1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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MARKET NOTES 
AFRICAN FRESH FRUITS.—A few 
plums and peaches have been received from 
the Cape of Good Hope district of South 
Africa. They came by way of Liverpool, 
England, and were thus on the way from 
80 to 40 days. The peaches are corky and 
worthless, but the plums compare favor¬ 
ably with those received from California. 
They are of the Kelsey variety and retail 
at 25 cents each, not a high price consider¬ 
ing the expense of transportation. They 
were packed in flat boxes, each pJum 
wrapped in tissue paper. 
GRAIN ACTIV IT Y.—Wheat has been 
having a boom, about 3,000,000 bushels being 
taken by exporters during the last three 
days of the week ending March 22. Many 
of these orders have been on hand for 
some time, but the price has been prohibi¬ 
tive. The sharp decline in prices is due to 
rains, warmer weather and generally im¬ 
proved conditions in the Winter wheat sec¬ 
tion. There have been slight drops in corn 
and oats. On account of the scarcity of 
corn, dealers have not been so anxious as 
usual for export wheat trade, as they 
doubtless anticipated that much more 
wheat than usual would be fed. There will 
have to be a clearing out of the surplus 
wheat, however, before Summer, and this 
movement has apparently now begun. 
DAIRY BUTTER does not sell as well as 
formerly. Creamery costs but little more, 
and as it is usually more uniform and of 
better quality, many people prefer it and 
are willing to pay the difference. This will 
explain in part at least why shipments of 
dairy butter so often have to be sold at 
prices which are unsatisfactory to the 
makers. There are in every neighborhood 
people who have the knack of making but¬ 
ter in the old-fashioned way, equal to any¬ 
thing made by improved methods, but there 
Is a decided lack of uniformity in the bulk 
of Winter dairy butter. When a trier is 
put to the bottom of a tub or jar it shows 
a number of colors and as many flavors. 
The cream is kept too long before churn¬ 
ing, and a lack of cleanliness is evident. 
It is not surprising that such a product 
cannot compete successfully with properly- 
handled creamery butter. 
RETAIL PRICES.—At present there Is an 
enormous difference between the wholesale 
price of potatoes and the figures they bring 
at retail in small lots. In looking over 
Harlem green groceries recently a uni¬ 
form price of eight cents per quart was 
noted. Of course, this is heaping meas¬ 
ure, and an ordinary bushel will not make 
nearly 32 of these quarts. If it made o ny 
25, however, this would be $2 per bushel, 
or $6 for a barrel that wholesales at $2.25. 
A retail price of 15 cents per quart was 
noted for apples that can be bought for 
$4.50 per barrel. People w'ho live in the 
residence districts are obliged to pay these 
extravagant prices or make expeditions to 
the larger markets and carry home the 
stuff. Occasionally we see men employed 
downtown w'ho stop on their way from 
work and buy supplies for the family in 
Washington Market, but the experience of 
attempting to hang on to a lot of bundles 
while standing up in a crowded elevated 
train during rush hours does not tend to 
make one wish to repeat the experiment. 
One evening a Harlemite who evidently 
had struck a bargain in oranges, having a 
paper bag holding about 25, stood on the 
platform of an elevated car. The respon¬ 
sibility was too much for the bag; the bot¬ 
tom dropped out and away went the or¬ 
anges, most of them falling to the street, 
a windfall appreciated by several children 
who chanced to be there. w. w. h. 
BUSINESS BITS 
One of the most practical tools made for 
hilling is the combined hiller and digger, 
made by John Dorsch & Sons, 226 Wells 
Street, Milwaukee, Wis. It hills quickly, 
easily and with economy; it hills the rows 
high or low, wide or narrow'; destroys ef¬ 
fectively all weeds; it cultivates in the 
most thorough manner. It is easily changed 
into the best potato digger made. A dig¬ 
ger that digs. The makers, upon request, 
will send you illustrated catalogue describ¬ 
ing this tool. 
The works, at Grenloch, N. J., where the 
iron Age tools are made, have grown 
steadily since their beginning in 1836, until 
to-day they are shipping these tools to 
every part of the United States and sup¬ 
plying them for the export trade. One of 
the most generally useful of these famous 
implements is the No. 6 Iron Age combined 
double and single wheel hoe, hill and drill 
seeder, with which nine or more different 
gardening operations can be performed. 
The operation of this tool is fully described 
a n<l illustrated w’ith accurate engravings 
In the Iron Age Book for 1902. This book 
describes all the Iron Age implements, seed 
fills, wheel hoes, cultivators, plows and 
fakes, horse hoes and cultivators, harrows. 
riding cultivators, both fixed and pivot 
wheel, and the Improved Robbins potato 
planter. It will be sent free on application 
to the Bateman Manufacturing Company, 
Grenloch, N. J. 
