645 
1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
THE PRIZE CUPPINGS. 
Prizes are awarded this week to the follow¬ 
ing clippings : 
Kindness to Animals. 
We call ourselves a civilized people; still 
we do things every day that class us with the 
undeveloped heathen. Scarcely a week goes 
by that we do not see often a team come 
along afraid of the trolley car. showing by 
every movement, the emotion of fear. The 
driver instead of trying to pacify the fright¬ 
ened creatures, nine times out of ten, takes 
out his whip and gives tnem a sound thrash¬ 
ing, thereby showing his authority over his 
brute friends and at the same time working oft 
some of his own cussedness. This only tends 
to frighten them more than before and the 
next time they meet a car, through fear of it 
and their master’s whip, do-the same foolish 
thing again. These hot days of the past week 
you can see any day along Main street, horses 
standing for hours hitched to a post holding 
up a wagon, fighting flies, when, with a little 
effort, they could be hitched on the shady side 
of the street, and be maue more comfortable 
during their long, tiresome wait—long past 
their dinner time—when too often their owner 
has had sometuing to satisfy his hunger ana 
let his faithful servants go without. Who ever 
invented the two-seated carriage drawn by 
one horse surely did not consider horseflesh; 
perhaps he did not intend they were to be 
filled to overflowing and dragged up hill and 
down, Sunday after Sunday, after working 
perhaps all the week. Just a word to the 
children. It is a beautiful thing to make 
them happy. In after years, if they cannot 
look back to a happy childhood, life will have 
lost much of its sweetness, but should they be 
made happy at the expense of a dumb creat¬ 
ure? They would feel hurt to be told they 
were not good and kind to their pets; they 
mean to be ; they love them ; it is thoughtless¬ 
ness on their part also. Their elders are to 
blame is not reminding them of their duty. 
A little pony «.ept in the harness from morn¬ 
ing until night, made to trudge lively, whip 
over his back, is carrying just as much in pro. 
portion as a larger horse. If these miniature 
horses are solely for the children's pleasure, 
why do older members of the family crowd 
into the “baby carriage” and add to the pony’s 
troubles?—Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Exponent. 
Advertising By the Tongue. 
The editor of an eastern agricultural paper 
claims to be the originator of the Apple Con¬ 
sumers’ League, a volunteer organization com¬ 
posed of any one who will make it his business 
to promote the eating of apples. The origin 
of the idea was in the editor asking for baked 
apples repeatedly at a restaurant until the 
manager interviewed him and put baked 
apples and cream on the bill of fare. The 
public took to the addition, and in the city 
where the idea originated the item is gener¬ 
ally found on menu cards. It is surprising 
how quickly repeated inquiries will bring any 
article to the front and, following along the 
line of the Apple Consumers’ League, fruit 
growers may do a great deal to help their own 
business. Nor is this confined to the fruit 
grower; here is a story of how the writer 
gained a customer for eggs. Being in a largo 
city near our home.for three days, the writer 
and his wife stopped at a hotel of considerable 
prominence, and being egg eaters for years, 
and knowing the good taste of fresh eggs, we 
ordered them for breakfast. The eggs served 
the first morning we could not eat; they were 
not spoiled, but were badly tainted, as most 
packed eggs are. Those served the second 
morning were no better, and the writer com¬ 
plained to the manager, who promptly admit¬ 
ted that the eggs were not up to the mark, 
but claimed he could not obtain fresh eggs at 
any price. With an eye to business we asked 
what he would pay for strictly fresh eggs, and 
a sum was named about 10 cents a dozen more 
than we were getting at our commission man. 
A bargain was promptly struck, and for three 
years now we have supplied this hotel with all 
the eggs we would spare and at decidedly 
profitable prices. On the other side of the 
account the manager of the hotel has repeat¬ 
edly claimed that he has obtained and held 
customers solely by reason of these absolutely 
fresh eggs. This is a long story, but a true 
one, and is related to show what may be dono 
if one goes at it right and to also show that 
the public, as a rule, wants the best and is 
willing to pay well for it.—Troy, N. Y., Press. 
