1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
349 
mRKET NOTES 
asparagus.—H ere Is the label of a lot 
of California asparagus which recently 
reached this market: “The Green Brand 
California Asparagus, H. W. «fe W. E. 
Meek, Haywards, Cal.” Here are people 
who not only market green asparagus but 
glory in it. Two or three years ago such 
a thing as advertising green asparagus was 
unheard of. Green stalks were either 
sneaked in or apologized for. Of course 
green asparagus has always been sold and 
preferred in some sections. This “Green 
Brand,” mentioned above, comes in a crate 
19 inches long, 10 deep, 11 wide at the bot¬ 
tom and 914 at top, inside measurement, 
with a partition crosswise through the cen¬ 
ter. It holds a dozen bunches standing on 
end on damp moss, each bunch standing in 
a collar of paper to the tip. The sides, top 
and bottom are %-inch stuff; ends, %, and 
partition %. The top is made of two pieces 
four inches wide with %-inch space be¬ 
tween, a cleat being nailed on each end 
firmly enough to permit lifting the pack¬ 
age by the top. Two-inch spaces are left 
between the side strips, there being two 
on each side. This asparagus has come In 
various grades, some very fine, wholesaling 
anywhere from $2.50 to $5 or $6 per dozen 
bunches. The single bunch prices asked by 
retailers are as much as they can get the 
customer to pay, from 20 cents for poor to 
60 or more for prime. It is hard to see how 
anyone would buy poor white asparagus 
for his own eating, while cornstalks, which 
are fully as palatable, are much cheaper. 
Probably it goes largely to low-grade 
hotels, where it is used as an excuse for 
a side dish. 
BUTTER.—Another two-cent drop puts 
extras at 25 cents, with but little selling a 
fraction over. As is always noticeable in 
the receipts of fresh made in the change 
from one season to another, there is con¬ 
siderable irregularity in quality, necessi¬ 
tating a wide range of prices. State dairy 
is arriving a little more freely, and the 
small portion of really high-grade sells 
nearly as high as extra creamery. One 
who noticed only the average quotations 
and receipts at this market might think 
that but little prime State dairy is made. 
The fact is, that most of the finest is sold 
locally. In almost every neighborhood 
there are butter makers who can make a 
much finer product than the general run 
of d.iirios. but they readily sell their en¬ 
tire output to regular local customers, 
often at a premium above market prices, so 
that it docs not reach the larger markets. 
It has no competition, for it has nothing 
to compete with, having a texture and 
flavor of its own, preferred by some to that 
of creamery made. Whatever bacteria may 
take part in the process, the microbe of 
know-how is the chief starter and doer. 
Much of the State dairy sold here is com¬ 
mon or inferior stuff, and the farther away 
from home it is dispo.sed of the better for 
the dairy reputation of the makers. 
NEW MARKET PLACE.—The new 
building of the New York Stock Exchange 
is said to be the finest in the world de¬ 
voted to the business of buying and sell¬ 
ing. The goods dealt in are not beef, pota¬ 
toes or similar tangibles, but the securities 
of which mention was made last week. In 
the minds of many people Stock Exchange 
operations are on a par with pool rooms, 
horse-race betting, and similar forms of 
gambling and bunko business. While it is 
possible to misuse the privileges of the Ex¬ 
change so as to carry on the worst types 
of gambling, these things are not author¬ 
ized by the Exchange and in no way rep¬ 
resent the object of its existence. Outside 
of certain limits the personal acts of mem¬ 
bers are beyond its supervision and author¬ 
ity. The object of having this market 
place is to bring together buyers and sell¬ 
ers (or those representing them) of shares 
in various corporations. Without some 
central place, a great amount of time and 
correspondence would be needed to do such 
business, and nowhere near the present vol¬ 
ume could be handled. The daily reports 
of sales keep investors informed on values 
all over the world, the values (in this sense 
of the word) of securities being what buy¬ 
ers give or holders are willing to take. To 
retain membership in the Exchange a man 
must keep his word and pay his obliga¬ 
tions. Deviations that might seem slight, 
when measured by horse trading stand¬ 
ards, are severely dealt with, suspension 
from business privileges not being uncom- 
■aon. w. w. H. 
Lehigh Greening.— Last Winter we 
printed a picture of the Lehigh Greening 
apple. This is praised as a long keeper. 
