1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
3i3 
MARKET NOTES 
MILK NOTES.—The New York Consoli¬ 
dated Milk Exchange at a special meeting 
held April 15 reduced the price to the pro¬ 
ducer from three cents to 2% cents per 
quart. The drop to this figure was made 
a trifle earlier last year. English health 
authorities are making great efforts to en¬ 
force the pure food laws in regard to the 
adulteration of milk. The Mark Lane Ex¬ 
press tells of a case in which three persons 
were each fined 525 and costs for selling 
milk below the legal standard, although it 
was clearly shown that the milk was not 
adulterated, the fault being with the cows, 
which gave milk of too low grade. 
SOUTHERN PRODUCE.—As Spring ad¬ 
vances a continual improvement is noted 
in the quality of vegetables and fruits 
from the South. This is partly because 
damage from freezing in transportation is 
over, but more on account of improved 
conditions in the producing sections, so 
that the stuff is actually better when 
shipped. Excellent Florida strawberries 
are now seen. The Charleston crop is com¬ 
ing on, and those fond of this fruit may 
now be sure of a steady supply at fair 
prices until the last Oswegos are received. 
Spinach, kale and other salads from Balti¬ 
more, Norfolk and the Carolinas are setting 
well, although prices are moderate except 
in cases of extra quality. 
COLD STORAGE SPACE.—A reader 
asks: “Where in New York may I find a 
cold storage that will take one or two bar¬ 
rels for about four months? What is the 
average temperature for most cold storage 
houses?” 
We do not know of any first-class stor¬ 
age place in this city where small jobs like 
the above would be taken. Their business 
is mostly on a large scale, and they say 
that they do not get pay for their labor in 
handling and keeping track of small lots. 
If one has a regular commission merchant 
here, the better plan is to leave the stor¬ 
age of small quantities of perishables to 
him. He may have storage room of his 
own, or if not doubtless has arrangements 
with the larger houses to take space when¬ 
ever desired. In regard to temperature, the 
large storage houses have arrangements by 
which different rooms may be kept at vari¬ 
ous degrees. W r ith modern machinery the 
temperature of cold rooms may be regu¬ 
lated easily, and thus a customer may 
have almost any degree desired, a thing 
hardly possible where ice was used for this 
purpose. One’s first experience in a cold 
storage room is not likely to be forgotten. 
The air is dry, and the change is not no¬ 
ticed particularly at first. But the cold 
penetrates quickly, and unless he puts on 
additional clothing and moves around rap¬ 
idly he will soon be shivering and scarcely 
know the cause. There is something about 
this still dry cold that seems to bear on 
harder than the same degree outside. 
RENOVATED BUTTER.—On page 303 a 
butter man in this city speaks of the in¬ 
justice of classing this product with oleo. 
There is a misunderstanding as to the na¬ 
ture of renovated butter, many thinking 
that on account of its name it has gone 
through a chemical process, so that it 
really has no longer a right to a place in 
the butter family. There is no doubt that 
more or less “process” butter—a chemical 
product—is sold under this name, and the 
lower grades of renovated, which are made 
from the worst roll butter, are not at all 
desirable. But it is difficult for anyone but 
an expert to tell the difference between the 
grade known as fancy renovated and extra 
creamery. We recently saw this tested, 
and two fairly good judges picked out the 
renovated as having the better grain, and 
flavor equal to the extra creamery. As the 
dealer mentioned suggests, there is too 
much low-grade butter on the market. 
There should practically be but one grade, 
and perhaps something like this desired 
end may be reached as the larger butter 
makers continue to improve their methods 
and use greater care to make a uniformly 
good product. With a fair supply of this 
grade on the market the inferior roll and 
dairy butter would be frozen out. The 
makers of such qualities would have to 
improve or quit, as the stuff would not 
sell for enough to pay for their labor, and 
thus the need for a cleansing or reno¬ 
vating process would be removed. The 
time to cleanse butter is when it is first 
made, and the way to do it is to see that 
milk, cream and utensils are kept clean. 
But it does not look reasonable to tax a 
pure dairy product and class it as an imi¬ 
tation, merely because some one has re¬ 
moved the dirt and made it more whole¬ 
some. W. W. H. 
BUSINESS BITS. 
Of course, everyone in this country has 
heard or perhaps read some thing about 
the center of population of the United 
States. Elsewhere in this issue will be 
found an Illustration showing the stake 
which marks this celebrated spot, which 
is on the farm of Henry Marr, four miles 
east and two miles south of Columbus, 
Ind. It was eminently proper for this 
center-of-population man to purchase a 
world-center binder—and it is also proper 
for every other man who needs a binder 
to follow the example of this celebrated 
Mr. Marr and purchase an O. K. binder. 
