1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
857 
MARKET NOTES 
FIRE NOTES.—Losses in the United 
States and Canada for November amounted 
to $10,546,650, distributed as follows: New 
York, 25; Pennsylvania, 18; Canada, 13; 
Ohio, Missouri and Wisconsin, eight; New 
Jersey and Massachusetts, seven; Tennes¬ 
see, six; Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and 
Kentucky, five; Maryland, Georgia, Iowa, 
Virginia, West Virginia, Connecticut, 
South Carolina, Texas and Louisiana, 
three; North Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, 
Florida, Indian Territory, Oregon, Colo¬ 
rado, California, Nebraska, Maine and New 
Hampshire, two; and Montana, Delaware 
and Rhode Island, one. The heaviest single 
loss was $870,000 for a Sioux City packing 
plant. Following this to $250,000 were four; 
between $100,000 and $240,000, 16; 39 from 
$50,000 to $90,000, and 113 from $10,000 to 
$45,000. Among the reported fires were 29 
stores, 25 factories, 15 lumber plants, eight 
hotels, six warehouses and elevators, three 
cotton gins, one brewery, and one school- 
house. 
CHINESE DELICACIES.—The Chinaman 
in the eastern United States is a somewhat 
exclusive individual. He attends to his own 
business, and is industrious, thus setting 
a worthy example to thousands of Ameri¬ 
cans who point to him as a benighted 
heathen and hopeless back number. While 
in some respects he may . think and act as 
he has done for 3,000 years, he is progres¬ 
sive and strictly up to date in attending 
to his own affairs as thoroughly as a 
honey-bee does. Where, as is often the 
case, he is the only Chinaman in a neigh¬ 
borhood, he necessarily has to live largely 
upon food prepared according to our cus¬ 
toms, with a little mixture of products 
from his own country, which he gets as 
he makes his occasional trip to large towns 
where he finds stores kept by his own 
countrymen. But in cities where there are 
large Chinese settlements, like New York, 
the case is different; they live largely on 
Imported products. These Chinatown 
stores, while unusually small and unpreten¬ 
tious, keep large stocks of imported pro¬ 
visions, yams and other fresh roots that 
will stand long transportation, pickled cab¬ 
bage, a sort of sauerkraut that is the real 
thing so far as odor and ripeness are con-> 
cerned, although the heads are left whole 
Instead of being chopped up, and a very 
large variety of dried fish, flesh, fowl, 
fruits and nuts. When a Chinaman wishes 
to make a special spread he has dried 
duck, prepared in China. The bird is cut 
through the breast and spread out flat as 
a flounder. His neck and bill are curled 
around gracefully as though trying to put 
his head under his wing, giving him a 
calm and self-possessed appearance not or¬ 
dinarily exhibited in life. To prepare for 
eating the bird is put in water for five 
minutes, when the Chinese merchant says 
that it softens and is “good eat.” A com¬ 
plete duck retails at 40 cents, which is cer¬ 
tainly reasonable considering the long dis¬ 
tance which he is transported. If the con¬ 
sumer does not care for the bill, neck and 
other trimmings, sections of the bird,* the 
breast, for instance, can be had for less. 
Then there are fish of various kinds, all 
flat as though they had been run through 
a hay press, and are prepared practically 
the same as the duck, merely soaked for 
a short time in hot water. But when a 
special delicacy is wanted for a small 
price, dried dog’s feet at four cents each 
come in handy. In the claws of the feet 
pieces of dog’s heart are bound with a 
niece of sinew. The Chinese merchant as¬ 
sured us that when these were soaked in 
hot water for a short time they were “good 
eat” and an especially desirable accom¬ 
paniment for the glass that is mistakenly 
supposed to cheer while it really inebriates. 
So probably the Chinese toper sees four- 
footed beasts instead of creeping things 
when he takes a drop too much. Another 
luxury is dried ducks’ gizzards, which come 
in bulk the same as chestnuts and re¬ 
semble them in color. An extraordinary 
vegetable is called sea cabbage, which ap¬ 
pears to be a sort of sea weed, looking like 
the stuffing of an old hair mattress; when 
soaked for a time it becomes mucilaginous 
and is used in soups. w. w. h. 