On April 10 Mr. Johnson, of Allentown. Pa., 
sent us samples of this apple out of his 
cellar. They were in perfect condition and 
better in fiavor than the apples which were 
tested during the Winter. If this apple 
only had a red jacket what a rival of old 
Ben Davis it would be. 
HUMOROUS. 
I love little lobsters. 
Their tint is so warm; 
And if I don’t eat them 
They’ll do me no harm. 
—Punch. 
“WiiAT is home without a mother?” 
“An incubator, I guess.”—Cornell 
Widow. 
Wioo: “Have you known Harduppe 
long?” Wagg; “No; he’s been short 
ever since I have known him.”—Illus¬ 
trated Bits. 
“So he advertised for a wife?” “Yes, 
and he got 23 letters from other men 
saying he could have theirs.”—New 
York Times. 
Mr. Bacon: “When all the fools are 
dead I don’t want to be alive.” Mrs. 
Bacon; “Well, don’t worry, you won’t 
be.”—Columbia Jester. 
Temperance Lady: “Ah, my poor 
man, I fear you’re a hard drinker.” The 
Poor Man: “Hard drinker? Why, mum, 
it’s the easiest thing I does.”—Harvard 
Lampoon. 
“Annptueh great danger ’bout de 
trusts,” said Uncle Eben, “is dat dey’s 
gwinter temp’ people to put in de time 
wif long ahguments, when dey orter be 
earnin’ ?2 a day.”—Washington Star. 
Promoter: “I would like to call your 
attention, sir, to our latest mechanical 
device, the Smith roller and crusher.” 
Investor: “Oh, I guess it’s all right. 
There are a good many Smiths, but I’m 
not interested. I have nothing against 
ihem.”—Brooklyn Life. 
“Do 1 understand you to say. Senator 
Graft, that you will sustain and support 
the trusts?” howled the enthusiastic 
legislator. “You mistake the phrase,” 
said the senator calmly, “I did not say 
I would ‘support’ or ‘sustain’ trusts, 1 
merely said I would ‘hold them up.’ ”— 
Baltimore Herald. 
A LITTLE girl was heard talking to 
her rabbit. “Five times five,” she said. 
“Six times six, seven times seven.” Be¬ 
tween times she shook the rabbit vio¬ 
lently. “Dorothy,” said her mother, 
“what arc you doing to your rabbit?” 
“Well, Papa says,” replied the child, 
“that rabbits multiply rapidly and Bun¬ 
ny won’t do it.”—Town Talk. 
When Sandow poses and the muscles 
ridge his back and knot his arms, we 
think we have before us tlie very secret 
of strength in those magnificent muscles. 
But we haven’t. Starve Sandow, or, 
what is practically the same thing, let 
him be dyspeptic, and his muscle would 
soon fail. Strength is made from food 
properly digested and assimilated, and 
no man is stronger than his stomach, be¬ 
cause when the stomach is diseased di¬ 
gestion and assimilation are imperfect. 
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery 
cures diseases of the stomach and other 
organs of digestion and nutrition. It 
enables the perfect digestion and assim¬ 
ilation of food so that the body is nour¬ 
ished into perfect health and strength. 
”I had what niy physician called indiprestion. 
He gave me medicine for the trouble but it did 
me no good,” writes Mr. W. H. Well.s, of Wil¬ 
lard, N. C. "I wrote to Dr. Pierce and stated 
my case. He sent me a descriptive list and hy¬ 
gienic rules. I carried out these as best I could, 
bought six bottles of his ‘ Golden Medical Dis¬ 
covery ’ and commenced taking it. A few days 
later I noticed a great change. Felt like a new 
man. Before I began the use of the ‘ Golden 
Medical Discovery’ I suffered greatly with pain 
in stomach, my nerves seemed all ‘run-down,’ 
I was very thin in flesh, but now can eat heartly 
and sleep good at night.” 
Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical 
Adviser is sent yree on receipt of stamps 
to pay expense of mailing Send 
twenty-one one-cent stamps for the pa¬ 
per-covered book, or thirty-one stamps 
for the cloth-bound volume. Address 
Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. 
ARMSTRONG & McKELVY 
Pittsburgh. 
BEYMER-BAUMAN 
Pitisburgh. 
DAVIS-CHAMBERS 
Pittsburgh. 
Pittsburgh. 
Cincinnati. 
