SEPT. 2? 
65o 
Publisher s Desk. 
All the Time Is Harvest Time. 
MONEY GOING BEGGING. 
Well, perhaps not exactly “ begging ” 
for some one to take it, as there is a fair 
number of applicants; but it does seem 
“too bad” that §100 of good money 
should go so easily an 1 tempt so few ap¬ 
plicants. 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 mouths—October, November and 
December—at 25 cents each. 
The senders of these competition clubs arc 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. 
ONLY ONE NEW SUBSCRIBER. 
Did it ever occur to you, dear reader, 
what It would mean if you should add the 
name of only one new subscriber to the list 
of The Rural New Yorker ? As Mr. or 
Mrs. “Dear Reader” means every present 
subscriber on our list, of course if you 
send us just one new subscription, then our 
entire list will be doubled. 
And what then! We all know that The 
Rural New-Yorker costs more to make 
than any other farm paper in America, be¬ 
cause we are content only with the best 
that we can procure with the means at our 
disposal. BUT if you will send along that 
one new subscription, we shall receive 
double the amount of money that we do 
now for subscriptions, and nearly twice as 
much for advertising, which, you see, will 
enable us to give you even a better paper 
than now. Of course, many of the expenses 
will also be doubled, such as paper, press- 
work, postage, etc. But we would have a 
considerable margin to expend on more il¬ 
lustrations, special investigations, travel¬ 
ing expenses of reporters, etc. 
Furthermore, we are willing to pay you 
for that one new subscription, either in 
money or in articles from our Premium 
List. 
Will you send the one ? 
If not, why not ? 
BAD FAIR WEATHER. 
The excessive rains the first half of this 
month have made the work of our lair 
Agents especially hard, but, on the whole, 
the record is satisfactory. We especially 
congratulate those of our workers who 
have had the pluck to persevere in spite of 
rain and mud. And we know that they 
will be glad to learn that the combined re¬ 
sult is many hundreds of new readers to 
the “good old Rural,” as many kind 
friends are pleased to term the paper. 
Tie. e are many good fairs still to come 
and in the superb autumn weather we are 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
now enjoying, we have no doubt that the 
coming results will excel those so far 
achieved._ 
THE WHEATS OUT AT LAST. 
To-day, Friday, September 19, the last of 
the wheats are being mailed. The delay 
was caused by the strike on the N. Y. 
Central Railroad, which prevented the for¬ 
warding of the wheats from the growers in 
Central New York. 
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. 
Live Stock Notes. 
Ostrich farming is still an industry in 
Southern California. The origtnal “ plant” 
consisted of 18 birds which cost §1,000 each. 
There are now on the farm 120 full grown 
and 54 young birds of different sizes. 
The Western New York Jersey Cattle 
Breeders’ Association will make a great 
display of their stock at the Rochester 
Fair. 
The American Horse Show Association 
will hold its second annual exhibition at 
Chicago, November 1 to 8. 
The Parkville trotting stock, the property 
of John H. Shutts, of Parkville, Long 
Island, will be sold by auction by Peter C. 
Kellogg & Co., on Monday and Tuesday, 
September 29 and 30. The sale will be 
held at Parkville Farm. Among this 
stock will be found some of the most care¬ 
fully bred trotting horses in the country. 
This is a breaking-up sale—nothing will be 
reserved. Colts from such sires as George 
Wilkes, Stambonl, Paucoast, Alcyone, 
Wedgewood, Kentucky Wilkes, General 
Benton, Nutwood, etc., etc., will be offered. 
Mr. Shutts, the owner of Parkville, has 
been for the past few years one of the most 
extensive, careful and liberal buyers in the 
country. 
TnE exhibit of live stock at the New York 
State Fair at Syracuse was the largest ever 
made by the society. The total number 
was 3,713, divided as follows: Cattle, 1,159; 
horses, 523; sheep, 669; swine, 327; poultry, 
1,034. The cattle were divided by breeds as 
follows : Short-horns, 135; Devons, 88; Here- 
fords, 28 ; Ayrshires, 156 ; Jerseys, 278 ; 
Guernseys, 86; Holsteins, 136; other cattle, 
242. The buildings given up to the live 
stock exhibits are said to be the finest in 
the country. There are seven in all; two 
for horses, each 44 by 428 feet; three for 
cattle, 40 by 420 feet, and two for sheep and 
8 wine, each 36 by 410 feet. 
