally to 
The American Carden, 
which is published in the same office as THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER, and is its com¬ 
panion journal. It is tully described elsewhere 
in this issue. 
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CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH PREMIUMS ARE OFFERED: 
T HE PREMIUMS ARE GIVEN to our subscribers 
for securing new subscriptions only. 
THE EXTRA PREMIUMS announced elsewhere, are 
open to competition only to our regular subscribers, and 
not to any Supscription Agencies or professional canvassers. 
PREMIUMS ARE FORWARDED by mail postpaid, 
only when so stated. When sent by express or freight, 
transportation is at the expense of the receiver. 
SHORT TERM SUBSCRIBERS (for 10 weeks etc.) are 
counted in our lists the same as any other subscribers, 
but yearly subscriptions from them may be reckoned as 
"new subscriptions ” in any club. On the other hand they 
have the privileges of other subscribers in getting up clubs 
and securing premiums. 
SEND IN SUBSCRIPTIONS AS FAST AS SECURED. 
It is unnecessary to select the premium when the first 
names are sent in. We will keep a careful, separate ac¬ 
count with each party sending names, and give credit for 
each subscription sent in. Then, at the end of the season, 
or whenever desired, the premium may be selected and it 
will be forwarded at once. Please mark all orders “ For 
Premium,” if such is the case. 
PLEASE DON’T ASK US TO CHANGE ANY OF 
THESE CONDITIONS, or the terms for any premium, 
because any changes involve considerable extra work and 
inconvenience, and as our business is large and filled with 
numerous intricate details we cannot well afford the loss 
of time and labor Incident to such changes. The terms 
are all exceedingly liberal and generous and are purposely 
so made in order to please our subscribers and induce the 
largest possible increase in our subscription list. 
GUARANTEE OF SAFE DELIVERY. We take all 
possible precautions to forward premium articles safely, 
and we guarantee the quality and packing and delivery to 
the post, express or freight office. Beyond that we cannot 
be responsible. But for an insurance fee of five cents on 
articles valued at $5 or under, and for a fee of one per 
cent, on any value over $5, we will guarantee the safe de¬ 
livery of any article at the post, express or freight office 
nearest the receiver’s address. 
ANYTHING WANTED PRACTICALLY AT RE¬ 
DUCED COST. Notice above our remarks on supplying 
anything wanted out-doors or in doors, and remember that 
it is unnecessary to secure the whole number of subscrip¬ 
tions called for in order to secure the thing desired, 
although we always prefer that you should, as our only 
purpose in offering premiums is to increase our list of 
subscribers. For example : Yon may want a $100 article 
for which GO subscribers may be required by our offer; 
but you find it inconvenient to devote time enough to 
secure more than, say, 25 names. In this case you have 
only to send us the 25 names and put in the balance in cost 
from your own pocket, in this example $50, and so on in 
about that proportion for any number of subscribers se¬ 
cured, or for any other article desired. We will give the 
terms on any article desired after the club is actually begun. 
ONLY SUBSCRIBERS GET THE PREMIUMS for 
sending in new subscriptions because they know all about 
the aims and objects of our periodicals and know better than 
any other people how to present their claims to prospec¬ 
tive new subscribers, and also because we want our friends 
to have the exclusive benefit of the very liberal premium 
offers which we are enabled to make by means of special 
arrangements with the manufacturers direct for this par¬ 
ticular purpose. 
PREMIUMS ARE NOT GIVEN TO INDUCE PEOPLE 
TO SUBSCRIBE. The paper and magazine are worth all 
we ask for them. We give the premiums only to sub¬ 
scribers already on our lists, who shall induce others to 
subscribe solely on the merits of the journals themselves. 
HOW TO SEND MONEY.—Money may be sent at our 
risk in the forms of a money order, bank draft, express 
money order, or if the others can not be secured, in a 
registered letter. If sent in any other form, it must be 
wholly at the risk of the sender. 
OFFERS ARE LIMITED TO ONE YEAR in duration, 
that is, from October 1, 1S90 to October 1, 1891. Special 
offers may be limited for a less or greater time in accord¬ 
ance with the terms given in the special cases. * 
BE SURE TO STATE IN EVERY ORDER, (1) Whether 
the subscription is for The Rural New Yorker or The 
American Garden ; (2) Name and full address of each sub¬ 
scriber ; (3) Amount of money sent; (4) Whether the club 
is for a premium or not; (5) What premium you are work¬ 
ing for, if it is one not mentioned in our Premium List, so 
that we may make preparations for securing it on proper 
conditions as to cost. 
Address all correspondence and have money orders 
and drafts made payable to 
THE RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, Times Building, New York. 
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Extra Premiums for 10 New Names 
to the value of $5.00 to be selected from the articles 
marked with an * in this Premium List. We will also 
give some SPLENDID SPECIAL PREMIUMS 
to those who send in before June ist, 1891, the 
LARGEST CLUBS. See another page for terms. 
AS IN THE PAST WE WILL CONTINUE FOR 
OUR READERS’ BENEFIT OUR 
Special Clubbing 
arrangements with several of the LEADING PA¬ 
PERS of the country, at special low prices. See 
terms elsewhere in this issue. We will also furnish 
the BEST BOOKS published in America at low 
combination prices. 
SPECIAL NOTICE. 
We will furnish ANY ARTICLE WANTED for 
WHATEVER CLUB YOU MAY BE ABLE TO SE¬ 
CURE proportionate to our premium terms. FOR 
EXAMPLE : A Triumph Mower calls for 30 subscrip¬ 
tions at $2.00 each. You can send us 15 subscriptions 
at $2.00, and $20.00 in cash additional, and so on pro¬ 
portionately for any larger or smaller number, or for 
any other article. 
