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SEPT. 20 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Publisher s Desk. 
To-day is the Golden Time. 
WHO WANTS THAT MONEY ? 
It looks to-day as If those 10 cash prizes 
to he given away this month for clubs of 
trial subscriptions would be easily won by 
those trying for them. But, as the horse¬ 
men say, it is “anybody’s race” today, 
with astonishingly few competitors. The 
offer follows. 
YOUR OWN SUBSCRIPTION FREE. 
$ 1 OO in cash given for 25-cent Trial 
Subscriptions this month. 
We will extend any subscriber’s subscrip¬ 
tion for one full year from the time of its ex¬ 
piration, who will send us 15 ten-week 
trial subscriptions for The R. N.-Y. at 25 
cents each. 
The $100 cash 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 
cents 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. 
NEW WHEAT PRIZES. 
The R. N.-Y. will give two cash prizes of 
$10 and $5 respectively, for the best and 
second best heads of The R. N.-Y. wheats 
containing the greatest number and heav¬ 
iest weight of grains ; not less than three 
heads of a kind to be selected and forwarded 
to this office before August 15,1891. 
THE WHEATS DEBAYED. 
Be patient, good friends So many of 
you have called for The R. N.-Y. wheats 
that the first supply received from the 
growers was not sufficient to go around. 
And the strikes on the N. Y. Central R R. 
have so delayed the later and larger ship¬ 
ment, that at this writing it is uncertain 
just when we can send out the remainder, 
though we hope that all will have been 
sent out before this paragraph is read. 
Please, be patient: if any of you are missed, 
we shall gladly duplicate the package 
to you.__ 
STILL THE FAIRS. 
The work of our agents at the Fairs to 
date has prospered so greatly that we have 
concluded that we want a small army of 
good agents scattered all over the country ; 
first, to work on a cash commission or for 
premiums, and then, if fitness is proved, to 
work on a salary with expenses paid. We 
want only men who are themselves intelli¬ 
gent farmers, as only they can appreciate 
the merits of our work and talk it under- 
standingly. Correspondence solicited. 
I am well pleased with The Rural New- 
Yorker. The plan of shocking grain it 
gave some time ago was alone worth to me 
many times the cost of the paper this wet 
summer. I was agreeably surprised the 
other day when I tried the stump sweep 
described by Mr. Warn, “dat kwists ’em 
out.” The information I get through The 
R. N.-Y. compels me to say: Success to 
the best agricultural paper I have ever seenl 
Let The Rural work on in its present 
course to enlighten the ignorance now far 
too prevalent among the farmers of the 
land. gl w. A. B. 
McKee, N. C. 
Live Stock Notes. 
The American prairie chicken has been 
introduced into the meadow lands of Bran¬ 
denburg, Germany, and is being bred there 
with good success. 
German sportsmen seem to be turning 
their attention more and more to trotting, 
and there is a growing demand in that coun¬ 
try for good trotting horses. American 
beeeders will be able to turn this to good 
account. 
Leslie & Burwell, breeders of Aberdeen- 
Angus cattle, write us:—“ We took the 
grand sweep-stakes herd prize at the Detroit 
Exposition and fair last week, though all 
breeds competed. 
P. A. Webster, Cazenovia, N. Y. informs 
us that he has just imported a Hackney 
stallion, one year old, golden mahogany in 
color, with silver mane and tail, weight 
1.000 pounds. He was bred by Abbott Bros., 
Norfolk, England. 
Galloway Cattle For Beef.—D akota, 
Nebraska and Montana are our best 
markets for all classes of stock. The trade 
for bulls this year has been first-rate, year¬ 
lings being most sought after. Yesterday 
I shipped 14 heifers and a bull to F. B. 
Clark, Missoula CouDty, Montana, who 
informs me the outlook through his section 
is quite encouraging. HUGH HAUL. 
Heron Lake, Minn. 
Notes on the Range Business.—W. A. 
Harris, the noted Short-horn breeder of 
Linwood, Kan., writes as follows:—"I do 
not furnish any bulls for ranch purposes. 
Straight Cruicksbank bulls at $100 to $600 
each seem to be a little beyond the desires 
of the ranchmen just now, and most of 
mine go to head ShorUhorn herds in States 
east of the Missouri River, when eight to 14 
months old. The ranch business of the old 
times is rapidly disappearing, the growing 
idea, both for necessity and profit, is to 
keep a smaller number of better cattle, 
with feed for winter use. Such a plan wilA 
of course, have a decidedly good effect on 
the producers of bulls. The hard times in 
the cattle business throughout the West 
have very much lowered the character of 
the cattle. People—farmers as well as 
ranchmen—have been unable to buy good 
bulls or have tried dairying with mongrel 
Jersey or Holstein bulls. All the old,broad- 
backed grade Short-horns that could and 
would fatten and weigh heavily, have been 
sacrificed to raise a little money, till the 
country is now full of nondescripts that are 
neither ‘ flesh, fowl nor good red herring,’ 
so that the need of good bulls is greater 
now than it was 15 years ago.” 
