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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Events of the Week. 
DOMESTIC.—For the sale of three drinks of whisky 
to the husband of a protesting wife, a jury has at Wax- 
ahachie, Tex., adjudged that J. J. Faulkner must pay to 
Mrs. Beulah Cassidv the sum of $1,500, or $500 for each 
drink sold in spite of hier protest. Faulkner was in the sa¬ 
loon business up to the time local option went into effect. 
The plaintiff alleged in her petition that she served a 
written notice on Faulkner to desist from selling or 
giving intoxicating liquors to her husband. She avers 
that after the notice had been duly served five separate 
and distinct sales were made to her husband, and sne 
sued to recover on the saloonkeeper's bond the sum of 
$500 for each count. The jury was convinced that FaulK- 
ner sold three of the drinks, but was in do.ubt about the 
other two. ... A filled squib carelessly thrown into 
a stove at the squib factory in Priceburg, Pa., March 
31, caused an explosion in which six persons were kineu 
Six more persons were injured, two of whom will proba¬ 
bly die. The factory itself was badly wrecked and after¬ 
ward burned. The property loss is not over $5,000. . . . 
April 1 fire in the Board of Trade district of Montreal, 
Canada, caused $50,000 damage. . . . The Court of Ap¬ 
peals at St. Louis, Mo., decided March 30 that a physi¬ 
cian who is a druggist cannot sell whisky to a patient 
for whom he has prescribed it. Dr. T. S. Manning con¬ 
tended that, as a druggist, he had a right to fill his own 
prescription. The lower court was sustained in fining 
him $100. . . . An explosion in the Citizens’ National 
Bank Building, at Albia, Iowa, April 3, resulted in three 
being killed and several injured. The explosion is sup¬ 
posed to have originated in the heating plant. Besides 
the bank building, a clothing store and two grocery 
stores were destroyed by Are. The loss is $75,000. . . . 
Flood records were broken by streams in central and 
north western Ohio April 2-3. The damage from Findlay 
south through Troy*. Piqua and other points as far as 
New Hamilton is estimated at $2,000,000, the other points 
suffering most being Lima. Mansfield. Ottawa, Dunkirk, 
Rossville, Wapakoneta, Ashland, Delaware, Canton, 
Upper Sandusky, Delphos, Bucyrus and Mount Blanch¬ 
ard. Four lives have been lost. Twenty towns were 
without natural gas. Several tow’ns were without power 
for water works, light or trolley cars. . . . Many tene¬ 
ment houses and several big cigar factories were burned 
at West Tampa, Fla., April 4. Only one life is known to 
have been lost—that of a Cuban child who was left in 
one of the burned factories. Hundreds of cigar makers 
are homeless. The loss is about $300,000. . . . The 
United States Supreme Court handed down a decision 
April 4 against the anthracite coal companies, holding 
that they must produce contracts and other documents 
at the. request of the Interstate Commerce Commission. 
The same court upheld the ordinance of the Chicago 
City Council requiring the Chicago Gas Company to 
furnish gas at 75 cents per 1,000 feet. It also upheld the 
Maryland election law. 
ADMINISTRATION.—The United States Government 
has declined to comply with the order of The Hague 
Tribunal of Arbitration to collect and account.for the 
costs of the arbitration of the recent Venezuelan claims, 
in which the non-blockading nations having claims 
against the South American republic appeared as con¬ 
testants against England. Germany and Italy, who as¬ 
serted that they were entitled to have their claims paid 
first because they forced Venezuela to settle her inter¬ 
national obligations. The position of this government is 
that it is not the bailiff of the tribunal, and that the 
business of collecting the costs should be undertaken 
by the court itself, and not by one of the parties to the 
suit. The State Department has been notified by Herbert 
W. Bowen. United States Minister at Caracas, wbo was 
Venezuela’s agent before The Hague Tribunal, that tie 
has protested as the Venezuelan representative against 
the decree of the court that the nations which used force 
to collect indebtedness were entitled to preferential treat¬ 
ment. 
