1903 
829 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER'S DESK. 
A western concern is willing to pay 
your railroad fare to its town, if you are 
able to invest $2,000 or $3,000 in their 
scheme after you get there, but they 
will not tell you what their proposition 
is until you are behind their closed 
doors. The profits they promise knock 
the Miller get-rich-quick syndicate out 
iu the first round, and the promoters of 
the Shipbuilding Trust seem like babies 
of finance compared with them, and yet 
some of the farm papers are running 
the advertisement. 
A gas engine of Portland, Me., is again 
being advertised in some of the farm 
papers, which have more consideration 
for the size of their yearly profits than 
concern for the welfare of their sub¬ 
scribers. It is to the credit of such 
papers as National Stockman and Farm¬ 
er, Farm Journal and Tribune Farmer 
that they have joined The R. N.-Y. in 
refusing the advertising, even though 
payment for it was offered in advance. 
A. H. Ellis, a prominent farmer of 
Willsborough Point, N. Y., bought one 
of these engines some time ago. He has 
never been able to get it to work, and 
the concern that sold it has refused to 
make it do so. ^ Reports from responsible 
and trustworthy sources are to the ef¬ 
fect that the concerrf is entirely untrust¬ 
worthy and that they are execution 
proof. Mr. Ellis’s experience wilj be of 
value to anyone looking in that direc¬ 
tion for an engine. We think he would 
give you details if you write him for it. 
In a recent discussion a prominent 
business man who does a large country 
trade and who makes a close study of 
farm papers made the statement in a 
public place that The R. N.-Y. stands 
closer to its subscribers, protects 
their interests better and enjoys their 
confidence to a greater extent than any 
other farm paper. We are frank to ad¬ 
mit that it pleased us to hear him say 
so It is a recognition that we have cer¬ 
tainly tried hard to merit. The writer 
spent his boyhood and early manhood 
days on a rough farm a considerable 
distance from either cities or railroads. 
The tricks that were practiced at that 
time as since to rob the farmer of his 
hard-earned pennies filled us with fire 
and indignation. Our inherent hate for a 
confessed rogue was emphasized in our 
contempt and disgust for the slicker ras¬ 
cals who made business morals a pre¬ 
tense and robbery a science. When we 
are able now to nip a nefarious scheme 
in the bud it seems like a blow at the 
enemy of a class if not of individuals 
of those early and struggling days, and 
when the opportunity is afforded us to 
lighten the burden, cheer the path or 
champion the cause of the members of 
the farm home, we feel that we have in 
some way made a slight reparation to 
the simple trustful lives who in those 
days suffered privation and wrongs 
through a misplaced confidence in plau¬ 
sible tricksters and masked thieves. 
PAINTING FRUIT TREES. 
Tell your subscribers to take tallow and 
rub on trunks and lower limbs of jmung 
fruit trees to prevent rabbits from bark¬ 
ing them. Rabbits detest the smell of 
tallow. I tried it on 1,000 young trees, and 
they left them severely alone. J. w. n. 
Mlamisburg, O. 
Having read Prof. Alwood’s article on 
painting apple trees to prevent mice and 
rabbits from gnawing them, I think he 
may be right with the test he has given 
I have used a lime whitewash, adding a 
little sulphur. It has always done the 
w'ork satisfactorily for me. T generally 
trim the larger trees through the Winter 
.and leave the limbs on the ground for rab¬ 
bits to gnaw on until Spring, having more 
time then to trim than in Spring and sel¬ 
dom have young trees touched. 
Romeo, Mich. J- b. l,. 
After two years’ experience I have found 
“cold water paint’’ to be a perfectly harm¬ 
less protection against mice and rabbits, 
and it adheres Just as well as oil and lead. 
Mix eoual parts of water and white paint 
into a dough, then thin with water to a 
thick consistency and add one-quarter of 
a pound of Paris-green to a gallon of paint. 
Ten pounds of the plain paint to a barrel 
of Bordeaux Mixture will make it adhere 
a long time. The paint is not at all in¬ 
jurious to the leaves of plants or trees, 
even if applied as thickly as whitewash, 
as I did last Summer to cotton as a pre¬ 
ventive against the Mexican weevil. While 
I do not believe pure lead and oil w'lll hurt 
trees, still the readymade paints might, 
and the above is absolutely safe and sure. 
Texas. h. m. stringkellow. 
three strings lengthwise of the frame from 
nail to nail with a slip knot at the top. 
