THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
'June' 16 
384 
AiS We Go To Press. 
“VALUE RECEIVED” 
We have just been reading of a huai- 
ness scheme that comes close to the per¬ 
formance of the impossible—viz , having 
your cake after you have eaten it. A 
man bought a stock of cigars and had 
them insured against fire. He then 
smoked them all up and demanded his 
insurance. Surely fire destroyed them. 
Why did he not have a fa‘r case for the 
recovery of bis insurance money ? This 
instance of receiving double value for 
your money is not the only one on 
record. Let us examine this note ; 
Allow Dce to say that 1 Blrceiely believe that when 
I made up uy mind to subscilte fer The K. N’.-Y., 
I made the best Investment I could possibly have 
made with that amount of money. I have bten well 
paid each week fer the whole year's subscription 
price. 0- !’• M. 
OsweKO, N. 'V. 
Certainly we will allow you to say that 
—you may tell all the neighbors and 
publish it in the county paper if you 
like. We shall not offer a word of pro¬ 
test. How is that for double value any¬ 
way ? The man with the insurance on 
his cigars did not have any such business 
scheme as that. Or, to put the fact be¬ 
fore you in a yet more forcible way, let 
us consider this note : 
As 1 have not received my K. N.-Y. for .Tune 2, 
I wish you to send me one. for 1 don t want to lose a 
HlnKle number. I take eltiht other papers, and would 
much rather lose al. the others than The U. N.- V. 
Union, N.Y. H. B. 
We send another copy. The comment 
we have to make is that, for .'>0 cents, we 
will send The R. N.-Y. all the rest of 
this year, and give you your money back 
if you don’t consider the printed matter 
worth that much. We await your pleas- 
? 2 
The following note may serve as text 
for a double-barreled sermon : 
1 am trying to make a living from hens and straw¬ 
berries on live acres. Am only 1^ mile from the city 
of McKeesport, I’a.. 26,010 population. 1 have 2t0 
hens. Ur wn J.eghorns and VVyckoll White l.eghoris. 
I am selling eggs fer hatching this spr.ng to my 
friends and neighbors, and, if 1 am successful in 
this, will next year advertise In Tub U. N.-Y. One 
who cannot do a satisfactory business with his 
neighbors should not try to do It by mall. 
Firstly, let us say that five acres near a 
town of 25,000 people, afford a fine open¬ 
ing for any man. Suppose only five per 
cent of the 25,000 are willing to pay ex¬ 
tra for fresh eggs and berries. There is 
a first-rate living in the business of find¬ 
ing these people and catering to their 
wants. Secondly, the prospective chicken 
in an egg is worth more than the con¬ 
tents of that egg for eating purposes, 
provided you can convince the purchaser 
that care and skill have been packed in¬ 
side the shell. That’s right about the 
neighbors. Let every would-be adver¬ 
tiser ponder it well. 
2 2 2 
Condensation is the watchword of to¬ 
day. Condensed work gives expanded 
results. Every now and then we hear of 
some man who obtained big results from 
a small spot of ground. Here, for ex¬ 
ample, is a record sent from Nunda, 
N. Y.: 
I planted one square red of ground to onion sets. I 
bunched and sold the onions for fS.lO. 1 then set 
the same ground wltn l,t00 While Plume ctleiy 
plants and sold the crop for two cents per root, or 
120 , making In all $28.t0. I am trying It cn a large 
scale this season. 8. M. c. 
Now you can readily figure what that 
means on an acre cultivated in the same 
way. Probably you could not hope to 
run your whole farm as the man did his 
square rod, but the fact is that if you 
would take just the help you have in 
your family and crowd their work and 
skill on to a small area, you would be 
better off. We call that a fact—what 
do you call it ? Ask your neighbor when 
you tell him The R. N.-Y. costs only 50 
cents for the rest of this year ! 
We have often read learned discus¬ 
sions about the effect of stock on graft. 
People come forward every now and 
then with a startling illustration of the 
fact that a graft of one apple on another 
shows in its fruit some traits of root or 
slock. We are not going into the phi¬ 
losophy of this matter beyond pointing 
out the singular fact that the same kind 
of sap may run up to the crotch of an 
apple tree and then so divide that half 
of it will make a red apple and the other 
half a green one. For some years we 
have been trying to graft new ideas on 
to the minds of our readers. We observe 
that in this soit of grafting the stock 
has an immense amount of icfiuence on 
the product. In fact, the graft is little 
more than a handle—it is the man back 
of that handle that does the business. 
