1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
We were pleased and gratified with 
the subscription receipts for the day 
after New Year’s. The corresponding 
day last year was a big one, and we were 
anxious not to fall below the record this 
year. We didn’t. This year the in¬ 
crease over last year was 9.3 per cent 
gain—nearly one in ten. We thank those 
who responded to our request to swell 
the mails for the first business day of 
1904. 
Since January 1—at this writing three 
days— we have been experiencing weath¬ 
er from 5 to 40 degrees below zero all 
over the country, and returns have 
fallen below the records of last year, but 
we confidently look for better results 
before this is read by subscribers at 
their farm homes. 
We are writing the addresses for the 
new rose every day as your order comes 
in so that we will only have to do up 
the plants and mail them as soon as the 
weather will permit in early Spring. In 
the meantime, you who have not yet 
sent in renewals, do not neglect longer. 
There is not a single farmer in the 
country who would allow this rose to be 
taken out of his yard for a five-dollar 
bill after it has had one year’s growth. 
A subscriber in Pennsylvania recently 
complained that the Chippewa Commis¬ 
sion Co., of Buffalo, N. Y., neglected to 
make returns for a shipment made them 
last Spring. We wrote the Company, 
and they sent check, but the check was 
protested at the bank, and has not since 
been paid. They do not reply to our let¬ 
ters, and shippers can draw their own 
conclusions. 
A subscriber sends us a batch of print¬ 
ed matter from a concern in the State of 
Illinois which wants him to sell a poul¬ 
try compound on commission with the 
promise of a monthly salary afterwards. 
The subscriber asks if the concern is re¬ 
liable, and if he could take up the work 
with safety. They have no satisfactory 
rating that we can find, and their letters 
and circulars have all the earmarks of 
a first-class fake. As usual, they want 
him to send money in advance for the 
first lot of goods. It would probably be 
the last order as well. We are glad to 
see that R. N.-Y. readers are inquiring 
into these things before parting with 
their money. 
A FARMER'S FARM NOTES. 
The lawn mower is fast taking the place 
of the “posy bed” in even the country door- 
yard. I well remember the time when 
our first lawn mower, costing $10, was a 
novelty as a farm implement, it being 
about the only one nearby. Now they are 
commoai and cheap. The tired farmer does 
not push one for the sake of outdoor ex¬ 
ercise, yet he is fast learning to appreciate 
the appearance of the old dooryard turned 
into a smooth closely-cut lawn. 
Do you make good use of the currycomb 
and brush? If so, it shows you like to see 
your horses’ coats look sleek and glossy. 
Perhaps the dust settling on them when 
standing idle in the stable, and showing 
especially plain on black horses, is an eye¬ 
sore to you. Sweep the cobwebs and dust 
clean from overhead and if the upper floor 
is tight as it should be, your horses will 
keep very much cleaner. 
In passing through the country one will 
find many old straggly Yellow locust trees, 
relics of by-gone days. While the owners 
often consider them unsightly, with their 
branches bare of leaves until late in the 
season, the brittle wood easily broken and 
the lawn littered after every strong wind, 
yet they are loath to remove them, for it 
takes years to grow a shade tree of good 
size. Any who care to retain such old 
friends dan cause them to take on their 
youthful glory by sending a young man 
into the lofty top w'ith a good sharp hand¬ 
saw, removing the entire top and larger 
limbs as far down as possible. Do this 
some warm day in Winter and the follow¬ 
ing Summer the great roots and trunk will 
send out such a mighty growth of new' 
wood and dark green leaves as to astonish 
you, and from that time on the old tree 
will veritably renew' its youth, and be a 
"thing of beauty” where it has held forth 
for so many years. 
Now is the time when the big dry wood 
Vile on the farm works in very handy. 
45 
“Oh, dear, isn’t it horrid to have to bake 
green wood all the time?” 
The cattle barn is a manufacturing es¬ 
tablishment, crude material to finished 
product. Utilize the refuse and concen¬ 
trate the entire process. In Winter the 
milk can and the bags of corn and bran 
stand side by side. The cow is the ma¬ 
chine. It is a “knack” to feed her so she 
will “run steady.” h. s. wright 
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE GRANGE. 
Grange Topics for 1901.—First quarter: 
general topic, good roads. January: Is 
National aid to road budding advisable, 
and what can the Grange do to secure it? 
February: To what extent is State aid to 
road building justifiable? March: What 
can be done by local action to secure 
better roads? 
Second quarter; general topic, good 
crops. Ap_ril: How important is the 
adaptability of the crop to soil and de¬ 
mands of the local market? May: What 
are the relative merits from cultivation 
and fertilization derived by growing crops? 
June: Can improvement be made in the 
present method of marketing crops? 
Third quarter; general topic, good citi¬ 
zens. July: What is the duty of the 
farmer in the management of the affairs 
of his political party? August: What is 
the duty of the farmer in the management 
of the affairs of State or Nation? Sep¬ 
tember: What is the duty of the farmer 
in the management of local affairs includ¬ 
ing churches, schools and roads? 
Fourth quarter; general topic, good 
homes. October: What constitutes the 
essential features inside the ideal home? 
November: What are required as the out¬ 
side attractions of the ideal home? De¬ 
cember: What should the different mem¬ 
bers of the family contribute to an ideal 
home? 