NEW YORK DAIRYMEN'S ASSO¬ 
CIATION. 
PjVRT I. 
The twenty-sixth annual meeting was 
held at Jamestown, December 9-12. The 
attendance was rather light, though most 
of the faithful old-timers were present. 
This Association does not, aitt»arently, suc¬ 
ceed in calling out any large number of 
local working dairymen. The fight against 
oleo during the past few years attracted 
great attention, and this had the effect of 
arousing public sentiment and attracting 
fair audiences. Dairymen are now gener¬ 
ally prosperous and it is difficult to call 
them out. The programme was a good 
one, and we expect to give in later issues 
a full synopsis of the various papers. The 
following officers were elected for the en¬ 
suing year: President, H. E. Cook, Den¬ 
mark; first vice-president, V. C. Beebe, 
Arcade; treasurer, F. E. Dawley, Fayette¬ 
ville; secretary, W. W. Hall, Gouverneur; 
assistant secretary, Jared Van Wagenen, 
Jr., Lawyersville; directors: Dr. W. H. 
Jordan, Geneva; R. P. Grant, Clayton; M. 
T. Morgan, West Winfield; W. E. Griffith, 
Madrid; E. F. Rowley, Kennedy; Robert 
McAdam, Rome. Vice presidents: Hon. B. 
B. Odell, Albany; Hon. F. W. Higgins, 
Olean; Hon. C. A. Weiting, Cobleskill; 
Maj. W. H. Daniels, Ogdensburg; E. J. 
Burrell, Little Falls; Chas. H. Royce, 
Rhinecliff; W. E. Dana, Avon; J. P. Clark, 
Falconer; A. D. Harrington, Oxford; F. N. 
Godfrey, Olean; E. J. Preston, Amenia; F. 
A. Converse, Buffalo; A. E. Helmer, Evans 
Mills; B. C. Jackson, Leyden; W. T. 
Hughes, Rochester. 
The most important resolution was a 
strong one demanding a full and complete 
equipment for the Agricultural College at 
Cornell. There are more students than 
ever before and more applicants for dairy 
instruction than can possibly be accommo¬ 
dated. The Association calls for a new 
building from the State and the new presi¬ 
dent will appoint a committee of three to 
work with him in securing an appropria¬ 
tion for this building. 
Mayor Johnson, of Jamestown, and Judge 
J. B. Fisher welcomed the dairymen. Judge 
Fisher made a good case for Chautauqua 
County—particularly as an agricultural 
section. It appears that Chautauqua is 
second only to St. Lawrence as a dairy 
county, while the grape industry is grow¬ 
ing in a wonderful manner. Three things 
have had great influence in developing this 
section—the opening of the Erie Canal, the 
completion of the Erie Railroad and the 
great Chautauqua Assembly. 
President D. P. Witter gave an excel¬ 
lent history of the work done by the Asso¬ 
ciation. It has seen the milk consumed in 
New York increase by over 400 per cent. 
When it was organized laws to protect 
against imitation butter were being con¬ 
sidered only, and hardly thought possible 
by some. Now such laws are upon the 
National statutes and this Association has 
taken an active share of the work required 
to put them there. President Witter traced 
the development of modern methods of 
handling silage, the Babcock test and the 
mechanical separation of cream, showing 
how organizations help in such matters 
where individuals v/ould be greatly ham¬ 
pered. 
Jared Van Wagenen, Jr., gave an excel¬ 
lent address on the “Future of Agriculture 
in the Empire State.” He paid a glowing 
tribute to the farmer of the past: “Where 
fell the axe of the American pioneer, 
where arose the smoke of his cabin and 
the voices of his children, where he trod 
sprang up the White clover, the ‘white 
man’s foot in blossom,’ and the bee, the 
white man’s ‘stinging fly’ droned sleepily 
in the sunshine, where he went was heard 
the lowing of cattle, and the bleating of 
sheep In the wilderness. In his footprints 
came white-walled farmhouses, hamlets, 
churches and schoolhouses, and great 
cities, and the whistle of the locomotive. 
