1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
4i3 
MARKET NOTES 
PRIED UP.—This (Icscrlbos hundreds of 
crates of strawberries arriving here at 
pre.sont. They are not more than half the 
normal size and inferior in every way. 
Those that have hcen irrigated, or grown 
on naturally moist soil, look unusually 
large and fine by contrast and sell well. 
Strawberry plants are most thirsty individ- 
mils. especially at fruiting time. While an 
excess of water will make soft berries, a 
great amount is needed to make an excess, 
as anyone knows who has seen how little 
nermanent effect 15 or 20 pails of water 
have on a garden patch of 100 plants during 
(irought like the present. The prices 
(Hinted do not fully cover the range of 
sales, as some are not worth two cents per 
(piart, and others bring two or three cents 
above the top notch. 
(’UTTON has been hard to keep track of 
lately. Since our last report a record of 
i :>,15 c uts for middling uplands, and 12.40 
cents for middling Gulf has been made. 
The large operators .say that the boom in 
prices is not the result of speculative 
maniiiulation, but comes from natural 
causes; large demand, short supply, etc., 
but this is looked upon by most people as 
■‘talk.” Unless the market for manufac¬ 
tured goods improves greatly, spinners cer¬ 
tainly cannot lay in stocks at a.nything like 
present figures. The logical outcome of the 
whole thing would seem to be a drop as 
goon as the necessities of the “shorts" are 
supplied. This would mean heavy losses 
Vor some before a manufacturing level is 
reached. If. as the operators say, spin¬ 
ners will find it necessary to lay in stocks 
at 11 or 12 cents, all buyers of cotton cloth 
will have to pay a decided advance. 
VEGETABLE PRICES.—An advance of 
25 cents per bushel on prime old potatoes 
is noted. The drought appears to be the 
immediate cause of this. The nearby crop 
of fresh vegetables is being cut short, and 
hence people use more potatoes. While 
there are plenty of new southern and Ber¬ 
muda potatoes here, they are still rather 
high for gen.eral use, and some do not care 
for them until a little later, when they are 
loss watery. The quality of the peas and 
string beans offered is not at all satisfac¬ 
tory. The novelty of these green vege¬ 
tables is worn off for the season, and most 
consumers prefer to wait until the higher- 
grade nearby arrive. The weather for the 
past week has been most unfavorable for 
the handling of easily-wilted stuff in this 
market. The little exposure on truck or in 
store quickly removes any fresh look that 
tilt' tu'oduce may have had on its arrival 
in cars here. Tomatoes are very plentiful, 
selling at prices which must leave but lit¬ 
tle for growers. 
POTTED PLANTS.-Quite an extensive 
outdoor business is done on the streets 
leading to the New Jersey ferries in vege¬ 
table plants, flowers and shrubs for su¬ 
burban gardens. Tomatoes, peppers, egg 
plants and cabbages are the chief vege¬ 
tables. These come in little flats and are 
cut out in lots of a dozen or less as the 
customer may wish, at prices running from 
15 to 80 cents per dozen. Most of the flow¬ 
ers are in separate pots, selling at 10 cents 
each, or three for a quarter. Some extra 
fine ones are held a little higher, but 10 
cents is the popular price. This includes 
four-inch pots of geranium, heliotrope, 
Lantana, Petunia, etc. Verbenas from 
two-inch pots in little baskets holding a 
dozen sell at half above prices or less. 
Tliesf aie all excellent plants, fully equal 
to those sold at higher prices in the larger 
stores. Other flowering plants sold by the 
dozen from flats are pansies. Zinnias and 
Asters. Few are handled other than those 
that flourish without special care, as most 
suburbanites wi.^h plants that will look out 
for themselves and amount to something if 
given half a chance. These street plant 
sellers complain of light sales during May, 
as on account of the drought few gardens 
are in suitable condition for planting. After 
a soaking rain these plant venders will do 
a rushing trade for a few days. 