Every man with a soul has some ideal, 
or at least has at some period in his life 
experienced a longing for something bet¬ 
ter than was to be found in the conditions 
surrounding him. Different men have dif¬ 
ferent ideals; the ideal of the statesman, 
of the soldier, and of the everyday busi¬ 
ness man will differ materially. The farm¬ 
er’s ideal, however, is an accomplished fact 
and readily attainable. It is the “Ideal” 
line of harvesters, and consists of Deering 
binders, headers, mowers, rakes, corn 
binders, corn shockers, huskers and shred¬ 
ders, all of which are manufactured by the 
Deering Harvester Company, of Chicago, 
U. S. A., and can be obtained of any Deer¬ 
ing agent. 
There are several points about the 
Kraus cultivator which make it a specially 
valuable one and induce a large use. 
The broken or pivot axle in a corn culti¬ 
vator seems best adapted to the work. It 
is frequently desirable, on account of 
rough, uneven ground, and where there are 
many obstructions, to have an instant 
change of direction. A slight pressure of 
the foot shifts instantly the entire working 
parts, including the gangs, to the right or 
left. It stands up to the work to a nicety 
upon the hillside, a most important con¬ 
sideration except on perfectly level ground. 
It is a two-horse cultivator, cultivates both 
sides of the row at'the same time, adjusts 
for different widths of row, has four, six 
or eight beams and pin or spring brake or 
spring tooth. Readers who are in need of 
something in the cultivator line should 
write to the Akron Cultivator Co., Akron, 
Ohio. 
LATTER-day merchandising has many 
houses in the mail order business, “selling 
direct to the consumer and saving agent's 
profits.” Some of these are themselves tak¬ 
ing the agent’s profits, having themselves 
received their goods at second or third 
hand. Among the class who in truth and 
in fact manufacture their own goods and 
sell them directly from the factory to the 
consumer, is the famous old Elkhart Car¬ 
riage & Harness Mfg. Co., of Elkhart, Ind. 
Everything you purchase from them comes 
directly from their factories. The mam¬ 
moth proportions to which their business 
has grown prove that the people realize 
there is a great saving to them in dealing 
direct with this firm. Every kind of light 
vehicles and harness is in their line. They 
publish a large illustrated catalogue which 
our readers should have. They will be 
pleased to mail it to anyone writing for it. 
A census taken of the last Royal Show 
of England brought out an important fea¬ 
ture. It was ascertained that out of a total 
of 162 prize winning exhibitors 140 were 
regular users of Cooper Dip and of the 
total sheep exhibited over 80 per cent were 
Cooper-dipped. Cooper Dip is an English 
preparation born GO years ago, and this 
piece of evidence is convincing proof of its 
holding power on its oldest patrons. 
"The square peg in the round hole” 
figuratively expresses the use of means 
unsuited to the desired end. A great 
many people who have been cured of 
dyspepsia and other diseases of the stom¬ 
ach and its allied organs of digestion and 
nutrition by the use of Dr. Pierce’s Golden 
Medical Discovery say: "Wetried many 
medicines with only temporary benefit. 
It was not until we began the use of 
* Golden Medical Discovery ’ that we 
found a complete and lasting cure.” 
It is undoubtedly true that Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical Discovery holds the rec¬ 
ord for the perfect and permanent cure 
of indigestion and other diseases of the 
stomach and associated organs of diges¬ 
tion and nutrition. It is not a palliative. 
It cures the cause of disease and builds 
up the body with solid healthy flesh, not 
flabby fat. 
«It is with pleasure that I tell you what Dr. 
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery aud ‘ Pellets’ 
have doue for me,” writes Mrs. T. M. Palmer, of 
Pecde, Kaufman Co., Texas. "Two years ago I 
was taken with stomach and bowel trouble. 
Everything I ate would put me in distress. I 
lived two weeks on milk and even that gave me 
pain. I felt as though I would starve to death. 
Three doctors attended me — one said I had dys¬ 
pepsia, two saia catarrh of the stomach and 
Dowels. They attended me (one at a time) for 
one year. I stopped taking their medicine and 
tried other patent medicine; got no better, and 
I grew so weak and nervous iny heart would 
flutter. I could aot do any kind of work. Now 
I can do my house work very well; am gaining 
in flesh and strength , and can eat anything I 
want.” 
Accept no substitute for Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical Discovery. 
Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical 
Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps 
to pay expense of mailing only. Send 
21 one cent stamps for the paper covered 
book, or 31 stamps for the cloth bound 
volume. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y. 
Silo Paint and 
Preservative. 
