1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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THE PROSPECT. 
The oleo men have often made the assertion that 
Western creameries were using lard in their butter. A 
Chicago Revenue Collector has been investigating, and 
says that in all his search he has found just one man 
who was putting about 25 per cent neutral lard in his 
product, and it cost'him $1,200 before they were through 
with him. The collector says that it is a very com¬ 
mon thing to hear of violations, but when the evidence 
is sought, it cannot be found. In one case a man was 
heard to remark that he knew of 20 parties or more 
who were thus violating the law ; but when this man 
was brought before the Federal Grand Jury, he de¬ 
clared under oath that he did not know of one. He 
says further that most of the complaints coming to 
them are from people who have bought the Pepsin 
butter. This appears all right for a time, but the 
large amount of curd it contains, soon causes it to be¬ 
come rancid, and purchasers think that it is oleomar¬ 
garine. The oleo men apparently will stop at nothing 
to injure the dairymen, even at spreading reports that 
the butter is adulterated with the fraud for which 
they are themselves responsible. 
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It is reported that a bill is to be introduced in the 
New York Senate, providing for the consolidation of 
the Forest and Fishery Commissions, and providing 
for the appointment of five commissioners of fisheries 
and game who shall constitute the Hoard of Commis¬ 
sioners of Fisheries. The president of this board is 
to have a salary of $5,000 and expenses, which may 
easily amount to as much more. The other four are 
to have $1,000 each for expenses. Then a secretary at 
$2,000 is provided for, a chief protector at $2,000 and 
expenses not exceeding $1,000, two assistants at $1,200 
and expenses, and 27 other protectors at $500 each and 
expenses not exceeding $450 each, aggregating nearly 
$50.000, and no one knows how much more. What next? 
Is the game worth the candle? Who will be benefited? 
Isn’t this another asylum for superannuated political 
dead beats, for which the dear people are to foot the 
bills ? Isn’t this like some of the other jobbery semi- 
agricultural bills already enacted ? Who wants it, 
anyway ? Commissions already in existence cost the 
State as follows for the fiscal year ending September 
30 : Chattanooga Monument Commission, $5,000 (esti¬ 
mated next year at $10,000); Civil Service Commission, 
$17,939.76 ; Commission in Lunacy, $21,741.11 ; Pilot 
Commissioners, $3,542.34 ; Commissioners of Fisheries, 
$59,313.50 ; Forest Commission, $43,498.92 ; Railroad 
Commissioners, $53,031.10 ;■ Electrical Subway Com¬ 
mission, Brooklyn, 12.595.38, New York, $48,233.00; 
sundry temporary commissions, $24,925.45, a little 
short of $300,000, with estimates for the coming fiscal 
year for many of these, much larger. Haven’t we 
about enough ? 
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Years ago, Malthus argued that the population of 
the world was bound to increase so rapidly that food 
supplies could not keep pace with it, so that mankind 
would be in danger of perishing from starvation. 
Farmers of to-day who view the prices for grain and 
meat, do not see the immediate danger of this dismal 
outcome. With the opening of new lands, and im¬ 
proved methods of culture, the supplies of human 
food have been vastly increased, and the possibilities 
of yet further increase are almost beyond conception. 
Irrigation alone offers a means of nearly doubling the 
grain crop of this country, and there are vast reserve 
supplies of meat food for humans. A few weeks ago, 
a party of scientific men in Newark. N. J., partook of 
a dinner of horse flesh, and pronounced it superior to 
beef. In the European cities, horse flesh is a regular 
article of sale at the markets, and is readily eaten. 
Another thing that we know little about in this 
country is rabbit culture. It is said that the London 
market consumes 500,000 rabbits each week. Belgium 
earns $12,000,000 a year from rabbits, and France $80,- 
000,000 ! The total value of the potato crop in our 
great country in 1894 was but $91,500,000, while the 
total tobacco crop was valued at about $27,700,000. 