“JOHN’S SPECIAL” is the bill-of-fare 
title given a variety of sandwich sold by 
John. This provider for the material wants 
of hungry man calls his restaurant 
“John’s,” and permits unlimited familiarity 
with his first name, with the intention of 
making his customers feel at liome. The 
custom is not unusual, as we have “Joe’s,” 
“Ike’s,” etc. The “John’s Special” sand¬ 
wich is a culinary “sport,” an incidental 
result of the manipulations of this hybrid¬ 
izer of edible products, and is an ever vary¬ 
ing quantity, depending upon the contents 
of the larder. If one w'ere to extract the 
cube root of this sandwich daily for a week 
he would get a different result every time. 
A typical filling would be a scrambled egg. 
some bits of cold mutton, and a slice of 
beef, the location of the cut of which it 
would be hard to Identify. The sandwich 
sells for 10 cents, is exceedingly able-bod¬ 
ied, pretty nearly a full meal; and with 
hash divides the honor of tyrning into cash 
the left-over odds and ends of this gastro¬ 
nomic laboratory. In Chicago a somewhat 
similar combination is known as an “as¬ 
sorted sandwich,” whose analysis usually 
reveals ham, Bologna or Summer sausage, 
a scrap of dill pickle, some pickled beet, a 
segment of liverwurst, and enough horse¬ 
radish to harmonize its warring elements, 
the whole being enclosed within tw.o slices 
of rye bread. w. w. ii. 
Thrifty German Farmers. 
A trip through the poorest portion of our 
county a few days ago was an object 
lesson of persistent patient German farm¬ 
ing. I saw as fine a field of clover as one 
could wish, clean and free from brush, 
stone and foul stuff, where only a few 
years ago White birch and bushes were 
the only occupants. These patient plod¬ 
ding Germans are rapidly taking posses¬ 
sion of Lewis County. ’They are doing it 
by such a slow measured coiuiuest without 
fife or drum that one only observes the 
change by a comparison of decades. Is 
there danger from the German ascendency 
over the Yankees? No! agricultui'al values 
will increase thereby and the section as a 
whole will be profited. It may not be out 
of place to suggest to the Yankee boys 
that they follow some of the Dutch 
methods. a. e. c. 
The Margin of Profit. 
A writer in the R. N, Y. thinks that there 
are men doing business on a narrower 
margin of profit than he does when he 
buy chickens at 12 cents per pound to fat¬ 
ten and sells them at 23 cents per pound. 
There may be such men. but my exper¬ 
ience has been to the contr.ary. Two 
years ago I had 700 chickens in my brooder 
house all the way from one week to seven 
weeks old. When I sold the first 50 chick¬ 
ens for $25 they weighed only eight 
ounces each. That is quite a wide margin 
of profit when you take into consideration 
the fact that the entire 700 chicks had not 
consumed quite $4 worth of feed. Another 
year I sold to the same party two-pound 
chicks at 35 cents a pound, live weight, and 
one year in June I sold roosters that 
weighed seven and eight pounds to the 
pair for 35 cents per pound, and have had 
as high as 45 cents per pound for tw,o- 
pound chicks in June. About 15 years ago 
I think that was; prices have varied some 
from year to year, but always high for 
good stock. I used to buy live poultry and 
dress them for market at the rate of 1,000 
annually, and did fairly well on them for a 
few years, but finally gave it up; it is 
so hard to get good chickens. There are 
always so many of the class I call 
“skates” among them that it takes the 
profit off the good ones. From the exper¬ 
ience 1 have had I think the margin is in 
favor of the man who can hatch and 
grow his own chickens. m. e. a. 
Sterling June., Mass. 
Ought not to mean growing •weak and 
feeble. It does not mean weaknes-s or 
feebleness for those who eat with good 
appetite and sound digestion. It is of 
the utmost importance that old people 
should retain the power to digest and 
assimilate food which is the sole source 
of physical strength. When age brings 
feebleness it is generally because of the 
failure to assimilate the nutrition con¬ 
tained in food. 
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery 
cures diseases of the stomach and other 
organs of digestion and enables the per¬ 
fect digestion and assimilation of food. 
