1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
297 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
An interested city friend asked us 
this week why we subject ourselves to 
so much worry, annoyance and expense 
on account of alleged libel suits by 
showing up schemes that are worked on 
farmers and cautioning readers against 
irresponsible houses. Our reply was 
that we think the results justify the 
expense of both time and money. Fur¬ 
thermore, we think we would be remiss 
in our duty to deny our subscribers the 
advantage of this line of information. 
We know from personal experience what 
it is to fall in with plausible and slick- 
tongued schemers, and we feel it a duty 
to nip their schemes in the bud when¬ 
ever we are satisfied that their purpose 
is not honest trade, but legalized rob¬ 
bery. The frequent letters of subscrib¬ 
ers, expressing appreciation of this kind 
of information we think justify both 
the trouble and the expense. Here is 
one in point received to-day from an 
Illinois subscriber: 
I am continually recommending your 
paper to my friends, and in doing so I 
am able to give many reasons for it. 
One is that you always seem to have the 
courage of your convictions, and call a 
spade a spade. Your effort to protect your 
readers against frauds is a notable ex¬ 
ample of independence, and manifestation 
of principle above profit. In the number 
for March 12, on page 225, I find an al¬ 
lusion to Babcock & Nash, of Bridgman, 
Mich., in which you say they are not 
considered reliable. I want to say that I 
can testify to that. Last year I sent them 
the money for a small order of strawberry 
plants, but while they finally admitted 
they got the money I never got the 
plants, and to get rid of me they got to 
returning my letters unopened. You have 
them correctly listed. 
We don’t know any good reason why 
such concerns should be permitted to 
continue their peculations on growers 
when a little cold ink will shut off the 
cash mails. 
A New York State farmer, writing 
about a concern whose methods have 
been shown up, says: 
By the way, this company has caught 
several of our best farmers in Montgom¬ 
ery County, and would have caught more 
only for the timely reports from The 
R. N.-Y. 
Here is another letter, from a Cleve¬ 
land, O., subscriber, which, while on a 
different line, is none* the less appre¬ 
ciated: 
T wish to congratulate you on your val¬ 
uable paper. The R. N.-Y. I consider it 
the most practical and the best all-around 
farm journal published. I received this 
week’s issue to-day, and have spent sev¬ 
eral hours on it. I am a shoe merchant, 
but very much interested in good farm 
knowledge: the kind you spread before 
your readers. 
We are frank to say that we like these 
expressions of approval of our work. It 
is not that we take it as in any way 
intimating that our results are satisfac¬ 
tory in every way to our readers any 
more than to ourselves, but we do ac¬ 
cept them as assurance that our pur¬ 
poses are appreciated and as an en¬ 
couragement to continue the work. 
Here is one more letter from a far- 
off northwestern friend: 
Thanks for the pretty little plant, Phila¬ 
delphia rose. It is now planted in a little 
box and kept in the house until warm 
enough to be planted outside, where a 
place is prepared for it already. We 
have been successful with the Ruby Queen, 
and our people want other climbing plants 
and so we will buy a number of climbers 
and hope to beautify our house as much 
as possible. 
This letter once more suggests the in¬ 
formation that the rose plants are now 
going out to those who have renewed 
their subscription for 1904. If you have 
sent your renewal you have the rose, or 
will have it soon. If you have not sent 
the renewal now is the time to do it. Do 
not neglect it any longer. Send it right 
in to-day, and if you take good care of 
the rose for a year we do not think you 
would let anyone take it out of your 
front yard next year for a flve-dollar 
bill. 
CEMENT FLOOR FOR STABLES. 
In making cement floors in horse stables 
and box stalls, where should the lowest 
place be located to catch the liquid ma¬ 
nure? a. w. 
Oswego, N. Y. 
I built the cement-floor horse stalls 
just as I would a plank floor, slanting 
the floor upon which they stand two 
inches, and having a drop behind the 
horses of two inches. The drop could be 
lower if one chose without gain or loss. 
