1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MARKET NOTES 
A PUBLIC OMELET, minus cooking and 
tabic accoutrements, was recently served 
with more haste than dignity or elegance 
on an uptown pavement, when a wagon 
loaded high with crates of eggs was de¬ 
molished by a trolley car. Nearly every 
egg was broken, and the driver was seri¬ 
ously mixed up with the involuntary 
omelet. 
NUTS.—Chestnuts are plentiful enough to 
keep the- price below $1.50 for any but extra, 
tine. In those that we have noticed less 
wormy ones than ordinarily are seen. The 
large cultivated chestnuts sell for $1 to $2 
per bushel less than small ones, as most of 
them are of much lower quality, and more 
suitable for cooking than eating raw 
Hickory nuts appear to be scarce, some hav¬ 
ing sold for $2.50 per bushel of 50 pounds. 
POTATOES have climbed to a fair figure 
from the ridiculously low price at which 
ihey started. A good many of the late 
crop are yet in the ground. From eastern 
New York come reports ot serious rot dam¬ 
age, -which was made much worse by the 
warm rains for 10 days. Unless the crop 
yet undug turns out much better than is 
expected we think it reasonable to look for 
an advance to $2 within a few weeks. 
APPLE BOX PRICES.—A reader asks: 
"What ought I to pay for box shooks?” 
Wc should not care to go much above the 
cost of barrels. That is if the boxes hold 
about one-third of a barrel and barrels cost 
40 cents each, we should hesitate to pay 
more than 15 cents each for the completed 
boxes. The price will depend upon the cost 
of lumber in the market from which you 
buy. Our plan would be to learn from the 
lumber dealer supplying the manufacturer 
what would bo the cost of the lumber in 
quantities of say 10,000 feet or more. Then 
after allowing a fair amount for transpor¬ 
tation and sawing we would be in position 
to reason with the dealer if he showed a 
disposition to ask too much. As has been 
said before in this column, there are many 
places in the East where suitable lumber 
for this purpose cannot be had at a rea¬ 
sonable price. If living in such a section, 
we should certainly stick to the barrel and 
let the apple box business alone. 
FIRE LOSSES in the United States and 
Canada for September amounted to $9,- 
915,000. The largest single item was the 
Oregon forest fire, $1,200,000. There were 
nine fires ranging from $150,000 to $250,000, 53 
from $50,000 to $125,000, and 107 from $10,005 
to $45,000. As usual mills and factories fur¬ 
nished the greatest number, 36. Then 
come stores, 34; lumber plants, 18; barns 
and farm buidings, 16; elevators and store¬ 
houses, eight; hotels, seven; iron works, 
live; bieweries, three, and schoolhouses 
and public halls, tw r o. The distribution of 
fires by States was as follows: Now York, 
17; Pennsylvania, 16; Massachusetts, 11; 
Illinois, 10; California, nine; Texas, eight; 
Ohio, seven; Kentucky, six; Minnesota, 
Wisconsin and Indiana, five; Iowa, West 
Virginia, Missouri, Now Jersey, Maryland 
and Oregon, four; Michigan, Tennessee and 
Washington, three; Alabama, Georgia and 
Kansas, two, and Rhode Island, Arkansas. 
Mississippi, Louisiana, New Hampshire, 
South Dakota, Montana, North Carolina, 
Florida, Virginia and Nebraska, one. 
BUTTER.—With increased demand and 
light arrivals the market is firm on all bet¬ 
ter grades. Considerable irregularity in 
quality is noted, the proportion of extras 
being small. Fine State dairy and imita¬ 
tion creamery arc scarce. Buyers who 
complain of a retail price of 30 or 40 cents 
for button should read the following ad¬ 
vertisement from a Mexican newspaper: 
‘‘Butter! Butter! Imported butter is al¬ 
ways old, if it is not rancid it is because it 
contains a chemical preservative. Our Jer¬ 
sey butter is always fresh; made daily, 
contains no preservative, and is absolutely 
pure; full weight, only 75 cents.” 
