1904. 
THE PRIZE CLIPPINGS. 
Prizes for clippings are awarded this week' 
as follows: 
Giving the Farmers “Fits.” 
Are we facing the knotty problem of a lack 
of skillful, willing labor on the farm? Who 
has brought this about? Stop throwing sand 
to blind yourself and others, and considerately 
view the matter. The force that might, and 
should be upon the farm has been chased into 
towns and cities, money being often used as 
pelters, and as a fulcrum beneath the lever 
that lifts our young folks out of place. You 
are proud of that boy of yours if he is filling 
a fairly lucrative “position,” and can wear 
clothing (every day) with less soil from hon¬ 
est perspiration (induced by muscular toil) 
upon them, than you can yours. You have 
helped him to “rise;" you are secretly, if not 
openly, agreeing to the idea that you and he 
have made something of him. If lie is only 
a “knight of Hie yard-stick" (or peck meas¬ 
ure), and measures or weighs the good prod¬ 
ucts of your farm, and pays you in calico 
and soap, you imagine he is a being in a 
sphere a trifle above the man hired in his 
place at home; and who planted, cultivated 
and dug the potatoes you are selliug. 
“It isn't true?” Well, then, I wouldn't 
act as if it were so. You respectfully said, 
“What are you giving for potatoes now?' 
or, “What are potatoes worth?” and then, 
“What’s this calico a yard?" Why should he 
know the value of your goods any better 
than you know his? Probably he does not, 
but you (belonging to the lower sphere) al¬ 
low him to appreciate or depreciate yours as 
he sees fit. “He's a smart chap!” too smart 
to stay on the “poky old farm” and dig for a 
living. Hut perhaps he has an influence 
there after all; if you are smart enough to 
let him come home and go prowling about 
with a gun to kill off the quail and other 
birds which God placed there to destroy the 
insects and weed seeds that are the far¬ 
mer's pests. His town life encourages him 
to feel above his own father; and he may 
hear him spoken of as an “old hayseed.’ 
However, the mouth which sends forth such 
words is fed by the farmer and his farm. 
The world cannot spare him ; he feeds them 
all. The farmers are the royalty of the 
earth. And yet they are industriously oiling 
the cars which carry off the young life and 
strength needed on the farm; the public, 
country schools, fed and supported by far¬ 
mers, arc steadily undermining the farms.— 
Milford, Del., Chronicle. 
A Bar of Soap. 
You can fool the American people all the 
time, and right here in Illinois, even Blessed 
Bloomington “suckers” bite much quicker 
than the tisli at Miller Park on a free day. 
A cake of soap has a tale to tell. Thurs¬ 
day there came into Bloomington of dark 
complexion a mulatto, and he proved to be 
a clever fellow. Entering a drug store on the 
south side of the square lie noticed in I argil 
letters the advertisement of a certain kind 
of soap which is at present being displayed 
in most of the drug store windows of the 
city. It came to pass that he asked the 
clerk the price and on finding this soap re¬ 
tailed at five cents a bar he asked for a 
reduction for a large quantity. The clerk 
agreed to six bars for Ho cents, and (he fel¬ 
low bought three dozen bars. Out of the door 
with his soap, down to the city hall for a 
license to sell it upon the street, then into 
his dressing room, there to don not in the 
fashionable mode of men's attire but more 
on the Indian fashion. Hanging from the 
cap on his head was a drapery and about 
his belt some fringe, Indian fashion. To the 
south side of the square directly across the 
street from the drug store where the pur- 
enase was mat.e he mounted a box, perhaps 
an old soap box, and a crowd soon gathered 
about him. He cleverly talked and told 
the people he represented the - soap 
company, was advertising agent for them, 
that he had a few bars of soap he might dis¬ 
pose of at once, but not a great deal, and 
the people couTd have the soap at 25 cents a 
bar. You should have seen that gaping 
crowd break their necks to get that soap. In 
five minutes he had sold seven bars at 25 
cents per bar. Think of it! Displayed in 
large letters directly opposite the man was 
the self same soap marked at five cents a bar, 
and all you could carry home at that price. 
Fool the people, yes, fool them every time! 
