THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DUMKSTIC.—The Supreme Court of iowa has decided 
that the law levying a tax of $300 a year on cigarette 
dealers is constitutional and valid. A bill following the 
lines of the Iowa measure is pending in the Illinois Legis¬ 
lature. The case came up from the Marshall County 
Court, whose decision was allirmed. A serious 
outbreak of typhoid fever has occurred at Ithaca, N. Y., 
as the result of contaminated city water. February 5 
the number of cases was put at 340. February 10, 53 Cor¬ 
nell students were suffering from the disease. 
If. J. Sarles & Co.’s general store, at Liberty, N. Y., one 
of the largest in Sullivan County, was destroyed by fire 
February 6. The estimated loss is $50,000. The origin of 
the fire is unknown.February 8 a distinct earth¬ 
quake shock was felt through southern Illinois, Kentucky 
and Missouri. No damage is reported, though buildings 
rocked and the drops in telephone switch-boards were 
shaken out of place.Up to February 9, the total 
cost of the anthracite strike arbitration commission 
hearing amounted to $750,000. The operators are credited 
with spending about $500,000; the union men say that their 
expenses will not fall short of $150,000, and Congress has 
already appropriated $50,000 for the expenses of the com¬ 
mission and the salaries, at $15 a day, of such of its 
members as were not already on the Federal pay roll. 
The cost of the stenographic report of the proceedings is 
already enormous. Ten thousand sheets of typewritten 
foolscap have been filled. The two contracting stenogra¬ 
phers are said to have cleared $500 a day thus far from 
the work. They employ a third stenographer to whom 
they pay, it is said, $100 a day. The three are considered 
as I'apid writers of shorthand as are to be found in the 
world. The greatest profit in this contract in reporting 
is derived from the furnishing of transcripts of the tes¬ 
timony to the corporations and other parties fo the arbi¬ 
tration. It is believed that it will be necessai’y to ask 
Congress for a further appropriation for tlTe expenses of 
the commission.In view of the action of the 
conference of State boards of health recently in Wash¬ 
ington, which declared that bubonic plague existed In 
San Francisco, the commercial organizations of San Fran¬ 
cisco have held a meeting and adopted resolutions urging 
the Governor of the State and city officials to cooperate 
with the United States Marine Hospital service. The 
resolutions recite the fact that 93 cases have been report¬ 
ed during a period of 35 months, and that the last case 
reported was December 11, 1902. The plague situation at 
Mazatlan, Mexico, Is still serious. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—February 2 northern Montana 
cattle were starving and dying of thirst on ranges from 
the Dakota line west to the Flathead country. The loss 
to stockmen will be the greatest known since 1892, ac¬ 
cording to W. H. Huston, of Butte. The trouble was 
ca^used by the heavy fall of snow of three weeks before, 
which covered the prairie to a depth of three feet. Then 
followed a chinook, lasting long enough to melt the snow. 
Cold weather followed and formed a crust so hard that 
cattle were unable to break through. Thousands of 
head were dying on the frozen snow, while thousands 
since rounded into corrals had their heads and noses cut 
by snow crusts until they were masses of raw flesh. 
Cattlemen everywhere in Montana were trying to round 
up the cattle still alive. 
Levi Dedrick, said to be the inventor of the first hay 
press in America, died at liis iiome in Albany, N. Y., 
I'-ebruary 6. He was S3 years old. In 1843, while helping 
an older brother construct a hay press, his genius for 
invention was kindled. In that year he patented his first 
hay press, and with the various improvements since add¬ 
ed this is still on the market. He also invented a fire 
escape, which, after a test, received the approval of the 
metropolitan fire department. 
Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal In¬ 
dustry, said February 3, that about 3,000 animals already 
have been slauglitered in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, 
Vermont and New Hampshire, for foot-and-mouth dis¬ 
ease, and that the indemnity the government has paid 
the owners aggregates over $100,000. Dr. Salmon said that 
unless new cases should develop it is probable that most 
of the quarantine restrictions now existing will have been 
removed in about 60 or 90 days. Not a single case of the 
disease has been reported from any point outside of 
New England, although a general spread was feared at 
the inception of the epidemic. 
The Oregon State Horticultural Society met at Portland 
January 13-14. The following officers were elected for the 
ensuing year: Pi’esident, J. R. Cardwell, Portland, re¬ 
elected for the fourteenth time; first vice-president, L. M. 
Gilbert, Salem; second vice-president, J. D. Olwell, Cen¬ 
tral Point; secretary-treasurer. Prof. E. R. Lake, of the 
Agricultural College, Corvallis, reelected for the tenth 
time; third member of finance committee. Col. Harry 
Haynes, Forest Grove. 
Moore Bros., Veterinary Surgeons, Albany, N. Y.: I 
used your remedy for barren cows beginning February 16. 
1901, and from 10 head thus treated nine had fine calves. 
I can recommend your Injection Powder to all stockmen. 
Port Deposit, Md. w. j. Devonshire. 
This Is to Tell Those Who Read It Why 
Windmill Prices Must Go Up 
Twenty years ago a 12-ft. wheel cost $.'.60.00, and but few bought them. 
