1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
6i7 
The War. 
BRIEF NOTES FOR BUSY PEOPLE. 
DIARY OF THE WAR. 
New York celebrated the arrival of the war¬ 
ships from Cuban waters. General holiday ob¬ 
served, the city being lavishly decorated, Satur¬ 
day, August 20. 
Direct news received from Manila by the re¬ 
paired cable. Aguinaldo cut off the water sup¬ 
ply, and made demands for admission to the city, 
which was refused; he now seems prepared to 
submit to Gen. Merritt’s authority. Steamers 
City of Pueblo and Peru arrived with reenforce¬ 
ments, bringing the total Philippine garrison up 
to 14,000. The Arizona left San Francisco with 
1,300 troops. Remaining troops of the expedi¬ 
tionary force will go to Honolulu. Four more 
transports reach Montauk with troops from 
Santiago, Sunday, August 21. 
Hawaiian Islands formally transferred to the 
United States. Gen. Miles left Porto Rico for 
New Orleans. Steamer City of Berlin arrived at 
Santiago with regiment of colored immunes. 
Gen. Calixto Garcia has handed in his resigna¬ 
tion for the second time. Troops from Chicka- 
inauga started for their new camp at Knoxville, 
Monday, August 22. 
Aguinaldo, who controls the water sjipply of 
Manila, has permitted the use of the water, with¬ 
out compulsion. He has ordered his men to lay 
aside their arms, and plant rice for future war 
necessities. Miss Helen Gould gives $25,000 to 
the Women’s War Relief Association. Gen. 
Linares sailed for Spain, with 1,200 men; 3,500 
Spaniards remain at Santiago, of whom 1,500are 
ill. The Government receives bids for the build¬ 
ing of 28 new torpedo boats. The War Depart¬ 
ment is preparing a list of regiments, compris¬ 
ing 100,000 men, who are to be mustered out. The 
British government has directed the authorities 
at nongkong to allow Admiral Dewey to dock his 
vessels there, Tuesday, August 23. 
Secretary Alger visited Camp WikofF, where he 
will remain for several days. He says that con¬ 
ditions are not so bad as he expected, though the 
hospitals are crowded. The Secretary makes ar¬ 
rangements for an ample milk supply at the 
camp, which is sorely needed. All is serene in 
Porto Rico. Gen. Wilson has prohibited the sale 
of liquor in Ponce for three days, while making 
arrangements to regulate the traffic. Admiral 
Schley, who has been ill at his home in Norwalk, 
Conn., is improving. The transports Rio Janeiro 
and Pennsylvania arrived at Manila. Desultory 
fighting continues between the Spanish and In¬ 
surgents in the Philippines and Visayas Islands. 
Spain does not like the idea of giving up Luzon. 
Gen. Wood decides that the public schools of 
Santiago shall be opened in September. The 
salaries of commissioners are to be reduced, 
while those of the teachers are to be increased. 
Sectarianism is to be eliminated, and English in¬ 
troduced into the school course. The transport 
Comal, now loading at Tampa, will sail within a 
few days for Havana, with over 1,000,000 rations 
for the hungry Cubans, both cargo and trans¬ 
portation being the gift of the United States. 
The Naval Reserves are being mustered out 
rapidly, and many of the army volunteers will 
follow. The 23d Kansas Volunteers (colored) 
sailed for Santiag* on the Vigilancia, Wednes¬ 
day, August 24. 
Preliminary consultation of peace commission¬ 
ers held in Washington. Little excitement caused 
in Spain by return of troops. Senator Geo. F. 
Hoar is offered the appointment as Ambassador 
to Great Britain. Owing to increasing demands 
for aid to sick soldiers, the National Relief As¬ 
sociation issues a public appeal for help, Thurs¬ 
day, August 25. 
The Red Cross field agent at Jacksonville 
charges that deaths from typhoid fever were 
directly attributable to lack of nurses, the 
medical department being prejudiced against 
women in this capacity. Gen. Sternberg denies 
this. Gen. Shatter and staff leave Santiago. 
First Maine Regiment returns from Ch ickamauga 
in shocking ccndition from bad food, water and 
accommodations All quiet at Manila, Friday, 
August 26. 
