1904. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
Some of our recent subscribers are no 
doubt wondering if they are going to get 
the Philadelphia rose promised them. We 
have already had several inquiries about it. 
Yes; we know we promised to send 
them out at once. In this we were a hit 
thoughtless. We prepared to do so, but | 
when everything was ready we suddenly 
remembered that those now on hand are ] 
not in pots as formerly, hut have been 
transferred to the open ground, and while 
we could take them up and ship them now, 
you could not make them grow. The re¬ 
sult is that we must leave them in the | 
ground until the leaves fall and the plants 
become dormant. You can then put them 
out with safety, and they will be in good 
shape for an early start in the Spring. 
Hence we ask you kindly to be patient. 
We might please you more just now by 
sending the plant at once, but what you 
want is a plant that will grow and give 
you a bloom next June. The Philadelphia | 
will do this; and we will get it to you as 
soon as it is safe to move the plants. We 
will watch them with anxious care, be 
cause we arc more anxious to get them 
to you than you can be to have them. 
To January 1, 1905, for) 
Ten Cents. 
In order to introduce The Rural New- 
Yorker to farmers who do not know it in¬ 
timately, we are willing to bear the greater I 
part of the expense of the trial trip. \\ e 
always accept ten-week trial orders for ten 
cents, but to get the orders started now a* I 
the beginning of the new subscription year. ] 
we make the exceptional offer of sendim 
it every week for the remainder of the j 
year for ten cents. 
The dime will not pay for the raw paperl 
on which issues will be printed, but the 
number of yearly renewals that always fol¬ 
lows, justifies us in bearing the greater 
part of the introductory expense. We 
depend on our old friends to make this 
known to new readers, and to speak a 
kindly word for the paper. If you can get | 
up a club, write for our liberal terms. 
vass of 
demand, 
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other remedy for the diseases 
and weaknesses peculiar to 
women ever attained, the pro¬ 
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Fierce's Favorite Prescription 
now feel fully warranted in of¬ 
fering to pay $500 in legal 
money of the United States for 
any case of Leucorrhea, Female 
Weakness, Prolapsus or Falling 
of Womb, which they cannot 
cure. All they ask is a fair and 
reasonable trial of their means 
of cure. All correspondence 
held sacredly confidential. 
If you require medical advioe 
don't fail to write Doctor R. V. 
Pierce who will give you the 
best advice possible. Addresd 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellst® 
are a ladies' laxative. No otheP 
medicine equals them for gen - 
tleness and thoroughness. 
150 Pullets, 100 Cockerels, and 100 Yearling Hens. 
Mine are heavy Winter layers. Prices are lowest 
now. K. FRANKLIN KEAN, Stanley,N. V. 
ATTENTION 
r avor ns with your orders. 
’<■ TTER7!. Labor Agency, 
—Needing male 
help Of any kind, 
Mall orders a Specialty 
2 Carlisle St., New York 
PIDIIP For rich farming and frnlt growing, 
r A It mO Write J. D. S. HANSON, Hart, Mich. 
BUSINESS MANACER WANTED 
I want a reliable and trustworthy man in every 
county to manage a branch office. No canvassing re¬ 
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growing preferred. Can easily be managed wit.hother 
business or work of any nature. Small capital re ¬ 
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business references and present occupation. Address 
MARTIN WAHL, Nurseryman, 
_ROCHESTER, N. Y._ 
125 ACRES ONLY $500. 
Productive farm, near good neighbors, only H mile 
to school; cuts SO tons hay from nearly level Helds; 
brook watered pasture for 12 cows; plenty of wood 
for the farm; 50 good young apple trees, 25 barrels in 
season; abundance berries, plums, pears, cherries; 5- 
room cottage house; barn, 36x72; running water; 
advanced age of owner cause of sale; price only $500, 
with $300 down and your notes for $50 a year with in¬ 
terest for the b Gance; it is just the opportunity for a 
man of limited means to secure a farm whero he can 
secure a good, honest living for a family, raising 
corn, potatoes, oats and hay, and keeping flock of 
hens, a few sheep and some cows; cream can be sold 
at the door. Illustrated lists of other New England 
farms, with reliable information of soils, crops, mar¬ 
kets. climate, etc., mailed free. E. A. STROUT.Farm 
Dept. 42. 150 Nassau 8t., New York City, or Tremont 
Temple, Boston, Mass. 
