1902 
THE RURAI 
N E W-Y O R K E R 
8c9 
We are 
Pleased 
with the way those 10 cents for 10 weeks 
su bscriptions are coming in. One good 
friend sent a list of 78 names and his 
personal check for $7.80 for the benefit 
of his neighbors. Others are sending 
trial orders for friends, and many get¬ 
ting up small clubs, but there is no real 
start yet as a hustle for the prizes. We 
expect that will come later when the 
Fall work is done. We already have 
seme inquiries for subscriptions to be 
used as Christmas presents for friends. 
We can supply all such orders prompt¬ 
ly. Shall we send you terms for rais¬ 
ing a club? 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
New York. 
MARKET NOTES 
GREEK CURRANTS in large quantities 
are disposed of in this market. Steamers 
arriving recently have brought 1,200 to 1,400 
tons each. This, however, is but a small 
portion of the amount that will actually be 
used. The wholesale business at present is 
done on the basis of 414 cents per pound for 
line uncleaned Amalia in barrels. 
HOPS.—The eastern market is quiet. 
Stocks on hand are getting low, and prices 
are the highest that have been noted for 
some time. Sales of choice at 35 to 38 cents 
are reported, and holders are not at all 
anxious to sell. A little more activity is 
reported from the Pacific coast, but offer¬ 
ings are light and held firmly, buyers hav¬ 
ing to make all the concessions. The dis¬ 
astrous prices that prevailed for several 
years are responsible for the improved con¬ 
ditions this year. Many growers became 
tired of selling at 10 to 15 cents and put 
ether crops on their hop fields. Two or 
three years of 35-cent hops would turn the 
tide the other way by inducing increased 
plantings. 
EGGS.—There are rumors of a corner in 
Chicago which may force prices up to an 
extravagant point. While no signs of any 
special pressure are visible here at present, 
choice grades are perhaps a little more 
scarce than at last report. Trade in cold 
storage eggs is quite active. Limed eggs 
are dull. Though often of better quality 
than average refrigerators, which some¬ 
times develop an indescribable don’t-want- 
any-more flavor, they are at a disadvan¬ 
tage for general trade, as, unless holes'are 
pricked in the shells, they are likely to 
burst when boiled. From eastern Pennsyl¬ 
vania come reports of great local scarcity. 
It is said that nearly all stored stock has 
been disposed of, and retailers in large 
towns are talking of 50 cents as a possible 
price. This is not an unusual figure for 
New' York retail trade, as we have often 
seen eggs sold at five cents each. This was 
a prevailing price for a time last Winter, 
and ordinary “scrambling” eggs got so 
high that some restaurants put an advance 
of five cents on all egg orders. 
MILK PRICES.—All sorts of retail prices 
are current in this market. We see it sold 
from bakers’ shops and small groceries for 
four cents per quart. So far as one can 
judge without chemical tests this milk is 
pure and of fair quality. There is but lit¬ 
tle cause for the use of preservatives at 
this season of the year. In the Summer 
there is much more temptation to throw 
in a dose of embalming fluid to prevent 
part of a can from spoiling. A large per¬ 
centage of buyers do not detect the doctor¬ 
ing. They perhaps may think it has a 
“funny’' taste, but it goes. At four cents 
there is not much moqey in the business 
for the retailers. They handle it merely to 
draw trade for their other goods. Prob¬ 
ably more milk is retailed at seven cents 
than at any other one figure. Much of this 
that we have examined has been of high 
quality, clean, and practically as good as 
the -Special brands selling at 10, 11 and 12 
cents. The percentage of very expensive 
milk handled is small as compared with 
the bulk of sales. A range of five to seven 
cents covers the price paid by hundreds of 
thousands in the metropolitan district. The 
farmer who gets the Exchange price in the 
2G-ccnt freight zone, now nets 314 cents, 
provided he has no station charges to pay. 
\Vhere does the difference between this 
and the six or seven cents retail goY Of 
course part of it is eaten up in delivery ex¬ 
panses and losses. The remainder is profit, 
which the dealers calmly put into their 
pockets. The Exchange price is merely a 
sort of mark made by the dealers which 
they agree not. to overshoot. They try to 
keep under it as much as possible. Many 
contracts are made at 10 cents under, and 
we have heard cf instances w’here the Ex¬ 
change price was discounted as much as 
20 cents per 40-quart can. The dealers hang 
together and do not compete seriously with 
one another. When farmers .do the same, 
and have local arrangements for handling 
the milk on a paying basis in factories or 
otherwise when the price offered is not suf¬ 
ficient to warrant shipment to city mar¬ 
kets, they will have independence of the 
same brand now enjoyed by city dealers. 
