the rural NEW-YORKER. 
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THE PROSPECT. 
What rights have the consumers of milk in this dis¬ 
cussion of tuberculosis ? It is not all a matter con¬ 
cerning those who own the cows. Those who drink 
the milk have a fair right to demand pure cows. 
Why not ? ^ 
A LAW was passed in Minnesota requiring dealers 
in bogus butter to color their stuff pink. The Su¬ 
preme Court of that State declares the law constitu¬ 
tional, and the Dairy Commissioner will enforce it. 
In our opinion, this color regulation will prove the 
most effective means of fighting bogus butter. Make 
the manufacturers color it some color other than 
yellow. Its natural color would be white. What is 
the objection to its natural color ? 
Prof. A. D. Hopkins, of the West Virginia Experi¬ 
ment Station, has discovered a new cause of scab in 
potatoes. This is a minute insect (epidapus scabies). 
Prof. Hopkins’s investigations lead him to conclude 
that a large per cent of the loss attributed to the 
potato scab fungus is really caused by these little 
insects. The corrosive sublimate solution is a practi¬ 
cal means of destroying the insects on the seed pota¬ 
toes. We shall have more to say about this. 
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Ox page 282, C. M. T. complains that the reason 
why Southern products—eggs were the special arti¬ 
cles that first started the discussion—sell for lower 
prices, is simply because they are Southern. Nothing 
is farther from the facts. In and around this city are 
thousands of gardeners who formerly did well raising 
early truck for the market. They complain that their 
trade has been greatly curtailed, and their profits 
materially lessened, if not entirely dissipated, be¬ 
cause of the Southern produce. No prejudice against 
Southern products there, certainly. The prices at 
which many of these products sell would indicate 
that, far from being prejudiced against them, some 
one has a great desire to possess them. Low prices 
are always the result of inferior quality, a glutted 
market or a product not such as is desired. Our 
friend mentions a shipment of poultry to substantiate 
his statements. He shipped his poultry to Washing¬ 
ton. Isn’t Washington as much South as North ? 
And has the South prejudice against its own products? 
In the case of the poultry, the market demand was 
for light-weight chicks, and this makes all the differ¬ 
ence in the world. These chickens averaged nearly 
six pounds apiece. In this market, at this season. 
such chickens often sell for less than half the price of 
those weighing less than four pounds per pair. 
Heavy chickens, at this season, sell for about the 
price of fowls. It is simply a case of furnishing just 
what the market demands, it matters not from where 
it comes. It is true, however, that if a certain part of 
the country invariably furnishes poor products, an 
extra article will have to overcome this stigma and 
demonstrate its superiority. Business is business, 
and a good article will usually sell for what it is worth. 
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The South Carolina Supreme Court has decided that 
the famous Dispensary Law is unconstitutional. The 
germ of the decision seems to be that liquor selling is 
a legitimate business and that the State has no right 
to take a man’s business away from him. It is evident, 
so the judges say, that the law is not a prohibition 
measure since it is a good thing for the State to make 
large sales and hence gain large profits. Nobody 
seems to know where matters are left by this decision. 
It means either prohibition or perfect freedom to sell 
liquor. The theory that liquor selling is as legitimate 
as any other branch of business will not hold in a 
majority of the States. As for the legal value of the 
decision, it is said that in July one of the present 
judges will retire and another who believes in the 
present law will take his place. In that event it 
would be only necessary to bring the case up again in 
some form to obtain a decision reversing the present 
one. 
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The artificial cackler is now abroad. She is the hen 
that lays a little pebble of an egg and then spends the 
best part of an hour celebrati ng its birth. Oftentimes 
when some more industrious h en does her duty in the 
nest, the artificial cackler jumps up and screams for 
both of them. The trouble with many a fiock is that 
the owners believe that a hen cannot cackle until she 
lays an egg. The drop of the egg is like a “ nickel in 
the slot” which opens a valve in the hen’s throat I So 
these wise men pick out the cacklers for future 
breeders and cross them with roosters that show the 
most enterprise in crowing. That is a good way to 
breed for sound, but is not a sound way to breed for 
eggs. For breeding stock you want the birds that 
laid while the others were lazy. The hen that pre¬ 
sents you with 200 eggs per year has got to keep at 
work summer, fall and winter, as well as in spring. 
Any hen can lay eggs in spring, but the loafers quit in 
'll, the fall. Go to the moulting season thou breeder, 
ilfand be wise in thy selections. 
Last week we gave the facts about a fraud who has 
done a swindling commission business in this city. 
This man is but a type of a band of scoundrels who 
are doing much to discredit business. Not only do 
they steal money from those who ship them produce, 
but they injure the trade of others by cutting down 
prices. As a reputable commission man said recently; 
“ This man Hayt sold calves. So did I—or at least 
tried to. Buyers would come to my place and say, 
‘ Hayt offers calves for so much, and that’s all we will 
give.’ The price was away below what might have 
been obtained, but we could not get any more if he 
would sell for that.” Thus, you see, this man, who 
never expected to make returns for the calves, could 
almost give them away and still make more money 
than those who made returns for a higher price. The 
moral of the whole thing is that such rascals will 
thrive and injure the commission business just as long 
as farmers are foolish enough to patronize irresponsi¬ 
ble parties who make extravagant promises and quote 
prices higher than those offered by reputable dealers. 
BUSINESS BITS. 
Kembmbeb, The K. N.-Y. has seen the hens go In and out of that 
patent nest made by O. W. Mapes, Middletown, N. Y. It Is a KOOd 
thlnK. 
