1893 
825 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
< THE f 
GreatAmerican 
Company 
CROP AND MAREBT NOTES. 
And now an oyster trust is reported. 
The scarcity of apples will probably help out the 
cranberry market. 
The hay crop in Hungary is officially estimated at 
9.(62,COO tons, compared with 9/53,000 in 1892, and 
10,638,000 in 1891. 
The receipts of apples for the month of November 
were only 66,160 barrels, against 147,635 barrels for 
the same month last year. 
Potato smugglers have been bringing these tubers 
from New Brunswick into New England; two car¬ 
loads have been recently seized. 
Fruit Importers are protesting against the duty on 
Imported fruit proposed by the Wilson bill, which is 
higher than that under the existing law. 
Florida oranges never were more plentiful in the 
Thanksgiving market, and never sold fer such un¬ 
satisfactory prices. Little profit to the growers. 
It is said that the quality of evaporated apples is 
much poorer this year than last, and stock selling 
for fancy would only have been cnoice last season, 
while so-called prime apples would not have passed 
last season as prime. 
Shipments of Southern kale and spinach have 
brought very unsatisfactory prices owing to the 
light demand Receivers here do not encourage ship 
ments before Christmas or New Years, as nearby 
greens are plenty enough to supply all demands. 
The receipts of dressed poultry for the six days 
ending the day before Thanksgiving were 28,233 
packages, in previous years the arrivals for the cor 
responding period were: 1892.26,975 packages; 1891, 
24.632 packages; 1890, 22,169 packages; 1889, 27,471 
packages; 1888, 31.654 packages. 
The indicated production of corn this season In 
the seven surplus States, according to the November 
report, compares with last year as follows: 
1893. 1892. 
Ohio. 68,523,00 ) 83,853,000 
Indiana. 88.233,000 1 03,334,00.1 
Illinois. . 108,937 000 165,327,000 
Iowa. 262.951,000 2t0,221,000 
Missouri. 155 925,100 152,489,000 
Kansas. 132,904.100 145,825 000 
Nearaeka. 156,0.0,000 167,145,000 
Seven States.1,033,473,(00 1,008,194,(00 
All other . 615,332/00 620,270,000 
Total crop, bushels.1,618,805.000 1,628.464,000 
Acres, seven States. 38,966,000 36,793,1)00 
All other. 33,991,009 33,833,(00 
SEND FOR PAMPHLETS. NO CHARGE 
For Truckers and Potato Growers 
THE MAPES VEGETABLE MANURE, 
For Celery, Onions and Early Truck. 
THE MAPES POTATO MANURE. 
THE MAPES CABBAGE MANURE. 
Some of the largest truckers are using 150 tons and upwards a season of the Mapes Manure for Potatoes, Cabbages, 
Early Truck, Spinach, Lettuce, Celery, Onions, etc. 
Some of these now use no stable manure beyond the supply from the few horses they keep, although formerly they were 
heavy purchasers until convinced after an experience of eight or ten years of the greater economy and efficiency of the 
Mapes Manure. They claim the great advantages of EARLIER MATURITY and SUPERIOR QUALITY OF PRO mm T 
For Fruit Growers 
THE MAPES FRUIT AND VINE MANURE. 
For Grapes for Market and Wine; Currants, Strawberries and all Small Fruits, Peach, Apple 
and Pear Orchards. 
Vineyards that have received nothing but the Mapes Fruit and Vine Manure since setting out over 10 years ago, have 
proved to be the healthiest, and to produce FRUIT EARLIER in maturity, FINER FLAVORED and FINER COLORED, and 
to yield more largely than where stable manure was used. 
The Mapes Manures have been used many years and almost exclusively by the growers on the North River, whose 
methods are being described in The Rural New-Yorker, under the title “ Fertilizers and Fruit.” 
Over 3,000 tons of the Mapes Fruit Manures were sold in the first six months of this year, 1893. Address 
The Mapes Formula and Peruvian Guano Company, 143 Liberty Sf., New York 
Send for Pamphlet, and state crops to he grown, etc, 
NATVKK’8 OWW FERTILIZER. 
