1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
653 
THE PRIZE CLIPPINGS. 
Prizes lor clippings are awarded this week 
as follows : 
The Distribution of Free Land. 
In opening up new territory for settlement 
the Government has done away with the spec¬ 
tacular rush for claims, substituting in its 
place the land lottery. The new method is 
less dangerous than the old, but it is doubtful 
if it is more satisfactory. The easy process 
and the fascination attached to all games of 
chance cause thousands to “try their luck.” 
Instead of all the land going to persons who 
would live on it and make their permanent 
homes in the new country, the big per cent of 
it goes to speculators, adventurers and ne'en 
do-wells. We believe that a good plan would 
be to limit the applicants to a given number 
from each county or State, and to require all 
applications to come through some authorized 
source—say, for instance, the county court. 
Require every applicant to possess certain 
qualifications, among which should be indus¬ 
try, sobriety and good character. Have the 
court pass on all applications and then select 
on a basis of merit and need the county’s 
quota. These names would then be forward¬ 
ed to the authorities having the land distri¬ 
bution in charge, and when the drawing took 
place every lot and every claim would go to 
some needy person, instead of the big per cent 
going to speculators, gamblers and outlaws, 
as is now the case. 
There would be no death-dealing rushes, no 
weeks of terror in a frontier town. The dis¬ 
tribution would be orderly, and the settling- 
up of the new county would be accomplished 
quietly and peacefully, for among all the citi¬ 
zens there would not be one disreputable char¬ 
acter. The opening of new territory would 
then mean more to the poor man who wants 
a home for himself and family, for he could 
with safety and satisfaction take his wife and 
children into such a community. Such a sys¬ 
tem would have a semblance to civil service, 
in that it would eliminate the unworthy and 
limit opportunity to the deserving.—Central, 
Mo., Republican. 
An Angry Connecticut Farmer. 
An automobile owner whose name Public 
Prosecutor Senator James F. Walsh refuses 
to divulge, but who is believed to be one of 
his millionaire clients, was held up at Sound 
Beach by a farmer living in that section who 
was going to Stamford market. lie pointed a 
revolver at the man in the automobile, fright¬ 
ening him badly, and then, after delivering 
a lecture to him on the rights of horses and 
the law of the State, the farmer permitted 
him to proceed. The holdup occurred at 
Adams’s Four Corners. The automobile had 
in it the owner and three women, and was 
going eastward at 20 miles an hour. The 
farmer drove from the cross street into the 
Boston post road where the trolley cars run. 
The horse was not much frightened, but the 
farmer held up ids hand as a signal provided 
by the statutes for the machine to stop. It 
merely slowed down a trifle. The farmer 
thereupon drove directly in front of the ma¬ 
chine, and as it came to a stop to avoid a 
collision he pulled from beneath the cushion 
of his seat a big revolver. Pointing at the 
machine driver, he said : 
“Gol darn you, w^y didn’t you stop when 
I pointed my hand in tne air?” 
The women crouched low in the tonneau 
and the millionaire said tremulously : 
“Why, your horse was not scared.” 
“How did you know he wouldn't be scared, 
eh?” was the reply. 
Then the pistol dropped and after a hot ex¬ 
change of words the farmer drove to one side 
of the road and let the machine go past. 
Efforts made to discover the identity of the 
farmer and the millionaire were fruitless.— 
Hartford, Conn., Times. 
/[ Wise Judge. 
Two Penobscot County farmers bought an 
old-fashioneu pair of steelyards, each paying 
a part of the cost, and both used them for 
weighing their produce for market. After a 
time a dispute arose and each claimed to own 
them. The matter was carried into court. 
The jury disagreed. Tuen the case, on some 
technicality, was sent to the Haw Court, and 
was again sent back for trial. The costs up 
to this point had reached about $500, about 
a hundred times the original cost of the steel¬ 
yards. When it came up again Judge Peters 
was the presiding justice. He told the coun 
sel that, if continued, the costs would be in¬ 
creased to such an extent that one or the 
other of the parties would lose his farm in 
order to pay, and advised them to enter it 
“neither party,” and divide the cost as it 
was. After a consultation the parties said 
they were willing to do that, and it looked as 
though the case would be settled. All at once 
one of the contestants went over to his coun¬ 
sel in the court room and asked : “But who 
is going to get the steelyards? He shall not 
have them.” 'l’he other contestant made the 
same declaration. Then the counsel arose 
and said the case was just where it was be¬ 
fore any talk of settlement had been made. 
