1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
29 
Publisher’s Desk. 
“Kows for sail.” How those three 
words do stick out in my memory. They 
are my earliest recollection of an adver¬ 
tisement. They were written on a 
coarse piece of board, with black paint, 
and tacked up on the gate post in front 
of a wood-colored farmhouse. As we 
progressed in our spelling books, we 
boys laughed at the orthography, and 
yet I am inclined to think that was 
pretty good advertising. If that farmer 
has kept on raising cows for sale, and 
never sold any but good ones, and kept 
that sign just where it was when I first 
saw it, he would now have a trade mark, 
and a business that would be worth 
more money than his entire farm is 
worth to-day. It is a pretty good thing 
to announce what you have for sale on a 
board nailed to the gate post, but a little 
card in The R. N.-Y. takes your goods 
before a large number of people who 
are looking for just the article you want 
to sell. If you have seed potatoes, pigs, 
chickens, stock, or goods of any kind 
that farmers want, The R. N.-Y. will 
act as your middleman and sell them 
for you, but if you are a new customer, 
send references with order. We return 
money for advertising almost every 
week from questionable advertisers. 
Our advertisers hre responsible, reliable 
firms, and we stand back of them with 
the assurance that a subscriber dealing 
with them does not get swindled. You 
see if you do not send the reference, 
your order would be delayed until we 
could get it. We can’t take chances. 
We want you to feel secure in dealing 
with any advertiser in this paper. We 
want any subscriber to feel safe in deal¬ 
ing with you, if you should become an 
advertiser. 
My ambition for January 2 was nearly 
realized. I wanted it to be the biggest 
day for subscriptions we ever had. We 
beat every day in our record except Jan¬ 
uary 2, 1896. That day yet has the rec¬ 
ord, though the first three days this 
year beat the first three of 1896, and' 
December was ahead of the same month 
in any previous year. Those friends 
who are helping us increase the list 
will be interested in these comparisons. 
If subscribers knew how much extra 
work they cause us by applying for the 
rose one time and sending subscription 
at another, they would try hard to do 
both at once. But we want all to have 
it, and will not split hairs. Only try to 
make the application when sending the 
subscription, and do not forget to tell 
your neighbors about the paper and the 
rose. Send a list of the papers you 
want, and we will quote you prices and 
save you money. We are doing this 
every day. We will send terms if you 
will get up a club. 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There. 
PINEAPPLES.—Unless there are dam¬ 
aging frosts within the next month, the 
prospects are that the Florida crop will 
be larger than for several years, and 
growers in that State are much encour¬ 
aged. A few Florida pines are coming 
into the markets here now. The quality 
is fine and prices high, but the quantity is 
so small that it is quickly disposed of. It 
is said that the yield in Cuba will also be 
large this season. That country is recov¬ 
ering from the effects of the war, and 
plantations are getting better care. Ad¬ 
vices from Havana state that many plan¬ 
tations have been contracted for at good 
prices. 
THE RICE TRADE.—This business for 
1899 was the largest ever known in the 
United States. The extreme cold snap of 
last February, which damaged many of 
the western stored potatoes and the south¬ 
ern early vegetables, caused an increased 
demand for rice. Large quantities were 
also sent to Porto Rico for the relief of 
the destitute, after the great storm last 
Summer. During the early part of the 
year there were large importations from 
Japan and other eastern countries, but 
after August, when the new domestic crop 
came into market, the foreign trade dimin¬ 
ished, and at present there is but little 
importation. 
ODD CANNED GOODS.—Some time ago, 
there were some canned sweet potatoes on 
the market. They were put up in tins the 
size of ordinary tomato cans, and retailed 
at 10 cents. They were quite palatable, 
though not equal to freshly-cooked pota¬ 
toes. Probably the venture was not a 
success, as none are seen now. A delicacy 
in the shape of rooster’s combs is put up 
in glass cans. The combs are bleached 
white and look inviting. Like olives, the 
taste for them has to be acquired. Their 
chief use is as a garnish for salads and 
fancy dishes. Some wholesale grocery 
houses have on exhibition glass vessels 
containing whole branches of peaches, 
plums and other fruits, preserved in alco¬ 
hol. The fruit gets rather bleached, but 
the leaves and twigs are perfect. Of 
course they are intended only for show. 
