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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
NOV. iS 
r 
To Our Headers. 
Please write us a postal card and 
tell us how your town stands on 
the Fence Question. Are USE¬ 
LESS fences coming down? Are 
USELESS fences being built ? All 
answers will be acknowledged. 
THE EDITORS. 
Publisher s Desk. 
New Men for New Works. 
We want a live man or woman in every 
town, every Grange, every Alliance, every 
Farmers’ Club, to act as agent for The 
Rural New-Yorker. 
Next week comes the special Thansgiving 
issue of The R. N.-Y. You will like it. 
GET OUT OF THE RUTS. 
Some men are so fearful that others may 
profit by their ideas that they hesitate 
about letting them be known, and so they 
are apt to lose in the race for wealth, posi¬ 
tion and power. The men who have the 
courage of their convictions; who are not 
afraid to state and maintain their posi¬ 
tions boldly are the heroes who win the 
world’s battles in peace and war. Wise 
leaders of the old political party in power 
at Washington saw the demand of the 
people for freer trade and freedom from the 
monopolistic bonds imposed on the public 
by the commercial and manufacturing 
barons, and counseled against the excessive 
increase in prices effected by the so-called 
McKinley Bill. But their counsels were 
scoffed at and the wise advisers were tem¬ 
porarily relegated to back seats by greedy 
aspirants for more wealth and power. The 
plain country people had tired of the fast¬ 
growing, lustful monster of high prices for 
necessaries,high taxes, ruinous interest and 
the constantly falling prices for farm pro¬ 
duce. Hence such a Waterloo as American 
politics never before experienced. 
American farmers have at last really got 
out of the ruts of old tradition, and we 
sincerely hope and believe that this awak¬ 
ening will extend into all lines of agricul¬ 
tural activity, that farmers will look on 
the government as a purely business insti¬ 
tution, will study transportation and pro¬ 
duction from the business stand-point and 
require JUSTICE as defined by young 
“Franklin Farmer” in the now famous 
poem recently published in these columns. 
That The Rural New-Yorker proposes to 
live up to these sentiments, our old-time 
friends need not be told. The R. N.-Y. 
proposes to “ fight it out on that line if it 
takes all summer ” and a lifetime besides. 
MONEY IS EASY- 
IF YOU WORK FOR IT RIGHT. 
HERE IS A RIGHT AND EASY WAY. 
December is coming on rapidly, and we 
fear that this second *100 in cold cash is 
going almost as easily as the other. Those 
who are working for these money pre¬ 
miums should send in their lists as fast as 
they add a few names, so that the subscrib¬ 
ers may have the papers promptly. Every 
one that you get into a neighborhood helps 
you to get more names, after the people 
begin to read and know and like the pa¬ 
per. Send In your lists promptly. 
lilURemember three things: (1) You 
may win one of the cash prizes. (2) Then, 
a little later, you can get these same people 
to contiuue for a year longer, and (3) you 
get a cash commission or a premium, as 
preferred on both the trial subscription and 
on the yearly—renewal—subscription from 
the same party. 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. 
HE DIDN’T TAKE A PAPER. 
A farmer living over near Covina gladly 
sold five acres of fine prunes, on the trees, 
last week at $30 a ton. The buyer turned 
around next day and sold the same at $52 a 
ton. The farmer was very angry when he 
found he had sold so cheap, and had really 
thrown away $350. It seems he is too mean 
to read newspapers and had no idea until 
he sold his fruit, that there was a great de¬ 
mand for prunes. He sold his apricots two 
months ago for $18 a ton, when his neigh¬ 
bor got $30, because he was ignorant of the 
markets. He says he has no use for news¬ 
papers, and they are an expensive luxury.— 
Pomona Progress. (Cal). 
Beecham's Pills cure Costiveness aud Indigestion. 
Live Stock Notes. 
The Department of Agriculture will soon 
issue a book entitled “Diseases of the 
Horse,” containing articles by our best 
veterinarians. 
A CATALOGUE of the Hill Farm herd of 
Holstein-Friesians offers some excellent 
animals for sale. R. H. Allen, Chatham, 
N. J., proprietor. 
The Michigan Jersey Cattle Breeders’ 
Association has just been formed, with 
Isaac Marstar, Detroit, president, and R. 
W. Hemphill, Ypsilanti, secretary. 
The most unique name for a Holstein- 
Friesian herd is that claimed by J. S. Ram¬ 
sey, of Morning Sun, O., and it is “Have- 
U Herd of Holstein-Fi’iesian cattle?” 
All the cows in the dairy experiment at 
the New Jersey Experiment Station were 
burned to death last Tuesday, together 
with about 30 ordinary cows. The total 
loss was about $30,000. 
T. L Miller shows that a 1,500-pound 
steer cost, live weight, in Chicago. $67.50. 
