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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 5 
The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BUSINESS FARMERS' PAPER. 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban Homes. 
Established 1850. 
Elbert S. Carman, Editor-in-Chief. 
Herbert W. Collingwood, Managing Editor. 
Frank H. Valentine, ( 
Mrs. E. T. Roylb, f Associate Editors. 
John J. Dillon, P-nsiness Manager. 
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able to THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Corner Chambers and Pearl Streets, New York. 
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1898. 
Mr. Willard refers, on page 752, to Cox’s Orange 
Pippin. This is a favorite dessert apple in England, 
always ranking high in the market reports. It seems 
worthy of careful test in this country, for the English 
market demands it and, if our growers can produce 
the fruit in high quality for satisfactory shipment, it 
would, doubtless, be a valuable addition to our ex¬ 
port varieties. 
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Mr. Chapman makes a good showing for cooperative 
fire insurance. How the average property owner 
does butter the bread of the officers and stockholders 
of these stock companies. He has no sounder security, 
either, than when thousands of men like himself com¬ 
bine and pledge their property to cover losses. No 
wonder the cooperative companies are popular. If this 
form of cooperation is a success, why not try other 
forms ? In producing our crops, we must cooperat < 
with others whether we want to or not. Why then 
try to buy and sell as individuals ? 
Large quantities of “ process ” or deviled butter are 
regularly sent to the larger markets. When this stuff 
is fixed up in the most scientific manner, it is said to 
be hard for good judges to pick it out, except by its 
flavor. The best grades seem to leave a bad taste in 
the mouth. When properly made, however, as it 
generally is, it is bad stuff both in grain and flavor. 
This stuff never could be made over, and never would 
be, if those who made the original butter, understood 
their business. This deviled butter, as we well know, 
is simply the result of an effort on the part of the 
manufacturer, to correct the mistakes of some poor 
buttermaker, and then palm off his product as a 
counterfeit. 
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Only a few weeks ago, our Government had an in¬ 
cipient Indian war on its hands, which resulted in the 
death of several United States troops. Incidentally 
it furnished an excellent opportunity for columns of 
stuff in the sensational newspapers, and for needless¬ 
ly alarming the inhabitants of the country surround¬ 
ing the scene of the outbreak. Now the Commis¬ 
sioner of Indian Affairs has returned to Washington 
from a week’s labors with the Indians in Minnesota. 
He has successfully completed negotiations by which 
the Indians are to resume peaceful relations with the 
Government. He says plainly that the recent trouble 
is attributable to the methods of the whites in the 
vicinity, who are taking gross advantage of the In¬ 
dians. In plain English, one cause of complaint was 
that the whites have been stealing the timber belong¬ 
ing to the Indians. Another, and the immediate 
cause of the recent outbreak, was the frequent arrests 
of Indians on trivial causes, and often for no cause. 
Commissioner Jones says that he has information that 
there is a regular arrangement between deputy United 
States marshals and some boarding houses where the 
courts are located, by which the deputies are to bring 
down delegations of Indians as witnesses in whisky 
and other cases. This secures fees for the deputies, 
and money for the boarding houses. The courts are 
200 miles from the reservation, and after the Indians 
were dragged down there, they were turned loose 
without any means of getting home. In nearly every 
Indian outbreak, the prime cause has been unjust 
treatment of the Indians by the whites. It is an en¬ 
couraging sign that the real cause of this latest trou¬ 
ble has been so speedily and certainly located by a 
Government official. Now may the remedy be swiftly 
and surely applied ! Talk about our place among the 
nations of the world, extending our territory, and 
other high-sounding terms ! We’d better clean up our 
own backyard first! 
Of all those who have written about the washing of 
eggs, not one has suggested the idea that they should 
be kept from getting into a condition to need wash¬ 
ing. Perhaps that was too obvious. It is true that, 
in wet weather and when the hens are on muddy 
ground, it is practically impossible to keep them 
entirely clean. Yet with due care, the number of 
soiled eggs could be greatly reduced. With clean 
nesting places so located that the hens will not roost 
in them, and frequent gathering of the eggs, the need 
of washing may be reduced to the minimum. 
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A clothing dealer in a rural city offered prizes for 
large pumpkins, and over 100 were submitted. The 
dealer was a shrewd man, and he ranged the pump¬ 
kins on the sidewalk, where they made a great display. 
