1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
77 
MARKET NOTES 
WOOL.—Boston is the center of this 
trade, and the market is strong. Many 
manufacturers laid in supplies some time 
ago, but their mills are running, and they 
will soon be on the market for raw material 
again. The receipts at Boston for the first 
three weeks of January were 8,315,000 
pounds, nearly twice that of the same pe¬ 
riod last year. Recent prices have been: 
No. 1 Ohio washed fleeces, 2614 cents; un¬ 
washed, 21; Michigan unwashed, 19 to 20. 
The first series of the 1902 London wool auc¬ 
tion sales opened January 21, with spirited 
buying. About 9,700 bales were offered. 
COTTON.—The exports of American cot¬ 
ton to European markets continue heavy, 
yet American spinners are backward in get¬ 
ting their stocks, evidently thinking that 
the present heavy movement to market is 
going to continue until prices drop. On the 
other side the conditions are the reverse. 
Spinners appear anxious to stock up, which 
makes a strong market, while here the Liv¬ 
erpool cables of advanced prices have but 
little effect on account of the inactivity of 
buyers. The movement of cotton from first 
hands is said to have been during January 
more than 240,000 bales ahead of last year, 
while exports for the season have exceeded 
last year by 484,000 bales. The total sales 
from growers from September 1 to January 
20 were 7,383,000 bales. Present current 
prices are: Middling Uplands, 8 5-16 cents; 
Middling Gulf, 8 9-16 cents. 
POTATOES.—Receipts of foreign continue 
large, and the market on these is decidedly 
easier, the quotations given being extreme 
in many cases. This is largely on account 
of irregular quality in recent foreign ship¬ 
ments. The market for domestic stock of 
the better grades is firm. Retail buyers 
complain of great difficulty in getting good 
potatoes at the groceries, as they turn 
black or are soggy when cooked. The fact 
is that there are varieties of potatoes that 
ought not to be grown. They belong in the 
same black list with certain apples and 
pears whose chief recommendation is that 
they yield well and look fine. There are 
so many good quality potatoes which yield 
well that it seems hardly excusable for a 
grower to produce the soggy, vile-smelling 
sorts that city consumers often get. The 
sale of such tubers works harm to the 
trade, for people who get beaten a few 
times in this way simply quit buying and 
eat something else in the place of potatoes. 
Anyone who loads up the market with a 
lot of deceptive stuff does a decided injury 
to all in his line of business. Of course, soil 
and season have much to do with quality 
in potatoes, but there are varieties which 
are never good, no matter where or how 
grown, and for the good of all concerned 
they should be discarded. 
INVESTMENT MATTERS.—“Is- 
a reliable concern?’’ asks a reader. Inves¬ 
tigation showed that this was a brokerage 
house occupying three little rooms in a 
large office building. They refused to give 
definite information, and the general ap¬ 
pearance of the place was unfavorable. Yet 
we cannot say that they are not reliable or 
will not do as they agree. Evidently they 
have been sending circulars to the country 
districts offering special bargains in stocks. 
When one thinks that those who have been 
connected with financial matters all their 
lives often make mistakes in investments, 
it will be clear that those who have no 
working knowledge of finance are unwise to 
trust their money to wildcat concerns. It 
may be that they occasionally get hold of 
bargains that others do not have, but there 
is always a risk equal to the amount of 
money invested with them. It is doubtful 
enough business for those who know all the 
ropes to deal with such people. Unless an 
outsider is willing to risk losing his whole 
investment, he should have nothing to dc 
with any except financial houses that are 
well known and have firm foundations. Of 
course, these houses do not advertise for 
business so frantically as mushroom con¬ 
cerns, because they do not have to. On this 
account many people think that the larger 
houses will not bother with small accounts. 
Just the reverse is true, as many of the best 
houses have a trade with country people. 
They handle for them small amounts of a 
few hundred dollars, hnd give prompt and 
careful attention to these smaller custo- 
mers. Money invested in such hands comes 
as near being safe as it can be in the un¬ 
certain business of dealing in stocks. 
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BUSINESS BITS. 