ABE you In need of fenclnK this year or next? If so, 65 cents a rod 
for fence that will not burn, blow down or rot Is not hltih, besides 
taking up butllttle space, and being ornamental as well as useful. 
The Homer Steel Fence Co., Homer, Mich., will tell all about this 
fence if you ask them. 
THOSE who want sprinklers for putting liquid poisons on potato 
vines are reminded that B. Goettsche, 1041) Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, 
sells a knapsack sprinkler that will cover two rows at once. This Is 
the only sprinkler of which we know that has a device for keeping the 
mixture well stirred up. 
We are frequently asked by readers where to ship fancy butter 
and eggs. Garner & Co., on another page say that they can get extra 
prices for such goods, and we are satlstled that they will. It will be 
useless to ship them poor goods, as their trade requires the best. 
They are perfectly reliable and trustworthy. 
The Asplnwall Vlfg. Co., of Jackson, Mich., are well-known as 
makers of the famous Asplnwall potato planter. The public will be 
Interested to know that this company has perfected a “ Death Dis¬ 
tributor” or machine for poison or Bordeaux Mixture. This Is a care¬ 
ful and conservative house and what they do Is always well done. 
PITT8BUBO, PA., Is a good market for certain lines of produce, and 
Somers, Brother & Co., 611 Liberty Street, are a good firm to ship to. 
Always put your own name and address on packages as well as the 
name and address of the house to which you ship, and notify the com¬ 
mission house by letter or postal card of date and amount of shipment. 
CHBiotrs bargains are offered farmers by A. H. Crawford, Liverpool 
N. Y. He used to manufacture large Iron kettles for boiling out salt. 
That business having come to an end, these kettles are free to hunt 
another Job. They are sold for only two cents a pound, and are very 
useful for watering troughs, farm boilers, etc. At this price they 
make great bargains. Write to Mr. Crawford for particulars. 
THE MAPES 
MANURES 
FOR 
Potatoes, Cabbages, Cauliflower, Celery, 
Late Truck, Corn Fodder, Hungarian 
Grass, Mangolds, Turnips, Fruit Trees, 
Gherkins, Hops, Grass, etc. 
Basis of the Ma pes Ma¬ 
nures is BONE-no rock 
used--alUhe phosphoric ^ 
su ppi ied from 
e a n d P e i^v i aji 
Cuaj ^ o. ■ . 
Mechanical Condition Excellent. 
Do not Lose Strength by Exposure. 
These Manures can be applied at planting as a top-dressing or at hoeing. 
They will suffer little, if any, loss of strength by exposure on the ground. 
The Mapes Fertilizers Head Both Lists of Fertilizers Re¬ 
ported in the Year 1893 by the Connecticut Experiment 
Station. (S. w. Johnson, Director.) 
[From Connecticut Farm [Hartford) March 3,1894.] 
It will be difficult for the careful and unprejudiced reader of the Experiment 
Station reports, not to be impressed with the remarkably high standard maintainea 
by all the Mapes goods. In Part I., lately issued, of the Connecticut Station Report 
for 1893, the analyses of 61 “Nitrogenous superphosphates” and 76 “special ma¬ 
nures” show that Mapes heads the list in both classes, in being found to have the 
highest valuation, as figured by the Station as compared with the cost to the farmer. 
[From the New England HomesteOid, March 8, 1894.] 
As to the quality of the goods of The Mapes Formula and Peruvian Guano 
Company, analysis shows them to be unexcelled for farm, fruit or garden purposes. 
The analyses of 61 nitrogenous superphosphates and 76 special manures by the 
Connecticut State Experiment Station, show that Mapes heads the list in both 
classes in being found to have the HIGHEST VALUATION COMPAB.ED TO 
THE COST TO THE FARMER. 
The Mapes Manures found to equal or exceed their guar¬ 
anteed strength in every case. 
Of the manufacturers whose goods were examined by the Rhode Island Experi¬ 
ment Station, and reported on page 132 of Bulletin No. 26, November, 1893, the 
Mapes Company was THE ONLY ONE of all those whose tests amounted to 12 or 
over who were FOUND TO EQUAL OR EXCEED THEIR GUARANTEE- IN 
EVERY CASE. The Mapes Company had a record of 100 per cent; the next best 
record was 93 per cent, 
[From the Mapes Pamphlet ] 
The Choice Quality of Raw Materials Composing the Mapes Manures. 
The basis of the Mapes Manures is ground pure bone. The other materials 
added are all of the highest grade and best known forms of plant-food, such as Sul¬ 
phate of Ammonia, Nitrate of Soda, Peruvian Guano, ground dried Pure Blood, 
dried Pure Flesh, Soluble High Grade Potash, Magnesia, etc., allintimately blended 
together, in fine mechanical condition, in the proper proportions and in the forms 
best adapted to meet the demands of the trees and fruits, as well as for other crops 
for which they are recommended. 
All the Phosphoric Acid is from pure Animal Bone (not petrified) and Peruvian 
Guano. 
There is no objectionable acidity in these Manures ; no free acid of any kind. 
The above-named materials are not only the highest grade materials, but are 
the choicest of the best class. They are not only materials of the highest grade, 
but they include those that are in tnemselves, without further manipulation, fer¬ 
tilizers of world-renowned merit. . 
We state emphatically that we have never used any S. C. Rock or Phosphates 
of Iron or of Alumina in any of our Complete or Special Crop Manures, and we 
stand ready to pay $10,000 to any one proving the contrary. 
We use no Rock, Horn, Leather, Marl, or any other inferior ingredients. All 
the materials used are of the very choicest quality and of high concentration. 
THE MAPES FORMULA AND PERUVIAN GUANO CO., New York. 
