THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 24, 
872 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
Here is a list of advertisers that you 
will not find in the advertising columns of 
this paper: 
The Pioneer Music Publishing C'o., Chicago, 
111 . 
S. J. Smith, Shortsville, N. Y. 
Sheerin's Nurseries, Dansville, N. Y. 
Mark T. Thompson. Rio Vista, Va. 
ffm. Kimhull, Manchester, Mich. 
<}. S. lien jam in, Lansing. Mich. 
('has. C. Nash, Tliree Rivers, Mich. 
Co-operative Nurseries, Charleston, W. Va, 
J. A. Everitt, Indianapolis, Ind. 
T. C. Furnas, Southport, Ind. 
Isaac Tilllnghast, La Plume, Pa. 
Oak Nurseries, Collingdale, Pa. 
tV. o. Babcock, Bridgman, Midi. 
II. Light foot, Chattanooga. Tenn. 
Mt. Pomona Nursery Co., Swanton, Md. 
Medford Seed Co., Medford, Mass. 
W. M. Ostrander, Philadelphia. J’a. 
Win. Empire, Amsterdam. N. Y. 
A. T. 'i'ownsend, Mt. Blanco, O. 
Vllleview Poultry Farm, Salem. N. Y. 
II. I.. S. Hall, Scottsville, N. Y. 
Lewis Benedict, Lutherville, Md. 
C. W. Barrick. New Martinsville, W. Va. 
(1. W. Mendall, Austin, Tex. 
Jackson Co.. Nurseries, Bosky Dell, Ill. 
J. A. Bennett & Sons. Oouverneur, N. Y. 
F. Sawyer, Newark. O. 
Dlrigo Engine Co., Portland, Me. 
American Has Engine Co., Portland, Me. 
Waldo E. Barnes, Jr., Providence, R. 1. 
Veterinary Science Association, I/ondon, 
Canada. 
Co-operative Refining Co., Kansas City. 
Cash Buyers’ Union, Chicago, Ill. 
American Farm Co., Buffalo. N. Y._ 
C. AdeB Ka.vner & Co., Loekport, N. Y. 
M. I,. Bowersox, Bradford, O. 
F. II. Keeler & Co., 104 Warren street. 
New York. 
Chas. A. tV 11 son, Topeka, Kansas. 
P. II. Wallace & Co., 48 Clinton street. 
Boston. Mass. 
The Lake Erie Seed Co.. Cleveland. O. 
Dr. Ilaux Spectacle Co., St. Louis, Mo. 
Fred Slider, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
N. B. Johnson & Co., Kansas City, Mo. 
'Hie American School of Music, Chicago, III. 
tV. R. Selleek. Huntington, N. Y. 
Spencer Seedless Apple Co., flrand Junc¬ 
tion, Colo. 
McLean Publishing Co.. 88 Walker street, 
New York. 
J Lee Woodcock. Salisbury. Md. 
The National Supply Co.. Lansing, Mich. 
Vineless Potato Co.. Pullman, III. 
North American Land Co., Minneapolis, 
Minn. 
Some of these people never did and 
never could advertise in T HE. R. N.-Y. 
Others have, but failed to make good rea¬ 
sonable complaints of subscribers, and we 
made good ourselves. Some have good 
financial ratings, and a creditor could 
realize on a judgment. Others arc al¬ 
leged to he not financially responsible. 
Many of them are small nurserymen or 
seedsmen who either have not the stock 
or the facilities or the disposition to crive 
customers satisfaction for orders and re¬ 
mittances. 
We make no attempt to give a complete 
list of the advertisers we have refused 
or that we would refuse if their business 
were offered us, because to do so mar do 
an injustice to some worthy house, and 
that we wish more than anything else to 
avoid. l We sometimes refuse an order 
when there is doubt in our own mind as 
to the house concerned; we refuse it to he 
on the safe side. Many of these adver¬ 
tise in other papers, but under our “square 
deal” guarantee we do not feel safe in 
doing so. The list is submitted for the 
information and benefit of readers. Tf 
you have any doubt about the standing of 
a house it will he well to write us before 
making an order and remittance. We 
have every modern convenience for gath¬ 
ering information, and as it is done for 
you at considerable expense we are glad 
to have you make use of it. A subscriber 
in Michigan recently made inquiry about 
a concern in which he was interested, and 
concluded his letter with this paragraph: 
If T am not Imposing on you by asking 
questions in regard io a firm not adverlising 
with you I shall esteem as a very great favor 
the interest you take tn advising me what 
course to pursue. 
