1902 
297 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MARKET NOTES 
FIRE NOTES.—Reported fire losses for 
the United States and Canada for the first 
three months of the present year amount 
to $48,009,900. February was the heaviest 
month, over $21,000,000, as the fires at Pater¬ 
son, N. J-, and Waterbury, Conn., occurred 
during that time. During March there 
were 225 fires exceeding $10,000 damage, 
and eight of these were $200,000 or over. 
MOLE CATCHER.—This is a new office 
created by the New York municipal gov¬ 
ernment. Moles do serious damage to the 
parks, and it is expected that this man 
will devise means for keeping down the 
pests. After a year or two of steady work 
on this problem his experience ought to be 
of value to others. On large British es¬ 
tates a mole catcher usually forms one of 
the regular employees, and this man, with 
his bag of ferrets and knowledge of wood¬ 
land creatures, is viewed with great in¬ 
terest by the juveniles. 
POTATOES.—For the 12 days ending 
April 9, 25,021 barrels of domestic and 174,925 
sacks of foreign were received at this 
market. The heaviest imports were from 
Scotland. While high quality, home-grown 
potatoes have sold well, the lower grades 
have dragged, as buyers have preferred 
foreign stock to inferior domestic. It has 
seemed as though the prices which many 
foreign potatoes have brought have been 
too low to net the growers much profit 
after deducting shipping expenses; but a 
young man from Scotland who said he 
had talked recently with growers and 
shippers there told us that they expressed 
general satisfaction with the returns, as 
the yields per acre had been large. 
COTTON.—The demands of the mills and 
increased speculation have caused a decid¬ 
ed advance in price. Receipts at interior 
markets in the cotton-growing districts 
are falling off, thus pointing to an earlier 
exhaustion of the holdings than was an¬ 
ticipated by many. There is no product 
more difficult to keep track of from the 
market point of view than cotton, as there 
are so many things to be considered in 
both producing and consuming ends. Fav¬ 
orable conditions from the producer’s 
standpoint may be upset by dullness in 
manufactured goods, and on the other 
hand high prices of raw material may 
prevent the mill men from operating, even 
in the face of a fair demand for iheir 
goods. Current prices are: Middling Up¬ 
lands, 9!4 cents; Middling Gulf, 9V6 cents. 
MILK NOTES.—Servants or housekeep¬ 
ers in this city often use milk bottles in 
which to get vinegar, molasses or other 
liquids from the grocery. The Board of 
Health is trying to put a stop to this 
practice. An effort will be made to secure 
a law making it a finable offense for any 
person to use milk bottle or cans for any 
purpose but milk. There would certainly 
be no hardship to anyone in such a law, 
and people who use milk from bottles 
should be willing to go a step further, and 
at least rinse them out as soon as the milk 
is emptied. There is not so much danger 
from bottles as from cans, however. Any 
filth stuck in the corners of bottles can 
be seen, but with cans the case is differ¬ 
ent. The health officials will do well to 
turn their searchlight on these milk cans 
as they are emptied. They will in some 
instances find milk solids that have been 
dried in the corners for months, pieces 
breaking off now and then and dissolving 
in the fresh milk. This state of things is 
not common, but some one ought to be 
held responsible for it wherever found. 
Fines amounting to $600 have been imposed 
on an East Side wholesale milk dealer for 
two offenses in offering impure milk for 
sale. _. w- w. h. 
BUSINESS BITS. 
The modern market demands improved 
methods in the preparation of all products, 
and this is especially true of the dairy. A 
necessary point is the cooling and aeration 
of milk for the removal of animal odors. 
Oakes & Berger, Cattaraugus, N. Y„ make 
the Ideal milk cooler and aerator, which 
is simple, inexpensive, and effective. A 
complete line of dairy supplies may be ob¬ 
tained from this firm, who will send cata¬ 
logue on application. 
A practical traceless harness, doing 
away with the use of whiffletrees, and en¬ 
abling the plow or cultivator to be worked 
directly up to young trees without the 
slightest danger of injuring them, a har¬ 
ness useful for any low-down work where 
whiffletrees are undesirable, or clumsy, is 
the product of The B. F. Baker Co., 220 
Main St., Burnt Hills, N. Y. So confident 
is the Company of the ability of their har¬ 
ness to do all they claim for it that they 
are not only using space in farm papers to 
advertise it, but are offering good induce¬ 
ments to farmers to give the harness a fair 
trial. The results are proving satisfac¬ 
tory to both the Company and the users of 
the harness. 