Some people take a simple suggestion 
and stir in their own judgment and 
sense. Others want it all figured out, 
and even then will not realize that there 
is a great big difference between a sug¬ 
gested experiment and advice to go head 
over heels into a thing. The R. N.-Y. 
tries to do two things : 1. Tell the truth 
about farm operations. 2 Present sug¬ 
gestions for a fair experiment rather 
than give exact laws of success that any 
one can blindly follow. We suggest 
that you announce this when you act as 
our agent at the next farmers’ gather¬ 
ing. By the way, what is the date of 
that meeting ? 
WE WANT TO KNOW, TOD KNOW 1 
ff you don't see what you want, ask for it. 
I’UAIhlB DOGS, Cakneu Vegetabi.es, axd Mo- 
I.ASSE8.—1. Wbat vHll kill prairie dOKS, and where 
nay It be obtained ? 2. What Is the best way to can 
looiatoes, cern, pumpkins, etc , for market ? 8. How 
may egks be preserved? 4. How Is sorKhum made? 
What 18 the best mill ? Where may It be cblalned ? 
Or, w 1.1 It pay better to make N. O. rrolasses If we 
can raise the cane ? J. J. 
Oklahoma. 
AN8.—1. East fall, nuE U. N.-Y. lllcstrated ard 
described a oevlce by which a Western man exter¬ 
minates all such burrow iDK animals. It was made 
from a tin can and an old bellows, by meats of 
which sulphur fumes were driven down In.o the bur¬ 
rows, the openlnps to which w ere tlphtly clcstd. Mr 
W'oodwaro kl.ls wocdchucks by saeatlr g thin cock¬ 
les with molasses, sprlnkilrg them with arsenic 
sticking two uaetber and drcppltg them down the 
burrows. The same plan might work with prairie 
dogs. Either the suit hur cr arsenic may be obtained 
at any drug store. 2. The best way Is to grow them 
for a canning lactory. T here is no money to be made 
by farmers li. canning vegetables lor market on any 
ordinary scale. 8, See Tuk It. N.-Y., page 2&7,lltBt 
column. 4. Write to the Bljmer Iren Works Co., 
Cincinnati, O ; they will retd jiamphlet describing 
the whole business, apparatus needed, etc. As to 
which will give the greater profit, we are unable to 
say, to many unknown elements must necessarily be 
considered. Cun any of our readers answer this 
question ? 
DIB80LV1XQ Nitrate of Soda.— How much ni¬ 
trate of soda should be dissolved In 60 gallons of 
water to be applied to strawberries ? 8. K. 
AN8.—We would not use over 200 pounds to the 
acre of nitrate of soda. The quantity to .60 gallons 
of water may be determined on that basis. 
Drawing Manure ; Planting and Spraying 
Trees.— 1. 1 have a quantity of manure that 1 must 
getaway Ircm the tarn thlssummer. Will It be bet¬ 
ter to draw It into a large pile and spread It on top 
of the oat ground next spring, or spread It when 
drawn where It Is to be plowed under ? 2. Has a man 
a right to set trees cn a boundary line ? 3. Does It 
do any good to spray trees when It tains eveiy ether 
day ? E- J- »• 
Hamburg, N. Y. 
AN8.—1. Spread It as fast as drawn by all means. 
To say nothing of the extra labor involved in piling 
and then drawing and spreading, more fertility Is 
wasted by leaching than most people who follow this 
(ContiniLed an next page.) 
A KENIUCKY MIRACLE. 
THE HON. JOHN M. RICE TEIXS HOW HE 
WAS CURED OF,RHEUMATISM. 
Crippled for Six Years With Sciatica in 
Us Worst Form. Be Expected to Die, 
but was Saved in a Marvelous Manner. 
[Fri-m the Covington (Ky.) Post.] 
The Hon. John M. Rice, of Louisa, 
Lawrence County, Kentucky, has for the 
past two years retired from active life as 
Criminal and Circuit Judge of the 16th 
Judicial District of Kentucky. 
He has for many years served his na¬ 
tive county and State in the legislature 
at Frankfort and at Washington, and, 
until his retirement, was a noted figure 
in political and judicial circles. The 
Judge is well known throughout the 
State and possesses the best qualities 
which go to make a Kentucky gentleman 
honored wherever he is known. 
About six years ago the bodily trou¬ 
bles which finally caused his retirement 
at a time when his mental faculties 
were in the zenith of their strength, be¬ 
gan their encroachment upon his natur¬ 
ally strong constitution. A few days 
ago a Kentucky Post reporter called up- 
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It costs no more per gallon than cheap paints, and lasts many 
times as long. 
Look out for the brands of White Lead offered you ; any of 
the following are sure: 
“ANCHOR” (Cincinnati). “JEWETT” (New York). 
