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OCT. U 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Publisher s Desk. 
THE ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS AWARDED. 
For Clubs of Trial Subscriptions. 
The Money Easily Won. 
By the limitations of our offer for the largest clubs of 
25 cent trial subscriptions sent us during the mouth of 
September, the salaried and professional canvassers were 
barred out of the competition, therefore, during the month 
of September, only about 300 came under the terms of our 
offer, which was, to divide $100 in cash in ten amounts of 
$35, $20, $10, $5, $5, $5, $5, $5, $5, $5, respectively, to the ten 
yearly subscribers who should send us the ten largest clubs 
of trial subscriptions for The Rural New Yorker or 
American Garden, at 25 cents each. The awards are as 
follows: 
A. G. Davis, Clinton Co., Mo. 
J R. Wheaton, Steuben Co., N. Y 
.7. A. Taylor, Yates Co , N. Y. 
Kay Ken noli. Monroe Co , N. Y.... 
F. W. Haird. Will Co., Ill. 
E H. Taylor, Madison Co., N. Y. . 
Frank Ward, Bergen Co., N. .1 ... 
Warren Vreeland, Essex Co., N. J 
E Conklin. Dutches? Co.. N. Y— 
W. .7. Oberlin, Static Co., Ohio.... 
NAYE8. 
amount 
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.. 24 
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5.00 
.. 20 
5 (10 
.. 16 
5.- 0 
.. 14 
5.00 
11 
5.00 
.. 10 
5.10 
It is seen by this that The Rural New-Yorker has nob 
made very much by this offer! Indeed the gentlemen 
winning the prizes get, in every case, more money than 
ice received, and, in some cases, three or four times as 
much. Certainly that is good pay for the effort made ! 
Now we do not believe that our subscribers propose to let 
these prizes go so cheaply, and therefore 
WE REPEAT THE $100 CASH PRIZE OFFER. 
This time, however, it is necessary for us to get a little 
more out of it, and, we trust, in place of the 15 competitors 
in the last competition, there will not be less thau 1,500 iu 
this one. The offer follows : 
$ 1OO in cash given for 25-cent Trial 
Subscriptions. 
We will extend any subscriber’s subscription for one full 
year from the time of its expiration, who will send us 15 
ten weeks’ trial subscriptions for The R. N. Y. at 25 cents 
each. 
The $100 cash offer is as follows: We will give $100 iu 
TEN amounts of $35, $2), $10, $5, $5, $5, $5, $5, $5 $5, re¬ 
spectively, to the TEN present subscribers who will 
send us before December 1, the TEN 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 at 25 cents each. 
The senders of these competition clubs are also entitled to any of the 
very liberal premiums offered iu the Premium List, or a liberal eash 
commission will be given if preferred, iu lieu of the year's subsc iptlon. 
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 huudreds takiug up the offers and sending us in 
thousands of the trial subscriptions, many of which would 
become regular subscriptions. Sample copies for use iu 
this work sent on application. 
SPECIAL CLUBBING COMBINATIONS. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER’S Great "Combine” 
with the Prominent Newspapers of America. 
In accordance with our usual custom, we have entered 
into special arrangements with several of the great news¬ 
papers iu different parts of the country. Iu years past 
many thousands of our readers have taken advantage of 
these offers, doubtless to their benefit. 
THE NEW YORK WEEKLY WORLD.—The weekly 
edition of the most successful newspaper in America, 
thoroughly alive and abreast of the times in every 
respect. Price $1 ; in club with THE Rural NEW- 
YORKER, $2.25. 
BOSTON WEEKLY GLOBE—What The World is to 
the Middle States, The Olobe is to the New England 
States, and its weekly edition is a bright and instruc¬ 
tive family newspaper. Price $1 ; iu club with The 
Rural New-Yorker, $2.10. 
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION.—This is well known 
as the foremost newspaper in the South Atlantic 
States, and we take pleasure in offering its weekly 
edition with The Rural New-Yorker at $2.25. 
Price of The Constitution alone $1. 
DETROIT FREE PRESS.—Who does not kndw of this 
wonderful, progressive and successful newspaper ? 