From ‘‘only 75 cents” we judge that as 
much as $1 per pound may be asked at 
times, and the advertiser’s assurance that 
he gives full weight would appear some¬ 
thing of a reflection on the Mexican but¬ 
ter trade in general. Mexico has enough 
land in high altitudes suitable for dairying 
to produce large quantities of butter at a 
reasonable price, but roads and transporta¬ 
tion facilities are so poor that the expense 
of distribution is too great. 
THE BARREL.—No other package is put 
to such general use. Vegetables, fruit, 
Hour, oils and other liquids, fish, meat and 
chains are commonly seen in this handy 
package. Its use for the last named article 
rnay not be generally known. A long chain 
is an awkward thing to ship, but may be 
barreled and handled easily. Attempts to 
improve the old-fashioned shape of barrel 
do not meet with much favor. A straight- 
stave barrel is strong enough to hold fruits 
and vegetables and takes less room in 
storage, but is not popular on account of its 
Wkwardncss in handling. It lacks the 
bulge which forms a pivot on which the 
ordinary barrel turns easily. A fiat barrel 
when rolling cannot be turned from a 
straight course without lifting one end 
clear of the floor. With the other sort a 
light touch of the foot is enough. Where 
barrels were being rolled a long distance, 
starting from a steep incline, we have seen 
an experienced person by a slight kick turn 
them at right angles accurately and easily 
at a desired point. The bulge helps to make 
the barrel strong. Each stave acts as a 
keystone, and the tighter the hoops are 
driven the stronger it is. It looks as though 
the old-fashioned barrel was as near per¬ 
fection as may be expected. 
BUSTED.—This expressive word has fit¬ 
tingly described the financial and business 
condition of many produce commission 
merchants. They pay their bills promptly 
and flourish in one location for several 
months; then all at once they quit paying 
and transfer their flourishing to some other 
place. The latest case we came across was 
that of a man -who has been doing a large 
business. He paid his bills promptly every 
week and managed to work up a tremen¬ 
dous credit. When things were dull he 
made business boom by cutting prices. If 
he did not get enough stuff from the coun¬ 
try he bought it from dealers here. A 
Single commission merchant is said to have 
lost over $1,000 through goods sold to this 
boomer. While he paid his bills he was 
patted on the back and called a hustler 
for selling stuff. IBs neighbor, who was 
wise enough not to sell him anything, said 
after the failure'. 
‘‘Well, John, I suppose Jou will get 
straightened up and go on here?” 
“O yes, I’ll get started again, but this 
store isn’t big enough. I want a place 
where I can do more business.” 
And so he will, no doubt, for he has genu¬ 
ine business ability, and would in the long 
run make more money if strictly honest, 
lie is of a type less dangerous to country 
shippers than the often described fraud, 
who never pays for anything, for he does 
a cash business until the final crash comes 
and hence does not beat everyone who has 
dealing with him. The usual crop of scala¬ 
wags who make extravagant bids for pro¬ 
duce for the holiday season will soon be 
on hand. All the capital that they need 
is $10 or less, invested in letter heads and 
circulars, the latter guaranteeing a prem¬ 
ium on all produce shipped. Such circulars 
are first-rate for lighting the kitchen fire, 
and readers who get them will do well to 
put them to such use. tv. w. h. 
NOTES ON THE LEFT-HAND PLOW. 
Only about 15 per cent of the plows we 
manufacture, and they run up into many 
thousands, are made left-hand. There is 
no advantage in the throw of the dirt, but 
it is simply a precedent established in some 
sections many years ago. Some men plow 
with a haw check line and sometimes de¬ 
sire, in such case, a left-hand plow. How¬ 
ever, that trade is dying out, and in a few 
years we think nothing but right-hand 
plows will be used. mo link plow co. 
Moline, Ill. 
The number of left-hand plows is com¬ 
paratively small, but in Indiana particu¬ 
larly the trade is very nearly all left-hand 
plows. There is some left-hand trade in 
Illinois and a very little in Iowa, contigu¬ 
ous to Des Moines and Burlington. Then 
there is an occasional call for a left-hand 
plow from some farmer who has removed 
from the Indiana district, which might be 
called the home of the left-hand series. 