“ Pleuro” in New Jersey.— Some cattle 
owners near Greenville, New Jersey, are 
excited because some of their cattle have 
been seized and slaughtered by govern¬ 
ment inspectors. Dr. Hawk, Chief Inspec¬ 
tor for New Jersey, says he discovered a 
few cases of pleuro-pneumonia among the 
cattle and is determined to stamp the 
disease out. The diseased cattle were found 
in filthy stahles where ailing animals have 
been secreted for sometime. The outbreak 
is local and is confined to a few stables. Dr. 
Hawk has the following to say about the 
“business” of dealing in diseased cows: 
“Supposing when we found sickness in a 
herd, we let the healthy ones alone. These 
people are shrewd enough to know 
that by and by pleuro-pneumonia will 
be developed in the companions of the dis¬ 
eased cows, and they sell those apparently 
healthy cattle to the first dealer that comes 
along. He will sell them to some one else 
and eventually a cow finds her way into 
the herd of some gentleman who has in¬ 
vested §15,000 or §20,000 in cattle, and there 
the fell disase makes its appearance. In 
reality those people do not lose anything 
by our taking away their cattle. They 
pay, say, §50 a piece for their cows. In a 
herd of 20 we discover nearly one half dis¬ 
eased. Now the diseased cow is worth 
scarcely one dollar and the owner knows it 
perfectly well ; but we buy the diseased 
ones at §20 a head and we have even given 
§25, and the healthy animals we buy at §50, 
or §37 50 a piece for both classes. Aud thus 
we even things up.” 
Short-Horns for the Range.— Forbes 
Bros., of Henry, Ill., write us: “Our 
trade has been extra good for the last year 
and promises to be good for the coming 
season. Quite a large number of our bulls 
go to Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. We 
have sent some to Dakota and Michigan ; 
but the greater number of them are taken 
by parties in this State. We have never 
sold any bulls to go on the range proper. 
We believe ranchmen generally use grades 
or a cheap class of purebreds. The bulls in 
most demand with us are rtds, good ani¬ 
mals with good pedigrees, aud from 12 to 20 
months of age. The future for purebred 
stock of all breeds seems quite bright. 
While there will always be scrub men to 
handle scrub stock, we think that, to a 
great extent, the scrub must go. As for 
the ranch business, it will soon be a thing 
of the past; that is, it cannot be carried on 
in the future as it has in the past. While 
there may be just as many or even more 
cattle handled on our Western plains, they 
will be, to a great extent, handled in small 
numbers by actual settlers, and be of better 
quality.”_ 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
SATURDAY. September 20, 1890. 
Within the past two weeks the heaviest 
and most disastrous rains ever known at 
this season of the year have fallen over 
large areas of country. Rivers have over¬ 
flowed their banks, large tracts of bottom 
land have been inundated, much corn, po¬ 
tatoes and other late crops have been des¬ 
troyed, wheat seeding has been delayed, 
bridges and buildings have been washed 
away, roads have been rendered impas¬ 
sable, and much other damage has been 
done. It is said that many farmers will be 
crippled financially, if not ruined, as a re¬ 
sult. The results to the numerous agri¬ 
cultural societies which were so unfortu¬ 
nate as to select their fair dates during the 
last two weeks have been disastrous. Many 
of the fairs have been declared off. Much 
damage to exhibits has resulted. The 
opening of the permanent grounds of the 
New York State Agricultural Society, at 
Syracuse, which was to celebrate the semi- 
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Great Public Sale of 
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GUELPH, ONTARIO, CANADA, 
MR. F« W. STONE, 
MORETON LODGE, GUELPH, will sell without re¬ 
serve, on Wedne day and Thursday, October 8 
and 9, 1890 (the days following the sale of the 
Agricultural College, Guelph) of about 150 Here¬ 
ford and Shorthorn Cattle; about 290 Cols- 
wold and Southdown Hieep, and Berkshire Pigs. 
s»ale at the Exhibition Ground* at 12 o'clock 
sharp each day. Catalogues with full particulars 
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MORSES. 
