1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
381 
MARKET NOTES 
dressed calves and lambs have 
been selling well, but the weather is get¬ 
ting so warm that there is a risk of con¬ 
siderable loss in shipments, as they sour 
quickly. With cool mornings and nights 
they can usually be held out of storage 
until sold if received in good condition, 
and these quick sales pay best in the long 
run. 
fire losses for United States and 
Canada, in items of $10,000 or over, for 
April, amounted to nearly $12,000,000. There 
were 10 between $200,000 and $800,000; 16 
from $100,000 to $175,000 ; 45 from $50,000 to 
$90,000; and 160 from $10,000 to $10,000. The 
largest single losses were the $800,000 oil 
property at Beaumont, Texas; and a $500,- 
000 Chicago business block. 
COTTON prices have touched the highest 
mark of the season, 10.95 cents for mid¬ 
dling uplands, and 11.20 cents for middling 
Gulf. At these figures cotton is out of 
the reach of spinners, as their manufac¬ 
tured products are duller than last year, 
when cotton was 1% cent lower. Practi¬ 
cally all of the business on this basis is 
speculative, these top-notch prices being 
those squeezed out of dealers who are 
short on future deliveries, and must have 
the cotton, no matter what it costs. 
STRAWBERRIES arc arriving freely 
from the Carolinas and Virginia. Mary¬ 
land fruit is just beginning to come. Dur¬ 
ing the past two weeks we have noticed 
a good many moldy berries, caused by 
wet weather at point of shipment and de¬ 
fective handling. Very fair berries have 
been retailing at two baskets for 26 cents. 
The crates hold 32, 48 and 60 baskets, 
called quarts, but many of them short. 
The bushel crate is the one most used. 
It is easily handled, and the berries do 
not get bruised so badly as in the larger 
sizes. These crates are all 14 inches deep 
inside, varying only in length and w'idth. 
The measurements are, 32-quart, 22x11x14; 
48-quart, 22x16x14; 60-qt, 28x17*^x14. 
MONEY GOBBLERS SQUELCHED.- 
The postal and police authorities recently 
arrested the officers of a company, which 
has apparently been doing a big business 
in selling South African diamond mining 
stock. According to their claims this 
stock paid five per cent per month, and the 
profits on the whole would be two or three 
times as great as sowing diamonds like 
grain and reaping a big crop. As refer¬ 
ences they are said to have given non¬ 
existent South African banks and English 
peers, evidently intending to get out of 
reach before anyone could investigate 
their bogus references. Unless one has 
money that he Is anxious to throw away, 
the only safe thing to do is to keep out 
w'hen such gorgeously-frescoed opportuni¬ 
ties are offered. The way to get the best 
of these humbugs is to have nothing to 
do with them. It is a good thing to jail 
them, but they will go at it again as soon 
as they get out, and keep it up so long as 
there are people willing to hand over 
their money to them. 
BUTTER is slowly sliding down to the 
20-cent mark, a decline of one-half cent 
being noted since last report. A new score 
for extra has been adopted, in effect for 
six months from May 1, which will rule 
out considerable that has formerly gone 
under this name. The minimum score for 
extras is now 93 points. We believe it a 
good plan to put a premium on products 
of very high quality, as they are usually 
the result of increased skill and improved 
stock and appliances. Butter falling below 
this will have to sell on its merits, or de¬ 
merits, just as it has, and there can be 
no injustice in this. Butter put up in 
pound bricks, wrapped in waxed paper, 
and stamped with some special label, re¬ 
tails in many stores at three or four cents 
per pound above other top grades. This 
is very convenient for small buyers who 
take only a pound at a time and are will¬ 
ing to pay an extra price for the label, 
which is supposed to stand for something 
better than tub goods. Unscrupulous re¬ 
tailers take advantage of this to repack 
the best bulk butter in bricks, which they 
sell at the increased price charged for the 
butter bricked at the factory, imitating 
some well-known label. Probably the 
grade of butter commonly known as best 
Elgin is as good as anything that reaches 
this market. It is doubtful whether one 
consumer in 100 in a quality test could dis¬ 
tinguish this from Rockdale, or any other 
fancy brand, yet that forms no excuse for 
retailers to repack Elgin and label it 
Rockdale. We were recently told of a 
concern which for some time kept tw'o 
men at work all night six nights per week 
olng this, the imitators being shrew'd 
enough to use only butter of so high a 
grade that the average consumer would 
not know the difference. Unsalted butter, 
or sweet butter, as it is commonly known, 
is sold quite largely during the Winter. 