It invigorates the liver and promotes 
general physical well being. 
”It is with gratitude we acknowledge what 
Dr. Pierce’s medicine has done for grandmotb- 
ar’s go^, in fact it has cured her,” writes Miss 
Carrie Ranker, of Perrysburg', Ohio. "She had 
doctored with .several physicians but found no 
relief until Dr. Pierce advised her what to do. 
She has taken only three bottles of ‘ Golden Med- 
loal Discovery’ and is entirely well. She auf- 
lered with pain in kidneys, bladder and liver for 
ten years, and her limbs were swelled with 
dropsy so bad she could hardly walk. My grand¬ 
mother’s name is Mrs. Caroline Hennen, her age 
Is 71 years. I will gladly answer all letters ot 
Int^iry.” 
Sick people are invited to consult Dr. 
R. V. merce by letter, _/rgg. All cor- 
reapondence is held as strictly private 
ana sacredly confidential. ^ 
Dr. Pierce’s raf«lat« 
tbf ho^cl*, 
ARMSTRONG 4 McKELVY 
Pittsburgh. 
BEYMER-BAUMAN 
Pittsburgh. 
DAVIS-CnAMBERS 
Pittsburgh. 
FAHNESTOCK 
Pittsburgh. 
^ Cinsi 
Cinsinnati, 
ANCHOR 
ECKSTEIN 
ATLANTIC 
BRADLEY 
BROOKLYN 
JEWETT 
ULSTER 
UNION 
SOUTHERN 
SHIPMAN 
COLUER 
MISSOURI 
RED SEAL 
SOUTHERN 
JOHN T. LEITIS 4 BROS CO 
Philadelphia. 
New York. 
Chltago. 
St. Louis. 
MORLEY 
SALEH 
CORNELL 
KENTUCKY 
Ccveland. 
Salem, Mass. 
Buffalo. 
Louisville. 
OME Mixed Paints may be better 
than others, but it cannot be 
said that there is no poor Mixed 
Paint. There is plenty of it. Naturally, 
every manufacturer claims his own par¬ 
ticular Mixture is the best. 
There is no mystery about Pure White 
Lead and Pure Linseed Oil. They are 
the standard—the staples in the business. 
They may not afford the dealer as large a 
profit as the Mixtures, hut they rnnke the 
best Paint. 
If interested in paint or painting, address 
National Lead Co., lOO William Street, New York. 
NEVER IN THE HISTORY 
of achievements In scientific and physiological chem¬ 
istry has anything been discovered capable of pr(> 
ducing such wonderful results as “Save-the-Horse 
Spavin Cure. 
The fire Iron is uncertain at the best, and invariably 
only aggravates the disease or injury; bl storing is 
less effective than the fire iron, and both necessitate 
laying up the horse from four weeks to two months; 
arsenic, mercurial and poisonous compounds produce, 
irreparable Injury. ••Save-the-Horse” eliminates all 
these factors. Horse can be worked continuously. 
It 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 de¬ 
velopment of the case or previous failures in treatr 
mg, the concentrated, penetrating, absorbing power 
of •’Save-the-Horse” Is unfailing. 
POSITIVELY and PERMANENTLY CUKES Bone 
and Bog Spavin, Ringbone 1 except Ix)w Ringbone) 
Curb. Thoroughpin, Splint, Capped Hock,Sh(je Boil 
Wind Puff, Weak and Sprained 'rendons and all 
Lameness It cures without scar, blemish or loss of 
hair. 15 per bottle. 
Written guarantee with every bottle, constructed 
solely to convince, satisfy and protect you full'". 
'•Siivc-the-Horse” will absolutely and permanently 
cure and for that reason guarantee Is made all your 
way. Need of second bottle is almost Improbable 
except in rarest cases. Copy of Guarantee sent upon 
application. 
$.5. all dealers and druggists, or expressed prepaid. 
TROY CHEMICAL CO.,Troy, N.Y. Manufacturers 
!>!§ HOOVER ffi? 
ily digger made tliat 
(•(•esst'ully separates 
e potatoes fiom llie 
lies and weeds, 
ipid, clean and 
llsfactory work 
taranleetf. 