Its weekly edition is famous the world over. Price 
$1; with The Rural New-Yorker, $2 25. 
CHICAGO INTER OCEAN.—Its weekly edition is said 
to be the most widely read of any of the Western 
newspapers. Price $1; with The Rural New- 
Yorker, $2.25. 
It would take a page of space to adequately describe any 
one of these great newspapers. They can be known only 
by examination. SPECIMEN COPIES of any of them 
will be sent on application. 
HOW "ONE” BECOMES THOUSANDS. 
Did it ever occur to you, dear reader, what it would 
mean if you should add the name of only one new sub¬ 
scriber 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 sub¬ 
scription, 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, because 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, aud 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 
illustrations, special investigations, traveling 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 ? 
THE WATCH WAR. 
Remarkable Response to THE RURAL NEW- 
YORKER’S offer to Protect its Subscribers 
against Extortion. 
The article published two weeks ago in these columns 
describing the methods of the Watch Trust and offering 
to buy watches for our subscribers at wholesale prices, has 
met with a response far in excess of our expectations. 
Scarcely a mail passes without bringiug orders for these 
watches, and numerous inquiries about styles not men¬ 
tioned. 
In that article we showed how good watches are usually 
sold at 100 to 300 per cent, above the wholesale prices, and 
that the jeweler is compelled to sell at not less than 25 per 
cent, advance or come under the boycott of the tyrannical 
Watch Trust. The New York World began this war, in 
which various newspapers have since taken part, following 
a brave and worthy example in behalf of their readers, 
particularly those in country places. 
The Rural New Yorker proposes that all of its sub¬ 
scribers who desire to buy watches at wholesale prices 
may do so through it as a medium, although it must be 
understood that we are not doing this for the sake of mak¬ 
ing money, but simply to protect our subscribers. Our 
chief benefit comes in the good words which subscribers 
thus benefited will speak for The Rural New-Yorker, 
aud thereby incidentally enlarge our circle of readers. 
We repeat below the essential features of our offer : 
The Cost of Watch Movements.— The net prices of 
the Elgin hunting-case movement (or “ works,”) for men’s 
watches, known as No. 18 size, are confidentially as fol¬ 
lows, with six per cent, off to the jeweler who pays cash : 
B. W. R , Nickel, F. R. AdJ. D. S. D’al 
B. W. K„ Gilt, P. R. AdJ., D. S. Dial 
H. H.T.. Nickel, P. K . Adi . 
H. H. T. Gilt, P. R., AdJ. 
G. M. W , Nickel, P. R. 
G. M. W , Gilt, P. It. 
$20 U0 
17 80 
15 00 
12 50 
!l 00 
8 SO 
NA 31 BLESS. Knoraved Elgin Natl irtal Watch Co. 
No. 33. Nickel. Com. bal., Breg. h. b. p. adj., n jewels (four prs. 
settings! pat reg ... ■•••••:• •• ••••• 
No. 80. Gilt. Com. bal., Breg. h. spg.. adj, 15 jewels (four pairs 
settings', pat. reg., •• • • .. ... ... 
No. 103. Nickel Com. bal., 15 jewels (four pairs settings), pat. reg.. 
No. 81. Gilt. Com. bal., 15 Jewels (four purs gettings), pat. reg. . 
No 102. Half Nickel. Com bal., 1 1 Jewels . . 
No. 10. Gilt. Coni, bal, li Jiwels.. 
No. 98. Gilt. Com. bal., seven Jewels. 
15 00 
12 50 
9 OU 
8 50 
7 00 
(i 25 
5 0U 
“Nickel” or “gilt” relates to the movement. “P. R.” 
means patent regulator; “adj.” means adjusted to heat, 
cold and position ; “ D. S.” means double sunk dial. The 
“ R. T. & W.” stand for Raymond, Taylor & Wheeler. 
The Waltham companies make corresponding grades at 
closely corresponding prices. 
