1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER: 
585 
Big Results for Small Work 
We promised to begin those daily premiums on August 15. 
Evidently most readers failed to realize when the plan began. Here 
are the winners for the last four days of that week. It will make 
pleasant reading for the four winners, but how about those who 
have thrown the chances away ? 
Date. Winner. Size of Club. 
August 15. Wm. Carhart, Mercer County, N. J. One Trial. 
August 16. C. S. Nesbit, Luzerne County, Pa. Two Yearlies. 
August 17. R. S. Cate, Clinton County, N. Y.Two Yearlies. 
August 18. Geo. E. Randall, Orange County, Vt. One Trial. 
Of course it always takes some little extra power and grease to 
start the wheels. I remember the water power at the old mill pond 
at home. When he let in the water the miller always had to run 
and lift on the wheel to help start it. Once started it ran hard 
enough. So it will be in this contest. The subscriptions will come, 
but the beginning is slow. The time for a fast man to make speed 
is right in a slow time. Where are you, then ? Perhaps you are so 
prosperous that a $2-bill has no attractions for you. That is a happy 
condition that we would like to crawl into at once. Think of a man 
with one trial subscription earning a premium ! It just happened so, 
but the per cent of such happenings will grow smaller and smaller 
with each day. This premium offer will be kept right up through 
the season. Here are the premiums—where are you ? 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There. 
EARLY APPLES.—Some shippers recent¬ 
ly have received high prices on account of 
the quality being unusually good, or the 
fact that there was a temporary shortage; 
but for the last week anything ordinary in 
this line has sold for 76 cents to $1.50 per 
barrel, with occasional low grades at 50 
cents. 
A BIG SAILING VESSEL.—The George 
M. Wells, a six-masted schooner launched 
at Camden, Me., this week, is said to be 
the largest of its class in the world. It is 
over 300 feet long, 48 wide, and deep. 
With all its canvas spread before a good 
breeze, it will slide through the water with 
its 6,000 tons of cargo at a lively rate. The 
cost was $100,000. 
SOUTHERN OYSTERS.—Advices from 
New Orleans state that great damage has 
been done to the oyster crop in Mississippi 
Sound by the heavy rains. Great quanti¬ 
ties of oysters are shipped from that sec¬ 
tion to southern and western cities, some 
as far north as Chicago. Young oysters 
need salt water; excessive rains, causing 
an unusual flow from the rivers, kills those 
in the beds at the river’s mouth. The 
damage is estimated at 25 per cent. 
WOOL.—Generally speaking trade is dull, 
although it is intimated that during the 
past week considerable buying has been 
done that has not been made public. The 
mills are taking only what they require 
for present needs. At Boston the sales for 
the week ending August 14 amounted to 
2,235,000 pounds. The total sales in that 
market since January 1, 1900, were 83,000,000 
pounds, nearly 100,000,000 pounds less than 
for the same time last year. 
PEACHES of all sorts, qualities and sizes 
are now seen in this market. All classes 
of buyers ought to be able to get some¬ 
thing to suit them. There is still some 
Georgia stock left, and Maryland, Dela¬ 
ware and Jersey are sending in large sup¬ 
plies. Many of these are small, but little 
over an inch in diameter, but there are 
plenty of good size and quality. The can¬ 
neries in the producing sections are said 
to be very busy, and the output will be 
large. This will relieve the fresh-fruit mar¬ 
ket of the surplus there would be if all 
had to be sold in this shape. 
MACARONI WHEAT.—The Department 
of Agriculture is making experiments with 
certain varieties of European wheat used 
for the making of macaroni, with a view 
to introducing those best adapted to the 
wheat-producing sections of this country. 
Formerly nearly all of the macaroni used 
in this country was imported, but several 
factories have been erected recently, and 
the Industry will doubtless grow if a suffi¬ 
cient quantity of the right kind of wheat 
is raised in this countrv. Of course, the 
Italians consume the largest quantity of 
macaroni, but it is a wholesome food, can 
be prepared in many ways, and is more 
and more coming into general use. 
