THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 7oi 
THE PROSPECT. 
The picture on our first page is a good subject for 
thought. Out under the apple tree on Miss Columbia’s 
farm is a comfortable, old-fashioned seat where the 
lady of the farm likes to rest at the close of a day of 
work. Through her generosity and good nature 
Senator Monopoly has been permitted to handle and 
sell the products of the farm. Grown big and fat 
with good living he has “organized” and “ managed” 
so well that two-thirds of the profits have gone into 
his own pockets. Though he has never actually 'pro¬ 
duced anything, he now has the impudence to swell 
around as though he held a mortgage on the whole 
farm. There he has planted himself on Miss Colum¬ 
bia’s favorite seat and shows no sign of getting up or 
making room. Columbia’s little nephew, Bright 
Farmer is ti’ying hard to protect his aunt’s interests, 
lie holds one end of the seat, but old fat Monopolist 
has crowded the boy into a space so small that no 
self-respecting young woman would sit down in it—by 
the side of such an old grampus as the fat Senator. 
Our opinion is that this puffy old fraud has his eye on 
this handsome young woman and thinks he can get 
her, by force or fraud, to marry him. He has grown 
rich on her labor and the poor old wretch thinks 
money can buy anything. Out with him ! We hope 
Bright Farmer will stick a pin into him—full length 
—and that Miss Columbia will rise up in her wrath 
and order him off the farm, taking all his commis¬ 
sions away from him and doing her own business until 
young Farmer is old enough to attend to it for her. 
We know one thing .sure—if she doesn’t do this soon 
she will have no authority to say where or how her 
work shall be done. 
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We may talk of this in lighter vein, but there is a 
stei-n and serious side to it as well. The thoughtful 
American who loves his country, may well view the 
future with doubt and uncertainty. Any student of 
public events may easily see that, as the years go by, 
the wealth of this country is rapidly passing into the 
hands of a comparatively small class of citizens. 
Within a few years, unless something is done to 
change the trend of affairs, we will have an aristoc¬ 
racy of wealth in this land smaller in numbers, yet 
with greater power, than similar classes in any other 
civilized land. It is hardly necessary to say to any 
intelligent man that such a state of affairs is wrong, 
and dangerous in the extreme. We have only to con¬ 
sider how dependent labor and its products are upon 
money to realize how easily capital in the hands of 
the miser or the scoundrel may strangle labor at will 
and dictate terms of exchange that are worse than 
robbery. So long as the spirit of greed and gain is 
abroad, and so long as rich criminals may concoct 
their accursed schemes for robbing those who have 
nothing but their labor with which to deal in the 
market, the concentration of wealth hangs like a men¬ 
acing black cloud over the future of this country. 
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Ex-Senator Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, in a re¬ 
cent speech, thus paints the thoughts of the poor. It 
was Senator Trumbull, by the way, who drafted the 
Constitutional Amendment abolishing slavery : 
They see around them, in the possession of favored corporations 
and the pampered few, all the mag'niflcence and luxury which 
accumulated wealth can bestow, while they toil and even suffer 
for the means, the God-given right, to live. Is it any wonder that 
discontent prevails among the masses, and that they act in con¬ 
cert in the effort to improve their condition when such a state of 
things exists ? The happiness of a people is the happiness of the 
individuals who compose the mass. Laws which open the door to 
large fortunes by devise, by inheritance or by speculation, have 
no tendency to promote the happiness of the people at large and 
often not even the happiness of those for whose benefit they are 
made. 
These are true words—not spoken for political effect, 
but to urge men to thought and study of this great 
problem of guaranteeing to labor an honest share of 
what it produces. It is an unfortunate fact that for 
all ages what is termed the “ money power” has held 
a predominating influence over legislation. In our 
own land the great majority of our laws have been 
designed to aid the investor rather than the laborer. 
That is to say, our legLslation has been mainly de¬ 
signed to enable invested capital to pay larger divi¬ 
dends rather than to enable the laborer to demand a 
fairer share for his work. Whenever labor has been 
directly benefited by law, capital has demanded com¬ 
pensating advantages, often indirect and secret. As 
a result, the rich man may say with truth, “My money 
has been legally acquired. I have kept within the 
law, and, therefore, I have not been guilty of any 
crime.” These long years of legislating in the inter¬ 
ests of money have brought men to the point of con¬ 
veniently falling back upon “legal rights,” forgetting 
that the time often comes when moral right refuses to 
be guided by what th6 world calls for the time legality. 