A Homemade Circus. 
The circus and the Wild West show came 
too close together this year for some small 
boys in the vicinity of Babcock and Russ 
streets. Hardly had the flaming posters an¬ 
nouncing one event faded before another set 
just as exciting appeared. The imaginations 
of the boys could not stand so much sugges¬ 
tion without turning productive. Saturday 
mothers and aunts and maiden lady neighbors 
of the boys began to miss their pets. They 
could not understand why Tommy didn’t come 
home for his supoer. On almost every door¬ 
step in the neighborhood could be seen one of 
the family calling pleadingly “Come kitty, 
come kitty,” but the cat did not come back. 
The next day, when the felines still remained 
away and unfed the owners started out in 
search. Plaintive mews attracted attention 
to the backyard of a usually catless house. 
There, tied to clothes sticks or shut up in 
boxes of various kinds, were some 20 cats of 
all kinds and colors The animals were ar¬ 
ranged in a circular line and several boys 
were passing around looking at them, while 
another boy sat at the entrance to the ring 
with a lot of cardboard tickets in his hand. 
The owners carried their pets home with them 
and the great homemade circus was busted.— 
Hartford, Conn., Courant. 
THE FENCE WIRE PROBLEM. 
I have had in use common cattle wire fenc¬ 
ing 26 years, good as new, no rust. I have 
netting wire for hogs, No. 16, 24 inches wide, 
purchased in 1896, good as new, no rust. It 
rests on the ground and sometimes under 
ground, no difference, no rust to date; climate 
damp, heavy dews every night; rains often 
four months of the year. The wire I am 
using of late shows signs of rusting; border¬ 
ing and near the lake it rots entirely away. 
Waldo, Fla. ' t. d. w. 
My farm is in Bucks County, Pa., 20 miles 
from Philadelphia. I have a piece of fence 
that was put up nearly 25 years ago that is 
apparently as good as the day it was built; 
no sign of rust about it. Then I have several 
pieces that were built from six to eight years 
ago that have no galvanizing left on them 
and are very rusty, though the wire seems to 
be strong yet, and I have seen some wire that 
commenced to rust in a year or two, so that 
it is very evident that a great deal of the 
wire that is sold now is merely washed over, 
not half galvanized. w. B. mTc. 
No. Wales, Pa. 
We are in hearty sympathy with the good 
work you have started against the trusts that 
have gained an apparently absolute control 
over wire fencing material. We are located 
in northern New Jersey, 60 miles from the 
sea, an equal distance from the coal fields, 
and on high rolling ground. We can show on 
our own place about five miles of wire fence 
which has been erected 20 years, and is still 
absolutely free from rust. We have also 
about the same amount in all stages of rust, 
none of which has been built more than six or 
seven years. In one year after the fence is 
erected the rusting begins, and long before 
ordinary chestnut posts have rotted away the 
wire is practically worthless and must be re¬ 
placed. Before the trust gained control we 
bought the best barbed wire, thoroughly gal¬ 
vanized, delivered at our station, as low as 
two cents per pound. This may have been 
too low to afford a fair profit to the manufac¬ 
turer. Now we have difficulty in buying a 
very poor article at three cents. If we could 
sueeeded in getting a good wire at the lattei 
price we would not complain, but the truth is 
we cannot get a good article at any price, 
and right here is our chief ground of com¬ 
plaint. The trouble is not in the wire, for 
that seems as strong as it formerly was. The 
whole difficulty is in the very inferior galvan¬ 
izing. We wish you all manner of success in 
your very laudable undertaking, and feel as¬ 
sured that you are and will continue to be 
earnestly assisted by all who have been made 
the victims of the wire trust. N. a. s. 
Andover, N. J. 
