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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 14 
The Agent’s Share. 
The Weekly Premiums yet go easy. Here are the winners for 
last week, neither of whom had won any other premiums this season : 
83—E. G. PACKARD. Delaware. 7 Yearly Subscriptions. 
$3— JOHN R. WHEATON.... New York.3J4 Yearly Subscriptions. 
There is just one more week left in this contest, but it has been 
no contest, as no one has been making any effort for the $25, $15 and 
$5 premiums that go out after November i4. There is time enough 
yet to win the $25 premium after you read this; you could win it 
Friday and Saturday by putting in two good days’ work, and wire 
Saturday night the number of names mailed that night. Is there no 
one willing to work two or three days for $25 ? 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
AS WE GO TO PRESS. 
"SUN PRINTING 
A few weeks ago, we had some re¬ 
marks about “ canned sunshine”. This 
week, we want to talk about another 
curious illustration of the sun’s power. 
In order to save words, we will now give 
the floor to one of our subscribers, in the 
State of Ohio, who recently wrote as 
follows : 
Do yon know of any person or persons who 
have printed the names of people on peaches or 
apples by placing papers or other materials with 
the names cut in them, on the fruit before it be¬ 
gins coloring, the sun shining through the holes 
n the paper, printing the name on the fruit V 
Have you ever seen any in New York so marked? 
If I could furnish them (peaches) to fashionable 
people in New York, with the names of their 
guests on the peaches, for big banquets or recep¬ 
tions, or other entertainments, do you think that 
they would pay fancy prices for them ? 
Now that man is after a new idea, and 
some day, he will strike something that 
will pay him well. We have read about 
this sun printing on fruit, and know 
that it has often been done. By cutting 
letters or figures out of a piece of paper, 
and then pasting them around the fruit as 
it begins to color, such letters or figures 
will be printed on the cheek of the apple 
or peach. The sun would do the printing, 
because it would be only through the 
holes in the paper that the sunlight 
could reach the skin. No sunlight—less 
color. 
A boy once looked at a picture and 
said that the white in it was the most 
important part. The white represented 
the parts where the engraving had been 
cut away. The engraver purposely cut 
out all the metal except little lines 
placed here and there, in such a way 
that the ink would be left in the form 
of a picture. If he had cut no metal 
away, there would have been only a 
great black blot. If he had cut it all 
away except a little rim, there would 
have been only a white space. You see 
that in printing—either with ink or 
with sun—the point is to arrange the 
lines or holes so as to have the ink or 
the sun fall just where you want it. 
There will be no character at all to a 
jumbled-up mass of light and shade. 
We don’t thiDk that the time has come 
when a very large trade in such fruits 
can be developed. We think that the 
best trade for such articles would be 
* nearer home—in the local markets. Ar¬ 
rangements might be made with mer¬ 
chants or restaurant keepers to engrave 
short sentences on big apples. These 
people would like such things to adver¬ 
tise their business, and a few such ap¬ 
ples would advertise all the rest of the 
apples from the orchard. A man in New 
York State makes a good profit by carv¬ 
ing mottoes on young pumpkins. The 
wounds heal so that, when the pumpkins 
mature, the words are engraved on the 
skin. Our opinion is that this sun print¬ 
ing will be most useful as an advertise¬ 
ment for the rest of the fruit. Print a 
few apples and scatter them about the 
town in shop windows, etc. Get the 
local papers to talking about them. It 
will be such a curiosity to most people 
that they will begin to talk about you 
and your orchard, and that will lead to 
extra sales. Let the sun print your ad¬ 
vertisement for you. You can’t get any 
cheaper advertising. 
And now, another thing. You can do 
good printing with mental sunshine or 
thought. Here is a letter from an In¬ 
diana man : 
We would not like to be without The R. N.-Y. 
for 10 times what it costs; in fact, we could not 
keep house without it. We tell our friends that 
we have a farmers’ institute every week right at 
home. Wishing you a long life, I remain, a. >icc. 
Now mental sunshine or thought has 
printed the letters R. N.-Y. right in 
that home. Our paper has served to 
direct the rays of thought, just as the 
paper over the apple directed the sun’s 
rays and thus colored the skin in the 
proper places. 