APPLES are plentiful. King is the best 
retailing variety at present, and is always 
a favorite with the fruit-stand trade, being 
beautiful to look at and never disappoint¬ 
ing in quality. A few Spies are seen, al¬ 
though it is a little too early for this va¬ 
riety. A little later it will take first place 
and hold it so long as Spies are to be had, 
with Baldwins close by. These remarks 
apply to the large perfect specimens, which 
sell at five* to 10 cents each. A few Colo¬ 
rado, New Mexico and Pacific coast apples 
in small packages are here. The boxes 
from these different sections are of various 
forms, holding about a bushel each. The 
best of these are Jonathan and Spitzen- 
berg, some of the latter selling for $3.75 
per box and retailing at 10 cents each. 
“Three dollars and seventy-five cents for 
a box,” said a wmuld-be buyer. "Why, I 
can get a whole barrel for that.” 
“Yes, but you won’t get so many good 
applet out of the barrel,” was the reply. 
We fear that this is too often a fact. The 
high-grade retail fruit trade finds the box, 
with every apple perfect, the better invest¬ 
ment, as the culls could scarcely be sold 
at any price in their trade. For the use of 
bakers, who buy r a great many apples, the 
barrel is the cheaper, as everything can 
be used. The prejudice of buyers against 
a sweet apple is amusing. Even the ex¬ 
cellent and reliable old Pound Sweet is 
pushed to one side without being given a 
trial, though probably hundreds of bush¬ 
els could be sold if consumers became ac¬ 
quainted with them at their best. 
w. w. H. 
THE NATIONAL GRANGE. 
The thirty-sixth annual session of the 
National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, 
was held last week at Lansing, Mich. 
Nearly' every State in the Union entitled 
to representation was represented by its 
State Master. These State masters and 
their wives constitute the voting member¬ 
ship of the National Grange, but all mem¬ 
bers of the Order may attend. It is a 
representative body of the farming classes, 
presided over by Aaron Jones, of Indiana. 
Among its members are State officials. 
Lecturer N. J. Bachelder, of New Hamp¬ 
shire, is the governor-elect of that State. 
Two of the most influential members of 
the body are J. T. Atkeson, of West Vir¬ 
ginia, and T. P. Wolcott, of Kentucky. 
Obadiah Gardner, of Maine, present Over¬ 
seer of th»- National Grange and who will 
doubtless succeed to the National Master's 
chair next year, is one of the most popular 
members. E. B. Norris, of Sodus, N. Y., 
is the Empire State’s efficient representa¬ 
tive, who is also chairman of the Execu¬ 
tive Committee of the National body. 
John Trimble is the veteran secretary, 
who is one of the three original founders 
of the Grange now living. The State of 
Michigan and its capital city, Lansing, 
through their chief officials, made the Pa¬ 
trons feel decidedly' “at home.” At a pub¬ 
lic meeting held in the Representative’s 
Hall of the Capitol on the first evening of 
the session, United States Senator Julius 
C. Burrows, of Michigan, presided, and 
speeches of welcome were made by Gov¬ 
ernor Bliss, Mayor Hummell, of Lansing, 
and Hon. Geo. B. Horton, Master Michi¬ 
gan State Grange, which were responded 
to by Governor-elect Bachelder, of New 
Hampshire, Aaron Jones and Mrs. J. J. 
Woodman. Following these exercises, 
Governor Bliss and wife gave a public re¬ 
ception to the Grangers in the Governor's 
parlors of the Capitol. A unique feature 
of the greetings extended by the city was 
a quite extensive exhibit of the manufac¬ 
tures of the city. In two long tents, each 
spanning two blocks in front cf the Capitol, 
these products were displayed, ranging 
from a wheelbarrow to an automobile, 
and from a garden rake to a huge har¬ 
vester. All were made in Lansing, which 
has about 100 manufacturing industries, 
although its population is but 20,000. The 
State Agricultural College also made a fine 
exhibit of grains, fruits, etc., in the ro¬ 
tunda of the Capitol. On one day the Pa¬ 
trons visited the Agricultural College and 
were much interested in what they saw 
and heard. The annual address of Worthy 
Master Jones was an able presentation of 
what the Grange had accomplished in pre¬ 
vious years and outlined its work for the 
year to come. The Order, he said, was 
never so strong or its opportunities so 
great. He was particularly' emphatic in 
his expressions against “trusts” from a 
wholly non-partisan standpoint. He called 
attention to the legislation demanded by 
the agricultural interests of the country 
as follows: 
1. Free delivery of mails in the rural dis¬ 
tricts, placing the service on the same 
permanent footing as the delivery of mail 
in the cities, and appropriations commen¬ 
surate with the demands and the benefits 
of the service. 
