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Of Choice Seeds and Plants 
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‘ R f beautiful Palms, 2 sorts, strong plants. 
« packets cho ce Vegetable Seeds, all different....;:; 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
THE PROSPECT. 
You Western farmers who are usinsf fertilizers for 
the first time. The mixture offered you will be mostly 
blood and bone. These contain nitrof^en and phos¬ 
phoric acid, but no potash. On ordinary soils you will 
not give fertilizers a fair test until you use some form 
of potash with the blood and bone. Try this mixture : 
Equal parts of blood and bone and 500 pounds of that 
mixture to 100 of muriate of potash. 
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Whatevek profit there may be in breeding fancy 
horses, and those specially fitted for certain kinds of 
work, the time certainly has gone by when there is 
any profit in raising ordinary stock. There is in the 
country a large, and apparently increasing, surplus of 
such. The causes that have led to this are various, 
but the fact is the important point. In some parts of 
the country within a few weeks past, fairly good work 
horses have been sold for as low as $20 each. In and 
near this city during the past winter, horses of fairly 
good breeding, good drivers, young, sound, have been 
sold at ridiculously low prices. They were many of 
them quite speedy, but not enough so to make them 
specially valuable as trotters. They were not heavy 
enough for truckers, or stylish enough for fancy 
drivers, so went at job lot prices. The producers 
couldn’t have received enough to pay for the feed con¬ 
sumed. This is the day of special purpose animals, 
and the man who is wise will devote his energies to 
the production of such, or else cease altogether. More 
special purpose men are needed in this as in other 
lines of farm work. 
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There are many ups and downs in the ice-machine 
business. Last year. Nature relieved them to a great 
extent, but this year, at the beginning of March, the 
first spring month, many an icehouse is nothing but 
an empty void, while others are wholly or partially 
filled with a very poor quality of ice. Ice machines 
will this year have a boom. A new method of making 
ice has just been invented in Canada, by which it is 
said the cost of production has been reduced to eight 
cents per ton, packed. As artificial ice has heretofore 
been the result of expensive machinery and methods, 
this is a great advance. In this new method, the ice 
is not produced by artificial freezing, but the water is 
passed through a patent filter, which purifies it and 
renders it more susceptible to freezing. It is not, 
therefore, a method which can be used in warm coun¬ 
tries, but would be particularly valuable in such a 
season as the present, and in localities where there 
are not streams and ponds where the natural ice may 
be gathered. On many farms this method would be 
particularly valuable. It is, however, patented, and 
negotiations are in progress for its introduction by 
capitalists into this country. 
In every civilized country where the people are sup¬ 
posed to have a voice in government the legislative 
department is divided into two bodies corresponding 
to our National Senate and House of Representatives. 
The House directly represents the people, as its mem¬ 
bers are elected by a popular vote. The other legis¬ 
lative body was designed as a check on the popular 
branch, and so its members represent the various 
States as in this country, certain classes and the 
church as in England, or wealth, great learning, or 
the throne as in parts of Europe. It is remarkable 
that in different parts of the world a protest is grow¬ 
ing against this upper or class chamber. Nova Scotia 
has petitioned for the abolition of her Senate. In 
England the people are seriously asking what good 
purpose is served by the House of Lords. In this coun¬ 
try there is a strong demand for the election of Sena¬ 
tors by the direct vote of the people of the States, in¬ 
stead of by the votes of legislatures. It is more than 
probable that eventually our Constitution will be 
changed so as to provide for such election. As origi¬ 
nally established, our Senate served a good purpose. 
In our loosely organized government the State needed 
a representative as well as the people. At that time 
the ablest men went to the Senate. To-day not half 
the members of that body could ever have been elected 
by the direct vote of the people of their States. The 
present Senate is a slow, bigoted and pompous body, 
of little real use in helpful legislation. Give it new 
blood—right from the people. 
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The dairymen of this country should understand the 
devices of the bogus butter men to get their stuff be¬ 
fore the public. The city papers contain attractive 
advertisements, urging people to send for a sample of 
butterine and give it a trial. Thousands of pounds 
are thus distributed in small packages. This is called 
“ educating the people,” but a more dangerous plan is 
that of printing in the weekly editions of the city 
papers a long article highly praising the stuff. For 
example, the New York Tribune recently had on its 
“agricultural page” a long article praising oleo in 
which is stated: 
While not as rich as butter churned from milk, It forms an admirable 
substitute. It In no way affects the sale of butter, for the cost of the 
latter article places It beyond the means of a larKO proportion of the 
population. Its food value Is nearly equal to the dairy product, and 
It Is this fact that has led to so much antagonistic legislation. The 
production of oleomargarine had added 12.25 to the value of every 
head of cattle slaughtered for food, and as there are now 36,000,000 
head in the United States, this makes an actual increase of 881,000,000 
to the wealth of the Nation. 