HOLDING APPLES IN COLD STORAGE 
Apples have been carried over into the sec¬ 
ond year in refrigerators, but only in an ex¬ 
perimental way. There can be no object in 
attempting to keep fruit over, for new fruit 
will sell for less than the old fruit would cost 
with storage, and you must take into account 
the old fruit would hot likely be as good in 
flavor. As a matter of fact, I am inclined to 
think cold storage of fruit is overdone at the 
present time; it brings old fruit into the 
markets when new fruit should have them. 
Canada. J. M. shuttleworth. 
As far as I am aware apples are never car¬ 
ried over more than one year in cold storage 
unless from necessity. One of my neighbors 
shipped last week some Russets of 1903 to 
England, largely from the fact that he could 
find no sale whatever in this market. I have 
also seen Ben Davis which were carried two 
years. I do not think there are any circum¬ 
stances when it would pay to carry apples 
more than one year. Those Ben Davis which 
had been carried two years were hard, sound 
with the exception that the skin was turning 
black. Such holdings could not be encour¬ 
aged. It is my opinion that matured fruit 
put in cold storage would not stand more 
than two years, and perhaps not over one. 
Perhaps not even one, but some fruit picked a 
little before getting matured, and yet well 
towards that point, picked from trees and put 
in cold storage immediately, may be carried 
three or four years, only there is no need ot 
carrying fruit that time. a. warren patch. 
Boston, Mas s. 
Galvanized Iron Roofing. — I am interest¬ 
ed in getting good roofs on my farm build¬ 
ings. I hear of a man who 10 or 12 years 
ago put on steel roofing and painted with coal 
tar. I am told the roof is good to-day. Some 
think galvanized iron is better, and does not 
need painting; can be purchased for about $1 
per square more than steel. Have any R. 
N.-Y. readers tried it? a. l. 
Elmira, N. Y. 
LOVE DIES. 
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox says there 
eomes a time in the course of married love 
when "the thrill goes out of the hand¬ 
clasp and the kiss at times, and it is then 
that husband and wife may be susceptible 
to other magnetic personalities.” The rea¬ 
son for this condition of affairs is often the 
fault of the husband, but how often is it 
not due to the wife’s nervousness and irri¬ 
tability due to some trouble with the or¬ 
gans peculiarly feminine—the wife under 
such circumstances feels languid aud spir¬ 
itless—she suffers perhaps from headache 
and sleeplessness. 
Backed up by over a third of a century 
of remarkable and uniform cures, a record 
such as no other remedy for the diseases 
and weaknesses peculiar to women ever 
attained, the proprietors of Dr. Pierce’s 
Favorite Prescription now feel fully war¬ 
ranted 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 they can¬ 
not cure. All they ask is a fair and rea¬ 
sonable trial of their means of cure. 
A great deal of sickness may be saved by 
keeping on hand a copy of Dr. Pierce’s 
thousand-page illustrated book, "The Com¬ 
mon Sense Medical Adviser.” Sent free, 
paper-bound, for twenty-one one-cent 
stamps, to pay cost of mailing only; or cloth- 
bound for thirty-one stamps. Address, 
World’s Dispensary Medical Association, 
663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Constipation and a bilious attack go hand- 
in-hand. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are 
a sure and speedy cure for both. Tiny, 
sugar-coated granules. One little "Pellet” 
is a gentle laxative and two a mild cathar¬ 
tic. They never gripe. Nothing else is 
"just as good.” 
LOW ROUND TRIP RATE TO SAN 
FRANCISCO VIA THE NICKEL 
PLATE ROAD. 
Tickets on sale August 15th to September 
9th, at rate of $62.00 Buffalo to San Fran¬ 
cisco and return. Liberal stop over arrange¬ 
ments. Tickets good returning until October 
23, 1904. See local Agents, or write A. W. 
Ecclestone, D. P. A., 385 Broadway, New 
York City. 
STATE FAIRS 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you will get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8 . 
YOU PLAY SAFE 
when you buy Advance Fence 
because we sell It on 
30 Days Free Trial 
If at the end of that time you are not satisfied, 
return It to us at our expense and get your 
money back. We take all the risk. 
