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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
June 9 
“THROWING AWAY YOUR PROFIT.” 
In T)ie R. N.-Y. of February 3, under 
the above heading, was an article calling 
the attention of shippers of country 
produce to the necessity of putting it up 
in a merchantable manner. The writer 
seemed to think that the story would get 
monotonous, but we would say as the 
Methodists sing, (no reproach cn the 
Methodists, for I am one), “Tell it over 
once again,” for there always will be 
some one to profit by the tale that is 
often told; because some are beginners 
in this line, have never visited the city 
markets, and don’t know how packing 
should be done. I remember some 25 
years ago my father was shipping apples 
to a commission man, and about that 
time the fashion of facing the head of 
the barrel had come to this market. As 
my father always wanted to do what was 
right and profitable, he had the barrels 
faced, well filled and pressed. So far all 
right, but it had been the custom of 
coopers to put their markon each barrel 
they made, and when the barrel was 
opened to take out the end so marked. 
When the apples spoken of were faced 
they were faced on the marked ends, 
thinking that the commission man would 
take out this head at any cost. When 
the barrels were branded the brand was 
put on the best end to mark on. The re¬ 
sult was that part of them were marked 
on the faced end and part not, and the 
commission man took out the branded 
head. Part of the barrels only appeared 
faced. He continued to write, “ If all 
the barrels were faced I could get a bet¬ 
ter price for the fruit.” It was a conun¬ 
drum why the barrels were not all right 
when they arrived in market, as they 
had been put up the same way. The 
problem was not solved until some one 
went to the city and found out If all 
commission men would have printed 
short directions for putting up the pro¬ 
ducts they handle, and send them out 
once or twice a year to their consigners, 
they would save themselves trouble and 
their shippers money. iSome do this, but 
I have not found many that do. An¬ 
other thing is that different markets re¬ 
quire different methods of packing. East¬ 
ern markets are more particular than 
Western. I have not a word to say in 
defense of the man who shipped the 
earth, roots and rotten stalks with his 
celery, for a man who will ship anything 
rotten and dirty should lose his profit. 
A man who has sense enough to do com¬ 
mon labor, should know better. 1 am 
speaking of those who would do but 
don’t know how. 
Here comes in the fault of the farmer ; 
if he would spend some of his money 
each year in looking around for new 
ideas on packing, etc., he would spend it 
to the best advantage of any during the 
year. If he wants to find out his imper¬ 
fections in putting up his products, let 
him take some of them along with him 
and undertake to sell them. The would- 
be buyers will make him think he does 
not know anything about packing. Any 
man who has produce to sell, should 
have his mark ; it is best for that mark 
to be his name. Let it be put on every 
package that has been put up in a first- 
class manner. First-class doesn’t mean 
the outside of the package to be good 
and the center everything that is good, 
bad and indifferent, but the brightest on 
top and good all through. Let him make 
every package alike good. His commis¬ 
sion man or men will soon learn that his 
pacuing is right and they can depend on 
it. When the consumer finds that brand 
is good, he will want more and will come 
back where he bought first to get it. 
Before long this man will have more 
calls for his products than he can furnish. 
Moscow, W. Va. f. s. e. 
Coffee Substitutes. — Prof. C. S. 
Plumb, of the Indiana Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, writes a sensible bulletin on this 
subject. He says: 
While no substitute will satisfy the 
lover of high grade coffee, the peculiar 
properties of coffee as a drink render it 
unsuited to a few people in every com¬ 
munity. These few persons frequently 
make use of a substitute, which, while 
lacking the alkaloid of true coffee, m a 
measure imparts to the fluid made from 
it a flavor similar to that of coffee. Such 
a drink may be palatable, nourishing and 
well adapted to the person using it. 
He then describes the Soy bean, which 
he says may be planted in rows 30 inches 
apart, with a bean every six to nine 
inches. The latter part of May is the 
best time. The ripe beans should be 
pulled and dried. The beans are roasted 
and ground, like coffee. Of this drink 
Prof. Plumb says: 
As tried in the family of the writer, 
the drink made from the Soy bean was 
agreeable, and enjoyed more than some 
of the so called coffee served in some 
hotels and restaurants. I have no hesi¬ 
tation in recommending farmers to make 
a drink from roasted Soy beans, rather 
than buy the cheap grades of coffee sold 
on the market, that in so many cases are 
adulterated with burnt pastry beans, 
peas, chicory, etc. Drink made by a 
number of persons in this community 
from the roasted Soy bean was much 
relished. 
