748 
NOV. i 
Publisher s Desk . 
Don’t See Men as Trees Walking. 
SEEING THINGS AS THEY ARE. 
A claim to honesty does not make a man 
reliable. A declaration that a thing is 
“best” does not make it so. A plow, a 
variety of corn or a newspaper cannot well 
be “best” under all circumstances. At 
this season particularly, the publishers of 
farm papers are making loud claims to the 
position of “ best.” The Rural Publishing 
Company believes in and likes competition ; 
the keener and more vigorous, the better 
for all concerned. We desire our readers 
to carefully examine any or all of the com¬ 
petitors of The Rural New-Yorker and 
The American Garden, and we do not fear 
the result. We aim at the “top-shelf” 
position. We believe that we frequently 
occupy it. Sometimes we are crowded off 
by lively competitors, but feel that we are 
there not less than nine times in ten. If 
we get pushed off, we deserve it. If our 
readers feel that the “good old Rural” IS 
on the TOP SHELF, we desire and con¬ 
fidently expect that they will lose no op¬ 
portunity to tell their neighbors of the 
fact, especially as they will not only benefit 
the paper by extending its circulation, and 
their community by promoting good farm¬ 
ing and better living, but may also be well 
paid for their efforts. 
HO YOU WANT MONEY ? 
DO YOU WANT TO HELP YOUR 
NEIGHBOR ? 
HERE IS $100.00. 
HELP Y r OURSELF. 
The trial-club raisers under the new offer 
are getting in their work, and we don’t be¬ 
lieve the money will go so easily as it did 
in September. The offer is as follows : 
$100 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 Benders 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. 
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION.—This 
is well known as the foremost newspaper 
in the South Atlantic States, and we 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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 ? 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. 
Canadian breeders of Holsteins propose 
to print a herd book of their own. 
The Country Gentleman states that the 
oldest Hereford herd in America is that of 
Erastus Corning, of Albany, N. Y. It 
dates back to an importation of 1840. 
American Shropshire breeders are buy¬ 
ing the best sheep to be found in England. 
American Shropshires will soon rank in ex¬ 
cellence with American Jersey cows. 
The great herd of the late Major William 
Gentry, Sedalia, Mo., is to be sold at auc¬ 
tion, October 30. The stock consists of 
cattle, sheep, hogs, mules and jacks. 
SOUTH Down sheep-breeders who cannot 
attend the meeting at Chicago, November 
18, may send by letter to the Secretary—S. 
E. Prather, Springfield, Ill.,—any sugges¬ 
tions they may have to make. 
The third volume of the Aberdeen Angus 
Herd Book is out. The entries include 
1,196 bulls and 1,504 cows and heifers—a 
large proportion of bulls. Thomas McFar¬ 
land, Secretary, Iowa City, Iowa. 
THE 16th volume of the Friesian Herd 
Book contains pedigrees of black and white 
bulls 1251 to 1410; black and white cows 
5701 to 6109; red and white bull No. 28; 
mixed color bulls 22 to 24, and mixed color 
cows 232 to 245. 
A Mr. Morse, near Denver, Colorado, 
“expects to produce a family of polled 
Holstein Friesians, by continuing to dis¬ 
horn all calves.” There can be no doubt 
about his ability to breed the horns off, but 
can he sell his stock as pure Holsteins 
while the “scaleof points” includes horns? 
Mr. J. L. Winchell, a breeder of dogs 
in Vermont, has obtained a judgment of 
$1,000 against the National Express Com¬ 
pany for injuries to a dog. The dog was 
well boxed for shipment, but the driver of 
the express wagon drove over a pile of 
rubbish and tipped the box out of the 
wagon, injuring the animal so that she 
could not be bred. 
A Meeting of the International Associa 
tion of Sheep Exhibitors was held October 
9, at St. Louis. This year’s officers are: 
President, N. H. Gentry, Sedalia, Mo.; 
Vice president, R. J. Slone, Stonington, 
Ill.; Secretary, W. L. Morse, West Mans¬ 
field, Ohio. The question of exhibiting 
sheep at the Chicago World’s Fair was dis 
cussed, but not settled. 
T. L. Miller, Hereford breeder, of 
Beecher, Ill., favors a consultation of the 
leading producers of first class cattle with 
a view to forming an organization to handle 
the trade in the best beeves. He thinks 
these fancy cattle comprise only 10 to 15 per 
cent, of the stock offered for sale, and that 
the breeders of this small proportion might 
readily combine. Good idea. 
