1900 
Publisher's Desk. 
Mr. Burpee, the Philadelphia seeds¬ 
man, gave me a tinge of satisfaction 
last week. He was discussing “fake 
seedsmen,” who advertise so extensive¬ 
ly under titles headed “Reliable Seed 
Houses” in some so-called farm papers. 
Aside from the quality of their seeds, 
these people advertise packets of flower 
and garden seeds at strikingly low 
prices, but the packet will contain only 
three or four seeds of a variety of which 
the packet of a reliable seedsman would 
contain 80 to 100 seeds. Mr. Burpee 
thought we must have some of their ad¬ 
vertisements. I invited him to examine 
the paper and point them out. After a 
careful examination, he said: “No; I do 
not find a single one. That is a good 
record. With all the advertisements you 
carry I do not see how you keep them 
out.” We keep them out because we 
make it a business to know them. But 
I was glad to have Mr. Burpee’s indorse¬ 
ment of the character of our large list 
of seed advertisers, most of whom are 
his competitors. 
Last month a stray copy of The R. N.- 
Y. found its way into the home of a 
stranger in the State of Idaho. He 
promptly sent us $1, and wrote as fol¬ 
lows: 
This is the paper I long have sought and 
mourned because I found it not. 
Kootenai Co., Idaho. j. g. brooks. 
Now, I have no doubt that every sub¬ 
scriber has some friend somewhere who 
is seeking a truly reliable farm paper, 
and each such subscriber will do both 
his friend and us a favor by calling his 
attention to the paper. We yet send a 
choice of this list of books for one new 
name with $1: 
The Business Hen. 
The Nursery Book. 
How to Rid Buildings of Rats 
First Lessons in Agriculture... 
The Cauliflower . 
Popular Errors About Plants.! 
Landscape Gardening . 
The Dairy Calf. 
, .40 
.60 
.20 
$1.00 
1.00 
1.00 
.60 
.25 
Of course, the new subscriber is en¬ 
titled to the rose. It and the book go 
post paid. If you send a club of four, 
with $4, we advance your own subscrip¬ 
tion for a year, and all five may apply 
for the new rose. 
By the way, every subscriber this year 
is entitled to one plant of this new 
hardy climbing rose. We will begin to 
send the roses out next month. You 
have friends who would want one, if 
they knew about it. Why not tell them, 
or send their names and we will tell 
them. 
Send us a list of the papers and maga¬ 
zines you want. Our quotations will 
save you some money. 
THE N. Y. STATE GRANGE. 
The recent meeting of the New York 
State Grange at Herkimer was one of the 
best ever held. There were present 236 
delegates, with about 300 visiting patrons 
which, with local Grangers, made an aver¬ 
age audience of about 800. The secretary’s 
report shows that 886 Granges have been 
organized in New York State. The dues re¬ 
ceived from subordinate Granges last year 
were $11,510.44, which shows a membership 
of more than 60,000. This year a pro¬ 
gramme was got up for the open session 
on a somewhat new plan. Dr. W. H. Jor¬ 
dan spoke on the twentieth century farmer, 
and Mr. Geo. L. Flanders, of Albany, on 
the oleo question. This feature was a 
great success, and delegates were greatly 
pleased with it. To an outsider, the best 
evidence of what the Grange is doing will 
be found in its expressed opinions. The 
Grange passed a number of resolutions, 
which may be said to express its position 
in various public matters. Among local 
resolutions were the following: 
Resolved, That the 'New York State 
Grange is wholly opposed to the principle 
of appropriations for indemnifying owners 
of diseased animals, plants, trees or shrubs 
against loss, when the same are destroyed 
because of disease or insect infection. 
Resolved, That the New York State 
Grange hereby endorses the proposition to 
enact a law compelling nurserymen and 
dealers in trees, plants and shrubs thor¬ 
oughly to fumigate same before shipment, 
in order that the San Jos6 scale and other 
pernicious insects shall not be spread over 
the State, and that we recommend a sys¬ 
tem of nursery inspection, and any legal 
enactment which will stop the sale of dis¬ 
eased or infected nursery stock. 
Resolved, That the New York State 
Grange declare itself as wholly opposed to 
the appointment of any further legislative 
or other commissions, believing that where 
it is necessary that State work be done 
more effective results are secured by plac¬ 
ing the responsibility upon one man. 
Resolved, That the New York State 
Grange, assembled at Herkimer, N. Y., 
February 6-9, 1900, is wholly opposed to the 
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139 
condemnation and killing of cattle when 
the only evidence of disease in them is 
based upon the use of tuberculin as a 
diagnostic. 