FAHNESTOCK 
ANCHOR 
ECKSTEIN 
ATLANTIC 
BRADLEY 
BROOKLYN 
JEWETT 
ULSTER 
UNION 
SOUTHERN 
SHIPMAN 
COLLIER 
MISSOURI 
RED SEAL 
SOUTHERN 
JOHN T. LEWIS & BROS CO 
I’liiladelphia. 
MORLEY ^ , , 
Cevcland. 
SALEM 
Salem, Mass. 
CORNELL 
Buflalo. 
KENTUCKY 
Louisville. 
New York. 
Chicago. 
St. Louis. 
DWELLING house in the city 
of Elizabeth, N. J., huilt one 
hundred years ago, has always 
been painted with Pure White Lead and 
Linseed Oil—nothing else. 
There is not a crack, blister, blemish 
or imperfection of any kind in the paint. 
Makers of mixtures, heat this record if 
you can ! 
Be sure the brand is right. Those in 
margin are genuine, and made by “ old 
Dutch process.” 
If interested in paint or painting, address 
National Lead Co., loo William Street, New York. 
IF YOU READ THIS 
Remember one thing; that we have tried to sell you 
the best Wire Fence you can buy. All hard wire, 
large size. Easily built and hard to tear down. 
Catalogue and samples free. 
THE FROST WIRE FENCE CO., Cleveland, O. 
A Pretty Good Test! 
Unroll a roll of Page Fence, and let go. See the 
spring in the wire roll It up again. 
PACK WOVKN WIRK KE.NCK ( <)., ADRIAN, MICH. 
Machines will weave over 100 rods a day and 
when it's up It fits the ground. How much “ready 
made" can a man etretch “toHtl” We sell wire. 
CYCLONE FENCE CO. 
Holly» Mlche Cleveland* Ohio. Waukeitan* 111. 
THIS MAN 
was perfectly and per¬ 
manently cured from 
Rhetmiatism byThe Jebb 
Discovery, after suffer¬ 
ing for twelve years. 
This man says: “For twelve years I suffered 
fearfully with Rheumatism. My back was so af¬ 
fected that I was nearly doubled together, my 
head and shoulders being lower than my hqis. 
'Thanks to The Jebb Discovery I now walk erect, 
and though years have elapsed, I have never felt 
'a return of Rheumatism.” 
The Jebb Discovery for Rheumatism is sent 
under a guarantee to cure. Two of the best banks 
in the Slate of Michigan vouch for the reli.ability 
of our Comp.-iny. A Free T ial Treatnieu t of this 
wonderful remedy sent postpaid to any address. 
The Jebb Remedy Co., Ltd., 
313 Main St., Hattie Creek, Mich. 
Scratches, 
Grease Heel, 
Mud Fever, 
Hoof Rot and i 
Speed Cracks I 
Cases where ulcerations extend with transverse 
cracks which open at every step and often bleed, no 
matter how complex, aggravated, deep-seated, or ! 
chronic, if treated according to directions as given on i 
circular with every box, positively cured with ■ 
VETERINARY PiXINE 
If a light application is used before speeding, drlv- | 
Ing In wot, muddy or slushy weather, or In tho snow, , 
your horse will never have speed cracks, scratches or 1 
grease heel. ' 
It will keep the hoofs healthy, soft and In perfect 1 
form. 1 
For Old and Chronic Sores, Etc. ] 
Heals collar and saddle galls, hopple chafes, ab- 1 
Bcesses, inflammatory swellings, sores and all skin 1 
disease, and restores the hair to natural color. In 
oases or emergency it Is invaluable. I 
This penetrating, stimulating, soothing, absorbing, ' 
antiseptic, healing ointment heals from beneath the : 
surface by disinfecting the parts, subduing the inflam¬ 
mation and stimulating healthy granulation, not by 
drying and scabbing. 
2 oz.,25c.;8 oz.,50c.; 5-lb. pkge., $4. 
At all druggists and dealers, or sent prepaid. 
TROY CHEMICAL CO., TROY, N. Y. 
Straight Straw, Rye and Wheat Thrasher. 
Combined with Sp^lke-Tooth 0»t 
and Wheat Thrasher. 
