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TIIH kUUAL NEW-YORKER 
July 28 
THE 
Rural New-Yorker 
Oor. Ohaimbera and Pearl Sta., Sew Fork. 
Natlaaal Weekly Joarnal for Coantry and Bnbarban Homea. 
BLBBBT B. CABMAN, Bdltor-ln-Chlef. 
HEBBEBT W. COIXINGWOOD, MnnatrlnK Editor 
JOHN J. DILliON, Btulnesa ManaKOr. 
Oof>vriuhUd 1H94, 
Address all baslness oornmnnloatlons and make all orders pay¬ 
able to THE BUBAL NEW-YOBKBB. 
Be Bare that the name and address of sender, with name of Post 
offloe and State, and what the remittance Is for, appear in every letter, 
Money orders and bank drafts on New York are the safest means of 
transmlttlnK money. 
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1894. 
Thebe may be times when it is desirable to perform 
hard work that produces nothing but fatigue and an 
appetite. Such work never pays a mortgage though 
—nor will it “buy the woman a dress,” 
* 
As Mr. Woodward says on another page, a good 
many farmers have wives that are worth their weight 
in gold, and yet few such farmers are prepared to 
show a full appreciation of this value. Sae here, it 
won’t render you subject to the income tax to admit 
that you have a good wife I 
* 
When we get a letter or manuscript with the last 
page first and other indications that the writer never 
stopped to read it over before sending, we are forced 
to conclude that he is very careless or very conceited to 
think that a letter needs no revision simply because he 
wrote it. Edit every word you write ! 
ft 
Attention is called to the inducements to agents 
for the month of August, which are announced on 
page 481. The R. N.-Y. will conduct a lively sub¬ 
scription campaign this year. We want new sub¬ 
scribers. We recognize that it takes time and energy 
to secure them, and we propose to pay our agents 
good wages for time spent in the service of The R. N.- 
Y. The August premiums are all first-class, and just 
as represented. Most of them will go for very small 
clubs, and enterprising agents will be able to secure 
them without much effort. 
a 
“ You ought not to publish market quotations,” said 
a produce dealer the other day. “ Prices fiuctuate so 
rapidly that those in a weekly paper are of no sort of 
use as a guide. Many times they get receivers into 
trouble, too. People read that the prices of certain 
products are so and so; they ship their produce ex¬ 
pecting to get quoted prices. Meanwhile, the supply 
has largely increased, and prices have materially de¬ 
clined, so that they are naturally disappointed, and 
accuse the dealer of dishonesty. If he happens to get 
higher prices, they do not complain.” Which all goes 
to confirm what we have often said before. 
* 
The Breeder’s Gazette is glad to see The R. N.-Y. 
“ come into line” in the matter of exposing the “ Pre- 
servaline” fraud. That is good considering the fact 
that we have been exposing this stuff for over four 
years. The Gazette then says : 
We advise The B. N.-Y. not to hold Its breath while It waits for the 
agricultural press to throw out the Preservaline advertisements. 
Many of these papers take anything that Is offered, and our New 
York contemporary will llnd that a knowledge of the true character of 
such frauds as the one mentioned will unfortunately make little 
difference with “Its partners In the agricultural press." 
The two chief partners of “Preservaline” in this State 
are the Country Gentleman and Orange County 
Farmer. We hoped that an exposure of the stuff such 
as Prof. Henry gave us last week would induce them 
to drop the advertising—but apparently it had little 
effect. 
Some weeks ago we stated that Miller & Sibley had 
come boldly forward and offered to guarantee any 
animal in their herd as healthy—on the basis of the 
tuberculin test. This seemed to us like a good stroke 
of business. Prof. W. A. Henry, who has just passed 
through a slaughter of tuberculous cows at the Wis¬ 
consin Station, writes about this guarantee : 
I bellave such a guarantee Is worth $50 per head to any breeder of 
Jersey cattle who may wish to purchase. The prudent man will here¬ 
after Insist upon guaranteed, tested animals before buying, and I 
believe that In taking this step they have done what will be a genuine 
aid to those who may come to them for stock, as well as for their own 
Interest. 
That is about the view taken by The R. N.-Y. It will 
be seen, however, from the notes printed in this issue, 
that some other good breeders do not fully believe 
this. The R. N.-Y. takes the bull by the horns in 
starting this discussion and wants to see the matter 
well discussed. There is a right side —where is it ? 
OuB friend on page 483, makes a statement about 
the sale of Eastern beef cattle that we wish could be 
generally true. We think, however, that it is true of 
localities only. Near the large towns and cities, where 
railroad communication with the dressed beef store¬ 
houses is easy, it is almost impossible to sell a fat cow 
or steer. There are, it is true, smaller markets off the 
railroads for home-grown beef, but they do not repre¬ 
sent a fraction of the old-time markets, or is it prob¬ 
able that they will improve. 