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.—Bubonic plague has ap¬ 
peared in Peru, and is causing alarm at Lima. ... A 
dispatch from Kota Raja, Island of Sumatra, announces 
that a column of Dutch troops operating in Achin (north¬ 
ern Sumatra) engaged a strongly intrenched body of 
A Chinese in the Gajocloeas district, with the result that 
541 Achinese were killed. The Dutch lost three men 
killed and 25 wounded. The Dutch Province of Achin, or 
Acheen. occupies the northwest extremity of Sumatra, 
which island is just below the equator, lying nearly par¬ 
allel with the Malay Peninsula and forming the eastern 
shore of the Indian Ocean. By treaty with Great Britain 
the Dutch were prevented from distending territory in 
Sumatra by conquest, but this obstacle was removed and 
in 1871 the Dutch occupied Achin. It was not until 1879, 
however, that, at a great cost of blood and treasure, the 
Hollanders obtained general recognition of their sov¬ 
ereignty. However, they never have been able to estab¬ 
lish their power firmly, and in a revolution in 1885 the 
Dutch were compelled, by a determined revolt, to evacu¬ 
ate part of the province, with a considerable loss of 
men and guns. Since then there have been several re¬ 
volts, the present one apparently having arisen rather 
suddenlv. A Dutch garrison has been maintained in the 
province for many years. In the seventeenth century 
Achin was a powerful state, and carried on war suc¬ 
cessfully against the Portuguese, but its influence has 
dwindled in proportion as the Dutch power grew. The 
population is about 35,000. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety of Florida will hold its next annual meeting at 
Jacksonville on April 26, 27, 28 and 29. instead of May 10, 
11. 12 and 13, as previously announced. 
An exhibit of farm dairy butter was a feature of the 
second annual show of the Illinois State Butter Associa¬ 
tion, which opened at Springfield, Ill., March 31. An in¬ 
teresting feature of the first day’s exhibit was the deni- 
onstration of butter making and the separating ot milk 
and testing of milk by Professor J. M. Hart, of, the 
State College of Agriculture at Urbana. He was assisted 
by Professor W. A. Hopper, who is engaged in dairy 
field work in southern Illinois. Mr. Hart also scored 
the butter. 
Erwin G. Fowler, well known as a horticultural writer 
and editor, died at Middletown, N. Y., April 4, aged 6/. 
Mr. Fowler who was a veteran of the Civil War was 
first engaged in local newspaper work, becoming editor 
of the Orange County Farmer in 1881, and was after¬ 
wards associated with J. J. Dillon in the Elmira Hus- 
bandman, previous to his association with The R. N.-Y. 
Later Mr, Fowler became one of the editors of the 
American Agriculturist, afterwards returning to tne 
Orange County Farmer, now the New York Farmer. 
Mr. Fowler was a brilliant and forcible writer, possess¬ 
ing a varied fund of information. He had been in im¬ 
paired health for several years, which had caused, his 
withdrawal from his former activities. He is survived 
by a widow and an adult son and daughter. 
THE FARMER AS A MANUFACTURER. 
It is amusing to read certain articles by so-called 
experts, and sometimes by farmers volunteering to in¬ 
form others how unbusinesslike it is to buy grain or 
other feed to manufacture into butter, milk, beef or live 
stock; then gravely informing the farmer he should buy 
commercial fertilizers to raise corn or other feed tor 
his stock. From the business point of view the one who 
buys grain or other feed is in advance of the other, for 
with every ton of feed bought and consumed on the 
farm he has added so much fertility, at little or no cost, 
and in most cases at a profit. The buyer of grain has 
steady work the year round for himself, and if he keeps 
much stock, for hired help, while he who rushes him¬ 
self and a hired man, hired for the Summer months, to 
raise that which some one else can produce cheaper 
than himself, works at a disadvantage. One of the im¬ 
portant problems for the eastern farmer to solve is 
profitable employment for himself or help the year 
around. And the time has come when the a v® ra f=: e 
farmer cannot keep up with the procession with the 
profits of the Summer season’s work. The up-to-date 
eastern farmer also recognizes the fact that a high- 
priced product like milk or butter offers better oppor¬ 
tunities for profit than the raising of the coarser and 
heavier grain products; that labor on the farm has a 
fixed value as well as in the shop; and he who makes 
that labor produce the most in value at the same or 
less cost will be the most successful, even if he buys all 
his raw material from those more favorably located, or 
wiiling to labor for less wages than himself. F rom the 
business point of view there is no better reason why tne 
farmer should produce all he consumes than that trie 
woolen mill proprietors should own a sheep ranch and 
produce his own wool. Commerce makes a higher stand¬ 
ard of living, and he who buys and then produces a 
better product has taken a step forward in^the pursuit 
of success, while he who has not the business ability to 
consume only that which he can produce from the farm 
he tills, narrows himself down to that level, and many 
a time finds his entire profits or more lost through an 
unfavorable season. If the cotton-seed meal n^w ex¬ 
ported to foreign countries, and there used to produce 
dairy products on high-priced land, could be consumed 
here at home It might add as much profit to the eastern 
farmers as the commercial fertilizers they are so anxious 
to buy. The best profits of the farm as well as in the 
shop, depend upon taking a cheap and Inferior product 
and producing a better and high-priced one. 
