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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
All Sorts. 
RECENT STATION BULLETINS. 
Exeriments with sugar beets have been 
made in South Dakota (Bulletin 19) From 
the conclusions arrived at by the station 
people we learn that the crop will thrive in 
South Dakota, but Its financial success will 
depend upon circumstances outside of 
agriculture. Skilled labor and expensive 
machinery are necessary in the manufac¬ 
ture of sugar. The industry offers no in¬ 
ducements to small concerns with no 
capital and no experience. It must be done 
on a large scale, if at all. Where beet sugar 
making is permanently established in a 
new country like Dakota, great benefit will 
result, because it will necessitate a rotation 
of crops and a study of the science of agri¬ 
culture. Let South Dakota prove that she 
can produce superior sugar beets and the 
factories must come to her. 
Director Whitcher. New Hampshire Sta¬ 
tion (Bulletin 11), estimates that in his 
State there are annually produced 180,000,- 
000 pounds of skim-milk, which, at 25 cents 
per 100 pounds, means a value of $450,000. 
How can this be utilized ? Pigs were fed 
at the station to see how far milk will take 
the place of grain. Milk was fed against 
middlings ; that is, one lot of pigs had corn 
meal and milk, while another had corn 
meal and middlings. The feed was changed, 
so that both lots of pigs alternated from 
milk to middlings, and careful records of 
weights were kept. The pigs were “ of no 
particular breed,” but had a good propor¬ 
tion of Chester White blood. The skim- 
milk and meal were mixed in the pro¬ 
portion of one part meal to two of 
milk, and this ration gave by far the best 
results with all the pigs. In fact, the pigs 
fed on meal and middlings were fed at a 
loss—that is, the cost of the feed per pound 
was greater than the price paid for live 
pork. Theoretically and practically the 
skim-milk and corn meal made a perfect 
feeding ration. The New Hampshire farm¬ 
er will find it difficult to make pork at a 
profit while buying all his feed. By using 
his skim-milk with corn meal he can make 
profitable pork, and it is doubtful if any 
other animal will give better returns for 
the milk than the pig. Another fact no¬ 
ticed about the meal and milk ration was 
that less waste matter was carried through 
the system—that is, the food was more di¬ 
gestible. The pigs fed on the mixed grain 
grew constipated, while the others were 
not so affected. 
Director William Saunders, Experiment 
Farm, Ottawa, Canada (Bulletin 8), has 
experimented with early and late seeding 
with barley, oats and spring wheat. His 
experiments prove the truth of the old say¬ 
ing that the farmer who gets his seed in 
first after the ground is in suitable condi¬ 
tion, realizes the best returns. Barley, 
oats and wheat, sown April 22nd, gave 
largely increased yields over sowings one, 
two, three and four weeks later. One week 
saved on barley gave an increase of nearly 
16 bushels per acre. While the oat crop is 
less influenced by delay in seeding than 
barley or spring wheat, there was a loss of 
three bushels per acre for one week’s delay 
and 6X bushels for a delay of two weeks. 
This would represent a loss of $752,946 on 
the total crop of Ontario alone. It seems 
evident that the grains ripen at about the 
same season whenever sown. The later 
sown grain was evidently hurried in its 
different stages up to the time of ripening. 
The best yield of barley was made in 104 
days from sowing; of oats, in 99 days, and 
of spring wheat in 113. 
READER’S NOTES. 
An effort has been made to create appre¬ 
hension among the Eastern holders of 
Kansas farm mortgages—many of whom 
are farmer investors—by stating that the 
Alliance members ol the Kansas Legisla¬ 
ture are certain to change the laws of Kan¬ 
sas so that these investments will suffer. 
There is a mistaken idea about the ektent 
of the Alliance victory. The Alliance 
failed to elect its candidate for governor, 
and the Republican candidate was elected. 
The legislature now stands, according to 
the latest accounts : Senate, Republicans, 
26; Democrats, 1; Alliance, 1: House, Re¬ 
publicans, 25; Democrats, 8; Alliance, 92. 
The election of a United States Senator to 
succeed Ingalls is to begin on January 27, 
and a joint ballot of both Houses will de¬ 
cide the matter. From the above figures 
it will be seen that the Alliance has a ma¬ 
jority of 18 in both branches of the legisla¬ 
ture and can, therefore, elect its own can¬ 
didate even in spite of a coaliton of both 
the old parties, provided all its representa¬ 
tives can unite on a single candidate and 
there are no defections from its ranks. 
One of our Kansas friends writes as follows: 
‘‘A vast majority of the Senate are Repub¬ 
licans, and no law can pass without the 
votes of 15 or 16 of them. It is likely that 
knowing this fact, some of the representa¬ 
tives may to please their constituents, in¬ 
troduce measures which they would not if 
they thought them likely to pass.” We 
know nothing about the truth of the last 
part of this statement. We trust that the 
Alliance members will not be foolish 
enough to try to deceive their constituents. 