And in the march of industry came a mul¬ 
titude of men crowding the hilltops and 
filling the valleys—came a great free peo¬ 
ple believing in their strength.” He went 
on to judge the future by the past and 
speak of the great opportunities now open¬ 
ing to the eastern farmer. 
November Cows and Milk.—W ith No¬ 
vember comes a change in dairy condi¬ 
tions. Something must be found to take 
the place of those feeds which have pro¬ 
duced large amounts of milk at a com¬ 
paratively low cost. Every year the prob¬ 
lem presents itself, and, as often, many of 
us fail to show up equal to it. This year 
the conditions are still more embarrassing, 
because so much of last season’s cut of 
hay is Inferior. The storms made it im¬ 
possible to get hay early when at its best, 
and those same storms caught many a ton 
and soaked it till it lost all its fine aroma 
and its palatability. Just as sure as we 
feed the late-cut hay, or the black, water- 
soaked stuff, the cows will drop off In 
the mess of milk unless we are able to 
supply an abundance of something that is 
better for milk. And this is true whether 
the hay is from Timothy, Red-top or 
clover. It is the early-cut hay, cured to 
suit the palate of the cow epicure, that 
produces milk with the least expense for 
extras. Extras, however, there must be. 
and here comes the rub. What shall we 
use? The herd record of milk begins to 
drop. It was 130 quarts; a hard frost and 
we get in the neighborhood of 120 quarts. 
The grasses got short and 115 quarts were 
reported. Numerous small considerations 
made their appearance, as they always 
will, and before we know it there is only 
an even hundred quarts, where we hoped 
to have 15 to 20 per cent more. We are 
among the 90 per cent of dairymen and 
have no silo. The first thing for us is to 
remove 10 tons or so of that late-cut hay, 
and get at some of the earlier make for 
our milch cows, leaving this poorer quality 
for the cows that are not giving much 
milk. If we can SDare it. we shall offer 
some for sale to people who want that hay 
for their horses. It is a good deal of work 
to grow cabbages, but I wish we had an 
acre or so to feed this November and De¬ 
cember. It would help out the milk divi¬ 
dend, and save a good bit of money that 
must now go to the grain dealer, and 
through his hands to the western grain 
farmer. Some of my neighbors are feed¬ 
ing cabbage this year, and their success 
makes me more wishful. h. h. l. ’ 
I think The R. N.-Y. is a number one 
paper. It makes the sharpers and hum¬ 
bugs feel like a wasp’s nest when stirred 
up, but you can’t give it to them too 
strong. s. b. p. 
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PUMiSHMENT. 
Social progress has done away with a 
great many forms of punishment once 
administered under the laws of enlight¬ 
ened people. But nature never changes 
or modifies her penalties. She still has 
the same punish¬ 
ment for the man 
who neglects o r 
abuses his stomach 
as she had in the 
far off days " when 
Adam delved and 
Eve span.” 
The physical dis¬ 
comfort, dullness, 
sluggishness, irri¬ 
tability, nervous¬ 
ness and sleeplcss- 
ness which are 
visited upon the 
man who eats care¬ 
lessly or irregularly 
have been from the 
beginning the evi¬ 
dences of disease of 
the stomach and its 
associated organsof 
digestion and nu¬ 
trition. 
Dr. Pierce’s Gold¬ 
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stomach and enables the perfect digestion 
and assimilation of food, so that the 
sluggishness, irritability, nervousness and 
sleeplessness which result from innutri¬ 
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"I was taken sick nine years ago with fever.” 
writes Mr. M. M. Wardwell. of I,in wood, Leaven¬ 
worth Co., Kansas. "Had the doctor and he 
broke up the fever all right, but I took diar¬ 
rhoea right away; he couldn't cure it and it 
became chronic, and then he gave up the case. 
I got so weak with it and had piles so badly I 
couldn’t lie down, nor hardly sit up. Was 
that way two or three months ; thought I would 
‘ never be well again,’ but picked up one of Dr. 
Pierce’s Memorandum Books one day and saw 
your description of catarrh of the stomach. I 
thought it nit my case. We had a bottle of Dr. 
