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THE RURAJL NEW-YORKER 
November 22, 1902 
From Wards to You 
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T/ie Ideal System of Merchandising 
Buy your supplies direct and save the usual middlemen’s 
profits. Jire you so rich that you are not interested in making your money 
go as far as possible? We can save you $1.00 out of every $5.00 you spend. 
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goods are purchased direct from the manufacturer and sold to our trade at practically whole* 
sale prices. Over two million people are now patronizing us and buying everything they use at a saving 
of 15 to 40 per cent over the usual prices. These people are not going it blindly — they are the thinking 
people who know that a dollar saved is a dollar gained. 
Our $2,500,000 stock of general merchandise is illustrated and quoted in our l,IOO*page 
catalogue No. 7!, just from the printers, and it will be sent anywhere upon receipt of IS cents to 
help pay the postage. Write to-day, enclose 15 cents in stamps or coin and ask for Catalogue 
and Buyer’s Guide No. 71. Over 120,000 people did this last month. ^ 
Montgomery Ward 8p Co., Chicago 
■Write for 
Catalogue oC 
Monte Carlo 
Coats for Women 
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" The House That Tells The Truth/ 
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HUMOROUS 
O the days gone by! O the days gone by! 
When the coal was in the cellar and the 
price of meat not high, 
When a man could buy potatoes and still 
have a ball or two 
To put into the bank against the rainy day 
that’s due; 
When prices had no tendency to soar up to 
the sky, 
And a man could save some money, in the 
days gone by! 
—Rochester Post-Express. 
“Nowork bought a clock with a union 
label last week, and the next day he took 
it back and demanded his money.” 
“What was the matter?” “It wouldn’t 
strike.”—Credit Lost. 
Deacon Johnson: “Does yo’ believe in 
infant damnation, Brudder Jackson?” 
Brother Jackson: “Deedy no! Dey’li 
pick up cuss words enough widout being 
swored at by deyr parents.”—Puck. 
“What was the first thing the chil¬ 
dren of Israel did after they came 
through the Red Sea?” asked a Sunday 
school teacher. “I ’spect they dried 
themselves,” answered a small boy.— 
Philadelphia Record. 
“I’ve come to tell you, sir, that the 
photographs you took of us the other 
day are not at all satisfactory. Why, 
my husband looks like an ape.” “Well, 
madam, you should have thought of that 
before you had his taken.”—Ram’s 
Horn. 
“And what,” asked the visitor, “is 
that immense building over there?” 
“That,” replied the chairman of the re¬ 
ception committee, “is the factory in 
which the Meauowgrass Farm genuine 
country sausage is made. Nearly 4,000 
men are employed there.”—Chicago Rec¬ 
ord-Herald. 
“Music exercises a wonderful influ¬ 
ence,” said the young woman who plays 
the piano. “It does,” answered Mrs. 
Corntossel. “Ever since one of our 
Summer boarders sang ‘Woodman, Spare 
that Tree,’ years ago, my husband has 
refused to chop a stick of firewood.”— 
Washington Star. 
Clark’s 
Cider 
Mills 
One to eight Barrels. 
Clark’s Double-Action 
CUTAWAY HARROW 
wiil easily move 15,000 tons 
of earth one foot in a flay. 
Send for Circulars to 
THE CUTAWAY HARROW CO., Higganum, Ci. 
2-HORSE POWER GASOLINE ENGINE 
FOR $90.00 
We offer yon a strictly modern, absolutely new and perfect, fully 
guaranteed gas or gasoline engine, complete with pumping jack and 
all fixtures and fittings. 
srind and Shell, 
Price for the 2-IIorse Power, 
S90.00 
WATER. 
If you want water only when the wind blows a windmill will do your work 
and cost less money than our Rider and Ericsson Hot-Air Pumps, but if you want 
water every day while yourilowers are growing and do not want your pump blown 
down when the wind blows too hard, no pump in the world can equal ours. We 
have sold about 20,000 of them during the past twenty-five years, which is proof 
that we are not making wild statements. 
Our Catalogue “C 4” will teU you all about them. Write to nearest store. 
Rider-Ericsson Engine Company, 
35 Warren St.. New Yokk. 
239 Franklin St., Boston. 
692 Craig St., MONTREAL, P. Q. 
Teniente-Rcy 71, Havana, Cuba. 
22a Pitt St., Sydney, N. S. W- 
40 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. 
40 N. 7th St., Philadelphia. 
TP 11 IT— HQ A IRICf ^ I A Ml is the earliest, easiest worked and most pro- 
| LL UKAintU LAIH U duetive land. By using tile you get rid oCthe 
■ « mm mmr m^ eurplus water and admit the air to the soil— 
k both necessary to best results in agriculture. My AGRICULTURAL 
DRAIN TILE meets every requirement. Make also Sewer Pipe, Red 
and Fire Brick, Chimney Tops. Encaustic Side Walk Tile, etc. Write for 
what you want and prices. JOHN H. JACKSON, 76'Ihird Ave. Albany, N.Y. 
$50.00 Feed 
Grinder for 
$15.00 
Closing out this line on account of 
sickness of partner. About 50 more 
on hand. Write for particulars. 
SUNDRIES MFG. COMPANY, 
SOUTH BEND, END. 
Do You Feed ^ We will also 
ENSILAGE ? KI6N \ tel1 you aboat 
If not, write II V W W Profit-Making 
us and we will ■■ u oil A F* c Foss Ensilage 
tell you why tNolLAUt Cutters. 
you should. CUTTERS Address, 
The E. W. Ross Co., Springfield. O. 
Our Illustrated Catalogue No. 46 is Free. 
