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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
SEPT. 26 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Ton8 of peaches were dumped into the 
river during the glut in Baltimore. 
The New York State Fair at Syracuse 
which closed Thursday, observed Sunday. 
The headquarters of the Colored National 
Alliance of the United States Is said to have 
been established in Houston, Texas. 
A serious outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia 
is reported in Cumberland, England. The 
cattle already slaughtered were valued at 
$52,500. 
On some of the New Hampshire “aban¬ 
doned farms,” it is said enough blueber¬ 
ries could be gathered to nearly pay for 
the land. 
L. P. Bailey, Tacoma, Ohio, will hold his 
fourth annual sale of registered Jersey cat¬ 
tle on October 15, at which time he will 
sell 100 head. 
Several cases of hydrophobia have devel¬ 
oped among cattle in some parts of Iowa, 
and much apprehension exists as to how 
many herds are affected. 
The employees of the various manufact¬ 
uring establishments of Syracuse were 
admitted to the State Fair on Tuesday at 
half price. Many factories closed for the 
day. 
Ex Commissioner of Agriculture George 
B. Loring died at Salem, Mass., Monday 
morning, aged 74. He had been president 
of the New England Agricultural Society 
since 1864. 
The International Agricultural Congress 
at The Hague pronounced in favor of the 
piyment of a State indemnity to owners of 
animals condemned to death for tubercu¬ 
losis or pleuro-pneumonia. 
Condensed Correspondence. 
Genesee County, N. Y.—Farmers have 
begun seeding earlier than usual. A good 
many have finished, but the majority will 
sow next week. The wheat crop through 
western New York is larger than for a 
number of years; many farmers report 30 
bushels per acre on the average. Barley is 
a good crop and was secured mostly with¬ 
out getting colored. Oats are yielding well, 
but are badly colored. The outlook for 
beans is discouraging especially for late 
ones, as they are rusting badly. “ Beans 
will be beans” this year. Potatoes I Oh 
my I what large ones- two and three pounds 
each and I have heard of even larger ones ; 
none rotting, but the weather is very fav¬ 
orable for rot. Pear trees are being prop¬ 
ped up; a good many have broken down 
with their heavy loads. Apples will not be 
very plentiful, Greening trees are full, but 
there are not many of other kinds, espec • 
ially winter varieties. Corn looks well. 
The long, gruesome faces on farmers are 
changing to broad, smiling ones. Good 
crops always make such a change, c. F. 
Strafford County, N. H.—It has been 
very dry here. The springs have been low¬ 
er, but many say they never saw the top of 
the ground as dry as it has been. A fair 
crop of potatoes; but some say they are 
rotting. Corn is rather light. There will 
be very little second-crop hay. On a great 
many acres the grass has not started since 
haying. My No. 2 R. N.-Y. Potatoes are 
pretty good, but some kind of a bug ate the 
tops full of holes and killed them. The 
bugs were about as large as and looked 
somewhat like such fleas as dogs have [flea 
beetles.— Eds.] I am afraid my R. N.-Y. 
corn will not get ripe. It is looking well, 
but the weather has been so dry that it has 
not grown very fast. I planted it May 20. 
Frost did damage in some places about here 
on September 9. w. E R. 
York County, Pa.—I n southern Penn¬ 
sylvania we have had a good year and the 
farmer as a rule is happy. A light hay 
crop ; all other crops good or extra good ; 
fruits and small fruits plentiful; wheat 
good ; selling for 96 cents, bat little is sold, 
as $1 is looked for. Potatoes are very 
plentiful and not in good demand, but 
bring from 25 to 40 cents. The corn crop 
will be the best we have had for a number 
of years. Old corn is 70 cents now. Very 
much land will be seeded in wheat this 
fall, as the prospects are brighter. But 
more profit could be looked for by better 
cultivation and fewer acres ; improvement 
in that line, however, comes slowly. The 
honey crop is only medium—too much rain. 
