1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
To Good Friends, 
Neighborly Club-Raisers, 
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MARKET NOTES 
COMPARATIVE PRICES.—Below is a 
list of prices received for fruits and vege¬ 
tables at the same date in widely separated 
markets. Prices are figured on the basis 
of uniform packages, and a fair range of 
quality is covered: 
England. New York. California. 
Apples, bbl.$3.00"d$!).00 
Pears, bu... 1.00® 1.25 
Potatoes, bu 45(5) 75 
Onions, bu.. 75® 1.25 
Cabbage, 100 60® 1.25 
Brussels 
sprouts, qt 2® 3 
Green 
corn, 100... 1.50® 2.50 
$1.50(5 $3.25 $1,005 $2.75 
8 m 1.40 75(5; 1.00 
50® 60 55® 80 
55® 75 30® 35 
2.00® 2.60 
5@ 10 
75@ 1.25 
The apples bringing $9 in England were 
Cox’s Orange, a superior dessert variety. 
As will be noted, potatoes varied but little 
in the three markets. Great quantities of 
cabbage are grown on the Continent, and 
with low rates across the channel they can 
be sold in England profitably at the prices 
named. A curious fact is that Kentish 
cobnuts, selling in England for less than 
10 cents per pound, bring 40 cents here. The 
duty is only three cents per pound, so that 
there is a big profit left for somebody. 
APPLES AND PEACH CRATES.—A New 
Jersey reader says: “Apple boxes pay for 
choice fruit. I am shipping Kings in the 
six-till Georgia peach crate (without the 
baskets), and they bring a very fancy price 
In the New York market. The crate takes 
three layers of 28 apples each.” Here is a 
hint for those who can get peach crates 
conveniently. The King is always a good 
seller on account of large size, fine color 
and excellent quality, though somewhat 
lacking in acidity. We have seen enormous 
specimens, larger than Alexander, Bis¬ 
marck or Twenty Ounce. At present there 
is a great rush of poor apples here, wormy, 
rusty, smutty, and with about all the ills 
to which apples are subject. The fine fruit 
is eyidently being held back, at least not 
much of it is seen in the stores. The worst 
defect so far as appearance goes is the 
black smut, which makes the apples look 
as though they had been rolled in char¬ 
coal dust. We just saw a dealer trying to 
sell some of this fruit lor $1 per barrel, but 
the possible buyer laughed at the offer. 
These medium and poor grades are bound 
to be low, but from present appearances 
choice apples will be good property to hold 
for a time, at least until this flood of 
scrubs is disposed of. 
FARMERS’ NATIONAL CONGRESS. 
The twenty-second annual session of the 
Farmers’ National Congress was held at 
Macon, Ga., the week beginning October 6. 
The proceedings were opened by an address 
of welcome by Gov. Allen D. Candler of 
Georgia. The Governor made a happy and 
eloquent address. He said he had closed 
the Governor’s office of the State of Geor¬ 
gia, to meet the Congress because it rep¬ 
resented the noblest calling on earth. 
Upon the farmers rests every other inter¬ 
est. If the farmers prosper every other 
interest prospers. The men who have 
shaped the destinies of the Republic since 
its birth were farmers and the sons of 
farmers. You cannot raise a man, he de¬ 
clared, on a brick pavement. He spoke 
with great feeling of the history and tra¬ 
ditions of Georgia. The negro, he said, 
imposed greater burdens on the whites 
than in other States, yet they are in better 
condition there than in some other locali¬ 
ties. The consideration of race had been 
eliminated in the courts and in executive 
clemency. The purpose has been to teach 
them that Georgia is the best State for 
good negroes and the worst State for bad 
ones. Geo. A. Smith, of the Chamber of 
Commerce, welcomed the delegates in n 
pleasant manner on behalf of the city of 
Macon, and Hon. Harvie Jordan made an 
able response to the words of welcome 
from Gov. Candler and Mr. Smith. 
The next order of business was the ad¬ 
dress of the President, Hon. George L. 
Flanders, of New York. This was an able 
paper, the principal feature of which dealt 
with the necessity of organization among 
farmers to the end that they may be the 
better able to demand their rights and 
defend their interests. In other words, he 
insisted that farmers must become states¬ 
men; that they must study the constitu¬ 
tion and be in a position to make intelli¬ 
gent and effective demands on legislators. 
He quoted a distinguished authority to the 
effect that there is nothing in the calling 
of the farmer that in any way reflects honor 
on him who follows it, and if in all the 
future there shall be any honor, from a 
worldly standpoint, in connection with 
that work, it must be reflected upon the 
calling by the pursuer rather than upon 
the pursuer of it by the calling itself. 
