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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 
Fanners' Club Discussion. 
Continued. 
Rye and Its Addition to the Soil. 
C. S,, Ore Bank. Va.—The R. N.-Y. 
asks: “What does rye add to the soil that 
makes it better able to bear a crop?” I 
don’t think The R. N.-Y. should have 
asked that question. What does culti¬ 
vation add to the soil? A better simile 
would be: What does a cow add to a calf? 
Food that would kill the calf the first 
week of its existence she concentrates 
into milk and the more the calf gets of 
this in its early days the sooner and the 
better it will be able to scuffle for itself. 
Now, some of the things that rye does 
are these: Like cultivation, it improves 
the mechanical condition of the soil. It 
gives the land a rest in the sense that no 
fertility is carted away, with this advant¬ 
age over the bare ground that it forms a 
mulch, preventing loss of fertility by 
washing rains and evaporation, while its 
roots capture fertility that would other¬ 
wise leach into lower strata. Other fer¬ 
tility it concentrates. It adds exactly 
the amount it saves. It is beneficial in 
that it affords to the succeeding young 
plant concentrated food that is very 
readily assimilable, giving it size and 
vigor that will enable the plant to hustle 
for itself as it grows older. Let the dis¬ 
appointed ones broadcast a little lime 
before plowing under and mark the dif¬ 
ference. Various plants are better than 
rye for the intended purpose. Electric 
lights are better than kerosene lamps. 
Not all farmers, by a great majority, can 
enjoy the former. Not all, or any at all 
times, can get the benefit of these better 
plants, so they must make the best of 
what they can use. The trouble with 
most green manurers is that the expecta¬ 
tions are greater than the means justify. 
My plan would be to raise rye during the 
colder months. In May lime and plow 
under. Early^n June sow peas. In Sep¬ 
tember plow under, harrow once, broad¬ 
cast a few hundred pounds each cf muri¬ 
ate of potash and bone meal and harrow 
in. As soon as dry enough after the first 
shower sow not over one bushel of wheat, 
and the first week of March, regardless 
of the thermometer, sow clover. 
R. N.-Y.—We asked the question in the 
hope of drawing out just such an answer. 
Many farmers expect too much of rye and 
are disappointed. 
Buying: at Wholesale Ag:ala. 
Fred Grundy, III.—On page 847, L. 
B. Pierce says that it is easy for him to 
write generalities; then tells what he 
knows about prices in his locality, and 
from them tries to demonstrate that it is 
cheaper to buy in small quantities at retail 
than in round lots at first hands. This 
is contrary to the teachings of Thti Rural 
New Yorker, if I have read it aright; 
and also contrary to all of Tiy experience 
in the matter. 
Prices of all the leading staple articles 
like sugars, coffees, etc., fiuctuate, but I 
will give them as they are just now. 
Granulated sugar retails here at6J^ cents 
per pound. It can be had in sacks of 100 
pounds in Chicago at five cents per pound. 
Browned coffees in one-pound packages 
sell here at 30 cents per pound. In 
Chicago 26M cents per pound. To be 
sure the home groceryman will grind it 
if so desired, but what sensible cook ever 
grinds coffee more than 10 minutes be¬ 
fore using? A first-class “Arcade” coffee 
mill that will last 15 years or more can 
be bought for 35 cents. Superfine Oolong 
tea costs here 50 cents per pound. Qdite 
as good an article can be bought in Chi¬ 
cago in wire 10-pound caddies for 33 cents 
per pound. The best baking powder sells 
here at 50 cents per pound. In Chicago 
35 cents. Best black pepper here 30 cents 
per pound. In Chicago, six-pound tins, 
]8 cents per pound. And there is about 
the same difference in other spices. 
Freight, first-class, from Chicago to this 
place is 47 cents per 100 pounds. Kero¬ 
sene costs here 15 cents per gallon. By 
the barrel in Chicago eight cents, but it 
can* be bought nearer-at about the same 
price. A tank to hold one barrel, made 
of best galvanized iron with wood rein¬ 
forced bottom, tin hood, steady stream 
pump for pumping from barrel into tank 
and out again, all complete, $5, and it 
will last almost a lifetime if boused. 
Many families now use oil stoves and im¬ 
proved lamps, and burn two to six gal¬ 
lons of oil per week. With these the 
difference in prices noted above amounts 
to something in a year. 
There is little chance to save anything 
on fiour here, except the mere cost of 
sacks. We export fiour from this place 
to Europe. In August and September 
coal can be bought here, dry, and in good 
order, as cheap as, or cheaper than, at 
any other time of year. And I find it is 
the same in almost all parts of the West. 
