1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
i39 
THE PROSPECT. 
It is always a pleasure for The R. N -Y. to call at¬ 
tention to the good work done by the experiment sta¬ 
tions. A pamphlet that every dairyman in this coun¬ 
try should have is Bulletin No. 38 of the Wisconsin 
Station (Madison). It contains all the facts about 100 
American rations which are fed in as many dairy herds 
in different parts of this country. We cannot under¬ 
stand how an intelligent dairyman can read this bul¬ 
letin without learning something about ois business. 
The only persons who cannot afford to study it are 
those who already know it all or those who do not care 
to learn anything. 
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Thebe is, at present, a duty of 20 percent on garden 
seeds. The Wi son bill would remove this duty and 
put such seeds on the free list. A circular signed by 
17 of the largest seed growers in the country, and ask¬ 
ing for a retention of the duty has been sent to the 
Senate. It is claimed that the seed growing, and 
market gaidening interests of this country are enor¬ 
mous, nearly $100 000,000 being invested in the latter 
industry alone. It is also claimed that American- 
grown seeds are of a better percentage of vitality. 
They are ripened under better climatic conditions, and 
have not been subjected to the dampness of an ocean 
voyage. It is claimed, too, that free trade in seeds 
will result in the importation of large quantities of 
inferior goods which will be sold as American grown 
or mixed with the home grown product. Under the 
present tariff, we are told, turnip seeds have been 
brought here so cheaply that it no longer pays to 
grow them, and it is argued that free trade will drive 
other branches of seed growing out of America. Wa 
doubt if this petition will have weight with the Senate. 
This administration seems determined to force its 
measures through. Those who object to these measures 
will ha/e a chance next fall to vote for a change in Con¬ 
gress, and while that may not change the tariff laws 
it may foreshadow what is to follow two years hence. 
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Blank & Co. hired a basement room in the commis¬ 
sion district, and hung out a shingle announcing to 
the world that they were commission merchants and 
receivers of all Uinds of country produce. They like¬ 
wise engaged a typewriter and sent out price currents 
and typewritten letters by the thousand soliciting 
consignments from the four quarters of the globe. 
Being liberal-minded men, they promised prices far 
beyond those quoted by other commission merchants 
in their circulars and price currents. They received 
large quantities of goods; for some of them, prompt 
returns at good prices were made, thus insuring in¬ 
creased receipts from the pleas d shippers and their 
friends. Toe next settlements would be much de¬ 
layed, and finally the remittance for sales apparently 
escaped their minds. At any rate, no returns were 
made. At the same time, trade was attracted by the 
firm selling goods at lower prices than other people in 
the same line of business. Finally complaints from 
shippers became so frequent and.so loud that the firm 
disappeared from its haunts between two days. Al¬ 
most simultaneously another firm. Blink <& Co , opened 
up a store on another street, and began precisely the 
same tactics. Investigation revealed the fact that it 
was the same firm, Mr. Blink, the present head of the 
firm having been the selling agent of the other, while 
the head of the former firm, Mr. Biank, was the sell¬ 
ing agent of the new. As they were underselling 
other commission merchants, and thereby injuring 
their trade, the latter in self defense warned them 
that they must stop and quit the locality or they would 
be exposed. Hence thf y disappeared. This is a true 
story all but the names. Tne moral of it is in the ap¬ 
plication. These people, with no financial standing, 
received large consignments from total strangers 
simply because they promised to return prices far 
above those offered by other financially responsible 
men. If they hadn’t received these shipments they 
couldn’t have done business. The same game is being 
played continually in New York and other cities. The 
R N • Y. has repeatedly warned its readers not to ship 
goods to those without satisfactory references who 
quote prices above the general run. If shippers will 
persist in these practices, they will get bitten, and 
they deserve little sympathy. 
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There was a time when most of the Western cattle 
came East on their feet. They were slaughtered at 
the East and their blood and bones went to nearby 
fertilizer factories. Later the cattle were slaughtered 
in the West and came East as dressed beef, yet still 
most of the blood and hone came with them. Far 
seeing men saw that this was wrong—that the time 
would ceme when the phosphoric acid and nitrogen 
taken from the land by these cattle would have to be 
replaced. The actual need has come sooner than was 
expicted. At all the great Western factories blood, 
tankage and bone are prepared for fertilizers, and the 
old-time wholesaling has given place to a retail trade. 
This year thousands of Western farmers are buying 
small lots of these blood and bone fertilizers for the 
first time. We get letters by the dozen asking if such 
and such brand of blood tankage or bone will be good 
to use on a poor, run down field. One thing the West¬ 
ern buyer and seller seems to forget that these bone 
goods contain little or no potash. We believe they 
make a mistake in so strongly advocating the use of 
nitrogen and pnosphoric acid without making it clear 
that for the best results their goods should be used 
with kainit or muriate of potash. Sooner or later they 
will be forced to admit that potash is needed. The 
R N.-Y. will do its best to get farmers to investigate 
this matter. It will not answer to fertilize a run-down 
grain fid I on the principle that cattle and grain exhaust 
the land of the same eie nents. 
What They Say. 
Jointer “on the Other Side.” —Did any of your 
readers ever use a right-hand jointer on a left-hand 
plow ? Or, a left-hand jointer on a right-hand plow ? 
I have used mine in this way, more or less for five 
years, and find it to be an improvement over the old 
way, especially iu sod. The jointer must be set over 
far enough to make all of its cut on the furrow-slice. 
Now, instead of the “slice ” being propped up on edge 
by jointer-slice, it is allowed to turn against the pre¬ 
vious turn, and the j winter cut is thrown over on the 
land, thence into the bottom of the furrow where it 
belongs. The edge of the land looks a little ragged, 
but the plowed field does not. Try it. F. T. 