Poultry under proper care have done well 
this summer, and he who has plenty of the 
egg-type chickens now feels happy. L. W. L. 
Daviess County, Ky.— We have had an 
excellent season for all kinds of crops. 
Wheat and hay were very fine and were 
saved in good condition. Corn the largest 
crop for several years. Tobacco in some 
parts of the county was badly injured by 
late rains. All that was planted on high 
ground is very fine and is now being 
housed in fine condition. Fruits of all 
kinds full crops. Late potatoes bid fair to 
be the largest crop for years. J. S. K. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
What is the name of some fruit vender 
or dealer who will deal fairly with his 
patrons ? I shipped to a New York con¬ 
cern 10 baskets of Bartlett Pears which I 
could have sold here at forty cents net per 
basket. The statement rendered was: 
Pears sold for. 
Freight. 
Cartage. 
Commission. 
Firm’s check. 
Cost of baskets at 5c... 
Net price of 10 baskets. 
*4.00 
.*'.80 
. .41 
. .40 2.60 
*1.40 
.50 
$ .90 
The pears, therefore, though shipped in 
good condition, brought me only nine cents 
per basket—not a very profitable price, the 
rent of the land and the labor having 
been taken into account. In a former issue 
The Rural stated that It would not give 
the names of commission men and be re¬ 
sponsible for their dealing honorably; I 
merely ask, therefore, for the names of 
some who are likely to prove satisfactory. 
Kent County, Delaware. J. c D. 
Ans—O ur friend evidently considers that 
he has been cheated. From his statement, 
we think not, unless it be in the matter of 
freight, which seems exorbit int. Fine 
Bartlett Pears have been sold at retail 
within the past few weeks at 40 cents per 
basket. At the time of the peach glut, 
little attention was paid to other fruits, 
and if this shipper were to compare his ovt n 
treatment with that of many who shipped 
various fruits to this market at that time, 
he might consider himself fortunate that 
he received anything. The fact of the mat¬ 
ter is that more fruit was received than the 
market could use, and it had to be sold for 
whatever it would bring, which in many 
cases was not enough to pay freight and 
cartage, and in others left barely enough to 
pay for packages. Had this inquirer sold 
his fruit to the person making an offer for 
it, the buyer, had he shipped them to this 
city, would have lost money, for no com¬ 
mission man, unless for extra choice fruit, 
could have obtained enough to reimburse 
him. The trouble simply was a glut of 
perishable fruit that must be sold at some 
price to realize anything at all from it. 
Anything so perishable is and always must 
(Continued on next page.) 
DYES l'OR CARPET RAGS. 
How vexatious It Is, after working all (lay with 
dye-rereipts, to get clingy, streaked, and spotted col 
ors. An l how disappointing after the carpets are 
down, to watch the colors fade and fall. 
It Is only recently through Important discoveries 
that unfading, easily-used dyes for cotton have been 
known. In their new colors, Fast Pink Fast Purple, 
Fast Orange, and Fast Garnet (all for cotton), Dia¬ 
mond Dyes have availed themselves of these discov¬ 
eries, and guarantee that the sun cannot dim the 
brilliancy, and that w shlngin soapsuds only inten¬ 
sifies, the rich brightness of the colors made by these 
dyes. They are easy to use, and are what carpet- 
maker’s have long been hoping for. 
It Is well to remember that tne dyestuffs used for 
these dyes are patented and used only in Diamond 
Dyes, so that it is impossible for other package dyes 
to make these fast cotton colors.—Ado. 
MOSELEY’S 
OCCIDENT 
CREAMERY. 
SOLD ON MERIT. 
Send for Special Introduc¬ 
tory Offer. 
Freight Paid by u*. 
MOSELEY & PRITCHARD 
MANUFACTURING CO., 
Clinton, • - Iowa. 
