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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 24 
The Agent’s Share. 
Apparently, no one has yet started out to win those cash 
premiums November 14, or the weekly premiums which will go 
out now each Saturday. 
On November 14, we will give the following premiums : 
For First Largest Club, - - $25.00 
For Second Largest Club, - 15.00 
For Third Largest Club, - - 5.00 
Beginning this week, October 17, we will send $3 every Saturday 
night during this contest, to the agent who sends the largest club 
for the week, and an extra weekly premium of $3 will also be sent 
every Saturday night to the agent who has won no other weekly 
premium since August 15. That is, the first $3 will be open to every 
one ; the second $3 is open to all who have won no other weekly 
premiums this season. All those who have won other weekly 
premiums are debarred from this second $3 premium. 
Here are the names of the winners for last week : 
$3—RONSON GERMAN. Michigan.6>4 Yearly Subscriptions. 
$3—E. M. RUSSELL.Texas.1M Yearly Subscriptions. 
You see how easy they got $3. Will your name be among the 
winners next Saturday night ? 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
AS WE GO TO PRESS. 
"CANNED SUNSHINE 
Rev. E. E. Hale recently wrote a short 
article with the above heading, in which 
he said: 
Robert Stephenson, the inventor of the locomo¬ 
tive, was one day standing with an English 
gentleman on an eminence from which they could 
see a very distant train. Stephenson said to his 
friend, “ What is it which is drawing that train 
along through the valley?” The gentleman re¬ 
plied, with a laugh: “ Why, of course, it is one of 
your engines.” “Ah, yes,” said Stephenson, 
“ but what makes my engine go ? ” And then he 
added, in a reverential tone, that the Lord God 
had, hundreds of thousands of years ago, packed 
away enough of His sunshine, in ferns and other 
products of prehistoric times, to heat the water 
from which rose the steam which pressed upon 
the piston which drove the wheels which bore the 
train along. 
That is, certainly, a very beautiful 
fancy to say that coal is “ canned sun¬ 
shine.” That is just what coal is, for 
the heat' we get out of it by burning, is 
only the heat of the sun that was stored 
up in the growing plants ages ago. 
Mr. Hale went on to say that, no 
matter how carefully a substance may 
be canned, it is never quite so good as 
the original. The only exceptions I know 
to this are the quince and the Keiffer 
pear, which are, certainly, better as en¬ 
silage than when fresh. Mr. Hale spoke 
of the thousands of invalids who shiver 
and fade through the winter at the 
North, boxed up in hot air. The only 
thing that keeps them alive is the 
“canned sunshine” or heat from the 
coal which was dug out of the ground. 
No man would stay in a heated room 
from choice when he could get out into 
bright sunshine, and so the question 
comes up, Would not these invalids be 
far better if we could take them right 
into the South, and let them stay out¬ 
doors in the fresh sunshine ? Put them 
in colonies on some of those dry, south¬ 
ern uplands, where the warm sun shines 
all day long. They would be healthier 
and happier, and we don't think that it 
would cost so much to care for them 
as it does to burn the canned sunshine 
and get up an artificial heat. Many a 
well-to-do farmer in the North would do 
well to get hold of a southern farm 
while land is cheap, and use it for a 
place to sun the old folks and invalids 
during the cold winter. They would 
find it more to their taste to sit out on 
the piazza in a Georgia or Florida sun, 
than to “hug the stove ” in Vermont or 
New York. 
But what has all this to do with The 
R. N.-Y. *? Well, now—we are quite sur¬ 
prised to have you ask such a question 
as that! We thought that you would 
see right away that The E. N.-Y. is a 
can for holding mental sunshine ! Men¬ 
tal sunshine is thought and inspiration ! 
That is what warms up a man’s being, 
and starts his energies into action—like 
the heat under a steam boiler. You go 
to college and listen, right in the class 
room, to the inspiring words of a man 
who knoii's his subject". That is fresh 
mental sunshine. You sit down and 
read that lecture in cold type, and it is 
canned thought. A man wants his boy 
to go to an agricultural college to pick 
up fresh mental sunshine by coming 
right in contact with the men who think 
the thoughts ! We understand what a 
difference there is between the direct 
rays of the sun and those same rays 
when passed through wood or coal, and 
put about us in the form of heat. It is 
just so with mental sunshine. Some 
men take all the warmth out of a 
thought by putting it on paper ; others 
just clothe it up with vigor and magnet¬ 
ism so that your heart is drawn right 
to it, and you just can’t help getting up 
steam over it. 
