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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 14 
As We Go To Press. 
« SCRAPS." 
Vkby likely some of our readers do not 
fully realize just what the heading of 
this department means. To those not 
familiar with a printing office, the mak¬ 
ing of a paper seems a very simple thing, 
but acquaintance with the operations 
soon knocks the simplicity out of it. In 
the first place, every letter of type must 
be picked up by itself and put in place. 
Each week our compositors pick up one 
by one over 250,000 types. These are all 
to be arranged, corrected, re-arranged 
into pages and worked over with the 
greatest care. Without going into de¬ 
tails, we may say that “ going to press” 
is the last operation. We are then all 
ready for ink and paper to record what 
we have arranged the types to say. “As 
We Go To Press,” then, means a general 
backward glance over the whole thing— 
a finishing touch—an effort to get in an 
important “last word” that will stick in 
somebody’s mind and bear fruit. We are 
not sailing under false colors in this de¬ 
partment. We don’t hesitate to tell you 
that its purpose is to call attention to the 
good qualities of The R. N.-Y. Let there 
be no misunderstanding on that point. 
We have faith in our paper and we want 
to enlist your services in its behalf. You 
may have the rest of the paper—give us 
this column in which to talk business. 
The thing we want to leave with you 
this week is that on another page you 
will find a list of excellent books which 
we are all ready to sell. You may send 
the price at any time and receive the 
book by return mail. 
There has always been a great differ¬ 
ence in estimates of values of labor that 
are made by employer and employee. The 
hirer seems to think it a part of his busi¬ 
ness to get the labor performed for as 
little as possible. The difference between 
what he pays and what the labor earns 
for him, is clear profit, and that is what 
he is doing business for. On the other 
hand, the hired is inclined to rate the 
value of his services above what the hirer 
wants to pay. This is natural again, 
because, as society is now constituted, 
no interested party besides yourself will 
place a high value on your work. So 
that wages must be a compromise be¬ 
tween what the man thinks he ought to 
have and what the master would pay if 
left entirely to himself. The labor 
unions change this somewhat by their 
ability to organize arid stop work, and 
thus force the employer to more favor¬ 
able terms; but for the individual worker 
there is but one recourse. That is to 
make his work so valuable that the em¬ 
ployer cannot possibly get along without 
him. As trade is now conducted, no 
young man can hope to secure over 75 
per cent of what his labor is really 
worth. Instead of fighting for 85 per 
cent of this value, he would better try 
to make the total value greater, and still 
keep his 75 per cent. This is respectfully 
submitted to young men who feel that 
their valuable services are not appre- 
elated. 5 j j 
The Lexow Investigating Committee 
have been probing into police affairs in 
this city—stirring things up with a long 
stick This has revealed a condition of 
affairs that may well make every true 
American sick at heart. The political 
rottenness of this city is something fear¬ 
ful. Here are ignorant and worthless 
men living like princes on the tribute 
they have wrung from merchants and 
criminals. Instead of crushing out crime, 
they have protected and fostered it so 
that their share of criminal earnings 
might be greater. Your blood may well 
rise to several degrees above the boiling 
point as you consider these things. The 
only trouble is that it will get cool again 
before you realize that right in your own 
barn and fields are frauds and bluffers 
that are living on you just as these police. 
men are living on others. Lots of your 
animals do not pay for their food. They 
eat and they take up room in your barn 
and make you think they are supporting 
you in great shape. All the while you 
are supporting them, and your wife and 
children may be going without needful 
things in order that they may carry on 
their bluffing game. Down with them. 
Organize an investigating committee 
with account book, scales and Babcock 
test as members and yourself as chair¬ 
man. Let no guilty fraud escape. Down 
with the robbers ! 
Some years ago we sent a man out to 
represent The R. N.-Y. at a county fair. 