Merchants at Hongkong desire that 
the Americans lower the high Spanish 
tariff at Mani a. Kerosene oil, sold at 
Hongkong for $1.90 a case, is subject, at 
Manila, to a duty of $2.05, while the 
duty on flour is 70 cents a sack. 
Thousands of bales of hemp lying at 
Manila have been released by our vic¬ 
tories there, and one result will be a 
cheapening of twine and cordage, though 
it may be six months before the stock 
now at Manila reaches our ports. 
Since March, 1885, Spain has sent 225,- 
000 men to the Antilles. Of these, 50,000 
have perished in Cuba, 73,000 have been 
returned invalided, and the remainder 
are returning, to be disbanded, after re¬ 
ceiving a portion of their pay, now nine 
months in arrears. It is not strange 
that the return of the troops is marked 
by depression and gloom. 
According to the New York Sun, two 
prominent features of life in Porto Rico 
are beggars and plugged coins. The 
plugging of the coins dates from the 
time when Mexican currency was used 
in Porto Rico, and it was thus mutilated 
to prevent its export as bullion. There 
is a great deal of mutilated currency in 
circulation in all the West Indian islands. 
The street beggars have increased in 
numbers ever since the Americans ar¬ 
rived in Ponce. The costume among 
these people is not up to the New Eng¬ 
land standard, newly annexed Ameri¬ 
cans between the ages of one and eight 
years trotting about composedly without 
any incumbrances whatever in the way 
of clothing. 
Business men in Porto Rico are anxious 
to know what the currency conditions 
will be under the new flag. The Porto 
Rican peso is worth intrinsically about 
33 cents, but passes for half a dollar, 
American gold. If the American Gov¬ 
ernment should decide to redeem the 
peso at 50 cents, it is said that an im¬ 
mense quantity of pesos of recent coin¬ 
age will be shipped from Spain to San 
Juan, for redemption. 
SCIENCE FROM THE STATIONS. 
REVIEWS of important bulletins. 
Fertilizer Bulletins.—Three bulletins that 
ought to be interesting to farmers in various 
parts of the country, are Bulletin 48 of the Rhode 
Island Station (Kingston), Bulletin 93 of the Ohio 
Station (Wooster), and Bulletin 161 of the Michi¬ 
gan Station (Agricultural College). These bul¬ 
letins discuss the subject of fertilizers. The 
chances are that wheat farmers especially will 
use considerable fertilizer this Fall. The prac¬ 
tice of using the potash and phosphoric acid 
through the Fall and Winter is, also, becoming 
more general. Therefore, many of our readers 
will want to look up the fertilizer question dur¬ 
ing the next few weeks. These bulletins discuss 
the subject at some length. The Rhode Island 
bulletin gives a list of the fertilizers sold in that 
State, with their analyses and value. The Michi¬ 
gan bulletiu gives these same values as applied 
to Michigan, and also gives a brief and compre¬ 
hensive idea of the sources of fertilizing elements 
and the special needs of certain crops. The Ohio 
bulletin discusses the question of home-mixing 
and, certainly, makes a very strong case in favor 
of the cooperative buying of fertilizing elements. 
It gives one case where a company of farmers 
bought several car-loads of materials, and mixed 
for themselves. By thus doing, they saved $500, 
which represented the difference between the 
cost of the separate materials and the cost of the 
mixed goods. 
Feeding Cotton Seed.—The Arkansas Experi¬ 
ment Station (Fayetteville), has issued Bulletin 
No. 32, giving the results obtained in feeding cot¬ 
ton-seed meal and hulls, ground cotton seed and 
whole cotton seed to steers. As most of our read¬ 
ers know, cotton seed products take the place of 
grain on many southern farms, and stockmen in 
that country are finding that they can compete 
with northern feeders by making the best use of 
cotton seed mixed with hay or other forage. This 
bulletin goes to show that the meal and hulls 
mixed together seem to be better than whole cot¬ 
ton seed. One point brought out in the matter is 
that the whole seed contains so much oil that 
it should not be fed as the only concentrated 
food, except in the cooler part of the year. 
