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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
DEC. 6 
Publishers Desk. 
An Appreciated Gift Opens The 
Heart. 
A CHRISTMAS SUGGESTION. 
Ah many of our subscribers are remem¬ 
bering their friends, near and far, by order¬ 
ing us to send The Rural or The Garden 
to them for a year, it seems to me that in 
this practice is a suggestion worthy of the 
careful attention of many others who de¬ 
sire to favor their friends at Christmas 
time with a present that will be a constant 
reminder of its giver all through the fol¬ 
lowing year. On the basis of our “ Oonfi- 
dential Letter to Old Subscribers,” this is 
a particularly easy thing to do this year, in 
spite of “ hard times.” 
THAT “CONFIDENTIAL LETTER.” 
We have been greatly pleased with the 
hearty response that our “Confidential 
Letter to Old Subscribers ”—recently sent 
out—has met with at the hands of our 
readers. The replies, in the form of substan¬ 
tial clubs of new subscriptions, are a great 
encouragement for us to keep on spending 
money freely and working as we never 
worked before to make The Rural New- 
Yorker the “best” of its class in the 
world, and thoroughly worthy of all the 
good opinions that our friends are shower¬ 
ing upon it. It is mighty hard work, 
though, to keep up to that standard. 
We mean every word said in that general 
letter, and ask for it a careful considera¬ 
tion. If any subscriber has not received 
it, wo will gladly send a duplicate on re¬ 
quest. 
OUR LITTLE PRESENT. 
During this week a copy 
of The American Garden 
will be mailed to every regular sub¬ 
scriber of The Rural New-Yorker. 
We ask for it (her i) only that respect¬ 
ful consideratian which the brawny , 
brainy men and bright, thoughtful 
women of The Rural family are cer 
tain to render to The Rural’s bride. 
Please remember that these two will 
join hands in working with you dur¬ 
ing 1891 at a cost of $3 for the year. 
If you act on the suggestions of 
our “Confidential Letter" the cost 
may be even less, .jsgbfl 
WHAT A POSTAL CARD WILL DO. 
If you write our address on its face, the 
addresses of a half dozen or more of your 
friends on the other side, and drop it in the 
post office, it will cause a specimen copy of 
The R. N.-Y. to be sent to every one of 
such addresses. We will also send a postal 
card to each one, stating that the party is 
indebted to you for the copy sent. We are 
willing to send all the copies that may be 
called for in this way. 
The horse Filemaker won the jumping 
prize at the Chicago horse show, clearing 
seven feet 2X inches. This horse was 
formerly worked on a coal cart. 
VALUABLE BOOK FREE. 
“ An Ensilage and Silo Encyclopedia” is 
what the large and handsomely illustrated 
catalogue of The S. Freeman & Sons Mfg. 
Co., Racine, Wis., is often called because it 
contains a vast amount of information on 
these subjects in addition to the illustra¬ 
tions and descriptions of one of the best 
lines of Feed and Ensilage Cutters, Fan¬ 
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in this country. It will be mailed free of 
charge to any reader of this paper.— Adv. 
Live Stock Notes. 
Swine Breeders’ Institute, Dayton, Ohio, 
January 20. 
Ohio Agricultural Convention, Colum¬ 
bus, January 15. 
Iowa Wool Growers’ Association, Oska- 
loosa, December 4. 
Michigan Short horn breeders meet at 
Lansing, December 17-18. 
Michigan Merino sheep breeders, Lan¬ 
sing, December 16 and 17. 
Nehraska Stock Breeders’ Association, 
Beatrice, Neb., February 10. 
Central Michigan Poultry Association 
at Battle Creek December 16-19. 
New York State Merino sheep breeders 
meet at Rochester December 9-10. 
Third annual meeting of the Light 
Brahma Club at Charleston, S. C., Janu¬ 
ary 13-17. 
Breeders of Jersey cattle in England 
propose to make special classes and prizes 
for EDglish-bred Jerseys. 
American Clydesdale Association: N. P. 
Clark, St. Cloud, Minn., president; C. F. 
Mills, Springfield, Ill., secretary. 
The English Shropshire Association 
offers a prize of $485 for the best Shropshire 
sheep exhibited at the World’s Fair. 
The tenth annual meeting of the National 
Merino Sheep Registry Association will be 
held at Fremont, Ohio, December 10-11. 
American Shire Hoise Association: 
Alex. Galbraith, Janesville, Wis., presi¬ 
dent; Charles Burgess, Winona, Ill., sec¬ 
retary. 