Our Machine will 
thrash Rye or Wheat 
without bruising or 
breaking the straw, and 
tie it again In perfect 
bundles.Can be changed 
In fifteen minutes to a 
spike-tooth Oat, Wheat, 
Buckwheat, Barley and Corn Thrasher with stacker 
attached. Will thrash more grain with less power 
than any Thrasher built. Send for catalogue B to 
die GRANT-FBKBI8 COMPANY. Troy. N Y 
BARB WIRE AND WIRE NAILS; 
At Special Low Prices for .10 Days. 
We ship from New Haven, Conn., or Pittsburg, Pa.! 
“Eagle” Barb Wire will measure 148 rods tolOo! 
pounds or ‘J'JO pounds to one mile. Farmers and J 
Contractors can .save money on all kinds and sizost 
I of wire and nails. Write your wants to get close- 
I to-cost delivered prices. 
CASE BROS., Colchester, Conn. 
ROUND SILOS. angles, he’aoe 
no moulding, rotting and waste. Cypress, 
White Pino and White Hemlock. 4 etylee; 200 altee. Beet end 
eheepeet Siloe on earth. AU kinds fiiiomaoblner,. Oaialo, free. 
[harder MFO. CD., Cobleskiu, I” Y. 
Positively and Permanently Cures 
Hone and Iloj; .Spavin, Ringbone (low ringbone) 
Curb, Thoroiiglipin, Splint, Capped Hock, 
Wind Puff. Shoo Boil, Weak and Sprained 
Tendons and all lameness. 
Hartland, Livingston County, Mich. 
Find enclosed money order for $5, for which send 
me another bottle of “Save-the-Horse” spavin cure 
as It has done all you claim for it for me. With the 
bottle I bought of you I took oil a curb, spavin and 
side bone on a 3 yr. ola mare that other spavin cures 
refused to help in the least. I consider your spavin 
cure the best on the market. E. M. PARSH ALL. 
FROM A REPUTABLE AND NOTED TRAINER. 
Glenville Driving Park, Cleveland, Ohio. 
For the enclosed $5, please send me one more bottle 
of “Save-the-Horse.” It i« rloing great work. 
MILLARD F. SANDERS. 
Howick, Quebec. 
I had a mare suffering from a bone spavin and very 
lame. I concluded to try a bottle of “Save-the-Horse,” 
and at the expiration of six weeks’ treatment she was 
free from all lameness, and I consider it one of the 
greatest compounds made. DAVID BARRINGTON. 
Edgewater, N. J. 
Enclosed And check for $5, for which you will kind¬ 
ly send me by Wells Fargo Express one bottle of 
‘•Save-the-Horse” as soon as possible. The horse I 
have been treating with “Save-the-Horse” went sound 
and I sold him. The last 1 heard from this horse ho 
was still going sound and working every day and I 
think ho will stay sound. 'Fne bottle I am ordering 
now I will uso on another horse that has a pair oi 
"pavins and a curb; he does not go very lame, but 
walks on his toes and I think ‘‘Save-the-Horse” will 
bring him around so that ho will walk all right. 
_ OTTO MEYER. 
The lire iron is uncertain and invariably only 
aggravates the disease or injury: blistering is lesS 
effective than fire Iron, and both necessitate laying ufi 
tho horse from four weeks to two months. Arsenic, 
mercurial and poisonous compounds produce Irrepar' 
able Injury. 
‘ Save-the-Horse” eliminates all these factors. 
Horso can be worked coniiuuously. 
Cures without scar, blemish or loss of hair. 
It can can be applied at any time, anywhere, any 
place and in ail conditions and extremes of weather 
—hot or cold. And no matter what the ago, condition 
or development of the case or previous failures in 
treating, the concentrated penetrating, absorbing 
power of this remedy is unfailing. 
S.’I PER BOTTl.K. 
Written guarantee with every bottle constructed 
solely to satisfy and protect you fully. Need of 
second bottle is almost improbable, except in rarest 
of cases. 
Copy of Guarantee sent upon application. 
If you have a case rlifferent than tlescribed 
in oiir booklet or advertl.siiig write us. 
VVe will advise you frankly as to the possibility of 
the remedy effecting a cure. Give explicit particulars 
give tlie veterinarian’s diagnosis, if he is competent— 
inform us fully as to the age, development, location 
of swellings, lameness, action and previous treat¬ 
ment. 
$5. all druggists and dealers, or sent express, prepaid 
Troy Chemical Co., Troy, N. Y. 
