1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Club Raisers, 
like other people, seem to have been 
waiting until after election to get to 
work Here is our list for last week: 
Oct. 29. Brace R. Wynkoop, N. Y.1 y.; 3t. 
Oct. 30. Wm. H. Potter, N. .T.1 y. 
Oct. 31. Ronson German, Mtch.4 y.; St. 
Nov. 1. .Tay H. Bowker, N. Y... .2 y. l-6mo.; 10 t. 
Nov. 2. Ronson German, Mich.4 y. 
Nov. 3. None. 
We really do not understand why more 
effort is not made to capture some of this 
money that every one sees going so easily. 
Tt is yours if you want it. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
New York, 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There. 
BOSTON APPLE EXPORTS for the 
month of October were unusually large, 
amounting to over 113,000 barrels, double 
the quantity shipped during the same time 
last year. English agricultural papers 
state that there has been a surplus of low- 
grade fruits this year, but that shippers 
of choice varieties who pack carefully and 
honestly need not fear ruinous prices. 
BROOM SUPPLIES.—A reader wishes to 
know where he can get handles and other 
supplies for making brooms. The high 
price of brooms, caused by the corner In 
the brush market, has induced him to 
raise a little broom corn to make a stock 
for himself and his neighbors. Enos B. 
Smith, 55 and 67 N. Moore st., this city, 
handles the supplies desired, and his name 
is given here, as other readers may be 
Interested in this matter. 
"PLENTY OF TIME” is usually a poor 
motto, but a Harlem jeweler has it fixed 
so that no one can make any objections. 
Tn his window is a large clock giving the 
standard time for this city. Around It are 
seven smaller clocks, all showing different 
time, and by watching them one may im¬ 
agine that he is In London, Berlin, Con¬ 
stantinople, Calcutta, Pekin, Sydney, or 
San Francisco, so far as seeing the correct 
time of day or night at those places Is 
concerned. 
NUTS.—Early in the season chestnuts 
brought extravagant prices, some selling at 
$10. Then they dropped to $6, and the 
highest figure now named Is $4.26 per 
bushel of 60 pounds. The quality of the 
wild chestnuts offered seems to be above 
the average. In buying small quantities 
from the stands here and there, very few 
wormy ones are found. There has been 
quite a supply of the large grafted nuts 
from New Jersey this year. Most of them 
are inferior for eating raw on account of 
the coarse grain and bitter skin, but they 
go very well roasted or boiled. Hickory- 
nuts are scarce, good ones bringing $2 to 
$2.50 per bushel of 60 pounds. 
THINK THEY HAVE AN EASY JOB.— 
Some lines of business In this city are ad¬ 
vertised by men who go around carrying 
large signs, which are on long poles, held 
in their hands, or strapped to upright 
frames resting on their shoulders. Thus 
the sign cannot fall to attract attention, 
as it sticks above the heads of the crowd. 
Tn fair weather the sign man gets along 
very well, but when It is windy, there Is 
trouble. A sail three feet square at the 
end of a long pole makes the holder navi¬ 
gate around at a great rate when a gust 
of wind strikes It. These men work harder 
than they would hoeing com or sawing 
wood, yet would doubtless consider it be¬ 
neath their dignity to work on a farm. 
RIDICULOUS CLAIMS are made in the 
circular matter mailed by some people 
whose chief capital is in letter heads, ad¬ 
vertising matter, and extravagant prom¬ 
ises. A produce commission house here 
sent out circulars stating that all buyers 
had to go past their place of business be¬ 
fore coming to any other produce dealers, 
and hence their chance for selling stuff 
was much better. A story like this might 
be swallowed by those who think that New 
York is a cross-roads hamlet having only 
one street, but the majority of people wil 
be disgusted or laugh at such frothy talk. 
Most trade is built up slowly and by care¬ 
ful, hard work; and concerns that get big 
all at once, like a mushroom, are apt to 
disappear about as quickly, taking with 
them numerous dollars that belong to 
other people. 
OLD CLOTHES.—Handling second-hand 
clothing is a peculiar business. A good 
many people in the city are in positions 
where shabby clothes are not tolerated. 
They must have two business suits per 
year, and what is worn one Summer will 
not do for the next. This makes a large 
trade In cast-off goods suitable for those 
whose work does not forbid shabby or out- 
of-style clothing. These dealers are sharp 
buyers, and offer ridiculouely low prices. 
They ean find every worn spot or other 
defect. What you have for sale is always 
"out of style” in color and cut, and "no¬ 
body wants it.” They also have a knack 
of wrinkling up a coat and throwing it 
down on the counter in a way that makes 
it look meaner than the would-be seller 
supposed. He will feel ashamed of him¬ 
self for expecting to get anything for such 
rubbish, and often takes the first offer that 
the buyer makes. A man told me that he 
sold a suit for 75 cents that cost $16, and 
had been worn but a few months. 