The Page Fence Age is a little publica¬ 
tion sent free for one year to any person 
interested in wire fencing, who will write 
and ask for it. Over 200,000 copies are pub¬ 
lished each issue, and it will discuss the 
fencing problem from a scientific, practi¬ 
cal, and economical standpoint. If you 
think that 17 years’ experience in the busi¬ 
ness is worth reading, you can get it fre<_. 
Address Page Woven Wire Fence Co., 
Adrian. Mich. 
One of our leading market gardeners 
said the other day: “I always use Brad¬ 
ley’s Fertilizers on all of my crops, largely 
because they are always of uniform high 
quality.” This uniformity of quality for a 
long term of years has given the Bradley 
goods a high reputation. Made by the 
same men in the same good old way, from 
the choicest raw materials, Bradley’s fer¬ 
tilizers hold first place with tens of thoq- 
sands of farmers, who have tested them 
every season on all varieties of crops, with 
great success. 
The Empire Agricultural Works, Coble- 
skill, N. Y., are pioneers in the production 
of silos, having had hundreds of them on 
the market in actual use long enough most 
thoroughly to test their sterling worth as 
perfect silage preservers. Their new pat¬ 
ents and improvements are captivating the 
dairymen everywhere. Their catalogue, 
fully and vividly describing every detail of 
each style of silo, including numerous cuts, 
and their booklet, entitled, “The Subject 
in a Nutshell.” will be gladly sent free to 
all of our readers who send a request to 
that effect to the above address. 
The offer made by the Ohio Carriage 
Mfg. Co., to send their vehicles on 30 days’ 
free trial and pay freight both ways if not 
satisfactory, shows that they have abund¬ 
ant faith in the goods they send out. Their 
elaborate new catalogue, which is just off 
the press, illustrates and fully describes 
over 100 specially designed exclusive pat¬ 
terns. In this catalogue they show several 
tests to which they have put their vehicles 
to prove the strength of the material used 
in their construction. They also reproduce 
photographs of people who have purchased 
their vehicles and have given them testi¬ 
monials. This is a very clever way of 
proving that the testimonials are genuine. 
Any of our readers who are thinking of 
buying a vehicle this season will do well to 
write to this concern for their catalogue- 
which is mailed free upon application. Ad¬ 
dress Ohio Carriage Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany, Station 39, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
CHARTER 
Gasoline Engine 
IDELITY FOOD 
FOR YOtfM 
CHICKS. 
Any Place 
[ ISF0 By'Any One 
U jr or Any Purpose 
Used everywhere by practical poultrymen and 
..... - — 
| Stationarles, Portables, Engines 
and Pumps, Holsters, 
Sawing Outfits. 
Send for Illustrated Catalogue and 
Testimonials, state your Power Needs. 
Charter Gas Engine Co., Box 26, Sterling, III. 
THE MIETZ & WEISS 
Kerosene Engines. Sizes, 1 to 60 H.P 
Cheapest and Safest Power 
Known. For pumping and 
electric lighting, grinding 
Corn, separating cream, 
sawing wood, and all posver 
purposes. Awarded Oold 
Medal Pan American Exp.. 
Buffalo, 1901 Send for Cat. 
A. MIETZ. 
128 Mott Street. New York 
UfCI I DRILLING 
HELL Machines 
Over 70 sizes and styles, for drilling either deep or 
shallow wells In any kind of soil or rock. Mounted 
bn wheels or on sills. With engines or horse powers. 
Strong, simple and durable. Any mechanlo oan 
operate them easi I v. Send for oatalog. 
WILLIAMS BROS., Ithaca, N. Y. 
BEFORE BUYING SWX'IX 
A NEW HARNESS alogue glv- 
.. . i ■■■ Ing full de¬ 
scription and prices of all kinds of single and 
double harness and save 25 per cent. 
King Harness Co. 510 Church St., Owego.N.Y. 