Some parties use one-fourth true coffee 
with the ground beans. Prof. Plumb 
gives a. list of the coffee substitutes given 
by readers of The R. N.-Y., and says: 
The purpose of this communication is 
not against the use of pure coffee, which 
for those with whom it agrees is decid¬ 
edly superior to a substitute, but for the 
benefit of those who desire to use a sub¬ 
stitute for economy or health considera¬ 
tions In view of the large amount of 
highly adulterated coffee sold on the 
market, wherein the cereals and peas 
and beans play an important part, it 
would seem just as well for more of the 
people who buy the low grade, cheap 
coffees, to make their drink out of a sub¬ 
stitute which will answer the same pur¬ 
pose in every respect and cost materially 
less. 
‘ Government Seeds.” —The House of 
Representatives had lots of fun last 
week in discussing the estimates of ap¬ 
propriation for the Agricultural Dipart- 
ment. They finally gave Secretary Mor¬ 
ton ^30,000 more than he asked for the 
purchase of seeds. During the debate 
the following letter was read by Mr. 
Pickier, of South Dakota: 
Dear Sir ; My wife has been pester¬ 
ing me for some time to write to some 
member of Congress for a batch of seeds 
—I mean such seeds as are sent out from 
the Agricultural Department. Now that 
the Democrats are in power, I presume 
you have nothing to do but to help make 
a quorum and send out seeds to your hay¬ 
seed constituents. Now, I am one of 
your hayseed constituents, or rather my 
wife is, as she is going to farm exten¬ 
sively the coming season, and we deem 
it but fair that we have our share, or 
rather my wife’s share, of garden seeds 
We want good, honest Democratic gar¬ 
den seeds, none of your back numbers ; 
something good enough for Oid Andrew 
Jackson or Samuel J. Tildtn, or any 
other Democratic saint. 
I would like some 70-day corn, and if 
the new Administration have any new 
silver seed that will produce standard 
silver dollars, or even Mexican dollars, 
in about 60 days, I would like some of 
that. Our land is well adapted to the 
raising of silver. We would like some¬ 
thing that would yield a thousand bush¬ 
els to the acre and sell for 31 a bushel. 
We have not farmed much, but are look¬ 
ing for anything new or profitable. 
Some of our friends say German carp 
is a good crop. We will put in a few 
acres of carp for a starter if we can get 
the seed. Some of our kind friends re¬ 
commend ostriches, but they grow so 
few in a hill that we will not venture to 
try them. 
There is a small lake near our farm, 
and my wife is anxious to raise some 
gondolas. They are an Italian bird, I 
believe. The edmate here is severe, but 
she thinks she could raise them by keep 
ing them near a hard coal burner in the 
winter season. If Mr. Morton could be 
prevailed upon to send us a pair of young 
ones we would esteem it a great favor. 
We could use some Canvasback duck 
seed to good advantage. 
Mixed farming is talked of a good 
deal, and some say our farm is just the 
thing lor wool. 1 do not want Poland 
China or Shorthorn wool seed. 1 would 
prefer Shanghai, or Irish setter, that 
would shear about 12 pounds to the vine. 
We want to try some hard coal seed this 
year, as we have paid 310 a ton for coal 
about as long as we care to. 
One of my young sons has a desire to 
raise a pair of elephants to break our 
land with. Do you think Mr. Morton 
would be willing to send us a couple of 
elephant eggs to try the experiment 
with? Some of our advanced thinkers 
advise me to raise a crop of plug tobacco. 
In selecting the seed I wish you would 
send “Spearhead,” “Climax” or “Star.” 
The climate is too dry for fine cut. If 
the department has anything new in 
Jack rabbits, I would like a few vines 
that would bear the second year. 
Thanking you lor past favors, I am, 
very truly yours, james wells. 
mM'U X. 