It was easy money for Mr. Blackman, and as 
he was not in the city yesterday it is likely 
that he works his game daily at various 
towns. Moral: Trade with the local mer¬ 
chants.—Bloomington, Ill., l’antagraph. 
Fortune in a Little Farm. 
Tioga County supplies a fine example of 
the fact that farming in Pennsylvania can 
still be made a profitable pursuit. The son 
of a former high official in this common¬ 
wealth owns a 40-acre farm near Wellsboro. 
Last year he devoted his energies to growing 
lettuce and celery. 11 is net profits for the 
season, after deducting all expenses for labor, 
amounted in round figures to $0,000. Upon 
one carefully measured acre was produced 
a cool $900 profit from celery. This man, 
who might ordinarily be expected to devote 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
himself to a professional life, has gone into 
farming equipped with brains and energy. 
Discarding -the ordinary routine so closely 
followed by most Pennsylvania farmers of 
planting in rotation corn, oats and wheat, 
with a small field of potatoes, the. Tioga 
Countian sticks to tilings that pay. There 
is now but little profit in wheat and corn 
in this State, owing to the enormous fields 
in the West, where both crops can be grown 
more cheaply. But the great cities of the 
East supply an almost unlimited market for 
such produce as celery and lettuce and here 
the West Is too far distant to be a strong 
competitor. A farm should be fertilized with 
thought, as well as with lime and phosphate. 
The Tioga farmer has capitalized his brains. 
He has made an acre in a remote county 
yield as much in a year as a $14,000 house 
in Philadelphia will bring its owner in rental. 
Moreover, he has given another proof that 
not all the wealth hidden in the hills and 
valleys of this Keystone State is confined to 
iron, coal and petroleum.—Catawissa, l’a., 
Item. _ 
“ AND THE REAPER’S NAME WAS 
DEATH." 
- George W. Thomas, who farms the Itaby 
place near Ivimberton, Chester Co., l’a., was 
horribly multilated on Monday by a reaper 
and may die as a result. He received a 
large number of terrible gashes about one 
arm and hand, both legs and on the breast 
and abdomen, all of which had to be closed 
with stitches by a physician. Mr. Thomas 
was reaping wheat when one of the horses 
got a leg over the tongue of the machine. 
He sprang from the scat in front of the 
knives to remedy the trouble, when the 
horses started and the revolving rake struck 
him upon the head, throwing him forward 
upon the knives. This frightened the horses, 
and they ran away across the field. Every 
time the unfortunate man attempted to re¬ 
gain his feet the rakes knocked him against 
the knives, which cut deep into the flesh. 
Pieces of bone were cut from one leg. The 
horses finally stopped of their own accord 
and other persons removed the injured man 
to his home. 
Easton, Pa., July 13.—Unaware that his 
4-year-old son was asleep in a field where he 
was operating a reaper, Milton Apple, a far¬ 
mer of Riegelsville, drove so close to the 
child that the little fellow was frightfully 
cut about the legs, arms and body. The 
child is in Easton Hospital and may not re¬ 
cover. 
Falling into the knives of a self-binder, 
Arthur Starner, 7-year-old son of Jacob Star- 
ner, of near New Windsor, Pa., had one foot 
amputated and the other mutilated. 
that was taking the fowls off so rapidly. 
The expert found no signs of disease, but 
after a few inquiries he did find that the 
colored man's family had been living on 
chicken potpie with great frequency. Need¬ 
less to say, the disease was stamped out at 
once.—Philadelphia Record. 
Thkew His Voice.—A few days ago a far¬ 
mer named Curry, in Franklin township, went 
into his barn, when he heard a voice, ap¬ 
parently underneath a quantity of hay just 
harvested and placed in his mows. The voice, 
in smothered tones, stated that it came from 
a tramp who had gone to sleep in the mow, 
in an intoxicated condition, and when the 
sleeper came to his senses he was covered 
over with the hay being harvested. The far¬ 
mer brought other persons there, and they 
also heard the voice. Men set to work and 
removed about 20 tons of hay from one mow 
without finding any one. It was asserted 
that the voice was so indistinct that it was 
impossible to tell from whence the voice had 
come, and with his neighbors the farmer set 
to work and removed a large quantity of 
hay from another mow, but came across no 
one. Then it dawned upon them that they 
were the victims of a practical joke. It is 
believed that a ventriloquist, a citizen of the 
neighborhood, had “thrown his voice” up the 
funnel and deceived his hearers, as there was 
no other explanation of the affair. It is 
said that a committee is looking for the 
perpetrator of this very “practical joke.— 
Philadelphia Record. 