They were willing to stop litigation and di¬ 
vide the cost, “but what could be done with 
the steelyards?” “I’ll fix that,” said Judge 
Peters. “Let the sheriff of the county take 
the steelyards at night and go down and 
throw them into the middle of the river, let¬ 
ting nobody know the exact spot, so they 
never can be recovered by anyone.” The con¬ 
testants agreed to this proposition, each paid 
his proportionate part of the cost, and the 
case was dropped.—Lewiston, Me., Journal. 
SPRAYED POTATOES ON LONG 
ISLAND. 
I sprayed a 10-acre piece twice (late pota¬ 
toes) ; they kept green about five days longer 
than the unsprayed ones. Very little spray 
ing is done in this vicinity (Peconic). Early 
potatoes are a good crop ; very little rot. Late 
ones also good (about dead) ; digging com¬ 
menced, developing some rot; blight not seri¬ 
ous. e. w. F. 
Peconic, N. Y. 
In regard to spraying potatoes with Bor¬ 
deaux Mixture during the past season, the 
spraying was begun when the vines were from 
six to eight inches high and was done every 
10 days. The sprayed vines held green and 
healthy looking after the unsprayed ones were 
nearly or quite all dead. I am told by those 
who have used the mixture that in strength 
they use it “up to the test.” J. b. w. 
Baiting Hollow, N. Y. 
A field under the supervision of the Geneva 
Station has had nine light applications to 
date of 25 gallons per acre at eacli applica¬ 
tion at intervals of about a week, beginning 
early in June; all in good foliage, with prom¬ 
ise of much growth to tubers for some time, 
while seven rows in center of field unsprayed 
are entirely dead, with foliage brown. Other 
fields equally good to look at where the Bor¬ 
deaux Mixture was the formula of the station 
and prepared by users. That sold as ready 
for use is not showing satisfactory results. 
Cutchogue, M. Y. c. F. s. 
Spraying potatoes has been done very ex¬ 
tensively in this locality the present season, 
some fields having been sprayed eight, nine 
and 10 times. These fields are still somewhat 
green (August 20) and are growing, though 
badly blighted, while those fields unsprayed 
have been dead two weeks. These are about 
two-thirds grown, though numerous in the 
hill, yielding 200 to 250 bushels per acre, 
with very little rot. My observation is that 
spraying does not altogether prevent blight in 
a season like this, but it keeps the vines 
green, and they grow longer, and tubers grow 
larger, and in case of rot, the general yield 
will be larger than when unsprayed. We 
shall know more after digging. We have had 
this month to date six thunderstorms, 10 
rainy days, with 6.07 inches precipitation. 
Southampton, N. Y. w. l. j. 
FRUIT NOTES. 
Hardiness of Fruit Trees. —Noticing the 
comments on tTie hardiness of Japan plums, I 
have 20 Abundance that stood 34 degrees be¬ 
low zero last Winter, and are sound and 
healthy; likewise some Burbank and Red 
June escaped, while Braashaw and Lombard 
were nearly all destroyed. Possibly the care 
and attention of the Rose bugs the Summer 
previous helped matters. Montmorency, 
Early Richmond and Windsor cherries win¬ 
tered all right and nearly all the Keiffer pears. 
The mice claimed some victims against none 
the year before. J. d. 
Charlestown, N. II. 