That will show by comparison the immensity of the 
French rabbit industry. While it will be many years 
yet before Americans will be forced to look to rabbits 
or horses for food, poultrymen may take a hint from 
this. It is getting to be more and more evident that 
meat is a very desirable part of the lien s ration. A 
single female rabbit propei-ly fed and cared for, is 
capable of producing young enough to make 500 
pounds of meat a year. They will thrive on vegetable 
food entirely. In what other way can a poultryraan 
more cheaply change clover and vegetables into meat 
than by feeding them to rabbits? A few poultrymen 
are already using a rabbit pen to supply meat for 
their fowls. 
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For the past few weeks, readers have been writing 
to ask about a young woman in Kane County, III., 
who is at present adding greatly to Uncle Sam’s postal 
revenues. A person will receive a letter stating that 
a certain medical institution has promised to cure an 
afflicted girl—Miss Edna R. Brown—if she can collect 
1,000,000 canceled postage stamps. In order to help 
this poor girl, you are asked to forward her 10 can¬ 
celed stamps and make three copies of the letter and 
send them to three friends who will do the same. One 
of our readers received the letter and believing it to 
be a fraud, sent to a justice of the peace in the town 
mentioned asking if there was any medical institute 
in it, and if this woman or girl is a worthy object of 
charity. Here is the reply : 
There is no medical institute in our town. Miss E. R. Brown is 
not an object of charity, simply a thoughtless, irresponsible per¬ 
son. Our little post office is flooded with from 10,000 to 25,000 let¬ 
ters daily, filled with canceled stamps, which is a success only as 
a first-class nuisance. 
The canceled stamps have no value other than any 
other waste paper. This thoughtless young person 
ought to be ashamed of herself for the mean trick she 
has played on worthy people. The meanest part of it 
is that when some really worthy object of charity is 
presented in a somewhat similar way, many of these 
kind hearted people will have nothing to do with it. 
This young person ought to be punished for her silly 
trick, and there may be danger in it, too. As the 
reader who wrote to the justice says : 
Miss Edna is sufficiently wide-awake to know that a list of the 
names and post office addresses of, say, 100,000 bona fide persons, 
scattered over the country, all more or less credulous and charit¬ 
ably disposed, have a certain commercial value of themselves. 
I don’t know who invented this scheme for collecting, but it is 
great. You simply start the ball rolling, and other folks do the 
work. It is on the order of the Russian thistle, and about as 
detestable. 
It is not at all unlikely that your name will be found 
on a list of addresses purchased by scoundrels who have 
dishonest or immoral goods to offer and that as a re¬ 
sult their detestable circulars will be sent into your 
home. 
BUSINESS BITS. 
Tub Eureka Fence Co., Richmond, Ind., furnish machine and 
wire for fence that they say costs but 20 cents a rod. 
Wuen you see a young man doing profitless things “ just to kill 
an evening,” you may safely conclude that his mind has quit 
growing. There is little ahead for the mental dwarf. 
Bradley's American Farmer, is the title of a pamphlet issued 
by the Bradley Fertilizer Co., of Boston, Mass. The object of this 
pamphlet is to show the public what farmers have succeeded in 
doing with the help of the Bradley fertilizers. Actual pictures of 
prize crops are reproduced in a striking manner, and the book 
contains information that will interest any farmer. Send for it. 
Many firms offer to return the money if the goods are not satis¬ 
factory; but usually the purchaser is obliged to pay freight, at 
least one way. We see that the Overman Carriage Co., Cincinnati, 
O., show their confidence in their wares by returning the money 
and paying freight both ways if the wagons are not satisfactory. 
With a responsible house like this, the guarantee is all that can 
be asked. 
Tub catalogues of farm machinery are pretty good things to 
examine these cold winter months, whether one intends buying or 
not. Manufacturers are continually getting up new implements 
and improving old ones, to lessen the labor of man and beast in 
the field, and to do the work more satisfactorily. All this can be 
learned from their catalogues. One of the finest and most com¬ 
plete lines of farm machinery in the Eastern States, is manufac¬ 
tured by D. M. Osborne & Co., Auburn, N. Y., and their descriptive 
catalogue will be sent free on application. 