I : 
specialist fanciers wi th unfailing success. Insures 
perfect health and promotes rapid growth. Price, 
26 lbs., *1.25; 50 lbs., *2.00: 100 lbs., *8.50, 
FIDELITY FOOD FOR FOWLS 
forgetting birds Into highest show condition; for 
maximum egg production; for keeping fowls free 
from disease. Price same as F. F. for Y. C. 
The Famous Fidelity Food is for sale by Poultry 
Supply Dealers throughout the world and by the 
Pfnelan^^^j^jSolylfrs^ ~ 
Box i^Jatncsbnrg.N.jJ 
Family cares and duties do not weigh 
down the well woman, and the children 
are never in her way. But when the 
womanly health fails, and there is a con¬ 
stant struggle with weakness and pain, 
household duties are a burden almost 
past bearing, and children are a cease¬ 
less annoyance and worry. 
Weak women are made strong and 
sick women are made well by the use of 
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It 
establishes regularity, dries disagreeable 
drains, heals inflammation and ulcera¬ 
tion and cures female weakness. 
Sick women are invited to consult Dr. 
Pierce by letter fre*. All correspondence 
strictly private and sacredly confidential. 
Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. 
«I had been ailing some time, troubled with 
female weakness," writes Mrs. Wm. H. Johnson, 
of Avondale, Chester Co., Ba. «Every month I 
•would have to lie oa my back. I tried many 
different medicines and nothing gave me relief 
until I began Dr. Pierce’s medicines, using two 
bottles of ‘ Favorite Prescription ’ and two of 
‘ Golden Medical Discovery.’ These medicines 
have cured me. When I began your treatment 
I was not able te do very much, but now I do 
the work for my family of nine, and feel better 
to-day than I have for a veer. I thank you. 
doctor, from the bottom of my heart, for well 
do I know that you are the one who cured me." 
"Favorite Prescription" has the testi¬ 
mony of thousands of women to its com¬ 
plete cure of womanly diseases. Do aot 
accept an unknown and unproved sub¬ 
stitute in its place. 
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the 
best laxative for family use. 
liEATH TO HEAVES^, 
.Guaranteed^ 
THE BEST. THE CHEAPEST. 
Harder Mfg. Co., Cobleskill, X. Y. 
Barns 
of Plank save Timber and cash. Best 
cheapest, strongest; 4,000 In use. Book 
for stamp. 8HAWVKK BROS., Bellefontalne.Ohio. 
NO HUMBUG STRUM ENTS Ini 
Humane Swina V. Stock Marker and Calf 
Dohorner Stopsswine of all ages from 
rooting. Makes 48 different ear marks, all 
sizes, with same blade. Extracts Horns. 
Testimonials free. Price $1.30orscnd $1 
got i ton trial :i fit suits sond balance. 
Pat'd Apr. 23,1901 \S3T Agents Wanted. 
FARMER BRIGHTON, Fairfield, Iowa. 
For Sale.— Imported French Coach 
Stallion. J. BARKY. Itaymertown, N. Y. 
HOLSTEIN - FRIESIAN BULLS. 
Sired by ADMIRAL PAUL DeKOL, whose two 
sisters, Lilith Pauline DeKol, A. It. O., at four years. 
28 pounds 6.8 ounces butter In seven clays, and Aaggle 
Cornucopia Pauline, A. R. O., at years, 24 pounds 
6.8 ounces butter In seven days, are the largest and 
second largest records for their ages. These bulls 
are large, straight and handsome, ready for service. 
Price low. M. D. ECKLER, Cooperstown, N. Y. 
flUCCUIDCC— August gilts bred; March pigs. 
Iinconinco s. A. LITTLE, Malcolm, N. Y. 
Milliner Uitoc and lice; making hens lay, 
MlIIlift IvUlGo eggs hatch and chicks 
grow, with least expense and bother. Ask for 
new 82 page pamphlet which tells all about 
it. Sent free postpaid. GKO. II. LEE CO., 
Omuhti, Neb., or No. 8 Park l’laee, New York 
Wanted—Two Peacocks and a Donkey. 
Persons living In easy communication with south¬ 
western Pennsylvania, having the above for sale, 
will please answer, with price. WM. W. SMITH, 
Trinity Hall, Washington. Pa. 
