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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 2, 1896 
BUY "DIRECT FROM FACTORY,” BEST 
MIXED PAINTS 
At WHOLKSA M) PRICES, Delivered FREE 
For Houses, Barns, Roofs, all colors, and SA VE Dealers 
profits. In use 154 years. Endorsed by Grange & Farmers’ 
Alliance. Low prices will surprise you. Write for Samplc- 
0. W. INGERSOLL, No. 246 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, N. > 
WANTED 
competent Club 
Accents (Women. 
Men, Girls or 
Boys) In every town in the U. S. 
to get orders for our celebrated 
goods. Liberal Terms; Good 
Incomes, big Presents with 
every sale. Good'J’eas and Coffees. 
25c. per pound. Send this ad. and 
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you a M-pound Best Imported Tea. any kind, and full 
particulars. THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA CO., 
;>1 & 33 Vesey Street, New York, P. O. Box 2811. Rural. 
Will not “roll in” because dollars 
NEVER do that, but you may 
MAKE AND SAVE many 
dollars by using the most perfect farm machinery made. 
Osborne’s COLUMBIA Binder 
width platform, conveyor and elevator. It only has to elevate the grain 28 lnciies T . 
less than the average machine—hence the power required is less. Bess teVl vnn nU its rrood 
draft. Then too it’s lighter than others—that saves more draft. But we cnn 1 iuU C 97 
qualities in one small ad. Write for our free book On farm machinery NO. z/. 
D. M. OSBORNE & CO., Auburn, N. Y. 
Ten Farmers’ Wives 
WANTED 
You can assist ns by sending us the names and ad¬ 
dresses of ten reliable farmers' w'ves likely to be in¬ 
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circular for Farmers’ Grange anti Alliance 
Buyers. By complying with the above we will send 
you a beautiful panel picture, large size, 14 x 28 
inches, suitable to frame. Old Reliable House. 
Highest reference. KM PI KE CITY TEA CO., 28 
Be Peyster Street, New York City, U. S. A. 
AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY COUNTY 
FOR 
New Dutton 
Mower Knife 
Grinder. 
OUR 1896 Annual Illustrates the BEST. 
Binders, 
Mowers, 
Reapers 
Disk Pulverizers. 
WRITE FOR IT. ADDRESS 
Toledo , Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Harrisburg, Pa., or Batavia , N. Y. 
THE JOHNSTON HARVESTER COMPANY. 
Send for Special 
Circular. 
THE CUTAWAY HARROW CO„ 
U1GGANUM. CONN. 
^ L r G E s RN Planter and Fertilizer 
Is the latest, and it drops 
at twelve different dis¬ 
tances 
For CORN, 
BEANS, PEAS 
and 
BEET SEED. 
If you want them, we fur¬ 
nish Marker and Trip At¬ 
tachment for rowing both 
ways. Send for Circulars. 
made onivbv Times Plow (KO. Boston and flew York. 
THE DAVENPORT 
POTATO Cutter 
and PLANTER. 
We Deliver 
Freight Paid 
to any Railroad 
Station. 
Also, Hand or 
One-Horse 
Steel 
Lawn Rollers. 
Will Distribute 
Spring Grain, 
Grass Seed 
or Dry 
Fertilizers. 
- A . 
Over 6,000 
in Use show 
No Failure. 
JOHN MOORE’S SON COMPANY, RARITAN, N. J. 
It marks, furrows, cuts, 
drops and covers all In ona 
operation. 
Nio more cutting seed 
by hand, 
It cuts the potato the 
same as if done by hand. 
It leaves the Held with 
its work done complete. 
Tho only perfect potato 
planter made. 
Send for free catalogue to 
LANO IMPLEMENT CO.. 66 Plain Street. Plano. III. 
ATTENTION! 
Schwingel’s 
Combined 
Potato 
Implements 
are the leaders for 1896. Do not try to grow potatoes 
without one of our machines. This cut shows only 
our Moldboard Coverer and lllller. 
rOur Catalogue tells all about our Disk Machines. 
Fertilizer Sower and Coverer. etc. All-Steel Reversible 
Moldboards, Positive Underdraft rigging, lever depth 
regulator, convertible into cither Marker or Furrower, 
Coverer. Hiller and Fertilizer Distributor. Simple, 
practical, durable, cheap in price only. Free catalogue 
for the asking. Address the Manufacturer & Patentee. 
EDW C. SCHWINGKL. 129 Main St., Dansville. N.Y. 
POTATO 
GROWERS 
Made formerly by D. S. Morgan & Co., Brock- 
port, N. Y. and recently purchased by us, Is one 
of the greatest labor-saving tools ever invented 
for use in culture of grapes and berries, and es¬ 
pecially adapted for vineyard work. After 
cultivating between the rows, the grape hoe 
will take out all grass and weeds that remain 
under the wires and around vines and posts, 
and will thoroughly stir the soil close to the 
vines. The Hoe is guided in and out around 
post and vine by the Disc Castor Wheel, to 
which the handle is attached. The horse is 
hitched to one side of the pole, with plenty of 
room for hoe to work under the vines or 
bushes, and without injury to them from horse 
orwhiflletree. The saving in time and labor will 
soon pay the cost of this tool. We can refer 
to some of the most successful grape and berry 
growers in the country. 
Write for further information, and Cata¬ 
logue R, of all our implements. 