Nearly 40 years ago, Lincoln and Doug¬ 
las held a series of joint debates in 
Illinois over the question of an exten¬ 
sion of slavery. Douglas was the better 
orator, and the immediate effect of his 
speeches was very great. With the 
thousands who actually listened to the 
words of the speakers, Douglas, prob¬ 
ably, made the best impression. That 
was what you might call direct mental 
sunshine. For one man who could actu¬ 
ally listen to these speeches, there were 
100 who had to put up with “canned 
sunshine” in the form of a printed re¬ 
port. That was where Lincoln tri¬ 
umphed. His words “canned” better 
than those of his adversary. They read 
better in print, because the truth went 
with them into the printed page, and 
they were grouped so simply and clearly 
that they made “ easy reading.” Read 
the reports of those debates to-day, and 
you will be surprised to see how com¬ 
pletely Lincoln outclassed Douglas as 
judged by the true facts of history. 
Lincoln’s thoughts were designed for 
“canning”, and that is why they have 
lived. 
Now we want to say that we would 
like to make The R. N.-Y. just like a 
first-class canning factory, where this 
“mental sunshine” can be put up in 
the best possible shape. We* are not 
after words or ideas that please and 
interest for the moment only, but we are 
after words like Lincoln’s, that were put 
together for canning purposes, so to 
speak, so that readers will study over 
them and keep them stored away for 
time of need. When you buy a can of 
peaches, you look at the brand. If the 
peaches are good, you look for that brand 
again before you buy. If the peaches 
are bad, you shun that brand as you 
would a dose of bad medicine. Now we 
want The R. N.-Y. to be a brand that 
shall represent the best and surest qual¬ 
ity of agricultural “mental sunshine.” 
When people pick up this paper, we want 
them to understand that it contains 
canned goods that are soluble, sound and 
sensible. We sell 52 cans during the 
year, for one dollar, which is less than 
two cents each. Where can you buy 
The R. N.-Y 7 . brand of canned thought 
any cheaper ? Answer that, please ! 
Now, just one thing more ! Last week, 
on page 688, one of our Ohio friends tells 
us what blood in potatoes did for him. 
In the same letter, he says : 
I am a regular reader of The R. N.-Y., but not 
a subscriber. A neighbor takes two agricultural 
papers, and I take two, and we exchange. The 
R. N.-Y. is the best of all. If neighbor ever stops, 
I shall add The R. N.-Y. to my list. 
We find that a good many of our 
readers are doing that. Many a paper 
does duty for several families. We know 
of some single papers that are carefully 
read by from 12 to 18 different persons. 
We want to say that, during the coming 
year, we shall print a good many articles 
that will live. It won’t do to read them 
and then let some one else keep the pa¬ 
per. It is going to pay you to can some 
of these thoughts a second time, by put¬ 
ting them in a scrap book. Therefore, 
you want the paper yourself. Start now 
when you can have 15 months for $1 ! 
CHEAP CATTLE RATIONS. 
ARE ALFALFA AND SUGAR BEETS A “ BAL¬ 
ANCED RATION”? 
I haven’t heard of sugar beets being fed to 
either steers or sheep. Only a few are raised in 
this locality, and they are fed to milch cows. 
Feeders here, in most instances, buy sheep in the 
fall to feed through the winter; corn shipped in 
from Kansas or Nebraska forms the main grain 
feed. Wheat and barley are also used to some 
extent. Sheep are kept in corrals without sheds. 
They generally have to be dipped several times 
on account of scab. c. f. mason. 
Weld County, Col. 
Where cattle are not fat enough for market 
direct from the range, they are fed on Alfalfa for 
four to six weeks, which puts them in tine shape 
without any grain. Oats and wheat are the only 
grains raised at this altitude, 5,500 feet above sea 
level. No sheep are allowed here, as they spoil 
the range for cattle and horses. Cattle winter on 
wild grasses, except in severe winters, when 
they are fed for a short time. Sheds are a rare 
thing, as our country is covered with evergreen 
trees, which protect stock from wind and rain. 
We never have any blizzards, as they do on the 
eastern side of the mountains. Cattle prices are 
very low, steers selling for $3 to $3 25. P. a. m. 
Garfield County, Col. 
IttisicHIattcoujsi gUmtising. 
*£4 
Sometime* aa 
apparently dead 
man may be re 
vived—may be re¬ 
suscitated. Some¬ 
times it is often 
hard to tell 
whether the man 
, is dead or alive. 