COTTON NEWS.—There has been no 
killing frost in the cotton district of this 
country yet, but several times it has come 
near enough to make a decidedly nervous 
feeling in the market. Prices are down 
somewhat from our last report, current 
price for Middling Gulf being 9% cents. 
A good many planters are holding their 
crop, and are in no hurry to sell. The ef¬ 
fect of this policy, and the wet weather in 
some sections, which makes it difficult to 
move the crop, is seen in the decreased re¬ 
ceipts at shipping ports. Advices from 
parts of Louisiana and Alabama are that 
the uplands will be picked in about two 
weeks, and that there will be a medium 
top crop in the bottom lands, unless cut 
short by frost. Reports from the Egyptian 
cotton belt are not favorable. It Is said 
that the pods in many fields ready for 
second picking are small and inferior, the 
cool and foggy weather having been un¬ 
favorable for the late plantings. It Is 
thought that the deficiency will be about 
15 per cent. The total receipts at Atlantic 
and Gulf ports since September 1 were 
2,190.365 pounds, and exports aggregated 
1.400,000. 
A SHAKING UP.—The Tarrant building, 
in which the terrific explosion occurred on 
Monday of this week, was right in the 
heart of the produce commission district, 
and for a short time business was any¬ 
thing but dull with the produce men. 
Fruits and vegetables were blown Into the 
air. and scattered around promiscuously. 
There were many narrow escapes, and 
some of the stores look as though they 
had been through the war. A number of 
engines constantly poured water on the 
ruins for three days, and a good many 
cellars have been flooded. I noticed one 
nearly full, with charred apples and pump¬ 
kins floating around. It will take a num¬ 
ber of days to get things back to any¬ 
where near their normal state in the mar¬ 
ket district. The claims made that the 
wrecked building did not. contain explosives 
except In small quantities, will seem ab¬ 
surd to anyone who has seen the ruins. 
Phosphate factories and other similar nose 
offenders are not allowed In the heart of 
the city, and it would seem as though an 
effective quarantine ought to be maintained 
against materials that can instantly tear 
things In pieces in this way. The heap of 
ruins now to be seen is a stronger argu¬ 
ment than anything that could be said, 
and those who knowingly put such a 
danger in the way of others ought to be 
convicted of manslaughter. 
THE LIVE POUT,TRY BUSINESS of 
(his city Is a profitable one on account of 
the large Hebrew population. According 
to their religious regulations, all poultry 
must be received alive, and killed by their 
official butchers. Of course, the demand 
is greatest during the special holiday sea¬ 
sons of Spring and Fall, but there is a 
steadv sale all the year. The Board of 
Health watches the live poultry trade 
closely, and has power to give or with¬ 
hold permits for the establishment of new 
depots for receiving and handling. The 
policy has been to keep the business con¬ 
centrated as much as possible, so that ex¬ 
tra care might be taken to keep In sani¬ 
tary condition the districts given up to the 
live-poultry business. So far as can be 
learned, most of the dealers here appear to 
he In a combine to control trade and prices, 
and they seem to be strong enough to 
keep out competing concerns. A large In¬ 
dianapolis company has been trying to get 
a foothold, but the Health Department by 
a small majority refused the permit. The 
Indianapolis concern then proposed to con¬ 
test the matter in the courts, but nothing 
definite has yet been done. The fact that 
this business is practically in the control 
of a combine tends to keep the price from 
any violent fluctuation. Those who have 
watched quotations on live poultry for the 
past few months have noted that fowls 
have run along for weeks without any 
change whatever, and also that roosters 
and mixed turkeys have varied but little. 
The supply of Spring chickens cannot be 
controlled in this way, as they are scarce 
and necessarily high in early Summer. 
The probabilities are that for the whole 
year, the results to shippers of live poultry 
are more favorable than If the receivers 
here had no mutual understanding as to 
prices. There are differences of opinion 
altout this, however. w. w. h. 
Rural Californian thinks that one 
working farmer Is worth more to the world 
than a thousand land speculators. 
PROFIT IN DRAINING SWAMPS. 
I recently called on Mr. Allen at Wat¬ 
kins. He Is peculiarly situated. Four 
years ago a tract of land several hundred 
acres in extent was covered with nothing 
but cat-tails. It is several feet below the 
level of the lake, and is flooded over from 
the hills In the Spring freshets. It prob¬ 
ably was once covered by the lake, all the 
time, but now has filled up so as to be 
dry in midsummer. Mr. Allen dug ditches 
seven feet deep around it, after construct¬ 
ing a dyke between it and the lake. At 
the lower corner a huge windmill and 
pump puts the water over into the lake, 
and this level tract is kept dry on the 
surface. This is not a typical, black-muck 
swamp, as there has been a good deal of 
the best part of the surrounding hills 
washed down and evenly deposited over 
the surface, without bringing any stone. 
