1902 
74 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
20 GASH PRIZES 
in addition to our liberal commissions 
ferent in each individual case. A very im- suffer this movement o drag along too 
portant item is the local buyer’s selling slowly. 
agent in the city market. There are plenty The following are the newly elected offi- 
of thoroughly responsible houses that are cers: President, James K. Patterson, presi- 
glad to make connection with an active «j en t of the Kentucky Agricultural and Me- 
are included in our awards for getting buyer, so that there is no need of his run- c hanical College; first vice president, R. H. 
up clubs this year. The first prize is ning the risk of losing reputation or money jesse, president of the University of Mis- 
$100. This is a good time to get new through shipping to scalawags. souri; second vice-president, W. E. Stone, 
, , ,, SHIPPING POULTRY.—"Give directions president of Purdue University; third vice- 
subscribers, as a dollar now pays to ^ ghipping dressed poultry to New York, president, Thomas H. Taliaferro, president 
January 1, 1904, for beginners. If the Hqw coo1 does the weat her have to be in of the Florida Agricultural College; fourth 
subscriber is not satisfied With the bar- order to ship without ice? Should the wings vice-president, C. C. Thach, president of the 
gain by the first of the year, we will re- be folded over the back of the fowl or left Alabama Polytechnic Institute; fifth vice- 
at the sides?” L - president, J. W. Heston, president of the 
Dressed poultry for this market should South Dakota Agricultural College; secre- 
not be drawn. The birds should be killed tary and treasurer, E. B. Voorhees di- 
by bleeding in the mouth. Dry-picked sell rector of the New Jersey Experiment Sta- 
better than scalded, particularly during tion; bibliographer, A. C. True, Washing- 
soft sticky weather. In such times scalded ton, D. C. Executive committee, \ . 
is likely to spoil. A very important point Thompson, Ohio; Harry C. White, Grcor- 
is to be sure that the animal heat is all gia; W. H. Jordan, New York, and C. F. 
removed before packing. We have often Curtis, Iowa. Dr. Jordan’s election to the 
seen packages of poultry open up green executive committee is a recognition of his 
—--—-- and spoiled in favorable weather, not on energetic work and influence in the Asso- 
LIGHT MACKEREL CATCH.—The total account of being too long killed or on the ciation. Prof. Voorhees has filled the posi- 
domestic catch to date is about 40,800 bar- way, but because it was packed too soon tion of secretary for five years, andl is 
rels, 23,000 less than for the same period after killing. Where any large quantity credited with much of the hard wor a 
last year, and 44,000 less than in 1900. Prices of turkeys or other poultry is being shipped has made possible the success of the Asso- 
are high, running from $21 to $23. Stormy grading will pay well; that is, old, young, ciation 
weather has made fishi„ng difficult. hens, toms and scrubs should be put in 
HEAVY SILK RECEIPTS.—A cargo of separate packages. This avoids pulling and 
silk valued at $2,000,000 from China and hauling and sorting in the salesroom, 
Japan, was recently received at Vancouver, where there is little time for this work. 
turn his whole dollar. Ten weeks trial 
always for 10 cents. Send for full terms 
and supplies. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
New York. 
MARKET NOTES 
DRY BRONCHITIS. 
D. 