Fruit growers who are preparing to spray 
will be interested in the caustic potash 
whale-oil soap made by James Good, 939- 
941 N. Front St., Philadelphia. It is recom¬ 
mended as a Winter wash for San Jos§ 
scale; it can be used successfully on rasp¬ 
berries, blackberries, gooseberries, straw¬ 
berries, currants, grapevines, and all other 
small fruits, during the entire season. It 
will also protect the cabbage and other 
vegetables from insects and worms which 
are so destructive in the garden, and have 
resisted other means of extermination. 
Send to the above address for pamphlets 
concerning its use. 
A PEEP 
Factory to Farm 
at wholesale prices. The Best 
Fenceonearth. Catalogue free 
THE CLEVELAND FENCE CO , 
Cleveland, Ohio 
Blood Albumen, which is a valuable 
poultry food, must not be confounded with 
the red albumen fraud which has received 
so much unpleasant notoriety of late. Geo. 
II. Lee Co., Omaha, Neb., or 8 Park Place, 
New York, make Blood Albumen, and can 
give poultry keepers useful information 
concerning it. 
Sugaring season is approaching, and the 
equipment of spouts, evaporating pans, 
etc., should be in good order. The quan¬ 
tity, as well as the quality of the final pro¬ 
duct, depends largely on the efficiency of 
the outfit. The Improved Eureka sap spout 
offers superior advantages at a moderate 
price. Write C. C. Stelle, 81 Fifth Ave., 
Brooklyn, N. Y., for catalogue and samples. 
Many failures in spraying are caused 
from the pumps not being able to apply the 
various solutions in the proper manner. 
The Rippley Hardware Company, Box 223, 
Grafton, Ill., issue a catalogue describing 
a full line of compressed air four and five- 
gallon sprayers; also large orchard spray¬ 
ers, which sell from $1 to $25. These spray¬ 
ers are used and endorsed by prominent 
fruit growers and experiment stations. 
Send two cent stamp for their 1902 cata¬ 
logue; they want an agent in every locality. 
Some of the reasons why farmers prefer 
to use McCormick machines are that they 
are the easiest to handle, last the longest 
and give the most satisfactory work in 
the field. The McCormick line comprises 
binders, reapers, headers, mowers, rakes, 
corn binders, shockers, huskers and shred¬ 
ders, knife grinders and binder twine. 
Readers of The R. N.-Y. are requested to 
write to the nearest branch house, or the 
McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., Chi¬ 
cago, U. S. A., for beautiful book, entitled, 
“The World Center,” which is profusely 
illustrated in colors. 
The Brown Fence & Wire Co., Cleveland, 
O., manufacture a very strong and durable 
farm fence, using coiled spring steel wire 
for the lateral wires and large stiff steel 
stay wires. Their method of joining to¬ 
gether the upright and line wires is entirely 
different from all others and enables them 
to use wires all extra large in size without 
the aid of locks, washers or any other form 
of metal bindings. Their new booklet is 
full of valuable points and new information 
for the fence builder, and every farmer will 
find it to his advantage to write this firm 
for booklet and catalogue. 
“Everything for the Garden,” which is 
a book of 190 pages, containing over 700 
engravings and six superb colored plates, 
is the annual catalogue of Peter Hender¬ 
son & Co., 35 and 37 Cortlandt St., New 
York. This catalogue is sent to all who 
send 10 cents in stamps to cover the cost 
of postage and mailing. In addition to the 
catalogue, this firm, wishing to trace the 
result of their advertising in different 
papers, will send free, to all who order 
catalogue and state where they saw the 
advertisement a trial collection of six pack¬ 
ets of choice vegetable and flower seeds, 
contained in a coupon envelope, which 
when empty and returned with an order 
from catalogue will be accepted as 25 cents 
in part payment. 
Sunscald.— Prof. Selby on page 4 says a 
fleshy fungus is thought to be responsible 
for the loosened bark on trunk of apple 
trees near the ground. May it not be 
caused by sunscald? We have lost many 
valuable trees by the same cause, and have 
almost invariably found the bark to start 
first from the south side of the tree. We 
have thought of shading by sharpening a 
board four to six inches wide, three to five 
feet long, driving in the ground on the 
south side of each tree. A very little shade 
from the sun on some warm days of Feb¬ 
ruary and March might protect them. 