The same steer dressed and sold in the Lon¬ 
don market for $117—a margin of $50 for 
freight and expenses! 
Kicking Ostriches.— The Pacific Rural 
Press tells us that during the past two 
weeks the birds at the ostrich farm in 
southern California have been relieved of 
their beautiful plumage. The work re¬ 
quired to pluck these birds is no child’s 
play. It takes two brave, expert men to 
catch one ot these vigorous 11 kickers.” The 
men caref ullyapproach the bird taking pains 
to keep from before it, which is the direc¬ 
tion in which it strikes, and then tnrow a 
sack over its head. As soon as this is done, 
the ostrich at once gives up, and is forced 
into a box and relieved of its feathers. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Game is plentiful. 
Peanuts are lower. 
Grapes are a trifle lower. 
Chestnuts sell well, if fancy. 
Potatoes have advanced again. 
Honey is scarce and firm in price. 
Butter has made a material advance. 
Choice apples have advanced materially. 
Eggs of fancy brands are limited in 
supply. 
Celery varies greatly in quality as well 
as price. 
Hay of the lower grades sells best just at 
present. 
Beans are in scant supply, especially 
Marrows. 
Onions are plentiful and prices show 
little change. 
String beans from the South sell for 50 
cents to $1 per bushel crate. 
Cauliflowers are plentiful, of good 
quality and reasonable in price. 
Pears bring remunerative prices. Seckel 
and Anjou are in most demand. 
Onions are in moderate supply and there 
is a good demand for desirable stock. 
Hubbard Squashes sell for $1 to $1.25 
per barrel. Marrows are worth 75 cents. 
Poultry, both dressed and live, has 
dropped in price. The greatest decline is 
in fowls and turkeys. Choice stock sells 
readily as usual. 
CALIFORNIA peaches, plums, and apricots 
play an important part in the dried fruit 
supply. Raisins, dried grapes and walnuts 
are also a considerable item. 
Hops are quiet, the export demand being 
moderate and limited. There are few lots 
changing hands. At Utica the market is 
steady at 40 cents, with sales fairly regular, 
and some are holding full crops for higher 
prices. The Waterville Times reports the 
market firm at 40 to 42 cents, though the 
latter price is rarely paid, the majority of 
transactions being at 40 cents. Cables from 
London say that the market is quiet, Pacifies 
are bringing £11 per hundredweight, and 
States £12 to £13, equivalent to about A I 
cents net for Pacifies and about 48 to 52 
cents net for States. Baltimore reports 
clearances to London direct of 1,759 bales 
hops. while New York clearances are 893 
bales hops for London via Liverpool. 
Cheese is dull on account of the sma’l 
export demand. Sales at the markets of 
northern New York on Monday were 
slightly below previous prices, but this was 
caused largely by the excitement incident 
to the election. At Utica the ruling sale 
was 4,570 boxes at 8% cents, while 1,665 
boxes sold at 9^- The sale is much ahead 
of one year ago, but smaller than was ex 
pected. Little Falls sold 7,602 boxes, ruling 
at 9 cents; Fulton sold 800 at 8% to 9, out of 
1,890 offered ; Watertown sold 1,920 at 9>4 ; 
Ogdensburg, 9 516 refused, no sales; But 
falo, no sales : Canton, 15,829 offered, 400 
sold at 9%; Canadian markets dull. Fac¬ 
tories are sold up pretty well, and many 
have stopped maxing for the season. There 
is qtiite a respectable stock of full-cream 
cheese yet. 
Reports from the West and Northwest 
are to the effect that winter wheat has en 
joyed exceptionally fine weather all through 
the month of October. There are some 
areas in Illinois, Missouri and Kansas, 
where the Hessian fly is at work in the 
early sown winter wheat. With these ex¬ 
ceptions, in all the States which grow a 
surplus of this cereal the reports are very 
favorable for the seasou of the year. There 
is every prospect that the crop is now going 
into winter quarters strong and healthy. 
In the spring wheat belt the fall has gener¬ 
ally been wet, with the exception of some 
portions* of Dakota, hence thrashing aud 
fall plowing have been more or less 
delayed. With good weather, so that thrash¬ 
ing can be resumed, the months of Novem¬ 
ber and December ought to give the largest 
movement of the seasou on the spring 
wheat. 
FARM MILLS. 
French Burr: 
OVER 20,000 NOW IN USE 
Factory Established 
since 1851. 
28 SIZES AND STYLES 
WARRANTED 
MILLS FOR GRINDING 
EAR CORN, SHELLED 
CORN, CORN and OATS, 
BUCKWHEAT and RYE. 
A BOY CAN OPERATE 
and keep in order. A complete Mill and Shel¬ 
ter for less than $100. Reduced 
Prices for Fall of 1890 and 
Highest Awards 
at St. Louis, Cincinnati, New Or¬ 
leans and Iudiauapolis Fairs and 
Expositions. Milling Book 
and sample of Meal sent free. 