A lively discussion followed a strong 
paper by Hon. John K. Campbell, Ypsilan- 
ti, Mich., on Reciprocity; How it May Af¬ 
fect Agriculture. He said that in the dis¬ 
cussion of the subject in Congress there 
were two distinct parties aligned in the 
discussion. One party favored a reciproc¬ 
ity that would admit free of duty all pro¬ 
ducts we did not produce, and the other 
party took the opposite view, believing 
that as far as agricultural products are 
concerned, the American farmer can pro¬ 
duce anything we need and should be pro¬ 
tected in producing it. At this time the 
question that interests the farmer is, How 
can we frame a reciprocity measure that 
will benefit the farmer? He held that it is 
not just to frame a bill that will admit the 
raw material free to benefit the manufac¬ 
turer, and then shut the door on the manu¬ 
factured product by a high tariff that en¬ 
ables the home manufacturer to charge his 
own price, imposing on the farmer tho 
burden of a tax that only benefits the 
manufacturer. He favored a diversified 
system of agriculture, and said that every 
protection should be extended to the 
farmer that will aid him in developing the 
cultivation of the sugar beet or any other 
product, that the farmer under the proper 
protection can profitably develop. If the 
beet sugar industry was properly protect¬ 
ed, m a short time we would be able to 
produce in this country all the sugar we 
need. “Let us,” said the speaker, "in the 
light of this assertion, develop this indus¬ 
try, or any other that will keep the money 
at home, and furnish employment to our 
people.” T. C. Wallc, of Georgia, favored 
reciprocity with Cuba. He said: “In con¬ 
sidering the question of reciprocity versus 
protection to the farmer, there is a con¬ 
dition facing the South that comes nearer 
home than the sugar beet business of 
Michigan. Cuba is a market for things 
the South has to sell—cattle and other 
products. She imposes a 50 per ct' t tax 
on what we have to sell to her. Under 
present conditions Eurone gets a trade 
which we should have, but we must give 
the other fellow a chance. I think Michi¬ 
gan’s beet sugar industry can be cared 
for and still, as a matter of good business, 
we could let Cuba’s products come in free 
of duty, and send over our products t<> 
her.” 
Preservation of Forests was the sub¬ 
ject of an able and scholarly paper by 
Hon. Geo. M. Whitaker, editor of the. New 
England Farmer, Boston, Mass. The sub¬ 
ject of government irrigation was treated 
in a paper sent by M. C. M. Heinz, Los 
Angeles, Cal., and Gilbert M. Tucker, ed¬ 
itor of the Country Gentleman, of Albany, 
N. Y. Mr. Heinz took the broad view that 
it is a good business policy to make an in¬ 
vestment that is sure to yield big returns; 
that our arid lands will be irrigated either 
by private corporations or by the National 
729 
Government: and he argues that it is bet¬ 
ter that the Government take up the work 
than to put the control of the lands and 
the water of the rivers into the hands of 
private monopolies. The theory is that the 
Government could parcel the lands out to 
small settlers who would pay enough for 
the lands to repay the Government for its 
investment and by building up homes and 
small communities add to the general de¬ 
velopment and prosperity of the country. 
It would also prevent the competition with 
established farmers that would be sure to 
follow the operation of large private cor¬ 
porations. Mr. Tucker took the view that 
the reclaiming of the arid lands of tne 
West would bring their products in compe¬ 
tition with the products of eastern farms, 
and thus put at a disadvantage the men 
who had actually helped pay for the Na¬ 
tional improvement. 
A paper prepared by F. B. Thurber, of 
New York, was read and defended by 
A. R. Taylor. It favored the ship subsidy 
scheme. He was effectively answered by 
Oliver Wilson, Master of the Illinois State 
Grange, and State Master Norris, of New 
York, did effective work in council and 
committee room in opposition to the 
scheme. A resolution favoring the subsidy 
was not reported from the resolution com¬ 
mittee. The Grange makes no mistake in 
sending Messrs. Wilson and Norris to de¬ 
fend its principles. 
Resolutions were adopted favoring the 
interoceanic canal; National appropria¬ 
tions for improvement of highways; favor¬ 
ing reciprocity when it can be adopted so 
as to favor agricultural products without 
harm to our own interests; approval of 
free rural delivery; favoring additional ap¬ 
propriations for experiment stations, and 
condemning the present free seed distribu¬ 
tion, and insisting that only new and rare 
varieties be sent out, and these to be under 
direct control of the Secretary of Agricul¬ 
ture. 
The people of the South gave the visiting 
delegates a hearty and warm reception. 
The affability, fellowship and hospitality 
of the southern people were in constant 
evidence. d. 
A Sudden Twinge 
Of pain is generally the first warning of 
an attack of rheumatism. It feels as if 
the disease were in the bones or muscles, 
but the real cause of rheumatism is 
found in impure blood. In order to cure 
rheumatism, the blood must be cleansed 
of the poisonous impurities which are 
the cause of *he disease. 