It is a singular thing that a paper 
coming regularly, week after week, 
through the mail to the lonely farm¬ 
house door, may bring with it thoughts 
and suggestions from the world outside 
that will, in time, print certain charac¬ 
teristics on that home and farm. Here 
is a young farmer right in your neigh¬ 
borhood. He is getting ready to ripen 
his character as a farmer. He has a 
good mind and is capable of sound 
thought. He is going to think and give 
color to his thoughts just as the rays of 
mental sunshine are turned upon him. 
If they come without direction or ar¬ 
rangement, there will be nothing strik¬ 
ing about the color. If you put a stencil 
over him, the color will take fixed and 
definite shape for good or bad. 
Now, then, my friend, why don’t you 
try to sun-print R. N.-Y. on that young 
man ? If, from your experience, you 
think that stencil will mark him so that 
he will have a fair chance to grade A 
No. 1, it is going to be a good invest¬ 
ment for you to do it. What is the use 
of grading up cows, sheep, swine or 
poultry, and not trying to grade up 
farmers ? We may control the breeding 
and feeding of young farm stock, and if 
you can control or direct the reading of 
young farmers, you may help grade 
them up. Of course, if you cannot say 
from your own experience that The R. 
N.-Y. is a safe stencil for sun-printing, 
we won’t ask you to make use of it. You 
may do as you like about it. We shall 
be greatly pleased, however, to have you 
hold up a dollar and see the sun print 
your neighbor’s name on our subscrip¬ 
tion list. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Honey is slightly lower. 
Sweet potatoes are away down in price. 
A famine is reported imminent in India. 
Receipts of apples are heavy, and prices are 
low. 
The European potato crop is reported to be 
short. 
There is a good demand for choice dressed 
calves. 
Keep stuffing the corn into the Thanksgiving 
poultry. 
Receipts of southern vegetables are on the 
increase. 
Hops are looking up a little in price and trade 
is more brisk. 
Wheat is up and down, with the general ten¬ 
dency upward. 
Receipts of hay are heavy, and demand light, 
so that trade is slow. 
( Send us your neighbor’s subserip- 
1 tion to The R. N.-Y. with his dollar 
' and we will send him the paper.to 
<j January 1,1898, and send you your 
( choice of these books: 
) First Lessons in Agriculture, 
( American Grape Training, 
( The Business Hen, 
\ The Nursery Book, 
( The New Potato Culture. 
All 
for 
$ 1.00 
Receipts of dressed pork are light. The lighter 
weights are most in demand. 
The fur market is quiet, arrivals being small 
and the quality very irregular. 
Pure beeswax is selling for 27 to 27>4 cents per 
pound, but the demand is moderate. 
Fresh laid eggs are scarce, and prices are 
likely to advance before many days. 
The foreign apple market is reported in better 
condition, owing to the better quality of the 
arrivals. 
The Ohio State Horticultural Society will hold 
its annual meeting in the City Hall at Athens, 
O., December 2-4, 1896. Programmes will be sent 
to all members, and others can obtain them by 
addressing the secretary, W. W. Farnsworth, 
Waterville, O. _ 
THE RISE IN WHEAT. 
WILL IT BENEFIT FARMERS ? 
The recent advance in the price of wheat is of 
no advantage whatever to the farmers in this 
section, as millers and merchants now have it all. 
Stokes County, N. C. R. m. a. 
I think that the higher price paid for wheat 
will benefit few in this locality, as most wheat 
was sold, I think, before the greatest advance in 
price. If the rise had come earlier, it would have 
benefited many. Without a much better price for 
farm products in the near future, more than one- 
half of the farmers here will be ruined, u. E. b. 
Breckenridge, Minn. 
The rise in wheat will greatly benefit individual 
farmers in this locality. The largest share of the 
wheat is in the hands of the farmers. About 
100,000 bushels of wheat are raised in this county. 
Considerable has been sold on the rising market. 
About $26,000 extra money will fall to the share of 
the farmers of this county in consequence of the 
rise. g. t. D. 
Belfleld, N. D. 
The higher price paid for wheat has certainly 
helped many farmers in this neighborhood. I 
think that 50 per cent of this year’s crop is still in 
the hands of farmers in this vicinity. A very 
large amount of wheat was sold at the increased 
price; however, those who thrashed early sold 
before the rise. The increased price of wheat 
has, certainly, brought several thousand dollars 
into this township. J. c. H. 
Evan, Minn. 