TNPTTRATflR FfTQ—White Wyandotte and 
EibbO Guinea, $8 per 100; $1 for 26. 
ORR & JOHNSON. R. F. D . Collins, N. Y. 
R l RPf1<r“ Farm " ral8ed ’ lmrd T and prolific. For 
• !• IVvUO e g KS t 0 hatch at 6 cents each, send to 
Walter Sherman, 25 Boulevard, Middletown, R. 1. 
250 Cockerels, Hens and Pullets. W. & Bd. Rocks, 
W. & Br. Leghorns, W. Wyandottes. Pearl Guineas. 
Eggs, $lfor26. Mrs. J. P. HELLINGS, Dover, Del. 
Eggs from Premium Stock.—15 for $ i; 
$5 per 100. S. C. Brown Leghorns, W. P. R., and B. P. 
R. (nonpareil strain). J. W. KILLEN, Felton, Del. 
White Wyandottes Exclusively,—Eggs 
for hatching, from choice matings, $1 per 15. 
M. M. LAMB, Branchport. N. Y. 
Barred Rocks 
bank In city. L. S. TOWNSEND, Wilmington, Del. 
^GGS—From White Plymouth Hocks 
—50 cents a setting of 15. 
J. M. THORNILEY, Marietta. Ohio. 
S. C. White Leghorns. A heavy Winter 
laying strain. Cockerels and pullets $1 each. Eggs 
75 cents per 13, $4 per 100. 
ZIMMER BROS., Weedsport, N. Y. 
E GGS from Thoroughbred Bar. Wh. Bull Rocks, Br. 
Wh. Buff Leghorns, Gold, Wh. Buff Wyandottes, 
Langshans, Cochins, Minorcas, Hamburgs. Brahmas, 
15, $1; 40, $2. Catalog. H. K. Mohr, Quakertown, Pa. 
TXT'HITE LEGHORN Eggs for Hatching. We have 
600 hens, bred for egg production; large size, 
vigor and purity of stock. Free range and food In¬ 
sures fertility. We agree to please. Write for cir¬ 
cular. WHITE & RICE, Box B, Yorktown, N. Y. 
EGGS 
► —Fertility guaranteed. By the sit¬ 
ting or hundred. 23 varieties of 
prize-winning land and water 
fowls. Big catalog free. Our guarantee means some¬ 
thing. PINE TREE FARM, Box T,Jamesburg. N.J. 
D oes it pay?&£& 
hogs, horses, and poultiw to become In¬ 
fested with lice, fleas, etc., when a few 
Mata spent for Lam berth* Death to Lice will 
tieaf th*m clean and healthy. Trial box 10c prepaid. 
*** I, I. LAHBEBT loi W Afitaaux 4.1- 
tP O m llll-Til 1*1. iaH4 sizE 
Self regulating*' Guaranteed tor Z years, HatcOes every good egg, 
3end for catalogue No 3 Sell six and get one free. 
INVINCIBLE HATCHER CO., • SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. 
Superior Ventilation 
line | 
JOHN A. IRION, Gallipolis, Ohio, 
Breeder of Barred Plymouth Rocks; 15 choice fertile 
eggs, $1. Guaranteed to give satisfaction. 13 Pekin 
Duck eggs, $1; large strain. 
BARRED P. ROCK EGGS SS r&Xi&Z 
male at head of every yard, scoring 91 or better; 
large, blocky, and heavy Winter layers. S. C White 
Leghorn Eggs, same price. A few trios. $7. 
BALES & CO., 102 So. Main St., Washington, Pa. 
BL.J A ImImksI Dg*#l*-Perslstent Winter 
RllOdG island Hews Layers. From 31 
1299 Eggs In 3 Mos, pullets 318 eggs In 
November; 499 In December; 482 In January. 1 have 
a strain of layers and will carefully select sittings 
of 13 at $1.50 each Single-comb variety only. 
H. L. GIFFORD, HornellsvUle. N. Y. 
Rhode Island Reds"^' ¥“£ X! 
prizes. Farm Range free from disease. The grand 
all-purpose fowl. Wonderful Winter layers. Eggs 
highly fertilized, $1 per dozen; special per hundred; 
discount 10 per cent to Grangers. 
