rilE RURAL NKW-YORKER. 
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MARKET NOTES 
lilU BOTTLE ORDER.—A I'ittsburg 
firm is said to have received a single order 
for over 7,000,000 bottles, enough to make 
;i line 1.000 miles long, if placed end to end. 
Killy gro.ss are to be shipped per day, and 
the whole order will fill more than IIW cars. 
CURIOUS CUSTOMS DECISION.—The 
general appraisers have recently ruled that 
apricot kernels are dutiable as almonds by 
similitude. The importers claimed that the 
kernels should be exempt from duty as 
drugs. The appraisers ruled that, as the 
apricot kernels are edible, have a taste re¬ 
sembling sweet almonds, and are u.sed to 
some extent in confectionery, they are sub¬ 
ject to the same duty. 
FEW COM.ME'RCIAL VARIETIES-In 
looking over an apple exhibit, like that 
recently made by the Connecticut Pomo- 
logical Society, the striking fact is noted 
that out of 25 or 30 varieties, only three or 
four have sufficient all-around merit to 
pass as general market sorts. One is of 
line flavor, but the color is off, another is 
too small, others are shy bearers, or the 
tree lacks vigor, or their merits are aJl on 
the outside, or they will not keep. Yet 
many have special merit possessed by no 
other variety, and are well worth raising 
in a small way, even though crowded out of 
the general market. Because a fruit man 
finds profit only in King, Baldwin, Green¬ 
ing and Spy, there is no reason why the 
family cellar should not contain at least a 
dozen varieties of which he cannot afford 
to plant large blocks commercially. Yel¬ 
low Bellflower, Swaar, Seek, Wagener and 
others having one or more defects in fruit 
or tree, are sure to meet the special taste 
of some member of the family. More 
strictly commercial varieties would be wel¬ 
comed. An apple with the richness of the 
best Greening and keeping quality of Bald¬ 
win is wanted, and anyone who will give 
us a Spy without its present defects of 
frequent short crops and knotty fruit, will 
confer a favor on fruit men. 
TOB.YCCO.—The growing of Sumatra 
wrappers under cloth is becoming an ex¬ 
tensive industry in the Connecticut Valley. 
The peculiar conditions of soil and climate 
seem just suited to it, and so far as has 
been learned there is no other section of 
this country where Sumatra tobacco of 
equal quality can be grown. Something 
over auo acres were under cloth in this val¬ 
ley last season. The frames are nine feet 
high, and the tobacco reaches nearly to the 
top, growing much higher than that un¬ 
covered. We recently saw a large quan¬ 
tity in process of preparation in the ware¬ 
house and factory of Olds & Whipple, at 
Hartford. The leaves are carefully picked 
from the stalk by hand, and, after a pre¬ 
liminary curing in sheds, tied at the butts 
into bundles of a dozen or more leaves. 
These bundles, laid regularly in piles about 
the size of a cord of wood, were going 
through the sweat. Thermometers are kept 
in the piles, and when a certain tempera¬ 
ture is reached the tobacco is opened and 
repiled. When in proper condition the 
leaves are sorted according to length, put 
into bales and are then ready for the 
cigar makers. The covers used for the 
bales are fiber mats, something like tea 
ciiest covers, imi^orted from Sumatra, 
'j'hey are no better than other materials, 
in fact, are so close as sometimes to 
cause damage in the interior of the bales, 
but the trade demands this style of wrap¬ 
ping, and at present will take no other. 
Of course all rooms where tobacco is be¬ 
ing handled are kept warm and moist t« 
avoid having the leaves become brittle. 
Great damage could be caused by care¬ 
less handling or improper air conditions. 
To provide moisture, water is forced 
through patent sprinklers at the top of the 
room in a very line spray. These Sumatra 
leaves are used only for wrapfiers. aini 
are considered equal to the best imported. 
.Many of them are thin as tissue paper and 
very tough. A pound goes much further 
Ilian ordinary wrappers, so tliat, while ex¬ 
pensive, the cost is not so much greater 
as one might imagine. w. w. h. 
Educating the Consumer. 
