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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 4 
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The first of May, the following eight premiums will be sent to the eight agents 
who shall have sent the largest eight clubs since February 11 : 
One Emerson Piano, - - worth $400 
One Estey Organ, - 120 
One Wilcox & White Organ, - “ 100 
One Kalamazoo Buggy, - - “60 
One Superior Land Roller, - 56 
One Farmers’ Handy Wagon, - “ 30 
One Breed’s Weeder, - “18 
One Sherwood Harness, - “15 
Besides, the agent gets his cash commissions and daily prize. 
NOW, JUST LISTEN! 
Nearly two-tliirds of the time for the work has passed. Less than one month 
remains, yet little effort has been made for any of these premiums. Hundreds of 
friends have sent in small clubs of four or five names, but no one has started out 
as though he really meant to have that piano. Three days’ good work now 
would put any hustler in the lead. If the contest closed to-day, some of the best 
premiums would go for 10 or 12 names, and the smaller ones for less. 
We can’t understand why this should be so. There are no better articles of 
the kind made ; every one is worth, in cash, the price set opposite it above. 
There is a chance here to make more money in a single month than some 
who read this, will make all summer. Just think of it! Any one of the first six 
articles is worth a month’s wages for an ordinary man, and the commissions and 
daily prizes besides. 
We didn’t expect large clubs thus late in the subscription season. We knew 
that all the big clubs had renewed ; but we made the terms to encourage our 
agents to work new territory, and we made an extra liberal commission besides 
for new names. But, thus far, we are disappointed in the results. Unless some 
one does more than has yet been done, this §400 piano will go to an agent who will 
not have sent us in all §100 for subscriptions. The premiums will go out just the 
same, no matter how small the clubs ! But, once for all, we say, here is a chance 
not often offered to make money. 
We are afraid that few of our friends know just how easy it is to win the 
dollar that goes out to some one every night. Here are the winners for the last 
week, with the number of names sent by each : 
Yearlies. Yearlies. 
March 23.—C. W. Weston, New York .... 3 March 26.—Ronson German, Michigan.. 
24. _w. S. Moore, New York. 23 % 27.—S. S. Chandler Jr., Wisconsin 14 
25. —S. P. Bell, Maryland. 3 28—C. H. Stilz, Tennessee. 2 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Honey is in only moderate demand. 
Good Russia turnips are scarce aud firm. 
Filled cheese must be sold as such if sold at all. 
The game market is very dull and supplies 
small. 
Dried fruits are generally dull and little is 
doing. 
Duck and goose eggs were scarce for the Easter 
trade. 
Fancy Florida strawberries are scarce and the 
demand is good. 
Cabbage is lower in price with heavy receipts 
and a dull market. 
Onions seem to be doing a trifle better under 
decreased receixits. 
The butter market is Arm, arrivals light, stocks 
on hand well cleaned up. 
Receipts of milk are increasing, and the price 
of the surplus is decreasing. 
The supply of fancy apples is light, and such 
are in good demand at good prices. 
Sterilized air is now put forward as a substi¬ 
tute for cold storage in preserving farm jjroducts. 
It is said that it takes 13 barrels of potatoes to 
buy one barrel of apples in some parts of Maine. 
Capons, broilers, aud the fancy grades of 
chickens are all scarce and firmly held at good 
prices. 
Some very good sweet potatoes have come in 
from Virginia during the week, but as Jersey 
stock is so plentiful, they sell slowly. 
Receipts of eggs have been heavy and the mar¬ 
ket has dropped off slightly. After Easter, it is 
probable that receipts will be somewhat lighter. 
Catawba grapes are still in market, but are 
about through for this season. Western New 
York has furnished us grapes for about seven 
mouths. 
The Montreal Butter and Cheese Association 
wisely discourages the making of hay aud fodder 
cheese this spring, as the best trade does not 
wish such goods. 
The butter market is in a pretty satisfactory 
condition, and prices have been very uniform for 
some time back. Dependence for supplies is 
mostly on fresh goods. 
Heavy live poultry has sold for one to two cents 
per pound more than light, during the Hebrew 
Passover market. Receipts have not been heavy 
with the exception of geese, aud prices have been 
well sustained. 
The potato situation seems to be growing 
worse. Except for some choice marks for seed 
purposes, prices tend to range lower, and the 
supply exceeds the demand. This market is a 
poor outlet for potatoes this year. 
Bad dreams dis¬ 
tress the man whose 
digestion is out of 
order. Constipation 
creates more dreams 
than are in the infer¬ 
nal regions. People 
who are troubled with 
constipation sleep 
badly and restlessly. 
Sometimes they can¬ 
not sleep at all, and 
when they do sleep, 
the dreams come. It 
doesn’t take so very 
long to wear a man 
out with that sort of 
thing. He gets up 
in the morning feel¬ 
ing worse than he 
did when he went 
to bed. He is listless and without energy. 
The chances are he is dizzy, has “heart¬ 
burn,” palpitation, sees black spots be¬ 
fore his eyes, has headache and is bilious. 
What nonsense it is to let a condition of 
that sort continue. Nine-tenths of all 
the sickness in the world comes from 
constipation and neglect of it. It is a 
simple thing to cure if you go about it 
right. It’s a bad thing and a serious thing 
if you don’t take the right medicine. Dr. 
Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are designed for 
the cure of constipation. The “ Pellets” 
are tiny, sugar-coated granules. One is 
a laxative, two a mild cathartic. Every¬ 
body who has ever used them has a good 
word for them. They have prevented 
more serious illness than any other 
remedy ever sold. Druggists sell them, 
and an honest druggist will not try to 
sell you something else. 
Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Ad¬ 
viser is the greatest family doctor book ever 
published. It explains human physiology 
and the laws of life and health in plain yet 
scientific language. It has had a tremen¬ 
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in cloth. The present free edition is the 
same in all respects except that it is bound 
in strong manilla paper covers. A copy will 
be absolutely given away to anyone who 
sends 21 one-cent stamps to pay cost of 
mailing only , to World’s Dispensary Med¬ 
ical Association, No. 663 Main Street, 
Buffalo, N. Y. , 
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IN MANY OF THESE 
WELL-KNOWN FERTI¬ 
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SEE LOCAL AGENTS, OR ADDRESS 
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