Palermo, Me. t. d. 
Cheap Horse Ration.— Several in this 
vicinity are feeding with good success 
whole rye boiled. We are at present feed¬ 
ing about four quarts a day to a team 
standing in the stable most of the time. 
This with the hay left in the cows’ 
mangers, with an occasional mess of bran, 
forms a very cheap and satisfactory ration. 
Allowing a fair price for the “orts” this 
does not cost much in excess of $1 per 
week for a horse. Others are feeding 
larger quantities with good success, and 
yet not increasing the cost to that of oats 
or corn and bran. I find, according to 
analysis, rye contains nearly twice the di¬ 
gestible nutrients that oats do per bushel, 
although it has a somewhat wider nutri¬ 
tive ration. At present prices of corn, bran 
and oats this seems to be the cheapest ra¬ 
tion we can find. The rye when boiled is 
very easily digested, and has a laxative 
effect similar to bran. j. d. h. 
Windham, N. Y. 
future would 
OSD 
sadden 
many a happy 
woman. The mis¬ 
ery of marriage 
often results from 
ailments which 
maidenly mod¬ 
esty kept hidden. 
When doctors are 
at last consulted 
they frequently 
fail to help. 
They do not un¬ 
derstand the root 
of the trouble. 
Dr. Pierce’s Fa¬ 
vorite Prescrip¬ 
tion has cured 
thousands of 
cases where doc- 
tors entirely 
failed. 
" I had been a great 
sufferer from female 
weakness,” writes 
Mrs. M. B. Wallace, 
of Muenster, Cook 
Co., Texas. "I tried 
four doctors and 
none did me any 
good. I suffered six 
years, but at last I 
found relief. I fol¬ 
lowed your advice, 
and took eight bottles 
of ‘Favorite Prescrip¬ 
tion ’ and four of the 
‘Golden Medical Dis- 
covery.’ I now feel 
like a new woman. 
I have gained eighteen pounds.” 
“Favorite Prescription” 
MAKES WEAK WOMEN STRONG 
AND SICK WOMEN WELL. 
Send 10c. 
bo C. It. EVERSON, 
the Old 8tove Dealer, 
Macedon, N. Y., and 
he will write you how you can save a half dollar In 
buying some stove at home, and It might be $2. 
HALE’S I 
ORCHARD 
TOOLS 
Clark’s Hay Tools, 
D. A. Harrow moves 
15,000 tons earth In 
day. These 5 tools 
cut a track 31 feet wide. 
IMPROVED 16-ln. Sulky 
SICKLE •»®Dlow; draft 
WATER '300 lbs. All made by 
mnwnH’R the Cutaway Harrow Company, 
of Higganum, Conn. 
Send for Circular. 
THE MIETZ & WEISS 
Kerosene Engines 
Cheapest and Safest Power 
Known. For pumping and 
electric lighting, grinding 
corn, separating cream, 
sawing wood, and all power 
purposes. Awarded Gold 
Medal Pan-American Exp., 
Bullalo, 1901. Send for Cat. 
A. MIETZ, 
128 Mott Street, New York. 
CHARTER 
Gasoline Engine 
USED 
Any Place 
lty Any One 
For Any Purpose 
Stationeries, Portables, Engines 
and. Pumps, Eoisters ( 
Send for Illustrated Catalogue and 
Testimonials. State your Power Needs. 
Charter Gas Engine Co., Box 26, Sterling, III. 
The “WeberJunlor” 
Pu mper^ 
Is all complete, ready to at¬ 
tach to pump. Equal# 30 men 
pump iiig water. 
Uses but little gas¬ 
oline. Is shipped 
crated completely 
erected, all connec¬ 
tions made. Easy to start, any 
one can operate it. Every 
one guaranteed. Other sizes 
up to 50 H. P. Send for cat¬ 
alog, WeborGas& Gasoline 
Engine Co^ Box 102, 
Kansas City, Mo. 
m SENT ON TRIAL 
A Fence Machine that will make over 100 
Styles of Fence and from 60 to 70 rods a day 
AT ACTUAL COST OF WIRE 
Horse-high, Bull-strone, Pig and Chicken-tight, 
Wire at Wholesale Prices. Catalogue Free. 