The Improved Monarch Incubator, 
3 ^^^Chicks from one machine in less than 
» ” V ^ four months. Prices reduced, making 
it the cheapest as well as the best machine on the 
market. Thousands in successful operation In this 
country, Canada and Europe. They are giving uni¬ 
versal satisfaction everywhere. First premiums at 
27 consecutive shows. More than 100 in use within a 
radius of 30 miles of our factory, some of the farmers 
using from two to eight machines; 
tifSend for Circular. 
JAMES RANKIN, SOUTH EASTON, MASS. 
IIILK PRODUCERS 
have need of HILL’S 
HL.il i uvuvvhiiv MILK -3ERATOR. The 
tundard Mechanical Device for purifying milk 
•esh from the cow of animal or oiher odors, without 
se of Ice or Water. Mention this paper. Cata- 
,guesona P pncationtO LL) ^ 
CONDITION POWDER 
If You Can’t Get it Near Home, Send to Us. Ask first. 
It is absolutely pure. Highly concentrated. Mart econ^ioal £*£ 
Strictly a medicine, not a food. You can buy Sono larirc can ^aved me $40 ; send six more to prevent 
try. Worth its weight m £old when hens are J™ulting. ecd dealers. We send post-paid a Poultry 
ga*.!; s? bo., h^v. &»«.., >■■*» 
ELLIOT’S PARCHMENT BUTTER PAPER. 
To dairymen or others who will use It. we will send half a ream,8x11.free, if they will 
forward 30 cents to pay postage. Try the Best Butter Wrapper. Avoid Imitation. 
FREE 
THERE IS NO BETTER 
nor more economical feed for 
LIVE STOCK 
THAN 
LINSEED OIL MEAL 
if you get it from the 
DETROIT LINSEED OIL WORKS, 
DETROIT, MICHIGAN. 
The Manurial Value of the offal from animals fed 
upon Oil Meal is an important factor also to be 
considered The columns of The Rural New-Yorker 
at times have valuable information in this respect. 
^""Correspondence Solicited. 
Feeding Animals. 
This Is a practical work of 560 pages, by Professor 
E. W. STEWART, upon the science of feeding In all 
Its details, giving practical rations for all farm ani¬ 
mals. Its accuracy Is proved by its adoption as a text 
book In nearly all Agricultural Colleges and Experi¬ 
ment Stations In America. It will pay anybody hav¬ 
ing a horse or a cow, or who feeds a few pigs or 
sheep to buy and study It carefully. Price, §2,00. 
Address THE RURAL PUBLISHING COM¬ 
PANY, Time* Building. New York. 
VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
NEW YORK 
COLLEGE OF 
Lectures will begin October 1, 1891. ForCircular 
address SECRETARY, 83 1 East 27th St., N. Y. City. 
Fourth Annual Public Sale 
-OF- 
JERSEY CATTLE, 
Thursday, October 15, 1891 , 
-AT- 
“BELMONT STOCK FARM,” 
.NEAR OLNEY STATION, 
1% miles from Barnesville, Ohio, on Baltimore and 
Ohio Railroad. Commercing at 10 o’clock. 100 head 
Jersey Cntlle, both sexes, all ages. Catalogue con¬ 
tains more butter blood than was ever represented in 
a sale catalogue before. Send for catalogue and study 
the breeding. Address 
L. P. BAILEY, Tacoma, Ohio. 
The IM. MONITOR 
INCUBATOR 
has not only taken nine 
priz f s at leading shows 
last winter and has the 
largest Incubator Fac¬ 
tory In this country but 
will give evidence that 
the above machine is 
the leading one to day. 
For circulars address 
A. F. Williams, 12 
Race St., Bristol, Conn. 
POULTRY MEN 
It has been 
proved that 
_ the greatest 
and most economical egg producing 
food in the world is 
GREEN CUT BONE 
fresh from market. Send stamp for catalogue 
of actual experience. Mann’s Bone Gutter. 
Always address 
F. W. MANN, Box 4-, Milford, Mass. 
POULTRY SUPPLIES, 
Such as Beer Scraps. Oyster Shel's, Granulated Bone, 
Animal Meal, Dessieated Fish, etc. Also In season 
( Winter) FRE*H HONE AND MEAT ground 
fine. Send for Special Price Lists of the above. 