Then he put the largest ones in the window, and 
crowds came to see them. This little scheme greatly 
increased his trade. People spoke of it as a good 
stroke of business, and told their friends of it. No 
one worth considering thought less of this dealer be¬ 
cause he made the most of these pumpkins, and no 
one thinks less of a farmer when he advertises his 
crops, and tries honestly to call attention to them. 
In every home market, there is a chance for some en¬ 
terprising farmer to aid his business by a little adver¬ 
tising. 
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J. E. Blackburn is a candidate on the Republican 
ticket in Ohio for reelection to the office of Hairy and 
Food Commissioner. He has been tried and found 
wanting, and should be scratched by every voter who 
is in favor of the enforcement of the laws against 
oleomargarine. This man has shut his eyes so tightly 
that, right under his nose, the oleo manufacturers 
have been able to mix and sell, probably, $1,000,000 
worth of their stuff in violation of the Ohio law. Two 
factories, in defiance of law, have been turning out 
oleo to compete with the honest butter made in the 
dairies and creameries of Ohio. It is the duty of Mr. 
Blackburn to enforce the laws against bogus butter, 
but he has failed to do so. Why ? It has been charged 
openly and repeatedly that he owes his nomination to 
the men who are interested in having “ oleo ” made 
and sold. He is now on the ticket, and the only way 
to get at him is to knife him at the ballot-box. It 
will not do to wait until the next caucus and conven¬ 
tion. Go at him now while a lead pencil will take 
the wind out of his sails, and vote fairly and squarely 
for his opponent, Mr. John Baker. The R. N.-Y. does 
not “ go into politics ” in giving this advice—it simply 
tries to get one of the torturing grubs out of tbe back 
of the good old cow ! 
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The United States Supreme Court has just decided 
an important railroad case, and established a principle 
that ought to have a far-reaching effect. The great 
railroads of the country organized a joint traffic as¬ 
sociation, the object of which was to regulate freight 
rates. The plan was to agree among themselves to 
adopt certain fixed rates, and thus prevent competi¬ 
tion. The Government brought suit against the rail¬ 
roads, claiming that this combination to regulate 
freight rates was unlawful under what is known as 
the anti-trust law. The question hinged, for one 
thing, on the power of Congress to forbid a combina- 
tion or agreement which should destroy competition. 
In its decision, the court has settled that question 
definitely in the following words : 
Wedo not think that, when the grantees of this public franchise 
are competing railroads, seeking the transportation of men and 
goods from one State to another, ordinary freedom of contract in 
the use and management of their property requires the right to 
combine as one consolidated and powerful association for the 
purpose of stifling competition among themselves, and of thus 
keeping their rates and charges higher than they might other¬ 
wise be under the laws of competition. And this is so, even 
though the rates provided for in the agreement may for the time 
be not more than are reasonable. They may easily and at any 
time be increased. It is the combination of these large and power¬ 
ful corporations, covering vast sections of territory and influenc¬ 
ing trade throughout the whole extent thereof, and acting as one 
body in all the matters over which the combination extends, that 
constitutes the alleged evil, and in regard to which, so far as the 
combination operates upon and restrains interstate commerce 
Congress has power to legislate and prohibit. 
It remains to be seen what the railroads will do now. 
Congress may be asked to pass a law permitting the^V.' 
railroads to form “pooling” or combining contracts / 
providing the Interstate Commerce Commission ap- ' 
prove such contracts and have the power to revoke 
them. These things will develop in time, but the 
thing that should rejoice all honest men is the fact 
that the highest court in the land now declares that 
it is a crime to combine for the purpose of killing off 
competition. With this principle established, the 
Government should at once proceed against the other 
great trusts which have crushed out competition. 
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BREVITIES. 
Lie, steal and swear! A right good motto that: 
To follow it would make men true and fat. 
Lie !—down and sleep after day’s honest toil, 
With no sting in your conscience that will spoil 
Your rest, with thoughts that strive to make amends 
For burning up life’s candle at both ends. 
Steal time away from busy care and strife 
To make acquaintance with your home and wife; 
Steal power away from worldly plans and needs, 
And give it gladly to unselfish deeds. 
Swear to be loyal to yourself, and true 
To the best light thaUGod has given you. 
Lie, steal and swear ! Be that your life’s great plan; 
What better motto for an honest man ? 
