1905. 
THE RURAL 
NEW-YORKER. 
853 
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I believe that The R. N.-Y. has the interest of its readers at heart to a greater degree than 
any paper with which I am familiar. It was this interest in its readers and its whole- 
souled devotion to tlie cause of the farmer and his interests that converted me from a dis¬ 
contented farmer boy to an enthusiastic student of agriculture and induced me to part with 
almost the first dollar I ever possessed to pay for a year’s subscription to The It. N.-Y. 
I never attempted to place a value upon the first year’s reading of the paper. It is sufficient 
to say that it undoubtedly changed the whole course of my life. j. d. pkickett. 
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will make you an inducement to do so. 
OUR OFFER: Send us $1 now for the year 1906, and we will send you the 
remaining issues of this year free, and also free and postpaid a copy of our new 
book. “The Farmer’s Garden.” If you are not fully satisfied by New Year’s, let us 
know, return the book, and we will refund your dollar. 
THE FARHER’S GARDEN, 
Health, Pleasure and Money from the Soil. 
Edited by HERBERT W. COLLINGWOOD and others. 
This book has been published solely for our own sub¬ 
scribers. We need more and better gardens. There are books 
for the amateur, for the professional gardener and for the 
large market gardener, but no book to help the plain busy 
farmer. 
For the farmer, we want a book with no theories, no big 
stories and no guess-work. We want plain and full directions 
for making a garden for an average farm family, so that 
the table may he supplied with a succession of fresh vege¬ 
tables, during the entire growing season, and vegetables from 
the cellar for the remainder of the year. To get this informa¬ 
tion, we went to the men and women who actually produced 
such a garden on their own farms. Itow they have done it 
is told In plain and easy language. The story is told so fully 
and plainly that even if you had never planted a hill of 
beans, you can follow the directions in this book, and make 
a good garden. You arc told how to lay out the ground, 
how to prepare the soil, how to cover the seed and set the 
plant, varieties to plant and quantities required. It gives 
plans for successive planting to insure a constant supply for 
the table, and the instructions for cultivating and fighting 
insect pests are clear and definite. The scientific men have 
been called upon only to discuss plant disease which has been 
best essay 
The book 
cover 75 cents; 
done so concisely 
on the subject that was ever written, 
is printed on good paper from new 
Cloth $1. 
USE 
and well that this chapter 
plates, fully illustrated. 
is 
by far the 
Price: Paper 
THIS BLAMK. 
Publisher, Tiie Rural New Yorker. 
Enclosed find $t for which send me The R. N.-Y. every week for the year 1906. You 
are to send me the remaining issues of 1905 free, and also a copy of The Farmer’s Garden, 
post paid. If I am not satisfied by New Year's I am to return the book, and you are to 
refund the dollar, making no charge for the issues sent. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 409 Pearl St., New York. 
A BREAKFAST SET. 
This is a premium we have secured espe 
dally for the good women of The R. N.-Y. 
family. It is a beauty, and we are able to 
give a great bargain in it. 
It is a 31-piece breakfast set in Prince 
decoration, which is a beautiful pure gold bor¬ 
der with a decalcomania flower in the centre 
of each piece. The flower is fixed perma¬ 
nently by this process, and the design is very 
pretty and popular. The set consists of six 
plates, six cups, six saucers, six butters, six 
oatmeal and one meat plate. 
We will send this set by express safely 
packed to every woman reader who will send 
us a club of five new yearly subscribers, 
at $1 each. The new subscribers will get the 
remaining issues of this year free and a copy 
of “The Farmer’s Garden,” described above. 
Now, ladies, this is your opportunity. Get 
after your friends; you ought to have a set 
by Christmas. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NEW YORK. 
THE LEVIN PRUNER. 
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two new yearly subscriptions at $1 each, or for club 
of 7 ten weeks trials at 10 cents each. 
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as to get bottom prices. As long as this lot 
lasts we will send one postpaid for a club 
of 3 new yearly subscriptions to The It. 
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each. 
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It is seven-jeweled movement, beautifully 
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or 60 ten-week trials at 10 cents each. 
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Issues of 1905 free, and also a copy of “The 
Farmer’s Garden.” 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NEW YORK. 
SIX POPULAR BOOKS. 
You want some good books to read. We want new readers for The R. N.-Y. Let us 
help each other. Send one new yearly subscription at SI. The new subscriber will get the 
paper for a year and a copy of The Farmer’s Garden, or send 10 new trial subscriptions for 
10 weeks at 10 cents each—-SI for the ten. 
Then for your trouble we will send you by return mail and postpaid your choice of the 
following six books. These are all new and popular books. Cloth bound and retail at $1.50 
each. 
DAVID HARUM. 
DAVID 
e.s.n^bstcott 
BY E. N. WESTCOTT. 
No other book 
of fiction in re¬ 
cent years lias 
reached the pop¬ 
ularity of David 
Harum. It is a 
story full of 
life and action, 
a lioun ding in 
homely speeches, 
wise philoso¬ 
phy and subtle 
humor. The ro¬ 
mance of a city 
clerk and a 
country maiden 
add a feature of 
great human in¬ 
terest. Nearly a 
million copies 
of the work have 
been sold. It is 
cloth bound and 
the publi she r’s 
price is $1.50. 
BLENNERHASSETT. 
BY C. F. PIDGIN. 
Blennerh a s s e t t 
is an intensely in¬ 
teresting book of 
history and ro¬ 
mance dealing 
with many char¬ 
acters prominent 
in the early life of 
our country. The 
relations of Alex- 
ander Hamilton 
and Aaron Burr 
are traced from 
an unusual point 
of view - . This 
story is so fasci¬ 
nating, and at 
t i m e s exciting, 
that the reader 
will not willingly 
lay the book aside 
after starting it. 