Most of it goes to the Jewish trade, al¬ 
though there are a good many customers 
among those who have come from other 
countries, like England, where unsalted 
butter is freely used. The price runs two 
cents or more per pound above salted 
butter. Of course it does not keep long, 
and must be handled quickly, especially 
in warm weather, w, w, h. 
HUMOROUS. 
“No matter where I hide,” sighed the 
leopard, “I’m always spotted,”—Cornell 
Widow, 
“Mrs. Jones seems to be heartbroken 
over her husband’s death.” “Yes, even 
her hair has turned black again.”— 
Brooklyn Life. 
“There,” said the agent, pointing to 
sidewalk, “is an illustration of our ce¬ 
ment.” “I see; a concrete example.”— 
Princeton Tiger. 
Old Lady (in grocery): “What do you 
sell dried apples for, young man?” New 
Clerk; “’Cause I can’t get any other job, 
ma’am.”—Chicago Daily News. 
“Pa,” said the Socialist’s little son, 
“what is the meaning of ‘The Great Di¬ 
vide?’” “Buncombe!” exclaimed his 
father. “They never do.”—Philadelphia 
Press. 
“WiiAT do you put on your face after 
shaving?” asked the man who smelled of 
bay rum. “Court plaster, usually,” re¬ 
plied the nervous chap, gloomily.—Cin¬ 
cinnati Commercial Tribune. 
“And all his rich aunt left him was 
$100? Weren’t the relations between 
them pleasant?” “0 yes, they were 
pleasant enough, but there were too 
many of them.”—Chicago Tribune. 
Mr. Tyte-Phist (at the club): “By the 
way, doc, what is good for indigestion?” 
Doctor (fellow-clubman): “Well, a 
Welsh rabbit is sometimes good for 
about three days of it.”—Chicago Tri¬ 
bune. 
“Does your husband ever have hypo¬ 
chondria?” asked Mrs. Oldcastle. “No,” 
replied her hostess, “Josiah always says 
when he needs anything he’ll drink it. 
They can’t get any of them things they 
squirt in a person’s arm into him.”— 
Chicago Record-Herald. 
*The square peg in the round hole* 
figuratively expresses the use of means 
unsuited to the desired end. A great 
many people who have been cured of 
dyspepsia and other diseases of the stom¬ 
ach and its allied organs of digestion and 
nutrition bjr the use of Dr. Pierce’s Golden 
Medical Discovery say : ” We tried many 
medicines with only temporary benefit. 
It was not until we began the use of 
‘ Golden Medical Discovery ’ that wo 
found a complete and lasting cure.” 
$3t000 FORFEIT will be paid by 
World’s Dispensary Medical Asso¬ 
ciation, Proprietors, Buffalo, N. Y., if 
they cannot show the original signature 
of the individual volunteering the testi¬ 
monial below, and also of the writers of 
every testimonial among the thousands 
which they are constantly publishing, 
thus proving their genuineness. 
■It U with pleasure that I tell you what Dr. 
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and * Pellets' 
have done for me,” writes Mrs. T. M. Palmer, of 
Peede, Kaufman Co., Texas. "Two years ago I 
was taken with stomach and bowel trouble. 
Everything I ate would put me in distress. I 
lived two weeks on milk and even that gave me 
pain. I felt as though I would starve to death. 
Three doctors attended me—one .said I had dys¬ 
pepsia, two said catarrh of the stomach and 
Dowels. They attended me (one at a time) for 
one year. I stopped taking their medicine and 
tried some patent medicine; got no better, and 
I grew so weak and nervous my heart would 
flutter. I could not do any kind of work. Now 
I can do my house work very well; am 
in flesh and strength, and can eat anything I 
want.” 
Accept no substitute for Dr. Pierot’s 
Golden Medical Discovery. 
Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical 
Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps 
to pay expense of mailing only. Send 
31 one-cent stamps for the paper covered 
book, or 31 stamps for the cloth bound 
volume. AddrcM Dr. tL V. Pierce, Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y. 