Clyde, Ohio. 
Bees and Bartlett Pears. —I would like to state 
while the bee and fruit question is being discussed 
that I have a few Bartlett pear trees set about 11 
years ago, that bore every year after they commenced 
bearing, until about three years ago. I commenced 
five years ago with bees, and three years ago I had 10 
stands, since which time I have had no pears. My 
pears are the first thing to bloom, before there is any 
other pasture for bees, and I thought that probably 
the myriads of bees took all the pollen as fast as it 
formed, the effect being the same as though there had 
been no pollen. A few pears set and dropped off. I 
would also state that I had other varieties of pears in 
my orchard when the Bartletts bore, but they were 
barren or worthless and I cut them back and grafted 
Bartletts on them, about the same time I got stocked 
with bees. So the question is whether the Bartletts 
fail because they have no other kinds tj fartiliz 5 them, 
or because of the bees. They are in my garden and 
are manured and ciltivated every year and are vigor¬ 
ous trees. I would like to know, if any oie can tall me. 
Lincoln County, Oregon. .james 8.\utu. 
R. N.-Y.—We would exonerate the bees ! Tne Bart¬ 
lett, it is thought, cannot be fertilized with its own 
pollen. It is necessary to have other varieties near it. 
Money in Anjou Pears —On page 86 The R N -Y. 
asks about the tendency of the Aoj )u pear to blow off 
before it is ripe. I have s’x of the Anjou trees about 
18 years old, and they always hold their fruit until 
ripe. Of course, in severe wind sto'ms, in common 
with all pears, they fall. This is my experience sell¬ 
ing them for the past six years : Thev are ripened in 
a cool cellar—sometimes in bureau drawers—care¬ 
fully selected, wrapped in tissue piper, and sold to 
the clubs and banks at five cents each. I never get 
half enough to supply the demand—in fact, buyers 
tumble over themselves trying to get enough. They 
are sold from Thanksgiving to Christmas ; no customer 
is allowed more than five. It is as easy as “ rolling off 
a log” to make 250 par cent over the market price of 
October by properly handling them. I am not in the 
pear business, but simply sell them to see what can be 
done by a little business applied to fruit selling. I 
have carefully followed The R N.-Y.’s advice, viz.; 
Market farm products attractively. I have had the same 
success selling blackberries and strawberries. 
Oswego, N. Y. N. A. w. 
BUSINESS BITS. 
There Ib gold in the hogs of L B. SllTer & Co. 
Mr OEO. CHATSBNBKua, Carthage, N. Y., has lots of pure maple 
sugar to Hell. 
Mr. C. II. Wyckokf, of Groton, N Y., waa the originator of the Idea 
that led to “Tne BustneHS Hen.” Mr. WycEolf h While Leghorns lay — 
they don't lie. Write and get hlB circular. 
Every farmer Ib intereBted in an Implement that thoroughly pre¬ 
pares the soil, cuttlog deep add pulverizlcg it. The Heller Rioii g har¬ 
row iB one of theae implementB For description addresB Uel.er Mlg. 
Co., Montclair, N. J. 
The Import mce of lusurlug one’s 1 fe is second only to the Import¬ 
ance of insuring In a safe company. We have known the Brooklyn 
Life of New York and regard ti as, though not one of tne largest, cer¬ 
tainly one of tee soundest companies In America. Its omcers are good, 
oonservatlre men. 
The value of subdralring is no longer questioned. Hundreds of 
farms all over the country have been Increased a hundredfold In 
value and their owners made wea tuy by svstematic tile draining. 
Let Che seaso 1 be wet or dry, tne drained land Is suie to produce an 
abundant crop. Send to Jackson Bros., Aloany, N. Y., for esilmate.s 
and tile literature. 
This note is intended for the ei e of the person who has lost an arm 
or leg. There was a time when such a loss meant a cut of 50 per cent 
In one’s usefalness. N,.t so any l.,ng*-r. There are plenty of men 
walking about the streets with only one real leg. The artlUcial limb 
Is so well made that no one could know their loss from gait or action. 
Those wonderful legs are made by A A. Marks, 701 Broadway, New 
Yore. Bead to him and get one of the most remarkable pamphlets 
ever printed. 
The Mapes Fertilizer Co , of 143 Liberty Street. New York, have 
always shown great lloerality and taote In the distrlbuilon of pam¬ 
phlets and ether adveiilslDg matter. No other Him has done so much 
to give the people an education in toe latlonal use of fsitlllzers. This 
year, la addiilon to tbeti own pauipbleis, they have secured lor free 
distribution copies Of Free G’ur dy's ” A Fertune in 1 wo Acres,” and 
the cew pamphlet, ” gertiiizeis and Irul s.” These bocks are new 
and fresh, and contain the very latest and best Inlcrmatlon bearing 
upon the Intensive culture of vegstabl s and irulis Send at once to 
the Mapes Co. lor these pamphlets. They make a lu.l horiicuitural 
library. 
BECKERT’S SEED ANNUAL 
Fox* 1884, 
Is a useful book tor those who are interested In 
gardening. Treats of most all that Is worthy In 
Vegetables and Flower Seeds, Spring Bnlos, Seed 
Potatoes, etc. Write for It and mention The R. N.-Y 
'WAI. C. BKCKKRX, Seedsman, Allegheny, Pa. 
A COMPLETE GARDEN 
for 50 cents. 12 t kt of sesd of !2 distinct varieties 
of hard< Howers, witn Insiructlons now lo gn w Ail 
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plants. Address A. M. SMiTU, st. Caihailues, Unt. 
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PLAN I S. Prices way down, 
Sena for Price-List. 
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