COTTON advanced 22 points in this mar¬ 
ket August 13, and lost it the following 
day. The present price for middling up¬ 
lands is 10% cents, four cents higher than 
last year at this time. The most conflicting 
crop reports are circulated to influence the 
market. There is no doubt, however, that 
heavy rains, worms, rust, weevil and rot, 
have caused great damage in some parts of 
the South. In certain sections the rains 
have been so excessive that all work m 
the cotton fields had to be abandoned. A 
report has been published in Europe that 
artificial cotton has been made in this 
country from pine and spruce fiber. This 
is an error, however. Frequent efforts 
have been made to do this, but without 
much success. A fair sample of artificial 
silk has been spun from fir and spruce 
fiber. 
“THEM IS BARTLETTS.”—These were 
the words I heard a fruit dealer use in 
recommending a crate of pears to a man 
who evidently was after Bartletts, but did 
not know just how they looked when he 
saw them. The dealer had sized him up 
and saw that he was buying by name, and 
did not know Bartletts from Kieffers. The 
pears were really small green specimens 
of the “choke-dog” variety. Quite likely 
they grew in the corner of some pasture, 
and were picked up after the cows had re¬ 
fused to eat them. Possibly the shipper 
may get a fair price for them if that dealer 
succeeds in buncoing somebody into buy¬ 
ing them for a good variety, but the sale 
of such worthless stuff is bound to do harm 
to the fruit trade in general. The Board 
of Health here has been quite active re¬ 
cently in stopping the retail sale of un¬ 
wholesome fruit. 
A TOUGH JOB.—A man in charge of sev¬ 
eral tenement houses in this city, collecting 
rents and turning out people when they re¬ 
fuse to pay, tells of the most outlandish 
schemes that they get up in order to dodge 
the rent. They complain about everything, 
and even damage property wilfully in order 
to get something to growl about. On ac¬ 
count of their tricks it is impossible to tell 
the difference between distressed people 
who are really honest and will pay if given 
a little time, and others who intend to beat 
the landlord out of as much rent as pos¬ 
sible and then move. “Why,” said he, “I 
have worked at this until I am so hard¬ 
hearted and suspicious of people that it is 
a struggle for me now to give five cents to 
a beggar, no matter how much in distress 
he seems to be.” There is no doubt that a 
man’s occupation has more or less to do 
with the character he forms. w. w. h. 
GUERNSEY BREEDERS MEET. 
The Guernsey Breeders’ Association held 
its Summer meeting August 15, on the 
grounds of the New Jersey Experiment 
Station at New Brunswick. There was a 
very large attendance, over 100 breeders 
coming up from south Jersey and Phila¬ 
delphia. If it is true that man takes some 
of the characteristics of the animal with 
which he associates, the breeders of Guern¬ 
seys ought to have certain distinct char¬ 
acteristics. The Guernsey is a dignified, 
strong, good-natured animal, not likely to 
get excited, deliberate, and ready to do her 
duty at all times. A single glance at the 
solid, prosperous-looking men who filled 
the office of the Experiment Station was 
enough to show that Guernsey men have 
absorbed some of the good qualities from 
their cows. It was certainly a fine, digni¬ 
fied, solid lot of men, the majority of whom 
seemed to be Friends from Chester County, 
Pa. But little business was done at the 
meeting, the object being to see what 
Prof. Yoorhees is doing with forage crops. 
The Professor gave a short address, telling 
something of his work. He told the story 
of his operations, and said that it was part 
of their business to try any forage crop 
that promised to give a cow an extra meal. 
They got down to the fact that grass, 
clover and corn are, after all, the standard 
fodder crops for the eastern farmer. There 
are other crops, however, like Kaffir corn, 
millet, cow peas, etc., that chink In well 
with the standards, and enable dairymen 
to give a succession of fodder crops during 
the Summer. 
Prof. Voorhees has got to be an Alfalfa 
crank. He took a great deal of pride in 
showing his field of this wonderful plant. 
He is able to talk about it enthusiastically, 
but after all, it is more convincing to see 
the crop actually growing in the fi- ld. 
While Alfalfa is by nature a plant tnat 
thrives on the dry plains of the West and 
Southwest, Prof. Voorhees has been able 
to grow it almost to perfection on the 
heavy, compact soil of the Station. He 
emphasizes the fact that, when growing 
Alfalfa on such soil, it is necessary to give 
it ideal conditions; that the land must be 
thoroughly fined and subsoiled, and at leasi 
35 pounds of seed per acre used. It is 
necessary to cut the weeds to give the Al¬ 
falfa a show. The Professor also found 
that lime on such soil benefited the Alfalfa. 
