1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
797 
PUBLISHER'S DESK. 
Because of your interest in Tm; R. 
N.-Y. we like tx) keep you advised ajs to 
the progress the paper is making. This 
naturally comes from the publisher’s 
department. We have just completed 
our figures for the returns for the month 
of October just passed. The subscrip¬ 
tions receipts for the month were nearly 
21/^ times the receipts for the corres- 
imnding month last year; to be exact, 
244 per cent over last year. 
The amount of advertising carried was 
a little more than time the amount 
carried for October last year, or exactly 
61 per cent gain. We, however, had the 
earnings of five weeks advertising this 
year against four weeks last year, so 
that the actual increase was 25 per cent 
or one-fourth more than the advertising 
earnings for the corresponding month 
last year. We mention these things be¬ 
cause much of it is due to your work 
and interest, and you are entitled to 
know just what is the exact result of 
your work and ours. 
It may be interesting to know that we 
refused three large orders for advertis¬ 
ing during the month, besides numerous 
small ones. The large orders wei-e from 
large and responsible houses. Some or¬ 
ders are accompanied v/ith cash, which 
we return because the standing of the 
concern would not make it safe for read¬ 
ers to deal with them. Others are re¬ 
fused from large and responsible houses 
and for goods of undoubted merit, but 
because the advertiser insists that we 
print the advertising in whole or in part 
as if it w^re unpaid editorial mattei'. 
We simply want the full confidence of 
the subscribers of the paper, and in or¬ 
der to enjoy it we know we must merit 
it. Hence we could not, if we would, 
practice any disguises or deceptions. 
We are often asked about the pro¬ 
gress of our suit with the American 
Farm Company. It is still pending. We 
have copies of the paper containing our 
answer to their suit for over $100,000 
which we would mail to any subscriber 
interested in the matter. Their plant 
at I>inesvilLe, Pa., was sold out by the 
sheriff. 
Two subscribers enter complaints 
against C. L. Allen, manager of the 
Villeview Poultry Farm Company, 
Salem, N. Y. Mr. .John Barr sent him 
a remittance of $4.75 and has been un¬ 
able to get any chickens or reply to his 
letters in reference to the matter. Mr. 
Anton Milner, West Orange, N. J., sent 
him $20 for 60 pullets. He sent 25 birds, 
six of which were roosters and wux)te 
several excuses, promising to make it 
right and to ship the balance. This 
was several months ago, and he has 
done neither. He does not reply to our 
letters and reports say he is not worthy 
of credit in any amount. 
Remember we will send TiiJi R. N.-Y. 
to your neighbor, who is not now tak¬ 
ing it, 10 weeks for 10 cents. Tell him 
about it. 
Horses, Cattle, Sheep, 
and Swine. 
We have some volumes of this book 
that have become slightly shelf soiled 
on one end. You Avould hardly notice 
it, but we cannot send them out at the 
regular $2 price of the book. As long 
as they last we will mail them prepaid 
to subscribers only on receipt of $1. 
This is Prof. Geo. W. Curtis’s great 
live stock book, with nearly 100 full 
page engravings. It is used as a text 
book in most of the agricultural col¬ 
leges of the United States and Canada. 
Orders at this price will not be accepted 
from dealers or schools. Orders with 
$1 will be accepted as long as the isoiled 
edition lasts from subscribers only. 
The Rural New-Yorker, New York. 
“Herbie, it says here that another 
octogenarian’s dead.’’ “What’s an octo¬ 
genarian?’’ “Well, I don’t quite know 
what they are, but they must be very 
sickly creatures. You never hear of 
them but they’re dying.”—Tit-Bits. 
MARKET NEWS. 
THANKSGIVING POULTRY.—Supplies 
for the holiday season will soon be wanted. 
The first requisite for the shipper Is to 
make arrangements with some first-class 
dealer in the market where he is going to 
ship, and then follow as closely as possible 
his directions with regard to dressing and 
packing. A few general rules are to cool 
thoroughly before packing; put different 
grades in separate packages and the culls 
by themselves; have everything clean; and 
send in time to get here not later than 
Monday of Thanksgiving week. The latter 
part of the previous week is better, as 
late arrivals are likely to miss the best 
trade unless there happens to be a great 
scarcity. 