ARMSTRONO A McEElVT 
Pittsburgh. 
BEVHER-BATTMAN 
Pittsburgh. 
OAVIS-CHAMBERS 
Pittsburgh. 
FAHNESTOCK 
Pittsburgh. 
ANCHOR 
Cincinnati. 
D 
ON’T be confused by all this talk 
about White Lead chalking, for 
this is one of its most desirable 
properties. Pure White Lead properly 
applied will not crack, peel or scale, but 
when it fails will do so gradually from 
outside wear. 
It will protect whatever it is applied 
to as long as a vestige of the paint re¬ 
mains, and does not require to be scraped 
or burned off when repainting becomes 
necessary. 
If interested in paint or painting, address 
National Lead Co.. lOO William Street New York. 
New York. 
Chicago. 
St. Louis. 
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Philadelphia. 
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Salem, Mass, 
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looks well all the time. 
BARB WIRE AND WIRE NAILS; 
At Special Low Prices for 30 Days. 
' We ship from New Haven, Conn., or Pittsburg, Pa. ? 
[“Eagle” Barb Wire will measure 148 rods tolOOj 
I pounds or 220 pounds to one mile. Farmers andj 
I Contractors can save money on all kinds and sizes* 
I of wire and nails. Write your wants to get close- 
> to-cost delivered prices. 
CASE BROS., Colchester, Conn. 
EVERY DAY 
FROST. 
BE5T.!V 
Some one tells us they have bought their last light 
weight wire fence. Why? Because it will not do the 
work, and will not last. Frost is made of large size 
hard spring wire and large size stays. Try it. 
THE FROST WIRE FENCE CO., Cleveland, O. 
Cold-Wire Fence 
would not be worth as much as Page Fence to 
hold stock. It stretches like common fence wire. 
PAGE WOVEMVIUK FENCE C0.,A1H{1AN,MICII. 
mm 
Is made the height yon want, weight to suit your 
parpoHe, whether chickens or horses. Plain or 
ornamental, one machine makee all styles. Qet 
onr wire prices. CYCLONE FENCE CO. 
Uollj, Mlchs ClerelaDdf Ohio. Waukec^* tlL 
Scratches, 
Grease Heel, 
Mud Fever, 
Hoof Rot and 
Speed Cracks 
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 
circular with every box, positively cured with 
VETERINARY PIXINE 
If a light application is used before speeding, driv¬ 
ing in 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 
oases 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-, 
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 GO., TROY, N. Y. 
The New York State Fair 
Prize List is now ready for 
distribution, and can be had 
by applying to S. C. Shaver, 
Sec’y, Albany, N. Y. 
Positively and Permanently Cures 
Bone and Bog Spavin, Ringbone (low ringbone) 
(jurb, Thoroughpln, Splint, Capped Hock, 
Wind Puff. Shoe Boll, 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 off 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. PAKSHALL. 
FROM A REPUTABLE AND NOTED TRAINER. 
QlenvUle Driving Park, Cleveland, Ohio. 
For the enclosed $5, please send me one more bottle 
of “Save-the-Horse.” It Is doing 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 15, for which you will kiniP 
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 he 
was still going sound and working every day and I 
think he will stay sound. Tne bottle 1 am ordering 
now I will use on another horse that has a pair of 
"pavlns 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 he will walk all right. 
_ OTTO MEYER. 
The Are Iron Is uncertain and Invariably only 
aggravates the disease or Injury; blistering is lee^ 
effective than Are iron, and both necessitate laying uji 
the horse from four weeks to two months. Arsenic* 
mercurial and poisonous compounds produce Irrepar¬ 
able Injury. 
‘ Save-the-Horse” eliminates all these factors. 
Horse can be worked continuously. 
Cures without scar, blemish or loss of hair. 
It can can be applied at any time, anywhere, any 
place and In all conditions and extremes of weather 
—hot or cold. And no matter what the age. condition 
or development of the case or previous failures In 
treating', the concentrated penetrating, absorbing 
power of this remedy is unfailing. 
»5 PER BOTTLE. 
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 ease different than described 
In our booklet or advertising write us. 
We will advise you frankly as to the possibility of 
the remedy effecting a cure. Give explicit particulars 
give the 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. 