Three points in washing clothes: Do it 
easily; do it well; don’t spoil the clothes. 
Clothes are w r orn and torn more by the old 
method of washing than by actual use. All 
this is avoided by using the 1900 ball-bear¬ 
ing washing machine. With it you can 
wash perfectly clean the most delicate 
fabric without breaking a thread, or the 
heaviest articles with the least effort. The 
saving in this respect alone will more than 
save the cost of machine in a short time. 
This company has hundreds of testimonials 
testifying to the value of their machine. 
Any reader of The R. N.-Y. can get this 
w'asher on trial by writing to the 1900 
Washer Co., 143 W. State St., Bingham¬ 
ton, N. Y. 
The Chatham is the fanning mill around 
which such intense interest centered in the 
farm machinery department of the Pan- 
American Exposition at Buffalo last year, 
where it was awarded the first premium 
and came away with upwards of 400 sales 
to its credit. Its equipment is such that 
it not only cleans the various grains and 
grasses, but with an almost human intelli¬ 
gence, separates the wheat from oats and 
the various grass seeds from each other. 
Naturally the manufacturers take a just 
pride in it, and this is shared by a long and 
rapidly growing list of users all over the 
country. Write for their booklet, “How 
to make Dollars out of Wind." Address 
M. Campbell Fanning Mill Co., 116 Wesson 
St., Detroit. Mich. 
The Hawkeye stump puller, manufac¬ 
tured and sold by the Milne Manufactur¬ 
ing Company, of Monmouth, 111., is a de¬ 
vice with which the most stumpy ground 
can be easily cleared. Many farmers have 
pieces of land which are yielding nothing 
at the present time except the roughest 
kind of pasturage, but which could be made 
very fertile if properly cleared, and this is 
one of the best seasons of the year for do¬ 
ing the work. If any readers of The R. 
N. -Y. will write the above manufacturer 
they will receive by return mail full infor¬ 
mation about this device, its construction, 
cost, in fact, all that you want to know 
about it. Address Milne Manufacuring 
Company, Monmouth, Ill. 
That Gold Spoon. 
There are some men who seem to be 
favorites of fortune. They are indus¬ 
trious, cheerful workers, full to over¬ 
flowing of the energy of splendid health, 
and success seems fairly to drop into 
their hands. It is of such as these that 
the less hardy 
and less success¬ 
ful man says 
enviously, 
" That fellow 
was born with a 
gold spoon in 
his mouth.” 
And yet on 
analysis it will 
be found that 
this success is 
largely due to 
splendid health, the endowment of a 
healthy mother. 
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription gives 
the mother health to give her child. It 
cures nervousness, nausea and sleepless¬ 
ness. It makes the body comfortable and 
the mind content. It gives physical 
vigor and muscular elasticity so that the 
baby’s advent is practically painless. 
"I will endeavor to tell you of the many 
benefits I have derived from taking Dr. Pierce’s 
Favorite Prescription,” writes Mrs. B. E. Robert¬ 
son, of Medicine Lodge, Barber Co., Kans. "In 
the fall of 1899 I was expecting to become a 
mother and suffered terribly with pains in the 
back of head ; in fact I ached all over. Suffered 
with awful bearing-down pains; I was threat¬ 
ened for weeks with mishap. A lady friend 
told me to use Dr. Pierce’s medicines. She had 
taken them and felt like a new woman. I began 
using the ‘ Favorite Prescription ’ and took four 
bottles before my baby came and two after¬ 
wards. I suffered almost death with my other 
two children, but hardly realized that I was 
sick when this baby was born and she weighed 
twelve and one-qnarter pounds. She is now 
eleven months old and has never known an 
hour’s sickness; at present she weighs thirty- 
seven pounds. I owe it all to Dr. P ; “rce’« 
Favorite Prescription.” 
"Favorite Prescription” makes weak 
women strong, and sick women well. 
Accept no substitute for the medicine 
which works wonders f*r weak women. 
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the 
most desirable laxative for delicate 
women. 
SIIoWnk engines 
Sold on Trial—by Builder to User. 
ALEX. T. GIBSON, 5 Jefferson Ave., Utica, N. Y. 
== NO SPAVINS i=H] 
The worst possible spavin can be cured in 
} 45 minutes. Ringbones, Curbs and Splints 
j 8 Not painful and never has 
ailed. Detailed information about this 
new method sent free to horse owners. 
Write today. Ask for pamphlet No. 88 
Fleming Bros., Chemists, Union Stock Yds., Cblcsgo. I 
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The Best 
Farmer’s Garments 
made anywhere are Keystone 
Union-Made Overalls and Pants. 