Pomace FOR Cows.—I have never fed 
apples except the few the cows would pick 
up early in the orchard before I shut them 
out. On two different occasions I have had 
fresh cows in the fall, and each time I let 
them run out in the yard to eat a little 
grass. Both times they got into the 
orchard and filled themselves with apples, 
and almost dried up in their milk ; in fact, 
one never fully recovered, so I came to the 
conclusion that apples were not good for 
dairy cows. A year or so ago I was at the 
cider mill and saw a small fence around 
the pomace pile. I asked why it was there. 
The answer was: “ Mr. R-’s cows have 
nearly all dried up from eating the 
pomace.” It may be that feeding sweet 
apples would be a benefit. I have never 
fed skim milk to the cows, for the calves 
and pigs have to be raised. I have not fed 
bone meal, but I often see the cows chew¬ 
ing pieces of bones, so that bones might lie 
a benefit. GEORGE M. ORRIS. 
Apples and Cows.— I have made a prac¬ 
tice of feeding “cider apples” to my cows 
for the last 20 years (when I have had any 
surplus), with beneficial results. I am 
sure that to give from eight to 12 quarts of 
them to each cow, night and morning, as 
part of her feed, is better than to sell them 
for 10 to 15 cents per 100 pounds. As to 
their drying up cows, there is no danger 
unless the animals get a chance to eat so 
many that they cannot, for the time being, 
eat anything else. If that were the case, 
the apples would be very liable to make 
them give less milk. I always gather and 
feed the apples to the cows in the manger. 
I never turn the animals into the orchard 
to gather for themselves. Any one who 
does that should expect bad results. 
I never have fed bone-meal to cows. 
When a cow takes a bone in her mouth 
and tries to get something out of it, it 
seems sensible to reduce the bone to meal 
and give her all she wants. I am going to 
try it. O. u. smith. 
Durocs and Jersey Reds.— What are 
short descriptions of the Duroc-Jersey and 
Jersey Red breeds of swine, with the dis¬ 
tinct characteristics of each ? What are 
the names of some breeders of each ? 
Brookside, Mich. A. G. M. 
ANS.—Red hogs, known as Durocs, have 
been bred in Saratoga County, N. Y.. since 
1823. Later they were introduced into 
Washington, the adjoining county. The 
red hogs of New Jersey are of the same 
origin, namely, families of the old Berk- 
shires of the early importations. This was 
before the Berk shires were crossed with 
either the Neapolitan or Essex, which 
changed their ears to upright and their 
colors more uniformly to black. The 
Duroc Jerseys still retain the characteris¬ 
tics which made this valuable breed so 
famous. They are very prolific breeders 
and excellent Bucklers. The red hogs of 
New Jersey were named Jersey Reds about 
15 years ago. Before that they were known 
as Durocs and red hogs. They are gener¬ 
ally larger-boned and coarser than the 
family known as Durocs. The two fam¬ 
ilies are now combined under one name, 
and the breeders have united in one associ¬ 
ation—the American Duroc-Jersey Swine 
Breeders’ Association. There are some 
breeders of the Jersey Reds who claim to 
have bred them pure, with no admixture of 
other red blood. The modern Duroc-Jersey 
is composed of an admixture of all of the 
families of red hogs which bad lopped ears. 
This admixture gives the breed great vital¬ 
ity and ability for breeding and feeding. 
The Jersey Red is a coarser hog than the 
Duroc Jersey, with a narrower back and 
flatter sides. The animals have, however, 
been made finer in the hands of some of the 
breeders, as they have followed the stand¬ 
ard and type adopted by the breeders of 
the Duroc Jerseys, which is as follows: 
“ Standard ."—A Duroc-Jersey should be 
moderately long, quite deep-bodied, not 
round, but broad on the back, holding the 
width well out to the hips and hams. The 
head should be small in proportion to the 
body, the face slightly dished, nose rather 
short, ears medium in size, pendant, and 
falling towards the eyes, and must not be 
erect. The neck should be short, deep and 
thick; the legs short, wide apart, and well 
set under the body. Bone or medium fine¬ 
ness, arm large, and flank well down. The 
hams should be broad and full,well down to 
the hock. Tail large at its base, aud taper¬ 
ing to its extremity. There should be a 
good coat of hair of medium fineness, 
usually straight, but in some cases wavy, 
with few if any bristles at the top of the 
neck and shoulders. The color should be 
red; varying from dark, glossy cherry, to 
light or yellowish red. An occasional fleck 
of black (usually on the belly and legs) is 
admissible, but cherry red without black is 
preferred. Id disposition mild and gentle. 
Pigs at nine months of age should dress 
250 pounds to 300 pounds, and when fully 
matured, 400 pounds to 700 pounds. 
Breeders of Duroc Jerseys are F. D. 
Curtis, Kirby Homestead, Charlton, N. Y.; 
George W. Stoner, La Place, Ill. Breeders 
of Jersey Reds are Andrew Crook, Bath, 
N. Y.; John S. Collins, Mooretown, N. J. 
DON’T FORGET! 
That we give away $ 100.00 
to subscribers only, who shall 
send us the largest clubs of 
25 -cent trial subscriptions be¬ 
fore October 1 st. 
