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OCT. 2 S 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Publishers Desk. 
Now Is the Harvest Time. 
WORKING FOR PAY. 
A number of j?ood workers are making 
good pay for themselves and sending hun¬ 
dreds of new subscriptions to The Rural 
New-Yorker and The American Garden. 
There is plenty of room in this broad land 
for many more such workers and we are 
ready to pay them in liberal cash commis¬ 
sions, or in still more liberal premiums. 
We say “more liberal,” because we give 
our subscribers who send us clubs of sub¬ 
scriptions the benefit of the large discounts 
that we enjoy in our dealings with the 
manufacturers. 
Now—that is, every day for the next two 
months—is the best time of year to work 
for subscriptions among your friends and 
neighbors, near and far. Send to us for 
sample copies. 
Have you noticed that you can, in several 
cases, obtain a valuable article at its usual 
price or less, and a subscription without 
extra cost ? The subscription you can sell 
or give away to some friend who is not a 
subscriber and keep the article for yourself. 
Just look over the Premium List and you 
will see several of such cases. 
$100 IN CASH PRIZES TO BE EASILY 
EARNED. 
How easy that $100 was won by the Sep¬ 
tember club raisers! Don’t you wish that 
you had tried ? The winners in every case 
got more money than we received for the 
subscriptions, and, in some cases, three or 
four times as much. Now we do not be¬ 
lieve that our subscribers propose to let 
these prizes go so cheaply. 
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, that there w ill not be less 
than 100 in this one. The offer follows: 
$ 1OO In cash given for 25-cent 
Trial Subscriptions. 
We will extend any subscriber’s subscrip¬ 
tion 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 in TEN amounts of $35, $20, 
$10, $5, $5, $5, $5, $5, $5 $5, respectively, 
to the TEN present subscribers who will 
send us before December 1, the TEN larg¬ 
est numbers of trial subscriptions (all new 
names), for The Rural New-Yorker for 
10 weeks at 25 cents each; or The Ameri¬ 
can 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 
In the Premium List, or a liberal cash commission 
will be given If preferred. In lieu of the year’s sub¬ 
scription. 
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 hun¬ 
dreds 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. 
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 newspapers in differ¬ 
ent parts of the country. In 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 suc¬ 
cessful newspaper in America, thor¬ 
oughly alive and abreast of the times 
in every respect. Price $1; in club 
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. 
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 
know of this wonderful, progressive 
and successful newspaper f Its weekly 
edition is famous the world over. Price 
$1; with The Rural New-Yorker, 
$2.25. 
BOSTON WEEKLY GLOBE.—What The 
World is to the Middle States, The 
Globe is to the New England States, 
and its weekly edition is a bright and 
instructive family newspaper. Price 
$1 ; in club with The Rural New- 
Yorker, $2.10. 
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. 
Live Stock Notes. 
Jersey breeders meet at Chicago Novem¬ 
ber 18, to ‘ exchange views.” 
English Short-horn breeders complain of 
the absence of American buyers. 
There is a report that tuberculosis pre¬ 
vails in several herds near Manchester, 
N. H. 
The Colorado Agricultural College au¬ 
thorities have just bought four excellent 
Short-horn heifers and a bull in Iowa. 
The Suffolk Punch Horse breeders will 
meet in Chicago, November 6, for the pur¬ 
pose of forming an American Stud Book 
Association. A. R. Galbraith, Janesville, 
is Secretary. 
The New York State Poultry Society 
have issued a pamphlet containing their 
constitution and bylaws, and desire those 
interested in poultry to jein the society. 
The officers are: President George E. Peer, 
Rochester, Secretary F. E. Dawley, Syra¬ 
cuse, Treasurer W. P. Wheeler, Geneva. 
G. P. REYNAUD, Secretary of the Amer¬ 
ican Buff Cochin Club, urges all poultry 
breeders to form what he calls "Specialty 
Clubs,” to advance poultry interests. 
What he means is that the breeders of a 
certain breed of poultry should make a 
business of advocating the special merits 
of that breed in every honorable way. 
Low priced Guernseys.— The famous 
Koshkonong herd of Guernsey cattle of 
Koshkonong, Wisconsin, was recently sold 
at sheriff’s sale. Prices ruled surprisingly 
low for such animals. Vice-President Mor¬ 
ton bought seven of the best and the others 
were bought by Wisconsin and Minnesota 
parties. Prices ranged from $12 to $195. 
Incubators cannot be operated at the 
Chicago Show except with gas, owing to 
the fear of fire from the use of lamps. But 
for that objection lamps would be used. 
This will interfere with those exhibitors 
who have no arrangements or attachments 
for using gas. Gas has always been re¬ 
quired at the Fat Stock Shows, as a con¬ 
flagration in the great Exposition Build¬ 
ing would cause an enormous loss of valu¬ 
able stock and property. 
