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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
NOV. 8 
Old Atlas rests with gladdened grace, 
From all his labors, good or bad. 
A stronger giant takes his place; 
The world’s supported by the “Ad.” 
Publishers Desk. 
Watch for the Best Always. 
(A NEW TOMATO FOR OUR SUB¬ 
SCRIBERS. 
Among the many good things originated 
at the Rural Grounds by Mr. Carman, is a 
remarkable long-keeping tomato, which he 
briefly describes on page 760. This is one 
of the new things of which we shall give 
away the seeds to our subscribers during 
the coming season. Watch for the offer! 
A “NEW” OLD CORN FOR THE 
FAITHFUL. 
Another good thing Is the Rural Thor¬ 
oughbred Flint Corn often mentioned 
in The Rural New-Yorker. This has 
been grown on the Rural Farm on Long 
Island for some 50 odd years, and for the 
past 10 years been carefully selected and 
improved—bred up—by Mr Carman on the 
Rural Grounds in Northern New Jersey— 
but we will put off the detailed description 
to a later issue. Suffice it to say now, that 
a sufficient quantity of seed of this selected 
and improved stock will be sent early in 
the new year to applicant subscribers to 
enable each one to make a fair “ planting.” 
OTHER GOOD THINGS FOR OUR 
SUBSCRIBERS. 
The Experiment Grounds of The Rural 
New-Yorker have long been known as 
among the foremost in the world for the 
origination of valuable information in 
agriculture. This work is kept up for the 
particular benefit of our subscribers. A 
part of it is the originating of new and 
valuable varieties of field and garden 
plants,dozens of which have taken first place 
in their respective classes, and been worth 
hundreds and thousands of dollars to our 
readers, as they freely testify. We now 
have on hand and in course of development 
not only the above-named corn and tomato, 
but a full dozen other highly valuable 
varieties, which will all be announced in 
due time. Watch for them ! 
MONEY IS HARD TO GET —SOME¬ 
TIMES. 
MONEY IS EASY TO GET —SOME¬ 
TIMES. 
IT IS EASY IN THIS CASE. 
TRY IT, AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. 
The “ easy ” way is to raise clubs of trial 
subscriptions to The Rural New-Yorker 
and The American Garden. On these 
you get cash commissions or “ premiums.” 
You may win one of the cash prizes. Then, 
a little later, you can get these same people 
to continue for a year longer, and get a 
cash commission. Thus you have three 
opportunities to get some money—all in 
the same lot, or road, or line of work o 
play—whatever you choose to call it. 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 oopies 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 
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 t 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 
Qlobe 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. 
Mr. A. S. F. Lyons writes that he is 
thoroughly convinced that the only true 
and satisfactory way to obtain new, or to 
infuse new blood is by the purchase of 
stock, said stock to have a clear and honest 
pedigree. The purchaser then at once gets 
value received for the money he has paid, 
stock, of course, to be as represented, if not, 
promptly returned and money refunded. 
Dairy Short-horns.— English breeders 
are discussing the wisdom of starting a 
“ milking herd book.” In this book would 
be recorded only those cows that have 
proved their excellence at the pall. In dis¬ 
cussing this matter Mr. John Evans Jr. 
gave the following description of his ideal 
dairy Short horn. “My ideal of a Short¬ 
horn dairy cow Is an animal (either a pure¬ 
bred Short-horn or not; that will yield 800 
and upwards imperial gallons of milk per 
year, producing a calf every year, a lengthy 
beast with good open back, good touch, one 
that will readily leed to 60 stones (14 pounds 
to the stone) when dry. These I consider 
are the class of cows a dairy farmer ought 
to aim at. Tney will breed good, salable 
stock, and if through accident they become 
useless at the pail, they will readily feed 
into beef. They exist, but in my experience 
they are hard to find.” 
Live Stock Notes. 
A poultry show will be held at Colum¬ 
bus, Ga., November 11-15. 
The Iowa Stock-Breeders’ Association 
meets at Oskaloosa, Iowa, December 3. 
It is reported that the French govern¬ 
ment is anxious to push the export trade 
in horses with America. 
G. A. Watkins, of Detroit, Mich., has 
selected 40 Shetland ponies from the Mar¬ 
quis of Londonderry’s stud. 
American Bronze Turkeys are being 
shipped to Europe. Baron Ferdinand de 
Rothschild recently bought two trios of J. 
F. Barber, of Millersburg, Ky. 
Dorset Sheep are to be boomed for the 
South ; it is said that they are well suited 
for the Southern climate. It is also claimed 
that they are courageous enough to fight 
with dogs. Whew I 
When does a heifer become a cow ? A 
Canadian judge has been required to 
answer this question. Three female cattle 
over three years of age were sent to the 
class for cows at the Guelph Fat Stock 
Show. They were rejected on the ground 
that they were not cows because they had 
never had a calf. Suit was brought by the 
owner, and the judge decided in his favor 
because, he said, “no dictionary defines a 
cow as an animal with a calf, but simply 
as the feminine of the bovine species.” Is 
a female bovine one day old a cow f 
Dairy Exhibits.— Speaking of the pro¬ 
posed exhibits of butter at the coming 
dairy and stock show at Chicago, the 
Prairie Farmer makes a good point when 
it says that these dairy exhibits will never 
become popular so long as visitors are ex¬ 
pected to gaze upon an array of closed 
tubs and guess at the contents. Visitors 
should be allowed to taste the real product 
of the cow on bits of nice crackers. This 
was partially done last year, through the 
fact that the superintendent bought some 
tubs of butter and crackers, and allowed 
samples to be freely taken. 
LINSEED OIL MEAL, 
For Feeding all Domestic Animals. 