Massachusetts. _ H. o. mead. 
ADVANTAGES OF NEW YORK STATE. 
I read Mr. Cook’s article on page 271 on booming east¬ 
ern agriculture with appreciation. I do not believe there 
s a better region in the Union for rich or poor to live 
n than New York State. The land well repays careful 
illage. There are good dwellings, churcheg and schools. 
Fhe altitude is from sea level to thousands of feet 
ibove it, so all may be suited as to that It is tiue 
hat for some mysterious reason market values of real 
Dstate in the country are low in northern New York, 
jut I know of no “abandoned farms” there. We have 
mid Winter weather and deep snows, but no malaria, 
md the bracing Winter air is far preferable to the in- 
olerable heat of southern Summers, with the insects 
'ound in warmer climates. The pure air, pure and 
ibundant water, the beauty and diversitv of natural 
menerv in Summer and Winter—hills, valleys, rolling 
and. rivers, mountain lakes and forests—the sejiaral 
jealthfulness and longevity of the inhabitants, and the 
jeauty and intelligence of the children, make a sum or 
idvantages that can be excelled by no other part or 
he land With the numerous railroads and waterways, 
he excellent general postal service and the rural free 
lelivery routes, and the rural telephone system, none 
s isolated. The country highways might be better, but 
hev are improving all the time, and there is no trouble 
n marketing farm produce over our usual Summer 
roads. s - H - H - 
Herkimer Co., N. Y. 
DOG FOR CHILDREN.—The Inquiry about Fox ter¬ 
ms page 233 is interesting to me because I own a Fox 
rrier and a pointer. Jocko, the terrier, is four years 
1 He is a fine ratter and an extremely intelligent dog, 
id companionable. Mv nephews and nieces spend weeks 
a time' with me. and Jocko is amiable and loves^to 
nu WVw*r» JVipv p*n ton fm 
is, when he is interested in getting his dinner or is beniS 
ousted from under the stove. I have had quite a little 
experience with dogs, and Jocko is as safe as any a ver- 
age dog with children. He does everything but talk. 
You should see him drive the ducks up stream a.nd 
home for us. I do not think it is well or safe to give 
very young puppies of any breed to children, because 
you cannot tell their dispositions. f. e. wheeler. 
POULTRY TRADE.—A dealer in supplies in a nearby 
city tells me that there has never been such a sale ot 
incubators and brooders as that of the last few weeks. 
Everybody seems to have gone crazy over chicken rais- 
ing since the high price of eggs this Winter. The old 
heads at the business are not worrying however. They 
say that some of those experimenters will get crazier 
before the chickens are out of the way of gapes, bowel 
troubles, hawks and dozens of other enemies and mis¬ 
haps, and that a new lot of poultry houses will be 
erected, many of them to go the way others have gone, 
and still others are going, and will become quiet after 
a year, more or less, of experimentation. No occasion 
for alarm, they say, in the near future, because of over¬ 
production. Should prices drop a little this Spring, as 
some think they will, dealers, both great and small, will 
soon become eager enough to bid them up again. 
BUSINESS BITS. 
A “Book of Field Scenes” has recently been issued by 
the Keystone Farm Mch. Co., York, Pa., which will in¬ 
terest every farmer who desires perfect cultivation for 
field crops. It will be remembered that this. firm now 
manufactures the famous Hallock weeder which is uni¬ 
versally popular with farmers everywhere. A copy of 
the booklet referred to above will be mailed free on 
request. 
Those of our readers who are thinking of buying a 
windmill this Spring should not overlook the Eureka 
windmill, which has the reputation of being one of the 
best made. In many sections it is about the only mill 
vou see in driving through the country. The Smith & 
Pomeroy Wind Mill Co., of Kalamazoo, Mich., are the 
manufacturers. A complete catalogue of steel and 
wcoden mills, tanks, towers, etc., will come quickly to 
anyone writing for it. 
The following letter shows the value of Kendall's 
Spavin Cure to horse owners. The “Treatise on the 
Horse and His Diseases” will be sent free upon request 
tc any reader of The R. N.-Y.: “Dr. B. J. Kendall Co., 
Enosburg Falls, Vt. Will you please send me a copy of 
your ‘Treatise on the Horse and His Diseases?’ I have 
used Kendall’s Spavin Cure for a number of years and 
found nothing so good for curbs, spavins, ringbones, etc. 
I have also used one of your books till it is worn out.— 
Alva Underwood.” 