This farmer in going farther west will 
cling to his habit of using this plow. Per¬ 
haps his father and grandfather before 
him used the left-hand plows and he has 
become educated and used to the left-hand 
turn. In shape the moldboards and shares 
are a fac simile of the. right-hand plows, 
and we know of no reason why one district 
should use a left-hand and another a right- 
hand, excepting through force of habit and 
custom. It would be very much better for 
the manufacturer of plows if he could 
make all one kind, in preference to being 
obliged to carry both right and left-hand 
goods GRAND DETOUR PLOW CO. 
Dixon, Ill. 
In our trade about one-fourth of the 
plows we make turn furrow’s to the left. 
There is no good reason why plows should 
be made to throw' furrows both ways. Of 
course, it is advantageous for a man to 
have all the plows on his farm to turn the 
furrows the same way. Most people buy 
left-hand plows simply because they have 
been in general use in their locality, and 
they have become accustomed to using 
plows which turn to the left, and they nat¬ 
urally w'ould have to overcome a little 
awkwardness if they were to buy a plow 
with the opposite turn. You know it is 
hard to “break an old dog of his tricks.” 
In some parts of the country wagons of 
wide tread are used and in other localities 
narrow-tread wagons are used. If a man 
lives in a part of the country where nar¬ 
row-track wagons are used, he would nat¬ 
urally want a narrow-track w T agon himself. 
It is a good deal the same way with right 
and left-hand plows. The use of left-hand 
plows simply requires the manufacturers 
to carry more stock on hand and helps to 
increase the general cost of production. 
Tf all the plows used were made right- 
hand it would be a great convenience to 
the manufacturers. 
Quincy, Ill. collins ploav company. 
We have some sale for left-hand plows, 
as they are termed in the trade. They 
have moldboards which turn the soil to the 
left when being used. The territory where 
they are popular is quite limited, but In¬ 
diana uses them altogether, as also the 
eastern tier of counties in Illinois. We 
do not think there is any good reason for 
their use except as custom continues to 
favor them, for as we understand it, they 
will do nothing but what a right-hand plow' 
will also do. People moving away from 
these sections mentioned to the Western 
States sometimes order left-hand plows be¬ 
cause we presume they have been used to 
using that kind. pekin plow' co. 
Pekin, HI. 
Sorting Fruit. 
The mechanical graders and sorters have 
been tried here on peaches and apples, and 
entirely abandoned. No one uses them in 
this locality; I would not recommend their 
use. a. z. M. 
Mountain Grove* Mo. 
A fruit grader made in Ontario was on 
exhibition at our Orleans County Fair. It 
seemed to meet the approval of the ma¬ 
jority of our fruit growers. This grader 
was for apples, and I believe that the time 
is not far distant when our fruit will all 
be graded and put up with a guarantee 
that the package will be all of one size 
and grade. Our fruit is all being put into 
barrels. I do not know of any using any 
other package. This machine did not 
bruise the fruit in running over the grader, 
and I think no fruit grower would make 
any mistake in using a grader. j. n. 
Albion, N. Y. 
We have never used any fruit sorters 
here. I cannot understand how any such 
device could be useful, because the wormy 
or speckled fruit could not be taken out 
by a mechanical device. We use sorting 
tables about 10 feet long and four feet 
W'ide, the bottoms slatted with two-inch 
half round material. This lets through 
the leaves and other trash without offer¬ 
ing any sharp corners to bruise the fruit. 
The fruit is gently rolled from the upper 
to the low'er end, and the culls and seconds 
picked out. The lower end is funnel shaped 
and has a burlap apron attached into 
which the fruit is rolled and then gently 
led down into the barrel. w. d. c. 
Edwardsville, Kan. 