FLOUR MILLS BUILT 
BY CONTRACT. 
Nordyke & Marmon Company, 17 SSif‘iio. 
THE ONLY RELIABLE 
ONE IN THE 
AGENTS WANTED. 
PBUYN POTATO DIGGER CO., HOOSICE FALLS, N. Y. 
PURINTON’S 
FARM !'OII.ER 
FOR COOKING FEED FOR STOCK, 
HEATING WATER AND GENER¬ 
ATING STEAM F'R VARIOUS 
PURPOSES. T1) o u s a n d s in use. 
Simple, safe ami cooks quteker than 
any t hi ns else. Write for particulars. 
J. K. PURINTON & CO., 
Des Moines, Iowa. 
IMPROVED 
EXCELSIOR 
INCUBATOR 
.Simple, Perfect and Self-Regulat¬ 
ing. Hundreds in successful operation, 
f <; iiar an (eed to hatch a larger percentage 
I of fertile eggs at less cost than any other 
1 hatcher. Send Ge. for Illus. Catalogue. 
Circulars free. CEO. H. STAHL, QUINCY, ILL. 
PEESSEY'S BROODER.-™," SlYK"! 
Hainnionton Incubators, two sizes, SUaud «lfi each. 
Laugshau fowls and eggs for sale. Circulars free. 
G. \V. RitEsghY. Hantmonton, N. J. 
THE POULTRY MONTHLY, 
published by the Ferris Pub 
fishing Co., Albany, N. Y . Is 
the leading poultry publica¬ 
tion of America. Is abn ast of 
the times on all live topics 
Gives Its readers 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 class 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, wii h The 
Rural New Yorker, $2.25 The cheapest and best 
combination In the United Stales. Send order for 
subscription to either ottice. For advertising space 
write the Home Ottice. 
T5ATTT rm?VY/n?TT I Valuable article on feed at 
Jr U U Jj 1 Ja X JXL.DXN : out , hair the torjier cost, 
free. P. A. WEBSTER. Cazenovla, N. Y. 
CHESHIRE HOGS; all ages. Write to J. L. 
SMITH £ SON, Castile, N. Y. 
rp M. REVEAL, CLERMONT, IND , breeds best 
1 . strains Poland China recorded Swine all ages 
for Snle. Single rates by express. Extra shipping 
point Indianapolis. Iud. 13 ttailroads. 
Please mention The R. N.-Y. to our adver 
tisers. 
ICARTS $19 
HY PAY $90 to $100 for a BUGGY? 
.* can sell you a Better one for d>CQ 0*5 
)AD CARTS iiSPHAETOr^-^ 
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IA R N ESSS't' 1 — 
URREYS, 
HAETONS 
VAGONS, 
equally low prices. Before buying anything 
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id can save .you all agents’ and dealers’ profits. 
w 
it VIVTKI).— ' situation by a practical Gar'oner 
. I (English). Experience In work under glass and 
out door gardening: also management of cattle. Ref¬ 
erences A>. Wife would assls' Tu house. 
THOS. TAYLOR, -enoca St, South Bethlehem, Pa. 
SCOTCH COLLIES. 
I TtO It Dll OOK IvKWEI.H are among the largest 
7 In America devoted exclusively to the breeding 
of Rough-coated S oteh Collies, orders booked now 
for pupple< sired by our nest Imported Stud Dogs and 
best Imported Bitches. Addr. ss 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & O.. 
475 North Fifth St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
GLOVER STOCK FARM HERD 
Of Improved Chester White Swine headed by Sweep- 
stages Animals, won at the largest hairs In America. 
Sto k for sale. <’. H. gREGG, 
Krumroy, Summit County. Ohio. 
fiRli/INR The only bit made that can 
univiuu be used on a gentle horse or 
D I T the most vicious horse with 
ul I equal and entire success. 
50,000 sold in 1889. 
75,000 sold in 1890. 
THEY ARE KING. 
Sample mailed X O for <c l rj/A 
Nickel SI.50. '»> 1 - uu 
■stallion Bits Fifty cents extra. 
RACINE MALLEABLE IRON C0.ItflKg w * 
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Society : liberal commissi ms ; money loaned In every 
State. Home Office, Rookery Building, Chicago, III. 
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Rest and newest Map of Virginia, 20 cents 
HENRY L. 8TA1*LK8 «fc GO., Richmond. \ a. 
WHY PAY RETAIL PRICES 
When you can buy hand-made oak lealh 
or Harness, single *7 to $20. Double 
$18.50 to $40. Illustrated catalogue free. 
Order one. KING & CO., Mfrs. Owego, N.Y. 
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TIME 
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Single Peg 12 cents in stamps. Manufactured by 
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