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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 16 
HELP. 
As is stated elsewhere, The R. N.-Y. 
does not propose to start a collection 
agency or settle disputes between ship¬ 
pers and sellers. Yet, now and then, it 
seems Decessary to exert what influence 
we can bring to bear to help our readers 
to collect their just dues. Of course, a 
word from a paper like The R. N.-Y. 
carries a gond deal of weight, and no 
man would have us advertise him as dis¬ 
honest if he could avoid it. In the case 
described this week we feel that we have 
simply done our duty by a deserving 
friend and subscriber. This incident 
shows something of the power for good 
that may be exercised by an independent 
and fearless paper. It seems to the pub¬ 
lisher that this case ought to show read¬ 
ers that it is a very good thing to have 
“ a friend at court.” We don’t know of 
any better argument they can give in 
soliciting friends or neighbors to sub- 
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The R. N.-Y. has straightened out a 
number of such cases and never made 
any charge for doing it. We have never 
yet been obliged to employ a lawyer on 
such cases, nor have we found it often 
necessary to publish the names of lag¬ 
ging dealers. As a rule, these are quite 
willing to come to time rather than face 
an advertisement of their doings, because 
they know The R N.-Y. goes everywhere 
and would carry the news to thousands 
of shipDers. We try to be just and if it 
seemed evident that the shipper was at 
fault we would quickly tell him so. 
Some folks never even thank us for such 
work. Others show their appreciation 
in a practical way. Here is what Mr. 
Anable says: 
The business men of this town are watching the 
result of vonr tussle with this commlsslon-man and 
If you are successful It will certainly be a feather In 
the cap of The R. N.-Y. . . . The circulation of 
The U. N.-Y shall be increased In Naples. 
We can readily stand such an increase 
from every village in the country ! 
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The following singular statement of 
conditions comes to us. A foreigner has 
bought a little place in the country and 
wants to keep a cow, horse, chickens 
and pig and to make a good kitchen gar¬ 
den. This person can read English well, 
but is quite deaf, and hence unable to 
learn to speak the language well or to 
understand others perfectly. It is there¬ 
fore impossible to depend on the verbal 
advice of neighbors and he must read in 
order to start properly. Cm it be done? 
Certainly, with the following outfit he 
can easily carry out his plans: 
The Rural New Yorker (one year).. $1.00 
Tne Business Men. 40 
New Potato Culture. 4't 
My Handkerchief Garden. 20 
Mushroom Culture. 1.50 
Total. $3.50 
The Mushroom Culture is put in the 
list because this party says “they can¬ 
not do good cooking without mush¬ 
rooms.” The R. N.-Y. stands ready to 
answer all questions that are not made 
clear in the books. A little book by 
Fred Grundy that is now in press will 
also be of great value. The retail price 
of the above named list is $3.50, but we 
will send all for $3 in cash, and this is 
but a sample of the bargains we are pre¬ 
pared to make with those who order 
books with their papers. 
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The R. N.-Y. tries to keep all fraudu¬ 
lent advertisements out of its columns. 
Is this any advantage to the average 
reader ? That is worth thinking about, 
and the following note from our Illinois 
subscriber may help the thinking : 
A paper admitting 411 kinds of advertisements 
says practically to Its readers, “ Here they are, all 
kinds or them—keep your eyes open.” Honest ad¬ 
vertisements In such papers are viewed with suspi¬ 
cion. It follows that an honest person advertising 
In them will not receive the worth of his money 
Further, many frauds exist that could not do so 
except by thebeipof such papers. This fact makes 
the papers accessories to the crime or offense. Yet 
It Is sometimes good for a person to “have his eye¬ 
teeth cut ” 
We prefer not to print a paper on 
which readers may “cut their eye 
teeth.” That is a painful operation, 
and causes soreness! 
CROP AND MARKET N0TBS. 
Green corn Is scarce. 
The hop market Is dull. 
Dried fruits are looking up. 
Receipts of plums are light. 
Beeswax Is quiet at 25 cents. 
Hay Is dull and a trifle lower. 
Choice stock makes quick sales. 
Dima beans are In good demand. 
Sweet potatoes are doing better. 
Brains are good packing material. 
Red app.es are scarce and wanted. 
Water-melons are on their last legs. 
Pears are active for all except Kelffer. 
Cauliflower Is, much of It, of poor-quality. 
