1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
29 
BOOK BULLETIN 
FOR SALE BY THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Short Talks with Young Mothers, by 
Charles Gilmore Kerby, M. D., 262 pages. 
New York; G. P. Putnam’s Sons. Very 
plain and complete directions for the home 
care of infants. The young mother is not 
supposed to be familiar with drugs, but 
does need much information about the 
many complications sure to arise. This is 
given concisely but in a thorough up-to- 
date manner. The book will be valuable 
in any household. Price, $1.25. 
The Wtld Fowlers, by Charles Brad¬ 
ford; 175 pages, New York; G. P. Putnam’s 
Sons. A book of chatty tales, concerning 
the shooting in the waters about Long 
Island. The stories are told with some 
literary skill, and much information is 
given about native wild fowl, but at the 
dawn of the new era, when the camera is 
about to supersede the gun in the hands 
of true sportsmen, the book cannot be con¬ 
sidered a necessity. Price, $1. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
409 Pearl St., New York. 
MABKET NOTES 
BUTTER.—The receipts of high-grade 
fresh creamery are light, and 25 cents 
wholesale, or a fraction more, has been 
willingly paid. On all lower grades, how¬ 
ever, the market is dull. In storage cream¬ 
ery there is an irregular trade. Most of 
the goods score high, but what pleases one 
class of buyers does not suit others who 
wish different flavor or character of stock. 
FREE TURKEYS.—It has become the 
custom with many business houses to give 
their employees turkeys at the holiday sea¬ 
son, and the matter of supplying this de¬ 
mand is an important one with the poultry 
dealers. The largest donation we have 
heard of in this line was that of Swift & 
Co., the Chicago packers, who are said to 
have given for Christmas nearly 10,000 
turkeys to married men who had been em¬ 
ployed in their various houses for six 
months. Single men received other gifts, 
the clerks in the offices each a $5 gold piece. 
The value of all these presents was over 
$20,000. This is a mode of “talking turkey” 
that the employees doubtless appreciated. 
REAL PRICES.—“Are those real ber¬ 
ries?” asked a bystander of a man in a 
fruit store, who was wrapping up several 
small baskets of hothouse strawberries, 
each containing about 10 berries. “Guess 
they are,” was the reply. “You’d think so 
if you bought them. The man who gets 
these will have to pay 25 cents a ber 
This price may seem high, but when ex¬ 
penses, losses, and the time spent in get¬ 
ting the “know how” are considered, the 
profit to the grower is not excessive. One 
mistake in methods of handling may spoil 
the crop. Naturally, at these figures, the 
demand is very light. A man remarked 
that it was as foolish to pay such a price 
for berries as to light cigars with $5 bills, 
but there is no real analogy whatever be¬ 
tween the two cases. These berries are 
masterpieces of the skill of the greenhouse 
man, each one representing scientific, 
painstaking, hard work, which deserves to 
be rewarded. The same is true of the flor¬ 
ist, who brings to perfection with great 
difficulty many choice flowers. People who 
have plenty of money buy these things as 
they do expensive pictures, thus giving 
honorable work to the greenhouse artists. 
BIG POPGUN.—On account of the serious 
injury and loss of life caused by the falling 
of passenger elevators, numerous attempts 
have been made to devise plans for stop¬ 
ping them in case of breakage. A more ap¬ 
palling situation can hardly be imagined 
than to be in a car flying down an elevator 
shaft. The trouble with many of the 
safety appliances is that they don’t work 
when actually needed. The safety grips, 
catches or brakes fail to grip, catch or 
hold. A practical device, and the one that 
would seem to be always ready for business 
is the air cushion. The shaft for about 25 
feet is lined with heavy iron, and the 
doors and bottom are of the same material. 
Of course, there is a small space between 
the sides of the car and shaft for the flow 
of air as the car moves slowly up and 
down in regular running, but in case of ac¬ 
cident the buoyant force of the air is suf¬ 
ficient to catch the car and let it down 
more easily than any other spring could 
do. The elevator shaft then becomes like 
a big popgun, the only difference being that 
the air escapes slowly around the plunger 
instead of blowing out the wad. A test of 
this was recently made in a building near 
the R. N.-Y. office. The car, heavily 
weighted, was dropped from the twelfth 
story. On it were a number of eggs, but 
none of them was broken by the fall. 