Use with your other feed at least One- 
Third Linseed Oil Meal. 
Write us for Prices and other particulars, and 
mention the Rural New-Yorker. 
DETROIT LINSEED OIL CO., 
Detroit, Mich. 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE 
DO YOU WANT THE BEST? 
'I nen send for a Catalogue of the only 
herd in which 100 Cows have averaged 
19 lbs. and 18 have averaged 24 lbs. of 
butter per week. In which 96 Cows 
have averaged 16,019 lbs. of milk per 
year. 
MORSES. 
Clydesdale, Percheron, French Coach, 
Aiiierican-bretl Coach, Standard-brea 
Trotters, of the best and most Popular 
Breeding. 
Also Berkshire and Cheshire Swine. 
Separate Catalogues of Horses and Cattle. Prices 
low for blah quality of stock. (In writing mention 
this paper!) 
SMITHS, POWELL Sc LAMB 
SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
Ease, Comfort and Thrift l 
THE BEST CATTLE FASTENING! 
Heaviest English Pig.— The London 
Live Stock Journal has the following: “ In 
1854, Mr. John Parry, of St. Giles’s, exhib¬ 
ited at Wimborne market a pig weighing 
45 scores (900 pounds). It was eight feet 
long; the hams weighed 74 pounds each, 
and the head weighed 54 pounds. Nor was 
this the only monster of the season; Mr. 
Swales, of YVetherby, exhibited one which 
weighed 44 scores one pound at 15 months; 
and Mr. Kingston, near Bridlington, 
slaughtered a fat sow at Christmas, 1855, 
which weighed 44 scores, carcass weight; 
and a pig of hers born in the previous year, 
was sold weighing34stones seven pounds(483 
pounds). In the records of these loose fat was 
not included. The heaviest sheep of which 
we can find any record is one killed at \Val- 
grave, In Northamptonshire,which weighed 
36 pounds per quarter with 16J^ pounds of 
rough fat.” Records from some of our 
American friends are now in order. 
Inoculation for Hog Cholera.— Mr. 
L. W. Perin, Farm Foreman, Nebraska 
Experiment Station, writes the Breeders’ 
Gazette as follows: “On September 16 
1889, we had on the State farm 86 head of 
hogs of all ages. All of these were inocu¬ 
lated by Dr. Bllllngo, except about 20 head 
left to experiment with. They all ran in 
the same lots, were fed together and drank 
out of a trough that was always full of 
water. _ All of those that were not inocu¬ 
lated died of hog cholera. Out of those 
that were inoculated—about 70 head—only 
two died of cholera. There are 17 brood 
sows on the farm to-day that have gone 
through three outbreaks of hog cholera. 
We have of this season’s farrow 78 pigs 
that have beeu inoculated, and have not 
lost one of them, but have lost about 15 
pigs that died of cholera before they were 
old enough to be inoculated. We have in 
oculated a few pigs at five weeks old and 
have not lost one, but think it better to wait 
until they are eight to ten weeks old, and it 
ought to be done before they are weaned.” 
SMITH’S SELT-ADJUSTINO SWINS STANCHION. 
t3T The only practical Swing Stanohion Invented. 
Thousands In use. Illustrated Circular free. Men¬ 
tion Rurai, Nkw-Yorkkr. 
F. G. PARSONS dk CO.. Addison, Steuben Co.,N.Y. 
STALLIONS I 
ENGLISH SHIRK. 
_ w CLYDESDALE and 
VkRCHEROIV NORMAN. 
Why buy your Imported and 
reglsiered stallions elsewhere, 
when 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. 
F OKDIIOOK KENNELS are among the largest 
In America devoted exclusively to the breeding 
of Rough-Coated S oteh Collies. Orders booked now 
for puppies sired t>y our best Imported Stud Dogs and 
best imported Bitches. Addr. ss 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., 
475 North Fifth St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
CLOVER STOCK FARM HERD 
Of Improved Chester White Swine, headed by Sweep- 
staRes Animals, won at the largest Fairs In America. 
Sunk for sale. o. H. oREGG, 
Krumroy, Summit County, Ohio. 
PRESSEY’S BROODER.-"? S“KK 
Hammouton Incubators, two sizes, *77 and $16 each. 
Luiigshau fowls ami eggs for sale. Circulars free. 
G. \V. PnliSSbY, Hanimontou, N. J. 
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CHESHIRE HOGS; all ages. 
SMITH & SON, Castile, N. Y. 
Write to J. L. 
ril M. REVEAL, CLERMONT, IND., breeds best 
1 . strains Poland China recorded Swine all ages 
for Sale. Single rates by express. Extra shipping 
point Indianapolis, Iud. 15 liailroads. 
■DftTTT frUVlUTTO I Valuable article on feed at 
rUULlllYlJXLjlilN ! one half the former cost, 
free. P. A. WEBSTER, Cazonovla, N. Y. 
In writing to advertisers please always 
mention The Rural New-Yorker. 
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FA It 71 ROII.EIt 
FOR COOKING FEED FOR STOCK, 
HEATING WATER AND GENER¬ 
ATING STEAM FUR VARIOUS 
PURPOSES. Thousands muse. 
Simple, safe and eook.s quicker than 
any thingelse. Write for particulars. 
J. K. 1‘URINTON dfc CO., 
Des Moines. Iowa. 
INDIAN TANNED Oue Finger Mittens. Give 
good service. Firty coins a pair. E. F. YOUNGS. 
West Camp, N. Y. 
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THE POULTRY MONTHLY 
published by the Ferris Pub¬ 
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the leading poultry publica¬ 
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the times on all live topics 
Gives its readers more pages of 
real practical mailer every year, Illustrated with 
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