S ALT WATER FRONT FAKM.—256 acres, 100 
under plow for $4 000; 135 acres, one-half cultivated 
for $1,200; two miles from county seat, c atalog free. 
O. M. PUKNELL, Snow Hill, Md. 
WM. H. COHEN & CO., 
Commission Merchants, 1 ' 
229 and 231 Washington Street, New York. 
OUH SPECIALTIES: 
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Furs, 
Calves 
Ginseng, 
Hot House Lambs,! Fancy Eggs. 
* 
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we furnish the 
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’KITSELMAN BROS, Box 23 J MUNCIE, INDIANA. 
Wheat Wild Again. —The Government 
crop report last issued was so unfavorable 
that it made a good weapon for “bulls” in the 
exchanges, and in two days wheat advanced 
eight cents. The next day part of this was 
lost, and a pull and haul and cut-throat game 
followed, which at time of going to press had 
settled down to the condition well described 
as a ’’feverish” market. According to the re 
port black rust and frost have made the 
situation serious with a possible shortage ot 
1,000,000 bushels compared with last year. 
Some dealers predict $2 per bushel before 
May. The public has a right to swallow as 
much or little of these various reports and 
predictions as may be seen lit, and in som< 
cases tlie rejection will not he a casting away 
of facts. Of course the Government report 
is made in good faith, and is probably as 
nearly correct as the means of investigation 
at command warrant. The appropria 
tions for this branch are not large 
enough to provide for the thorough can 
the situation that accuracy would 
The weaknesses in such sum- 
reports are from the estimates and 
second-hand information embodied in them. 
When a man tells what he actually knows 
about acreage, etc., he is handing out facts, 
but the estimates of half a dozen people of 
good judgment and wide observation regard¬ 
ing tlie crops of any agricultural county wi" 
show wide variation. The exact acreage, or 
even very near it, is never known. In the 
large number of estimates embraced in re¬ 
ports of crop conditions of the whole country, 
many will he far enough from correct to ac¬ 
count for usual discrepancies. It reads well 
and gives an air of authority to say that the 
wheat crop will be 539,090,000 bushels. No 
one can deny it. But it would be of more 
value if the actually known acreage, condition 
and yield and tlie estimated parts could be 
given to the public separately. There would 
be satisfaction in knowing just how much or 
little one could lie certain about, and probably 
the pride of some one in estimated sections 
would he stirred up to take measures to have 
facts on hand for I lie next report. The rec¬ 
ords of vital statistics, marriages, deaths, etc. 
are practically accurate, because the law 
provides under penalty for the registration of 
ihese facts. Probably we are not yet ready 
for such a law regarding farm crops, though 
it would be no great hardship for the farmer 
to report to his town officials say twice a year 
regarding acreage and yield. He would thus 
help to prepare for free distribution by the 
Government a report of far more account 
than that now given out. Present prices put 
the market out of joint with export and mill 
ing trade. Foreigners do not believe there is 
any warrant for $1.20 wheat and millers are 
not going to stock up at this rate until time 
proves the shortage a fact, in which case the 
farmer may actually get his due share of the 
premium price. lint wheat at $1.20 as a reg¬ 
ular thing would not necessarily make a cor¬ 
respondingly permanent increase in price of 
waste feed* products, which for some time 
have been at the limit that feeders can pay. 
In fact, consumption of al! wheat products 
on a $1.20 basis would fall off sufficiently to 
make holding the raw material al this price 
a shaky proposition. 'There are loo many 
other tilings that can be used to patch up 
both human and animal rations. w. w. a. 
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