NAHUM J. BACHELDER, 
Lecturer National Grange. 
BOOK BARGAINS. 
We have some slightly soiled copies of 
the following 20-cent pamphlets, which 
will be closed out at the rate of any six 
for 25 cents, postpaid, or the whole 10 for 
40 cents. 
How to Plant a Place, Long; Silo and 
Silage, A. J. Cook; Ensilage and Silo, Col- 
lingwood; Canning and Preserving, Young; 
Fruit Packages, Powell; Accidents and 
Emergencies, Groff; Country Roads, Pow¬ 
ell; The New Botany, Beal; Tuberous Be¬ 
gonias; Milk Making and Marketing, 
Fowler. 
A Quart Baby. 
Now and again there is an item in the 
uewspapers concerning the birth of a 
puny baby so small that a quart cup 
holds it comfortably. If the article told 
all the facts it would probably tell also 
of a mother who in weakness and misery 
had looked forward to the baby’s advent 
with shrinking and fear. 
To have fine, healthy children the 
mother must be healthy, and it is the 
common testimony 
of mothers that the 
use of Dr. Pierce’s 
Favorite Prescrip¬ 
tion not only pro¬ 
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health but also 
gives her strength 
to give her child. 
w Favorite Pre¬ 
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by tranquilizing 
the nerves, promot¬ 
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tite, and giving re¬ 
increases physical 
vigor and gives great muscular elasticity, 
so that the baby’s advent is practically 
painless. It is the best of tonics for 
nursing mothers. 
"I gladly recommend Dr, Pierce’s Favorite 
Prescription,” writes Mrs. J. W. G. Stephens, of 
Mila, Northumberland Co., Va. "Before my 
third little boy was born I took six bottles. He 
is the finest child and has been from birth, and 
I suffered very much less than I ever did before. 
I unhesitatingly advise expectant mothers to 
use the ‘ Favorite Prescription.’ ” 
Dr. Pierce now feels fully warranted 
in offering to pay $500 in legal money 
of the United States, for any case of 
Ueucorrhea, Female Weakness, Prolap¬ 
sus, or Falling of Womb which he can¬ 
not cure. All he asks is a fair and 
reasonable trial of his means of cure. 
Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Ad¬ 
viser, containing 1008 pages, is sent free 
on receipt of stamps to pay expense of 
mailing only. Send 31 one-cent stamps 
for the cloth-bound volume, or only 21 
stamps for the book in paper covers. 
Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. 
—She— 
Angle Lamp 
because its licht is so far superior to any¬ 
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common to ordinary lamps and all other sys¬ 
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light, ease of operation, cleanliness and 
economy—one quart of oil burns 18 hours. 
Why be bothered with the smoke, odor and care of 
lamps, with the expense of gas and electricity, with the 
danger ofgasolineand acetylene? The Angle Lamp Is 
better from every standpoint It is sold on 
THIRTY DAYS TRIAL. 
Send for catalog No. N N and we will tell you all 
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T hread-cutting thuyible.-wih save 
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WOOD SUPPLY CO., Churchwood, Va. 
Agents wanted in every County to sell the 
Perfected National 
Round Silo, 
the only patented Silo on the market. 
For particulars write 
The National SUo & Lumber Co., Llnesvllle,Pa. 
SILOS 
t 904, 
Six Kinds of Wood. 
n n Ilf to build, plant, fill and 
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many things you should l\ 11 U If 
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Michigan. 
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si 382 FIRST PRIZES 
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The United States Government ] 
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Concise Catalogue from 
PINELAND INCUBATOR & BROODER CO., 
liox K. Jamesburg, N. J., U. S. A. 
Nitrate of Soda 
(THE STANDARD AMM0NIATE) 
to an acre of Timothy. From this acre he made 
4 ,8oo pounds barn-cured hay more than from an 
acre next to it, which had no Nitrate. That pays. 
This illustration is from a photograph of the 
two fields. 
I want a farmer in every county in the United 
States to make a similar trial on a smaller piece 
of meadow. 1 will furnish the Nitrate of Soda 
ABSOLUTELY FREE 
if the farmer will use it as I direct and report 
actual results of the trial to me. 
My object is simply to collect and publish in¬ 
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hay production in every locality. 
Send name and complete address on 
Post Card for instructions, conditions 
and Bullet ins on Grass and other Crops. 
WM.S. MYERS, Director, 12-16 John St., New York. 
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THE CHEAPEST LUMBER 
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PENSIVE IF COATED WITH 
S. P. F. CAR BO LINE UM. 
IT GIVES A HANDSOME BROWN COLOR. ' 
108 PARTICULARS ADDRESS 
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Registered Trade Mark. 
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Begin Treatment at Once; Have a Permanently Sound Horse for Spring, 
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$5.00 per bottle. Written guarantee with every bottle. Need of second bottle improbable, 
except in rarest cases. If your case is different we advise frankly as to possibility of the remedy 
effecting a cure. Give veterinarian’s diagnosis, if he is competent. Describe age, development, location 
of swellings, lameness, and way horse carries and holds leg. 
$5.00 per bottle at all druggists and dealers, or sent express prepaid. 
TROY CHEMICAL CO., TROY, N. Y. Also manufacturers of Veterinary Pixine. 
TAYNE’S EXPECTORANT 
J CURES THE WORST COLDS. 
For 73 years the Standard Cough Remedy. 