Polled Aberdeen-Angus Cattle.— 
There can be no doubt about the fact that 
breeders of these cattle have abundant 
faith in their animals, praising them 
particularly for their value for pro¬ 
ducing good grades from the common 
cattle. Berry Lucas of Abingdon, Ill., writes 
as follows: “I began with animals of 
this breed in 1883 and have tried them 
under all conditions and found them the 
best for my purpose. I have always fouud 
ready sale for the bulls at prices ranging 
from $125 to $400 apiece. The heifers 1 have 
refused to sell because I desire to increase 
my herd to the capacity of my farm.” 
A good deal of interest is taken this 
year in what is known as the kite-shaped 
race track. Instead of being made in a 
circular or oval shape, this track is shaped 
like a large kite, so that there are two 
long, straight stretches and no sharp turn. 
The mile is accurately measured, but there 
being fewer turns a horse can trot faster 
on it. Objections to it are that spectators 
can obtain but a poor view of the race 
since the horses are either going from or 
coming towards the “ grand stand ” all 
through it. On a circular track they are 
in plain view all the time. The only 
people who like the kite-shaped track are 
the owners of stallions and brood mares 
who want to secure “records.” 
Blanketing Horses.— John W. Aiken, 
of Scipio, N. Y., writes as follows: “ I am 
very strongly opposed to keeping horses 
constantly blanketed in the stable in cold 
weather. Horses wearing a stable blanket 
are much more easily cleaned and cared 
for; but their health is in much greater 
danger from colds, lung fever, etc., when 
worked or driven. Horses should be 
blanketed when allowed to stand still out- 
of-doors in cold weather after exercise of any 
kind. When an animal comes into astable 
warm, I let him stand a few minutes and 
then put the blanket on; thus the 
blanket does not get wet or the horse 
chilled through. In a stable fit for horses 
of any kind no protection for head, ears or 
legs is needed. In our stable containing 200 
horses, we blanket a horse only in case of 
sickness or when he has beeu brought into 
the stable very warm, and I do not think a 
healthier stable of horses can be found.” 
Trotters in England.— The London 
Live Stock Journal has the following to 
say about the efforts being made to “boom” 
trotting stock in England: “The Amer¬ 
icans seem determined to push a trade in 
trotters on this side of the Atlantic. It is 
no doubt right that they should do so, but 
we question very much if the pastime will 
ever be taken up so long as there is such a 
rage for horse racing of the galloping style. 
Our County Councils will never allow 
matches to take place in our highways, as 
was permitted 20 years ago, or winked at 
by the road trustees; indeed, bicycle rac¬ 
ing is a cause of great complaint, and with 
at most two or three prepared tracks in 
England, trotting would nave its career 
very much circumscribed. A few good 
private teams, however, might cause a 
little emulation, though really our most 
enthusiastic horsemen nave no desire to go 
fast.” 
|Ui^cUanf0UiSi gJmiijSittg, 
If you name The R. N.-Y. to our adver¬ 
tisers you may be pretty sure of prompt 
replies and right treatment. 
The soft, velvety coloring effect so desirable for 
LINSEED OIL MEAL, 
For Feeding all Domestic Animals. 
Use with your other feed at least One- 
Tliird Linseed Oil Menl. 
Write us for Prices and other particulars, and 
mention the Rural New-Yorker. 
DETROIT LINSEED OIL CO., 
Detroit, Mich. 
WHY PAY RETAIL PRICES 
When you can buy hand-made oak leath¬ 
er IlnrncHH. single *< to $ 80 . Double 
S18.no to $40. illustrated catalogue free. 
Order one. KING & CO., Mfrs. Owego, N.Y. 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE 
DO YOU WANT THE BEST ■? 
1 nen send lorn Catalogue ol the only 
herd in which 100 Cows have averaged 
19 lbs. and 18 have averaged 24 lbs. ol 
butter per week. In which 96 Cows 
have averaged 16,019 lbs. ol milk per 
year. 
HORSES. 
Clydesdale, Percheron, French Coach, 
American-bred Coach, Standard-bred 
Trotters, ol 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. Y. 
Ease, Comfort and, Thrift 1 
house exteriors can only be produced and pernia 
nently held by the use of 
CABOT’S CREOSOTE SHINGLE STAINS. 
For SainpleK on Wood, with Circulars and full 
Information, apply to 
SAMUEL CABOT, 
70 Kilby Street. Boat on, Mann. 
Mention Rural Nkw-Yorkkr 
Dealer for the American Com Husken 
It saves your hands, time and 
money, because It Is 11 rm, easy and 
,a perfect fit on your hand, also 
over all kinds of the most service¬ 
able and comfortable protection 
to the hand. Sample peg sent on 
receipt 12c In U. S. postage stamps. 