Now get three other strings about one 
and a half times as long as the mat, and 
wrap them separately on three_ pieces of 
wood with a sharp end to stick in the mat 
for convenience. Stand your frame against 
the side of the building and fallen your 
second three strings to the bottom of the 
first three. Procure some good straight rye 
straw. Take in your hand as much stra,w 
.as you can conveniently grasp, divide i' 
two portions, reverse one, which will bring 
the butts to the outside and the ears to 
the center if the straw is short. Lay it 
across the strings of your frame. Take 
the second strings up over tke straw; 
make a loop around the first string, draw 
it snug and you are ready for the next 
handful. Continue until you reach the top. 
Lay down your mat on the floor or a board 
with the frame on top, and with a sharp 
hatchet cut off all the ends of the straw 
that project beyond the frame. Remove 
from the frame; tie the ends and your 
mat is completed. If the straw is Ipus 
you can make mats four and a half feet 
wide, instead of three, and use four or 
five strings.” 
A Florida correspondent of the same 
paper describes his process thus. “We lay 
down two light slats, about two feet 
apart, spreading straw on these and put¬ 
ting on two more slats directly over the 
others; then nail through with wire nails 
and clinch. We generally use common 
lath for slats and broom sedge straw. 
STRAW MATS. 
Anvone Interested in hotbeds or cold 
frames will find use for straw mats as 
covering in severe weather. Correspon¬ 
dents of the Florists’ Exchange say they 
make these mats as follows: 
“Make a flat wooden frame of three-inch 
board six inches longer and the exact 
width of the mat; nail the frame securely 
at the corners. In the center of the top 
and bottom drive a nail half its length into 
(he wood and another nail each side of 
the first one and .six or seven inches from 
the outside of the frame; then stretch 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you will get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See our guarantee 8th page. 
C^irbli 
Spllivf 
Care These Blemlsbefl 
Also Ringbone, hard or soft 
enlargements. Sweeny, Knee* 
“->rang,Fi8tnlaand Poll EtH. 
....ight cost and certain cures. 
Two big booklets telling how | 
to do it sent free.Writetoday. | 
FLBBIIIG BROS., Chrmlafa, 
911 Union 8toekTards,CkIea|co,I 
CLARK’S 
CROPS 
CATTLE WATERING BA&INS, 
.S.CnENCV& «0N “ 
TOOLS FOR 
LARGE HAY 
Clark’s Reversible Bush 
Plow and Harrow. 
Cuts a track 6 ft. wide, 1 
ft. deep. Connects the 
sub-soil water. It is an 
excellent machine for 
covering In sugar cane. 
Strength guaranteed. 
^ ^ Can plow a newly cut 
forest, stump, bush or bog land, leaves the land true, 
oteau for any crop. 
Clark’s Dbl. Action 
Cutaway Harrow. 
Moves 16,000 tons* of 
Earth In a Day. 
Clark’S Rev. Sulky Disk Plow. 
Made single or double. One 
or two furrows, five to ten 
inches deep, 14 inches wide. 
For two or four horses. Light 
draft. No side draft. No 
similar plow made. 
Horses, Cattle, Sheep, 
and Swine. 
We have some volumes of this book 
that have become slightly shelf soiled 
on one end. You would 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 coV 
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 soiled 
edition lasts from subscribers only. 
The Rukal Nisw -Yorker. New York. 
HAimilH 
Generally the expres¬ 
sion is, don’t feel half 
well,” though sometimes 
people say, ”I feel half 
sick.” But there is no 
such thing as being half 
sick. The man who feels 
half sick is all sick. As a i 
rule, the cause of the 
weak, tired, half sick feel¬ 
ing is disease of the stom¬ 
ach, resulting in loss of| 
nutrition and consquently 
in physical weakness. 
Doctor Pierce’s Golden 
Medical Discovery 
cures diseases of the 
stomach and other or¬ 
gans of digestion and 
nutrition. It restores 
strength by enabling the 
perfect digestion and as¬ 
similation of food. It 
makes half sick people 
all well. 
' ” I Bufiered for four years 
with pain in my stomach 
so that at times I couldn’t 
work nor eat,” writes Mr. 
Frank Smith, of 
Granite, Chaffee Co., 
Colo. " I wrote to you 
about my sickness 
and was told to use 
r >ur mediciiies, which I did with good results. 
only usedfour bottles of your ‘ Golden Medical 
Discovery,’ and must say that I am entirely 
aired and feel like a new man, and I can highly 
recommend your medicine to any sufferer.” 
” Golden Medical Discovery ” contains 
no alcohol and is entirely free from 
opium, cocaine and all other narcotic*. 
It is strictly a temperance medicine. 
Accept no substitute for ” Golden Med¬ 
ical Discovery.” There is nothing ”just 
M good” for diseases of the stomach. 
The ” Common Sense Medical Advis¬ 
er,” one thousand and eight large pages. 
In paper covers, is sent yiree on receipt of 
twenty-one one-cent stamps, to pay ex¬ 
pense of mailing ow/jy. Address Dr. 