VEGETABLE TALLOW is Imported 
from China to some extent. It Is the 
product of the Tallow tree (Stilllngia sebi- 
fera) also grown in the southern part of 
this country, and for some purposes a per¬ 
fect substitute for animal tallow. Import¬ 
ers of this product have claimed that it 
is not dutiable, but should be admitted 
free as vegetable wax. In a recent test 
case the Board of United States General 
Appraisers decided that this vegetable tal¬ 
low is dutiable at the same rate as the 
animal product, as it is used by leather 
tanners and others for exactly the sam4 
purposes as other tallow, the section of 
the law referring to this being without 
limitation and covering any article known 
commercially or commonly as tallow. 
IMPORTED POOD EXCLUSIONS.—The 
new pure food law is making things in¬ 
teresting for importers. At first all details 
of goods held were kept secret, but the 
Secretary of Agriculture has now ordered 
that the facts about every exclusion shall 
be made public, except that the importer’s 
name shall not be given. The cases thus 
far found have been covered by adultera¬ 
tion. false labeling, or good.s the sale of 
which is forbidden in the country where 
manufactured. Cases of adulteration found 
have been: Wines from Germany and 
France containing salicylic and sulphur¬ 
ous acid. (These also were not allowed 
sale in the country where made), and 
sausages from Germany and Austria, con¬ 
taining boric acid. Instances of false 
labeling were: Coloring materials said to 
be made from fruits and vegetables, but 
really products of coal tar; alcohol vine¬ 
gar. described as a pure wine product, and 
so-called olive oil, found to be largely 
cotton-seed and peanut oil. The enforce¬ 
ment of any reasonable pure food law is 
sure to be of value to all but those who 
wish to make their living by deceiving the 
ptiblic; but we trust that this increased 
watchfulness of imported goods will in no 
way lessen the vigilance of our officials 
in regard to home productions. 
OPPOSITION TO BEEF TRUST.—West¬ 
ern cattle men are said to be organizing 
a $.5,000,000 company to do a general meat 
packing business, and especially handle 
their own live stock at times when the 
larger companies cut the price offered for 
raw material. Though on a larger scale 
the idea is much the same as in the cooper¬ 
ative creamery; that is, protection to the 
producer. In many localities this creamery 
has been a great success, the most effective 
means of protection yet discovered, as may 
be seen by the antagonism of the greedy 
element of the Milk Exchange to these 
creameries. In order to prevent the new 
concern from falling into the hands of out¬ 
siders it is stipulated that at least'51 per 
cent of the capital stock shall be held by 
stockmen whose selling interests are fur¬ 
thered by it. This experiment will be 
watched with interest by those in many 
lines of business which have been gripped 
tightly by monopoly. Protective coopera¬ 
tion, to be successful, must not only result 
in financial profit but be intimately con¬ 
nected with the industries of those who 
are stockholders. No matter how clear and 
definite the purpose of the founders of such 
a plan, if the stock is sold here and there 
merely because it is a “good thing,” the 
control of the enterprise is quite sure to 
pass into the hands of those not at all in 
sympathy with the object for which it was 
organized. Thus, while a financial success, 
it may become directly opposed to the in¬ 
terests of its founders. Right here is the 
very weakest point in the attempts that 
have been made to start a company to 
handle the New York milk supply. What 
gain to the producer is it to escape from 
the clutches of one octopus only to be 
grabbed by another? w. w. h. 
FRUIT NOTES. 
The Fertile Kieffer.— Will you tell 
ns if it is necessary to plant any other 
kinds of pears with the Kieffer for polleni- 
zation? If so, what kinds would be the 
best? w. R. 8. 
Cutler, Ohio. 
The Kieffer is quite self-fertile and will 
generally bear full crops when planted 
alone, but the fruits are usually better 
filled out if infiuenced by pollen from other 
varieties. Le Conte and Bartlett make 
good pollenizers, and it is good policy to 
plant about every tenth tree of one of 
these varieties. 
Netting Fruit.—W ill you give your 
readers some data as to best mode of pro¬ 
tecting fruit trees and bushes by netting, 
etc., against the birds? c. r. 
Baltimore, Md. 
The necessity for protection of most gar¬ 
den and orchard fruits from birds is so 
new that we lack experience, and would 
be glad to receive information from R. 
N.-Y. readers. 
