1904. 
T 
TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
741 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
Our report from the nursery to-day is 
that the Philadelphia rose can safely be 
mailed about the 25th of October. Tt may 
he a few days earlier or later depending on 
the weather, but you may safely look for 
them the last of the month. 
Please do not forget that little envel¬ 
ope you found in the paper last week. 
It is arranged to bring back a new sub¬ 
scription 
To January 1, 1905, for 10 Cents. 
If you have not yet done so, please see 
that that little envelope brings back a new 
name with his dime. If he is not satisfied 
with his bargain New Year’s we will re¬ 
turn the dime. We simply want to know 
the farmers who want such a paper as 
The R. N.-Y. and we are willing to hear 
most of the expense for the information. 
We only ask you to do the part which we 
cannot do so well. 
I f any of our old friends can give the 
matter more time and make up a club, we 
shall be glad to send samples and our lib¬ 
eral terms for such work. 
But don’t forget the little envelope, if 
you have not already used it. 
MARKET NEWS 
Canned Cohn business has been injured by 
th<‘ recent heavy frosts in the Cast. In some 
sections from one-third to one-half of the 
late crop is cut. If the corn is tit to pick 
a frost that kills the leaves will not damage 
the grain for canning, but if several days 
more are needed to bring it to proper can¬ 
ning condition, it will never be good, though 
when doctored and sweetened it passes with 
a certain class of trade which will not pay 
more than 10 cents a can. Choice corn can¬ 
not be retailed for this. The immature, over¬ 
ripe, frosted or otherwise damaged stuff goes 
into the cheap grades, but, so far as the sat¬ 
isfaction and health of consumers are con¬ 
cerned, it might better be thrown away. 
Cheese is one cent higher than last week, 
but two cents below the same time last year. 
This is because a large amount of old cold 
storage cheese is now competing with the 
new. Eight to 10 cents wholesale on choice 
full cream gives only a fair profit to the 
maker, but why this same grade should get to 
18 or 20 in tlie retailer’s hands is a mystery. 
Those who have access to such retail places 
as Washington Market, in this city, can get 
any grade desired and any quantity at only a 
fair margin above wholesale. Of course the 
general grocer, who sells less, and hence has 
more shrinkage and waste, must charge more, 
but there is no excuse for nearly doubling up 
t he price, as many do. The consumer rightly 
thinks that he lias to pay too much. Then 
the grocer puts in a lower grade and there 
is a complaint about quality, and the grocer 
quits keeping cheese for a time. I have seen 
something like thiss worked out many times. 
Butter lias advanced oue to two cents 
since last report. The receipts have been 
h?evy, but trade in the higher grades is brisk 
enough to keep the market Arm. Most of the 
city consumers who take an all-Summer vaca¬ 
tion in the country have returned, which 
makes a big difference in the local demand 
for first class butter. Some of the storage 
goods are also moving, the rise in price being 
sufficient to make a fair profit. A good many 
speculators have been bitten by too long hold¬ 
ing, and are learning that a sure, moderate 
profit is better than a larger margin witli an 
equal possibility of loss. There is a steady 
increase in the sale of special brands of but¬ 
ter put up in pound bricks wrapped in waxed 
paper and sold at two to five cents per pound 
above tub price. As on all trade of this sort 
considerable bunco business is worked. Tub 
butter is bricked and sold at the fancy price, 
and if a high grade of tub goods is used nine 
out of ten consumers will never know the dif¬ 
ference, but will cheerfully pay the premium, 
believing that they are getting the original 
package from some celebrated dairy. There 
is one brand in this market that stands prob¬ 
ably (he highest of any. I have had an op¬ 
portunity to see this brand as offered every 
week for several years, and the very slight 
variation in texture during all sorts of ex¬ 
tremes of weather and feeding conditions is 
surprising. The cows supplying the cream¬ 
eries making this brand are good ones, but no 
better than those of many others whose prod¬ 
uct sells for three to five cents per pound less. 
The two great reason? for the uniformly 
high grade of this butter is that the makers 
know how and are clean. Some men know 
how unite well, but lack the other essential, 
and with others the reverse is true. Almost 
anyone can make pretty fair butter if (lie raw 
material is clean and properly delivered, but 
to make fancy butter and do it the year 
around is a different thing. The man who 
does 11 cannot tell all of the how and why, 
even though lie wished to. Essential parts of 
his secret are locked up in such a way that 
lie cannot pul them into words. The above 
refers to creamery-made butter, but is equal¬ 
ly true of Hie inane dairy product, some of 
which would score as high as any creamery 
ever offered. The retail demand for poor but¬ 
ter is yearly growing smaller. The time 
when much of the rancid, greasy stuff offered 
cannot be sold for butter purposes at all can¬ 
not come too soon. w. w. h. 
