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Ootober 17 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
The Agent’s Share. 
Our Contest for Trial Subscriptions for the rest of this year, closed 
September 30, and we are going to give our agents and friends some 
more money in another Contest right away. 
October i to November 14. 
The next Contest will close November 14, and all names sent after 
October 1 will count. We will continue to allow the regular 15 per cent 
discount as formerly. 
Weekly Premiums. 
Three Dollars will be sent out every Saturday night, beginning 
October 17, to the agent who sends the largest club for that week ; and 
$3 will also go out every Saturday night, beginning October 17, to the 
agent who sent the largest club who won no other weekly premiums 
since August 15. 
Then, on November 14, we will give the following premiums :. 
For First Largest Club, 
For Second Largest Club, - 
For Third Largest Club, 
$25.00 
15.00 
5.00 
and $10 for the largest club sent by an agent who did not win any of the 
September 30 premiums. The first three premiums are open to all. 
The $10 premium is open to all except Ronson German, J. 0. Loftin, 
Chas. R. Farnum, R. R. Gage and C. A. Miller. 
Then, to make sure that every one gets paid for his work, we will 
guarantee a premium of $5, November 14, to every agent who sends 20 
yearly subscriptions during this Contest. 
Rest of this Year, Free. 
To give our agents a chance to do good work, we will send the paper 
for the rest of this year, free, to those who subscribe for 1897. That is, 
you can give new subscribers the inducement of getting The Rural 
New-Yorker every week from now until January 1, 1898, for $1. 
Now, there you are 1 You see the profits made in the last Contest 
by agents who did a little work. Do you want some of this money ? 
You can tell your farmer friends that 
The Rural New-Yorker always stops 
when the time paid for expires ; and they can have their full $1 back in 
three months if they are not satisfied with the paper. 
Do you want some of this money ? 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
REMEMBER THIS: 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
Reading, Pa., Chrysanthemum Show.— A chrys¬ 
anthemum show and general floral exhibition will 
be held for the benefit of the hospitals and other 
ocal charities, November 18 to 21. The premiums 
aggregate $600. A committee is in charge of the 
arrangements with John D. Mishler as president, 
and Cyrus T. Fox as secretary. M. H. Schnader, 
a public-spirited citizen, has granted the free use 
of The Auditorium, a fine, new four-story struc¬ 
ture, centrally located, with a hall, 60x200 feet, 
on the ground floor. Q- 
Horse Breeding in New York. —Within the 
past five years 80 per cent less mares have been 
bred than up to 1891 or 1892. In this locality, farm¬ 
ers are now raising more colts than during any of 
the previous four years. The prices for service 
of good stallions of all kinds have been reduced 
one-half. There is practically no price for young 
colts, as farmers and dealers are looking for 
nothing but mature animals, that can be made 
useful or sold again at once. Our farmers are 
raising more French Coach colts now than ever 
before. There is, certainly, a very brigh t prospect 
for the farmer that raises some extra good coach 
and carriage colts now. Good horses, four years 
or over, with high action, are very high priced 
now, and almost impossible to find. E. s. akin. 
Cayuga County. 
The AsrARAGUS Rust Again.— At the time my 
first article was sent to The R. N.-Y., letters were 
dispatched to one or more botanists and horticul¬ 
turists in nearly every State in the Union. A large 
number of replies from these indicate that the 
dreaded disease is possibly confined to a small 
portion of the United States, for no place west of 
New Jersey has been reported from as havingthe 
asparagus rust, and only two elsewhere. Many 
other replies may come in, and a more definite 
statement can then be made concerning the 
range of the pest. 
This second note, aside from the information 
contained, is designed further to stimulate ob¬ 
servers to note whether asparagus in their sec¬ 
tion is infested or not. If the rust is as restricted 
as it appears to be, it is easy, and, therefore, all 
the more important, to burn the rusty fields and 
destroy the enemy before it gets spread through¬ 
out the whole country. byron d. halsted. 
Experiment Station, New Brunswick, N. J. 