New York potatoes arriving are very poor. 
Choice pickling cucumbers are not plenty. 
Peaches knock out the other fruits this year. 
Onions are In large supply and trade Is quiet. 
Straw is somewhat higher with a good demand. 
This Is a poor time to sell the sheep and lambs. 
Tomatoes are plentiful and the market Is quiet. 
Choice cheese Is firm at slightly advanced prices. 
Baritetts are the leading varieties of pears In mar¬ 
ket now. 
Eggs are higher under light supply and strong 
demand 
Potatoes are quite plentiful at present, and prices 
are lower. 
Prospects are good for an abundance of plums in 
this market. 
Choice, hand-picked apples are not plenty, and the 
price Is good. 
The market has been glutted recently with the 
Held mushrooms. 
Fatten the poultry well before shipping, whether 
sent alive or dressed. 
ProspectB are that the acreage of wheat sown this 
fall will be smaller than usual. 
Best grades of but'er are Arm, with an advance 
ranging somewhere near a cent a pound. 
Peaches are not arriving In excessive quantities, 
and the demand is good at higher prices. 
Five hundred tone of honey Is the estimated yield 
of Riverside County, Cal., this year. Oh, how sweet! 
Several cases of poisoning by mistaking toadstools 
for mushrooms have occurred In New Jersey re¬ 
cently. 
Apple growers are again advised against the use 
of tDe pony barrels Nothing but less can come from 
a persistent use of these. 
The Dondon Lancet has been investigating the Ice 
used In ihat city, aad while It finds that nearly all 
natural Ice Is bad. the artificial ice Is all right. 
Short weight In hay Is complained of, and this Is 
attributed in many cases to the pi essers who are paid 
by the ton. The sellers are the sufferers, however. 
It Is expected that the French wheat crop this sea¬ 
son will reach about 300,000,000 bushels, while the re¬ 
quirements of the country will be 340.000,000 bushels. 
Most of the windfall fruits, the remnants of the 
hurricanes of a couple of weeks since, are cleaned 
up, and the marxet Is In better shape In consequence. 
And now the Californians are reported to be about 
to ask Congress for higher duties on dried fruits, a 
rate on some nearly equaling the average selling 
price, being, they think, about right. 
The grape market is tne dullest of all the fruit 
markets, and the reason Is that most of the stock is 
lmperlectly ripened, sour and not wanted. Good, 
sweet grapes would sell well if they were to be had. 
Tne reports coming to the Kansas Agricultural 
Department of monthly crop bulletins snow tnat the 
total yield of corn this year will exceed 200,000,000 
bushels, the largest in the history of the State except 
In 1889. 
The Combined Grape Show and Horticultural In¬ 
stitute will be held at Ripley, N. Y„ September 21-13. 
The committee announce immense display, good 
speaking, tine music, no admission fees, everybody 
invited. 
A smart woman or girl Is said to earn $2 or $1.10 per 
day garnering and packing fruit in the California 
orchards and vineyards. Laborers there board 
tnemselves, however, which Is not always the case 
in the East. 
As indication of the Intelligence of Scotch collie 
dogs, an Albany, N. Y. dog fancier gravely tells of 
two Imported collies that actually watched their 
chance and successfully shipped themselves back to 
Scotland from New York city. 
A derelict vessel, sailing originally from Alexan¬ 
dria, Egypt, was towed Into thl-port this week. Her 
cargo was rags and bones, the latter oelng estimated 
as one-fourth to one third the bones of human be¬ 
ings. They were Intended to be used in making fer¬ 
tilizers. 
The first cranberries came from Cape Cod during 
the last days of August. Tnere Is little demand as 
yet, and sales are slow at low prices. The crop of 
cranberries on tne Cape Is reported to be a heavy 
one, and in fact all the producing sections are ex¬ 
pected to nave a large yield this year. 
A Washington man has invented a hop picker. The 
vines are shuved into a cylinder like a thrashing ma¬ 
chine, and the leaves are separated from the hops 
by a breeze generated from the rapid- revolution of 
the cylinder. The machine performs this function 
to a nicety, but the question to be decided is whether 
or not the lupultne escapes from the burr or the 
blossom is materially injured by the operation. 