Curing Potato Scab. —I see in Brevities 
you ask about soaking potato seed for scab. 
I used to be bothered very much with scab, 
hut got: from Tiie It. N.-Y. the corrosive 
sublimate remedy. As I only plant about a 
half acre of potatoes, I don’t need much. I 
soak my seed in water in which three or four 
ounces of corrosive sublimate has been dis¬ 
solved, and as I cut tiie potatoes I keep the 
pieces well sprinkled with sulphur and I am 
not bothered with scab any more. 
Indiana. a. c. l. 
Improving Pastures. —We took up a piece 
of old pasture again that had become weed 
infested and by the application of 1,000 
pounds complete fertilizer per acre the top 
growth is large enough. r Tiie labor expense 
of cultivation has been reduced to a mini¬ 
mum. These weedy unproductive pasture 
lands such as one can see in the dairy sec¬ 
tions, where there is so much semi-rough 
land, can quickly be made productive by a 
little cultivation and more perhaps than a 
little added fertility. We have cut 20 acres 
of this same land this Summer that produced 
a splendid crop of hay and will again cut a 
good second crop. h. e. c. 
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW 
WHAT AILS YOU 
the U. S. mail will bring you the best medical 
advice for only the cost of writing 
materials and stamps. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
“The Nation's pleasure ground and sani¬ 
tarium.”— David Bennett Hill 
THE 
ADIRONDACK 
MOUNTAINS. 
The lakes and streams in the' 
Adirondack Mountains are full of 
fish: the woods are inviting, the 
air is fiiled with health, and the 
nights are cool and restful. If you 
visit this region once, you will go 
there again. An answer to almost 
any question in regard to the Adi- 
ronclacks will he found in No. 20 
of the “ Four-Track Series,” “ The 
Adirondack Mountains and How 
to Reach Them ; ” issued by the 
NEW YORK CENTRAL 
A copy will be mailed free on receipt of a 
two-oent stamp, by George H. Daniels, (it n- 
eral Passenger Agent, Grand Central Sta¬ 
tion, New York. 
Many people owe their present good 
health to the fact that they consulted Dr. 
Pierce by letter, giving him all possible in¬ 
formation about their condition, symptoms, 
etc., and received in return good medical 
advice which cost them nothing. Write to 
Dr. R. V. Pierce, founder of the Invalids’ 
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Dr. Pierce by no means confines himself 
to prescribing his well-known medicines. 
He tells you in the most common-sense 
way what ails you, what you ought to do, 
what line of treatment should be followed 
out in your particular case, and if your case 
does not indicate the need for this proprie¬ 
tary medicine, he tells you plainly and 
frankly what you do need , and the best 
possible method of improving your health. 
Dr. Pierce treats many chronic cases at a 
distance, through the mail and all you have 
to do is to write him your symptoms. 
"During my two years of married life I have 
not had good health,” writes Mrs. Daisy Stod¬ 
dard, of 6o8 S. Esplanade Avenue, Leavenworth, 
Kans. "I was all run-down, aud my husband 
got me to write to Dr. Pierce. I got an early 
reply telling me what the trouble was. I com¬ 
menced taking Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip¬ 
tion, and also the ‘ Pleasant Pellets,’ and now 
can say that I feel like a new woman. I do all 
my work and do not feel tired out like I used to. 
I have taken eight bottles of the * Favorite Pre¬ 
scription.’ It makes one feel well and strong.” 
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets cure dizzi¬ 
ness and sick headache. 
LOWEST RATES TO ST. LOUIS AND 
RETURN VIA THE NICKEL 
PLATE ROAD. 
Stopover allowed at Chicago on all World’s 
Fair tickets, and at Cleveland on all except 
Coach Excursion tickets. For particulars see 
local Ticket Agent, or A. W. Ecclestone, D. P. 
A., 385 Broadway, New York City. 
Burlington 
Route 
Low 
One=Way Rates 
WEST AND NORTHWEST 
Sept. 15 to Oct. 15,1904 
From your nearest railroad station in 
proportion with the following: 
Portland, - - 
Tacoma, • • 
Seattle, - - - 
Los Angeles, 
San Francisco 
Chicago, $33 
From -i Peoria, $3 J 
I St. Louis, $30 
To Spokane, $2.50 less. 
