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THE RURAL 
NEW-YORKER 
August 11 
As We Qo To Press. 
“FALSE COLORS” 
We don’t want any reader to spend 
time over this department and then feel 
that he has been humbugsfed into read¬ 
ing what he would not otherwise have 
done. You should all know by this 
time that all the roads in this column 
run to one destination, viz., an effort to 
show why you should exert yourself a 
little to add a name or two to The R, N.¬ 
Y.’s list. We admit openly that this 
column is maintained for that purpose. 
This is our tin horn, so to speak. We 
propose to blow it, even if we don’t sell 
a clam. So if you don’t want to learn 
what a fine paper The R. N.-Y. is, and 
how you are clogging the wheels of in¬ 
dustrial progress by not getting your 
neighbor to subscribe, don’t read this 
department. Skip it and we will guar¬ 
antee to give you your dollar’s worth on 
the other pages. No false colors about 
The R. N.-Y. False colors have none of 
the redeeming features of false teeth, 
glass eyes or wigs. There is nothing 
but fraud about them. Down with 
fraud ! Sail under your true colors or 
come to anchor. 
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The August subscription prizes have 
thus far been awarded as follows ; 
August 1—Wm. Enrimer, Westmoreland County, Pa 
August 2—Uenry Heed, Worcester County, Mass. 
August 3—0. Stockwell, Worcester County, Mass. 
August 4-G. Hopkins GUI, New Haven Co., Conn. 
As to the size of the clubs, it is enough 
to say that one prize was awarded to a 
man who sent a single three months' sub¬ 
scription. It just happened that day to 
be the only thing entered for the prizes. 
The prizes will all be awarded just ex¬ 
actly as stated. Just think of the 
chances you are missing by not getting 
in early with a few names. “ Big pay 
for little work ”—that’s the only suitable 
name for this scheme. Where are you ? 
Let your voice be heard in the land I 
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The first steamer that undertook to 
cross the ocean was very much of a 
fraud. Clumsy paddle-wheeled steamers 
had been used somewhat on our rivers 
and lakes, but the ocean was thought 
too rough for such work. This first 
steamer was really a sailing vessel with 
two big paddle wheels at the sides, and 
a shaft that ran across her deck. She 
started bravely away from Savannah, 
Ga., with those paddle wheels churning 
up the water tremendously. Once out 
of sight of land, the paddle wheels were 
hauled up on deck, the sails spread, and 
the vessel went before the wind for Eng¬ 
land. Once in sight of land, out went 
the wheels again and in they churned, 
trying to make people think they had 
come that way all across. From that 
day to this is a great step in steamboat 
navigation. There would be no chance 
now for a steamer to play such a hum¬ 
bug on the people, for her true story 
would be flashed across the ocean al¬ 
most before she started. What we want 
to fix in your mind is that frauds and 
humbugs prosper only when there is no 
one to head them off. Lots of humbugs 
go churning up to the farmer’s door and 
get away with his hard-earned cash sim¬ 
ply because the farmer has not been 
taught to see that it is all noise and 
little performance. No man can save 
money who pays the price of perform¬ 
ance and receives wind. If we were not 
exceedingly modest we could carry this 
point out and show how a farmer can 
see the true character of many of these 
frauds by looking through The R. N.-Y. 
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We see many instances of attempts to 
sail under false colors in the folks who 
go about trying to work up sympathy 
for themselves while others, far worse 
“The Life of an Iron Roof 
or how long will it last ?” is the title of 
an instructive little book upon the pre¬ 
servation of iron roofing, sent free by the 
Cincinnati Corrugating Co., B. lf),Piqua,0 
off, stand up and take their medicine 
without a murmur. Here, for example, 
is a note that gives our moral such a 
sharp point that it ought to get under 
the toughest hide : 
I am resting for the first time in my life—tbe 
“rest” caused ty a broken lei?. I have never before 
been in bed an honr, or missed a meal for want of 
appetite. A neighbor called to condole with me, and 
well he might. He Is 67 years old, two years my 
senior, and has bad bis right leg broken six times, 
twice In the knee, twice below and twice above the 
knee. He Is a tailor and had walked to his shop and 
back home at noon, making three miles every day 
(Sundays excepted) for seven years. Tbe last break 
was eight years ago. Moral: Let people with no 
broken limbs take courage. Another Injury I forgot; 
be had bis left arm broken near the wrist. Your 
paper is getting better—so am 1. A. J. s. 
Urbana, Ill. 