CULLED FROM CLIPPINGS. 
Tied To a Cow. —In order to prevent a 
cow switching her tail in his face while he 
was milking, Charles R. Gaither, a farmer, 
near Center, V is., tied the caudal appendage 
to his leg, and to make a good knot put a 
little milk on it. When Bossy found that 
she could not use her tail she began kicking. 
She knocked the farmer off his stool and be¬ 
gan to run, dragging him about the corral 
until he was unconscious. Before assistance 
came he sustained three broken ribs and 
other injuries.—New York World. 
Sehved Him Right. —Jacob Dries, of Ma- 
cungie, although a powerfully built man, will 
hereafter refrain from trying to knock a cow 
down with his fist. He is a tenant on the 
farm of Dr. M. 11. Lichtenwalner, and one 
morning, while he was unchaining the cows 
in the stable several of them began goring 
each other. Dries rushed in between and 
struck at one of the cows with his fist, lie 
hit her on the hip-bone, and smashed the 
knuckles of his right hand and broke the 
arm above the wrist—Philadelphia Record. 
A Goat Story. —A well known suburbanite 
who had been greatly troubled by the depre¬ 
dations of a neighbor's goat was driven to 
desperation one day, when he learned that 
the animal had consumed a favorite red 
flannel golf coat of his. Determined on the 
goat’s destruction, he employed an unscrupu¬ 
lous small boy who lived in the neighborhood 
to secure him to the railroad track just before 
the daily express was due. Some days after¬ 
ward a friend inquired with Interest if the 
goat had been effectually disposed of. 
“Not on your life,” was the disgusted an¬ 
swer: "that goat has a charmed life. He 
coughed up that red golf coat of mine and 
flagged the train.”—Harper’s Weekly. 
“Sick” Chickens. —A well-known river¬ 
front hotel man, who has a country home in 
New Jersey, tells with great glee a joke on 
himself. Early in the Spring he purchased a 
large flock of chickens and gave them into 
the care of a colored man who works about 
the place. One day the man came to the 
owner of the chickens and assqred him that 
one of them was acting “sick like.” He was 
immediately instructed to kill a chicken 
whenever it showed signs of illness, and thus 
prevent any spread of disease. Day after 
day another chicken was reported ailing, 
and each time it was also killed. After 
a while the flock grew so small that an ex¬ 
pert was called in to diagnose the disease 
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“a square deal." See guarantee, page 8. 
A SEASON’S WORK WITH STRAW¬ 
BERRIES. 
The strawberry crop in this locality for 
1904 was perhaps an average one as to yield 
and quality. Especially was this true of new 
and well-cultivated beds, but many old beds 
where not mulched were badly damaged by 
the past severe Winter. Such beds, of course, 
give poor yields of poor fruit. Owing to 
the difficulty of getting good berries in good 
condition from other points prices for good 
stock nicely packed commanded were high, 
and the demand was brisk. Excelsior is the 
best extra early that we have tried. It gives 
us two or three pickings of fine, showy ber¬ 
ries that sell well before second early or 
medium varieties arrive, but runs down in 
size too soon and is very acid. Bubach is 
our mainstay for medium season and main 
crop. It is by far the heaviest yielder of any 
of the large varieties we have grown, and 
can always be depended on to give a crop 
of fine berries that will nearly all grade 
fancy, and will almost always bring the last 
berry up to merchantable size. Bubach is 
also a strong grower and absolutely free from 
rust or other disease. We depend princi¬ 
pally on Brandywine and Rough Rider for 
late berries, but neither of those varieties 
quite fills the bill for our trade. Brandywine 
is a strong grower, and under favorable soil 
and weather conditions will give a good 
yield of fine, large, highly colored fruit of 
the best quality, but it is very much inclined 
to rust, which causes its berries to run down 
in size after first or second pickings. Rough 
Rider is a good variety for late on heavy 
soil, and has the longest season of any we 
have grown, but it has some serious faults. 