There is no way to manage the liquids 
except to absorb with bedding. I tried 
in some box stalls a very steep incline 
with a shallow concave gutter at the 
front side, thinking at the time that the 
liquids would readily flow to this gut¬ 
ter, which they do after the bedding has 
absorbed all it will retain. If I were to 
build again I would put in an incline 
and shallow gutter near where the pens 
were to he cleaned, because it is easier 
to clean out, but so far as the effect up¬ 
on dry bedding is concerned it will be 
very light. Frequent cleaning and free 
use of bedding for animals other than 
cows upon concrete seems to be the only 
way out. Solids and liquids are voided 
in the cow barn directly into the gutter, 
and there is no trouble from wet floors. 
A gutter behind horses would be ob¬ 
jectionable on account of stepping in 
and out, and would have no value. 
h. e. c. 
ONE LUNQ 
May be gone and yet the remaining lung 
will be amply sufficient to sustain a vigor¬ 
ous vitality. As a general thing few peo¬ 
ple make more use of both lungs than is 
equivalent to a healthy use of one lung. 
These facts are all in the favor of the 
man or woman with weak lungs, even 
when disease has a strong grip on them. 
Many a person 
living in health 
to - day has the 
lungs marked by 
the healed scars 
of disease. 
Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical 
Discovery makes 
weak lungs 
strong. It cures 
obstinate, deep- 
seated coughs, 
bronchitis, bleed¬ 
ing lung* and 
other conditions, 
which, if neglect¬ 
ed or unskilfully 
treated, find a 
fatal termination 
in consumption. 
”1 had been troub¬ 
led with lung dis¬ 
ease and pleurisy 
for a number of 
years and the trouble 
had almost become 
chronic,” writes A. S. 
Elam, of Howe, la. 
«Had several kinds 
of medicine from different physicians without 
much benefit. At last wrote to Dr. R. V. Pierce 
and got his advice, and began using his ‘ Golden 
Medical Discovery.’ I have used twenty-five 
bottles. When I commenced taking it I had no 
appetite, my system was completely run-down, 
had no ambition to do anything. Now I feel 
better than I did before I got sick. Have a good 
appetite and am able to do my work. I sin¬ 
cerely recommend Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical 
Discovery to all who are afflicted as I was.” 
Those who suffer from chronic dis- I 
eases are invited to consult Dr. Pierce, | 
by letter, free All correspondences 
strictly private. Address Dr. R. V. [ 
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets assist the 
action of the " Discovery.” 
RHEUMATISM 
Cured 
Without Medicine 
New Method Discovered for Drawing 
Out Rheumatic Acid Poisons— 
so Successful that the 
Makers Send it to 
Anybody 
Free on Approval — To Try 
Don’t take medicine—there’s a better way 
to cure rheumatism. It is through the 
soles of the feet. Being nerve centers, 
they not only contract disease, but they 
also expel it. Through the large foot 
pores the great new discovery, Magic 
Foot Drafts, reach and cure rheumatism 
in every part of the body. They cure after 
everything else fails. No other remedy 
ever made such a record, or cured so many 
cases considered incurable. 
Magic Foot Drafts are so sure to cure 
that the makers are sending them, to 
everybody who writes, to try without pay¬ 
ing a cent. You simply put them on and 
wear them. Then if satisfied with the ben¬ 
efit received, send one dollar. If not they 
cost you nothing. If cured one dollar is 
little to pay. Write to-day to Magic Foot 
Draft Co., W.N2 Oliver Bldg.,Jackson,Mich. 
IT DOESN’T WARP 
or twist— Sure Hatch Incubator. 
Mellow, regular heat from copper tank 
No disappointment. Free Catalogue 
U-25 , Sure Hatch Incubator Co., 
Clay Center, Neb., Indianapolis, Ind. 
Above trade mark on every boa. 
THE SPRING 
WORK 
Is sure to bring sore 
shoulders. You need not 
lay your horse oil a day 
if you use 
BICKMORE’S gal ^ur E 
It’s the sovereign remedy for all Calls, Scratches, 
Wire Cuts, Crease Heel, etc. in horses. Torn or 
Cracked Teats, etc. in cows. Sold by local dealers 
everywhere, who are directed to refund money if It 
falls. Enclose us 10 cents for testing sample. 
BICKMORE GALL CURE COMPANY, Box 519, Old Town, Me. 
uimaaKw of the beery bit 
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Even a Lady can hold an ugly horse 
Cures Kickers. shyers, runaways etc 
FOUR bits in one TEN davs TRIAL 
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Our Machine will 
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breaking the straw,and 
tie It again In perfect 
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attached. Will thrash more grain with less power 
than any Thrasher built. Send for catalogue B to 
the GRANT-FKRRIS COMPANY, Troy, N. Y. 