Your silo will last twice as long if painted Inside 
and our with the great wood preserver “Carboli neum 
Avenarius”. Abram Walrath Company, Silo Build¬ 
ers, of Weedsport, N. Y., use it exclusively, and in 
their 1902 Catalogue say: 
•‘We are using Carbolineum Avenarius, 
which is known as the most practical and 
economical wood preserver. We consider 
Carbolineum Avenarius the best article on 
the market for preserving the s:lo and 
preventing decay and do not hesitate to 
recommend its use for both inside and out¬ 
side coating of silos. The color of Car¬ 
bolineum Avenarius when applied is a nut 
brown.' 1 
As a paint for farm buildings, it is unequalled—it 
preserves the wood as well as beautifies. Fence 
posts, sills of buildings, shingles and all wood coming 
in contact with the weather last twice as long when 
treated with Carbolineum Avenarius. It is a powerful 
insecticide. Write for special introduction price. 
CARBOLINEUM WOOD PRESERVING CO., 
C. S. MCKINNEY, Manager, 
21 Park Row, New York '"ity. 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN BULLS. 
Sired by ADMIRAL PAUL DeKOL, whose two 
sisters, Lilith Pauline DeKol, A. R. O., at four years. 
28 pounds 6.8 ounces butter insev<>n days, and Aaggie 
Cornucopia Pauline. A. R. O., at 2*4 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. 
POUND-CHINAS 
Qciin fori902An_ 
dkllU nouncement I 
We ship Spring Pigs June 4 and 25th. Let us start 
you. W. L. Rhinehart & Sons, Steubenville, Ohio. 
Q _ your cbicks - The Scientific Gape- 
wClWorm Extractor. 10 cents. Eggs for 
hatching, 20 for 81; 100 for $3.50. Buff and Barred 
Rocks; Buff and Golden Wyandottes; K. C. Brown 
and 8. C. White Leghorns. Berry Plants. 
ft/v?* / Circula ’ r free - 
txX’i/ Macedon, N. Y. 
Death to Lice on HBNS andCHICKS 
64-page Book FREE. 
W ■ w w v. B-OV' *■*.*.« 
T UIDUUfll ‘if .7 A ««Anni.,r 
BEFORE BUYING SAUvr 
A NEW HARNESS alogue giv- 
»—lng 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. 
Blatchford’s Calf Meal. 
“ We are satisfied that Calves can be raised on the 
Calf Meal and water alone.’—A. Paulsen, New 
Holstein, Wis. 
“ It cures scours and is jnstas good as new milk 
for Calves, '—S S. Saunders, Pecatonlca, Ill. 
Send for Pamphlet. “ How to Raise Calves Cheaply 
and Successfully Without Milk. ’ Address 
THE BLATCIIFORD CALF MEAL WORKS, 
Waukegan, Ill. 
the imfehial bit 
Positively cures tongue lolling, and will 
prevent side pulling or driving on one rein 
With this bit the most vicious and 
unmanageable horse can be driven 
by a lady. The construction 
1* such that the driver has 100 
per cent more leverage 
than with any other bit. 
Samples sent postpaid upon 
receipt of price.In X C plate 
or Imitation rubber. $1. In 
Fine Nickel Plate, $2. 
Imperial Bit and Snap Co., 400 Wis. St., Raoine, Wis. 
A LOST COW. 
That can never happen where the 
cows wear our patented 
Swiss Cow Bells 
Made from finest quality o£ Swiss 
Hell Metal, they are light but 
strong and lasting. Musical in tone. 
They add to the appearance of herd 
besides making them tame and trac¬ 
table. Strap with each. Sold direct in seta or singly Vo introduce. 
Madein 8 si 7 .es. Circulars on Cow, Sheep aud Turkey Bella Free. 
Bevin Bros. Mfg. Co.,East Hampton,Conn. 
FUNIA 
10kills Prairie Dogs, 
Woodchucks, Gophers 
and Grain Insects. 
“ The wheels of the 
gods grind slow but 
exceeding small." So the weevil, but yon can stop 
•■“SSf" "Fuma Carbon Bisulphide”.”,^' 
EDWABD B. TAYLOR, Penn Pan, N. Y. 
30 DAYS TRIAL. 
50 chicks from 50 eggs, or 
don’t keepit. 2c for No. ;3 catalog 
BUCKEYE INCUBATOR CO., SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, 
WICTOR i 
V INCUBATORS ; 
The simplest, most durable, oheap- ^ 
est first-class hatcher. Menej back [ 
if not as represented.. Circular p 
free; catalogue 6c. We pay the * 
freight.^GKO. KRTKLCO.^ulaej^in^ 
gg Incubator 
$ 12- 80 
construction and 
latches every fertilo 
for catalogue to-day. 