DRESSED POULTRY.—The receipts for 
the past week have been quite heavy. 
Much of this was delayed holiday stock. 
There was also quite a quantity of chick¬ 
ens packed for export, which were sent 
direct to refrigerators. Dry-packed poul¬ 
try opens up much more inviting than 
iced, and, when the weather is cold, the 
ice-packed stock is not in demand and has 
to be disposed of to cheap buyers. This 
is rather unfortunate for shippers from a 
distance, as, when sending, the weather 
may be so mild as to require icing, and 
yet the stock may reach this market in a 
cold snap, when the most inquiry is for 
dry-packed poultry. Desirable grades of 
chickens, turkeys and fowls are firmly held 
at the following prices: Turkeys, fancy, 
IV /2 to 12 cents; large Philadelphia chick¬ 
ens, 14 to 15; fowls, prime, 9 cents. These 
are top figures. Many turkeys and chick¬ 
ens are selling at 7 to 9 cents per pound. 
THE WOOL MARKET.—The Wool and 
Cotton Reporter places the total supply of 
wool in the United States at the close of 
the past year, exclusive of that held by 
manufacturers, at 157,398,S79 pounds, about 
180,000,000 less than at the end of December, 
1898. Of this amount, Boston has the most 
of any one market in this country—66,000,- 
000 pounds. The sales of wool in Boston 
during the year aggregated 347,000,000 
pounds, 206,000,000 more than for 1898. The 
total wool clip of this country for 1899 is 
estimated at 275,000,000 pounds, 9,000,000 
pounds more than for the previous year. 
The new year opens with an active trade 
and very firm prices, and there is no pros¬ 
pect of any immediate break. There is 
but little stock left in the wool-growing 
sections of this country, and it is certain 
that what the dealers now have in hand 
could not be replaced at the prices asked 
at present. Texas wool is very scarce, and 
eastern dealers find it difficult to buy from 
there on a basis of reasonable profit. 
w. W. H. 
MRS. ANDERSON’S BABY. 
You couldn’t convince Mrs. Anderson 
that Cupid ever was as pretty as her 
little girl. 
Mrs. H. C. Anderson is well known in 
South Britain, Conn., where she lives. 
She is very enthusiastic about Dr. Pierce’s 
Favorite Prescription although no more 
so than thousands of other women who 
have been simi¬ 
larly benefited. 
, She writes: 
"During the 
igj first month of the 
period of gesta¬ 
tion I could not 
keep anything on 
my stomach. I 
went to bed the 
28 th of June and 
never got up till 
the first of Au¬ 
gust. I tried dif¬ 
ferent doctors, 
but with little benefit. I began to take your 
‘ Favorite Prescription’ in November and I had 
a nice little baby girl in February following. I 
was only In hard labor about one hour and was 
up and dressed on the eighth day. I never had 
the doctor with me at all; just the nurse and two 
friends. This makes my second child; with the 
first one I did not take the ‘ Favorite Prescrip¬ 
tion,’ and the little one was sick all the time 
and lived just about two months. This last baby 
is as plump and healthy as any mother could 
wish. She is about three weeks old now and is 
gaining in flesh every day." 
Mothers who suffer undue pain prior to 
or succeeding the baby’s birth are invited 
to consult Dr. R. V. Pierce, by letter, abso¬ 
lutely without charge. The great success 
which has attended the careful methods 
pursued by Dr. Pierce, has caused imita¬ 
tors to spring up, who make offers of free 
advice, which they are not competent to 
give, not being physicians. Vifrien you 
are invited to “write to a woman,” ask 
the simple question, “Is this woman a 
physician?” You will find that she is 
not, and does not, and dares not claim 
to be, a physician. To offer such advice 
is deceitful. To receive it is dangerous. 
Prospective mothers should send for a 
free copy of Dr. Pierce’s great 1,000 
page book the “Common Sense Medical 
Adviser.” A copy in paper-covers will 
be sent to any address on receipt of 21 
one-cent stamps to pay cost of mailing 
only; in cloth-binding 31 stamps. Ad¬ 
dress Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. 