The Poultry Outlook.— The crop of old 
fowls is very light, but we understand the 
____ new crop is fairl y g00d ’ especiall y com ' 
B^C. 1 ,’ and transported^ to ^New* York' 'in Where supplies are being received for the pared with the amount of breeding stock 
bond via Canadian Pacific and Ogdensburg, holiday season, it is to the interest of all left in thc country after last season s 
N Y There were 539 tons of raw silk and to handle and get rid of them as quickly droug ht, which caused a shortage of feed, 
two cars of manufactured goods. as possible. Buyers are in a hurry, and Farmers are now shipping few, as they are 
where a box is opened and found to con- stocking up their barnyards, and consum- 
TELEPHONE SALES.—This handy little tain a m i xed lot, they do not care to wait Jng a good ma ny, as their supply of meat 
instrument, although exasperating at whlle t he stuff is being sorted. If properly lagt W inter was light, and it is as cheap 
times, when one has to listen to sounds graded the whole package can usually be meat ag they can get now . The smaller 
like a combination of frying fish and cat gold in a i um p. Where one has but a towns are also heavy consumers, thereby 
quarrels, a series of ear-racking clicks, qrnf) ii CIuan titv it may not be advisable to making the supply for the large cities less 
the br-r-r-r of an angry bovine. Is Z ‘separa.fpach. Js. bu, then it won,a 
finding an increased use in all kinds of be well t0 keep t he different grades by agem ent for them to hold back all their 
stores. It is of great service in produce themselves rather than scattering them at pullets. Our shipments consist almost en- 
random through the box or barrel. At 
Thanksgiving time there are always be¬ 
lated shipments that could have been sold 
to advantage if they had come to hand in 
time. Sometimes these delays are un- 
and the high-class retail fruit store with aV oidable, but usually the trouble is that 
commission houses, where conversations 
like this may be heard: 
"Hello, -, we’ve got three boxes of 
fancy - peaches, 20 in a box; you can 
have them for -.” The answer was yes, 
which the commission man was talking 
made a memorandum to have its wagon 
call there on its daily round and get the 
stuff. Thus the deal was made in less than 
three minutes, and was much like many 
others between the same concerns on 
out-of-season_ strawberries or other ex¬ 
pensive fruits. There was confidence 
on both sides. The buyer knew that if 
anything was wrong with the fruit it 
would be attended to, and the seller knew 
he would get his pay, relations of a char¬ 
acter too unusual between business people. 
But the telephone is not confined to mak¬ 
ing bargains in high-priced articles. Pota¬ 
toes, eggs, butter, poultry, etc., are bought 
and sold over the wire, saving lots of time 
and shoe leather in getting about to see 
people. 
LEARNING THE TRADE.—A farmer’s 
son, who has an idea of becoming a local 
buyer and shipper of produce, wishes to 
know whether it would be advisable for 
him to work in a New York commission 
house for a time to get experience in hand¬ 
ling produce. This is a first rate Idea, but 
unless he has some acquaintance here in 
the business we doubt w'hether he could get 
such an opportunity in a desirable place. 
To get most experience in a short time he 
ought to be in a large house doing a gen¬ 
eral business. Few concerns of this kind 
would care to have an inexperienced hand 
around. Unless he showed unusual ability 
in making himself useful and learning 
things quickly he would be in the way in 
busy times, and there are few places more 
busy than a produce commission house in 
rush hours. He might spend a week or 
two profitably in the market districts, going 
about here and there keeping a sharp look¬ 
out. In this way he would learn many use¬ 
ful facts. The business of buying produce 
for shipment from the country is a profit¬ 
able one for those who have the knack of 
keeping good natured, when dealing with 
all kinds of people and know what a lot of 
stuff is worth when they see it. Some peo¬ 
ple seem naturally to have a much better 
faculty for getting at the real value of 
goods than others, and this can be culti¬ 
vated until great skill is gained. A man 
of this type with plenty of push and strict 
the stuff was not sent soon enough. Dur¬ 
ing the early part of Thanksgiving week, 
beginning with Monday, retailers are look¬ 
ing after their supplies. If stock is plen¬ 
tiful the bulk of the buying may be over 
by Tuesday, and whatever is received late 
stands a poor chance unless poultry hap¬ 
pens to be scarce, so that buyers have to 
wait until the last minute. Most receivers 
prefer to have poultry for this trade on 
hand by the middle or latter part of the 
preceding week. If on hand a little too 
early, it can be taken care of and offers 
a much better opportunity for favorable 
returns than if so late as to miss the 
busiest buying time and land on the dead 
market which nearly always follows the 
excessive buying preceding a holiday. It is 
not advisable to fasten the wings to the 
back of fowls when shipping, as the place 
where the wing is pressed tightly to the 
body is likely to spoil in mild weather. The 
retailers often fasten back the wings of 
poultry in this way when they hang it up 
in their stores, but there would be no gain 
in the shipper’s doing it for this market. 