The Associated Banks of New Orleans have adopted 
a plan whereby the question of moving the cotton 
crop has been solved. Certificates of deposit are to 
be Issued to persons having money In bank, payable 
to themselves or bearer, in denominations of $5, $10 
and $20 or more, through the Clearing House. 
Secretary Morton has appointed as statistician of 
the Department of Agriculture L. P. Stephens, a 
newspaper man of Columbus, O. The position pays 
$1,200 per annum, and the successful applicant was 
recommended by a large number of politicians, we 
are told, but of his qualifications the report Is silent. 
Since the open seas n has prevailed on grouse a 
very large quantity of old birds have appeared, 
which had been carried over from last season at 
various Western points. The birds are frozen and, 
as a rule, have not kept very well, some being almost 
worthless, and they receive little attention on this 
market. 
A terrific storm struck Corning. N. Y., and several 
neighboring towns Thursday afternoon. The wind 
tore down trees and scattered everything in Its way. 
Following the wind came one of the heaviest elec¬ 
trical storms ever seen there and after this hall de¬ 
scended for half an hour. Thousands of dollars’ 
worth of tobacco and other crops were totally ruined 
In Corning and the Chemung and Cohocton Valleys. 
The Governor of Honduras has offered to send to 
this count-y some of the stingless bees which make 
honey lor the people of Central America. It Is said 
that the stingless bees cannot endure our climate. 
If that Is so, we don't want them; but as the honey 
they produce has an aromattc perfume and a deli¬ 
cious flavor, those who can afford to pay the tariff 
duty of 20 cents per gallon might be very glad to 
get It. 
Some time back the Canadian Government re¬ 
quested the British authorities to send (at the ex¬ 
pense of the former) two cattle experts to Canada to 
Investigate whetner contagious pleuro-pneumonla 
actually exists there. The request has been refused, 
the British Government preferring to abide by the 
decisions of its vetertnary examiners at the port of 
debarkation, who Insist that the disease is found In 
Canada cattle. 
The live poultry trade has been brisk on the lines 
of stock required by the Jews for their holiday, the 
New Year, which begins Monday, September 8. They 
require prime, heavy fowls, large, fat geese and 
ducks. Chickens, turkeys and poor stock of the 
kinds mentioned are not wanted. There has been a 
scarcity of JuBt the stock wanted, and prices are 
likely to go still higher. Ducks are In largest supply 
and show most weakness. 
A call for an Irrigation congress has been Issued to 
be held at Los Angeles Cal , for one week, beginning 
October 10. The following are some of the subjects 
for discussion: Irrigation: Applied to agriculture. 
Applied to horticulture. Engineering. Its far- 
reaching ethical and social possibilities and effects. 
Misleading Brand 
“ Standard Lead Co. Strictly Pure White 
Lead. St. Louis.” 
Materials Proportions Analyzed by 
Barytes 59.36 per cent. Regis Chauvenet 
Oxide of Zinc 34.18 per cent. & Bro., 
White Lead 6.46 per cent. St. Louis. 
Less than 7 per cent, white lead. 
Irrigation legislation: State, National, Inter-na¬ 
tional, Foreign. Irrigation securities. Irrigation 
machinery and appliances. 
The most destructive forest fire ever known in 
Washington Is raging In the Dozewallp Valley west 
of Hood’s Canal, an arm of Puget Sound in the 
northwestern part of the State. Ranchers are flee¬ 
ing down the valley to the beach. A half-dozen 
ranchers left a few daj s ago to prospect for gold In 
the Olympic Mountains, and the fire has cut them 
off and their wives and children are In distress 
Already 5,000 acres have been burned over. 
On the Island of St. George, one of the Prlbylov 
group In Behring Sea, the breeding of blue foxes Is a 
very profitable industry, as there Is no expense con¬ 
nected with It. They generate very raptdly ard 
when an island becomes well stocked with them It Is 
Impossible to deplete It as the law provides that 
they must not be shot but trapped. The pelts of the 
blue and “ cross ’’ foxes bring from $„• to $'0 each at 
wholesale, so the Industry is likely to extend. 
From Tacoma, Wash., comes the report that farm¬ 
ers throughout the Northwest have been swirdled 
by the Northwestern Seed Company, with head¬ 
quarters at Tacoma, by means of detachable notes. 
Seeds an 1 cash prizes were given a way to farmers re¬ 
turning an agreement which was really a promissory 
note There are said to be many victims In the Da¬ 
kotas, Minnesota, Iowa and other States. The swin¬ 
dlers learned that the postal authorities were after 
them ai.d fled. 