The subject of the above portrait is a 
prominent and much respected citizen, Mr. 
Robert Manson, of West llye, N. H. Where 
Mr. Manson is known “ his w'ord is as good 
as his bond.” In a recent letter to Dr. R. V. 
Pierce, Chief Consulting Physician to the 
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y., Mr. Manson says : 
‘‘ Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the 
best pills I ever took for the liver. All my 
friends say they do them the most good.” 
This opinion is sharm by every one who 
once tries these tiny, little, sugar-coated pills, 
w'hich are to bo found in all medicine stores. 
The U. S. Inspector of Immigration at Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y., writes of them as follows: 
“ From early childhood I have suffered 
from a sluggish liver, with all the disorders 
accompanying such a condition. Doctors’ 
prescriptions and patent medicines I have 
used in abundance ; they only afforded tem¬ 
porary relief. I was recommended to try 
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. I did so, tak¬ 
ing two at night and one after dinner every 
day for two weeks. I have reduced the dose 
to one I Pellet ’ every day for two months. 
I have in six months increased in solid flesh 
twenty-two pounds. I am in better health 
than 1 have been since childhood. Drowsi¬ 
ness and unpleasant feelings after meals have 
completely disappeared.” 
Assist nature a little now and then with a 
gentle laxative, or, if need be, with a more 
searching .md cleansing cathartic, thereby 
removing offending matter from the stom¬ 
ach and bowels, and toning up and invigo¬ 
rating the liver and quickening its tardy 
action, and you thereby remove the cause 
of a multitude of distressing diseases, such 
as headachy, indigestion, biliousness, skin 
diseases, boils, carbuncles, piles, fevers and 
maladies too numerous to mention. 
If people would pay more attention to 
properly regulating the action of their bow¬ 
els, they would have less frequent occasion 
to call for their doctors’ services to subdue 
attacks of dangerous diseases. 
lliat, of all known agents to accomplish 
this purpose, Dr. Pierce’s Plc^isant Pellets are 
unoqualed, is proven by the f.act that once 
used, they are always in favor. Their sec¬ 
ondary effect is to keep the bowels open and 
reyidar, not to further constipate, as is the 
case with other pills. Hence, their great 
pqpul^ity with sufferers from habitual con¬ 
stipation, piles, and indigestion. 
The “ Pleasant Pellets ” are far more effec¬ 
tive in arousing the liver to action than ‘•blue 
pills,” calomel, or other merourial prepara¬ 
tions, and have the further merit of being 
purely vegetable and perfectly harmless iii 
any condition of the system ; no particular 
care is required while using them. 
Compost of the choicest, concentrated 
vegetable extracts, their cost is much more 
than is that of other pills found in the mar¬ 
ket, yet from forty to forty-four “Pellets” 
are put up in each sealed glass vial, as sold 
through druggists, and can to had at the price 
of the more ordinary and cheaper made pills. 
Dr. Pierce prides himself on having been 
first to introduce a Little Liver Pill to the 
American people. Many have imitated them, 
but none have approached his “ Pleasant Pel¬ 
lets ” in excellence. 
For aU laxative and cathartic purposes 
the “ Pleasant Pellets ” are infinitely supe¬ 
rior to all “mineral waters,” sedlitz pow¬ 
ders, “ salts,’’ castor oil, fruit syrups (so- 
called), laxative “ teas,” and the many other 
purgative compounds sold in various for ms 
Put up in glass vials, sealed, therefore 
always fresh and reliable. One little “Pel¬ 
let ” is laxative, two gently cathartic. 
As a “dinner pill,” to promote digestion, 
take one each day after dinner. To relieve 
distress from over-eating, nothing equals 
them. They are tiny, sugar-coated, anti- 
bilious granules, scarcely larger than mus¬ 
tard seeds. Every child wants them. 
Then, after they are taken, instead of dis¬ 
turbing and shocking the system, they act in 
a mild, and natural way. There is no re¬ 
action afterward. Their help lasts. 
Accept no substitute recommended to be 
“ just as good.” They may to better for the 
dealer, because of paying him a totter profit, 
but he is not the one who needs help. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York, 
