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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 5 
THE 
Rural New-Yorker 
Cor. Chambers and Pearl Sts. , New York. 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban Homes. 
ELBERT 8. CARMAN, Editor-In-Chief. 
HERBERT W. COINING WOOD. Managing Editor 
ERWIN G. FOWLER, Associate Editor. 
Copyrighted 1S9S. 
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SATURDAY , AUGUST 5, 1893. 
One thing about this South Carolina liquor trouble 
is worth remembering. About all the prominent 
newspapers in the State are controlled by those who 
want to prove the law a failure. The farmers and 
country people—who made the law possible—have no 
daily papers and poor means of spreading reports 
throughout the country. Put salt on all the reports 
that declare the law an absolute failure. Do we want 
it to succeed ? We want it to have a fair and square 
trial, and that is why The R. N.-Y., alone among 
farm papers, prints all sides of its discussion. 
* * 
The R. N.-Y. recently received from Prof. W. A. 
Henry, of the Wisconsin Experiment Station, a good- 
sized sample of cheese made by the young men who 
are attending the dairy school. It was a fair samp’e 
of tons of the article made by these students. It was 
sampled by over 20 persons at our office, and all pro¬ 
nounced it excellent. That is the sort of diploma 
that carries weight with it. A diploma made out of 
cow’s milk is as forcible as one written on sheepskin. 
The Wisconsin Dairy School, at Madison, is an excel¬ 
lent institution. We are glad to commend it as we 
have done before. * * 
We have given our readers from time to time some 
facts about the Farmers’ Creamery Association of 
Philadelphia. This association was formed by the 
milk producers for the purpose of stopping the extor¬ 
tionate charges of the middlemen. Now see what 
they are doing : 
Our association now numbers about 2,500 members, representing 
New Jersey and Pennsylvania nearby counties. We are handling 100 
tubs weekly of York State butter, In addition to what we make our¬ 
selves; also cottage cheese, eggs and maple sugar, as well as honey, 
and will add other farm products as our business advances. 
That is what cooperation means for these milkmen. 
Why do you try to operate without any Co ? 
* * 
Arizona is clamoring for admission to the Sister¬ 
hood of States and insists that with her population of 
60,000, she is better entitled to be there than Nevada 
with a population of 45,000. The country at large, 
however, regrets the admission of the pocket State of 
Nevada ; why add to its regrets by making a similar 
blunder with regard to Arizona ? Why should a petty 
State whose Senatorial honors go to the highest bidder 
among her mushroom plutocrats, have as much weight 
in the highest legislative body in the Nation, with its 
50,000 or 60,000 rude miners, as New York or Penn¬ 
sylvania with from 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 representa¬ 
tives of all our industries ? 
* * 
A short time since a man who, with his family, was 
on the verge of starvation, secured work in a packing 
house of one of the great dressed meat firms of Chicago, 
one of the Big Four who have been arbitrarily forcing 
up the price of meats all over the country. The un¬ 
fortunate man was so weak from lack of food that he 
with difficulty performed the duties assigned him. 
One day in his dire extremity he had the temerity to 
pick from the floor, where it had been accidentally, 
dropped, a pickled pigs foot and took from it a bite in 
the vain endeavor to satisfy his hunger. A zealous, 
well-paid, well-fed detective arrested him, entered a 
complaint of larceny against him before a magistrate, 
and he was held for the grand jury. That body on 
hearing the particulars dismissed the complaint as too 
trivial to be worthy of hearing, and the accused was 
discharged. Meanwhile his wife had become insane 
through the added trouble, his children had been re¬ 
moved by the authorities, and on his release he could 
find neither home, family, nor the miserable furniture 
which had been their all. And such as these are the 
firms which arbitrarily fix the prices of the poor man’s 
meats and the farmers’ live stock ! What would you, 
reader, think of a farmer who would arrest as a 
criminal an employee who had helped himself to a 
fallen apple? Yet the cases are parallel. If this is 
justice and law, is it any wonder that there are an¬ 
archists in our midst ? The poor man is not one-half 
so much of a criminal as the monopolist who defies 
the law, uses his great wealth to oppress those who 
are helpless to resist, bribes officials, purchases legis¬ 
lators, and even corrupts the judge upon the bench. 
Is there one law for the rich and another for the poor? 
It is our boast that all men are equal before the law, 
but are they ? And if they are not, who is to be 
blamed ? 
* # 
So the Italians consider the infertile duck eggs from 
the incubator a great luxury ? “ Every man to his 
taste.” Personally we should prefer to boil and feed 
them to the ducklings. That anti-fish tag is sure to 
act as a bait for the best trade. How would people 
know the ducks were guiltless of fish unless they were 
told ? It is no.t the business of the buyer to run 
around and find out what is best. It is the producer’s 
business to tell that. The teaching of it is called 
advertising. See here, Mr. Farmer, do you advertise 
your own goods or let the middleman do it for you 
and take pay out of your share ? 