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[BEST 
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Call and *eo our exhibit of Frost Fence and steel 
gates at Columbus. Indianapolis, Pontiacand Spring- 
field, Fall of ’04 We can show you a fence that will 
last a lifetime 
THE FROST WIRE FENCE CO., Cleveland, Ohio. 
We Sell Direct to Farmers at 
Wholesale Prices 
thus saving you the dealer’s profit. Advance 
Fence is constructed on the right principle. 
All wires continuous. No ends of wire to become 
unfastened. Our Free Fence Book tells all about It. 
Write today for Book and 
Wholesale Delivered prices. 
Old street, Peoria, III; 
Advance Fence Co., 
USERS SAY, “IT’S BEST,” 
but we say, it’s much better than the rest. 
Page Woven Wire Fence Co., Box 63, Adrian, Mich. 
EUREKA INDESTRUCTIBLE FENCE POSTS. 
Cheap as cedar. Made where used. No freight to 
pay. Great inducements to Agents to work territory. 
For terms, etc., address, with stamp, 
J. W WYNKOOP, R. K. No. 4, Erie. Pa. 
[Union lock 
Poultry 
Imin 
As It Looks When Erected 
Strongest and Best 
By Every Test. 
Has been fully tested by leading 
poultryrnen. AH heights (12 in. to 
7 ft.) Has fine mesh for small 
chicks. Over 1,000 rods of this fence 
used on Lakewood Poultry Farm, 
New Jersey. You will be pleased 
with it. 
Our Low Price Will Surprise 
You. 
We will ship from mills in Connect¬ 
icut, Illinois and California, and 
guarantee prompt delivery. Cat¬ 
alogue of Farm, Lawn and Poultry 
Fencing sent free. 
Write Us What You Want. 
Do It To-Day. 
CASE BROTHERS, 
16-22 Main St., Colchester, Conn. 
CUTAWAY TOOLS FOR LARGE HAY CROPS. 
Clark’s Reversible Bush and Bog Plow, cuts a track 4 ft. wide, 1 ft. deep. W1U plow a 
new cut forest. His Double-Action Cutaway Harrow keeps the 
land true, moves 18,000 tons of earth, cuts 30 acres per day. 
Rev.Disk Plow cuts a furrow 5 tolOin. deep 14in wide. 
All these machines will kill witch- 
grass,wild mustard, charlock.hard- __ 
hack, sunflower, milkweed, thistle, 
or any foul plant. Send for cir’lars.| 
CUTAWAY HARROW CO., 
Higganum, Conn., U. 8. A. 
Name Your Farm and 
Give It a Character. 
You Can Do It Without Money. 
Only a Little of Your Time. 
Every up-to-date farmer should name his farm, by selecting 1 some appropriate 
name and perpetuating it by the use of neatly printed stationery. It has undoubt' 
edly occurred to you many times that you would like to do this, but you have not 
felt like spending the money. Cheap stuff is worse than plain paper; and good 
stationery is expensive. Knowing all this, we have arranged to send you stationery 
in exchange for a little of your time. 
The Noteheads are of fine, medium-weight paper, size 5% by 8 inches, made up 
into neat pads. The envelopes are size 6, of good quality, and are printed with the 
name of the Farm, the propiietor’s name, and postoffice address. We will deliver 
this stationery, postage paid, for clubs as follows: 
For three new yearly subscriptions at SI each, 
or yearly or trial new subscriptions to the 
amount of S3 ; or for six renewal subscrip¬ 
tions at SI each. 
For five new yearly subscriptions at Si each ; 
or yearly and triai n w subscriptions to the 
amount of So. Or, for 10 renewal subscriptions 
at SI each. 
You’ll get a neat job of printing, and a tasteful, effective and modern one if 
you will avail yourself of this liberal offer. Our desire is to furnish you with up- 
to-date stationery in return for a few moments of your time. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 400 Pearl Street, New York. 
250 NOTE HEADS 
250 ENVELOPES. 
500 NOTE HEADS 
500 ENVELOPES. 