Although a very strong plant it rusts badly, 
and is liable to fail in maturing last berries. 
The fruit is also much misshapen and shows 
white noses early in season. The quality of 
Rough Rider is not very good, being too acid, 
but when properly picked and packed it 
shows up well in crates and carries well and 
sets more fruit than it can mature. 
We realized good prices for our berries 
this season, but some who were not too care¬ 
ful about growing their berries or picking, 
packing and marketing did not fare so well. 
For the last few years we sell entirely, or 
nearly so, to the retail trade, cutting out the 
commission man. Of course we do not sell 
in the large cities, or we could not do this so 
easily. When we first commenced this meth¬ 
od of marketing, by inquiry and correspond¬ 
ence we located the principal retailers in all 
the principal mining and manufacturing 
towns for 50 miles around, and solicited stand¬ 
ing orders from them for what berries they 
could use each day throughout the season, 
being careful to book no more orders than 
we could fill promptly. At first they were 
shy about placing their orders with a "grow¬ 
er,” stating that it was seldom they could 
get prompt or satisfactory shipments; but 
we proved to them that that was not always 
the case, and our business has now outgrown 
our capacity, and we have to turn many or¬ 
ders away. We use* printed envelopes and 
letter heads (name and address and busi¬ 
ness), printed invoice or bill heads, printed 
shipping tags; use full-sized standard quart 
baskets, new and clean, in clean, substantial 
crates. A rubber stamp puts our business 
card on every basket, and another rubber 
stamp puts this legend on every crate: "Re¬ 
turn Empties Promptly,” which request is 
surprisingly well adhered to by our regular 
patrons, thus saving us considerable in cost 
of crates. A few good rules for those who 
may wish to try this method of marketing 
berries are: Grow only fine berries, honestly 
picked and packed. Ship promptly ; answer 
all correspondence promptly; avoid disap¬ 
pointing a patron if you have to buy a few 
crates; do not pick berries too green; do 
not let berries get over-ripe. Promptness is 
the keynote in this method of selling berries. 
Pansy, Pa. w. p. k. 
GIRL’S SECRET. 
"Aunt Cassie came to visit us and she 
saw I was nervous, had the fidgets all the 
time, and she asked me many questions, 
and finally said, * Why, you dear, sweet girl, 
it’s not your temper that’s bad, it’s your 
constitution that’s out of kilter. You sit 
right down now and write a letter to Dr. 
Pierce, at Buffalo, N. Y., tell him all your 
symptoms ’—and so I did. It wasn’t long 
before I had a long reply, carefully going 
over my case and telling me just what to 
do. I date my present happiness and little 
Cupid’s return to the very day I sat down 
to write that letter to Dr. Pierce, for his 
advice was so good and his ‘ Favorite Pre¬ 
scription ’ worked such a complete change 
in me that now my former cheerfulness 
and good health—not to say anything of 
good looks—are restored to me. I have 
summoned Tom back to my side and we 
are to be married in June.” 
The proprietors and makers of Doctor 
Pierce’s Favorite Prescription now feel 
fully warranted in offering to pay $500 for 
any case of Leucorrhea, Female Weakness, 
Prolapsus, or Palling of the Womb, which 
they cannot cure. All they ask is a fair 
and reasonable trial of their means of cure. 
It is natural that a woman who has been 
cured of womanly disease by "Favorite 
Prescription ” should believe that it will 
cure others. It is natural too that she 
should recommend to other women the 
medicine which has cured her. It is 
such commendation which has made the 
name of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip¬ 
tion a household word for the past thirty- 
eight years. 
For Information 
as to Fruit and Trucking Lands, Grazing Lands, 
Soil and Climate in Virginia, North and South 
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama & Florida along the 
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad 
Write to WILBUR Itt’COY Agricultural and 
Immigration Agent, Jacksonville, Fla. 
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