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OCT. 4 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Publisher s Desk. 
Keep at the Head of the Crowd. 
THE $100 IN PRIZES 
offered for largest clubs of trial subscrip¬ 
tions sent in during September will be 
awarded October 1st (this paper goes to the 
printer on September 27th), and announced 
in our next issue. 
NOTHING TO SELL. 
A Little Business Talk. 
In the broad sense The Rural Publishing 
Company have “nothing to sell” but their 
periodicals and books. In the ordinary 
sense, of course, we do sell the articles 
named in our Premium List, but in reality 
we are in the market only as buyers in the 
interests of our subscribers. We do not 
care to make a dollar of profit out of this 
feature of our work, and the fact is that 
we probably shall not. In cases where we 
can do so legitimately we offer the articles 
named at cash prices but a trifle in advance 
of the net cash cost to us, as in the case of 
watches, sewing machines, books, harnesses 
and certain implements. 
The Rural New-Yorker preaches eco¬ 
nomical buying, and in furtherance of this 
object we try to help our readers to get 
“anything they want” at the lowest pos¬ 
sible cost. On many of these articles we 
can quote only the regular retail price by 
contract with the manufacturers, but we 
offer any subscriber the full benefit of our 
discount if he will send us clubs of sub¬ 
scriptions. In other words, the cash cost 
of the article to us is the same as the 
amount of cash commission that we would 
give for the club of new subscriptions 
named, we making nothing whatever out 
of the article itself. Is that plain ? 
We want every reader to distinctly un¬ 
derstand that we desire to save him money. 
Our advantage in all this is plain enough. 
If you, as a subscriber to The Rural New- 
Yorker, are thereby enabled to buy any¬ 
thing for several or many dollars (either 
in work or cash) less than you would 
otherwise have to pay for it, aren’t you 
going to tell your friends and neighbors of 
the opportunity ? Of course you are. And 
aren’t they going to become subscribers in 
order to enjoy like privileges ? Of course 
they are. 
We consider your paper covers the whole 
ground. MRS. J. H. 
Paris, Ivy. 
I have been a subscriber to The Rural 
for 11 years, and believe whatever the 
Rural Publishing Company recommend to 
be only of the best. a. e. b. 
Hopkins, Minn. 
I take The Rural and cannot keep house 
without it. It must not forget to send me 
the new wheats. I am going to plow a 
piece of newly seeded clover under for 
them. We have had a big hay crop. Oats 
about half crop. Nob much corn is raised 
here; what there is looks well. Millet is a 
large crop. Apples not half a crop. No 
pears. The weather is quite wet now. 
Bolivar, Allegany Co., N. Y. j. j. b. 
Live Stock Notes. 
The great dishorning case in Ireland has 
been decided in favor of those who practice 
the operation. As is usual in such cases, 
the enemies of dishorning tried to prove by 
veterinarians and professors that the prac¬ 
tice must be painful because they could not 
see how it could be otherwise. 
A PECULIAR distemper has broken out 
among horses in the vicinity of Manchester, 
N. H., which has baffled the veterinarians. 
The disease begins in a slight lameness and 
culminates in swollen limbs and running 
sores. 
Apples ; Skim-Milk —I believe that in 
order to get the best results from feeding 
apples we should begin by feeding small 
quantities and gradually increase, and 
that we should not give too many at a 
time. I base my opinion on the fact that 
once my cows got into the orchard and ate 
all they wanted, and for several days after¬ 
wards they gave less milk than before; 
whereas, when I had plenty of apples and 
gave them small quantities at first and in¬ 
creased the amount there was an increase 
in the yield of milk. I have fed skim-milk 
to cows and horses when I had a surplus. 
If there is any to spare it will pay to feed 
it to cows and horses if they will drink it. 
I do not think it will pay as well as to feed 
it to calves and pigs. c. F. lusk. 
Improved Chester Whites.—M r. W. 