A Suffolk horse association has been 
» formed, with P. Hopley Lewis, Iowa, presi¬ 
dent, and Alex. Galbraith, Janesville, Wis., 
secretary. 
In the catalogue of theWestern New York 
Jersey Cattle Breeders’ Association is an 
excellent article on The Jersey Cow—Her 
Practical Value. 
Ex-Congressman W. L. Scott’s horses 
were sold in the city last Thursday. The 
highest price, $35,000, was paid for Bolen, a 
son of Rayon d’Or. 
The American Galloway Association has 
elected David McCrea, Guelph, Ontario, 
president, and Col. M. P. Muir, Independ¬ 
ence, Mo., secretary. 
Officers of the French Draft Horse As¬ 
sociation for 1890 are: W. M. Springer, 
Oscaloosa, Iowa, president; C. E. Stubbs, 
Fairfield, Iowa, secretary. 
At the American horse show at Chicago 
many Belgian horses were exhibited. This 
breed of draft horses has great uniformity 
of type and excellent quality. 
The International Trade Company of 
Chicago and Mexico City is shipping Hol¬ 
stein cattle to Mexico. Mexicans are begin¬ 
ning to appreciate this breed. 
The officers of the American Shetland 
Pony Club for 1891 are Hon. L. W. Mitchell, 
of Woosung, Ill., president; Murray Hoag, 
of Maquoketa, Iowa, secretary. 
The Illinois State Veterinary Society 
met in Chicago November 6, and elected Dr. 
S. S Baker, Chicago, president, and Dr. J. 
F. Pease, Quincy, Ill., secretary. 
The officers of the Hampshire Down 
Sheep Breeders’ Association are James 
Wood, Mount Kisco, N. Y., president, and 
John J. Gordon, Mercer, Pa., secretary. 
It is said that Henry M. Stanley fodnd 
dishorning practiced by some of the tribes 
in the “Dark Continent.” Where did the 
savages obtain a copy of Mr. Haaff’s book ? 
The officers of the Cleveland Bay associa¬ 
tion for 1891 are: W. M. Fields, Cedar 
Falls, Iowa, president; R. A. Stericker, 
Springfield, Ill., secretary. Buffalo Bill 
has joined the association. 
A NEW law in Indiana requires the regis¬ 
try of stud horses with the clerks of the 
circuit courts. One of the requirements of 
the law is as follows: “ That a copy of such 
license embracing such sworn statements 
and pedigree, with the fee the owner pro- 
E oaes to charge for service, shall be posted 
y the owner of such sire in two or more 
conspicuous places in the vicinity of the 
place where the sire is kept for service.” 
The American Hereford Association has 
502 members. J. A. Funkhouser, Platts- 
burg, Mo, is president, and Charles Gudgell, 
Independence, Mo., secretary. The associ¬ 
ation offers $5,000 in prizes on Ilerefords 
and Hereford grades at the various fairs, 
provided the classification provides for com¬ 
petition between the beef breeds—otherwise 
$3,500. 
At the meeting ot the American Per- 
cheron Horse Breeders’ Association the 
president T. W. Palmer, said that he did 
not know whether his Percherons were pay¬ 
ing him or not; he only knew that they had 
multiplied in number, and that his feed bill 
had increased in proportion. He said that 
he had begun to advertise, and from the 
number of letters he was receiving he had 
no doubt that he would be able to “ trust 
out ” a good many horses during the year. 
Customs officers at New York, Boston, 
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Ports¬ 
mouth and Newport News have been in¬ 
formed of the appointment of veterinary 
inspectors at those ports by the Secretary 
of Agriculture. Hereafter they will refuse 
clearance to vessels carrying cattle or sheep 
until they shall have received notice that 
such stock have been duly inspected. Vet¬ 
erinary inspectors: At Boston, Dr. A. B. 
Rose ; at New York, Dr. C. B. Michener; at 
Norfolk, Baltimore and at Newport News, 
Dr. G. C. Faville. 
The London Live Stock Journal says it is 
reported that Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt’s 
famous pair of driving horses are out of 
Percheron mares. This, it says, does not 
indicate very heavy natural draught char¬ 
acteristics in the French breed, as with the 
assistance of one of the lightest and most 
stylish light legged horses we could 
scarcely expect good carriage horses from 
Shires. From a few of the lightest Clydes 
dales carriage horses have been produced, 
which were stylish, active and symmetri¬ 
cal, but few would think of setting about 
raising harness horses now from this source. 
Continued on next voge. 
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