“The India Raspberry.”- Where did the 
India raspberry come from, and who In 
this country has the plants for sale? Some 
claim it to be just the same as the straw¬ 
berry-raspberry, but it is not. The India 
raspberry is twice as large and is very 
good to eat right off the vines, and is fine 
put up for Winter use, while the straw¬ 
berry-raspberry is good for nothing. 
Reading, Mass. c. s. p. 
The “India raspberries” as exhibited at 
the late meeting of American Pomologlcal 
Society at Boston were simply well-grown 
specimens of the oriental Rubus rossefollus 
known in this country as “strawberry- 
raspberry.” Autumn fruits are of better 
flavor than those ripened in hot weather. 
Seedlings of this species vary greatly in 
size and quality of berry, and it is quite 
likely a useful fruit may in time be 
evolved by intelligent breeding. 
America Plum. —Mr. Burbank’s plum 
America is very variable with me; will 
produce more plums with less care than 
others; large and all red, and good. 
Rural Grove, N. Y. j. s. 
Ohio Notes.—I must tell you that on 
Friday last we had the finest of table corn 
fresh from the hills, a show of red rasp¬ 
berries, and nice taste of beautiful large 
lucious Golden Queen raspberries, and 
.some good-.sized strawberries (not ripe) 
and blossoms; wild woods violet, and the 
air by spells full of whirling snowflakes. 
Wasn’t that a great combination for Octo¬ 
ber 23, 1903? Who equals it? j. g. 
Ohio. 
“Waiter, every time I come in here 
I get the same potato.” “Well., you 
never eat it, sir.”—Illustrated Bits. 
“I SEE by the papers. Uncle Hiram, 
that it is awfully dry up the State.” 
“Dry! Should say it was dry! Why, 
our town went ag’in license by more’n 
a hundred majority!”—Browning’s Mag¬ 
azine. 
“Joiix,” said the wife, tenderly, 
“promise me that if I should be taken 
away you will never marry Nancy Tar- 
box.” “Certainly, Maria,” replied the 
husband reassuringly. “I can promise 
you that. She refused me three times 
when T was a much handsomer man 
than I am now.”—Credit Lost. 
_I i The strongest 
^ “w castle could be re- 
—y -jJduced by siege if the 
_ I garrison coula be starved 
^ out. The strongest body 
has to give up the fight 
when starvation weakens 
^ it. There are more deaths 
from starvation than the world 
dreams of. When the stomach is dis¬ 
eased and the food eaten is not digested 
and assimilated, then the strength of the 
body begins to fail because of lack of 
nutrition, and the weak body falls an 
easy victim to the microbes of disease. 
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery 
cures diseases of the stomach and other 
organs of digestion and nutrition. It 
restores physical strength in the only 
possible way, by enabling the assimila¬ 
tion of the nutrition contained in food. 
" I was sick for over three years with a com¬ 
plication of stomach troubles,” writes Mr. lohn 
H. CastonSL residing at 2942 Arch St., Chicago, 
niinois. "Had tried every good phvsican I 
knew of, as well as many patent medicines, but 
received only temporary relief. One day a 
friend recommended your ‘Golden Medical Dis¬ 
covery.’ I Immediately procured .some and be¬ 
gan its use. Commenced to gain the first week, 
and after I had taken only one bottle I could 
eat as well as any one without experiencing ill 
eflfects. I took five bottles, and to-day am happy 
to announce that I am as well and healthy as 
any one could be. I owe it all to Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical Discovery.” 
The sole motive for substitution is to 
permit the dealer to make the little more 
profit paid by the sale of less meritorious 
medicines. He gains. ^ You lose. There¬ 
fore accept no substitute for ”(jolden 
Medical Discovery.” 
FREE. Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense 
Medical Adviser is sent on receipt 
of stamps to pay expense of mailing 
Send twenty-one one-cent stamps 
for the book in paper covers, or thirty- 
one stamps for the cloth-bound volume. 
Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. 
BEGIN TREATMENT AT ONCE; 
Have a permanently sound 
Horse for Spring. 
Cured horses are absolute certainties as lo 
the possibility ofthe remedy for your own 
case. Such results, as shown in our booklet, 
by business men whose reliability can be 
readily ascertained, have carried “SAVE- 
THE-HORSE" over skepticism , prejudice 
and uncertainty. Send for booklet and copy 
of written guarantee, which is as binding to 
protect you as the best legal talent could 
make it. No man need see his horse suffer 
and become incapacitated. 