CRE OF CORN 
•'Corn l« Kina." Its wonderful possibilities practical¬ 
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i “MODERN SILAGE METHODS.” 
• An entirely new and practical work on Silos, their con- 
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_ complete and reliable information regarding Silage and 
I its composition; feeding and a treatise on rations, j 
being a Feeders'and Dairymens' Guide. 
j I—Advantages of the Silo. IV-How to Make Silage. 
I II—Building the Silo. V-Feedlng Silage. 
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I "12 pages of plain, practical Information foe 
J practical men. Contains just the things _ 
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* cents, stamps or coin. 
THE SILVER MFG.GO., 
Salem, OhlOe 
Local agencies and complete repair stocks everywhere 
MCCORMICK 
HARVESTERS 
International Harvester Co. of America, Chicago, U. S. A. 
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cri/n RE, Box 668, Waterrille, If. Y. 
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WRITE FOR QUOTATIONS. 
F. D. HEWITT, 120 Liberty St., N. Y. 
AN ABUNDANT 
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OIIDDI V mone y made by us- 
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LOOMIS MACHINE CO., TIFFIN, OHIO. 
$53.00 TO CALIFORNIA, OREGON 
AND WASHINGTON. 
Via the Chicago, Union Pacific and North- 
Western Line. Daily from Chicago, March 
1 to April 30. Correspondingly low rates 
from all points. Pullman tourist sleeping 
cars Chicago to San Francisco, Los An¬ 
geles and Portland daily. Double berth 
rate from Chicago only $7.00. Daily and 
personally conducted excursions. Three 
fast trains daily to the Pacific Coast. The 
only double track railway to the Missouri 
River. All agents sell tickets via this 
route. For full information, time sched¬ 
ules, maps and book on California write 
to W. B. ICniskern, Passenger Traffic 
Manager, C. & N. W. Ry, Chicago. 
no 1 
Tarda Flat Poultry. 
RELIABLE 
is a word that stands for the 
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Ask the most success¬ 
ful poultrymen. 
Peep-O’-Day 
BROODERS 
have been on the market 
12 years. Used exclu¬ 
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America. Catalogue free. 
Made only by 
Cornell Incubator Kfg. Co., Box.-) Ithaca, N. Y. 
EAST HOMElt, N. YSept. 21,1903. 
Cornell Incubator Mfg. Co. 
Gentlemen; I received your shipment of three 
No. 2 Peep-O’-Day Broodors in O. K. condition, and 
I am pleased to say that I think they are the best 
brooders manufactured. 
Yours very truly, 
FRED HOWE. 
This is the Limit 
A Hot Water. Self-Regulating, 50 egg 
Incubator $4.50. $3.00 and up for 
Brooders. Allon 30 DAYS’ TKIAI,. 
No agents. You pay no middlemen’s 
profits. See catalogue for “100£ Hatches.' Write 
BUCKEYE INCUBATOR COMPANY., Boi 23, Springfiild. Ohl* 
Don't Buy Without Rending Our 
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It is bright, interesting, practical. It tells just 
what you want to know—what you must know 
to buy wisely. The man who writes it has 
spent 22 years in developing the incubator 
It was he who perfected the Racines, and his 
book tells you about them—also about all others. 
Write for it to-day—it is free. 
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8 I 0-80 For 
- I mm 200 Egg 
: INCUBATOR 
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Political Manager: “I can’t consent 
to open bribery in this campaign. We’ve 
got to pay some outward attention, at 
least, to the ethics.” Ward Heeler: 
“That’s a crowd I never heard of, but 
I’m willin’ to bet a hundred dollars they 
can’t swing half a dozen votes in the 
whole dog-goned county.’’—Chicago Tri- 
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RUBEROID ROOFING 
EASILY APPLIED, LASTS INDEFINITELY MANUFACTURED SOLELY BY 
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No Cold Corners 
In Iowa Round Incubators 
No half warmed eggs. By 
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I gets same heat—bigger per 
cent of eggs hatched. Spec¬ 
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mospherlc changes. Free 
catalog tell* the whole story. 
IOWA INCUBATOR COMPANY. IQI227, OES MOINES, IOWA 