2. Postal savings banks. 
3. An amendment to the Constitution i 
providing for the election of United States 
Senators by direct vote of the people. 
4. An amendment to the Constitution 
granting the power to Congress to regu¬ 
late and control all corporations and com¬ 
binations, preventing monopoly and the 
use of their corporate power to restrain j 
trade or arbitrarily establish prices. 
5. Enlargement of the powers and duties j 
of the Interstate Commerce Commission 
as provided in Senate bill No. 1439. 
6. Regulation of the use of shoddy. 
7. Enactment of pure food laws. 
8. The extension of the markets for farm 
products equally with manufactured ar¬ 
ticles. 
9. The enactment of an anti-trust law, 
clearly defining what acts on the part of 
any corporation would be detrimental to 
public welfare. 
10. Speedy construction of the Nicaragua 
Canal by the United States. 
11. The speedy construction of a ship 
canal connecting the Mississippi with the 
great lakes and the great lakes with the 
Atlantic Ocean. 
12. Revision of the fees and salaries of 
all Federal officers, placing them on a 
basis of similar service in private business. 
13. Protection or the dairy interests. 
N. Y. State Dairymen's Convention. 
The meeting will open at Jamestown 
Tuesday evening, December 9, with remarKs 
by Mayor J. Emil Johnson, who will in¬ 
troduce Judge J. B. Fisher, of Jamestown. 
A response will follow by Hon. D. P. Wit¬ 
ter, and a.n address by Hon. S Fred Nixon 
Westfield. The following addresses will be 
given during the meeting: “Agriculture of 
the Future,” Jared Van Wagenen, Ji., 
Cobleskill; “Prosperity of the Dairy Farm¬ 
er,” John Gould, Ohio; “Improvement and 
Control of the Markets for Dairy Prod¬ 
ucts,” Frank G. Urner. editor New York 
Produce Review; “Comity between States ” 
Hon. Geo. L. Flanders, Assistant Commis¬ 
sioner of Agriculture, Albany; “Develop¬ 
ment of America’s Fancy Milk Products.” 
Herbert E. Cook, Denmark: “The Chemis¬ 
try of Milk,” Geo. C. Cavanaugh, Cornell 
University; “Improvement of the Dairy 
Cow,” Prof. I. P. Roberts, Cornell Univer¬ 
sity; “Ideal Types of Dairy Cows,” Hon. 
O. C. Gregg, Superintendent Farmers’ In¬ 
stitutes, Minnesota; “Further Observations 
on the Relation of Food to Milk Fat,” 
Prof. H. H, Wing, Cornell University; “The 
Economics of the Feeding Stuff Supply on 
Dairy Farms,” Dr. W. H. Jordan, Geneva 
Experiment Station; “Practical Butter 
Making,” Webster E. Griffith, butter in¬ 
structor at Cornell University. The special 
attraction in the line of dairy exhibits will 
be a fine display of all brands of cheese 
that can be secured. After it has been in¬ 
spected and the different varieties ex¬ 
plained by a person who has visited every 
cheese-making country in Europe, the ex¬ 
hibit will be given away to visitors. This 
will take place on Friday, the last day. 
The scoring of dairy products will take 
place December 10. Competent and experi¬ 
enced judges have been secured. This 
work will be done before the visitors, giv¬ 
ing them full opportunity to witness the 
manner in which it is conducted. 
POWERS 
Tlie Fearless Railway Horse Powers 
run easier and yield more power than 
any others, will make your farm 
Also threshers, engines, cut- 
silos, saw machines. HAK- 
R Mfg. CO., Cobleskill, N.Y. 
RHEUMATlSl 
Cured 
Without Medicine 
External Remedy so successful 
that the makers send it on AP¬ 
PROVAL to anybody. TRY IT. 
Magic Foot Drafts, the celebrated cure 
for rheumatism which has performed wonders 
throughout Michigan by curing all kinds of 
rheumatism, no matter how severe or chronic, are 
now being sent all over the world on approval 
without a cent in advance. The Sufferer is put 
upon honor to pay one dollar for the drafts, if 
satisfied with the relief they give, otherwise no 
money is asked. The plan is a novel one and 
would result in enormous loss if the drafts did not 
afford immediate and permanent relief. The 
remarkable success of the plan proves not only 
this but also is a glowing tribute to the honesty 
of the American people. 