R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. 
WATER TANKS 
MADE OF 
ARE THE 
RALPH B. CAKTKK CO., 26 Cortlandt St., N.Y 
COOK YOUR FEED and SAVE 
Half the Cost—with the ^ 
PROFIT FARM BOILER 
With Dumping Caldron.^Empties iU 
kettle in one minute. The simplest 
and best arrangement for cooking 
food for stock. Also make Dairy and 
Laundry Stovea, Water and Steam 
Jacket Kettlea. Hog Sealdera. Cal< 
drons, etc. a^ Send for oircnlare. 
D. R. BPERBY A 00., Batavia. HA 
DIPPLEY’S 
■1 STEAM C 
Improved 
Combination 
^ _ COOKERS 
willcook25 bushels of feed in 2 hours; 
heat water In stock tank 250 feet away. 
Willheatdairy,hoRand poultry houses. 
Aiadeofboller steel; can^t blow up; no 
flues to rust or leak. PRICES $5.00 TO 
945.00;5style8and 15 sixes. Sold under 
a guarantee. Endorsed by Experiment 
Stations. Cataloffua andpriees/ree* 
RIppleyHdw. Go., Box223,G ration,III. 
Eastern Agent—J« C« hlltcbel, Fhlladelpoia. 
SEND US 
A COW, 
Steer, Bull or Horse 
hide, Calf skin, Dog 
skin, or any other kind 
of hide or skin, and let 
us tan it with the hair 
on, soft, light, odorless 
and moth-proof, for robe, 
rng, coat or gloves. 
But first get our Catalogue, 
giving prices, and our shipping 
tags and instructions, so as to 
avoid mistakes. We also buy 
raw furs and ginseng. 
THE CROSBY FRISIAN FUR COMPANY, 
116 Mill Street, Rochester. N. Y. 
CLARK’S ROOT CUTTER. 
TWO SIZES, Cuts 1 or 2 
bushels per ntilnute, for fowl 
or T>eas£. Gouge cutters, 
never choke or clog. 
PRICE, ..... »7 to »16 
Send for Circulars. 
IPUTAWAY UariQW Co. 
E ^Higganum, "Cf. U. S. A. 
ll|A||DATnDC 
IRuUDU I Ullwtrial. Lowprices, 
simple and durable. For catalogue write 
NEW HAVEN INCUBATOR CO., New Haven, Conn. 
DADNQ of Plank save Timber and Cash. Cheapest, 
DAnllU strongest, best. T.OOO In 42 States. Book for 
stamp. SHAWVER BROTHERS, Bellefontalne, Ohio 
SURE CURE. 
Brooks’ Appliance. New 
discovery. Wonderful. No 
obnoxioi’s springs or pads. 
Automatic Air Cushion. 
... Rinds and draws the 
’■Ahroken parts together 
las von would a broken 
Iliinh. No salves; nolymph- 
ol; no lies. Durable, cheap. 
Pat. Sept. 10,1901. Sent on 
trial. Catalogue free. 
Brooks Appliance Co., Box 965, Marshall, Mich. 
ReglsUrad Trad# Mark 
SPAVIN CURE 
-1^ 
being sold by Mr. 
September 7, at the Faslg-Tipton sale at Sheepshead Bay, a yearling Esher-Excellenza was _ . 
WUllain Easton, and when the animal was led into the ring he 8ald>-“Thi8 horse has been suffering from a bog! 
spavin, of which practically no trace remains. He was treated with that remedy called ‘SaveAhe-Horse,’ which aU' 
of you know, and It did save the horse; that is, it cured him. Now, you know lots of great horsee, Morello and 
others, were successfully raced, and there is no i-eason to expect that this colt will ever teUce a lame step, ’ Ibe bld- 
- j - ndthe 
ding open^ then at $250, andme colt was sold for $800 to 
ixpect that this colt will ever 
Mr. J. D. 
. Smith. 
RING- 
.V. .. . ...{.uv...... / u. oavirc.!^ ncs.;a, .. \jn s. axx\JE. .. aaa aud SPRAINED 
TENDONS and ALL LAMENESS. Cures without scar, blemh^ or loss of hair. Contains no mertury or poisonous 
substancea Can apply in all conditions and extremes of weather. Horsee may be worked as umsL 
$.5.00 per bottla 4. written guH’yi'.ntee with eveiT bottle given under seal and slgnatuie. constructed solely to 
satiBty and protect you fully. Ne^k of second bottle improbable, except in rarest oasea 
$5.00 per bottle at all druggists’ and dealers’, or sent express prepaid. 
TROY CHEMICAL CO., TROY, N.Y. Alsomannfsotarer*of V>frinaryFixing. 