«• * 
Still another man, this time in Kansas, is adver¬ 
tising a powder for increasing the yield of butter in 
the churn. Mr. G. M. Whittaker, of the Massachu¬ 
setts Dairy Bureau, bought some of the compound 
and used it according to directions, which were about 
like the ones given with the “ Black pepsin” fraud. 
This is the chemist’s report on the stuff churned : 
I And your sample of butter made with Planet’s Butter Compound 
contains but 66 8 per cent of butter fat, Instead of not less than 80 per 
cent, as It should. The butter compound I And to be a mixture of 
carbonate of soda and alum cake, with some little organic m .tter and 
color probably added to disguise the mixture and Impart more butter 
color to the product when used. Alum cake coagulates milk. 
Who is fool enough now to try such compounds ? 
* * 
The National Provisioner, the organ of the pro¬ 
vision and meat industries, has this to say : 
What Is to replace butter for cooking purposes, If not good, pure 
animal fats or mixtures of such with vegetable oils ? We, therefore, 
believe that the making of pure oleomargarine will be a proAtable 
business for slaughterers and butchers In the future, and we are of 
the opinion that all restrictive laws should be repealed, providing 
the article Is sold for what It Is—oleomargarine, plain and simple— 
and labeled accordingly. This being done, no sanitary reasons can 
stand In the way, for the fact remains that pure animal fats properly 
cooked are not harmful to any one. 
We doubt if there is an intelligent farmer in the 
country who would object to such repeal, provided the 
article Is sold for what it is. That is what the dealers 
will not do. Their entire trade seems to be based on 
the attempt to make the public believe that “ oleo” is 
pure butter. * * 
Mr. Bennett, on page 522, explains about that feed¬ 
ing test in Arkansas. To buy a steer for $13.15%, feed 
him 42 days and then sell him for $30, shows up a 
financial operation that should send thousands of 
farmers rushing to Arkansas to go into the stock busi¬ 
ness. What greater illustration could be given of the 
possibility of putting a finish or polish on a farm pro¬ 
duct ? While such a profit may be made in Arkansas, 
can it be made elsewhere ? The local lesson of this 
experiment is that it pays to buy cheap steers and 
feed them into a better condition. At the same time 
we repeat that it also shows that crude vegetable 
products make more valuable manure than the same 
products after they have been eaten and excreted by 
the animal. * * 
He stood and gazed at the electric car which swiftly 
rushed along the iron track, pushed onward by that 
dread, mysterious power that held the wire, silent, 
invisible. And with a groan he turned himself away, 
a darkening frown upon his wrinkled brow. Who 
was this man, this misanthropic wretch who had no 
joy within his heart to watch the march of progress 
down the aisle of time ? A farmer simply who for 
years and years had bred a grade of horses that were 
doomed to toil before the horse cars, simply for the 
reason that they were not fast enough, or had not ' 
style or beauty or ought else to win the favor of the 
“upper 10.” Scrubs! scrubs! they were, and now 
had come this power that even took this one ignoble 
job away from them and left them valueless. Oh, 
foolish man ! far better thank thy stars that thou 
h) st had so forcible and true a lesson—go and breed 
thee better stock ! * # 
A producer of silver mines 412% grains of the white 
metal, worth at the present price 60 cents, or about a 
bushel of wheat, and asks to have it coined without 
charge at the United States Mint into a dollar worth 
about a bushel and a half of wheat. In commerce the 
wheat is usually represented by warehouse receipts, 
showing that it is stored and available, on demand, on 
the surrender of the receipt. If the silver producer is 
to have his product stamped of a value over 40 per 
cent more than it is worth, why shouldn’t the wheat 
grower’s bushel certificate be stamped a legal tender 
for $1 ? Is there any one even among the advocates of 
Government warehouses, who would make such a 
demand ? Small wonder that the silver men are aban¬ 
doning the old ratio of 16 to 1 between silver and 
gold. Even the strongest advocates of free coinage 
are now willing that a new ratio should be established 
of 20, 22 or even 25 to 1—whatever may be the actual 
commercial ratio between the two metals. 
• * 
In a dispute between one of our esteemed American 
agricultural contemporaries and the English Agricul¬ 
tural Gazette about the conditions of American and 
English farmers, the American paper, among other 
things, says that when the English farmer “ learns to 
take off his coat and get down to solid work, he may 
begin to find that his receipts every year do not fall 
short of his expenditures.” To this the Gazette re¬ 
plies : “When the American farmer learns how to 
farm ; when his average yield of wheat becomes one- 
half as much as that of England, instead of being a 
little over one-third; and when elementary agricul¬ 
tural principles, settled here half a century or a cen¬ 
tury ago, have begun to dawn upon his mind, the 
American farmer may earn enough from his business 
to enable him to live as comfortably as an English 
farm laborer lives at the present time.” Isn’t there 
truth enough in what is said by both parties to deserve 
the attention of the farmers of both countries ? 