Mr. C. G. Sparks of Mount Leonard, 
Mo., writes: “I have never found any 
specific for hog cholera. Everything has 
been tried, but usually no good results fol¬ 
lowed. Crude coal oil fed in a slop or by 
soaking corn in it is as good a preventive or 
remedy as can be found. When hogs get 
sick the trouble is not cholera every time. 
They are also afflicted by a great many 
other diseases, such as measles, quinsy, 
mange and worms. Lice are also very 
troublesome to them; but the pests can 
easily be killed by applying coal oil and 
grease, in equal parts, all over the hog.” 
Mares and Horses.— The N. Y. Sun says 
that Nelson's reduction of the stallion record 
to 2.10% shows that, after a long period of di¬ 
vergence, the trotting mares and horses are 
again nearing each other in speed. Begin¬ 
ning with George M. Patchen, who one 
time essayed to contest the honors with 
Flora Temple, for many years afterward 
the mares steadily drew ahead. When 
Goldsmith Maid set the record at 2.14, the 
stallions were just under 2.20. Then they 
came up witJ> a rush to Smuggler’s 2.15%, 
only a second and a quarter behind, but 
away went the mares again with Maud S., 
who put their mark at 2 08%. Since then 
the stallions have been steadily gaining, 
through Maxey Cobb, Staraboul, Palo Alto, 
Axtell and Nelson, until again there is but 
two seconds’ difference between the fastest 
mare and the fastest horse. 
The Tariff on Hor 3 Es.— The London 
Live Stock Journal says: “ The 20 per cent, 
duty on horses imported into the United 
States from Canada for purely work pur¬ 
poses may stimulate a demand from this 
coantry for the very best of our breeds, 
seeing that the stock suitable for breeding 
from ‘ beyond the sea ’ is to get in free. On 
the other hand, the Canadian importers 
will no doubt considerably curtail their 
shipments uutil they can find an outlet for 
their stock up to the standard of work. It 
is possible we may have a few sent to us 
with their store cattle; but it will argue 
a miserable state of helplessness in this 
country if we have to use foreign reared 
horses to raise turnips to fatten foreign 
oxen. In the meantime the McKinley Bill 
will have taught our breeders at home to be¬ 
ware of relying entirely on a foreign market 
which may be checked in a moment’s 
caprice.” 
Incubator Tests.— The tests of incuba¬ 
tors at the Chicago Fat Stock Show 
promise to be very complete. By the rules 
the incubators must be sealed at the open¬ 
ing of the show and not tampered with 
until the judges decide. All incubator 
tests at shows are made by removing the 
dead or infertile eggs. These are taken 
away because they would not hatch under 
any circumstances, owing to the fault of 
the hens and not of the incubator. Neither 
can hatch an egg that has no germ. The 
rule is to allow all incubators fertile eggs, 
so that all are on equal terms. If this were 
not done, an incubator in which good eggs 
chanced to be placed, might hatch more 
chicks than a better one in which worse 
eggs had been put. All persons interested 
will be satisfied if the incubators hatch a 
large percentage of fertile eggs, as the 
eggs can be tested out on the fourth day 
after being put in the incubator. 
Devon Cattle.— There are few speci¬ 
mens of this breed that can be classed as 
“ monsters.” They do not perhaps reach a 
very heavy weight, but “ what there is of 
them is A No. 1.” The London Live Stock 
Journal relates the following anecdote— 
the events occurring in 1853, at the Farm¬ 
ers’ Smithfield Show:—‘The Queen had 
accompanied the Prince Consort to an ex¬ 
hibition of fat stock. Her Majesty, de¬ 
sirous of knowing the why and tne where 
fore, asked why the gold medal for the 
champion beast had been given to a Devon. 
‘I think they are the prettiest,’ was the 
Royal comment; ‘but you don’t, I sup¬ 
pose, give the prize here for beauty ?’ The 
person of whom the inquiry was made re¬ 
plied : 'Because, Your Majesty, Devons 
have more ninepenuy beef than three¬ 
penny.’ Of course, this statement roughly 
indicates Devon excellence, but it is hardly 
to be set down as accurately representing 
the facts of the case. Her Majesty reflected 
a moment over the rustic fashion of talking 
about what it concerns the rustics much to 
know the truth of, and calmly replied : I 
suppose you mean that the Devon cattle 
have the best sirloins ?’ ” 
Please mention The R. N.-Y. toour adver¬ 
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DIT the most vicious horse with 
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MIDDLETOWN NURSERY AND FRUIT FARM, 
Peach Trees our Specialty. 
250,0 0 first, class Pea<-h Trees of best varieties at low 
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475 North Fifth St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
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