We refer to this because it gives us 
opportunity to say that it makes no dif¬ 
ference who the house is, or where it is 
located, or whether it is an advertiser or 
not. If the information will he of service 
to you, that is all we want. Come right 
on with your inquiries any time, and as 
often as you please. Tf you were not 
showing interest in these matters we 
would conclude that the work was doing 
you no good, and we would drop it. In¬ 
quiries, however, about our own adver¬ 
tisers are useless. We are careful to sat¬ 
isfy ourselves that they are all right be¬ 
fore accepting their business, and our 
guarantee covers them. We could do no 
more in reply to a special inquiry. Still 
we place no restrictions on your inquiries, 
inquiry you make will be welcomed. I 
In this Thanksgiving number of The 
R. N.-Y. we feel a degree of pride that 
we feel will be shared by every friend of 
the paper and every person who has the 
interests of the farm and the farm home 
at heart. The outside world has come to 
gets its impression of an industry largely 
from the character of papers that repre¬ 
sent it. A professional or business man 
with this copy of The R. N.-\. on his 
desk will form a higher opinion of the 
agricultural interests and of the farm 
home than he would get from a copy of 
some of the cheaper looking publications. 
In a business way this impression is worth 
something to agricultural interests as a 
whole; it is worth a great deal to the 
individual farmer, and for this reason, if 
for no other, The R. N.-Y. is glad to 
carry the message. The things that we 
sec and hear and feel have an influence on 
our lives that we cannot escape. Fine 
pictures and good books indicate a re¬ 
finement and culture no more surely than 
the cleanliness and beauty of the farm 
paper with which the farm family is more 
closely associated. Put elements of com¬ 
fort and pleasure and beauty in the farm 
home and its sons and daughters will 
hesitate to leave it. The farm paper 
should be a factor for improvement—sug¬ 
gesting the comforts and attractiveness of 
the home; but such suggestions come with 
poor grace from a paper which in its own 
appearance lacks every element that it 
advocates for its readers. The R. N.-Y. 
is looked upon as an exponent of agri¬ 
cultural conditions, and we want it in 
appearance as well as in character to re¬ 
flect the importance of this great industry. 
We would like to have every reader of 
this issue speak of it to one neighbor, 
and suggest that 10 cents will pay for a 
10 weeks trial subscription. Will you foi 
one do so much? 
RRIHfPN PRAPFCOC are as fresh as whole 
DflUIVCN bnAOlVtnO ones and can be bought 
at low prices from the factory of NKVV ENGLAND 
BISCUIT CO., Worcester, Mass, manufacturers of 
the famous "Toasted Butter Crackers,’’ "Little 
Brothers Lunch Biscuit,” etc. Write us. 
'$60 
GOES LIKE SIXTY 
SELLS LIKESIXTVj 
SELLS FOR SIXTY 
GILSON 
R3 GASOLENE 
Engine 
J For Pumping, Cream 
^Separators, Churns. Wash Ma¬ 
rchings. etc. FEEE TEIAL 
Ask for catalog all sizes 
GILSON mfg. co. 144 ParkCt, Port Washington, Wis. 
MANLOVE SELF-OPENING GATE 
Always in order. 
Operated by any 
vehicle. Adds to 
value, convenience 
and beauty of any 
home. Money 
maker; time saver. 
MANLOVE OATE 00. 
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7\- S 
273 E. Huron St. 
Chicago, 
The Automobile 
is rapidly taking the 
place of horse ve¬ 
hicles. Its use by 
farmers for hauling 
market trucking and other farm 
work, as well as for traveling pur¬ 
poses, will soon he common. We give 
instruction and advice to farmers free 
of charge, as to the availability of 
the automobile for farm use. We 
also have a practical course of cor¬ 
respondence instruction for the 
teaching of automobile mechanism, 
construction, operation and repair. 
YOUNG MEN 
Don’t stay in the old rut for over. Get ac¬ 
quainted with this groat 20th Century business. 
There are good opportunities for you to make 
large earnings. We will show you how. Addross 
Correspondence School ol Automobile Engineering 
SUITE 188(i, 40 WEST fiOTH 8TBEET. NEW YORK CITY 
The Stoddard Line 
of Gasolene Engines. 
Furnish the best and cheapest power for 
threshing, sawing wood and running all farm 
machinery, also for shop or mill use. 
Vertical or Horizontal 
Mounted or Stationary 
Both Circular and Drag Saw Outfits. Send 
for free catalogue E. II. 
Stoddard Mfg. Co., 
Rutland, Vt. 
“Woodpecker” gasoline 
NO TROUBLE 
Starting, winter or summer. 
With expert* or experiments. 
With foundation or concoctions. 
With poor adjustments. 
With bad mixtures. 
With faulty Ignition. 
With expensive repairs. 
W ith unfair factory. 
Ptn i for Catalogue, Price9 and 
Free Trial Plan . 
WOODPECKER, mhSt. Office, MIDDLETOWN, OHIO. 
I 3KH.P. 7H.P. 14H.P. 
Ready to Run on 
f/aenline or Alcohol. 
ADVANCE 
Gasoline Engines 
Wo make a spe¬ 
cialty of Gasoline 
Engines for farm- 1 
ers. If you want to 
learn a bout the 
host farm gasoline 
engine on the mar¬ 
ket write to Geo. 
I). Foil! Mfg. 
Co., Vernon, N. Y. 
Gasoline Engine 
HALF-PRICE OFFER 
FOR A LIMITED TIME. 
We will sell a 
3 :, -i li.p., 5 h. p. 
and 7 n. p. gaso¬ 
line engine sta¬ 
tionary complete 
for half price. 
