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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 21 
“A Wave of Prosperity 
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will break at the feet of nine RURAL NEW-YORKER agents on 
January 1, 1897. The “ wave ” of the Star Spangled Banner will, we 
hope, continue for many centuries. The wave we now refer to will 
certainly break in about six weeks. This wave will be composed of 
the following subscription prizes : 
$50 IN CASH. 
A Kalamazoo Sleigh or Cutter. 
A Washing Machine. 
A Superior Land Roller. 
A Cheshire Pig. 
A R. N.-Y, Sewing Machine. 
$15 in Cash. 
$10 in Cash. 
$5 in Cash. 
It is a man's size, seven 
jewels, compensat ion balance, 
safety pinion, stem-winding 
and setting, and has all the 
latest improvements. The case 
is an open face, made by the 
Keystone Watch Company, 
of a composite that wears 
like silver, and is fully 
guaranteed. 
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We need not take time to describe these standard articles. Every one 
knows what cash is. The sewing machine, the roller, the cutter, the 
washing machine, and the pig, are just as near par value in their 
respective lines as a gold dollar is among other forms of money. 
To Head Off This Wave, you secure subscriptions to THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER. That is the only way to do it. The start is 
made November 16. The person who sends the greatest number of 
subscriptions between that date and January 1, 1897, will have first 
choice of these nine prizes. The one who secures the next largest list, 
will have second choice, and so on. 
A Wave Every Week. 
These are the nine big waves ! Here are six smaller ones ! Every 
Saturday night during this contest, we shall send, in addition to the 
other prizes, a fine Waltham Watch to 
the agent who sends the greatest number 
of subscriptions during the six preced¬ 
ing working days. 
/s the Watch a Good One? 
There is a picture of it on this page, 
and here is a description of it: 
The writer has been wearing 
one of these watches for the 
past two months, and he never had such good time in his life before. 
OF COURSE, no agent can win more than one watch. If, however, 
YOU have the largest club of subscriptions for two different weeks, we 
will, as a second prize, give you a handsome rolled gold chain—see the 
picture of it! In case you win this chain, the person who comes next 
to you in subscription work will win the watch that week. 
A FEW In addition to the big billows and the smaller waves, we 
RIPPLES crea ^ e a r *PPl e on the surface by throwing in the usual 
-,,-commission. Get one dollar from your subscriber, pocket 
15 cents and send us the rest. Two six-months’ or four three-montlis’ 
subscriptions count the same as one yearly for commission and prizes. 
NOW, LET if we understand it. From November 16, to January 
n 1, 1897, you go about seeking whom you may secure 
as subscribers to The Rural New-Yorker. Suppose 
that you capture 15 recruits in one week. They each pay you one dol¬ 
lar. You put $2.25 where it will do you the most good, and send us 15 
names and $12.75. It reaches us Saturday morning. The next largest 
list received that week is 14. Your name, sir, is Watch, and this excel¬ 
lent timepiece is sent you without delay. 
Suppose, however, that some other friend sends 16 subscriptions that 
week ! All is not yet lost. Your 15 names are put right to your credit. 
There are other weeks before New Year’s, and each week means 
another watch. You may lose the watch every week, yet, when the 
totals are made up on January 1, you may have a chance to take one 
of the big prizes. If your club contains 20 new subscribers we will 
guarantee you a $5 bill anyway ; or, if 10 new names, a $2 bill, even if 
you win no other prize. 
There are three possibilities in every subscription you secure, a 
ripple, a wave and a billow. A commission, a watch and a $50 bill. 
Tlie Prizes arc TJp! 
We Retire in Your Favor! 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NEW YORK. 
DEATH OF PROF. McOEE. 
W. L. McGee, Professor of Agriculture and Agri¬ 
culturist of the Experiment Station of the South 
Carolina Agricultural College, met with a sad 
fate a few days since. He was explaining to the 
senior class of the college the operating of the 
fodder shredder, when by some means, his coat 
was caught by the rapidly revolving saws, and 
he was drawn into the machine. The belt was 
thrown off and the machine stopped, but not 
until he had been so terribly mangled that he 
died in a short time. Prof. McGee was 34 years 
old, a graduate of the Mississippi Agricultural 
College, and for eight years after graduation, 
was Assistant Director of the Mississippi Agri¬ 
cultural Experiment Station. He was a man well 
known throughout the South as an experimenter 
and a teacher. He was a careful and accurate 
experimenter, and had done most valuable work 
in the development of the agriculture of the 
South. He was held in the highest regard by his 
fellow teachers and pupils, and his untimely 
death has deprived South Carolina of the services 
of an able and noble man. l. a. clinton. 