“Save-tlie-Horse” Positively and 
PerinanentlyCures BONE and BOG SPAVIN, 
THOROUGHPIN, RINGBONE (except low 
ringbone,) CURB, SPLINT, CAPPED HOCK, 
WINDPUFF, SHOE BOIL, WEAK and 
SPRAINED TENDONS and all LAMENESS 
Cures without scar, blemish or loss of hair 
Horse may work as usual. 
$5.00 per bottle. Written guarantee 
with every bottle. Need of second bottle 
improbable, except in rarest cases. If your 
case Is different we advise frankly as to 
possibility of the remedy effecting a cure. 
Give veterinarian’s diagnosis. If he is com¬ 
petent. Describe age, development, location 
of swellings, lameness, and way horse car¬ 
ries and holds leg. 
$5.tW per bottle at all druggists and 
dealers, or sent express prepaid. 
Troy Chemical Co., Troy, N.Y. 
Also manufacturers of Veterinary Pixine. 
REWTON’S Heave, Ceagh, Ml- 
temper end indigestioa Care* 
A Teterinar/ specitlo for wind, 
throat mod atomach troubUa. 
Strona rscommendt. |1.00 per 
can. Dealers. Mail or Kx. paid. 
Newton Horae Kemedy 
Toledo, Ohio. 
SpAVllV„ 
C^irbl 
SplIiYf 
Core These Blemishe* 
Also Ringbone, hard or soft 
•nlargementB.SweenT.Knea- 
mngiFistnla and Poll KtII. 
ight coat and certain enres. 
Two big booklets telling how i, 
to do it sent free.Write today. | 
FLEnilie BBOB., CbemhU, 
Ill Cnion BtoekTards, Chicago,! 
COOK YOUR PEED and SAVB 
Hall the Cost—with the 
PROFIT FARM BOILER 
With Dumping Caldran.>^Emptle8 it« 
kettle in one minute. The eimpleat 
and best arrangement for cooking 
food for stock. Also moke Dairy and 
Laundry Stovaa, Water and Slaara 
Jacket Kettles, Hog Soaldars, Cal. 
Send for oiroolsrs, 
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DIPPLEY’S Comblnatton 
n ST&AM COOKERS 
wlllcook2& bushelB of fe«<i in 2 hour*; 
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YVlllheatdeiT 7 ,bo((end poultry houses. 
Msdoofboiler stool; ean*t blow up; no 
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945.00;58tylesaDd 15 sisos. Sold uodor 
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CATTLE WATERING BASINS 
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CHARTER 
Gasoline Engine. 
For Grinding, Shelling, Fodder Catting, 
Threshing, Pumping, Sawing, etc. 
STATIONARIES, PORTABLES, SAWING 
AND PUMPING OUTFITS, ETC. 
Send for Illust’d Catalog & Testimonials. 
State Your Powea Maoda. 
CHARTER GAS ENGINE CO.) Boi 26 STERLING. ILL, 
GRINDS AND CRUSHES 
Ear and Shelled 
Corn, Oats, Rye, Etc. 
" to a medium degree of 
fineness for feeding 
purposes. 
CRUSHER ROLL 
For a 
Crusher 
and 
Grinder 
Don’t f, 
Buy a (f. 
Grinder ' _ “ _ ^ 
0 /any ki)id tj. _ 
til you get our catalogue 
crushes the ears and at 
the end of crusher we 
place either fine or 
coarse grinding plates 
FINE PLATES fS*r 
ear com, shelled 
L corn, oats, rye 
land other small 
grains, where a 
good medium de- 
gree of feed is wanted. 
PniDOC Dl ITC9 are for ear or shelled com where 
UUAnoll rLA I Lo coarse chop feed is wanted and for 
CRUSHING EAR CORN to prepare It tor a French 
buhr or any other mill not iiSTlng a crusher. Crushes 
28 bus. sn hour. Can be run with 1 to 15 horse power or 
power windmill. Strong and durable- made of steel and 
iron. Hopper holds full sack of corn. Latest thing out 
and revolutionizes ear com crushing and grinding^ 
m TUIO in nilT B' 'IB s.nd we will 
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