1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
873 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
This year we have a treat for the 
friends of The R. N.-Y. that will please 
them and benefit them more than anything 
we have heretofore been able to send 
them. There may be farmers who will 
read this without enthusing so much over 
it; but even these readers will appreciate 
it as the years go by, because the benefits 
will go on for years to come. 
Few farm gardens are all that they 
should be. People who live in cities would 
pay any price for vegetables fresh from 
the garden. They cannot get them, be¬ 
cause it takes time to have them packed, 
shipped and distributed in the city, and in 
the meantime they lose their freshness 
and flavor. Vegetables fresh from the 
garden are a luxury that the city family 
hardly knows and the farm family, we 
fear, hardly appreciates. There are, of 
course, many exceptions, but the rule is 
that the farm garden is more or less 
neglected. Some of them are good enough 
as far as they go, but they are not large 
enough. Others are large enough to 
supply the family for a time, but there is 
no succession, and when the first planting 
is matured there is nothing coming on 
to take its place. The great cause of this 
failure of farmers to produce a satisfac¬ 
tory garden, we think, is want of plan in 
laying it out in early Spring. It is little 
thought of until the busy season opens, 
and then it is neglected for the larger 
and pressing affairs of the farm. 
We want to see the farm gardens im¬ 
proved. We have gone to great pains 
and much expense to prepare a book to 
tell just how to do it. This new book 
we call 
THE FARMER’S GARDEN. 
Health, Pleasure and Money from the Soil. 
We planned it and prepared it especially 
for the farm family. We found books 
in print for the rich amateur, for the pro¬ 
fessional gardener, and for the large 
market gardener; but nothing in print 
seemed to be any help to the busy farmer. 
We pre¬ 
pared this 
book for his 
benefit. The 
amount o f 
time an d 
m oney we 
spent on it 
would seem 
i 11 credible ; 
but we want¬ 
ed the best 
that could be 
found, a n d 
we got it. 
id professional 
writers would fix us up a book at 
absolutely no trouble to us, and at little 
cost, but that was not what we wanted. We 
went to the men and women who 
actually made satisfactory gardens on 
their own farms. We got them to 
tell just how they did it. They 
tell us how to lay out the ground, j 
how to prepare the soil; how to cover 
the seed and set the plant; varieties to 
plant and quantities required. They tell 
us how to lay out the ground to provide 
for successive plantings so as to keep a 
supply of fresh vegetables through the 
entire growing season. The whole story 
is told in simple, natural language. It is 
all made so plain that if you had never 
planted a hill of beans, you could follow 
the instructions in this book and make a 
good garden. The only hand we have 
allowed the scientific men to have in it 
is simply to discuss plant diseases. This 
they have done concisely and well. Their 
chapter on this subject is the best that 
has ever been written. Every line of the 
book is original. It is printed on a high 
grade of super paper from new type and 
is profusely illustrated with original and 
practical half tone and line engravings. 
We have prepared this book entirely for 
our own subscriber's. We have now about 
80,000 members in The R. N.-Y. family, 
and we hope thev will have 80.000 of the 
best gardens in the country the coming 
The 
Farmer’s Garden 
nut rural Kwr-Yvnurjit .. xrw yuhx 
The scientific men a 
season. We have gone as far as we can 
go to that end. 
On receipt of the renewal of your sub¬ 
scription for 1906 we will send you free 
and post paid a copy of this new book, 
“The Farmer’s Garden” in strong paper 
binding. Those who want cloth binding 
may send 25 cents extra. We will also 
send it to new subscribers for this year 
and we shall depend on old readers to 
make this known to their friends and 
neighbors. This book alone ought to be 
worth the cost of the paper for a lifetime 
to the average farm family. It does not 
take much extra garden stuff to be worth 
a dollar on your table, and it all saves 
meat bills and grocery bills; yes, and 
doctor bills too. The health and pleasure 
derived from the work of the garden is 
reinforced by the health and pleasure 
found in its products on the table. Be¬ 
sides, if you make a good garden next 
season you are sure to make a better one 
the year following so that the benefits of 
any information or help you get from the 
book are continuous. It will even go 
down to future generations through the 
tastes and habits and knowledge acquired 
by your children. 
Wc wish to ask those whose subscrip¬ 
tions expire about the first of the year to 
send renewals as early in December as 
possible. The books will be ready at 
furthest by December 10, and will be 
mailed out the day the renewals are re¬ 
ceived. About the fij^t of the year there 
is always a rush of subscription work, 
and it is then impossible for a time to 
always keep up with the work daily. It is 
in the rush times also that most of the 
errors occur, so that you will share with 
us in the benefits of an early renewal, 
and we will thank you for it. 
John j. dii.lon, Publisher. 
HERBERT W. COI.LINGWOOD, Editor. 
UNITED STATES OFFICIAL POSTAL GUIDE 
It is business economy to have the latest and host 
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40-page Supplement showing all subsequent changes. 
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"IllUni 0 Cockerels. Duston Strain. $1 to $1.50 
each. GRAND VIEW FARM, Stanfordville, N. Y. 
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run OHUC and Win to and Partridge Wyan- 
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DAnppn PUFF and WHITE PLYMOUTH 
Rocks, White Wyamlottes, White 
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EMPIRE SI ATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
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40 
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Four promising young Cockerels for $5.00. Over 
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White Holland Turkeys 
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5,000 FERRETS. Theso animals 
exterminate Rats, drive out Rabbits 
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lots of 10 pairs ami up, at 
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