Once more tbe taxes due the agricultural societies 
from the trotting associations of the State ! For the 
benefit of the many thousands of new readers, we 
will review briefly what we have given several times 
before. New York imposes a tax upon racing and 
trotting associations, the money going to the agri¬ 
cultural societies of the State. Gov. Black appointed 
one man to look after the running-race meetings, and 
another, Mr. Hamilton Busbey, editor of a s'orting 
paper, and incidentally vice-president of the New 
York State Agricultural Society, to look after the 
trotting races. The duties of both are defined by law. 
The former official has performed his duties thor¬ 
oughly, and collected more money than was collected 
in any previous year ; the latter has done practically 
nothing except to draw his $1,500 salary and $500 ex¬ 
penses. Mr. J. H. Durkee, president of the New York 
State Association of Agricultural Societies, has been 
after him with a sharp stick, ne preferred charges 
against Mr. Hamilton Busbey, and after repeated 
proddings, secured a hearing before Gov. Black. 
Every charge was sustained, and Mr. Hamilton Busbey 
had no defense except that he thought the law de¬ 
fective. There is no record of the fact that he con¬ 
sidered that part of it relating to his salary defective. 
Now Mr. Durkee writes us that the agricultural socie¬ 
ties are likely to get their money, and even more than 
they received last year. Through the efforts of Col. 
Morgan, Deputy Comptroller, special supervisors have 
been appointed, and have entered upon their duties. 
This insures the examination of the books of the 
associations and the collection of the tax. But it will 
be noted that the farmers have no occasion to thank 
Gov. Black, or his dummy, Mr. Hamilton Busbey, for 
this. Mr. Durkee has furnished the germs that caused 
“the milk to sour”. Meanwhile what about a gov¬ 
ernor who declines to remove one of his creatures who 
virtually pleaded guilty ? What about that $1,500 
salary and $500 for expenses ? What about the largely 
increased advertising in that sporting paper ? These 
are pertinent questions, and the tax-paying farmers 
wish them answered. What an ornament this Busbey 
is to the New York State Agricultural Society as one 
of its vice-presidents ! 
“ Nit ” goods—O O O O. 
Grateful— a grate fire. 
Words without work—waste ! 
It is a crime to kill good time. 
“ I’ll try ” is a trial can of power. 
The newest baby is a fresh-lieir child. 
The shepherd has a wether eye open. 
Your better half deserves better quarters. 
Tease the cow and breed a ero«.s-bred calf. 
You are right ! The kitchen is usually a domestic labor atory. 
Better celebrate “ Bird Day ” on your farm by cleaning out the 
henhouse. 
Certainly! The man who crows over his own deeds uses fowl 
language ! 
In home co partnership it is sufllclent to know your good wife 
is a co efficient. 
“Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work.” But ou the 
Sabbath Day thou shalt not shirk! 
Uncle Sam should show better work at handling black and red 
men before taking on the yellow fellows. 
Why is a whipped boy like a rascal in the seat of justice ? One 
is a cain-seated chair and the other is a cane-seated heir! 
A dynamometer test showed that a wagon not greased pulled 18 
per cent harder than one greased. Ask the horse, aud he will say 
75 per cent. 
The Government decides that Hawaiian postage stamps are 
worth their face value in this country. We will take one dollar’s 
"worth for a year’s subscription. 
You are right! “The remedy for a kicking cow depends largely 
on the man who administers the same”. The disease is not 
cured by the application of boot leather. 
Said Mrs Sheep, I am the missing link, sir, between two people 
—it is well you knew, that nature straightens out her hardest 
kink, sir, that I may say I am both I and ewe. 
Lightning-rod agents are reported in Delaware. You sign 
what is supposed to be a certificate that the work is well done, 
and find later that it is a confession of judgment. 
An Illinois subscriber says that his neighbor fed hotel refuse 
to hogs “ when they had given the hotel a thorough cleaning, 
using plenty of lye; the refuse killed every one of his hogs.” Lye 
and die look much alike to a hog. 
An Australian contemporary refers to “ Tree Lucern ” or 
Tagasaste as forming a bush 15 to 20 feet high within 3*4 years. 
This is not a gigantic clover, however, but a variety of broom, 
(Cytisus) used as a fodder shrub in warm climates. 
Five cords of 18-inch green beech wood at the Michigan Station 
weighed 14,336 pounds in February when freshly cut. It was piled 
out of doors. On Octobers, it weighed 7,148 pounds. It lost- 
water. No wonder green wood does not give out enough heat. It 
must evaporate all that water first. 