Now there is a whole sermon for you. 
Mark it well and use your own sense of 
self-respect for a bookmark. Why do 
you go growling and yelping around 
when some little thing bothers you ? 
Down with the false colors. Be a man. 
Kill off the world’s supply of fault 
finding instead of adding to it. 
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We have on tap a choice assortment of 
good words from our friends which are 
suited to this column : 
There Is more sense and less wind In Tub Uural 
than any other farm paper I know of. A. B. T. 
Hampton, Minn. 
And yet a little wind is not bad. It has 
its uses. All the Vigilant lacked was 
wind to enable her to show her heels to 
the Prince of Wales. Wind sometimes 
drives the sense home. 
There Is no paper published at any price equal to 
TBE Rural as a home and farm paper. That Is my 
private opinion. w. H. K. 
Newark, N. Y. 
Thank you, sir—and we hope you will 
publicly announce your private opinion 
in the presence of the public. 
Last year we handled a good many 
cook stove driers. Here is a letter—a 
fair sample of others—showing how these 
little evaporators worked: 
Last year I dried apples and pumpkin and squash. 
It worked very satisfactory on all. Unless It Is 
washing day, It does not interfere on tbe stove for 
the regular cooking. I am only an experimenter In 
this field, but think that If I get as good results In 
the future as last year, 1 shall oecome an enthusiast 
and evaporate rather than can fruits and vegetables, 
as has been my practice heretofore. I shall try every¬ 
thing before I give it up. Andrew nichols jb. 
New Hampshire. 
We have still any quantity of these driers 
to dispose of. One of them in your house¬ 
hold would earn big money for you I We 
can also furnish a watch to time it. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Best butter Is booming upwards. 
Marrow beans are bringing good prices. 
Considerable new straw Is arriving In this market. 
Potatoes have taken quite a drop since our last re¬ 
port. 
Receipts of Western live spring chickens are In¬ 
creasing. 
Muskmelons from south Jersey were In market 
early In the week. 
The cheese market Is dull, and much of the stock 
Is In poor condition. 
As a general thing, reports from western New 
York Indicate a light apple crop. 
One steamer from Italy brought 310 hampers and 
261 baskets of garlic; an odorous cargo. 
There Is a good demand for prime, large water¬ 
melons, but few of that grade in market. 
Receipts of eggs are liberal, but many of them are 
In poor condition; strictly choice goods are scarce. 
A meeting of the Hay and Straw Dealers’ Associa¬ 
tion Is announced to be held at Syracuse, August 21. 
Huckleberries have been selling for low prices, 
and canners have consequently bought large qnan 
titles. 
Some recent arrivals of country dressed calves 
have been almost given away; they were badly out 
of condition. 
The number of acres of potatoes planted In Michi¬ 
gan this season Is reported as 109 per cent of an 
average year. 
Large quantities of dried cherries are reported on 
their way here from Germany, and they are offered 
at low figures. 
From many parts of the country, reports are that 
apples are dropping badly, so that the early promise 
of a large crop Is not likely to fulfilled. 
A Norfolk firm have Issued their annual report on 
the peanut crop. It appears that the acreage has 
been considerably reduced, owltg to the unremuner- 
atlve prices having obtained during the season 
just closing, there being 30 per cent less acreage this 
year than last. The report shows the stand an ex¬ 
cellent one, the best for several years; conditions 
are favorable, and the promise now Is for a good 
crop. The quality of the old crop has not been good, 
and should that of the growing crop be good, with 
R emember there are hundreds of brands 
of White LeaiJ (so callecJ) on the market that are not White 
Lead, composed largely of Barytes and other materials- 
But the number of brands of genuine 
Stricdy Pure Whire Lead 
is limited. The following brands are standard “Old Dutch” process, 
and just as good as they were when you or your father were boys; 
“ ANCHOR ” (Cincinnati). “JEWETT ’’ (New York). 
“ARMSTRONG & McKELVY” (Pittsburgh). “ KENTUCKY ” (Louisville). 
‘ 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 ” (SL Louis). 
“SALEM ” (Salem, Ma.ss.) 
“ SHIPMAN ” (Chicago). 
“SOUTHERN ”(St.Louis and Chicago). 
“ ULSTER ” (New York). 
“ UNION ” (New York). 
If you want colored paint, tint any of the above strictly pure leads with National Lead Co.'.s 
Pure White Lead Tinting Colors, a pound of color to 25 pounds of lead The best merchants 
sell them, the best painters use them. 