What is “law ” but rules and methods for governing 
society satisfactorily to the majority? Revision of our 
laws is demanded in the interests of the Commonwealth. 
But admitting the dangerous tendencies of wealth- 
accumulation—what can be done about it? To again 
quote from Senator Trumbull’s speech : 
If my voice could reach the people of the whole land I would call 
upon the millionaire for heaven’s sake to pause in his greed for 
more millions and \inite in the passing of laws which, by securing 
equal opportunities to all, shall contribute to the happiness of all. 
Lest the millionaire shoiild not listen, I would say to the men of 
the middle class, the men of moderate means, farmers and others 
who, though they may not now, soon will feel the oppression of the 
money power, “ Arouse to the danger that threatens soon to place 
you as fully at the mercy of corporate and individual wealth as 
the toiling laborers are to-day.” I would say to the laborers, now 
robbed of the just reward of their labors, and even compelled in 
this land of plenty and abundance, to suffer hunger and cold, 
“ Lay aside all manner of bickerings or dl.sputes, about minor 
affairs and assert your independence by going to the polls unin¬ 
fluenced by money or those in a\ithority, and cast a freeman’s vote 
for representatives in Congress and the General Assembly who 
will be true to your interests and secure the enactment of such 
laws as will permit you to share in the wealth created by your toil 
and to eat of the bread your hands have earned.” 
In other words, if laws made by the people have given 
rich men a chance to secure more than their just share 
of wealth then these laws must be changed so that the 
unjust accumulation will not be legal. That is the 
point in a nutshell. There can be no other safe plan. 
The people who now suffer loss must arouse and 
force changes in the laws that will bring justice to 
all. The R. N.-Y. has no desire to discuss this sub¬ 
ject from any partisan or fanatic standpoint. Believ¬ 
ing as we do, that no question is so important for the 
future as this one of securing the legal right of honest 
labor, we shall try to interest the farmers of this coun¬ 
try in a fair study of the matter, that they may take 
a manly stand for the rU,}ht without regard to ordinary 
political differences. 
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We hardly think the accompanying picture needs a 
word of comment. It carries its own lesson. In the 
year ending June 30, 1893, the people of this country 
consumed 1,207,731,908 gallons of liquor. There is no 
getting around the fact that the money paid for this 
stuff was wasted. It is also true that the drinking of 
this liquor made it necessary to provide vast sums of 
money for jails, insane asylums and poorhouses. 
What a fool a man would be to fasten a .50-pound 
weight to his back and carry it around wherever he 
goes ! Yet worse folly, than that is the action of those 
temperance people who realize the evil of the saloon, 
and yet do not trouble themselves to vote to put it down. 
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A LARGp; part of the poultry consumed in this city, 
comes from the West, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa 
and Michigan furnishing much of it. Never before 
have receipts been so heavy as this year. Not only is 
this true, but advices seem to indicate an immense 
quantity yet in the country. The receipts of dressed 
poultry so far this year, are about 25 per cent greater 
than those of last year. Of live poultry, nearly 1,200 
car-loads have thus far been received, against about 
900 during the same time last year. The receipts up 
to this time about equal those of the entire year of 
1893, then the heaviest on record. Prices were good 
during the continuance of the Hebrew holidays, those 
people furnishing the market for the larger part of 
the live poultry ; but the end of these, and the very 
heavy recipts, nearly broke the market, and prices 
went lower than before for many months. Immediate 
future prospects, especially for the Thank.sgiving 
market, do not encourage the hope of extreme prices 
except for very choice stock. The scarcity and high 
price of corn will tempt many to ship their poultry 
insufficiently fattened; but this will be a losing 
operation. Now, if ever, all poultry should be well 
fattened. In this lies the greatest possibility for re¬ 
munerative prices. Good, well-fattened, nicely- 
dressed poultry nearly always brings at least fair 
prices. Seldom is there a glut of such. Poultry for 
Thanksgiving is generally wanted dressed. 
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The National Horse Snow Association will hold 
its annual show at Madi.son Square Garden during the 
week beginning November 12. This is essentially a 
show of fancy stock in which the ordinary working 
horse has no place. It is significant, however, that 
in recent exhibitions, one of the mo.st utilitarian of 
modern breeds, the Hackney, holds a large place. 
The niimber of animals of this breed exhibited is 
large, and the quality of the best. Probably the 
cream of the breed in this country may here be seen. 
The Hackney comes the nearest to a general purpose 
horse of any breed or cross extant. He is good on 
the road, on the plow, on the heavy wagon, and, 
though not speedy, will get over about as much 
ground in a day as any of them. For cro.ssing upon 
common mares, too, he cannot be beaten. His pro¬ 
geny have style, endurance, and are docile and tract¬ 
able. The breed merits more attention from farmers 
than it has yet received. 