From the latter part of August to October 17, 
wheat rose from 37 to 59 cents per bushel, and 
since the 17th, has dropped 7 cents up to date; 
that leaves the price at 52 cents to-day. In Ram¬ 
sey County, there are 79,000 acres of wheat; aver¬ 
age yield per acre, 12 bushels. Total for this 
county, 948,000 bushels, with 80 per cent of the 
crop still in the farmers hands. There was at 
no time any great rush to unload, as many are 
holding their wheat for a still higher price than 
any yet paid. M. w. 
Devils Lake, N. D. 
(Continued on neai page). 
gjtU£rfllunfou$ gUmtisiug. 
Sometimes wh«j 
the last spark of lift 
seeni9 almost extin- 
^uished it is fanne< 
into flame again by 
prompt, vigorous ac¬ 
tion. It is a mistake 
however, to put off 
action too long: an¬ 
other mistake Is to 
despair too easily. 
Both these mistake* 
are made in dealing 
with disease, par¬ 
ticularly with con¬ 
sumption. It is neg¬ 
lected at first until 
someone names it. 
Then the name 
strikes terror to the 
v 'mind ; the nature of 
the disease is misun- 
derstood: It is a 
blood disease, set¬ 
tled in the lungs. If 
it settled somewhere 
else the doctor* 
would give it a dif¬ 
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“ liver complaint.” But the name only tell* 
where it settles. It is really all one dis¬ 
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An abundance of good, rich, red, blood put 
into the circulation, cures every one of these 
complaints, consumption as well as the rest 
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up ; where there is anything left to build on 
the “Golden Medical Discovery” will in¬ 
fallibly build up and cure. It cure9 cases 
which doctors declare “incurable.” That 
word has lost its meaning since Doctor 
Pierce’s wonderful “Discovery.” 
The plain and hopeful truth about disease is 
shown in the light of the best science of the 
century in Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical 
Adviser. It is a volume of 1008 pages ; illustrated. 
It also contains letters from many who have been 
rescued from consumption. This great book is 
frte , if you send 21 one-cent stamps, to cover cost 
of mailing only, to World’s Dispensary Msdical 
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You want new blood, rich 
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SCOTT & BOWN'E, New York. 
Our Clubbing List. 
If you subscribe for any other paper 
or magazine, we may be able to save 
money for you. Look over the follow¬ 
ing list. If you don’t see what you 
want, let us know, and we will get prices 
on it for you. The prices below are for 
the papers mentioned, and The Rural 
New-Yorker, both one year. If you 
want more than one of the other papers, 
deduct $1 from combination price given 
below, and you will have our price for 
the other paper. 
The Thrice-a-Week World. 
Gives plenty of reading for the long winter 
evenings. Besides all the important news of 
the world, it gives an excellent series of 
stories by great American and English au¬ 
thors—probably the greatest amount of real 
good fiction ever offered by a newspaper. A 
brilliant page of fun and illustrated articles 
in every issue. Three papers—six pages each 
—every week, 156 papers a year for $1. We 
will send it in combination with Tue R. N.-Y., 
for $1.65, both one full year. Send now and 
get both papers free for the rest of this year. 
Daily Press, New York. 
Many farmers now like a daily newspaper, in 
order to be well informed on news through 
out the country. The Press is one of the 
brightest New York Dailies. It is Republican 
in politics and a strong advocate of protec¬ 
tion. We can send it daily, and The R. N.-Y., 
weekly, both one year for $3. 
Daily Journal, New York. 
No other daily paper ever made so great a 
success in so short a time as the Journal. It 
gives all the news, and is one of the brightest 
and ablest papers of the Metropolis. It is 
Democratic in politics, and an able expounder 
of free silver. We can send it and The 
R. N.-Y., both one year, for $3.50. 
The Atlanta Constitution. 
This is the great national weekly of the South. 
It has, probably, done more for the South than 
any other paper has ever done for any part 
of the Union, and, naturally enough, the 
people in the South believe in it and go by it. 
But besides its devotion to the interests of the 
South, it gives all the news of all the world 
every week, and is a great family paper. It 
abounds in stories, fiction, romance, wit and 
humor, fun and puzzles. It is Democratic in 
politics, and a great exponent of Democratic 
principles. It gives 12 pages—84 columns— 
of reading matter every week, and all for 
only $1 a year. We are able to send it and 
The R. N.-Y., both one year, for $1.75. 
Strawberry Culturist. 
This is a bright little monthly, edited and 
published on a strawberry farm by a straw¬ 
berry grower. We can send it and The R. 
N.-Y., both one year, for $1.15. 