By plowing under the cat-tails and growing 
one crop of buckwheat It was subdued, and 
is the finest soil to work in I ever saw. 
It requires no fertilizer or manure, Is free 
from weeds, is wet enough beneath the 
surface in a dry season, can be pumped 
dry in a wet season, does not bake or 
get dusty, and is easily worked by horse 
or hand. This year’s onion yield was 500 
to 600 bushels per acre, and the crop is 
about 3,000 bushels. The 00 acres of beans 
will give an enormous yield, all Red Kid¬ 
ney, and the 10 acres of sugar beets he 
thinks will yield $60 profit per acre. 
On such soil Mr. Allen thinks a hand 
drill and hoe cheapest methods, and school¬ 
boys in vacation time, who want te earn 
money, the cheapest help to do the thin¬ 
ning. Five tons of No. 1 Timothy hay has 
been cut with the 2% tons of second growth 
included. Mr. Allen says: “Up on the hills 
you will find every foot of land possible 
under cultivation, and by the aid of fer¬ 
tilizers and manure they can get from a 
third to half a crop, while there are a 
large number of acres of swamp which is 
never touched. The most valuable land 
we have to-day can be purchased the 
cheapest.” Many a man has a mine in 
what he regards as a mud-hole, and the 
most valuable part of my present home 
place is the reclaimed swamp. 
C. E. CHAPMAN. 
Same Old Game.— The lightning-rod agent 
is no respecter of persons or colors. A 
correspondent of the Texas Farm and 
Ranch tells this story of a little log house: 
"A negro’s family occupy it. At one time 
this negro’s note was good for as much 
as $50. About that time a lightning-rod 
agent came through the county. He ascer¬ 
tained that said negro’s note was good 
for 100 feet of rod and he sold it to him, 
charging him $50, taking his note in pay¬ 
ment. The negro paid the note and has 
never since had that much money. It’s 
rather an incongruous sight to see a $50 
lightning rod on a $7 house; still it fur¬ 
nishes another instance of how much some 
people love to humbug and others to be 
humbugged.” 
Corn Husking.— I consider the best 
method of husking corn is by hand. The 
usual method is to put it in shocks of six 
rows, and about six to eight yards apart, 
according to the condition of the crop. It 
is cut by hand when the husk on the ears 
is about half white. Some wait a little 
longer, but most good farmers think that 
about the right time; it makes better fod¬ 
der, as the leaves and upper part of the 
stalk is not broken off at this time. They 
begin to husk about first week of October, 
and many wait longer. I like to be done 
by October 15, because the stalks are put 
up in large shocks of about 20 or more 
sheaves, and are kept in a very nice and 
greenish-looking fodder, while if they are 
husked later they get black on the outside, 
and much spoiled. When husking corn 
four shocks are pulled together, and the 
corn is carted to the cribs the same day. 
If left on the ground over night, it will 
not be dry again if a dew has fallen on 
it, and if it should rain it would be ail 
dirty, and lose its color, and probably some 
of its feeding qualities. The fodder is con¬ 
sidered by good farmers to be just as good 
or better than hay if cut up, and fed to 
milch cows or cattle. It depends on the 
crop as much as the husker, for the quan¬ 
tity a man can husk in ordinary corn. 
One man usually husks about 40 to 50 
bushels of corn in the ear in a day; if crop 
is light, less; if heavy, more. Some give 
it away by the shock, but most have it 
husked by the day. No machines for 
husking or shredding corn in this part. A 
few farmers have machines to cut the corn 
in bundles before husking, but they are not 
a success so far, as the old way seems to 
be yet the best. Probably the machines 
are all right If the corn is put in a silo. 
The reason why the farmers in this part 
h&ul the corn the same day to the crib Is 
>.hat it will sooner cure or dry out than if 
treatad otherwise. w. h. w. 
Lanark, Pa. 
761 
Tired Out 
And she does not understand why. Her 
work used to seem so easy. You could 
tell her whereabouts as she worked by 
the snatches of song which now and 
again overflowed her happy lips. And 
now she can hardly keep up. Her head 
pains, her back hurts, and she feels 
entirely worn out. 
What is the mat¬ 
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stomach is disor¬ 
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not performing its 
whole duty. Poi¬ 
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lating in the 
blood, and unless 
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and organs of di¬ 
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there is liable to 
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vials of Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, and two 
bottles of * Compound Extract of Swart- Weed ’ 
cured me entirely. I gladly recommend Dr. 
Pierce’s medicines to all sufierers.” 
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