Salt Lake City 'j f 
Ogden, - - - 
Butte, - - - 
Helena, - * - 
Anaconda, - 
Chicago, $3Q 
From ■( Peoria, $2§ 
St. Louis, 526 
To Billings, $5.00 less. 
(Jo via St. Paul, Billings or Denver and 
the Scenic Rockies - a pleasant journey 
and satisfactory service either way you 
go. No other road presents sucli diver¬ 
sity for choice. 
J. FRANCIS, General Passenger Agent, 
aT 209 Adams St., Chicago. 
TELEPHONE BOOK FREE 
I Full information for the asking. 
Tho North Electric Co., 152 St. Clair St., Cleveland, 0. a Lad j can hold him. 
of the BEERY BIT 
FOUR DITS IN ONE 
(’11 re* Kicker*, Runaway*. I’ullrr*. 
Shyer*, etc. Send for Bit on Ten 
Day*’ Trial and circular showing 
the four distinct ways of using it. 
Prof. j.y. Beery, Plea-ant Hill, Ohio. 
UEEBNER’S “Union” Feed and Ensilage Cutters 
|| cut,crush and shred, making all the corn stalk palatable. Stock relish it— 
none wasted. Fodder equals hay in feeding value and thesame ground grows two 
tons to one of hay. The ears are clear gain. Get the real value from your corn by 
using the only up-to-date fodder machinery. With shredder attachment ($5 extra), 
one. ha write r forbookiet e . S HEEBHER & SOWS, 22 Broad Si., Lansdale. P«. 
TILE DRAINED LAND IS MORE PRODUCTIVE 
Earliest and easiest worked. 
Carries off surplus water; 
admits air to the soil. In¬ 
creases the value. Acres of swampy land reclaimed and made fertile. 
JuoUnon’ft Round Drain Tile meets every requirement. We also make Sewer 
Pipe, Red and Fire Brick, Chimney Tops, Encaustic Side Walk Tile, etc. Write 
for what you want and prices. JOHN H. JACKSON, 76 Third Are., Albany, N. Y. 
CUTAWAY TOOLS FOR LARGE HAY CROPS. 
Clark’s Reversible Hush aiul Hog Plow, cuts a track 4 ft. wide, 1 ft. deep. Will 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. His i 
Rev. Disk Plow cuts a furrow 5 to lOin. deep. 14 In. wide. 
All these machines will kill wltch- 
grass,wild mustard, charlock,hard- __ 
hack, sunflower, milkweed, thistle, ' 
or any foul plant. Send for cir’lars.i 
CUTAWAY HARROW CO., 
Hlgganom, Conn., U. S. A. 
DO YOU WANT MORE MILK AND BUTTER? 
International Stock Food Co., Minneapolis, Minn. Culvert, Texas. 
Dear Sirs:— I send you the milk and butter test of this three-year-old Jersey cow while 
being fed "International Stock Food.” Test 19 pounds and 10 ounces of butter in seven days. 
Milk test 64 pounds and 2J4 ounces in one day and 43254 pounds in seven days. Udder meas¬ 
ures 54 inches. I endorse the use of “International Stock Food”for cows. 
Yours truly, G. W. PARISH. 
D U CER 
International Stock Food Co., Minneapolis, Minn. Delhi, Iowa. 
Gentlemen: —I have used "International Stock Food” for milk cows and calves and am 
fully convinced that it will do all you claim for it, and can say it is simply “out-of-sight” in 
giving stock a good increase in appetite, and in cows a good increase in milk. I most 
cheerfully recommend it to farmers, and especially for cows. 
Truly yours, M. O. DOLBRY. 
Beware of Interior Imitations and Substitutes. Write Us About “International Stock Food.” We Have 
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“INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD” FEEDS for ONE CENT*^Qft Won tho Highest Medal at Paris Exposition in 1900 as a High-Class Medicinal Preparation, made from 
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65 percent, of tho average kind of feeds. “International Stork Food” will causo them to digest 70 to 75 per cent. Wo paid the government $40,000.00 War Tax because 
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purifies the blood, “tones up" and permanently strengthens the entire system. It cures or prevents many forms of disease. It will save you $10.00 per year In the Feed of 
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over one million farmers who have used it for fifteen years. It is absolutely harmless oven if taken into the human system. Bowaro of the many cheap and inferior 
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a Paid Falsifier. Insist on having tho genuine “International Stock Food.**— It Is sold by 100,000 Dealers on a “Spot Cash Guarantee” to Kefund Your Money If it ever 
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PTTE YOU ANSWER THESE 2 QUESTIONS AT ONCERS* 
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