FRUIT TARIFFS.—Several features of 
the bill just Introduced in the House of 
Representatives are of considerable impor¬ 
tance to California and Florida fruit grow¬ 
ers. It is a long haul from these points to 
New York and other large eastern mar¬ 
kets, and competition with foreign growers, 
who employ cheap labor, is severe. This is 
true of oranges, lemons and other Citrus 
fruits, and pineapples. Florida fruit in¬ 
dustries in particular, having suffered so 
severely during the past few years, ought 
to be encouraged. It is not clear, how¬ 
ever, why grapes should be taxed to the 
extent of 18 cents per cubic foot of the 
carrying capacity of barrels or other pack¬ 
ages. So far as we have seen the only for- 
e'gn grapes that come to this market to 
any extent are Malagas. A large part of 
the California crop is usually disposed of 
before these arrive in great quantities, and 
the Malagas can scarcely be called com¬ 
petitors, anyway. We have tested them 
again and again to see why they sell, and 
have concluded that they belong in the 
same list with the Kieffer pear and Ben 
Davis apple. The large bunches are beau¬ 
tiful to look at, but all that we have tried 
have been hard and ill-flavored, and not to 
be compared with Californias. w. w. h. 
THINGS TO LET ALONE. 
The Deadly Gun.— A Pennsylvania re¬ 
port thus describes the death of a good 
friend of The R. N.-Y.: “George Rhyfedde 
Foulke, a prominent farmer of East Brad¬ 
ford, was shot yesterday by his 12-year- 
Cid son while gunning on the Welsh Moun¬ 
tains, and died last night. He had taken 
the boy out to give him a lesson in shoot¬ 
ing.” 
A Freight Hitching Post.— This is the 
latest on record: “A new brand of fool 
was discovered last week at a place near 
Rochester, N. Y. He tied his team of 
horses to the brakebeam of an empty 
freight car. His wife and children were in 
the wagon. He mourns the loss of a val¬ 
uable pair of horses and has a large doc¬ 
tor’s bill to pay.” 
Enjoining Himself.— A dispatch from 
Council Bluffs, Iowa, tells of a man named 
Stevick who has adopted a strange way 
of breaking himself of drinking: “Stevick 
has caused to be published in all the news¬ 
papers of this city a notice to the saloon 
keepers in Council Bluffs, warning them 
not to sell him intoxicating liquor under 
penalty of being prosecuted. He states 
that at the time of writing the notice he 
was sober and in his right mind. He says: 
‘The saloon that sells me liquor will have 
a damage suit on its hands.’ ” 
Dangerous Dynamite.— The Philadelphia 
Record prints this dispatch: 
Shenandoah, Pa., Dec. 6.—Four boxes of 
dynamite, left in a small shanty at William 
Penn colliery to thaw out, exploded this 
afternoon, demolishing the sh.’ft engine 
house and the three other frame structures 
nearby, and breaking glass in dozens of 
houses in the village adjoining the colliery. 
A number of employees about the building 
narrowly escaped death, and several were 
slightly injured by flying debris The 
shock was felt for miles. 
The Toy Drum.—A newspaper report 
lrom Indiana states: “The 13-year-old son 
of Charles Ott was blown to pieces last 
night by the explosion of an empty nitro¬ 
glycerine can which he used for a 
drum. The boy had tied the can to his 
waist with a string and was marching 
about the yard, playing soldier. An un¬ 
usually heavy thwack exploded the can, 
with a noise which shook he town. 
Frightened neighbors rushed to the scene 
and found bits of the little boy strewn all 
over the yard. The can had been left by 
well shooters two weeks ago.” 
Rum and Robbers.— The Cleveland Plain 
Dealer tells a great story of an Ohio po¬ 
tato grower. He hauled a load of potatoes 
to town and put $40 in his pocket. Then 
he proceeded to “load up” with whisky. 
He hired three strangers to go home and 
p ck up potatoes. On the way these 
rogues robbed the drunken farmer, who 
had just sense enough not to resist. The 
rest of the story follows: 
“They arrived at the farmhouse, and at 
the first opportunity the farmer informed 
his wife what had taken place, and in¬ 
structed her and his son to watch the men. 
“This was done, and the next forenoon 
the men picked up potatoes in a nearby 
field. They worked diligently, but were un¬ 
aware that three pairs of eyes were con¬ 
stantly upon them. When the noon hour 
arrived the men were called to dinner. 