Just Drive ’Em In and CLINCH ’Em. 
THEY’LL DO THE REST. 
Rapid HARNESS RENDER?. 
WILL MEND 
Any Harness, Halter or Strap in less time, 
and do the work better than any Harness 
maker can, AND 
C05TS ONLY HALF A CENT 
Sold by Grocers and Hardware Dealers. Cost 
only 25c per box of one gross (three sizes.) 
BUFFALO SPECIALTY MFG. CO., 
BUFFALO, N. Y. 
lip rmnnun The only bit made that can 
k ll.l.V.« u LUvlllu uge( i on a gentle horse or 
D IT the most vicious horse with 
D ' • eaual and entire success. 
50,000 sold in 1889. 
75,000 sold in 1890. 
THEY ARE KING. 
Sample mailed X O for s i ftn 
Nickel *1.50. 'F 1 
Stallion Bits Fifty cents extra. 
RACINE MALLEABLE IRON COJAfilSiK 
ICE CREEPER 
frames (3 sizes) fitted by 
any owe TO ANY SHOE. 
CALKS ONLY WEAR OUT, ANY 
ONE CAN PUTIN NEW CALKS. 
E. Fisher of Edgewater, N. J., writes: ‘‘^ e 
nd time lost to have my horse sharpened is all done 
way with now. I do that myself in 2 mmutos when 
want to go out and there is any ice. I put them on 
3 e© a pair of club skates.’* 
AGENTS MAKE BIG MONEY. 
ent by Express prepaid on receipt of price, $3.00 
per set of 4. Extra Calks, 8 set for $1.00. 
n ordering single sets send outline of front and hind 
hoe. Circulars, testimonials and agent’s prices tree. 
«— ilf l/CMT IGI 
Imported Shropshires! 
We offer nothing but choice, imported Shropshires 
from the best English flocks. Stock sheep constantly 
on sale. Annunl Auction Sale Sept. 29, 1891. 
THE WILLOWS, Paw Paw, Mich. 
CLOVER STOCK FARM HERD 
)f Improved Chester White Swine, headed by Sweep- 
takes Animals, won at the largest Fairs In^Amerlca. 
F.RKSHIRH, Chester White, 1 
Red and Poland China 
Jersey, Guernsey and I 
Holstein Cattle. Thoroughbred 
Sheep. Fancy Poultry. Hunting! 
and House Dogs. Catalogue. | 
ville. Cheater Co., Penna.* 
OXFORD DOWN, 
SHROPSHIRE and MERINO SHEEP and 
LAMBS of the very best blood obtainable- An extra 
good lot of Lambs of all breeds; also a few good 
Yearlings, some of which are prize winners. Write 
at once for prices aud full particulars. 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., Philadelphia, Pa. 
DAIRY COWS FOR SALE 
40 Jersey Grade Cows and Heifers. 
Bred for winter dairy; will calve during October 
ind after. Can ship In car-lots. Foundation Stock 
inort-horn aud Ayrshire. Three crosses. Jersey Sire. 
HORSES 
SMITHS & PDWELL. 
-AT- 
Lakeside Stock Farm, 
SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
’RENCH COACH.— The evenest, best colored, finest bred of any Importation yet. 
nTTTlvr Rprn HORSES.—Fine representatives of several of the most noted trotting strains 
■ ^SS^ScenSSrof “ Eleftl^neerV’ ” George P Wilkes,” ” Alcazar,” “ Wmps,” Administrator.” etc. 
iLyjjESDALES.-The largest and most noted stud in the Eastern States. 
J ERCHERONS. -A fine stock of the various ages. 
lIso the Celebrated Herd of Milk and Butter Producing Holstein-Friesians. 
BERKSHIRE AND CHESHIRE SWINE. 
Separate Catalogues of Horses and Cattle sent on application. Mention this paper when writing. 