Baker, of Greenwood, Ill., sends us the 
following note : “The kind of hog that is 
most often called for by my correspondents 
and old customers is a purebred with hair 
and skin all white and fine lop ears; broad 
face; neat, full jowl; short neck; full, 
heavy shoulders ; straight back and heavy 
hams and shoulders, all supported by four 
good legs,not too long or slim and too short 
and heavy. Aside from my sales in Illinois, 
my native State, I ship more to Iowa than 
to any other State, and the majority ot my 
stock goes west, though I have shipped 
east to New York and Pennsylvania; south 
to Missouri and Kentucky; west to 
Colorado, and northwest to Dakota and 
Minnesota. The heaviest hogs I can breed 
sell the best. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
SATURDAY. September 27. 1890. 
ton seed has fallen one half. This business 
of manufacturing cotton-seed oil has as¬ 
sumed immense proportions, and its de¬ 
struction means ruin to thousands in the 
South. 
The Corn Palace at Sioux City, Iowa, 
was formally opened on Thursday after¬ 
noon with imposing ceremonies. The struc¬ 
ture is said to be more novel and attractive 
than in preceding years. It covers an area 
of 264 feet, or twice that of last year. It is 
of Arabic design. The center of the build¬ 
ing closes in an immense dome, from which 
rises a substantial tower to a hight of 170 
feet. On each side of the central tower are 
two smaller ones, and heavy festoons of 
grain are hung from the smaller ones to 
the central tower. The principal room is 
octagonal in shape and has a diameter of 
166 feet. Daylight is excluded, and the 
ceiling is of sky-blue canvas dotted with 
incandescent lamps arranged to simulate 
stars. The auditorium, 100 by 100 feet, will 
be devoted to musical entertainments. The 
remainder of the space is reserved for 
exhibits. 
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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 t 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 I We all know that The 
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than any other farm paper in America, be¬ 
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disposal. BUT if you will send along that 
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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- 
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considerable margin to expend on more il¬ 
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Furthermore, we are willing to pay you 
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money or in articles from our Premium 
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Will you send the one f 
If not, why not ? 
Condensed Correspondence. 
Dover, N. H.—Good second crop of hay, 
but poor quality Decause of rain. First 
crop good in quantity and quality. Early 
potatoes light; late ones fair but rotting 
badly. Burpee’s Emerald Gem Melons 
delicious. w. e. r. 
Farmville, Va.— Tobacco best in many 
years, but only small crop planted. Corn 
fine crop. w. d. 
Mercer County, N. J.—Not only fruits 
a failure, but chestnuts, hickories, oaks, 
maples, etc., failed to produce seed. All 
trees seem in good condition and full of 
fruit buds for next crop. 1. J. B. 
It is said that if the Conger Lard Bill 
should become a law a movement would be 
made to take some of our refinery plants to 
Europe to make possible competition with 
the foreign manufacturers. 
The meeting of the New Jersey State 
Horticultural Society was held at Rutgers 
College, Monday, about 75 members being 
present. There was quite au exhibit of 
fruits and vegetables though the former 
were somewhat meager. 
The first hard frosts of the season were 
reported from Northern New York and 
New England Wednesday night. Ice formed 
in many places, and in the Adiroudacks 
and the VV bite Mountains considerable snow 
fell. 
A Cincinnati fruit-preserving establish¬ 
ment this week shipped to Chicago and 
St. Louis in one day 18 car-loads of tomato 
catsup. 
The New Hampshire Commissioner of 
Agriculture in his first annual report shows 
that 801 of the 1,342 farms abandoned last 
year have been re-occupied. 
Oliver Dalrymple, the bonanza wheat- 
grower of North Dakota, has 25,000 acres of 
wheat this year, which he says is thrashing 
out an average of 18 bushels per acre. 
About one third of it grades No. 1 hard, 
and the rest No. 1 northern. He expects 
future prices will be higher rather than 
lower. 
Cotton seed oil producers say that the 
Conger Bill will wipe their industry out of 
existence, as it in reality puts a tax of five 
cents per gallon upon the oil. This fear 
seems not unfounded, for the price of cot- 
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A PIETERTJE BULL 
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