" Love lightens 
labor,” the say¬ 
ing ru.U9, and in a sense it 
is true. But even love 
cannot lighten labor or 
make it easy for the wom¬ 
an who is in constant suf¬ 
fering from inflammation, 
bearing - down pains or 
other womanly diseases. 
The one thing that can 
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womanly diseases which 
cause weakness, and cures 
the backache, sideache, nervousness and 
other ills w’hich are the result of woman¬ 
ly diseases. 
"I suffered from female weakness for live 
months,” writes Miss Belle Hedrick, of Nye, 
Putnam Go., W. Va. "I was treated by a good 
physician but he never seemed to do me any 
good. I wrote to Dr. R. V. Pierce for advice, 
which I received, telling me to take his ‘ Favor¬ 
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Rppetitc, but it is all right now. Have gained 
several pounds in weight. Dr. Pierce’s medi¬ 
cines have done wonderfully well here. I 
would advise all who suffer from chronic dis¬ 
eases to write to Dr. Pierce.” 
"Favorite Prescription” makes weak 
women strong, sick women well. Ac¬ 
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Consumption, Bronchitis and 
Bronchial Asthma. 
Disease* Which Cause Almost as 
Many Death as Consumption. 
From Dr. Robert Hunter’s Lectures on 
Lung Diseases. 
A cold settling on the chest or grippe that 
goes down to the lungs produces bronchitis, 
and when it has continued for several 
months it becomes chronic bronchitis. 
There is at first only a trifling cough in 
the morning with slight chilly feelings, fol¬ 
lowed by a sense of feverishness toward 
1 evening. Walking rapidly or going up- 
: stairs cause shortness of breath with a 
general sense of tightness and oppression 
in the chest. 
As the disease advances the patient be¬ 
gins to raise j'ellow or greenish-yellow 
i matter; has hectic fever and niglit sweats 
loses in flesh and strength. From this 
point, unless arrested by treatment, it goes 
on rapidly, soon exhausts the vitality and 
causes death with symptoms closely re¬ 
sembling consumption and yet not con¬ 
sumption at all. 
By careful observation extending through 
many years I am confidently that fully 
two-fifths of all the deaths charged to con¬ 
sumption arc i-eally deaths by consumptive 
bronchitis. On examining the sputum and 
the tissue of the lungs in these cases we 
find neither tubercle nor the bacilli germs 
that are always present in true consump¬ 
tion. 
This is a most important fact, for bron¬ 
chitis is much easier to cure than consump- 
| tion, every case being curable if properly 
treated. It is only a seated, chronic $n- 
: flammation of the mucous lining of the 
air tubes, and at. the worst is as certain¬ 
ly curable in the lungs as such inflamma¬ 
tion in any other part of the body. 
Consumptive bronchitis is not curable by 
medicine given in the stomach, nor by 
. those hypodermically injected, for they 
| never reach its seat. It is only by the di- 
j reet application of medicines to the lining 
of the bronchial tubes in the lungs that 
! cure is ever effected. The disease is not in 
I the stomach, nor in the blood, but in the 
! lining of the lungs, and there the remedies 
must be applied. 
Nothing but a direct application of hoal- 
| ing medicines, antiseptics and germicides 
to the very seat of the disease will effect 
I the cure of this or any other lung case, and 
| they can be applied only by inhaling them 
| in a gaseous state. The lungs constitute 
; an air cavity, and can be reached medicin¬ 
ally only by medicated air. This treatment 
was discovered, perfected and first success¬ 
fully applied by me. it is the only natural, 
I scientific and common-sense treatment ever 
applied for the cure of bronchial and con¬ 
sumptive diseases. If it fails, nothing else 
could possibly succeed. But it never does 
fail, unless mortal injury to the lung struc¬ 
tures has taken place before it is applied. 
Readers mentioning The Rural New- 
Yorker can obtain Dr. Hunter’s book, “The 
Lungs and Their Diseases,” absolutely 
: free by addressing Dr. Robert Hunter As- 
; sociation, 5 East Forty-second street, 
formerly at 117 West Forty-fifth street, 
i Now York City. 
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