__ W. W. H. 
EXPERIMENT STATION MEN MEET. 
The Association of American Agricul¬ 
tural Colleges and Experiment Stations 
held its annual session at Atlanta, Ga., Oc¬ 
tober 7-10. The meeting was well attended 
and developed some lively discussions. The 
executive committee was instructed to take 
up the work at its discretion of securing 
from Congress an increase of the Hatch 
appropriation for the agricultural work of 
the stations and colleges. The committee 
was also instructed immediately to set about 
to induce Congress to appropriate $60,000 for 
installing and maintaining a collective ex¬ 
hibit of the work of the land grant colleges 
and experiment stations in education and 
research at the St. Louis Exposition. A 
special committee was appointed to call the 
attention of the trustees of the Carnegie 
Fund to the importance of research in agri¬ 
cultural science; and to urge upon them 
the use in some measure of the income of 
the fund in promoting the research of 
ly honest can make himself of great value service to agricultural problems. The mem¬ 
bers of this committee are Dr. W. II. Jor- 
in a farm neighborhood and build up a 
good business. But if he has no correct 
idea of values he would better let it alone; 
and, if he is not honest, people will soon let 
him alone. By spending a few days now 
and then in city markets and going at the 
work in a small way in his own neighbor¬ 
hood, a young man will soon learn whether 
he is fitted for the business or will care 
to follow it further. The next steps will 
suggest themselves, and doubtless be dif- 
All Persons east of Buffalo intending to go to the 
International Live Stock Exposition, Chicago, Ill., 
to be held Nov. 29 to Dec. 6, 1902, should write 
immediately to the Int’l. Consolidated Record 
Ass’n., Ilimrods, N. Y., for special Rates and In¬ 
formation of Fast Train Service.— Adv. 
dan, New York; Dr. Henry C. White, 
Georgia, and Prof. Thomas F. Hunt, Ohio. 
The members of the Association report 
that there is a marked increase of the ap¬ 
propriations of the colleges devoted to 
agricultural work, and an increase of stu¬ 
dents, especially in the South and Middle 
West. The feeling that agriculture has not 
been getting its just share of attention in 
land grant colleges has become widespread, 
and it is encouraging to know that the 
agricultural interests in this Association 
begin to feel that their work is destined to 
receive more consideration in the future 
than it has had in the past. If the college 
presidents, who are the executive officers 
of these institutions, are wise they will not 
tirely of young roosters, 75 per cent of our 
receipts consist of Plymouth Rock varie¬ 
ties, especially from Missouri, eastern 
Kansas and Oklahoma. Western and 
northern Kansas and Arkansas seem to 
have a great many of the Leghorns, which 
are very undesirable for market purposes, 
but the Arkansas poultry is improving 
very much of late years. Spring chickens 
are commanding from 11 to 12 1 / 2 cents per 
pound, fowls 10 cents. w. l. grush. 
Kansas City, Mo. 
“I do not look as 
though I ever was 
sick.” 
When a woman is sick she falls off in 
looks. This is paiticularly the case 
when she suffers from diseases peculiar 
to her sex. Not only is her strength 
undermined, but she loses beauty of 
face and grace of form. 
It is characteristic of the cures of 
womanly diseases effected by the use of 
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, that 
with restored health there is a restora¬ 
tion of good looks. 
«Favorite Prescription ” establishes 
regularity, dries weakening drains, heals 
inflammation and ulceration and cures 
female weakness. 