The Cost of Watch Cases.— There are half a dozen 
great case companies, known the world over, who make 
gold-filled cases iu 10 carat and 14 carat grades. Their half¬ 
marks on the cases carry the same guarantee that the 
. United States Assay stamp does, and their guarantees of 
the former grade for 15 years and the latter for 21 years 
are the same as the Mint Director’s. The trade prices are 
as follows: 
open face, 15 years, plain or engine-turned .$ 6 00 
Open-face, 21 years •* “ • " . . 8 0) 
Hunting-ease, 15 years. 9 no 
Hunting case, clyears. 11 00 
Coin silver cases cost the same as the 15 year gold filled 
cases. Half-pound cases in coin silver correspond to the 
21-year gold-tilled. There are excellent “silverine” cases 
iu the market, which cost 75 cents for open-face, and $2 for 
hunting-case. 
A Special Offer to Subscribers—The Rural New- 
Yorker offers to each one of its subscribers, whose name 
is ou its priuted mailing list, either au Elgin or a Waltham 
watch, stem winding aud stem set, in either a gold filled 
15-year 10 carat case, or a corresponding coin silver case. 
OPEN FACE WATCHES. 
1. Seven jewels, Hiifety pinion, compensation balance, 
tempered ball-springs.§11 00 
Wiili patent regulator $1 extra. 
2. Ten or eleven Jewels, as above, gilt — . 13 25 
vVltn patent regulator $1 extru. 
8. Same, nickel movement.. 15 00 
4. Fifteen jewels, gilt, patent regulator . 15 50 
5. Same In nickel.10 00 
Iu silverine ca-:es, §5 less. 
HUNTING CASE WATCHES. 
With patent regulator §1 extra. 
7. Eleven jewels, gilt. 16 25 
8. Eleven jewels nickel .17 00 
9. Fifteen Jewels, In settings, patent regulator, gilt . 18 50 
10. Same as No. 9. iu nickel . .19 00 
11. Kir tee n ruby jewels in settings, patent regulator, adjusted 22 on 
12. Same as No. 11, in nickel. 25 00 
In silverine cases *7 less. 
The 14 carat, 21-year, gold-tilled eases, cost $2 additional. 
This offer is made upon the distinct understanding that 
either an Elgin or Waltham movement of the same or 
higher grade may be sent. Only $1 has been added to the 
trade price for expenses of buying, setting up, casing, crys¬ 
tal, packing, postage and registry. It is very close figuring. 
The watches have to be bought from the Elgin aud Waltham 
Companies through jewelers all over the couutry, and only 
a few from each, aud the cases from one aud the movements 
from another, to bother the trust spies, and orders must 
be filled as they come in. Every watch is guaranteed per¬ 
fect in every respect, and the latest and best product of the 
factories. 
Cheap but Good —At these prices no man nee 1 he with¬ 
out a fiue watch. It is far better to buy a 15 jeweled move¬ 
ment with a patent regulator, in a cheap case, than a lower- 
grade watch in a higher priced case. A case can be bought 
at any time. Cases fit all movements, aud this is an op¬ 
portunity to buy the movement. These are nob “cheap” 
watches. Nine watches out of ten costing from $75 to $100 
have only the seven-jeweled Elgin or Waltham movement. 
For the cheapest watch on the list jewelers charge from 
$25 to $50. The subscriber to The R. N.-Y. is buying at 
the factory price to the jeweler. He saves the latter’s 100 
to 300 per cent, profit which the trust is trying to retain. 
Ladies’ Watches. —These are No. 6 size and in the 
beautiful 10 carat, gold-filled Montauk cases made by Joseph 
Fahys with his 15 years’ guarantee, cost as follows: 
18. Fifteen Jewels, in settings, nickel. $ai 50 
14. Same In gill movement,. is (hi 
15. Eleven jewels, gl't . 15 25 
16. Seven Jewels, safety pinion. (p 
A beautiful solid 14-carat gold case, No. 1 size, hand- 
engraved to imitate frost work, called vermicelli, with a 
13 jeweled nickel or gilded movement. This is a watch 
for which jewelers charge from $55 to $75, and iskuown as, 
17. A Joy Forever.. $25 03 
Points to Remember. 
1. In ordering give the number and state the price. 
2. Any subscriber whose name is ou The R. N.-Y.’s 
printed subscription list may buy as many as he pleases at 
these prices. He may supply every person at his post office, 
but he should charge 25 per cent, advance on these prices. 