This year the price was eight cents per 
bushel in hundred bushel lots. Half a 
cent higher for less. During those two 
months our roads are almost invariably 
good, and a team can easily haul a load 
of 40 or 50 bushels. When the roads 
break up, as they often do in October, 20 
bushels is a big load for any team. Sen¬ 
sible farmers buy a year’s supply of coal 
and haul it when the job is merely light 
exercise. Clodhoppers buy it just when 
they must have it, pay higher prices, and 
take four horses to haul 15 bushels. I am 
well aware that there is no great fortune 
in buying at wholesale and in round lots, 
but I was always taught that a penny 
saved was one earned. If a man save §15 to 
§50 a year by buying at wholesale he just 
simply earns that much, and nobody has 
any good reason for howling if he get 
rich. 
HOW A BABY WAS SAVED. 
AN INTERESTING STORY FOR PARENTS 
A Child That Was Born with a Terrible 
Affliction — Pronounced Incurable by 
the Leading Physicians of Hahnemann 
College—Saved by a Miracle. 
[From the Philadelphia Inquirer ] 
From time to time there have appeared 
in the leading and most reputable news¬ 
papers of the country marvelous accounts 
of many wonderful cures that have been 
affected by a medicine called Dr. Wil¬ 
liams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. These 
statements have been made by some of 
the best known men in business circles, 
church circles, and have been backed up 
by their affidavits. The Inquirer is 
pleased to add another to the list, and 
gives the story below, properly vouched 
for. 
Little Ettie Moncrieff is the daughter 
of Mrs. Helen Moncrieff, who resides 
with her sister, Mrs. M. G. Meek, at 748 
Wharton Street, which is a neat little 
bakery. The reporter found Mrs. Meek 
herself behind the counter and she said : 
“ My sister’s daughter, who is now a 
year old, was afflicted from her birth 
with a spinal affection, and the doctor 
who attended her said she could not live. 
We had two other doctors to attend her. 
They also said she could not live. Final¬ 
ly I took her to the Hahnemann College 
That was four months ago, when sne 
was eight months old. The examination 
was made in the presence of a rocm full 
of physicians and students. The Profes¬ 
sor lectured on her case, saying it was a 
very rare one, and that in such cases there 
was seldom a recovery. It was, he re¬ 
marked, the most peculiar case that was 
ev( r brought to his attention. 
“I brought tne child home imme¬ 
diately, believing, as the Professor and 
the others had said, that she couldn't 
live. In fact, at one time, we thought 
she was entirely gone She was un¬ 
conscious, with scarcely perceptible 
pulse or breath. Several times she was 
in an almost equally helpless condition 
and we looked for her death hourly. 
“ Then I called to mind how Dr. Will¬ 
iams’ Pink Pills for Pale People had once 
cured me of the after-effects of the 
grippe, and the miraculous recoveries I 
had heard of and read about of p?ople 
cured from paralysis in various stages, 
and even from physic il deformities. I 
told my sister that since all the doctors 
had abandoned the child, acdshe seemed 
to have no chance for life, it could cer¬ 
tainly do no harm to try the Pink Pills 
to see if they could possibly repeat their 
other wonderful cures. She couldn’t 
move at that time, both her arms and 
legs being affected. But we began that 
very night giving her the Pink Pills, let¬ 
ting her have one pellet a day divided 
into three, parts. On the third day we 
could see that she was improving. Be¬ 
fore that it was hard to get her to take 
food. At the end of two weeks we saw 
great improvement in her. We continued 
giving her the pills more than a month. 
After we ceased giving her the Pink 
Pills, however, she seemed a little less 
happy and healthy, and we soon began 
using them again. Now she is a cheer¬ 
ful, beautiful child in splendid health. 
She has entirely recovered from her 
spinal and other troubles. She sleeps 
well and takes her food we'!. For a child 
of her age she seems to be as strong and 
healthy as could be expected. When we 
hold her by the arm or she is at our 
knees she can stand, and for a child who 
was once deprived of all power of spine, 
arms and legs, this seems wonderful. 
We cannot have the slightest doubt now 
that she will grow up a strong, healthy 
child.” 
Mrs. Meek made the following affidavit 
to the above: 
Sworn and subscribed before me this 
sixth day of May, A D. 1893. 
James F. Rooney, 
[seal ] Notary Public. 
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are not a patent 
medicine in the sense that name implies. 
They were first compounded as a prescrip¬ 
tion, and used as such in general practice 
by an eminent physician. So great was 
their efficacy that it was deemed wise to 
place them within the reach of all. They 
are now manufactured by the Dr. Will¬ 
iams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, 
N. Y., and Brockville, Ont., and are sold 
in boxes (never in loose form by the dozen 
or hundred, and the public are cautioned 
against numerous imitations sold in this 
shape) at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for 
§2.50, and may be had of all druggists or 
direct by mail from Dr. Williams’ Meli- 
cine Co , from either address. The price 
at which these pills are sold makes a 
course of treatment inexpensive as com¬ 
pared with other remedies or medical 
treatment,— Adv. 
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