* * 
BREVITIES. 
My wife has Aggered out to me. In tongue and black an’ white, that she 
Has more to do from sun to sun than I, outside; said she: “ I’ll run 
Your chores an’ clear things up to-night, while you wash dishes!” I’m 
perlite 
Enough to give my wife full kite, an’ so prove to her that I’m right. 
So after supper off, she went an’ done the chores; It’s no great stent, 
Because I’ve gut things Axed to save most every step and light and 
shave 
The labor bill; but, as for me, I tackled them air dish, ye see! 
An’ Arst send off I plum fergot ter keep my water bllin’ bet. 
I swun I couldn’t git ’em clean; I never see things act so mean. 
My wife set there and give me rope enough. “Why don’t ye use sum 
soap ? ” 
Says she. My stars! I could et that woman up, I was so het. 
An’ so Into the night I swashed, and, when I thought I’d gut ’em 
washed, 
I found a half a dozen more, while wife set laughin’ to the core. 
Ez nigh ex I could Agger out, I washed and dried that night about 
Three dozen pieces; multiply that Agger or a bigger by 
Ten hundred nlnety-Ave—the meals In one year’s tlme-that’s how 
wife feels. 
I tell ye what, there’s somethin’wrong; our work outside goes like a 
song. 
We set an’ ride an’ ride an’ ride, an’ all the time our wives Inside 
At meanest hand work toll away like some old treadmill horse, I say, 
That here’s a chance fer Edison to get the biggest slice of fun 
That ever In man’s pocket fell; ’lectrlclty Is very well, 
But'he could beat It slick an’ clean by washln’ dishes by machine. 
Your old fogy Is logy. 
The debtor feels his owe Its. 
Drink to your own health. 
Is your heart In your pocket? 
A word to the wise-be wiser. 
Get the specks off your spec’s. 
Who has a better berry ticket? 
Crying only waters split milk. 
Little grows on soil that blows. 
What about the cow’s vacation ? 
A pot-grown plant—boiled cabbage. 
There’s 99 per cent sorrow In a borrow. 
I pear the man with an immovable idea. 
Have you paid for an hour In the shade? 
The can to take to the Aeld is the canopy. 
Who’s afraid to use sawdust for bedding ? 
A hot-water dip cures the clothes stick. 
How many white elephants are you feeding? 
With the gift of an Inch how much do you take t 
Who talks louder than the Scarlet clover man ? 
Nobody has a monopoly on making big promises. 
What wash for the peach tree bore—or tree agent ? 
Don’t let the scrubs lose money In these tight times. 
Are you played out? Now, then, Is the time for work. 
Maybe you will And a good Hackney colt the coulter to help plow 
that mortgage under. 
W r E need more trough room In the markets. The middlemen are 
like boss sheep and take too much room. 
Your progress through the vale of tears will be both hard and 
slow, to undertake to operate without a good-sized “Co.” 
Do you And as much selling difference In the color of berries as 
there Is In the color of eggs? A rich, dark color Is generally preferred 
In a strawberry. 
What sort of a milk test are they having at Chicago anyway? If 
what our correspondent (page 535) states Is true, they have some 
remarkably active dead and sick cows out there. 
Next to the skin, at the base of the horn, the horn-Ay loves a shin¬ 
ing light—the light of day, for example. In dark Bhade the Ay be¬ 
comes weary. There are, therefore, few Aies on the herds of those 
who have green fodder growing that can be cut and fed In the barn 
Many persons seem to think that ordinary black soot Is a valuable 
fertilizer. An analysis from the Massachusetts Experiment Station 
just at hand shows blit about IK per cent of phosphoric aeld, half 
of one per cent of potash, and no nitrogen. Very little value there ! 
’'Vis conceded on all handj. all the civilized v orld over, that the 
tendency of the population of the earth Is city and townwards more 
than ever before. Does this Indicate that the people are coming to 
like other people better than the beauties of landscape and of sway¬ 
ing grass and grain, and the blessings of pure air and fresh, whole¬ 
some food ? 
Of the 151 pounds weight In an average human body, 94 pounds are 
water and 60 pounds are “dry matter.” Of the latter three pounds 13 
ounces are calcium. At the present market rate this Is worth $300 an 
ounce; so that the amount of It contained In the ordinary human 
body has a money value of $18,300. How many of us are worth so 
much Intrinsically? 