He was a good canvasser, but he came 
back in disgust, and said the women folks 
beat him. “ Why,” he said, “ I would 
have a man all talked up to the point of 
subscribing for The R. N. Y., when 
along would come his wife and pull his 
coat and say ; ‘ Oh come on ! Come on 1 
You don’t want that paper; keep your 
money in your pocket I ’ and that would 
be an end of it.” That was bringing the 
question of woman’s rights pretty close 
to our subscription list, and we have 
given the matter considerable thought 
since then. We conclude that the women 
folks are a great power in every good 
farm household. It is getting so that 
they act as judges to decide what read¬ 
ing matter shall enter the family. That 
is good; we are glad of it. If the man 
we speak of had been a better student of 
human nature, be might have explained 
to these farmers’ wives that The R. N.- 
Y. is just as much their paper as it is their 
husband’s. Our wish is to treat the wo¬ 
men folks fairly, and to discuss and talk 
about matters that appeal directly to 
them. In return we shall ask them to 
stand by us when it comes to picking out 
reading matter. When you see your hus¬ 
band, brother or somebody else’s brother 
in whom you are interested, “ almost 
persuaded” by a R. N.-Y. agent, don’t 
pull on his coat and say “ Come on I 
Come on 1 ” but give his mind a little 
nudge in our direction. The R. N.-Y. 
demands fair play for the women folks— 
“ turn about” is also fair play. 
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And now, having given you nearly $5 
worth of excellent advice, we retire in 
favor of a quartette of friends who de¬ 
sire to sing the praise of The R. N.-Y.: 
I have given The B. N.-T. the preference ont of 
Biz papers; it Is the best. G. l. w. 
Bridgeport, Conn. 
The judgment of a Connecticut Yankee 
is generally pretty sound. 
I was very closely studying a copy of The R. N.-Y. 
the other day, and my wife said: “ Of all the six 
agricultural papers that you take, which do y>u like 
the best T ” That was a poser, but I replied, “They 
are all good, but I could not think of trying to do 
without The U. N.-Y." w. D. f. 
South Haven, Mich. 
And we would be sorry to think of doing 
without you. 
You can consider me a life subscriber if The B. 
N.-Y. is kept up to its present standard. I have one 
objection to The Bukal ; you blow a great deal, 
but the paper speaks for Itself. s. l. 
Emmltsburg, Md. 
Well, now, we have told how this one 
department is the place in which we 
refer to The R. N.-Y. We let others do 
most of the blowing—in fact, our friend 
toots our horn a good deal harder than 
we ever did. 
I am well pleased with The B. N.-Y., and as 
Ontario could not afford to miss Sir Oliver Mowat, 
neither can I afford to miss The B. N.-Y. J. d. 
Devizes, Ont. 
Thank you, and if The R. N.-Y. had a 
circulation in Canada as large as Sir 
Oliver’s vote, we could afford to put on 
four extra pages at once. 
FEEDING ANIMALS. 
This is a practical work of 560 pages, by Professor 
B. W. STBWAHT, npen the science of feeding li* a'l 
its details, giving practical rations for all farm ani¬ 
mals. Its accuracy is proved by its adoption as a 
text book in nearly all Agricultural Colleges and Ex¬ 
periment Stations in America. It will pay anybody 
having a horse or a cow, or who feeds a few pigs or 
sheep to buy and study it carefully. Price, Sii.OO. 
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“ BRADLEY ” (New York). 
“ BROOKLYN ” (New York). 
“ COLLIER ” (St. LouLs). 
“ CORNELL ” (Buffalo). 
“ DAVIS-CHAMBERS ” (Pittsbnrgh). 
“ ECKSTEIN ” (Cincinnati). 
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"JEWETT ” (New York). 
“ KENTUCKY ” (Louisville). 
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CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Onions are dull and lower. 
The poultry market Is strong. 
The watermelon market Is weak. 
Receipts of batter have been light. 
Celery from Bermuda has recently arrived In this 
market. 
The green corn now arriving Is mostly of poor 
quality. 
Large arrivals of Egyptian onions render the mar¬ 
ket very weak. 
Two cargoes of 16,500 and 18,000 bags of beans were 
recently received. 
The first Georgia Le Conte pears In any Important 
quantity came in Monday. 
Arrivals of potatoes have been somewhat smaller, 
but still ample for all demands. 
UecelptB of Southern potatoes have been extremely 
heavy, but the demand has been good. 
A gcod many onions have recently been received 
from Kentucky, and brought fu 1 prices. 
Jersey blackberries appeared early In the week 
and sold for higher prices than Southern. 