RINDING MILLS 
That Do the Work 
to Perfection 
and are away down in price. Geared mills 
for ear corn or small grains. Guaranteed to 
grind rye faster and better than any other 
mill. COMBINED MILLS with best horse 
power. Easy running saws. 
Don’t Buj Until You Get Price and Free Catalog IS. 
You will find many advantages in 
buying from the 
Buckeye Feed Mill Co., Springfield,O. 
VICTORY FEED MILL. 
Oldest and Best Grinding Mill 
Made. Will crush and grind 
corn and cob and all kinds of 
grain, mixed or separate. 
Grinds faster, finer and with 
less power than other mills. 
Are built strong, well made of 
good material, and will last 
a lifetime. Small size adapt¬ 
ed for windand tread power. 
Made in four sizes for 1, 4, 8 
and 10 H. P. Free Catalogue. 
THOS. ROBERTS, 
Box 93. Springfield, O. 
THE f^liETZ & WEISS 
Kerosene Enyines. Sizes, 1 to60H.P. 
Cheapent ano Safest Power Known 
For pumping and electric light¬ 
ing, grlL.ilng corn, separating 
cream, sawing wood and all power 
purposes. Highest Award for 
Direct Coupled Engine and Gener¬ 
ator, Paris Exp., 1900; awarded 
Gold Medal Pan-Am. Exp., Buffalo, 
1901; Gobi Medal, Charleston, 8.O., 
Exp.. 1903. Send for Catalogue. 
A. M1ETZ, 128 Mott St.. NewYork 
CHARTER 
Gasoline Engine 
-- - Any Place 
By Any One 
For Any Purpose 
I Stationaries, 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 WEBER M H. P. 
Gasoline Engines 
for running 
grinders, shrod- 
dors, cutters, 
throshors, etc. 
Free catalogue 
gives all sizos. 
Weber Gas & 
Gasoline Engine 
Co., Box 102 i'£ 
Kansas City, Mo. 
USED 
BtTTTT 
For efficiency, quality, simplicity, mechanical construction and 
economy, the engine is unsurpassed. 
We have all kinds of Motive Power, both new and second band. 
Write for our catalogue No. 57. 
CHICAGO HOUSE WRECKING CO., 
W. 35th and Iron Sts., CHICAGO. 
and 
I other 
you Bond 
Cut Feed, Saw Wood, 
Pump \t ntor, etc., 
any two atone operation 
with our 
Double Aotion, 
Triple-Geared Mill, 
With Power Attachment. 
Scientlflo Grinders it crushes j 
grinds ear corn and all other grains rnpld- 
perfectly and cheaply. Wo make numerous 
\\ndt ottiweevandI’owtr Grindtrt. Don't buy . mill until | 
r . froo copy of our New Catalogue 11. Mailed fret. 
FG. CO., Springfield, 0» 
'Like 
FOOS 
No. 3 “Prize” 
Best Feed Grinder Money Can 
Buy for Operation with Gasoline 
or Steam Engine, Tread Power, 
Power Wind Mill, etc. 
WHY ^ Because It 
ww IB ■ ■ grinds rapidly 
making splendid feed, tn- 
blo meal or graham flour, 
has ample capacity for 
4 or 6 horse power, and 
an automatic feed reg¬ 
ulator, which prevents its 
choking down the lightest 
powor; is built throughout of iron and steel and will 
last a life-time. Thousands in use for 10and 15years 
still as good as new. We make 86 sizes and styles of 
Feed Grinders, including the only really successful 
Corn and Cob, and Corn, Cob and Shuck Feed 
Grinders. Also a full line of Ensilage and Fodder 
Cotters, Huskers, Shelters, Wood Saws, Sweep Horse 
Powers, Tread Horse Powers, Wind Mills, etc. 
Write to-day for free catalogue. 
APPLETON MFG. CO., 27 Fargo St,. Batavia, III, 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, Nov. 22, 1902. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Silage from a Canning Factory.781 
Hospital Farming .787 
A Farm Laborer’s Union.789 
Crop Prospects .789 
The Grain Situation.789 
Alfalfa in Ohio.794 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Mapes, the Hen Man.782 
Arrangement of Henhouse.784 
October Milk .789 
Dairy Values in New York.789 
Swine Notes .794 
Facts About Dishorning.794 
Sensible Hen Keeping.794 
A Few Hen Notes.795 
The Outlook for Sheep.795 
Silage Blowers in Canada.795 
How Western Farmers Feed Corn.795 
HORTICULTURE. 
The Celebrated McIntosh Apple.781 
Improved Chestnuts In New Jersey.781 
Getting Ready to Graft.781 
A Friend of Ben Davis.781, 782 
An Experience With Root Pruning.782 
The Mulched Orchard Discussed.783 
The Triumph Peach in Maine.784 
Forest Soil and Sheep for Orchard.784 
The Strawberry Leaf Roller.784 
How Grape Juice is Kept.784 
Cheap Stove for Small Conservatory.784 
Everybody’s Garden .785 
The American Institute Chrysanthemum 
Show ..•.7S5 
Small Fruit Notes.785 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.786 
Future of the Kieffer Pear.786 
Sawdust for Strawberries.787 
Boxed Fruit Experiences.789 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.790 
The Rural Patterns.790 
With the Procession.790 
Farmhouse Cooking .790, 791 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Why I Take the Rural New-Yorker.782 
Dividing Shipments .782 
The Confessions of a Peddler. Part II...783 
Editorials .788 
Events of the Week.789 
Business Bits .789 
Markets .792 
Market Notes .793 
Death of Nelson Cox.793 
Humorous .796 