STAHL, Quincy. III. 
IDEUTY FOOD 
FOR Y 0 HN 8 
CHICKS—! 
practical poultrymea and 
[ P Used everywhere by . . 
specialist fanciers with unfailing success. Insures 
perfect health and promotes rapid growth. Price, 
8&lbs.,*1.2&: 60 lbs., * 2.001 100 lbs., *8.60. 
FIDELITY FOOD FOR FOWLS 
for getting birds Into highest show condition; for 
maximum egg production; for keeping fowls tree 
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 
Pinclandl. k B.Co.,SolcMfr»., Box’ P.Jsmcsbunt.N.J. 
M TII 1*1*011 l^GGS FOR SALE, 15 cents etich. 
I Ul l\Cj A. C. Green & Sons, Winchester, Ind 
250 Cookerels, Hens and Pullets. W. & Bd. Rocks, 
W. & Br. Leghorns, W. Wyandottes, Pearl Guineas. 
Eggs, $1 for26. Mrs. J. P. HELLING8, Dover, Del. 
Eggs from Premium Stock.—15 for $1; 
$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. 
Baited Rocks OBlrS^V'SJSSi.’^S 
bank In city. L. 8. TOWNSEND, Wilmington, Del. 
E GGS—From White Plymouth Rocks 
—50 cents a setting of 15. 
J. M. THORNILEY, Marietta. Ohio. 
INCUBATOR EGGS- 
-White Wyandotte and 
Guinea, $3 per 100; $1 for 26. 
ORR & JOHNSON, R. F. D., Collins, N. Y. 
EGGS, $2 PER (5. 
Choice Barred and Buff P. Rock. W. and S. Wyan¬ 
dotte. Dr. 8. C. MOYER, Lansdale, Pa. 
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. Buff Rocks, Br. 
Wh. Buff Leghorns, Gold, Wh. Buff Wyandottes, 
Langsbans, Cochins, Minorcas, Hambnrgs, Brahmas, 
15, $1; 40, $2. Catalog. H. K. Mohr, Quakertown, Pa. 
\X7UITE LEGHORN Eggs for Hatching. We have 
600 hens, bred for egsr 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 TREK FARM, Box T, J amesburg, N.J. 
JOHN A. IRION, Gallipolis, Ohio, 
Breeder of Barred Plymouth Rocks; 15 choice fertile 
pggs, $1. Guaranteed to give satisfaction. 13 Pekin 
Duck eggs, $1; large strain. 
BARRED P. ROCK EGGS Uf 
$2.50 
per 15; 30 eggs, 
A prize-winning 
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. 
BALKS & CO., 102 So. Main St., Washington, Pa. 
DL.J* IaIahJ Persistent Winter 
KnOde island KOdS 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, Hornellsvllle, N. Y. 
Rhode Island Reds SS'XHS 
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 "iffSLS: 
els and 50 pullets for sale at reasonable prices. Also 
25 B. P. R. cockerels. All bred trom Madison Square 
Garden winners. Eggs for hatching from Light 
Brahmas. Barred P. Rocks and W. Wyandottes $2 
per 15. Woodcrest Farm, RIfton, Ulster Co., N. Y. 
White Wyandottes- 
Choice, large farm-raised stock. Eggs, $3 per 100; 
$2 per 50. Safe arrival guaranteed. Address 
S. DEAN, OAK HILL, N. Y. 
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 ani 1 6th Great 
Boston Show, 1902. C. C. Loring, Dedham C?H., Mass. 
White Wyandotte Eggs 
We keep but one breed and have 
the very tinest stock of that—pure 
white, large, vigorous and healthy. 
The hens have free ranges; eggs very 
fertile. Price, 15 eggs, $ 1; 50, $3; 100, $5. 
JOS. HARRIS COMPANY 
Moreton Farm, Cold-water, N. Y. 
Incubators qu a - 
Brooders 1, ' riim ‘ Ml>01 ’*' 
Fully Warranted. Free Cat alogue. 
L. A. BANTA, Llgonier, Ind. 
A Darning Machine. 
This is the only successful darning 
machine we ever saw. We have tried 
others that were absolutely of no value. 
This one is little short of perfect. It 
enables you to mend underwear, stock¬ 
ings, curtains, table linens, clothing, and 
does an endless variety of art and fancy 
weaving better, easier and quicker than 
by any other way. Full directions ac¬ 
company each machine. When a lady 
has once used this little machine, she 
would not do without it for any con¬ 
sideration. We will send it postpaid for 
$ 1 , or for two new yearly subscriptions 
at $1 each. All money returned if not 
satisfied. 