SYRACUSE CHILLED PLOW CO., Syracuse, N. Y. 
THE YANKEE SWIVEL PLOW. 
THE STANDARD SWIVEL PLOW 
OF AMERICA. 
Sizes for 
One, Two 
or 
Three Horses. 
Patent Spring Foot Latch, Automatic Jointer, Straight Steel Coulters or Rolling 
Caster Coulters, and all the late improvements. 
fHE BELCHER & TAYLOR AG’L TOOL CO., Box 75, Chicopee Falls, Mass. 
RICHARDS TRANSPLANTING IMPLEMENTS. 
Patented April 2, 1895. A cheap, sure and simple way to transplant all kinds of 
plants; guaranteed not to disturb their growth. The inventor has transplanted 
thousands of plants with these implements and is therefore qualified to say what they 
will do. Indorsed by many of the most prominent plant growers. Send for circular 
giving testimonials, directions how to use, and other valuable information, especially 
to strawberry growers. Price, per set of six transplanters, one excavator and one 
ejector, $2.50. Extra transplanters, 20 cents each. Agents wanted. 
F. RICHARDS, Freeport, N. Y. 
1 5 Per Cent More Butter 
. . . H THE . . 
«VT 
‘ United States Separator. 
We are highly gratified with the results obtained with the No. 7 
Improved U. S. “ Midget” Separator. We have made 15 per cent, more 
butter with the same cows and feed than we did on the milk setting 
process. Then the improvement in quality fully pays for the cost. 
Can’t get enough butter now for our customers. 
The Separator is easy to operate, thorough in separation, and very 
easily and quickly cleaned. No complicated machinery to take apart 
and wash—only three pieces. From our experience with the No. 7 
United States Separator we would not take double the cost and dis¬ 
pense with it; and for the benefit of our brother farmers and butter 
producers, we heartily recommend its purchase and use. 
M. W. BROWN & SON, 
March 18 , 1896 . Scioto, Scioto Co., Ohio. 
The Improved U. 8. Separator Stands on its Own Bottom. 
Made in three dairy sizes, and also for factory use. 
CATALOGUES FREE. 
Agents wanted in every town and county where we have none. 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, Vt. 
tore 
..rains 
Are often required to determine 
what shall be "kept out” of a har¬ 
vester than to say what shall “go 
into” it. It is so easy to do tne 
wrong thing—and the wrong tiling 
has such an inviting appearance— 
that less experienced manufacturers 
than the McCormick Co. frequent¬ 
ly find themselves "putting their 
foot in it” and building a machine 
one season which they are obliged 
to abandon a season or two later. 
Because a good thing is a good 
thing in its place, it doesn't neces¬ 
sarily follow that it is a good thing 
in a harvester or mower. 
Fight shy of the machine whose 
best recommend is that “it seems 
to have a bright idea” in its make¬ 
up. Remember this every day in 
the years- McCormick Machines 
will work where others fail. 
The makers of McCormick Ma¬ 
chines have been at it for sixty-five 
years. By long experience they 
have found out how to build the 
best binders and mowers. 
The new McCormick Light-Running 
Open Elevator Harvester and Binder, 
the McCormick No. 4 Steel Mower and 
the McCormick Corn Harvester are 
unequalled for capacity, light draft, 
efficiency of service and long life. 
Built, sold and guaranteed by the 
McCormick harvesting Machine Co., 
Chicago. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, May 2, 1896 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Modern Yankee Farm.301, 302 
HorBe Shoe Farm Notes.302 
Grass Mixtures for Pasture.303 
Steel Axles or Pipe Boxes for Wagons.304 
Clover as a Nitrogeu Trap.304 
Are “ Nitrogen Traps ” Valuable ?. 304 
Catch Crops for New England . 304 
When and How to Sow Millet.304 
Potash in Ashes or Straw.304 
Dissolved Bones.305 
Will a Hydraulic Ram Answer ?.305 
Selling Direct to City Hotels.305 
Killing “ Devil’s Paint Brush.”.305 
An Ice House for a Silo.305 
The Blue Victor Potato.307 
Some Thoughts About Roads.307 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
More About Those Egg Questions.302 
What Is “ Imitation Creamery ” Butter ?.305 
Room for Hens.305 
What is a Butter Starter ?.305 
The Ri*ht Price for Eggs.314 
Rye for Horses.314 
Sell Rye, Buy Grain.314 
Feather-Eating Hens.314 
Lawn Grass and Clover Hay.314 
A Talk About Meat Meal...314. 315 
Butter from Potatoes.315 
“ A New Stock Food ”.315 
Caked Udder and Garget.315 
“ Farm Poultry ”.315 
The Best Butter Package.315 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Something About Danish Cabbage.302, 303 
Plant Traps for Cabbage Insects.303, 304 
A Melon Disease ; Bordeaux Mixture. 304 
Apples to Graft.304 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Trailing Arbutus.310 
Editorials .310 
Mrs. Gannett’s Arbor Day.310, 311 
Awnings for Country Homes.311 
Patterns forR. N.-Y. Readers.311 
Looking Backward.311 
Crumbs from Different Tables.311 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Work of the Ox Gadfly.303 
The Painted Hickory Borer...303 
Ruralisms.306, 307 
Editorials.308 
Brevities.308 
As We Go To Press. 312 
Crop and Market Notes.313 
Markets. 313 