We have just issued the Annual Edition of 
Bradley’s 
American 
Farmer 
which, as the New England Homestead affirms, “is beauti¬ 
fully illustrated, thoroughly practical, and indispensable to 
every grower of Corn, Potatoes, Onions, Grass, Grain, 
Small Fruits, etc.” Ask for free copy at your local store, 
and if not found send postal card requesting one to 
Bradley Fertilizer Co., 
92 State Street, - Boston, Mass. 
Nitrate of Soda 
Best, quickest and cheapest fertilizer 
known ; 15—16 per cent, of Nitrogen, 
equal to 20 per cent Ammonia. Don’t 
wait for years for results from bone dust, 
blood, and other slow manures, when you 
can have all your money back in the 
crop you apply to it. The annual agri¬ 
cultural consumption of this article has 
increased from 250,000 tons to 1.000,000 
tons during the last 10 years. Sold in large 
or small quantities. Write for pamphlet. 
JAS. S. BURROUGHS & CO., 
oti and 58 Pine St., New York. 
Union Fertilizer 
PRODUCES LARGE CROPS OF 
Potatoes and Vegetables. 
Write for Circulars. AGENTS WANTED. 
The Western Union Chemical Co , 
CLEVELAND, OHIO 
We ship our best 
Screened Canada 
Unleached 
Hardwood 
ASHES 
at bottom prices. Analysis and Weight Guaranteed 
Address THE FOREST CITY WOOD ASH CO., 
No. 9 Merchants Row, Boston, Mass 
Complete Fertilizers 
for potatoes, fruits, and all vegetables require (to secure the largest 
yield and best quality) 
At Least Ioy„ Actual Potash. 
Results of experiments prove this conclusively. How and 
why, is told in our pamphlets. 
They are sent free. It will cost you nothing to read them, and they will save you 
dollars. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau Street, New York. 
More Oats and Straw, More Large Potatoes, 
More Corn and Stalk, More Vegetables, 
More Luscious Fruit, More Growth of Young Trees and Shrubs, 
FOLLOW TIIE JUDICIOUS USE OF TIIE 
Made by THE CLEVELAND DRYER COMPANY, who have made a full line of selentiffcally-made 
Fertilizers for different soils and crops. We makegoods that insure a profit for those who use them. Nitrate 
Soda—Sulphate Potash- Muriate Potash—Sulphate Ammonia—Dried Flesh—Dried Blood—Soluble Phosphoric 
Acid—always on hand for those desiring to compound their own formulas. 
THE CLEVELAND DRYER CO., 130 Summit St., Cleveland, Ohio. 
ODORLESS miJIiin delivered at your 
iiiurn 1 ■ UUASIU nearest station, for 
MINERAL # 20.00 per ton. 
Agents wanted in every farming town. Send foi 
circulars to THE FOREST CITY WOOD ASH CO.- 
No. 9 Merchants Row, Boston, Mass 
rrOTII I 7 n Q Q — Special brands for all 
prn I II I / r n crops. Dealers and con- 
I kilt 1 IUILUIIU sumers address 
■ HUBBARD & CO., 10 Light St., Baltimore, Md. 
Plant Michigan-Grown Seed Potatoes. 
World's Fair and Freeman are of unsurpassed qual¬ 
ity and great yielders. World’s Fair, per peck. 75c.; 
bush., $2.25; bbl.. $5. Freeman, peck, 60c.; bush., $ 1 . 75 ; 
bbl.,$4. Prices of other varieties on request. 
H. N. HAMMOND, Decatur, Mich. 
| rich Pnhhlor Carman No. 1 and No. 3, Quaker 
II loll UUUUIbl j City. Good News from seed 
hall of White Star; best of all. Handsome pink; pro¬ 
ductive; early; good keeper; fine quality. Best 70 
kinds of Potatoes. C. W. Ford & Co.. Fishers, N. Y. 
Trees - 4 Plants : PDTAT D'aaSfr 
From THE MOON Company, 
Are the FINEST and BEST. 
Semi for descriptive Catalogue to tell 
you the rest. 
Tile Wm. H. Moon Co., 
Mon-lsvllle, Pa. 
Send 10c. for sample tuber and my llluxtrated Catalogue 
of choice New and Standard varieties of Potatoes. 
E. H. VICK, Rochester, N. Y. 
WANTED 
—Man to work on farm and 
his wife to work in kitchen. 
Reference required. Address 
V., care The R. N.-Y. 