Ellebslie Stock Fabm has had more than its share 
of hard knocks. Twice the barn was burned to the 
ground. The herd was once wiped out by fire and 
tuberculosis has made ravages in it. Even the poultry 
acquired tuberculosis from running and feeding on 
pastures where the tuberculous cows had fed. Nearly 
6,000 head of poultry were killed. There is no tuber¬ 
culosis left on the place—there ought not to be after 
such heroic treatment of the disease. The Guernsey 
herd is being rebuilt and there are nearly 2,500 chickens 
hatched since the others were all killed off. 
« 
The chemists'at the Texas Station have made some 
interesting experiments as 'to the effect of cotton-seed 
or meal on butter and fat. They find that butter 
made from feeding cotton-seed meal melts at a higher 
temperature than that made from other grains. That 
means that such butter will stand several degrees 
more of heat, which is an advantage to dairymen in a 
warm climate. Beef tallow and lard show the same 
characteristics, in fact “oleo” made from beef tal¬ 
low derived from steers fed on cotton seed might con¬ 
fuse the ordinary chemical tests for pure butter. 
• 
Notice what G. A. D. says on page 482 about being 
bothered at having to supply new customers. His 
products are so good and so much sought, that people 
run after them. Do they do that for your products ? 
If not, why not? Notice, too, that he thought he 
couldn’t peddle, but after being almost forced into do¬ 
ing it, he found that he was a grand success at it. He 
now has a sure market, and although he may not be 
able to do so much business as though he sold at whole¬ 
sale, his business is certain, and the profit probably 
fully as large as, if not larger than, it would be if he 
did a much larger business. 
« 
Thebe seems to be considerable dissatisfaction with 
the men appointed under the New York State Agri¬ 
cultural Department, as agents for the prevention of 
diseases in fruit trees. It is charged that preference 
is given to politicians rather than to practical fruit 
growers. For example, a friend in Oiwego County, 
N. Y., thus describes one of these appointees : 
The man appointed for our town Is an ex-saloonkeeper. He kept a 
saloon last summer. Uls only qualldoatioa Is that he needs the $2 
per day. I gave him some State Reports of Agriculture that he might 
study up and learn what black-knot Is. 
Now there is a fine specim3n of a man to have the say 
about destroying trees in a farmer’s orchard. Are 
there any more like him ? What sort of men have 
been appointed in your town ? Let’s hear about it I 
* 
The interest in a better system of delivering the 
mail in country districts has not by any means died out. 
We received the following note from a friend in New 
York State: 
Talk is cheap —one can talk, but few can go to work and put Into 
practice what they preach. Some time ago. It was suggested that the 
farmers have their mall carried to them as well as their city friends. 
Why are not some of these enthusiasts making this projected scheme 
a happy reality 7 
Talk does not cost much, yet it is often very expensive 
when it takes the time and energy that should go into 
productive work. As to this mail service, a great many 
communities have solved the problem. The farmers 
combined and hired a man with a team or a boy with 
a bicycle to bring the mail and deliver it. This has 
worked first-rate, and in several instances has led the 
Government to establish new post offices. That is the 
way to secure aid from Uncle Sam. Go ahead and 
show him you mean business. 
« 
At the conference held last week between the Board 
of Control of the New York Experiment Station and 
representative Long Island farmers, it was agreed by 
the latter that insects injurious to vegetables were 
more abundant and destructive this year than they 
had ever been known before, that the farmers did not 
know how to destroy them or prevent their ravages, 
and that the greatest service the station could render 
would be immediately to send one or more competent 
entomologists to instruct the truck farmers as to the 
best methods of destroying these pests. From the 
descriptions given, there is no doubt some of these are 
unknown elsewhere, and it may require some time to 
learn their life history and to devise some practical 
methods for their destruction. The first work of the 
Station on Long Island will probably be in this line, 
and has doubtless begun by this time. 
There are a good many men in this country who 
have made comfortable fortunes at farming. Most of 
them started with new land which cost them next to 
nothing. For a number of years, they raised good 
crops of wheat and meat, which were sold at high 
prices. The money thus made was well invested, and 
the original farm rapidly increased in value. Young 
men cannot make fortunes in the same way to-day. 
There is no more free land, and even though they 
might raise as large crops as their fathers, they cannot 
obtain the same prices. Another trouble is that some 
of the older men seem to forget that times have 
changed in the past 30 years, and they expect their 
sons to do as they did ; not considering the fact that 
profitable methods have changed with the times. 