That is what they condemn in others. 
Many of our Eastern farmers have invested 
their hard earnings in Kansas mortgages. 
They are not sharpers, rogues or “ shy- 
locks,” and they should not lose their In¬ 
vestments. Few if any of these have been 
made directly, all or nearly all having 
been made through Loan and Investment 
or Trust Companies operating in different 
parts of the State as agents for investors in 
other parts of the country. Here is a sam¬ 
ple of the gist of some of the alarming tele¬ 
grams sent East. The Johnson Loan and 
Trust Company of Arkansas City holds 
judgments for about $35,000 against mort¬ 
gaged farms in Harper County, and when 
the sheriff tried to foreclose, the Alliance 
men assembled from all quarters, tore the 
papers from his hands, and by angry 
threats forced him to hurry away. Similar 
reports have come from Kingman County, 
and it appears that in some parts of the 
States, if these rumors are correct, the 
farmers appear determined to prevent for 
the present at least, all foreclosures of 
mortgages at any cost. It’must, however, 
be confessed that, as a rule, the money 
lenders have taken a cruel advantage of 
the distress of the farmers, exacting not 
only high interest, but also large sums In 
bonuses for the agents, etc. 
It is true, beyond a doubt, that he who 
gives false weight in selling is bound to 
lose money. If he gives 'overweight, he 
loses directly the amount of,overplus. If 
he gives too little he is pretty sure, in the 
long run, to lose the cheated customers 
and others bes'des. Men in the active busi¬ 
ness of buying and selling^by'measure or 
weight become habituated to exactitude. 
The larger crops grown];in England in 
proportion to the amount _ot /manure used, 
are not attributable sol ely or mostly to more 
frequent or thorough culture, butjprobably 
most to the longer season of growth, which 
is also the season of chemical ^reactions in 
the soil, for these can occur only when 
warmth, moisture/and access to air com¬ 
bine to render them possible. Much less 
rain falls there than here, but its fall is 
more frequent and commonly'much more 
gentle, and the ground is more_regularly 
moist. 
In early war times—about 1860—a man 
who had money in charge, belonging to 
wards, asked a friend’s advice about buy¬ 
ing government bonds. He was attracted 
and yet alarmed at the high rate of inter¬ 
est offered. The friend said]: “ If they are 
not safe nothing will be. It is to every¬ 
body’s interest to keep up^theirvalue for the 
sake of the value of every thin g'else owned.” 
And the bonds were bought. In like man¬ 
ner the prosperity of the farmers of the 
country secures the success of ail other 
classes. All must suffer if the farmers do. 
With this in mind, I read with hopeful in¬ 
terest the look ahead by Prof. I. P. Roberts 
and others under the heading]“The Farmer 
of the Future,” in The RuiiAL’of January 
17, and have confidence that it [will be hap¬ 
pily realized. 
Parents are apt to think and.'feel that if 
they send their children faithfully to 
school, they have done all they^can, and so 
their full duty, as regards education. But 
they should not forget that they them¬ 
selves — especially if living on farms— 
should be teachers, every day, of an indis¬ 
pensable kind of learning of which the 
merely literary teachers, can impart noth¬ 
ing. The mother should patiently show 
and guide her daughters as soon as old 
enough in all the household arts of every¬ 
day importance, although she may find it 
much easier to do all herself than to direct 
their slow and unpracticed and often un¬ 
willing efforts. Care is necessary to teach 
the simplest, easiest, most effective mode 
of operation from the first; the work then 
soon loses its disagreement. G. w. 
One cent will mail this paper to 
your friend in any part of the United 
States, Canada or Mexico, after 
you have read it and written your 
name on the corner. 
IVA TCHES 
FOR OUR SUBSCRIBERS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, gratified by 
the flattering responses to its offers of 
watches to its subscribers, has made a thor¬ 
ough revision of its watch offer, and pro¬ 
poses to supply its subscribers with the best 
watches in the world at prices from 25 to 
50 per cent less than those usually charged 
by retail jewelers. The Rural New- 
Yorker wishes to have it thoroughly un¬ 
derstood that, since the watch companies 
have come to their senses and are no longer 
trying to boycott the newspapers, it is no 
longer making war upon them, but, on the 
contrary, by new arrangements It can offer 
watches to its subscribers at rates fully as 
favorable as those formerly advertised. 
Our object in making these offers is to 
give our subscribers good watches at low 
prices, to advertise The Rural New- 
Yorker, and to get new subscribers as per 
special offers at the foot of this column. 
iSP" We believe that there is not a 
poor watch in the list.^Fft 
SPECIAL OFFERS : MENS’ SIZE. 