Many a country dweller reads of the con¬ 
ditions under which garments are often 
made in the city tenements with a feeling 
that, sad as the matter is, it does not in 
any way concern him. He forgets that a 
city like New York, which in one year (1399) 
manufactured more than $160,000,000 worth 
of garments, must send its product far and 
wide, and the man or woman who shops 
in some pleasant country town is quite 
as likely to get the sweat-shop garments 
as the purchaser in New York. The con¬ 
ditions under which these garments are 
made are indicated in the following de¬ 
scription by Dr. Annie S. Daniel, for 19 
years visiting physician of the New York 
Woman’s Infirmary: 
“'I'he apartment consists of three rooms, 
two opening on an absolutely dark air- 
shaft; the other on a narrow yard; at mid¬ 
day only does any light from the outside 
penetrate this apartment, and then only 
the outer room, and for a short time. At 
other times kerosene oil lamps or candles 
are used. Two families occupy this apart¬ 
ment, for which is paid $9 rent. One of 
the men has consumption, and both men, 
heads of the two families, assort lemons, 
which one peddles, or they assist their 
wives in finishing trousers at IV^ cent each 
pair. Their hours are as long as they can 
hold their heads up or they have work to 
do. One finds the work being done in the 
lireseuee of the common contagious dis¬ 
eases, including tuberculosis and also the 
highly infectious eye disease commonly 
known as “pink eye,” of which we have 
had an epidemic during the past year, and 
also during the prevailing epidemic of in¬ 
fluenza. Custom-work is also done in the 
same surroundings as the cheaper and 
poorer work. It is absolutely impossible 
for a manufacturer, however honest, to 
know exactly where the clothing is taken 
before it is returned to him finished. The 
women, like women in other walks of life, 
are fond of visiting and taking their work 
with them, and it seems as if they were 
especially fond of visiting where there is a 
contagious disease. The work is found in 
any place, often on the floor, but usually 
on the bed.” 
Before we can hope to combat such con¬ 
ditions successfully the purchaser must be 
educated, as well as the worker, and for 
this purpose the Consumers’ League was 
established. Originally intended to ameli¬ 
orate the condition of women workers in 
retail stores, it now exerts a beneficent 
supervision over stores, factories and 
work-rooms, endeavoring to enforce ex¬ 
isting labor laws, and to induce a greater 
regard for the rights of the worker. It 
issues a “white list” of retail houses which 
deal justly with their employees, and also 
issues a label which may be used, if de¬ 
sired, by manufacturers whose business is 
conducted in accordance with the principles 
of the League. The shopper can help the 
League, and aid in the betterment of the 
worker, by patronizing “white list” stores, 
and also by asking for readymade gar¬ 
ments with the Consumers’ League label 
When one hears of a woman with incipient 
tuberculosis working on children’s dresses 
at home for 35 cents a dozen, one feels that 
we have not yet progressed very far be- 
yond Hood’s “Song of the Shirt.” e. t. r. 
ForluDC Telling 
does not take into consideration the one 
essential to ■woman’s happiness—wom¬ 
anly health. There is many a woman 
whose future seems absolutely unclouded 
who is marked by her own condition for 
future disappointment and distress. 
The woman who 
neglects herhealth 
is neglecting the 
very foundation of 
all good fortune. 
For without health 
love loses its lustre 
and gold is but 
dross. 
Womanly health 
may be retained or 
regained by the 
use of Dr. Pierce’s 
Favorite Prescrip¬ 
tion. It establishes 
regularity, dries 
the drains which 
weaken women, 
heals inflamma¬ 
tion and ulcera¬ 
tion and cures fe¬ 
male weakness. It 
makes weak wom¬ 
en strong, sick 
women well. 
Sick women are invited to con.sult Dr. 
Pierce by letter /re^. All correspondence 
held as strictly private and sacredly 
confidential. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
>' I have taken six bottles of Dr. Pierce’s l''avor- 
ite Prescription,” writes Miss M. Kyfc, of Orilla, 
Simcoc Co., Ontario, "anti two bottles of the 
• Pleasant Pellets’ as you advised for congestion 
of uterus, ovaries, ana weakness, and call safely 
•ay that your medicine has been the ineans of 
restoring me to good health again, which 1 had 
not had for over three years, until taking vour 
medicine. I thank you very much for your kind 
and prompt attention to my letter asking advice.” 