Farmers’ Institutes in New Jersey.— I am now 
planning a series of farmers’ institutes to cover 
the entire State; some counties will have as many 
as two and three each. We shall begin work 
about Nov ember 10, and go on into the winter until 
all are held, culminating with the annual meet¬ 
ing of the State Board in Trenton, about the 
second week in January. I have already engaged 
F. E. Dawley, Director of New York Farmers’ In¬ 
stitutes, John Gould, of Ohio, and Ex-Secretary 
J. S. Woodward, of New York. Other speakers 
throughout the State are being engaged, and, 
with the professors of our experiment station, we 
expect a strong and capable corps of workers, 
and hope to accomplish much good. While there 
are many subjects of local interest, which will 
claim attention in the different neigh borhoods, the 
dairy, breeding, feeding and care of dairy cattle, 
care and culture of orchard fruits and the pro¬ 
duction of small fruits, market gardening, mar¬ 
keting farm produce, poultry and general farm 
crops, will claim our chief attention. 
Secretary. franklyn dye. 
Kansas Horse Breeding. —The business of 
horse breeding has changed only from bad to 
worse. Prices have gone so low that colts can¬ 
not profitably be raised, even in connection with 
general farming. The cost of the service of the 
stallion sometimes is greater than the value of 
the colt when weaned. As may be readily in¬ 
ferred, farmers have largely quit breeding their 
mares, and exclusive breeders have gone into 
bankruptcy or changed their business. 
It is hard to say to what extent prices have 
fallen. One can buy a pair of sound, well-broken, 
young horses of medium weight for $100 or less. 
Ponies and scrubs may be had for from $5 up. 
Some attention is being given to trotting stock, 
but roadsters and heavy draft horses are 
neglected. It seems as though everybody was 
absolutely certain that the market for horses is 
everlastingly slumped, and recovery impossible. 
Here and there, a man believes in better prices 
in a few years, but he is regarded as a mild 
lunatic. R- w. d. 
Anthony, Kan. 
Jersey Grades in Delaware County, N. Y.— 
The dairy stock of Delaware County has been 
greatly improved in the last 10 years by the intro¬ 
duction of Jersey blood. I should say that there 
are probably 10 grade cows now where there was 
one 10 years ago. Twenty years ago there were 
hardly any Jersey cows in the county, outside of 
the town of Bovina; but now you will find some 
grade Jerseys in other towns, which are just as 
good as any that they have in Bovina. Messrs. 
Ay^r <fc McKinney, two Philadelphia gentlemen, 
own about 700 acres of land in this town, Mere¬ 
dith, and have been keeping thoroughbred Jersey 
stock. At one time, they claimed to have the 
finest herd in the United States. They have sold 
quite a number of bulls to the farmers of this 
county, and this has undoubtedly helped very 
much to improve the stock of this vicinity. 
There is no doubt in my mind that the grade 
cow of to-day will make more butter than the old 
native, even if she is fed the same. But I cannot 
say how much more; that would be a hard matter 
to tell, and probably no two men could agree on 
what the increased yield would be. The increased 
yield of butter to-day, however, is not all due to 
improved blood; improved feed, in many dairies, 
probably has as much to do with the yield as im¬ 
proved blood. In our own dairy we had quite a 
number of grades 10 years ago, and I think we 
made about as much to a cow then as we do now, 
as we feed just about the same now that we did 
then. 
The cheapest feed that we can buy now is 
wheat feed and corn meal. Wheat feed is $11 to 
$13 per ton, and corn meal is $14 per ton. 
GEO. MIDDLEMISS. 
Corn Fodder in Iowa.—A writer in the Iowa 
Homestead gives the following note: “While 
making a journey about half way across the 
State of Iowa recently, I observed that scarcely 
any corn was being cut up this fall. Whenever 
hay is plenty, the work of cutting corn fodder is 
not much relished by the stock owner. A few 
more years of scarcity will have to appear be¬ 
fore the western farmer will utilize this product 
instead of permitting it to bleach in the winter 
blasts. It is a very good feed, and the only objec¬ 
tion to it is that its preparation involves a good 
deal of labor to which the farmer has not been 
accustomed.” 