He said that it was not sound advice to 
recommend certain forage crops on tne 
weight of the green fodder. The chemist 
should come in to help, so that we may 
know the amount of the dry material, 
rather than the total weight of the green 
material per acre. A cow can make no bet¬ 
ter use of water in green corn than she 
can of water pumped out of the well. 
What she wants is the dry material in a 
crop, for it is out of this that her milk 
and butter will be made. From the stand¬ 
point of dry matter, no other crop at the 
Station has given better results than Al¬ 
falfa. The amount of protein that can he 
produced in a favorable season by an acre 
of Alfalfa is something wonderful, and 
makes a startling showing when given in 
pounds of bran. The Guernsey men were 
very much interested in the Professor’s 
work, and all seemed t'o agree that ):<■ is 
doing remarkably helpful service in show¬ 
ing what can be done on the soiling sys¬ 
tem in the matter of feeding cattle. 
As to the Guernsey breed of cattle there 
can be no doubt about its standing. As a 
large, comfortable and economical breed it 
is gaining ground steadily. The cows have 
the ability to color their milk to a remark¬ 
able degree, and a few of them used in a 
dairy of Holsteins or Ayrshires will "leaven 
the whole lump.” h. w. c. 
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CHEAP RATES TO THE STATE FAIR 
The following rates are made by the 
West Shore Railroad for the State Fair 
week. Equally good rates are made by the 
Central and other roads. Rates in the first 
column are for tickets which are sold dur¬ 
ing the week of the Fair, and those in the 
second column are for the special days, 
Tuesday and Wednesday, proportionate 
rates to be made from intermediate sta¬ 
tions not shown: 
Station. Rate. 
New York .$6.35 
West Nyack . 6.00 
Haverstraw . 5.70 
Cranstons . 5.35 
Newburgh . 5.15 
Highland . 4.85 
Kingston . 4.55 
Saugerties . 4.35 
Catskill . 4.15 
Coxsackie .3.90 
Albany . 3.40 
Rotterdam Junction . 2.80 
Amsterdam . 2.70 
Fultonville . 2.50 
Canajoharie . 2.30 
Fort Plain . 2.20 
Little Falls .1.90 
Mohawk . 1.80 
Ilion . 1.70 
Utica . 1.50 
Oneida Castle .95 
Canastota ..85 
Chittenango .70 
Cazenovia . 1.05 
Earlville . 1.45 
Weedsport . 90 
Port Byron .90 
Clyde . 1.20 
Lyons . 1.30 
Newark . 1.45 
Palmyra . 1 . 6 O 
Fairport . 1.85 
Rochester . 2.00 
Oakfleld . 2.75 
Akron . 3.05 
Buffalo . 3.40 
Niagara Falls . 3.50 
Suspension Bridge. 3.50 
Rate. 
3150 
3.40 
3.15 
2.90 
2.75 
2.75 
2.70 
2.60 
2.50 
2.00 
1.60 
1.55 
1.45 
1.35 
1.30 
1.15 
1.10 
1.06 
1.00 
.70 
.65 
.65 
.85 
1.20 
.50 
.50 
.65 
.75 
.80 
.85 
1.00 
1.10 
1.60 
1.70 
2.00 
2.50 
2.50 
West Virginia Fruit.— The outlook for 
the apple crop in West Virginia is not at 
all gratifying, but since this is the off year 
in our State we have no grounds for com¬ 
plaint. Some few orchards, both In the 
northern and eastern Panhandles, are 
carrying a light crop, while many others 
show five to 15 or 20 per cent of a crop. 
The crop for the State will aggregate a 
number of thousands of barrels of fruit 
of superior quality; the fruit upon the 
trees is smooth, and large for the time of 
year. The peach crop will be the largest, 
and of highest quality of any yet produced 
in the State. Old orchards are carrying a 
wonderful crop, and many young orchards 
are showing a virgin offering of superior 
excellence. The crop will crowd the half¬ 
million mark. The superior color and flavor 
of the mountain peaches of West Virginia 
are fast gaining in the estimation of the 
peach-eating population of our cities and 
the up-to-date growers who place an A1 
article on the market are certain to receive 
due compensation for their labor and care. 
Morgantown, W. Va. l, c, c. 
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