TIIE RURAL 
NEW-YORKER 
359 
1904 
MARKET NEWS 
11 K'A V Y SEAL SLAUGHTER.—The por¬ 
tion of the Newfoundland sealing lleet in 
thus far reports a catch of about 250,lKK), 
The Increase during the present month 
muy bring it up to nearly 300,0(K). There 
are about 15 vessels in this fleet. 
RLUBFISH.—The first catches from off 
the North Carolina coast are arriving at 
the Fulton market in this city. Two 
smacks came in April 11 with about 20 . 0 ,«) 
bluefish. They wholesaled at live cents per 
pound, but bring at retail nearly four 
times that amount. 
RUBBISH FOR I’OWER.-A crematory 
has been established at Forty-seventh 
Street and Hudson River for the handling 
of much rubbish that formerly was towed 
out to sea and dumped. This outfit can 
be run so as to produce 200 horse power per 
day. It is believed tluit tills plant alone 
will save the city nearly $67,000 per year in 
using these wastes which have heretofore 
been disposed of at a heavy expense. 
TOUGH FODDER.—The Aspidistra or 
‘Tin plant,” as it is sometimes called, is 
largely used for decoration in city hotels, 
because it will endure conditions fatal to 
other plants, and its dark green leaves 
make a pleasing indoor effect. At a hotel 
In Fulton Street a number of these plants 
had been set on the outer edge of the side¬ 
walk during the morning cleaning up. A 
delivery wagon horse standing nearby was 
attracted by this pavement oasis, and 
started to devour one of the tin plants. 
Ho lifted it out of the pot, shook it until 
the ball of earth rattled off the roots, and 
tried to chew tile tough leaves. But the 
contract was too much, and the plant was 
dropped oil the pavement so little dam¬ 
aged that it was repotted and is now 
standing cheerfully in its accustomed place 
in the window. 
MEDICINAL W'EtEDS.— Information is 
often asked concerning the collection and 
marketing of plants used in medicines. 
The gathering of such roots, barks, leaves 
and herbs formerly had some importance 
among country dwellers, as a means of 
adding to the family income, and though 
specialized trade has altered conditions, 
considerable quantities of these materials 
are sent to commission houses. The U. S. 
Department of Agriculture has recently is¬ 
sued Farmers’ Bulletin No. 188, Weeds 
Used in Medicine, which will be found very 
useful to anyone collecting such plants, 
instructions are given in the collection and 
curing of drugs; descriptions of the, plants 
are given, with habitat and geographical 
range; the extent to which they are im¬ 
ported and the usual market price. This 
is really a very interesting bulletin, and 
even if you do not purpose marketing 
weeds it is well worth reading, for its con¬ 
tained information. It was written by 
Miss Alice Henkel, of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry. 
THE NEST EGG is a nuisance that is 
responsible for many shocks to the buyer 
of new-laid eggs, and also to the seller, 
who cannot understand how the eggs can 
be anything but right when he gathers 
them at least once a week. The nest egg 
meant is the genuine egg which, when the 
eggs are gathered at night is left in the 
nest with the idea of making it appear 
more homelike the next day. If mm eouid 
he sure that the same egg would remain 
in the nest only an additional day, there 
would be little danger of injury, but who 
can be certain of tills? The same one may 
be left for three or four days or perhaps 
a week. Some nests are very popular and 
constantly occupied at least all the fore¬ 
noon, sometimes by' two hens. An egg 
might about as well bo in an incubator, 
and four or live days of such treatment 
gives it a good start toward chickendom. 
It is doubtful whether there is any actual 
need of a nest egg. 1 have many times 
tried the experiment of entirely clearing 
out part of the nests, but those same nests 
always had their proportionate amount of 
eggs the next day. But if one wishes to 
stick to the nest-egg habit, china, wood, 
plaster or some other artificial eggs should 
be used. These will answer Just as well 
and do away with the embarrassment of 
mixing in an occasional stale egg. 