No. 1.—A genuine New York Standard move 
ment: 7 jewels, safety pinion, com¬ 
pensation balance, stsm wind and set; 
in a solid nickel silver case, open face;- 
a really excellent watch and far su¬ 
perior to any other cheap watch 
we have seen.$ 6.50 
No. 2.—Same movement as No. 1, in gold-filled 
case, 15-year guarantee, open face_ 12 00 
No 3.—Same as No. 2, hunting case (see cut 
above). 15.00 
No 4.—Same movement as No. 1, in a solid gold 
14k. hunting case, weighing 40 dwt.... 37.50 
RURAL SPECIAL BARGAINS. 
No. 5.—A genuineWaltham movement; 7 jewels. 
compensation balance, safety pinion, 
stem wind and set; in a solid nicttel- 
silver case, open face. 7.25 
No. 6.—Same movement as No. 5, in gold filled 
case, guaranteed to wear 15 years, 
open fac3. 14.00 
No. 7.—Same movementasNo. 5, in hunting case 
same as No. 6. 16.00 
No. 8.—Same movement as No. 5, in solid 14k. 
gold hunting case, weighing 40 dwt... 33.00 
No 9.-A genuine Waltham full jewel move¬ 
ment, compensation balance, safety 
pinion, stem wind and set, patent reg¬ 
ulator, Breguet hair spring, hardened 
and tempered in form, in open face, 
nickel silver case. 11.00 
No. 10. -Same movement as No. 9, In gold filled 
case, guaranteed for 15 years, open 
face.. 16.25 
No 11—Same as No. 10, hunting case. iy.25 
No. 12.—Same movement as No. 9, in solid 14k 
gold hunting case weighing 40 dwt. 
A very handsome watch. 41.CO 
LADIES’ SIZE. 
No. 18.—A genuine Waltham ladies’ watch with 
jewels, compensation balance and 
safety pinion, stem wind and set; in a 
solid coin silver ease. 1150 
No. 14.—Same move- 
• ment as No. 13, in 
a 15 year guaran¬ 
teed gold-filled 
hunting case §15.25 
No. 15.—A beautiful 
11 jewel move¬ 
ment, full nickel 
in a handsomely 
engraved hunting 
case made of 14k. 
U. S. Assay solid 
gold, usual retail 
price from §50 to 
§75. One of the 
prettiest watches 
for a lady that we 
have ever seen. 
The illustration 
shows the case in 
exact size and 
Ladies’Watch. No. 15. style §25.00 
JAN. 24 
The watches we sent to our subscribers 
on our previous offers have surprised us 
greatly. 1, As to the high-grade demanded 
in most cases; cheap watches were not 
wanted. 2, On account of the great num¬ 
ber called for. Only one or two complaints 
have reached us, and many have expressed 
great satisfaction with the watches re¬ 
ceived. 
The watches will be sent in connection 
with subscriptions on the following terms: 
In each case either a renewal or new sub¬ 
scription may be included. If you have 
already paid for 1891, the paper may be 
sent to the address of a new subscriber. 
Any watch in the list will be sent in con¬ 
nection with a subscription (on the same 
order) for $1.25 in addition to the amounts 
above named for the watches. 
We send the watches pre paid by regis¬ 
tered mail to any part of the United States. 
Watches sent to Canada are subject, of 
course, to Custom House restrictions. 
THE RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
Times Building, New York. 
Wood’s 
Household 
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on the treatment of ailing humanity 
adapted for household use. It is written 
by able physicians, and there is not a 
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The regular price of the work is $10.00 
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we can offer to our subscribers the latest 
edition (thoroughly revised and brought 
down to date) bound in cloth, stamped in 
ink and gold (as above Indicated), at the 
GREATLY REDUCED PRICE OF 
$5.00. Or with a. renewal or new sub¬ 
scription (if sent in one order strictly) 
for $6.00. 
Q3P You who have already paid for 
1891 may buy the books at $5.00, or send 
$6.00 and order a new subscription for 
some other party ; or have your own sub¬ 
scription continued for 1892. 
The subscriptions may be for either The 
Rural New-Yorker or The American 
Garden. 
THE RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
Times Building, New York. 
P.S.—The books are sent by express, and 
will be prepaid for 55 cents additional, the 
weight being over 12 pounds. 
N. B.—This supersedes all previous offers 
on this work. 
Among many objections which the Farm 
Journal makes to the check rein are the 
following extra forcible ones: The blood 
cannot flow as freely to and from the brain. 
It sometimes causes roaring. It makes the 
horse stupid. The muscles cannot move 
naturally, so it lessens endurance. It af¬ 
fects the eye sight. It is the creature of 
vanity. The tightened rein is all the horse 
wants to make it go steadily. The horse 
cannot travel as well. It lessens the 
strength of the horse. It gives him pain. 
It causes him to toss his head and frets 
him. It enlarges the veins of the neck and 
leads to disease. It spoils the disposition 
of some horses. He cannot see so well to 
avoid obstacles and holes. 