Clydesdale, Percheron, French Coach, 
American.bred Coach, Standard-bred 
Trotters, of the best and most Popular 
Breeding. 
Also Berkshire and Cheshire Swine. 
Separate Catalogues of Horses and Cattle. Prices 
low for high quality of stock. (In writing mention 
this paper.) 
SMITHS, POWELL &. LAMB 
SYRACUSE. N. V. 
3 aaa Chicks from one machine in less than 
four months. Prices reduced, making 
It the cheapest as well as tho best machine on tlie 
market. Thousands in successful operation in this 
country, Canada and Europe. They are giving uni¬ 
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27 consecutive shows. More than 10*1 In use within a 
radius of 30 miles of our factory, seme of the farmers 
using from two to eight machines. 
J2f~ Send for Circular. 
JAMES RANKIN, SOUTH EASTON, MASS. 
COLES’ CATHARTIC HORSE PILLS 
will cleanse and purify the system and put a 
horse in flue condition. 
BAUM'S STALL AND TREE 
PROTECTOR AND CRIBBING PRE¬ 
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DIAMOND STUFFING for 
horses’ feet, no oil In it, will 
not spoil or become rancid, 
prevents disease and is the 
most economical tiring you 
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JERSEY CASTILE HARNESS SOAP OR 
DRESSING, Nothing equal to it. 
WABNER'S HORSE SUPPLY AGENCY 
245 & 247 N. Broad St., f HILADt LPHIA. 
H olstein - friesi n cattle, all aofs: 
Berkshire Pigs: can ship pairs not akin. Also 
HORN DORSfcT Ram Lambs. Prices reason¬ 
able. J M. HAM. 
Lynfeld Farm, Washington Hollow, N. Y. 
rp M. REVEAL, CLERMONT, IND . breeds best 
1 • strains Poland China recorded Swine all ages 
for 8nle. Single rates by express. Extra shipping 
point Indianapolis, Ind. 15 Hu.ilroa<ls. 
GO 
CHESHIRE HOGS; all ages. 
SMITH & SON, Cast He. N. Y. 
Write to J. L. 
I IGHT BRAHMAS.—Early ha'eh ; large chicks for 
_J sale; thoroughbred birds lit for < xbibitions. 
J. A. ROBERTS, Malvern, Pa. 
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one half the lormer cost, 
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F or sale.-a fine country stork prop 
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New York, one hours’ ride from Albany. Troy or 
Hudson, N. Y., doing a good business. One large, 
two-story ani cellar Warehouse, nearly new 30x51 
feet. adjoining same a one-stor.v Buildl-ig (new last 
year), 16x44 feet; rented for the Post-Office and Har 
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York City. 
FARMS 
Free new Circular. 
Large settlement of happy and 
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Why buy your Imported and 
registered stallions elsewhere, 
when we sell them for nearly 
half the price of other importers. 
Warranted sure breeders. Terms 
to suit customers, visitors wel¬ 
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Send for catalogue. Address, 
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Watertown, - Wisconsin. 
TASO\ ELL MIS, BO^K WALTER. OHIO, has 
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P IGS, Chesters,Berkshires, Polands. Fox Hounds, 
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SHEEP SHROPSHIRE,’ LAMBS 
COTSWOLD. OXFORD DOWN AND MERINO. Bred 
from highest class prize winning stock. Lambs 
ready for shipping August 1: also a few choice Rams 
and Ewes, t, 2 sml 8-year old, of all the above breeds. 
A numbsr of pi Ize winners ready for shipment about 
the middle of October. 
YORKSHIRE PICS. 
JERSEY HKDS, CHESTER WHITE, POLAND 
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mediate shipment. Also several Rough Coated Scoten 
Collie Bitches. I to 2 years old. Write at once for 
prices. \Y. Atlee Burpee & Co.. Philadelphia, Pa. 
HOG CHOLERA AND SWINE PLAGUE 
PREVENTED 
and CURED. 
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