Stored Api*les. —There are now on exhibi¬ 
tion at the St. Louis Exposition late varieties 
of apples which were stored last Fall. I 
understand that the department has in stor¬ 
age a sufficient quantity of apples to keep the 
exhibits of certain late varieties fresh 
throughout the Exposition, in which case they 
will have been in storage at least a year. I 
do not know of any commercial lots of any 
kind of fruit having been carried more than 
a year in storage, although I do know of cer¬ 
tain cases where Russets and one or two 
other varieties in small quantities have been 
kept from two to three years. I cannot see 
any commercial advantage in carrying apples 
from one season after new apples are on the 
market, and do not believe it can bo done 
profitably. It might have been done perhaps 
a few years ago, waen there was occasionally 
a very short crop of apples, but nowadays the 
chances of a particularly short crop are very 
remote. w. m. french. 
New York. 
KIDNEY AND BLADDER 
TROUBLES PROMPTLY CURED. 
A Sample Bottle Sent FREE by Mail. 
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, the great 
kidney remedy, fulfills every wish in 
promptly curing kidney, bladder and 
uric acid troubles, rheumatism and pain 
in the back. It corrects inability to hold 
water and scalding pain in passing it, or 
bad effects following use of liquor, wine or 
beer, and overcomes that unpleasant ne¬ 
cessity of being compelled to go often dur¬ 
ing the day and to get up many times 
during the night. The mild and the ex¬ 
traordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon 
realized. It stands the highest for its 
wonderful cures of the most distressing 
cases. 
Swamp-Root is not recommended for 
everything, but if you have kidney, liver, 
bladder or uric acid trouble you will find 
it just the remedy you need. 
If you need a medicine you should 
have the best. Sold by druggists in fifty- 
cent and one-dollar sizes. You may have 
a sample bottle of this great kidney rem¬ 
edy, Swamp-Root, and a book that tells 
all about it and its great cures, both sent 
absolutely free by mail. Address, Dr. Kil¬ 
mer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When 
writing, be sure to mention that you read 
this generous offer in the New York 
“Rural New-Yorker.” Don’t make any 
mistake, but remember the name, Swamp- 
Root, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the 
address, Binghamton, N. Y., on every 
bottle. 
TELEPHONES 
AND LINE MATERIAL FOR 
FARMERS’ LINES 
so pimple you can build your own line. 
Instruction book and price list free. The 
Williams Telephone & Supply Co. 
77 Central Ave., Cleveland,O. 
GASOLINE ENGINES 
Three Horse Power, SI00 
Five Horse Power, S150 
Saws wood; cuts feed. Does all 
kinds of farm work. Runs spray 
pump. Catalogue free. 
PALMER BROS., 
Cos Cob, Conn, 
THE AIR-COOLED 
GASOLINE ENGINE. 
Weight 350 pounds. Has jump 
spark. This engine requires 
no water for cooling purposes. 
No water jacket-pipe or tank 
to freeze in cold weather. A 
fan on the exhaust side of 
engine cools it better than 
water. Also used for operat¬ 
ing spraying pumps; is better 
than wind mills for pumping 
purposes,and can be used for 
light farm work also. 20 years 
Of experience in manufactur¬ 
ing gas engines. No experi¬ 
ment. Absolutely guaranteed. 
E. II. DEYO & CO., Binghamton, N. Y. 
QUICK DELIVERY 
^DCCRI 
MOUNTAIN SILOS 
Will save your corn crop, making good 
ensilage of corn too backward to mature 
before frosts. We have doubled our 
force and are prepared to 
SHIP AT ONCE. 
Best R. R, Connections. 
Plenty of Stock. 
Good Silos in Quick Time. 
STODDARD MFG. CO., 
Rutland, Vt. 
Gasoline Engines and Ensilage Cut¬ 
ters handled in same manner. 
POTATOES SORTED FREE 
WHEN SORTED WITH A TILTING SORTER 
THE CULLS PAY THE BILL. 
The TILTING SORTER makes two grades of pota¬ 
toes and puts them both 
Into sack. It substitutes 
gravity for a crank and 
saves a man by It. 
Sample Machine, $7 
Send for circular. 
AGENTS WANTED 
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EdwardsviUe, Kan. 
AGRICULTURAL 
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Write for particulars. 
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GASOLINE 
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for pumping or commercial pur¬ 
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Also Steam Boilers and Engines,Saw 
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supplies. Machinery guaranteed. 
Catalogues free. 
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Send for catalogue. 
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