A good many thousand dollars have been saved property-owners by having our book on 
painting and color-card. Send us a postal card and get both free. 
NATIONAL LEAD CO., New York. 
The Clarks Gove Fertilizers 
FOR Wheat, Rye and All Crops. 
Bring Bushels, Quality, Weight, Dollars. 
If you wish next year at harvest time to behold magulficeut fields of waving yellow grain glistening In 
the sun, topped with great heads, bursilng with plump and bountiful kernels, which must bring a substan¬ 
tial and glad harvest with a competence, and succeeded by generoug and continued crops of grass, apply Thk 
Clark’s Covb fertilizers, and, our word for It, you will realize what you are farming for. Send for NHW 
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POTASH 
FOR 
FERTILIZERS 
WHEAT 
RYE 
Fertilizers containing 
HIGH PBItCBNTAGES 
OF POTASH, largely 
Increase yield. 
Information and Pamphlets Free. Address 
GERMAN KALI WORKS, 
93 Nassau Street, New York City. 
Improved trade conditions, which It Is thought may 
be confidently expected, we may look for better 
prices. _ 
WE WANT TO KNOW, YOU KNOW! 
[f you don't see what you want, ask for it. 
Small Oxioxs for Sets.— 1 have a patch of onions 
BO thick that there are many small ones. Will they 
do to keep and set out next spring the same as bottom 
sets? c. A. s. 
ANS.—Yes. 
Bordeaux Mixture.—W ill The K N.-Y. pub¬ 
lish, just once more, tbe formula for preparing the 
Bordeaux Mixture? several subscribers. 
ANS.—"Once more” we publish the formula. We 
would suggest that readers preserve the papers con¬ 
taining such matter as this that they are likely to 
want to use, If they do not prererve all the papers. 
Mark on the first page of tbe paper the name of any 
special article that Is likely to be needed, so that It 
may easily be found. The Information will then be 
at hand when needed. When It must be written for, 
at least two weeks must elapse before It can be pub¬ 
lished, and often longer. The formula Is as follows; 
For all ordinary purposes, one ounce copper sulphate 
and three-quarters to one ounce of lime to each gal¬ 
lon of water make a sufficiently strong solution. A 
formula sometimes recommended, gives one-quarter 
pound of each to one gallon of water, but this has 
been found too strong for many tender plants. 
Suspend the copper and lime In different casks of 
water in coarse gunny sacks, and allow them to re¬ 
main Immersed for several hours or during an entire 
day. When ready to mix, pour the liquid from each 
Into a cask, and add water enough to reduce to the 
necessary strength. Wooden vessels should be used, 
as these chemicals corrode ordinary metals. 
Fbactical Poultry Papers.—W hat are the 
names and addresses of some practical poultry 
papers? E. K. P. 
ANS.—Farm Poultry, Boston, Mass.; The Poultry 
Keeper. Parkesburg, Pa. Send to them for sample 
copies, and then see the terms offered for snbsorlp- 
tlvins to them In connection with The U. N.-Y. 
The Squash Bug.—Is there a dead shot for 
■’stink” bugs on squash vines? I have used Paris- 
green, lime and ashes, land plaster. Insect powder, 
etc. Anything put on top of the leaves has no 
effect on the bugs as they feed on the under side of 
the leaves. 1 have lost one acre of vines and am 
trying everything I can think of to save the rest of 
the crop. J. s. 
Caledonia, N. Y. 
ANS.—The New Jersey Experiment Station In a 
recent bulletin, pays Us respects to this odoriferous 
pest. The bulletin states that insecticides have 
been failures as a rule, and no smell disagreeable 
enough to repel them has yet been discovered. Their 
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Can a Farmer 
make 
Money 
out of 
Gent 
' f if he raises only ordinary 
I^" • crops. 
It he doubles his present 
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Freight Paid. 
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State Your Ois- 
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Shipping Point. 
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BALTIMORE, MD. 
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INCREASED 
AND QUALITY IMPROVED 
BY THE USE 
OF OUR 
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WE MANUFACTURE A 
FULL LINE OF 
Bone Super 
Phosphates 
. . and . . 
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them on 
GRAIN, GRASS, 
VEGETABLES, FRUITS, 
TOBACCO, TREES 
ANO 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 STREkl. 
CLEVELAND, OHIO. 
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complete with plated steel wheels, aale, 
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WANTED. 
To rent, within one hour of New York City, a small 
house with grounds attached. Address 
CITY MAN, care Of The Eural New-Yorker. 