Don’t ask the boys to make bricks without straw I 
• 
In the short notes on fattening Western cattle which 
are given this week, we get a curious idea how agri¬ 
culture changes and methods change from place to 
place, instead of dying out. Years ago, farmers in 
New York State and New England, had for the basis 
of their farming the fattening of steers which were 
driven from cheaper Western lands. That business 
failed, but did not entirely disappear, for these farm¬ 
ers in Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska are now fattening 
the steers that were grown in Colorado or Texas. The 
failure of the wheat crop has forced farmers into this 
business—new to many grain growing sections. They 
will not be able to hold it as long as they would 
like, for with Alfalfa and sugar beets, the Colorado 
farmer should be able to put the fiesh on his own 
steers and bring the great packing houses to the 
Rocky Mountains ! ^ 
8EEVITIBS. 
You can't sell mo no Brahmys-I’m a Ijeggun man, I be; 
Them little, clean-legKed fellers, sir, Is good enough fer m«. 
Some folks may take to Brahmys with their big, dark-colored eggs; 
But I baln't gut no use fer birds with feathers on their legs. 
I've kep’ ’em Yes, I’ll bet ye. an’ they run out In the yard 
In winter when It thaws at noon an’ later, freezes hard. 
Them Brahmys would jest strut around each moinln’ In the sun. 
An’ git their legs so thick irlth mud that every day they’s one 
Or two jest froze Into the mud. The hogs would catch ’em there 
An' eat ’em up-I never had no chlciien meat ter spare 
Ker hogs I What’s that ? I orter kep’ them Brahmys all away 
Fiom them air bogs? Well, now, my friend, that's funnv talk, I say. 
Be I a-runnlu’ this here farm, or be them Brahmys boss 7 
Ef I can't run It as I want. It’s 'bout an even toss. 
I ain’t no slave ter Brahmys, I'm a Leggun man, 1 be; 
My hens Is gonter run with hogs-tbat settles it with me. 
“ Take a day cff." 
A SNAKE walks on Its ribs. 
The duck must be stuffed. 
What will make doctors agree 7 
tiuASS In the corn ciop—page 474. 
How the Devil does love a lazy man 1 
A DEAF man should keep away from quinine. 
How does a stewed mother taste these hot days? 
What’s credit 7 The reputation of paying cash 1 
Very likely the ben roost Is a hen roast this season. 
The grocery bill will grow serious when the hens go on a strike. 
A WET sponge on the horse’s head Is better than a quart of oats. 
Don't begin now to pay Interest on the troubles you expect to have. 
You can safely take a reef In your estimate of your own Import¬ 
ance. 
Use “Preservaline’’ If you wish to preserve a lean record for common 
sense. • 
SOHKY we can’t give you more Information about the use of ferti¬ 
lizers on young clover—page 473. 
A New Hampshike ram butted an old lady to death. Why not dis¬ 
horn the vicious rams as well as the vicious bulls 7 
AND now the milk yield 'gins to fall—wo hear the farmer say. 
Oh how I with I'd planted corn for fodder, back In May. 
PEOF. K. H. Farrington is to go to the Wisconsin Station, thus 
making that station wonderfully strong In dairy matters. 
We call the farmer a fraud and harmer—his honor lost—demeaned 
When we put borax down our thorax In milk preservalintd. 
MR. Denise (page 474) tells us about sowing Crimson clover with 
Timothy. It succeeded. What a grass yield that was ! Fertilizers 
did It. 
“ We are working 16 hours a day, but we can't strike,’’ writes a 
Michigan subscriber. Not even a sympathetic strike is in order on 
the farm. 
Most of the business houses In the city close at 12 o’clock noon on 
Saturdays during the summer. Did you ever hear of a saloon closing 
up at that or any other hour, so long as the law permitted It to 
remain open 7 
Here Is a suggestion from Washington State: “Put aside a few 
berries of the promising kinds to see which will keep the longest, and 
hold Its color best after picking. This will help determine their value 
for shipping." Try It another year. 
The Populists in the West and South are adopting the plan of going 
to State and county conventions o i foot or In wagons. By this travel¬ 
ing, a la Coxey, they expect to spread their doctrines among the 
people as they could not do in any other way. 
AN expert from the Bureau of Animal Industry Is to Investigate the 
disease among Rhode Island turkeys known as “ Black Head.” The 
Experiment Station at Kingston wishes to secure birds afflicted with 
that disease. Here is a chance for practical men to cooperate with 
scientists. 
It is said that the value of Western farm mortgages held by Ver¬ 
mont farmers. Is greater than the assessed valuation of Vermont 
farms. Wonder if the Vermont Republicans’ new love for free silver 
coinage Is inspired by the belief that such coinage would make pay¬ 
ments of mortgage interest prompter I 
A NEW scheme for irrigating orchards Is given by a Texas man. A 
long wooden box, four Inches square, open at both ends. Is sunk In the 
ground so that the lower end Is close to the main root of the tree^' 
while the upper end is above ground. With a tank on wheels and’ft’^ 
hose, the Irrigating is done by tilling the boxes with water twice a week 