Experience Is usually valuable, though sometimes 
expensive. Two boxes of Florida lemons recently 
arrived by express, the charges on which were $6.30. 
The lemons are offered at $2 per box, and will prob¬ 
ably sell below that figure, as quality Is very poor 
Why anyboay should ship such a small quantity of 
such a commodity as lemons such a distance by ex¬ 
press. is a puzzler. Then, again, why any express 
company should charge $3 16 for bringing a box o 
lemonB from Florida Is another puzzler. 
The New York Leaf Tobacco Board of Trade will 
recommend to the Ways and Means Committee of 
Congress, now preparing to fix up a new tariff bill, 
the adoption of a specific rate of duty on all descrip¬ 
tions of foreign leaf tobacco of 35 cents per pound. 
Tnls will do away with the duties of $1.75 and $2 per 
pound Imposed on Sumatra leaf tobacco bv the 
McKinley tariff. Of course the New York Leaf 
Tobacco Board of Trade Is a concern composed of 
manufacturers, not of growers of the weed. 
What ought to prove a very effective law has been 
enacted In Russta to prevent horse stealing. It pro¬ 
vides that every horse owner shall take a certificate 
from the police or the authorities of his rural district 
attesting his rightful ownership. If the horse Is sold, 
this certificate must be produced and transferred to 
the name of the purchaser. The one who sells a 
horse is to be held responsible for his good condition, 
and he must return the purchase money and pay a 
fine If he deceives the buyer. 
The average condition of the potato crop has been 
lower than it Is at present only two seasons In the 
past 10 years-durlng the seasons of 1887 and 1890. 
Misleading Brand 
“ Pacific Warranted Pure [A] White Lead." 
Materials Proportions Analyzed by 
Sulphate of Lead 4.18 per cent. Ledoux & Co., 
Oxide of Zinc 45.04 per cent. New York. 
Barytes 50.68 per cent. 
No white lead in it 
You can avoid bogus lead by purchasing any of the following brands. 
They are manufactured by the “Old Dutch” process, and are the standards: 
“ANCHOR” (Cincinnati) 
“ARMSTRONG & McKELVY ” (Pittsb’gh) 
“ATLANTIC” (New York) 
“ BEYMER-BAUMAN ” (Pittsburgh) 
“ BRADLEY ” (New York) 
“ BROOKLYN ” (New York) 
“ COLLIER ” (St. Louis) 
“CORNELL” (Buffalo) 
“ DAVIS-CHAMBERS ” (Pittsburgh) 
“ ECKSTEIN ” (Cincinnati) 
“ JEWETT ” (New York) 
For sale by the most reliable dealers in paints everywhere. 
If you are going to paint, it will pay you to send to us for a book containing informa¬ 
tion that may save you many a dollar ; it will only cost you a postal card to do so. 
“ KENTUCKY ” (Louisville) 
“ FAHNESTOCK ” (Pittsburgh) 
“LEWIS” (Philadelphia) 
“ MORLEY ” (Cleveland) 
“RED SEAL” (St. Louis) 
“ SALEM ” (Salem, Mass.) 
“SHIPMAN ” (Chicago) 
“ SOUTHERN ” (St. Louis and Chicago) 
“ ULSTER ” (New York) 
“UNION ” (New York) 
NATIONAL LEAD CO., 
i Broadway, New York. 
EIGHT PER CENT FAT. 
That is a noble record for any cow, Dut it is like skim-milk be¬ 
side the percentage of value in our pamphlet entitled 
Milk Making and Marketing. 
This describes in detail the methods of Mr. Francisco, whose 
CERTIFIED MILK SCHEME 
marks a new era in milk production. Besides this the pamphlet 
tells about selling milk, sterilizing milk, and various other phases of 
the milk business You need it. The price is 
rgr* ONLY 20 CENTS, 
» Bogus white lead would have no sale did it not 
afford makers a larger profit than Strictly Pure 
White Lead. 
The wise man is never persuaded to buy paint 
that is said to be “just sis good” or “better” than 
Strictly Pure W hite Lead. 
The market is flooded with spurious white leads. The following analyses, 
made by eminent chemists, of two of these misleading brands show the exact 
proportion of genuine white lead they contain: 