3. This offer is open only to subscribers. It is made 
solely to protect them from The Watch Trust. The Rural 
New-Yorker is not iu the watch business. It does not 
care whether a single subscriber buys a watch. If all its 
subscribers are protected, so much the better. If any are 
not, it proposes they shall be. 
4. No subscription is included in the price paid. It is 
not offered as an inducement to subscribe. But it is open 
to all subscribers, and after a man’s name has been entered 
as a subscriber he is entitled to the protection. 
5. Every watch will be sent in perfect order, packed in 
cottou-battiug, in a strong, wooden box, by registered mail. 
Both gold and silver cases must be kept away from sul¬ 
phur, or they will tarnish. 
6 Send all orders aud remittances to 
THE RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 
Times Building, New Y'ork. 
BEAUTY - IN THE GARDEN. 
There’s not only solid value but beauty as well in the 
October issue of The American Garden. The cover 
shows a seasonable picture of sumac in color, emphasizing 
the brightness of the beautiful magazine. “ The New 
American Mulberry” makes a pretty frontispiece, and 
Prof. Bailey writes of its valuable fruiting qualities. Mr. 
Galloway, of the Department of Agriculture, discusses the 
progress aud possibilities of investigations of fungoid 
diseases in plants. A Mountain Tramp iu Tennessee is 
au entertaining chapter on Southern life. The Cape Cod 
Cranberry Bogs comprises a long, valuable and highly 
interesting illustrated paper by the editor, Prof. L. II. 
Bailey, of the Horticultural Department of Cornell Uni¬ 
versity. 
Grape Culture has consideration in a valuable paper ou 
grapes iu southern Indiana, treating of pruning, bagging, 
etc.; an interesting account of growing exotic grapes in a 
cheaply built grapery without danger of mildew. An im¬ 
portant series of papers is begun on Promising Wild 
Fruits. Discussion of the Satsuma Orange is continued. 
About two dozen new and little known greenhouse 
plants are discussed by Dr. Beau of the Kew Botanical 
Gardens. There is an interesting account of a Rhododen- 
dr on Forest iu New Hampshire, aud of a lot of attractive 
Native Plants not in general cultivation. The Copper or 
Purple Beech gets a full-page illustration. A Foretaste 
of Paradise is a pretty outdoor paper on "the blissful 
days in gardens and fields.” 
There is a marvelous tale of Truck Gardening in Cali, 
fornia; an interesting paper ou Oregon Horticulture, and 
another describing Chinese Gardening near New York. 
Two timely papers are those on Forcing Tomatoes and 
Lettuce under Glass. 
What will attract most attention perhaps is the full 
account of Mr. Chas. Barnard’s Automatic Greenhouses. 
He permits The American Garden to give away to the 
public the invention, with full details of manufacture. 
There is also a promise from the same source of a new 
system of hot beds, which is likely to revolutionize present 
methods. 
The always delightful 'Tarry town Letters are continued, 
together with further accounts of Mr. Tarryer’s uuique 
iuventions iu the way of garden implements. 
There are the usual entertaining papers under The 
Editor’s Outlook on Fungous Diseases, Abandoned 
Farms, Horticulture at the World’s Fair, Ideals for 
Florists, Botanical Lang uage and the ridiculous work of 
some experiment stations, etc. 
First Fruits comprises three pages of horticultural news. 
Then follow 16 pages of pithy paragraphs from cor¬ 
respondents aud editors about all sorts of subjects in the 
garden, orchard, vineyard, greenhouse, etc., and the 
usual comprehensive resume of work at the experiment 
stations. 
Altogether we have in this issue of The American 
Garden 6G pages of beautiful typography, including over 
60 practical and beautifully executed illustrations, and 
more than 100 distinct articles written by practical horti¬ 
culturists. Iu short, the magazine in its way, is a type of 
the better things in store for rural workers iu the “ good 
time coming.” It is seuton trial for three months to any 
reader of The R. N.-Y. for 25 cents (regular price 50 
cents); or from now to January, 1S92, iu club with L’HB 
R. N.-Y. for only $3. 