<>I wish to thank you for the good your medi¬ 
cines have doue me,” writes Mrs. Mae Brown, ot 
Canton, Fulton Co., Ills. "1 was troubled with 
female weakness and doctored with several dif¬ 
ferent doctors. They did not seem to help me; 
indeed I got worse all the time. I had ulcera¬ 
tion and displacement of the uterus. What I 
suffered no tongue can tell. I had heavy bear¬ 
ing-down pains and thought my back would 
kill me. I also had a very bad drain, but alter 
taking five bottles of ‘Favorite Prescription’ 
and three of Golden Medical Discovery,’I am 
feeling as well as ever. It has been almost two 
years and I have had no return of the trouble. 
My friends tell me I don’t look as though I ever 
was sick.” 
Dr. Pierce’9 Common Sense Medical 
Adviser, paper covers, is sent free on 
receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay 
expense of mailing only. Address Dr. 
R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. 
BOOKS WORTH BUYING. 
The Pruning Book, Bailey.$1.50 
Feeds and Feeding, Henry. 2.00 
Milk and Its Products, Wing. 1.00 
The Forcing Book, Bailey . 1.00 
Modification of Plants by Climate.10 
The Cauliflower, Crozier.25 
Fruit Packages, Powell.10 
Farm Poultry, Watson. 1.25 
Accidents and Emergencies.10 
Swine Husbandry, Coburn. 1.50 
Manures, Making and Handling.40 
From Dr. Robert Hunter’s Lectures on the 
Progress of Medical Science in 
Lung' Diseases. 
There is another form, called dry bron¬ 
chitis, in which me matter expectorated is 
neither profuse nor watery nor purulent. 
It is a glutinous kind of stuff, of a bluish 
white or pearly gray color. The chronic 
inflammation which causes it thickens the 
mucous membrane, thereby narrowing the 
tubes through which we breathe, and 
shortening and oppressing the breath. Of¬ 
ten tubes of considerable size become com¬ 
pletely clogged by this tough phlegm, caus¬ 
ing great difficulty in breathing. 
Of all the forms of bronchitis this is the 
most common. It is the most insidious of 
lung complaints. Those suffering from it 
have at first only a slight cough; it may be 
only a trifling coughing spell in the morn¬ 
ing; they have a chilly sensation in the* 
forenoon, and toward evening are feverish. 
There is always a feeling of more or less 
tightness and oppression in the chest, 
which is relieved from time to time by 
coughing up a quantity of the tough, jelly- 
like matter before described. Sometimes 
the cough comes on in paroxysms, attended 
by great oppression and distress, like asth¬ 
ma. On inquiry of a person so affected if 
he has any lung trouble he will almost cer¬ 
tainly answer, No, and yet during your 
conversation will perhaps hack and raise 
this jelly-like mucus half a dozen times. 
Here we have a lung disease which di¬ 
rectly tends to consumption, and has most 
of the symptoms of that disease, and yet 
is not consumption at all. When it ends 
fatally, as it often does, an examination of 
the lungs reveals neither tubercles, ulcer¬ 
ation nor the bacilli of tuberculosis. 
In such cases death generally results 
from suffocation caused by a sudden attack 
of congestion, which supervening on the 
chronic disease, fills the lungs with viscid 
mucus that the patient, in his weakened 
condition, is unable to raise. 
Bronchitis is not treated with success by 
general physicians, because the proper rem¬ 
edies are not applied directly to the inner 
surface of the diseased tubes within the 
lungs. I had the good fortune some years 
ago to discover and remedy this evil by in¬ 
troducing and successfully applying a local 
treatment for this and other lung com¬ 
plaints. I make the air which the patient 
breathes the carrier of the remedies which 
are necessary for his cure. Instead of 
sending them on a roundabout way through 
the stomach and general system, I intro¬ 
duce them directly into the airtubes and 
cells of the lungs, where the disease and all 
danger lies, and I know by ample exper¬ 
ience that this treatment is the only hope 
there is for the cure of any form of bron¬ 
chial or lung diseases. 
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, 
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