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery 
has been very successful in the cure of 
rheumatism, 
cause 
b e- 
djar? cause it entirely 
Arfpnl _ — cleanses the blood 
from the poison- 
ous substances 
which are the 
cause of the dis¬ 
ease. It not only 
purifies the blood 
but by increasing 
the activity of the 
blood-mak ing 
glands, it increases 
the supply of pure, 
rich blood which 
adds to the vigor 
of every physical 
organ. 
Mr. R. A. McKnight, 
of Cades, Williams¬ 
burg Co., S. C., writes : 
"I had been troubled 
with rheumatism for 
twelve years, so bad 
at times I could uot leave my bed. I was badly 
crippled. Tried many doctors and two of them 
gave me up to die. None of them did me much 
good. The pains in my back, hips and legs 
(and at times in my head), would nearly kill 
me. My appetite was very bad. Everybody 
who saw me said I must die. I took five bottles 
of the ‘Golden Medical Discovery,’ and four 
vials of ' Pellets,’ and to-day my health is good 
after suffering twelve years with rheumatism.” 
The sole motive for substitution is to 
permit the dealer to make the little 
more profit paid by the sale of less 
meritorious medicines. He gains ; you 
lose. Therefore accept no substitute for 
”Golden Medical Discovery.” 
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets cleanse 
the bowels and stimulate the sluggish 
liver. 
BRONCHIAL CONSUMPTION. 
From Dr. Robert Hunter’s Lectures on 
Lung Diseases. 
Of the many forms of Bronchitis, the one 
most alarming of all is that in which the 
symptoms closely resemble those of con¬ 
sumption, and hence called consumptive 
bronchitis, or bronchial consumption. You 
must not, however, understand from its 
name that it is really tuberculosis in char¬ 
acter, or produced by the bacilli which 
cause true consumption. 
In all lung cases I require a portion of 
the expectorated matter coughed up by the 
patient to be brought to me, or sent in a 
small bottle by express, before giving a 
definite opinion of the disease. If, on ex¬ 
amination, I find the tubercle bacilli pres¬ 
ent, the case is consumption; and if no 
bacilli—Bronchitis. A large percentage of 
those who die of lung disease, supposed to 
be consumption, are really deaths by 
chronic bronchitis resembling consumption. 
A remarkable instance in verification of 
this recently occurred. A lady was brought 
to me in what appeared the last stage of 
consumption. Her physicians had told her 
husband that she could not live a week. 
She had a bad cough, puriform expectora¬ 
tions, night sweats and was wasted almost 
to skin and bone. Judging by her symp¬ 
toms and apearance, it was impossible, not 
to fear that she had come too late. On 
sounding her chest, however, I was sur¬ 
prised to find no solidification by tubercles, 
and on examining her sputum a total ab¬ 
sence of the bacilli. The history, too, of 
her sickness revealed that it had followed 
an attack of whooping cough and grippe. 
So although her pulse was 120 a minute, 
and so feeble as to be hardly perceptible, 
and the wasting of her body so extreme 
that she could not stand without support, I 
did not hesitate to pronounce the disease 
bronchial, and give it as my opinion that, 
if we could sustain her strength long 
enough for remedies to act. she would be 
saved. She was immediately placed under 
medicated air treatment, with tonics to im¬ 
part appetite and digestives to help the en¬ 
feebled stomach to transform nourishments 
into chyle and blood. Within a week she 
showed signs of improvement. Her pro¬ 
gress was necessarily slow, as the healing 
powers of the body were nearly exhausted 
before the first inhalation was given, but 
she gradualy acquired more strength, and 
within six weeks was able to take short 
walks in the open air. She recovered per¬ 
fectly in about six months, and is alive 
and well to-day. 
This case shows the importance of a cor¬ 
rect diagnosis and proper adaptation of the 
treatment of the conditions to be remedied. 
Had the true nature of her disease not 
been discovered just when it was, she 
would have lost her life through wrong 
treatment, and been recorded as another 
death by consumption. 
Every form of bronchitis is curable by 
local antiseptic and healing remedies ap¬ 
plied directly to the lungs by medicated 
air inhalation, but none of them by stom¬ 
ach treatment. The stomach is not the 
part affected. The air tubes and cells of 
the lungs are the seat of every bronchial 
disease, and unless remedies capable of 
changing their bad secretions and healing 
the inflamed tubes are applied to them, 
cure is impossible. 
Readers mentioning The Rural New- 
Yorker can obtain Dr. Hunter’s book, “The 
Lungs and Their Diseases,” absolutely 
FREE by addressing Dr. Robert Hunter 
Association, 5 East Forty-second street, 
formerly at 117 West Forty-fifth street, 
New Y'ork City. 
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