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Whether the house be heated by a furnace, steam, 
or hot water, the principal rooms should contain 
grates for starting an occasional temporary fire to 
take off the chill and dampness of the late fall and 
early spring days. There are many such, when, per¬ 
haps, a fire is needed only mornings and evenings, 
and the house will be made unbearably warm if the 
furnace be started. A little fire easily and quickly 
started, will make things entirely comfortable. Econ¬ 
omy of fuel, as well as the comfort of the family, 
should show the wisdom of these conveniences. An 
open grate fire also adds much to the brightness and 
cheerfulness of a room, and furni.shes one of the best 
means of ventilation. Many city houses are provided 
with gas stoves in exact imitation of a fireplace filled 
with logs, and the flames play over these seeming 
logs in a very realistic fashion. Of course, where the 
house is heated by stoves, the need of such arrange¬ 
ments is not .so urgent. 
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From what is said in this issue, it appears that there 
is a wide difference in opinion as to the best way to 
use cotton seed as a fertilizer. Some farmers still 
compost it with manure, and others crush and .scatter 
it in the furrow. On the other hand. Prof. Massey 
says that men who would compost the seed in his part 
of the South, would be called lunatics. Wtt.a.rf‘,criv»**i 
figures to prove that the more .scientific method is to 
sell the seed to the oil mill and take cotton-seed meal 
in exchange. This meal is the product left after the 
oil is pre.s.sed out, ground and fined. By making this 
exchange, the farmer gets more nitrogen, potash and 
phosphoric acid in 1,200 pounds of meal than he gave 
in a ton of whole seed. We are always sorry to see 
cotton-seed meal used as a fertilizer. Every pound of 
it ought to be fed, and thus make its feeding value 
available without losing any of its manurial value. 
Speaking of using stock food directly as manure, what 
do farmers think of this extract from an Oregon paper: 
If anybody in eastern Oregon or eastern Washington, has occa¬ 
sion to buy fertilizers, he will And wheat about as cheap as any¬ 
thing he can buy. At 25 cents a bushel, wheat furnishes more 
fertilizing material for the money than any artiflcial fertilizer 
which can be bought in that section. 
A ton of wheat contains 373^ pounds of nitrogen, 
of phosphoric acid, and 1(5 of pcjtash, with a manurial 
value, as compared with other fertilizers, of about 
^7, while the cost at 25 cents a bushel will be S8.75. 
Think of using crushed wheat as a direct fertilizer ! 
What 'Is agriculture coming to ? What crops could be 
fertilized in that way at a profit ? 
BUSINESS BITS. 
Gauner & Co., 32 Little 12th St., want choice poultry, calves and 
hogs, as well as tine butter, cheese and eggs. Write them. 
John Latta, drover, Parksburg, Pa., says : “ Cattle for feeders 
sell for 25 cents per 100 more when dishorned in all Eastern mar¬ 
kets.” Mr. A. C. Brosius, Cochranville, Pa., furnishes dishorning 
tools. 
Wjiy not ship your dried fruit to parties who make a specialty 
of it? Worth & Ryan, 313 Greenwich St., do this, get good prices 
for good stock, charge a fair commission and make prompt and 
honest returns. See their ad. 
The Enterprise feed grinder is guaranteed by the manufacturers 
to grind ear corn and small grains at the same time, and what 
these people guarantee is pretty likely to come out right. The 
Enterprise Mfg. Co., 14 Main St., Columbiana, O., are the manu¬ 
facturers. 
Most people have a great deal to learn about horse blankets. 
It is an interesting question, too. Every man who owns a horse 
must have a blanket, and the one that keeps out the most cold, 
and lasts the longest is cheapest in the end. Wm. Ayres’ Sons, 
Philadelphia, Pa., have issued a little book about their famous 
5—A blankets. It will teach you something about horse blankets 
anyway, and costs only the asking. 
There is no sense these times either in buying poor harness or 
in paying fancy prices for good ones. King & Co., of Owego, N. Y., 
make just as good a harness as can be put up, and with their 
large factoi’y and facilities they can make them cheap. The 
writer has been through their large factory and knows that no 
better harness can be bought anywhere. Have no hesitation about 
ordering by mail. Like The R. N.-Y., they will return your money 
if you want it in preference to the goods. But you won’t. You 
can get their 80-page catalogue for a two-cent stamp. 