CANADA JA 
UNLHACHBD iL^ 
HARDWOOD ^ Kfl El 
The Forest City Wood Ash Co., of London, Canada, 
have perfect facilities for handling them In proper 
shape. Send for free Pamphlet and Guaranteed 
Analysis to 
THE FOREST CITY WOOD ASH 4)0.. 
9 Merchants’ Row. Boston. Mass. 
POSITIVELY 
BALING 
Our New ORGAN and PIANO BOOK. 
Colored Portraits, Special Offers, and 
full Particulars of all our famous 
ORGANS AND PJANOS) 
Total acres 
ALL KINDS 
horse Anc 
J STEAM POWER 
Address Manuf'rs 
COLLINS PLOW CO 
Box 11 QUINCY, ILL 
lllll IHsS f Sold to anyone at wholesale price, for 
Cash or on Terms to Suit. 
'Organs 827.50. Pianos8175.00. 
’Write to-day for this VALUABLE BOOK.ft 
rflRNKH £ m WASHINGTON.new jersey. 
bUlilll on Ol III). Established 27 Years. 
GRADES OF HAY AT PITTSBURGH. 
The Grain and Hour Exchange recently adopted 
these grades for hay in the market.) of that city : 
Choice Timothy shall be strictly bright, sweet 
Timothy, not more than one-tenth undergraes, prop¬ 
erly cured and well baled. 
No. 1 Timothy shall be Timothy and not more than 
one-ilfttrother tame grasses mixed, go U color, well 
cured and free from Bleached hay. 
No 2 Timothy shall not be more than one-third of 
other tame grasses mixed, reasonably good color 
and free from must. 
No. 3 Timothy shall be one-half Timothy mixed 
with other grasses, and not more than one-tifth 
clover, reasonably good color, partly stained or over¬ 
ripe and free from must. 
No. 1 Clover and Timothy mixed shall be sweet 
clover and Timothy mixed, with one-half or more 
Timothy, good color and well cured. 
No. 2.Clover a d Timothy mixed shall be clover 
and Timothy mixed, with one-half or more Timothy, 
reasonably good color, partly stained and free from 
must. 
Clover shall ba all, or nearly all, clover hay, and 
graded according to the requirements of Nos 1 and 
2 clover and Timothy mixed hay. 
Upland prairie hay shall be all pure upland hay, 
bright color and well cured. 
No. 1 Prairie hay shall be upland or midland prai¬ 
rie hay, good color, well cured and free from must. 
No 2 Prairie hay shall be midland and partly mixed 
with swale hay, good color, well cured and free from 
must. 
No. 3 Prairie or packing hay shall be soft swale or 
slough hay. not good enough for No. 2, and free 
from must 
No Grade hay shall be sound hay mixed with rough 
grasses, willows or fiags. 
Rejected Hay.— All kinds of hay, badly stained or 
in any way out of condition. 
DDrniTr TIIDYCV0 well bred, spring hatch, 
DnUnLL I U.imLlU, Gobblers, $2.50; hens, $2, 
If taken soon. T. B. PARKER, Goldsboro, N. C. 
FOR OUR NEW PREMIUM LIST 
P r NARROW ANDlr 
7 WIDE TIRES V3TY LES 
(Two AND Four Which $2 3 .Urw.m, 
WRIT! TOR CIRCULAN* 
AND SAY WHAT YOU NS CO 
HOBSON 6cCO..T«tamv P« 
With Terms to Agents 
Write the 
SHERWOOD 
Harness, 
CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, December 9, 1893, 
Entirely of Steel. No Castings to break. 
Strongest and simplest Lever Arrangement 
on the market. Write for Descriptive Circular. 
RODERICK LEAN MFC. CO. 
MANSFIELD, OHIO. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Farm Failures—1. 
The Transportation of Farm Produce. 
A Big Wheat Yield. . 
Backing Made Easy.. 
Clover Experience. 
Mule Pumplr g Water. 
How Is This Wheat ?. 
The Chunk of Manure. 
Salt and Gas Lime on Asparagus. 
A Cord of Stable Manure .. 
Pine Needles for Mulch; Insects in Grain, 
Bees and Mongrel Vegetables. 
