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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 16 
“PRIZES.” 
On May 1, our big subscription contest 
ended, and we are now ready to ghe 
results. As you remember, it began on 
February 10. The first prize was an ele¬ 
gant piano, and there were also two fine 
organs, a wagon, a buggy, weeder, har¬ 
ness and land roller. Our agents went 
tramping and riding about, and on May 
1 , the eight with the largest clubs, stood 
in the following order : 
1. S. S. Chandler, Jr., Waupaca Co., Wis. 
2. W. S. Moore, Chenango Co., N. Y. 
3. Ronson German, Macomb Co., Mich. 
4. Walter Johnson, Middlesex Co., Conn. 
5. W. J. Bills, Wayne Co., N. Y. 
6. R. R. Gage, Hamilton Co., Can. 
7. Wm. H. Fry, Johnson Co., Ind. 
8. Theo. Bond, Monroe Co., N. Y. 
Mr. Chandler worked hard for the 
piano last year, but lost it by a narrow 
margin ; so, this year, be girded up his 
loins and started out to play a tune on 
that piano or be forever played out. The 
piano is his. He has well earned it, for 
he sent 418 subscriptions in all. Good 
for him ! We hope that his wife or 
daughter will play, “ Ilail to the Chief !’ 
as soon as it is unpacked. The other 
seven clubs grade down to 26, which 
was the size of Mr. Bond’s club. There 
are, also, five persons who secured over 
20 subscriptions each, and thus earn 
prizes of $5. 
The total number of subscriptions re¬ 
ceived during the entire contest was 
about 1,900. Most of these were in clubs 
of three or five. There was an immense 
number of these little clubs, aud they 
came from everywhere. These contests 
all seem to indicate that The It. N.-Y.’s 
great strength lies in the fact that its 
readers are all willing to try to induce a 
neighbor or friend to subscribe. It is 
simply astonishing how many people 
there are in this country who desire to 
give The R. N.-Y. a lift. Agents tell us 
that they sometimes meet men who, for 
one cause or another, no longer take 
The R. N.-Y., but never do they find 
one with a word of ill feeling. All 
speak well of the paper, and wish it well. 
We feel, therefore, that our thanks 
are due to the readers who have 
not won pianos, organs or land rollers, 
but who have, with good heart and good 
feeling, rolled up The R. N.-Y. subscrip¬ 
tion list till it stands nearly 2,000 notches 
higher than it did last year. In the 
words of the orator, “We thank you, 
ladies and gentlemen, one and all, for 
your kindness, and we hope to be worthy 
of a continued display of it!” 
And now a word about other prizes 
which some of our friends have drawn. 
Here is a man from Massachusetts for 
example : 
Dr. Hoskins’s statement that The R. N.-Y. had 
saved him a good many dollars, has proved true 
in my case. Mr. Johnson’s method of combining 
hen manure with bone black and potash salts, 
has saved me over $100 this year. Mr." Hale’s 
idea of setting raspberry plants 4*4 feet each 
way, I have followed with pleasing results. Crim¬ 
son clover is my sheet anchor ; I sow it between 
the rows, and I use an Acme cultivator to cover 
the seed. I would have known nothing of these 
things if I had not taken The R. N.-Y. a. e. p. 
See that? If he bad not read The R. 
N.-Y., he would not have known any¬ 
thing about these things that have saved 
him money ! 
And here is another candid friend, also 
from Massachusetts : 
I consider The R. N.-Y. easily in the lead of the 
agricultural press of the United States, at the 
present time. There are other excellent papers 
that have their specialties in which they are 
superior, but for an all-’round, first-class agricul¬ 
tural publication, none can touch The R. N.-Y. 
To a student of agriculture, many of your recent 
articles on Primer Science, have been worth the 
price of the paper for a whole year. o. d. h. 
And here is still another, from Canada: 
Yes, indeed, I value The R. N.-Y. Seven years 
ago, before entering the ministry, I took it, and, 
after testing most of the other agricultural aud 
horticultural papers in the States, I concluded 
that The R. N.-Y. was more valuable than all the 
others put together. The price was then $2. After 
losing sight of it for six years, I have now re¬ 
newed my fellowship in a 12-months’ trip, aud 
conclude that, while you have reduced the price, 
you are putting up a better paper than before. 
Now I am back at my old business of fruit grow¬ 
ing, for the summer, at least, and I feel as though 
it would be better for me to lose three or four 
dinners a week than to do without The R. N.-Y. 
t. c. it. 
That is the way it goes ! These men win 
prizes week after week, and come back 
with good words to pay for them. You 
need not be afraid for The R. N.-Y.’s 
future while we have such friends at our 
back. We are all right, thank you ! 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
Worcester Countt, Mass. —The Virginia winter 
oats, drilled in alone in September, are all dead. 
Not a single live peach bud in any of our three 
orchards having different exposures, and we have 
always had peaches here when there were none, 
or but few, others in town. Our location is very 
fiigh. F. h. j. 
Washington Countv, Ind.— Wheat 10 inches high, 
looking finely; Medium clover, ditto. Crimson 
clover and winter oats sowed together, Septem¬ 
ber 2 in a field that has all kinds of soil, seem to 
flourish equally on the best ground, and perish 
together on gravelly, clay points where nothing 
could grow anyhow. Crimson is now in bloom, 
about a foot high. I think both will do well with 
us if sown earlier. We had less than one-half 
inch of rain in April, or Crimson would be taller; 
it is thick enough. A heavy rain is in sight. 
G. E. H 
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