That if you send in 15 of 
them, your own subscription 
will be extended for another 
year free of charge, in addi¬ 
tion to the cash prizes. 
That the price of The R.- 
N.-Y. in clubs of five (four 
new names and one renewal) 
or more is only $ 1.50 per 
year. 
That any old subscriber 
who sends us 5 new subscrip¬ 
tions at $1.50 each will have 
his own subscription to The 
R. N.-Y., or The American 
Garden extended for one full 
year free of charge ; and also 
the privilege of selecting pre¬ 
miums marked with an * to 
the amount of S3, if sent in 
before November 1 st. 
That any new subscriber 
for 1891 will receive the paper 
the rest of this year free. 
That all yearly subscribers 
will participate in our Dis¬ 
tribution of Seeds of new 
varieties originated 011 the 
Rural Grounds and worth $2 
to $3 to each subscriber at 
ordinary market rates. 
DON’T FORGET! 
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mention The Rural. 
/‘A CHESHIRE HOGS; nil ages. Write to J. L. 
I )U SMITH & SON, Castile, N. Y. 
J IOFIT BUAHM AS.-Early hfttoli; large chicks for 
sale; thoroughbred birds 111 for exhibitions. 
J. A. ROBERTS, Malvern, I’a. 
F REDERIC E. WARD, Produce Commission Mer¬ 
chant, 215 Duane Street, N. Y. Write for prices 
and Instruction forsblpptng. Consignments solicited. 
SHEEP Shropshire! LAMBS 
COTSWOLD, OXFORD DOWN AND MERINO. Bred 
from highest class prbo winning stock. Lambs 
ready for shipping August l: also a few choice Rams 
and Ewes, 1, 2 and 3-year old. of all the above breeds. 
A number of prize winners ready for shipment about 
the middle of October. 
YORKSHIRE PICS. 
JERSEY REDS. CHESTER WHITE, ROLAND 
CHINAS, RERKSHlKL Spring litters ready for Im 
mediate shipment. AIro Several Rough-Coated Seotcn 
Collie Hitches, 1 to 2 ’ears old. Write at otiee for 
prices. VV.AtleeHur ee «fc Co., Philadelphia, l’a. 
Til M. REVEAL, CLERMONT, IND , breeds best 
1 • strains Roland China recorded Swine all nges 
lor Sale. Single rates by express. Extra shipping 
point Indianapolis, lnd. 15 Railroads. 
P USH, Chesters,Berkshire's, Rolands. Eox Hounds, 
Beagles, Collies, Setters. W. GIBBONS A CO., 
West Chester, Ra. Send stamp for Circular. 
J ASON ELL A RS, BOOKWALTER, OniO, lias 
for sale Registered Berkshire Rigs and South¬ 
down Sheep that are tlrst-class. Reasonable prices. 
TIOTTT fTVDVMTTTvT 1 Valuable article on feed at 
rUUdJlIillVi^XN ! one half the former cost, 
free R. A. WEBSTER, Cazenovia, N. Y. 
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AND SAVE' jTO 1 ^ OF YOUR FEED.' 
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Honorable treatment. We can refer to hundreds of well- 
pleased customers in every soction of the U.S. Our prices 
range from excellent 1 .list re papers at lie, a roll to elegant 
I rldcseont Embossed OoldM-at 35c. For He. postage 
will sond to any address, samples with borders to match. 
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PISTOLS 75c 
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WHY ARE TI1ESK FARMERS SO IMITY ? 
Because, like ■10.000 other farmer*, they rend THE 
NATIONAL STOCKMAN AND FARMER every urek, 
and (ire therefore well posted on the breeding, feeding and 
marketing of alt kind* if lira stetele. the management of 
//,, tin in/ mol tin farm, and the doings if farme-rs’ 
nrgatl ixeetiettts. Hi <lo not rare to speak at length on 
tin size ami turrit of our jut per. What we do ask in 
that you send far a satttidr copy and judge for 
yourself- Heller still, send 2.5c and git one every 
tree* until January 1st, ISiJI. (Not lunger unless you re- 
new), 
These• jolly farmers introduced THE STOCK- 
MA N into their resjsetivi neighborhoods last year, doing a 
notxl turn for their neighbors amt getting teell peeiet for 
their labor. A paper frith f t yayes earh teeeli, f nil 
of the, very best lire stork, agricultural and home litera¬ 
ture is easy to introduce in any section, especially 
when the price is reduced from $1.50 single subscription 
to fl.00 per year in clubs. 
Dur agents outside if Ft nnsylrania and Ohio last year 
rrrtirrd per eeiit. if all the subscription money they 
sent us, and if course they were tee! I plea seel. One 
agint in New York and several in the West actually re- 
ctived mare mattey than they sent us. 
On re-ash prizes Inst, year were the laryemt ever 
paiel by any agricultural jm/ier. We gin the same sums 
this year anil aibl >’}.'>« far lltetse trltet start tune. 
fly attending fairs and working among your neighbors 
you can make from tj‘> tee —Semdfor full particu¬ 
lars to-day. 
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