How I Save the Carrot .. . 
Roots Are After Water. 
A Manure Talk. 
Auburn, 
N. Y. 
Removed to 
f FruitTrees, Small Fruits, 
5 >Vines, Roses, Ornamentals. 
All the best new and old varieties. The celebrated 
T|i4nnr| | Strawberry. New Fruits a specialty. 
IITIUIILLL Buy direct and save one half. Price List/ree. 
15. W. REID, BRIDGEPORT, OHIO. U 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A Milkman’s Notes. 
Millet vs. Clover Hay. 
That Cream Question. . 
Why Doesn't the Butter < otne. 
A Village Milk Supoly. 
The Cow and Her Cud.... . 
Cow with a Sore Teat. 
Dog Castration Again. . 
About Bone Cutters. 
Old Cotton-seed Meal. 
Horses for Fertilizer. 
Proflt In Brood Sows. 
To Cure a Visiting Dog.... . 
Heifers In a Tread Power . 
A Talk on Foods. 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Tomato Hybrids. 
Shippers’ Pride l’ium. 
Fertilizers and Fruit. 
Two Bad Apple Enemies. 
Tree Blackberries and Scediii g chestnut* 
Meech’s Prolific Quince. 
How to Get Good Keiffers. 
WOMAN AND THE HOME 
Emperor William I. and Alm6. 
Common-Sense Treatment of Measles. 
Two Dalntv Gifts. 
Farmers’ Uniforms: Rural Mall Delivery.. 
Patchwork Linings. 
Rejuvenating Stale Bread. 
Save the Seed Catalogues. 
To Renew Rubber Goods .’ 
An Oilcloth Apron.' 
The Beauty Before Us. \ 
Precautions.. 
Cure for a Cough. 
Freezln g Horn tny. 
Home-Made Tray. 
Pop-Corn.. 
Snow for Cleansing. .....' 
Not New, But G0 ; d.[ 
Lemon Juice for Rheumatism. 
Useful Christmas Gifts... 
Chrlstmas Confections. . ” " “ 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Can the Mortgage Be Foreclosed?. 
“ More Hogs and Less Hell”. 
Rurallsms.. 
Editorials. 
Brevities. 
The Prospect.’.. 
As We Go to Press . 
Markets.. 
Crop and Market Notes... 
Premiums.... ’ 
ASP! N WALL’ 
In writing to advertisers please always mention 
The Rural. 
P |ants * 
Corn, 
Beans, 
Ensilage, 
Distributes 
Fertilizer. 
6 to 8 
^ Acres 
p? Planted 
Per Day, 
and in one 
Operation. 
Absolutely 
Guaranteed. 
BUY “DIRECT FROM FACTORY,” BEST 
MIXED PAINTS 
At WHOLESALE PRICES,Delivered I REE, 
For Houses, Barns, Roofs, all colors, & SAVE Middlemen’s 
profits. In use 51 years. Endorsed by Grange & Farmers’ 
Alliance. Low prices wil surprise you. Write for samples. 
O. W. INGERSOLL, *J4G Plymouth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
When you can get the Best at 
Cargo prices in any Quantity. 
Dinner, Tea and Toilet Sets, 
Watches, Clocks, Music Boxes, 
Cook Books and all kinds of premi¬ 
ums given to Club Agents. 
G«od Income made by getting 
orders for our celebrated goods. 
For full particulars address 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA CO. 
and 33 Vesey St., N. Y. 
Cuts Potatoes for Seed faster than 
eight men can hy hand. Preserves 
the eyes. Pays for itself in one day. 
No fingers cut. Seed ends taken off. 
A Great Tool for Cutting up Ro ots for Stock. 
Simple in construction. Thousands 
PI f1\/£R QPPn N,ce clean, Medium 
ULUf till 5.U clover seed. Price, $6 50 
per bushel, or $6 in lots of five bushels or more, sacks 
free, f. o. b. Refer to T. R. Smith, Sec. Ohio State 
Grange, or send stamp for particulars to 
W. J SMITH, Adelaide, Ohio. 
Bed of Knives. 