W. IRISH, Box 517, Poughkeepsie. N.Y. 
LIGHT BRAHMAS 
els and 50 pullets for sale at reasonable prices. Also 
25 B. P. K. cockerels. Ail bred from Madison Square 
Garden winners. Eggs for hatching from Light 
Brahmas. Barred P. Itocks and W. Wyandottes $2 
per 15. Woodcrest Farm, Rlfton, Ulster Co., N. Y. 
Orchard Farm Poultry Yards, 
M1LLERTON, N. Y. 
Choice eggs for hatching; 10 varieties. Best stock. 
Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks. Geese. Good hatch, or 
free duplicate. New catalogue; write now for It. 
Makes BLAIKSV1LI.K INCUHATOItS the leaillnn 
high-grade machine h. Write for elegant FREE Catalogue 
and get convincing proof. TIIK KLAIKSVII, 
CURATOR CO., 7 7 North St., BlalniviUe 
Incubators. From 86,00 Up. 
Brooders yrom 8400 
Stilly Warranted. Free Catalogue. 
L» A. SANTA, Llgonler. tod. 
mu? 1 ' is ■] White Wyandottes. 
vllle, Ba. V I J 
I Choice, large farm-raised stock. Eggs, $3 per 100; 
$2per50. Safe arrival guaranteed. Address 
S. DEAN, OAK HILL, N. Y. 
IfICTOI 
V INCUBAl 
R 
INCUBATORS 
The simplest, most durable, cheap¬ 
est first-class hatcher. Meney baofc 
if not as represented.. Circular t 
free; catalogue 60. We pay the t 
freight. GKO. KRTKLCO. Quiaey. IH. S 
gggl 
200-Egg Incubator 
for $i2- 80 „ 
P©rf©ct in construction [ 
Action. Hatch©* *T«i7 fertile!, 
'hc. Write tog cAtcdocmc • f 
IE0. H. STAHL, 9*3n«y, ML < 
Newton’s Ileate, Cough, Dis¬ 
temper and Indigestion Cure. 
A veterinary specific for wind, 
throat and stomach troubles. 
Strong recommend*. $1 per 
can. Dealers, mail or Ex.paid. 
Mew ton Horse Kemedy Co. 
( y ) Toledo. Ohio. 
FOR THE WIFE 
AND CHILDREN. 
Get an Incubator that they can run; 
one that will do good work from the 
start and last for years. The Sure 
Hatch is made of California red 
wood, wtthl2oz. cold rolled copper tank, 
.Hydro-Safety Lamp, Climax Safety boiler aud 
Corrugated VVafer regulator. Send for our big 
.free catalog. It gives actual photographed hun¬ 
dreds who aremaklng money with the 8ure Hatch Incubator. Our 
Common Sense Brooder Is the beet. Send now. 
Sore Hatch Incubator Co., Clay Center, Neb., or Columbus,0. 
Money-Making Hens 
Eggs and Fowls. Partridge Wyandottes, brilliant 
plumage; Dark BrahmaWyandottes, silver pencilled, 
beautiful soft gray; Violet Wyandottes (Bunch of 
Violets). Eight first prizes, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Great 
Boston Show, 1902. C. C. Lorlng, Dedham C: H., Mass. 
White Wyandotte Eggs 
We keep but one breed and have 
the very finest stock of that—pure 
white, large, vigorous and healthy. 
The hens have free ranges; eggs very 
fertile. Price, 15 eggs, $1; 50, $3; lOO, $5. 
J OS. HARRIS COMRANY 
Moreton If arm, Coldwater, N. Y. 
y° ur chicks. The Scientific Gape- 
VG Worm Extractor. 10 cents. Eggs for 
hatching, 20 for $1; 100 for $3.50. Buff and Barred 
Rocks; Buff and Golden Wyandottes; K. C. Brown 
and S. C. White Leghorns. Berry Plants. 
• / Circular free. 
\^T. / Macedon, N. Y. 
PINELAND 
Incubators and Brooders. 
1902 
Ififll—THEY LED THEN. 
lOOl THEY LEAD NOW- 
. THAT’S ALL 
Concise Catalogue from 
PINELAND INCUBATOR AND BROODER CO., 
Box P, JameBDurg, N. J,, U. 8. A, 