How many advertisers started 31 years ago when Elk¬ 
hart Carriage & Harness Mfg. Co.. Elkhart, Ind., com¬ 
menced advertising and selling their vehicles direct to 
consumer? That the Elkhart people have prospered all 
that time and have been able to extend their business 
to its present proportions is best evidence that they 
make good work, sell it at low prices and deal fairly 
with their customers. Thev make 200 styles of vehicles 
and 65 of harness, all shown and described in their large 
free catalogue. Write for a copy. 
The entire southern end of the enormous Palace of 
Agriculture at St. Louis will be devoted to the display 
of labor-saving farm implements. The old reliable 
Walter A. Wood harvesting machines will occupy a 
prominent space in Block 14, near the south main en¬ 
trance of the building. The factory that produced the 
first successful self binder (using wire) and the first 
successful twine binder will not fail to have something 
new and better for the approval of the critical thousands 
who will attend the St. Louis Exposition. Their exhibit 
will be a notable one, thoroughlv covering the field of 
harvesting and hnvmaking machines, and our readers 
who are luckv enough to visit the Exposition should 
not fail to see it. 
It Is generallv conceded to-day that the successful 
farmer is the business farmer, who runs his farm on 
strictly business principles. Perhaps he has not secured 
the net profit which the size of his crops warranted him 
in expecting. This may be due to the fact that labor 
cost him too much or that his binder was old or too 
flimsy to do the work quickly and thoroughly. In the 
latter case he needs a new machine, and the business 
farmer immediately proceeds to buy a Deering binder. 
Peering harvesting machines make money for the farmer 
because they are durable and wear well and because they 
are constructed on principles that are mechanically cor¬ 
rect. Deering Tdeal machines are an essential part of 
the farm equipment of every practical business farmer. 
The Bateman Mfg. Co.. Grenloch, N. J., manufactures 
a full line of tillage tools. The Robbins potato planter 
is now in use on thousands of farms, and always witn 
satisfaction. The beauty of this planter is that when 
x ou use it you know just what you are doing, and may 
he sure that there is a seed piece in every place. With 
one man to drive and a stout bov to keep the seed drill 
full this machine will open the furrow, drop and cover 
the fertilizer, drop the seed accurately and cover it. and 
level a ridge behind as desired. We have used this 
idanter on all sorts of ground, light and level to rough 
and stonv, and never knew it to fail. The Iron Age 
cultivators, both walking and riding, are excellent. The 
catalogue issued bv this house is verv instructive and 
contains pictures and descriptions of all sorts of agri¬ 
cultural tools. Send for it and look it over. 
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He’s the man who hasn’t yet realized the money saving, time saving and labor saving 
advantages of a 20th Century Manure Distributor. It costs him nothing to learn alldetails 
—the “whys and wherefores”—about the 
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We want the addresses of such farmers. Our booklet 
tells how to save manure and why our spreader 
is head and shoulders above them all. It explains 
the “Tight Box;” the Friction Clutch Return Device 
which prevents breakage of apron chain; the 
instant change of feed, etc. Ask for free book. 
Waterloo, la. J.S. KEMP MFG. CO. Newark Valley, N.Y. 
#3T Built under personal supervision of Joseph & Kemp, the 
' Qgp u Father of all Manure Spreaders.” 
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THE DEALER IS AGAINST US 
because we soil Advance t ence 
Direct to the Farmer at Wholesale 
Prices. There is quite a difference 
between Wholesale and Retail prices 
on fence. You can save this differ¬ 
ence by buying direct from the 
manufacturer. \Ve havebeen making 
and studying fence for the past fifteen 
years. It is not enough to know that 
you are getting a fence that weighs 
so many pounds to the rod. If you want to be a careful buyer you must study construction. 
Advance Fence is made of the best quality of galvanized steel wire. The top and bottom 
consists of a two-strand cable. The stay wire is endless, being twisted into the cables irom 
one stay to the next. See how the stay wire is tied on to the line wires. It cant slip, vie 
furnish the most powerful stretching machine on the market. 
You take no risk at all—we sell ADVANCE FENCE on 
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7226 Old St., Peoria, III. 
We Ship Union Lock Quick . 
Mills in Connecticut, Illinois and California. Shipment made from 
mill nearest you and freight paid to nearly all points. 
UNION LOOK IS THE 
POULTRY FENCING 
THAT 9 S STRONG . 
The reason is all horizontal lines are.cables. Stretches perfectly, but 
never sags. Covers uneven ground without cutting. Small meshing below for small chicks. All 
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R Poultry Fences. CASE BROTHERS, Colchester, Conn, 