Two garments like this, with 
coats to match, costing less than 
S2 a suit, will clothe a farmer 
neatly one year. Ask for lots 56, 
67 or 58, in stripes—or if you 
prefer blue, lot 18. With each 
suit a 6 months’ Diary and 
Time Book free. If your 
dealer will not furnish Key- 
b t one goods, send his name, 
and we’ll supply you. 
Cleveland & Whitehill Co. 
Newburgh, N. Y. 
TUB! MARK KRr.ISTRKRD. 
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BUY DIRECT Sa p™m*? t8 
Double-Strength Colled Spring Wire 
and The Best Fence on Earth at 
Wholesale Prices. Catalogue free. 
THE CLEVELAND FENCE CO., 
Cleveland, Ohio. 
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The only nmchlno 
that will pay for 
itself without tu Ip. 
Always In order 
Lasts a lif- time. 
Now Is t he timo to 
Improve. 
It Is Not Manufactured. 
A fence equal to the Frost. They all lack the 
quality of Coiled Spring wire and heavy Spring stays 
tlrmly united at crossings, found in the Frost Fence. 
Catalogues free. 
THE FROST WIRE FENCE CO . Cleveland, O. 
Page Poultry Fence 
weighs 10 pounds to the rod. Isn’t that better? 
PACE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., A BUI AN, MKJII. 
DRILLING 
Machines 
J ,, n.jiDii, lururaung eiiner deep o 
shallow wells in any kind of soli or ro< k. Mounte< 
on wheels or on sills. With engines or horsepowers 
Strong, simple and durable. Any mechanic oai 
operato them easily. Send for catalog. 
WILLIAMS BKOH., Ithaca, N. Y. 
BRIGH AM’S MALLEABLE SHOE 
for working horses on swamp 
land. This one shoe is adjust¬ 
able to suit the> size and shn pe of 
any horse's foot. Patented and 
manufactured bv L. Brigham, 
Decwtiir Mioh. Send tor Circular. 
THE MERIT of YEARS 
attaches to this rooting. It is 
known and used in every sec¬ 
tion of the whole country. 
FIRE, WIND and 
WATER PROOF, 
and low in price. Be- 
soft and pliable, it is easy 
and lay. Exposure makes 
as hard as slate. Rend for Sample and Circular. 
THE A. F. SWAN CO., 114 Nassau St., NEW YORK. 
ARROW BRAND 
Surfaced with gravel. Can be laid by any man 
pos-essmg me 
chanical sense 
without the 
help of s'- illed 
roofers Needs 
no p a i n 11 n g 
, Send for book¬ 
let and free samples A8 PHAL T RKA11Y 
ROOFING CO., No. 80 Finest., New York. 
WIRE FENCE AT WHOLESALE. 
Also Coiled spring, plain and Barb wire. Send for Cat. 
j and prices. W. II. Mason As Co., Box 67, Leesburg, O. 
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Every day during March 
and April we shall sell 
Cheap Tickets 
To The 
Northwest 
Montana, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, 
Washington and N.W. Wyoming 
( Our fast train service from Chicago to 
St. Paul, Billings, Mont., and Denver, 
and our system of Reclining Chair 
Cars (seats free) and Tourist Sleeping 
Cars—only $6 for a double berth 
Chicago to Pacific Coast—in addition 
to the regular Pullman cars, makes 
the Burlington Route the most com¬ 
fortable and convenient way to the 
Northwest. Ask you nearest ticket 
agent about it or write me for a folder 
giving particulars. 
P. S. EUSTIS, Gen’* Pass’r Agent C. B. & Q. Ry. 
Chicago. 
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Beautiful Souvenir Spoon Set. 
Without question, one of the finest and most pleasing souvenirs ever issued is the set of 
Pan-American Exposition Souvenir Coffee Spoons made especially for the Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern Ry. by the Oneida Community. They arc made of best material, carefully and hand¬ 
somely finished and fully guaranteed. They are serviceable and will last for years. Like quality 
spoons sold at Exposition at 50 to 75 cents each. 
The set consists of six spoons. A different exposition subject is engraved in the bowl of each 
spoon. Do not fail to order a set. You will be thoroughly pleased with the spoons. 
In Ordering: Remit by express 
or post-office money order to 
ONEIDA COMMUNITY, 
Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
For comfortable, enjoyable travel between the cities of Chicago, Toledo, Cleveland, 
Buffalo, New York and Boston, use the famous through trains over the Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern Railway. For any particulars about travel via this route, address 
A. J. Smith, g. p. & -r. a., Cleveland, O. 
Complete set in Satin- {IS -< 
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lined Box, postpaid to 
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