This is an illus- 
cloth bound. Publisher's price 
THE CHRISTIAN. 
BY HALL CAINE. 
San 
<4 
THE CHRISTIAN 
HALL 
CAlNE 
This is a most 
remarkable book. 
Its popularity and 
sales surprised 
a n d astounded 
both the publish¬ 
ers and the au¬ 
thor. Several hun- 
d re d thousands 
have been sold, 
and the demand 
continues. The au¬ 
thor's great repu¬ 
tation rests prac¬ 
tically on this 
book. The story 
of John Stor m 
and Glory Quayle 
is full of interest 
and pathos. It 
has been as popu¬ 
lar on the stage 
as in literature, 
read it have a treat 
is printed on good 
QUinCY-ADAriSSAWYER 
A-STORY Of 
(irw-ENCLASD'HOME-UEf 
Those who have not yet 
in store for them, ‘it 
paper large, clear print and substantial 
cioth binding. It retails for $1.50. 
THE RIGHT OF WAY. 
by GILBERT PARKER. 
This story is Gilbert 
Tarker's masterpiece. It 
is a fascinating book. The 
love story running through 
it is unusual and pathetic¬ 
ally interesting. The por¬ 
trayal of character is 
clear and strong, and its 
spiritual import is health¬ 
ful and inspiring. Char¬ 
ley Steele is the central 
figure, and the character 
is powerfully drawn. lie 
is a young lawyer, bril¬ 
liant, gifted and popular. 
His great vice is intem- 
. , perance. His married life 
is also unsympathetic. Ilis fate is eventu¬ 
ally so strange that he passes as one dead, 
yet ho lives, and his later development sur¬ 
prises you and inspires you. It is a strong 
presentation of a strong man's effort to live 
down the past. ITe is beset by great trials 
and his early cynical tendencies are in con¬ 
stant dispute with a healthier spiritual influ¬ 
ence ot his new life. It is one of those books 
that you can read the second or third time 
with new interest and greater profit with 
each repetition. It is a large book of ■t ,, o 
pages, illustrated, large, clean' type, and good 
paper. I he publisher’s price is $1.50. 
Letters from a Self-Made 
Merchant to His Son. 
, 0I ] e ^ f tbe niost popular of the new 
books. The lather is a successful pork packer 
fit Chicago without education or culture 
Ihe son is a young man just out of college 
with both education and refinement, who is 
trying to make a place for himself in the 
Ea ®L 1 *j e son does not get on very fast 
and the father writes him from time to time. 
It is a most interesting book, and few 
a°saie° £ iecent P ,lbllcatiou have had so large 
trated edition 
$1.50. 
QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER. 
BY C. F. PIDGIN. 
This story of New 
England life will inter¬ 
est the whole family. 
The story is full of ac¬ 
tion and unexpected 
turns, and a pleasing 
thread of romance is 
woven through it. The 
character sketching is 
clever, showing sharp¬ 
nosed gossips, people ter¬ 
ribly “near," queer and 
“sot” in their ways, and 
other admirable charac¬ 
ters, among whom are 
Alice rettiugill and her 
Uncle Ike. who is some¬ 
thing of a crank, but good-hearted and full 
of hard sense. It is said to lie the best New 
England story ever written, which in itself 
is rather a strong recommendation, it has 
many full-page illustrations. Cloth bound 
and retails at $1.50. 
You may earn one or more of these books in this way. Make your selection 
when you send the order, and the book will go to you by first mail after your order 
is received. 
Books for Boys and Giris. 
It is important that boys and girls early develop a 
taste for books, but it is still more important that they 
i ead the right kind of books. When we remember the 
evil effects of bad books on the young mind, we realize 
how important it is that young people be directed in 
the selection of books. It often makes the difference 
between a useful and a wasted life. The following 
books are selected from the best and most popular 
works. They are handsomely printed on good paper, 
new clear type, bound in cloth, and many of them are 
profusely illustrated. They make a handsome gift, for 
Christmas or any time. We send your choice of the 
list as a reward for sending one new yearly subscrip¬ 
tion at $1. We will send as many books as you send 
new subscriptions. We, of course, cannot send them 
011 > ,0Ur own subscription nor on renewals. We send 
them as a reward for your work, or we will send one for a club of ten 10-weeks-trials 
at 10 cents each. These are the books: 
GRIMM'S 
Fairy Tales 
Robinson Crusoe. 
Aesop’s Fables. 
Christopher Columbus. 
Black Beauty. 
Andersen's Fairy Tales. 
Grandfather's Chair. 
Mosses From an Old Manse. 
Rip Van Winkle. 
Twice Told Tales. 
The Pygmies. 
Wonder Stories. 
Treasure Island. 
Benjamin Franklin. 
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 
Water Babies. 
Runyan s I ilgnm's Progress 
Swiss Family Robinson. 
Gulliver's Travels. 
Arabian Nights. 
Grimm’s Fairy Tales 
Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 
Old Christmas. 
T'anglewood Tales. 
Wonder Book. 
The Golden Age. 
Christmas Carols. 
Little Lame Prince. 
T1UC> Fo!md h There kinff °' aSf? ancl What A,ice 
Tales From Shakespeare. 
These are all handsome books fit for any library. Every book is a treasure o' 
the purest thought and highest aspirations. Such books are to the mind what a goof 
dinner is to the body. They are more; they not only strengthen and develop but & the 5 
inspire and ennoble the mind by raising it above what is common or low We would 
like all our boys and girls to have several of these books. Write and tell us you wanl 
some of them, and we will show you how to get them. You need not go out of vour 
own home to do it. Write to-day. J 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 409 Pearl Si., N. Y. 