It was a prohibitive price which the invention of the steel wheel has made 
forever impossible. 
When the Aermotor Company came into the field with the first 8-ft. 
steel wheel, which did the same work for $40.00, it “took the country.’’ 
Later the price was reduced (without competition) to $25.00 and the down¬ 
fall of the Aermotor Company and the ruin of the windmill business was 
freely predicted. But the result proved otherwise. The price at that time was 
enough. Iron and steel were low, labor was plentiful and cheap, and the 
man at the helm of the company foresaw that, for a few years at least, the 
cost of production would be less than it ever had been or would probably 
ever be again. It was his opportunity and he grasped it. 
The Aermotor went everywhere. Where one went others followed rapidly, 
and the business soon reached immense proportions. By foreseeing the ad¬ 
vance that came with prosperous times, and purchasing large quantities of 
material before prices advanced, the company has been able to continue the 
same abnormally low prices for three years in the face of a market that has 
doubled the cost of material and added a large percentage to the cost of 
labor. It did this in the hope that iron and steel would come down, but they 
have not and there is no prospect that they will. On the other hand, the 
cost of material and labor is constantly increasing. How far this may go 
no- one can predict. To meet present conditions, a small advance in prices 
has become necessary'. This advance does not nearly represent the increased 
cost of production, and it is quite probable that increasing cost of material 
may make further advances necessary. 
THIS IS THE TIME TO BUY 
If you expect to need a windmill this year, now is the time to buy. 
Prices may soon go higher. They certainly will not be lower. Money put 
into a windmill now will be well invested. Many dealers bought 
a stock of Aermotors before the recent small advance and will be able to sell 
now for lower prices than later. If you buy now you will be sure to have 
your windmill up and ready when you need it. Windmill men are not so busy 
now as they will be later. You may be disappointed if you put the matter 
off. You will not miss it if you buy now. 
IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU BUY RIGHT 
Buying a windmill is an important matter. You will have to live with it a good many 
years. It will either lessen your burdens or add to them. Water is needed every day of the 
year. The Aermotor was made to pump it for you'. It has never failed to carry out the 
purpose of its creator. The first Aermotor distinguished itself by running when all other 
mills stood still. Each one of the succeeding hundreds of thousands of Aermotors has done 
the same. The reason for this is simple enough. The Aermotor was the result of design, 
not accident. It was made for a purpose, and that purpose was well understood in the begin¬ 
ning. Every requirement was carefully determined in advance. Every strain was accurately 
estimated. Every pound of material was arranged to the best advantage. Simplicity was 
added to strength. Each object to be accomplished was aimed at directly. There were no 
unnecessary parts, no wasted material, no stupid devices. 
An Aermotor once properly erected, requires no adjusting or tinkering. 
This is the result, not only of perfect design, but of proper construction. The 
best material for each part has been carefully determined, and only the best is 
used. Much of the material in the Aermotors is specially made for that par¬ 
ticular purpose. The very stiff sheet steel used in the sails is made only for 
the Aermotor Company. Even the Babbitt metal used in the bearings is 
specially made to meet the peculiar requirements for a windmill. 
THE AERMOTOH COMPANY KNOWS WHAT 
IS BEST IN A WINDMILL 
It is not a difficult matter to make a windmill. They have been made 
for centuries. It is, however, a difficult matter to make the best that can be 
made. To do that requires peculiar skill and ingenuity. The Aermotor 
Company, alone, has shown remarkable originality or genius in the business. 
It has had more experience than all others combined in making steel windmills. Isn’t it fair to conclude that it knows what is best 
in a windmill? The best costs no more than an inferior imitation. If you buy anything less than the best you do not get the most for 
your money. 
But the best may be a dismal failure if poorly erected. The erector must know how to plan the job, get the parts together 
properly, and detect the least thing wrong with its working. Aermotor dealers know how. They are selected for that reason. Most 
of them have been handling the Aermotor from the beginning. They are men of trained judgment and mechanical ability. To get 
the best out of the best mill, one of them should erect it for you. 
WRITE FOR OUR WINDMILL BOOK 
We have a book that tells all about windmills. It begins with the Dutch wind mills of 1400 and ends 
with the Aermotor of 1903. It contains 125 pictures to show you what windmills should do and what they should 
be. It tells all that invention has done for them. When you read this book you will know all that anyone 
knows about windmills. You will know the right kind from the wrong kind and know all the differences. 
To avoid a mistake don’t buy without reading it. The book is free. Simply write for it. 
AERMOTOR CO 1206 12 th Ghic&go 
Round or Square 
WHICH WILL 
YOU HAVE? 
Makers of rural mail 
boxes are allowed to use 
thin metal in a round box, 
on their claim that it is the 
strongest form. One con¬ 
cern, however, contends 
that rust and the elements are no re¬ 
specters of form, and .stubbornly keeps 
on making square boxes of double the 
average weight. Circulars with the 
why and wherefore sent by the BOND STEEL. 
POST COMPANY, Adrian, Mich. 