Sliovel guaranteed against 
stones. Dirt proof re¬ 
versible brass lioxes. 
Rend 
for free 
catalocae 
rr.B.E' Bv.kBBV 1 ^ 17 - 1 * 17 AT'T CO.. Averv. Ohio. 
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. 
yT free 
^ _/ D NAtlOVf MTt CO . 
272 HURON ST. L. CHICAGO. 
S«lf-Openlnj; Gate 
pays a big interest onl 
the investment in thel 
time it saves and) 
makes home cheerful. 
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Ever Notice That 
we constanllv advertise Page Pence for the hard¬ 
est usage and the worst places! Does anybody else? 
PAGE WOVEN WIRE EENCE I 0,, ADRIAN, MICH 
BARB WIRE AND WIRE NAILS; 
At Special Low Prices for 30 Days. 
' We Shi p from New Haven, Conn., or Plttsburg. Pa. J 
[“Eagle” Barb Wire will measure 148 rodstolOOj 
, |Munds or W pounds to one mile. Farmers and! 
I Contractors can save money on all kinds and slzesi 
I of wire and nails. Write your wants to get close-* 
I to-cost delivered prices. 
CASE BROS., Colchester, Conn. 
Don’t Grope in the Dark. 
Avoid all mineral and poisonous substances; they 
leai unnaturally by scabbing and drying. Insist on 
laving . 
Veterinary Pixtne 
It penetrates, absorbs and heals. Its ^ 
evelatlon. Positively cures collar and saddle gauf^ 
)ld chronic sores, hoof-rot, cow-pox, mange ana 
iores. Money back if it falls. ^ i,. , «i 
Price—2 oz. box, 25c.; 8 oz. box, oOc.; 5-lb. 
At all druggists and dealers, or sent prepaid. 
RUBEROID 
(trade-mark registered) 
ROOFING 
For residences, barns, poul¬ 
try-houses and silos. Posi¬ 
tively the most durable and 
economical roofing on the 
market. Anyone can apply 
it. Water-proof. Contains 
no tar. Will not melt. Lasts 
indefinitely. 
SEND FOR BOOKLET K. 
THE STANDARD PAINT CO. 
100 William St., New York.. 
nvr, CORK SMELLERS 
We manufacture 2 to 8 horse 
Sweep Powers, 1 to 4 horse 
Treucl Powers, Lev('I or even 
tread; 5 sizes separators. Feed 
and Ensilage Cutters, Feed Mills, 
r aws. Plows, Steel and Wood 
Rollers, Engines, 3 to 25 H. P., 
mounted or stationary. 
MFC. CO., Tatamy, -‘’a 
ROUND SILOS. angles, henee 
no monldlng, rotting and waste. Cypreas, 
PizM ftad Whitt 4 tiylM; 200 ilstt. BmI ftm 
ohMpeit Bllofl on enrth. AU kind# 011o mtohlntry. frwn. 
UARDEB MFG. OOe« Coble«kiU« V ¥• 
HORSE POWERS, 
THRASHERS Wood 
and CLEANERS Saws 
One & two-horse Thrashing Outfits. Ijovel P||TTCDO 
Tread,Pat.Governor,Feed and Knsilage uUI 1 Cnu 
ELLISKEYSTONEAGR’LWORKS,Pott8town,Pa 
F. L, MAINE, (General Agent, WiUot,N. Y. 
Straight Straw, Rye and Wheat Thrasher 
Combined with Spike-Tooth Oat 
and Wheat Thraaher. 
Our Machine will 
thrash Rye or Wheat 
without bruising or 
breaking the straw, and 
tie it again in perfect 
bundles.Can be changed 
fifteen minutes to a 
splke-topth Oat, Wheat, 
Buckwheat. Barley and Corn Thrasher with stacker 
attached. Will thrash more grain with less power 
than any Thrasher built Bend for oatalogue.B tQ 
the GEANTrF»R8I9 COiiP W. T«jy. 8- f. 