Kitselman Bros. u. D92 Muncie, Ind. 
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same mistake twice. Buy The PAGE this time, j 
PaSK WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., ADRIAN, .MICH. | 
ONCE FENCED, ALWAYS FENCED. 
20 to 35c. per rod. Strong Coiled Spring Steel 
Wire Fence with Heavy Stay Wires. 
New principle. No Locks. Write for cat. Agents Wanted 
The Brown Fence in Wire Co. ,77 Mason St.,Cleveland,O 
DON’T READ THIS 
THE r¥22>FRO.VT 
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unless you < are looking for the best ALL HARD 
SPRING wire fence money can buy. Double strength 
coiled spring wire and stays, fastened with a patent 
steel lock without destroying the strength of either 
wire. Catalogue and prices for the asking. 
THE FROST WIRE FENCE CO., Cleveland, Ohio. 
WIRE FENCE 
Jeavy lateral wires, heavy hard steel stays, coiled 
ipring wire. Sure Grip lock. In strength, appearance, 
md durability, the Hard Steel cannot bo excelled. 
iVrite for catalogue and prices. 
ITBH WARD STEEL WIRE FENCE CO., 
American 
Field 
and 
The 
|HT best 
affix product 
of Amcri- ^ 
r can skill in woven steel 
wire fence making. In rolls, 
ready to stretch and staple. 
The Fence of Economy. 
If your dealer hasn’t 
it, write to 
American Steel 
A Wire Co., 
Chicago, New York, Son 
Frauclsco _ Denver.' 
We Sell Advance Fence 
DIRECT TO FARMERS AT WHOLESALE. 
This plan not only saves you the middleman’s 
profit, but at the same time gives you the best 
all round farm fence. Many heights to suit all 
farm purposes. Entirely interwoven. No loose 
ends to unravel. Send at once for circulars and 
special discounts. 
Advance Fence Go., 172 D St., Peoria, Ills. 
This admits of widest adjustment- 7K feet wide 
tor field work and can be narrowed down to 80 la. 
for work between rows. Front wheel makes It 
run easy and steady. Flat teeth with diamond 
points. VV e mall W eeder Booklet Free. Make 
Corn Planters, Cultivators, Harrows, Rollers, etc. 
Ask for Catalogue O. 
KEYSTONE FARM MACH. C0..1S47 N. Beam St., Yarfe, Pa. 
The Quaker City Grinding Mill 
is the fast grinding, easy running, ball bearing mill, which crushes and grinds ear corn 
and mixe8small grain with it at the same time. It is the mill that lias two hoppers. One 
for ear corn and coarse grain and one for small grain. It thus grinds and mixes the feed at 
the same time better than it can be done in any other way. No heating. It grinds excellent 
corn meal, oat meal and gruhum flour, tor family use. You can’t go wrongin buying this 
because We Send it on Free Trial hands'send forour84tli Annual 
Catalogue G-7 and also ask for our Peanut Butter Mill Circular. AH mulled free. 
A. W. STRAUB k CB., 3737 Filbtrf Street, Philadelphia, Pa. The A. W. STRAUB CO., Canal and Randolph St., Chicago, Ills. 
Also Western Agents for “Smalley” Powers, Shelters, Cutters, etc. 
iOUBLE THE FOOD VALUE 
J can be secured from grain fed to live stock if it is cooked. It is more ea°ily 
digested and assimilated by the animal stomach. This 
ELECTRIC FEED COOKER 
cooks reed In the quickest and best way and with the least amount of fuel. Made of 
cast iron, lined with steel. Boilers made of heavy galvanized steel, made in 12 sizes. 
Capacity from 25 to 100 gals. Strong, well made and will last indefinitely. Order be¬ 
fore the cold weather catches you. Write at once for free circulars and prices. 
ELECTRIC WHEEL CO., Box B8 Quincy, Illinois* 