“ARMSTRONG & McKELVY” (Pittsburgh). “KENTUCKY” (Uouisville). 
“ ATLANTIC” (New York). 
“ BEYMER-BAUMAN ” (Pittsburgh). 
“ BRADLEY ” (New York). 
“ BROOKLYN ” (New York). 
“ COLLIER ” (St. Louis). 
“CORNELL" (Buffalo). 
“DAVIS-CHAMBERS” (Pittsburgh) 
“ECKSTEIN” (Cincinnati). 
"FAHNESTOCK” (Pittsburgh). 
“JOHN T.LEWIS & BROS. CO.” (Phila.) 
“ MORLEY ” (Cleveland). 
“ MISSOURI ” (SL Louis). 
“RED SEAL” (St. Louis). 
“SALEM” (Salem, Ma.ss.) 
“ SHIPMAN ” (Chicago). 
“ SOUTHERN ” (St. Louis and Chicago). 
“ULSTER” (New York). 
“ UNION ” (New York). 
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These colors are sold in one-pound cans, each can being sufficient to tint 25 pounds of 
Strictly Pure Wliite Lead the desiren shade; they are in no sense ready-mixed paints, but a com¬ 
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A good many thousand dollars have been saved ptoperty-owners by having our hook on 
painting and color-card. Send us a postal card and get both free. 
NATIONAL LEAD CO., New York, 
on Judge Rice, who in the foliowlDg 
words related the history of the causes 
that led to his retirement. “It is just 
about six years since I had an attack of 
rheumatism, slight at first, hut soon de¬ 
veloping into Sciatic rheumatism, which 
began first with acute shooting pains in 
the hips, gradually extending downward 
to my feet. 
“My condition became so bad that I 
eventually lost all power of my legs, and 
then the liver, kidneys and bladder, and 
in fact, my whole system became de¬ 
ranged. I tried the treatment of many 
physicians, hut receiving no lasting bene¬ 
fit from them, I had recourse to patent 
remedies, trying one kind after another 
until I believe there were none I had not 
sampled. 
“ In 1888. attended by my son, John, I 
went to Hot Springs, Ark. I was not 
much benefited by some months’ stay 
there, when I returned home. My liver 
was actually dead, and a dull, persistent 
pain in its region kept me on the rack 
all the time. In 1890 I was reappointed 
Circuit Judge, but it was impossible for 
me to give atttntion to my dutifs. In 
1891 I went to the Silurian Springs, 
Waukesha, Wis. I stayed there some 
time, but without improvement. 
“Again I returned home, this time 
feeling no hopes of recovery. The mus¬ 
cles of my limbs were now reduced by 
atrophy to mere strings. Sciatic pains 
tortured me terribly, hut it was the dis¬ 
ordered condition of my liver that was, 
I felt, gradually wearing my life away. 
Doctors gave me up, all kinds of reme¬ 
dies bad been tried without avail, and 
there was nothing more for me to do 
hut resign myself to fate. 
“ I liBgered on in this condition, sus¬ 
tained almost entirely by stimulants, 
until April, 1893. One day John saw an 
advertisement of Dr. Williams’ Pink 
Pills for Pale People in the Kentucky 
Post. This was something new, and as 
one more drug after so many others 
could not do so much harm, John pre¬ 
vailed upon me to try the Pink Pills. It 
was, I think, in the first week in May 
the pills arrived. I remember 1 was not 
expected to live for more than three or 
four days at the time. The effect of the 
pills, however, was marvelous, and I 
could soon eat heartily, a thing 1 had 
not done for years. The liver began al¬ 
most instantaneously to perform its func¬ 
tions, and has done so ever since. With¬ 
out doubt the pills saved my life, and 
while I do not crave notoriety, I cannot 
refuse to testify to their wortn.’’ 
The reporter called upon Mr. Hughes, 
the Louisa druggist, who informed him 
that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills have been 
very popular since J udge Rice used them 
with such bent fit. He mentioned sev¬ 
eral who have found relief in their use. 
An analysis of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills 
for Pale People shows that they contain, 
in a condensed form, all the elements 
necessary to give new life and richness 
to the blood, and restore shattered 
nerves. They are an unfailing specific 
for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, 
partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sciat¬ 
ica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous 
headache, the after effects of la gripp.-, 
palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow 
complexions, all forms of weakness, 
either in male or female, and all dis¬ 
eases resulting from vitiated humors in 
the blood. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are 
sold by all dealers, or will be sent post¬ 
paid on receipt of price (50 cents a box, 
or six boxes for ^2.50—they are never 
sold in bulk or by the 100) by addressing 
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady, 
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