’'Favorite Prescription” has the testi¬ 
mony of thousands of women to its com¬ 
plete cure of womanly diseases. Do not 
accept an unknown and unproved substi¬ 
tute in its place. 
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets clear th« 
complexion and sweeten the breath. 
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■ np PPM or at Wholesale. A54-inoh 
IBlCi ■ BtocktenctiiiSeper I od. 
Send for price list ami KUKK catalogue of Wire 
Fence ami full line of Fence Supplies. 
M. MASON & CO., Box 67, Leesburg, Ohio. 
Do you know that hard steel colled spring wire is twice 
as sii-ong as soft? The Frost Fence is always made 
from heavy hard coiled spring steel wires and heavy 
hard spring stays. Will last a lifetime. Send for cat. 
THK FR08T "WIRK FKNCK CO., Cleveland, O. 
UNION LOCK POULTRY FENCING 
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HAS BEEN FULLY 
TESTED AND FOUND , 
SUPERIOR TO ALL 
OTHERS. 
Will lit uneven , 
ground without 
cutting, livery part 
can be .stretched ’ 
perfectly. Made of ’ 
high grade galvanized steel wire. All horizontal 
lines are cables, making it stronger. 1 las fine mesh ' 
at the bottom for small chicks. We also make ► 
extra heavy for gardens, lawns, etc. The largest > 
poultry farms are using this fence—over 700 rods , 
I)y l.akewood (N. J.) Farm Co. W’e pay freight . 
and satisfy every one or no sale. Can ship from , 
.NI. V., Chicago, or San Francisco. Write for , 
free^catalogof Farm, Lawn and Poultry Fencing. 
' CASE BROS., Box 340, Colchester, Conn.' ► 
MACHINE MANUFACTURE 
IS THE 
McCORMICK 
BINDER . . . 
During 1902 more McCormick machines were sold than in 
any previous year, a fact which attests the wide-spread 
popularity of the world-renowned machine. The seventy- 
two years success of the McCormick has made this name a 
' ■ household word throughout the world. 
The McCormick is the machine to buy for 1903. 
Write for beautiful McCormick calendar and copy of 1903 book entitled “A MODEL 
MACHINE." 
Address Nearest McCormick Branch House: 
Albany, Elmira, Rochester, Ogdensburg. 
Page Poultry Fence 
weighs lU pounds to the rod—bottom wires only 
IX inches apart—and don’t cost any more erected 
than a slazy netting Send for descriptions. 
PA«K WOVKN WIKK KKNCKCO., AUKIAN,MICH. 
Scratches, 
Grease Heel, 
Mud Fever, 
Hoof Rot arid 
Speed Cracks 
Cases where ulcerations extend with transverse 
cracks which open at every step and often bleed, no 
matter how complex, aggravated, deei)-.seated, or 
chronic, if treated according to directions as given on 
circular with every box, positively cured with 
VETERINARY PIXINE 
If a light application is used before speeding, driv¬ 
ing ill wet, muddy or slushy weather, or in the snow, 
your horse will never have speed cracks, scratches or 
grease heel. 
It will keep the hoofs healthy, soft and In perfect 
form. 
For Old and Chronic Sores, Etc. 
Heals collar and saddle galls, hopple chafes, ab¬ 
scesses, inflammatory swellings, sores and all skin 
disease, and restores the hair to natural color. In 
cases of emergency it is Invaluable. 
This penetrating, stimulating, soothing, absorbing, 
antiseptic, healing ointment heals from beneath the 
surface by disinfecting the parts, subduing the inflam- 
njation and stimulating healthy granulation, not by 
drying and scabbing. 
2 07. 25c.: 8 oz., 50c.; 5-lb. pkge , $4. 
At all druggists and dealers, or sent prepaid. 
TROY CHEMICAL CO., TROY, N. Y. 
THE KELLY 
does perfect work 
grinding ear corn, 
in husk or out, mixed 
feed in any propor¬ 
tions, with or without 
clover, cotton seed, 
Kaffir corn, or any 
grain thatgrows Has 
duplex 
grinding 
surfaces, 
andshows 
a greater 
capacity, 
per unit, 
of driving 
power than any 
o l li e r mill. 