C. H. A. Dissinger & 
500 N. Fourth St. 
Wriglitsville, Pa. 
CHAMPION EVAPORATOR. 
For Maple, Sorghum, 
Cider and Fruit 
Jellies. 
CHAMPION 
EVAPORATOR 
CO. HUDSON, 0. 
Saves Time, Labor and Fuel; 
Write 
for 
cata¬ 
log giving 
number of 
trees you 
tap. 
Makes the 
best Syrup; Easy to Operate; Durable. 
Best Farm Powers 
Widest uses, most power, always 
dependable. No other power can 
possibly take the place of Bteam. 
Leffel 
Engines 
are the highest type, 
standard for many 
years. Horizontal, 
Upright, Portable, 
etc. Highest eflloi- 
e n c y guaranteed. 
Send for book and 
Investigate before buy¬ 
ing. 
JAMES LEFFEL & CO., 
Box 191, 8prlngn«ld, O. 
JONES HE PAYS THE FREIGHT 
A 5 ton 14 X 8 steel lever 
tare beam Wagon Scale for 
ALL SCALES SOLD OIM TRIAL 
full description of our 40 dollar scales as well as 
others with and without pit write 
Box No. 385B 
JONES OF BINGHAMTON 
BINCH ANTON, N.T., 
Will You Try This Engine 
30 DAYS FREE? 
YV - f HEN you buy a farm power it 
\\l is to your interests to get the 
engine that will give you 
—the first sendee —at the least ex¬ 
pense—witli tiie frreatest conven¬ 
ient: —and the hast trouble. 
You can’t afford to buy any other 
kind. "8 
* * * 
Now, we believe that we have the < 
gasoline engine wa want. 
We know, that our engine—the 
Abenaque—is more convenient in 
every dayuse—is adapted to a wider 
range of work,—gives less trouble, 
and—takes less fuel than any other 
farm power engine made. 
We know it, and we want to trove 
it to you—or let you prove it your- .. 
self. 
Therefore we ask the privilege 
of sending you any Abenaque En¬ 
gine you may select 
the Abenaque will do better work 
for you than any other engine in 
your neighborhood. 
It is so simple and so convenient 
that you can’t help being delighted 
with it. 
In the first place it is adapted to 
wore kinds of work than any other 
engine; it can he used in moreways, 
in wore places and in more positions. 
This is true because the Aben¬ 
aque is a "unit"—that is, it is self- 
contained—all one piece of ma¬ 
chinery that you can pick up and set 
down anywhere—a n rough ground 
or a hillside, and be all ready for 
ditionalcost) and you can move 
it about your place with no 
more trouble than you would 
have with a saw-buck. 
And it’s always ready for 
business. 
Our special method of mixing 
the air and gas, enables us to be 
entirely independent of the heat 
of the engine for vaporizing the 
gasoline, so that you can start the 
Abenaque as surely in the coldest 
weather, as you can in summer. 
We positively guarantee this— 
and it means a lot to you. 
Our patented system of cooling is 
Abenaque Gasoline Engines 
30 DAYS FREE TRIAL. No Money tn Advance. 
Engines bought now can be used with Alcohol without change. 
On 30 Days Free Trial y 
No money in advance—no trouble 
or bother. 
We send a man to show you how 
to run it, and tiien. 
You simply use the engine30 days, 
and decide whether the claims we 
make for it are true, or not. t 
That is the way to be sure about it. 
* * * 
Of course, we wouldn't dare make 
such an offer if we weren’t sure that 
business in an instant. 
It is built on long, heavy Z-beams 
which take up the vibration so that 
no foundation is necessary—no 
bolting down or trueing up. 
The gasoline tank and water-cir¬ 
culating tanks are tart of the en¬ 
gine, so you have no connections to 
make. 
You can put the engine on any or¬ 
dinary truck or sled (or we provide 
special steel trucks at a slight ad- 
admittedly the best in use today. 
Instead of having to have an extra 
hogshead of water, holding 60or 70 
gallons, the Abenaque has long, flat 
tanks—a part of the engine—which 
require only 4 or 5 peiilfuls of water 
and which nevertheless give great¬ 
er circulation , greater radiation of 
heat, and more rapid cooling, than 
Abenaque Mach. Works. Wcs, vl n rm e onL a,,on * 
(lAKollne Engine, Wood Na»»lug Outfit., Kn.ilago OulIUa, Haw Mill Machinery, tlrlndcra. 
the big, awkward 70 gal. hogsheads. 
Tlte water cannot help circulating 
and we guarantee that you. will 
never have an overheated cylinder 
on the Abenaque. 
* * * 
The governor another patent of 
ours—is of the "hit-or-miss” type, 
positive in action. It may be set to 
any desired speed; it allows an ex¬ 
plosion only wht n needed: and lets 
the pump, sparker and valve mech¬ 
anism rexf during the idle strokes. 
All parts "in the open"—nothing 
hidden. Yon see what they aredoing 
and can get at them for adjustment. 
But what's tiie use of talking? 
Let us send you one, that you may 
see from actual use how good it is. 
Send today for full particulars 
and select your engine for trial. 
Please ask for Catalogue O. 