Think of a papar which has for years printed live stock 
market reports making such a statement about the 
value of cattle I The lie is even greater than the 
figures show because the man who wrote that state¬ 
ment knows that it is hog fat and not beef fat that 
goes into the bogus butter. It needs a lie to bolster 
up a fraud. If these men want to be so honest and 
fair with the public, why don’t they come out and 
say; “Here is a mixture of lard, cotton-seed oil and 
suet, with a bit of butter in it and the whole mess 
colored yellow. If you want this mixture we can let 
you have it for half the price of butter 1 ” Would the 
“ oleo ” man do that ? Well, he hasn’t offered to yet. 
In England a law has just passed compelling fertilizer 
and feed dealers to make just such a statement. That’s 
what is coming in this country. Already the leading 
stations determine the amount of chlorine in ferti¬ 
lizers, so that farmers may tell whether the potash is 
derived from sulphate or muriate. This is but a step 
towards a law compelling manufacturers to state the 
ingredients from which their goods are made as well 
as the analyses. Everyone knows that the makers of 
high grade goods want such a law, while those who 
make cheap goods oppose it. Why ? Because the 
only chance the cheap goods have is the bogus claim 
that they are “ just as good ” as the better ones. Like 
the “oleo’’man those who advocate low grade ferti¬ 
lizers do not dare face absolute publicity, because that 
would at once put their goods where they belong— 
in a second rate class. 
BUSINESS BITS. 
That wire netting for supporting vines can he had of I’eter Duryee 
& Co., 215 Greenwich Street. New York. It Is cheaper and better than 
brush. 
Automatic hens’nests seem to be getting popular. J. M. llann. 
Box 91, Port Murray, N. J., wants to send Rural readers a circular 
descriptive of one. 
PABIS-GKEEN Sprinklers are advertised by B. Goettsche, 1049 Mil¬ 
waukee Avenue, Chicago, Ill. It Is claimed that 8 to 10 acres can be 
sprinkled by one in a day. 
Tohacco stems for fertilizers and tobacco dust for killing cabbage 
worms and other Insects Is what 11. A. Stoothoff, 331 Madison Ave., 
New York, wants to tell you about, if Interested write him. 
We note that Duane II. Nash, of Millington, N. .1., the manufacturer 
of that great soil pulverizer, the Acme harrow, has secured possession 
of the Macomber corn planter. This Is a valuable little Implement, 
and no doubt the sales will now Increase under Mr. Nash’s pushing 
hand. 
The R. N.-Y. Is never tired of saying a good word for a good thing. 
We have said before that we use the Diamond Balance churn In our 
home dairy, where it has replaced the barrel churn. It has many 
points of excellence, which will be described in circulars furnished 
free on application to Diamond Balance Churn Company, Ballston 
Spa, N. Y. 
Din you neglect to paint your woodwork last fall, no matter whether 
it be the house, barn, granary, or fence, wagon box or plow handles ? 
If so, neglect it no longer. It is not necessary to employ a mechanic to 
do it; any one who can hold a brush can do It, especially if you buy 
ready-mixed paints. These are so handy and cheap that no one can 
excuse himself for neglecting to keep everything about the farm pro¬ 
tected by a coat of paint. O. W. Ingersoll, 246 P;ymouth St., Brooklyn, 
N. Y., makes an excellent brand of mixed paints that he sells direct 
to farmers. 
No one who has not tried them can appreciate the great value of 
root crops to the dairyman and stock grower. Many farmers have been 
deterred from growing roots from lack of knowledge of how to grow, 
care for and store the crop. This fact need not Influence any one 
longer, as the Iowa Seed Co., of Des Moines, la., offer to send any one 
who orders seed from them directions for growing, cultivating and 
storing root crops. They have an advertisement of this class of seeds 
in another part of the paper, and their reputation is a sufficient recom¬ 
mendation of the quality of the seeds pffered. 
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VEGETABLE, FLOWER and FARM SEEDS 
including every standard variety and every novelty of 
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