WHERE ARE THE POTATOES ? 
WHAT PROPORTION STILL ON THE FARMS ? 
At the present time, about 90 per cent of the 
potato crop remains unsold. Farmers will hold 
about one-half of their crop. Prices at present, 
20 cents per bushel. Crop 60 per cent of last year. 
No rot. Twenty-five cents per bushel would cause 
free selling. c. e. k. 
Newark, N. Y. 
As near as I can ascertain, most of the potato 
growers about the larger cities of northern 
Illinois are selling this fall; a few of the large 
growers (15 to 25 acres) are holding a large part 
of their crop for higher prices. Many small 
growers about the smaller cities and villages, 
finding slow sale in their respective localities, 
and not having enough to ship, are putting them 
in cellars and pits. But 1 do not think that more 
than one-fourth of the total crop will be held till 
spring. dwigut herhick. 
Northern Illinois. 
More than half our potatoes have been mar¬ 
keted; many more will be sold during this 
month. Not more than one-fourth of the crop 
will be held for spring sales; besides our crop 
as a whole was not more than five-eighths of last 
year’s crop. ’ d. c. lewis. 
New Jersey. 
Many a nervous woman sits up all tLo 
night and tries to read herself sleepy. Nine 
to one she don’t accomplish her purpose. 
Nine to one, she gets more and more ner¬ 
vous. The slightest sound strikes terror to 
her heart The dark corners of the room 
contain a thousand frights. She doesn’t 
know what she is afraid of, but she is afraid, 
actually, honestly, nervously, abjectly afraid. 
Healthy women are not cowards. If a wo¬ 
man is nervous and sleepless and afraid of 
the rustle of her own dress, there is some¬ 
thing the matter with her. The most deli¬ 
cate nerves in her body are set on edge by 
weakness or disease. Nine-tenths of the 
nervousness, irritability and bad temper in 
women is merely a symptom of ill health— 
ill health of the delicate and sensitive or¬ 
ganism that makes her a woman. If she is 
overworked, or over-worried, the effect will 
show itself there first. There is no use tak¬ 
ing harmful and deadly narcotics for ner¬ 
vousness and sleeplessness. It will leave 
the body in a worse condition than it was 
before. The way to effect a cure is to cure 
the cause. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip¬ 
tion will do it. It has cured tens of thou¬ 
sands of cases of female weakness and ner¬ 
vousness. It is a most wonderful invigorat¬ 
ing nervine or nerve food. It brings sound 
healthy sleep and restores the glow and 
bloom of health. It is the only medicine 
now before the public for woman’s peculiar 
ailments, adapted to her delicate organiza¬ 
tion by a regularly graduated physician— 
an experienced and skilled specialist in 
these maladies. It cannot do harm in any 
condition of the system. Its sales exceed 
the combined sales of all other medicines 
for women. 
The story of its discovery and its 
wonderful success is told in one part of 
Doctor Pierce’s great thousand page book, 
"Common Sense Medical Adviser,” which 
will be sent free on receipt of 21 one-cent 
stamps to pay for mailing only. World’s 
Dispensary Medical Association, No. 663 
Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Specially Low Prices on 
About 30 per cent of the potat o crop of this sec¬ 
tion still remains in the farmers’ hands, most of 
which will be held until spring, unless they reach 
25 cents per bushel before that time. I think that 
an offer of 25 cents would move the rest of the 
crop. I think that about 50 per cent of the crop 
has been sold, and 20 percent left in the ground, 
caught by the freeze of October 17, which lasted 
a week and carried the mercury down to 13 to 18 
degrees above zero every morning at sunrise. 
The yield for St. Croix and Pierce Counties, will 
not exceed 50 bushels per acre, against 200 last 
year, although a few farmers who planted Rural 
New-Yorker No. 2, report a yield of over 200. My 
own Rural New-Yorkers went about 230 bushels. 
The shipping jirice for potatoes at this station 
has not been above 15 cents. e. u. currier. 
Wisconsin. 
It is difficult to say what proportion remains 
unsold, as in this region, potatoes are more or 
less sold in a retail way by individual farmers. 