Injurious Insects.—Bulletin 160of the Michigan 
College (Agricultural College), discusses some of 
the injurious insects noted last year. Among 
other insects, the ordinary grasshopper did con¬ 
siderable damage. Our readers have heard of 
the hopper-dozer used in the West for catching 
these insects. There is a picture of the hopper- 
dozer in this bulletin. It has a long, shallow pan 
of sheet iron set on runners and having behind 
it on a frame, a banner or sail made of canvas or 
muslin; the bottom of the pan and this sail are 
wet with kerosene. The hopper-dozer is then 
hauled along by one or two horses so that the 
grasshoppers fly up and fall back either in the 
pan or against the sail. A mere touch of the 
kerosene is enough to kill them. It is said that 
grasshoppers do not like moisture, and usually 
gather in open spots when the dew is on the 
grain. Farmers take advantage of this by cut¬ 
ting a strip around the fields and hauling the 
hopper-dozer through this strip early in the 
morning. In this way, a great many of the grass¬ 
hoppers are killed. Among other remedies for 
killing scale insects, noted in this bulletin, is the 
gasoline blast. This appears to be a torch such 
as is used by plumbers. It burns gasoline and 
throws a broad sheet of flame directly on the 
tree. The plan is to pass this flame quickly over 
the body of the tree that is coated with scales. 
When used properly, it is said to kill the scale, 
but not seriously to injure the tree. It would be 
a bad thing, however, to put in the hands of a 
careless hired man. 
Reach Diseases.—Bulletin 92 of the Ohio Sta¬ 
tion (Wooster), is a very valuable pamphlet upon 
the diseases of the peach. It gives in some detail 
a sketch of the principal diseases that are likely 
to affect peach trees, giving remedies so far as 
known, and suggestions as to the care of peach 
orchards. For example, 10 pages of the bulletin 
are given to a discussion of the galls which form 
on the roots and stem of the peach. During the 
past few years, we have had many specimens 
sent us bearing these crown or root galls, and it 
seems likely that this disease is widely distrib¬ 
uted. This bulletin gives the best history aud 
statement of the disease that we have yet seen. 
The Fruit Industry.—In his pamphlet on the 
fruit industry, recently issued by the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, W. A. Taylor gives an inter¬ 
esting account of the development of the prune 
industry in this country. He says that in 1821, 
125,300 pounds of prunes were imported. The 
amount rapidly increased and, in 1888, 82,914,579 
pounds were received. The greatest value of 
this importation of prunes was in 1882, when 
$3,084,304 worth were brought in. Over 40 years 
ago, leading men recognized the fact that these 
prunes ought to be produced in this country. In 
1854, the Patent Office imported scions of French 
prunes and distributed them in the eastern and 
northern States. At that time it was thought 
that the State of Maine, where the cureulio was 
seldom seen, would in time supply the entire 
Union with dried prunes. This enterprise failed, 
however, but in 1856, scions were sent from 
France to California and there the industry be¬ 
gan to thrive. It grew slowly, so that, in 1881, 
the largest grower in California rarely put out 
over five or six tons of dried fruit. In 1896, how¬ 
ever, the California product was estimated at 
55,200,000 pounds, and this will be largely in¬ 
creased in the near future. Washington, Oregon 
•and Idaho are, also, largely engaged in prune 
culture, so that, probably, the product of Ameri¬ 
can orchards for next year will exceed 100 , 000,000 
pounds of dried prunes. The effect of this was 
rapidly seen in the decrease of imports. In 1891, 
there were imported 41,012.571 pounds of prunes, 
valued at $2,139,215; in 1897, these imports had 
shrunk to only 736,978 pounds, valued at $74,165 
Thus this vast sum of money which was formerly 
sent abroad, has been saved to the prune grow¬ 
ers of America. It is along similar lines that the 
beet-sugar growers hope to save millions that 
are now sent abroad for foreign sugar. They 
want to grow the beets on American soil and 
produce the sugar here. 
Rove is crowned triumphant 
only in the home 
where a baby com¬ 
pletes the tie 
of matrimony. 
A childless 
marriage can¬ 
not be a happy 
one. It takes 
the final tie of 
a baby to bind 
two souls to¬ 
gether in mar¬ 
riage for better 
or for worse. 
Without this 
final tie a wedded couple 
lack the indissoluble in¬ 
terest that makes daily 
self-sacrifice not only a 
possibility, but a pleasure. 