Shredded Corn Fodder. —Prof. C. S. Plumb, of 
the Indiana Experiment Station, has this to say 
aboutsbredding stalks: “Fodder that is shredded 
should not be run through the machine until it is 
entirely dry and well cured. It would be better 
overdry than not dry enough. Last season, at 
the Indiana Experiment Station, we shredded all 
of our corn fodder (stover) with the most satis¬ 
factory results. It kept well in the mow, and was 
free from mustiness. The cattle and sheep ate it 
freely, and it was used well into the spring with 
the stock. This fall we will shred nearly all of our 
1896 crop. Shredded fodder presents several im¬ 
portant points in its favor. 1 st—It is more econ¬ 
omical to feed than the uncut corn. 2 nd—It is 
eaten up cleaner by the stock than most cut fod¬ 
der is, there being less waste, due to the absence 
of the hard, sharp-edged, short butt pieces of 
stalks usually found in cut fodder. 3d—The 
refuse makes better material for bedding than 
do whole stalks or cut pieces, being finer and 
softer. 4th—It handles far better in the manure 
pile than does the entire stalk. 5th—It does not 
make the mouths of cattle sore, while coarsely 
cut fodder oftentimes does. 6 th—It packs more 
economically in the mow than does uncut 
fodder.” 
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You and we may differ as to 
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our very differences good may 
come. But we won't differ as 
to the merits of one standard 
emulsion of cod liver oil. 
SCOTT'S EMULSION has 
won and held its way for 
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medicine until to-day it is al¬ 
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every condition of wasting 
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NORTHERN-GROWN SEED POTATOES 
We always use northern seed potatoes here 
even at largely increased prices over our own 
seed. One reason is, they do better; another is, 
that we do not grow late potatoes. Our potatoes 
are planted in March and April, and either mar¬ 
keted early, or dug in August, and put in the 
cellar. These potatoes are badly sprouted be¬ 
fore it is time to plant them, and the second or 
third sprouting never produces as well as the 
first. I have frequently planted some of our own 
seed by the side of northern seed, with a result 
always favorable to the northern seed. C. P. 
Cinnaminson, N. J. 
We plant home-grown seed potatoes only in ex¬ 
ceptional cases. My experience is that the north¬ 
ern seed is better on all occasions. Plant north¬ 
ern seed at any reasonable difference in cost. I 
have seen a difference in yield, many a time, of 
one-third. In these days, we don’t keep any pota¬ 
toes for seed, always buy northern seed, and I 
have said that I didn’t feel that I could afford to 
plant home-grown seed as a gift. d. c. lewis. 
Middlesex County, N. J. 
My experience is that what we call northern- 
grown seed potatoes, give better results than 
our home-grown stock, grown and kept in the 
usual way. I have never had a good crop from 
home-grown, first-crop seed, and do not plant 
them any more. My preference, over all other 
kinds, is good, home-grown, second-crop seed— 
when I can get them. I have observed a differ¬ 
ence in the growtli and yield of northern-grown 
seed, due, as I believe, to a difference in the com¬ 
position of the soil in which the seed is grown. 
Quality in seed is, after all, not a matter of lati¬ 
tude, but of soil, fertilization, stage of maturity 
when harvested, and manner of preservation until 
planting time. There are a few things which I 
think I know on this subject, but what I don’t 
know would fill at least a page of The R. N.-Y. 
Mullica Hill, N. J. b. r. b. 
A COUNTRY FAIR. 
It was my privilege to be called to attend a 
town fair at Red Hook village, held under the 
auspices of the Agricultural Club of Red Hook 
on Wednesday, September 16. I say privilege, be¬ 
cause it is seldom that such an exhibition of farm 
products as there met the eye, is seen at our 
county fairs. The exhibition embraced the 
products of the field, the orchard, and the garden, 
embellished with rare plants from some noted 
conservatories in the neighborhood. The club is 
favored in having a live secretary, in the person 
of R. N. Lewis, who seems determined to grow 
everything worth growing, and to experiment 
with grains and grasses, fruits and flowers, in 
almost unlimited variety; also vegetables of every 
hue, and butter and cheese that took the blue. 
The president of the club, Mr. John A. Fraleigh, 
w T as a large exhibitor of fruits and vegetables, 
having 39 varieties of apples, and the largest col¬ 
lection of fruit on exhibition. Mr. W. S. Teator, 
of Upper Red Hook, who is a prominent grower of 
seed potatoes, had 36 varieties on exhibition, and 
a fine collection of apples, taking first premium 
on the best 12 plates, and second on the largest 
collection of fruit. The display of pears and 
grapes was not large, but good. Mr. S. D. Wil¬ 
lard, of Geneva, had on exhibition one plate each 
of Sutton’s Beauty and Longfield apples. There 
were several artistic designs in cut flowers, and 
one representing a bicycle covered with golden 
rod, by Miss Rosalie Fraleigh, was unique and 
pretty. 
On Wednesday evening, the chapel where the 
exhibition was held, was crowded to its utmost 