The New York Fruit and Produce Exchange has 
received Us charter and Is getting ready for busi¬ 
ness. 
The first bale of new cotton was received from 
Texas Monday, and was sold at auction for 21 cents 
per pound. 
The cherry season is nearly at an end, and most of 
the recent arrivals have been very poor. Fine stock 
would bring good prices. 
The Kent County, Mich., Agricultural Society will 
hold Its annual fair September 18-21. F. E. Skeels, 
Secretary, Grand Itaplds. 
A good many Florida tomatoes were sold by the 
transportation companies to pay freight, tbeir price 
being so low that consignees would not receive them 
The Association of American Agrlcnltural Colleges 
and Experiment Stations will hold Its next conven¬ 
tion In Washington, D. C., November 13 next. An In¬ 
teresting and Instructive programme is in course of 
preparation. 
One of the Old Dominion steamers ran aground 
wblle entering the harbor recently, and didn't get 
off In time for that day s market. As prices of pota¬ 
toes and other vegetables with which she was 
loaded, were declining rapidly, it entailed quite a 
loss on shippers. On such unforeseen and unavoid¬ 
able contingencies do the shipper's profits often 
depend. 
Ea!ly In the season, the Pennsylvania Railroad 
opened a freight station In Jersey City at which the 
company Insisted on delivering all produce from the 
South Instead of In New York as formerly. There 
has been a fight with the commission men ever since, 
because they were forced to cart the goods to this 
city as buyers would not go to Jersey City. The 
shippers had to pay this extra cartage, however. 
The company has now abandored its position and 
will deliver produce at Pier 29, as formerly. 
It has been very hot for harvest, the thermometer 
ranging from 97 to 101 degrees for several days, with 
a Itttle hot wind. Corn has come on finely since the 
freeze of May 18 and 19. Potatoes that were frozen 
never started the second time. Some twigs on the 
apple trees froze, and the bark on the main limbs is 
now black and dead over one-half way around, yet 
some of the fruit further out escaped, and Is yet 
doing as well as that on any part of the tree. There 
were no exceptions as to kinds Injured, as it would 
take half the foliage of one tree, then skip several 
in the same row and of the same kind High winds 
June 22, 25 and :6 blew tff one-half of the early 
kinds. The wheat crop Is far better than tbe prom¬ 
ise of three weeks ago as the rains made It fill out 
plump, and nearly doubled tbe bushels expected. 
Lamed, Kan. S. S D. 
FERTILIZERS 
ARE UNPROFITABLE, 
Unless they Contain Sufficient Potash. 
Complete fertilizers should contain at least six per 
cent of Potash. Fertilizers for Potatoes, Tobacco 
Fruits and Vegetables shonld contain from 10 to 15 
per cent of Potash. Farmers should use fertilizers 
containing enough potash or apply Potash salts, 
such as Muriate of Potash, Sulphate of Potash and 
Kalnlt. For Information and pamphlets, address 
GERMAN KALI WORKS, 
93 Nassau S reet, New York City. 
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CROPS 
INCREASED 
AND QUALITY IMPROVED 
BY THE USE 
OF OUR 
Fertilizers. 
WE MANUFACTURE A 
FULL LINE OF 
Bone Super 
Phosphates 
. . and . . 
Special Fertilizers 
for different crops and soils. It pays to use 
them on 
CRAIN, GRASS, 
VEGETABLES, FRUITS, 
TOBACCO, TREES 
AND VINES, 
In fact everything that grows In or out of the , 
ground. We keep In stock all fertilizing 
' chemicals and materials. 
The Cleveland Dryer Co. 
Fertilizer Exchange, 130 SUMMIT STREEl. 
CLEVELAND. OHIO. 
Can a Farmer 
make 
Money 
out of 
to one res¬ 
ponsible far- 
NO! 'I 
YES! 
Fertilizers Free 
Freight Paid. 
full particulars-” 
Powell Fertil izer & Chemical Co. 
‘Powell’s Fertilizers,’’ 
BALTIMORE, MD. 
State Your Dis¬ 
trict and nearest 
Shipping Point. 
Cent 
Wheat? 
raises only ordinary 
doubles his present 