I should say that there is less disposition to sell 
early than usual, under the impression that in¬ 
crease of prices will, at least, equal the deprecia¬ 
tion consequent ujion holding. 
Massachusetts. dr. jabez fisher. 
Seventy-five per cent of the potato crop of Mon¬ 
mouth County is marketed. I think that the rest 
will be held until spring, with the hope for better 
prices. joiin u. denise. 
Monmouth County, N. J. 
I think that the area is much reduced, and the 
yield, with a very few exceptions, 50 per cent. 
Twice as many have been sold now as at this 
time last year. There has been a great desire to 
sell at 20 cents, but below this, only those who 
must raise money offer to sell. The farmers now 
have the tubers stored safe from frost, and 
do not care to take them out at the present price. 
I think that one-half has been sold already, and 
the rest will work off gradually as the markets 
need them. Holders usually sell a few at a time 
in this section. The low price and dealers’ com¬ 
bine will prevent many rushes. This is a local 
report only. The Government report makes the 
acreage and yield very high, and I think the 
prospect for much increase in price very slight. 
Tompkins County, N. Y. c. E. chapman. 
Boulder County, Col. —Our steers are ranged 
in the mountains from April until November or 
December, according to early or late storms in 
the mountains, when they are brought to the 
valley almost or quite ready for market. They 
are turned into fields and fed Alfalfa hay. They 
gain on this very rapidly. The last month corn 
or wheat ground is fed in some cases. I have 
known sugar beets and Alfalfa to be fed only in a 
few cases. Alfalfa is so much easier raised than 
beets that our jieople feed the Alfalfa, and our 
feeders say with just as good results as with the 
beets. Our people are feeding a large number of 
lambs for the Chicago market. Alfalfa forms 
the greater part of the feed. Wheat is the grain 
part of the ration. The stock run in large fields; 
the sheep in pens of about 500 or 600 per pen. 
J. W, G. 
DOWNING 
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CURRANTS. 
Superb Plants—Two years, No. 1, 
For immediate shipment. 
ELLWANGER & BARRY, 
Mount Hope Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. 
FOR SALE. 
A valuable Farm, 166 acres; excellent slate of cul¬ 
tivation, in one of the most fertile districts of Mon¬ 
mouth County, N. .).; well fenced and watered; 
stocked with A J. C. C. Cows, etc Good House and 
Outbuildings Three hours from New York, two hours 
from Philadelphia. Price, complete, $12,500. For 
further particulars inquire of 
H., Box 495. Rahway, N. J. 
HARD 
WOOD. 
STEEL 
AXLES. 
Horse Carts 
12 STYLES. 
NARROW & TT2&4 
WIDE Tires, vwbtds 
Popular Prices. Low 
rates of freight from our 
works, Tatamy, Pa., to all 
points. HOBSON A. CO., 
No. 2 Stone 8L, N. Y. 
CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, November 21, 1896. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Differences in Stable Manure.768 
White Arsenic in Place of Paris-green.769 
Spring Seeding to Grass.769 
Most Concentrated Form of Potash.769 
Wheat and Metal Wheels.771 
Tying Corn Stalks.771 
Grass and Lettuce in Florida.771 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Free Coinage of Goose Grease.765, 766 
A Fat Kansas Steer.766 
How to Make a Dairy Cow.766, 767 
Consumptive Cows.768 
Make the Cow “Come to Her Milk”.768 
Drugs to Induce Breeding.768 
Bloody Milk; Lame Cows.769 
Death of Young Lambs.769 
To Muzzle a Sucking Cow...769 
The New York Horse Show.773 
Milk Fever in Cows.778 
Breeding for Sex.778, 779 
HORTICULTURAL. 
What Ails this Apple Orchard ?.767 
The Names of Our Fruits.767, 768 
Flowering Shrubs for Windows.768 
Root-grafting Roses; Bordeaux Mixture.769 
A Talk about Raspberries.769 
How to Make Kerosene Emulsion.769 
Crosby and Other Peaches.771 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Notes.774 
The Biography of a Bedbug.—Part III.774 
The Garden Indoors and Out.775 
Suggestions for Christmas Gifts.775 
Pumpkin Preserves.775 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Ruralisms.770 
Editorials.772 
Brevities.772 
Among the Marketmen.773 
Business Bits.773 
Death of Prof. McGee.776 
Where Are the Potatoes ?.776 
The Rise in Wheat.777 
Markets.777 
Humorous.......780 