When washed and ready to sit down, Mrs. 
Hawley informed them that her husband 
was in an adjoining room and wished to 
see them. It is said that they supposed 
that he had a bottle in there, and they 
were extremely willing to interview the 
farmer. The door was hardly closed be¬ 
hind them when the men found themselves 
looking down the barrels of a 12-gauge 
shotgun. They were surprised to hear the 
command: ‘Throw up your hands!’ but 
were not slow in doing so. All of the 
money was handed over to its proper 
owner. The men were then instructed to 
open the door and depart. They did so, 
and were followed down the road by the 
farmer and his gun to make sure that 
they had gone.” 
Imagine the farmer telling his wife! Th. 
moral of it all, as we see It, is to let rum 
alone! 
Stifled Woodchucks.— If the man who is 
troubled with woodchucks will fill the en¬ 
trances, every one snug, so no air can get 
in, they will not come out in the Spring. 
It works so in Vermont, where the ground 
freezes. Our folks do this as often as they 
find some new burrows on the farm. 
Bethel, Vt. c. s. d. 
Oil and Wagon Tires. —I notice in issue 
of December 21 last advices about setting 
tires of wagons with hot oil. My experi¬ 
ence is that it is entirely the wrong thing 
to do. The heat penetrates the wood far¬ 
ther than the oil, shrinks the joint of the 
felloe and spokes, and loosens them. Sim¬ 
ply paint the felloes with cold oil, repeat¬ 
ing as soon as dry for two or three times, 
being careful to brush off any grit or dust 
first. When wood seems to be wen filled 
and swollen, give a finish by varnishing if 
desired to prevent dirt from adhering. I 
have followed this plan for years and know 
whereof I speak. f. r. b. 
Moravia, N. Y. 
Seed Selling. —In a recent article on the 
suit against seedsman Mills the remark is 
made that farmers arc often lo blame, 
not being willing to pay the price of a 
clean article. The statement brought to 
mind an incident that came under my own 
observation. I had as a near neighbor the 
proprietor of a country store. I found him 
one day in anything but an amiable frame 
of mind. The natural query was: “What 
is the matter?” “Matter! Next Spring I 
am going to buy just the cheapest grass 
seed I can find in the market. This year I 
bought the best, cleanest seed I could get 
hold of. Of course, I paid an extra price 
for it. Now, these farmers around come 
in and ask, ‘How do you sell grass seed?' 
When I tell them they bolt at once, and 
go off to the Parade, where they save 50 
cents on a bushel. Now, I have either got 
to lose on my seed or have it left on my 
hands.” Whole fields in that town are, at 
haying time, almost as white as when cov¬ 
ered with Winter’s snow, owing to foul 
seed. subscriber. 
Merrimac, Mass. 
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. 
Collapse. 
Caused by over¬ 
work ? No, caused 
by undernourish¬ 
ment. Work rarely 
causes collapse. It 
Is worry—the outcome of a low condition 
of the nervous system and inadequate 
nutrition which generally causes col¬ 
lapse. The collapse seems sudden, but 
m reality it is a slow process. The stom¬ 
ach and organs of digestion and nutri¬ 
tion are diseased, the nourishment in the 
food eaten is only partially extracted and 
imperfectly assimilated. The blood be¬ 
comes impure; the very fount of life is 
poisoned, and some day all the faculties 
and functions go on a strike. That’s 
collapse. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical 
Discovery cures diseases of the organs of 
digestion and nutrition, purifies the 
blood and builds up the weak body with 
sound healthy flesh. 
"I was cured of a bad case of indigestion, 
associated with torpid liver, by the use of Dr. 
o ^ Golden Medical Discovery," writes Mr. 
B l r F of Symside. Putnam Co., W. Va. 
Bf ' for « I began the use of ‘ Golden Medical Dis¬ 
covery I had no appetite; could not sleep, nor 
work but very little, bowels constipated, and life 
was a misery to me. After taking four bottles I 
ielt so well that I went to work, but soon crot 
worse g° I used it about eight weeks longer, 
when I was permanently cured . n 
Dr. Pierce’s Medical Adviser is sent 
free on receipt of stamps to pay cost of 
mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps 
for paper covered book, or 31 stamps for 
cloth, to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. 
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