DARDEN ANNUAL and 
Send your address on 
PPL'L 1 -Our handsome 
SEED CATAL0QUE. Bend y< 
■ a postal today, or for a 2c stamp, Catalogue and a 
packet of the New Combination Tomato Seed. 
Address, COLE’S SEED STORE, Pella, la. 
Johnson’s Early 
STRAWBERRY. List free. 
T. C. KEVITT, Passaic. N.J. 
TREES 
at Wholesale prices. Apple, Plum and 
Pears, $6 per 100; Peach, 3c. Cat .Free 
Reliance Nursery, Box 10, Geneva, N. Y. 
JOHNSON'S EARLY 
Excellent Shipper. The best early Strawberry in 
existence. Send for my circular. 
O. A. JOHNSON, Upper Fairmount, Md. 
NEW 
AND FINEST 
FRUITS 
(Trade-marked.) 
MURDV PLUM and 
DIAMOND PEACH. 
NEW PEACHES. 
(Copyrighted.) 
Dean’s Bed, Dan Boone, 
Deaconess & St. Clair. 
THE ALBAUGH NURSERY AND ORCHARD CO., 
phoneton, Ohio 
Weak 
Lungs 
When your throat and lungs 
are perfectly healthy you 
needn’t worry about the 
germs of consumption. They 
don’t attack healthy people. 
It’s the weak, debilitated, in¬ 
flamed membranes that are 
first affected, hard coughs 
and colds weaken your throat 
and lungs and make con¬ 
sumption more easy. 
If your lungs are weak 
scon’s Emulsion 
is the best remedy you can take. It 
soothes and heals and gives tone 
and strength to these delicate mem¬ 
branes. In this way you can prevent 
consumption. And you can cure it 
also if you haven’t had it too long. 
Keep taking it until your lungs arc 
strong and your weight restored. 
_At all druggists ;joc. and $i.oo. 
~ “ . -hemists, New York. 
_ 4s;jo< 
SCOTT & BOWNE, Cln 
How to Drain Land Profitably. 
On every farm there is probably some land 
that could be made more productive by under- 
drainage. Properly drained land can always 
be worked earlier, and more profitably. The 
best and most 
economical way 
to drain is ex¬ 
plained in the 
book, “ Benefits of Drainage and How to Drain,” 
which is sent f ree by 
JOHN H. JACKSON, Third Ave., Albany, N. Y. 
Two Wagons at One Price. 
It is a matter of great convenience and a sav¬ 
ing of labor for a farmer to have a low, handy 
wagon. They save more than half the labor of 
loading in hauling manure, hay, grain, corn fod¬ 
der, wood, stones, etc. The man who already 
has a wagon may have one of 
these low bandy wagons at the 
small additional cost for a set 
of wheels. These Electric Steel 
Wheels, with either direct or 
stagger spokes, with broad¬ 
faced tire, are made to fit any 
axle. Yon can convert your 
old wagon to a low, handy 
wagon in a few moment’s time. 
You thus virtually have two 
wagons at one price Write to 
the Electric Wheel Co., Box 88 , 
Quincy, Ill., for their catalogue; which fully ex¬ 
plains about these and their Electric Handy 
Wagons, Electric Feed Cookers, etc. 
The Farmers HANDY WAGON 
Company, 
SAGINAW, Mich, 
are makers of 
Low-Down 
Wide-TIre 
FARM J 
TRUCKS. A,. 0 
METAL 
WHEELS tor 
Old Farm Wagona, and 
All-Steel Trucks. 
r.IrnuUxrt Fre «. 
have had. Free wagon for F9400 
— 1900 catalogue ha 
more information tha 
any we ever issued. Sen 
for one, no matter hoi 
many of our old ones yo 
Largest manufacturers of 
Steel Wagon Wheels and 
Handy Truck Wagons in 
America. Guaranteed su¬ 
perior to any other make 
WRITS US 
IV/letal Wheel Co. 