Whereas, A bill has been introduced in 
the Legislature by Hon. D. P. Witter, based 
on the results of the investigation in re¬ 
lation to tuberculosis and other animal dis¬ 
eases, which was made last season; and, 
Whereas, We believe that such a bill is 
very much to be preferred to any legisla¬ 
tion which has heretofore existed in this 
State in relation to this matter; therefore, 
be it 
Resolved, That we endorse the principles 
and the educational features of the bill; 
that we are in favor of taking the admin¬ 
istration of all tuberculosis laws from the 
State Board of Health and intrusting them 
to the Department of Agriculture. 
The Grange also highly endorsed and 
commended Commissioner of Agriculture 
Wieting and Mr. F. E. Dawley, the man¬ 
ager of the farmers’ institutes. It also 
passed a strong resolution complimenting 
the retiring secretary, Mr. H. H. Goff. 
The Grange also passed a proposition to 
make May I a legal holiday, to be known 
as Dewey Day. It favors placing the State 
Fair under the charge of the Department 
of Agriculture, and wants the master of 
the State Grange as a member of the ad¬ 
visory board. It opposes the increase in 
salary of the civil service commissioners, 
opposes the plan of unification of the edu¬ 
cational system, but favors one head for 
the educational interests of the State, it 
is opposed to the $20,000,000-barge-canal 
scheme, and thinks that the general Gov¬ 
ernment should build a ship canal through 
the State. It favors a law regulating the 
expense of expert medical testimony, leav¬ 
ing the judge to procure it where necessary. 
It wants all goods shipped into the State 
subject to the laws of that State, and 
favors a passenger fare of two cents per 
mile on all railroads over 100 miles in 
length. It is, of course, in favor of the 
rapid extension of rural mail delivery, and 
postal banks, and puts itself on record as 
in favor of biennial sessions of the Legis¬ 
lature, and biennial election. The New 
York State Grange gives the farmers 
of the State an opportunity to ex¬ 
press in a forcible way their opinions and 
desires regarding public matters. The 
farmers of the State would be better off 
if the Grange had 10 times its present mem¬ 
bership. 
The following officers were elected for 
the ensuing year: Master, E. B. Norris, 
Sodus; overseer, Geo. N. Fuller, Philadel¬ 
phia; lecturer, Mrs. S. N. Judd, Canton; 
steward, Charles Mann, Breakabeen; as¬ 
sistant stewards, J. J. Bell, Deposit Mrs. 
W. N. Nare, Batavia; chaplain, A. H. 
Dewey, Manchester, secretary; P. A. Well¬ 
ing, Hannibal; treasurer, P. N. Giles, 
Skanea teles; gatekeeper, M. J. Harding, 
Hornellsville; Flora, Mrs. L. D. Welch 
Pittsford; Ceres, Mrs. J. E. Knapp, Den¬ 
mark; Pomona, Mrs. W. W. Strever, West 
Milton._ 
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> Seed Potatoes & Early Seeds. 
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Loudon Red Raspberries. Best red. 
Pure stock. Inspected. Strawberries, etc. List free 
W. B. DAVIS, Janesville, Wis. 
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A. H. GRIESA, Box J, Lawrence, Kan. 
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For rocky or stumpy land the spring 
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No other tool than a hatchet or hammer 
is required to lay this roofing. We furnish 
with each order sufficient paint to cover, and 
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of general merchandise bought by us at 
Sheriff’s and Receiver’s Sales. _ 
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CfiD CJU C— 1.000 Bushels Crimson Clover 
rUn OALC Seed: l,00<) Bushe Cotv Peas. 
JOSEPH E. HOLLAND, Milford, Del. 
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Raleigh, Carman, Early Clark, Early Harvest, and 
40 others. Spring delivery. SM1TH’8 POTATO 
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tion to his customers.”— K. D. MATHER, Banker, 
Shortsville, N. Y., January 8, 1900. 
Beardless Barleys. 
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He Who Farms Progressively 
Finds much profit and pleasure in the companionship of progressive journals. 
This is the reason why thousands of the readers of The Rural New-Y t orker 
are also readers of Hoard’s Dairyman. “Birds of a feather will flock 
together.” But there are a good many of the readers of The Rural who are 
not acquainted with the merit of Hoard’s Dairyman. They have not driven 
themselves the opportunity, some perhaps because they felt no interest in 
dairying, and others just because they simply haven’t happened to. 
It is a 20-page weekly edited by a corps of editors that are men of ability 
and practical farmers. Its subscription price is SI per year, which can be 
sent direct to the paper at Fort Atkinson. Wis., or those who wish to take 
the Dairyman in connection with The Rural New-Yorker, can have both 
papers for one year for $1.05. D _ . ... _ 
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