There are to-day thousands of homes all 
over the country that were once childless 
and unhappy, but that to-day echo with 
the laughter of happy babyhood, as a re¬ 
sult of a marvelous medicine, known as 
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. This is 
the greatest of all medicines for women 
who sufferer from weakness and disease of 
the delicate and important organs that bear 
the burdens of maternity. It makes them 
healthy, strong, vigorous and elastic. It 
makes them pure and virile. It allays in¬ 
flammation, heals ulceration, soothes pain 
and tones and builds up the shattered 
nerves. It banishes the discomforts of the 
expectant period, and makes baby’s com¬ 
ing easy and almost painless. It insures 
the little new-comer’s health, and a bounti¬ 
ful supply of nourishment. It transforms 
weak, sickly, nervous invalids into happy, 
healthy mothers. An honest dealer will 
not urge an inferior substitute upon you. 
“I am now a happy mother of a fine healthy 
baby girl,” writes Mrs. F. B. Cannings, of No. 
4320 Humphrey Street, St. Louis, Mo. “Feel 
that your ' Favorite Prescription ’ has done me 
more good than anything I have ever taken. 
Three months previous to my confinement I be¬ 
gan using it. I was only in labor forty-five min¬ 
utes. With my first baby I suffered 18 hours 
then had to lose him. He was very delicate and 
only lived 12 hours. For two years I suffered un¬ 
told agony and had two miscarriages. The 
‘ Favorite Prescription ’ saved both my child 
and myself.” 
Write to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., 
for a free letter of advice, and enclose 21 
one-cent stamps, to cover mailing only , for 
a paper - covered copy of the “People’s 
Common Sense Medical Adviser;” or 31 
stamps for a cloth-bound copy. A whole 
medical library in one 1000 -page volume. 
A I Potted Strawberry 
50 Brandywine 
50 Tennessee Prolific 
Plants. 
25 Glen Mary 
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By Express 
for $2.00. 
PETER SPEER. Box 124, Passaic, N. J 
Small 
Fruits 
Grape Vines... 
ton prlrn. Deserlptlr* II.t fre*. Varieties. 
Extra fine stock CURRANTS, Gooseberries, 
CAMPBELL’S EARLY Grape Quality extra. 
Warranted true. T. 8. UUliUARU CO., Fredoula, N. Y. 
wantfYnePE kin ducks 
of good size, fine bone and deep keel, qualities so 
much in demand by the best markets, we have them. 
Our prices are reasonable compared with their value 
as good breeders of vigorous stock. Write for what 
you want and get prices. R. S. McArthur, Chase, Md 
FRAZER cre« e 
BEST IN THE WORLD. 
Its wearing qualities are unsurpassed, actually 
outlasting three boxes of any other brand. Not 
affected by heat. I3T GET THE GENUINE. 
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We are the largest C^-ppI 
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building. 25 to 40 per cent, below 
retail prices. All freight prepaid. 
. , ““ Specials —“Gold Coin” Top Buggy 
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BINGHAMTON CARRIAGE A CYCLE CO., 
Rox G, Binghamton, N. Y 
GENERAL AGENTS 
wanted to superintend local 
agents selling the Combination 
Lock-pin Clevis to farmers and 
others. Self locking ; always 
secure ; sells at sight; exclus¬ 
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CORMANY MEG. CO. 
225 Dearborn Street, Chicago 
[The Universal Repair Machine 
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vis*. Drill. Anvil. Tool Gnndei. Pipe Clamp 
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A FARM LUXURY. 
No person, whether rich or poor, in 
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ice cream made right on the farm with 
all its smoothness and richness, and 
freshness and delicacy. We have never 
seen a sample of the city product to com¬ 
pare with that made on the farm. All 
that you need to make it is a little ice 
and a four-quart White Mountain freezer. 
We can get the freezer for you, so that 
it will cost you very little. Get one of 
your neighbors to give you a dollar for 
a year’s subscription to Tiik Rural New- 
Yorker, send his name and address and 
$2.25, and we will have the freezer sent 
you at once. Your neighbor will get 
the paper for a year, and you may throw 
in a treat of your first make of cream. 
The freezer is made by the White 
Mountain Freezer Co., Nashua, N. H., 
and we know of nothing else so good. 
We will send it free for a club of six 
yearly subscriptions at $1 each. 
The Rural New-Yorker, New York. 
VICTOR 
FASTENING CLIP. 
Best and strongest for butter tubs, pails, etc. No sharp 
corners to turn out and injure the hands. Very neat and 
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