MILLING IN BOND is carried on to 
some extent in sections of the United 
States near the Canadian border. The duly 
of 35 cents per bushel on wheat bars out a 
large amount of the Canadian product that 
would otherwise come to our markets, but 
arrangements are made so that wheat 
may be floured in bonded mills, provided 
all the resulting output is exported. A 
bill now before Congress calls attention to 
this matter. The millers have found that 
it does not pay to export the bran and 
other waste in flouring, and they wish to 
market these by-products in this country, 
of course paying the duty. The bill re¬ 
ferred to permits them to do tills. This 
seems like a straight proposition hardly 
needing additional legislative permission, 
but as the law now stands It is claimed 
Unit the bran must either lie exported or 
destroyed. Such interpretation could not 
have been intended by those who framed 
the present tariff law, for if bran pro¬ 
duced in Canada can be brought into this 
country on payment of duty there is no 
good reason why bran produced in the 
bonded mill should not be disposed of in 
tlie same way. It w'ould certainly work 
no injustice to the Government, farmer or 
dealer. The bonded milling industry is 
worth encouraging, as it gives additional 
business to the mills and makes a conveni¬ 
ent outlet for many Canadian producers 
who have no convenient mills on their side 
of the border. 
ARE BELGIAN HARES GAME?—“If I 
raise Belgian hares can I sell them openly 
in New Jersey at any time of year with¬ 
out violating the game laws?’’ n. 
The New Jersey State Game Protector 
says that Belgian hares kept in confine¬ 
ment are domestic animals and thus do 
not come under the game laws. But in 
placing them on the market it will be well 
to see that they, are offered or sold a.s 
hares and not a.s rabbits, as this might 
cause confusion and get the seller in trou¬ 
ble. In many counties of New York there 
is no close season for rabbits. There is 
nothing in the law that forbids having 
possession of them, and they may be taken 
at any time by the owner of land when 
he finds them barking trees or otherwise 
damaging property. This is the latitude 
that is asked by fruit growers who suffer 
severe losses by robins and other birds. 
It is not found that rabbits are being ex¬ 
terminated merely because farmers have 
the right to take them when damaging 
property, and there is no probability that 
birds would be annihilated if the same 
privilege were granted. From the argu¬ 
ments of some ultra bird protectionists one 
might assume that the farmer is a blood¬ 
thirsty wretch, begrudging life to every¬ 
thing that wears feathers except the in¬ 
habitants of his chicken house. 
APPLES.—The market has been suffer¬ 
ing from fruit that shows the effect of 
improper storage. There is no weakness 
in the demand for good apples and will not 
be this Spring. No other fruit is so popu¬ 
lar here, and judging from the exports to 
non-upple-growlng sections it may be as¬ 
sumed that it is constantly gaining in 
popularity there. 1 recently saw a bushel 
box of high-colored Northern Spies which 
a man going to Venezuela was to take as 
a special treat to his business friends 
there, lie said that they would be very 
highly appreciated. Every Spring the ap¬ 
ple storage queutlon is brought before fruit 
men in a very emphatic way, and it is evi¬ 
dent that the problem of the cold storage 
of apples is nowhere near settled. All ap¬ 
ples cannot be handled alike, and no one 
seems to know what is the best tempera¬ 
ture to maintain, the conclusions from one 
year’s experiments being upset the next. 
The flavor of some varieties suffers more 
than Others. This is especially noticeable in 
Northern Spy, some of which, while sound, 
have lost their characteristic delicacy 
add are in flavor only mockeries of cellar- 
stored apples. In such cases something is 
surely wrong with the storage or the 
previous treatment of the fruit. There are 
many house cellars where apples of stand¬ 
ard varieties keep all right until the mid¬ 
dle of May. and some much later. 1 have 
eaten cellar-stored Baldwins in July that 
were in prime condition. They were from 
a very large, deep, dark cellar with earth 
floor, cool and rather damp, water running 
through the drain inside the wall a con¬ 
siderable portion of the year. w. w. H. 
Soapsuds and llou Cholera.— For the 
first time 1 have lost my hogs and pigs 
with cholera—about 39 at barn and run 
ning in field within 300 yards of my house 
lot. 1 lost every one except the seven kept 
at my house stable lot, to which 1 feed the 
dishwater and soapsuds. They are all well 
and thriving. You may ask why I did not 
bring the sick ones up and give them dish¬ 
water. In the first place I did not have 
enough, and secondly I did not want to 
risk losing my purebred Berkshires lately 
bought. Five of the seven were my old 
stock, same as those which died. The 
hogs of my neighbors died first and mine 
followed. a. w. S. 