The Drafts are worn on tho soles of the feet because 
the circulatory and nervous systems are most suscep. 
tible at this point, but they cure rheumatism in any 
part of the body. 
MAGIC FOOT DRAFT CO., JACKSON, MICH. 
Gentlemen: I received the trial pair of Drafts and 
will not forget their virtue, for I am free from all my 
suffering by their use. They are worth their weight 
in gold, and I am recommending them to my friends. 
Respectfully yours. R. H. DEVAN, 
154 Taylor St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 
Write to the Magic Foot Draft Co., W N 29 Oliver 
Building, Jackson, Mich., for a free trial pair of 
Drafts and their new booklet. “To One With 
Rheumatism.” 
Clubbing List of Agricultural, 
Live Stock, Dairy and Poul¬ 
try Papers. 
The price opposite name of paper is our 
price to you. Every order must, of course. 
Include a subscription to The Rural New- 
Yorker at $1. To make up a list start 
with The R. N.-Y. at $1, then take as 
many of the others as you need at pries 
opposite each. 
Our Price. 
Froqsaenf 
Throbbing 
Homdlnoh®. 
There’s many a cause for headache. 
Men are not often troubled by headaches. 
When they are it is generally due to bil¬ 
iousness or indigestion. But women 
have headaches which seem peculiar to 
their sex, frequent nervous throbbing 
headaches. Does it not seem as if such 
headaches peculiar to women must be at 
once related to womanly disease? Wom¬ 
en who suffer with diseases peculiar to 
the sex do not realize the drain of vital 
strength and nerve force they undergo 
as a consequence of disease. It is this 
which causes the familiar headaches of 
sick women. 
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription 
cures such headaches by curing the 
cause — irregularity, weakening drains, 
inflammation, ulceration or female weak¬ 
ness. "Favorite Prescription” invigor¬ 
ates and tones up the entire system, en¬ 
courages the appetite, quiets the nerves 
and gives refreshing sleep. 
«I was troubled with congestion of the uterus 
and female weakness for five years,” wiites Mrs. 
Robt. Kerwin, of Albert, Hastings Co., Out. 
« Was so weak and nervous I could hardly do 
any work. Had severe pain in back, also dizzi¬ 
ness and pain in head. My heart would beat so 
hard and fast at times I would have to sit still 
till I got all right again. But after taking four 
bottles of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and 
one of his ‘Golden Medical Discovery’ I felt 
entirely well. I also used one box of ‘ Lotion 
Tablets ’ and one of ‘ Suppositories ’ as directed. 
All the symptoms of my trouble have disap- 
F ieared and l am completely cured. I thank you 
or your kind advice and your medicine.” 
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets clear the 
complexion and sweeten the breath. 
American Agriculturist.85 
Agriculturist Epitomisl.40 
American Gardening....$1.00 
American Swineherd. 30 
Breeders’ Gazette. 1.00 
Blooded Stock.15 
Country Gentleman. f .. 1-10 
Colman’s Rural World.55 
Country Life. 2.60 
Dairy and Creamery. 30 
Farm and Fireside....,.30 ( 
Farm Journal. 30 
Farm and Home.40 
Farmer's Review.90 
Farmer’s Advocate.60 
Green’s Fruit Grower.’ .30 
Journal of Agriculture.55 
Michigan Farmer..50 
Maine Farmer.85 
National Stockman and Farmer.85 
New England Farmer.75 
New York Farmer.80 
National Tribune.95 
New England Homestead.75 
New York Tribune Farmer.60 
Ohio Farmer.50 
Orange Judd Farmer.85 
Our Grange Homes.75 
Practical Farmer.SO 
Southern Cultivator.60 
Southern Planter.50 
Turf, Field and Farm. 2.35 
Texas Farm and Ranch.85 
The Horse Review. 1.60 
The Horse World. 1.20 
Wallace’s Farmer.80 
Wool Markets and Sheep.30 
CUT PRICE BOOKS. 
The following slightly shelf-worn books 
will be sent postpaid at the reduced prices 
named: 
Accidents and Emergencies. 10 
Errors about Plants. 20 
The Cauliflower . 25 
My Handkerchief Garden. 10 
Canning and Preserving. 10 
Milk Making and Marketing. 10 
How To Plant a Place. 10 
Tuberous Begonias . 10 
Country Roads . 10 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
New York 