HAVANA. ILLINOIS 
THE LIGHTNING SEED SOWER 
tSTGuaranteed to sow 60 acres per 
day (either horseback or on 
foot) of Clover, Timothy, Mil¬ 
let, Flax, etc. Will be 
sent to any Post Office $ I Q r 
on receipt of. Ii/D 
If not satisfactory, money refunded. 
Circulars free. Agents wanted. 
W. J. BUSS, 53*Day St.. Golden. III. 
CHARTER GASOLINE ENGINE 
Any Place 
By Any One 
For Any Purpose 
Stationaries , Portables, 
Engines and Pumps. 
State your Power Needs. 
Charter Gas Engine Co., Box 26, Sterling, III. 
DRILLING 
Machines 
Over 70 sizes and styles, for drilling either deep or 
shallow wells In any kind of soil or rock. Mounted 
on wheels or on sills. With engines or horse powers. 
Strong, simple and durable. Any mechanic «« 
operate them easily. Send for catalog. 
WILLIAMS BROS., Ithaca, N. T. 
Saw 
Your 
Wood 
with Smalley or Battle Creek 
\\ ood Saws. More money can be 
made with our sawing outfits than 
with any other implement yon can 
buy. SELF FEED DRAG $AWS-5 SUES. 
Circular or cut off, 10 sizes; also Bolt- 
inn or Picket Mills. Every machine 
sold under a positive guarantee to do 
perfect work. Also full line of Pow¬ 
ers for operating. Catalog showing 
our Smalley line complete mailed free 
if you name this paper. 
, , SMALLEY MFC. CO., 
Sole Makers, Manitowoc, win. 
THE CHAMPION 
-ONE-MAN SAW- 
Has a record of one cord per 
hour. No Backache. No Wet, 
Cold Knees. Fun to 
cut wood with this , 
muchine. Cuts both j 
I ways. Sawor’s w’g’t 1 
I does half the work. 
FAMOUS MANUFACTURING CO.. CHICAQO, ILL. 
9 CORDS IN 10 HOURS 
BAMS DOW! 
TURKS. 
»T ONI BAIT, with the FOLDING SAWING HACHIKS. It saw* 
down trees. Foldslike a pocketknife. Saws any kind of 
timber on any kind of ground. One man can saw BOB! 
limber with ft than 2 men in any other way, and do It 
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FOLDING SAWING MACHINE CO.. 
SS-57-60Ko. Jetforeon 8t., 11-20, Chicago, IO. 
Maple Evaporators. 
Most Durable, Most Economical, Cheapest. 
McLAME-SCHAMCK HDW. CO., Linesville, Pa. 
Also, Mfrs. of the “Sunlight” Acetylene Gas Machine 
Dutton’s Mower Knife Grinder 
grinds a set of MowingMachine Knivesin 10 minutes 
betterthan can be done on a grindstone In an hour. 
Does not heat the knife. 
Your dealer should have it. Send for catalogue to 
The Cutaway Harrow Co., Higganum, Conn. 
mDMPSQlfCj 
Ass seE 
Sows all Clorere, Alfalfa, Timothy, Red Top, all Graw | 
. Seeds, Flax, Ae. Special hopper for wheat and oat*. Sows 90 
I to 40 acres per day In wet, dry or windy weather. Put* on 
I just exact amount of seed desired—don’t waste any. Weighs I 
V only 40 lbs. Last Indefinitely. Price Itat and catalogue free. 
O. K. THOMPSON «fc SONS, Ypallantl, Mich. 
Rogers’ Trees 
are grown on honor, sold on merit, planted with 
confidence. If you are tired of being humbugged 
and want honest trees at honest prices, 
Rogers’ trees are the kind you want. Our cata¬ 
logue is unlike any other, it teUs the truth, 
it s free. NURSER | ES> 
Tree Breeders. DANSVILLK, N. Y 
SEEDS 
At Wholesale Prices. 
We raise Vegetable Seeds, 
Seed Potatoes, etc., and sell 
them direct to the planter at Wholesale Prices. Catalogue 
Free. Write for it at once. It will pay you to see It. 
JOS. HARRIS CO., Moreton Farm, Coldwater, N. Y, 