\We hear of people 
/ who have been 
buried alive. A 
man must be com¬ 
pletely dead before 
nope should be 
abandoned.Itused 
to be true that 
when a man found 
he had consump¬ 
tion, he gave up immediately. Consump¬ 
tion was considered a necessarily fatal dis¬ 
ease. It was considered incurable. As soon 
as it developed enough so that a physician 
could decide that it was really consumption, 
the patient was considered as good as dead. 
Years ago, Dr. Pierce found out that con¬ 
sumption was not incurable, that it was no* 
necessarily fatal. He not only found this 
out, but he found out a way to cure con¬ 
sumption. He introduced his “Golden 
Medical Discovery.” The “Discovery” 
will cure 98 per cent, of all cases of con¬ 
sumption if it is taken according to direc¬ 
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blood. It is caused by impoverishment of 
the blood, and by the existence of disease- 
germs in the system. If the body is per¬ 
fectly strong and healthy, and the blood 
perfectly pure, germs are easily thrown off. 
If the body is weak, if the tissues are in¬ 
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a resting place and develop. That’B the 
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The “ Golden Medical Discovery ” 
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and thousands of cases. The “Discovery” 
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The People’s Common Sense 
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R.V. Pierce, M. li., Chief Consult¬ 
ing Physician to the Invalids’ Ho¬ 
tel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, 
N. Y., 1008 pages, illustrated. 
680.000 copies sold at $ 1 . 50 . Now 
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free on receipt of 21 one-cent 
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U. S. Cook Stove Drier. 
It is true that steers from two to four years old 
have gained from 100 to 135 pounds, in about 100 
days, on Alfalfa hay alone, the grass having been 
cut before it was in full bloom. I know of no 
sugar beets having been fed with Alfalfa in this 
vicinity; some beets have been fed with Alfalfa 
near Denver, but I am not familiar with the re¬ 
sults. More than 100,000 lambs have been fed each 
year in this county for the last three years on Al¬ 
falfa hay and corn, the corn having been shipped 
in from Kansas and Nebraska. The lambs are 
shipped in from New Mexico, and gain from 30 to 
45 pounds in from 100 to 120 days. That is, a lamb 
weighing from 40 to 50 pounds when received, 
weighs from 70 to 85 pounds when finished. 
Larimer County, Col. j. b. s. 
In regard to feeding steers and sheep on Al¬ 
falfa hay and sugar beets without grain, so far 
as sugar beets are concerned, I have had no ex¬ 
perience with them. But it is a very common 
thing for feeders to fatten steers on Alfalfa hay. 
Four years ago, I fed six head of steers from 
November 1 until March 1, on Alfalfa hay and 
potatoes. I fed 100 pounds of potatoes morning 
and evening, and the butcher that dressed the 
steers said that they were as fine as any corn-fed 
beef he ever dressed. No sheep are fed in this 
part of the country. No grain is fed to fatten 
stock in this part of the State; they are generally 
turned in an open corral, with an open shed on 
the north, and fed all the hay they will eat. 
Ouray County, Col. f. h. s. 
Some bunches of steers have been fattened ex¬ 
clusively on Alfalfa bay, but the great majority 
so fed have been afterwards given corn, either in 
Kansas or Nebraska — finished up. Cattle can 
be taken off the ranges and very successfully fed 
through the winter on Alfalfa alone, but those 
fed on sugar beets lose very heavily in shipping. 
We now feed lambs mostly in open pens, without 
any other shelter than board fences surrounding 
the corrals. They eat about three pounds of bay 
per day, and after being so fed for a month, they 
are given oats or bran for another month, com- 
(Continued on next page). 
In many localities, fruit is an abun¬ 
dant crop this year. Choice fruit will, 
undoubtedly, command a fair price; but 
you must not put one inferior apple in 
the barrel for shipment. Mix choice 
and inferior fruit, and the whole will 
sell at the price of the poorest. The in¬ 
ferior stock would better he dried for 
future use or sale. There is, besides, a 
certain amount of fruit around almost 
every farm home, that goes to waste. 
Why not gather this and dry it for use 
when needed ? The U. S. Cook Stove 
Drier will be found a great convenience 
in this work. It may he set on top of 
the cook stove, and no extra fire is 
needed. The regular price is $7, but we 
have been able to get better and better 
rates every year, and can now send it 
and a year’s subscription to The R. N.-Y. 
for $5. There is no experiment in using 
these driers now. They have been used 
for years with perfect satisfaction. 
The Rural New-Yorker, New York. 