Americus, Ga. 
Children’s Doas.—On page 233 a ques¬ 
tion was asked about Fox terrier dogs as 
pets for children. Wo have received a 
number of interesting notes about such 
dogs, among them I he following: "The 
mother of a litter of pups we own is a 
very highly bred pedigreed Irish setter. 
She is high strung, has an extra fine nose 
and is an excellent and fast hunter. The 
father is a cross between an English setter 
and collio and is by far the best squirrel 
dog in this vicinity. I think the pups 
should muko great hunters, as well as 
good, clever pets. They could be broken 
for either squirrels, rabbits or birds. When 
these pups are full grown they will proba¬ 
bly be about 24 inches high and weigh in 
the neighborhood of 40 or 45 pounds. Their 
color is black, two of them have while 
and the other two tan markings. They 
will be long-haired, and as they are all 
very handsomely marked, will be very 
pretty dogs." 
Curing Coi.i.ar Boms.— On page 215 C. 
E. Hatch, V. S., tells how to treat collar 
boils on horses. I do not know how dif¬ 
ferent the blood or flesh of a horse may 
be from that of man, but the latest up- 
to-date touch on human bolls is to go to 
your doctor and have him lance the boil 
at any stage, either before or after the 
formation of pus. It is safer to have ttie 
doctor do this than an amateur. Then, 
after the boil is thoroughly opened up, use 
at least a teaspoonful of common sulphur, 
getting as much as possible into the cut. 
Then bind it up and go away contented for 
from five to eight hours, according to size 
of boil. Then cleanse the wound with 
some antiseptic lotion from the doctor, and 
you will probably find the boil gone or 
going fast, and see that granulation lias 
commenced. This will cure perfectly and 
very expeditiously on man; why not try 
It on a horse? Who has succeeded in cur¬ 
ing galled shoulders with an ounce of 
bluestono In a pint of water? E. D. r. 
Pennsylvania. 
WHO CANNOT BE CURED. 
Backed up by over a third of a century 
of remarkable and uniform cures, a record 
such as no other remedy for the diseases 
and weaknesses peculiar to women ever 
attained, the proprietors and makers of 
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription now feal 
fully warranted in offering 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. 
" 1 was a great sufferer for six years and doc¬ 
tored all the time with a number of physicians 
hut did not receive any benefit," writes Mrs. 
George Sogden, of 641 Honda Street, Saginaw 
(South), Michigan. "I had given up all hone of 
ever getting better. Thought I would write to 
you. When 1 received your letter telling m. 
what to do 1 commenced to take your * Favorite 
Prescription ’ and follow your advice. I lmv# 
taken ten bottles in all, also five vials of th. 
■ Pleasant Pellets.’ Am now regular, after hav¬ 
ing missed two years and suffered with pain iu 
the head and back. 1 was so nervous, could not 
eat or sleep. Now I can thunk you for my 
recovery." 
Don’t hesitate to write to Dr. R. V. Pierce, 
chief consulting physician to the Invalids' 
Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, 
N.Y., if you want good medical advice from 
a fully qualified physician as to your per¬ 
sonal good health. Such letters are always 
answered free of charge and confidentially. 
A medicine which has outsold all other# 
for women in the past third of a 
century and being recommended by all 
those who have used it, is a good remedy 
to tie to. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip¬ 
tion is purely vegetable and does not con. 
tain a particle of alcohol to destroy the 
blood corpuscles and weaken the system. 
Do not permit the dealer to insult your 
intelligence by suggesting some other com¬ 
pound which he recommends as "just ae 
good,” because he makes it himself. 
KTQL PER ANNUM 
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Assets 
#1,700,000 
Surplus ami 
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#100,000 
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over 10 years—under N. Y. Hanking 
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Industrial Savings and Loan Co., 
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NOW DEPOSITED IN THE BANK 
$ 75 , 000.00 
IN CASH GIVEN AWAY. 
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