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery in the house 
that was got for mother. You recommend it for 
catarrh of the stomach, so I went to taking it. 
The one bottle nearly cured me. I got two bot¬ 
tles next time and took one and one-half and 
was well. I haven’t been bothered with diar¬ 
rhoea since.” 
Dr. Pierce’s Pellets cure biliousness. 
RIIDTIIRP CURED while you work. You pay 
HUi I Ullt $4 when cured. No cure no pay. 
ALEX. 8PEIRS, Box 831, Westbrook, Maine. 
Banish Lump Jaw. 
The end of each case of lump jaw is death 
unless you use Fleming’s Lump Jaw 
Cure, then recovery is certain. One case 
means danger for your herd and pastures. 
You can cure easily and thoroughly with 
this remedy; no cost if it ever fails. We 
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Fistula & Poll Evil 
Cured in 15 to 30 Days. 
Fleming’s Fistula and Poll Evil 
Cure is a simplo, scientific remedy. Easy 
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and have a well animal a mouth hence. 
Not a cent of cost if the remedy fails. 
No More Spavins. 
All your doubts and prejudices in regard 
to Spavins, Splint, Ringbone, Curb, etc., 
are wrong. The worst cases can be 
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Cure. One 45-minute treatment is usually 
all required. Does just what we say or no 
pay. Write today for circulars on any or 
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FLEMING BROS., Chemists, 
222 Union Stock Yards, Chicago, III. 
DON’T GROPE IN THE DARK 
Avoid all mineral and poisonous substances; they heal 
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It penetrates, absorbs and heals. Its power is a 
revelation. Positively cures chronic scratches, grease 
heel, speed cracks, hoof root, cowpox, mange and 
sores. Money back if It fails. 
2 oz., 25c.; 8 oz., 50c.; 5-lb. pkge., $4. 
At all druggists and dealers, or sent prepaid. 
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“SAVE-THE-HORSE” 
(TRADE-MARK) 
Facts so true results so convincing—need one wonder why our written guarantee which accompanies 
every bottle was constructed so that it is equivalent to a bond. 
1752 N. St., Washington, D. C. 
Gentlemen—In the case of my horse I can say I was 
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examining the horse said he could not be cured of 
bone spavin. All agreed that he would probably be 
lame the rest of his life. It was a case of two years 
standing, and the horse was 12 or 13 years old and 
they said it was almost impossible to cure such a 
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cure and sent him in the country forpasture thcearlv 
part of the Summer, and while there tried a bottle of 
—but he came hack to me on three legs, as it were, 
with an awfully blistered leg. I would not have him 
tired and sent for your medicine, and after the sore 
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did not use him for a week or two, hut as he grew 
better, I used him frequently. His lameness gradually 
left him, and to-day he seems as well as ever, so that 
the horse which two months ago would not have 
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have never ceased to be grateful to the “Save-the- 
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W. H. BURNETT. 
_ New York, N. Y. 
Gentlemen- My horse was hurt on the outside of the 
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to form below the hock. The Veterinary blistered 
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limes belore it would be entirely removed. 1 used 
part of the bottle purchased from you, and the lump 
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her continually. C. C. LANGHAM, 
Painter and Decorator, 245 W. 26th St. 
Some Cases Take Two Bottles. 
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Gentlemen—1 used two bottles of “Save-the-Horse" 
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the-Hor.se” had been laid up about 8 months. He had 
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EDW. H. HAWKE, Ju., Law Oflices, 68 B’way. 
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Gentleraeu—Our business is boarding and caring for 
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trial of “ Save-the-Horse” was used was a valuable 
mare with a pair of bog spavins. Wo do notknow 
definitely of how long standing, hut she had been 
treated by a Veterinarian and pronounced incurable. 
Having noticed your advertisement, wo decided to 
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one bottle' and to-day she is a sound horse. We will 
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been tired but not‘cured. Our faith In it is so strong 
that we are almost willing to guarantor' the carp. 
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Positively and permanently cures Bone and Bog Spavin, Ringbone, Curb, Thoroughpin, Splint, 
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