Gives a uniform 
grist for stock 
feed of any de¬ 
sired fineness. 
Kvery machine 
tested and guaranteed. Send for oiir new catalogue 
and J'rof. Miles’ essay -‘The Kconomy of Ground 
Feed,” free. THE O. S. KEI.I.YCO., 
Dept. X. Springfield, Oliio, 
STEEL ROOFING 
FREIGHT CHARGES PAIO BY US 
Strictly new, perfect, Seml-ITanlened 
Steel Sheets, Z feet wide, 6 feet long. Tbs 
best KuollnK, Sidlnic or felling you ran use. 
No exjierienee necessary to lay it. An 
ordinary hammer or hatchet the only 
tools you need. 'V'e furnish nails free 
and paint roofing two sides. Comes 
either flat, corrugated or “V” crimped. 
Delltcred free of all rbarges to all points 
In the U. 8., east of the Mississippi River 
and North of the Ohio River 
$2.25 PER SQUARE 
Prieea to other points on applleatlon. A square means 100 
square feet. Write for free Catalogue No. b7 
SHICAfiO HOUSE WRECKING CO.. W. 3Sth and Iron Sti., Chicago 
“SAVE-THE-HCRSE” 
(TK.\I)E-.M.\KK) 
Need one wonder why our written guarantee, which accompanies twery hottle, 
was constructed so it is equivalent to a liond ? 
of this cure ns f I admit I was! may write me and ^ 
Spring Valley, N. Y. 
Gentlemen— About two months ago our mare 
became suddenly very lame in front leg between the 
the knee and fetlock, and after using liniments, it 
became no better, so I concluded to try “Save-the- 
Horse”, as I reckoned no house could afford to give 
the guarantee you give on a worthless thing. 1 pro¬ 
cured the medicine and followed Instructions to the 
letter and on the fifth day the lameless was nearly all 
gone. 'Two days later I began driving her short dis- 
i inces, and every day a little further, and kept up the 
treatment another week and since then the has not 
been lame a minute. I think it is a great remedy, and* 
and have told a number of people about It. The price 
is what kept me from trying it before, but now that I 
h ive seen what it has done 1 think it is cheap. I have 
about two-thlrds of the bottle left Wishing you the 
success that “ Save-thtvUorse ” certainly deserves, 
lam. Yours very truly. Win. F. KIJNTZ. 
will state just what kind of a case it was etc. 
Yours respectfully. II. A. IJAXTKU, 
Real Kstale, Insurance and investments. 
Great Neck. Long Island. 
Fentlemen— On September 19, 1902. I procured a 
ttle of your “Save-the-llorse” for use on a bog 
ivin which had begun to be very prominent, in fact 
elleve It to have been about fully developed. The 
ecllonsfor use were adnered to minutely and be- 
e the contents of the bottle were used the spavin 
s a thing of the past, and to-day not a sign of 
ivln or mark cf any kind whatever remains. I 
predate the value of this remedy, and It has been 
’ intention to advise you as to the result before but 
Horse can be worked with either shin or ankle 
boots, as no harm can possibly come by either de¬ 
struction of hair or scalding of the limb. “.Save- 
the Horse” can be applied in all conditions and 
extremes of weather hot or cold. 
POSITIV'ELY AND PERMANENTLY (’URE.S 
BONE and Bog Spavin, Ringbone (except Ixjw 
Ringbone), Curb, Thoroughpin, Splint, Cajiped 
Hock. Shoe Boil, Weak and Sprained Tendons, 
and all Lameness. 
Contains no ai-senie, corrosive sublimate oi-otlier 
forms of mereury, or any injurious iiigredienl. 
Cures without scar, blemish or loss of liair. 
$5 PER BOTTLE. 
Written guarantee with every bottle, oonstrxieted 
to convince an 1 protect you fully. The need of sec¬ 
ond bottle is almo.st improbable, except in rarest 
cases. Guarantee covers effectiveness of 1 bottle. 
Copy of guarantee sent upon application. 
SKSalmttle at all dealers’and druggist.-;’, or sen 
I>repaid by the manufacturers. 
TKOY CIIE.MIC.VL CO., Troy, N. Y.. Mfr.s. 