KAUFMAN UKOS. Bloomington, 111. 
Til M. REVEAL, CLERMONT, IND , breeds beat 
1 • strains Poland China recorded Swine all ages 
for Sale. Single rates by express. Extra shipping 
point Indianapolis, Ind. 15 Huilroads. 
60 
CHESHIRE HOGS; all ages. Write to J. L. 
SMITH & SON, Castile, N. Y. 
THE POULTRY MONTHLY 
published by the Kerris Pub 
llshing Co., Albany, N. Y.. Is 
the leading poultry publica¬ 
tion of America. Is abrt ast of 
the times on all live topics 
Gives Its renders more pages of 
real practical matter every year. Illustrated with 
more and better cuts than can be found in any other 
publication of the kind. It goes to the best i lass of 
readers, contains more advertising and from a better 
class of breeders and Fanciers than any other poultry 
journal. Subscription Is only $ 1 ,00 a year, with The 
Rural Nkw Yorker, $2.25 The cheapest and best 
combination In the United Stales. Send order for 
subscription to either oillce. For advertising space 
write the Home Office. 
P RIZE herd Cheshire Swine, all ages, low prloes. 
Send for circulars to FREEMAN tt BUTTON, 
Cottons, N. Y. 
THE BLIZZARD HORSESHOE. 
A perfect temporary arrangement for sharpening 
your horses at home. Can be attached to any shoe lit 
S minutes and removed in 2. 
8. VV. Kent, Meriden, Conn. 
THE BEST CATTLE FASTENINC! 
SUITE'S SELT-ADJUSTING SWING STANCHION. 
The only practical Swing Stanchion invented. 
Thousands In use. Illustrated Circular free. Men¬ 
tion Rural Nkw-Yorkkr. 
F. U. PARSONS «fc CO., Addison, Steuben Co.,N.Y. 
STALLIONS I ENGLISH SHIRK. 
° 1 ° • CLYDESDALE and 
PERCHERON NORMAN. 
Why buy your Imported and 
registered stallions elsewhere, 
wi en we sell them for nearly 
half the price of other importers. 
Warranted sure breeders. Terms 
to suit customers. Visitors wel¬ 
come Correspondence solicited. 
Send for catalogue Address. 
DR. VALERIUS& CO., 
Watertown, - Wisconsin. 
SCOTCH COLLIES. 
I TIOKDHOOK KENNELM are among the largest 
In America devoted exclusively to the breeding 
of Rough-Coated S oteh Collies, orders booked now 
for puppies sired oy our Dest imported Stud Dogs and 
best imported Bitches. Addr. 88 
\V. ATLEE BURPEE & I'O., 
475 North Fifth St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
CLOVER STOCK FARM HERD 
Of improved Chester White Swine headed by Sweep- 
sta»es Animals, won at the largest hairs In America. 
Sto k for sale. H. sREGO. 
Krumroy, Summit County, Ohio. 
PURINTON’S 
FAItn KOI I.Fit 
FOR COOKING FEED FOR STOCK, 
HEATING WATER AND GENER¬ 
ATING STEAM FOR VARIOUS 
purposes. Thousands in use. 
Simple, safe and cooks quicker than 
any thing else. Write for particulars. 
,T. K. PURINTON «fc CO., 
Des Moines, Iowa. 
POULTRYMEN! 
free 
Valuable article on feed at 
one half the torner cost, 
P. A. WEBSTER. Cazenovla, N. Y. 
Do You Catch On P 
Wo are Fishing; for Subscribers to the 
Farm, Field and Stockman, 
20 PAGES. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. $1.00 A YEAR. 
( The “Banner" Farm ) WE cast on r fly for you in 
\ . r- .. r> / IT the two previous ISSUCB 
< and Funilll/ Paper > of this paj>er, but you have 
\ not yet “caught on.” The 
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( of the Uniuerse. .. ... 
— / ■ bait we use is a tempting 
offer to send you the Farm, Fikld and Q [q J y | Q 
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Stockman weekly until Jan. 1, 1881. for 
in stamps. You want the best you can get for'your money. 
This will give von a fair chance to compare it with any other 
journal. 43TFor a club of lO subscribers as above we will 
send, postpaid, a neat cloth-bound DICTIONARY (30.000 
wordsi; for “O, a paixir-bouud HOUSEHOLD CYC’LO- 
I’/EDIA (5-14 pages). 
Newspaper Canvassers, Take Notice: most liberal 
inducements of any paper to club raisers. 4®~In addition to 
Premiumsor Casa Commissions we give “OO Spe¬ 
cial Premiums for JiOO Largest Clubs, varying in 
value from 1810 to *500. Send stamp for Premium List 
iyith full particulars. „ 
HOWARD & W11.8014 l’UB. CO., Chicago! IF; 
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